Yuan Jia carefully carried a small teapot into the public house. It was a cold autumn day in Chang'an. After copying household registration books all morning, her waist and back ached. It was not because of her own health, but because of the Ministry of Household Registration.
The office is really life-threatening. Sitting cross-legged on the wooden floor, hunched over and busy, the damage to the body is really great. As soon as I see those old bosses walking like prawns, I feel bad for myself.
The future is full of worries. There is no doubt that as long as I work like this for twenty years, my end will not be much better than that of my old boss.
He took a sip of hot tea and felt comfortable all over. The only drawback was that the tea was a little weak, but it was better than nothing. After leaving the academy, there was no supply of tea. He remembered the tea in the academy.
I only need three cents to buy a big bag, which is enough for a month. There was no tea at home yesterday, so I sent Yuanbao to the West Market to buy it. As a result, Yuanbao traveled all over the West Market before I bought a small bag for my husband. Yuanjia drank it.
After one sip, it was immediately sprayed out. These were not tea leaves, but tree leaves.
Tea was a cheap product in the academy. After leaving the academy, its value immediately increased a hundred times. I thought that the family would have enough tea for a month if they had ten coins. Who knew, they bought just such a few leaves with dirt on them. For this reason,
, Yuanbao felt so guilty that he planned to pawn his hairpin to buy tea for her husband, but was scolded by Yuanjia.
When I came out of the academy, I only had a pair of bedding, a few boxes of books, Yuanbao, and no change of clothes, not to mention Yao Niang. It was naturally very difficult for the three poor people to start living. Fortunately, the court took this into account.
Under these circumstances, they were given half a year's salary in advance, and they were able to barely make up a family.
Yao Niang was wearing a plain green dress, with a handkerchief on her head. Her obese body had lost a lot of weight, but her papaya-like breasts had not shrunk in size. For this reason, Yao Niang had been dreaming of becoming a beautiful woman for a long time.
There were only three of them living in the courtyard two steps into the house. Yao Niang, who was used to the hustle and bustle, did not dare to go out on the street. She could only lie in the crack of the door and watch the excitement. Today, the new official's family is marrying a bride, and tomorrow another new official will be married.
When people bring new furniture to the house, she can chat lively with Yuan Bao at the dinner table.
When he went out today, Yuanbao quietly put a small bag of tea into his schoolbag. The small oil paper bag seemed to be only enough for three to five days, but Yuanjia didn't care. He never refused anything Yuanbao gave him.
In the past two days, Yuan Bao carried the snacks made by Yao Niang in a basket and sold them in Chongning Square, and he might have made a little money.
Zhu Bing hurriedly walked in from outside. In the cold and foggy day, he was actually covered with sweat. The green robe was tightly stretched around his body, strangulating his whole body like a silkworm. He saw tea on Yuan Jia's desk.
, pick it up and drain it in one gulp, and don’t stop until you can’t hold back even a drop of water.
"Bristles, you damn well know that what I hate the most is the bastard who sneaks tea leaves, but you insist on going against me, don't you?" Yuan Jia can't remember that this is the hundreds of times he has protested, although it is of no use.
.But whether you resist or not is up to you, and whether you listen or not is up to you. Everyone has to protect their rights, right?
"Where's all that nonsense? Drink up all your tea as soon as possible so that you can get rid of your tea-drinking habit, so as not to see Yuan Bao selling cakes in a basket in Chongning Square, which is heartbreaking."
"Brother, that seems to be my wife. Why are you sad?" Yuan Jia asked, looking at the bristles warily.
"Damn it, the wives of the top ten in this imperial examination have been carrying baskets and selling snacks all day long. Do you still want any official reputation and dignity? I gave you money but you refused. I secretly gave it to Yao Niang, but you forced me to do so.
Forced to send it back. We are brothers, not profiteers with evil intentions. Just pay it back to me when you have money. Why do you have to torture everyone around you? "
"Your money belongs to you, and I already owe you a lot. We were in the academy at that time, and we were not yet social people in the words of the teacher, so it doesn't matter if we have some monetary connections. It's different now. I am an independent person.
, I can eat as much as I can. Yuanbao is my wife, and it is natural for her to endure hardships with me. Yao Niang has nowhere to go, so she has no choice.
By the way, tell me how embarrassing it is for Yuanbao to sell snacks with a basket?"
Zhu Zhi choked on Yuan Jia's words and almost fell over. He shook his hands irritably and said, "I won't argue with you anymore. Your words always smell like old coffins. Have you calculated the things you have to calculate?"
Give it to me quickly, it’s waiting for use. Next time, I won’t let my maid buy your pastries. Yao Niang’s products always seem to have a filthy smell, and I didn’t eat a bite. "
"Go away, you are a rich man, you should buy more. Today I asked my wife to make more. You should mobilize the whole family to eat together, then you can be considered as a friend.
I figured this out after I didn't sleep in the middle of the night last night. The final result is that the court loses more than it gains. If you want to plug these reasonable and legal tax avoidance loopholes, you can only quickly formulate new regulations. The ratio of commercial tax is also inappropriate.
