Chapter 100 Father and Daughter, Returning to the Guardhouse
Chapter 100 Father and daughter, return to the guardhouse
Author: Fat Bird Goes First
Chapter 100 Father and daughter, return to the guardhouse
This time when the prefect came to the county to give lectures, Su Ze gained a new skill and a calligraphy skills. By the way, he gained another reputation among the scholars in Yanping Prefecture and Nanping County.
Fang Zhifu gained the reputation of loving the people like a son, and also gained the reputation of supporting the underachievers.
The students of Meridian Mansion and the academy had meritorious service, and the prefect's Yamen could not directly reward them. However, the squires present expressed their willingness to donate money to renovate the county school.
This lecture can be said to be the result of Qin Shihuang eating Sichuan peppercorns and winning.
After sending Magistrate Fang off, Hai Rui finally took some time in the afternoon to teach the four people about Confucian classics.
After listening to the class for two hours, the imperial examination experience +20, Su Ze's imperial examination skills have reached Lv4, 70/400.
At this rate, your liver will reach level five in no time.
When the class was over, Hai Rui called Su Ze to the study room and asked, "Have you chosen the Five Classics you want to treat?"
Su Ze had already thought of the answer, and he immediately said: "Teacher, I am going to treat "Spring and Autumn"."
Hai Rui was not surprised by Su Ze's choice. "Spring and Autumn" is the most difficult to treat among the Five Classics, but it is actually easy for people like Su Ze.
He has a solid foundation in the Four Books, and his memorization and understanding of the scriptures are good, which is more than enough to pass the Boy's Examination.
Spring and Autumn has a lot of words, but memorization is also Su Ze’s advantage.
Hai Rui said: "Today, Chief Chen donated a set of the Four Books and Five Classics to the county school. Let's take the Spring and Autumn Period part back and copy it."
Su Ze was delighted. Originally, he was planning to stay at the county school for one more day and copy more books back home, but now Hai Rui actually lent him the books to go back and copy.
"Thank you teacher."
Hai Rui said: "Chen Shanchang donated books because the prefect commended you. However, Chen Shanchang does not recognize your academics. He is a direct descendant of the academy. During the time when the academy was in the county, he
It’s better not to promote that set of knowledge that common people use every day.”
Su Ze nodded quickly. He had no intention of improving the "lecture" skill for the time being. He was not a scholar, so how could he give lectures to a bunch of scholars?
When Hai Rui saw that Su Ze did not want to forcefully promote the Taizhou School of scholarship, he felt relieved and encouraged him: "Study hard and you should be able to pass the exam in a few years. It will not be too late to promote it then."
Magistrate Fang returned to the mansion. Today, Mrs. Li went to fetch horses again. Magistrate Fang and his daughter were sitting at the table. Today's dishes were all light vegetarian dishes, which made Magistrate Fang, who likes meat, have a stomachache.
These exquisite materials are obviously produced by my daughter. My daughter is extremely talented. Whether it is the daughter's red embroidery or the men's classics and literature, they are all quite outstanding.
In comparison, my own son was much less useful.
Magistrate Fang also secretly regretted that if his daughter had been born as a boy, she would have really had hope of becoming a Jinshi.
Mrs. Li often goes out to play horse games, and her daughter takes care of all the affairs in the house.
Today I have to go to the county school, and my daughter is clamoring to go.
The daughter of a dignified prefect's family disguised herself as a man and went to a county school with a group of men. If word spread, the prefect would stop being an official.
The prefect sternly rejected his daughter, so tonight's all-vegetarian banquet was served.
"Lan'er, is today's meal a bit vegetarian?"
Fang Ruolan said with a slight smile: "Father, Huang Tiju from Huimin Pharmacy took your pulse last time. Didn't he say that your blood is stagnant and you need to eat less meat?"
Magistrate Fang grimaced, and Fang Ruolan added, "You should also drink less of this wine. Last time I had a drink with Uncle Kong Shi, I gave away my daughter's handwritten collection of essays."
When the magistrate was defeated, his daughter was very strange, and the only lady who could control her was still beating her up.
The prefect had a sad face and was preparing to have dinner.
Fang Ruolan clapped her hands, and a rough maid brought a night of maroon soup to the table.
"What's this?"
Magistrate Fang's face immediately turned pale. A few days ago, his daughter Fang Ruolan became obsessed with dietary therapy. Not only did he force himself to drink these health-preserving medicinal soups every day, he also forced himself to top up the life-saving money from Huimin Pharmacy and go there every day.
The pharmacy is trying hard to make Huimin Pharmacy famous.
Magistrate Fang had served as a county magistrate, so he naturally knew the crux of the problem of failure of these welfare institutions.
This cannot be realized with just one or two payments of life insurance money. The government offices of the Ming Dynasty were very strapped for funding, so making up for the life insurance money of Huimin Pharmacy was the best they could do within their scope of authority.
If you want to allocate more money, there are still so many rooms in the prefect's Yamen without office funds.
