Once the Lantern Festival is over, the year is over.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Wen will go back to the academy to study, and start preparing for this year's exam.

Years later, he received a gift and a letter from Dean Fu. The gift to him was a few books, and there were only a few sentences in the letter, which roughly meant that if he failed even a small college exam, don't call him teacher.

Can he understand that if he passes the college exam, he can formally worship Dean Fu as his teacher?

Li Wen was a little surprised to receive a letter from Dean Fu. He did not expect that Dean Fu would send him a letter. You can imagine Dean Fu's expression when he wrote the letter.He was still in a good mood, and treasured the first letter written to him by Dean Fu and put it away.

Of course he has to pass the college exam, how can he go down the exam if he doesn't get the qualification of a student?

Now Lu Zhishu went to Nanyang to study, and Shen Zijing and Su Yuan were preparing for the college exam with him.Lu Zhishu is gone, Li Wen will think of him occasionally,

After the college entrance examination this year, he will probably go to Nanyang, maybe they will meet again?

It's just that he hasn't mentioned his plan to go to Nanyang to his family yet, and he will have to tell his family about it when the time comes.Li Wen could almost imagine the reaction of his family members when he proposed to study in such a far place, and thought it was a bit of a headache.

I don't care about it for the time being, let's talk about it after the college entrance examination.

During the first six months of the year, Li Wen devoted himself to his studies. Dean Fu would send him a letter every once in a while, and he would also write letters to Dean Fu. way of communication.In the letters, Li Wen would ask Dean Fu about the problems he encountered while studying, and Dean Fu would answer him when he wrote back, and sometimes scolded him for being stupid between the lines, even for such small problems. ask him.

Dean Fu's last words and sentences are very advanced, and there is absolutely no dirty word in them.

Remembering that Dean Fu would lose his appetite to eat when the weather was hot, he had never seen such a delicate person.I don't know if the kimchi given to Dean Fu last year has been eaten. This year, Li Wen asked his mother to prepare it in advance, and asked someone to send it to Nanyang to Dean Fu when sending the letter.

He still hasn't found chili peppers yet, and he doesn't know if chili peppers have been brought to their country from overseas.

If he can find chili, he can also make hot and sour cabbage for President Fu, and stir-fry all kinds of meat and vegetables with chili. Chili is also an indispensable seasoning for cleaning the pot.Thinking of that taste, Li Wen couldn't help swallowing, and found that he was thinking a little too far, so he quickly pulled back his thoughts and devoted himself to reading.

Spring comes in March, and the spring snow melts. Just wait for a spring rain, and the ground can be planted.

It's only March this year, and people from the yamen have come to the village to collect taxes, which is tantamount to making things worse for many families.This is the time of the year when there is no harvest, and the officials come to collect taxes before the seeds in the fields have been planted.

The village head, He Lizheng, took the officials who came to Lijia Village to the village to inform every household to prepare food, and if anyone had silver taels, they could also use silver taels to pay for it.

As for those who have neither food nor silver, if they don’t want to go in and eat in prison, they should find a way to prepare food...

"Officer, didn't you just collect the grain tax the year before last? Why did you come to collect the grain tax so early this year?" Li Shanshan invited the officials to drink tea in the house, and asked his servants to bring tea and snacks. The poor man is here to inquire about the news.

"Several uncles eat something to fill their stomachs, and they are tired after walking for a long time."

"This is an order from above, and we just obeyed it." The leading officer drank tea and ate some snacks, and talked about some things about the court, "You don't know, this year's snowstorm, several provinces in the north have suffered disasters... ..."

"Didn't the imperial court issue an order to increase the family's tax?" the official said in a low voice.

Oh, it turned out that this was the case, and Li Shanshan understood it in his heart.

Their family still had a lot of food, but it was not easy to buy food outside at the moment, so their family took silver taels to pay for it, and also gave a few more copper coins to let the poor masters buy wine and eat .

After walking such a long distance, it is not an easy task for every household to collect grain, and they will even conflict with the government when they encounter desperate people.But there was nothing they could do. With the order from above, they could only follow through on errands.

Now that the officials were full and took the money, their faces looked better.

The official sent a trip to the village and took away a lot of food when he left.

As soon as the officials left, many families were crying and mourning. The grain in the field had to wait until autumn to harvest. At this time, they handed over the remaining grain at home. What would their family rely on? go down.

Fortunately, many people worked in the workshop and got a few wages a few years ago, but now they are all given to the government.

"Hey... how are you guys living these days..." The village chief and Li Zheng sent away the officials who came to collect grain, all of them

sigh.

They all knew that once the food was delivered, the lives of the people in their village would be difficult.

Turning around, the village chief and Li Zheng went to Li Shanshan's place. Li Shanshan was silent for a while, and said, "I don't have an idea about this right now. I'll think about it later, and we'll discuss it later."

The business of the shop is not good after the next year, so the workshop definitely doesn't need to hire so many people to work, and I have to go back and discuss this matter with my son.He mentioned this matter to his son years ago, and he knew that his son must have an idea.

He just knew that his son was going to prepare for the exam after the next year. As a father, he couldn't disturb his son's study, so it was better to go back and talk to his son about how to deal with this matter.

"All right, tell us what you can think of, and let's think of a solution together." The village head Li Mao had nothing to do, so he came to Li Shanshan.As the head of a village, he really couldn't help but watch the people in a village go hungry and couldn't live on.

