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Text 189 [Out of the boudoir]

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    Fei Chun has been really busy these days. From last winter to the spring plowing season, he didn't even have a good rest during the Chinese New Year.

    Moreover, he didn't know when his parents would come. He was busy with work and forgot that his parents' character would cause trouble.

    On the way home, Ling babbled all the way, complaining that her son had become a high-ranking official and didn't even have a sedan chair.

    Fei Chun sighed helplessly, called his husband on the side of the road, called two sedan chairs, and let his parents go home on a pole.

    Many great Confucians in ancient and modern times opposed such things as sedan chairs, thinking that people were treated like cattle and horses.

    Zhao Han, who advocates equality for all, allows the existence of sedan chairs and sliding poles instead.  He even created an industry that allows unemployed vagrants to register with the government, and only need to pay a small fee to carry passengers with sliders to make money.

    It can be understood as a rickshaw or a taxi.

    It can not only generate income for the government, but also alleviate urban employment.

    It was the first time that Fei Lin and Ling's couple had been carried away after living for decades, and they immediately felt better.

    Ling said: "Chun'er, call for another palanquin, how can you go back as an official? Don't be too shabby and be looked down upon by others."

    Fei Chun had no choice but to explain: "Mother, if there is no need, Brother Han can also walk by himself. Brother Han has many rules, no slaves are allowed in the house, and no servants are allowed to be abused. Also, you don't want to make troubles in the future.  The first time I was only fined, and if I commit another crime, the crime will be increased! If someone comes to the house to ask for a gift, no matter how much the gift is, they cannot accept it, otherwise I will not know when I will be beheaded."

    Beheading?

    Ling Shi was suddenly too frightened to speak.

    Fei Lin asked: "You and Brother Han are very good, and you will be beheaded if you take some money?"

    Fei Chun said: "If you are greedy, you will be fined and demoted. If you are greedy, you will go to the mountains to dig mines. If you are greedy, you will be beheaded! It doesn't matter which one you choose."

    Fei Lin muttered: "This is not okay, that is not okay, even raising a maid is not okay, why are you rebelling?"

    Fei Chun couldn't explain clearly for a while, so Fei Chun could only say: "Father, mother, you just need to remember that if you accept gifts indiscriminately, your son's official position will not be guaranteed, and his head will be easy to move."

    The couple were so frightened that they didn't even dare to talk nonsense.

    Back home, Fei Chun explained the rules in detail, what must be paid attention to and what cannot be violated, and took out five taels of silver to buy clothes for his parents.

    Ling asked: "Chun'er, what is your current salary?"

    "The monthly salary is twelve liang." Fei Chun replied.

    Fei Lin retorted: "This Brother Han is really stingy. The big shopkeeper of Fei's Trading Company has a monthly salary of ten taels, and he can even share dividends at the end of the year."

    Fei Chun sighed: "The official salary is already very high, I wish it could be lowered."

    Why?

    Because Fei Chun is in charge of money and food, he has already been devastated.

    Zhao Han paid high salaries to officials. Fei Chun's monthly salary of 12 taels of silver, if converted according to the grain price of Ji'an Prefecture, was equivalent to that of a fourth-rank official of the Ming court.

    Of course, grain prices fluctuate. Ji'an Prefecture has had a bumper harvest in the past two years, and grain prices are relatively low.

    If there is a catastrophic year, Fei Chun's salary may drop directly from the fourth rank to the sixth rank compared with that of Ming officials.

    In addition, there are charcoal fire subsidies in winter, and paper and ink subsidies for officials above the county magistrate.

    No matter what, as long as there is no extravagance and waste, it is no problem for Fei Chun to support the whole family with his salary, and he can also hire a few servants to do housework-if there are many servants, they will definitely not be able to afford it.

    Compared with the Ming Dynasty, not only the salaries of officials have been increased, but the wages of officials have also generally increased.

    This is also the reason why Fei Chun kept complaining, saying that he couldn't afford to support so many officials, and kept asking for the reduction of township yamen.

    To support so many officials, you have to pay!

    When Zhu Yuanzhang started his business, even at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he could not afford the salaries of officials.  So a temporary policy was formulated. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were many barren fields, and the land was directly given to officials to open up wasteland, and the harvested grains were used as salaries.

    Pang Chunlai, Fei Ruhe, Fei Chun and others all hoped to return to Qianshan County as soon as possible.

    Because they know that there is an open-pit copper mine in Lead Mountain County!

    During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the largest coinage center in the country was called "Yongpingjian", and its address was Yongping Town, Qianshan County, where copper mines have been mined since the Western Han Dynasty.

    In addition, Yongpingjian's raw materials for casting coins come from Qianshan Field (Yongping Town) and Dexing Field (Dexing County).

    The Dexing Copper Mine, after more than a thousand years of mining, is still the largest open-pit copper mine in Asia!

    Zhu Yuanzhang's earliest minting institution??, but I will not quit my job.  You can ask your wife to change the document, come to work early every day, and go home at night to live your own life.  "

    Yingchun joked: "I also said that I didn't want to go, and I even thought about the life after marriage."

    Dong Fu was too ashamed to speak, but just walked forward sullenly.

    In Zhao Han's territory, there is no need to worry about the law and order. Thieves and beggars are prohibited.  These are all labor forces, and they cannot be idled and wasted. The three weapons institutes can absorb a lot, and there is a lot of rough work without any technical content.

    Before arriving at school, Zhao Zhenfang ran into a female classmate on the way.  I don't know which family the young lady is, escorted by two servants, one male and one female.

    There is a plaque at the gate of the girls' school. Zhao Zhenfang looked up and saw the four characters "Saomei College".

    "What does sweeping eyebrows mean?" Fei Rumei was a little confused.

    Zhao Zhenfang smiled and said: "Have you forgotten? The girls' school books by the Wanli Bridge, and the loquat flowers live behind closed doors. Talented people who sweep their eyebrows know as much as they can lead the spring breeze. We have learned this poem before, and a talented person who sweeps eyebrows is a talented woman."

    Fei Rumei immediately recalled and exclaimed: "Oh, this allusion comes from Xue Tao, Xue Tao is a woman of music."

    "My second brother abolished his music registration." Zhao Zhenfang pointed to the plaque and said.

    Fei Rumei took a closer look, and it turned out that the words "Saomei Academy" were inscribed by Zhao Han himself.

    ? Regardless of the male or female servants, they were blocked at the school gate. Yingchun and Dongfu came to register their children, and they were specially allowed to enter.

    The inside is quiet and quiet, and female students can be seen occasionally.

    Even the teacher is a woman from a wealthy family, and there is no male creature in the whole school.

    "Gee, ge, ge"

    A string of silver bell-like laughter came, and Zhao Zhenfang looked through the corridor, but there were a few female students kicking shuttlecocks.

    Fei Rumei said happily: "I like this place, there are many playmates to play with."

    Zhao Zhenfang said with a smile: "It's very lively, much more interesting than staying at home."

    Zhao Han does not shout the slogan of equality between men and women now, but just tries to do something to let women out of the boudoir.  </div&gt
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