Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 7 0007 [Chongning 12 Years]

All night.

The next morning, the father and son opened the door.

The skinny horse stood quietly in front of the door, neither tied to a rope nor running around. When it saw them appear, it snorted to show its closeness.

Then the scrawny horse wandered into the corner of the yard to nibble the weeds under the fence.

Army horses are difficult to take care of. They have to be fed bean cakes and salt water, and the night grass can't be cut off.The yellow puma in front of him is easy to kill, he doesn't need to worry about anything, he just knows how to find food.

Of course, if you are so skinny, you won't be able to carry a load of dozens of catties, let alone ride it.

Tian Er's wife was sweeping the floor, and Tian San's wife took a few children to work in the vegetable field not far from the courtyard.

Zhu Ming walked over and asked, "Auntie, is Second Uncle Tian going out?"

Tian Er's wife is also not simple, she just lied: "I went to work in the field just after dawn."

Zhu Ming said sideways: "In this world, life is hard."

"Isn't it?" The woman also complained, "Winter is getting colder and colder, and the weather is also very chaotic. There will always be two months of drought in summer."

The temperature began to drop in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, fell to the bottom in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and recovered for another 100 years in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Even when the temperature was the highest in the Southern Song Dynasty, it did not rise to the level of the late Tang and early Song.At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the temperature fell to the bottom again, and the Ming Dynasty recovered slightly.However, the highest average annual temperature in the Ming Dynasty did not reach the peak in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The average temperature at this time is about the same as that of the late Ming Dynasty, and about the same as the early Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty.

Little Ice Age!

Zhu Ming added: "This mountain is closed, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the officials don't care about it. I think it is better than the south."

The woman said: "There is no official family, but the emperor."

Zhu Ming asked, "Which local emperor?"

The woman stopped talking.

Zhu Ming asked again: "In your mountains, do you know the emperor's new year name?"

"Is there another new year name?" The woman asked suspiciously.

"Which year name did you use?" Zhu Ming asked back.

The woman said, "What Ning, I can't remember."

Although Ju Ming had already had bad thoughts when he heard "Cai Xianggong" yesterday, he still took chances: "Xining?"

The woman shook her head: "No."

"Chongning, right?" Zhu Ming's heart sank.

The woman immediately remembered: "Yes, yes, it is Chongning. This year is the 12th year of Chongning. When I got married, it happened to be the first year of Chongning. I remember it clearly."

In ancient times, rural people basically didn't remember the emperor's year name, and usually used the heavenly stems and earthly branches to calculate the year. It is not easy for Tian Er's wife to know the Chongning year name.

It's just that the news is a little bit behind. Chongning is only five years old. Where did Chongning come from for 12 years?
The so-called 12th year of Chongning should be the third year of Zhenghe, that is, 1113 AD.

Zhu Ming left dejectedly, walked up to his father, and said in a low voice, "We're out of luck."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zhu Ming said: "It is true that we traveled to the Northern Song Dynasty, and the current emperor is Song Huizong."

Zhu Guoxiang confirmed: "The one in "Water Margin"?"

"That's the man," Zhu Ming said depressingly. "In more than ten years, Jingkang's shame will come. It's been less than ten years since the Liangshan heroes rebelled. You can go to Song Jiang for fun."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Song Jiang is timid and afraid of getting into trouble, and he can't make any progress. It's better for us not to be contaminated."

Ju Ming was having fun in the midst of suffering, and actually laughed: "The real Song Jiang is cunning, ruthless, and rebellious. He was forced to accept Zhao'an because he was blocked by officers and soldiers. In the end, he was killed by the court because he surrendered and returned." I don’t want to be bullied by the imperial court any more.”

"After all, they are robbers," Zhu Guoxiang said. "We crossed over here, not to be robbers. We can farm and get rich, and I have a lot of advanced agricultural knowledge. You won’t kill all the landlords, will you?”

Zhu Ming didn't like to hear these words: "Dean Zhu, you are greedy for life and afraid of death, do you have any sense of national integrity?"

Zhu Guoxiang said: "In the long run, the Kingdom of Jin also belongs to the dynasty of the Chinese nation."

"No," Zhu Ming changed the phrase, "How do you know you're safe when the golden soldiers go south? They're going to rob and kill people everywhere."

Zhu Guoxiang thought carefully: "We can go to the south and slowly develop into big landlords. The Southern Song Dynasty can last for 80 years."

"What about the Mongols coming? Don't you think about your descendants?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "As long as you become a big landlord and surrender when it is time to surrender, the Mongols will not be able to kill randomly."

Zhu Ming was convinced, because it was true.

Even under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River lived more prosperously. Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, and there are still many big landlords who miss the Yuan Dynasty.

"No, no," Zhu Ming said, "Since we have traveled back, we can't let history repeat the same mistakes. The Yuan Dynasty invaded, and only the big landlords in the south benefited. How many ordinary people died. Moreover, the Mongolian Yuan invasion caused Chinese civilization to lose its technological and cultural The field is going backwards across the board."

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Can you govern the country? Can you fight wars?"

Zhu Ming said: "You can learn."

"Anyway, I only know how to farm." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Ju Ming said sarcastically: "This is a feudal society. If you know how to farm, you can get rich? Corrupt officials, bullies and powerful people can eat you up. You managed to save thousands of acres of land, and you managed to save thousands of dollars. Family wealth, just give you a crime and it will be gone."

Zhu Guoxiang was silent. He believed that what his son said was reasonable, and it was really difficult to become a big landlord without a backer.

