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  Chapter 3 A-character scroll Qi Luqing is not in the era of the Red Chamber and Great Zhou I don’t understand

  Linqing Feng’s old house compound is located in the side alley of Yongqing Street just outside the old brick city, occupying half of the street.

  The healthy horse that galloped out before is heading north, and I don't know where it is reporting.

The Great Zhou Dynasty followed the pre-Ming regulations and set up a guard in Linqing. However, as the Great Zhou Dynasty has been in power for nearly a hundred years, the military equipment has been abolished. Different military households have no more than two or three thousand people.

   Moreover, the empty quota has also become the largest source of income for the generals of the guards to support their families.

   "Uncle You, is something going to happen? Uh, it's not for the sake of using weapons, right?" Feng Ziying immediately panicked.

  It has only been a few days since I came to this time and space. To put it bluntly, it has only been a few days. He really hasn't figured out many specific things about this time and space.

  Besides roughly knowing that the Great Zhou Dynasty followed the general experience of the previous Ming Dynasty, his mind is full of confusion and he can't figure it out.

  Even if you really traveled to the Ming Dynasty, how much do you know? I really thought I could be a Ming person after reading "History of the Ming Dynasty" and reading a few books of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" and "Fifteen Years of Wanli"?

The Great Zhou followed the rules of the pre-Ming Dynasty, and there were basically no major changes in the official system or the military system. According to Feng Ziying, the difference between the Great Zhou and the Ming Dynasty was more like the difference between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty. There were some changes, but basically Copy and follow.

  The Great Zhou basically inherited the territory and system of the former Ming Dynasty. Except for the few years when Zhou Taizu first established his own dynasty to conquer the world, the rest seems to be not much different from the former Ming Dynasty. It even took over from the civil and military system as a whole.

   But there is no doubt that these three months of observation still brought Feng Ziying a lot of things, especially the trip from Beijing to Linqing to mourn her father, and she saw many things she had never seen before.

  The Great Zhou Dynasty has been established for less than a hundred years, but there are already some signs of the end of the world.

  Wen Tian and Wu Xi, and it is said that the Mongolian Tartars and Jurchens in the north have repeatedly harassed the Nine Sides.

  Although it has not yet become a serious problem, according to Feng Ziying's limited memory of the late Ming Dynasty, if the general trend of history does not change, it seems that there will be big troubles in 20 or 30 years, right?

  Uh, it seems that it is not only Jiubian that caused the big trouble, but Shaanxi, right?

   Thinking of this, Feng Ziying couldn't help but shiver again. She is only less than twelve years old, so she has to catch up with this kind of thing? Even powerless to resist?

  I still want to be a dandy, to really experience the life of a master in the feudal era, er, the life of a righteous and confident three wives and four concubines, who open their mouths and clothes and stretch out their hands when they eat, why can't they let themselves be happy for a while?

   "Hmph, that's hard to say. I heard that this long-term companion stretches out his arms and dares to touch the grain, not to mention that he collects taxes according to the order. Who dares to provoke him?"

  Feng You obviously has seen a lot of travels and travels, and knows the virtues and faces of these palace tax supervisors.

   "In the capital, they restrain themselves a bit. When they go out of the capital, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. Who can stop them? Even Captain Long has to give them some points."

  This Long Jinwei is actually the Jinyiwei from the previous dynasty.

  The Great Zhou Dynasty established the dynasty, Zhou Taizu abolished Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang, and combined them as Long Jinwei, but the folks still mostly followed the former dynasty's title of Jinyiwei.

In addition, the official uniform of Long Jinwei still uses the embroidered spring knife in the flying fish uniform of the previous dynasty, but a fish-scale sword was added as a weapon for officials above the Jinyiwei General Banner. It is called by the people.

  Feng Ziying is timid, but she still needs to be calm.

  Although this body has practiced martial arts since childhood, but after all, he is only eleven years old. If he really encounters a military chaos, he probably only has a dead end.

   "Uncle You, over there in our old house..."

   "It's not like that, it's nothing more than those peddlers and merchants yelling and making trouble, trying to make something out of it, and force the constant companion to give in." Feng You also saw these things clearly.

  It’s nothing more than an ordinary place, but this Linqing City is the most important place on the border of Shandong. The Ministry of Household Affairs has a banknote pass here, and a secondary warehouse for grain and water. If there is any trouble, there may be another lip service.

  The scholar-bureaucrats and civil officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not easy to mess with. Once the censors and the officials make a fuss, no matter who you are, you will have to peel off your skin.

  Although Chang Budang is greedy and hateful, he is not a fool. Naturally, he also knows the stakes, so it should not be out of control.

   And these merchants and traffickers are also a little weird, and they dare not do this logically, but Feng You doesn't bother to care about it because it has nothing to do with him. At least there are hundreds of elite guards in Brick City, so there can't be any big troubles.

