Liu Quxian first parked the wheelbarrow he bought, and then brought a bag of silver on the car to Lai Di, and opened his pocket: "Look! ”

I was even happier when I came to see him.

Here, Wang Changgeng smiled and said to his little servant: "You go back and tell your family that I won't go home tonight, and I will sleep with my friends at Liu Quxian's house to enter the friendship of classmates." And then you don't have to come back, my friend has someone to serve here. ”

Laidi couldn't help but suppress her smile after hearing this.

Wang Changgeng's little servant agreed.

And after Wang Changgeng left, he said to Liu Quxian: "I'll go first, if they come to ask tomorrow morning, they will say that I will go back early." ”

Liu Quxian nodded.

Then, Wang Changgeng asked Liu Quxian again, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to go and take you to meet?" ”

Here, Lai Di couldn't help but ask Liu Quxian: "Isn't he going to stay at home for the night, why did he say he was going?" ”

"It's just an excuse, he is going to the Qinhuai River to drink flower wine, and to find the literati and ministers to discuss the knowledge of the world and the people."

Liu Quxian said.

Laidi nodded and asked, "Then why don't you go?" ”

Liu Quxian smiled: "I just have a sister." ”

Lai Di's face couldn't help but turn red, and she turned around and said, "I'll cook." ”

Immediately, Laidi instructed the two maidservants: "Come with me, you are all from big families, there are some rules, I don't need to say more, right?" ”

"Yes."

"We didn't hear anything about what my lord and sister said just now."

After hearing this, Laidi arranged for one of the two maids to work on the loom, the other to wash the clothes first, and she to cook by herself.

After the meal, Lai Di personally fetched hot water and let Liu Quxian take a bath, and then personally served Liu Quxian to wash his hair, and did not let the two maids come.

And after washing and drying Liu Quxian's hair, she took a maid to let him wash her body and head, and then after sending the two maidservants to sleep in another room, she went to bed first with a wet black hair, sat on the bed, bent the thin legs covered by the quilt skirt, rubbed her hair with a dry handkerchief, and looked at Liu Quxian, who was still copying the text on the desk with a candlelight, and asked, "Still not sleeping?" ”

"You go to sleep first, I'll have to finish copying it."

Liu Quxian said and said: "This time I followed the Wang family to Changzhou, Suzhou, and I have seen it. ”

"It turns out that there are so many lords and ministers who oppose Qingzhang and Kaihai!"

"They all said that the Son of Heaven was deceived by Jiangling, and Jiangling was already a one-man thief who abused his power, making the world unpeaceful."

"However, I always felt that something was wrong. What's more, I still know the words, and I have already known through reading the "Di Bao" of the newspaper that I was able to be released by the class room because the government began to clean up, so that I could buy the silver to buy you back and buy the loom, and I have made such a big profit now. ”

"In addition, I also understand that opening the sea is beneficial to us ordinary people, as long as the sea is opened more, we people can earn more silver, and we don't have to look at the eyes of big families."

"We don't have to kneel and beg them to lend us money in a famine year, and we have to thank them for buying them if we sell our children to them."

Liu Quxian glanced back at Laidi as he spoke, and saw that she was listening carefully, so he continued: "But many old men and princesses say that this is not right!" They all scolded Gangneung for harming the country! ”

"I don't agree with it!"

"I used to want to study and become an official, but I didn't want to be bullied."

"But now I still think that in the future, maybe I can let the Son of Heaven hear more than one voice, and let the Son of Heaven know that there are also people who think that Yuanfu Zhang Jiangling is doing the right thing."

"And I'm a soft-spoken person now, I can't say it yet, and when I work hard to get the name of the subject first, I can say it!"

Liu Quxian laughed when he said this, and said: "I have to take advantage of Wang Changgeng's need for silver to pursue the Oiran in the Qinhuai River now, spend more money to get some current literature from him, and copy and memorize more, otherwise just by memorizing the sage's books, people like me will not be able to get into the Jinshi in their lifetime." ”

Then, Liu Quxian put down his pen and did not copy the article again, but walked towards Laidi.