Instead, he still has to think of a way to make everyone's life go on, and he will discuss it with Da'er later.

Li Shanshan sent the village head and Li Zheng away, and went home to talk about it with his wife.

When Sun Yi heard what her man said, she didn't have any good ideas as a woman. She and her son's thoughts coincided with each other, so she said, "We can do as much work as we have, we shouldn't Don't grab it either."

"Don't worry, I know what you said." Li Shanshan knew in his heart that he was not alone. He had a wife, children and mother at home. The youngest son was only a few months old, and the eldest son was studying in an academy. Promising.

As a father, he just hoped that his two sons would be successful in the future, and he had nothing to worry about in his life.

The official sent to Lijia Village to collect grain, and the journey was peaceful. Some people in other villages really couldn't afford food, so they didn't work hard with the official.There is no way to live this day, God forces people to have no way out...

After school in the afternoon, Li Shanshan drove the donkey cart to pick up his son home.

On the way, the man talked with his son about the fact that the official officer came to the village to collect grain taxes today, and also mentioned what the official officer had told him in private.

The snowstorm in the north, the imperial court had no money to relieve the disaster, so they turned their ideas on the common people.

"..." Li Wen was speechless after listening to his father's words, the emperor must be crazy about money!What do you think. "Crazy!" Li Wen stretched out his hand and pinched the center of his eyebrows, thinking that the emperor was crazy.

Li Wen was a little skeptical at first, is he really going to study hard to take the imperial examination, and then go to work for such an emperor?

#On the importance of having a brainy boss! #

When the imperial court has no money for disaster relief, shouldn’t the first thing that comes to mind be to scrape the money from those corrupt officials? Where did the imperial court’s money go?If the emperor has no money, it must be in the pockets of the ministers.No matter which dynasty it is in, there must be corrupt officials, and these people are the moths of the country.

It seems that the emperor is a bully and fears the hard. If he can't move his ministers, he will move his ideas on the people. I'm afraid there are many ministers' ideas in it.For the first time, Li Wen faced up to the emperor and the official system of this era.

The court had no money for disaster relief, so it took the idea to the people, and the unreasonable increase in food taxes did not know how many people had no food to live on.It is never a wise idea to move the east wall to make up for the west wall.

However, it is not good for Li Wen to comment on whether the emperor's actions are right in front of his father, an ancient man, so as not to scare his father.Taking their small Li family village as an example, once the grain is harvested, many people may not be able to eat the grain in their homes until this year's grain is harvested.

This year's fields haven't been sown yet, and the crops haven't been planted yet, so it's a bit far away to harvest grain?Moreover, none of them dare to be sure about the weather this year. The people's lives will be better in a year with good weather. If it is a dry year, then I really dare not think about it!

"Father, I have an idea here, but I don't know if it will work." On the way back, Li Wen talked about his idea with his father.If it can be done, it will not be a problem to feed the people of their entire village, let alone feed the people of the entire Qingping Town.

After listening to his son's words, it's no wonder his son said that they can't do such a big thing with their own strength, but what if the whole Li family and the whole village do it together?Li Shanshan pondered what his son said in his heart, "Alright, I'll talk to the village chief and Li Zheng when I get back."

"Father, I can't guarantee that this will be successful. Let's try it first? Don't talk too much. You talk to the village head and Li Zheng first, and find a few companies that are willing to do it together. Come out, everyone will work together first, and if it is successful, we will take the rest of the family to do it together." Li Wen does not guarantee that it will be successful, but he has to try to know if he can succeed, right?

"You don't even need to tell me that Dad understands. Dad knows this." Li Shanshan drove the donkey and carried his son back home.

After sending his son home, Li Shanshan went to the village head's house to find the village head.

The village head sent someone to find Lizheng and the Zhang elders of the clan, and everyone discussed things in the house for a long time.

After the new year, Li Xiaoliu is already more than five months old. He can already sit up and recognize people. His big round eyes are rolling around. Besides his aunt, he is the favorite He is a brother.

As soon as he saw his brother coming back, he was dancing and shouting. Li Wen hurriedly reached out to catch the kid, and asked, "I haven't seen my brother for a day, do you miss my brother?"

The kid was still awake when he went out early in the morning, and he was thinking about it if he hadn't seen the kid outside all day.

"Ah... oh..." Li Xiaoliu grasped his brother's collar tightly with both hands, for fear that if he ran away, he wouldn't play with him.

"Li Haopeng, do you know that you are a bit overweight? If you get so fat, my brother won't be able to hold you anymore." Xiaopangdun was five or six months old, and Li Wen felt a little bit reluctant to hold this kid in his hands. , plus the brat was not honestly being held by him in his arms, he twisted and twisted, and he might fall off if he was not careful, so he had to hold on firmly.

"You child, do you say that about your younger brother?" Sun Yi smiled helplessly when she heard her son's words, and asked, "Didn't your father send you back? What about others."

"I went to the village chief's grandfather's house." Li Wen touched his nose, was he telling the truth?Li Wen hurriedly gave Li Xiaoliu to his mother, and he said, "Daddy let us eat first, don't wait for him, he doesn't know when he will come back."

Sun Yi shook her head, and knew why her man went to the village chief's place.

The family will eat first, and they don't wait for the man who hasn't come back.

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