"That's not bad." Yun commented. On the basis of a correct assessment of his own abilities and family background, there is nothing wrong with being a small boss. But he immediately realized that these words were not what Zhu Shihe would usually say, and he was busy.
Said: "At least he is better than me, I can't even be a small boss."
"Your grades are better than mine," Lan Tianhe said, "With your grades, you will have no problem getting into college after two years of classes. You will be the proud son of heaven in the future."
"What a proud man. Let's not talk about this anymore," Yun changed the topic. "A new donkey meat restaurant has opened near my home. Let's go and try it?"
"Near your home? You don't go to evening self-study anymore?" Lan Tianhe said in surprise. There is a half-hour break between the last class in the afternoon and evening self-study. Although the school is only ten minutes away from Zhu Shihuan's home, it is still
There was no time to go back and forth. He originally wanted to have dinner with Zhu Shihe near the school.
"No," Yun said. For him, the most important thing now is to learn more about the world, not to study in the evening.
"Then pack your schoolbag." Lan Tianhe didn't think much and stuffed the books into his schoolbag as he spoke. Yun also put the books into his schoolbag, stood up and left the classroom.
"Shi He, aren't you going to study in the evening?" At this time, a girl asked in surprise when she saw him leaving with his schoolbag.
"Well, I'm not going to do it." Yun said, raising his head to look at her. This girl was very delicate-looking. Although she was not very beautiful, she was still a beauty.
"You want to go home to study? But the environment at home is not as good as school, and there is no one to supervise you at home, so you might as well be in school." The girl advised.
"I have other things to do and I can't study at school tonight." Yun said again.
"What is it?" the girl asked. But she immediately realized that her words were a bit abrupt, her face instantly started to turn red, and she hurriedly said: "I mean, if I can help, you can ask me for help."
"I'm still with you now. If you are with me in the future, it won't be too late for you to help me." Lan Tianhe suddenly said with a smile, and his smile was a little wretched.
'Damn fat man!' the girl cursed in her mind, very dissatisfied with him for interrupting. But she couldn't talk to Yun anymore, so she could only say: "Be careful on the road."
Yun nodded and left the classroom with Lan Tianhe.
"I said, you are already sixteen years old, why don't you eat Tang Ying? Her parents are happy with it anyway." After walking out of the classroom, Lan Tianhe squeezed his eyes and smiled with him.
Yun smiled and said nothing. The truth contained in what Lan Tianhe said is the popular combination of down-and-out nobles and wealthy businessmen. It is not just popular now, but started after the second social revolution more than a hundred years ago.
Already.
After the second social revolution, many nobles completely lost their wealth base, and their monopoly on senior government officials, members of Congress, and state-owned enterprise executives was also broken. Apart from hereditary titles, there was no other capital to rely on. At the same time, many nobles had no other capital to rely on.
The old nobles still had to maintain their so-called respectability, and their expenses far exceeded their salaries, and they soon fell on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to avoid bankruptcy, many nobles had to choose to marry rich people.
And rich people are also willing to marry nobles. Even if nobles are not as good as before, they still have certain privileges. If they are businessmen engaged in import and export trade, they can use their noble status to bluff officials of certain countries, which is helpful for doing business.
benefit.
Although Zhu Shihe only holds the title of Duke, according to the "Regulations on Preferential Treatment of Nobles", when the title of a certain family is reduced to the lowest level, the next generation can apply to the House of Nobles for an additional generation of Duke title, and as long as both father and son have not committed any crime.
Records can be approved. Therefore, Zhu Shihuang's next generation can still ascend to the nobility, which is still attractive to businessmen who are not particularly wealthy; not to mention that Zhu Shihuang's own grades are not bad and there is hope of being admitted to university. In addition,
He had a good appearance, and Tang Ying herself did not object to the family's plan, so the Tang family had always wanted Zhu Shihe to be their son-in-law.
But Yun didn't want to marry a wife or get engaged so early. The current social atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty was conservative, the upper class was very averse to divorce, and concubinage had been abolished by law. He wanted to wait until he fully understood the rules of the political and business circles in the Ming Dynasty to be sure that he could
After reaching the upper limit, the wife will be decided.
