Fei Chun has been really busy for a while, from last winter to spring ploughing, and he hasn't even had a good rest during the New Year.

Moreover, he didn't know when his parents would come, and he was busy with work and forgot about his parents' personalities to cause trouble.

On the way home, Ling also chattered all the way, complaining that his son had become a great official, but he didn't even have a sedan chair.

Fei Chun sighed helplessly, summoned the courtiers on the side of the road, called two sedan chairs, and asked his parents to go home on a sliding pole.

Many Confucians, ancient and modern, oppose such things as sedan chairs, believing that they treat the people as cattle and horses.

Zhao Han, who advocates equality for all, allows the existence of sedan chairs and sliding rods. It has even created an industry that allows unemployed vagrants to register with the government, and they only need to pay a small fee to make money by carrying passengers with a sliding rod.

It can be understood as a rickshaw or as a taxi.

It can not only generate income for the government, but also alleviate urban employment.

Fei Liao and Ling's couple, who have lived for decades, are still being carried away for the first time, and they suddenly feel a lot better.

Ling said: "Chun'er, shout another sedan chair, how can you go back if you are an official?" Don't be too shabby and looked down upon. ”

Fei Chun had to explain: "Mother, if it's not necessary, Brother Han will also walk by himself." Brother Han has a lot of rules, the family is not allowed to keep slaves, and it is not allowed to abuse servants. Also, don't make a fuss in the future, this time you will only be fined by the board, and if you commit it again, you will be guilty of one more crime! If someone comes to the house to ask for help, no matter how much gift is given, I can't accept it, otherwise I won't know if I will be beheaded one day. ”

Behead?

Ling Shi was suddenly too frightened to speak.

Fei Liao asked: "You are very good with Brother Han, and you will be beheaded if you collect some money?" ”

Fei Chun said: "If you are greedy, you will be punished for demotion, if you are greedy, you will go to the mountains to mine, and if you are greedy, you will be beheaded directly!" It's the same for either one. ”

Fei Liao muttered: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you can't raise a maid, what else are you going to do?" ”

couldn't explain it for a while, Fei Chun could only say: "Dad, mother, you just need to remember that if you accept gifts indiscriminately, your son's official position will not be guaranteed, and his head will be easy to move." ”

The couple was so frightened that they didn't even dare to talk nonsense anymore.

Back at home, Fei Chunzi told the rules in detail, where you must pay attention to, where you can't violate it, and took out five taels of silver to buy clothes for her parents.

Ling asked, "Chun'er, how much is your current salary?" ”

"Twelve taels a month." Fei Chun replied.

Fei Liao complained: "This Brother Han is really stingy, the big shopkeeper of Fei's Commercial Bank, has ten taels a month, and he can also pay dividends at the end of the year." ”

Fei Chun sighed and said: "The official salary is already very high, I can't wait to lower it a little more." ”

Why?

Because Fei Chun is in charge of money and food, he has been overwhelmed.

Zhao Han's salary to the officials was high, and Fei Chun's monthly salary of 12 taels of silver, if converted according to the grain price of Ji'an Mansion, was equivalent to the fourth grade official of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, grain prices are fluctuating, and Ji'an Province has had a bumper harvest in the past two years, and grain prices are relatively low.

If it is a year of catastrophe, Fei Chun's Yu Lu may directly drop from the fourth grade to the sixth grade compared with the Ming officials.

In addition, there is a charcoal fire subsidy in winter, and officials above the county level also have paper and ink subsidies.

In any case, as long as there is no extravagance and waste, it is no problem to feed the whole family on wages, and you can also hire a few servants to do housework - if you are sent and there are groups of slaves, you will definitely not be able to afford it.

Compared with the Ming court, not only the officials were raised, but the salaries of the officials were also generally increased.

This is also the reason why Fei Chun has been complaining, saying that he can't afford to support so many officials, and constantly asks for the reduction of the town-level yamen.

To raise so many officials, you have to give money!

