Daddy Zhang is a child. [Full text reading]

The word Tongsheng sounds cute, but don't underestimate the word Tongsheng, this is the identity of a reader.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of a child meant that he had passed the county and government examinations in the imperial examinations. As long as you take the college exam again and pass the exam, then this person has won the reputation of Xiucai. Scholars who have achieved fame in Xiucai can enjoy feudal privileges such as exemption from forced labor, not kneeling when seeing county orders, and not being punished in lawsuits.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that if you wanted to become a jinshi, you had to go through the county and government examinations. After obtaining the fame of Xiucai, he will take the township examination and obtain the fame of the people. After getting the meritorious name of the person, he will participate in the examination to obtain the meritorious name of the tribute, and then participate in the palace examination, and finally obtain the meritorious name of the Jinshi.

In other words, if you want to change from an ordinary scholar to a feudal scholar, you must take at least three or more imperial examinations and pass the exams. Even if it is a talent who is the most basic scholar, he must take and pass at least three exams to achieve it.

Therefore, don't look at Tong Sheng, it is not a serious fame, but this also means that people have the qualifications to participate in the college examination to gain fame. However, the process from a child to a talent is not simple. According to historical records, during the Manchu Dynasty, there were many times when a 100-year-old child was born. From here, it can be seen how difficult it is to test the fame as the most basic show.

Daddy Zhang's actual age is about the same as Wang Shuhui's estimate, and he is fifty-seven years old this year. In the early years, when the family was still well-off, Father Zhang devoted himself to gaining fame for many years.

Reading and testing for fame means that a young adult in the family does not participate in any production activities at all. In an agrarian society, the family in a normal situation cannot be sustained.

Father Zhang began to study for the imperial examination at the age of seventeen and persisted for twelve years. By the time he was thirty years old, he still hadn't taken the Xiucai Examination, but the situation at home no longer supported him to continue his studies and examinations. Under the pressure of reality, Daddy Zhang gave up the imperial examination and went to work as a bookkeeper in a shop in the county. That's more than 20 years.

Daddy Zhang's luck is not bad, and the shop he works in is the property of one of his distant cousins. This cousin of his was more important to him, and after a few years of working as a bookkeeper, he promoted him to the chief treasurer of the store, and he was in charge of all the affairs of the store.

For more than 20 years, more than 20 years of crawling in the shopping mall, Daddy Zhang has become an experienced shopkeeper from a book that can't read. The Tongcheng cloth shop he ran became one of the best deals in Xiangyang Prefecture.

After the Ba'ath Party took over Xiangyang Province, because Zhang's father's owner, his distant cousin, was a pure businessman and was very cooperative with the Baath Party's land exchange policy, neither his shop nor the Ba'ath Party interfered.

Taking advantage of the Baath Party's encouragement of industry and commerce to reduce commercial taxes and eliminate apportionment, Daddy Zhang, who originally regarded the Baath Party as a beast of the flood, seized the opportunity and signed a long-term supply agreement with the Baath Party as the first crab eater in Xiangyang Prefecture. Over the past few years, the Tongcheng cloth shop has not only not been damaged in the process of the Baath Party's takeover of Xiangyang, but has become more and more prosperous.

It took three years, because the Baath Party's policies greatly reduced the operating costs, and under the auspices of Daddy Zhang, all kinds of Tongcheng cloth shops on the government side of the government expanded vigorously, and branches were established in several prefectures and counties under the Xiangyang Prefecture, becoming the largest private enterprise under the rule of the Xiangyang People's Government of the Baath Party in one fell swoop.

This time he returned to Xiangyang from Wuchang, and it was Father Zhang who went to the Baxing Party to buy goods in Wuchang's textile factory.

This time, Daddy Zhang was accompanied by several juniors of the Zhang family. Many people have to call Daddy Zhang grandpa. Among them, there was a young man named Zhang Guangfa who had a very lively personality, who did not have eight doors in his mouth, and spoke unscrupulously, and there was a lot of discussion about the Baath Party between his words.

At the beginning, Father Zhang was still more vigilant because of Wang Shuhui's dress, and listened to the words of several young juniors and reprimanded a few words. It wasn't until he found out that Wang Shuhui not only didn't care, but also discussed the content of the newspaper and radio with these young people with great interest, that Daddy Zhang completely relaxed.

After smoking a few cigarettes from Wang Shuhui and sharing a few bottles of canned fruit with everyone, Daddy Zhang also began to open the conversation.

