Warring States Eagle

After helping Zhang Qian pack up the things in the market, Zheng Liang and others followed Zhang Qian all the way through a narrow and dark alley to the slums in the east of the city, passed through a small arch, and entered a small courtyard. (.)

This is Zhang Qian's residence.

This is a folk house hidden in a narrow and dark alley.The house is of shingle structure, and the dark wooden windows seem to tell the history of the house.The gate of the house is facing a small courtyard, and there are several identical houses distributed around the courtyard.Obviously, these houses share a yard.At this moment, the wooden doors of the surrounding houses were closed tightly, and weeping could be vaguely heard from some of the houses.

"Hey" Zhang Qian shook her head and sighed.

Zheng Liang and Liu Le looked at each other and became puzzled.It seems that the death of Zhang Qian's father was not a simple matter.But since Zhang Qian didn't say it directly, it's hard for the two of them to inquire about it for the time being.

After Zhang Qian took care of it, the two formally entered the house to pay respects to Zhang Qian's father.After the worship, Zheng Liang retreated out tactfully and closed the door behind him.The rest is the couple's business, and it's really not easy for Zheng Liang to get involved.

After waiting in the yard for about two quarters of an hour, the woman's crying suddenly came from the house, and it became louder and louder.After a while, the crying gradually stopped. At this time, Liu Le also walked out with tears on his face.

Zheng Liang walked up to meet him quickly, with a questioning look in his eyes. () Seeing this, Liu Le shook his head, indicating that Zhang Qian in the room was fine.

So, the two sat down on a stone in the yard.Liu Le told Zheng Liang what happened to Zhang Qian's family.Zhang Qian's father was indeed murdered.

This matter is about to start from the beginning.

Zhang Qian's father's craftsman household.To be precise, it is a living craftsman.

The Ming Dynasty followed the craftsman household system of the Yuan Dynasty, and divided households into three classes: civilian, military, and craftsman.Among them, the craftsmen are all handicraftsmen, and many of them are military craftsmen who serve in the military bureaus under the jurisdiction of the capitals and guards.In terms of legal status, these artisans and military craftsmen registered in special household registrations have a lower status than ordinary households.It is extremely difficult for a craftsman and a military member to leave their original household registration, and they need to be approved by the emperor's special decree.

When the craftsman is on duty. "Enter the game very early every day", pretentiously under the supervision of officials, "until dusk and then loose".Work is hard.Among them, some whole families entered the bureau, most of them were formerly captured artisans or captives who were forced to become artisans, and had no other income except the salt and food and occasional rewards from the government.As a result, life is difficult, food and clothing are not given, and things often happen to the children.The other part is that the craftsmen themselves enter the bureau and serve in the hospital, and get a share of salt and grain; after work, they can go home and work with their families, and buy and sell by themselves.Most of them are artisan households issued by the people, and their situation is better than the former.But officials at all levels of the Administration Bureau and the Academy.They often set up clever titles, "catching wind and shadows, eating away at artisan households for food and clothing."Therefore, no matter which part of the artisan households suffers from heavy exploitation and oppression, there are only some differences in degree.Like civilian households, military households, and station households, some of the artisan households were wealthy households, and the Yuan Zhengfu selected officials from bureaus and courts from among them, and the treatment was different from that of ordinary artisan households.

Hongwu two years (1369).The Ming government issued an order that "every army, civilian, doctor, craftsman, and all households in Yin and Yang should be determined by copying their records from the original newspaper."Craftsman households belong to the Ministry of Industry and are divided into two categories: shift craftsmen and residential craftsmen.In the early Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that shift craftsmen must take turns to serve in official workshops every one year or every five years, with an average of three months per shift.The resident craftsman will go to the official handicraft workshop for ten days every month. If he does not go to work, he will have to pay one dollar a month and the government will hire someone else.These two types of craftsmen can freely take advantage of the rest of the time when they are not on duty.To a certain extent, he got rid of the shackles of working in official workshops all year round.However, in terms of identity, the craftsmen are still fathers and sons.The service will be filled forever.The children of artisan households were recruited into the Neifu Acupuncture Bureau as apprentices under the title of "young craftsman".In addition to being exempted from some miscellaneous duties, craftsmen and households cannot be exempted from regular service and taxes.

Zhang Qian's father was the inhabitant.The residents in the courtyard where Zhang Qian lives are all craftsmen.

months ago.The case of Shitou’s father stealing and selling weapons from the warehouse was very involved. The artisan households accused of participating in the warehouse robbery included some artisan households in the yard, in addition to Shitou’s father.These people all died on the night they were arrested and imprisoned, and the news spread that they all committed suicide in fear of crime, and there was even blood as evidence.The magistrate was considered "clean" this time, seeing that the suspect committed suicide in fear of crime without trial, so he ended the case with a swipe of the pen, and did not implicate the families of these craftsmen.

However, if the government officials did not pursue it, it does not mean that the family members of these craftsmen did not pursue it, especially some fathers and sons who worked in the workshop together, were even more stubborn.Zhang Qian's father is also an upright person, and has always been the leader of all the craftsmen in this yard. This time, such a big event happened.And these craftsmen died so strangely, of course they want to seek justice.

Ten days ago, Zhang Qian's father took the rest of the craftsmen in the yard to the Yamen to seek justice.As a result, not only was the grievance unsuccessful, but all the people who went together were beaten dozens of times, leaving everyone bloody and bloody.Zhang Qian's father was the oldest, and he could stand such a large scale there. Coupled with the anger, he couldn't get sick after returning, and his condition continued to deteriorate. In order to treat his father's illness, Zhang Qian spent all his family's wealth, In the end, it was still impossible to save his father's life, and Zhang Qian's father finally went west sadly.

Originally, her mother passed away very early, and Zhang Qian, who had always been dependent on her father, suddenly lost her last support, which can be described as extremely painful.With the help of the neighbors around, I barely started to take care of the funeral.But at this time, Zhang Qian encountered another problem, that is, she had no money.The storage at home has long been exhausted to treat his father, and he even owes some money to his neighbors.You must know that almost every family of these neighbors has a relative who died or was injured by this case, and it would have cost money.

Besides, most of the artisan households have always been poor households.why?Because craftsmen are also exploited by officials at various levels during their visits.So after working, the income is only enough to support the family.

Seeing that it was the first seven days, but his father was still parked in the Yizhuang outside the west of the city at this moment, Zhang Qian burst into tears.In desperation, Zhang Qian had no choice but to take out the dowry that her father had warned him not to sell before his death, and planned to pawn it temporarily, but she did not expect to be met by the demon Huahua Taishuai in Ningbo City, and he has been entangled with her ever since. Until I met Zheng Liang and others. (To be continued..)

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