Chapter 18 Bandits and Tax Collectors Are the Same Thing
Wang Yi has just finished teaching physics to the students of the literary class, mechanics has been finished, and thermodynamics has just started. Students' grades are generally not very good, after all, their mathematical foundation is too poor. Even in later generations, when they first came into contact with physics, most students did not understand it very well. If he entered optics, electromagnetism, or even more esoteric atomic physics, and even quantum physics, Wang Yi felt that he would probably waste all his efforts.
"It seems that education still has to start with the baby!"
Wang Yi now has a plan to expand his enrollment, and of course, he will not be crazy enough to openly argue with the current imperial examination system. In his name, he built an affiliated school of Dashang Group, with the purpose of providing qualified Western talents for his own enterprise. Although Western studies under similar pretexts are not very common in China at present, they are not unique to Wang Yi.
Previously, Wang Yi sent his students to Bajiaotai and nearby villages and towns to conduct a questionnaire survey, but many families wanted to send their children to Wang Yi to study, but the reason was intriguing, parents did not think that their children should be educated, but a more practical reason - they could save a ration.
In the eyes of the peasant parents, their children's arrival at Wang Yi's school was similar to that of an apprentice in the shop. Even many families are willing to send their underage girls to school, for more simple reasons, and even a little cruel, because daughters are just spilled water.
Whether it's a boy or a girl, the moment their parents send their children out, they will burst into tears. They will say something like, rather than starving at home, and it is better to sell you to a large family to feed yourself.
Whenever this happens, Wang Yi's heart is always sneering, there are really things that have not changed in the past hundred years, adults are just a group of dogs, always making reasons and excuses for their behavior.
Wang Yi, who was originally worried about not being able to recruit students, suddenly found that in this era when there were no condoms and contraceptive pills, and after dark, there was nothing to do except give birth, if he was willing to provide rations and give a little money at the same time, many parents would even sell their children to themselves.
Looking at the gradual expansion of the campus, the foreign construction team invited has trained a group of qualified Chinese construction personnel, which Wang Yi smashed with money. In a few days, Captain Jack Sparrow will come from the United States with his merchant fleet, and in a little more than a week, Augustus Elton will also return from Germany, and after that there will be Francis Naide's American caravan, and Charlie Fama's British caravan.
Today, paper mills, printing houses, pencil factories, cement factories, glass and utensils factories, as well as livestock farms, have been built. At present, most of the positions are recruited from the society, and the process is similar to that of Dashang Silver Furnace, but most of the technical leadership positions are held by foreigners, most of whom are Americans, but there are also a few Germans.
After knowing that their boss was an eight-year-old child, many foreign employees showed surprised expressions. Most of the people came to Qingguo to make money, and the treatment given by the big merchants was very good, far richer than if they stayed in their hometowns, so these people were also very peaceful. But there are those who are safe, and there are those who are restless.
An American foreman at the paper mill often drank alcohol during work, beat and scolded his Qing employees, and once tried to threaten Wang Yi's leadership authority by relying on his technical superiority. The crossing little man was also kind to persuade at first, but once the other party started to kick his nose in the face, he would naturally not be polite.
Expulsion, no mercy at all, and then after a few months, this foreigner became a dead man floating on the Liao River.
This was not something that Wang Yi instructed him to do, but the people who did it were his subordinates - those members of the martial arts class. It is difficult for Wang Yi to understand, he is a little cynical at most, how to teach those students, whether it is a literary class or a martial arts class, all have obvious great Chinese nationalist tendencies. And Wu Xiao, Xiang Long, and Zheng Haitao, who stood out from the crowd in the class, are all typical militarist leaders and extremely radical nationalists. is the student president of the Wenwu School - Zhang Jingxiao, the class president of Wen Class 1 Wan Xiao, and the class leader of Wen Class 2 Ouyang Di, that is not far behind.
Could it be that something is wrong with my educational approach? Wang Yi was somewhat weak-hearted.
There was a sudden quarrel at the gate of the campus, and Wang Yi stood up and walked to the window to look down.
"Filial piety, go down and see what's going on!"
Zhang Jingxiao is in his office helping Wang Yi sort out the manuscripts, which Wang Yi has copied from his tablet, and he spends four hours a day copying them, during which no one will bother him. Zhang Jingxiao is actually his secretary now, although Wang Yi prefers to have a beautiful woman wear an OL suit to do these things.
"Yes, sir." Zhang Jingxiao agreed.
After a while, Zhang Jingxiao, who had an angry face, returned to the office. Wang Yi could see that the corners of this kid's eyes were now full of murderous aura, his teeth were tight, his hands were clenched into fists and trembling, and it seemed that he was very angry. Also coming back with him were Wu Xiao of the martial arts class, as well as the two squad leaders of the literary class, Wan Xiao and Ouyang Di. In addition, there is another student Wang Yi who also knows, it is Qian Haixin of Wen 1 class, who is 16 years old this year and has average grades, but in terms of mathematics, physics and chemistry, Wang Yi is deeply impressed, but his Chinese and foreign languages are not satisfactory. At this time, he was crying, and it was obvious that it had happened to him.
