"But I'm telling the truth!"

"If it weren't for the Son of Heaven and the implementation of the new policy by the Duke of Jiangling, I would have died in prison a long time ago, and I would never have met Sister Lai Di again, I could marry her, I could have this son and a daughter, and now I have a family business, which can drive so many clansmen to increase their income, and also let you Brother Ling Yu get a lot of dividends from me, so that you can sleep all the flower boats on the Qinhuai River."

"Otherwise, is the monthly money you give in Brother Lingyu's mansion enough for Brother Lingyu to drink flower wine?"

Liu Quxian replied.

Syllable!

Wang Changgeng slapped the table, stood up suddenly, and looked at Liu Quxian with fire-breathing eyes.

Liu Quxian leaned back in his chair, looked at him calmly, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Wang Changgeng snorted, and then brushed his sleeves away.

"Brother Lingyu!"

Seeing this, Liu Quxian hurriedly got up and called out to his classmate and friend.

Wang Changgeng ignored him, and still got into the carriage without looking back, only after getting into the carriage, he muttered: "Now that love is the opposite of me, he has begun to sarcastically mock me, are you still a friend?!" ”

Liu Quxian didn't pay attention to himself when he saw Wang Changgeng leaving, and didn't say anything, just continued to sit back on the chair, let the maid clean up the unfinished chess game, and took a sip of tea, and then missed a few rays of sunlight from the plum blossom-shaped pane, and looked at Zhang Juzheng's "Juzheng Whispering" that he bought at a high price in Beijing.

"Why did Uncle Wang leave in a hurry?"

"Didn't you say he was going to stay and eat?"

At this time, Lai Di came back from the city with a vegetable basket, watched Wang Changgeng's carriage go away, and asked Liu Quxian.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the commodity economy in the south was developed, especially the rapid development of the textile industry, and many women began to bear economic expenses in the family because they were the main force of spinning and weaving, and their social status was improved.

Even when there will be female generals in the future, such as Qin Liangyu and Qin Liangyu's daughter-in-law.

Of course, the most famous woman in this period of the Ming Dynasty was Qi Jiguang's original partner.

Turning back, it is precisely because of the improvement of women's social status that women have begun to show their heads, especially in the south, where women can be seen in many towns and cities.

Nowadays, Laidi will often go to the market to choose ingredients in person, without worrying about the gossip of the villagers, and can also call friends to go together, and will agree on what day to go to which city, and what day to go to another city.

Gradually, in later generations, it will evolve into a town that will not open until the third, sixth, and ninth days, or the market will open on the sixth, seventh, and ninth days, and overseas Chinese merchants will gather in a certain town to sell goods on the appointed day.

"My sister is back!"

After Lai Di asked, Liu Quxian hurriedly got up and put down the book, and walked over with a smile.

In this era, wives often refer to their husbands, brothers and friends as their children, that is, uncles.

Therefore, the Uncle Wang Shi mentioned by Laidi is Wang Changgeng.

Liu Quxian's eyes were only on Lai Di, and he took some vegetable baskets full of meat, melons and fruits from Lai Di's hands, and smiled: "Don't worry about him!" You can just cook me something delicious! ”

"You're arguing again?"

"I think he seems to be a little angry when he leaves."

Laidi asked as she walked to the kitchen.

Liu Quxian said: "No! Regardless of him! ”

"You're not going to apologize? Don't worry that he won't recognize you as a friend? ”

Laidi asked.

"I'm not going!"

"I can't always apologize and be soft, and I haven't done anything to be sorry for him, but it's just a matter of facts, what's more, I'm not his little guy, why do I have to talk to him?"

Liu Quxian also replied with some resentment.

Lai Di smiled after hearing this, and then stopped Liu Quxian, who was about to come in, at the kitchen door: "Give me the vegetable basket, don't come in!" ”

Liu Quxian was stunned when he saw this, and said with a smile: "Sister, there are no gentlemen here, only us." ”

"No! You're a husband now! ”

Laidi refused.

Then, Lai Di looked at the few girls behind Liu Quxian who were bought back by her: "They are all looking at you, the master." ”

Seeing this, Liu Quxian also withdrew his feet that had stepped into the threshold, and asked: "You bought people back this time, can the family's property arrange jobs for them?" ”

"I plan to teach them embroidery first, and then arrange for them to go to the embroidery workshop."

"They agreed, during the study period, they don't need to be paid, just let us feed them, and by the way, they will help clean the workshop."

"So it won't add much expense."

"Therefore, I thought, if you can buy it, buy some back, now the old men in the city (town) are selling their slaves and maids because of what you said about the implementation of the official gentry's integrated payment of food and errands, especially those little girls who have not left their heads, there are a lot of people who have been driven out of the house, and they are left in the market, and they will only be bought by the flower boat, so that an innocent girl will be ruined in vain!"

"That's how I was sold in the past, if I can buy one more, in the future, so that they can work on their own to support themselves and be a husband and wife, I will buy one more."

Laidi spoke at this time.

