Chapter 277: Unwilling to be lonely

The farmers and industrialists, the courtiers are the most expensive, and the merchants are the richest, but the status of the peasants and workers caught in the middle is embarrassing. Although it is said that in the past 5,000 years, heavy agriculture has always been the foundation of all dynasties, but the peasants face the loess with their backs to the sky, no matter how diligent they are, it is good to be well-off, and they are not at all comparable to the dignity of the rich courtiers of the merchants. The status of the hundred workers is even worse than that of the peasants, in the Ming Dynasty's enslavement yellow book, once it is compiled into the craftsman household, the children and grandchildren are all craftsmen, and this identity can almost never be removed.

Liu Da was not born in a craftsman's household, but by chance he worshipped under a craftsman who was skilled and proficient in many skills. He is intelligent by nature, and at a young age, he has innovated in addition to inheritance, and at the age of thirty, he is better than the blue. However, he offended the local squire because of trivial matters, and as a result, the squire bribed the government and almost cost him his life. It was difficult to survive in his hometown, so he took advantage of the migration tide in the early years of Yongle to leave his hometown from Guangxi to eastern Fujian to Hubei, and from Hubei to Shandong. However, after leading the villagers to build a canal, he offended people because of his disrespectful words, and he almost lost his place to stay again when he was lame.

With such an experience and living in Gaoshantun for ten years, Liu Da's temperament has lost the recklessness and sharpness of his fledgling life. But even if the edges and corners are polished, he is never willing to stay in such a small place for a lifetime. Today, he watched a murder from a distance, and he couldn't hold it back at night, so he went straight to find Zhang Yue.

At this moment, facing Liu Da's unusually sincere face, Zhang Yue thought for a moment and smiled: "Come, come into the house and talk." ”

I have lived in a mud house with only a thatched roof, a stone house on the mountain, and even a Xuan Angwa house in the prefect's yamen. Seeing the Liansheng Lianhu brothers, who often followed Zhang Yue every step of the way, were sleeping on the kang and snoring, he couldn't help but be stunned, thinking that Zhang Yue had always been conniving at the people around him.

Turning around on crutches, he found that Zhang Yue had personally opened the curtain in the back room and was waiting there, and hurriedly hurried two steps, quite flattered. When he entered the house and saw the furnishings, he was even more surprised.

"As long as you send a word, don't talk about the prefect's yamen, there are rich families in Qingzhou City who are willing to vacate their houses, but you want to live in this post station. Forgive me the truth, even if adults don't care about this, they still have to think about others. That Father-in-law Lu must be regarded as having a head and face in the palace, and he has to go outside to get oil and water, and the adults must live in this post station, isn't it blocking people's money? ”

I know that Liu Danai is kind to remind him, but Zhang Yue has his own charter for this matter, but it is not good to tell him now. He naturally knew that only three days after arriving in Qingzhou, Lu Feng had already jumped up and down and done a lot of things and met a lot of local rich families - these people talked about favors, some wanted to send beauties to the palace, and some climbed relationships to seek wealth...... In short, it has everything.

"I know what to do. Are you really willing to leave here and go back to Beijing with me? Naturally, I need help from someone like you, but there are a few things I have to say ahead. Although the British duke is my own uncle, after all, there is a layer of separation, and after this incident, I will not be able to send an official position after returning to Beijing, and you will have to be prepared to endure hardships with me. If you really want to go back to your hometown, I can also help you with some entanglements and let people send you back. ”

Liu Da saw that there was only the chair behind the desk in this room, and only the bed on the wall, and he was a little hesitant at first, until Zhang Yue raised his hand to give way, and he sat down on the only chair unnaturally. It wasn't until Zhang Yue sat down on the bed leisurely that he remembered that this little Zhang was not picky or picky in the old Zhang Li family in Gaoshantun, and he was relieved. It's just that he was still a little apprehensive in his heart, and he didn't know if Zhang Yue would agree, but when he heard those words, he suddenly felt his mood stirred.

"If you want to say that the leaves fall back to the roots, I naturally want to go back. But I was kicked out at the beginning, it was a big family in the countryside, and it didn't make much sense for me to go back, and besides, my relatives in my hometown had already died, and being alone may not be better than now. The adult just said that I have suffered hardships, I have suffered all kinds of hardships in my life, and I have suffered all kinds of cold eyes, so where do I care about this. Besides, it's not that I'm complimenting, but you don't look like you're worried about your future. ”

Knowing that Liu Da had made up his mind when he said this, Zhang Yue didn't say anything else, and simply agreed: "In this case, I'll let people go to you to clean up when I go back, and when I return to Beijing, I will have to take you with me." ”

That's what I'm waiting for!

Liu Da's heart jumped, and then he said with a smile: "Although the little one has been wandering outside for most of his life, he has never been to the imperial capital to see it, and he can't imagine that he can still have this blessing when he is old." However, the adults took it in, and the little one also had something to say. Adults come from famous families, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing when they land, but there is a way that money is not prickly, and it is difficult to prevent it after all by relying on the foundation of the family. Although officials look down on businessmen and say that making money is a small way, when should people not spend money in the world? ”

At the moment when he was just speaking, the snoring outside came through the thin bamboo curtain without any barrier, and the two people in the room didn't care at all. At this time, the oil lamp on the corner lampstand suddenly crackled and exploded, and the flames jumped up and down twice, as if they were disturbed by Liu Da's words. Zhang Yue unexpectedly thought that Liu Da would immediately change his name after he agreed, and said such a thing again, and he was surprised and appreciative.

