Chapter 65:

I heard the news of Xu Shouhui again that in March of the following year, the capital of Qishui County was breached. Xu Shouhui’s capable subordinate Peng Yingyu died in battle. Xu Shouhui could only lead people to retreat to Huangmei County and fought a protracted battle with the Yuan army. .
At this time, it has been fourteen years since the beginning, and the news received was from the end of last year.
"Liu Futong's situation is pretty good." Lin Yuan smiled.
The Yuan army assembled several provinces to deal with Xu Shouhui, which proves that the Yuan army attaches great importance to Xu Shouhui.
But in other respects, the Yuan army did not take advantage of it.
In the twelfth year of Zhengzheng, 300,000 troops attacked Liu Futong's area of ​​Runing Mansion, but the result was repeated defeats and heavy losses.
In the 13th year of Zhengzheng, an army of 100,000 came to attack Gaoyou, and was finally defeated, losing nearly 60,000.
There are not many people in Xu Shouhui's hands, but the court still failed to annihilate him in one fell swoop.
Zhu Yuanzhang said at this time: "Yuan Ting is exhausted, and we can go further this year."
Lin Yuan smiled at him: "I have this intention, too."
They have now occupied Taizhou, Gaoyou, Changshu, Changzhou and Songjiang. Lin Yuan stood in front of the map and said to everyone: "You guys come to discuss."
Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Baisong’s opinions are very unified. They think that now they have strong soldiers and strong morale. The original 50,000 soldiers have been added to 300,000. Lin Yuan still feels that this increase is very terrifying. It is Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Baisong that recruited. Responsible, these two people did not show eloquence in front of him, but judging from this number, their eloquence must be very good.
Or the staff in their account are good.
They think they can take Pingjiang Road directly.
Song Shizhao believes that instead of just taking Pingjiang Road, it is better to take two roads in parallel, take Pingjiang Road all the way, and take Pingjiang all the way.
Pingjiang Road was an administrative division of the Yuan Dynasty, which included Kunshan, Changshu, Wujiang and Jiading.
Pingjiang is a separate place name, which is the later Jiangsu Suzhou.
Brother Dao couldn't understand. Looking at his fingernails, Lin Yuan glanced at him, and he quickly said, "I can do it, I won't pick!"
Everyone in the room laughed.
Yang Zi'an said, "I can lead all the people to Pingjiang."
Zhu Yuanzhang: "I can go to Kunshan."
Chen Baisong: "Jiading."
Brother Dao: "... Then, only Wu Jiang is left?"
Lin Yuan smiled and said: "It's handed over to you. If you feel that it is not possible, just tell them and ask them to change with you."
Brother Dao waved: "That's not necessary."
Lin Yuan set the end of the year, that is, winter.
Although it seems that this time is not conducive to the war, it is beneficial to them. Now most of the financial expenditure is on the purchase of cotton. Lin Yuan did not let the people under his control grow cotton, and would rather spend money to buy it outside.
He wants to ensure the food source of the people and ensure that his soldiers have sufficient food and grass.
Before winter, they have to work overtime to prepare.
The clothing workshop is busy now.
Women have almost six hours a day at work. This is just the basis, sometimes even more than seven hours. If in modern times, someone will definitely tell Lin Yuan to squeeze labor.
But in this emergency period, no one will feel hard. The women sit in the house, protected from the cold wind outside.
In summer, there is still an ice basin in the house.
The ancients have been making ice for a long time, and the skill of making ice with saltpeter has always been there, but poor people have never seen ice in the summer. Fortunately, Lin Yuan now has a lot of saltpeter, and he doesn’t want to have people suffering from heat stroke during his hard work. .
He doesn't want to lose a person now.
The soldiers had to train outdoors, and almost everyone Yang Zian led a team out to kill the bandits and bandits.
The larger stockades were not able to escape, and there was almost no danger in the wild where Lin Yuan was under his control.
Businessmen also like to come to Gaoyou to do business more and more, and many of them even come to Gaoyou to settle down with a lot of money.
As long as someone comes, someone spends money, and someone earns money, the economy can develop.
Aunt Qian is sewing the cotton-padded clothes. The weather is getting hot. She is wearing a thin cloth, but she still feels bored. The sweat on her forehead drips down quickly, making the cotton-padded clothes damp. Fortunately, there is only so little.
Just after Mrs. Qian poured a cup of cold tea-she said it was cold tea, but now the tea is still warm no matter how long it is left.
The girls cheered and cheered finally came outside.
"Ice here! Today's ice is here!"
"We need at least three burdens!"
"Come on, you have only a few people? I have more than 30 people! I have to take five loads!"
The young people driving the ox cart to deliver ice are very familiar with them. At this time, they smiled and said: "Auntie, please forgive me. The following five burdens."
