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"Name."

"Liu Li."

"age."

"36."

"..."

"Why?"

Mrs. Liu Li pulled up her sleeves: "I am the maid of Zhao Sicai's (Fei Chun) family. Zhao Sicai's parents came and forced me to call myself a slave and change my surname. If I want to quit my job, she will call me. I."

"Zhao Sicai?" The mediator asked in surprise, "Zhao Sicai from the General Military Mansion?"

"That's Zhao Sicai." Liu Lishi said.

"Wait a minute." The mediator didn't dare to call the shots, and immediately ran to invite the head of the county government's execution room.

After hearing the report, the head of the punishment room also did not dare to make decisions, so he ran to the county magistrate Chen Wenkui.

The Chen family is the most common surname in Qingjiang County. When Zhao Han sent troops to Zhangshu Town, Chen Wenkui took the initiative to seek refuge with the army during the confrontation with the army, and donated a large amount of medicinal materials to Zhao Han's army.

The Chen family also donated the secret recipe of golden sore medicine, which has miraculous effects on treating trauma, which can be regarded as a great contribution.

Chen Wenkui himself was born as a scholar, not only actively cooperated with the distribution of fields, but also donated money, food and medicinal materials again.He participated in the work of dividing land in Qingjiang County in summer, and in Fengcheng County in winter. All the assessments were excellent. After the local area expanded to thirteen counties, this person was quickly promoted to be the prime minister of Luling County.

Regardless of whether it is political speculation or not, this kind of person must be vigorously promoted!

The head of the punishment room said: "This case involves Zhao Sicai, should we wait for the magistrate to come back and deal with it?"

The county magistrate went to the countryside to inspect the spring plowing.

Chen Wenkui filed the case and said: "Your Prime Minister violated the law and committed the same crime as the common people. You can handle the case according to the rules. There is no need to wait for the county magistrate to return to the Yamen!"

Chen Wenkui is indeed a speculator. He was selected as a scholar early on, and he didn't win the exam until he was 47 years old.Zhao Han's rebellion made him see another kind of hope, so he donated nearly half of his family property (excluding acres of land), and worked hard, and he was promoted quickly.

He is almost 50 years old, and he has no time to waste time. The bigger the better, the better.

For others, the case was tricky.For Chen Wenkui, it was an opportunity to gain fame and achievements!

His family is not only a big landlord, but also a big drug dealer. He has never lacked anything since he was a child, and he has no interest in money.His ideal in life is to be a high-ranking official, and it would be even better if he could leave his name in history!

"On shift, follow me to catch people!"

Chen Wenkui let out a loud cry, his blood boiling all over.

Not to mention Fei Chun, even if Pang Chunlai and Li Banghua's family members committed crimes, Chen Wenkui would have arrested him at will. He had already figured out Zhao Han's temper.

Running all the way to Fei Chun's mansion, Chen Wenkui became more and more excited as he thought about it, he wanted to be Bao Zheng, Hai Rui and others!

Seeing a group of yamen servants rushing into the house, Fei Lin and Ling were a little dazed, and their natural fear of the government once again enveloped their hearts.

Fei Lin tremblingly said, "I... I didn't do anything wrong."

Ling also bowed her head and smiled in apologetic way: "This official, I just taught my servants a lesson, the official should not listen to that evil slave telling black and white."

"Did you beat Mrs. Liu and Li?" Chen Wenkui asked.

Ling said: "Diao Nu was disobedient, so I taught him a lesson."

Chen Wenkui immediately shouted: "Take it away!"

The couple were taken to the yamen in a daze. They were so scared that they even forgot that their son was a high official.

Entering the county government office to start the trial, the couple were so frightened that they knelt down at the same time.

Chen Wenkui didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and was even a little disappointed. He was actually looking forward to Fei Chun's parents violently resisting the law, so that he could show his selflessness.

But the parents of the dignified "Zhao Sicai" actually knelt down when they saw a county magistrate...

"My lord, spare my life! My lord, spare my life!"

The couple knelt in the lobby, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Stand up quickly!"

Chen Wenkui was so frightened that he quickly stood up and moved out of the way. The trial was a trial, and he didn't dare to be bowed down by Fei Chun's parents.

The yamen servant quickly helped them up.

Soon, the master secretary and the criminal house master also came, and the presiding officer was already here.

Chen Wenkui sat down again and said, "Bring the plaintiff Liu Li!"

Liu Lishi came to the lobby and stood quietly by the side.

"Ah!"

Chen Wenkui patted the gavel and said, "The plaintiff, Mrs. Liu and Li... Hey, why are you kneeling again?"

