After the big fool gets married

The county school, like other academies, also closed at the end of the month.

This day was the day before Xiumu, and he could leave school early if he had nothing to do in the afternoon. Wu Xuan planned to go home for lunch later, and then went to meet the boss of Silent Pavilion with Doudou.

As a result, the master notified Xuezheng adults to go to Dingshan County for a parade, and decided to come to the county to teach a class, and everyone stayed.

Wu Xuan had no choice but to go to the cafeteria with the three people who shared the same room for lunch.

Having been together for a month, the four of them can be regarded as relatively familiar friends.Even Yang Xiuzhu, who had always been cowardly, dared to have a word with Wu Xuan.

He said: "Brother Wenxuan, your jade pendant is so beautiful."

Wu Xuan lowered his head to look at the jade pendant on his waist, thinking of the scene where Doudou helped him tie his belt in the morning, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up a gentle arc, "This is the mandarin duck pendant, Doudou and I are half of each other, we put it together to compare It’s better just to look at it.”

Master Ji only had his job on hand, and Wu Xuan didn't mention specific requirements, it was all up to Master Ji to perform, so Master Ji carved the most suitable object based on his experience, and the progress was naturally very fast.

It took only one month to carve out two pairs of jade rings and six jade pendants, one of which was the mandarin duck pendant Wu Xuan was wearing today.

Yesterday Master Ji's son, Ji Qing, delivered the things directly to his home, and said: "There are still two pairs of exquisite balls left. Because the carving is complicated, it will take another month, so my father asked me to send these to you first. .”

Wu Xuan opened the box and looked at the items, he was very satisfied, and paid half of the labor fee on the spot.

Hearing Wu Xuan's answer, Yang Xiuzhu let out a soft "oh" and didn't speak again.

In the afternoon, there was a lecture by Mr. Dai. The students who are used to going out for lunch all went to the cafeteria today because they were afraid of going out and delaying their time.

Therefore, when Wu Xuan and the others arrived at the entrance of the cafeteria, they happened to meet Zhai Le and his party.

Zhai Le still looked like his nostrils were upturned, he looked up and down the shabby clothes Liu Siyuan was wearing, and said mockingly: "Didn't you hook up with Jiang Qiushi? Why are you wearing such shabby clothes, could it be—"

He approached Liu Siyuan, and said meanly: "Abandoned?"

Liu Siyuan waved his arm blocking the way, and walked directly to the door.

Zhai Le persisted, "We are all classmates, so there is nothing we can't say."

Wu Wentao stepped forward to smooth things over and said, "Brother Zhai, let's go in first, it doesn't look good to be blocked at the door."

Zhai Le grabbed Liu Siyuan's arm and said: "Come in, let's sit at a table and have a good catch up."

Liu Siyuan didn't shake it off for a long time, his face turned red with anger.

Several people sat down around a big table, and Zhai Le continued to taunt: "You deserve to be cheated! I told you that prostitutes in brothels can't be trusted, and you insist on getting so close to her! I don't know how many times I have seduced you!" Men's whores—"

"Zhai Le, shut up!" Liu Siyuan yelled angrily, flung his arms away, and even bumped Zhai Le onto the table.

"Hiss——" Zhai Le gasped in pain, his face twisted and he couldn't speak.

Wu Xuan happened to be next to Liu Siyuan and supported him so that he would not fall to the ground after being hit.

Liu Siyuan whispered, "Thank you."

Wu Wentao comforted the people on both sides, and persuaded: "We are all classmates, so we should get along in harmony. And there will be a lecture by Mr. Dai in the afternoon. If we delay it any longer, I'm afraid it will be late."

Zhai Le sat on the chair with his waist supported, the pain was so painful that he had no strength to curse.

Wu Wentao simply ordered some food, and then found a new topic, "I heard that when Mr. Dai came out of Zhenxing Mansion, our Dingshan County was the first to go on tour."

A student who came with Zhai Le also answered in order to ease the atmosphere, "This shows that Xuezheng-sama values ​​our Dingshan County School the most."

"I don't care much!" Zhai Le retorted vulgarly, "Master Xuezheng must value the school in Zhenxing Mansion the most. Otherwise, why did Brother Shao go to great lengths to move his household registration to the city? Isn't it because of the school Is your wife better than the county school?"

"The county school is definitely not comparable to the prefectural school." The student said, "But compared with other county schools, our Dingshan County school is the most valued by Mr. Dai."

Zhai Le sneered, "Dingshan County is just an ordinary small county, and it can't be ranked in Fucheng. There is no precedent for the previous Xuezheng to visit Dingshan County as the first stop of the parade. This time, Master Dai came here, it must be a rush Brother Wenxuan!"

In fact, Zhai Le wanted to know that Lord Dai came for Wu Xuan and Liu Siyuan, but he didn't want to praise Liu Siyuan, so he only said Wu Xuan's name.

Wu Wentao nodded, and said, "Gu Jinyuan returned to the capital after the exam. The remaining two students with the most outstanding talents are Brother Datang and Brother Liu. Mr. Dai loves talents very much, so he came to our Dingshan County School first."

