When it was first opened, everyone was very unoptimistic, but in such a short period of time, not only did the money stabilize, but the situation of the donation bureau was really different from when it was first opened.

When I first drove it, it was a scattered carriage and horses, who the fuck had more money to bite or what?

Who came here to deliver money to the government? Isn't that lard blinding the heart?

This time is completely different from a few months ago, far away from the donation bureau, the carriage and horse just stopped for a long time, and at a glance, it is also a lot of acquaintances.

Huai'an and Yangzhou salt merchants are very many, Taizhou is also a lot, the original world salt, more than half of the dependence on this, so this will look at the past, Huai'an Yangzhou Taizhou Haimen businessmen, net worth enough, there are two or three hundred people gathered here, Liu Yan and Dai Jun and others, has always been heroic and good at making friends, at this time at a glance, nine out of ten are known.

When I got to the door of the donation bureau, I saw that there was a long queue inside, and I couldn't see the edge at a glance.

At that moment, Dai Jun asked a salt merchant in Yangzhou City to inquire, and the salt merchant only smiled: "This is not a donation official, now is the quota for releasing prisoners, this is not as good as donating officials, if you have money, you can do it at any time, how many of them are released at a time, first come, first served, look at these gentry and old men, one by one is going crazy!" ”

This said, but to teach Liu Yan and others to understand, no wonder the donation bureau is the first to be very raw, almost no one knows, it turns out that almost all of them are squires and landlords, and there are not many contacts between ordinary people and salt merchants, if you say that you take tens of thousands of silver to donate an official rank, these people are not people or Jinshi retirement, or there is a gift from the imperial court, there is no need for this.

However, there are a lot of children and grandchildren who read, but it is very difficult to say what is going on in the field.

No matter how good the article is, I had diarrhea the night before the exam, and all three years of hard work were in vain.

Or a few drops of ink, or forgot to avoid it, or it was the wrong one.

For this kind of mistake, as long as you make one and post it on the list, you will be blind in a few years.

If you make a few mistakes, this life may be all over.

or a first-class learned person in the belly, who is only a top learner, but he is not very good at eight shares. Especially in recent years, the imperial court has tried to resume riding and archery in some places, and people must be able to ride horses and shoot arrows before they can be allowed to try.

This was very criticized at the time, because not only the common people nor the gentry's families, among the children who could ride a fiery horse and shoot a bow at once, there was not one in a hundred.

Therefore, Qianfu pointed out that he died without a problem, and Chongzhen did not be able to persevere. But this time with Zhu Cihong here, of course, such good governance must be adhered to.

Nanzhili and other places, among the county schools, should also be assessed in the year when the talent is examined.

Those who fail to pass the examination are equivalent to failing to enter the exam, and they will be beaten at least and the reputation of the retired members will be dismissed, which is very important.

Therefore, now the wind of buying horses and making bows has prevailed everywhere, but it has been weak for a long time, and people's hearts are not used to changing, even if it is difficult to demand the teaching of assessment, and there is no way to implement it in the whole country for a while.

In fact, at the beginning of the country, the Confucian exam, the first did not have to test the eight shares, the main test strategy theory, and the riding and archery was also a must, and later changed to the eight shares, and the riding and archery test was wasted, which was a very jerky thing. If it is less than 200 years old, all Confucian students need to learn the six arts, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty may not be this kind of field at this time.

However, at this time, the morale was depressed, and the improvement could not be achieved overnight, and it could only be slowly drawn.

Because the scientific examination is really not easy, when Zhang Juzheng was in the country, his son was continuously admitted to the Jinshi, which caused a big uproar in public opinion. Even if it is a scholarly family, it can be raised from a young age, but there is still a suspicion of cheating, so as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, everyone in the family was deprived of their scientific names.

What can only be done by passing five levels and cutting six generals, who is not happy to spend a few hundred silver to save these efforts?

Unless it is a really embarrassed family, almost all the official gentry and landlord families in the Huaiyang area have donated one or two or more prison places for the children of the family.

Even if the descendants are useless and hopeless, the identity of the prisoner can take a lot of advantage, spending a few hundred silver, or two thousand stone polished rice, which is very cost-effective.

"No wonder, no wonder."

Liu Yan squinted his eyes and looked at the long queue, but saw that in the courtyard of the Nuoda Donation Bureau, there were non-stop carts coming in and out.

Now that the new wheat has just arrived, although donating wheat is more than donating rice, it has also saved a lot of trouble. These officials and gentry like to buy land, more than tens of thousands of acres, less than hundreds of thousands, thousands of stones, and grain, it is really difficult for them.

The treasury of the donation bureau was built very tall and majestic, and there was no problem with storing more than 100,000 or 200,000 stones, when it was first built, the people in Yangzhou City had to laugh and lose their teeth, and they all said that the prince didn't know what the account was, and spent so much money to repair these warehouses to hold stones and rubble?

Liu Yan, Dai Jun and others were also part of the crowd that laughed at the prince at the beginning, but now at this time, standing outside this donation bureau, seeing the silver and grain pouring into the donation bureau, everyone was ashamed and very respectful, and when they looked at each other, they were very awe-inspiring.

The crown prince apparently knew about the situation a few months ago, and he had calculated the sophistication of the people's hearts.

How can such a Lord not be afraid?