It was Fei Lin and Ling's couple, whose knees were weakened by the blow of the gavel, and subconsciously knelt down together.This time, not only Chen Wenkui stood up, but also the master secretary and the criminal house master, and hid to the side, not daring to accept their kneeling.

Not only did Ling kneel down by himself, but he also scolded Liu and Li beside him: "You scumbag, you don't kneel down when you see the official!"

Liu Li stood up and said: "My son is a missionary officer in the military. He often goes home and says that all people are created equal. If you kneel to the sky and kneel to your parents, you don't need to kneel to be an official."

During the trial process that followed, Fei Lin and Ling were held up by the yamen servants throughout, otherwise they would still want to kneel down.

There is nothing to judge, Ling was punished twenty times, because she is a woman, she does not have to take off her trousers to be beaten.And, for Fei Chun's sake, he was beaten very lightly during execution.

In addition, three months' wages of Mrs. Liu and Li must be compensated, and the two parties terminated the employment contract in advance.

In the middle of the trial, Fei Chun rushed over after hearing the news. It was inconvenient for him to go in and disturb him, and he did not enter the lobby until the trial was over.

Chen Wenkui immediately stepped forward, bowed respectfully and said, "Zhao Sicai, you have offended the elders."

Of course Fei Chun was angry in his heart, and said coldly, "Chen County Chancellor is ruthless and selfless, I admire him the most."

Chen Wenkui was disappointed again, Fei Chun didn't explode on the spot.

It was Ling who screamed, seeing that Chen Wenkui was very respectful to her son, she immediately cried, "Chun'er, you have to decide for your mother..."

"Go back and talk about it!"

Fei Chun was very upset and couldn't help scolding his mother.

Chapter 189 [Out of the boudoir]

Fei Chun has been really busy these days. From last winter until spring plowing season, he didn't even have a good rest during Chinese New Year.

Moreover, he didn't know when his parents would come, he was busy with work and forgot that his parents' character would cause trouble.

On the way home, Ling babbled all the way, complaining that her son had become a high-ranking official, yet he didn't even have a sedan chair.

Fei Chun sighed helplessly, called his husband on the side of the road, called two sedan chairs, and asked his parents to go home on a pole.

Many great Confucian scholars in ancient and modern times opposed such things as sedan chairs, thinking that people were treated like cattle and horses.

Zhao Han, who advocates equality for all, allows the existence of sedan chairs and sliding poles instead.He even created an industry that allows unemployed vagrants to register with the government, and only need to pay a small fee to carry passengers with sliders to make money.

It can be understood as a rickshaw or a taxi.

It can not only generate income for the government, but also alleviate urban employment.

Fei Lin and Ling's couple, who had lived for decades, were being carried away for the first time, and they immediately felt better.

Ling said: "Chun'er, call for another palanquin, how can you go back as an official? Don't be too shabby and be looked down upon by others."

Fei Chun had no choice but to explain: "Mother, if there is no need, Brother Han can also walk by himself. Brother Han has many rules, no slaves are allowed in the house, and no servants are allowed to be abused. Also, you don't want to make troubles by making publicity in the future. The first time I was only fined, and if I commit another crime, the crime will be increased! If someone comes to the house to ask for a gift, no matter how much the gift is, they cannot accept it, otherwise I will not know when I will be beheaded."

Beheading?

Ling Shi was suddenly too frightened to speak.

Fei Lin asked, "You and Brother Han are very good, and you will be beheaded if you take some money?"

Fei Chun said: "If you are greedy, you will be fined and demoted; if you are too greedy, you will go to mine in the mountains; if you are too greedy, you will be beheaded! It doesn't matter which one you choose."

Fei Lin murmured, "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, it doesn't work even if you have a maid, so why are you rebelling?"

Fei Chun couldn't explain clearly for a while, so Fei Chun could only say: "Father, mother, you just need to remember that if you accept gifts indiscriminately, your son's official position will not be guaranteed, and his head will be easily moved."

The couple were so frightened that they didn't even dare to talk nonsense anymore.

Back home, Fei Chun explained the rules in detail, what must be paid attention to and what cannot be violated, and took out five taels of silver to buy clothes for his parents.

Ling asked: "Chun'er, what is your current salary?"

"The monthly salary is 12 taels." Fei Chun replied.

Fei Lin complained, "Brother Han is really stingy. The big shopkeeper of Fei's Trading Company has a monthly salary of ten taels, and he can even share dividends at the end of the year."

Fei Chun sighed: "The official salary is already very high, I wish I could lower it even more."

Why?

Because Fei Chun is in charge of money and food, he has been burned to the ground.

Zhao Han paid high salaries to officials. Fei Chun's monthly salary of 12 taels of silver, if converted according to the grain price of Ji'an Prefecture, was equivalent to that of a fourth-rank official in the Ming court.

