"After the two hundred households returned to the village, they could slowly identify and select, and sent the flag army's surviving women and strong women one after another. In addition, they could also buy some pickles from the local and neighboring villages. I have no shortage of food here and I am buying them one after another, but there are too few pickles, so everyone can't just eat rice all the time."

"Don't worry, Yuan Qi." Li Guoding said: "I will go to Suocheng first if I pick someone tomorrow. If I can't go to Guannan County once, I will buy all the pickled vegetables, salted duck and eggs in the pickled vegetables, southern goods store in the city."

It was only March at this time, and fresh vegetables had not been put off the market on a large scale. It was quite good in Lianghuai. There were many pickled vegetables in the pickled vegetables in the southern goods store. If there were bitter and cold places in the northern border towns, a jar of pickled vegetables would have to be eaten for a winter. The price of pickled vegetables was quite expensive and much more expensive than grain.

In previous years, Mongolian herders on the grassland would go to the border to trade with Han merchants before winter came. Tea bricks and sauerkraut were the materials they focused on purchasing, and of course the most important thing was grain.

Later generations thought that the Mongols could have sufficient meat, of course this was a misunderstanding. If there was mutton eating horse milk every day, why risk going south to hunt grass valley? Even in the grasslands, they would not kill sheep and eat meat every day. Most of the time they only rely on horse milk and goat milk and solid cheese to survive. The staple food also requires food. After Altan Khan and the Ming Dynasty negotiated peace, grain trade was an important commodity for bilateral trade. The Mongolians purchased grain tea and a large amount of vegetables and sold them to war horses in the Ming Dynasty, as well as plowing oxen and sheep.

Now, even the Hanmin gathering areas lack fresh vegetables, and many Jiubian military forts have records of sauerkraut to soldiers. Min Yuanqi also lacks vegetables here. While people can gradually eat enough, they have a desire for various trace elements in their bodies. To put it another way, they start to greed after eating almost enough.

Wang Sanyi also said that after he returned, he tried to do something. The two parties bowed to each other at the junction of the village at the entrance of the village. The two officials of the household were very respectful and polite. On the contrary, Wang Mingyuan kept raising his face. Even if the salt from the salt pond was shocked to him, in the eyes of this scholar, this was only skills and skills. What scholars seek is the Tao, and they would not work together if they did not make any plans.

Wang Ermei always followed her honestly, followed her step by step, and did not say much, which was very different from the decisive and intelligent she had shown before.

There are also many women who come here this time, but the women cannot stay for accommodation. Min Yuanqi plans to open two more shacks in the future, and separate them with fences. Now the bachelor lives in this place, one can be a unit for a couple's family, and another can be a single woman like a widow.

Everyone said nothing about these details, but they were just amazed at Min Yuanqi's careful consideration when doing things.

On the way back, the sky was getting darker, and some people illuminated the surroundings with torches. Many fields were barren, mainly due to the continuous drought and lack of paddy fields, and the harvest was extremely poor. Many lands gradually abandoned and planted, or were in a semi-waste state. Most of these fields were official fields, and most of them were planted with grains. The harvest was small, and the military households were not concerned about the official fields and let them be deserted.

This situation is not only the Dahewei, but most of the other guards are like this. Therefore, when Lu Xiangsheng was in charge of Xuanda, he could only increase his output by hundreds of thousands of stones a year. The main reason is whether the officials in charge can sort out the distribution of interests of military officers and military households, and give the military households some benefits. When working, they can increase production and income even in the years of famine. While Lu Xiangsheng created the Xuanda miracle, he also exposed the embarrassment of paying grains in the late Ming Dynasty.

"You don't have to be depressed." When only one of your own people were left by your side, Wang Sanyi said to Wang Mingyuan: "If you can really divide the money every year in the future, you will not worry about studying all the way to a Jinshi from now on. You will be at ease in the future and you will not have to pay attention to the rest of the errands."

"My son is afraid that this person will be bold and may involve us in the future."

"The commander can't make so much money even if he is involved in his official position." Wang Sanyi looked at his son and said in a deep voice: "It's just that you scholars look down on military officers, but you forget that you are also a military officer in the garrison."

"There was something about Yang Shida before." Wang Mingyuan was seen through his mind and said angrily: "Who knows if Yang Shili will send someone to retaliate? We are too close to him and are retaliated together. Isn't it a trivial matter?"

"Can Min Yuanqi be unprepared for this matter?" Wang Sanyi said lightly: "Min Qianhu has told me that the children of the Min family and the useful family flag army will send hundreds of people to train. From then on, their Min family has sufficient money and food and manpower, so the bandits must be no match for Min Yuanqi."

"Yang Shida is an idiot, but Yang Shili is not," Wang Mingyuan said seriously: "To be fair, Min Yuanqi killed Yang Shida and his gang to eliminate harm for the people, but Yang Shili is Yang Shida's brother, so this matter will not be easily exposed. If Yang Shili takes revenge, he will not send a group of useless bandits. You must be careful."

Wang Sanyi thought about it carefully. This son was a bit extreme... But in fact, all scholars in the Ming Dynasty were like this: they claimed to be well-read poetry and books, understood the principles of saints, and could tolerate friends who were also scholars. They regarded themselves as protectors, despised and guarded against military officers, had a suppression of merchants, and were completely hostile to eunuchs.

