When Ouyang Nu trembled her slender jade hand and signed the deed of sale, Zhu Hao asked the shopkeeper to bring fifteen taels of silver.

The fifteen-year deed belongs to the standard number of years in the deed of sale, which is different from the letter of surrender for the sale of children and daughters, which requires the signature of the victim himself and someone to witness for record.

In a hurry, there was no time to find any witnesses, so the shopkeeper could be a bystander, and then he would take people to the government to pass his citizenship.

Ouyang Nu settled the people around her yesterday, and now that the contract was signed, the mother-in-law wanted to hug her own lady and cry, but when she saw that the shopkeeper and Zhu Hao were next to her, the mother-in-law just wiped her tears and said something to stay with her.

"It's rare to get out of the sea of suffering, why stay? It's useless for me, the property left by my father is only a year or two, and it will be completely defeated, my father has failed to leave an heir, I will try to continue the Ouyang family's incense ......"

The shopkeeper watched from the side and smiled secretly.

You are just a woman, and after the family was ruined, you were sold into slavery, what are you talking about continuing the family incense? Who gave you courage?

In fact, Ouyang Nu just wants to remind the people around her in this way, now that you are free, you can go as far as you can, and if you are found by the creditor, you will become part of our Ouyang family's assets.

The groom on the side said: "Miss, this is distressing for us, after returning to my hometown, I will buy some family business and barely make a living." If Miss makes a comeback in the future, she can use us, and we will come back at any time to wait. ”

That's a beautiful word, but since you've been freed, why be a slave?

A group of people were crying and crying......

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Zhu Hao returned to the room and waited.

After a while, several personal slaves around Ouyang Nu finished confessing, and hurriedly went on the road with the dismissal silver, while the shopkeepers and men who controlled the purchase and sales channels of the Ouyang family all stayed behind and temporarily settled in the courtyard arranged by Zhu Hao in advance, waiting for the next arrangement.

This is also agreed before, what Zhu Hao wants is the Ouyang family's business system, connections and manpower, and the deed of sale of these people will be transferred to Zhu Hao, except for those who take care of Ouyang Nu on a daily basis, the rest of the people involved in the Ouyang family's business cannot leave their posts without permission, but their master has become Zhu Hao.

"Miss Ouyang, go back and ask the shopkeeper to take you to the official mansion for naturalization, I haven't asked your name before......"

Only Zhu Hao and Ouyang Nu were left in the room.

But now it's no longer a business partner, it's a master-servant relationship, and I used to be able to sit and talk face-to-face, but now I can only sit and stand one by one.

"The girl's name is a Filipino character, and her parents call her Fei'er, who is sixteen years old ......"

The woman is not married, and the name of the girl is a secret.

But now that Zhu Hao is Ouyang Fei's master, the situation is different, Zhu Hao is equivalent to his "reborn parents".

Sixteen years old, that is, only fifteen years old this year, she is a little girl who is completely ignorant of the world, and the child of this age in her previous life is still in the second year of junior high school. In Daming, some are married and have children, and the rest are waiting to get married, but because of the early death of their parents and the lack of siblings to help them, the family business can only be undertaken by a weak woman......

It is understandable to cherish his sin and lose his family business.

Zhu Hao said: "This side will arrange a good residence for you, but there will be no one to serve you in the future, and it may even be ......."

"I ...... Got it. ”

Ouyang Fei is not very adaptable to the change in identity.

used to be a daughter, and there were people waiting for her to eat, live, and travel, even if she was just from a merchant family and had no social status, but she was pampered since she was a child, and now she has become to serve others.

Zhu Hao smiled and nodded: "It's good to understand, the cost of the guest house is too high, I have a school over there, you can move in first." ”

Ouyang Fei asked respectfully, "I wonder when I will go to see Madame?" ”

Zhu Hao was a little surprised: "What lady?" You work for me, and it has nothing to do with my mother, and besides, my mother is only responsible for the accounts, how to operate, and what goods to buy and sell, I have the final say with Lao Ma. ”

"When did you start trafficking glass mirrors to sell them in Nanjing?"

Ouyang Fei suddenly had a feeling of "being fooled".

obviously said that he would join in and do business together, why did he feel that he was going to be kept in a private yard and sell her back? Could it be that this childish man is scheming just to deceive himself into selling himself into slavery, and then resell himself to the Chengguo Mansion?

Before, there was the right to choose, but now it is simply involuntary.

Zhu Hao shook his head: "It is impossible for you to take over the glass mirror business, this involves my agreement with the owner of Su, but I can hand over other goods to your Ouyang family's business channels to sell...... How much does Miss Ouyang think she is worth? If it weren't for your family's sales channel, why would I buy you? ”

Ouyang Fei was stunned.

After thinking about it, I felt that Zhu Hao's words made some sense.

Even if you sell it to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion this year, you must have talent, you need to cultivate it from an early age, you are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, you are a young lady from a merchant family, you are useless except for your figure and appearance, you think you can be famous in the Fengyue field?

There is also the sale to the Chengguo Mansion......

Anyway, with the flying and domineering of the Chengguo Mansion, they will pay? People just want to forcibly occupy it, and the Chengguo Mansion still owes the Ouyang family thousands of taels of silver and does not pay it back. With power in your hands, you can get things done with your mouth open, so why bother with money to solve problems?