This time, everyone was able to come out safe and sound, and saw the prince's face, although he was reprimanded, now that he looks back, he still feels blessed with his family!

"Brother Liu, I'm going to donate a positive fourth product, Lao Tzu is not the same product as Lao Ma, so I want to be half a level older than him."

Dai Jun arrived at Liu Yan, who was in a daze, and said with a smile: "It's a pity that I can't donate three products, and the guy from the Shicai Donation Bureau said that the prince originally planned to donate three products and receive 100,000 silver, but it was the Shi Gebu who forced him back." ”

"Even if Sanpin is a court official, we businessmen donate it, which is really not appropriate."

Liu Yan smiled faintly and said, "Shabu Xinyan class, we businessmen have also made so many offerings, wearing official robes, and exchanging so much silver for us, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should be happy." I just hope that I can leave some affection, and I really don't want to lose the salt field left by my ancestors. ”

"Who's to say it's not?"

When it came to this, the two of them were a little solemn, but fortunately, the quota for donating prisoners had been exhausted, and many of them who had donated came out happily one by one, still laughing and talking while walking, and their expressions were very proud.

If you don't donate, you just ask on the spot to see when the imperial court will release the quota, and when the time comes, you must come early to line up to donate, and you must no longer be left behind.

Seeing such a situation, a group of salt merchants were also shocked.

It has always been a salt merchant who is bold and generous, and uses money as mud and sand, because money is too easy to come by, and it needs to show strength and play up and down, so it is natural to have a wide face.

These gentry, silver and family property are all earned by the hard work of officials, no matter how easy it is to fight the autumn breeze, they have to run errands by themselves, right? Therefore, I am afraid that the use of silver is not even a tenth of that of the salt merchants.

To this day, it is the cheers of those who have paid the silver, and those who have not paid it are dejected, which of these salt merchants is not old and sophisticated, and knows the story of the dynasty?

Such a matter of enthusiastically handing over money to the imperial court and the government, and the opening of the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid I haven't seen it, right?

In fact, the qualification of donating prisoners, or the miscellaneous officials, was implemented in the early Qing Dynasty, which was really a great help. Not to mention the silver and grain, after donating it, who is not interested in the court, if the court crosses, who will recognize the qualifications of the officials and supervisors who donated?

At this moment, it is natural to form a breath of heart to the court and the country, but in it, even I don't know very well, and my mentality has unconsciously undergone strong changes.

………… In the evening, Liu Yan and several people lined up and successfully recorded that the silver was scheduled to be paid within ten days after completing the formalities, and if it was not paid within the time limit, it would be deemed invalid.

A big businessman with a net worth of more than one million will not rely on these tens of thousands of silver, so after signing the seal and pressing the fingerprint, he does not even have to hand over the insurance money, and he will directly complete the procedures.

Liu Yan was curious, and while waiting on the side, he quietly looked at the booklet of the donation bureau's records, but when he saw a thick book, he really couldn't see how many people had donated to officials, how many people had donated to prisoners, or just donated to the imperial court?

Naturally, he didn't know that the donated book was almost a thick book every day, and then it was recorded, copied, and sent to Nanjing and Huai'an for filing.

Huaiyang's first donation was made by the emperor as a one-person decision, and it was carried out immediately. And in the rest of the place, because the donation is like selling officials, after the news came out, many big families in Jiangnan rebelled, Jiangnan has a lot of reading families, there is their own unique set in the scientific examination, control the government, that is, under the hundred years of almost all the children of the family can be promoted in the Jinshi, if everyone can buy a prisoner with money, narrowing the risk of the Jinshi, it is equivalent to officialdom, how many more outliers?

In fact, Jiangnan Shilin controlled the scientific examination, and the origin is not the same, after the opening of the scientific examination in the early Qing Dynasty, Feng Quan, a northerner, was used to take the main examination, and among the hundreds of people who were selected, less than one percent were southerners, and the rest of the worlds were all taken in this way. It was by such means, coupled with the massacre and suppression in the southeast, that the pattern of the southern gentry controlling the government and ruling the government and the dominance of one family was reversed.

The gentry objected, and the Donglin Party also vigorously resisted in the DPRK, and before Huaiyang saw the results, the donation elsewhere could not be carried out for the time being, and the data sent to Nanjing was used by Chongzhen to slap the face of the Donglin Party.

If you can send it over, it means that the donation is very remarkable, otherwise, wouldn't it be a shame for yourself?

Donation is not more than ten days, the real opening of less than ten days, Huai'an, Yangzhou two prefectures, Huai'an is two states and seven counties, Yangzhou is three states and seven counties, donations, endless, the two governments combined, the number of donors has been more than half a thousand, donate prisoners, there are more than 3,000 people, and the donation of the canon, the number of people is more, dozens of taels of silver, to the widow to buy a widow's gift, very worthwhile.

And the imperial court has accumulated a lot of water, and it can also take advantage of this to educate and educate, and no longer hesitate to cherish these gifts, even if it is a Jiangnan scholar, he is not opposed to donating the canon, and he is quietly inquiring around, I don't know when the south will be able to donate more canons.

At this time, the two mansions were combined, and in the hands of the crown prince Zhu Cihong, there were already more than 5.6 million silver and millions of stones of grain!

Ten days, half of the Nanming year's tax!

(To be continued)