Next, Huo Qingtong instructed those Kuding to carry down the cotton bales one by one and give them to these women, and the copper coins were directly weighed on the spot, so that everyone could see the catties clearly, and then wrapped in cloth for them to take away - this is also to avoid trouble, so as not to cause disputes at that time. In this way, with the testimony of the people, it will be easy to speak when the time comes.

Everyone came forward to receive it with their household registration certificate, as long as they received it, Huo Qingtong put a small seal on their household registration certificate, and then ascended the throne to make a book. This is also done to prevent fraudulent collars and over-collars.

As for those whose men are not soldiers, they can also come and receive them, but today is not enough, and they will have to come back in two days. Anyway, most of their men are now working in the workshop, and the food there is still distributed on a daily basis, and there is a lot of it, so it is always enough to save a little food.

After these people finished receiving it, Huo Qingtong moved a chair and sat there, if anyone had any questions, they could ask her directly, and demonstrate on the spot.

Zheng is a clever person, she has learned almost after reading it once, for insurance, she stayed here for a while, read it twice, and directly took the copper coin to make a compilation, and made sure that there was no problem, and then left.

And over there, two delicate sisters were standing in the crowd and looking this way.

The two women are both dressed in green cloth, and they are both first-class talents, but they each have different charms. One of them was older, looking to be around thirty years old, and he looked very charming and seductive, full of the style of a mature woman. It's just that his face is a little pale, his body is also a little thinner, and he looks timid, like an angry little cabbage.

The younger ones next to him, that is, fifteen or sixteen years old, had long and thick hair, almost reaching the waist, and looked full of vitality. The bulging breasts, ruddy lips, and upturned little buttocks are full of girlish temptation.

The young man said: "Sister, Miss Huo just said, we can also get it......

"Who did you wear it for? Our dad is not a soldier again? Xiuzhi squeezed her hand: "But it's also a good thing, let's make a set of one by one, and when the time comes, it will be a stone of grain, and it will also be for my father to share his worries." My mother is weak, so don't tell her, it's a burden to save and suffer. ”

Xiuzhu nodded: "I just want to share my father's worries." ”

She suddenly blinked her eyes, looked at her sister and said, "Sister, it's just right, you taught me how to weave, right?" ”

Xiuzhi was a little surprised: "Didn't you want to learn before?" Why did you change your personality today? ”

Xiuzhu was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and gently twisted the corner of his clothes: "It's not my father yet, I made her unhappy on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so I thought about spinning some cloth and cutting a piece of clothing for him, which can be regarded as an apology to my father." By the way, you're going to teach me how to cut clothes. ”

"Really?" Xiuzhi, who is familiar with her little sister's temperament, asked a little suspiciously.

Xiuzhu stomped his feet, stuck out his tongue, and said angrily: "Of course it's true, does my little sister want to do her filial piety, sister, you are really, so unbelievable,"

Xiuzhi smiled and twisted her face: "Believe it, believe it, why don't you believe it?" Even if you still have a conscience, you know that you love your father. ”

In these years, the cloth used is basically home-made, woven, and rarely bought, as it has been in ancient times.

Over the years, the imperial court has levied taxes, and basically this cloth is also indispensable. For example, in the second year of the opening of the Sui Dynasty, it was stipulated that a husband and a woman were one bed, and three stones of corn were paid, and a horse of silk was adjusted to four zhang or one end of cloth was five zhang, three taels of cotton or three catties of hemp. In the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that each ding should pay two stones per year, which was rent; Lose two zhang of silk, three taels of cotton, or two zhang and four feet of cloth, three catties of hemp, this is the tune; Serving for 20 days, it is called regular service, and those who do not serve are paid three feet of silk or three feet and six inches of cloth every day, which is mediocre.

At the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the annual income was more than 2 million yuan, more than 980 thousand millet silk, 7.4 million horses of Yongtuo silk, more than 180 million tun, and more than 1.35 million ends.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the commodity economy was highly developed, and cotton cloth became a very huge market, and some cotton weaving workshops also appeared in Susongchang, Shandong and other places, but the activity of the commodity economy was limited to the eastern part of the country, which was a small area of economic prosperity and prosperity. For example, here in northern Shanxi, it is basically self-produced and self-used, and taxes are paid.

It can be seen that the rural families of this era still need to make a large amount of cloth by themselves. There are few women in the Zhuang family who can't weave, Jia Xiuzhu has always been the pearl of the family's palm before, so she is naturally reluctant to let her do this, but now, she is also making a fuss about learning.

However, the hand-looting cloth is not very easy to learn, the weaving process is extremely complex, from picking cotton spinning thread to the upper machine weaving cloth by ginning, elastic flower, spinning, threading, pulping and dyeing, Zhuan line, falling line, warp, brushing line, making a heald, breaking through, digging heald, hoist, plug cloth, weaving, machine and other so-called size 72 processes, all are completed by hand. The complexity is jaw-dropping.

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On the eighth day of the first month, Dong Ce took a few family members to Yanghe City.

It's not that there is anything important, it's just that today is the time agreed with Hou Fangyu.

Today's weather is good, the sun is shining, but the weather is cold and tight, and the cold wind blows like a steel knife, but it doesn't matter, as long as the sun comes out.

According to custom, the eighth day of the first month is Guzi's birthday. On this day, if the weather is fine, the Lord will have a good harvest of rice this year, and if the weather is cloudy, the year will be owed. Today, people worship tablets with the names of grains written on them and do not eat cooked grains.

Yanghe City is still prosperous, and it may be said that it is much more prosperous than before.

