Approaching the end of the year, Shuai Jiamo's injury has almost healed, and walking out of the house is no longer a problem. For him, who has been away from home for three years, this month is so stable that he doesn't believe it, and Wang Fulin also relayed a piece of news that made him ecstatic. That is, the Huizhou Mansion Xia Tax Silk Case has entered the ears of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the current dynasty, although Zhang Juzheng did not personally intervene, but only instructed him to go back to Huizhou Mansion to report again, but with Zhang Juzheng's words, how can his confidence be doubled?

However, at this moment, he was half-lying on the bed, listening to Wang Fulin reading the examination law that the imperial court had just promulgated, and his brows were twisted into a big pimple again. Needless to say, how could he not have any worries about the amount of taxes collected by local officials as the most basic assessment condition, but when he opened his mouth, he finally fell silent.

Seeing him in such a situation, Wang Fulin didn't take it to heart, and after reading this concise and concise will, he put it down casually: "Shoufu Zhang Ge is always a pragmatic person, the Beijing official takes the completion of things as the assessment method, and the local official uses the completion of taxes as the assessment method, in all fairness, it is a little simple and rude, but other hard indicators are not easy to determine, so there is nothing to blame." In fact, if the service is fair, the assessment method for magistrates is not excessive, but the problem is that if there is no amount of land exempted from labor today, and small people often have to bear the tax of three or four acres of land per acre, who can afford it? ”

"Huizhou Mansion is quite good, most of them are Zhongtian Xiatian, the taxes are low, and the heaviest tax is Su Song. But there are more landless floating people over there......"

Seeing that Shuai Jiamo couldn't help but talk about what he had seen and heard in Nanjing before, and even mentioned the people who went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to complain about unfair taxation like him. Wang Fulin secretly said that this ancient version of petitioning is really not an isolated phenomenon. It's just that there are only a few people who persevere, like Shuai Jiamo. He accompanied the commoners to eat. The one who was in charge of the government and even the court chatted for a while, and then went back to the west wing as a study, rubbed his wrist and prepared to practice calligraphy. But before he could write two words, Xiaobei opened the curtain and walked in.

"Wangfu sent someone to say that my uncle was resting today, and he was going to open a poetry club at home in the afternoon, and they were all officials and scholars from Huizhou, asking if you were going."

When Wang Daokun was still in Songming Mountain. The activities of the Fenggan Society are rich and colorful, and the scholars who gather each time have twenty or thirty, but I didn't expect that now it is not leisure but to become an official in the capital, and people still like these elegant things like this. When he was taking the township examination in Nanjing before, Wang Fulin dealt with a lot of literary and poetry clubs, but every time he prepared for it, he spent countless efforts, didn't he even bother to participate in the literati assembly of Li Yangong's Baixue Mountain House? To tell the truth, it's not that he is extreme, and the literati get together to either praise each other, or the literati despise each other. There are really talented people who have left peerless masterpieces, but most of them are disease-free**.

"Let Jinbao Qiufeng and Ye Xiaopang go to see each other for a long time. I'm busy, so I'm not going. Wang Fulin pointed to a pile of writing paper confidently, and said angrily, "I'd rather practice calligraphy at home than bother to embrace Qiu around the fireplace to enjoy the snow and poems, well, I only secretly tell you one person, your husband and I Jiang Lang are exhausted, and I can't deal with those elegant people." ”

Xiaobei was amused by Wang Fulin's lazy tone, but knowing that Wang Fulin had really made up his mind, he immediately went out and politely declined the person who came to deliver the letter. Of course, she inevitably wrote a post in person to apologize and brought a few gifts back. When the person came back with something with an obviously surprised expression, she returned to the study, only to see Wang Fulin biting the pen thoughtfully. She walked over to take a look, and saw where he was in the post, and on the ink-drenched paper, there was clearly a whip, a yellow book, a fish scale book, measuring the land, counting the population...... Mess like that.

"Throughout the ages, once the minister of change is touched, there are few good ends, not to mention those who are far away during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Yu Wenrong who recounted the household registration of the displaced people in the near Tang Dynasty, and Wang Anshi who was vigorous when he was reformed and saddened when he stepped down, and now there is our first assistant, of course, he is just an improvement, not a reform. Since ancient times, mending the sky is the most difficult thing in the world, but if you don't make up, you will have to leak air on all sides are holes, I have always felt that the first assistant Zhang Ge is too hard, and the means are too ruthless, but after seeing it last time, I found that people who are not hard and not ruthless can't be tinkers. ”

"Why do you suddenly remember to say this?"

"After being behind closed doors for so long, I kind of want to go out for a walk." Wang Fulin suddenly dropped his pen, stood up and stretched lazily, "In order to prevent my uncle from hearing that I am not going, and then let someone come to catch the errand, I will definitely be blocked at home, let's go out for a walk, shall we?" At most, he will be criticized for being lazy, but today's Wenhui can be regarded as evading. Finally, it hasn't snowed again in the past two days, and it's just the right time to go out. You change your clothes, and we will ride out on horseback, so as not to alarm that unevenness, and save this guy from going to ventilate and report again. ”

Although Xiaobei also walked around a while ago, but since that time she was recognized several times in men's clothes in Nanjing, she has been honestly riding in the car when she goes out now. Hearing Wang Fulin's proposal, of course she was happy, and without saying a word, she went back to the room and packed up. When Bizhu had no choice but to transfer the tiger away from the mountain to lead away the unevenness, and then transferred the mount to the back alley, the couple climbed over the wall and slipped out of the house quietly.

