Chapter 81: Blessings and Misfortunes
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Although Father Qin, Qin Lao Niang and other elders also know that the economic benefits of this white celery must be considerable, it is indeed a way to make a fortune, and it would be a lie to say that they are not moved. But after thinking twice, everyone is more concerned about the hidden meaning of white celery.
But I don't know whether it's joy or sorrow.
After all, from ancient times to the present, people like to give different meanings to colors. At the same time, the same color often brings people to think differently.
In particular, white, which has no color tendency, can be pure and holy, and can also be associated with death and funeral.
For example, the "white" in the "red and white ceremonies" refers to the funeral, and the "filial piety" of the filial son and grandson is also white, in order to express the mourning and respect for the deceased relatives.
For example, the "white-faced" traitorous male symbolizes shallow knowledge and no fame. It's like calling the people of Pingming "white ding" and "white body".
Another example is the word "Bai Xiang" that existed in ancient times, and in the "Etymology", the appearance of white animals is an ominous sign, called "Bai Xiang". But in the "Book of Han", "there is Bai Xiang Bai Xian", and "Bai Xiang" is an auspicious omen.
In this way, the two contradictory ideas about the white animal have been parallel, and I don't know when it began, although white is still a fierce color in many occasions and rituals, but it has become a foregone conclusion that the white animal is auspicious.
To this day, not only animals, but also many rare and rare white things will be crowned with auspicious meanings.
However, white celery is something that has never been seen in the world, and they have been proven, and the quality and taste are also excellent.
Meaning auspicious, scarce and rare, good quality...... It is not unusual to have only one kind of benefit, let alone a combination of all kinds of benefits.
But in this way, no one dares to say whether this white celery can be planted or not, whether it is a blessing or a curse.
All of a sudden, the family was indecisive.
Even Du Shi, who was eager to try it before, and couldn't wait to take the white celery out and sell it in Chongtang immediately, didn't dare to mention it again after understanding the secret.
There is a saying that the prefect of the broken county is destroyed.
Not to mention in the eyes of the prefect of the county or those big families, even in the eyes of those small officials and squires, people like them are just ants. If you are really targeted by them, there are thousands of ways to make you unable to live, and a flick of your fingers may kill you.
When she was very young, she heard that when she was still divided into equal wealth according to the floating wealth of the field, she would register the floating wealth every three years, which was exactly the same as "copying" the family once. Those township chiefs will care about the lives and deaths of these ordinary people, just estimate all kinds of items at a high level, and record on the books what can be recorded or not, or even if they do not belong to the scope of registration at all.
The road is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high, although those country officials are all things that can't be put on the table, they can do evil, blackmail, coercion and other evil things that have lost their conscience, which is called a handy, but it is not something that ordinary people like them can deal with.
Although Roche did not grow up in the countryside, he did not have Du's natural sensitivity to the farmers and mulberries. But in the end, she came from a hairpin official family like the Fang family, and after listening to everyone's explanation, her first reaction was that since this white celery is so precious, she has to pay tribute to the royal family.
Later, he realized that ordinary people like them may not be able to afford to grow white celery.
Not to mention, there are a lot of vegetable farmers in the suburbs of Lianxi, but nine out of ten are the private property of government and businessmen. It's not that ordinary people can't grow vegetables, but they can't afford to grow vegetables.
It is not easy to grow vegetables to make a living, and then there are all kinds of cleverly named taxes and servitudes pressed down layer by layer, and if you don't die, you have to shed your skin.
How many good people and ordinary people would rather sell themselves to large families as slaves and slaves, and how many landlords are willing to take their good land family members to the high-ranking and powerful official eunuchs to be slaves.
Just like his own family, if it weren't for the Fang family that he had always relied on, there would be a lot of people and not people on it, waiting to be exploited!
In fact, this is why when she married out of the Fang family, the little sisters were all pity and secretly happy, such a subtle reason.
Although I have lost my freedom, what is freedom? In comparison, being able to eat and wear without worrying about having a tile to shelter from is already a day in heaven in the eyes of these displaced and helpless servants.
And the Yao family is a girl from a family of scholars, and the ancestors of the family have taught their children and grandchildren to study hard and serve the court. In Yao's view, a specialty such as white celery should naturally be tributed.
But although she doesn't read much, she is a person who understands, and naturally knows that most of the palace tributes are actually the flattery and bullying of the court officials, but every bit of it is the people's fat and people's ointment, which is a matter of great labor and money. How many emperors in history have stopped paying tribute from various provinces for this rule, but those officials have never tacitly agreed that they would rather pay tribute as usual than right, and feed themselves, but all the people who suffered were the people.
If your own white celery becomes a tribute one day, it will have to be paid every year, and it has become a custom, how can there be a good life.
Shen didn't understand it himself, and after listening to Qin Lianlong's explanation, he couldn't understand it even more, it was just a celery to sell, how could he pull such a big mess of bad things?
Since it's so troublesome, it's better to just stop it and stop messing with it. It's not that I can't eat at home, so why bother.
It was Qin Lao Niang who was ready to give up for a moment.
The older you get, the more afraid you are, who doesn't like money, and who thinks you have less money. But she has lived to this age, and there is nothing she can't see. Money hurts people, and compared with getting rich, she hopes that a large family can live a peaceful and smooth life.
As for reputation, it is even more unnecessary, the family is established, and the reputation does not come from this. As the saying goes, "people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong", and it is a false name.
Father Qin was also a little hesitant in his heart, but in the end, he was a person with shoulders and a resolute and resolute personality, but he was much more optimistic than the women and children in the family: "Don't make up your mind so early, if you don't have money, you can't get rich with foreign wealth, and you can't run away from it." (To be continued.) )