The wind was constantly cold at night, and the window frames kept ringing, and the window paper was broken in many places. The house where Min Yuanqi slept was as biting as the outside.

In the early morning, even though he was covered with a quilt, Min Yuanqi was frozen and his whole body was cold.

There is no tradition of burning pits here in Dahewei, and those masons do not know how to build pits. Winter is entirely resistant. Decades ago, the winter in people remembered was not too cold. In the past thirty years, it has been almost cold every year.

It has been between the first month and the second month, but it is still cold and evil.

Min Yuanqi knew that his place was pretty good. There was a grand courtyard built by his ancestors. The ordinary flag-dragon's house was just thatched huts, which could not block the wind, snow and cold. The whole family shrank in a dog-like house, and they were still trembling with coldness.

These days, many people are frozen all over the body, and they are frozen to death. Not to mention the big city like Nanjing, the capital, is Huai'an Prefecture. In winter, when will dozens of frozen bodies be dragged away?

The weather is cold, and Min Yuanqi's mood is also cold.

Although Min Yuanqi's will was firm and he recognized it from the rich and prosperous future generations, the situation in front of him was really too difficult.

Min Yuanqi was a land and land worker in the farmland security department in later generations and was considered a small leader. He was responsible for approving various land use projects, which was a fat loss, but he was always cautious and never dared to make any deviations.

Min Yuanqi came out of the welfare home and went through a lot of hardships to get into the school and the civil servants, and then he had a stable career and income. He was in charge of a department and had to take responsibility, and he even took some blame. These things were greatly tempered by him.

However, some of the difficulties in work and life in later generations are far different from the current situation, one is heaven and the other is hell.

Min Yuanqi is a history novices. His historical knowledge has been learned systematically quite superficial. After graduation, travel has become the best way to relax. Reading books rarely involves history.

At this time, Min Yuanqi was a little lucky. At least he had read a few popular history books from the Ming Dynasty, but now he doesn't have to look at them.

And some of the things he knew were enough to make Min Yuanqi feel cold.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the historical Xiaobai also knew that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed in this year, the Qing army entered the pass, Li Zicheng was hunted down, and then the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was established, which seemed to be destroyed not long afterwards.

The following history seemed quite chaotic, and it was not until the Kangxi period that the Qing Dynasty regained Taiwan and pacified the Three Feudals as a symbol that this dynasty established by foreign aliens truly stabilized.

For the entire China, this period of history is extremely chaotic, full of famine, epidemics, wars, and disasters. It can be said that countless people died.

For an ordinary person or family, if you are not careful, you will be in a catastrophe.

Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangnan, northern Shaanxi, Henan, hungry people were everywhere, and disasters were caused by many years and countless people died. During the war, there were even corpses everywhere.

There was originally a population of more than 6 million in Liaodong. When the Qing army entered the pass, it plundered Han people for many years, and the population was less than 600,000. It was really not a single ten people left.

Although the place where Min Yuanqi is located is not the core area of ​​war and disasters, judging by Min Yuanqi's superficial historical and geographical knowledge, it should be a must-try for the Qing army to move south!

In the 17th year of Chongzhen... Min Yuanqi gritted his teeth, this damn bastard!

Min Yuanqi felt his body hot, so he stood up, picked up the blue-edged bowl on the cabinet, and drank it happily. After drinking the herbal tea, he felt cold on his body, and his mind calmed down again.

No wonder Min Yuanqi is like this. No matter how tenacious his personality is, he is just an ordinary person in later generations. No one can be completely calm when encountering such difficulties. His current reaction is the normal reaction of an ordinary person, complaining, reluctance, hating, and panic...

After touching the hair on the top of his head, he took off the net scarf when he was sleeping. Min Yuanqi was in a very complicated mood. He had no deep obsession with his hair, but in later generations, he had short and delicate hair in his later generations, but at this moment, when he touched his hair again, he felt completely different. From the time of hair tie, it marked adulthood and responsibility. The hairstyle on the top of his head was inherited for thousands of years. If the Eight Banners had not entered the pass, the Han people might have voluntarily cut their long hair short in hundreds of years to keep up with the trend of the times. But at this moment, when they thought of being forced to shave their hair and leaving only a small squall of tails behind their heads, Min Yuanqi felt a sense of disgust and anger.

It’s one thing to be willing, but it’s two things to be forced.

This is true for Min Yuanqi. What will happen to those ordinary people?

The world was decided in the early Qing Dynasty. If Dorgon had not been so arrogant and ordered the Ming people to change their clothes and shave their hair, there would have been no war for the next few decades.

After more than ten years of trouble in Chongzhen, the people in the world were completely desperate about the Ming Dynasty. Only a few scholars were still loyal to the emperor. Even scholars who had a little change chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. A leader like Qian Qianyi, who was not loyal to the emperor, surrendered and surrendered without regard for his integrity. This shows how people's hearts are.

