When they woke up the next morning, Xue Yu and his friends washed up, they drank some bone soup and then went straight to Xiguan in Hejian Prefecture, where there was a fresh market!

In the year of great disasters, people's livelihood is difficult, and many families can't survive, so they have to sell their belongings, furniture, bedding, clothing, utensils, jars, jars, jars, jars, jars, jars, and jars. All the things that can be sold are taken out, including many heirlooms!

There are too many sellers, so the price is very cheap. 70% to 80% of new things can be sold at a price of 20%. It can be said that it is good and cheap, cheap and affordable, so many people come here to buy things!

Xue Yu had three cents of silver, so he wandered around the fritters market for a few times and bought two suitable sets of clothes and shoes for each of the guys to avoid being disheveled and ragged all day long, and looked like a little beggar who was begging for food. (It was originally)

I bought another pig iron pot, but it turned out that it was so rotten that it was so rotten that there were cracks everywhere. If I boiled a pot of soup, most of it could leak out!

I bought a few more sets of bedding and essential daily necessities.

One thing to state is that these things were chosen by Xue Yu, but the bargaining matter was handed over to Erhan because he was good at doing this!

"I dare to ask, what is the price of this broken iron pot?"

"This is a top-quality cast iron pot. I haven't used it a few times. Usually, it costs at least three cents of silver, but now it only costs fifty cents, which is absolutely cheap!"

"Fifty cents are still cheap. Are you selling goods at a stall or digging a pit for black people? Look at the pot you sell, it is thin and light, broken and leaky, and the bottom of the pot is three inches thick. Not to mention cooking at home, even making a pig trough is very useful. What if my pig is fed to death?

One pig can take two nests a year, one litter has ten piglets, and ten piglets in ten years. If you feed it, you will get two hundred fat pigs. You can sell hundreds of taels of snowflakes and silver!

Because your slap in the pot caused my family to earn hundreds of taels of silver. You said you are a bad businessman, why is my life so miserable!"

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"Little brother, show mercy. If I continue, I can't do this business!"

"Okay, let the pig be put aside in advance, how do you calculate this pot?"

"You can take it away ten cents. Next time, please don't patronize my small stall!"

"make a deal!"

Among the friends, Erhan is the stupidest one. He can't climb mountains or go into the water. He even moves very slowly, otherwise he will not be bitten by a dog.

But he is very business-minded, bargaining and speaking, making the other party stunned, and he almost gave him something for free. Such talent would be a waste if he didn't do business in the future.

After buying things, Xue Yu was planning to find a job as planned last night so that he could support himself and his friends!

Unexpectedly, as soon as the proposal was released, it was immediately opposed by my friends.

"Did the boss have a fever?"

"It's not hot when you touch your forehead. Did you accidentally kick me by a donkey when you passed by the livestock market?"

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The friends looked surprised, as if they had heard the funny joke. The little rabbit stretched out his hand and touched Xue Yu's forehead worriedly.

Xue Yu was also confused now. He just found a job. Is there anything wrong with making a fuss?

Although I am not yet an adult, there is no regulation in the laws of the Ming Dynasty that child labor is not allowed. Many young men in shops seem to be not older than themselves!

There were many shops around the market. I found a relatively clean tea shop with more customers. Xue Yu stepped in and thought to start with a young man, then the head of the shopkeeper, and finally became rich and lived a good life without worries. I remember that this is how the protagonists of several novels started.

There is a protagonist who took the opportunity to meet a rich lady. She won her heart with her talent and finally lived a shameless petty bourgeois life.

Bah, why don’t I remember the third-rate time travel novels? Even if I believe in it, I should believe in first-rate ones, such as the little black-faced history of making a fortune...

"Dare you ask the shopkeeper, do you still lack people here? I am very diligent, I am still literate, know how to do arithmetic, and I only need half a salary!"

"Well, the young man looks quite energetic. Our store is short of people. You can stay here. Take care of two meals a day and one or two taels of silver a month. If you do well, you can still increase. By the way, have you brought your household registration yellow book?"

"The yellow household registration book, no!"

"Then do you have a guarantor?"

"No!"