When Zhu Yuanzhang started his business, even at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he could not afford to pay official salaries. So a temporary policy was proposed, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the land was wasted everywhere, and the land was directly given to the officials to open up the wasteland, and the harvested grain was used as a seduce.

Pang Chunlai, Fei Ruhe, Fei Chun and others all hope to return to Leadshan County as soon as possible.

Because they know that there is an open-pit copper mine in Leadshan County!

During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the largest minting center in the country was called "Yongping Supervisor", and the address was Yongping Town, Leadshan County, where copper mining had been in the Western Han Dynasty.

In addition, one of the coinage raw materials of Yongping Jian comes from Leadshanchang (Yongping Town) and one comes from Dexingchang (Dexing County).

And Dexing Copper Mine, after more than 1,000 years of mining, is still the largest open-pit copper mine in Asia!

Zhu Yuanzhang's earliest minting agency was Jiangxi Baoquan Bureau, and the minting address was located in Yongping Town, Lead Mountain. Due to the excessive mining of Yongping copper mine, the distance of Dexing copper mine is too far and in the mountains, and it gradually stopped minting money from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not mined again until the establishment of New China.

As long as Zhao Han occupies Leadshan County and Dexing County, there will definitely be no shortage of raw materials for casting copper coins.

There are even large-scale well salt mines in Jiangxi, but unfortunately they are buried too deep and require modern exploration technology to discover, resulting in Jiangxi being unable to produce salt on its own in ancient times.

……

On the fifth day of living in Ji'an Mansion, Zhao Zhenfang carried her schoolbag and happily went to find Fei Rumei, and the two little girls went to school in the northern suburbs of the city together.

A few decades ago, due to the destruction of Bailuzhou Academy by flooding, the school site was moved to Renshou Temple in the south of the city. The site of Renshou Temple was changed to Luling County School, and Bailuzhou Academy was moved to the northern suburbs of the city. After the rebuilding of Bailuzhou Academy, the school in the northern suburbs of the city was converted into a private school, and now it is changed to a girls' school.

Zhao Han popularized four-year compulsory education and demanded that girls should also go to school, much to the dissatisfaction of the gentry.

Although they are only children, they can be taught and received by men and women.

Moreover, compulsory education is too nonsense, the teaching content is particularly shallow, and the quality of teachers is uneven. Especially in many rural schools, the teachers are children, and they can't pass the four books and five classics, so they can only let the students learn literacy and arithmetic.

So some gentry asked that they raise their own funds to set up a girls' school, without having to pay a penny from the government.

This kind of good thing, Zhao Han naturally agreed, and there was only one request, to delete and modify part of the content in "The Fourth Book of Women"!

For example, the first article of "The Female Commandment" was changed beyond recognition by Zhao Han.

"Despicable Chapter" was changed to "Kunde Chapter", and the bastard sentence "Knowing its weakness, the lord is also a subordinate" was changed to "The virtue of a woman, and the way to run a family". Giving birth to a daughter and teaching under the bed, giving birth to a son and teaching in the bed, all these respectful and humble things are removed! Delete all the tiles!

Zhao Han directly wrote a preface to "The Female Commandment", writing:

"The prosperity of a country lies in its people, and the prosperity of a family lies in its people. If you want to establish the people, you should promote education. Motherhood, the beginning of teaching, must not be overlooked......"

The gentry had no choice but to let their daughters read the new version of the Female Commandments at school, and then learn the old version of the Female Commandments when they returned home.

Yingchun and Dongfu have regained their freedom, but they still work as maids at Lou's place.

They led two little girls to Chengbei Girls' School to sign up for study.

Along the way, Zhao Zhenfang and Fei Rumei chattered, and they felt new and strange when they saw everything, mainly because they were full of fantasies about going to school.

Yingchun whispered to Dongfu: "March 3, do you want to go?" ”

"I'm not going, I'm ashamed." Dong Fu said with a red face.