"You young people always feel that the Baath Party is strict in its control, not only in the streets, but also in the shops and shops, and they feel uncomfortable and inconvenient. Old man, I think this Baath Party is a king. ”

"Although I can't study, old man, and I haven't been mixed with talent and fame when I am old, I have read such a truth when I read: All the courts with Tao must pay attention to the rules. The more royal the court, the more prosperous the court, the stricter the rules. ”

Zhang Guangfa listened to Daddy Zhang's words, and said with some disapproval:

"It's not just that the Baath Party has rules, the Ming Dynasty doesn't have rules, I think the rules are not small. Then why did the imperial court let the Baath Party easily run away? ”

Father Zhang was not annoyed by the junior's rebuttal, he said in a contemptuous tone:

"The Ming Dynasty has rules, but the rules of the Ming Dynasty are all for the common people. The set of rules set by the Ming Dynasty itself, the court and government of the Ming Dynasty, which one abides by those rules? ”

"When Emperor Hongwu was in power, those who embezzled dozens of taels of silver and became officials had to be skinned and daylily. When the Baath Party did not sit in the court, how much silver did the old man send to the magistrate of Xiangyang County in order to open up the joints? Not to mention more, there are always hundreds of taels. However, even if you give so much silver, whether you can get through it is two words. ”

"Now, the Baath Party sits in the lobby of Xiangyang Mansion, and the Xiangyang County Ya has become the Xiangyang County People's Government, but in addition to paying commercial taxes every year and dealing with the Baath Party's tax bureau, I don't care which old man the county order in the people's government is."

"The Baath Party said that I would pay as much commercial tax as I could, and I would not charge any extra money, and I would not have to give it to the old man. If you want me to say, this is called the imperial court, this is called the government? ”

Zhang Guangfa found that his companions were nodding, and he said with some unconvinced:

"Dad took care of these deals, and so much land in the family was not taken away by the Baath Party. At that time, the second old lady was so angry that she didn't get up on the bed for several days. Now all the hair growth in the family is pointed to the store, and the rest of the land is at most a ration. Why didn't Daddy mention this? ”

When Father Zhang heard this, the contemptuous expression on his face turned into a sneer. He said to Zhang Guangfa:

"It is precisely because of this that I have to speak of the Baath Party even more. When there were so many fields at home, how much useless waste was raised. Hundreds of hectares of fertile land raised the waste of a family. How many people rely on these fields to know that they have nothing to do every day to eat, drink and be merry? ”

"I don't study, I don't plough the fields, I know every day that I can tease cats and dogs, and I have to wipe my ass as much as I can find out. If it weren't for the fact that Tian Du was bought by the Ba'ath Party and exchanged for the funds and goods used to open the shop, you bastard boys might still want to learn from your uncles and elders who know about the losers every day."

Zhang Guangfa was very dissatisfied when he heard this, and he said to Daddy Zhang:

"There is no such thing in this world. Our Zhang family's field is, of course, our Zhang family's master. How can the Baath Party buy and sell strongly? Dad, you say that the Baath Party is so honest, why does the Ba'ath Party still force us to buy our land? ”

Daddy Zhang said to Zhang Guangfa with a sneer on his face:

"The Ba'ath Party bought our land, and although it was a forced purchase, it also gave money and things. In the past, when Mr. Zhao, who was hanged by the Baath Party, forcibly occupied our family's land by virtue of being an official and having a relationship with the Yali of Xiangyang County, did he give our family a penny of silver? ”

"Besides, when the Baath Party bought our family's land, it did not occupy the land for rent and self-fertilization, but turned the land into farms, and hired all the tenant farmers in the past as agricultural laborers. What was the life of those tenants in the past? What are these peasant workers doing now? Can our Zhang family give others that kind of life?

"Besides, the Baath Party pays for the land, and it runs the land to pay the peasant workers and pay them dividends, and the peasant workers will only come to our shop to buy cloth and ready-to-wear when they have the money in their hands. It is precisely because these people around our Xiangyang Mansion have money in their hands and live a good life that our family's business is thriving today. ”

"So, old man, I want to thank the Baath Party for its integrity, second, I want to thank the Baath Party for helping our Zhang family get rid of those gentlemen, and third, I want to thank the Baath Party for letting the people grow and make more and more money from our family's business. If it weren't for the Baath Party, you juniors wouldn't know what kind of bastards you would become."