Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 802 Become a commoner of Ming Dynasty?That would be great!

After the Ming army left, Li Ji returned to the main hall, and after learning with his two sons that the Ming army did not touch the women's family members and not spend money during the search, they were also amazed.

Finally, he couldn't help asking: "Could it be that the soldiers of today's Great Tomorrow are all the former Qi's army?"

Li Xize said with emotion: "It's really worthy of being a soldier of the Great Tomorrow. This military discipline and style are much better than that of the Qing captives. No wonder they can beat the Qing captives to throw away their helmets and armor."

Li Che looked at the problem much more realistically.

He said: "The Ming army was able to defeat the Qing captives mainly because of their sharp guns and strong armor. However, the discipline of these Ming troops is indeed astonishingly good.

By the way, Dad, Ming Jun really told you that my family is not a capital crime? "

"That's right." Li Ji nodded, and then said worriedly: "I'm afraid that the death penalty can be avoided, but the living penalty cannot be escaped."

Li Che's focus was different. He said: "Father, capital crimes and living crimes are not the point. The point is that the Ming army actually wants to deal with us? Although North Korea is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have no right to deal with us, right?"

Hearing Li Che's reminder, Li Ji and Li Xicai realized the crux of the problem.

Li Xi guessed: "Could it be possible that the Ming Dynasty wants to learn from the Qing Dynasty, annex our North Korea, and set up a provincial government to govern it?"

Li Ji trembled when he heard this, and said: "If this is true, the sky in North Korea will be completely changed."

Li Che frowned and remained silent.

He felt that if it was still the Li family's heaven, those officials and families who had descended to the Qing Dynasty or even served as officials of the Qing Dynasty might not be liquidated. After all, there were too many people, and they were the cornerstone of the Li family's rule.

But if Da Ming were to rule, how they would be liquidated was uncertain.

The capital crime is forgiven, but what about the living crime?
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The things that the civilians of Wonju have to face are not as complicated as the officials and families.

At first when the Ming army broke through the city, they were also terrified, for fear that the few belongings in the family would be robbed, men would be killed, and women would be humiliated.

But it didn’t. After the Ming army entered the city, they first cleared and suppressed the “Qing captives” who had fled around and hid—most of them were not really Qing captives, either the Eight Banners Dynasty army or the Korean Green Battalion soldiers.

Some people who live in the city, after escaping from the city wall, directly take off their livery and lose their braids like others. As long as the neighbors don't expose them, they can pretend to be ordinary civilians.

There are also some whose homes are not in the city, but they also forcibly hide in other people's homes.Either be beaten away by the master, or kill the master's dove to occupy the magpie's nest, intending to escape.

However, after the Ming army initially wiped out the defeated Qing soldiers in the city, it issued a notice, sent troops to patrol the city, and sent soldiers and horses to go door-to-door for registration and investigation.

During this process, the North Korean people in Wonju were pleasantly surprised to find that the soldiers of Dae-myeon not only did not enter to rob or bully women, but they were even patient when registering and checking.

For this reason, some people boldly pointed out some defeated Qing soldiers who occupied the original owner's house and disguised themselves.

This greatly improved the law and order in Yuanzhou City within a few days, and the law and order in the market was even better than before, because the Ming army also punished those hooligans who usually bully others and oppress good people.

As a result, the people quickly supported the Ming army, and the name changed from Ming army to Great Ming soldier.

Ordinary people are not interested in whether North Korea will be ruled by the Ming Dynasty or by the Lee Dynasty.

Because in their view, no matter under the rule of the Ming Dynasty or the rule of the Joseon Dynasty of the Lee family, they have to live a miserable life as before, survive hard, and multiply.

If the people were asked to choose before the arrival of the Great Ming Soldiers, they might choose Lee's North Korea.After all, he has been accustomed to Li's ruling rules for hundreds of years and does not want to adapt to new rules.

But now seeing the performance of the Great Ming soldiers, the people are even more looking forward to the place where they live being ruled by the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, I heard that people in Daming are very rich.

Maybe they will become rich after becoming Daming people?

Of course, Jeju Island is isolated overseas, while Wonju is in the middle of North Korea. At this time, the news of the civil strife in the Lee family has not yet spread, and ordinary people have not yet thought about the change of the sky in North Korea.