Yingchun smiled: "I'm going to take a look, I'm twenty-three, one year older than you, and I can't get married if I don't get married." ”

Dong Fu teased: "You just want to be a man." ”

"If you want to be a man, you want to be a man," Yingchun smiled with a smile on his face, "Even if you stay in Lead Mountain, it should be at your mother's house." When you come to Brother Han, you don't have to be a house slave, you can find an officer to marry, and maybe you can become an official if you have a son. This kind of good thing was never dreamed of before. ”

Dong Fu was quite moved, but said stiffly: "I don't marry, my wife treats me well, and I will serve my wife for the rest of my life." ”

After walking all the way, Dong Fu suddenly asked, "What is a match?" ”

"Haven't you heard?" Yingchun explained, "Every year on March 3, those who serve in the army have a holiday, and those who are not married are organized by the missionary officers to form a matchmaking meeting. Unmarried women can sign up, even widows. Let the daughter's family choose the one they like first, and if the man is also willing, he can go to the suburbs to go out together. I haven't regretted it when I came back, and this marriage was completed. ”

Dong Fu blushed and said: "Ah, that's really embarrassing, unmarried men and women go to the green, don't they ignore the suspicion of men and women?" ”

Yingchun smiled: "It's not for you to have a private tryst, many people went out together that day." ”

"Who did you listen to about this?" Dongfu said curiously.

Yingchun said: "In the courtyard of Young Master Ruhe, the maid named Yang Cai spoke. She said that she was too embarrassed to sign up last year, and another maid signed up and married a young officer. The officer had studied for a few years, and he quit his job after getting married, and his mother-in-law paid a sum of money for breach of contract, and I heard that he was about to have a child now. ”

"The soldier must be a big official, and he can afford to pay the money for breach of contract." Dongfu said.

Yingchun said with a smile: "People have made great contributions, and the reward is silver." ”

"It's a blessing." Dongfu was a little envious.

"Are you going?" Yingchun asked.

Dongfu bit his lip and said, "It's okay to go and have a look, but I won't quit." You can beg your wife to change the deed, come early every day to work, and then go home in the evening to live your own life. ”

Yingchun quipped: "I also said that I didn't want to go, and I even thought about the days after marriage." ”

Dong Fu was too ashamed to speak, but walked forward.

Zhao Han's territory, there is no need to worry about public security, and the beating and beggars are banned. These are all laborers, and they are not allowed to be idle and wasted, and the three weapons stations can absorb a lot, and a lot of rough work has no technical content.

Before arriving at school, Zhao Zhenfang met a female classmate halfway. I don't know which family it is, but she is escorted by two servants, a man and a woman.

There was a plaque at the entrance of the girls' school, and Zhao Zhenfang looked up, but it was the four big characters of "Sweeping Eyebrows Academy".

"What does it mean to sweep your eyebrows?" Fei Rumei was a little confused.

Zhao Zhenfang smiled: "Did you forget? The girls' school book by the bridge is closed. How much do you know about sweeping your eyebrows, it's better to manage the spring breeze. We have learned this poem, and a talented woman who sweeps her eyebrows is a talented woman. ”

Fei Rumei immediately recalled and exclaimed: "Oh, this allusion is from Xue Tao, Xue Tao is a happy woman. ”

"My second brother has abolished his membership." Zhao Zhenfang pointed to the plaque and said.

Fei Rumei took a closer look, and it turned out that the four words "Sweeping Eyebrows Academy" were inscribed by Zhao Han himself.

Both male and female maids were blocked at the school gate, and Yingchun and Dongfu came to register their children, and they were especially admitted.

It's quiet and quiet inside, and you can occasionally see schoolgirls.

Even the teacher is a woman from a large family, and there is not a single male creature in the whole school.

"Gegegege......"

A string of silver bell-like laughter came, and Zhao Zhenfang walked through the corridor to see that it was a few female students kicking shuttlecocks.

Fei Rumei said happily: "I like it here, there are so many playmates to play with." ”

Zhao Zhenfang said with a smile: "It's very lively, it's much more interesting than staying at home." ”

Zhao Han doesn't shout the slogan of equality between men and women now, but just tries to do something to let the woman come out of the boudoir.