Chapter 54 changes the Yuan Republic

After several consecutive snowfalls in the north, the eleventh year of the Great Cause is finally coming to an end. &*．． Fastest Update**

According to the edict issued by the imperial court, after this cold wax moon, the imperial court will change to the Yuan Republic next year, which is the first year of the republic. For the people, it doesn't matter if they change the yuan or not, but seeing that the great cause of many disasters and difficulties is finally coming to an end, the people still feel a sense of relief in their hearts.

The great cause is finally gone, although they don't quite understand the name of the Republic, but there are also poor scribes who explain that the Republic began in the Zhou Dynasty. During the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the king of Zhou Li was tyrannical and arrogant, pampered his ministers, and killed innocents indiscriminately. The people of the country were dissatisfied with King Li and "slandered the king", but King Zhou Li let people monitor the whole country, and those who slandered the king were killed.

"The mouth of the people is more waterproof than waterproof", this famous saying is the exhortation of the minister to summon Mu Gong. King Li still didn't listen. After three years, the people of the country revolted angrily and attacked King Li, who fled. After King Li fled, the minister summoned Mu Gong, and Zhou Dinggong was the same administration, called the republic. The first year of the republic is the beginning of the exact chronology of ancient Chinese history. In the fourteenth year of the Republic, it was not until the death of King Zhou Li that the crown prince succeeded to the throne and changed the yuan. Some people also say that because after the king of Zhou fled, the country was pushed by the princes to be the common uncle and the son of heaven, so the year was called the republic.

Whether it is the republican government of Zhaomu Gong and Zhou Dinggong, or the affairs of Gongbohe on behalf of the Son of Heaven, they are all governed by ministers on behalf of the Son of Heaven. As a result, many literati in Hebei secretly speculated that the change of the imperial court to the Yuan Republic must also be because he acted on behalf of the Son of Heaven. Moreover, the establishment of the republic as the era name is undoubtedly a subtle declaration of this point to the world.

But whether it is a great cause or a republic, the people can't control it.

Seeing that it has come to the lunar month, the annual Spring Festival is coming, although the life of the people is still in dire straits this year, but the people of Hebei are better than in previous years, but they have not known how many times better.

Especially since King Chen entered the customs, he welcomed the crown prince to succeed to the throne and built the Beijing imperial court. The chaos in Hebei was pacified, bandits were exterminated, the local government was restored, and the people finally did not have to be displaced.

No one starved to death in the fields by the roadside, and no one froze to death in the cold night.

Not only that, after this period of busy work, these people in northern Hebei, everyone has returned to the township, re-equalized the land, the real field to hand, although it is still a barren land, waiting for the next year's cultivation, but for ordinary people, with land, there is everything.

Although the imperial court was still fighting, it no longer forced them to join the army, nor did it come to collect their last bit of food, and forced them to transport grain to serve in the conscription. Although I heard that the imperial court was also short of food, they could not eat porridge mixed with wild vegetables, fish and shrimp every day to satisfy their hunger, and every night in the cold night, they could sleep in the rebuilt hut for the night.

Liu Tantou is a man in his early thirties, as black as the legendary Kunlun slave. Liu Tantou was an orphan when he was a child, and he grew up eating hundreds of meals and wearing hundreds of clothes. Since he was a teenager, he began to collect firewood in the mountains every day to make a living, and when he was a teenager, he began to collect firewood in the mountains and burn charcoal to sell by himself. From more than ten years old, burned to almost thirty years old, everyone has long forgotten his real name, and everyone calls him Liu Tantou.

In his early years, due to the lack of government soldiers, Liu Tantou was conscripted to participate in three expeditions to Liao, and each time he did not die. But after a few years of fighting, he didn't get anything except the countless scars and sword marks left on his body. Neither was appreciated by his superiors, nor was he appointed a captain and a team leader, nor was he rewarded with money and goods for his combat bravery. He was not as good as the fate of those brothers in the Liaodong Army now, he was not a subordinate of Chen Pojun back then, and he did not stay in Liaodong.

The boss he met was an officer from a family who was greedy for his subordinates' military exploits and restrained the rewards of his subordinates. Eating food under his men and coming back alive is already a fate. After returning from Liaodong, his military rewards were all received by his superiors, and he was cleared out of the team with a scar, perhaps this was the only good thing that the boss did to him. …,

With the scars on his body, he returned to his hometown of Boling County, and resumed his old job, going up the mountain to collect firewood and charcoal. Not long after returning to his hometown, Boling was renamed Gaoyang County because the emperor was temporarily stationed. However, this has not changed his life in the slightest, and he is still a charcoal burner.

Originally, he thought that the three expeditions to Liaodong and the military rewards were fraudulently received by his superiors, which should be the most infuriating thing he had ever encountered. But in reality, it is not. In the ninth year of the Great Cause, the emperor finally returned to Luoyang from Gaoyang, and he originally thought that life could be calmer. But then came the great turmoil in Hebei, Gaoyang County is in the middle of Hebei, no matter where the bandits in Hebei go out to rob, they always have to be taken here once or twice.

