After the meal, Ke Qiniang, mother and daughter closed the noodle restaurant and helped Zhangjiagou and his gang borrow a few big cars to pull money and grain back to the village.
The snow on the road had not yet melted, the sky was overcast, and the north wind was howling, but everyone was very happy, and there were many laughs and smiles along the way.
"It's a good year."
Ke Wu, a black-faced man, looked at the car full of money and grain.
"Not only can I have a good year, but I can also rest for half a year next year."
The yellow-faced Ke Shan's face was red, he was happy just now, and drank a few more glasses of turbid wine, but he was tall and drank averagely, and a few glasses of wine were already a little high.
The township is only five miles away from Zhangjia Village, which is very close.
There are no mules and horses in the cart, and it only relies on human power to pull and push, and it goes smoothly.
According to the system, if it were not for the urgent conscription in the war, they would not be exempted from going to the garrison for the next ten months, and they would also be exempted from being on duty for training in the Cheqi Mansion, and they could rest for ten months with peace of mind.
"Next year will be the year of the soldiers of the inspection government, and when San Lang enters the household registration, he should also participate."
Ke Wu helped push the cart while looking at the tall Zhang Chaodao.
Zhang Chao frowned.
"I don't want to be a soldier."
"What's wrong with the government soldiers, when the government soldiers can be exempted from service, they can also give priority to the division of land.
When you go to the battlefield to fight and make meritorious contributions, you can still get money, food, and rewards, and earn meritorious deeds.
You will have a rank like your father, and you will be rewarded with a field.
If you're lucky, you can be promoted to an official.
"As soon as I heard Zhang Chao say that he didn't want to be a government soldier, the men in Zhangjiagou were blown up.
At that time, people were very willing to be government soldiers, and they were not only government soldiers because they could be exempted from military service.
Rather, it is because the government soldiers are still a rare opportunity for many ordinary people to break away from the common people and enter the bureaucracy.
With ability, there is a great chance to earn money, grain, and land, and no matter how lucky you are, you can still get the land, and if you are lucky, you can also be promoted to an officer.
It is too difficult for ordinary people in this era to cross this layer, although there have been imperial examinations since the Sui Dynasty, but the imperial examinations of Sui are not perfect, and they are only out of reach, and ordinary people can't eat enough, let alone study.
Even if you read the book, if no one in the court recommends the Baoju, it will be difficult to enter the imperial examination.
Being a soldier, going to the battlefield, and earning meritorious service is the opportunity for the common people.
Zhang Chao smiled, he didn't have so much ambition and didn't want to be an official.
In this era, the mortality rate of being a soldier is still very high.
"It's okay if you don't want to."
Dad walked next to Zhang Chao, but he didn't have any expression.
"It's not that you can go if you want to go to the government soldiers, there are only two of us in our family, I am already a government soldier, and you can't order according to the rules."
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were selected every three years, mainly from among the yeoman farmers and landlords.
The first choice is wealth, followed by strength, and then Ding Duo.
That is to say, if you want to be a government soldier, the selection criteria of the government are that the family must first be relatively wealthy, and secondly, you must be a young man who is relatively young and strong.
Only sons are generally not chosen.
Once selected, it is a military name and serves for life, from the age of 21 to the age of 60.
Under this kind of government soldier selection system, ordinary people can't be government soldiers if they want to.
Zhang Chao's situation obviously does not meet the third article, although the Zhang family is rich and can have the financial resources to bring their own equipment, and Zhang Chao is also young, but the Zhang family has only two dings in total, and his father is already a government soldier, so Zhang Chao cannot be selected under normal circumstances.
However, young people like Zhang Chao who took the initiative to be unwilling to be a government soldier were a very small number in Guanzhong, just like the scholars in the Song and Ming dynasties were unwilling to participate in the imperial examination, which made Ke Wu and them feel that Zhang Chao's idea was so strange.
