Yin Feng is a liberal arts college student and a history enthusiast. After a while, he has woken up: It is now the 27th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty in China, 1599 AD.
I am honored to be part of a very vulgar time-traveling clan!
In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng's reforms had ceased. Except for one whip law, they were all overthrown by Emperor Wanli who came to power. This was also the beginning of the last year of the Ming Dynasty, the brewing period of a tragic era. The Ming Dynasty still had 44 years to live.
.The boring and protracted "national struggle" for the crown prince has been going on for 14 years with no result; the minister Zhang Zun has been left unpublished for 10 years; the Wanli Emperor has been in the ninth level for many months, from the 18th to the 18th.
In February of that year, the banquet was held, and "the banquet will never be held from then on." The shortage of officials was serious and was not filled, and the emperor had been passive and slow in work for more than 10 years. The "Three Major Expeditions of Wanli" had already occurred, and the savings from the reforms in the early years of Wanli were used.
The country is almost completely depleted, the army is plagued by disasters, the treasury is empty, and the people are suffering.
My fate is really tragic!! What can a rootless, powerless overseas survivor like me do in this era? However, I have to thank God for not bringing me directly into an era of frequent wars...
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Originally, he had a happy-go-lucky personality, and he often traveled around and gained a lot of knowledge. He always believed that everything was possible, so after some self-pity and self-love, Yin Feng, who had a relatively easy-going personality, had no choice but to accept the reality.
Now I have to think about how to survive in this world.
He chewed dried sweet potatoes and fish, and watched the young fishermen chewing betel nuts and drinking wine. Although they were wearing tattered short clothes, they were all laughing. These young people were short in stature and had the typical body shape of those who have lived on the water all year round: thick arms and hips.
They are large, with a wide waist, a hard waist, and their feet are bent inward. Their fishing method is very interesting: a hemp net is spread out on the sea, and two young men jump into the sea naked, and dive into the water to catch the fish into the net. Their swimming skills
It is extremely practical and can be said to be like walking on flat ground in the sea. It is often brought up in a net, and the fishermen diving in the sea will also catch the big fish with the net. Yin Feng is curious and goes up to help pull the net, most of which are more helpful.
Busier.
Yin Feng remembered some records he had read before and asked Uncle Mai, the fishing boss: "Uncle, are you Dan people?"
Uncle Mai said casually: "We are a gangster from Dadangang, Yazhou."
"No wonder you are so good at swimming!!" Yin Feng sincerely praised, "I have never seen such good swimming skills... anywhere else!" He almost said the word "Olympic Games", but finally changed his words in time.
Uncle Mai glanced at him and asked with confusion: "Where are you from, brother?" He had been holding these words in his mind for a long time. Seeing that Yin Feng seemed to have no feelings for the "danmin", the untouchable class of the Ming Dynasty, he
Finally I couldn't help but ask.
Yin Feng sighed, looked at Uncle Mai's simple and dark face, and carefully revealed the forged life experience that had been brewing for a long time.
He said that he was a descendant of the merchants who followed Eunuch Sanbao on his voyages to the West. His ancestral home was Hangzhou, Zhejiang (yes, Yin Feng was from Hangzhou). His predecessors got into a shipwreck while sailing to the West and ended up living in places like Pira in the West.
He lived by doing business in various parts of the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea; he was already the fifth generation living overseas. Before his death, his father missed his hometown in the Ming Dynasty and ordered him to return to his hometown, so he sold his property and took the train.
Mao Yi's boat returned to "Tangshan". Unfortunately, on the way to Macau, it encountered a hurricane and large waves. The boat sank and everyone died. He was the only one who survived. He was washed up on the unknown island, and was finally rescued by Uncle Mai and others.
Living in "Bila" was a helpless excuse. This was the farthest place name in Africa that Zheng He could think of: in the official history of his time, "History of the Ming Dynasty", Biography 214, "Seven Foreign Countries? Biography of Bira and Sunla"
There is such a passage in it: "There is also a country called Bi La, called Sun La. Zheng He also tried to send gifts to China. It was far away from China, and the tribute envoys from the two countries did not come." It is difficult for historians to study "Sun La".
