Liu Zongying didn't know how Lu Dao got to the Qiongzhou Hall, and he didn't even know if Lu Dao walked back? Although he taught his younger brother to take the imperial examination, he was lying to say that he had already thought about it.

He is a scholar who has been enlightened at the age of 5 to this day, and has read the sage books for 30 years! In his hometown of Anren, although it is also known as a gathering of humanities, after all, it is not as prosperous as some places in the south of the Yangtze River, where the literary style is so prosperous that people run all over the streets, and there are as many talents as dogs. Since ancient times, there have been a total of more than 20 talents. So ten years ago, when he Liu Zongying was in "high school", he also made a sensation in the countryside of Anren, and he rode a high-headed horse, dressed in red and hung colors, and traveled to the countryside and villages, which was extremely beautiful. And the Anren Liu clan has also officially upgraded from a large household to a gentry - a large household and a gentry are two completely different concepts, no matter how powerful the big household is, they still belong to the "ruled" class. When paying the land endowment and miscellaneous payments, you can pay less than small and medium-sized households, but it is still quite a burden.

However, after Liu Zongying showed his talents, the Liu family became a gentry and became a member of the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty. Although there is no legal privilege of tax exemption, it can be exempted from miscellaneous factions, which are not the main classes of the imperial court, but belong to the gray area, and should not be accepted in theory. Emperor Yongzheng has engaged in the integration of officials and gentry to pay grain and errands, but he has not engaged in the integration of officials and gentry, and the miscellaneous faction is often more than double that of the main item! In addition to the full exemption of miscellaneous pies, the main classes of the Liu family can also be paid according to the "short price", and at least half of them are exempted at once, and the various taxes paid are only more than one-sixth of the original!

And after becoming a gentry, the Liu family also had the privilege of assisting in tax collection. According to the long-standing practice, the officials of Dayi County did not go directly to Anren Town to collect taxes. Instead, it was collected by the gentry of Anren. Dayi County only stipulates an approximate amount. How much should the imperial court get. The amount of profit that the officials should share is within this limit. As for whether the gentry in Anren Town can collect a little more than this quota and put it in their own pockets, as long as there is no popular uprising, the officials above will not care.

With the privilege of paying less taxes and collecting taxes on behalf of the government, the Anren Liu family has risen rapidly in the past ten years and has become one of the largest families in Dayi County. Although such a "big family" is nothing more than a rural rich man in the eyes of the real wealthy families in the eight southeastern provinces. However, the road to the fortune of the Anren Liu family is the epitome of a family's rise from the bottom under the imperial examination system.

A showman. In the eyes of the high-ranking Emperor Zhu, it is nothing at all, but for those families who rely on "fame" to become the gentry and thus make a fortune, it is the beginning of everything. And the loss of fame usually means the loss of privileges and the end of everything......

However, for the Anren Liu family, hope still exists, as long as Liu Zongxian is "high school", the Liu family will still be a well-known gentry home in Anren Town, but Liu Zongying will replan the second half of his life.

"Brother. The meal is here, you can eat a little. ”

Liu Zongxian pushed the door and walked into his brother's room. He was carrying a food box in his hand, which contained a few Sichuan side dishes and a bowl of rice. Although Anren Liu's family has some belongings, it is not a wealthy family after all, and it has spent a lot of money to rescue Liu Zongying these days, so Liu Zongxian's hands are a little tight, and he is not willing to eat well, but his brother was only released from prison today and was hit again, so he went to a nearby restaurant and ordered some wine and food for his brother to eat alone.

"Sixth brother......" Liu Zongying looked at the food box There were not many drinks and dishes, and there was only a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and smiled bitterly, "The family has spent a lot, right?" ”

"Fortunately, the big house, the third room and I made up 200 yuan, and your second house sold more than a dozen acres of fields, and the bones are still there, and they can be redeemed."

"Tian Pi" and "Tian Gu" are actually "right to use" and "ownership". The former represents the right to use the land, and after purchasing the "field skin", you can cultivate the land without paying rent, but the party who owns the "field bones" can redeem the land at any time.

