"Oh woo oh ~ ~~"

"Oh woo oh ~ ~~"

A spring rain doesn't stop until it falls.

With the sound of the rooster crowing, the lights of the houses in the village were lit up one after another.

"Knock knock!"

Then there was the sound of gongs, and some people carried gongs and walked in the countryside and beat along the way.

As a result, some villagers began to go out with torches and converge in the direction of the sound of gongs.

There were several people who were responsible for striking the gongs, and the villagers followed them, dividing into several teams to go up the mountain. After the rain, the mountain road was too slippery, and from time to time someone fell, and then there was a burst of laughter, and the wrestlers' scolding was drowned out by laughter.

"Damn, what time is it?" Zhu Ming was so noisy that he couldn't sleep.

Zhu Guoxiang had also woken up, yawned and said: "The rooster crows before four o'clock in the morning, and it is estimated that it is not yet four o'clock." Get up, say yes to help watch the kids. ”

"I'll sleep a little longer." Ju Ming couldn't get rid of the gravitational pull of the bed.

Zhu Guoxiang teased: "He also said that he wanted to fight for the world to be the emperor, but you couldn't even get up early." ”

"Who said that?" Zhu Mingluo sat up.

The two got dressed and came to the hall, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were ready to go out, and they were still dressed up!

Mrs. Yan, who has just turned fifty years old but has gray hair, actually has a red flower on her sideburns.

It was picked by Shen Yourong yesterday, and he also inserted one on his head. It is also mashed into flower clay to make rouge, and some is rubbed on the cheeks and lips.

It's not like going up the mountain to pick tea, it's more like a blind date between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

For the mountain people around the tea farm, tea picking is an annual event. During the spring tea picking period, farmers close to the market town will also come, and hundreds of people will gather and scatter on the hills, familiar and unfamiliar will meet, and the women's families will naturally dress up.

"Brother Qi is still sleeping, let's go up the mountain." Shen Yourong said.

Zhu Guoxiang smiled: "Don't worry, I'll watch it at home." ”

In previous years, there was no man in the family, and Bai Qi was entrusted to the care of the village neighbors, and there were always some elderly people who were inconvenient to go up the mountain.

Zhu Guoxiang sent his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law out, and then stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking at the "fire dragons" from afar, and the farthest light had gradually disappeared into the mountains.

The horse stood under the eaves for half the night, and at this moment came to Zhu Guoxiang's side, his head rubbing and arching like a dog, as if he wanted to beg for two catties of night grass to eat.

Zhu Guoxiang went to grab the beans and sprinkled a few grains of salt into them.

Then, go to Shen Niangzi's house to sleep back.

The main purpose of sleeping on the bench was to watch the children, for fear that Bai Qi would wake up and run out.

Zhu Ming yawned on the couch in the study until the sound of gongs and drums completely stopped, and finally fell asleep again in a daze.

……

The morning light is faint.

Bai Chongyan and Li Hanzhang, two sons, took a few followers and traveled leisurely on clogs.

"That teenager, really familiar with the classics?" Li Hanzhang expressed skepticism.

Bai Chongyan said excitedly: "Brother Kezhen, when you were young, you traveled to Jiangnan, have you ever heard a great Confucian who interpreted that sentence as the word 'public and private'?" ”

Li Hanzhang shook his head: "No." ”

"That's it!" Bai Chongyan said.

Li Hanzhang said: "Maybe it was a wonderful idea when he read the Analects. ”

Bai Chongyan said: "Then please ask Brother Kezhen to go out and test that little showman." ”

Li Hanzhang smiled and said nothing, he had a conceit in him, and he didn't believe that a master could emerge in the mountains.

After a short time, the two came to the outside of the hospital.

After slapping the courtyard door a few times, Zhu Guoxiang woke up rubbing his sleepy eyes, and hurriedly went out to open the door.

Bai Chongyan arched his hand and said, "Brother Zhu, we are here to visit again." ”

"Saburo-kun, please come in!" Zhu Guoxiang greeted him warmly.

The thin horse was wandering around the courtyard, and Li Hanzhang's eyes fell on the horse's buttocks, and a playful expression immediately appeared.

Not only did he guess that it was an official horse, but he also knew which batch of horses it came from.

But what the hell is going on?

It is true that Li Hanzhang is the son of Yangzhou Tongju, but the officials and horses are all under the full management of the Tea and Horse Division, and the two sides are not a system.

The separation of civil and official powers in the Song Dynasty was very outrageous, and a province (road) did not even have a real chief official: the Transshipment Department was in charge of finance, the Criminal Division was in charge of prisons, and the Changping Division was responsible for implementing the new law, controlling the income of the new law, and also managing the monopoly rights of mountains, forests, minerals and some commodities (the power of the Changping Division was constantly expanding, until the peak of the Huizong Dynasty).

