It was very fast to transfer supplies. Xinghe Supermarket had a warehouse in Nancheng. After all, the rent in North City was very high, and there was a lot of wasteland in Nancheng. Yang Fan casually rented hundreds of acres of land, hardened the ground, and used wooden pillars and tiles to
A large number of warehouses can be built in a short period of time by using steel as the roof.
A four-wheeled heavy-duty carriage carrying a seven-ton caravan pulled noodles packed in wooden boxes and wrapped in oil paper to transport them to Nanyuan.
These noodles come in one kilogram tube and are the cheapest noodles produced in modern times. Although the flour grade is not high, it is definitely made of pure flour and is not mixed with any other grains.
Yang Fan has no shortage of draft horses, but he is relatively low-key and does not want to show off in the capital.
There was a shortage of horses in the Ming Dynasty, both for public and private use. Therefore, caravans were pulled by strong oxen. The speed was very slow. After all, oxen were strong, but they could not walk as fast as horses.
Nine strong oxen were divided into three rows at the front and back, pulling the heavy caravan forward. This was mainly due to the convenience of entering and exiting the city gate, which was too wide and difficult to enter and exit.
The small flag guarding the city watched the caravan pulled by four ox carts leave Yongding Gate. He quickly directed the soldiers to make way for other people and cars entering and exiting the city. Let the cars from Xinghe Supermarket go first.
His salary comes and goes, and his family relies entirely on the food provided by Xinghe Supermarket.
Since Xinghe Supermarket allowed military households in Beijing to apply for food bills, the military households have been extremely happy. In such a disaster year, having cheap food can save a family's life.
Of course, some people are happy and some are unhappy. Many civil servants are very dissatisfied.
Because although the price of food has gone up, many ordinary people do not go to their food stores to buy food at all. Only those immigrants who do not have Gyeonggi household stickers will go to the food stores to buy food.
Now, Xinghe Supermarket has begun to issue food books for military households, which has reduced their customers. Two-thirds of the population in the capital have gone to buy cheap food.
They raise the price of food to the sky, but it is of no use, because there is a price but no market. Not many people come to buy it.
They and the nobles of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion jointly withheld half of the money and food distributed to the army.
Thirty percent for civil servants, and 20% for nobles. Other military officers who handle the matter cannot be less, so they add sand to the mix and continue to be greedy.
The food they are greedy for will appear in the food stores opened by their relatives, and then sold at high prices.
Of course, it must be sold at a high price. After all, it is a famine year and food prices have skyrocketed. How can it be sold at a low price?
Food is a special commodity. One hundred people need one hundred rations.
If one portion is missing, the price will not simply increase. It will not increase by one percent, but will increase from one hundred to one hundred, or even hundreds.
The reason is simple, because no one wants to be the one who starves to death.
People will compete to raise prices in panic, and food prices will skyrocket immediately.
It is precisely because of this irrational skyrocketing that huge profits can be made. Running the grain business relies on waiting for such unconventional opportunities to make a fortune.
After so many layers of ink, there is still more than 30% left.
Even though we arrived at the military camp, the food was definitely not enough.
If the food the soldiers receive is not enough to sustain their lives, they will resist.
After all, the military is a violent institution, an armed group, and composed of people who hold weapons. And the profession of these people is to kill people.
The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were willing to wipe their butts after taking poop.
Because if they don’t do this, they will walk around without food.
This level of trouble is not what they want to see. They just want to make a fortune, not lose their lives.
The civil servants added the old grain at the bottom of the warehouse and the moldy old grain from various grain stores. They made up 50% of the quantity, barely allowing the soldiers to eat porridge without starving to death.
Because civil servants have more than two thousand years of experience in ruling.
They know that you can go too far, and it doesn't matter if you go too far. However, you must leave a way for the people below. Don't let the people below despair.
In a time of great calamity like this, soldiers can easily be satisfied if they have something to eat.
Didn't you see that there are homeless people everywhere outside the city? If they can stay alive, they won't cause trouble.
Otherwise, the soldiers will be forced to panic, and everyone will break up and stop playing the game you prescribed. The trouble will be big.
Didn’t you see that Huang Chao was forced to rebel like this?
If only the examiner had controlled his greed.
If we accept one less gift and use one less backdoor, we will admit him. Will there be no such disaster?
This person was seriously admitted, but was forced to pass.
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism, civil servants have been constantly adjusting their strategies, with the goal of stabilizing their rule by any means necessary, and at the same time infinitely expanding their own interests.
