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The Pu brothers, who had full stomachs after eating, finally returned home, leaning against the wall. [Full text reading] They are the official slaves of the prison camp and live in Jeju City.
The two Pu brothers were originally from a middle-class family, and their father once served as a small military attache who also served as a servant. Seven years ago, the current king launched a coup and deposed King Gwanghae - known in history as "Injo anyway" - and the Park family was implicated. The grandfather, father and others were beheaded, and the women and children were demoted to official slaves and exiled to Jeju Island.
On the way, the second-generation housewives of the Park family died one after another because they could not bear the hardships of the journey. Only the two Park brothers were left to struggle to get to Jeju Island, where they barely grew up amid hunger, cold and labor.
The so-called home is just a small house built with a large number of volcanic stones, a specialty of Jeju Island. The gaps between the stones are filled with yellow mud mixed with hay. The roof is covered with thick hay. There is no floor in the house, just a mud floor. That’s all. There were wooden boards placed in the corner of the room, which served as beds, with hay spread on them. In the middle of the house is a floor stove.
The house was newly built and the humidity was very high. There was a slight fire in the furnace - it was troublesome to make a fire. Ordinary people would leave a few embers in the furnace and cover it with ashes. So there was another puff of smoke in the house.
If a person in the 21st century walked in, he would not be able to stay for a minute, but for the poor people at that time, this was their daily residence.
Even such a simple house was built with great difficulty by the Pu brothers. He bribed petty officials with the copper coins he had accumulated over the years and obtained a piece of official land with permission to build a house. Carrying stones, mixing yellow mud, and cutting grass by hand, just like swallows building nests. It was built bit by bit in the spare time of raising horses and farming for the prison. Having your own house means you don't have to live in the big longhouse where the official slaves in the prison camp stay. Park Dehuan's marriage is possible. Even official slaves cannot get married in a dormitory. As the elder brother, Park Dehuan is already twenty this year. In ancient society, he was an out-and-out young man. What's more, there are also instructions from the elders: their grandmothers and mothers who died on the road to exile once told them to "carry on the family line", even if they were reduced to official slaves.
Although the whereabouts of Park Dehuan's wife is still unknown, Park Dehuan is a very far-sighted person: his wife is nothing more than a maid in the prison camp. Men should be married when they are older, and women should be married when they are older. As long as they can have a house, they can always find a suitable one. of my wife.
The Pu brothers sat down on the straw mat. Burping - this was the fullest and best meal they had eaten in more than a year. Due to constant famines over the years, the days when there is enough to eat are few and far between. It was probably because there were fleas or something like that, so the two of them scratched it a lot and talked about Park Dehuan's marriage.
Official slaves are equivalent to state slaves. However, apart from not being allowed to leave the prison camp and completing the work assigned by the prison camp on time, there are no restrictions on personal life: it is up to you to marry a wife and have children, as long as you send a notice to the prison camp - anyway, it is for the officials and slaves. The children are also bitches and continue to serve the country.
The two of them discussed potential wives: there were many officials and maids in the prison camp, and there had been famines in the past ten years. There was not enough food for every family. Official slave families with daughters wanted to marry off their daughters as soon as possible to save food rations. There was a lot of room for choice. But slightly more beautiful women are not in their turn: officials at all levels have long regarded them as forbidden ladies.
"...Zhao Chengyi is like this? Her ancestors were originally in the second class..." Unlike his younger brother, Park Dehuan was already thirteen when he was exiled. He had clear memories of everything in his family in the past, so he cared about the original identity of the maidservant.
"I heard that she is not in good health. I'm afraid she won't be able to work. My ancestors worked in double shifts and couldn't be used as food - besides, she is not a servant girl." Although Pu Demeng is only fourteen years old, he has become very sophisticated and sophisticated.
"Where's Kim Oh-soon?"
"It's so ugly - even Mr. Liang of the household, a man who can't help but eat meat and vegetables, can't look down on him. Brother, do you really want to marry her?" Pu Demeng said dissatisfied. Although it was his brother who married his wife, the sister-in-law looked too curious and the younger brother was also there. fell shame.
Master Liang, a household official, is a lecherous person. Insatiable greed when it comes to women. Naturally, the most beautiful among the maids will not get his turn. The average maid who looks a little more upright will be called by him to "accompany him with wine".
"Turn out the lights..." Park Dehuan was about to say, "It's the same if he blows out the lights." But thinking of Jin Wushun's appearance, he couldn't help but shudder.
Then they discussed the daughters of several families, including the young widows. Pu Demeng suddenly said: "What do you think of Li Wanji?"
"She is the daughter of a middle-aged man, and the charges are a bit unbearable..." Pu Dehuan hesitated. Li Wanji was recently exiled to the island. It is said that she committed adultery while unmarried and was in a state of filth. However, some people say that this charge is fabricated to attack Li Wanji's family - Li Wanji's family belongs to the Southern Party and is being attacked by the Western Party.