After hearing this, Liu Quxian nodded: "My sister is kind-hearted, just like a female bodhisattva." ”

Lai Di glanced at him, and then smiled again: "Your mouth is getting more and more honey!" ”

Then, Lai Di got serious again and asked him: "Do you want to expand the scale of our embroidery workshop, don't you say that my embroidery work can be top-notch when I go to Suzhou and Hangzhou to sell?" ”

"Can't scale up yet!"

"My current fame can only ensure the normal operation of a small embroidery workshop and a small weaving workshop, and then expand, it is a tiger's mouth, and then I will talk about it when I become a lifter, it is best to expand it after Jinshi, so that the nobles in the southern capital, I am afraid and dare not covet my big embroidery workshop."

Liu Quxian replied at this time.

Laidi listened and nodded.

She also understands that without power, business is only big for others.

"I just want to be bigger, I can hire more people, so that there will be fewer slaves and maids, although it is hard to be our hired laborer, but at least I will not be beaten and scolded, I can stand on my own, and I can go back to my hometown to see my friends."

Laidi said while washing the meat.

Liu Quxian nodded: "I know, but this is not only a problem of missing people now, but also a problem of money!" ”

"My current identity is not qualified to borrow from big households, especially those nobles of the Xu family and Nandu, if I go to borrow, I will only be eaten with meat and skin!"

"When I have an official status, I dare to borrow money from them, so that I don't have to worry about me borrowing their money and not being eaten by them when they take the opportunity to eat meat and skin."

After hearing this, Lai Di nodded, tied the apron to the outside of the horse-faced skirt, rolled up her sleeves, exposed two white arms, and stood inside the door to cut the meat.

Liu Quxian stood outside the door, letting the breeze blow the scarf above his head, looking in the direction of the Forbidden City.

He didn't know when he would be there for a roll call and then he could make a bigger cause.

……

"Sir, I'm thinking that the imperial court can actually set up a commercial bank that specializes in lending silver dollars, let's call it a bank, and some officials and gentry engaged in industry and commerce can be supported by Zhang Juzheng to further divide the gentry, which is also conducive to the implementation of the new policy of the official gentry paying grain and working as errands."

"After all, the purpose of innovation and disadvantage that has been established today is not only to enrich but also to benefit the people, and to really care about the livelihood and desires of the people."

"According to some of the surveys after the census, I learned that after the implementation of the new policy, the number of landless displaced people is increasing, and the number of crimes is also increasing."

"Although many big families did not dare to resist the New Deal, they dared to transfer the losses caused by the imperial court from them to the small people!"

"They freed slaves and servants to reduce expenses, so that there were a large number of homeless people in the local area, and most of them were old and young of little value, and the local government almshouses began to be unable to afford so many old and young."

"Many girls have also been sold to Qinglou to raise them as playthings for the powerful and powerful in the future."

"At this time, it is necessary to encourage some of the gentry engaged in industry and commerce to expand their business, so that they can hire more landless people."

"In particular, the middle and lower class gentry who bear the responsibility of employing small democracies should be encouraged by the imperial court to become bigger! Provide them with some financial support or institutional guarantees, and do not allow bureaucrats or powerful officials and gentry to oppress them, so that the problem of many landless displaced people can be solved, and it is difficult for the imperial court to conjure up a lot of cultivated land for a while, but many jobs can be added through such a policy. ”

"For the big officials and gentry who are engaged in industry and commerce, they can also be given loans to support them to engage in cross-sea operations, or I can directly invest in the internal funds, and the imperial court can also ask the household department to request foreign funds to buy shares after the ministerial meeting, so that more displaced people have something to do."

"In particular, you can use this kind of big tea merchant who picks tea with many old and young, or a big cloth merchant who allows many women to embroider, so as to avoid the old and young not being able to support themselves, and also to avoid many women falling into the dust and still becoming the playthings of powerful people, and hurting the world."

Zhu Yijun was in the west room of the Wenhua Hall on this day, and he also told Zhang Juzheng that he hoped that the imperial court would end up in the financial industry and encourage industry and commerce.

And Zhu Yijun said that he gave Zhang Juzheng the report on the report of the census results and the Jinyi Wei report:

"Sir, you can see that the problem of displaced people is actually so serious that a large-scale civil uprising is likely to occur!"

"For example, Jiangxi Governor Wang Zongmu Zuo, in the area of Jiuling Mountain in Yichun, Yuanzhou, there are more than 130,000 shantytowns who make a living from papermaking, wood mining, and mining!"

"Although this has something to do with the fact that I don't let you exterminate them as chaotic people and increase their numbers, the court can't ignore these shantytowns."

"According to the Jinyi Guardian, they have very little money from papermaking in the mountains and forests, and they can only guarantee that they will not starve to death, because the officials are too heavy to exploit the right side of the market, and second, because their papermaking skills are too poor to compete with the government-run and large workshops, and they can only rely on low prices to make profits, so the profit is very small."

"And once there is a catastrophe or the impact of trade routes, when they can't make a living by papermaking, timber mining, and mining, they will make trouble, so the imperial court has the obligation to help them with low-interest loans or in the form of skill participation, so that they can be more prosperous, so as to avoid becoming displaced people and chaotic people in the event of a catastrophe."

Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up after hearing this.

(End of chapter)