The second father was slightly startled after hearing this.
"The story of the ancestors of Wujiacun? What does it mean?"
My dad waved his hand and said.
"Second brother, you don't seem to know either. I just recently heard from A Niu, a man from the village who came to work in Shenzhen City, about some stories about the establishment of our Wujia Village..."
My second father also became interested, so my father took advantage of the wine to tell us stories from the past—or rather, history.
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Although Sichuan and Chongqing are located in the southwest, they have been a prosperous and prosperous place since ancient times.
Especially around the Chengdu Plain, it is known as the land of abundance!
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin State, which had not yet unified the world, had already carried out orderly development here. By the time of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it had become a world-famous place.
According to "General Chronicles of Sichuan": "Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, Bashu has been very densely populated, facing each other with fireworks. After the war in the late Ming Dynasty, the population was as rare as the morning stars."
This means that the Sichuan and Chongqing regions have been very prosperous since the Han and Tang Dynasties, but after the chaos and chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, the population has been greatly reduced to an incredible level.
In 1685, the 24th year of Kangxi's reign, the Qing government conducted a national census and was shocked to find that Sichuan (including Chongqing), which had experienced large-scale wars, had only a population of 18,0900!
You know, in 1620, the first year of Ming Guangzong Taichang, the Ming Dynasty conducted the last national census, and there were still more than 4 million people in Sichuan and Chongqing.
In just a few decades, the population of Sichuan and Chongqing dropped sharply from four million to more than 10,000...
So, starting from the Kangxi period, a huge population migration began!
The Qing government mainly focused on the two regions of Hunan and Guangxi, supplemented by Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangxi and other places. It either forced or encouraged local people to migrate to Sichuan and Chongqing.
During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty.
One day, somewhere by the Dongting Lake, two brothers surnamed Wu had just gone to the county town to perform rituals for a wealthy family and walked home together.
The eldest of the two brothers is called Wu Shi, and the second brother is called Wu Yuan.
The two built a yard each by the lake and lived next to each other.
They all married wives and had children, and they all had children.
Wu Shi had two sons and three daughters, and Wu Yuan had one son and two daughters.
There are twelve people in the two families together. It can be considered a "big family".
What's more amazing is that the two brothers are not ordinary people! But Mr. Yin Yang who is quite capable and knows some supernatural things!
The so-called Mr. Yin and Yang refers to a person who understands Feng Shui, Yin and Yang Bagua, Five Elements and Numerology, and knows some magic. They predict misfortune, fortune, birth, old age, illness and death for others, choose yin houses and yang houses, and also catch ghosts and eliminate demons, etc.
Although Mr. Yin Yang is generally a folk cultivator, going back further, he is basically inextricably linked to the Taoist sect, and both belong to Taoism.
Mr. Yin and Yang can be regarded as a general term. He has learned many and complex things, and he can be called the "all-rounder" and "all-rounder" in Taoism.
Wu Shi and Wu Yuan, the two brothers are Mr. Yin and Yang.
The elder brother Wu Shi is good at catching ghosts and eliminating demons, and the younger brother Wu Yuan is good at Feng Shui divination.
Of course, this does not mean that his elder brother Wu Shi is completely incapable of "feng shui divination". It is just that both brothers have their own strengths, and the other methods are slightly inferior.
On this day, when the brothers were on their way home, they saw officers and soldiers galloping on horses on the official road from a distance, as if they were conveying some news to various villages and inhabited places...
Wu Shi said with some doubts.
"Brother, I feel like officers and soldiers are rushing back and forth everywhere recently. It seems like something big is about to happen."
Wu Yuan said with a smile.
"Brother's memory is as bad as ever! How many times have I told you that the imperial court is mobilizing people to go to Sichuan in the west to settle and farm there."
Wu Shi's cultivation level was pretty good. He could easily defeat the sneaky monsters, but he could always win after a fight. Therefore, Mr. Yin and Yang is a little famous in every village and even in the county town.
But this memory is very poor!
He is also not good at words, so he has to rely on his younger brother Wu Yuan for things like dealing with people.
In modern terms, Wu Shi may have been slightly "socially afraid."
Wu Shi was not angry after being teased by his younger brother, but also laughed.
"Brother, my memory has not been very good since I was a child. I guess I was robbed of it by you when I was still in my mother's womb."
In front of his younger brother, Wu Shi was still eloquent.
They are twins and have a very close relationship.
Wu Yuan thought for a while and then said.
"Brother, I have been thinking about it these days, how about we also obey the court's call and go to Sichuan to settle down?"
oh?
Wu Shi was startled and a little confused.
"Brother, isn't it good to live by Dongting Lake? Why do we have to travel thousands of miles to settle in that distant Sichuan?"
Wu Yuan said seriously.
"Brother, I heard people say that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Although you and I are not Confucian scholars, we went to private schools for a period of time when we were young and read books. The same is true for magic practice. I have to see more. Only in the big world can there be a breakthrough in the state of mind. And if I want to perfect the art of Feng Shui fortune telling, I need more insight."
After listening to his brother's words, Wu Shi began to think seriously.
"Okay, think about it for the sake of the brotherhood, and then I will give you an answer to my brother in the next few days. I mainly need to convince my family, but there should be no problem."
A narrow smile appeared on Wu Yuan's face.
"I understand, I understand! My brother is good at everything, but he is henpecked. Fortunately, my sister-in-law is a sensible person, otherwise, brother, you would have endured it as usual."
When Wu Shi heard this, he was unhappy. He snorted coldly.
"Am I henpecked? You're kidding! If it weren't for the fact that your sister-in-law has worked so hard to give birth to my children, she would never dare to go to the table to eat. If she treats me inappropriately, I would scold her and she would get scared. You have to kneel down and beg for mercy, let me stop beating..."
"Boss Wu, who are you going to hit?"
A scream sounded in the reeds by the river.
Then he saw a beautiful woman carrying a wooden basin walking out of the reeds.
Apparently, he was just doing laundry by the lake!
Wu Shi was immediately frightened, with a flattering look on his face.
"Ah! Madam, after working so hard today, she was doing laundry by the lake. Aren't you staying at home?"
The lady glared.
"Don't interrupt. Let me ask you a question, who do you want to hit? Who do you want to kneel down?"
"No, I didn't hit anyone."
Wu Shi shook his head hurriedly.
Wu Yuan: "..."
He knew that his eldest brother was afraid of his wife, but he never thought he would be so afraid.
Wu Yuan really couldn't think of the man in front of him with a simple and honest smile as the same person as the powerful Mr. Yin Yang who killed the black wolf demon with a copper coin sword not long ago.
The contrast is so great!
Just as he was about to offer a few words of help, Wu Shi suddenly pointed at him.
"Oh, by the way, it's the second child! The second child said some ridiculous things just now. As an older brother, I naturally want to teach him a lesson. So I deliberately threatened to beat him."
Wu Yuan covered his face.
This big brother is hopeless!
It seems that if you want to move to Sichuan, thousands of miles away, there is no need to discuss it with your eldest brother. As long as you convince your sister-in-law, everything will fall into place.