Wanli Youming

Chapter 63
Liu Quexian first parked the wheelbarrow he bought, then brought a bag of silver on the car to Laidi, and opened the bag: "Look!"

Laidi was even happier after seeing her.

Here, Wang Changgeng smiled and said to his servant: "Go back and tell your family that I won't be going home tonight. I will sleep with my friends at Liu Quexian's house, so as to improve the friendship of classmates. Then There is no need to come back, my friend has servants here."

After hearing this, Laidi couldn't help but stop smiling.

Wang Changgeng's servant agreed to go.

After the young man left, Wang Changgeng said to Liu Quexian, "I'll go first. If they come to ask tomorrow morning, they will say that I have gone back early."

Liu Quexian nodded.

Then, Wang Changgeng asked Liu Quexian again, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to go and bring me to meet you?"

Here, Laidi couldn't help asking Liu Quexian: "Didn't he want to stay at home overnight? Why did he say he was going?"

"It's just an excuse. He's going to the Qinhuai River to drink flower wine and seek out scholars and ministers to discuss the knowledge of managing the world and helping the people."

Liu Quexian said.

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

Liu Quexian smiled and said, "It's fine if I have a sister."

Laidi's face turned red, she turned around and said, "I'll cook."

Immediately, Laidi said to the two maidservants: "Come with me, you are all from rich families, there are some rules, so I don't think I need to say more?"

"know."

"We didn't hear anything about what the man and sister said just now."

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

After the meal, Laidi fetched hot water for Liu Quexian to take a bath, and then personally waited for Liu Quexian to wash her hair without letting the two maidservants come.

And after washing and drying Liu Quexian's hair, she took a maidservant to let him wash her body and head, and then sent the two maidservants to sleep in another room, wearing a wet hair Wufa went to the bed first, sat on the bed, curled her thin legs covered by the skirt, rubbed her hair with a dry handkerchief, and looked at Liu Quexian, who was still copying Shiwen by candlelight on the desk. : "Still asleep?"

"Go to bed first, I have to finish copying."

Liu Quexian said again: "This time I went to Changzhou, Suzhou with the Wang family, and I have seen it."

"It turns out that there are so many old masters who oppose Qingzhang and Kaihai!"

"They all said that the Son of Heaven was deceived by Jiangling, and that Jiangling's arbitrariness of power has already made him a traitor to the people, making the world restless."

"However, I always feel that something is wrong. What's more, I can still read. I already know from the "Di Bao" of the newspaper copying company that I was released from the prison because the government began to clean up. I bought you back and bought weaving. The machine’s money is the only way to make a fortune like this.”

"In addition, I also understand that opening the sea is beneficial to us ordinary people. As long as more seas are opened, we ordinary people can earn more money, and we don't need to look at the big families."

"You don't have to kneel and beg them to lend us money in famine years, and you have to thank them for buying them after selling your children to them."

Liu Quexian looked back at Laidi as he spoke, and saw that she was listening seriously, so he continued: "But many masters and relatives say this is wrong! They all call Jiangling a disaster for the country!"

"I don't agree with it!"

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

"But now I still think that in the future, maybe the emperor can hear more than one voice, and let the emperor know that there are some people who think that what Yuanfu and Zhang Jiangling did was right."

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

Liu Quexian laughed when he said this, and said again: "I have to take advantage of Wang Changgeng's pursuit of the oiran in Qinhuai River and need money, so I can spend more money to get some Shiwen from him, and copy more, or else I will lose money." Relying on the books of the sages, people like me will never be able to pass the Jinshi exam."

Then, Liu Quexian put down his pen, and instead of copying the article, he walked towards Laidi.

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

Liu Quexian got up and walked to Laidi to sit down.

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

At this time, Liu Quexian took out three deeds of sale: "This is yours, here you go, you can tear it up yourself. There are two more, which belong to these two girls you just bought, and you keep them for me. Now There are too many voices against opening the sea and continuing to clean up the Zhang. I am still worried that such a good time will not last long, so I dare not tear up the two of them. , I also tore up the contract of prostitution of these two girls, and re-established the contract of employment."

"Hire?"

Laidi asked curiously.

Liu Quexian nodded and said, "In order to produce more cloth, many families in Suzhou have started to only hire weavers, and they don't buy people to go home!"

"Because this not only allows the weavers to have their own wages, but also works more to earn more, so that the weavers can also make a fortune, and the owner's family can also get more cloth and sell it for more money, which is much more cost-effective than buying it back and raising it."

"Many families even take the initiative to tear up the contracts of sale of their servants and replace them with employment contracts, and even let the hired workers share dividends! Everything is for the sake of producing more cloth and earning more money."

"It's just that the future is unclear. This new policy seems to be the idea of ​​Jiang Ling and the elders, and it may be abolished."

"Except for some bold people, there are still many powerless and ordinary merchants who dare not turn all their servants into hired workers, and are still waiting and watching."

"After all, the lords and husbands who own the land are against it."

"And people like us may go back to the days when we were blackmailed into selling people, so we kept the deeds of selling the two girls, just in case we were desperate in the future and could sell them for money."

"You don't know, in Changzhou, Suzhou, many old masters are giving lectures and criticizing the New Deal, and some of the school's ministers directly exposed the post on the city gate official office. .”

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

Laidi thought for a while and said seriously, and then said: "I also overheard it in the palace family. They said that the lords and gentlemen of the world represent the hearts of the people. If the hearts of the people are not willing, His Majesty will say nothing, let alone doing it now. These are only Teacher Tianzi."

……

"As expected of my husband! Only my husband dares to do this."

"Sure enough, those who dare to fight against the world's meat-eaters all started as teachers."

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said after watching Zhang Juzheng's memorial to invite strict management of students and gentry to discuss politics.

According to the content of Zhang Juzheng's memorandum, it is required that officials, gentry and current students should not discuss politics, otherwise they will be removed from honoring officials and fame, and they will be dismissed as common people.

In other words, it's not that you are not allowed to speak, but you can't criticize the New Deal while enjoying the privileges granted by the imperial court and eating the imperial food, and at the same time run dogs for the rich and powerful.

Since the imperial court wants to implement the New Deal, it will naturally not support those who oppose the New Deal.

Although this is much more gentle than the beheading of gentry and freshmen in the Qing Dynasty when discussing politics, especially in the Qianlong period, if non-incumbent officials discussed politics, let alone criticize the government, even if they praised the government, they would be copied and beheaded, that is, they would be shut up directly. In the free and peaceful Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng's actions were already very strict!

It is very different from other scholar-bureaucrats who are unwilling to be enemies of the entire scholar-lin.

Although Zhang Juzheng began to strictly control the students, Zhu Yijun agreed very much, and even felt that his attack on the opposition was not enough, but he still asked: "Now the government, the central government and the people are concerned about the Qingzhang Tianmu matter that is already being implemented and the upcoming further opening of the sea. What kinds of voices are there?"

"Returning to the emperor, there is only one voice between the court and the people. Both the court and the central government support Qingzhang and further opening of the sea, and the people oppose Qingzhang and further opening of the sea."

Zhang Jing replied.

(End of this chapter)