Chapter 6 The Golden Age
When everyone left the family temple, Ninth Auntie narrowed her cloudy eyes, looked at Su Ze and said,
"I know you are not a Japanese pirate."
Su Ze quickly raised his head, looked at Ninth Auntie's old face and said:
" I'm really not a Japanese pirate! Let me go quickly!"
Aunt Ninth sat down slowly, looked at Su Ze and said,
"Although I don't know what method you used, your calculation that there will be heavy rain today is also correct. Huhui will return today, but I don’t believe you are some kind of boy under Mazu’s throne.” “I
once learned the art of physiognomy, but you have a strange face. At first glance, it seems to be just Zhongping’s fate, but there is a secret hidden in it. It’s really strange and strange. ."
Su Ze looked at the old temple priest in surprise, could it be that she really knows how to meet people? Do you know that you have traveled through time?
Aunt Ninth continued:
"You have an unknown origin. Where can you go without Changning Guard?"
Su Ze also had a toothache. The Ming Dynasty was very strict about household registration.
You need to issue a certificate when you leave your place of residence, and you need to report to the government first when you arrive in a new place. Even businessmen have a set of strict management methods.
Without an identity document, not to mention being unable to enter the city, even in the countryside you will be arrested by the villagers and taken to the government office.
Now that the Japanese pirates are making trouble again, and my short hair is so eye-catching, I am afraid that I will be arrested again as soon as I leave Changning Guard.
Aunt Ninth looked at Su Ze and said,
"I'll give you a clear path. Just settle down in our Changning Guard."
Su Ze was stunned for a moment. What Aunt Ninth said seemed to be a good choice.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty's health centers are exhausted, and even hundreds of households in the health centers can let women do it. It seems that it is not difficult to get a status and live in the health center.
However, Su Ze, who studies the history of the Ming Dynasty, knows that if he really joins the guard army, he will never be able to escape.
According to the ancestral law set by Emperor Hongwu, once a household is classified as a military household, generations of descendants must join the army.
For example, once Su Ze is classified as a military household, he will serve as a soldier in the army for the rest of his life. If Su Ze dies in battle or becomes too old to fight, one of his descendants will be chosen to take his place.
If Su Ze had no descendants, then his descendants from the same clan would have to assume the responsibilities of the military household.
It was not easy to travel back to this era. The thirty-third year of Jiajing was 1554 AD. By the time Li Zicheng entered the capital in 1644, the Ming Dynasty still had nearly a hundred years.
Although the golden finger of "Hundred Scenes" cannot help Su Ze practice martial arts and cultivate immortality, life skills include skills such as "reading", and you can also participate in the imperial examination to gain fame in the game.
With this golden finger, as long as I have a normal identity, wouldn't it be a bright future to become a Jinshi?
If you become a member of the military, won't you never have a chance to make a comeback?
Aunt Ninth noticed Su Ze's confusion, and she said in a muddy voice:
"Looking at your conversation, it seems that you are a scholar?"
Aunt Ninth saw Su Ze didn't answer, and said with a smile: "We in Changningwei once had a medical school. Yes, if you want to study for the imperial examination, as long as the School of Health is re-established, you can take part in the imperial examination through the School of Health." "
Weixue? Su Ze then remembered that it was now the thirty-third year of Jiajing, which was already the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
By this era, the imperial court's restrictions on military households were no longer as rigid as before. The health schools could run health schools, and the children of the health schools could also register for the imperial examinations through the health schools.
The most famous Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Prodigy in the Ming Dynasty were children of military families in Jingzhou Wei, Huguang. They participated in the imperial examination and high school Jinshi through health studies.
Speaking of this time, Zhang Juzheng should have just been a Jinshi for a few years. This year he took leave of absence from the court due to illness and returned to his hometown Jiangling.
Su Ze's thoughts couldn't help but spread. In this era, the Dao Lord and Emperor were sitting high in the temple, and Yan Song and Xu Jie were fighting fiercely.
Gao Gong also held a sutra lecture in Prince Yu's Mansion, while Zhang Juzheng was traveling in his hometown due to illness.
By stretching the time and space scales wider, the mind science founded by Chen Xianzhang and Wang Shouren is changing Ming Dynasty academics and will have a profound impact on this land in the future. Martin Luther's religious reform is still going on, and the European Enlightenment is already in its infancy and will influence the entire world for hundreds of years.
The Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Dynasty, and the Kingdom of France were competing for hegemony on the continent.
The newly rising pirate power England and the old maritime hegemons Portugal and Spain compete for the crown of the sea.
Construction of the Mayflower had not yet begun, and the American continent was still a blank fertile land.
What era is this? Isn't this the golden age that Su Ze longed for before traveling through time?
This is not only an era of personal opportunity, but also a golden age for the entire country and the entire nation!
Su Ze, who originally had a firm materialist view of history, was suddenly given the upper hand by a heroic view of history.
Could it be that God allowed me to come to this era just to change this era?
Let the land of China, which will sink hundreds of years later, bring the Chinese nation to the pinnacle of glory in this golden age when all ethnic groups in the world are flourishing and striving to stand at the top of the world's nations?
"Young man, come to your senses!"
Aunt Ninth's hoarse voice rang in his ears, finally bringing Su Ze back to reality.
Hey, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step.
Now that he is an unknown gangster, let alone taking part in the imperial examination, it would be nice if his head is not chopped off and he is regarded as a Japanese pirate leader.
Su Ze calmed down, looked into Aunt Ninth's eyes and said,
"Why me? Aren't you afraid that I am really a spy of Japanese pirates?"
Aunt Ninth looked into Su Ze's eyes and said,
"I believe in my own vision of people."
Ninth Auntie stood up on crutches. She lit three sticks of inferior sandalwood, inserted them into the incense burner of the Third Master's Empress, and then worshiped devoutly.
"Changningwei has been declining since we were a hundred households. Not only has the health school been abandoned, but now no one will take over the family temple." "
I am old, Changningwei cannot live without temple blessings."
Su Ze is a researcher Those who lived in the Ming Dynasty naturally knew that for a guard house, temple blessing was a very important position.
No matter what era or region, going to sea is extremely risky, and living at sea requires faith.
Luck itself is an illusory thing. Every time you go to sea, you are risking your life. Without faith, ordinary people can easily collapse.
The family temple of Changning Guard is the sustenance of this guard’s faith.
Whether it is praying for blessings or telling fortunes, they are essentially meant to calm people's hearts and give desperate sailors in storms at sea the confidence to return home.
This is also the reason why Aunt Ninth has such a high status in Changning Guard.
"Your Chang Ning Guard wants an outsider to serve as a temple blessing?"
Aunt Ninth sighed and said: "Originally I didn't want it. My apprentice died at sea with hundreds of households. I'm afraid the old man's body will not be around for a long time. Since you know how to interpret hexagrams, it shouldn't be difficult to be a temple blessing." Aunt Ninth looked at it
. Looking at Su Ze, he said: "I know that you are not a creature of the pond. During this period, I will try my best to bring out an apprentice. If anything happens to me, you can just temporarily take over the family temple as my apprentice. How about that?" "
Su Ze looked at Aunt Ninth's cloudy eyes, and finally nodded and said: "It's a deal!"
(End of Chapter)