To say that Wei Xuan is a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, in fact, he only does some simple compilations in it every day, and the rest of his time is spent studying, but it is also indifferent, even if there is a major event in the court, he is not good at talking about it. However, I have heard a lot of deeds about Lord Qin Yan.

Originally, Wei Xuan knew that Lord Qin Yan was transferred back to the capital from Shu to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but he didn't know that after returning to Beijing, Lord Qin Yan gave a big gift to the official family: a book about the private corruption of the household department and the connivance of the people under him.

This household is not greedy for anything else, but actually the land tax of peasant households.

It is said that the imperial court has taxes every year, and most of the peasant merchants pay them on time, but what has reached the ears of the officials is that most of the peasant merchants are barbaric and unwilling to pay taxes.

The treasury is becoming more and more empty, and the people's taxes are uneven, which makes the housekeeper have a headache, and he thinks that there is a problem with the national tax policy, and he almost increases the tax system. Later, I found out that someone was obstructing it.

This matter cannot be done by a single household book, it must be interlocking, intertwined, and connected, especially the government offices, county offices, and townships and counties in various states and counties.

If you want to pull these up, local officials may be able to easily take them all together...... This carelessness may bring half of the officials of the court, and the disadvantages between this need to be measured.

So Lord Qin thought of a way for the official family, first came to kill chickens and monkeys, and dismissed him from the post of household secretary with conclusive evidence, and imprisoned him to wait for the execution of the autumn queen; Later, an order was issued to send this year's new science and technology scholars back to their hometowns.

On the surface, it is an additional evaluation and assessment of this year's new science and technology scholars, but in fact, a few preferential candidates were secretly selected to secretly investigate the embezzlement of land taxes by officials in various places.

Wei Xuan also came to the capital only to know that Lord Qin Yan was not only the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but also the secretary of the household department because of this matter, and also knew the purpose of Fu Zhuoyi's return to his hometown.

In the letter, I saw that Jiao Niang said that the millet in the farmer's field at home has grown well this year, and I am afraid that there will be more than last year, and I probably know that it should be that after Lord Qin Yan took over the household department, he proposed some relative reform policies for farmers' farmland.

It is said that Qin Yan proposed that we should comprehensively help poor peasant households to increase the output and income of farmland grain, so that the people can live a good life before they can be replenished into the state treasury and make the country too safe and healthy. In this way, I am afraid that this reform has worked.

After reading the letter, Wei Xuan couldn't help but feel a little relieved in his heart, and the corners of his mouth were also faintly sweet, and then when he folded the letter and put it in his sleeve pocket, and was about to go back to the school house to reply to the letter, he suddenly heard that several people who were also Shu Jishi were talking about one thing in front of him, a big thing......

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After the rice harvest in the farmland was completed, it was the end of August, just as the old man Wei calculated, there were five sacks of grain, almost two and a half bags more than in previous years, and the old man Wei couldn't close his mouth.

This year, the entire Longshan Village, as well as the villages and villages in Qianzhou County, have a good harvest, and they are also happy that the village elders opened the ancestral temple in advance and held a harvest festival. The flowing water mat was placed from the head of the village to the end of the village, from daytime to dark, Li Zheng and the county official also went to the county to invite the lion dance team to come over, and it was lively in each village for several days.

Until Chongyang, he refused to stop.

As soon as the Chongyang Festival passed, they all took care of themselves, and the days began to be leisurely.

There are poems, Chongyang is good to climb high and look far, plugging in dogwood, and there is also a dark fragrance surging, nostalgic for the past and the present. But Chu Jianniang is not elegant at this time.

She only thought about the object she had with her little sister before, and she suddenly dug out the bottom and ran out of money in her hand. Although Wei Xuan sent two monthly sums back in June and July, it was not enough to pay for the family's expenses and buy a dowry for his little sister.

Some time ago, Aunt Ruan Ping asked someone to come to her, saying that the owner of Da Zhuangzi temporarily wanted to hire some people to come back to weave silk ropes, make some velvet tassels, hand ropes and other small objects, and count the money. Ask her if she's interested?

Those days were busy, so I dragged on for some time, and now that everything is done, I just went over and took a look. So he told the old man his thoughts.

But after he said his thoughts, he saw his mother-in-law again...... Chu Jianniang didn't know if she should go out for a while.