Every time I messed up, I learned my lesson and started again.
They have invented many opportunities that seem to change their class and origin.
But in fact, they are all institutional designs with little hope. Very few people can move to the upper class through these methods.
Its real purpose is to use the imperial examination to give you a hope, to numb people's hearts and weaken the consciousness of resistance. Their most successful system design is the stereotyped writing.
The core idea of the system design of Confucianism and the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty is to make people lose their blood, become numb, and lose their sense of resistance.
On the surface, anyone can achieve class crossing through the imperial examination. But in fact, studying is very expensive. The education level of a region is positively related to the level of development.
It will be the same hundreds of years later. The education level in developed areas will naturally be much better. Compared with examinations, remote and poor areas cannot compare with developed areas. After all, educational resources are also piled up with money.
The educational resources available to wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Can children from a scholarly family and those from a farming family be the same?
The most damning thing about the imperial examination is that this system gives people the illusion that it maintains social fairness and promotes class mobility.
Anyway, the opportunity is given to you. If you don't pass the exam, it's because you don't work hard enough. If you can't compete with others, it's you who can't do it. You can't blame the court and the emperor.
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In the Ming Dynasty, all successful system designs ultimately attributed the causes of social injustice to the victims, and made the entire society and the victims accept this logic.
Besides, even if you don’t look at these, the imperial examination is a joke.
In the Tang Dynasty, every thirty years, the number of people who needed to become officials was 19,000. Only 3,100 people took the imperial examination, accounting for 16%.
86% of people entered official positions without taking the imperial examination. These people were mainly from aristocratic families, recommended by officials, and favored by the emperor.
If the official class is included, only 1% of the people enter official positions through the imperial examination.
The Song Dynasty is recognized by everyone as the most friendly era for scholars. The number of people who took the imperial examination and became officials, excluding officials, only accounted for 26.1%. The rest were all from Enyin.
Don't underestimate the official class.
In the local area, there are county magistrates (deputy county magistrates), zhubo (finance director, tax director), county lieutenants (police chiefs), Dianshi (criminal police captain and warden), six departments of the county Yamen, etc. below the county magistrate.
A department with real power. They are also serious ancient civil servants.
Under normal circumstances, the specific number of departments and houses in most states and counties is six. They are established according to the titles of central officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and workers.
But it is not absolute. In some states and counties, the number of departments is not necessarily six, and there are other departments.
For example, in Jingxian County, Zhili, in addition to six rooms, there are ten rooms such as a grain house, a salt house, a warehouse, a recruitment house, a Cambodian house, and a contracting house, a household head office, a tax department, and a river channel. Together, there are 16 rooms in total.
These huge groups of officials are the ones who really manage the people. None of them came from the imperial examination.
In the Ming Dynasty, this dynasty unprecedentedly expanded the imperial examination. Even among the top seven ministers, according to the total statistics of 276 years, people who were not from the imperial examination accounted for 57.6%. Less than half of them were from the imperial examination.
The Qing Dynasty was no better. According to statistics by some scholars, scholars who moved upward through the imperial examination only accounted for 3-4% of the total number of officials. Among other officials, the largest number were Enyin, followed by those who sold their positions in the imperial court.
After leaving Yongdingmen, the road became very bad. The two deep ruts were half a meter deep. There was still water in some places. There was a foul smell and flies were buzzing around.
A dozen servants on horseback, armed with weapons, were guarding both sides.
The pillar sits next to the driver, and three people can sit sideways on the driver's side of the caravan.
"This dilapidated road should have been repaired long ago. If it continues to be bumpy like this, all the noodles will be scattered."
The driver who drove the truck was Zhang Shengwu, the deputy captain of the freight team of Xinghe Supermarket. He said: "There is no way. The master's order came very urgently and asked him to transport all the noodles in stock immediately. This is the only way. Why don't you go slower?
, it can be a lot better, isn’t it.”
Zhu Zhu said, "I'm looking for you because I don't know what's going on."
Zhang Shengwu said: "You'll know when you get there. Why do you think so much? It's a waste of your brain."
Zhu Zhu said with envy: "Yes, Lao Zhang, you are living a really good life. You have a high income and you don't have to worry about anything. You have a couple of children, and your wife and children love each other. If I can be like you someday, I will be satisfied."
Zhang Zhenwu smiled and said: "I am like this because I have no future. You have been valued by the master at a young age. Naturally, your future is limitless. How can you compare with me?"