But scholars generally believe that "Bila" is today's Mozambique. If you say this, you are not afraid of possible inspections by future officials. Could it be that the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli Period still sent people to Africa to check his household registration?
Among Zheng He's sailors on his voyages to the West, there were many Dan people who were familiar with the water and handling of ships. Uncle Mai accepted this argument without any doubt: "Is there anyone else in your family?"
"After my father passed away, I was the only one left in the family..." Yin Feng felt a pain in his heart: "Family,..."
He couldn't help but have red eyes and lowered his head. Uncle Mai was even more doubtful. He sighed and patted Yin Feng on the shoulder: "Life is really hard... When you return to Yazhou, I will help you talk to the government. What are you doing to the government?"
When Mu Wanghua returns from overseas, the government should have regulations."
Yin Feng raised his head: "Uncle, can you speak to the government?"
"Hehe, hehe," Uncle Mai coughed and smiled a little proudly: "I am the head of Danggang, that is, Dantou. The people at the river bank are familiar with me, and the master of the state government also recognizes me.
One."
Yin Feng recalled the historical information he had seen in the past, and it was indeed the case: Customized in the early Ming Dynasty, the household registration of Dan people was assigned to Hebosuo, and there were chiefs and people. The big households among the Dan people were called Dan chiefs, also known as the heads of Dan families, and also called Dan heads.
The Hebo Station was originally a tax collection agency, specifically responsible for collecting fishery taxes. The Dan people relied on fishing as their occupation and had to pay fish and rice to the government on time. Therefore, the He Bo Station also became a management agency for the Dan people. Generally, it was a place where Dan people lived together.
They all had riverside settlements. The "Dan people", a group of water dwellers that evolved from the Yue people in the pre-Qin period, became one of the lowest classes under the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty.
At that moment, Uncle Mai promised him that he would be a guarantor for him and that he would not be regarded as a pirate before the government. Yin Feng thanked him and took out some silver trinkets he bought on the journey before crossing from his mountaineering bag as gifts.
, Uncle Mai resolutely declined. According to historical records, most of the Dan people were impoverished, and their families had nothing but one boat. However, these ancient people with low social status in front of them were so simple and kind-hearted, and had experienced modern society where people's hearts were not ancient.
Feng was greatly moved and his eyes were red. He was not a sentimental person before, but now that he was thinking about his life experience, he was really moved.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Hainan Island belonged to Siqiongzhou Prefecture, the governor of Guangdong, which governed three states and ten counties. Yazhou was the southernmost administrative district, which was Sanya City, Hainan in Yin Feng's time and space. The state government was more than 40 meters west of Sanya City.
Kilometers away, it was originally the county seat of Ningyuan in the early Ming Dynasty. It was merged with Yazhou in June of the fourth year of Zhengtong (1439). In the ninth month of the lunar calendar in the first year of Wanli, the whole state had 2,500 registered households, but the population was only over 18,000, and the total population was no more than 40,000.
Although the city wall of Yu.zhouzhi is built of bricks, it is obviously in disrepair for many years.
Two days later, after Yin Feng was brought back to Yazhou by Uncle Mai, he was discovered by the officers of the Hebo Station as soon as he landed and was suspected of being a pirate - indeed his costume was too strange. Uncle Mai quickly explained
, Yin Feng also said that he returned to the Ming Dynasty from the West thousands of miles away. Five generations of his ancestors admired China, and said that they would present the strange items brought by the West to the government.
The officers looked at each other for a while, and an older officer said to everyone: "A few years ago, there were overseas Chinese who drifted to Qiongzhou Prefecture in strong winds. I listened to what Xue Zheng said in the Prefecture Prefecture. I don't know what happened after that...