However, when scholars enter the court, they will know that they need to please eunuchs to get to power, and they also have to be vain with the nobles and military officials. For military officials, today is different from the past. Now, the situation is that civil officials need to please military officials!

Even if the scholars and husbands are gradually reacting to these things, they truly realize that the Qing Dynasty used three major cases to kill Jiangnan students and gentry. At that time, those Jiangnan gentry and scholars who were randomly attacking court officials and even criticizing emperors in the Ming Dynasty could not suppress them, and they could not accept them, but were completely killed. If one person didn't do it, ten people would kill hundreds of people. If a hundred people didn't do it, they would kill thousands of people. If a hundred people didn't do it, they would kill thousands of people. If a person was implicated, killed and scouted his home in the three major cases, they would kill more than Jiangnan gentry and students who were implicated, killed and confiscated. More than Jiangnan gentry and students who were implicated, killed and confiscated from their homes in the three major cases.

Ten thousand people, after the Ming Dynasty historical case and other literary inquisitions, the entire Jiangnan was originally the most prosperous and strongest in the Ming Dynasty. The place where the mine tax eunuchs who were about to be beaten to the Death God Sect was killed and subjugated and controlled. The old scholar-official and student class bowed their heads from then on. The original academic research and exchanges stopped. Not only did people dare not write poetry randomly, but they dared not do serious knowledge. All the psychology and philosophy were stagnant. In the Qing Dynasty, only the primary school of exegesis was popular because it was safest to study this in the pile of old characters...

Of course, Wang Sanyi would not know what happened a few years or decades later, but he knew Wang Mingyuan's mentality in front of him. He was a little ashamed of the military officer family from the garrison, and was also reserved and proud of his identity as a scholar. The impact of the two identities made this son make many things difficult for him to make progress and retreat, but in nature, his son is not bad...

After glanced at Wang Mingyuan, Wang Sanyi turned to his daughter and said, "Second sister, do you think what your elder brother said makes sense?"

"There is some reason." The second sister smiled and said, "So dad, you should quickly choose more martial arts and bravery and simple people to Min Baihu. Now we have the same interests as our two families. Helping Min Baihu is to help us."

"Second sister?" Wang Mingyuan glared and said, "Didn't you say that people like Min Yuanqi should stay away from him and be careful of being implicated by him?"

"That was before I saw salt coming out of the salt pond." The second sister said calmly and calmly: "After the salt is released, according to our agreement, my father will get at least a few thousand silver a year. If multiple commanders earn it in a year, the dangerous people are also capable. If the interests are not enough, we should stay away. If we have enough interests, we should cooperate with him. Now, even if we have all the people from all hundred households, it is worthwhile. Otherwise, the eldest brother will go to the hundred households to visit and see if everyone is willing to go to the third hundred households to be salt stewards. Are the strong flag troops willing to follow Min Yuanqi to train and fight?"

"You are good at studying, but your second sister is not as good as your scheming." Wang Sanyi said proudly: "Go to Yanchi with Li Guoding to observe, first negotiate the conditions with Yuan Qi, and then cooperate with him to contribute to others and work hard. The great benefits will be obtained. When encountering problems, you must not stick to the shortcomings, and you must change organically..."

Wang Mingyuan didn't say anything, just stared at his father and sister. At this moment, this scholar-in-law of the Ming Dynasty was extremely confused.

...

"Is Datong over?"

"Well, the governor, the guards, and General Jiang Xiang, opened the city to surrender. This traitor has no intention of serving the country. Damn, damn!"

"This is expected... If generals like Liu in Caozhou defend Datong, they will inevitably surrender."

On the river bank, Min Qiande came to see Min Yuanqi and others off. The uncle and nephew stood by the river bank and spoke. Min Qiande looked serious and cold. The latest news from the Tangbao News came back, and the situation was already very bad.

In early March, Shun's army went to Datong and then conquered Yanghe. The army was preparing for the surrender of Yu Chonghua, which set a precedent for the surrender of senior civil servants. This also shows that people's hearts are undergoing serious changes. Not only are the generals afraid of death and greedy for wealth and honor, but also the civil servants feel that Li Chuang may establish a new dynasty.

Before this, although some officials surrendered, only low-ranking civil servants and unsuccessful scholars would rebel. Ordinary civil servants refused to surrender even if they were killed.

After all, before being killed, civil officials in the Ming Dynasty were indeed quite honest, corruption, and a community of interests in fighting against each other, and did not understand practice. These are the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty literati and even civil officials group, and there is no need to defend themselves, but they are strong and do not fear the powerful and pay attention to moral integrity. These advantages are also maintained by a considerable number of civil officials under the general trend.

However, under the premise that the dynasty obviously wanted to destroy the tripod, these advantages disappeared. From another perspective, most people no longer think that being loyal to the Ming Dynasty was a wise act. This can explain why a large number of civil servants surrendered in Beijing and Nanjing. It is not that they are quite shameless and fearful of death. Otherwise, it cannot be explained that in more than ten years of war against the Later Jin Dynasty and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, a large number of civil servants would rather die for their country than surrender.

When the old system no longer exists, it is meaningless to rely on it, and the morality of the ruler and the subjects that adhere to will lose its meaning. This is the key point.

Min Gande continued: "Then he broke into the Xuanfu, the governor Zhu Zhifeng committed suicide, and the general Wang Chengyin opened the city to surrender... He was still a veteran who had fought for decades!"
Chapter completed!