Can you live forever

Chapter 40 Men's Farming and Women's Weaving
According to the government's disaster relief standard, chopsticks must stand in the porridge to be considered qualified.

Regardless of the specific implementation, the standard is set like this, and the bowl of porridge in Zhang Zhixiang's hands is not so much porridge as rice soup, and the rice grains and corn grains are only spread on the bottom of the bowl in a shallow layer...

"Young master, if you are not used to eating..."

Seeing that Zhang Zhixiang hadn't moved for a long time, the old woman said that it is enough for a rich man to have a heart, and I really can't get used to eating these... She just opened her mouth, and Zhang Zhixiang raised his head and gulped, finishing the porridge.

Sunshine said with an incomparable smile, "Ma'am, it's really delicious."

"Eh!!"

The old woman didn't know what was going on, she was extremely happy, as if looking at her own grandson, she asked with concern: "Are you full? There's still more in the pot."

"one more bowl!"

"Good."

Wang Jiangque saw the interaction between Zhang Zhixiang and the old woman, and she sipped from the bowl without any expression on her face, but when Yinqiao drank the porridge, she had a look of reminiscence on her face, presumably she lived this kind of life when she was young of.

Chen Wu thought for a while and said, "People like us basically eat two meals."

"Eat breakfast and go to work, bring pancakes, steamed buns, etc., at noon, you can deal with it, and lamp oil is expensive at night, so basically you go to bed early, sometimes you don't eat, sometimes you just cook some rice soup to pad your stomach. "

"About two buckets of rice are needed every month, with some miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables, which is almost enough to deal with."

"Food is not too expensive. One penny per month is enough. The focus is on salt. The turmoil of the salt shortage in Huguang has not yet passed. Now the price of salt in Yingtianfu is above 50 renminbi, and there are few salt merchants. You have to buy two catties of salt to be enough, which is an expense of one penny."

"Including firewood and oil, some odds and ends."

"In a lucky month, you can have a penny left over. If you are not lucky, you have to advance money. After a year, you can't support your eyebrows."

"There's never enough money."

The old woman came out with a bowl, and when her son said this, she quickly said, "It's all the old woman's fault. The old woman's eyesight is not good, and she can't do embroidery anymore. She can only starch and wash clothes for people. She can't earn a few pennies a month."

"If you can take on some embroidery work, you will have a balance of three or four qian per month."

"After three to five years, it's enough to talk about kissing."

"With a daughter-in-law, a family of three will be able to save money if they work hard. After saving for ten years, they can return to their hometown to buy two or three acres of land, and then rent some land for planting, and then slowly take root."

"Save every year, celebrate every year."

"As long as the weather is good, the grandchildren will always have enough to eat."

What the old woman talked about was life experience, but she also explained the fundamentals of the small-scale peasant economy. Under the model of men farming and women weaving, the income from the production of fields and strong labor is used to meet the needs of survival.

If a family wants to save money, women must weave to earn working capital.

Economic strength determines family status.

The status of men and women in the small peasant economy was not unbalanced. Before the castrated version of Confucianism in the Qing Dynasty, as long as a woman was healthy and able to work, she had her own status in society and would not be restricted simply because of her gender.

China has had patriarchy since ancient times, but also matriarchy.

There are many empress dowagers in power in history.

Only in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the broken feet made women lose their ability to move, and the extinct chest wraps reduced or even lost their ability to nurture women, which directly affected the physical fitness of offspring. In this way, for 200 years, everyone in the land of China was pale and emaciated, as thin as a stick, It's like hell! !

Then it's not just gender oppression, it's racial...

With the increasing awareness of the world, the "time" in Zhang Zhixiang's mind is shrinking. He remembers Jiang Wen said a word, which is about: Why do I feel that 2000 years ago was very close, but 50 years ago was so far away? ?
In fact, it is only based on the observation of the law of historical cycles, those cyclical stories make time and space converge.

At Chen Wu's house, we didn't talk much. After dinner, it was getting dark, so we left.

The agreed five cents was handed over to Chen Wu, and he didn't shirk it, he just sent the guests outside the workshop, watching the carriage disappear far away, he stayed for a while, as if he was thinking about something, but he didn't seem to think about anything , Ordinary went home.

When I got home, I found my old mother was looking around.

"What's the matter, mother?"

"It's getting dark, I can't see clearly, and I don't dare to look for you. I just cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks and found these pieces of silver under the bowl covered by the young master. I'm afraid it's worth two coins! Wu Chen, hurry up!" Go and return it to the young master."

"Mom, take it."

"How can this be accepted? Although we are poor, we cannot..."

"Mother, accept it, let's accept it, and the young master will feel more at ease."

"……Ugh!!"

After the silence, the old woman sighed heavily. The night was dark and there was no light. The mother and son had been sitting in the yard for a long time. The old mother suddenly asked: "Son, do you think the young master will be the number one scholar in the future?"

"must be able to."

"Then...can you be prime minister?"

"...It shouldn't be possible."

"Why can't you?"

"Young master is a good man."

……

As part of Chen Wu's family, Wang Jiangque thought that Zhang Zhixiang would be a little depressed, but unexpectedly, he didn't. He looked at the stars and moon in the sky from the car window, and his eyes seemed to have light.

Back in the yard, Zhang Zhixiang didn't rest.

Instead, in the study room, he unfolded a piece of paper, filled it with ink and wrote a line: Analysis report on the status quo of all classes in Yingtianfu.

The next day.

Zhang Zhixiang went out early in the morning. He didn't even bring Wang Jiangque with him this time. He only brought rainwater. He first hired a car and then went to find Chen Wu. With Chen Wu's help, he started sampling the four districts in the south of the city. investigation.

As for whether a child or a girl will be in danger.

From the attitude of the fourth uncle yesterday, he almost guessed that Wang Yuanzhi must have arranged for someone to protect him secretly, so he dared to run around.

It was while he was investigating one by one.

Wang Yuanzhi came to the Zhizhu Garden where Zhang Zhixiang and the others lived, entered the study room, and saw the manuscripts on the desk. In addition to the nearly half-finished "Yi Ti Yuanliu", there were also a few sheets of paper on the side. Report.

After Wang Yuanzhi read it once, he ignored his daughter waiting behind and read it twice carefully.

Only then did he let out a heavy breath, and handed the manuscript to his daughter.

Naturally, he is not like this because of the hardships of the people. He has seen far more suffering and darkness than Zhang Zhixiang in this world. The reason for his demeanor is that Zhang Zhixiang's analysis method and angle made him vaguely aware that there is something wrong with it. It may solve Daming's current problems...

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish.

In fact, governing a country is like treating a disease. First, you need to dialectically diagnose the pathology. If the dialectics are correct, then you can prescribe classic prescriptions. Only in this way can the cure be as effective as a drumming, a heavy ailment, and a disappearance.

Otherwise.

It’s not bad if it’s useless, but it’s very likely that after one dose of medicine, the person will be gone...

(End of this chapter)