"Then why are you going to make trouble? Our store will not collect illegal households, get out of here!"

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"Dare you ask the shopkeeper, do you still lack people here? I am very diligent, I am still literate and arithmetic. I don't want wages, so I can just take care of food every day!"

"Don't have wages, do you have a yellow household registration book?"

"No!"

"roll!"

Xue Yu interviewed more than ten stores in a row, but all failed without exception. He couldn’t do it without wages. The reason was that he did not have a household registration book!

After asking my friends, Xue Yu then realized what the household registration book is!

It turned out that after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen his control over the country, he mobilized huge manpower and material resources to go deep into rural fields in various places, registering and registering the population from door to door, and finally established the most strict household registration system in ancient Chinese history and in world history, also known as the yellow book system!

The Huang Book uses households as units to register each person's hometown, name, age, Dingkou, land and house, and assets in detail. According to the occupation, the national population is divided into three categories: agriculture, military and craftsmanship, and there are several sub-categories under the three categories. For example, among craftsmen, they are also divided into cooks, tailors, and boatmen!

Among the military households, it is also divided into strong men, bowmen, and paving soldiers.

Among the households, in addition to farmers who farm, there are also stoves that dry salt along the coast, horse farmers who raise horses for the army, cemeteries that look for the emperor's family, gardeners who manage the gardens, tea farmers who grow tea, vegetable farmers, fishermen, kiln farmers, wine farmers, jars, and female households... There are more than 80 species in total!

In order to stabilize the social structure, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated: No chaotic status is allowed, and all military service will be replenished forever!

It is all kinds of professions that have been passed down from generation to generation. For example, if you are a soldier, your descendants will always be soldiers. Unless you have served as the Minister of War, you are not allowed to leave your military status!

Similarly, if you are a tailor, then your descendants will always be able to make a living by tailoring. You cannot change other professions, and violators will be punished!

Such a large-scale population registration must be re-produced every ten years, and the slight changes of each household are reflected in the household registration book in detail. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has been registered more than twenty times!

However, since the orthodox period, the hereditary system has been slightly loosened, especially the implementation of the recruitment system, which has given many people the opportunity to change their identities, but household registration must still be remembered clearly!

Xue Yu's predecessor, Xiao Shitou, was an abandoned baby of unknown origin. He didn't even know who his parents were, so naturally there was no household registration book. The other friends were roughly the same!

Those who do not have household registration are illegal households, cannot allocate land, find jobs, join the army, and cannot take the imperial examinations, and are not even protected by the law!

For example, now someone comes over and knocks Xue Yu out with a stick, puts it in a sack and sells it. The government will not ask about it, because there is no Xue Yu in the household registration book of the Ming Dynasty!

Having said that, is it a bad household? There are also benefits of being a bad household, that is, there is no need to perform labor service or pay grain and taxes to the government!

Therefore, some families with more children often find ways to hide a few people. There are a lot of people working in this way, but the imperial grain is paid less. This situation is very common in mountainous areas!

Anyway, they live in the mountains, grow food and eat by themselves, weave cloth and wear them by themselves, have a small peasant economy, are self-sufficient, and even never leave the mountain for a lifetime. It is useless to have a household registration, so it is better to be a black household and be free!

There are also some high-ranking officials, nobles, gentry and landlords who will hide the household registration of slaves in their families and turn them into black households. This will better control the slaves and make them slaves for generations, and there is no need to pay the cap tax!

As for how many black households were under the Ming Dynasty, no one could tell clearly, and it is conservatively estimated that there are more than a few million!

Xue Yu doesn’t want to farm in remote mountainous areas, nor does he want to be a slave to others. Instead, he wants to display his abilities and make achievements. This requires household registration and an open identity!

The question is, how can I get a household registration?

It is said that money is easy to do, so how about applying for a household registration in the yamen?

Looking at the dozen coins left in the pocket, Xue Yu felt that there was little hope of success. He was arrested and sent to serve as a coolie. It was more likely that he would be sent to serve as a coolie!

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In the days that followed, Xue Yu looked for a job many times and tried to start a business by himself, but unfortunately he failed. It was too difficult for a black householder living in the low-level society to do something!
Chapter completed!