Both were a little embarrassed.

When the crowd heard this, they also fell silent.

The Zheng family has indeed done a lot of inauthentic things before.

After a while, Old Lady Zheng suddenly invited the young man up and knelt down in front of him: "The previous thing is indeed that the old man is sorry for your mother and son, and the old man apologizes to you." ”

The crowd was shocked when they saw this: Master Zheng, who was high in the past, actually kowtowed to the untouchables to apologize?

It seems that the Zheng family really wants to be a good person.

"The enmity of my parents is not the same, I can't be generous." The young man insisted on not accepting it and left angrily. Seeing this, the crowd sighed: Master Zheng is already relatively benevolent among all the landlords' old wealth.

Now there is the courage to admit mistakes, even more than the vast majority of the gentry.

All these evil consequences were caused by the previous era.

Mr. Qin ushered in a new era in which the landlords and gentry could not exploit the common people.

"The head of the Zhao family, the head of the Cheng family asks to see!" At this time, the Zheng family came to report. Old lady Zheng looked back and saw two businessmen-looking people walking over.

The Zhao family and the Cheng family?

Old lady Zheng's heart moved. These two are not the old aristocratic families, but the newly grown wealthy businessmen. The two controlled the local coal mining business and made a lot of money.

After the person came over, he also gave a rich gift to the Zheng family, and said a lot of polite words to bless the newlyweds.

After that, the head of the Zhao family went straight to the topic: "Now coal in Shanxi is a profitable business, and the Zheng family did not catch up with the first spring breeze because of their self-owned status as scholars......"

"For the sake of the Zheng family now being a distant relative of Mr., and the Zheng family has indeed repented. After discussion, the two of us decided to give one of the three large coal mines to your Zheng family to operate. ”

"In the future, the Zheng family will not have to rely on collecting rent, but will be able to maintain the operation of the family by selling coal." The head of the Cheng family said, "To be honest, the revenue of our coal mines in one day exceeds your rent in the previous year. ”

"The Zheng family used to live by collecting rents and oppressing tenant farmers, how much money can they make by collecting rent?" The head of the Zhao family said with an atmospheric look, "Not only does it make less money, but it is also easy to commit a lot of crimes and offend the villagers,"

"What's the trouble?"

One day's income from their coal mine operation is worth the Zheng family's tenancy for a year? Old lady Zheng was shocked when she heard this.

As a reader of antiques, he couldn't imagine it at all. After the imperial court supported the behavior of the merchants, the benefits brought to people were so considerable and terrifying!

The Zheng family used to have 2,000 acres of fertile land, all of which were leased to tenant farmers for farming. No matter how high the tenant rent is, no matter how big the tenant farmer is, he can only earn 3,000 taels of silver a year.

And they run coal mines, and they make more than three thousand taels a day!

The little money earned from producing grain from the land is not even a dime a dime in the coal business! The yield of using land to grow food is not high, and the income is even smaller in a year of famine.

Coal mines in the mainland are so profitable, not to mention overseas business.

No wonder the Ming Dynasty is so rich and powerful now!

The emperor can send money to the people.

"It seems that the Zheng family really needs to change their old outdated concepts, and use the old methods to make money, not only do they earn a pitiful little money, but they are also easy to offend all the people and commit a lot of crimes. embarked on the opposite side of doing good and accumulating virtue - doing many evils. Consume the good fortune of the entire family. Old Lady Zheng thought secretly in his heart.

Previously, he also felt that if Qin Yu was overthrown and the feudal aristocracy returned to the previous state of living by collecting rent and squeezing the people, the feudal aristocracy would be able to grow and develop.

Now it seems that this idea could not have been more wrong!

The rent collected by the Zheng family in a year is not even comparable to the income of other people in a day.

If it weren't for Qin Yu suddenly becoming his grandson's son-in-law, his concept would continue to be maintained. After knowing the income gap between each other, Mrs. Zheng's mind changed completely.

Even if Qin Yu is not his grandson-in-law, their families and families should also consider transformation. Instead of being confined to the old ideas of the past, to hate Qin Yu and try to move to him.

To live by oppressing people, you can only be a master in a poor and backward place. And making money by doing business is to enable the family to embark on a more brilliant and bright road.

Isn't it fragrant to keep up with the pace of reform in the Ming Dynasty and earn hundreds of times more silver than the tenant rent?

That's the real right path for the family!

Because of the transformation to make money, not only will you earn a lot, but you will not create bad karma.

At the same time, he also understood how amazing his grandson-in-law Qin Yu was.

The world is so big, apart from him, who has that kind of vision to see that Daxing businessmen can make a lot of money so much? Is it so good and harmless?

Qin Yu's measures can be said to benefit everyone. The court, the people, and even their families. If their minds can keep up.

It's a pity that many of the current gentry families have very low horizons.

Most of them still regard Qin Yu as a mortal enemy. They are still thinking about returning to the past, continuing to exploit tenants, and becoming masters in backward places.

"Thank you! Thank you two family owners! Master Zheng became excited. The Zheng family was worried that there was no way to make money to maintain the operation of the family, so they took the initiative to give it to him?

"We're also looking at the face of the gentleman." Cheng Zhao and the two heads of the family said, "If it weren't for Mr., who would care about your Zheng family?" ”

"Can I even send you a mine?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Old lady Zheng said, "The Zheng family must let their granddaughter serve Mr. well." ”

She is a princess, can you, a relative, talk to her? The two heads of the family said secretly in their hearts. However, he didn't show it, and after some explanation, he turned around and left.

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After letting the crowd of Daohe leave, the Zheng family father and son dragged their tired bodies back to the back hall.

"Mr. Qin's face is really big enough!" Seeing the mountains of congratulatory gifts in the courtyard, as well as the book of the people and the umbrella of the people, Young Master Zheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said.

"And these books of the people, the umbrellas of the people, are sent by the people themselves."

"In the past, some county orders that left their posts and the Wanmin Letters and Wanmin umbrellas received were all fake. It's all a face-saving project carried out by the local gentry, because the people at the bottom don't even know a single big character, where can they write so many signatures? Those magistrates who were loved by the people were in fact loved by the local gentry. ”

"yes!" Old lady Zheng sighed, raised the Wanmin umbrella and spread it out, "This Wanmin umbrella can be said to be the first real Wanmin umbrella in history." ”

"They all came by themselves, not the gentry who asked someone to pretend."

"Look at the words on the surface of this umbrella, many of them are written crookedly, and at first glance, they are really from the hands of the people at the bottom."

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