After a few days of hustle and bustle, the small mountain village finally returned to its former peace. Shang Yi followed Zhou Shiqi and his party out of the village.
The lights dimmed, everything was silent, and even the moon was nowhere to be seen. There were only stars in the sky, shining brightly, and illuminating the outline of the mountain village. You sighed and said, "Not only grandpa, I'm afraid the whole village is...
It can be seen that this period of time is probably the most comfortable period for you in the past sixteen years. And I can also see that he also likes you very much, so I think as long as I propose marriage to him, he will probably not
I will refuse it! It’s just..."
Ye Yaoyao was slightly startled, a little nervous, and said: "Just what?"
Ye Xingshi smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid that what happened to your parents will happen to you again."
Ye Yaoyao was startled for a moment, and her face became solemn, and she said: "Why does grandpa have such a hope! Could it be that grandpa sees that he is not a good person?"
Ye Xingshi shook his head and said: "That's not true. Although my ability to read people is not as good as stargazing, I still think I can see people with certainty. Judging from his face, he will definitely not be a treacherous person.
And what he has done in the village during this period of time can prove that he is not a bad person. But from the day he appeared, the sky began to become chaotic, and I can't find him in the sky.
to his destiny star."
Ye Yaoyao couldn't help but take a breath and said, "Does grandpa mean that he is the one who caused the chaos in the sky?"
Ye Xingshi nodded and said: "So he is destined not to be an ordinary person. In the future, he may become a more accomplished person than your father and can shake up the world. I really can't imagine that a person is more accomplished than your father."
**What kind of destiny will an accomplished person give you? This is why I have not dared to make up my mind." He looked at Ye Yaoyao lovingly and said, "Grandpa, I just hope you don't repeat what you did.
The way of parents.”
Ye Yaoyao was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "Before my mother died, I once asked her if she regretted it? If things could start over, what would she do? But she told me, if
If she had to do it all over again, she would still choose her father. Even if she knew it would end like this in the future, she would never regret it."
Ye Xingshi smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, I understand."
Zhou Shiqi came to this small village with a total of ten family members. When he left, he added Shang Yi, Tang Zhen, and Zhou Shaohuan, making a total of fourteen people. When Zhou Shiqi came, everyone was riding a horse, and now
There were more than twenty horses in the village, so Shang Yi, Tang Zhen, and Zhou Shaohuan all left on horseback.
On the way, Tang Zhen and Zhou Shaohuan introduced the situation in detail.
Zhou Shiqi's ancestral home is from Laizhou, Shandong. He is exactly fifty years old this year. He was elected as the governor in the fourth year of Tianqi (1624). In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), he served as county governor in Yucheng County, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province. Later, he also held several positions.
The magistrate of the county performed well during the Shandong Rebellion from the fourth to the sixth year of Chongzhen (1631) to the sixth year (1633). He led the army and civilians of the county to defend the county seat. Therefore, he was promoted by the court to the title of Tongpan magistrate of Dengzhou Prefecture. In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1633)
In 1635), he was squeezed out by his colleagues and demoted to the magistrate of Yishui County, Qingshan Prefecture. In the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), he voluntarily resigned and went home to farm in the name of serving his mother. In fact, it was because of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639).
Qing soldiers invaded the country to plunder, and they also saw through the officialdom. Now they live in Qingshui Village.
Zhou Shaohuan is the second son of Zhou Shiqi. The eldest son Zhou Shaoqing is 28 years old this year. He also passed the imperial examination in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. Because Zhou Shiqi resigned on his own initiative, Zhou Shaoqing was replaced as the head of Yishui County. Yi Jing gave birth to a son and a daughter.
. But Zhou Shaohuan didn’t like to study since he was a child, and he liked to practice martial arts. When he was twenty years old, he couldn’t even pass the exam. Zhou Shiqi also gave up on him, so he didn’t force him. This time Zhou Shaohuan went to the mountain village because he actually wanted to
Find guidance from Tang Town and practice hard for a few years so that you can take the martial arts exam.
Through the past few days of cramming history, Shang Yi also knew that it was in August of the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638) that Huang Taiji commanded the left wing of the Eight Banners with Dorgon as the general and Hauge and Abatai as his deputies.
Army; with Yue Tuo as General Yangwu and Du Du as deputy, he led the Eight Banners right-wing army and attacked the Ming Dynasty in two ways.
Two Qing armies invaded the Great Wall from Qianji Ridge and Qingshan Pass respectively, swept across the capital and Shandong provinces, burned and plundered Jinan Prefecture, and captured the German King Zhu Youshu alive. Lu Xiangsheng, a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, also died in this battle. Former bachelor of Liaodong University
The commander-in-chief Sun Chengzong was also captured and committed suicide. It was not until March of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639) that the leader of the right-wing army, Yue Tuo, died of illness in the army. The Qing army, under the unified command of Dorgon, exited the Qingshan Pass.
Return to Shenyang.
The Qing army entered the Pass for the fourth time before entering the Central Plains. It was a complete victory. The left and right armies defeated fifty-three cities in total, surrendered eight cities, defeated the Ming army in thirty-three formations, and killed two governors.
, there were more than 100 officials above the garrison, more than 500,000 people were captured, more than 4,000 taels of gold and more than 1,000,000 taels of silver were seized.
After the war, Emperor Chongzhen also carried out a large-scale liquidation of the generals who participated in the war. Thirty-two senior officials including Shuntian, Baoding, the three governors of Shandong, the General Soldier of Jizhen, and the General Soldier of Shandong were all sentenced to death. The rest were sentenced to death.
More than 120 officials were dismissed and demoted, which was also the largest number of executions of ministers in Chongzhen.
At that time, the Qing army entered the Pass and attacked, causing serious damage to the people's livelihood, villages, and pastoral areas in Shandong. The people were displaced and many places were deserted. Even now, they have not fully recovered.
It was after the Qing army invaded Guan that Zhou Shiqi saw through the Ming court and officialdom that he resigned and returned to his hometown to farm. However, at this time, the Yishui County area was also severely damaged, and almost no one was intact.
The village was established. So Zhou Shiqi came forward to recruit the homeless people, reclaim wasteland, organize villages, and rebuild their homes.
At the same time, because Zhou Shiqi has been a local official for more than ten years, and he was an official in Shandong, he has maintained good personal relationships with many officials, so he is quite popular in the countryside. Now his son is also an official in the county.
There are many connections in both official and private circles, and there are fewer troubles. This is how Qingshui Village was established.
However, Shandong has been a place where bandits and thieves have haunted since ancient times. The most famous one is Shuibo Liangshan in the late Northern Song Dynasty. The Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings that broke out during the Zhengde period swept the entire Shandong region. Therefore, after the Qing army retreated,
, Shandong is also full of bandits. They don't dare to rob big cities, so they just attack small villages. The bandit Shang Yi and the others encountered is one of them.
Nowadays, the officials and soldiers in Shandong are very confused, and the establishment in many places has not been fully established, so they are unable to suppress the bandits at all. In this case, each village can only form its own militia to protect itself.