Chapter 1643 Ambition (asking for double monthly votes)
With Zhuangtian's accident, both Zhuliang and Fuming were worried that the Zhang family would embarrass Fusong at the dinner party.
With an extra layer of kinship, it's not easy to talk about superiority and inferiority directly.
If someone bullies someone by relying on their elders, will they respond or not?
If you talk back, it seems disrespectful and uneducated; if you don't talk back, you will feel depressed without talking about it, and it will be easy for others to slap you in the face.
Surprisingly, the evening banquet was a joyful one.
In addition to the Zhang family, the guests present also included descendants of local prominent families, the Zhang family's in-laws, the Yao family, the Ma family, the Fang family and the Zuo family.
These families are all wealthy families in Tongcheng, and they are heirlooms of scholarship.
After more than a hundred years, there have been ups and downs, but none of them has reached the momentum of the Yao and Zhang families.
The glory of the Yao family has passed, and the descendants have declined and have gone downhill. However, the momentum of the Zhang family has been accumulated steadily.
As a result, the Zhang family has become the head of the gentry in Tongcheng.
The son-in-law of the Zhang family was also a noble son-in-law, so everyone greeted him with smiles.
Fu Song was a candidate for the Eight Banners Examination, and Fu Ming was a quasi-guozi supervisor. Everyone could talk about their careers.
It was similar to yesterday's family dinner. Fusong was accompanied by several in-laws, Zhuliang, the representative of the in-laws' family, was accompanied by the head of the Zhang family and Fuming, the younger generation of the Zhang family and in-laws' families.
The older people on the other side spoke in clichés, but the young people on the other hand quickly became familiar with each other, and Fu Ming didn't seem arrogant.
For these Jiangnan teenagers, the life of the bannermen is like another world.
Even if there are Eight Banners garrisoned in the local area, they are mostly in the provincial capital, and separate flag cities have to be set aside, so that they do not mix with the local people.
Now that they saw the living bannermen, they were having wine at the same table. When they became familiar with each other, everyone started asking questions, saying: "Is it true that all men can wear armor and work hard to grow crops? Regardless of high or low, everyone has money and food?"
Fu Ming considered it and said: "In the early years, the population of the Eight Banners was small, and men could get paid by picking up armor or working as errands. Now that the population of the Eight Banners is large, this job is no longer guaranteed. Five men can choose one armor, and the rest can be paid.
For tinkerers, their salary will be halved, or they will be required to take a writing test. If there is any other shortage, they will have to find their own jobs. There are also many idle people who have no errands."
Mr. Zhang Liu said: "In the peaceful and prosperous times, the people were recuperating and recuperating, so the population increased. In my family, our great ancestor gave birth to four sons, and the fourth son gave birth to eight grandchildren. Counting two in the family, but when it came to my father's generation, it was directly ranked thirty-four.
Uncle, when it comes to my generation, we will no longer line up together, or we can line up eighty away..."
A young man next to him, who was about the same age as Fu Nian, said: "There are more people, but the land is getting less and less, and the quota is fixed. There is no land to make money, and it is difficult to start a business. I am really worried about the future."
This refers to land…
Fu Mingjiang perked up and wondered if he was making some insinuation or something.
As a result, the young man put it down after mentioning it, and then asked Fu Ming about the Eight Banners draft.
"Are you only selecting from the Eight Banners? Why was it said that it was a Jiangnan selection a few years ago?"
The young man said.
Fu Ming didn't want to say more, so he just said: "Let's spread rumors. The Eight Banners draft is only selected in the Eight Banners. It is estimated that the show girls from the Jiangnan Banner Camp came to Beijing to be selected, and they were rumored to be Jiangnan Show Girls."
The young man just listened for a moment and put it down after he was relieved of his curiosity.
Another person asked: "Is it difficult to speak Mandarin? No one in the local area can understand Mandarin, so can they understand it when they are officials in the capital?"
From this look, it seems that there are no Beijing officials in the family, and the question is immature.
Fu Ming then explained it carefully and said: "Ordinary officials do not need to learn Manchu, but those who travel before the imperial court and the cabinet need to know Manchu. There are special Manchu courses in the Hanlin Academy..."
At the following dinner, neither the young people in the Zhang family nor the young people in-laws mentioned land again.
When the banquet was over, Fu Ming quietly asked Mr. Zhang Liu: "Didn't you say that many people came to ask about the land today? Why didn't anyone mention it?"
Mr. Zhang Liu said in a relaxed tone: "It's settled, no one will be jabbering anymore..."
After that, he explained the solution in detail.
It turns out that Zhang Ying promised the Zhang family to free up two thousand acres of land tax-free and distribute it to the Zhang family for use until Zhang Ying's 100th anniversary. Among them, Zhang Ying's brothers and nephews would get one thousand acres, and other heads would get one thousand acres.
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Although Fu Ming is the fourth in the family and ranks in the middle among the brothers, he is not a nerd who can't hear what is going on outside the window.
The Daqingtian tax is not heavy, but it is not too small either. Adding up the main items and various miscellaneous items, the tax is almost fifteen to one.
