Chapter 8: A Different History

Before that, Wu Jie was having a headache about what he should do in the Ming Dynasty.

He also has fifty taels of silver on hand, and there is no existential crisis in the short term. But when this strange dream will end, the ghost will know.

Wu Jie had a hunch that since this dream was so real, it was estimated that it would continue like this. Moreover, the reason why the time period of this side line suddenly intersects with this time and space is that you can't guarantee that it will not seize its current life in the near future and completely engulf the real time and space.

As soon as he thought of this, Wu Jie felt a little flustered in his heart, and instead of rushing around at that time, it was better to prepare in advance.

The capital of fifty taels of silver can actually do something.

First of all, you can buy some paddy fields and become small landlords, living on the annual rent. But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty was at its peak at that time, and the land price was quite high. Especially in the Chengdu Plain, which is highly developed in agriculture, it is a good paddy field. Each acre is worth ten taels of silver. Fifty taels of silver can only buy five acres, and in the era when there are no pesticides and fertilizers, the output of five acres of land is only enough for a family of three. You need to work in the field yourself, and if you hire tenants, you won't have a few grains of grain left except for the hired farmer.

Poor Wu Jie was a weak and sick man in that era, and he had no experience in farming. As a modern person, let him carry it on his shoulders, it is better to die.

Therefore, this path will not work.

Unless it is developed in the future, buy him hundreds of thousands of acres of land and put it there. But at that time, buying land was just a means of preserving value, an investment rather than a way.

If you want to get rich, there is only one way ---- do business.

Xinjin County is located 30 kilometers south of Chengdu City, and is the main point of Chengdu Prefecture. The territory is flat and flat, and there are wide and neat official roads. There is also the Minjiang River, a big river that connects Meishan, Qingshen, Jiading and other economically developed areas, and the rich families in the city are mostly engaged in the business of transshipment of goods, and there are many rich people like carp crossing the river.

The capital of fifty taels of silver does not seem to be much, but if it is used well, the business methods that benefit modern people may not be squeezed into the wealthy class within ten years and become a rich man.

However, as an otaku, Wu Jie has little interest in doing business.

What's more, the status of merchants in the Ming Dynasty was not high. Scholars, farmers, industrialists, merchants, and merchants are the last in line, and when you are really rich, a thousand pairs of eyes are staring, and some people are sharpening their knives and harvesting you.

Therefore, as far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, there are not many simple merchants, and most of them are scholars and landlords and squires who work part-time. People have relationships, status, and preferential policies, what do you use to compete with them?

An ordinary person with no identity and no status goes to do business, and collecting taxes will not kill you. Levels everywhere will reach out to you and bankrupt you on the spot.

Even if you are a genius, you rely on your cleverness and careful management to the point where you are rich and rival the country. But you don't have an identity, even if you meet a small eight-rank official, you have to kneel on the ground in a regular manner, and people will beat you if they want to hit your wrench. That kind of talk may be nothing to ancient merchants, but to modern people, it is categorically unacceptable.

Yes, being an official, only being an official is the right way.

In the era of rapid expansion of the civil service in modern society, a county official at the department level may not be a big deal. But in ancient times, the so-called county order of copying the house, the prefect who destroyed the door was not a joke. As far as the entire Ming Dynasty is concerned, there are only more than 1,000 counties in China, and on behalf of the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, they are in charge of the blessings, misfortunes, honors and disgraces of hundreds of thousands of living beings in one county, and their power is astonishingly great.

China has always been a bureaucratic world, at least for the next 500 years.

If you want to live comfortably in that era, you can only be an official. As long as you are an official and have power, money is not a problem.

And all this is based on the imperial examination, as long as you pass the examination, you will be considered to have stepped into the ranks of the ruling class.

Hearing Director Jin's words, Wu Jie's spirits lifted up, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

As far as the era itself is concerned, perhaps the only way to go is the imperial examination. Even if you don't have the confidence to take the Jinshi exam, and you are directly appointed by the imperial court as the head of a county, as long as you take the exam, you can be regarded as having an identity and status, even if you see the county officials, you can not kneel, you can enjoy all the preferential policies of the Ming Empire, and no one dares to bully you in the local area.

At that time, it is impossible for something that is too deceitful to deceive people like the Tang family's divorce.

However, if you really want to take the exam and write an eight-strand essay, it is not as simple as you imagined.

Taking a sip of tea, Wu Jie fell into deep thought.

That's right, judging from the learning ability alone, the high-talent students of this key university are better than the ancients. However, because I was a fool in that world, although I went to a private school, I knew a few words. But it only stayed at the level of enlightenment, and I didn't learn to write eight articles.

Now I have to learn from scratch, I can't get it in ten years, and I'm afraid that I and the moth won't be able to survive that time.

From the memory of the fool Wu Jie in his mind, I know that the Ming Dynasty in that time and space is exactly the same as in history, and there is no difference in the practice and format of the Baguwen, and the scope of the question is also limited to Zhu Xi's "Notes on the Four Books".

Zhu Xi is from the Song Dynasty, and there is no Song Dynasty in that world.

History has its own habitual surnames, and many historical figures who should appear appear in that time and space. It's just that some people's identities have changed, while others are like in real history.

For example, Li Bai was a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, but now the Tang Dynasty has not appeared, and this poet immortal has become the first general of the Sui Dynasty, from a poet immortal to a sword immortal; Su Shi, a big word person, a generation of Wenzong was a gourmand of the David Dynasty, and the braised pork and boiled fish recorded in the "Meizhou Recipe" are the signature of Sichuan cuisine......

In the history of unrecognizability, there are still those who maintain his true history. For example, Zhu Cheng's science, such as feudal etiquette.

If we think about it carefully, it is estimated that such things as ideology and ideology are different from ordinary people who are so easily affected by historical events, and that they are inevitable that the productive forces will develop to a certain stage.

Therefore, with the emergence of a large number of thinkers such as Zhu Xi, history entered the Ming Dynasty after turning a corner, and returned to its original trajectory.

"Eight-strand text, eight-strand text, cough, I really can't write it!" After thinking of this, Wu Jie's mood fell from heaven to hell, and he felt greatly depressed.

After talking indecisively for a long time, Director Jin was talking about Xingnong, and when he saw Wu Jie suddenly fall silent, he was a little strange: "Xiao Wu, what do you think, with a bitter face and deep hatred, I didn't say the wrong thing just now to offend you, right?" ”

He asked jokingly.

"No, senior, where do you want to go, I suddenly remembered something, and I just felt it in my heart."

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