Chapter 397 Ask monks and beggars to plant potatoes outside the customs and become farmers!

Zhang Gui said: "How about this, please ask His Majesty for an order in the name of the Department of Planning and Policy, and say that the imperial court can't ignore the beggars and beggars and monks and nuns in the world, and can't prevent them from living a normal life. Therefore, the imperial court should Take the initiative to help them, organize corresponding forces, and help these monks, nuns and beggars who do not want to learn skills to go to the sparsely populated areas to regain land and directly participate in farming.”

  "After all, since they don't want to do engineering and study medicine, they can only do farming. Agriculture is the foundation of the world. In the final analysis, everyone in the world is the son of farmers, and everyone should be able to do farming."

   Zhang Gui continued.

  Wei Zhongxian also nodded his head: "Uncle Guo said yes. We should help beggars and beggars go to places with vast land and few people to engage in farming. This will not only help them live a normal life, but also benefit the stability of the country."

So, not long after, Apocalypse issued another decree, ordering the Ministry of Civil Affairs to set up a support department to raise and help orphans and jobless people all over the world, including monks and beggars without certificates. These people will be specially arranged by the imperial court to go outside the customs Rare land to regain livelihood opportunities.

  According to the official newspapers and magazines of Ming Dynasty, the reason for doing this is because the benevolent Emperor Tianqi actually didn't see any poor people and could only beg.

  Of course, this is essentially a disguised form of exile, which can be said to be a heavy blow to those who want to get something for nothing.

   There is no way around this, there seems to be a natural conflict between the imperial court and those who want to lie down and be salted fish.

  Rao is Zhang Gui, the person who actually presides over government affairs, and he will also inadvertently force the bureaucrats who are attached to him to drive all the beggars and monks and nuns out of the customs, forcing these people to plant potatoes and dig potatoes.

   "God! Why do you have to get along with me, Uncle Jiao! Huh!"

  Jiao An threw away the broken bowl he had just snatched from a beggar because of this, knelt on the ground, looked up at the sky, and began to cry.

  Because he really didn't expect that he would be so miserable.

  He was originally a good house slave in Wuqinghou Mansion, and he was about to be promoted to a first-class house slave in charge, but in the end he was sent out of the house.

   Then, he can only be forced to become a monk.

But seeing that he became a monk who manages the vegetable garden every day in the family temple of the Earl's Mansion in Dongning, he can finally live a leisurely and comfortable life again, but he encountered the rectification of the Buddhist temple, which forced him to directly choose to be a beggar .

  No way, Jiao An really doesn't want to rely on his own labor to make a living.

The living environment since he was a child made him think that people who rely on their crafts for a living are lowly and inferior people, and it is the most difficult to get a leap in class. Only by dealing with people and thinking about getting something for nothing can they live more comfortably, even There may be class leaps.

In Jiao An's view, although it is very lowly to be a slave serving the powerful, it is easy to rely on the shadow of the master to soar into the sky. A man can at least become the head of the village and gradually have his own land, and a woman may even become a slave directly. Auntie, if she gives birth to a son, maybe in the future, the mother will be able to command her by virtue of the son.

  So, Jiao An really doesn't believe that labor can make you rich and cross classes.

  Thus, now that Jiao An can't be a house slave or a monk, he can only come to be a beggar.

   After all, only being a beggar can get something for nothing. For people of his class, they have the opportunity to come into contact with wealthy and famous families.

  But Jiao An is sad that beggars are no longer allowed.

  In the name of helping beggars to be self-reliant, the government will send beggars outside the customs, to places where birds don’t shit, saying that they will have fields and land to make a living by farming.

  Jiao An is now being watched by the patrolman censor who is in charge of helping beggars, and is ordered by the government soldiers to get in the car and go outside the customs immediately to accept the help of the court.

  Jiao An really didn't want to go, he would rather beg for life in the capital city.

   But he knew that he couldn't hold back the people in the imperial court, so he broke down emotionally at this moment.

   "Why are you crying! It's not good to divide the land for you? It's better than begging for food. I don't know what you poor, bald donkeys think!"

  The official soldiers who ordered him to get into the mule cart didn't understand why Jiao An was unwilling, so he yelled at Jiao An, and then urged Jiao An to get into the cart.

  Jiao An could only get into the car honestly, and then wept silently.

   Now he regrets that he should have left the palace directly, so he might have become a slave in the palace.

  The Han people in Ming Dynasty have now entered an era of social change from the old to the new, and there is also a phenomenon that Han people want to be slaves, but they can’t.

  Jiao An is such an example.

  The current changes in Ming Dynasty are painful for Jiao An, but for people like Xie Qian who are willing to live as a dignified Han Chinese, they are happy and a good era that they never dreamed of.

"Xie Qian, you are very talented. It has not been long and you have already learned the most basic arithmetic. More importantly, you can still read. You are still working hard, and you have already taught yourself history and geography, especially for me. The previous naval battles of the Ming Dynasty also began to be researched, and articles were written, which is very remarkable. The teacher felt that you should not just be a sailor, so the teacher decided to recommend you to apply for the higher mathematics and physics school first, and strive to enter the Daming Armed Forces School in the future and become the emperor Gatekeeper!"

  Xie Qian, who had been studying for a long time at the Tianjin Shipping Academy, which trains sailors, was suddenly called over by Jiang Zhaokun, the student of the school, and Jiang Zhaokun smiled and told Xie Qian his suggestions for his future life choices.

Xie Qian replied gratefully: "The student used to be a book boy when he was a slave in You Tongzheng Han's family, so he knew how to read, and because he was in charge of copying books in the library, he was able to write. He also took the opportunity to read some books. , that’s why they learn quickly. It’s just that Mr. asked the students to apply for the higher mathematics and physics school, and then go to the military preparation school. The students dare not think about it, because the students were born as slaves and have no one to rely on. , to be a sailor in the future, to be self-reliant, and to live the life that ordinary people should live, that's enough!"

"Don't lower your dignity because you were born as a domestic slave! You are willing to improve and learn, and you are already different from others. How can I not help someone like you who is willing to improve? This is also an opportunity for you and me, you If you don’t take the initiative to study and study, you won’t have such an opportunity.”

This Jiang Xuezheng asked someone to bring over a plate of silver: "This is fifty taels of silver. It is my silver for helping you. You can take another letter and go to see the champion of the court. He will appreciate your arithmetic ability." .”

  Xie Qian was moved and pleasantly surprised after hearing this, and hurriedly bowed and bowed.

  Xie Qian therefore packed his bags and returned to the capital shortly thereafter.

   At the same time, Jiao An got in the car to go outside the pass.

  In addition, the monks, monks, nuns who were exiled in the western Xinjiang also went to the northwest.

  At this time, Daming had recovered Hamiwei, so the first batch of monks and nuns who came to Western Xinjiang settled down in Hamiwei first.

As for Jiao An and his group, many of them are monks who would rather beg for money than to be self-reliant, after arriving outside the customs together, Zhang Pu in Kaizhou also saw them, and asked in surprise who was holding the child. Mao Bijiang: "Why are there so many monks here this time?"

  Mao Pijiang was also surprised, and said with a smile: "It seems that this place is going to be more and more lively!"

   "Second Master! The county lord called you to help distribute the fields to these monks and beggars, and bring a few old farmers along to teach them how to grow potatoes!"

  At this time, someone from the local county government came running.

  (end of this chapter)