Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 33: Relieve Your Worries

The concept of sustainable development is definitely incomprehensible to Ge Wu and the others, but the more soldiers and horses, the more territory they can fight, and the more territory they can recruit, the more soldiers they can recruit. The money that came was called by the Qing army to **** it away, and they still understood such superficial truths.

In the end, with Boss Hu’s decision again, everyone agreed to use half of the money to recruit troops and buy horses, and the rest will be temporarily kept by Song Xianggong, and will be distributed when the situation settles down.

Zhou Shixiang was naturally satisfied with this result. He could not instill any national righteousness on these basically illiterate bandits, calling on them to throw their heads and blood, and devote themselves to the vigorous struggle for national salvation. Getting rich but not getting rich, how to get rich, and how to get rich while not being cared about by others, such as robbing money, robbing food, robbing women, and other bandits like to listen to easy-to-understand words, they will be willing to devote themselves to it, otherwise, most things will backfire.

Zhou Shixiang wanted to be responsible for recruiting troops himself, but he thought that the food had not yet been obtained, so he let Zhao Sihai and Peng Dazhu take charge first, and asked them to recruit more young people who were affected by disasters in their homes, and put the money on the table, as long as they were willing to be Soldiers, one person will give out two taels of money to settle the family first, and at the same time repeatedly emphasize that you must have a good family, and you must not accept some people with bad character.

Zhao Sihai and Peng Dazhu naturally knew the benefits of recruiting a good family member to be a soldier. When the two of them were in the Ming army, they had seen the difference between a good family member and a soldier. In war, it is still a good family, especially the country people are the most honest and obedient, but the people in the market are really unreliable, and they often run away as soon as the cannon is fired, and they can’t even be chased. When a battle is fought, it is the good family who die the most. There is no other reason, it is the truth.

Ge Wu was arguing that he was going to recruit troops, but Zhou Shixiang was afraid that his two brothers would be full of faces, and they would frighten the people with bandit anger, which would have the opposite effect. go do another thing.

In order to make the recruitment look more formal and the people were convinced, Zhou Shixiang asked someone to fetch some military uniforms that were washed and sewn by the women in the afternoon for Zhao Sihai and the others to wear. In this way, it looked like a Ming army .

In the name of Duke Xiang of Song, Zhou Shixiang instructed the small officials to invite all the big gentry in the city to the yamen, and was going to talk to them about donating money and food.

Boss Hu couldn’t get involved in such matters, and he had no interest in paying attention to it, so he let Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong do the same as before, and he took the rest of the people to continue guarding the Qing army prisoners.

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Every big family must have a gentry, a so-called gentry is a person with a reputation. Regardless of the Ming and Qing dynasties, scholars who are famous and famous are given preferential treatment and exempted from taxation, and people even donate a lot of land to avoid taxation. Therefore, once they get famous, the poor also become rich. After a long time, they will naturally become big families. people. In the same way, if no one of the children of a wealthy family has obtained a title, it will probably decline over time. Therefore, people who can become a wealthy family are particularly interested in their children’s studies.

Although Luoding Prefecture is a Zhili Prefecture in Guangdong, it is located in the west of Guangdong, bordering Guangxi, and its humanistic style is not as good as that of Guangzhou and other places in the east of Guangdong. Therefore, there are fewer famous scholars in the prefecture, and the remaining large families are even more pitiful. . After several years of war, there are only six big families in the city.

Among these six families, there are three who are famous and have served in official positions. They are Qi Yuantai’s family who worked as the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry in the Ming Dynasty, Wu Qingde Wu’s family who worked in the short-lived Hongguang Dynasty Pedestrian Division, and Zhang Changquan who once served as a judge for the Huai’an government. Zhang family.

These three people are all Cantonese, but they are all officials in other provinces. The reason for this is only because the Ming Dynasty stipulated that people from the province should not be officials of the province.

The situation of the other three big households is different from these three. They are not big households because of their fame. One of them is the Lin family who runs Datong Rice Shop and has been engaged in grain trading for nearly 30 years. , whose full name is Lin Wanfu, sounds very festive.

The other is the Yang family, who is in the fabric business. In terms of family wealth, it is not as good as the Lin family, but his family has a large population, with nearly a hundred people, old and young, and it is the largest family in Luo Ding.

The remaining Zhao family had six servants from their ancestors. Although the family was defeated later, the ancestors of the servants bought a lot of land in their hometown when they were there. As a result, the Zhao family became the largest landlord in Luoding, and almost half of the fertile fields outside the city were. It’s his home.

In addition to these people, Luo Ding’s most important official in the past ten years is Wang Long, who used to be a fellow in Linchang Prefecture, Shandong Province. After the Jiashen change, he was unwilling to cut off his hair and surrender to the Qing Dynasty. After the city, the whole family burned themselves and died, which can be called loyal and fierce.

Another Guo Xueqing, who was the magistrate of Ji’an County, Jiangxi Province in the Ming Dynasty, but he had no backbone and resigned. Now he has been promoted to the prefect of Jiujiang, and most of his family members in Luoding have also taken office with him. In addition, there were seven scholars in the city, including Lu Changyuan and others who worked in the state government office~www.readwn.com~.

It was already dark when the people came, but Song Xianggong still summoned them in the main hall of the yamen. Because Zhou Shixiang told Lu Changyuan to make it clear beforehand, if people came in different places, he was the only one to ask, so the six furniture was complete, and no one was missed.

When everyone entered the lobby, they saw that in addition to “Master Song” and the Confucian General Zhou, there were two fierce looking black men standing beside the hall with their swords pressed. Seeing everyone staring at him, Ge Wu immediately glared at him, and suddenly the least timid Lin Wanfu shivered, not daring to take another look.

“I’ve been waiting to see Lord Song (General Zhou)!”

Everyone stepped forward and wrote a series for Song Xianggong, and bowed to Zhou Shixiang again, and then stood there waiting for Song Xianggong to speak.

Song Xianggong took out the style of being the magistrate of Yancheng in the Qing Dynasty, waved his hand lazily, and then motioned everyone to sit on the stools that had been prepared, then looked around at everyone, Fang said: “Now Luo Ding has been recovered by my Daming army. , you will be the people of Daming from now on, so the braids on this head will be cut when you turn around.”

Before Qi Yuantai and Wu Qingde could speak, Lin Wanfu had already shouted, “This braid Xiaomin has wanted to cut it for a long time. Don’t worry, adults, I will definitely cut this braid when Xiaomin returns home!”

When Lin Wanfu said this, his face was flattering. Qi Yuantai and the others were all contemptuous in their hearts, but they all said that they would obey the orders of adults.

“This official is not talented, and was appointed by the court to be the prefect of Luo Ding. As the parents of this place, this official should protect the environment and the people after taking office. However, there is something in front of me that urgently needs your help, but I don’t know if you can relieve this official’s worries? “