Reading the imperial examination, and then becoming an official, this is naturally Zhao Yan's ambition at this time, I thought that I wanted to go to a private school to study may be achievable, but it always takes some effort, now listening to the meaning of the cheap father, it seems that he has some ideas, Zhao Yan thought about it and said tentatively: "I was sick a few days ago, and after I got better, I found that my brain was a lot clearer, no matter what others said, I can never forget it, and I can recall it afterwards, but I didn't tell my uncle and aunt, and they won't let me go to the school to study......"

"So, you want to study?" Zhao Xin asked again, Zhao Yan hesitated for a moment, and then answered.

Zhao Xin was about to say something when he heard this, but when he saw that the house in Jiuzhou Town in front of him was already in sight, he swallowed his saliva and said, "Dad will go to see the doctor with you first, and I'll talk about the study in a few days." ”

The famous doctor in Jiuzhou Town is an old man in his fifties, Zhao Xin called him Dr. Qian, it is said that this Dr. Qian used to be famous in the capital, but for some reason, he later abandoned the prosperous place in the capital, and after returning to his hometown, he opened a small pharmacy outside the city of Shenzhou.

After Dr. Qian treated Zhao Yan with a slight groan, he then wrote a prescription and handed it to Zhao Xin, saying: "Ling Lang is a deficiency of qi and blood, and I have prescribed a prescription to replenish blood and invigorate qi here, and take one dose before going to bed every day, and take it for half a month." In addition, in the future, try to eat more chicken, pork, pork liver, soybeans, jujubes, fish and shrimp, mushrooms and other things, which is called food and medicine. ”

Zhao Xin took the medicine for three days in the pharmacy opened by Dr. Qian, and after thanking Dr. Qian, he led Zhao Yan to the workshop where he worked.

Jiuzhou Town was originally the site of Shenzhou City, and then the state city was destroyed in the war, in the early Ming Dynasty, Wujiazhuang built another new city in Wujiazhuang, which was three miles east of the former site, and the site became a town over time, because it was the ruins of the old state city, it was named Jiuzhou Town.

Shenzhou was known as Xiabo, Luze and Jing'an in ancient times, with a long history and a long history. In the second year of Taizu Hongwu at the beginning of the country, Jing'an County was merged into Shenzhou, and Xizhou was governed in Wujiazhuang, and the state led Hengshui County, which belonged to Zhending Mansion in Beizhili, that is to say, now there is only Shenzhou, there is no Jing'an County, and there is naturally only Zhizhou and no Zhixian in the state city.

In the Yongle period of Chengzu, the foundation of Shenzhou City was laid by Xiao Bochen of Zhizhou, and the Confucian Temple was built in the southwest of the state city. Of course, now Zhu Di's temple number is still Taizong, and if you want to be the ancestor, you will have to go to the Jiajing period in later generations, and the Jiajing Emperor who won the jackpot will come to the temple number.

Zhao Xin's Wangjia Liquor Workshop covers an area of about two acres, located in the southeast corner of Jiuzhou Town, standing at the door of the liquor shop and looking eastward, you can see the city wall of Shenzhou City.

There are nearly ten large and small wineries in the town, among which the rice wine brewed by Wangjia Winery is the most mellow and soft, but it is only dumped near the state city, which is far less famous than those time-honored brands all over the country.

However, the main business of the Wang family is the landlord, and the winemaking is only an insignificant sideline, and the annual land rent is enough to support their family, not to mention that the Wang family still has a few good shops in the city, and the winemaking workshop is just the product of the three-minute heat of the Wang family's head Wang Ye when he was young, but now he is not very concerned.

In Zhending Mansion, if you talk about wine, the most famous is the eighteen wineries in Hengshui County, among which the old Baigan produced by 'Deyuanyong' is the most. Lao Baigan is sorghum liquor, named because of 'clean' and 'dry', characterized by rich aroma, mellow and elegant, sweet and refreshing, long aftertaste, known as the three drunken walls of the wall, and the reputation of opening the altar of ten miles.

Because the liquor produced by the eighteen wineries in Hengshui has its own characteristics and is famous, the merchants in the city are lined up and the wine industry is thriving, which is actually more prosperous and lively than the Shenzhou City to which it belongs, which also leads to the gradual decline of winemaking workshops in other places in Shenzhou.

The Wang family is considered to be strong in Shenzhou, but it has not been prosperous, and the four generations have been passed down to Wang Ye's generation, and they finally have two baby sons.

Wang Qi, the eldest son of the Wang family, was lifted in the autumn of last year, which made the king happy, and he happily sacrificed to his ancestors and ancestors, and celebrated a lot, but then he made a difficulty.

His family knows his own affairs, Wang Ye is also a well-read and well-informed person, so he naturally knows that after the township test, he will take the test, and when the time comes, the people of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the country will gather in the capital, how can they get four or five thousand people, and if they want to be a jinshi, it is tantamount to crossing a single-plank bridge in the middle of thousands of troops, and the eldest son Wang Qi is just a middle-aged person, and he wants to be on the list of the encirclement, which is really a bit hanging.

However, isn't the imperial examination just for the purpose of being an official, and the people who are promoted to the department already have the qualifications to be officials, but they don't have a high starting point for Jinshi.

Wang Ye took his eldest son to the capital for some activities, and spent a lot of money, but he only got a position as a teacher in Langqiong County, which is a registered official of the ninth grade, but where is Langqiong County?

After inquiring clearly, the father and son couldn't help but start scolding their mother, a person from Beizhili, who was sent to Yunnan thousands of miles away as an official, and was still a bottom-of-the-line Jiupin teaching, this mountain is high and the road is far away, even if the road is safe, it will take more than half a year to get there, is this not clear about the pitfall.