"What's going on?"
"I hope that Mr. will call the shots for the students!" Saying that, Qian Haixin asked Wang Yi to kneel down.
Wang Yi was stunned when he saw this, Wu Xiao and the others knew that Wang Yi hated others kneeling down for him the most, what could bend your knees, so he hurriedly grabbed Qian Haixin.
"Haixin, if you have something to say, you will have your own husband to call the shots."
Qian Haixin also understood at this time, so he began to tell what happened.
It turned out that Qian Haixin's family lived in Sifang Village, and his ancestors left four acres of thin land, and his life was not rich, but it was much better than the average tenant family. It is precisely because of this that the Qian family has the money to let Qian Haixin practice Chinese since he was a child, and was later selected by the Zhang family to become a student in Wang Yiwen's class.
However, the life of the Qian family has also deteriorated in recent years, and in fact, it is not only the Qian family, but also the lives of many farmers. On the one hand, bandits are rampant, and from time to time they come to attack villages and towns. On the other hand, the taxes are heavy, and if they can barely maintain themselves in an ordinary year, but in the event of a natural disaster, the peasants' last choice is to sell their land at a low price, and finally they are forced to become tenants of large landlords.
If we talk about the three mountains on the heads of the peasants in Northeast China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the first is the big landlords represented by the royal family and the banner people, the second is the collapsed tax system and corrupt bureaucrats, and the third is the bandits. And Qian Haixin's family has encountered all three things.
Just a week ago, Wei Shangyi, a large landlord in Sifang Village, sent a housekeeper to say that he hoped that the Qian family would give up two acres of land near their ancestral grave. The old Qian family was naturally unwilling, and the Wei family mentioned this matter more than three times, but Qian Haixin's father never let go.
Wei Shangyi was helpless, so he remembered one of his sworn brothers, Zhou Hongying, who had fought the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the army in his early years, and later fled to the northeast because of military discipline. Now the business is a bandit, with about 100 men under his command, not many guns, more than 30 guns, and the rest are all playing with big blades.
Wei Shangyi looked at the Qian family on weekdays, so he had a bad heart, secretly colluded with Zhou Hongying, and attacked the old Qian family in the middle of the night. It didn't hurt anyone, but it burned down all the houses of the Qian family. Qian Haixin's father was sad and angry, and finally fell seriously ill. The family was crammed into a makeshift shack and struggled to get by.
The housekeeper of the Wei family came to discuss the matter of the two acres of land again, but he didn't expect Qian Haixin's father to be really horizontal, so he came to this step of the field, he would rather sell Qian Haixin's eight-year-old sister than complain about selling his own land.
Wei Shangyi, who learned the news, was so angry that he slapped the table. So one plan failed, and another plan was born. This time, he didn't look for Zhou Hongying again, but started from Baidao instead, and it was the tax official Feng Youyou who came forward.
Feng Youyou's tax official donated it, and the so-called donation is actually *manjue, which is legal. Feng Youyou*, of course, is not for the sake of loss, although he paid a lot at the beginning, he got more in return. It is always said that in three years, the Qing Governor's Mansion has 100,000 snowflakes of silver. Feng Youyi's annual income is not below that of ordinary state officials.
Wei Shangyi gave a total of 1,000 taels of silver in order to let Feng Youyou do things for him, which can be described as extremely bold. The housekeeper next to him saw it, and slandered in his heart, with this money, how good it is for you to talk directly with the Qian family, why bother to buy other people's two acres of land for a hundred taels of silver.
Not to mention, Feng Youyou is still very professional, and after receiving the Wei family's silver, he took Ben Bing to find the Qian family the next day. First, the lion opened his mouth, only saying that the Shengjing General's Mansion wanted to quell the rebellion and the sergeant wanted to eat, so he asked for 3,000 taels of silver at a fixed price.
The Qian family is now poor, how can there be so many silver taels.
Feng Youyou has received the benefits of others, of course he will not give up. asked his subordinates to search and rob again and again, and finally found the title deed of the Qian family from Father Qian. Without the consent of the Qian family, he directly sold the land of the Qian family to the Wei family. Nominally, it was to make up taxes, but the Qian family didn't even get a son in the end. Daddy Qian hated it so much that he committed suicide by throwing himself into a well that night.
Now only Qian's mother and Qian Xiaomei are left, and the two have no way to live, and finally become beggars in the village. The villagers took pity on them and sent them some food from time to time. Later, with the help of well-wishers, the letter was sent to the school, and Qian Haixin immediately fainted when he heard that his father had died in such a vain. I wanted to go directly to take revenge, but I was stopped by other classmates.
After hearing what happened, Wang Yi's face sank like water, and there was a cold light in his eyes, but he also had a plan in his heart.