Bachelor

Chapter 91 Sufen
"Finally we can go back to Zouping." Sitting on the boat, Sun Dan sighed for a long time, and suddenly felt a little nostalgic.

By the end of July in the 15th year of Zhengde, more than a month had passed since the end of the Shandong Academy Examination. Sun Dan and a group of scholars who had achieved fame were finally confirmed and qualified to participate in the provincial examination.

Soon, the names of the new students were recorded in the file, and lin students like Sun Dan could finally receive lin rice and wages.Although six buckets of brown rice per month is meaningless to Sun Dan now, but at least he has a fixed income.

The college examination is only the first step on the road to the imperial examination, just like the college students of later generations who have obtained a university diploma and can take the civil service examination.

Sun Dan traveled to the Ming Dynasty. So far, apart from gaining some fame in Shandong, he has not had much impact on history.He came to the Ming Dynasty to play soy sauce. So far, all he has done is to fight for the improvement of his personal situation.Making soy sauce, and making good soy sauce is the kingly way.Even if you want to be an official in the future, you will go for wealth and glory.Therefore, his appearance has not had any impact on history for now.

A tiny butterfly flapped its wings in the Amazon and sparked a hurricane off the coast of the United States.

Sun Dan's butterfly wings have never been flapped since the beginning.

Big people change history, but small people can only go with the flow.

Soon, the financial trio formed by Yang Shen, Wang Yuanzheng, and Sun Henian raised a small sum of money in Shandong and went to Nanjing to help Emperor Zhengde make the huge prisoner offering discussion lively and appropriate. .Of course, the three of them went to Nanjing for another purpose—to urge the emperor to return to the north as soon as possible, and stop tossing about in the south of the Yangtze River.

Speaking of this grand captive offering ceremony, or His Majesty's Southern Expedition, it was a farce in itself.

Ning Wang's rebellion occurred in June of the 14th year of Zhengde, and in August, Emperor Zhengde set out to conquer.But at this time, Mr. Wang Shouren had put down the rebellion, and even took King Ning as a prisoner.Ordinarily, the emperor didn't need to go to Jiangnan in person at this point.But he finally seized the opportunity to travel far away from Beijing, how could he let it go.

Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor stopped and went, traveling in the mountains and rivers, and did not touch Nanjing until June of the 15th year of Zhengde.

It is not a solution for the emperor to be away for a long time. The reason why Yang Shen and Wang Yuanzheng, two Hanlin scholars, went to Nanjing in person was to get Zhengde back to Beijing as soon as possible.The emperor has not returned to the court for a long time, not to mention the chaos in the court, and he has to consume a lot of money and food every day.The national treasury was already empty, if Zhengde was allowed to fool around in the south of the Yangtze River, I'm afraid that the family base of the household department would be emptied by him.

The prisoner presentation meeting could finally be held as scheduled, but at this grand gathering, something happened to the emperor again.After Zhengde came to the south of the Yangtze River, he didn't fight a single battle or shoot an arrow, so returning to Beijing like this made him feel very boring.Therefore, when discussing the offering of prisoners, the emperor asked whether to release King Ning and lead his troops to fight him again?
This kind of thought can no longer be summed up in the words "wonderful thinking". Sun Dan could imagine the expressions of Yang Shen and Wang Yuanzheng at that time.These two people, one is a famous scholar with literary talents, and the other is a prudent and decent gentleman. When they encounter such a flamboyant emperor, they will be at a loss for teasing, right?

Speaking of which, Emperor Zhengde is a wonderful person.

The Sun family knew all this from Sun Henian's letter from Nanjing. In the letter, Sun Henian said that the emperor would return to court soon.Let the Sun family prepare to move to the house in the capital as soon as possible so that Sun Yue and Sun Gui can study with Xiao Yang.Moreover, Sun Hao also lost his title and was going to take office.

As soon as the letter was received, the Sun Mansion immediately began to pack and prepare to move the whole family to the capital.Everyone in the Sun House was extremely excited about the new life that was about to begin.

The Housun family of Huichang was originally a century-old family with a large mansion in the capital, Jinan, and Zouping.Zouping is the hometown, the house has the longest year, but the scale is the smallest among the three places.Because the Beijing side is the residence of the two great masters, Sun Songnian and Sun Henian, a sum of money is allocated for repairs every year.Now tens of thousands of taels of silver have been invested in repairs in one breath, and it is the most gorgeous among the three courtyards.

