Chapter 5 Spanking
Yang Qiuchi shook his head awkwardly, looked up at the village halfway up the mountain. He wanted to go into the village and ask, but he was very tired after walking for most of the day. Thinking about it, it was only five miles away from the county town, so he simply went into the city and asked again, and walked along the small road towards the county town.
Not long after I walked, I left the mountain area and arrived at the plain. After walking for a while, I saw a section of the city wall rising from afar and boarding a road. The road was bustling with people coming and going. Most of these pedestrians were wearing coarse cloth blue clothes that were similar to theirs, or carrying loads with straw hats, pushing carts, or leading livestock, coming and going in a hurry.
Walking under the city wall, there is a moat. The water is very clear. A floating bridge is placed across the moat. There are two soldiers with cross-body waist knives standing at the city gate, which is very similar to the soldiers in costume TV series. Above the city gate are three large official script: "Guangde County"
Guangde County? Where is this? I haven’t heard of it before, let’s talk about it first.
When Yang Qiuchi entered the city gate, the two soldiers guarding the city did not stop him, and did not even look at him, just caring about the two of them joking.
The city is very lively, with not wide streets, and there are many shops on both sides, with various signs such as "Rui Fuxiang", "Miaoshoutang", and "Lin Family Tavern".
Yang Qiuchi was very novel. He looked around and walked along the street. He was not far away. After passing an intersection, he saw a building that was very tall and majestic, covering a wide area. It was surrounded by red walls and green tiles. There were three black painted doors in the middle, and the two doors were closed. There was only a pair of stone lions at the entrance, which were majestic and majestic. Next to the door was a sign with the word "动" on it. What does it mean? I don't understand.
Next to the gate was a man wearing a soap coat standing there. He looked like an official, so he went up to ask. Yang Qiuchi walked up the steps, clasped his fists at the man with his knife, and said in the tone of the ancients: "Do you dare to ask this brother, where is this place?"
The man looked up and down at Yang Qiuchi, and a few words burst out with a humming sound: "County Government!" He turned his head and ignored him.
County yamen? This is the yamen of Guangde County? Interesting! When I think of the yamen, the officials in the TV series are afraid of the auspicious trees, and the scene of the yamen runners shouting "magnificent" on both sides immediately emerges. Go in and take a look! Seeing that there are people coming in and out of the gate, the man with a knife doesn't check it, and it seems that he can enter and exit at will. Yang Qiuchi leans into the gate and sees a few people inside pointing around a screen wall, then he thrust his chest, pretending to be nothing, and comes into the gate, and comes to the screen wall.
The screen wall faces the gate, it is made of grinding bricks, with the roof tiles covered with the top of the wall. There are several notices posted on the screen wall, one of which reads: "Tian Dazhuang and Wang Xiaoshandian, who were tried, do not pay the deed tax, but they are cut off taxes, and the land and houses are not clear, and the lawsuits and prisons are endless. Now Wang Xiaoshan is in a traitor and is clever and deceiving all the deeds. The tax is not taxed, and they want to make a hazy certificate. If you do not accept the book, you can hide the grain. If you are a person who plays this way, you should sit on the law of beating and beating..." Yang Qiuchi looked at it for a long time. He didn't understand the ancient texts very much, and many of them were traditional Chinese, and he couldn't understand them. However, from the last "one hundred sticks", it seems that it was a judgment made by a county magistrate to try a case. The end date reads "September 2nd of the 7th year of Yongle"
The seventh year of Yongle? Yongle? "Yongle Encyclopedia"! Did you travel through time and space to the Ming Dynasty? Yang Qiuchi knew about "Yongle Encyclopedia". The middle school history teacher said that Yongle was the year name of Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. He presided over the compilation of a large encyclopedia, named after his year name, called "Yongle Encyclopedia", which is the first encyclopedia in Chinese history.