...It seems that he was sent to Guangzhou." After everyone discussed it for a while, the only conclusion was that this was not something they could handle.
The local folk customs are quite simple, and the few police officers are not very greedy. Otherwise, if they must seize people's property, Yin Feng really has nothing to do. Finally, for the sake of having Uncle Mai as a guarantee, Hebo Station sent four police officers, together with
Uncle Mai, take Yin Feng to the state capital to find the big boss to deal with it. Walking on the narrow street, Yin Feng is taller than the people around him, and he feels like he stands out from the crowd. There are quite a lot of people in the city, so everyone
There are almost vendors shouting in front of the houses along the street, and a few Li people wearing earrings can be seen in the crowd... Today is market day.
Dadangang, where Hebo is located, is just a police station. Historically, Hebo in Yazhou was laid off during the Jiajing period; now the nominal headquarters of the tax collectors’ officers is in Qiongzhou Fucheng, and these officers have been staying in Dadangang continuously.
It has been 10 days, and the news is not very good - the master of the state government told everyone: because the imperial court sent a tax inspector to assess the money and food, the governor Zheng Bangzhi went to Qiongzhou Mansion to report on his work. He had been gone for 5 days and would not be back until 5 days later.
Therefore, the officer of Hebo Station entrusted Uncle Dantou Mai to look after Yin Feng until the magistrate came back. Yin Feng inquired and found out that the magistrate Zheng Bangzhi, who had the same name as a famous official in the Song Dynasty, was a native of Yongchang, Yunnan.
. Such local officials from the ends of the earth are generally not recorded in history books. Yin Feng had no idea that this Zhizhou master existed before. In fact, in the history of the original time and space, the name of this Zhizhou master was also in the Ming Dynasty.
It appears in the imperial examination Chinese personnel files and Yazhou local chronicles. However, in the words of Uncle Mai and others, the magistrate was exempted from many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and also donated his salary to buy land to support the school. He was a good official.
Yin Feng had 5 days to finish some things and lay a foundation for his future life. He borrowed pen, ink and inkstone from the guards, claiming that he wanted to write down his experience and report it to the magistrate. At present, he stayed in Mai
In the back room of Bo Haibian's house, he turned on his laptop and started writing furiously day and night. The laptop, which was said to have a 16-hour cruise, completely ran out of power in one day, and there was still a lot of information that he had no time to copy. Yin Feng
He had no choice but to bury the handbag under the corner of Mai's house at night - he didn't want to be regarded as a monster or magic weapon with a magic weapon. Then he began to rack his brains to recall various things in his own time and space - about weapons,
The history of shipbuilding, the history of science and technology... Human memory will slowly deteriorate and be forgotten, so he must record it now.
His calligraphy is at the level of a primary school student, probably not as good as a private school student in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, his writing in simplified Chinese is very sloppy. Except for himself, the written characters will basically be regarded as heavenly scriptures. But he
The Maibo family was not avoided. The untouchable households of this era were excluded from the "four peoples" and were not allowed to read or read, so they could not participate in the imperial examination. The Maibo family showed their disdain for this literati who could write.
A very respectful look. At first, Yin Feng only avoided the outdated things when the guards came to check them every day. After throwing away the mobile phone that night, he didn't worry about it anymore. The guards didn't know much anyway, so this
I can't recognize anything even from the ghostly drawings.
That night, Yin Feng stayed up all night and sat on the beach until dawn. Looking at the extremely clear starry sky without industrial pollution and the long sound of waves on the beach, Yin Feng felt endless loneliness and loneliness in his heart.
The biggest impression that people of later generations have on the Dan people is that they "float their homes in floating houses and live in uncertain places." They are "floating homes in the rivers and seas", and the "nomadic" people on the water who "live in boats" generally live on the water and are not allowed to go ashore.
. However, after coming to Yazhou, Yin Feng knew that the historical reality was a little different from the impression of ordinary people; in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, a very small number of wealthy Dan people had settled on land, such as Uncle Mai, who was a Dan head.