Although the powerful families are inevitably involved in some commercial affairs, they have always been extremely contemptuous of these. Du Zhen is a typical scholar, who is light on money and not on profit, and does not care about any money at all; The grandmother in her own family holds countless land deeds, although she has also set up a few shops in Beijing, but it is not so much to subsidize the family, but to find things to do for the idle people in the family; Even his father, who was supposed to run some industries in secret, always told him to pay attention to his good karma and not to fall into crooked ways.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was the time when the troubled times had just been ruled down, and the big families paid attention to the fields and property, and they all sneered at doing business and getting rich. Because of the practice of opening the Chinese law, the salt merchants who covered the sky in later generations did not even have a shadow; Jiangsu and Zhejiang are also small businesses like small workshops; Jin merchants, Hui merchants, Qin merchants, Min merchants, etc., are still inconspicuous...... After all, Shen Wansan, who is rich in the world, is dead, and how many tired businessmen dare to show their wealth? If Zhang Yue showed interest in money in the past, he would be reprimanded as not doing his job properly or lightly.

After all, today's world is completely different from the atmosphere of only caring about making a fortune in the middle and late Ming dynasties.

Seeing that Zhang Yue was silent in thought, Liu Da mistakenly thought that these words had not moved the other party, and he suddenly felt a little anxious: "I have also heard of the situation in the adult's family, although you have now entered the official career, needless to say in the future, but the court's fortune is limited after all, if the family is separated in the future, how much of those fields will be produced every year, and how much family can the adult have?" The small one is not to encourage adults to put their minds on this end, but just to hope that adults can accept a few reliable family members and run some industries well. ”

As he spoke, he stood up, walked up to Zhang Yue on crutches, and said seriously: "Have you seen the recipe for boiling sugar in the small one?" There are several kinds of sugar sold on the market, but brown sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar, because of their different color and purity, the price difference is more than ten times. Nowadays, whether it is used on the top or the powerful and rich families in the capital, although the sugar used is called white sugar, it is actually brown sugar, and the color is yellow. In fact, this recipe is not an ancient recipe, it was discovered by a coincidence when the small one was boiling sugar in Mindong. This method can boil out the fifth-grade sugar, the best white as frost, without a trace of impurities. ”

In those days, salt was a monopoly, but sugar was not, and the poor people never even needed such a condiment. However, after all, there are many wealthy people in this world, and there are not a few rich and noble people in the two capitals, and there are also vassal royal clans, so it is inevitable that there is a habit of never getting tired of eating. Therefore, after listening carefully, Zhang Yuezai understood how much value there was.

"Although this method is good, once you start making and selling, do you know if it will be learned by others?" Zhang Yue has never been a person who is indifferent to money, but he doesn't know how to make things like glass soap mirrors, so he has to keep this kind of thought in his heart, but at this time he is interested, "The paper can't contain the fire, even if the secret recipe is good, it will be leaked out in a year and a half." But as long as you seize the opportunity to play the signboard for a year, so that the nobles and even the royal family in the capital will remember it, and after occupying most of the market in the future, you can sell the formula generously. ”

"Your Excellency thinks far-reaching." Seeing Zhang Yue's words directly to the point, Liu Da only felt very excited in his heart, and felt that his hard work was not in vain: "Sugarcane is needed to boil sugar, there is a lot of wasteland in Fujian and Guangzhou, this sugarcane is not like other crops, after planting, you don't have to care about it with a little fertilization, you can grow up and be arrogant, and the harvest is endless all year round, regardless of water or drought, it doesn't matter, and the value is extremely cheap." There are countless workshops for boiling sugar in Minguang, but most of them are just petty fights. ”

Zhang Yue was completely moved at this time, but he still couldn't help asking: "Min Guangyuan is in the south, and you just said that you want to go back to Beijing with me?" ”

Liu Da smiled at this time: "The little one is just not happy to stay in Shandong any longer, but if he follows the adults back to Beijing now, wouldn't he be an authentic eater?" Don't look at the inconvenience of small legs and feet, you can still walk like a fly with crutches! Adults can pick a few reliable family members and manage their money. In addition, I can't get rid of Xi'er's girl, her grandfather let out a word that he doesn't want her to be a granddaughter, and I can't drive her away, so I simply let her go south with me. ”

This arrangement is naturally proper and thoughtful, but Zhang Yue made a mistake - where did he find a reliable family? Hu Qi and the four were cultivated by Yuan Fang as an alternate Jinyi guard, and it was a pity to send them to do such a thing. And the others are all servants of the Zhang family, how can he explain to his grandmother Gu when he goes back? Not to mention Peng 13, who was from the British Mansion. After thinking about it, he had to decide to let Liu Da go down to the south of the Yangtze River first and go to his father Zhang Zuo to fight Qiufeng and ask for someone.

Due to the hot weather and the bloody scene when he closed his eyes, Zhang Yue couldn't sleep all night, and he didn't feel sleepy until dawn. He got up early in the morning and wiped his face and body with cold well water, and before he could have breakfast, he got a surprising news.

Those men who were once let go of a way out by him in the name of Neiying are now clamoring to see him in the Qingzhou Mansion.