Buying a slave and serving people will not be able to, such a woman is not of much value in the human market, except for those who covet her beauty, of course, but it is not inlaid with gold and jade, and it is not taken home to live, it is worth forty or fifty taels of silver.

With the child's intentions in front of him, will he spend a lot of time for a mere forty or fifty taels of silver?

"If you want to make money to redeem the family business earlier, you have to take the initiative to lower your profile and work hard. I have inquired about your details, you are knowledgeable, especially good at arithmetic, will not waste talents to let you do manual work, or things that damage your dignity, but daily account clearing, management and recruitment and training of personnel, etc., all need to be handled by you personally, if you can't, you have to study hard, and strive to be able to take charge of your own affairs as soon as possible. ”

Zhu Hao's words made Ouyang Fei feel an inexplicable humiliation.

I'm the head of a big family, and now you're going to let me do an apprenticeship?

"Okay, you and Lao Ma go to do the registration business, I'll go to the palace first, and we'll talk about it when we meet in the afternoon."

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Ouyang Fei officially became Zhu Hao's slave.

As a civilized person, Zhu Hao has always advocated equality for all, but now he has a lot of people's deeds of sale in his hands, and he feels very ridiculous when he occasionally takes them out to look at them.

However, Zhu Hao understands that if he wants to promote the civilization process of the Ming Dynasty, the strength of one person alone is not enough, and he needs to be assisted by "his own people", and the most binding thing for the people around him in this era is probably the deed of sale...... Without this thing, how can you ensure that these people can move towards the same goal as you?

Giving equal freedom to a family is not his goal, but the important thing is to accumulate strength to bring about the change of the times. As long as in the process, do not arbitrarily bully your subordinates as the master, that is enough.

Inside the palace.

Zhu Hao returned to the school, and it was rare that Yuan Rulin, who had just passed the county exam, also came, the two gentlemen Fan Yikuan and Tang Yin were there, and none of the four classmates Lu Song, Jinghong, Zhu San and Zhu Si were absent, and it was rare for the classroom staff to be so neat.

"I think you know, Zhu Hao and Yuan Rulin passed the county exam the day before yesterday, and there are still a few assessments in the future, and the palace has already greeted the Confucianism Department, so I won't participate for the time being." Tang Yin said with a smile.

Daming's county exam has a little benefit, in addition to the first four-book exam, the next few can be optionally participated.

But if you can't pass the first one, everything else is not to be discussed, in fact, there are a total of 40 places for the follow-up assessment, which is similar to the internal examination of the Confucian Education Administration, and there is no need to announce the results to the public...... There are only forty people, and they all know who has passed the test, and does it still make sense to announce it or not?

The next few tests were miscellaneous items such as the Five Scriptures, Strategy, Theory, and Arithmetic.

The imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty was not assessed until the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and there was no official recitation of the "Holy Decree Guangxun" for brainwashing, and it was not until the Qianlong year of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that the examination school of poetry and fu in the Tang and Song dynasties was resumed.

The key to the evaluation of the results of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was the quality of the four books.

At present, Zhu Hao has a certain controversy because of the first case of the county examination, and in order to avoid Zhu Hao from being surrounded by scholars and making it difficult for Zhu Hao to take the latter few exams, the palace simply let Zhu Hao stay in the palace and prepare for the March government examination.

Tang Yin continued: "The date of the government examination has also been set, because Kuang Zhizhou will step down before the end of March, and the government examination will be advanced to mid-March, that is, March 15, leaving only one month for Zhu Hao and Yuan Rulin to prepare for the exam, you two have to work hard." ”

Zhu Si asked puzzledly: "Mr. Tang, didn't you say that Zhu Hao has already taken the county case head, and he can still get the fame of a student if he doesn't participate in the follow-up exam?" ”

"Haha."

Tang Yin said with a smile, "Even if you take the first place in the county exam, you have to take the prefectural exam, and you must answer carefully, if the essay is too poor, the examiner has the right to deprive you of the qualification to enter the school......"

These words are clearly waking up Zhu Hao.

Don't think that you can sit back and relax if you take the county exam, the rule is that the county examiner can go to school as usual, but it doesn't say that you must be able to go to school, if the chief examiner of the government examination Kuang Yangming, or the chief examiner of the college exam, Zhang Bangqi of the province is not happy to read your article, or can brush you down......

Zhu Hao knew that Tang Yin was scaring him.

The head of the county examination can enter the school to gain the fame of the students, and the imperial court formulated this rule to ensure that each county has a "guaranteed" place for each college examination.

The Ming Dynasty announced that the teaching level of many counties under the jurisdiction of the state capital is uneven, and the quality of education in some counties is not good, there are few scholars in the early days, there are fewer Mr. Xueshu, and there are fewer famous teachers who can teach their disciples well, so that a vicious circle is formed, and the number of students admitted to each college examination is limited.

After all, the government examination is the joint examination of Confucian students in each county, and it is no longer divided into counties, and only the county examination is the internal competition of the scholars in the county. The county head is both an honor and a guarantee for the principle of educational equity......

In fact, it is also unfair to some extent!

The quality of education in your county is not good, so why do you have to ensure that your county takes away a student quota? What do you want other county candidates to think who are above this candidate's talent, but have been pushed down?

In fact, Anlu Prefecture ......

There is no such problem itself, under the jurisdiction of two counties, the relatively backward quality of education is Jingshan County, but the rules are the rules, and no one dares to break them, so Zhu Hao's student quota is almost secure, and the possibility of change is very small.