Women bargain: "My girls are all big!"
"One can top three!"
The young man was helpless: "Then it's useless if I say it. The person in charge has to strip me off."
Seeing that the steward did not follow, the women had to ask someone to bring ice back to the house.
As soon as the ice arrived, the women in the house felt much cooler. They pulled up their long hair and lived with wooden hairpins. The work under their hands was also faster. Every room has a female teacher who teaches needlework. The person in charge and the person in charge, whether the house does a good job, she can get many rewards, but if she squanders her own pockets and bullies the employees, there will be an anonymous complaint box in the manager’s place. Parade.
No one dared to do it even for facial problems, especially women have thinner skins than men, and now life is getting better and the income of female teachers is not low, so the complaint box has not been received yet. An anonymous complaint.
The room is full of snow-white cotton and navy blue fabrics. The stitches of the women are collected very well, and the cotton clothes they make are getting better and better.
The old straw fleece has been replaced. After all, straw fleece is not as good as cotton. It is just a stopgap measure.
They talked while working, and the work-study children brought them tea and water.
"It's a really good day." Aunt Qian said to the young girl next to her, "I didn't even dare to live the present life before. At that time, I couldn't eat enough. Who cares about hot or cold?"
The young girl smiled at her: "My wages can also buy some ice for my family."
"How is your father?" Aunt Qian asked her.
The girl’s father fell and broke a leg a year ago and became a lame man. He couldn’t get off the ground and could not do heavy work. The pain was unbearable for walking a few steps. Fortunately, both her mother and daughter could make money. Life is not sad.
The young girl said: "My father can now walk around the yard."
Aunt Qian sighed, "Fortunately, the South Bodhisattva is here, otherwise..."
The girl also looked fortunate: "Otherwise, my family would not survive long ago."
The workmanship house is always very lively. There is a kang in the house. Winter is better than summer. As soon as the kang is burned in winter, the whole house is warm, which is just a little waste of wood.
"time to eat!"
When it was time for the meal, the women stopped their work one after another, and some were still doing the finishing touches. They walked out of the house in groups of two and went to the cafeteria to have a meal.
Now they eat sweet potatoes and potatoes the most, but they do a lot. Their favorite is mashed potatoes, which can be eaten with some salt and sauce.
Vegetables are stir-fried vegetables, and there are special oil factories for squeezing oil. Now a lot of rapeseed is planted in the fields outside the city. After the rapeseed is harvested, the oil supply has become larger. The owners of these oil factories are basically merchants. Lin Yuan did not directly monopolize these channels. The merchants wanted to get them, let them go, as long as they paid taxes.
And because of the presence of the Chamber of Commerce, the local oil prices under Lin Yuan's rule were the same. No one maliciously lowered prices, nor did they maliciously drive up.
As for how much they sell outside, Lin Yuan doesn't care, anyway, the tax is good.
The people in this world who can still afford oil are basically big families, and the poor people are still struggling to fill their stomachs.
"This is delicious." Aunt Qian said to the young girl, "you didn't know, this kind of wild vegetables is the most delicious when fried."
The young girl made a plate of wild vegetables, ordered a bowl of mashed potatoes, and then made sweet potato rice, and sat down at an empty table with Aunt Qian.
They are always in their best mood when they eat.
Aunt Qian eats very slowly. She used to be so hungry that she feels uncomfortable eating a little bit faster now.
The young girl eats very quickly. She eats very cleanly without any waste. If it weren't for it, she would have to lick the dishes again.
Aunt Qian was surprised: "I think you are so thin, you can eat so much."
The girl's face was a little red: "It's better than others. It makes you laugh."
Aunt Qian quickly said, "What's the matter? When I was your age, if I didn't have to eat, I might have eaten more than you."
"I think you have fifteen this year, right?" Aunt Qian asked suddenly.
The girl nodded: "Go to fifteen years old."
Aunt Qian looked at her lovingly: "Can someone else be allowed?"
The girl shook her head and said shyly: "There can be no one at home."
If her family were missing her, her mother alone would not be able to support it.
Marrying to someone else’s house to be a wife, and then subsidizing her natal family, will always be pricked on the backbone.
Aunt Qian hurriedly said: "I have a nephew. His parents are gone on the way to Gaoyou with his family. If you want, I will match the two of you together. Then you can ask him to come to your house, as long as you have a son. His surname will be given to his family, and everything else will be yours."
The girl was taken aback, obviously she didn't expect to have this choice.
She thought her future was to become an old girl and then find someone to marry.
Aunt Qian looked at her face, and said, "You can just follow your family name. I'll talk to him again when that happens."
The girl lowered her head, her voice was very small: "Mother, you can go to my house for dinner at night."