Zhai Le snorted coldly, but did not refute.

-

Master Xuezheng's lecture was arranged at the open-air forum in the front yard of the county school.

The students sat down and listened to Master Dai's instructions on salt administration.

"In all dynasties, the price of salt has been an official system. The founding of this dynasty, Emperor Zhenwu implemented a new policy. In addition to the government-run salt farms, private salt farms are not allowed. The price of salt depends on the market. This policy was originally intended to reduce the price of salt and benefit the people. However- —” Master Dai sighed.

Everyone understood what he was saying.However, after Mr. Feng Ge came to power, he took advantage of his position to turn the government-run salt farm into his own property through private redemption, and then raised the price of salt year after year.

Even if the people are dissatisfied, they have no way of resisting the high-ranking chief minister of the cabinet.

"Yugu Salt Field is the largest salt field in the northern part of Dalan Country. Since the second year of Jingyuan, the output has been decreasing year by year, and the salt price has been increasing year by year. And other salt fields in the south have also been more or less infiltrated by certain forces."

Although Mr. Dai did not explicitly mention Elder Feng Ge's name, the second year of Jingyuan was the year that Elder Feng Ge became the Chief Assistant.

During a lecture, all the students were filled with righteous indignation.

Even the good-tempered Wu Wentao clenched his fists, wishing he could rush into the capital and have a face-to-face debate with Elder Feng Ge.

Wu Xuan patted him on the shoulder to help him calm down, "Study hard, and when you pass the Jinshi exam, you can see Feng Ge old."

"En!" Wu Wentao nodded vigorously.

Wu Xuan raised his head and looked at Master Dai above.As a government official, Mr. Dai dared to expose Mr. Feng Ge's evil deeds in the county school so blatantly. Does it mean that the reformers are going to fight back against the conservatives?

Contacting the conservative magistrate who had just stepped down two months ago, this shows that at least their Zhenxing Prefecture is now the sphere of influence of the reformers.

Wu Xuan himself also tends to be a reformist.Even though the New Deal has many imperfections, even if it will encounter many difficulties in the process of implementation.But the intention is good, it is beneficial to the people and the country.

After the lecture, Master Dai really met Wu Xuan and Liu Siyuan alone again.

After listening to the two people's views on Yanzheng, Master Dai laughed and praised them, and encouraged them to study hard and strive for high school in the coming year.

-

After Wu Xuan came home that night, he got into the study and worked for an hour.

In previous dynasties and dynasties, the price of salt was set by the imperial court.

However, the annual output of each salt field is not fixed.Occasionally, there will be natural and man-made disasters, which will lead to a sharp increase in the cost of salt production and transportation.At this time, the treasury needs to subsidize a large amount of funds to maintain the price of salt, and some businessmen will take the opportunity to resell salt to attract huge profits.

In years when the salt production is stable, many fishermen secretly make private salt by the sea and sell it at a low price.

The new policy on the price of salt formulated by Emperor Zhenwu was to avoid the above two situations and make the price of salt fluctuate reasonably according to the actual situation.

However, the implementation of this policy requires those in power to serve the people wholeheartedly and not seek self-interest. Once the person in charge of the saltworks has selfish intentions, this new policy will become a tool for him to collect money.

Therefore, the price of salt cannot be completely liberalized, and the court must impose restrictions.

It is best to formulate an upper limit and a lower limit to allow the price of salt to fluctuate within this range.

Of course, the most fundamental solution.It is still necessary to increase salt production and reduce the cost of salt production.

If the government-run salt farms can stably produce large quantities of fine salt of the highest quality at the lowest cost, there will be no problems.

"Dong dong dong—" Doudou knocked on the door of the study, "Brother Xuan, I'm coming in!"

"En." Wu Xuan glanced out the window, only to realize that it was completely dark.About the idea of ​​salt administration, there were three full sheets of paper, Wu Xuan randomly rolled up these three sheets and threw them aside.

"Brother Xuan, I've tied the new jade pendant, which one do you think is suitable for tomorrow?" Doudou held a row of ropes of different colors in her hand, and the bottom of the ropes were all woven with complicated patterns.

Wu Xuan took one and played with it in his hand, and said, "Why did you get a new one? Don't you like the mandarin duck pendant the most? You insisted on me wearing it this morning."

Doudou said: "I'm going back to the village tomorrow, the mandarin duck and jade pendant are not dignified, and it's not suitable to see elders."

Wu Xuan laughed at him, "You're the only one who cares so much. Uncle's carefree personality doesn't care what jade pendants we wear."

Doudou whispered: "There are others!"

The uncle didn't notice, and there were other people in the village, who would definitely talk about it behind their backs.And the third grandpa, who didn't like him in the first place, if he saw him and Brother Xuan wearing a mandarin duck jade pendant, he would definitely reprimand him for being too ostentatious.

Wu Xuan said: "Okay, listen to Doudou, change it tomorrow."

Doudou just smiled and spread out his palms for him to choose.

Wu Xuan looked at the jade pendant and Luozi in front of him, both of which looked similar, he said: "Just take one, anyway, when you go back to the village, they are all from your own family, so you don't need to deliberately dress up."