Chapter 384: Pretending to Be Confused
Although Li Xianger is only eleven years old, she is actually very precocious. Of course, her precocious puberty has nothing to do with her mind, but because of her living environment.
Li Xiang'er's surname was Wu. When she was eight years old, she changed her surname to Li with her adoptive mother Li Lizhen. At that moment, she realized that she was no longer a lady from an official family, but a priest. The so-called priest is called selling arts but not selling herself, but in fact, it is still no different from the prostitutes who sell arts and bodies in brothels. The priest is just a gimmick.
Cultivating a versatile woman costs a lot of money. The reason why these people are willing to spend so much money is that they can sell them at a larger price. Many rich people will marry a few concubines in order to pursue enjoyment after they make money. A large part of the source of these concubines is these so-called priests. They will not sell themselves easily before selling them at a good price. As long as they can afford enough money, they can still sell themselves.
Although she was only eleven years old, she had understood her situation in more than three years. From the beginning, her fate was destined to be sold like goods.
In ancient times, women had a very low status, let alone these girls who were bought into brothels since childhood. If they were lucky, they might be bought into their mansion by a nobleman as a concubine or maid. If they were unlucky, they would continue to stay in the brothel and sell their talents and bodies like those prostitutes, but the price was relatively high, which was equivalent to the current high-end prostitutes.
Although Lian'er was her maid, in fact, Lian'er was once a beauty, but Lian'er was stupid. She couldn't learn music and music, couldn't learn music, and didn't learn dance. Because she had no value in cultivating, she became Li Xiang's maid.
Lian'er, who is fifteen years old, should be married when she is in the home of ordinary people.
Li Xianger looked at Lian'er and said, "We have been together for more than three years. I have never heard of you and have never seen you praise any man like this. I have said that I have not liked him, so why do you keep praising him?"
Lian'er's little face suddenly rose: "What's wrong with praising him? Isn't what he did worth praising?"
Li Xianger smiled and said, "Okay, OK! I'm just teasing you. Actually, if you fall in love with him, I will only be happy for you and sad for you."
"yes!"
Lian'er looked at the distance and pointed at a group of craftsmen. Liu Mingyu was busy and sighed in his heart: "Don't say that now, even if our family has no family, I'm not worthy of him!"
Lian'er's background is similar to Li Xianger. Her family's surname is Yan. Her father was Yan Jinyao, the central general of the army in the Battle of Liuhe. After Liuhe was defeated, General Yan Tan, who had no background and could not handle people, was searched and was killed and became a scapegoat.
That year, Yan Lian'er was only seven years old.
Lian'er said seriously: "It is not difficult to see from the actions of the champion Hou that his future will never be limited to the present. It is hard to say which step he can take in the future! Miss, if you can follow him, I'm afraid you will have good luck."
Speaking of this, Li Xianger's face turned into a big persimmon: "I think so, but..."
Li Xianger, although young, has seen men who are erotic. These men stare at her like wolves and eat her immediately if they don’t want to. These men include the hypocritical Zhu Dadian. The only thing that surprised Li Xianger was Liu Mingyu. Although Liu Mingyu accepted her from Zhu Dadian, she neither allowed her to sleep or sang songs for her.
More importantly, Liu Mingyu looked at her with love, pity, regret, and praise, but there was no lust.
When Li Xianger saw that Liu Mingyu was not active, she took the initiative. Anyway, she had been studying things like men and women for several years, but it was a pity that she was driven out by Liu Mingyu and threatened her if she climbed onto his bed and spanked her.
"And you!"
"I just follow the lady, no one follows!"
Li Xiang'er pinched her little face: "Can you still be with me for the rest of your life?
Lian'er pouted and said, "I will follow the lady for the rest of my life!"
Li Xiang'er sighed and stopped talking. Her eyes fell on Liu Mingyu who was walking around among the craftsmen, silent.
She thought a lot?
If his father was also a general of the Liu family army, even if his father died, the Liu family army would allocate houses and land to the fallen soldiers.
Now more than 8,900 people have been killed in the Liu family, and Liu Mingyu has personally supported more than 8,900 farmers. Of course, these farmers are not very large farmers, and each household is allocated five to six hundred acres of land. If there are direct males, there should be more land.
If only widows are left, or unmarried, then let their clan choose a boy, adopt this person and become the heir.
If you are an orphan of Liu Jiajun, even if your parents die, you can go to school for free, eat and board for free, and study at Songlin Primary School opposite the residence of the Guanjunhou of Tianmen County of Liu Jiajun.
This Songlin Primary School, also known as the orphan primary school, is not like ordinary orphans, but the orphans of the martyrs of the Liu family army. The entire school has more than 260 orphans.
Lian'er looked at Li Xianger and said, "Miss, what are you thinking?"
"I was thinking, it would be great if I could meet the champion Hou early!"
"I met it earlier?"
"Um!"
Li Xiang'er sighed. She was proficient in men and women's affairs. Just a while ago, Liu Mingyu sent the fan's wife Helena back to Venice City. Liu Mingyu's eyes were at least ten breaths on the fan's wife's chest.
Liu Mingyu used to cover up, but how could he hide it from Li Xiang'er's eyes?
"Oh, it's too small!"
Li Xiang'er patted her belly: "Liang'er, let's go for dinner, I want to eat two big bowls!"
