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Volume 7: Laughing and Talking about Drinking the Blood of Huns Chapter 12: Family Separation

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    Li Tiejiang is a taciturn person, but Sun Gouzi has become more and more talkative since he opened the inn. The two of them were drinking tea, and Sun Gouzi kept talking about news from all over the world.  The Gaochang Kingdom of Khan was at war with the Khotan Kingdom again, and Han Derang of Youzhou was promoted to Privy Councilor of the South Court for the first time. Because of the success of the Yangou, Yang Ye was reactivated by the court and still guarded Daibei to defend against the Liao people.  The Si Tianjian of the imperial court built a new armillary sphere that could rotate by itself. The people of Bianliang all said that this was auspicious sign of peace and rejuvenation of the country.

    "With the presence of the Yang family, the Khitans do not dare to cross the border to harvest the grass valley at will." Li Tiejiang interjected. In the minds of the people in these border areas, it is not important how many Khitan heads have been captured or how much land has been expanded. What is important is the  The Khitan people protected the people when they crossed the border to clear grass and valleys, and at this point the Yang family army did a better job than any imperial army.

    After saying this, it was Sun Gouzi's teapot mouth who performed a one-man show again. While listening to him telling these news from all over the world, Blacksmith Li was secretly thinking about the bounty offered by the Ordnance Department to build cold-forged plate armor. Among all the blacksmith shops in Anxi, who could succeed first?  , you can obtain a patent. If all the blacksmiths in Anxi use this method to cold forge plate armor, they will have to pay apprenticeship fees to the person with the patent. This does not mention that the baggage company itself has a huge cold forged plate armor.  Orders are waiting in the back.  On the one hand, there is a huge bounty, and on the other hand, there are all other blacksmiths in the name of master, who is only a few steps behind the master Lu Ban.

    "You can't cast it into a thin iron plate first. The armor made in that way will be too brittle and will break into several pieces if hit hard, let alone defend against being stabbed by a knife or a spear. When forging, the heat of the charcoal fire should not be too high. The armor made in that way will be too soft.  , easy to be pierced by spears. To make Dangxiang Haozijia as strong as ordinary iron materials are not enough, the iron materials must be smelted into high-quality steel first. Our ancestors have passed down the skill of steel-making, so in that  The procedure used by Party members to make artificial warts is similar to that of frying steel and pouring steel in the brochure handed out by the Master of the Transport Department. That is a lazy method, and the steel produced is far less good than smelting steel."

    "The Ordnance Master's Manual talks about the Tianzhu people's steel-making methods. If the furnace materials are chosen correctly, the heat in the furnace is high enough, and such high heat will not burn out the furnace, the molten steel produced by frying steel can be as good as steel-making.  Comparable. Steel is boiled into water. This is such a high heat. What else can withstand it? However, looking at the Persian swords from the West, they are indeed not inferior to the hundred-smelted steel swords. I can¡¯t say anything.  It¡¯s time to try and see if the furnace charge, heat, and heat-resistant furnace are all available. If these three things are ready, it will be possible to produce a high-quality steel billet. But what about the steel billet? Without strong fire, just rely on it.  If you hit it with a hammer, the better the steel, the harder it will be to shape it."

    Blacksmith Li's brows were almost knotted, and he stared at the teapot in front of him with a sullen face. The hot steam almost lifted the lid of the teapot, making a tinkling sound. He sighed, "Oh, if I could roll the steel billet,  *Knead it flat, as if the hot air lifts the lid of the teapot easily."

    Sun Gouzi was talking with great joy when he suddenly heard Li Tiejiang's unmatched words. He couldn't help laughing and said: "In that case, I will not be a blacksmith but become a general with my lord. He grabbed the barbarian general with one hand."  The Xuanhua ax, rolled in the hand, turns into twists."

    The moon shines on Jiuzhou, and some families are happy and others are sad. Sun Gouzi and Li Tiejiang are drinking tea and chatting here, but in a farmhouse two or three miles away from the inn, it is gloomy and gloomy.

    Old Man Wang looked at his two sons kneeling on the ground with a livid face, pointed at the ancestral tablets in the hall, and cursed: "Get out of here if you want. I really gave birth to you two bastards in vain." His wife, Mrs. Wang Zhou, was there.  He was wiping tears and couldn't say a word.  The eldest son, Wang Bao, advised from the side: "My two brothers, it's good to be at home for a thousand days, but it's hard to go out for a day. There are still old parents at home. Can't you two stay and serve your parents with your eldest brother?"

    Before Erlang Wang Qing said anything, Sanlang Wang Xing heard the words and said: "Eldest brother is a well-fed man and doesn't know how hungry a man is. The government has promulgated this "Old Son Succession Order". In the future, when father passes away, you will inherit the great business of this family.  If I didn't find a way out earlier and ended up living under someone else's roof, would I still work as a servant for you? Otherwise, you will make a contract now. If you inherit father's land in the future, you will divide it equally between our two brothers." Wang Bao was taken by him.  He choked on one sentence and looked ugly.  Old Man Wang was so angry that he slammed the table. It has been several generations since the Wang family moved to Lingzhou, and they finally laid down a solid foundation. This generation is even more prosperous, with three sons. It was expected to spread and gradually develop into a mature family.  A big family in the countryside, but the Anxi Army promulgated the "Old Son Succession Order", so that the fields of ordinary farmers can only be inherited by the eldest son.  Due to the traditional concept, in most families, the eldest son is the natural candidate to succeed the parent. At this time, with the support of the Anxi military decree, he is even more reluctant to distribute the land to his younger brothers. The other sons who have been deprived of the right to inherit the land are  Separate the family as soon as possible and live alone, and earn a share of the family business while you are young and strong.

