Chapter 502 Ming’s way of controlling the grassroots

Wang Shouyin arrived at the town where they were, and listened to the driver saying that this place is called Xiekou Town. In fact, this place name has its origin.

It is said that Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, excused himself to use the toilet during the Hongmen Banquet, and fled westward in a car under the protection of Fan Kuai. The wheel fell off during the journey, and Fan Kuai ran with his hands on the axle, sweating like rain, and the corners of his mouth were crooked. Later, people called this place Xiekou Town.

In order to prevent clans from becoming too powerful, the Ming Dynasty deliberately divided the villages when resettling the refugees. There would be no more than fifty people from the same village and clan. Once this number was exceeded, they would be divided into other towns.

Wang Shouyin held his identity card, which said Household 21, Youming New Village, Xekou Town.

Under the leadership of the village chief, Wang Shouyin, his wife and children arrived at their new home.

This is a very small courtyard with only three rooms and two wings, one is the kitchen and the other is the woodshed. All the windows and roofs are coated with tung oil, and the roof is also paved with new carpet.

There are tiles, but judging from the color of the walls, it should be renovated for a dilapidated house.

The gate is newly built, and it still exudes a faint fragrance of tung oil. The fence in the yard is also a half-person-high fence, which can be said to prevent problems before they occur.

Tung oil, the oil produced from the fruits of the tung tree, was an important raw material in natural paints in ancient times. There are detailed records of tung oil in the Tang Dynasty's "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other classics.

When it developed into the Tang and Song Dynasties, tung oil had a wider range of uses. It could not only be used to make "putty", as a material in construction and shipbuilding, but also to make "tung smoke" and "tung paste". It is recognized that the Song Dynasty

A popular "high-end luxury product" in literary circles. But before the Ming Dynasty, the tung oil industry was also very "low-key" - because it was too expensive.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously promoted it, so that expensive tung oil could fly into people's homes.

Wang Shouyin looked down and saw the same situation in the yard next to him.

"very nice!"

In the yard next to me, I saw a plump woman cleaning the ground with a broom, and two little boys, only three or four years old, running around in crotchless pants.

When he saw the village chief coming in, he went to greet him.

The village chief said with a smile: "Wang Shouyin, this is your new home. We, the people of Youming New Village, must unite. If anything happens, just speak up!"

Wang Shouyin bowed respectfully and said, "Thank you very much, village elder!"

The village chief waved his hand: "Don't call me master, you just clean the house first, I'm still busy!"

After saying that, the village chief handed Wang Shouyin a pair of locks and two keys, and then led the others to other houses.

Wang Shouyin took the strange-looking lock and pushed open the door of his home.

As soon as you enter, there is a large table on the north wall. There is a lamp on the table and four chairs next to it. Other than that, there is nothing else.

In a room on the left, there is a bed that looks very cozy.

"We have a family!"

Wang Shouyin hugged his wife Tian's shoulders excitedly: "We have a family!"

For ordinary Chinese people, home is a very special place, and a house is considered a home.

The son wisely walked to other rooms, and he immediately came to the kitchen. The stove in the kitchen was different from what he was used to seeing. For cooking here, you could use the fire directly to the fire pit, and what was burned was not firewood, but coal.

There are two iron pots on the stove, both of which are brand new, glowing blue. There is a water jar, a chopping board, and a rice jar in the kitchen, with some grain in them.

There are also several wooden basins filled with salt, water, five kilograms of oil per household, ten kilograms of salt, twenty kilograms of wheat, twenty kilograms of beans, and some dried and salted fish.

The son shouted excitedly: "Dad, Mom, there is food here!"

Wang Shouyin ran over excitedly, and Mrs. Tian blushed and said, "My dear, are you hungry? Mom will cook for you!"

Wang Shouyin looked down at the food here, and was not only a little worried, but he couldn't eat enough of this food.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty did not support idle people and distributed little food, so that these refugees would consciously participate in the work organized by the government. This is called work-for-relief.

There was no need for Wang Shouyin to worry. After only two hours, the gong rang outside. The village chief shouted while banging the gong: "Young and old men, please go to the entrance of the village for a meeting. Something good is going to happen!"

Wang Shouyin soon arrived at the entrance of the village, and the village chief's voice raised an octave: "The clothes we wear, the houses we live in, the bedding we live in, and everything in your home were all rewarded by the Ming Emperor. Without the Ming Emperor, he

Old people, there is no way for people like us to survive!"

"The emperor, as an old man, showed great mercy and gave us all a meal. He gave us a new house, clothes, and food. As a human being, we must have a conscience and pick up the bowl to eat.

Put down your chopsticks and scold your mother. We don’t want people like this in Youming New Village. If we find one, we will remove the one!"

At this point, the village chief cleared his throat: "Are there any of these wolf-hearted people in our village?"

No one dared to answer the question, thinking to themselves: It feels like living in a dream.

The village chief smiled and said: "No, it's best if one of them counts, he and I are incompatible with each other!"

These grassroots village chiefs take turns going to the Ming Dynasty Imperial Training Center for training every year.

They are good at getting along with the villagers and know how to make the villagers more loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

This is the current way Ming Dynasty controls the grassroots.

In the future, through repeated indoctrination by village chiefs, the villagers under their jurisdiction will understand who treats them well, and let them all understand that only by working hard can their lives get better and better.

The village chief looked at the crowd and said: "The government has created a land deed for us. An adult is fifty acres, and a daughter is thirty acres. If we don't plant the land allocated to everyone, it will be abandoned for three consecutive years. In the Ming Dynasty,

The government is going to take it away, do you remember it clearly?"

"Remember clearly!"

Wang Shouyin pinched the field deed that still smelled of ink, and his eyes slowly turned red. Their ancestors had worked hard for several generations to accumulate some land, but after a war, his family was left with nothing.

Now, he has become a landowner again, and only when he has land is he called a people.

People without land are not even human beings.

"There are still about eight or nine months until next spring!"

The village chief continued: "We have had nothing to do for such a long time, and we must be sitting on nothing. Now there are three roads in front of you. The first one is more dangerous!"

"The Ming Dynasty is preparing to regain Gansu. It needs a group of militiamen to transport food. It is risky and the salary is high. Three taels of silver a month. After regaining Gansu, they will be rewarded with ten acres of fertile land. If they die in the war, they will be rewarded with fifty acres of fertile land. Anyone who is willing will be rewarded.

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