Su Ze looked at Aunt Ninth and couldn't help but ask: "Wait a minute, everyone knows that I am a child of Mazu, how can I be a temple blessing in the temple of the third master?"
Aunt Jiu smiled slightly and said:
"Mazu is not an obscene worshiper, and there are people in Changning Guard who believe in it. Everyone asks the temple to pray for peace of mind before going to sea. As long as it is effective, it doesn't matter whether it is the blessing from the Third Master Grand Empress or the blessing from Mazu Empress.
No one cares."
Aunt Ninth Untied the rope that bound Su Ze's hands, looked at Su Ze and said, "If you want to worship Mazu, it is not impossible to erect a statue of Mazu in the side hall."
Su Ze was a little speechless. As expected, his attitude towards faith was very Chinese.
However, Aunt Ninth's attitude further confirmed Su Ze's conclusion after researching historical data. In these health centers on the southeast coast, family temples were very important clan facilities, not just simple temples.
From the sallow and skinny people in the guard station to the dilapidated family temple, we can all see the dilapidation and decline of Changning Guard.
It's no wonder that Aunt Ninth wants someone of unknown origin to serve as the temple's blessing. In fact, there is no one in the entire Changning Guard who can use it.
Aunt Jiu said:
"A hundred households died in the battle, which just happened to free up a lot of household registrations."
"The General Secretary of Beiwa has not yet come down to recruit soldiers. As long as you match the household registration of another family, you can be naturalized at the guard station."
Su Ze immediately understood what Aunt Ninth meant.
After the serious disaster in the Southeast China Sea, Emperor Jiajing established the Japanese Control Bureau in the Southeast, which was responsible for the anti-Japanese affairs in various places.
Now the superiors have not yet had time to replenish their military registration in Changning Guard, which gives Su Ze the opportunity to naturalize. As long as he pretends to be a child of a certain family before Biwa removes the official from the General Division, he can get a clean record.
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As a graduate student in history, Su Ze naturally knew the importance of household registration, and this was the sincerity shown by Aunt Ninth.
Aunt Ninth continued:
"This time the regular soldiers suffered heavy losses. All the regular soldiers in the guard station have to join the army. If you become a naturalized soldier, you will definitely be dragged into the guard army. You don't want to do that, right?"
Su Ze nodded repeatedly. The Ming Dynasty allowed military households to participate in the imperial examination, but it did not allow soldiers to participate in the imperial examination.
To put it simply, as long as someone in the family is a soldier, the household will be classified as a military member, and all male members registered in the military register are candidate soldiers.
The military status system established by Emperor Hongwu was to ensure the integrity of the army.
But not all men with military status are soldiers.
For example, Zhang Juzheng's family has military status, but someone in Zhang Juzheng's family serves as a soldier in the garrison and has fulfilled the obligations of military status.
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng was able to take the imperial examination through health studies, and became a Jinshi along the way and entered the Hanlin Academy.
But this premise is that Zhang Juzheng is not a soldier of the guard. If he is transferred into the army, he will naturally not be able to participate in the imperial examination.
Su Ze naturally did not want to be a soldier in the Ming Guard for the rest of his life. Although soldiers in the Ming Dynasty also had promotion channels for military attachés, the Ming Dynasty still valued civil service over military affairs. After Tumubao, the status of military attachés declined sharply. Su Ze had the system, so naturally
I want to take part in the imperial examination.
Aunt Ninth said: "My family's household registration is with military registration. This time it will definitely not be my family's turn to compensate the soldiers. It just so happened that my nephew died in the war. Are you willing to join my household registration?"
Su Ze's eyes lit up. It seemed that this ninth aunt was sincerely seeking mutual benefit from her and did not dig a hole to harm herself.
The Ming Dynasty Guard system has also developed for a hundred years, and the military households in Changning Guard are also divided into two types of military status.
Regular military status refers to those who have immediate family members serving in the military. If a regular soldier cannot serve, someone must provide military service.
The military registration of Jiu Gu's mother-in-law's family is the in-laws and side branch of the military household. It is a kind of household registration between military registration and agricultural registration.
Only when all the male members of the military household with regular military status connected to Jiu Gu's mother-in-law's family are dead, will the superiors draw up regular soldiers from those with military status, that is, candidates for military candidates.
Su Ze immediately saluted Ninth Auntie and said, "Auntie."
Aunt Ninth helped Su Ze up and said, "My maiden name is Lin, and now I only have a nephew in my household registration. If you take his place in the household registration, you will be called my nephew in the guard house from now on."
Su Ze nodded quickly, and Aunt Ninth said again: "If you get married and start a business in the future, and you can still remember the love of the old woman, how about asking your descendants to offer some incense to the Lin family when they offer sacrifices to their ancestors?"
Since ancient times, China has attached great importance to offering incense to ancestors. Su Ze said quickly: "Don't worry, Auntie, I will not forget the incense and love of the Lin family!"
Aunt Ninth smiled and said, "Then it's settled. There is a wing next to the family temple, which is where my nephew used to live. The old lady has already cleaned it up, so you can live in it directly."
"How about you just stay by my side and learn the craftsmanship in the temple these days?"
Su Ze nodded quickly and agreed, and Aunt Ninth said with satisfaction:
"I will tell Baihu about your identity. You will stay in the temple first. After Weili settles down in a few days, I will take you to meet Mr. Baihu."
In this way, Su Ze settled in Changningwei's family temple.
Although Su Ze was very curious about the Ming Dynasty Hua Mulan who disguised herself as a man in the family tree of Changning Guard, he was new here and did not want to be regarded as a Japanese pirate spy by the villagers of the Guard, so he stayed at the ancestral temple honestly these days.
It only took Ninth Auntie two days to complete Su Ze's household registration. Now that he had replaced Ninth Auntie's nephew who died in the war, he finally had a formal status in the Ming Dynasty.
Another day later, Aunt Ninth brought back a smaller carrot head. This child was thin and small, with withered and yellow hair. It looked like he had been malnourished since he was a child.
Seeing that the child was smaller than the little carrot before, Su Ze couldn't help but ask:
"Agu, is this the disciple you are looking for?"
Su Ze has traveled through time in the physical body. He is a generation who grew up in the era of economic boom. Although his family background is average, he was well-nourished when he was a child.
At 1.8 meters tall, he stands out in the entire guard.
When the little carrot head saw Su Ze, he was so frightened that he hid behind Aunt Nine.
Aunt Ninth pulled her and said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, this is my nephew and your brother."
The little carrot head then stood up from behind Aunt Ninth and looked up and down at Su Ze curiously.
Aunt Ninth said: "Cai Niang, you will live here from now on and follow me to learn the skills in the temple."
Cainiang? This little carrot head is a girl?
Su Ze looked carefully and realized that Cainiang was quite pretty. The reason why he didn't recognize her was because her braid looked like a little carrot head, which made Su Ze mistakenly think that she was a boy.
Looking at the little carrot-head hairstyle, Su Ze couldn't help but ask:
"Auntie, this kid hasn't even gotten hairpin yet, right?"
Aunt Ninth sighed and said: "This child is already fifteen. She has been without a mother since she was a child, and her father died in the war together with other people. No one can give her a hairpin gift."
"Cai Niang, just live with me in the back room and do morning classes with me tomorrow."
The little carrot head nodded obediently. Su Ze looked at this thin girl and sighed again that it was really difficult for the people of the Ming Dynasty.