In the Ming Dynasty, I returned to the Ming Dynasty? Yang Qiuchi's head was buzzing, not sure whether it was joy or sorrow. He had not learned history well, so he tried to search in his mind about other related words that could be thought of in this dynasty: Zhu Yuanzhang! The ugly monster from beggar to emperor, Zheng He went to the West! He only knew that Zheng He was from the Ming Dynasty and was a eunuch, but he couldn't figure out whether it was the Ming Dynasty Chengzu's era. By the way, there were also the secret agencies of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Jinyiwei, the East Factory, and the West Factory, and they couldn't remember anything else.
For the Ming Chengzu, Yang Qiuchi could think of only the "Yongle Encyclopedia", and the rest were blank. After all, it was impossible to predict the future! Yang Qiuchi smiled bitterly in his heart. If he had known that he would come to the Ming Dynasty and take a good look at the history of the Ming Dynasty, he would have predicted the future and changed history. Alas! You can't blame the government for your life!
At this moment, a scream suddenly came into his ears, breaking Yang Qiuchi's thoughts. The sound seemed to come out from behind the screen wall. Yang Qiuchi turned to the back of the screen wall and saw many people in a large yard. There were a group of people lined up in the east. In front of him was a hall with half a person's height steps. It was a rectangular platform made of stone. On a long stone bench on the left side of the platform, a middle-aged man lay on his knees. His pants were taken off to his knees. One Zaoli held the man's shoulder with his hands, and the other Zaoli was swinging a big board and hitting the man's butt. The man made a pig-killing cry, which caused laughter among the onlookers in the yard.
Yang Qiuchi hurried over to watch the fun. There were many people watching. Yang Qiuchi could only stand far behind, tiptoed and stretched his neck to look in. He saw two rows of soap clerks standing in the lobby, each with a long red painted board in his hands. In the middle was a warm pavilion, and there was a desk table in front of him. Behind the desk was an old man in an official robe, with a white beard. The light in the hall was a little dim, and the old man's appearance was a bit blurry and it was not very real.
The man was beaten to the slap, and his butt was bleeding and he couldn't stand up. After Zaoli let go of the man, two young men among the onlookers bent over and went up to the platform, tied the man's pants, supported him and placed him on a door panel, and carried him out of the yamen.
A yamen runner walked out and pointed at the waiting person on the left. The two people in front of the team glared at each other, took a piece of white paper in their hands, went to the platform and entered the hall, bent down and gave the white paper to a scholar on the side, then knelt down in the middle of the lobby, kowtowed to the white-bearded official, stood up and took a few steps back, turned around and left the lobby, and came to the platform. One knelt on a large bluestone on the left, and the other knelt on the big bluestone on the right. It seemed that these two people were the plaintiffs and the defendants, and they were coming to sue.
Yang Qiuchi heard the white-bearded official talking, but he couldn't hear it seriously when he was far away. He listened for a while and his stomach was ginger. He decided not to watch the fun and fill his stomach first.
Yang Qiuchi turned around and walked out and found a brick carving on the wall behind the screen wall, which was an image of a monster. The monster was a bit like a unicorn with a big mouth, with a lot of gold, silver and treasures around it, and a red sun above the monster. I don’t understand what this means.
After leaving the gate, I looked back and found that the walls on both sides of the gate were not straight, but in an inverted horoscope to highlight the gate. I remembered a saying: "The horoscope of the yard is open, so don't come in if you have any reason or not." It seems that the yards all have this inverted horoscope, which is interesting.
When I walked out of the yamen, I saw a restaurant with a large banner carrying a letter: "Gaopeng Inn". When I walked to the entrance of this inn, a waiter wearing a melon-shaped hat with a white towel on his shoulder came up and asked with a smile: "Customer, are you a good friend or staying in a hotel?"
Yang Qiuchi has heard this sentence a lot in the TV series. He just finished eating and left. He is staying in a hotel and eating and living, and said, "Of course he is staying in a hotel!"
"Okay!" the waiter turned around and shouted loudly, "A guest in the hotel," and then bowed and said, "Customer, please come in."
His attitude is really good! Yang Qiuchi was about to walk in as he raised his foot, and suddenly he remembered that he was penniless, so what food and accommodation he had? His face turned red and he forced a smile: "I'm sorry, I forgot to bring the money."
Chapter completed!