Ju Ming continued: "Ancient China was a bureaucratic society, and we had to be officials. Even if we couldn't be officials, we had to find someone who was an official to protect our interests."

"I don't know how to write four books and five classics, nor can I write stereotyped essays." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Zhu Ming said: "The Song Dynasty did not examine the Four Books, Five Classics and Stereotyped Essays."

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Then what is the test?"

"I can't speak clearly in a few words, and it's really hard to take the exam," Zhu Ming said. "It's best to take a shortcut and become an official without passing the imperial examination. Hmm...can you grow a few ears of rice, this thing It can be regarded as an auspicious offering."

Zhu Guoxiang can only popularize science to his son: "Rice with multiple ears is a genetic mutation, which is beyond the control of scientists."

Zhu Ming scratched his head and said, "Then what other crops? You can always grow outrageous ones."

Zhu Guoxiang thought carefully and asked, "Is Wannian Ganoderma lucidum considered auspicious?"

"Can you grow ten-thousand-year Ganoderma lucidum?" Ju Ming was overjoyed.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Ganoderma lucidum is an annual fungus, not to mention ten-thousand-year-old ganoderma, it is impossible to have ten-year-old ganoderma. But I can try to grow the ganoderma to be bigger than a millstone within one year."

"President Zhu, you are so awesome," Zhu Ming was overjoyed, "When the time comes, you will carry the Ganoderma lucidum as big as a millstone, put it in front of the official, and send it up as auspicious. Even if you can't get close to the emperor, you can still please the official." Yes, you can reap many benefits!"

"It's really that easy?" Zhu Guoxiang questioned.

Zhu Ming said: "Song Huizong liked weird things, and he asked officials to search for strange things all over the world. What is good at the top and effective at the bottom, those officials also like strange things. The Ganoderma lucidum with a large millstone is guaranteed to be able to Let us gain a foothold in the Northern Song Dynasty!"

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Then shall we go to the south? If we become big landlords, the south will be safer than the north."

"We can't go to the south," Zhu Ming said. "If we go to the south, the only way left is to be a rich man. We have to stay in the north and work hard to develop our strength. If we can't change history, at least we can fight by ourselves. Hebei can't Go, it’s too chaotic there. Shanxi and Shaanxi are unreliable, a bunch of military leaders. This Hanzhong is just right, you can go out of Shanxi in the north, and you can also occupy Sichuan in the south. It is an excellent base for fighting for the world!"

"Will you be more sober? Leading troops in battle is not playing video games!" Zhu Guoxiang was speechless to his son.

Ju Ming is not a person who follows the rules, otherwise he would not quit his job in a state-owned enterprise and go to self-media.Holding up the sword wrapped in a torn sweater, he burst out with breath and said, "A man was born in troubled times, so he should carry a three-foot sword and make an invincible feat!"

Zhu Guoxiang felt that his son's mind was abnormal and that he had reached the advanced stage of mental illness.

Thinking about it, Zhu Guoxiang said: "Don't think about making great achievements now, you have to find a place to settle down quickly, we don't know where to eat our next meal."

"That's right," Zhu Ming pondered, "You should get a piece of land first, and obtain a legal identity. You can plant the Ganoderma lucidum as big as a millstone, and solve the ration problem by the way. At the same time, you can inquire about the local officials and powerful news. As long as you curry favor with the officials, You can be the main householder. With the status of the main householder, you can become an official!"

"What is the main household?" Zhu Guoxiang asked doubtfully.

Zhu Ming simply explained: "The one who pays taxes to the court is the main household, and the one who does not pay taxes to the court is the customer. Customers live under the shelter of the main household. You can understand tenants, house slaves, and bonded workers. This kind of status is subject to It is recognized by the court, and the court encourages customers to upgrade to households, because it can increase tax sources for the court.”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Our origin is unknown, so it may be difficult to obtain legal status, right?"

Zhu Ming said: "It's very simple. The ancient household registration is very messy, and there is a lot of room for manipulation. It depends on the situation."

No matter how good the plan is, food and clothing must be solved first.

In the middle of the morning, the two sister-in-laws of the Tian family took the children to the field to deliver food. Tian San was indeed hoeing the field with his teenage son.

As for Zhu Guoxiang, Zhu Ming and his son, there is also a bowl of vegetable porridge to eat.

Not much to eat, better than nothing.

"Will you pay for the meal? This Tian family is also quite poor." Zhu Guoxiang was a little embarrassed.

Zhu Ming said: "When we get the money, we will repay the Tian family for their kindness."

Around noon, Tian Er came back suddenly.

Of course I didn't go home to eat, because I only ate two meals in the morning and evening, and there was no lunch at all.

Beside Tian Er was a hunter with a hunting bow on his back.

"This is Zhang Orion. He lives in the deep mountains. He has a skin and is going to sell it in Baishitou." Tian Er introduced with a smile.

Zhang Orion is very young, probably only in his 20s, with a piece of animal skin wrapped around his waist, he smiled and cupped his fists and said, "The two of you are going to Baishitou? Why don't you go together."

What hunter?

They were bandits from the cottage at all, who were invited by Tian Er to send Zhu Guoxiang, Zhu Ming and his father away, and to find out their details by the way.

After all, the bandits robbed the official horse last year, and they were afraid that the government would send spies to inquire about the news.

Zhu Ming and his son have already been suspected of being secret agents of the government.

(End of this chapter)