The party struggle in the Li Dynasty was very fierce and lasted for hundreds of years. The fierceness of the party struggle is not inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty. Even worse - but what is powerful is that such fierce internal party disputes did not destroy the country, which is probably a manifestation of the superiority of the principle of majoritarianism. Many of Jeju Island's official slaves were losers and victims of political struggles.
"Brother, what else is the middleman? When she gets here, she is an official slave just like us - if we talk about the middleman's daughter, you and I are still the middleman's son." Pu Demeng said.
"That's true, but here we are all bitches." Pu Dehuan lamented - when the family changed drastically, he was already a well-educated and sensible young man. Sometimes when he recalled the situation when the family lived together, he always felt It feels like a dream.
"We finally got a lot of food today. Let's go pay homage to our elders." Pu Dehuan said.
My father and grandfather died on the execution ground in the capital, and my grandmother and mother died on the road. The body was hastily buried in an unknown place and became a lonely ghost. This is what Park Dehuan has always felt most uneasy about. He is a well-educated person and is deeply influenced by Confucian filial piety. Therefore, after staying in Jeju for a while and being able to survive with his brother, he secretly made a memorial tablet and took it to the wild to worship north with clean water and simple food every festival and New Year.
Today, he had rare good food, so he also wanted to show his filial piety.
The city gate of Jeju has been closed, but Jeju City is very large and there are many open spaces and wastelands in the city. The two brothers carried their belongings and went to a secluded place beside the city wall.
It is close to the city wall and is almost entirely covered with vegetable gardens and woods. There are only a few small huts here and there, and it is already an idyllic scene. The two brothers walked along the path to a mound beside the city wall. There were woods on the mound, a very quiet and secluded place. The Pu brothers usually pay homage to their ancestors here.
The two of them had just laid down the sacrifices when suddenly several colorful "monsters" jumped out of the bushes, scaring the Pu brothers almost to death. Before Pu Dehuan even uttered a exclamation, his mouth and nose were covered and dragged down. On the ground, the joints were immobilized. Pu Demeng was knocked unconscious by a direct blow.
Xue Ziliang whistled softly and looked at the two poor boys - poverty is a universal language that does not distinguish between ethnic groups and national boundaries. Just look at their clothes and their withered color.
"Go and interrogate them." Xue Ziliang ordered one of his soldiers with a gesture. This person is not from the special reconnaissance team, but an agent from the Foreign Intelligence Service, a Korean translator specially trained for the Jeju Island landing operation.
Xue Ziliang stopped looking at these two prisoners: from arriving at Feiyang Island by boat and then on foot, they had captured several prisoners along the way. Most of them are poor people: they have no clothes and no food to eat. It is a very appropriate adjective to use them, and these two are no exception.
Entering Jeju Island was easier than he thought. Although the city gate was closed when they arrived at the city. Xue Ziliang was very surprised when he saw the city wall - is this considered a city wall?
Xue Ziliang was stationed in South Korea for a period of time. However, as an American, he is not interested in the history and culture of the universe empire, and his daily pastime is mainly about the lower body. I rarely visit historical monuments, and when I see them I don’t pay much attention. When the real original city wall appeared in front of him, he was immediately shocked!
Damn, this is a city wall!
The city wall made of volcanic stone looks very regular - square, but the height of the wall seems wrong. Of course Xue Ziliang couldn't see any city walls in the United States, but after coming to Hainan for so long, he had seen a lot of city walls in Hainan. The city wall in Jeju can only be regarded as a "fence" at best - a fence with low anti-theft standards.
He visually inspected outside the city and found that the city wall was only less than 4 meters high - not to mention this, because of the use of firearms at that time, it was a trend for the city wall to change from high and thin to short and thick. However, there was no defense on the entire city wall. Facilities, even the battlements and parapets that are found on the walls of the most remote and backward small counties in Hainan, are not available here. Through the telescope, he could clearly see that the soldier standing on top was completely exposed from the waist up.
Not to mention rifles, even bows and arrows can easily kill the defenders and suppress the city. As for facilities such as enemy towers and watchtowers that are common in general city fortifications, none of them exist on the city walls of Jeju City.
Such a city does not need any special reconnaissance teams, no cannons, not even the Fubo Army. The labor squadron holds spears and machetes, climbs the city with ladders and ropes, and can break through with a single charge.
Xue Ziliang didn't know that less than forty years ago, in the 25th year of Wanli, the military generals of the Ming Dynasty who aided the Ming Dynasty once said the following to the officials of the Li Dynasty: "The soldiers have spoken, and in our country's cities, there are It’s just a child’s play.” (Volume 88 of "Seonjo Treasure Book" This is the evaluation of the Ming army generals on the defense of the eupseong wall in Korea after the Imjin Japanese Rebellion.
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