When Lian'er heard about eating, she was dancing with joy.
"I'm ready now!"
"No!"
"Let's go to the school cafeteria!"
Liu Mingyu spent 500 taels of water and Liubao Town. These two towns are almost 450 square kilometers, covering a total area of about 675,000 acres. When developing Liuhe, Liu Mingyu deployed it in one go, factories, schools, hospitals, residential areas, living areas, and commercial areas, forming almost all cities like Daning now.
In Daning, almost all county towns have the same layout, and all towns have the same layout. The current Liuhe Primary School covers an area of more than 150 acres. In the future, Liuhe School will add a middle school department. The land for the middle school department has been planned and will not break ground next year. After the middle school department is completed, Liuhe School will be able to accommodate at least 5,000 students, both in scale and facilities, and is the best in all Shandong Provinces.
However, Liuhe School has only built a canteen and other facilities are still under construction. The school’s biggest function is to provide food to workers or children of people who come to work.
Li Xianger and Yan Lianer lined up to the window of the canteen. The food in the canteen was actually better than that of ordinary workers. Everyone had milk to drink. Of course, this was not fresh milk, but milk soup made of milk bricks. In addition, there were fish, chicken, mutton, pork and other meats.
When Li Xiang'er cooked the meal, she and Yan Lian'er turned grief and anger into food. Li Xiang'er decided to eat more to make it bulge.
Just as Li Xianger was having dinner, Liu Mingyu also had dinner with Mao Yuanyi.
However, the two were a little disharmonious when they had a meal.
Mao Yuanyi looked at Liu Mingyu and said, "Mr. Marquis, our Liuhe does not need too high-end talents. Letting Wang Xu, a juren, secretly teach children to read is an absolute waste of talent!"
Mao Yuanyi watched Liu Mingyu face Binzhou, but this place had already caused Zhu Dadian to cancel the establishment system of Shandong Province in Daming, and replaced it with Binzhou Champions League.
As Liu Mingyu's private property, the government did not manage it, and the tax revenue was entirely based on Liu Mingyu's self-consciousness. The foreign name Shuiwan Town became Liuhe Town.
In Liu Mingyu's plan, Liuhe Town needed to build a primary school, with the first batch of 1,600 students, each of which was an editor, which required forty classes and at least sixty teachers. In this time and space, Juren is not like college students in later generations. After the expansion of enrollment, college students have really gone to a big fuss, and even urban management needs a doctorate.
Liu Mingyu sighed and said, "Zhisheng, your eyes are farther away. Liuhe is indeed only one primary school in now, but after the Chinese New Year, Liuhe Town will start building a middle school to continue providing education for primary school graduates. In a few years, Liuhe Town will even have higher-level schools, so this is really not a waste of talent. Although Wang Xu's current job doesn't seem very important, I can guarantee that in ten years, Wang Xu will definitely be outstanding in his status."
"Marty, not everyone has such a distant look. If you ask a juren to come over and be a primary school student, won't he have any complaints in his heart?"
Mao Yuanyi actually admired Wang Xu very much. Wang Xu was originally planning to go north to Daning and surrender to Liu Mingyu, but he never thought that he had just entered Dengzhou and encountered a group of defeated soldiers. This defeated soldiers were composed of the former Ming official army. They turned into bandits and specifically robbed families. Since the Liu family army had no energy to take care of them for a while, they were a little rampant.
Wang Xu was robbed as soon as he entered Dengzhou. He was penniless and just turned to Mao Yuanyi. As a result, Liu Mingyu appointed him as the principal of Liuhe School when he heard that Wang Xu was.
Liu Mingyu said very seriously: "Zhisheng, we cannot satisfy everyone. Even the emperor cannot do this. Our patience is only reserved for those who believe in us and recognize our Liuhe prospects. Time will prove who is right and who is wrong. Almost all cabinet ministers are Jinshis, but not all Jinshis can be cabinet masters."
Liu Mingyu wants to retain talents, but he will not compromise unconditionally in order to retain talents. Anyway, Liu Mingyu has given the opportunity, and whether he can seize it depends on whether those people have vision.
Liu Mingyu has always believed that not everyone is worth helping, such as those who only need to spend a little money, even without having to spend money on their own, can borrow money from Liuji Bank and easily purchase a large amount of farmland in Daning but are unwilling to act, they are not worth helping.
In Daning, although the purchase of land has been opened and more and more people have purchased land, many people are still conservative. Not only do they not buy land in Daning themselves, they even sarcastically mocked those who have purchased land and are willing to buy land. Perhaps they think that Liu Mingyu encouraged workers to purchase land, which is exploiting workers in disguise and trying every means to recover the wages they paid to workers.
What else can Liu Mingyu say about such a person? No matter how rich the place is, there are paupers.
After hearing what Liu Mingyu said, Mao Yuanyi agreed with his point of view. After all, Liu Mingyu was right. His walking was destined to be different. Perhaps Liu Mingyu would become the master of the world in the future. Although the success of following the dragon is huge, the risk is equally great.
Some people are really stupid and can't see the future clearly. Some people pretend to be confused when they understand.
"Mr. Marquis, someone asks for a visit!"
Liu Mingyu put down his chopsticks: "Who wants to meet this marquis?"
Chapter completed!