Chapter 110 Ancestral home in Guanzhong
Time is in a hurry, and half a month has passed in a blink of an eye. After the shopkeeper of the pen www.biquge.info money took the manufacturing diagram of the retort and the method of use from Feng Yi, he directly shouted that Feng Yi's conscience was eaten by a dog, and he suffered a big loss. And Feng Yi saw that Baiyue Restaurant had been making money almost every day since the new wine came out, and his whole heart was aching. That's all my money. Feng Yi didn't know how many times he had greeted the money shopkeeper in his heart. It wasn't until the money shopkeeper delivered the first month's dividends that Feng Yi's resentment towards the money shopkeeper gradually faded.
The dividend in the first month was actually 1,000 taels, which was a large amount of money for Feng Yi anyway. After all, in the first month, the brewery downstairs of Baiyue Restaurant has not been officially transformed. It can only be simply distilled from the sake that has already been brewed.
The news I got from Qian Fa is that if it weren't for the money shopkeeper to create a genuine product and limit the purchase, the money that could be obtained may be more. Who said that the ancients didn't understand marketing, and people didn't know how to play the relationship between supply and demand.
Feng Yi originally thought that he would move to the village when he had money, but when he actually did so, he remembered that he had already lived in the village. The reason why I don't feel safe is just because my home is too far away from the crowd. At the beginning, Feng Yi's cheap father disliked that there were too many people and was too noisy to study, so he specially moved to live in the back of the current village, who knew that in the end, he couldn't even pass the exam. But it's also like this that Feng Yi can live well after losing his reputation, otherwise the white eyes of the surrounding neighbors alone will make him cold. It seems that it is urgent to improve the relationship between the neighborhood and increase popularity.
Feng Yi agreed to Xiao Lori, if she has money, she will buy a lot of land, and now she has more than two thousand taels of silver, which is thirty or twenty acres, and there are seventy or eighty acres. Thinking about the few acres of land in the previous life, when my parents had no choice but to go out to run a business, I am now a small landlord.
Feng Yi went to Zhao Laosi and asked, the land around his home is actually owned by one person, and it is indeed a place where the poor have no cone, and the rich enjoy the fields of the four seas, I don't know when there will be another Daze Township, and another Chen Shengwang. The butt decides the head, and he is about to become a landlord class, although he is the lowest landlord, it is a pity that Feng Yi is still waiting to feel the warmth of the class, and he can only say sorry to the oppressed peasants. Although my heart will always belong to a member of the proletariat, but my body has betrayed my heart, you have to believe, I just bought these lands for the little Lori at home, I just bought the land for Lori in one go. As for whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.
The lieutenant has an important position in the feudal society. In ancient China, with the exception of a few militaristic regimes such as the Qin and Han dynasties, administrative orders could basically only reach the county level. As for the township and town levels, the characteristics of the household and the patriarchal system make the power below the county level basically in the hands of the elders of all ethnic groups and the elders of various localities, which is also the reason why there are so few criminals in the so-called prosperous era of some dynasties in ancient China, because many things have not passed through the yamen. The clan elders and village elders in various places directly dealt with them, such as unchastity, adultery, unfilial piety of children and grandchildren, and brothers fighting for the family.
Even in New China, when the patriarchal system had been seriously damaged after years of war and turmoil, and the clan power in villages and towns had basically been seriously damaged, coupled with the blows of various movements, it was only when the legal aspiration of the national law to be greater than the clan law for a thousand years was truly realized, and the privileges of the clan law under the patriarchal system were truly broken. Of course, the main reason for the demise of the patriarchal system was the destruction of the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, the increase in productivity, the increase in population mobility, and the improvement of the quality of the population and the breaking of cultural monopolies were also an important reason.