Most people don't even care that the city has changed owners, because they need to work hard for their daily meals.If there is a delay of several days in a row and there is no income, maybe the family will stop cooking.

If you can't even eat, how can you have the time to care about other things?

Many low-level people in Yuanzhou City depended on officials, gentry, and aristocratic families to live. Most of them were similar to tenant farmers, and they paid high rents.A few run small businesses, serving the city's dignitaries and others.

When the war broke out, what many people were most worried about was falling into a protracted attack and defense.

If this is the case, not only the young and strong in the city will be forcibly conscripted to guard the city wall, but even women may be conscripted to deliver supplies.

Over time, the Qing captives will definitely collect food in the city as military rations, demolish houses, and use the demolished civil engineering to help defend the city-these are the experiences passed down by the old people. The three parties in Japan are doing this, and no one cares about the lives of ordinary people.

Therefore, at first these ordinary people really didn't care which side won. They just wanted the war to end quickly and their lives to return to normal, even if they were exploited and oppressed normally.

As a result, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty broke through Yuanzhou City in just one day, and ordinary people like them were not given the chance to be recruited to participate in the defense of the city.

After entering the city, law and order in the city was quickly maintained, and the merchants were required to open their doors the next day, allowing the market to barely return to normal.

On the third day, the Ming army even recruited young and strong men to build walls and roads in the city—not compulsory recruitment, but daily food wages.

Although the salary is not much, the income is only enough for a family of three to eat two meals a day after a day of hard work, but it has already made the ordinary people in Yuanzhou City overjoyed!

Not to mention the young generation who grew up under the prestige (shadow) of the Qing Dynasty, even some elderly people have never heard of such a good thing, or even thought about it.

Didn’t the government always conscript the people into servitude for the construction of city walls and roads?

Daming actually gave money?

As expected of Daming, he is indeed rich!
That is, five days after Daming occupied Yuanzhou City, Li Ji finally went out.

As a seventh-rank official of the former North Korea, in today's Yuanzhou City, he neither dared to sit in a sedan chair, nor dared to ride a horse, but only accompanied a few guards.

Seeing more than a dozen people walking towards the city gate with happy faces, he sent someone to stop him and asked, "What are you going to do?"

When the dozen or so people saw it, they knew that Li Ji was an official and gentry, so they lowered their waists one by one.

The leader replied: "Reporting to the master, we are going to repair the official road outside the city."

In the past few days, because of fear, Li Ji never went out and restrained his family not to go out, so he didn't know what happened outside.

At this moment, I couldn't help but wonder: "You have been conscripted, right? Why are you still so happy?"

The leading civilian man finally looked up at Li Ji, with a smile all over his face, then lowered his head and said, "It's not conscripting, sir, it's working. If you work in the Ming army for one day, you'll be paid for one day's grain."

Li Ji was taken aback when he heard this, but what he immediately thought of was: Daming is inviting to buy people's hearts!
From this point of view, Daming may really want to destroy the Li family this time, and set up a provincial government in North Korea to rule directly.

When he came back to his senses, the dozen or so civilians in front of him were all nervously waiting. He suddenly felt moved and asked, "If Yuanzhou is governed by Daming in the future, you will also be the common people of Daming. Would you like it?"

More than a dozen people were taken aback.

After reacting for a while, the flat guy in the lead showed a simple smile and said, "Being a commoner of Ming Dynasty? That would be great!"

This commoner man speaks from the heart.

In the past few days, Yuanzhou City was under the control of the Ming army, and their life was indeed much better than before.

He was worried at first, whether after the Ming army left, whether the city could still maintain such a good law and order, and whether it would be as easy to find work as it is now.Will the former officials and gentlemen come to bully them again?

Now after being reminded by Li Ji, he suddenly realized that if Yuanzhou City became the city of Daming, then they would no longer have to worry about going back to the past.

It's a pity that even though he has little knowledge, he still knows that such a big event is not something he, or a dozen or so, can control.

Li Ji also knew whether ordinary people could control this, not even him.

Where is the man who can decide this matter?
In Nanjing.

　First more.

　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)