The two of them were chatting while walking to the donkey meat restaurant near Zhu Shihe's home. It was also the time when most people got off work, and the road was full of pedestrians. Some people hurried to the bus stop or subway station, as if they were worried that they would not be able to make it in time.
There are regular buses or subways; but more people walk slowly with their friends, as if taking a walk, and are not in a hurry to go somewhere.
Yun raised his head and looked around again. This city is Yingtianfu, the capital of the Ming Empire, where he died in his previous life. According to the information he occasionally listened to the radio and watched TV in the past two days, the Ming Empire is still the largest in the world.
For a powerful country, Yingtianfu, the capital of the most powerful country in the world, should be a very prosperous city; but whether it was a glimpse of the past two days or today's observation, he did not find many high-rise buildings; according to the map
, this place is obviously the center of the city. Yun is very surprised that this situation is completely inconsistent with his first life impression.
But he couldn't ask this question, so he could only hold it in his heart, thinking about seeing if there was any book that could explain it when he went back.
As they were walking, they suddenly saw many people passing by on the road not far away. These people were both men and women, wearing all kinds of clothes, but they all had red strips tied around their heads. Many of them also had red ribbons tied around their heads.
They held the sign with both hands, but could not clearly see what was written on it. A police car opened the way in front of these people, and there were also police cars following behind.
"What are they doing?" Yun couldn't help but ask.
"Not only did you not go out these two days on the weekend, you didn't even watch TV? Then what are you doing, studying all the time?" Lan Tianhe looked at him strangely, and then explained: "They are an organization that supports the Soviet Union United Party.
of demonstrations.”
"What is the United Party? What do they want to support? The day before yesterday I vaguely heard that there is a Governor's Mansion in Su Fan. What is the relationship between Su Fan and the Central Plains Empire now?" Yun was very curious. He hadn't read it in the past two days.
to the relevant content. But this also belongs to the category that cannot be asked, so Yun can only keep it in his heart.
There were probably several thousand people in the parade. The two of them waited for a while until the parade passed the intersection and then continued walking towards the donkey meat restaurant. They walked for another three minutes to the restaurant.
In the donkey meat restaurant, Yun got a lot of words out of Lan Tianhe's mouth, mainly about Zhu Shihe himself. Although he had Zhu Shihe's diary, Zhu Shihe would not write everything. Lan Tianhe, a fat man, was Zhu Shihe's good friend during his lifetime.
, and there is no city, so it is a good target for clichés.
From Lan Tianhe's mouth, Yun learned about Zhu Shihe's past personality, his daily habits, and which subjects in school had better and worse grades, which teacher liked him more, who he had a better relationship with, etc.
All kinds of things. What surprised him the most was that Zhu Shihe's father and Lan Tianhe's father Lan Yuanshang were family friends. They had a very good relationship and were almost like brothers. Therefore, after Zhu Shihe's father passed away, Lan Yuanshang often came to visit Zhu Shihe.
, if Zhu Shihe has any difficulties in life, he will immediately provide help and urge him to study hard. Therefore, he will also catch Zhu Shihe’s *** seven days ago and confiscate all the pornographic discs. Under the influence of the previous generation, the two of them
Also became good friends.
They chatted while eating. After finishing their meal half an hour later, Lan Tianhe got on the bus and left. Yun picked up her schoolbag and walked towards her, no, Zhu Shihe's house.
As he walked into the gate of the community, the hustle and bustle in the streets and alleys quickly disappeared, and the surrounding environment became very quiet. Yun walked all the way, and there were many houses on both sides of the road, but they were not popular and there were not many residents. Halfway through, Yun didn't notice.
Stop until you reach a yard, take out the key and open the door.
The house of Zhu Shihe was handed down from his family ancestors. Zhu Shihe is a direct descendant of the second son of Emperor Zhang Wenyuan. His ancestors owned many industries before the second social revolution, but these industries were lost during the revolution. After the revolution,
Only hereditary titles were left. At that time, there were many situations like Zhu Shihe's ancestors. They gathered in front of the palace and asked the emperor to save them. The emperor at that time circled a place in the west of the city and paid for each of them to build a two-story building.
Small building.
Therefore, the houses here are more than a hundred years old, very old, and the supporting facilities are also very backward. The government had planned to transform the infrastructure in this area, but because this is an old city, the laying of underground pipelines is complicated.