Laidi asked, "Why didn't you copy it?" ”

Liu Quxian got up and walked over to Lai Di and sat down.

Laidi, whose ears were a little red, took a step back and glanced at him: "Brother Xian, I'm not suitable today." ”

At this time, Liu Quxian took out three deed of sale: "This one of yours, give it to you, you can tear it yourself." There are also two of them, which are newly bought by these two girls, and you keep them for me. Now the opposition to opening the sea and continuing to clear the law is too loud, I am still worried that such a good life will not last long, so I dare not tear them up, but if the court really wants to further open the sea in the future, and after the edict is issued, I will also tear up the deed of sale of these two girls and re-establish the deed of employment. ”

"Hire?"

Laidi asked with some curiosity.

Liu Quxian nodded and said: "In order to produce more cloth, many families in Suzhou have begun to hire only weavers and do not buy people to go home!" ”

"Because in this way, the weavers have their own wages, and they can get more for more work, so that the weavers themselves can make a fortune, and the master can also get more cloth and sell more money, which is much more cost-effective than buying it back and raising it."

"Even many people took the initiative to tear up the deed of sale of their slaves and maids and replace them with employment deeds, as well as dividends! It's all about being prolific and making money. ”

"It's just that the future is unclear now, and this new deal seems to be the meaning of Jiangling and a few big masters, and there is a possibility that it will be abolished."

"In addition to many bold families, there are still many powerless ordinary businessmen and owners who dare not turn all their slaves and maids into hired laborers, and they are still waiting."

"After all, the lords and fathers who have land are against it."

"And people like us may also go back to the days when they were blackmailed to sell people, so keeping the deed of sale of the two girls is to prevent them from being desperate in the future and can sell them for money."

"You don't know, in Changzhou, Suzhou, many old men are lecturing and criticizing the new policy, and there are also ministers in the school who directly expose the post on the official office at the city gate, although we people want to say that we support it in our hearts, we dare not say it for fear of being beaten."

"Then don't tear mine off yet! One more can be sold. ”

Lai Di thought about it and said seriously, and said: "I also overheard it in the palace family, they said that the lords and ministers of the world represent the people's hearts, and if the people's hearts are unwilling, His Majesty the Emperor has said that it doesn't count, not to mention that it is only the Son of Heaven who is doing these things now." ”

……

"Worthy of my husband! That's why my husband can do that. ”

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile after watching Zhang Juzheng's performance and inviting the strict management of the students and the gentlemen to discuss politics.

According to the content of Zhang Juzheng's recital, it was required that the gentry and the students should not discuss politics, otherwise they would be removed from the official title and fame, and they would be dismissed as commoners.

In other words, it's not that you won't be allowed to speak, it's just that you can't enjoy the privileges given by the imperial court and eat imperial food while criticizing the new policy, and at the same time being a dog for the powerful and wealthy.

And since the imperial court wants to implement the new policy, it will naturally not support those who oppose the new policy.

Although this is much gentler than the Qing Dynasty, when the gentry were born to discuss politics, they had to be killed, especially in the Qianlong period, if non-incumbent officials discussed politics, let alone criticize the government, even if they sang the praises of virtue, they would be beheaded by the whole house, that is, it would be much gentler to shut them up, but in the Ming Dynasty, which has always been free and tolerant, Zhang Juzheng was already very strict in doing this!

It is very different from other scholars who are unwilling to be the enemy of the entire Shilin.

Although Zhang Juzheng began to strictly control the students, Zhu Yijun agreed very much, and even felt that he had not dealt enough blows to the opposition in this way, but still asked: "What are the voices of the DPRK and the people on the affairs of clearing the fields and acres that are already being implemented and the matter of further opening up the sea?" ”

"Back to the emperor, now there is only one voice between the DPRK and the people, both the DPRK and the Chinese government support Qingzhang and further opening the sea, and the people are all against Qingzhang and oppose further opening of the sea."

Zhang Whale replied.