This is not yet the fifteenth day of the first month, and the half-month period from the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifteenth day of the first month is the time of the whole Ming Dynasty to revel, feast, play, party, and so on. Of course, this kind of carnival does not belong to businessmen. On the contrary, at this time, they were the busiest group of people in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The bureaucrats and the rich, the scholars and the literati, and even the ordinary people, the expenses of these days are far greater than before. At this time, it is also a good season for the sale of a dazzling variety of goods in the market, and the merchants are busy transshipment and selling goods from all over the world, bustling and exchanging interests.

Outside the city, some carriages were parked, and some people dressed as rich and noble families were being released. Most of the released birds are birds, and there is a special emphasis on the release on the eighth day of the first month, and in this era, there are many pets. The rich and noble family wanted to accumulate virtue and do good, so they released all these birds. Of course, there are also pets of other beasts. These people don't know that they have released those dogs and pets here, and these guys can't go far before they are killed and eaten by some people hiding in the shadows. These pets grow up in the homes of the rich and noble, and they eat much better than the average people, they are fat and strong, and they taste fragrant and tight, and their mouths are full of oil.

In these years, there are still many poor people.

The four gates of Yanghe City, I don't know how many merchants came in and out at this time, bringing a large amount of goods and goods, and also bringing prosperity like brocade to this big port in the north.

Judging from the amount of entry and exit alone, it seems to be much more crowded and lively than the previous visits.

As soon as I entered the city gate, I only felt that my head was buzzing, and the street was full of people coming and going, lively and extraordinary, rubbing shoulders one after another, sweating like rain.

Dong Ce and the others got off the horse and led them forward.

Both sides of the street are full of vendors selling things, and many people from the countryside come here to sell some succulents or something, so they spread a piece of cloth on the side of the street, put down the flat pole to make it, and put the two bamboo baskets forward, which is considered to be a sale.

Dong Ce's eyes were also constantly looking around, and he suddenly had an idea, whether to buy something for Red Sleeves to take back. Since Red Sleeves followed him, she has always been in charge of family affairs, and Dong Ce has always left it alone. As soon as I entered the city gate today, I saw the street full of vendors, and an idea suddenly popped up in my heart: If any man in the future does not care about it, I am afraid that he would have kicked the woman a long time ago.

Naturally, there is no need to worry about what Red Sleeves thinks in his heart, there are not many men in this era, even if they can think like this in their hearts. However, Dong Ce wanted to buy something for her to express his heart.

Just thinking about it, it seems like nothing is missing.

Along the way, Dong Ce found that there were a lot of lanterns sold on the street, and he was a little surprised, now there is still a period of time before August 15, is it too early to start selling lanterns?

There was a conversation between several people next to him, Dong Ce listened to it, patted his head, how could he forget this stubble?

Today, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, the people think that on the day of the lower realm of the stars, they often make small lamps to light and sacrifice them, which is called Shunxing, or sacrificing stars.

Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism stood on three legs, and since the Ming Emperor of the Han Dynasty Buddhism spread eastward, it has also spread rapidly in the land of China. For thousands of years, the two religions have fought openly and secretly, and have won and lost each other, but on the whole, there is such a rule: depending on the imperial power, which emperor believes in and supports, which one will have the upper hand.

For example, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Buddha, Buddhism almost collapsed in the Northern Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty worshiped the Buddha, so there were 480 temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings were in the smoke and rain.

The Tang Emperor Li family claimed to be the descendants of Lao Tzu, and greatly respected Taoism, and Taoism had the upper hand for a long time, and later Wu Meiniang Ji Si Chen, in order to suppress Li Tang, he flourished Buddhism in the country, so Buddhism was just a few short years, it was completely overwhelmed by Taoism, and it was very prosperous.

The Yuan Dynasty can be said to be the most Buddha-worshipping in the past dynasties, so in the ninety-seven years of the reign of the Yuan Dynasty, Buddhism was extremely prosperous, and it was inconceivably prosperous. And among them, the good and the bad are mixed, such as the lama monks, that is, the so-called "fan monks" who are thus given various privileges. Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, took the monk Yang Lian Zhenjia as the president of Jiangnan Shijiao. Yang Lian Zhenjia occupied 23,000 acres of land, sheltered 23,000 civilian households, and extorted gold, silver and jewelry. Monks and officials at all levels also occupy unequal amounts of real estate, hide from the common people, and do not lose rent. Some monks and officials even overrode the government, accepted civil lawsuits, and blackmailed from various parties, becoming local tyrants. Buddhist monasteries are all over the country, and they all occupy a large amount of land. The Great Protector of the Niwang Temple built by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, directly occupies the water and land in Dadu and other places and the fields distributed in Hejian, Xiangyang, Jianghuai and other places, totaling more than 100,000 hectares, in addition, there are a large number of mountains and forests, river berths, and Pitang. The Great Chengtian Protector Temple, in the time of Wenzong, once the field was given to 160,000 hectares, and the Emperor Shun was given another 160,000 hectares. Most monasteries also occupy a variable amount of land. Dade's "Atlas of Changguozhou" records that there are more than 2,900 hectares of land in the whole state, of which more than 1,000 hectares are occupied by Buddhist temples and Taoist temples. There are many temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the number of fields occupied is unknown, there are more than 500,000 tenants of temples under the management of the province, and temples in various places also occupy mountains and forests as temple property. As the so-called, the famous mountains in the sea, the temple is eighteen or nineteen, and the princes of Fuqi. Although the monastery land, mountains and forests belong to the temple households and are not privately owned, they are actually controlled by monks and officials at all levels. The monks of the great monasteries were the large landowners who wore robes and were wealthy princes.

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