"I have to sell the bones of the field, and make up some money to return the tenants......," Liu Zongying smiled bitterly, "Since you can't read the book, let's go to the field to dig food." ”

"Second brother is going to farm?" Liu Zongxian was stunned. The heart said that his second brother has been smart since he was a child, and his family focused on cultivating him to study, so he didn't farm much, and later he was just buying land and collecting rent.

"Sixth brother, lease me your share of the land, and give me a stone rent per mu......

"No, no," Liu Zongxian waved his hand hurriedly, "My twenty acres of paddy fields are not only obtained thanks to your second brother, as long as I can be a showman, I will have an official, and there will always be one or two hundred Yulu every year, and there is no shortage of 20 stone grains." If the second brother wants to plant, take it and plant it. ”

His field was divided after his father's death, and his father's field was not supported by a talented son?

"Then I'll borrow it temporarily." Liu Zongying said, "Wait for the second brother, I will farm the land and plant a famous hall, and then I will make it up to you together." ”

Can you still grow a famous farm? Liu Zongxian looked at the second brother with some suspicion.

"What? Don't believe in my second brother's ability? Liu Zongying said with a smile, "Although I have never farmed the second brother, I know a little bit about management and have seen the world, which is different from those farmers who are stupid and only know how to plow the fields." Moreover, our Liu family also has power in Anren, and there is no shortage of capital, as long as it is a good business, how can it not be paid? ”

Of course, Liu Zongying did not want to plough the land himself, but to learn how to plough the land and use hired farmers to plough the fields. He himself has more than 40 acres of land, which is connected with the 20 acres of land of his sixth brother Liu Zongxian. Now they are rented to tenants, and the rent of one stone per mu is collected every year, although it is a lot, but it is not comparable with hiring people to farm, but it is more convenient.

He had already calculated that he was alone in the room just now. If you raise a few cows, it is enough to have three hired farmers in more than 50 acres of paddy fields, and at most some temporary people will be hired when sowing and harvesting. How much can it cost three hired farmers plus some temporary labor? It must have been less than seven or eight tenants. In addition, you can also build a few waterwheels for rice, build a workshop for brewing, and the rice collected can be used to make wine and sell it for money......

……

Towards the end of the year, in the Forbidden City, Zhu Jishi held Queen Luo Xiangmei and whispered something to her while walking in the palace garden.

“…… You want a garden, right, no problem, just build one on the edge of the Purple Mountain, which is bigger than the Purple Mountain Palace and Maria Fort, how about spending 2 million yuan? ”

"It's not a big deal to have a few nerds commit suicide, I have so many nerds in my Ming Dynasty, it's nothing to die a few. It's not that I haven't given them a way out, and now Engels has set up a New Oriental Specialized Education Group, which is to train all kinds of professionals. Including all kinds of technicians, junior technicians, primary school teachers, doctors, clerks, generalists, accountants and teachers, the tuition is not expensive, and there are many places for the training of commercial banks, isn't this their way out? Do they refuse to be mechanics, elementary school teachers, doctors, generalists, accountants, and teachers? Do you know how well those professions pay well? ”

Empress Luo frowned slightly: "There are at least tens of millions of scholars in the world, where do you need so many people for the things the emperor said?" If tens of millions of people don't even have a thought, I'm afraid they won't work......"

Zhu Jishi laughed: "How can tens of millions of people do those things I said? In England and France, the proportion of the middle-class with decent jobs and high incomes is between 5 and 10 percent of the total population, and it is rising. And we here, the people who can do these things together, I don't know if there are 5,000 people in Ludao?

Queen, do you know that these practical studies in the West are also broad and profound, and it takes more than ten years of hard study by smart and studious people to achieve success. If you want to get a first glimpse of the door, you can use it on the spot, and you need to learn for two or three years. And the brain can't be too stupid, and you can't be illiterate. It's not okay to go to the countryside and find a few farmers who can't read and write to learn, how can you learn if you can't read the textbook? Therefore, I need a large number of scholars to learn these practical learnings and become truly useful materials.

In addition, the current peaceful situation will not last long, and in two years there may be a big war to be fought! The reform of the imperial examination must be completed before this, otherwise it is not known how long it will be delayed! (To be continued......)