How many years have it been since there was no money to repair the irrigation project in the government? How long has it been since the official road was leveled?
Many houses in the prefecture's Yamen still leak when it rains!
Which yamen in the Ming Dynasty were not like this?
The prefect did not want to throw cold water on his daughter, so he temporarily let her go to Huimin Pharmacy.
When the pharmacy is really out of business, just give it some more funding to keep it going half-dead as before.
When the Shangguan comes to inspect, just grab some people from the streets and some doctors from private medical clinics, and pretend that the pharmacy is prosperous.
"Lan'er, what is this? Last time my father drank the herbal tea, but he had a violent discharge for two days. I won't give you a test this time!"
Fang Rulan's pretty face turned red. What happened last time was an accident. The pharmacy made a mistake in copying the prescription, substituting croton for croton. This caused her father to have diarrhea for several days.
Fang Rulan said with a straight face: "Father, you don't believe in your daughter's cooking skills? Then I won't care about cooking from now on."
The magistrate's face turned even more ugly. His wife worked all day long, and all the affairs of the house depended on her daughter. What would she do if she gave up the burden?
When he thought of this, Fang Zhifu looked at the maroon soup and said, "Just drink it for your father!"
After saying that, Magistrate Fang picked up the bowl and drank it with a deep breath.
Why does it taste sour and sweet, and is mellow and refreshing?
The prefect suddenly discovered that this scary-looking maroon-red sweet soup actually tasted quite good.
Magistrate Fang couldn't help but take another sip. It tasted really good, much better than the refreshing drinks he made in the summer!
"Dad, what do you think it tastes like?"
“Delicious!”
Fang Ruolan had actually tasted sour plum soup herself, but she wanted to hear objective opinions, so Magistrate Fang became the target of the trial.
"Dad, do you think you can make a profit selling this sweet soup at Huimin Pharmacy?"
"Selling sweet soup? Is it troublesome to make this sweet soup? How much does it cost?"
Fang Ruolan said: "The cost is not high, it's just some common medicinal materials such as black plums and other counterfeit medicines. The bowl that Dad and He had was added with rock sugar. If you buy it in the pharmacy, you can just use brown sugar. If it doesn't work, you can also use Jiaozhi brown sugar."
Hearing that the cost was not high, Magistrate Fang stroked his beard and said:
"The weather is getting hotter, so I might as well give it a try."
Fang Ruolan said again: "Dad, every time Huimin Pharmacy dispenses medicine, people from Bawang Society come to rob it, and you, the prefect, don't care about it?"
Magistrate Fang said helplessly: "How can I, the magistrate, take care of these civil affairs?"
Fang Ruolan said: "If my daughter's business is robbed, dad, won't you care?"
Magistrate Fang sighed and said, "Well, how about I send two Minzhuangs to Huimin Pharmacy to maintain order?"
Fang Ruolan said with a smile: "Then Lan'er would like to thank dad on behalf of the people benefited by Huimin Pharmacy. Oh, by the way, there is another dish that I forgot to serve. Please bring it up quickly."
The maid next to Fang Ruolan immediately went down, and soon a fragrant meat dish was brought up.
The prefect could not do anything about the daughter. The father and daughter had dinner, and the prefect drank sour plum soup and talked about what he had learned in the county today.
Fang Ruolan asked in surprise: "There are actually scholars in Nanping County who know Wang Taizhou's knowledge?"
Magistrate Fang stroked his beard and nodded and said: "Yes, this Chang Ning Wei Su Ze is a good scholar, but he studied a little late. It shouldn't be a big problem to win the imperial examination before the age of thirty."
"Chang Ning Wei? Su Ze?"
Fang Ruolan thought of that prescription, what a coincidence?
The prefect did not notice anything strange about his daughter and continued: "Today I gave him a cousin name. Lan'er, you are right. The rich and powerful people in Yanping Prefecture are complicated, and a scholar like Su Ze with an innocent background is the one to be chosen."
In the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult for prefectural and county powers to enter the countryside, and scholars were an important part of grassroots governance.
For example, if Changningwei has a scholar like Su Ze, then Su Ze can almost be regarded as Changningwei's talker.
The scholars in each village and district are the most important link at the grassroots level.
They were required to propagate the imperial decrees, adjudicate disputes in the countryside, draft contract documents, and entrust the government offices of the Qing Dynasty to carry out the work. They were also responsible for collecting grain and pushing people to do corvee service. All these were also attended by scholars.
When Fang Zhifu first became the prefect, he was somewhat ambitious.
Fang Ruolan said: "If dad really likes this Su Ze, he can push him in the imperial examination."
Magistrate Fang looked at his daughter in surprise. He stroked his beard and said, "That's not necessary. Su Ze is a quick thinker. It's not difficult to pass the examination, but whether he can be a Jinshi depends on chance."
"Dad thinks so highly of him?"
Fang Ruolan was surprised at this time. You must know that although her father's handwriting is not good-looking, his work is a bit messy, and he likes to drink too much and ruin things, he is also a Jinshi.