Hexi Village is different from the general driving gathering villages and towns, the whole village is the final say of the big surname, and Hexi Village is basically a village composed of foreign population. There are not many people, only a few hundred households, but basically the entire Dahua Dynasty, there are all counties. There are those who fled the famine, those who fled the war, those who stayed behind in business, and even those who yearned for the prosperity of Hangzhou. And the chief of Hexi Village, surnamed Wang, named Wang Shu, is nicknamed Wang Sanshou. The meaning of the three thin is that as long as he is targeted, even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu will have thin skin, thin flesh, and thin bones. In short, it is a sentence, people are three feet thin. Wang Sanshou is a rare local in Hexi Village, because he read some books when he was young, although he failed to be a showman, but he has read a book is different, he has learned a lot of skills in reading books, and he really uses his knowledge cleanly when he does things.
Feng Yi's predecessor scientific expedition at that time, Feng's father sold the only few acres of water left in the family in order to raise money, although others saw Feng's father in a hurry to cash out and fight for the price of his life, so that although Feng's father sold the field, but it was worth dozens of taels of silver, after Feng Yi's scientific expedition costs, coupled with the later sorrows and joys, if it weren't for the neighbors to help Feng's father in the old days, Feng Yi would not have survived to throw into the water, and even one of the reasons why the predecessor threw himself into the water was because he really had no money, and he had no face to go out to work, so he could only die. However, although Father Feng sold it for less money, Wang San's hard-earned money in it was still a lot. After all these years of hard work, Wang Sanshou has also saved a lot of family business, and he can be regarded as a wealthy person in the famous poor land of Hexi Village.
Wang Sanshou is nearly seventy years old this year, but this old thief no matter how the people in Hexi Village ask God to worship the Buddha, he just can't kick his legs, and looking at his red face, he can't die in a few years. This fact has greatly reduced the credibility of various gods and Buddhas in Hexi Village, and even the concept of religion has been extinct for a period of time. It stands to reason that after the death of the previous Liu Lichang, the position of the chief was originally going to fall into the hands of the eldest son of the chief, whether legally or traditionally, the Liu family has become the richest family in Hexi Village after decades of development by Liu Lichang, and the eldest young master of the Liu family has been exposed to Liu Lichang since he was a child to deal with large and small affairs, which is better than Wang Sansan who has only studied for a few years. It's a pity that I don't know what means Wang Sanshou used at that time, and took the line of catching the head of Zhou in the city, and under the condition of making a lot of silver, the "long-awaited" became the chief. Since then, he has boarded the train of the bureaucratic family of the Dahua Dynasty and has become a leader who can collect grain and levy taxes.
Wang Sanshou has been a little sad recently, because his eldest nephew, who can only strike iron, has been taken by the money shopkeeper of Baiyue Restaurant. That's Baiyue Restaurant, although I've been to it a few times, but it's only in the hall, if you want to book a private room, although you have saved a lot of family business over the years, but you can't afford to wrap a few times the private room of Baiyue Restaurant. Wang Sanzhuang didn't understand very much, his stupid nephew except for an ancestral iron-making skill, what else could he make Baiyue Restaurant look like?
According to the tradition of the son inheriting his father's business, if nothing else, Wang Sanshou will also be the life of iron. But more than 50 years ago, a seemingly learned master suddenly came to Hexi Village, and he liked to teach the children around him to read and write. At that time, Wang Sansan and his father saw that Wang Sansian's thin appearance was really not the material for striking iron, so he decided to let his eldest son inherit his craft, and let the second son follow this seemingly learned master to read and write, hoping that the Wang family would produce a scholar in his son's generation. When I was young, I was fortunate to meet a good gentleman, and the old master taught the children to read very carefully, but Wang Sanshou was really not the material for reading, until the old master was picked up by a group of people in fresh clothes and angry horses, Wang Sanshou got the name Wang Shu from the master, and knew thousands of words. It's a pity that Wang Sanshou didn't even know what the name of the original master was. Although he can't be a showman, Wang Shu, who has read books, is no longer willing to be an ironworker. When the master left, the entourage of the freshly dressed and angry horses made Wang Shu ambitious for the first time. A husband can't be without power for a day, this is what the young man named Wang Shu learned from books at that time. Since then, Wang Shu has tried every means to climb to the officialdom, but he is really not the material for reading. Fortunately, I accidentally helped Zhou Zhutou to relieve the county lord's encirclement of Zhou Zhutou's frequent close to the fifth aunt, and took over the class of the predecessor Liu Lichang under the signal of Zhou Zhutou. After more than 20 years of sitting down, Wang Sanshou finally realized the taste of power. Although he is not even a official, he is the master of the entire Hexi Village. The lieutenant chief is the leader in collecting grain and levying it, and the county is so big that sometimes it has to rely on us who are not in the stream, and it is easy to take care of those ****. But now his nephew who is striking iron is actually taken by Baiyue Restaurant, which represents the Qian family! The entire city of Hangzhou can only be compared with the Qian family.
