Villager of Daming

Chapter 1143 Refuse to trade because of slaves

Everyone was discussing transportation matters, but no one helped the people carrying coal. The guards and sergeants guarded their positions.

The person carrying the coal is clearly a person who specializes in selling coal slime. It is a job. Since the other person has chosen this job, no one else needs to take care of him unless he falls down.

Then I saw a group of children carrying earth baskets made of thorns, and some children carrying small shovels, very small flat-head shovels.

Whenever you see this kind of thing, it usually means that the other person's home is burning coal, and it is an earthen stove with iron grates.

I don't know whether the stove is connected to the kang behind it, or whether it is connected to the stove or not.

The continuous kang is a hole connected to a kang behind the earthen stove. There is a stone board. When burning in the summer, the stone board is dropped to prevent the fire from entering.

At this time, the earth stove goes to another chimney, picks up the stone slab, and puts it in the other chimney hole, and the fire goes out of the fire kang.

The principle is the same as running water back and forth in a paddy field. Usually a kang is connected to a stove, with a place for burning the fire, and a furnace hole at the back where the pot can sit when the fire is not burning.

A small shovel is called a fire shovel, and is used to remove ashes under the stove, that is, cinders.

The children were shoveling there, and someone shouted: "That's enough, I can't carry any more."

The four princes rushed forward under the protection of their guards, grabbed the shovel from the child's hand and began to load the coal.

Look at the height of the slime in the soil basket, it’s still very short! But it can't be filled anymore. If it is full, the earth basket can hold more than one hundred kilograms.

The children came over and did not go to that far away place. They used small shovels to scoop up the coal mud that others accidentally dropped on the road and put it into soil baskets.

In an instant, the little guy's tears disappeared again, and together with Zhu Wentian: "Hehehehehe..."

Zhu Wentian: "..."

Zhu Wentian looked into the eyes of the child in his arms, completely ignoring the other's little hands rubbing the slime on his body, and glanced at the other children.

There was a little boy about three or four years old wearing a bellyband pointing around and calling others.

The six soil baskets were quickly filled, and they were pressed hard with the back of the shovel, making people very worried whether the soil baskets would fall apart soon.

"Brother Hanhan has two clay baskets, and the other four have eight guards." Ling'er commanded again, never taking action.

For a moment, he suddenly hated children, especially those wearing bellybands.

Still nothing unexpected happened. The little guy looked up at Zhu Wentian, tears welling up in his big eyes...

"Help with the work!" Ling'er shouted and stood there watching.

Everyone stopped talking and looked at the group of children. There were twenty-one children and six clay baskets. Apparently they were asked to be carried by the older children, and two people carried one.

The little guy in a bellyband pointed and looked at Zhu Wentian. He smiled inexplicably and ran towards Zhu Wentian without looking at his feet at all.

Zhu Wentian didn't even have time to look at his clothes. He strode over, grabbed the little guy, and held him in his arms.

"Hey! This, um! That, um! Hehehehehe..."

Wearing knives, people felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy. People in Xiaqiu Village opened the safety on their pistols, and some took pictures.

So as expected, an accident occurred, poof! The reason why he fell forward didn't bang was because his chassis was too low.

"Hey! Hanhan, here's me! Hehehehehe..." Zhu Wentian responded.

"Me! Hey hey hey hey..." The little guy followed suit, and at the same time he kept wiping the slime with his little hands.

Zhu Wentian: "..." He took a deep breath, came to an earthen basket, and put the little guy in: "Sit down, um! Hey hey hey hey..."

So the little guy sitting on his buttocks of coal was picked up with the soil basket, one in each hand by Zhu Wentian, let's go! How cute the child is! How could he be allowed to walk back on his own!
The other children laughed and jumped along happily. They knew what kind of team this was and were not afraid! I got the popcorn bars yesterday.

Zhu Wentian deliberately wanted to go there to see the children's village here. A group of children came to transport coal slime. It was very warm. Even those wearing bellybands knew that smearing coal slime on others would bring blessings to everyone.

In a little more than twenty minutes, the team arrived at the village here. It was said to be a village, but in fact it was very prosperous, with a big market and many people going to the market.

This is not a place for trading with the Jurchens, only Ming people, and outsiders are restricted.

It's not that the court wants to restrict it, but all Ming villages refuse it, unless the Jurchens prove that there are no Han slaves in a certain tribe.

The Jurchens were a slave system, and there were slaves who fought among themselves, as well as Han and Korean people, including people from the Beiyuan tribe.

It turns out that the tribes who were close to Bei Yuan and the tribes who were heavily oppressed by Bei Yuan knew how to fight, even between brothers and neighbors! Not to mention the outside.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has the upper hand, the people want their loved ones to come back, and they must hate that their loved ones are dead.

Historically, Xu Da failed in the Northern Expedition and retreated to build the Great Wall. Of course, the Jurchens would not easily return the slaves. With Bei Yuan there, the Ming Dynasty could only adopt the strategy of restraining slaves and then spending money to redeem them.

Then there were constant wars, small-scale ones, including the annexation of various Jurchen tribes and the friction between Goryeo.

During the Yongle period, there were still slaves, but they were obviously not from Hongwu and had long since died.

If you don't spend money to redeem people now, it's not because you don't have money, but because you have the will. You Jurchens must send back the captured Han people without giving you a penny.

Other tribes can report each other, whoever has Han slaves registered in the register, even if they die, they are so overbearing, if you don't believe it, let the army that helps you hunt come over to hunt again.

The Jurchen tribe nearby had returned all the slaves. They were most afraid that whoever was closer would be beaten first.

The people of the Ming Dynasty have relatives who have not returned. They don't care whether there are Han slaves in your tribe. Anyway, my family is with you!

"Stop, stop, there is a small river next to it. You are going to our house. Let's wash our clothes first, or we won't get beaten!"

An older child became anxious when he saw that the team was still moving forward.

He knew that it was a good thing to come out to make slime, and if his clothes were dirty, he would have to clean them up, so there was no conflict.

Then wash it. The slime is easy to wash. You can put it on directly after washing. The weather is hot and it will dry quickly.

"Put Xiaojiu down. If you sit on the coal mud again, you'll get diarrhea. It's cold!"

Another older child suddenly remembered that he had a younger brother who was not walking.

"Cool, cool! Hey hey hey..." The little guy in a bellyband slipped out from under the handle of the basket.

"Did you put something on it? When did you put it on? Mother! Silk? Is it silk?"

The older child from before noticed the situation and came over to touch it with his hands.

"Satin is thicker than silk and has a different texture. I stuffed it."

When Ling'er made a sound, she knew what to do without Brother Hanhan's gesture.

It's really troublesome for the little guy to have diarrhea when he sits down! how to explain? Such a big child will suffer if he is given medicine!
So she took off the ribbon from her waist and put it under the little guy's buttocks. The ribbon was a decoration and could also be used as a tool.

(End of this chapter)