He and Miss Xu ran all over the many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in the capital, and Xiaobei was naturally not willing to go to those places where he prayed to God and worshiped Buddha. And Wang Fulin is not completely unconvinced of the gods and Buddhas, but it is rare to steal half a day of leisure, and he is not happy to run to that kind of place. And although he said that it was delicious, but now the chef at home is showing off his skills, and on the day of the first roast duck, the two young ladies of the Shi family and Cheng Naixuan and his wife came over together, and everyone feasted on it, but he didn't have the heart to find anything delicious for the time being. At this moment, the two rode aimlessly in a circle, and finally decided to go to the outer city to visit those friends who had met on the same road to Beijing Pingshui.

This was the first time he had been to the outer city in half a month, and when he found the inn mentioned by the previous people, he was stunned to find that these people were about to take the exam. They all went out to participate in the poetry society. And the places to go are different. Even the Xin'an Hall in the outer city of Huizhou is the same. During the day, few scholars stayed in their houses behind closed doors, and almost without exception went out to meet friends. Because the Yuanjiang civilization was ill before, he thought about it again and again and did not participate in next year's examination, so Wang Fulin, who was a little discouraged, found that he had not met an acquaintance, and after lunch, he simply went to several nearby markets with Xiaobei Zema.

Near Qianmen Street in the outer city, there are everything from the mule and horse market, the vegetable market, the rice market to the silk street and the gold and silver street where the silk and satin shops gather, among which there is also the popular name of the people's market. This human market is not just about buying and selling slaves and maids. Rather, it is similar to the talent market of later generations, where people who are proficient in all kinds of jobs are divided into categories and gather in a dental shop specializing in introducing jobs, waiting for employers to choose. If the really big families are in need, they will personally bring people to the door, and most of the people who come here to hire people are middle-aged families.

Wang Fulin and Xiaobei first went to understand the various prices in other markets, and then they came to the human market and really understood the labor cost of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the bricklayer earns 1,500 wen a month, and the palanquin man earns 1,800 wen. And if it is an ordinary coolie who carries things, he only gets 900 wen a month. As for the cooks for the domestic servants, according to the quality of their skills, they range from 800 to 2,000 wen per month. On the contrary, it is a nurse and the like, which can only be used by really large families, and there are very few people in the market, in the words of the tooth industry, this kind of temporary order is to find temporarily, and will not let those women with expensive milk wait here.

The front half of the market is full of all kinds of tooth shops, a hot transaction, the atmosphere is active, as if showing the huge number of workers in Beijing, but when Wang Fulin and Xiaobei pass through the front half of the crowd and come to the second half, it can be seen that the children in tattered clothes or young men and women are standing or sitting, waiting for the buyer. In this kind of freezing cold weather, most people are wrapped in rotten cotton jackets that don't fit well, and their eyes are full of anticipation when they look at passers-by. With just a casual glance, Wang Fulin saw the scene of a buyer in ordinary clothes taking away two children for a small piece of silver.

Feeling that Xiaobei grabbed his hand, Wang Fulin was also a little heavy. Jinbao, Qiu Feng, and Forsythia were not ruthlessly sold by their families like this?

At this moment, he suddenly heard a terrible cry: "Childe, Childe, please take my brother Dong, he can do anything, he can do anything, please, otherwise he won't be able to survive this winter!" ”

Wang Fulin saw Xiaobei dragging him, and clearly signaled to go and see what was going on, and he followed the others to the place where the voice came from. I saw a tall young man in his early twenties being dragged by a ragged woman by his sleeve, and he didn't want to retreat. Wang Fulin and Xiaobei arrived early, and there were one or twenty people around behind them, some shouted to ask what was going on, some clamored for the young man to take people home, and some blamed the woman who looked like a mother for not buying and selling......

In the chaos, the young man dragged it twice, but he couldn't save his sleeve from the woman's hands, and had to say helplessly: "Sister-in-law, my family has strict rules, and it is impossible for me to take someone back casually." I just wanted to ask, why can't I get by, I want to sell my children, not to buy your children. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a small commotion all around. Seeing that he was wearing a gauze robe, and the family had strict rules and could not buy people casually, this was obviously a noble son from a really big family! Even Wang Fulin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, you have said this to this, this woman is like grabbing a life-saving straw, how can she let go?

Sure enough, after listening to the young man's explanation, the woman let go of her hand and didn't grab his sleeve anymore, but hugged his thighs with both hands: "Childe, I don't want your money, I just ask you to take in Brother Dong, even if you let him be a cow and a horse!" I just killed my husband, and my uncle is going to sell me, but I am such a son, if I let my uncle sell Brother Dong to the Hanako Gang, I would rather not give him to a reliable family than let him live that life! Childe, little woman begs you, I just hope that your princess Wandai, you will take in Brother Dong! ”

PS: It's a brand new December again.,No. 1 ask for a guaranteed monthly pass.,Thank you for the single chapter ^_^ attached to the back (to be continued......