At this time, the population density of Jiangnan is really not comparable to that of the north. Under the rule of Mongolia, there are 10,000 roads and 1,000 states. That is to say, if there are 10,000 households, you can make a road, and if you have a household registration of 1,000, it is a state - of course, the territory of these roads and states is by no means under the prefecture and state in the south of the Yangtze River, but the population is extremely sparse.

In the Liangzhejiang Road in the south of the Yangtze River, most of the places in one county also have more than 10,000 household registrations, and in the land of one state, there are often more than 100,000 household registrations! As for the government, such as Lin'an, Qingyuan, Shaoxing, and Pingjiang, they are all hundreds of thousands of household registrations! The population is really thriving to the extreme.

At this time, Linhai County, Taizhou, was a large county with tens of thousands of household registrations, which was more prosperous than Yanjing and Mingdu, the two capitals of the Ming Empire. In the place where Zhang Jiu and they landed, that is, on the north bank of the Linhai River estuary, there happened to be a salt field, called Dudu Salt Field, which was built in Xining five years and was one of the six major salt fields in Taizhou. And on the bank of this salt field is a big town called Duqiao, which has the advantage of fishing salt sea mouth (Taizhou is also a big port of sea trade at this time), Duqiao town is also extremely prosperous, the number of households is not less than 3,000, the population is as much as 20,000, known as one of the "three bridges in eastern Zhejiang".

And Du Qiao is also a wealthy family with poetry heirlooms, naturally the surname Du, and the late Prime Minister Du Fan of the same family, Huangyan Du is actually a branch of Taizhou Yimen Du, and Du Qiao Du is the headquarters of Taizhou Yimen Du - Huangyan County and Linhai County are actually separated by a Linhai River - because of the prime minister like Du Fan, it gradually prospered, and now there are signs of overshadowing Du Qiao's family.

Of course, the rise of Huangyan Du is not harmful to Du Qiaodu, on the contrary, it has also increased the fields of the Yimen Du family in Taizhou several times. The so-called righteous gate is said to be inseparable from generation to generation, and to live in a group.

However, it is the ancestral property that is "not divided". It is the property placed by the ancestors and becomes the public property of a family. It is used to educate children and relieve the poor. And each of the clansmen themselves. They are all private properties that can be placed on the property. And after his death, these inheritances will become the public property of his house (that is, his children and grandchildren, and sometimes his nephews). Therefore, the organization of Yimen is the three levels of sect-house-family.

Anyone who is successful and has enough reproductive ability (well, no matter how much money and big the official is, there is no way to give birth to children) will build a house of their own. Turn their personal property into a house of public property, which can be used to educate a house of grandchildren, rather than be given to children and grandchildren to squander. This is the so-called "Poetic Heirloom".

Taizhou Yimendu now has 18 rooms. There are more than 3,000 children. Among them, there are as many as forty-six officials! It is precisely because of the existence of these officials that all the fields under the name of Taizhou Yimendu General Hall and the following eighteen houses are regarded as the property of official households, and all the children of Taizhou Yimendu are also children of official households.

Although the Song Dynasty did not have a system of exempting official households from land endowments, the land properties of official households could be exempted from "and buying", that is, they used worthless huizi to forcibly buy grain for military purposes, which was a greater burden than field endowment in the Southern Song Dynasty. At the same time, the children of government families were also exempt from forced labor. You don't have to pay for exemption either. In addition, the eighteen rooms and forty-six officials of Taizhou Yimen are enough to make the local officials in Taizhou retreat, and the field tax paid is just the meaning.

The property of Taizhou Yimendu can be exempted from "and buying". Children and servants can be exempted from forced labor, and even the basic land endowment can be reduced. The burden will naturally be transferred to ordinary civilians, so the land in Taizhou is the same as other Jiangnan prefectures. Constantly concentrating on the "righteous gate" and ordinary official households.

By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Taizhou was the same as the rest of the Yangtze River. There are almost no homesteaders left. And the peasants in Taizhou have lost not only their land, but also their personal freedom.

Although theoretically. The children of peasant families who were born in tenants can still advance through the imperial examination and achieve their dream of becoming a Tian Shelang in the court and ascending to the Tianzi Hall at dusk. But in fact, these children of poor families who have become serfs have no chance to read and write at all, and they are barely able to read a few books, so how can they compare with the children cultivated by private schools such as the Du clan study, which the Yimen family spent a lot of money to build? Moreover, the cost of entering Beijing to take the exam is quite expensive, not to mention tenants, it is a rich man like Qu Huajie who was born as an ordinary landlord and had someone who had been an official in his ancestors......

Therefore, in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was actually no chance for the children of the poor family - because the large number of Yimen in the Song Dynasty was to monopolize the passage of the imperial examination!

The best Confucian education, with the participation of the most children, the strictest supervision of clan rules, and an atmosphere in which everyone reads and progresses, is enough to turn the fairest imperial examination system into a game of righteous and powerful people. In other words, the imperial examination has become a competition between clans and clans, and ordinary people who do not have the backing of strong clans cannot participate in it at all.

