Bachelor

Chapter 251

As the chief spoke, he shouted at the family disciples behind him: "Everyone kneel down, this is the county magistrate of our Fangshan."

"Plop plop!" More than 30 men knelt on the ground.

Since this is Fangshan County, this old man must be the head of the village. In this way, he should be a low-level cadre under him.

Because the village chief in the feudal society has great power, it is really analogous, if this person is in later generations, he will at least be a senior official of the township party, and he will also be Sun Dan's capable man in governing the area in the future, so what does Sun Dan want to do with him?
Sun Dan nodded, stretched out his hand to help him, and shouted to everyone: "All the villagers, get up."

The chief there still struggled and knelt still: "When I offend the Elder Master, how dare I stand up and speak up. I have offended you just now, and I hope the Elder Master will punish me."

Sun Dan also had nothing to do with them, he dragged one up and knelt down the other, so he had to let them.

"You look like ordinary people, why did you come here to rob the way?" Sun Dan was curious, the Ming Dynasty was in its heyday, the country was prosperous, and the country was peaceful.Although the lives of ordinary people are still very poor, they are not unable to afford food.The common people in China are the most kind-hearted and industrious. As long as they have a mouthful of porridge to drink, they will not rise up and do such dangerous things.

"If you go back to the old man, we are all good citizens, how could we come here to be robbers." The head of the village was buckled by Sun Dan's big hat, and his face was as white as snow on the ground, and there was a scar on his forehead. Capillary sweat broke out.Whispering, white water vapor rose from his head.

A shout of "Master" made Sun Dan slightly startled. He had been called "Master Dan" and "Master Sun" before, but he knew that it was all fake.The Ming Dynasty had strict regulations on titles. Only county officials of the seventh rank and miscellaneous officials of the eighth rank could be called "Master" or "Grand Master".It was only at this time that Sun Dan realized that he was the parent official of this group of people, and found a little sense of being an official.

Shi Wan was still in pain all over his body, and he was even more angry in his heart. He interrupted and shouted angrily: "Good people, are there good people like you? You even dare to rob Mr. Sun. I think if you continue to be so good, you will dare to lead people into the city of Beijing." It's gone." He hated this group of unscrupulous people to the bone, and he only wished that Sun Dan would punish them for a major treasonous crime and kill them all.

As soon as Shi Wanquan drank like this, the village chief named Zhou Xinshu was even more panicked.It was still a tall young man next to him who suddenly kowtowed and wailed: "Master Zhixian, the little people have grievances!"

This sound was like a cuckoo crying blood, which startled Sun Dan.

The head of the village immediately came back to his senses, and shouted loudly: "We have grievances, please ask Master Qingtian to make the decision for us!"

Dozens of juniors also shouted loudly at the same time.

At this moment, there was only a crisp sound like cracking silk, and Sun Dan hurriedly turned his head to look at the side where the sound came from.

I saw that Feng Zhen had already tore open the fishnet forcefully with only a pair of fleshy palms and rushed out. He is a master of boxing and has great strength.If he hadn't been caught off guard just now and was covered with a fishing net, dozens of ordinary people would not be able to get close to him.Sun Dan revealed his identity just now, but no one cared about him.

Feng Zhen got this opportunity and tore a piece of fishing net into two pieces with his hands.

He and Sun Hao snatched a wooden stick, and said to Sun Dan: "Master Sun, do we need to take these people down?"

Seeing how powerful Feng Zhen was, everyone's faces changed, and their hearts were terrified.

As the magistrate of a county, how could it be impossible for Sun Dan to order someone to take down his people without a reason, shook his head, and turned to look at Zhou Xinshu and the young man who was talking: "This is strange, you guys I ambushed my official halfway and did a crime, how can I call him wronged?"

When Sun Dan asked such a question, the village chief Zhou Xinshu was speechless.

On the contrary, the young man next to him was bolder, summoned up his courage and said, "If you go back to the old man, I'm not here to rob... We... We are here to fight the people of Huajiazhuang."

Sun Dan said "Oh": "Huajiazhuang, is this Huajiazhuang? From my point of view, this place is full of forests, but there is no Zhuangzi."

The younger generation was a little embarrassed, "I heard that Huajiazhuang invited a man called a bachelor to come over to cheer. Those fighters are all high-powered martial arts, and we are ordinary people. How can we be their opponents. Think about it." I thought, Mingli was afraid of beating them. Why not lie in ambush on the side of the road to see if there is a chance to stop them. Today is the day when the thugs came over, so we came to the roadside to ambush before dawn. I saw the old man riding Horses and weapons, I thought it was... I thought it was..."

Hearing what he said, Sun Dan frowned slightly. The so-called "Daxing" was actually a gangster organization that appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.Most of these people are illiterate lower-class vagrants, and most of these people are named after the weapons in their hands.For example, beating with a single stick, beating with a mallet, and beating with wood chopping.

It seemed that this matter should be a clan fight between Zhou's family and Hua's family. The Hua's family couldn't beat the Zhou's family, and refused to swallow it. They spent money and sent people to Beijing to ask gangsters to come and help.Knowing that they couldn't beat the group of thugs, the Zhou family simply led people to ambush them by the side of the road to see if they could ambush them.

