309. Collect taxes
Mrs. Buzheng may not know what the religion of the Westerners is, but Mrs. Ji can always make her believe that those people from Fanbang believe that they believe that they are a man who is naked without clothes, and has a Western-faced face, blue eyes and yellow hair, and the clothes on his body are also strange and strange, which is different from the men who have changed into local clothes when they enter the port.
Mrs. Buzheng can frown when a woman goes out, how can she recognize the edification of these Westerners, not to mention that Mrs. Buzheng has never hated these, as soon as she frowned, there were countless bad words about the Westerner Hall poured into her ears, and Mrs. Ji bothered, and Mrs. Buzheng looked down on the Westerner Buddha Hall in her heart.
She doesn't love her own family, and those official wives can't mention it, when the Westerners' nursery was just established, there were rumors that the Westerners used children as medicine primers, and the children who hugged them had to gouge out their eyes to make medicinal wine.
The wife of the political envoy did not ask the Westerners whether they made medicinal wine, and they were furious when they heard it, and the government sent people to see it because of the growing rumors, and the children sent to the Xiren Hall were very few healthy, and most of them were sick, not to mention that there were many people who could not survive when the peasant family was born, so that five out of ten could not survive, and the dead babies were buried behind the Xiren Hall.
This is even more amazing, the trouble is so bad that the Xiren Street is smashed, although the nursery is still there, but few people go to the door again, the local children who were raised, the government has to go to ask, and the Huimin Institute will find a place for him to stay.
There are indeed people who believe in it, but there are not many people who only believe in it, and the locals are well fed and drunk, and with a pair of hands, they can buy money in the mountains and seas, and the Westerners cannot go out of the city, so it is even more difficult to promote the religion they believe in.
These things, Mrs. Ji had not yet come, and when she came, it was not better, Mrs. Buzheng insisted on treating the Westerners as uncivilized Fanbang barbarians, originally because she felt that her knowledge was limited, and she was blind, but now she had to act by her prejudice.
Shi Gui couldn't help but smile when he heard this, this time there was no need for Mrs. Ji to come forward herself, there was always someone who blew wind into the ears of Mrs. Bu Political Envoy, and the political envoy was in charge of the government of a province, and these were naturally under his jurisdiction.
Mrs. Ji said this, it is not good to go on, she also has to take into account the face of the wife of the political envoy, although the two are at odds outside, but if the wives of these officials say in front of her that the wife of the political envoy is not, she will also reprimand.
That is because of this, the wife of the political envoy can't pinch her openly, only saying that she is still young, and there are many things that she can't understand at this time, and the sedan chair she walked by has eaten more salt than her, so that she listens to the old man's words, and if she can't figure it out at this time, she will know her likes and dislikes in the future.
The education of a province is the most important, Suizhou was originally a province of imperial lifting, and there are many academies in the city, and the number of people who return to the imperial examination account for a large number, the more this is the case, the more they can't go the wrong way, and the tree that grows out of the roots is not straight.
Mrs. Ji listened with a smile, nodded yes, went out but did her own thing, most of those official wives were for flattering her, both to flatter her and to flatter the wife of the political envoy, the two faces wanted to win the benefits of it, said one thing in front of her, and said one thing in front of the political envoy's wife.
Mrs. Ji usually didn't say anything, but sighed at Ye Wenxin and Shi Gui: "These people are all living a good life, seeing the poor and suffering, even if they are compassionate, where do they really want to do something practical." ”
She has been here for more than three years, and it is not easy to withstand these rumors, her husband still has to be an official, in addition to the right senator, there is also a left senator, and the wife of the political envoy is still there, but the wife of the left senator is on an equal footing with Mrs. Ji, and the wife of the political envoy has a lot of things that cannot be said in the face of the wife, all of which came out of the mouth of the wife of the left senator.
"I'm afraid that the poetry club won't be able to do it, and this is not a day's work, so I can't come in a hurry. Mrs. Ji frowned when she thought of this, she was still weak, and there were too few people around her who could support her, and the official assessment looked at the granary full of dissatisfaction, how many scholars were taken once every three years, how much was the tax in a year, whether there were mountain bandits and bandits in the jurisdiction, who could care if a woman's life was good or not, and those who were used to drinking honey would not feel bitter when they drank Huanglian water.
Ye Wenxin knew all these things in his heart, and it was inevitable that he would be a little discouraged, seeing Mrs. Ji sighing, he also lowered his eyes, but Mrs. Ji smiled again: "Don't be discouraged, the road is walked by people, I see many county chronicles, fifteen years ago, there were many drowning baby girls, and now although this matter is endless, there are many fewer in the end." ”
It turned out that the silk workshop was not so big, and there was no need for so many female workers to work, and when more female workers were recruited to the countryside, those women took the money back, and the parents knew that it was useful to have a daughter, and they earned more than plowing the fields, and gave birth to a daughter, thinking that when she grew up to work and stutter, she would not be killed.
Shi Guiting's chest was blocked, his face was more dignified than Ye Wenxin's, Mrs. Ji's eyes turned on her, and then turned back: "Look at you, you have only walked a hundred steps on a thousand miles, so I feel that it is impossible to walk." ”
As he spoke, he said: "My second sister went to sea this time to draw a sea chart. When she said this, Shi Guiye Wenxin both looked up at her, only to see her with a smile on her face and a light in her eyes.