This is also the reason why the Ming and Qing dynasties included Xiucai and Juren into the "meritorious fame" system and became a privileged class. Otherwise, the Yimen forces will continue to grow in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and finally completely monopolize the grassroots.

And in this time and space, because of the great prosperity of the regimental training army, Yimen such as Taizhou Yimen Du not only monopolized the imperial examination, but also possessed force. Moreover, he monopolized the right to speak in the state capital and county army through "school politics", and became the real ruler of the local government!

However, they are not legendary bullies, but school bullies.

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Du Yin, who is now leaving a battalion of regimental training troops in Duqiao, Taizhou, is the eldest son of Du Wei, the head of the Yimen Du clan in Taizhou. It's not the kind of son-in-law who specializes in slapping the face of Dick Si in later online novels-The family rules and education of the righteous family are very strict. The kind of bullies who bully men and women and run rampant in the township can't maintain the righteous family!

It is a well-known gentleman in Lin'an like Jia Rudao, who was also gentle and polite when he was a young student in his hometown, and he was a good baby who only read sage books, otherwise how could people be admitted to Jinshi? Later, after going to Lin'an, his brother-in-law Emperor Lizong and sister Jia Guifei were used to it.

And Du Yin, who is thirty-five years old Chinese New Year's Eve, did not become the brother-in-law of the emperor or the sister of a noble concubine. Although he is the son of the patriarch, he has not had any preferential treatment in life since he was a child, only endless hard reading, only a large number of family rules that are strict to the stereotype, and of course, there is a dream of being famous outside the Donghua Gate!

When the cannon sounded, Du Yin was reading in the Sizhitang of the Du family's ancestral house in Duqiao. It is a habit he has developed for more than 30 years, and it is also the living habit of most of the righteous disciples.

These guys from Yimen can eat without meat, and they can go to bed without women - most of the Yimen disciples believe that they will marry a wife after being a junior high, so Du Yin, who is not married in his thirties, is also one of them, he only married a wife from the Tiantai Jia family a year ago - but he can't be without books by his side!

Although he already has an official body, Du Yin still wants to take the Jinshi exam, which is his life goal, and he has studied hard for more than 30 years, just for high school. After the capital of the Great Song Dynasty was moved to Hongdu, the ruling Jiang Wanli decided to resume the imperial examination next year, and he would not engage in any use of military force to win soldiers. So this year is the day of the test in various places. Du Yin has an official body, and what he wants to participate in is the so-called "locked hall test", which will be held next month, so Du Yin must seize all the time to study.

I don't live in my own house these days, so as not to distract my beautiful wife. moved to the Sizhitang of the ancestral house, in addition to dealing with the regimental training, it was to read and write, so it didn't work.

"Ten talents, ten talents, something big has happened......"

An old servant of the Du family slammed open the door of the study and ran in as if he had lost his soul. shouted Du Yin's name in the clan - Du Yin was ten in his generation, so he was called the ten Xiucai.

"Duane, what are you panicking about?" Du Yin put down the scroll in his hand, and with a smile on his white face, he got up to ask.

His temperament is a bit old-fashioned, but he treats people very well. Even in the face of a slave, a tenant, or a ** (prostitution was not considered a bad virtue in the Song Dynasty), or even a beggar, it is polite. If someone came to visit the house, no matter what their status, he would personally greet them. If the tenants below have any difficulties or contradictions, he will also try his best to help and judge justly - if there is any dispute among the people in the Song Dynasty, they generally do not go to the government, and they are all judged by a squire leader like Du Yin. Because the referees of these people are generally fairer than the government, and they will not take bribes.

"Ten Xiucai, something big has happened! The thief is coming! The old servant named Duane shouted loudly. His surname Du is not ancestral, but changed after becoming a slave of the Du family. Although he is a slave, the old man's loyalty to the Du family is not below any of the Du family's children. Because the Du family has always been more generous to domestic slaves - all the righteous families are like this, they will not treat domestic slaves and tenants harshly, they just monopolize everything in their hometown and make money outside.

"What?" Du Yin took a cool breath, "Do you know how many people there are?" ”

"There are dozens of big ships, all on the sea, and there are about 2,000 thieves ashore, coming to us!"

"Only 2,000 people?" Du Yin frowned, "The news can't be wrong, right?" ”

"No, they came ashore on the other side of the salt farm, and there were a lot of salt onlookers."

"Onlookers?" Du Yin shook his head, showing a worried expression, "How can you watch?" That's a thief! Can someone be killed? ”

Linhai here is not two Huai, it has always been peaceful, even pirates are rare. Therefore, the residents did not have any sense of fleeing, and they were curious when they saw the enemy landing, and many people even came out to watch.

"No one was killed," replied the old servant, "and the thieves are ......."

"Rules?" Du Yin said in a deep voice, "The rules are still thieves? Duane, go and gather the twelve, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty-two talents. This officer is going to lead his troops to meet the thieves of these rules! (To be continued......)