I didn't expect that I couldn't catch the line, but I was actually caught by my nephew who was not angry. When Wang Sanshou became the lieutenant chief, he was grateful for the hardships his eldest brother endured in order to make his unrealistic dream of the imperial examination, and even his daughter-in-law was in her twenties before she was pleased. Thinking that he took his nephew with him as the head here, who would have thought that his stupid eldest brother would inherit the ancestral inheritance, and he would not let his nephew follow him when he died, his eldest brother Wang Sanshou really had no choice, so he could only persuade him bitterly; Later, after Wang Sanshou's name spread, his eldest brother did not get along with him until he died. Wang Sanshou didn't expect his eldest brother to be so incomprehensible to his hardships. What the chief did was originally to offend people, as long as he could satisfy the county, what did those bitter haha have to do with me, since he still pointed at his nose and scolded himself Wang Santhin, let the neighbors poke the backbone of the Wang family. I'm really for the good of the Wang family, do you understand! After coming and going, Wang Sanshou and his eldest brother's family basically became strangers. Although they are in a village, they still don't get along. Who knew that when his eldest brother went, Wang Sanzhuang, who was stupid and big, didn't even bring his son over to recognize the family! My Wang San is too thin and three feet thin, but the tiger poison doesn't eat children, and I am so scared of you from the same Wang family? Therefore, Wang Sanzhuang didn't like to see Wang Sanzhuang, and even the three little ones in Wang Sanzhuang's family didn't understand the respect and inferiority of the elders like his father.
But this nephew, who he didn't want to see, was actually taken by the shopkeeper of Baiyue Restaurant Qian Fuqian, who he had always wanted to stammer. Knowing the relationship between Wang Sanzhuang and Wang Sansian, it is not difficult to understand why Wang Lichang is so bad when he looks at the current situation. I try my best to stammer, and what I don't look down on is looked down on by the people I want to stammer, doesn't that mean that I have no eyes? What a good opportunity, but it's a pity that I really can't let go of my body to deal with the traitors of the Wang family.
If there is really anything in the whole Hexi Village, Wang Sansan can't hide his eyes, and after more than 20 years of long career, Wang Sanshou has already cultivated his own eyeliner. Soon Wang San's thin henchman, Wang Baqiu, came back. Wang Baqiu is in his early thirties, with two mustaches and sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, and he doesn't look like a serious person at first glance. A few years ago, Wang Baqiu fled from the north with his wife and children, arrived in Hexi Village, and went to Wang San's thin family in desperation to recommend himself. Wang San saw that Wang Baqiu was clever, so he stayed in his own family and became an attendant similar to a staff member. And Wang Baqiu also lived up to expectations, and in a short period of time, he gained the trust of Wang Sanshou and became the second-in-command of the entire Hexi Village. Wang Baqiu hurriedly came in from outside the door. As Wang Sanshou's favorite dogleg, Wang Baqiu is quick in both his eyes and actions, Wang Sanshou just had an idea, and Wang Baqiu had already inquired back. Anxious about the master's urgency and thinking about what the master thinks, Wang Baqiu has reached the highest level of dog-legged professional ethics.
