Forresta Restaurant opened a new branch, Huaiyu took the time to go there to support it, and even called some friends in Chang'an.
The proprietress, Foresta, was smiling brightly today and was very busy, but she still personally led Huaiyu to the private room upstairs, "When will you return to Youzhou?"
"Why, you expect me to leave just after we met?"
"I want Alang to take you with me when he returns to Youzhou."
"Going to Youzhou to open a branch?"
"I want to follow Alang."
Huaiyu patted the seductive landlady and said, "Go ahead and get busy."
Huaiyu invited Ji Laiheng, Li Yifu Shangguanyi, Zhang Chengde, Liu Xu and others to have a drink today and support the opening of the new store.
Old friend Cheng Chumo is still paying homage to his mother, and he built a cottage in front of his mother's grave to guard it. An Yuanshou even returned to Liangzhou early to pay filial piety to his mother.
Niu Jianwu is in Shuofang, Wu Junya is in Youzhou, Zhao Xin is in Yanzhou, Hou San is in Longyou, and Chen Xing is in Xiazhou...
"I've wanted to visit you for a long time, but I'm afraid of being disturbed. I planned to come and visit you in a few days," Goudan Liu Xu said with a smile. Huaiyu looked at this former subordinate of the Economic Bureau. When they first met, he was just a nine-year-old.
He was poor at writing, borrowing money from all his colleagues, causing famine everywhere, having a meal but not having a meal, and having a sad look on his face at such a young age.
But now he has put on a green robe. Even though it is light green, he is at least a seventh-rank official.
The whole person is in good spirits.
"Now I am the chief secretary of the Yushitai," Liu Xu told Huaiyu that he had also just been promoted. After entering the Yushitai, he was taken care of by Ma Zhou, the bookkeeper and censor, and he was doing well there.
The chief registrar of the Yushitai is from the seventh rank. Although his rank does not seem to be high, his authority is not small. He is in charge of the seal of the Yushitai and when things happen, and he can check the records of the provincial offices and check for mistakes. This is equivalent to being the chief of the Yushitai.
The office director of the case was even involved in the sentencing process during the trial by the three courts.
It's an important position.
"Is there no famine in the house now?" Huaiyu asked with a smile.
Liu Xu was born in the second branch of Jinshi, but he grew up in a poor family. His father was bitten to death by a snake three days after he was born, and his mother also died of illness when he was three years old. He grew up eating snacks, and later he was given free rein to a landlord.
Niu, because he was smarter, was chosen to be a bookboy for the landlord's boy. The landlord's boy didn't learn anything, but he was favored by the teacher and accepted as his student. Later, he became a Jinshi in the township tribute examination.
But because of his background and the turmoil in the early Tang Dynasty, the villagers and friends in his hometown who had helped him often came to this high-ranking official for help. Liu Xuguan had a small salary, but he still found ways to help.
, the result is that I owe a lot of debt.
Fortunately, he met Wu Huaiyu, which completely changed his predicament. The Bureau of Economic Affairs raised books, money and silk for Chongxian Hall, and then copied the books and stored them. It also set up a paper and ink pen workshop, and compiled newspapers and printed them.
The income was also high. Later, he followed Huaiyu to Shuofang and governed the Pingliang Division in Lingzhou. He also benefited from military exploits and rose to the top.
Not only did he get promoted, but he even purchased some property there.
"Everyone's life is getting better now," Liu Xu said. In the past two years, he has successively bought 200 acres of land in his hometown. He learned from Wu Huaiyu and built it as a village for the clan. The land rent and other income from the village are used as a village fund.
According to Yixue, the cost of a clan grave and the orphans, widows and disabled members of the clan can also help.
Now the life of the people in my hometown is better than a few years ago. With this righteous village, the villagers don't have to come to see Liu Xu when something happens.
Liu Xu is now back in Beijing as the chief registrar of Yushitai, and his salary has also been increased. He has also purchased some land in Shuofang and Guanzhong. In addition, through his relationship with the former Economic Affairs Bureau and his relationship with Huaiyu, he is now
The family also has some small businesses, such as book copying, bookbinding, etc., and also bought several shops during the renovation of Chang'anfang City.
In general, Liu Xu is now glamorous, his official career is smooth, and his life is relatively comfortable. Although his wife is from a palace background, she is also better at taking care of the housework. He now has two concubines and five or six children.
Very satisfied with the day.
"It's great that you can repay the kindness of fellow villagers with a spring of water. The 200-acre charity village also helped build a charity school in the village, which is amazing."
"Compared with Xianggong, it's not worth mentioning. I learned from Xianggong, and I am here today because of Xianggong's support. Otherwise, I might have starved to death in Chang'an." Liu Xu sighed.