, various goods should be treated differently. The tax rate on food needs to be low, and the tax rate on luxury goods needs to be doubled hundreds or thousands of times. In addition, the tax rate on salt and iron in our country is so high that people in many places cannot eat it.
Take it easy, these will all be included in our discussion tomorrow."
Zhuzhi wrote down Yuanjia's words and put Yuanjia's calculation results into his arms. Just as he was about to go out, he heard Yuanjia say again: "When you buy Yuanbao's pastries, don't pick the unpalatable ones. Just do it.
In order not to confuse my wife and think that the most unpalatable one is the best-selling one. My family will open a pastry shop in the future, do you know that you are making me bankrupt?"
Zhuzhi shook his sleeves fiercely, raised his head and cursed, expressed the anger in his heart, and hurriedly rushed towards the Ministry of Rites. Wang Xuance, this bastard, actually strongly agreed to Daomen's suggestion. He couldn't be more stupid. He
How dare you point at my nose and say that I have the head of a human and the brain of a pig even though I look like a monkey?
"Look, this is the result calculated by the great talent Yuan Jiayuan. The Taoist sect will get rich because of this move, and will escape forever." "This great murder weapon of the imperial court is outside the legal system of the Tang Dynasty. Wang Xuance, you
Your ancestor was a Taoist priest? Are you going to such great lengths to speak up for Zamao?"
"Let me think about it, don't tell me, my ancestors really had their hair and went to the mountains to become Taoist priests, but does this have anything to do with my opinion? Who told you that this guy with a human head and a pig's head can make them agree with the Taoist priests' suggestions?
Did the little trick work?"
Zhuzhi sat down on the chair opposite Wang Xuance and was about to scold him, but found that the chair under his butt was very comfortable to sit on. He couldn't help but ask: "How did you convince those old antiques to agree to put tables and chairs into the Ministry of Etiquette's office? I
Sitting on the floor these days, my stomach is about to come out of my throat."
Wang Xuance said proudly: "Look, we all came out of the academy. We are sitting on the floor with cold buttocks, uncomfortable spine, and bloodshot eyes. We all know it is a bad thing, but you all choose to shut up, so you deserve to suffer."
"Go away, the rules of the Ministry of Etiquette are the most strict. How can you change the rules easily? I have also suggested it to the court official. He was so scolded that he said that young people should suffer more. What kind of rules are there in the officialdom?
Cao Sui is the most important thing. If you endure more hardship now, you will benefit a lot in the future. I feel like my ears are getting calloused hearing these nonsense. I just don’t want to be a prawn in the future. Where are the truths that are easy to talk about? Tell me, what do you do?
I'll see if it can be implemented at the Ministry of Punishment."
Wang Xuance picked up a white silk towel, wiped his hands, and said with a bitter look on his face: "It's really not easy. For this purpose, I come early every day to wipe the tables and make tea for all the superiors.
Every day, he greeted every colleague at the gate of the public house and said hello to them. To be honest, I have never been so filial to my father.
The old gentlemen's hands were shaking when they were eating, and it was very difficult to pick up the dishes. The same was true for the old gentleman. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I bribed the people in the canteen and fed the old gentlemen green beans every day. The green beans were fried and blistered.
The fried shrimps are a famous dish in our college, and the braised pork stewed with green beans. I was worried that the gentlemen would not be able to eat soybeans, so I specially replaced them with soft green beans. In this way, every time I eat, I look at them.
The old gentlemen picked up the green beans that fell on the ground with trembling hands, and I felt miserable. In order to achieve my goal, I had to aggrieve the gentlemen first, and I could also rest more for each meal. "
"You are not miserable, you are wicked. You know that their hands are shaking terribly, but you still let them eat the green beans with chopsticks. I can even imagine what a miserable scene it would be."
"Nonsense, green beans and shrimps are very beneficial to the elderly's health, and the green beans and braised pork are soft and mellow, melting in your mouth. They are most suitable for toothless elderly people. The old man, the hall official, has praised me no less than three times, saying it is food.
The tail has not changed, but the food has improved to more than one level. It’s just a bit troublesome to pick up the green beans. I asked if there is anything I can do."
"Is this how you get old gentlemen to agree to use tables and chairs?"
"It's not that easy. In order to develop the old gentlemen's habit of referring to my opinion on trivial matters, I provided them with silver spoons and silver forks. The old gentleman would not let a kind-hearted junior like me suffer.
I was compensated fifty taels of silver. Of course, there is no need to tell the boss that I mixed tin in the silver spoons and silver forks."
"Shameless, you actually embezzled public funds. Don't say you know me in the future."
"Will people from the academy be so unpromising as to embezzle public funds? Besides, the old official rewarded me because of my sincerity, not because of a few silver spoons and silver forks. I didn't say that they were all silver.
The spoons and forks are made without tin and are not hard enough. Do you think the old Tang official doesn’t know that? Those fifty taels of silver are actually a test for me to see if I will be tempted. What kind of person am I, your brother?
, How could I fall into his scheme? With the fifty taels of silver, I immediately went to the craftsmen of the Yun family and replaced all the windows on the upper floors of the mansion with glass ones. "(To be continued...)