At the thought of living in such a big courtyard and the prosperity of the capital, even the humblest servant of the Sun family couldn't contain the joy in his heart.

It was not an easy task for a large family to move to Beijing. After nearly a month of busy work, by mid-August, it was finally settled.It was already autumn, and the harvest of autumn grains in the various estates of the Sun family had been completed. The expenses along the way and the settling expenses after entering Beijing were finally ready, and they were ready to set off. When Sun Henian returned to Shandong, he would take a boat northward.But at this time, Emperor Zhengde accidentally fell into the water while fishing in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, caught wind and cold, became seriously ill, and could not return to Beijing.As an attendant minister, Sun Henian could only stay in Jiangsu.

He wrote again and said that the Sun family should go to Beijing first.

With an order, the entire Sun family moved, those who packed things packed up, those who escorted the money and food escorted the money and food.

Before leaving Shandong, the Sun family had to go to the old house in Zouping to worship their ancestors.

History is still moving forward according to his own trajectory. If there is no accident, Emperor Zhengde will die in March next year.After Sun Dan heard the news, he didn't take it very seriously. As soon as Emperor Zhengde died, Jiajing would start the Enke next fall after he ascended the throne. There was not much time left for him, so he had to hurry up and make preparations.

After all, he has been in Jinan for three months.After becoming a scholar, Mrs. Liu did not come to trouble him, and her life was quite comfortable.During this period of time, he followed the children of the Sun family to study in an academy in Jinan Prefecture, and after receiving the news of returning to Zouping.He and a group of Sun family children completed their studies in the academy together, and returned to Zouping by boat with several wives.

Sun Dan's admission to the Imperial College has been confirmed, and Sun Dan was a little annoyed when he got the news.A place like Guozijian has many rules and many troubles. The teachers who teach there are all state cadres. Because they stay in this kind of Qingshui Yamen all the year round, they have become bitter wives.With a deep hostility, he beat the students at every turn, taking pleasure in insulting the supervisors.I am a modern person who is used to being free and easy. If I enter that kind of place, I will definitely be suffocated to death.

But what can Sun Dan do? As a child of the Sun family, he can only obey orders.

According to Sun Dan's previous idea, once he was selected as a scholar and achieved fame, he would quit his job from the Sun family, take Zhiniang to study around, travel freely in the world, and be proud of the rivers and lakes.

Anyway, he is just a gardener of the Sun family, and he is not under the control of others.

But what he didn't expect was that after being selected as a scholar, the Sun family knew the value of Sun Dan, and even recorded the names of three generations of his grandparents in the family tree.In other words, since then, Sun Dan has officially become a child of the Sun family of Huichang Marquis.

In the feudal society, the clan was very powerful, and if they received the monthly money from the Sun family, they would be controlled by others.As a scholar, as Sun Dan, who is determined to become an official through the imperial examination, reputation is very important.If you don't like Sun's family, you will fail the political examination when you take the imperial examination in the future. In feudal society, the two characters of loyalty and filial piety are the foundation of governing the country. What could be a greater crime than not recognizing your ancestors?
Although Li Zhi, a famous scholar in the Wanli Dynasty, held a high position, he was almost mentally broken by the annoyance of the patriarchs and relatives in the clan.Even he, throughout his life, had to make false promises to a group of people in the clan.What's more, for such a small person like Sun Dan, facing the powerful clan power in the feudal society, he has no strength to resist at all.

Fortunately, Sun Henian's letter wasn't all bad news.Mr. Li Meiting finally got a job again, and now he is the supervisor of the Imperial Academy, in charge of supervisors, and he is a sixth-rank official.Responsible for checking students' academic performance, school discipline, and beating supervisors.

Sun Dan and Li Meiting have a deep friendship, with such a teacher looking after them, life should be good.

Thinking of this, Sun Dan became happy again.

After sailing for a day, I finally returned to my hometown in Zouping.The wives and children of the few rooms went back to the house to pack their bags.Sun Dan didn't go back to the yard either, and took the boat directly, leading Feng Zhen towards the county seat.