Of course, grain prices fluctuate. Ji'an Prefecture has had a bumper harvest in the past two years, and grain prices are relatively low.

If there is a catastrophe, Fei Chun's salary may directly drop from the fourth rank to the sixth rank compared with the officials of Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there are charcoal fire subsidies in winter, and paper and ink subsidies for officials above the magistrate level.

In any case, as long as there is no extravagance and waste, it is no problem for Fei Chun to support the whole family with his wages, and he can also hire a few servants to do housework-if there are a lot of servants, they will definitely not be able to afford it.

Compared with the Ming court, not only the salaries of officials have increased, but the wages of officials have also generally increased.

That's why Fei Chun kept complaining, saying that he couldn't afford to support so many officials, and kept asking for the reduction of township yamen.

To support so many officials, you have to pay!

When Zhu Yuanzhang started his business, even at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he could not afford the salaries of officials.So a temporary policy was formulated. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were many barren fields, and the land was directly given to officials to open up wasteland, and the harvested grains were used as salaries.

Pang Chunlai, Fei Ruhe, Fei Chun and others all hoped to return to Qianshan County as soon as possible.

Because they know that there is an open-pit copper mine in Qianshan County!

During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the largest coinage center in the country was called "Yongpingjian", and its location was Yongping Town, Qianshan County, where copper mines had been mined since the Western Han Dynasty.

In addition, Yongpingjian's raw materials for casting coins come from Qianshanchang (Yongping Town) and Dexingchang (Dexing County).

The Dexing Copper Mine, after more than a thousand years of mining, is still the largest open-pit copper mine in Asia!

Zhu Yuanzhang's earliest minting institution was Jiangxi Baoquan Bureau, and the minting address was located in Yongping Town, Qianshan.Due to over-exploitation of the Yongping Copper Mine, and the fact that the Dexing Copper Mine was too far away and located in the mountains, it gradually stopped making coins from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not mined again until the founding of New China.

As long as Zhao Han occupies Qianshan County and Dexing County, there will definitely be no shortage of raw materials for casting copper coins.

There are even large-scale well salt mines in Jiangxi, but unfortunately they are buried too deep and require modern exploration technology to discover them. As a result, Jiangxi was unable to produce its own salt in ancient times.

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On the fifth day of staying in Ji'an Mansion, Zhao Zhenfang happily went to find Fei Rumei with her schoolbag on her back, and the two girls went to the northern suburbs of the city to go to school together.

Decades ago, because Bailuzhou Academy was destroyed by floods, the school moved to Renshou Temple in the south of the city.The site of Renshou Temple was changed to Luling County School, and Bailuzhou Academy moved to the northern suburbs of the city.After Bailuzhou Academy was rebuilt, the school in the northern suburbs of the city was changed to a private school, and now it is a girls' school.

Zhao Han popularized four-year compulsory education and required girls to also go to school, which made the gentry quite dissatisfied.

Although they are only children, men and women cannot give or receive each other.

Moreover, compulsory education is too nonsense, the teaching content is superficial, and the quality of teachers is also uneven.Especially in many rural schools, the teachers turned out to be children, who were not good enough in the Four Books and Five Classics, and could only teach students to read and learn arithmetic.

So some gentry requested that they raise their own funds to set up a girls' school without paying a penny from the government.

This kind of good thing, Zhao Han naturally agreed, there is only one request, to delete part of the "Four Books for Women"!

For example, the first chapter of "The Commandments of Women" was completely changed by Zhao Han.

"The Piece of Humbleness" was changed to "Pian of Kunde", and the idiot phrase "showing that she is humble and weak is the master's servant" was changed to "the virtue of being a wife, and the proper way of managing the family".Give birth to daughters and teach them under the bed, and give birth to sons under the bed to teach them. All such respectable things are deleted!Nongzhang and Nongwa are also all deleted!

Zhao Han directly wrote a preface to "The Commandments for Women", writing:

"The prosperity of a country depends on its people, and the prosperity of a family depends on its people. If you want to establish a country, you must first establish the people. If you want to establish the people, you must educate and educate. As a mother, the beginning of education must be observed..."

The gentry had no choice but to let their daughters read the new version of "The Commandments for Women" at school, and then learn the old version of "The Commandments for Women" after returning home.

Yingchun and Dongfu have regained their freedom, but they still work as maids at Lou's.

They led the two little girls to Chengbei Girls' School to enroll.

Along the way, Zhao Zhenfang and Fei Rumei chatted and found everything new and strange, mainly because they were full of fantasies about going to school.

Yingchun said to Dongfu in a low voice: "Will you go to get married on March [-]rd?"