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He was telling the truth. It was not Wu Huaiyu who supported him. With his meager salary, he would never be able to repay the debts he borrowed.
Lai Ji, a sixth-grade minister who sacrificed his life, said with a smile, "Wu Clan Yizhuang, now has the nobles and nobles trying to imitate it."
The Yi Zhuang was not the first one established by the Wu family, but the Wu family's Yi Zhuang was indeed quite impressive. In addition to the fact that the Wu family was more united and would donate charity fields if they had the conditions, the Wu family had a very good set of rules and regulations for the management of the Yi Zhuang.
There is a special Yizhuang Board of Directors, with a number of impartial and virtuous people selected from the clan to be responsible for supervision. In addition, there are special stewards responsible for operation.
An operator and a supervisor all act according to the rules, and even the patriarch is not allowed to violate them.
Now Bingzhou Wu's charity village is famous. First, the warriors Yunwu Huaiyu and others donated many farms and houses, totaling 6,000 acres. There are thousands of acres of land in Chang'an and Taiyuan each. In addition, there are also charity schools and charity warehouses.
Each family in the clan will receive a food subsidy from birth to five years old, three bushels of rice per month and one piece of cloth per year. From five to ten years old, the amount is reduced by half. After sixty years old, there is another subsidy.
In addition, there will also be subsidies for funerals and marriages.
Not to mention the orphans, widows and disabled people,
As for the voluntary studies, all the children of the clan can attend school for free, and there are even rewards for those who study well. If they go to participate in the imperial examination, they will be given travel expenses. The clan studies teachers will also be given priority in selecting knowledgeable people.
If a student can pass the Ming Jing Jinshi examination, not only will the student be rewarded, but the teacher will also be rewarded. There will also be family tombs, which will not only buy mountain land, but also hire people to manage it.
There is also a charity warehouse in Yizhuang. This charity grain is not only collected from the rent of the charity field, but also donated by the tribe. In addition to distributing subsidies to the tribesmen according to the rules, the grain in the charity warehouse will also be used as a loan to the tribesmen. In addition to the subsidies, the loan interest is
It's very low. If you have excess, you can borrow part of it to the outside world, and the interest will be a little higher. This will also be conducive to the growth and development of the charity warehouse.
The Wu family has 6,000 acres of free land, a large amount of grain reserves in the free warehouse, and even several free schools. The Wu family free school in the south of Chang'an City even invited many teachers from the Imperial College to come and give lectures frequently.
In addition to the righteous village, the Wu family also has a small village, which is the righteous village of each house.
The Huaiyu family had its own small village. It was founded by Huaiyu and his son and his brothers. In Sanyuan, Lantian donated a total of 2,000 acres of land as charity fields, and Sanyuan Longqiao built a charity school and a charity warehouse.
Xiaozhuang has a more complete management system and management organization than Dazhuang, with various positions such as manager, chief minister, supervisor, accountant, bookkeeper, and familiar teacher.
There is also a board of directors responsible for supervision,
Even if Samurai Ke is the owner of this house, he does not hold a position in the village and has no right to intervene in the management of the village. This is actually the same as the business aspect of the Wu family. There is a dedicated management team, which is all handed over to the stewards.
, it is run by shopkeepers, and the Wu family even has a special supervision team.
If everything has rules and regulations to follow, the business will develop in an orderly manner.
Nowadays, many nobles are also learning the business rules of the Wu Family Yizhuang.
The biggest advantage of this kind of charity village is not only that it can help and unite the tribe, but its biggest advantage is that the land donated to the charity village is no longer private property. Even if the family is committed and the family is exterminated, under normal circumstances this kind of charity land will not
It's moving, just like the old cemetery.
Pei Ji, the greatest hero of the Tang Dynasty, once had more than 10,000 yuan of wealth and more than 10,000 hectares of fertile land. However, after several rounds of attacks by the new emperor, his home was confiscated and exiled. Almost all his property was confiscated, and only a few graveyards and yizhuang were left.
, it is said that Pei Ji's charity land is only more than 3,000 acres.
If Pei Ji could have anticipated this fate, he would probably be willing to donate 30,000 acres as a charity village.
The two brothers from the Lai family are now in sixth-grade official positions. One is Zhongshu Tongshi Shiren, and the other is Lilang. They seem to be just green-robed officials, but these two positions are very important positions with promising futures.
With the support of Wu Huaiyu and Qin Qiong, and himself a Jinshi with martial ethics, his official career was very smooth.
The two brothers each took out 500 acres of land and built a 1,000-acre charity village for Lai.