Aunt Qian repeatedly said: "Okay, OK, I'll go to work."
The girl’s only daughter is her. Her father hurt his body when he was on the road and couldn’t regenerate a child. He had a headache about this matter. Now he heard that he could have a son-in-law at home, and all the children born under his family name except for one. , Her father agreed almost immediately.
It was her mother who was more cautious and asked Aunt Qian, "I don't know how that kid is talented? I'm afraid that my girl is soft-tempered. If she recruits a big temper..."
Aunt Qian: "My nephew is a solid-eyed person. He has great strength and can eat anything and speaks little. It's not that I am bragging. He is now an apprentice blacksmith. His master has said that next year he can become a regular ."
Her mother: "I'm afraid my family can't keep such a good talent."
Aunt Qian smiled and said, "His parents are gone. Now that I live alone, I want to find someone who knows the cold and knows the heat, has a home, don’t choose anything else, and is filial. If you don’t rest assured, I will take you tomorrow. Go and see."
Then her mother said, "It's better to meet."
The girl blushed by herself.
If she is recruited, she will not have to leave home, and she will be able to support her parents without being poked in the backbone.
At the beginning, recruitment was not a prevalence. After all, people were always paying attention to raising children to prevent old age. The more sons, the better. Even if everyone starves to death together, they must have sons. If one is not a son, then continue to have one. , To live until you are old, you have to have a son.
Even in modern times, many impoverished mountainous areas and places still have patriarchal thinking.
In order to have a son and avoid fines, even when family planning is implemented, people who have jobs in the city try every means to give birth to a son.
Only when the economy is more developed, the society is more stable, people's thinking is more advanced, and work is more equal to men and women, will there be less patriarchy.
Lin Yuan still remembered reading a scholar's argument before.
The original reason for patriarchal society, apart from the patriarchal society, was that in ancient times, there was no machinery that relied solely on manpower. Men were born more powerful than women. Their right to speak in the family came from their ability to make money.
The least patriarchal area is because most of these areas are not farming areas. Most of them rely on handicrafts to make money. Handicrafts have the lowest requirements for men and women, and women can also earn money to support their families.
The economy determines the status of both sexes.
The more developed the economy, the smaller the difference between men and women in earning ability, the more equal.
As for Gaoyou, the difference between men and women is getting smaller and smaller, because women can find work, and Lin Yuan also gave them the right to own private property.
Once women have private property, they will be more discerning when choosing a partner.
In many families, they have only one daughter, so many people choose to recruit.
Recruitment prevails.
But it is probably to prevent men from being too resistant. This kind of trick is generally that men don’t need to change their surnames, and there is a child born with a man’s surname, and everyone is happy.
The people have the wisdom of the people. In order not to allow the children of men, that is, children who do not follow their own family name, to obtain all the property, they have also stipulated that the division of property must be as even as possible.
The wind first blew in Gaoyou, and then to several other cities.
The family named Zhao in Changshu was the first family in Changshu.
Father Zhao originally had three sons and two daughters, but all three sons died, and only one of his two daughters survived. He himself was fifty years old. Seeing that he could not give birth to a son, his roots were about to be broken in his own place. Without relatives, even the adoption would not be able to survive. If he adopts-he feels that his wealth has been given to outsiders.
When his daughter is getting older, when he can get married, he often can't sleep, can't close his eyes all night and night, still has pustules in the corners of his mouth, and is absent from work.
Seeing that he was uneasy, his fellow workers asked a few words, and he was not a person who could hide his words, so he said all his thoughts.
The worker said to him: "Then you might as well recruit extras. I heard that Gaoyou recruits extras. By that time, if your daughter has a child with your family name, you will have roots."
Father Zhao: "Can this be done?"
Since ancient times, not many men are willing to "marry" to go to women's houses.
Workers: "Why can't it be done? Look at those poor families who have seven or eight sons and can't support them. If you give them a dowry, it will be done?"
The worker just said casually, but Zhao's father remembered it and couldn't sleep at night, so he told his old wife, "Er Niang is also big, so it's time to talk about her own family."
Old wife: "I can't bear her... just her. I think of her getting married and being treated by her in-laws. My heart is just like roasting on a fire..."
Father Zhao's eyes lit up: "I can't bear it either. I'm just such a girl, you say, how about we recruit extras?"
The old wife was a little frightened: "Our family is old and weak. If we recruit a disobedience, wouldn't we..."
Father Zhao did not expect this incident. He was a little worried when he heard the old wife say. He sighed: "I will ask the matchmaker tomorrow. I heard that there is a matchmaker who just returned from Gaoyou. Gaoyou recruited a lot of extras. She might be wrong. ."