"Master, master, I have found out the news you told me to investigate, and the news has been clear. The third master was indeed invited by the money shopkeeper of Baiyue Restaurant to do the work, and even the two young masters of the third master's family also went. and Zhao Laosi, the neighbor of the third master, was cleared by Baiyue Restaurant. Yesterday, a Baiyue Restaurant also sent two fine linen cloths to the third master and Zhao Laosi's family, saying that it was a reward for the two of them to work hard. ”
"Then do you know why Baiyue Restaurant took a fancy to these two? Although my Wang family's iron-making skills are not bad in Hangzhou City, the Qian family, a blacksmith with good skills, should not be lacking. As for Zhao Laosi's carpenter, there are many people in Hangzhou City who are as skilled as him, why did the money shopkeeper fall in love with these two people? Although Wang Sanshou hadn't had time to send someone to understand the situation, the hat that Wang Baqiu brought was still put on with peace of mind. The people below can't understand what I mean, what are you going to do? The people below have done a good job, of course, they have to do it themselves. As for the later evaluation of the two people, the smug look on Wang San's thin face had already betrayed him. Although he is nearly seventy years old and has not learned the ancestral craftsmanship of the Wang family, when talking about the craftsmanship of the Wang family, Wang Sanshou still can't help but feel a little proud. As for Zhao Laosi's carpenter's craftsmanship, Hangzhou City abounds, then it's a bit of a nonsense with his eyes open, Zhao Laosi's craftsmanship for decades, his eyes and craftsmanship are top-notch, and although he has to find out better, there are certainly not many.
Wang Baqiu looked at the smugness on his master's face, and also echoed Wang Sanshou's sentence with interest.
The old man was modest, and said to strike iron. The craftsmanship left by the old lady is naturally not comparable to other families, as for the people who can be compared with the third master, there are still many people, it is just that the third master has not learned the arts, if the master is allowed to inherit such a craft, it will be difficult for the entire Hangzhou City to find a comparator. There are several counties in Hangzhou, and there are hundreds of them, but the only one who can really be put on his body by the county and even the government is the master. Wang Sanshou listened to Wang Baqiu's praise, and remembered that he paid the grain on time and in full every year, and the satisfied smile of the county zun was also complacent.
"These are all county lords, and the support of the villagers and elders is not worth mentioning. But you're right, the son of my eldest brother's family is really not angry. Did you find out why they were favored by Baiyue Restaurant? Wang Sanshou got angry when he thought of Wang Sanzhuang.
"Back to the master, the little one inquired clearly. The fact that the third master entered the face of the money shopkeeper is related to the kid who threw himself into the water and died a few days ago in Feng Lao Xiucai's family. When Wang Baqiu got down to business, his whole style changed.
"The kid of Feng Lao Xiucai's family, since he was famous, and was divorced, and then Feng Lao Xiucai and his wife died one after another, and under repeated blows, they wanted to go to the West Lake and die in the water, fortunately they were rescued by the fisherman who was fishing, and they repented after this incident, the whole person was like a changed person, he stayed in the room on weekdays and did not go out, and he greeted acquaintances generously, as if he had forgotten the past. Last month, he also took in a little female beggar at the door, and then he didn't know what he took to Baiyue Restaurant, and he didn't know what he used to persuade Baiyue Restaurant, so that Baiyue Restaurant sent two guys to follow him. The third master and Zhao Laosi were invited by the two guys from Baiyue Restaurant, and I heard that it was the meaning of the Feng family's boys. Some people saw that the guys at Baiyue Restaurant had pulled a lot of wine to Feng's house, and then thought about the new good wine in the Kouzijiao in Baiyue Restaurant recently, which may have something to do with it. "Wang Baqiu is really a good staff, if Feng Yi hears Wang Baqiu's words, it will really give him 32 likes, except for passing through this secret, it is completely like seeing it with his own eyes. It can only be said that Feng Yi himself is not good at logic and his brain is not good, but he still thinks that others are the same as him, and inductively summarizes and speculates that these are the basic skills of the staff.
"Then what's the situation with the Feng family kid?" Wang Sanshou really didn't expect that Feng Yi, who was ten miles away from the wind, would be the root cause of this matter.
