Bachelor

Chapter 307 Chen Hong went out of the palace
"The blue clouds in the West Mountain are refreshing,
Lugou Xiaoyue in the north of Beijing.

Look at the towering clouds of our school,
Weiwei sat in it together.

Half the city is filled with the sound of reading,
Far away from the hustle and bustle of the downtown.

Tao Li is speechless,

Enjoy the spring breeze.

May the boy, don’t forget the skill of transforming rain..."

More than 30 children sang the school song compiled by Sun Dan loudly, as if a stone was thrown into a pond, causing ripples.The younger schoolchildren also began to sing, and gradually, the entire inner school hall was filled with singing voices one after another, gradually connecting together.

This school song was written by Sun Dan years ago. Mr. Zhan from the Zhan family class composed the music and wrote the lyrics himself.

To be honest, the lyrics of this song are really not very good.But it was the first time that Sun Dan didn't plagiarize and fiddled with his own real skills.Fortunately, the headmaster doesn't need to make a lot of things like Yue Shiyun, it's better to be simple and straightforward.

Since becoming the senior of Neishutang, Sun Dan has made many new tricks.For example, the school song is sung before class starts every morning, and when the teacher enters the study room, the students have to stand up and say "Hello, teacher!", and homework is left after each class.

At the beginning, when Sun Dan came up with these new tricks, many teachers in the inner school still didn’t understand. They said that the inner school has been established for hundreds of years, and they have never heard of singing before class. Isn’t it a bit ridiculous to do so? .

Sun Dan explained that the eunuchs did not study for the imperial examination to become an official. There is no pressure from the examination, and the knowledge they teach should be mainly practical.Moreover, these students will serve in the University in the future, and they will also be colleagues in the future. They gather together to sing the school song every day, which will help enhance the collective sense of honor and unity of the students.

Sun Dan is the senior of Neishutang, and he is also a famous scholar. Since he said so, he has his reasons, and the teachers of Neishutang are not easy to refute.Gradually, everyone got used to singing the school song before class started.

As for the homework left by Sun Dan, it is also very strange, most of which are social practical content.For example: collect and sort out the expenses required for water transportation over the years, and state the major factors that affect water transportation; how much old grain should be kept in Taicang every year; calculate the silver and fire consumption of 50 taels per ingot...

After all, the students are children, and they all find this kind of homework very novel. They also know that Sun Dan is teaching the principles of governing the country, and they are also very attentive to social practice.

Sun Dan is not interested in simply teaching students the words of the sages. These eunuchs will go to the palace to take up practical duties in the future. If these people are smart and capable, it will be of great benefit to the country and the people.As a result, his teaching content is more practical, and there is a tendency to train them into technical officials.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the Spring Festival has finally passed, and the year of Jiajing came as scheduled.Sun Dan finally returned to the capital again. He didn't come to Neishutang for more than half a month. He felt a little strange, and his mind was still stuck on the big mess in Fangshan.

After implementing the joint-stock system, the Weaving Bureau in Fangshan has collected a large amount of cash and has all the raw materials before silkworms spin silk.As for the conversion of farming to mulberry, the weather has started to warm up these days, and more than [-]% of the land in Fangshan has been planted with mulberry trees, and it will only be a few months before the mulberry leaves grow.Everything is moving forward as Sun Dan expected.

As for the price of Fangshan, due to the influx of a large number of foreign traders, the prices of vegetables and grains have dropped.However, a large number of floating population has accumulated in Fangshan County, further pushing up housing prices in the county.Now an ordinary pocket yard of 100 square meters has been sold for [-] to [-] taels of silver, which has surpassed the capital.

The net worth of the local people in Fangshan has risen, and they all feel that they have become rich all of a sudden, but in fact, their lives don't seem to be very rich.

However, the inflow of a large number of people has boosted the economy of one side.Nowadays, the business atmosphere is prevalent in the county, and everyone is interested in making a fortune from this tide of floating population.Even the old women in the city who are too old to walk now know how to set up a chaotic stall on the side of the street to earn a la carte gold. past.

At the same time, there are still voices of discord, because it is too easy to make money, and many scholars have given up writing to go into business.It made the school officials of the county school come to Sun Dan all day long to ask Sun Dan to return the scholar to him.

And he yelled at Sun Dan, calling him Sang Hongyang and Wang Anshi.

Naturally, Sun Dan didn't want to offend this kind of old pedant, so he could only let Sun Hao go out and talk nonsense with him, then eat, and pour down a gulp of rice wine. As long as the old pedant was too drunk, the world would be quiet again.

Sun Dan felt that if the current trend continues, Fangshan should be able to become one of the largest commercial ports in the north in 20 years.

In this regard, he is still full of confidence.

……

Sun Dan also went home last night, but after returning home, he didn't have much time to spend with Zhi Niang.He is now the head of the Sun family and has a lot of work to do.For example, meet with Zhuang Zi of the major Zhuang Yuan of the Sun family, meet with the immediate and collateral family members of the Sun family, and distribute red envelopes for the New Year.