Coming and going, he couldn't even burn charcoal, he didn't want to be a bandit when he died, he brought an axe to chop wood, he and those villagers wandered around, year after year, seeing the land of Hebei barren, and the villagers who fled together continued to starve to death and freeze to death, he could only be helplessly sad.

I thought that he would be like those dead villagers, and in the end he could no longer support it, so he died in the wilderness by the roadside, or on a cold night, just silently in a dream.

But no, maybe he participated in three expeditions to Liao, maybe because he had been cutting wood and burning charcoal in the mountains for many years, his health was better than most people. Even with his agility, he can still hit one or two prey from time to time, and everyone boils soup and drinks together.

The Liaodong army came, but after the initial panic, he found that they were not as spread as the clans and landlords in the dock forts. Not only did they not come to destroy Hebei, but they brought hope to the people of Hebei. The Liaodong army had strong soldiers and horses, excellent armor, and even abundant food.

They did not hate to drive away the outcasts like the families and magnates in the dock forts, but gathered to appease them. Give them food, give them clothes, give them fields, and let them help each other to rebuild their houses.

has been thirty years old, and he has been a bachelor all these years. When he was displaced in the past few years, many of the villagers who were with him survived because of him. At the beginning, there were many young and unmarried girls who wanted to live with him in this troubled world. But he always felt that life was hopeless and unwilling to accept it.

When he finally returned to the village, he was also given a field that he had never had before, just like everyone else. Even his house is not an ordinary thatched hut, but a large wooden hut built by those grateful villagers who worked together to help him. There is a field and a house, but all that is missing is a woman and a child to live with.

In the face of those villagers who were kind enough to kiss, he finally did not refuse anymore, and chose a woman who was not beautiful, but very virtuous and gentle, but very strong and healthy.

Getting married is a big deal, even if it is the villagers who have just experienced several years of painful displacement, everyone pays more and more attention to the first lively family affair when they return to their hometown. The east family sent a hare caught on the mountain, the west family sent a little dried fruit, and the third uncle's family in the south sent some dried fish that they had saved

All kinds of gifts, if they were placed a few years ago, I am afraid that no one could take them, but now, these things are extremely precious. People who have been displaced for a few years have the most fear of hunger in their hearts, so even if everyone can't eat enough, they will try to save some and store it.

"Charcoal, the daughter of the Zhang family is a good girl, if it weren't for the chaos in this world. Such a good girl, you can't marry even if you burn high incense in the past. After getting married, you have to treat others well. The third aunt in the south of the village, who was a matchmaker, said.

Liu Tantou sat there, his black face was a little red, a little restrained like a young man, nodding busily, but he didn't know how to speak. …,

The third aunt looked at him like this and smiled, "Tantou, this woman can only marry once in her life, but she must not lose others." Although everyone has no conditions now, everyone likes this girl, and we have entrusted you to take care of it in the past few years to live until now. We also discussed it, this girl from the Zhang family got married, and our Liu family Zhuangzi can't lose the etiquette and lose the others anyway. The third aunt has discussed with your other aunts, and we can't get other bride prices or anything, but this bride's phoenix crown and xia cloak and red wedding robe have to be prepared. ”

The third aunt took out a handkerchief cloth bag and opened it layer by layer, and inside were several small pieces of gold and silver jewelry, including gold hairpins and gold earrings. Most of these things are the dowries of these aunts in the village, and some are even old objects that have been passed down from generation to generation.

"Tantou, auntie, I heard your third uncle talk about it from the Shangguan in Juntian, it seems that in two days, in our county town Xianyu City, there is a high-ranking monk who wants to hold a meeting. At that time, I heard that many people would come to receive alms. And I also heard that now the shop market in Xianyu City has been restored. There are all kinds of things, such as cloth, silk, jewelry, rouge, and so on. Tomorrow you will take these pieces of jewelry that your aunts have given you to the county town, sell your things, and pull some silk to make a wedding robe, and buy some more things. ”

Looking at the few pieces of jewelry handed to him, Liu Tantou, a thirty-year-old man, choked up, and his throat seemed to be blocked. I only felt that my nose was sore, but my eyes couldn't help but moisten.

Looking at the third aunt who was no longer in Shaohua and her face was full of wrinkles, Liu Tantou's heart was full of gratitude. His parents both died of illness when he was a child, and it is thanks to the care of this third aunt and other aunts in Zhuangzi that he is where he is today. Now that they are married, they help themselves as if they were their own sons, and they are excited to kneel on the ground and kowtow a few times to show their hearts.

"Get up, kid."

"Third aunt, I'll go to the county tomorrow." Liu Tantou grinned.