These three yamen, which are not subordinate to each other, are connected to the imperial court at the top and the state army at the bottom.

Provincial (road) level governments seem to exist, but they do not seem to exist.

Therefore, the power of the governor is very great, and the governor not only manages the civil affairs, but even holds the military power. Especially in the frontier Zhizhou, military generals are often appointed to serve as governors, and some military generals have been working for more than ten years.

As a result, the responsibility of the general judgment is also greater, and the financial power is used to balance the military power of the governor.

If the normal Gangma was robbed, the state officials must have the responsibility of governing the people, but what was lost last year was not a serious Gangma.

Serious horses, don't go Hanshui!

To put it bluntly, the Tea and Horse Division guarded and stole himself, secretly engaged in horse smuggling, and also pledged goods in the name of Ma Gang, and was robbed by bandits in the mountains halfway.

Not to mention that the state officials will not help with the investigation, even the Tea Horse Division itself does not dare to speak out.

"Haha, San Lang-kun, I'm here so early!" Zhu Ming came out to greet him with a smile.

Bai Chongyan immediately introduced: "This is the son of Li Xianggong, the general judge of Yangzhou, the second lang of the Li family, and Brother Hanzhang Kezhen." ”

As soon as they heard that it was the son of the state judge, the father and son hurriedly saluted.

Li Hanzhang smiled, neither showing enthusiasm nor disdain.

Bai Chongyan asked a few more followers to step forward and said, "Sixty yuan of money, all of which have been brought." As for those few acres of mountain firewood forests, they are not worth much, so they will be given to the two of them. ”

"No," Zhu Guoxiang immediately refused, "As much as it should be, how can the land be gifted?" ”

Bai Chongyan said: "Da Lang don't want to resign, it's really not worth a few." ”

Zhu Guoxiang insisted: "Love is love, reason is reason." If Saburo-kun has to give it away, we won't sell the brush! ”

Hearing what his father said, Zhu Ming also echoed: "That's true, land property cannot be gifted." ”

The father and son first arrived, and inexplicably accepted other people's land, which is equivalent to owing the Bai family a great favor.

The mouth of eating people is short, and the hands of people are soft, which is not convenient for getting along with each other on an equal footing in the future.

Accepting this field, it is riddled with cause and effect, and it is bound to the Bai family.

Of course, those who will have this kind of thinking are gentlemen, and greedy villains wish they could pick it up for nothing.

"This ...... All right. ”

Bai Chongyan could only give up, and at the same time, he felt that it was rare, and he couldn't even send the field property.

At this moment, Li Hanzhang's eyes changed slightly, he didn't take the father and son seriously, but now he feels that these two people are very interesting.

A father and son who did not have three meals were forced to live in a widow's house to beg for food despite gossip, and they were not tempted by the land to refuse to give gifts.

Looking at the whole country, how many people can do it?

The little servants came with four baskets, and the frames were full of iron money.

When Jiaozi could not be used, the "bulk" transactions in Sichuan were directly weighed in catties. Good quality iron money, thirteen catties is consistent; Poor quality iron money, twenty-five catties is consistent; There are even fifty pounds of rotten money for the usual time. After Wang Anshi reformed the iron money, it finally became six catties.

You can only weigh it, you can't count it at all, you can think of it like this, how terrifying it is to make you count tens of thousands of dollars.

The 60 iron coins in front of him are all new coins after Wang Anshi, with a total weight of more than 300 Song Jin (1 Song Jin is about 640 grams).

The father and son, who were penniless yesterday, became rich in an instant, and it was a few hundred catties.

Zhu Ming looked at the basket and felt a little crying and laughing.

It's really hard work to do business these days.

Don't make any fuss, that thing doesn't care anymore.

At the beginning of the official issuance of Jiaozi, the various systems were actually very complete.

First of all, there must be a principal reserve, and the 360,000 yuan reserve is issued to ensure that it can be cashed out at any time. Secondly, the validity period of each border is two years, and when the deadline expires, the old intersection will be recycled and a new intersection will be issued. Finally, Jiaozi can be used to pay taxes, and the government must not refuse to accept it, so as to improve the credibility of Jiaozi.

Wang Anshi led the change, and Jiaozi collapsed from then on.

Due to the adoption of radical fiscal and taxation policies, funds were needed throughout the country, and the Northern War broke out again, and the treasury was empty, so it could only issue paper money indiscriminately to make up for the shortfall. And no longer recycle the old handover, the banknotes are about to rot, you think you are unlucky, anyway, the government will not exchange for new ones.

At that time, the common people of Sichuan, especially the Sichuan businessmen, probably wanted to strangle Wang Anshi to death!

As a native of Sichuan, it is normal for Su Shi to oppose the change of law.