"Goro, Dashan, when you get home, you tell your father, tomorrow my family will have a banquet, let them come over for dinner."
Dad took the initiative to change the topic to Ke Wu and Ke Shan.
"Okay."
Wuli Road, not far, everyone pushed and pulled the cart and quickly arrived in front of the village gate.
Villages in the Tang Dynasty had village gates, and many villages also had village walls.
This is also a continuation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and some of them have the same self-protection ability as Wu Bao.
At the gate of the village, an old man stood at the door, everyone called him Uncle Gen, a disabled man with a lame leg.
It is said that Sui Shi was also a government soldier, and later fought for many years, and he could not bear the suffering, so he mutilated himself to evade military service.
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Now the village arranges for him to guard the village gate, work at night, and give him some money and food, which can be regarded as taking care of him as an orphan old man.
"The iron spear has returned, and the money and grain have been loaded into three carts, and the reward is very rich."
Uncle Gen stood at the door with a cane, watching everyone come back with three carts of money and food, and happily stepped forward to say hello.
"Uncle Gen, Brother Iron Spear is now the deputy of the team, and he has also been awarded the rank of Captain of the Martial Cavalry, he is the official."
Ke Shan said with a smile.
"Ah, that's congratulations to Iron Spear."
Dad took a small bag of grain and a piece of cloth from the car and handed them to Uncle Gen.
"This is a bucket of corn and a three-foot cloth, Uncle Gen will take it home."
"It's not going to be done."
"What's polite with me?"
Dad put the things in Uncle Gen's arms, "Tomorrow, I will hold a banquet, officially accept San Lang as a son, and Uncle Gen will come over to drink two cups." ” Uncle Gen accepted it with great gratitude.
Ke Qiniang said to Zhang Chao on the side, "Your father is good-hearted, and the orphans and widows in the village take great care of them, and often send grain and firewood. ” Zhang Chao smiled slightly, lowered his voice and said to her, "Qi Niang can also take a fancy to him because of his father's kindness." ” "What are you talking about?"
Qi Niang's face turned red, turned her head and walked aside.
And when they entered the village, every man went back to his house.
Qi Niang also avoided suspicion and went back to her parents' house first.
Twelve stones of corn, left some in the Qi Niang noodle restaurant, and gave Uncle Gen a bucket, and the remaining ten stones were transported back home.
Dad and Zhang Chao moved the thousand catties of corn into the house, the cave was very small, and finally the grain was piled up next to the bed and a small grain pile was built.
Looking at this pile of corn bags, Dad was very pleased.
In the turbulent years, food was more expensive than gold.
There were originally 30 acres of land under his father's name, but because he often went out on expeditions, he did not cultivate it himself, but cultivated it for other people in the village, and his father collected some rent.
The rent is not high, it is collected according to two percent, and it is agreed that two buckets of millet will be harvested per mu per year, which is harvested according to the annual output of one stone per mu.
This figure is relatively fair, and the rent of 20% is lower, which is also the kindness of the father.
Daddy has 30 acres of land, and he can get six stone millet for rent a year.
Because my father is a soldier and is exempt from taxes, these six stone millets do not have to be handed over to the imperial court, and they all belong to him.
It turns out that Dad is alone, and this food is enough.
However, my father often helps widows and orphans, and when I encounter a bad year, I will reduce my rent, so my father has always lived a poor life.
"Dad, our family is too small, now the family has food and money, I think we take advantage of the winter to be free, just ask someone to hoop the two-hole cellar, and then level the whole larger yard, by the way, and then dig a well in the yard, and life will be convenient in the future."
More than 1,000 catties of grain were put down in the small cave, and it was full all of a sudden.
"Okay, listen to you."
Daddy is like a stream.
After returning from the military mansion, most of my father's equipment was left in the Cheqi Mansion.
Most of the helmets and armor were left in the treasury, and the only things he brought home were his bow and sword, as well as his iron spear.
This is to be able to train at home on a daily basis.
