The hexagonal fan with Wang Xizhi's inscription was still kept in the gloomy nanmu box by Lin Wanwan. For the time being, it was locked in a large wooden box for preservation like her famous calligraphy and paintings.
That afternoon, a messenger came to the town, a letter from Chang'an.
There were three letters in total, two of which were written by Li Lizhi and Cheng Yaojin's wife Cui to Lin Wanwan. In addition to saying hello to Lin Wanwan, the letters also included the approximate profits of the two workshops and shops.
When Lin Wanwan left Chang'an, she made an agreement with them to distribute dividends every six months, at the time of the semi-annual report and the annual report respectively.
Originally, when Lin Wanwan was in Chang'an, everyone divided their time once a month. Now that she has left, and the mountains and rivers are far away, it has been changed to twice a year.
In addition to Lin Wanwan's letter, Xiao Qingyu also received a letter and gifts from Xiao Li Zhi in the palace.
Xiao Qingyu held the letter with great excitement. Her current literacy level was adequate, but it was still not comparable to Li Zhi's level.
Although Li Zhi is younger than Xiao Qingyu, he enjoys the education of the most powerful bosses in the Tang Dynasty, as well as Li Shimin's occasional personal teaching, which is not comparable to a lazy student like Xiao Qingyu.
People in the Tang Dynasty got married early and started enlightenment early. When Li Zhi started learning to read and write, Xiao Qingyu had not even met Lin Wanwan, and she could be regarded as a little meatball with no ideas of her own.
Later, Lin Wanwan adopted her, and she was very doting on her. She basically made no demands on her studies.
If you want to be a female official in the Tang Dynasty, you have to work in the palace, just like Shangguan Wan'er served as Wu Zetian's secretary (internal minister).
Lin Wanwan had never thought about letting little Qingyu live a life of accompanying you like a tiger. She was very Buddhist in her studies. During her early childhood, she must have let little Qingyu focus on playing.
That is to say, it was only after Cui Ying became Xiao Qingyu's nanny that she began to have various demands on her.
It's just that this requirement also focuses on learning aristocratic rules and etiquette, rather than various classics and history.
In addition, there was no punctuation in the Tang Dynasty, so orthodox education must have been in classical Chinese.
If Li Zhi were to write in vernacular, it would be easier for Xiao Qingyu to understand him. However, because he had received the most orthodox education from the royal family for a long time, he could easily read it.
The letters I wrote were naturally in this style.
So now when Xiao Qingyu reads Li Zhi's letter, there are several things that she can't understand.
He still had to hold the letter and ask Lin Wanwan.
Finally, after Lin Wanwan explained it to her, Xiao Qingyu suddenly sighed: "You still need to read more, otherwise you won't even be able to understand the letter."
Lin Wanwan was amused by her appearance.
The gift Li Zhi brought to Xiao Qingyu was a very unique machine beast, which was made for him by the master craftsman in the palace.
Even though Xiao Qingyu owns many wooden toys that Lin Wanwan bought from modern times, it must be admitted that they are not necessarily better than those of the Tang Dynasty.
In this regard, the advantages that modern people have are open minds and portable machinery. However, those who were able to stand in front of Prince Huang Sun in the Tang Dynasty were industry leaders, and the wooden toys they made were more exquisite and beneficial.
wisdom.
Xiao Qingyu couldn't put it down after getting this machine beast.
So I immediately prepared a return gift and letter to Li Zhi, which was much more positive than Lin Wanwan.
Lin Wanwan didn't even think about writing a reply immediately. She just sat next to Xiao Qingyu and gave her instructions to reply.
While enjoying the rare family time, suddenly some of his subordinates came to report, and some ragged mountain people came to seek refuge with their expired household registrations.
"Oh, let Yun Shang and Ji Yue handle it first. After they are cleaned and fed, they can then bring them to see me." Lin Wanwan gave a casual order.
"Here." The men took the order and left.
During this period, due to the rise of bases in the mountains, many mountain people who had been hiding on nearby hills came to us with their families and were willing to become slaves.
In the Tang Dynasty, as long as you reached adulthood, it was legal to sell yourself. It was normal for the people who could not survive to rely on the powerful to survive.
Although the imperial court opposed it, it had little effect.
In fact, Luang County's current policy towards mountain people follows Li Shimin's ideological guidance, and Xiao Chong's policy is mainly to recruit people for the benefit of the people.
However, Luan County lacks fertile farmland and is mostly mountainous and saline-alkali land. Even if these mountain people become good citizens after coming down from the mountains, they will only be allocated one or two acres of land, and they will not be able to support their whole family at all.
You must know that farmers in the Tang Dynasty were heavily taxed, unlike modern times where agricultural taxes have been abolished.
The farmers of the Tang Dynasty carried the entire country on their shoulders.
Good citizens have to bear corvee and tax obligations. It is difficult to support a small family with such a small amount, and there is no spare money to pay taxes.
Although the policy is that mountain residents who become naturalized are exempt from paying taxes for the first three years, they still have to pay taxes after three years.
Therefore, the mountain people are still very worried about this. If there is a high-quality owner like Lin Wanwan, they are naturally willing to take refuge.
In fact, if they are willing to endure some hardships and endure it, life will get better soon. After all, if you are a slave for one day, it will be hard to change for generations.
As long as Tashan Weir is completed, Luang County will be able to usher in a period of rapid growth in fertile farmland. At that time, the land will be re-granted to good people according to the land equalization system. Isn't there hope for the future?
It's just that the mountain people, who are mostly ignorant and illiterate, can't see that far. The county government's propaganda is not in place, so it is impossible to completely naturalize the mountain people.
It was actually much cheaper for Lin Wanwan, and the number of "employees" in her family increased a lot.
The strong ones were assigned to the armed service, the weaker ones were assigned to the ordinary service, and some were used as roughnecks, whose main task was farming.
As for the old, weak, women and children, there are really not many of them. The conditions in the mountains are harsh, and only the young and strong are the easiest to survive.
In Lin Wanwan's two residences, Linjiazhuang and Xiaoxi Town, the number of slaves in Lin Wanwan's two residences was seriously insufficient according to the standards of the Tang Dynasty wealthy family, and this group of people came in just to fill them.
What's more, in addition to the house, Lin Wanwan now also has a warehouse, two shops, an embroidery workshop, and a Chinese medicine hall, so she can accommodate people anywhere.
Facing more and more slave students in the school, Mr. Chen and other masters have given up struggling.
Anyway, teaching one person is teaching, and teaching a group of people is also teaching.
The size of the school is also expanding, and classes are now divided into classes according to age and academic level.
In fact, Lin Wanwan, the children of the mountain people, did not ask their parents to sign a deed of sale for them and give them a chance to be free when they reached adulthood. This is allowed by the current policy of naturalizing mountain people.
But generally speaking, no one would do this like Lin Wanwan. This is equivalent to opening a private welfare home and paying for it to go to school.
But Lin Wanwan really doesn't mind these expenses. She is good at helping the world. She still has compassion for children.
She didn't take the initiative because she didn't want to attract too much attention. She was already high-profile enough.
But now that some mountain people have come to join her, she can take care of them and teach their children, which is nothing but employee benefits.