"The Feng family kid is still the same as before, he doesn't go out all day, but he doesn't know if he's crazy recently. Someone saw him jumping and jumping in the yard shouting the slogan of one-two-one, and from time to time lying on the ground and gnawing mud. Some people say that he got a lot of money from doing business with Baiyue Restaurant, and there are heroes who want to go and explore, but they have to give up because of the face of the Qian family. However, the day before yesterday, I heard from the Liu family that the Feng family boy bought the land around his house from the Liu family and gave it to his family, and it was thought that he had indeed made money from Baiyue Restaurant. But it's really a loser, and he only thinks about coaxing a woman with a few dollars, although it's good to buy land, but what's the matter with giving it to the maid? Now this matter has spread throughout Hexi Village, which was originally disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust, and now it is about to add the reputation of a lustful young girl. Maybe you don't have to worry about having more debts, and you don't itch if you have more lice, but the Feng family kid is very open to this. However, the maid in his family, after these years of raising, is really more and more marked, and this kid's vision is really good. After Wang Baqiu finished speaking, he didn't forget to lick his mouth obscenely.
"Oh, did the Liu family ever agree?" Wang Sanshou heard that Feng Yi might have money in his hands, so he directly ignored Wang Baqiu's remaining words.
"I don't know how much silver the boy has, but it would be nice if I could get it from the boy. Since this kid dares to say that he wants to buy back all the land around his house, those hundreds of acres of land, even if it is low-grade dry land, even if it is ten taels and one acres, there are thousands of taels! It's a pity, if it weren't for the Qian family, I couldn't help but do it. Wang Sanshou picked up the teacup to relieve the heat in his mouth, and persuaded himself with the last shred of reason: "The matter of silver is just a legend so far, if you don't catch the fox and make a fuss, you will regret it, it is not worth risking offending the Qian family for an empty news." ”
"That's not true, since the death of the eldest young master of the Liu family, the second young master in charge of the Qian family is not qualified to be the opponent of the master at all, and he has long been difficult to defeat the master's tiger power, and he is thinking of moving elsewhere, but he is afraid of the reputation of the Feng family's boy, and the Liu family does not want people to feel that they are so embarrassed, so they did not agree to the request of the Feng family's boy. I heard that the Feng family boys have offered a price of thirty taels and one mu. Wang Baqiu really gave Wang Sanshou the answer he wanted, but Wang Baqiu was also exaggerating, although at the beginning Feng Yi did think that even thirty taels and one acres could be accepted, but after asking Zhao Laosi, Feng Yi already knew that these fields around his house were low-grade dry fields, and he didn't want twenty or twenty-one acres, although this money was really windy for Feng Yi, but it didn't mean that Feng Yi was willing to be a fool.
"In this way, as the mayor of Hexi Village, I can't watch honest people suffer. Although the Feng family boy had a bad reputation some time ago, the Confucian saints have long said that they can change their mistakes, and they are very good. Speaking of the Feng family, the boy can be regarded as I grew up, Feng Lao Xiucai's personality, I don't believe that his son will be the kind of disloyal, unrighteous, unkind and unfilial person, although he has made mistakes, but we also have to give him the opportunity. Since he wants to buy land, he thinks he has to really repent and reform. Looking for what you said, the Feng family kid has a good relationship with my eldest nephew, then I will also count him as half an elder, as an elder, since he wants to buy the Liu family's land, then I will do something to help him, and we will go to his house tomorrow. Wang Sanshou didn't know what he thought, and suddenly smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said to Wang Baqiu righteously.
And Wang Baqiu saw Wang San's thin appearance, and knew that Wang Sanzhuang didn't have any good ideas, and thought that the Qian family would be unlucky this time. As for the kid of the Feng family, although he can get a little land, if he really has silver, the silver should have nothing to do with him.
Wang Sanshou and Wang Baqiu were each thinking about tomorrow's things, and Feng Yi, who was teaching Xiao Loli to read and write, didn't know that he had money before revealing a little trace, and he almost caused a catastrophe, and he didn't know that the Qian family, which was only a possible background, protected him more than once.