Since Jiang Yu's family affairs were decided, Liu felt that there was nothing like her in the world. Thinking about her son's absence every day, her daughter doesn't listen to her, the Wei family doesn't treat her as their own family, and the daughter-in-law also relies on herself to be the Wei family, always against her, and she doesn't have any money in her hand, she wants to do something, but she can't do anything, even if she gives up the child, she can't trap the wolf.

After such a enjoyment, Liu Shi felt more and more that there was little hope for this day, and his later years were going to be miserable.

So all day long, I looked like I was going to be terminally ill, I fell asleep when I was sleepy, I was hungry, I wanted to eat, so I came to cook and eat, and I didn't want to eat, so I let it go. Whoever asks, ignore it as usual.

Chu Jiaoniang is uncomfortable from the bottom of her heart!

"Dad, if I go out every day...... Mother's side...... I'm afraid you're going to have to worry about it. ”

Old man Wei looked at the person in the rocking chair, "Wow! He waved his hand, "Go ahead!" I'm worried about it! ”

Chu Jianniang could hear that the old man was worried! But I still pretended not to hear.

"Then ...... I'm tired of my father. ”

After explaining the family affairs, Chu Jiaoniang was uneasy, but the next day she went to Aunt Ruan Ping to fill in the name, and on the day she filled in the name, she was taken to the workshop in the county and started to work.

In these years, it is always important to make money.

Fangzi is on the edge of the western suburbs of the county, after the maroon gate is pushed open, there is a large courtyard with three openings, the yard is neatly repaired, rockeries and fake water, small bridges and octagonal pavilions, Chu Jiaoniang came for the first time, followed Aunt Ruan Ping around a few corridors, and then entered another room.

I saw that this house is bigger than the outer yard, the roof seems to be three stories high from the ground, there are no less than 20 machines in it, divided into six columns and orderly swings, each machine in front of a lady pulling the silk thread busy, white expanse.

"This is the spinning room, and you have to do the work in the back, using the silk thread material left over after weaving." Aunt Ruan Ping made an introduction, and at the end of the sentence, she also praised and worshipped: "Our owner will make money with things!" ”

Speaking of which, Aunt Ruan Ping's owner, but there is a famous silk satin merchant in Qianzhou County, every spring to pick mulberry silkworms, summer cocoon silk, autumn spinning yarn and velvet, the rest of the residual edge silk thread, will ask someone to make hand rope tassels, and he will use him to sell, one person monopolized the Silk Road in several states and counties, and made a lot of money. Quite admired by Chu Jiaoniang.

Previously, Chu Jianniang had also made a wish in her heart, wanting to learn how these businessmen could open the way? But she also knows how difficult this road is, and she can only take it one step at a time.

Walking to the middle, Aunt Ruan Ping reminded in a low voice: "These ladies are all invited by the owner to several states and counties, and they are all weaver girls with backgrounds, don't touch their things in them." ”

Chu Jianniang nodded, watched from both sides, and listened to the sound of the machine in her ears like a breath from a giant, which made her yearn for a while, and she was very envious of these ladies, who could sit here and work like a person on a painting, but beautiful.

When I went to the shed at the back, it was much more ordinary than the one in front, a hall with two large long tables in the center, and a lot of silk threads were piled up on the tables, of different colors, all summed up.

On both sides of the table are many ladies in the county and villages, they weave hand ropes and tassels, and they look at some acquaintances who pick mulberries together, and they are not very uncomfortable.

After Aunt Ruan Ping said hello, she took Chu Jianniang to sit down in the corner on the edge, explained a few words, found a familiar worker to lead her, and after three or two clicks, she began to do it herself.

Chu Jianniang has studied for a few days, and these fine jobs are not difficult to get started, and at the end of the day, she has made up more than a dozen, and she can have two or three pennies, and earn some money.

This matter is settled, but every day back and forth, many people in the village know that Chu Jianniang went to work outside again, and many people envy this lady for having a lot of ways to make money, and she can always find a way to make money.

As these words were spoken, they reached the ears of the Wu family of the Li family, which moved the Wu family's heart for a long time.

The Li family can be said to be a person now, the Wu family looked at Li Ya'er, who was thin and not smart, and looked at the empty home, so they thought about letting Li Ya'er go to find Chu Jianniang, and let the little lady take this girl to take a look outside. lest she also fall into the ground later, if this child has no way, teach her how to live?