Recently, Wang Qi sent someone from the capital to bring a letter back, saying that he had found a way to go out to the county, and it was not too far from home, in Qingyang Mansion, Shaanxi.

Zhixian is a hundred miles of Hou, the rank is the seventh grade, a starting point can be the magistrate, that is naturally the best, but if you want to take this really lack of money, according to the servant who came back from the letter, the eldest prince asked the lord to prepare as much silver as possible, at least not less than one thousand taels. What is the concept of a thousand taels? It is roughly equivalent to nearly two million yuan during the later Tu Dynasty.

It is true that the Wang family is strong and strong, and it is not wrong that the family has more than 10,000 yuan, but he can't take out so much cash in a short period of time, so Wang Ye can only send a servant to the capital to report to his son, saying that the family is raising money, so that he can try to be a little restless, and once he has raised enough silver, he will send it to him immediately.

Land is the foundation of a family, and naturally it cannot be sold for silver, so Wang Ye plans to dispose of part of the grain stored in the treasury, and then sell the winery and a few shops, so that it can almost make up enough for a thousand taels.

The main family wants to sell the winery, and the people below have also heard of it, except that the person in charge is the son of the Wang family, who is not afraid of unemployment, and the other people in the winery are in an employment relationship with the Wang family.

Zhao Xin naturally has this concern, which is also a reason why he made up his mind to do some small business on his own, but although he has a steady mind and some knowledge, he has no choice but no experience.

All the way from Taocun, Zhao Xinsi thought about it, from the ambition at the beginning to the final gains and losses, he was shaken by whether he could do a good job. But now Zhao Xinxin is the first son Zhao Yan, so he hid his mind in his heart and only led Zhao Yan to the Wangjia Wine Workshop.

Zhao Xin did not have a high status in the winery, but he had a separate house to live in, which had to benefit from Wang Lin, the youngest son of Master Wang.

Wang Lin, the second son of the Wang family, is only twelve years old this year, but he doesn't know if it is a genetic mutation, he is tall and big, and he looks like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.

Wang Lin has been lively and active since he was a child, he doesn't like to read and loves to practice martial arts, and he accidentally learned that Zhao Xin, who works in the winery, is strong in martial arts, so he rushed to the door to ask for advice.

Zhao Xin didn't know who he was at the time, and when he saw that this half-grown child with a tiger's back didn't say a word, he started to do it when he came up, and he was naturally angry in his heart, so he put it to the ground in three or two strokes, and afterwards Wang Lin not only blamed, but pestered Zhao Xin to learn martial arts.

The atmosphere in the north is so, martial arts and righteousness, Zhao Xin practices family martial arts, and he is the only one among the three brothers who can insist on practicing. Shenzhou belongs to the north of Zhili, but it is in the south of the capital, in recent decades it has been relatively peaceful, and Zhao Xin's martial arts practice is only to strengthen his body on weekdays.

This second prince seems to lack a tendon in his brain, sometimes when the interest comes, in the middle of the night, when others are sleeping, they will come to Zhao Xin to compare. After a few times, the workers who slept in the same room with Zhao Xin were full of grievances, and the steward of the wine shop had to assign Zhao Xin a single room, so that it was convenient for his little son to come to Zhao Xin to ask Zhao Xin for martial arts.

Zhao Xin was boiling herbs in the single room assigned to him, and at the same time remembered his great business of making money, and accidentally turned his head and saw Zhao Yan sitting at the head of the bed in a daze, so he made a miracle to say what he thought in his heart.

Want to do business, but don't know what to do, and are you afraid of messing up the business? Zhao Yan didn't expect this cheap dad to have this mind, and his thinking is relatively comprehensive, it's not that he doesn't like to use his brain, so it's easy to do.

Zhao Yan has read a lot of travel novels, and he has a vivid view of the things that travel back to ancient times and rely on various modern knowledge to get rich, although most of them are very unrealistic, but there are also many remarkable ideas, such as soap.

Zhao Yan was very interested when he saw this when he first read the novel, so he specially checked the information on the Internet and found that there was actually soap in the Ming Dynasty, but the soap in the Ming Dynasty was called 'pancreas'. It is said that there were more than 70 pancreatic shops in the capital at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was not until the rise of the new soap industry after the founding of the People's Republic of China that it was gradually replaced.

Although the Ming Dynasty has pancreas that can be compared to the effect of soap, but it can be traced back to the earliest store to sell pancreas' 'Hexianglou', which will only open in Chongzhen four years, and now it is orthodox ten years, with a difference of more than 100 years in the middle, that is to say, there is no such thing as pancreas in the current Ming Dynasty, and people mainly use honey locusts, soap balls and rice washing water to clean their bodies at this time.

Honey locust and rice water are easy to understand, soap ball is made of honey locust as the main raw material, mixed with white flour and many spices, mostly used by the aristocratic and rich, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records its practice as: October picking pods, cooked and mashed, and white flour and incense as pills, bathing body surface to descale and greasy than honey locust also.

Zhao Yan knew about the practice of soap, but he was afraid that the articles of later generations would mislead him, so he decided to personally go to the state city to inspect it in the past few days, and if there was really no similar thing, he would persuade Zhao Xin to produce and sell soap according to his own ideas.

After Zhao Xin shared his thoughts with his psychologically closest son, his mood was much smoother, he naturally didn't know the various ideas derived from Zhao Yan's heart, and seeing that the herbs had been boiled, he poured them into a bowl and handed them to Zhao Yan on the side.

Zhao Yan is psychologically an adult, but he is still disgusted with this black and bitter medicinal soup, but fortunately, he clearly knows that this medicinal soup is beneficial to him, so he still holds his breath and pours it down.