If the charts are well drawn, they will not be dedicated to the saints, and they will be spread because of the prosperity of the sea, which is different from her travelogues, and the scholars look down on them, and they have to recognize the function of the charts.
Ye Wenxin wanted to see Yan more and more, the hand holding the cup trembled slightly, and sighed for a while: "If I had really been born twenty years earlier, I would be at sea with Yan everyone now." ”
Saying that, she couldn't help blushing, if it wasn't for Mrs. Ji treating her like this, she wouldn't confide in Mrs. Ji, Shi Gui laughed: "It's not too late for the girl at this time, it's only twenty years in the middle." ”
Ye Wenxin lowered his head and smiled, took out the paper from his arms again, and wrote in detail how the Duanyang Festival was celebrated, Ye Wenxin wanted to take these female students out of the house, and he had been locked up in the women's street, how could people outside know the benefits of female studies, but he didn't know what to do with them out.
Mrs. Ji listened and said: "Don't be in a hurry at this time, when the rescue will have an eyebrow, let them take turns to help, the same to start the construction money, it is better to open it to them, we treat most of the poor people, and there are more students in the school." ”
Ye Wenxin had never handled these trivial things, but now she has handled them all, how much cloth and how many threads and how many bean maidens to buy, it is all up to her to calculate, the women's school hall can't survive only on the money donated by the wives, the students work and study part-time, and the finances are still tight, Mrs. Ji also said: "This time I will give you three taels of silver, and I have to get things done, but I am not allowed to add money to my own family." ”
Ye Wenxin really has this plan, what to do with three taels of silver, even if it is done, it is very simple, Mrs. Ji said: "I just have to take the account from the women's school, if you want to do something, you will understand the matter, you don't add something for a while, don't you keep adding money." ”
Shi Gui felt reasonable, but Ye Wenxin was worried, Mrs. Ji had a lot of things, except for the women's school, the most important thing was to socialize with those officials and wives, but this was unprevaricatable, Ye Wenxin got up and said goodbye, and the kitchen really sent egg yolk crisp.
The two of them went all the way out, Ye Wenxin was still worried, what to buy for three taels of silver, Shi Gui came up with an idea for her: "Just look good, buy the most inferior red cloth and green cloth, tie some on the railing, pull a few more, and then tie some red and green flowers, the five poisons of bean lady are also easy to do, there are ones that they will do, and the merchants can also buy some on the burden, and they can also make their own food, buy materials to make some flour kueh zongzi, at most do some fried goods." ”
Ye Wenxin smiled when he heard it: "In the end, it is a business, and the words spoken are different." "Thinking about it like this, three taels of silver is enough, and there are two taels of silver outside, and more than 40 people want to eat, drink, wear, and play, which is barely enough.
Red cloth to buy those coarsely dyed, without falling into the water, as long as you look at the red, things have to be done, these girls don't know if they will play double land, the pot will always be, jump a hundred ropes are also successful, turn the flower rope is also successful, if you win, you will give an eight treasures to save flowers for color heads.
Roasted food is nothing more than melon seeds and peanuts, and then buy some pastries, you can make some at home, even if you wrap zongzi, you can steam them out in the kitchen, and give them snacks to eat.
The two walked to the side of the street, Shi Gui saw Ah Zhen following all the way, only then did he remember, pointed at her and said, "Ah Zhen wants to go to the restaurant with me to help, and Lu Cao wants to go with you to the school hall to learn calligraphy, do we want to change it." ”
Ye Wenxin didn't know that Ah Zhen had this thought, and immediately smiled: "Cheng, Ming'er, I take the green calyx, and you take Ah Zhen." "Let them
Do what you want to do, and you have more energy.
Shi Gui smiled at Ah Zhen, and the two of them said a few words to Ah Zhen's weirdness, Ah Zhen didn't understand it, and when she understood, her face was full of smiles, Shi Gui said again: "You have to decide, you pay the wages of the green calyx, and Ah Zhen's wages are mine." ”
Ye Wenxin patted her and pinched her cheek: "Got it." ”
The two of them said goodbye, Ye Wenxin went to the women's school, Shi Gui went to the dock restaurant, walked a ride against the sun, the clothes on his back were sweaty, Shi Gui was still thinking about ideas all the way, either he would not sell food on the day of the Duanyang Festival, and the boat workshop would have to take a holiday, so it was better to wrap some zongzi and make some flour kueh to sell.
Shi Gui wanted to go all the way to the restaurant, this little food truck should be pushed out, how do you know that when you get to the door and haven't entered, you see someone blocking the door, shouting at the door, but at a glance it is two bad people, Shi Gui frowned, and Qiu Niang saw that Shi Gui seemed to have a backbone, and pulled her.
The two messengers still wanted to come in, but they were stopped by Dafa, and they stretched out their hands to push him, Qiu Niang hurriedly said: "Our business is doing well, these two messengers came to the door, saying that they were going to collect taxes." ”
Wang Niangzi and Songluo shrank aside, the meal was ready, but they couldn't send it out, Shi Gui's eyebrows were raised, and he pulled Wang Niangzi: "You ask them, we are only on the third day of opening, what kind of tax do we pay, that is, there are still 28 days left in January to pay." ”
Wang Niangzi was bold, first trembling, and then Shi Gui said: "Ask them what their names are, Dafa followed me, and then I will go to the boat shop to see if there are these two tax collectors, but the law has changed again!"