    Mrs. Wang Zhou looked at Mrs. Wang who insisted on splitting up the family.The two sons spoke, crying and whispering: "Erlang, Sanlang, are you so cruel that you are willing to leave your mother and go to another county?" Old man Wang, who was holding back his anger, slapped the table when he heard the sound, and shouted: "Let's go  Let these two bastards go! Just pretend you didn¡¯t give birth to them." Wang Zhou was usually a little afraid of her husband, but today she just cried and said: "His father, you can't discuss it with Da Lang and let him  Who are these two brothers? The imperial court is granting land to my family. There are three men in the family, so I should grant more acres of land to my family."

    "Shut up! Auntie Fool," Old Man Wang shouted. He agreed with the government's decree from the bottom of his heart. Land cannot be divided. Once divided, the family will be weak. Later, it will still be passed on to the eldest son, but  I am so angry with these two little ones that they are so embarrassed that they have to live alone now, and their food for twenty or thirty years has been fed to the dogs.

    "Mom, according to the rules of the government, land is granted to households only, not to the family. If my two brothers don't start their own business, our family of three will only be granted 60 acres of land, and the number of acres our family has been cultivating will be deducted. Then.  Furthermore, the government issued a "Grass Planting and Animal Husbandry Order", which prohibits cutting down mountains and forests. Only grass and grazing are allowed on slopes. There are not many cultivated fields near my home. In order to maintain soil fertility, the government also issued a "Fallow Farm Rotation Order". This acres of land  We have to take a year off from farming, and now there is no need for three people to work on the fields. My younger brother and I are going out to start our own business now, and we don¡¯t want to compete with my elder brother for the family property. We just ask dad to let us take the ancestral tablet with us until we settle down.  Come down, I will come back to visit my parents later." Erlang Wang Qing was a filial son, and when he saw his mother crying, he explained patiently.

    "Isn't this cutting out the flesh of your mother's heart?" Mrs. Wang Zhou couldn't figure out what the relationship between this government decree and her son's separation of the family was.  Wang Qing and Wang Xing knelt in front of the ancestral tablet in a daze, waiting for their father to resign.

    The only sound in the room was Wang Zhou's sobs. After a long silence, Old Man Wang finally said in a low voice: "Since you two are determined to leave, let's go. But wherever you go, you can't commit any crime and bring shame to the Wang family ancestors.  "

    Three days later, Wang Qing, Wang Xing and his wife and children bid farewell to their parents in the main room. Each of them carried a bag containing the ancestral tablet and embarked on a long road to the unknown.  They held in their arms the road guide to the shade house opened by the sergeant as their only hope. With this road guide, the sergeant at the destination would distribute farm tools, livestock, and grain to them, and then they would set up a road near the farm.  shed, rebuilding the home hand by hand.

    Halfway through, the child was crying. Wang Qing's wife, Mrs. Yu, asked her husband to take out the flour cakes from the bag, break them into pieces, and feed them to the child with water.

    "Oh, oh, don't cry, baby, don't cry," Mrs. Yu turned around and urged, "His father, hurry up, the child is always hungry." But Wang Qing stared blankly at the unfolded bundle.  Mrs. Yu came over to take a look, and she saw half a golden hairpin lying next to the ancestral tablet. This hairpin, which Mrs. Yu recognized, was the most valuable thing in the Wang family. It had always been kept in the hands of her mother-in-law and was a treasure passed down from generation to generation.  , but now it was cut into half and secretly stuffed into Wang Qing's baggage.  "Father, mother!" Wang Qing finally couldn't help but burst into tears. He put down his baggage, knelt in the dust beside the road, and kowtowed in the direction of his home.

    "Since the promulgation of the "Old Son Succession Order" and the "Land Grant Order", the Han people living together in Anxi have begun to separate their families and migrate. The local large families and large farmers have resisted the sergeant-shaded household system.  It is getting weaker and weaker." Xiao Jiu said to Chen Debing, "But recently some local wealthy families and temples have complained to the military government. Since the land was granted, the tenants who cultivated the land for them have also left one after another to start their own businesses."

    "Oh?" Chen De, who was looking at a picture of an improved shoulder armor presented by the Ordnance Department, raised his head, "Have these wealthy families and temples shown any dissatisfaction? Is there anything unusual?" "That's not the case, now.  The capable warriors have all been recruited to the military mansion, the tenant farmers have left one after another, and the manors of the aristocratic families and temples are becoming increasingly short of manpower, so there are just some complaints." Zhang Zhongyao saw a sharp light flashing in Chen De's eyes and hurriedly explained  , many local wealthy people in Shazhou complained to him, and he persuaded them to go back.

    Chen De put down the drawings and said in a deep voice: "If these landowners are willing to lower the land rent of the tenant farmers, they will naturally not run away. Is it easy to cultivate and cultivate the land by yourself? All industries in Anxi are waiting to flourish, and they will become more and more prosperous. Manpower  Naturally, it will become more and more expensive. Nowadays, the price of labor of tenant farmers is not as good as that of large animals. The situation in the past is gone forever. Landowners have to decide whether they are willing to use animals to plow the fields, or whether they are willing to let tenant farmers and farm laborers earn more.  Money and food." He paused and then said: "If the large-scale property management is unsustainable, it can be sold to the government or a partnership to run the business. By the way, within three months, Fuhai Guild will expand some shares to facilitate them.  Buying shares at 10% off the market price is a rare opportunity, but you must seize it.¡±

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