For more than two months, Feng Zhen's life has been good.After following Sun Dan, Sun Dan rented him a house in Jinan city for him to live in.Feng Zhen has lived in Jinan for the past two months, and he has three meals a day, and the bitter look on his face is no longer visible.

It's just that he was used to being lively in the army, and suddenly he was idle, feeling depressed.

Fortunately, Sun Dan also knew that it was not an option to let him eat and sleep like this, so he went to him from time to time to teach him how to read.In Sun Dan's mind, this guy is the future housekeeper.If you are illiterate and don't know how to keep accounts and arithmetic, how can you manage yourself.

In addition, Sun Dan felt that his health was too poor. If he didn't exercise more, even if he didn't die young, he wouldn't be able to live a quality life when he got older.

So, he would go to Feng Zhen's place every day to teach him to recognize two common characters, and then punch him all the way.

Feng Zhen said that Sun Dan was a bit older and couldn't learn any advanced martial arts, so he figured out a set of boxing techniques that are soothing and not difficult for Sun Dan to practice.

There are only five moves in this set of boxing. It looks very simple. Apart from the trouble of matching a certain breathing rhythm when punching, it doesn't need a lot of effort.It only takes half an hour to use it from beginning to end, and it won't take long.

At the beginning, Sun Dan still felt that this way of boxing was meaningless.But after practicing for half a month, he found that his appetite increased, and he no longer had bad dreams when he went to bed at night. Once his head was stuck to the pillow, he could sleep until dawn.

After realizing the benefits, Sun Dan paid more and more attention to this boxing technique.

According to Feng Zhen, if Sun Dan practiced like this for another twenty years, although he would not become a master, he would still have no problem dealing with one or two ordinary men.

"Twenty years...by then I will become a wretched uncle." Sun Dan smiled wryly.

However, it is good to have a healthy body.

Exercise for half an hour every day, work healthy for 50 years, and live happily for a lifetime.

"I don't know what Master Dan's house looks like?" Feng Zhen had seen the wealth of the Hou Sun family in Huichang during this period, his eyes were wide open, and he was looking forward to Sun Dan's private house.

"Didn't I tell you that I'm so poor that I'm afraid I'll disappoint you when I get there," Sun Dan said.

Feng Zhen refused to believe it, saying that the old man is being modest again, you are famous now, just say one word, many dilapidated farmers will come to you, if you want Tian Youtian and someone you want, will you still be poor?

Sun Dan smiled and refused to say more.However, he was thinking in his heart that if he really entered the officialdom in the future, his pitiful salary alone would not be able to support even official entertainment, let alone work.The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were notoriously low. According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the state was not responsible for the expenses of officials’ staff.If you want to make a difference, you really can't do anything without money.He didn't want to become a monster like Hai Rui who was so impoverished and so clean that his personality was distorted in the future.

Although upright officials are respected, such an aggrieved life is not what Sun Dan wants.

"Journey to the West" has been finished, and Sun Dan has no other income except six buckets of rice every month and the one or two silvers given by Sun's family.

Besides, "Journey to the West" does not have a mere few dozen taels of silver to enter the project, and it will not be of much use in an emergency, so another source of income must be found.

No business is not rich, business is a good idea.However, businessmen had a low status in the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Dan had no such plan when he first traveled to the Ming Dynasty.But now he can be regarded as a person who has achieved fame and fame again, and now he has many convenient conditions for doing business.As far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, there are not too many real businessmen, and many of them work part-time.For example, the several grain merchants in Jinan were all well-known big landlords in Shandong; the river transportation industry was controlled by a few high officials in the court; according to Yang Shen, most of the silk merchants in the Jiangnan area were local prominent families.These people are big men with fame and status.Without the cover of fame and fame, once a simple businessman's business becomes bigger, he will be careful to be eaten up by others.

There are quite a few ideas for making money in the database in my mind, so I have to sort it out when I find time, and see if I can come up with a specific plan.

Sun Dan now has little savings and fame, so if he wants to do it, he should make it bigger.Of course, Sun Hao and Sun Jia can no longer participate in this business.First, Sun Hao is about to go to the capital to be an official, that kid is born a lazy person and can't accomplish anything; second, Sun Jia is from the Sun family, and Sun Dan is now a little bit overwhelmed by the Sun family Angrily, I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore.