They are much richer than other villagers in Dadan Harbor. They have two fishing boats that can "battle for the sea" (the villagers call fishing at sea "battle for the big sea", and only fishing in the inner harbor is "battle for the small sea").
He built a house on the coast, but his main business was aquatic industries such as fishing and pearl cultivation.
Among the local Dan people, only a few people such as the Mai family have the strength to buy fishing boats that can "battle the sea", so the Mai family is the best among the local Dan people.
The diet of Uncle Mai's family is very simple, usually sweet potatoes and rice, and the most non-vegetarian food is various seafood. Although the pollution-free natural seafood does not have any good seasoning or cooking, Yin Feng still has a taste of it.
Fresh, it was impossible to eat such natural seafood in the time and space of the previous life.
Uncle Mai has a pair of children in his family. Together with his wife and daughter-in-law, there are a total of 5 people. This is considered to be a small family in a house with many children. His son Mai is 21 years old, and his daughter Mai Waner is 15 years old. They usually avoid Yin.
Feng, seemed a little afraid of him, and privately commented that he was a weirdo. Especially once, Yin Feng tried to help Aunt Mai move the table, which shocked the whole family at a loss. Uncle Mai kept saying: "At least you are a literate person.
, how can you do this kind of work..." This made Yin Feng very embarrassed. He felt that he was eating and drinking for free at other people's homes, and he was very sorry. However, when he tried to take out the silver jewelry as gifts, he was met by Uncle Mai.
The whole family was unanimously opposed.
A few days later, people began to come to Uncle Mai's house in an endless stream, mostly to watch Yin Feng. Many of them were Dan people wearing coarse clothes, and there were also Han people from nearby, including older girls and younger wives. Yin Feng was like a zoo.
The rare animals were carefully commented upon by people; at least thousands of people came to watch them in the past three days - and the total number of local residents in Hong Kong was only a few thousand. Fortunately, Yin Feng kept writing with the style of a scribe.
, the onlookers all spoke in low voices. The villagers basically live in one boat, and the boat is the family's residence and production tool, so these days the small pier of Uncle Mai's house is full of fishing boats. What's interesting is that the bows of some boats are placed
Some boats put potted flowers on the stern of the boat, and they swayed on the stern. Yin Feng curiously asked Uncle Mai, who was mending the net on the boat, what this meant. Uncle Mai smiled: "If a man is unmarried, he puts potted plants; if a woman is unmarried, she puts potted plants on the stern."
It’s just a matter of putting potted flowers before being hired.”
This is an ancient wedding custom among Dan people.
A pot of flowers was also placed there on the boat of Uncle Mai's family, and Mai Wan'er was always watering it.
The villagers usually fall asleep to the waves of the sea very early, and the fishing village becomes completely quiet as soon as the sun goes down. The fishermen get up to work early in the morning - according to Yin Feng's estimation, it is around 5 o'clock in the morning at most.
This was simply torture for Yin Feng, who was accustomed to going to bed late and getting up late.
In fact, Yin Feng has no specific plan. He has always believed that it is impossible to turn things around with personal power. Historically, there are many talented people who have followed the trend. A liberal arts college student, a former TV station post-production staff, and a freelance photographer
What can we do in this era? The answer is obvious.
It was a joke to launch a vigorous revolution in the middle of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty when the troubled times began. To engage in overseas trade, which is the easiest way to get rich in this era, firstly, there is no capital; secondly, there is no strength---many of the wealthy merchants on the coast these days are also businessmen.
It is also a thief, or there are relatives of the emperor and wealthy businessmen as the backers; as a refugee with no power and no financial strength, the possibility of suddenly getting rich is almost non-existent. And with his own level of Chinese studies, he was able to scare people in the previous time and space.
For now, ordinary netizens can do it, but it is simply impossible to take the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, in less than twenty years, the world will be in chaos, and everyone will be destroyed. How can I be so poor that I will still suffer from military disasters?