However, officials and gentry all have a certain amount of tax-free land.
For example, Zhang Ying, who was a first-rank official in the capital, was exempted from land tax of 10,000 acres, and after becoming an official, the land tax was 6,000 acres.
Zhang Tingyu is a Jinshi and can be exempted from land tax on 3,300 acres of land.
Zhang Tingzhan was a third-rank official in the capital and had six to seven thousand acres of tax-free land.
The total tax-free land owned by the Zhang family and his son is more than 10,000 acres.
Zhang Ying acted prudently and frugally. In addition, Zhang Tingzhan was in the fourth rank and Zhang Tingyu was still a government student, so the Zhang family's previous tax-free land quota was not filled up.
The outside world doesn't know how many acres of land the Zhang family has in total, or whether there is any vacancy among them.
Now that twenty hectares have to be transferred out, there is a shortage, and the clan members can transfer the land tax-free.
Fu Ming was stunned when he heard this. If the Zhang family paid less taxes, wouldn't the Yamen collect less taxes?
A place like Tongcheng, which is full of books, constantly promotes people and scholars, so wouldn't the surrounding land become tax-free land?
What about the whole Jiangnan?
When he returned to the guest house, Fu Ming mentioned the matter to his two brothers.
Fu Song and Zhu Liang were silent.
Land in the Tutong Prefecture is also tax-free.
In the early years, I didn't think it was anything. Now that I'm older, I know that the official taxes are less. However, the court has not heard that there is a shortage of money, so it just uses miscellaneous items to make up for this shortfall.
As a result, the taxes of ordinary people will be doubled.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Zhu Liang said: "There is reincarnation in the way of heaven. When a family rises, it will also decline. At that time, this land will have a new owner."
Fusong shook his head and said: "That is also the land transferred to the hands of the officials and gentry. It is still a tax-free land."
Fu Ming also fell into deep thought and said for a while: "I want to go out..."
I took a trip to Jiangnan, and what I saw and heard along the way was completely different from the capital city.
In the capital, relying on the relationship between his family and his sister to fill the gap in the flag, he lived a leisurely life, but he could see the end at a glance.
Since he wanted to be a civil servant, why did he only focus on the lack of flags in the capital?
Being a flag officer in the capital is not like being an official, but like being an errand. You just have to do your job well, and you can't have your own ambitions.
Fu Song and Zhu Liang both looked at Fu Ming.
Fusong muttered: "Eni will not trust you to go far away..."
Besides, the grade of the county magistrate is too low.
You should know that there is an old saying in the officialdom: "There are no humble members in Manchuria and Mongolia, and there are no outsiders in the clan."
It can be said that when a noble's son becomes an official, four out of ten will be selected as bodyguards, and six will enter the official position through writing and writing.
After ten or eight years of this, when you have enough qualifications, if you want to go out, you can directly start from the fifth rank.
If you go down to be a county magistrate and want to reach the fifth rank, it will probably take two decades.
Fu Ming pointed at himself and said: "Don't worry, after all these years of careful raising, the shortcomings have long been made up. It's just that my strength is ordinary and I can't make a career in the army, but I'm not really weak..."
This was Fu Ming's ambition, and Fu Song didn't say anything more.
Even if you want to make up the county magistrate, you must have qualifications, either from the Eight Banners Juren or from the Imperial College and pass the examination.
That will be a few years later.
Zhu Liang looked at Fu Ming and said, "You can learn from Gao Bin and start as a county magistrate under Zhili. Then your family will feel more at ease."
Fu Ming nodded and said: "That's fine, I just want to do something practical..."
Fusong encouraged: "It's a good ambition to have, but it's easier said than done. When the time comes, you will be responsible for the livelihood of the people of the county, so you can't just talk about it. When the provincial examination is over, you can go to Xianghe to live for a while..."
To study in the Imperial College, you have to do it after the New Year, when you have a few months of free time.
Fu Ming nodded, looking energetic and feeling confident.
Zhuliang looked at Fusong and said, "What do you think of Fang Jieyuan tonight?"
Fu Song said: "It is indeed a great talent to be the leader of the Jiangnan Provincial Examination. It's just a scholar in Jiangnan. He seeks fame before asking for an official position. This is different from the custom of the capital. He is not from the same place as us. He is just an acquaintance."
Zhu Liang had a talented fiancée, and he also started to love reading, and he also had a good impression of these talented people.
However, he also listened to Fusong's words, but he felt that they were also pursuing careers. Brothers Zhang Tingzhan and Zhang Tingyu did not have much talent and fame, but their official careers were smooth. This talented man was not too young.
There is still a long way to go before being a scholar or a scholar...
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Beijing, Jiubele Mansion.
Brother Jiu received a letter from Gao Bin. It turns out that this year's spring plowing has ended. This year, 50% of the official fields in Xianghe are corn, 10% are peanuts, and there are 1,324 acres of tidal flats along the river.
, all planted into potatoes.
If all goes well, not only will an official roast pot be set up in Xianghe County this year, but also an official oil workshop will be added to supply vegetarian oil from the capital...
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Double the last day, roll and ask for double monthly tickets.