, needs serious re-planning. However, the Unity Party government that planned this matter stepped down in two years. The succeeding Labor government was not enthusiastic about transforming the aristocratic area and was ranked behind; the people living here are all run-down aristocrats, and under the government
It has little influence here, so the reform has been delayed. It has been more than ten years now and there is still no hope of reform.
So the people who lived here gradually moved away. Those who did well bought the same or even better villas in the new community; those who did not live well could only live in buildings. Zhu Shifu's father originally planned to move away, but
He died of illness before he could raise enough money to buy a building. Zhu Shijie, who had no other income except his title and salary, could only continue to live here. Lan Tianhe's family also lived here originally. Later, Lan Tianhe's father made some money from business.
I moved away. Of course, the house was not sold.
House prices in Daming are very cheap, especially buildings. The average price per square meter of buildings in each city is only about one-half of the average monthly salary of people in that city, and the area of the house sold is the usable area, not the building.
Area. Villas are more expensive, but the average price of townhouses is only 1.5 times the average monthly salary, and the average price of single-family villas is 3 times the average monthly salary.
However, although the housing here is in poor condition, the price is much higher than the average price. When this community was originally planned for the run-down nobles, a primary school and a middle school were also planned. At that time, these two schools were not considered good, but
As the city of Yingtianfu expanded, more schools were built, and the schools here gradually became one of the eight best primary schools and eight middle schools in Yingtianfu.
As mentioned before, in order to close the loopholes in the college entrance examination and ensure as much fairness as possible, the Ming Dynasty strictly prohibited private elementary and middle schools. So wealthy businessmen bought houses in good school areas to enable their children to attend good schools. So the houses here
No matter how dilapidated it is, no matter how unlivable it is, the price is still extremely high. People who want to buy a house even have to contact the real estate agent, otherwise they won't be able to get it at all.
Yun walked into the room, put down his schoolbag, poured himself a glass of water, and turned on the switch of the sweeping robot. The technological development in this life made Yun feel very strange. The progress in energy was much faster than in his first world.
Therefore, it can support faster trains and faster airplanes, making robots more advanced and cheaper. Ordinary sweeping robots are not only much easier to use than the sweeping robots he heard about in his first life, but also
It is as popular as a microwave oven and can be found in every home.
But at the same time, progress in information technology is very slow. Apparently mobile phones have been developed, and even mobile phones have camera functions. Color TVs, optical disc readers, etc. have appeared and are very popular. They can even calculate billions of calculations per second.
All electronic computers have been developed, but computers with various functions have not been invented, and there is no Internet.
After setting the cleaning mode of the sweeping robot, Yun took a bottle of mineral water and sat on the sofa, turned on the TV and started watching the news. Because of what he saw after school today, he felt that he not only needed to understand history, but also the present, especially those related to
Political.
He quickly saw what he wanted to see. "Okay, let's take a look at a piece of news within the empire. Last Friday morning, thousands of Su Fan people gathered in front of the Governor's Palace in Qian'an Mansion to protest against the empire's immigration policy.
In the afternoon of the same day, the Republican Party and the Tatung Party organized supporters to come to the Capitol to express support for the protests of the people of Su Fan. Supporters from both parties demanded that the contents of the "Immigration Bill" be revised to allow free movement for all people in the vassal territory.
power. At the same time, supporters of the Datong Party also demanded that restrictions on foreign immigration be relaxed. However, this move was opposed by Republican supporters present, and the two sides quarreled. If the police present did not stop it, it might have turned into a large-scale fight.
."
"On the morning of the next Saturday, the Republican Party and the Datong Party once again organized supporters to protest in front of the Capitol, but there was no quarrel; today is a working day, and although the two parties still organized supporters to protest, the number of participants was very small.
, it was not until after 5 p.m. that many people rushed to the Capitol..."
"According to what is said on TV, the Republican Party is a right-wing party and the Datong Party is a far-left party. How can these two parties support the same thing? And it stands to reason that right-wing parties should be anti-immigration, so why do they support amending the Immigration Act? What exactly is this?
What's going on?" After reading the news, Yun frowned and thought.
He thought for a while but couldn't figure out the answer; he had already planned for the evening and could not delay learning about history, so he put the matter aside for the time being and thought about it again tomorrow.