Chapter 4: Visitor
So, what's next? In addition to returning to his hometown in fine clothes and becoming a legend of the people in his hometown, Fan Li also has to hold some money!
I am an official for thousands of miles to make a fortune! Why have I worked hard all these years to make money, just to make money one day when I become famous! I've been suffering for so long, why can't I make some money to make my life better!
In Fan Li's era, it was different from ours today, once you became an official, it was a matter of course to take this money, but it just depends on whether you are ruthless or not.
How do you get this money? Of course it's not taking state money, and it's certainly not embezzlement. This money needs to be borrowed, and you can't do it if you don't borrow it!
Why? Before you became an official, food, clothing, housing and transportation were the standard of a countryman, but now that you are a Beijing official, you are a national civil servant, and you are a cadre, can you still be this standard? Can you still walk to work? Sleeping in the basement? You can't get a car, get a body or something?
So no is absolutely not a no! But where does the money come from, the family has been saving hard for generations, and finally a small landlord who can barely solve the problem of food and clothing, how much money can he come up with?
And as we said before, Fan Li's money for the exam was still raised by his uncle by selling cattle to Fan Li, otherwise he wouldn't even have the money to go to Beijing to take the exam!
So you have to borrow, since it's borrowing, who does Fan Liang borrow from? Whoever you know borrows from whom, and whoever you don't know has to borrow!
Can someone borrow it? Of course! Because Fan Li is now a Beijing official, it's okay! Just like today's civil servants, if you go to the bank for a loan, your amount will definitely be higher than that of ordinary people under the same conditions, because you are a civil servant, and you are a person in the system!
It's the same with Fan Li, he's an official now, and he's still a Beijing official! Even if Fan Liang doesn't open his mouth, the people in his hometown will take the initiative to send money to Fan Li's house!
The reason is self-evident, Fan Li is now a new science and technology scholar, Hanlin fame, less than 30 ah, the future is limitless.
Think about it: If your relatives are in their 20s today, have just graduated, and are admitted to the central government to become civil servants, will you think that this guy is definitely a potential stock, even if you don't like him in the past, and there is no communication, when you think of this person, you will think that you may ask him to do things in the future.
So when he asks you to open your mouth to borrow money, and the money is still within the acceptable range, will you refuse him? Probably not!
Fan Liang was even more like this at that time, he has now become a potential stock, then everyone has to calculate an account in their hearts, these people from the capital to the local area will calculate in their hearts, if he mixes well in the future, what kind of university scholar, this is not impossible, no matter how bad the mix is, he is also a magistrate, and the magistrate is the parent official, and the money can not be less.
I'll lend him a little now, and he may have to return it twice in the future, in case I have something to do with him in the future or ask him for something, it's not easy to talk to!
So Fan Li's butt was not hot when he got home, and when the good news reached his hometown, the people with bright brains sent money to his house. In the past few days, almost every household in ten miles and eight townships has sent money to Fan Li's house!
Among them, there is also the magistrate of the county, who is the local parent official, after learning that Fan Liang ordered Hanlin, he immediately sat in a sedan chair and ran to the old Fan's house to congratulate and visit, and he also called Fan Liang a brother.
Fan Li's grandfather was called the old Fan Tou by everyone before, and now the county order calls him Mrs. Fan, but the old man is so happy that he can't find the north, when did he enjoy this treatment, a county order calls me an old man an old lady, this is unthinkable!
But the real world at that time was like this, this was the folk customs of the people, in fact, from the institutional level at that time, the imperial court also allowed it, and even encouraged it to do that!
Because the imperial court gave officials a small salary at that time, if you didn't let these poor new officials borrow some money from the people, the inflation and consumption power in the capital were so high, how would he suddenly come to the capital to live!
So under normal circumstances, the new science and technology will go home to play for a year, that is, to relax for a year, the main thing, one is to return to the hometown, glorify the ancestors, and no one can go back and forth a few times!
The two of them rested and rested, studied hard for more than ten years, and took the exam for many years, so it is reasonable to relax and relax. Just like we just took the college entrance examination today: from today onwards, you will have a different life, please treat yourself well! After the college entrance examination, go on a trip or something, enjoy it, and compensate yourself.
The third is to give them the opportunity to borrow money everywhere, otherwise you can't be an official at all, you can't use silver to be an official in the capital, you have to make silver for everything, you can't move an inch without silver!
So Fan Li has to borrow money, and if he doesn't borrow money, he won't be able to live, it's not a question of whether you want to lose face or whether you want to lose face.
So, with the support of the imperial court, morally allowed, and the villagers were willing to respond, why not do Fan Liang borrow money!
So at that time, Fan Li didn't go to borrow money, but this can't be called borrowing, it's called worshipping! It means that I was admitted, I came to see you, I have to go and see if I know you or not, and then by the way, you see that I am here, is it a little bit.
At this time, Fan Li has already begun to have a style, who is it? Poor students, poor scholars, have to borrow money to catch the exam, but now, before I take office, I have begun to have a faction.
specially asked someone to make a sedan chair carried by eight people, and then a servant followed the sedan chair, and Fan Liang swayed in the countryside to let people carry it back and forth.
It's like if you go to the countryside now, you drive a Rolls-Royce, four bodyguards on the left and right running next to you, you open the sunroof in the car, and then you stand up and stick your head out, and the passers-by are paying attention to you, anyway, how to get here, how to attract attention!
That's it, Fan Liang worshiped all the relatives and friends in the ten miles and eight townships, and then worshiped all the distant relatives at the end of the Fan clan ancestral hall and the side branches, and said: Inform the good news!
Then who do you say he will go to, who can let him go for nothing? In addition, Fan Li also worshiped all the local magistrates, and the magistrates also gave money to the two of them.
The magistrate will not be annoyed by this kind of behavior to be honest, after all, officialdom still pays attention to the relationship network, and if you give him money today, he will be able to pay you back one day!
Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, no one knows what anyone will be able to mix in the future, it's hard to say.
But one of the things that Fan Li did the most was that he visited fifty-four shops, that is, relatives, distant relatives, one surname, one family five hundred years ago, and officials, and after borrowing them all once, he borrowed all the shops again.
This is very excessive, do you know people, people's surnames are not surnamed Fan, can I beg you in the future, but Fan Liang doesn't care at all, go there and say: Under Fan Lei, today! Rise! Mixed with the capital Hanlin, do you see if you are a lot...... Come on!
Then you say, what else can people say, you are shameless. But it was like this back then, and of course there were people who were not willing to give money.