Then he arranged the housework expenses for the coming year, all kinds of things, which made him feel flustered.He also didn't expect that the affairs of a big family would be so cumbersome. If it wasn't for Ting Lan's assistance, this matter would not be resolved until midnight.

In the middle of the night, after finally dismissing all the clansmen, Tong Zhiniang said a few words, and Sun Dan stared over in bewilderment.When he woke up, it was already the next day.

"In today's class, the teacher will talk about the origin of my financial crisis and some phenomena during the period of social transformation..."

In fact, what Sun Dan wants to instill in students today is the fact that commercial capital in the middle and late Ming Dynasty made free labor a legal fact.In ancient Chinese society, there was always a concentration of commercial capital and half of the monetary wealth. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, conditions for free labor and a relatively developed commodity currency were prepared, and the employment relationship related to the market also increased significantly.

Sun Dan will implement a whip method in the future, which will make the process of social commercialization take another leap forward with the vow of fiscal policy adjustment. Currency and taxation will become the backbone of national finance. Such changes will become the disintegration of traditional society in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. mainstream of the process.

Now, these concepts can be passed on to these young students in the first step.

"Industry and commerce are of great significance to the country's economy and should be protected. The country's finances should also change from the previous model of land taxation as the mainstay. This is also the good governance of the emperor who could not bear to send more money to the common people and wanted to be satisfied with commercial taxes..."

"Although the traditional policy of emphasizing agriculture and despising business is simple, it is inflexible. My Ming Dynasty has a vast land and abundant resources, and there are great differences in different places. For example, there are tens of thousands of people in Datong. Industry. The daily use of vegetables, cloth and utensils are all given to the inland. And the inland businessmen are rushing for profit, and they all shoulder their bags. It’s not him who is a husband and businessman, that is, the young son of the emperor’s Central Plains who provides taxes and corvees, but how can he pay more attention to farming and mulberry than merchants?”

"Business travel is not good, farmers are in great poverty, and a sick businessman is a sick farmer. Agriculture and business are integrated..."

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In one class, Sun Dan repeatedly advocated the benefits of mercantilism to the country in front of the students. There were theories, practices, and examples.

The little students grew up in the deep palace and have never been out of Beijing, so how do they know the outside world.Hearing Sun Dan's words, he felt the vastness of the world and the prosperity of things, and he was fascinated by it.I just feel that Sun Dan's class is more exciting than before.Looking back, the few Confucian classics I learned before were really tasteless and uninteresting. It would be more interesting to do a few arithmetic operations.

Among this group of young eunuchs, there was only one with a strange look on his face, and he kept winking at Sun Dan.

This person is Lu Fang, and Lu Fang is living comfortably these days.Although Sun Dan didn't want him to be involved in the open and secret struggle between the two empresses in the palace prematurely in order to enable him to grow up normally, he didn't recommend him to Empress Chen and Bi Yun.

But this Lu Fang is really a character, and when he met Empress Chen by chance, he pretended to be nonchalant and pointed out his special relationship with Sun Dan.

In this way, it caught Empress Chen's attention, and she felt that the little eunuch was smart, so she took it to her side as a personal servant.

In this way, Lu Fang, Sun Dan's two major disciples, followed Queen Chen.And Chen Hong became Huang Jin's confidant and Zhang Guifei's most favored servant.These two guys have already shown their demeanor as the first and second in command of the Supervisor of Rites in the future.

Seeing him winking, Sun Dan was shocked to find that Chen Hong didn't come to school today.This Lu Fang must have something important to say, right?
Looking at the time, it was already noon, so Sun Dan said: "That's it for today, today's extracurricular homework is: find an ordinary county, analyze the components of last autumn's tax, and look at the agricultural tax and commercial tax. How much is it. Get out of class."

Lu Fang hurriedly shouted: "Stand up!"

"Goodbye, teacher!" All the students bowed at the same time.

After class, Sun Dan casually found an excuse to call Lu Fang into his room: "Lu Fang, do you need to talk to the teacher?" Seeing that there was no one else, Sun Dan asked.

Lu Fang hurriedly took a step forward, and said in a low voice, "Mr. Zi, Concubine Zhang has been pregnant for three months, and she only told Her Majesty yesterday. Now, Her Majesty is celebrating at Concubine Zhang's place."

Sun Dan nodded: "I already know about this, what else?"

Lu Fang said: "Teacher, did you find that Chen Hong didn't come today?"

Sun Dan: "The teacher has already found out, Lu Fang, do you know why Chen Hong didn't come?"

"I don't know either, but..." Lu Fang hesitated for a long time before saying, "In the past few days, Mr. Chen Hong went to the imperial hospital to get concubine Zhang Guifei. However, the students still found something unusual. This Chen Hong Hong seems to be asking about Musk...the imperial hospital must not have such a thing. Chen Hong left the palace early this morning. The students think that Chen Hong must have gone to find Musk."

"What!" Sun Dan stood up in shock.

(End of this chapter)