Ye Feng is quite interesting to say. [Full text reading] This person is really a wonder in the environment of the Ming Dynasty.

Ye Feng is a native of Jinhua Province, Zhejiang Province. His family is not ordinary. Jinhua Ye family is the family of Jinhua Mansion, known as "Eight Wu" (Jinhua Mansion in the Ming Dynasty led Jinhua, Lanxi, Dongyang, Yiwu, Yongkang, Wuyi, Pujiang, Tangxi 8 counties, so it is called "Eight Wu". The head of the four families.

The Jinhua Ye family began to develop in the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, because of Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of suppressing wealthy families, the development of the Ye family was somewhat sluggish. But since Emperor Xuanzong, the Ye family has developed inexorably. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ye family in Jinhua was already a super landowner with 3,000 hectares (300,000 mu) of land.

If there is no land, there is no land, and with so much land, there must be so many people. Therefore, the Jinhua Ye family not only has a lot of land, but also has a prosperous descendant.

Think about it, if it weren't for the fact that the Jinhua Ye family has tens of thousands of clansmen and hundreds of clansmen who have the fame of Jinshiju and Xiucai. These hundreds of thousands of acres of land actually do not generate much profit. After all, having a large number of scholars can exempt the family from a large amount of national taxes.

Of course, such a thing as concealing the land area from the government and colluding with the government to transfer the imperial grain and national taxes to ordinary tenant farmers is such a thing, "I will do what the monk does." Other families do this, and the Jinhua Ye family naturally does the same.

Ye Feng's background in the Ye family is not too good and not too bad. He is the youngest son of the Ye family's descendants. His father and three older brothers were respectively awarded the title of Juren and Xiucai. His eldest brother and third brother, who are already lifting people, are all working hard to gain the reputation of Jinshi.

As the youngest son, Ye Feng enjoys the special treatment of the youngest son at home. It is true that his grandmother only pays attention to the eldest grandson of the long house, but his mother, who is also from the four major families of Jinhua, pours all her care and love into him, a young son who has been smart and clever since he was a child.

In this way, because there are already three eldest sons in the family who can set up a household, his father, who is sanctimonious and a gentleman on the surface, but in fact likes usury very much, does not control him very much, and his mother blindly dotes on him. In this way, unlike his three elder brothers who were born and were forced to study by their families, Ye Feng can cultivate his interests and hobbies at will relative to the people of this era.

The strangeness of Ye Feng starts here. Unlike those boys who are also doted on by the elders in the family, although the family situation and wealth of the Ye family in Jinhua are not necessarily worse than the Jia family in Cao Xueqin's writing, Ye Feng has not become a stupid rich son like Jia Baoyu who only knows how to have an affair with girls.

By chance, he read several literary notes and legends about the great craftsmen of ancient times, and suddenly he longed for the great craftsmen who seemed to have the power of ghosts and gods and could create wooden birds that could fly in the sky. Since then, Ye Feng's preferences and preferences for the Mo family have been out of control.

The late Ming Dynasty was the era when the trend of world colonialism began to develop in an all-round way. On the one hand, Western missionaries in China were responsible for spreading their nonsense as spies for the colonial invaders, and on the other hand, they were constantly trying to reverse their image as barbarians in the eyes of the people of the Celestial Empire. They introduced the Chinese to a lot of systematic "tricks" from the West.

Ye Feng not only has an extraordinary love for China's scientific and technological knowledge, but also likes the "strange and clever tricks" from the barbarians. So much so that when Ye Feng was fourteen years old, he had already become a very strange guy, who didn't read any of the four books and five classics, but knew everything about Chinese and foreign science and technology.

Ye Feng just likes to read, and he doesn't have anything to do on paper, drawing drawings or anything like that. This naturally intelligent boy not only likes theory and practice, but more importantly, his background and talent not only give him a sufficient material foundation to copy ancient science and technology, but also his hands-on ability is indeed very superb.

Before a life-changing event, he even copied the Han Dynasty "thirsty wu" (a piston pumping machine invented by a Han eunuch. The people of the Northeast call it Yangjing. Prototype.

Even if you are the youngest son who is favored in a big family, you are born in this big family, and you have to assume the responsibilities of this big family and bear the obligations of being a member of this big family. Ye Feng is the same.

Ye Feng grew to fourteen years old, and in ancient times this was the time when a man began to take on the responsibilities of the family.

The Ye family of Jinhua was able to develop from an ordinary homesteader to a super landlord across three counties, and it would be impossible for such a big family to develop without a systematic and comprehensive system for cultivating family members. In the Jinhua Ye family, all the men, who have not entered the subject examination, will begin to learn to deal with family affairs when they are fourteen years old.

In this year, fourteen-year-old Ye Feng began to take on his own responsibilities and dealt with family affairs for the first time.

The task that Ye Feng received happened to be a job that his father was in charge of within the family, that is, debt collection.

In feudal times, all landlords were usurers. Like the father of the old man Mao increased his land by means of money lending, the Ye family's hundreds of thousands of acres of land, in addition to a part of it obtained through the means of donation (most of the more than 400,000 mu of land in Xu Jie's Xu Ge's hometown came from this), because the Ye family has not yet produced any high-ranking officials in the cabinet (the children of the Ye family have served as political envoys in a province), so the increase in the Ye family's land is mainly achieved through usury that buys and rolls donkeys to homesteaders, and then takes away the land of these homesteaders who can't repay their debts.

Ye Feng's father, the main business he is responsible for in the Ye family is this. Therefore, Ye Feng also obtained the task of working in this regard. He had to go to the local area to collect the debts of the now few yeoman farmers.

Before mankind entered the industrial age, in fact, after mankind entered the industrial age, the main purpose of usury, as an illegal financial business, was also to obtain excess profits.

As we all know, most of the so-called private credit institutions in modern society have triad backgrounds. As you can imagine, these credit institutions also know that usury is basically something that cannot be profited without violence.

In an agrarian society, usury profited in much the same way as it does today. It's just that the collateral of usury in an agrarian society is not commercial housing, commercial land, automobiles, and the like, but the treasure of land. Indeed, in an agrarian society, land must be the most valuable thing.

The reason why usury is called usury is because the interest rate of usury is so high that most lenders cannot repay it. It is not that the landlords do not know that the vast majority of people cannot afford usury, and the reason why they know that they are acting is not for high interest at all.

All they want is land as collateral......

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