As the top problem maker in the Ming Dynasty, Fang Zhifu's evaluation can be said to be very high.
Magistrate Fang told his daughter what he had heard today: "The saint makes his speech first, and the laws of heaven are the same." Fang Ruolan also fell silent.
"It's really wonderful!" Fang Ruolan said.
Magistrate Fang nodded and said, "With this talent, you can become famous all over the world even if you don't get Jinshi."
After saying this, the prefect secretly looked at his daughter.
If so, does Su Ze seem to be a good candidate for a son-in-law?
It would be difficult for my daughter with her personality to marry into a big family with strict family rules.
Su Ze's parents are both dead and he is alone. If Lan'er gets married, he won't have to serve his parents-in-law.
The prefect Fang shook his head, and he should wait until Su Ze passed the boy's examination. He was a Jinshi and the prefect of Yanping Prefecture, so he couldn't marry his daughter to an ordinary military household.
After a night of silence, Su Ze and the other four ended the course and returned home.
When Su Ze returned to Changningwei, he passed by the door of Huimin Pharmacy and saw two large vats at the door, allowing passers-by to drink sour plum soup and herbal tea for free.
There were two armed Minzhuang guards standing next to the vat. Su Ze felt that his guess was correct. The woman in brocade clothes disguised as a man had an extraordinary status and could actually mobilize the officials and Minzhuang to help her maintain order.
If I sell herbal tea and sour plum soup in the county town, I am afraid that I will be exploited by the gangsters.
However, both the sour plum soup and herbal tea require sugar. When the business of Huimin Pharmacy is up, Su Ze can contact them and sell Changningwei's sugar to them.
Riding Hai Rui's horse, he returned to Changning Guard in less than half a day.
As soon as he arrived in front of Changning Guard, Su Ze saw Lin Xianyang looking at the door of Changning Guard.
When Lin Xianyang saw Su Ze, he immediately came up to him.
"Brother Aze, my father is waiting for you to go to the ancestral hall to discuss matters!"
Su Ze handed the horse to Lin Xianyang and walked into the ancestral hall. He only saw his grandfather, ninth aunt and Lin Baihu sitting in the hall.
Seeing Su Ze coming, the old man said: "Let me send you a letter from the general manager. Our Changning Guard is a hereditary hundred-household office. We must first pay two hundred taels to the censor."
Sure enough, Yan Maoqing is like a goose plucking its feathers, and he will not let go of any big or small household.
However, this time there was no Xu Shisheng standing in the way of Yan Maoqing, and the Changning Guard paid a tribute of two hundred taels of silver according to the normal standard of one hundred households.
Although two hundred taels of silver is a lot, it is much less than the five hundred taels recorded in the family tree before time travel.
It is impossible for the current Changning Guards to rebel immediately, and the money that should be paid still has to be paid.
Su Ze has already memorized the name Yan Maoqing, and will definitely ask him for it if he has the opportunity in the future.
Seeing that Su Ze had no objection, the old man said, "The ancestral hall and hundreds of households have pooled together the money. Let Xian Yang take this money to Fuzhou City, right?"
Su Ze nodded. Now Su Ze has a very high prestige among the young people in Changningwei. The old man in the family wanted to lose money and eliminate the disaster, but he was afraid that Su Ze would not compromise because he was young and energetic.
Su Ze didn't object, the matter was over, and the old man breathed a sigh of relief.
After talking about Yan Maoqing's blackmail, Lin Mojun said:
"According to the General Secretary's letter, there is an urgent military information. King Lu has already invaded the sea and is raiding the Japanese pirates under the command of Captain Wufeng. When the rainy season ends, he is afraid that he will invade Fujian."
There was silence in the ancestral hall. King Lu was Lin Mojun's most direct enemy of killing his father. Even if Lin Mojun didn't mention avenging his father, Changning Guard, as a coastal guard, must obey the order and send the commander-in-chief into battle.
This time the enemy is not the county magistrate who is strong, but the ferocious real Japanese.
In the past few days, Lin Mojun had been training with the guardsmen and remnants of the army to use muskets, but Lin Mojun still had no idea. If King Lu really invaded, could Changning Guard be able to resist it?
According to the family tree records of his previous life, King Lu only joined the invaders in December at the end of the year, but now that history has been changed a bit by Su Ze, he doesn't know if this time will be brought forward.
But when he heard that the Deer King would not invade until after the rainy season, Su Ze breathed a sigh of relief.
Isn’t there still time?
It was only May, and there was still more than half a year to go. Su Ze was confident that he could train the Bird Gun Team and build a strong army for the Changning Guard.
Lin Mojun said to Su Ze in a pleading tone: "This gunman is different from many other types of soldiers. After practicing these days, I still can't get it right, so I still need to ask brother Aze to take action."
Lin Mojun's request was exactly what Su Ze wanted.
Su Ze was ready to practice his "Art of War" and "Imperial Examination" skills. He said to Lin Mojun:
"Starting tomorrow, I will go to the school grounds to assist hundreds of households in their military training."