  Feng Ziying also knew that Uncle You, whom her father specially arranged to **** her back to her hometown, was not easy.

  He and several others followed his father for many years, and even changed his surname to Feng. In fact, he was his father's personal guard when he was guarding the border in Datong Town.

   and the Mongols fought life and death in the border village for many years. Later, his father was dismissed from office due to incidents, and several of their old brothers who had followed his father for many years returned to the capital with his father.

   At any rate, there are still a few Zhuangzi in Wanpingwai's family, so they settled their family there by the way. Although they are not rich, they can still earn food and clothing.

  Feng You and several others who came back with him took turns to live in the mansion of General Shenwu in the capital.

   It's just that there are some things that ordinary people can't predict.

   "According to Uncle You's intention, it doesn't get in the way?" Feng Ziying was a little worried.

He also knows that he has not been in this time and space for a long time. Although he has accepted the original memory and consciousness of this body in his mind, when it comes to analyzing and judging these things outside, he still cannot compare with a character like Feng You who has traveled all over the world for many years. Compare.

  However, Feng You used to be mainly responsible for guarding his father in Datong Town. After his father was dismissed and returned to Beijing, he learned to be a long-term follower. He knew something about the outside world, but it may not be very deep.

   "Uh, brother Keng, I can't say that well." Feng You's stiff face didn't have much expression, and because the left cheek was injured, the only one that could change the expression was the right cheek, which twitched a bit.

"You and I can get on the boat today, and we can set off in the afternoon and head north. Even if something happens, we are not afraid. As for the old house, it is right under the nose of the guard. No matter how bad it is, we have to save face. No one went to the tiger's mouth to stroke his beard."

   "I hope so." Feng Ziying was not at ease in his heart, he always felt that he had so inexplicably traveled to this time and space of the Red Chamber, which was unprecedented in history, that he could not easily make himself so happy as a playboy.

  Although Dad was dismissed from office, the title of General Shenwu is still there. Although he can't compare with the four princes and other dignitaries, he still belongs to the noble descendants who fought the world with Zhou Taizu.

In terms of reasoning, the only son of the Feng family like me, with three wives and four concubines, is what I should live in this life. Isn't this the life I most longed for in my previous life when I was physically and mentally exhausted from work? ?

   But the question is can this kind of life last? Feng Ziying felt a little overwhelmed.

  He didn’t feel it in the capital, but since this trip to his hometown in Shandong, he has already felt all kinds of restlessness up and down.

  Going south by boat from Tongzhou, Feng Ziying felt the hardships of life on both sides of the canal along the way.

The two sides of the canal have been either drought or flood for the past ten years, and the people have no means of livelihood. Every year after the autumn harvest, there will be a large number of refugees going north and south. Obtained during the conversation.

   Every year, the stewards of the big households in the capital will go to Cangzhou and Dezhou to buy slaves. Many poor families simply don’t want money, just want to find a way for their children.

  The private salt dealers in Cangzhou even colluded with the local refugees to rob official salt. At the end of last year, they even mobilized their swords and sent out the guards to suppress it.

   It was a battle, killing a lot of heads. There were dozens of heads hanging on the city of Cangzhou alone. Until the maggots gnawed off the flesh and skin from the heads, they were still dangling in the wooden cage on the wall.

  Feng Ziying and his party passed by Cangzhou when they took a boat south from Tongzhou a few days ago, and they could still look at the dense heads hanging in wooden cages under the crenels of the city wall. The black holes in the eyes made people panic.

Feng You twitched his cheeks, raised the corners of his mouth, and twisted Qing Sensen's jaw slightly. He glanced at this brother Keng who was still looking around, and always felt that this young master who was still a bit rough become more precise.

Things like this in the past, where there is no need to ask more, just walk away with a dull head, if you want to ask, it is just an interesting thing on the streets of Linqing, lions, cats, thrushes, this is Brother Keng in the past My son likes it, so why care about such serious work?

   Could it be that the Imperial Academy has really improved a bit after studying in the past few months?

   "Ruixiang."

"Master?" The green-haired boy sitting in front of the car turned his head, "But thirsty? There is also a gourd sour plum juice here, which can quench your thirst and relieve the heat, but you have to drink a town of Shenjingshui to make it refreshing. .”

  Feng Ziying looked around a few times, but couldn't see anything, so she waved her hand and shrank back into the carriage.

   Although the Feng family is a common surname here, they don't have much contact with the merchants' families in the outer city.

  In addition, during this period of time, the elder who was not very close to him passed away, and everyone was busy with the funeral, so not many people cared about the matter in the outer city.

  And this constant companion has been here for more than half a year, which month doesn't make some moths?

The Feng family in the city also knows a lot. Even if Feng Ziying stayed here for a few days, he heard that maybe seven or eight merchants and ship owners in the past were ruined in the past few months. Some ties can only be broken in half and left.

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