But he didn't want to mistake Sun Dan and the others for that bachelor, which caused this huge misunderstanding.

"Why?" Shi Wanquan roared again: "Do you think we look like thugs? What kind of eyes are you blind?"

Sun Dan: "What kind of quarrel did you have with Huajiazhuang, and what grievances are you complaining about? Report them one by one."

"It's a long story to talk about. It's so cold today. If the old man is frozen, Xiaomin's crime will be serious. If the old man doesn't dislike our Zhoujiazhuang, why don't you go back to Zhuangzi with Xiaomin to sit and do it? The hot soup is hot and the kang is waiting for you. That's why the grass people dare to answer the master's words."

Sun Dan looked at the sky, although it was sunny, but there was snow all over the place, and it was very cold.Then nodded: "Lead the way ahead."

Feng Zhen reminded Sun Dan in a low voice: "This group of unscrupulous people is very cunning, why don't you go back to the county government first, and then send relevant people to come and ask questions."

Sun Dan shook his head: "That's not right, the thugs hired by Huajiazhuang are coming soon. If I go back to the county first, I'm afraid this delay will cause a fire. They are all the people under my rule, but my official I don’t want to see anyone shed blood. Besides, this is Fangshan, the administrative office of this county, so I don’t believe there will be any accidents.”

Feng Zhen and the others had no choice but to go with Sun Dan and the villagers.

The scale of Zhoujiazhuang is not small. There are about [-] households with a total of more than a hundred people. Most of the people in the north live together in the village.

After seeing the village, Sun Dan realized that the facts were not as they appeared on the outside.The villagers are still very poor, and most of the houses in the village are yellow mud adobe houses.Fangshan is still in the suburbs of the capital, so logically it shouldn't be so poor.As far as Sun Dan knows, the people in his hometown in Shandong live much better than the people here.

After asking, the head of the village named Zhou Xinshu replied that the reason for being so poor is that there are too many people and so little land, and the little crops in the land are not enough to feed each year.The manpower in the village is rich, but there is no land, and most of the young and middle-aged people are at home.

Sun Dan smiled wryly when he heard the words: Whoever said that there were no unemployed people in ancient times, the situation like this one is at least hidden unemployment.In ancient times, there was no way out except for farming. Once a large number of lands were annexed and the conflict between people and land became prominent, it would be an uncontrollable turmoil.

As far as Sun Dan knows, after the mid-Ming Dynasty, the population has been in dispute.In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, due to the war, most people were left homeless, but the population with household records still reached 5000 million. Therefore, it is conservatively estimated that the population of the Ming Dynasty at that time was about 8000 to 1 million.If you really take a census carefully, Sun Dan believes that there are at least hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, or even more.At that time, the world's population did not exceed [-] million, so the Ming Dynasty was definitely the No. [-] populous country in the world.

The mid-Ming Dynasty was the time of the population explosion. Since the Jiajing year, the population has been increasing rapidly.By the time of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, it had reached an astonishing [-] million people.

After all, the land of the Ming Dynasty was limited, just as Sun Dan had said to the emperor before.There are more than 6 million mu of land in the country.Evenly distributed, each person is no more than six acres. In the ancient times without modern agriculture, the output of six acres of land was only enough for an ordinary family to feed for a year.Moreover, more than half of the 6 million mu of land is concentrated in the hands of big landlords and nobles.In an ordinary village like Zhoujiazhuang, the per capita land is only a little more than two mu.

The contradiction between people and land has reached the point of no delay. This is why Sun Dan brought Shi Wanquan to Fangshan, just to see if he can use this rich labor force to find a sideline job for the people, digest the social contradictions brought about by population expansion, and Increase income for local people.

For the future, Sun Dan has long planned and is determined to make a big effort.

Although Zhou Xinshu is the head of the village, his family is also very poor, just better than ordinary poor people.There are more or less two large adobe houses. The clothes worn by the family members are cleaner than those of ordinary villagers, but they are also full of patches.

Sitting on the hot kang, drinking a few sips of hot water, my body warmed up and I felt much more comfortable.

After chatting with Zhou Xinshu for a few words about the farmers, and learning about the local situation, Sun Dan asked: "Mr. Zhou, is the Huajiazhuang the same as your Zhoujiazhuang? There are not many people, and the grain harvested in the field is enough to eat." ?"

Zhou Xinshu replied: "The situation in Huajiazhuang is the same as our Zhoujiazhuang. There are too many people on the ground, and there is not enough food in the field."

"Then why do you fight with weapons, but to fight for water sources?" Generally speaking, clan fights in localities are mostly for water sources and minerals, and Sun Dan thinks this time will be no exception.

"No, no." Zhou Lichang sighed: "It's not because of the little girl... that is, financial resources. In fact... our old Zhou family and the Hua family have lived next to each other for more than a hundred years. We all intermarried and were related to each other." Qi's, Xiaomin didn't expect it to be like this this time."

"Oh, it's because of a marriage." Sun Dan was a little surprised.

(End of this chapter)