What should I do if I mess up the financial market in Sichuan? Wang Anshi could only carry out iron money reform and stabilize the value of Sichuan iron money, otherwise Sichuan would be collapsed by him at that time.

Something similar is happening elsewhere.

The content of Wang Anshi's reform is beneficial to Jiangnan, Lianghuai, and Henan. But across the country, especially in the southwest, northwest and north China, it can be said that many of the new laws are bad governance, because these places are not developed enough.

At that time, most of the old parties who opposed the reform of the law came from the north, and based on the situation in their hometowns, they naturally thought that Wang Anshi was messing around.

Sima Guang looked at the problem from the perspective of the northerners, and Wang Anshi looked at the problem from the perspective of the southerners, and it was really hellish that they could pee into a pot.

"Trouble to the house." Zhu Ming said to the little guys.

Bai Chongyan asked, "Don't call it?" ”

Zhu Ming smiled: "It's just a few catties of iron money, what else do you say?" ”

"Haha, that's right." Bai Chongyan said happily.

Seeing a few baskets of money being carried in, Li Hanzhang curled the corners of his mouth, and felt that this young man was a little interesting.

Zhu Ming said: "Let's go up the mountain and see the ground." ”

Bai Chongyan said: "Look at the ground and don't be in a hurry. Today's tea picking, you can first observe the grand occasion of tea picking, and then take the water of the spiritual spring to boil new tea to taste. ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "I'll go and tell Brother Qi to get up and bring him with me." ”

Bai Chongyan and Li Hanzhang both wore clogs, which were similar to Xie Gong's clogs, suitable for mountaineering.

Zhu Guoxiang didn't have hiking shoes, so he took off his cloth shoes, went out with his bare feet, rolled up his trouser legs, and went out in style.

Seeing his father like this, Zhu Ming did the same, otherwise he would not be able to climb the mountain after the rain.

Even, Bai Qi took off his shoes.

A few baskets of iron money were placed in the house, and only the door was locked, and no one watched, and no one was afraid of being stolen.

Bai Chongyan said: "The two of you are slow, my family still has Xie Gongqi, so let the servant fetch it." ”

"No, it's easy to walk barefoot." Zhu Guoxiang excused himself.

So, the two stepped on the sandals, the two were barefoot, took the children, and went to the tea field together, followed by a few slaves.

Walk barefoot fast and effortlessly.

On the contrary, the climbing clogs are often stuck in the mud and need to be taken off for cleaning.

Once again, they were glued, and several people stopped to rest, and the clogs were thrown to the servants.

Zhu Guoxiang pointed to a mountain forest in the distance and said to his son: "There is a low-lying place over there, the stream turns into a waterfall and falls, and there is a waterhole below the waterfall. There are some tea households living near the waterhole, all of whom are customers who are attached to the Bai family. We can also build a house there, a little further away from the waterhole. ”

"Is there any arable land nearby?" Zhu Ming asked.

"Yes, I'm optimistic about it," Zhu Guoxiang said, "and those mountainous areas are very barren, and they usually grow millet, millet, sorghum, etc., all of which are given to tea farmers for cultivation." We bought the land, and we couldn't quit it at will, and we had to take care of the previous tenants. ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "It's just right, let the tenants help with farming, otherwise we won't be busy." ”

Under the hillside, more than ten meters away.

The pair of clogs worn by Li Hanzhang have been handed over to his followers to clean up the mud, he looked at the socks stained with muddy water, and said with a smile: "Brother Juncai, you and I are barefoot, otherwise I am afraid that we will have to go to the afternoon." ”

Bai Chongyan was a little unhappy in his heart, wouldn't walking barefoot become a mud leg?

But since Li Hanzhang said so, he could only put down the shelf. Immediately took off his socks and handed them to his entourage, pulled up a trouser leg, and walked two steps to find that it was really light.

And Li Hanzhang not only took off his shoes and socks, but even tore off his shirt to both sides because of the fever of climbing, revealing a large tattoo on his chest.

Zhu Guoxiang saw it and whispered to his son: "This person looks more like a mixed society." ”

"Fashionable, do you understand?" Zhu Ming said, "Li Bangyan, the prime minister of the dynasty...... Well, it is estimated that he is still a petty official, and this old man is covered in tattoos, known as the 'Prodigal Prime Minister'. He often stripped off his shirt to show his tattoos at banquets, inviting guests and servants to take a closer look. ”

"The country's leaders are also so unreasonable?" Zhu Guoxiang said with emotion, "He is worthy of being a minister promoted by Song Huizong!" ”

After a resumption, Bai Chongyan pointed ahead: "Just turn that mountain pass." ”

There have been tea-picking songs, hundreds of men and women go up the mountain to pick tea, those who are skilled, and there are idle people singing and playing.

The song is full of joy, because there is a wage to be earned.