The Reborn Wife is Farming

Zhou De's eyes widened, completely unexpected that Andre was still a senior spy, he said angrily, "Why didn't you catch him?"

Mu Yangling said with a smile: "If you catch this one, there will be another one. Besides, we don't have any solid evidence. Do you think Andre is a professional espionage? He is just a businessman, and it is by the way to spy on news from other countries for his country." Yes, maybe at the beginning, he just simply passed on the outside knowledge back to the motherland, and then he slowly became a senior spy, and what I want you to do is the role of Andre, the West is far away from us. We Daqi also disdain their land, but we can't know that they are full of malice towards us without knowing it."

In a word, they don't care about each other's land, and they don't want to covet Daqi either.

Zhou De made a serious expression, and said seriously: "Don't worry, ma'am, although Zhou is just a businessman, he also knows that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country. We can stand upright overseas because our motherland is strong enough. Zhou must not It will make the wolfish ambitions of foreigners succeed."

The last bit of reluctance in Zhou De's heart disappeared. He didn't expect foreigners to have such great malice towards them. How is this different from the barbarians in Dajinxixia?

Zhou De's eyes turned red when he thought of the large area of ​​land lost by the previous dynasty, and the possibility that Daqi would be flooded and occupied by foreigners one day.

Zhou De straightened his chest, and strode out of the palace with great ambition. The spies who stayed outside went back to report to their patriarch. The big merchants could only lament the good luck of the Zhou family in private. What about going up when the time is tough?

It's also the king of Rongjun who is too domineering. The sea has been banned for 20 years, and it has been noisy for 20 years. When the king of Rongjun and An Guogong said "open the sea ban", the sea ban was really opened. You must know that the sea ban is so easy to open. Yes, they have already brought a lot of money to the two of them.

But money is hard to buy, I knew it earlier.

King Rong didn't care about business matters, but An Guogong had already selected the Zhou family as a partner. They couldn't surpass the Zhou family for a while.

The big merchants regretted that Zhou De went home non-stop and chose a few loyal and clever servants. After struggling all night, he finally chose the second son to take them there. Zhou De gave the second son the number of weeks. Doing psychological counseling, from the future of the family to the interests of the country, I repeated what the princess said, and finally took his hand and cried: "I don't want you to do meticulous work, but those foreigners are too hateful." I'm afraid it's inappropriate to hand it over to the servants, since the palace trusts us, we can't let the prince and concubine down..."

Zhou Shu's eyes were bright, and he asked, "Father, if we make great contributions, can our family become an official?" He puffed out his chest as he spoke.

Zhou De cried for a while and hesitated: "If you do well, the lord might be able to give your nephew and son a chance."

Zhou Shu's eyes sparkled, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I did it, Dad, don't worry, for the sake of my nephew and my son's future, I will definitely work hard. Our family has worked hard for thirty or forty years, but we have not been able to produce a single person with fame." , this time it might work, even if you don’t come from the imperial examination, as long as you can be an official.”

There are no merchants in Daqi who do not want to improve their status. Although the merchants are rich, their status has always been low. Sometimes in order to keep their business, they have to curry favor with officials and act like slaves. Not to mention that the economic base determines the superstructure. In ancient China, This statement is applicable, but it is also not applicable, depending on how it is interpreted.

But there is one point, if big businessmen want to live well, they have to let their family members become officials, and since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a rule that businessmen are not allowed to take the imperial examination.

By the middle and late period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, through the efforts of emperors such as Gaozong, it had become a strict law that the ancestors were merchants, and imperial examinations were not allowed within three generations. Daqi has not changed this point, but it is indeed difficult for merchants to improve their status. .

The Zhou family is naturally the same. The children of the Zhou family will not be recorded in the genealogy until they are ten years old after birth. Why?

In order to select seedlings who can study, if there is such a seedling, the family will send him to the family of a farming family in a nearby branch, or record him as the son of the other party, or adopt him in the past, and still live and study with the main family of the Zhou family. Give them some support, they only borrow their identities for imperial examinations, and they are not afraid that the other party will snatch their children or the children will not recognize them.

Because apart from the fact that the child's name is recorded under the names of the foster parents, the child is still theirs, and all the blessings of life and nourishment belong to them.

At that time, Zhou De was the only son of Mrs. Zhou, so Mrs. Zhou gritted his teeth and refused to let him enter the genealogy. He waited until he was ten years old and confirmed that he had no talent in reading before recording him in the genealogy regretfully and fortunately.

They don't demand that the children in the family must pass the Jinshi examination to become officials. They only want them to pass the examination as a scholar, so that the status of the family will rise a little.

It can be said that the purpose of businessmen has never been to be an official to fight for power, but their status.

The Zhou family is like this, and so are other big businessmen, but the Zhou family is a little more pitiful. After 40 or 50 years, there is still not a single scholar in the family.

It’s not that they don’t work hard, it’s just that the imperial examinations are too difficult, and it’s hard for them to find good teachers and books. They lack educational resources and their minds are superfluous, so naturally they can’t produce talents.

Zhou Shu was also forced to study in the past, and he had a great psychological shadow on this. He felt that there was no root in the Zhou family's blood that could read, and no matter how hard he tried, it was useless. Now that there is another way in front of them, they If you don't hurry up, you will be sorry for yourself.

For the sake of his son and the family, Zhou Shu felt that it was worth risking his life.

Zhou Shu followed his father to the palace with the tragic feeling of "a strong man is gone and will never return", but the head guard who came to train them smiled and told them that their first and eternal task is to be a good businessman Only in this way can their lives and the entire intelligence system be saved.

Then the chief guard told them how to be a proper businessman...

The weeks since they were eight years old, buying and selling with money, watching the chief guard teach them how to be a qualified businessman...

Many years later, Zhou Shu brought back a lot of valuable information to Daqi, but he has been traveling safely among Western countries and became a famous big businessman. Recalling today's training, he sighed earnestly: "I have been It's a businessman..."

So it's always been safe.

At this time, the foreigners didn't know that it was only a small fight that caused this series of consequences. If Qi Haoran captured Pedro, wiped out two thousand pirates, and captured five hundred and sixty people, it would be a blockbuster at the moment. Then the foreigners who returned to the motherland after four months discovered that the exquisite glazed products and clocks appeared one after another, which was another form of declaration of war.

Because there are few clocks and glass products, they only share one or two pieces each, so after returning to the motherland, they will naturally sell them vigorously, and the prices will be very high. After they sell the things, the people will find out about them. At the same time, exquisite glazed products and clocks appeared in the market one after another, just like theirs, even with more complete types and greater choices. Although they are also very expensive, many people still spend a lot of money to buy them.

Their previous promotions were all making wedding dresses for Daqi businessmen, which annoyed the foreigners who had no supply. They knew that they should not have rejected Qi Wangfei at the beginning, and they only bought one or two pieces. They spent more than half a month to open up the market. Let the Han people occupy it.