The matchmaker naturally did the same thing. She smiled and said to Father Zhao: "You don’t have to be afraid. There were divorced wives in ancient times, and there is a divorced husband. If your family is dissatisfied, you can divorce. The Women’s Federation, that’s the women’s federation, if he dares to do something to your daughter, he will be sent to prison, play a board, and keep him honest."
"Gao You has a lot of extras. There was a Hugo earlier."
Father Zhao was taken aback: "Then can she find it?"
Matchmaker: "Why can't I find it, is this man hard to find?"
Father Zhao whispered: "I'm not innocent!"
The matchmaker was surprised: "How old is the old calendar? How much is innocence? The bachelors have never seen a woman, and they don't think they are innocent, and they still can't look down on him. Tell me, there is no shortage of men. woman."
"There used to be two families who married a girl in a family." Seeing that they could make a match, the matchmaker naturally babbled, "If you can trust me, I will find one for you, and promise to be honest."
Father Zhao said quickly: "Then I will bother you, and..."
Matchmaker: "What else?"
Father Zhao looked around and made sure that no one could hear him, and then whispered: "It's a good thing to have a big instrument, and I can have a son."
The matchmaker covered her mouth and smiled: "That's natural, then I will ask my kid to see, keep you satisfied."
So the "big" men's market changed for the better. As long as they are not the boss of the family, they are basically willing to recruit extras, and the family agrees. Besides, there are so many sons in the family who can't marry a daughter-in-law even without recruiting.
If the son stays for a long time, he can still become enemies, and there are some bachelors who have no father or mother, they are more willing.
The matchmaker quickly found someone and led him to Father Zhao.
"This kid's surname is Li, and he is the most honest person." The matchmaker first praised, and then said, "His family doesn't need to pay a gift, as long as your family treats him better."
Zhao's father first looked at the opponent's size and then his physique. Although he was thin, he did not appear weak.
He asked the matchmaker in a low voice: "Have you seen that thing?"
The matchmaker also whispered: "My kid has seen it, and said it was half a finger."
Father Zhao is satisfied.
Li Si probably guessed what they were talking about, and his face blushed.
There are six brothers in his family. Although life is better now, he can't marry a wife.
Even the eldest brother in the family has no daughter-in-law.
Although the matchmaker came to the door this time, although it was a trick, his father agreed after smoking a few shots of dry tobacco.
He was also afraid that his parents would refuse. He was eighteen this year, and he was early to the age of thinking about women. Besides, with so many brothers in the family, he was not taken seriously.
Although it is "married" to go to someone else's house, but after giving birth to a son, he still has a surname that he does not need to change.
He married his wife and couldn’t live in his house.
Not to mention whether you can marry a wife!
They did not get married, so they invited relatives and neighbors to have a meal, and the young couple moved into a room.
Li Si is very satisfied with this wife. She has a good temper and earns a lot of money. She is gentle and considerate to him, and she doesn't look down on him because of his inheritance.
After they were married for six months, their wife was pregnant with a child.
The first child was a boy, and his wife, regardless of parents' resistance, asked the boy to follow his surname.
Li Si became more devoted to his wife.
Changshu recruits more people.
However, in the past, women were afraid of being divorced, and no matter how hard they are, they can bear no matter how hard they are. Now it is men who are afraid of being divorced. Now that there are so few women, can you marry a wife? Be a bachelor for a lifetime!
So the people who recruited the extravagant family had a pretty good life.
When Lin Yuan knew it, he still felt that his thoughts were too outdated-he was a man, he knew the psychology of most men, he thought many men could not accept this kind of thing.
But when I look at it now, I accept it very well.
There are also two men who fight for monogamy. They fight for whoever gets married. They are brothers in the same family.
Lin Yuan understood that they were already thinking of women crazy.
Brother Dao said next to him: "Why no one comes to me?"
Brother Dao frowned, he said: "I am a bachelor too!"
No one introduced him to his wife, and no one asked him to become a parent. He asked Lin Yuan, "A good man like me, can't be seen by them?"
Lin Yuan: "...or think you have a woman?"
Brother Dao: "..."
He seemed to show off to the soldiers under his hand, saying that he was popular with women.
As a boy chicken, Brother Dao looks like five big and three rough people, and he is a general. Everyone thinks that he will definitely not lack women. Besides, Brother Dao runs the train with his mouth full, so he is just like a woman. Countless.
God knows he just said casually.
The family who originally wanted to marry his daughter, when he heard this, all thought of it.
After all, with the exception of Brother Dao, Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Baisong or Yang Zian, seem to be much more reliable than him.
Brother Dao: "...Can't they hear me bragging?"
Lin Yuan looked at him.
Lin Yuan said to him: "It's really a bachelor based on strength."
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