The Wuji Zhen family, a family built by female streamers

Jizhou, Wuji County.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a special time, as agricultural activities at the beginning of the year have not yet officially begun.

From the first day of the lunar month until February, all farmers are waiting for God to provide a drenching rain so that they can loosen the land and sow spring wheat and peas.

Children around the age of fifteen can enter university to study the Five Classics at this time.

Only when the water in the inkstone no longer freezes can eight-year-old children enter primary school.

As mentioned before, the "primary school" and "university" mentioned in ancient times are different from those in later generations. What is more referred to here is the difference between "study at a university" and "xuexiao".

According to the description in "Book of Rites".

Six-year-old children need to know numbers and east, south, west and north;

At the age of seven, you have to learn the differences between men and women;

At the age of eight, you need to know the most basic etiquette;

Nine years old should be familiar with the year, month and day;

Ten-year-old girls stay at home, while boys go to boarding schools to learn "Chinese" and "Mathematics";

Being exposed to instrumental music, poetry, and dance at the age of thirteen can be understood as the official start of the ancient "primary school" curriculum.

At this time, the Zhen family in Wuji, Hebei...

Zhen Yi's eldest daughter, ten-year-old Zhen Jiang, has reached the age of "staying at home". Logically speaking, her mother should teach her weaving and embroidery, but the Zhen family is different.

The Zhen family has always attached great importance to the inheritance of poetry and calligraphy, and her mother, Zhang, is also a famous and talented woman.

What few people know is that Mrs. Zhang is also a business prodigy. Through her husband's family, Zhen Yi is a descendant of the "Taibao" Zhen Han, and her ancestor is also related to the saint by marriage. Throughout Jizhou, they have established a special relationship.

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She and her husband ran the business together, and they did it well.

This also benefited Zhen Yi a lot.

The rain was gurgling outside the window, and Mrs. Zhang was teaching her eldest daughter Zhen Jiang some business knowledge!

"well…"

Suddenly I heard a sigh in the next room. It turned out that it was Zhen Yi under the lamp who was concentrating on reading a letter. She sighed for some reason.

Mrs. Zhang immediately told Zhen Jiang to study hard, and she slowly went out, walked through the corridor... and walked to the house next door and asked softly.

"Whose letter is it from? It makes my husband so melancholy?"

Zhen Yi hurriedly put down the letter and stood up to open the door for his wife. Mrs. Zhang's face was full of doubts outside the door. Zhen Yi suddenly realized: "Have you and Jiang Er been alarmed?"

Mrs. Zhang lamented: "Since I got to know Guanzhu Liu, my husband has rarely looked so sad."

As Mrs. Zhang said...

It was because they went to Yulin to worship incense that they got acquainted with the young temple owner, Liu Yu.

The relationship between the two parties was sublimated because of a "strange" business!

At that time, Liu Yu was hoarding a batch of Hu utensils. Because the Yulin Temple did not have enough money, he sold the "houses" in the temple and exchanged "acres" for money and food.

When Zhen Yi and Mrs. Zhang saw this, they generously donated their money and used the Zhen family's ancestral property to support him!

And the reason for doing this...

That's because a few years ago, Zhen Yi and Mrs. Zhang came to Yulin to worship incense. When they met the seven or eight-year-old little temple master, Liu Yu heard their names and made a divination for them, saying,

Mrs. Zhang will give birth to three sons and five daughters in the future!

You know, since she gave birth to Zhen Jiang when she was fifteen, her body was ruined and she didn't have any sex for seven or eight years.

Many doctors said that she might never get pregnant again!

Not to mention three boys, five girls... even adding a male to the Zhen family has become a luxury.

As the saying goes, there are three types of unfilial piety, the worst is not having children!

Without a male, Mrs. Zhang would become the sinner of the Zhen family!

But Liu Yu, the young consecrator, seemed to have opened his mouth. After these words, Mrs. Zhang gave birth to three children in three years, including a pair of twins!

even…

In the fourth year, there are signs of pregnancy again!

Now, the Zhen family was so happy. In order to express gratitude... I heard that Liu Yu was going to sell Yulin Temple to stock up on Hu weapons. Zhen Yi decisively took out his family property to support Liu Yu, which solved his urgent need and saved him from having to sell Yulin Temple.

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But who would have thought...

Because the emperor liked Huqi, Huqi became popular in the palace. For a time, a "Hu" trend spread throughout the Han Dynasty!

The price of Huqi has soared a hundred times. Although Liu Yu made a lot of money, he still gave half of the profit back to the Zhen family.

Now, the Zhen family has gained face and dignity, and even, at Liu Yu's suggestion, used a drop of this huge sum of money to make a fortune, and even became the "Shang Cai Ling"!

It can be said that since their ancestors, the Zhen family members have once again entered the official career with one leg.

The whole incident, Zhen Yi and Mrs. Zhang seemed to be living in a dream!

now…

I have children, I have money, I have an official position, and happiness comes too suddenly.

And all of this is because...because of this Master Liu Xiaoguan!

Since then, the Zhen family has had closer contacts with Yulin Temple, Zhen Yi and Liu Yu, and the entire Zhen family respects Liu Yu even more!

If Liu Yu hadn't allowed it, Zhen Yi would have wanted to open a Yulin temple for him in Wuji County, Jizhou!

From that time on, everything in the Zhen family became smooth sailing, and where was there any trace of sadness?

Therefore…

Mrs. Zhang was full of doubts. Whose letter could make her husband look so sad for a long time?

"It's a letter from Guanzhu Liu."

Zhen Yi replied.

Mrs. Zhang entered the room, took off her raincoat, wiped her wet hands, leaned over to flip through the letter, and roughly scanned the contents.

Mrs. Zhang exclaimed: "Master Liu, you actually let us continue to buy good horses?"

Zhen Yi took the letter, unfolded it and placed it between the two of them. "This time, I can't understand Guanzhu Liu. If he said that hoarding nearly two thousand good horses before was 'hoarding,' he predicted it."

The horse price will rise, but now...the horse price is already at the highest level since the Guangwu Dynasty, and it should be sold...so that both us and Liu Guanzhu can make a lot of money!"

"This can also prevent horse price fluctuations and save the cost of raising horses, but why continue to hoard them? Even buying them at a price of 100,000 yuan higher than the market price? This is against common sense!"

this…

Mrs. Zhang said nothing, her eyes still fixed on the letter.

actually.

The content of this letter from Guanzhu Liu is not only about purchasing horses from nobles at high prices? It also mentions something...both Yulin Guan and the Zhen family must start to stock up on donkeys!

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Stock up on donkeys!

This is a wave that has not calmed down, but another wave is rising again!

Two thousand good horses are not for sale, but we have to continue collecting horses and start hoarding donkeys. How great is the financial pressure?

certainly…

Donkeys are not expensive. A good horse used to cost 20,000 yuan, but the best-looking donkey only cost 3,000 yuan.

The difficulty is that these animals are very expensive to raise...

Raising donkeys is not much easier than raising horses.

call…

Mrs. Zhang let out a long cry. Her husband couldn't read Guanzhu Liu's letter, so how could she?

I was going to open up and discuss it.

Can…

Mrs. Zhang suddenly thought of something and shook her head slightly.

"Husband, let me ask you, in the past... Master Liu Xiaoguan said that I could still be pregnant and give birth to three sons and five daughters. Neither husband nor I believed it. But now that I have given birth to two sons and three daughters, husband believes it now.

What?"

"Of course I believe it!"

"But why can Master Liu Xiaoguan predict this and dare to say so? Did my husband...understand it at that time?"
To be continued...