Walking on the street, just as he was lost in thought, he heard Feng Zhen beside him yelling loudly: "Hey, that wine seller sifted two bowls to moisten his throat, his throat was so dry that it was about to smoke."

"Okay, just wait... ah, it's Sun Dan, little brother Sun, you can be counted back to Zouping. I heard that after you entered the Sun family as a gardener, you joined the nobles in the mansion, made a fortune, and lived a prosperous life! It's so good Come take care of my old business."

It was a woman with a hoarse voice who spoke. Sun Dan woke up from his contemplation, and when he looked up, it was Mrs. Tang from Beimen Bridge.

It turned out that he had come to the north gate unknowingly.

Sun Dan knew Mrs. Tang before, but he didn't have much contact with her.The last time Zhiniang's elder brother Wanli fell in love with Tang Pozi's distant niece who came to Shandong from Nanchang to visit relatives, originally, the two families were to be relatives.It's a pity that Mrs. Tang's asking price is too high, and Butcher Wan is a penny-pinching miser. The two had a stalemate over this matter, and finally turned against each other.

"What's the point of getting rich? I'm a little gardener. If I can earn a few silver coins a month, it's not bad." He gave Feng Zhen a wink, signaling him to be calm and calm.Sun Dan said lightly: "I've been staying in Jinan all this time, and I haven't been home for three months, and I don't know what's going on at home. I won't bother Mrs. Tang, and I'm leaving."

"Hey, what are you talking about, little gardener? No one in Zouping City now knows that the copper coins in your family are piled up rotten, and the meat that your wife eats every day is as much as the rice coins of an ordinary family in a month. Why, you are rich I just look down on the old man." Mrs. Tang stretched out her hand and grabbed Sun Dan's sleeve, "I haven't seen you for so long, so I should take care of the old man's business before leaving."

Only then did Sun Dan discover that Mrs. Tang had set up two tables and a dozen or so small benches on the side of the street, and set up a small sweet wine stand.

In the Ming Dynasty, distilled baijiu had already appeared, and the alcohol content was also high, but this kind of wine was very precious, and people who were not wealthy could not afford to enjoy it.Ordinary people still drink the kind of self-brewed rice wine, which is not much higher than fermented glutinous rice wine.Many times, everyone drinks this kind of wine as a drink.

After autumn, the sun is shining every day, and it is a little hot.Tang Pozi set up a sweet wine stand on the street to earn some living expenses.

Sun Dan lacked interest in the kind of sweet rice wine brewed by Mrs. Tang himself. He had sang poetry and wine with literary friends in Jinan in the past few months, and he had never drunk any good wine.Seeing Mrs. Tang's bald forehead and dirty nails, she lost her appetite.

Just as he was about to resign, Feng Zhen was probably too thirsty, so he took a bowl of wine and gulped it all down.

Sun Dan shook his head, this soldier was really careless, so he took out two copper coins and threw them on the table, said: "Let's go." He started to leave.

But Mrs. Tang still refused to let Sun Dan go, and still held Sun Dan's sleeve tightly: "Brother Sun, why are you in such a hurry, yo, you have seen the world at Sun's house, why, you dislike the dirty things here, don't you?" Are you willing to spend money?"

Sun Dan couldn't stand it any longer, and said with a wry smile, "Mrs. Tang, I'm really in a hurry to go home. Otherwise, I'll come over to take care of your business when I have time?"

"No, no, people in your family don't talk too much. Last time I made an agreement with your father-in-law to marry my niece, but he went back on it. I have to talk to you about this. I said, Brother Sun, Anyway, you have money now, so let’s give it to your uncle.” After finishing speaking, he pressed Sun Dan on the stool involuntarily, and Brick shouted to the side: “Sufen, you little hoof, why are you so stupid? I have no vision, this is your future brother-in-law, and I have plenty of money. Before you sift the wine for him, you can serve two plates with fresh fruits and beans."

"Come on." At this time, Sun Dan saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young girl squatting in front of a large wooden basin, washing dishes and chopsticks on the street next to Mrs. Tang.

This woman is the Tang Sufen that Uncle Wanli has a crush on?
(End of this chapter)