Private clan welfare organizations like Yizhuang can actually be regarded as family trust funds. The court is very encouraging of this. After all, helping the elderly and the weak, even if it is just helping people of the same clan, is also shouldering part of the court's responsibility.
social responsibility,
If every family could take care of the orphans, widows, old and weak in this way, it would reduce a lot of the burden on the court.
Therefore, Yizhuang supports and encourages. Although some people's proposal of tax exemption for Yizhuang fields has not been passed, at least it is certain that Yizhuang fields will not be confiscated due to crimes committed by the clan members.
Wu Huaiyu's small village has only 2,000 acres of righteous land, which doesn't look like much, but it is basically farmland in the capital. The rental income of these fields is very high. Besides, in addition to righteous fields, Wu Huaiyu has also provided some houses.
Mill and Oil Mill, classified as Yizhuang,
Now their small village only cares about their small sect, that is, the clansmen of Samurai Ketong's grandfather. Samurai Yun and Samurai Leng are already the brothers of Samurai Ketong's great-grandfather. The branch clan members in Xiaozhuang are not
Many, Wu Huaiyu brothers are both officials. According to the regulations, they cannot receive money and food from the Yi Zhuang.
Nowadays, Xiaozhuang's charity fields and charity grains are increasing every year, but the expenditure is very small. The accumulated charity grains are also used to lend to the surrounding people like the local charity warehouses and Changping warehouses, but the interest rates are relatively lower.
, it can not only expand the warehouse reserves for disaster preparedness, but also help rural neighbors gain a good reputation, and at the same time renew the grain reserves.
Li Yifu worked hard to cling to Li Mengchang, and Li Baiyao and the others finally entered the family tree of the Li family in Zhao County as they wished. Before he was included in the genealogy, the two men donated 500 acres of land to the charity village of Li Hanzhong in Zhao County. Although
It's not a place in the capital, but a place in Hebei, but the two of them have lived in the same way before. This time, they worshiped Wu Huaiyu as their teacher, and married the daughter of a warrior. With the support of the Wu family, he could have a smooth career, and he could also do it.
Follow the Wu family to run some industries,
The two men had gritted their teeth to donate these five hundred acres of land, but it was worth it. After all, they were included in the Li family of Zhao County.
On the other hand, Li Yifu also works as a teacher at Wu Clan School. He goes to Wu Clan School for two days of classes every ten days and works very hard.
Li Yifu is currently the Prince's Attendant, Secretary of the Economics Bureau, and a direct bachelor of Chongwen Hall. His real job is the Secretary of the Economics Bureau, a ninth-grade minister. The assistant is an errand, not an official. A direct bachelor of Chongwen is in Chongwen.
A part-time job in the library, those below the sixth rank are called direct bachelors.
The grade is not high but it is highly used.
Zhang Chengde, the sixth-rank prince who used to sit in the East Palace, followed the right path to Shuofang. Now he also changed into a scarlet robe and became Taichang Cheng, the fifth-ranked prince, in charge of the daily affairs of Taichang Temple.
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Taichang Temple is the head of the Nine Qing Dynasty. It is in charge of rituals and music, and is in charge of eight departments and four hospitals. Among them, the Taiyue Department, the Propaganda Department and the Imperial Medical Department are all very important.
Wu Huaiyu raised his glass, "Everyone has a good career now, but it's rare to get together once. Come, cheers."
Several people raised their glasses together.
Whether it is the brothers from the Lai family, Zhang Chengde, Liu Xu, Li Yifu, or Shangguan Yi, these people are all deeply marked by Wu Huaiyu.
"cheers!"
Shangguan Yi, who works as a school secretary in the Secretariat Department, poured another glass of wine to pay homage to Wu Huaiyu, "When the teacher returns to Youzhou, can you take the students with you?"
"Isn't it comfortable for the secretary to stay at home?"
"The secretarial department is very good, but students also yearn to follow their teacher in the Northern Expedition and make contributions,"
Liu Xu also stood up, "I also want to follow my husband to the frontier fortress."
Zhang Chengde also said he wanted to go.
Li Yifu, on the other hand, did not say a word, obviously unwilling to leave the East Palace where he was having a good time.
"Liu Xu and Chengde have just been promoted to new positions, so you should stay in Chang'an and work hard to make achievements. Shangguan, if you really want to go to the frontier, I can take you with you, which can be regarded as adding some qualifications."
"Thank you, Teacher, for your support." Shangguan Yi said excitedly.
Li Yifu said, "The student is currently holding many positions in the East Palace and really can't leave. Otherwise, he really wants to go to Youzhou with the teacher to make contributions."