Although Yin Feng is in good health, he was a judo runner-up in the University Games, and he has military experience gained from filming military TV series for two years, but he knows nothing about cold weapons, so if he goes to fight as a soldier, he will die.
What should I do? What should I do?
When Yin Feng could not think of anything to record for the time being, Huang Daqiao, a police officer from Hebo Station, came to tell him: Master Zhizhou is back! This is the sixth day that Yin Feng has traveled to this era.
At this time, Yin Feng had moved to the backyard of Dadanggang Hebosuo, and the state city was 2 miles northeast. Since he was the governor of the state some time ago, he went to Qiongzhou Prefecture with his fellow magistrates, and Zeng Qi, the state magistrate, presided over the state affairs. Mr. Zeng heard that
After Yin Feng's incident, he recruited someone to visit him. This civil servant from Fujian Province was very interested in overseas affairs because he was born in Fujian, where the overseas smuggling trade was developed. But as a state magistrate, it is inappropriate to always come to Dan people's homes.
It was suitable, so Yin Feng was fortunate enough to live in the backyard of Hebosuo, and the living conditions were much better. The state magistrate Zeng Qi would come to talk to Yin Feng for an hour for several days in a row. Yin Feng also learned some "Celestial Etiquette" from him, such as
Welcoming guests and sending them off almost annoyed him to death - just sending guests out on their way, he had to bow countless times:
When the guest gets up to leave, the host and guest go to the door together and bow to each other. Then the host asks the guest to get on the horse or sedan chair, and the guest asks the host to go back to the house and close the door. The host turns to the door, and the host and guest bow for the second time. The host then asks the guest to go back to the house and close the door.
Stand on the threshold, salute the guest for the third time, and then enter the door so that the guest cannot see it. This is the time for the guest to get on the horse or sedan chair. The host comes out again and keeps saying "please, please", and the guest is there.
When you are on horseback or in a sedan chair, you turn around and bow, also saying "please, please".
Theoretically, after the guest has walked a while, the master should send a servant to say goodbye to the guest for the fifth time in his name, and the guest also asks his servant to pay tribute to the master's representative. After all, Yin Feng doesn't have a servant yet, so for the first time
This step is skipped when practicing the farewell ceremony.
Yin Feng watched the state magistrate Zeng Qi's sedan go away, and couldn't help but sigh that Matteo Ricci said: "Chinese people waste a lot of time on etiquette." This sentence does make sense.
During the conversation, Yin Feng talked about his overseas experiences: there were black people living in the "place where he once lived", and he mentioned that the Francois in Macau were actually Portuguese in Europe---many people in the Ming Dynasty believed at that time
Fo Langji was in Malacca. He opened the wooden box, a relic from the Portuguese shipwreck, to Master Zeng for inspection. Master Zeng was interested in the map and magnifying glass; he was also interested in Yin Feng himself. Yin Feng never claimed to be in front of him.
"Villain" or something like that, he seemed to have a very good understanding of overseas situations. The questions he asked most frequently were questions such as what kind of goods Westerners like best. When Yin Feng answered, he almost forgot that he was a bureaucrat.
August 25, the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, October 13, 1599 AD; Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci was exchanging ideas with Li Zhi and other Chinese scholars in Nanjing, and the mine inspectors and tax envoys of Emperor Wanli were traveling across the country.
, Nurhachi in the white mountains and black waters of Northeast China just ordered Erdeni and others to create the old Manchu script; 12 days later, Japan's Tokugawa Ieyasu will enter Osaka Castle and almost encounter an assassin; in South Asia, India's Akbar is conquering India
Ahmednagar and Kandersch in the Deccan south of the peninsula; in Europe, the tactical genius of Prince Moritz of the United Provinces (Netherlands) continually defeated the Spanish governor, King Philip's consort, Albert of Austria
The special Duke is occupying the coastal area...
Therefore, on this day, it was completely insignificant that Yin Feng, a young man who had returned from overseas, paid a visit to the governor of Yazhou.