Chapter 8 A Different History
Before this, Wu Jiezheng was worried about what he should do in the Ming Dynasty again.
He was fifty taels of silver on hand, and there was no survival crisis in the short term. But only ghosts know when this strange dream will end.
Wu Jie had a premonition that since this dream is so real, I guess I will continue to do it. Moreover, the reason why this branch time period suddenly intersects with this time and space is hard to guarantee that it will not seize its current life in the near future and completely swallow up the real time and space.
When Wu Jie thought of this, he felt a little panicked. Instead of being in a hurry at that time, it would be better to prepare in advance.
The capital of fifty taels of silver can actually be done.
First of all, you can buy some paddy fields as small landlords and rely on land rent every year to make a living. But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty was at its peak at that time, and land prices were quite high. Especially in areas with highly developed farming in the Chengdu Plain, there were good paddy fields. Each acre of land was worth ten taels of silver. Only fifty taels of silver could only buy five acres. In the era without pesticides and fertilizers, the output of five acres of land was only enough for a family of three to fill their stomachs. You need to go to the land to work in person. If you hire a tenant, you will not have a few grains left except for those who hire farmers.
Poor Wu Jie was a sick man who was invincible in that era and had no experience in farming. As a modern person, it would be better to die than to let him carry his shoulders and backs.
Therefore, this path cannot be done.
Unless it becomes more developed in the future, buy hundreds or thousands of acres of land there. But at that time, buying land is just a means of preserving value, an investment rather than a way.
There is only one way to be rich - do business.
Xinjin County is located 30 kilometers south of Chengdu City, and is the key to Chengdu Prefecture's water and land. The territory is flat and there is a wide and neat official road. The Minjiang River is also connected to Meishan, Qingshen, Jiading and other economically developed areas. Most of the rich and wealthy families in the city are engaged in cargo transportation business, and there are many wealthy people like crucian carp crossing the river.
The capital of fifty taels of silver seems not much, but if it is used well, the business methods that benefit modern people may not be squeezed into the wealthy class within ten years and become a rich family.
However, as an otaku, Wu Jie is very interested in doing business.
More importantly, the merchants in the Ming Dynasty were not at a high level. Scholars, farmers, workers, merchants, and merchants were at the end. If you really got rich, you would stare at a thousand pairs of eyes, and some would sharpen your knife and harvest you.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, there were not many simple merchants, most of them worked part-time by literati and gentry. They had relationships, status, and preferential policies. What would you use to compete with them?
An ordinary person with no status and status will do business and collect taxes. You will not kill you. The levels in various places will reach out to you and make you bankrupt on the spot.
Even if you are a genius, you rely on your agility and skill to become careful in your business, and you can get rich and powerful. But you have no status. Even if you meet a small eighth-rank official, you have to kneel on the ground in a regular manner. If you want to hit you, you will hit you. Such a life may not be anything for ancient merchants, but for modern people, it is absolutely unacceptable.
Yes, to be an official, only being an official is the right way.
In modern society, an era when the civil service ranks rapidly expanded, a county magistrate at the level of the department might not be anything. But in ancient times, the so-called county magistrate who confiscated his family and the magistrate who destroyed his family were not just a joke. As for the entire Ming Dynasty, there were only more than a thousand counties in China, representing the emperor and herders, in charge of the blessings, disasters, honors and disgraces of hundreds of thousands of creatures in a county, and its power was astonishingly great.
China has always been an official world, at least in the next five hundred years.
If you want to live a comfortable life in that era, you have to be an official. As long as you become an official and have power, money is not a problem.
All of this is based on the imperial examination. As long as you pass the imperial examination, you will step into the ranks of the ruling class.
Hearing Director Jin's words, Wu Jie was excited and his eyes suddenly became clear.
In that era, I might only have the path of imperial examinations. Even if I don’t have the confidence to take the imperial examinations and be directly appointed by the court to be the head of the county of Erection Ri, as long as I get a scholar, I can be considered as having a status and status. Even if I meet the county magistrate, I can not kneel down and enjoy all the preferential policies of the Ming Empire. No one dares to bully you in the local area.
By then, things like the Tang family breaking off the engagement will not happen.
However, if you really want to take the exam and write a essay on the eight-legged essay, it is not as simple as you imagined.
After taking a sip of tea, Wu Jie fell into deep thought.
That's right, just looking at learning ability, he, a talented student in a key university, is better than the ancients. However, because I used to be a fool in that world, although I had entered a private school and had a few words to know, I only stayed at the level of being confused and never learned to write eight-legged articles.
Now I have to start from scratch. I can’t get it in less than ten years, and I am afraid that I and the moth will not be able to hold on at that time.
From the memory of the fool Wu Jie in my mind, I learned that the Ming Dynasty in that time and space was exactly the same as in history, and the practice and format of the eight-legged essay were no different, and the scope of the title was also limited to Zhu Xi's "Four Books Collection".
Zhu Xi was from the Song Dynasty, and that world was not as good as the Song Dynasty.
History has its own inertia, and many historical figures that should appear also appear in that time and space. However, some people's identities have changed, while others are like in real history.
For example, Li Bai was a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, but now there is no such thing as the Tang Dynasty. This poet turned into the largest general of the Sui Dynasty, and changed from a poet to a sword immortal. Su Shi, a great poet and a generation of Wenzong, were a foodie in the David Dynasty. The braised pork and boiled fish recorded in the Meizhou Recipe recorded in the "Meizhou Cookbook" are the signature of Sichuan cuisine...
In an unrecognizable history, some people still maintain their true identity in real history, such as Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism, and feudal ethics.
If you think about it carefully, it is probably because things like thoughts and ideology are so easily affected by historical events than ordinary people, and it is inevitable that productivity will develop to a certain stage.
Therefore, with the emergence of a large number of thinkers such as Zhu Xi, history turned a corner and entered the Ming Dynasty and returned to its original trajectory.
"Eight-legged essays, eight-legged essays, cough, I really can't write them!" After thinking about this, Wu Jie's mood fell from heaven to hell, and he felt very depressed.
After talking indecisively for a long time, Director Jin Tan Xing was still in a deep mood. Seeing Wu Jie suddenly become silent, he was a little surprised: "Xiao Wu, what are you thinking? He looked bitter and revenge. I didn't say the wrong thing just now and offended you, right?"
He asked jokingly.
"No, senior, you want to go there. I suddenly remembered something and felt it in my heart."
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Chapter completed!