Looking at the fifty taels of silver sent by Squire Zhang, Tang Ning was really moved, because now his family is too poor to open the pot, and it is inconvenient for him to take out the money in reality, so the fifty taels of silver really solves the urgent need, but on the surface, he still has to politely shirk: "Old man, you don't dare to accept it in your later life!" ”

Squire Zhang made a face: "You and I are friendly in the world, just like our closest relatives, you are like this, you are outside!" ”

After repeating the resignation a few times, Tang Ning accepted the money, thanked him, and chatted for a while, and then gave Squire Zhang the gift.

Looking at the back of Zhang Jingzhai, the squire of Zhang who gave silver and sent a house, Tang Ning couldn't help but sigh with emotion, no wonder so many scholars are desperate to participate in the imperial examination, no wonder Fan Jin is still insisting on the exam when he is in his fifties, because as long as you are admitted, it is really a carp jumping over the dragon gate and a salted fish turning over!

Before coming, when Tang Ning searched for the relevant information of Fan Jinzhongju on the Internet, he saw that some netizens didn't understand, why Fan Jinyi raised Zhang Squire and couldn't wait to come to climb friendships and send silver to the house.

First of all, only if you are admitted to the lifting of people, you can participate in the higher level of the examination, that is, to enter Beijing to take the Jinshi, and once you are admitted to the Jinshi, even if it is the last place, after the release, it is a genuine county order, and now it is a county high-ranking official, and then as long as you don't make a big mistake, you don't have to have any merits, and finally you can boil up the high-ranking officials.

And if you feel that you can't pass the Jinshi exam, and give up the opportunity to take the exam to directly participate in the election of officials, then you can be a second-in-class official in the county's real power department. And at that time, the power of the government was not comparable to the current government, and it was really a matter of life and death.

Therefore, after Fan Jinzhong's move, Zhang Jingzhai's visit was about the same as a sudden break in a county town, and he was sure to at least become a deputy county magistrate, and to curry favor with an official of this level, isn't it normal to give a few houses and a little silver? And if you really wait until someone is admitted to the Jinshi and then send it, then you can't get this money and this little thing, and how can the icing on the cake be valuable?

After sending Zhang Jingzhai away, Tang Ning took out two ingots from the fifty taels of silver, handed them to the Hu butcher who had just come out of the hall and said: "I bothered my father-in-law just now, not only took 5,000 yuan of happy money, but also helped to buy a banquet. ”

"This, this, this was originally said to be congratulated on you, how can there be any reason to take it back." Hu Butcher pretended to be displeased, but although he said so, his big hand clenched the silver tightly, and what was even funnier was that he actually held his fist tightly and handed it to Tang Ning, as if he wanted to return the money.

Seeing this scene, Tang Ning almost couldn't hold back his laughter, but he still kindly persuaded: "Otherwise, this silver will be sent to my father-in-law first, and when my money here is gone, I will come to my father-in-law to ask for it." ”

With this step, Hu Butcher took the silver as a matter of course, and echoed it: "Okay, but the virtuous son-in-law has made friends with Master Zhang now, and his family's silver is gone to the sea, and Bao Buqi is more than the emperor's family." Then he turned to his daughter and said, "When I came out of the house in the morning, your damned brother was still talking bad about my aunt, and I will go back in a moment and scold the short-lived slave who cut off his head!" Then he left Fan's house with a smile.

After Hu Butcher left, the Fan family finally cleaned up, Fan Jin was about to clean up the scattered tables, chairs and benches at home, and his wife and mother hurriedly said while rushing to do it: "Oh, Xianggong, you are already a master now, how can you still do these rough things!" Stop, I'll do it. ”

Tang Ning sighed and said: "Now there are no outsiders here, just what do our mothers say about the lord is not a master, the lady and the mother have suffered a lot with me over the years, but now we have finally boiled it out, and you will be able to enjoy the blessings in the future, and you can also buy more clothes and jewelry, and I estimate that in two days our family will even have servants, so we will not have a chance to do these jobs in the future." ”

"Huh?! What do you need a servant for? We don't have much work, and your wife and I can be busy, and although Master Zhang gave you fifty taels of silver just now, if you hire a servant, then the money will not be spent at all. Mother Fan hurriedly persuaded.

Tang Ning explained with a smile: "Mother, you also heard it just now, this master Zhang gave me a three-in-three house, but you and your wife can't clean it all, and now that your sons are all lifters, how can you still let you do such rough work?" As for the money, there is no need to worry at all, there will be people who will come to send money these days, especially the land, at least a few hundred acres of land, maybe even slaves will be sent. ”

"Why did someone send so much land?" Fan Mu asked puzzled.

"Because if you put the land in my name, you don't have to pay taxes!" Tang Ning explained lightly.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty (in fact, the same was true in the early Qing Dynasty), the people can be exempted from taxes and servitude for dozens of people, if you are a rich peasant, you have to pay 1 cent tax to the imperial court, and you have to repair the river embankment in winter.

Xiucai can only be exempted from tax service for 2 people, and Xiucai can only lift people, which is a qualitative change caused by quantitative changes in the economy, and only this privilege is needed to completely break away from labor production and become the ruling class.

As it turned out, Downing was not right at all, and since then, many people have come to flatter him: there are those who send land; Someone sent it to the store; There are also those who are broken and settled, and the two of them come to join the servants and try to shelter them. Within a few days, Fan Jin's family had slaves and maids, and money and rice were needless to say.

However, at this time, Tang Ning remembered an imminent major event, if this matter is not properly resolved, then the main task of "being admitted to the Jinshi" will have to drag on for at least three years.

PS: The people in the Ming and Qing dynasties were in the local area, which was the existence of the overlord, which you can refer to the Ding Juren in "Kong Yiji" and the Bai Juren in "The True Story of Ah Q".