If you shave your head, the whole world will be in a state of scent.

Of course, Min Yuanqi was unwilling to shave his hair, and he was even more unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty at this time... The original owner of this body was also very concerned about current affairs and was full of hatred for the Jurchens. After all, he was also a soldier of the Ming Dynasty and was full of righteous indignation towards the foreign enemies.

This memory and emotion certainly also affects Min Yuanqi now.

If you don’t reduce, of course you won’t reduce!

If you don’t decline, of course you have to find a way to survive.

Min Yuanqi frowned. Judging from his two-life experience, since the Qing army was truly unified after decades of entering the pass, it means that there is room for escape, but the timing and route must be considered.

If the final failure is inevitable, the only way to consider escaping overseas is to be considered.

Before this, it would be almost like a suicide to accumulate connections and money to run overseas alone.

As Min Yuanqi's current identity, he could not escape at all. The Ming Dynasty had not yet destroyed its country and the laws were still there. Military officers like him who left his garrison to flee without his garrison. After being arrested, he would definitely be executed. There is no other possibility.

Besides, there was no cost to escape. He still had two stones of refined rice and ten stones of brown rice and wheat at home, and only more than twenty taels of silver were deposited. This little money was only enough for him to run to Nanjing or Hangzhou. If he wanted to continue going south, he had to beg for food.

The first step is to accumulate wealth...

Min Yuanqi's eyes lit up, and he also thought seriously in his mind.

The first home started by testing hundreds of households, including hundreds of households, thousands of households, thousands of households, and commanders, as well as commanders, co-guilds, commanders. Dahewei and Huai'an Wei have always had eighteen commanders, which means that there are eighteen mother-in-laws with the fourth rank and above. Every year, more than 50% of the military households' gains are divided by these big figures. Although there are many mother-in-laws at the top, the Min family has a certain status in Yuntiguan. The thousand households Li Kecheng and the Min family are not in the same way, but the clan uncle Min Qiande signed a book and was enough to check and balance with Li Qian's households.

Yuntiguan is more than 200 miles away from Huai'an Prefecture, and few officials come here. After all, they are too remote. The hundreds of households where Min Yuanzhong is located are more than ten miles away from the yamen of the Defence Office, and very few thousand households come here to patrol.

This is a typical emperor who is far away from heaven.

Min Yuanqi's family is the ten small flags under his command, with a full twelve army of woven men, more than 200 men, more than 400 women, children, children, and elderly men, totaling 767 men.

There are more than 4,000 mu of land, and more than 100 families have an average of 40 mu of land.

There was an extremely shortage of cattle, horse, mules and donkeys. There was no horse in the entire hundred households. Even Min Yuanqi did not have a horse to ride. He was a sixth-rank official and he relied on two legs wherever he went. At most, he rode a donkey, which was desolate to think about it.

There are three donkeys and two cows under its ranks. More than 4,000 acres of land are almost entirely farmed by manpower, and there is also a shortage of agricultural tools. There are less than fifty iron tools in total. Not to mention per capita, there are less than one per household.

The number of land seems to be quite large. If it is fertile land, the average yield per mu is two to three stones, like in the south of the Yangtze River. The military households should live a good life, but Yuntiguan is close to the sea and Yancheng. There are many tidal flats and saline-alkali land, and the average yield is less than one stone.

The yield is low, and half of the harvest is collected by the high officials, 20% of the national tax, 20% of the medium and low military officials are divided, and 10% are left to the military households. Because these acres are cultivated by the military households, but the owners of the fields are from commanders to the hundred households, general flags, and the original military fields have long been divided by the military officers.

These military households are said to be soldiers holding halberds to defend their country, but they are actually serfs with the title of military personnel.

The income from boiling salt is much more than farming, but due to manpower and material resources, the output has never been increased.

And they will be exploited layer by layer...

Min Yuanqi stood up suddenly, feeling a ruthlessness in his chest and abdomen. He had already spoken yesterday, and today he had to solve the problem, otherwise he would definitely lose his prestige in front of the flag soldiers.

In a short time, Min Yuanqi finished wearing it and hung the sword on the leather belt. He held the handle with his right hand, and a sense of confidence arose.

Before this, Min Yuanqi never thought of fighting with others. He was cautious and steadfast in his later generations. In this life, he was a frivolous person and an uncertain young man, but he had his own enthusiasm for a young man and the ruthlessness of a martial artist family.

Min Yuanqi in this life is unstable because he has not understood the general trend and has no ink, so he will follow the trend. The memory and soul fusion of the two lives is Min Yuanqi now. He has his own opinions when encountering things, and is resentful, and dares to fight and fight!

Min Yuanqi took a deep breath, pressed the knife and pushed the door out.

Outside the door is the courtyard at dawn, with dawn slightly rising and the weather is cold.
Chapter completed!