"I'll invite the matchmaker to come over in two days, and tell the matchmaker what kind of girl you want to find, you are also twenty-one, and there are several babies of this age in the village.
Now ask someone to talk to the matchmaker, just when the new cellar hoop is ready, you can get married.
"Dad really didn't say anything to Zhang Chao.
"Dad, I'm not in a hurry, it's you, I see that you and Qi Niang are also interested in each other, and there is no need to drag it out, it's not better to ask someone to be a matchmaker and marry someone home as soon as possible."
Dad was a little moved, but he didn't want to talk to Zhang Chao about this.
"Let's talk about that."
"Besides, brother, I think what San Lang said makes a lot of sense.
You and Qi Niang are affectionate and intentional, and it is enough for each other to be willing to do so.
If my brother doesn't like it, I'll be the matchmaker. ” A hearty voice sounded outside.
"I'm here."
Daddy got up.
Li was an old man with a half-white beard, wearing a round-necked robe, wearing a soft head on his head, and looking very kind and kind.
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"This is Dashan's father, the Lizheng of our Zhang family."
Dad introduced to Zhang Chao.
Datang has five households and one guarantee, and one hundred households and one mile.
Li Zheng is the chief of a hundred households, and in later generations, he is equivalent to the director of a village committee.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, the township below the county level was in charge of five hundred households in five miles, but there was no township chief at the township level, but the five li chiefs took turns to be responsible for the affairs of the main township.
Therefore, this Lizheng is actually equivalent to a township leader in later generations.
Ke Shan's father, Ke Ren, is one of the five lizheng in Bailu Township, Ningmin County, and this month it is Ke Ren's turn to preside over the affairs of Bailu Township.
Wuli is taking turns to preside over the township affairs, each of them takes turns for a month, and when it is his turn, he goes to the county government to listen to errands and assist the county government departments in handling various matters involving Bailu Township, such as collecting taxes and grain, hearing lawsuits, and catching thieves.
There is also an important task in these departments, which is to be in charge of the collection department.
The hand is the basic file of the household registration.
Lizheng's main responsibilities are to plant agriculture and mulberry according to the household registration, inspect non-violations, and urge and enslave.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the household registration management was very strict, and the residents of Lizheng Village were very strict with the household registration management of the jurisdiction, and the household registration was made every three years, while the real files of Lizheng Township were updated in real time.
Whichever family gave birth to a child, which old man died, where an outsider moved, or even which family bought a slave, these would be immediately registered.
If they do not do this job well, and there are omissions, and they are found by the above, they will be punished from the relevant departments of the county government to the village and the parties concerned, and in serious cases, they will be imprisoned for one to three years.
The sentence of imprisonment is also forced labor.
Ke Ren had already heard that Daddy Zhang had brought a layman back to the village on the way, and he was going to accept him as his son's heir, so he came back to the village early today, mainly to check and register.
Satomasa arrived, and soon Muramasa also came.
Zhangjiagou's village is also surnamed Ke, called Ke An, and is the father of the black-faced Han Kewu.
Ke An, as the village leader of Zhangjiagou, is a subordinate of Lizheng Keren, and is mainly responsible for assisting Lizheng Keren, managing the village security of Zhangjiagou, mediating disputes, and assisting in the collection of taxes.
After Lizheng Keren and Muramasa Ke'an came over, they routinely inquired about Zhang Chao's origin.
Zhang Chao said again what he had said about following the old monk in the mountains, and originally thought that Ke Ren would have a lot of cross-examinations, but after just asking a few questions, it was over.
"Okay, wait for the actual report to the county office, and in a few days, your household registration will be down."
The smooth process made Zhang Chao a little surprised.
"Okay, San Lang's hand is also registered, now let's talk about the good things of Brother Iron Gun and Qi Niang."
Ke Ren stroked his gray beard and smiled.
Daddy's face was slightly red, and he was a little embarrassed, and Zhang Chao was happy when he saw it. t1706231537: