Chapter 1557 Junior high school students are all married
Li Xuan could naturally see what everyone could see, but unlike many officials who were worried that the Holy Emperor would be furious when he saw this, Li Xuan just looked at it all with a calm expression.
His eyes swept across the muddy dirt road, then across the dilapidated thatched house, and then carefully looked at the old woman in the house and the several children behind her.
He didn't step forward and then squat down to ask anything in a loving manner. He just watched without any intention of stepping forward.
After about ten seconds, Li Xuan withdrew his gaze, and then rode forward. He carefully looked at every house he passed, and then also looked at these terrified villagers.
Li Xuan only watched and said, not even planning to enter those houses. The officials behind him were all following Li Xuan obediently at this time, not daring to make any move.
Many people have guessed why Li Xuan did this.
But at this time, they were a little confused. Why was the Holy Emperor not moved at all when he saw all this?
Not as furious as they expected!
Some are just plain!
They don't know that Li Xuan has not always been a superior emperor. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person. Even in the 21st century, the living conditions in some remote and backward mountainous areas are not that good.
Go, let alone the sixteenth century now.
Furthermore, he also accepted the memory of the original person, who was the son of a small landowner and had lived in the village since he was a child. Li Xuan knew clearly what Lijiazhuang was like back then.
To be honest, the lives of the people in this village are much better than those in Lijiazhuang back then.
At least along the way, Li Xuan saw a lot of mud-roofed houses and a few brick houses. Although there were still thatched houses, the overall proportion was not high.
And more importantly, along the way, although Li Xuan saw that many villagers were wearing rags, and most of the villagers' clothes were patched, and most of them had not just one patch, but multiple patches, at least he didn't see any
The condition of not covering the body with clothes.
Although the children are dressed in tatters, their faces are dirty, and most of them are relatively thin, which has nothing to do with being fat, but they are not skinny.
This shows that although it is still difficult for these children to eat enough, they can still eat enough. At least, they can survive.
Unlike during the Unification War, when Li Xuan was fighting, the poor people he saw were really skinny and could starve to death in the next moment.
At that time, even on ordinary roads, you could see many corpses, most of them starved to death!
Starving people everywhere and frozen bones on the road are definitely not exaggerated adjectives, they are real!
But Li Xuan is actually quite satisfied with the scene he sees now!
At least, there was no large-scale famine and the children could grow up smoothly!
As he walked, Li Xuan saw a large blue brick house in front of him. It covered a very large area and was built using cement concrete. This house was not simple. At first glance, he knew it belonged to a wealthy person in the village.
They are 100% local landowners and gentry.
When I got closer and took a closer look, I saw a huge plaque hanging at the gate: "He Mansion"
After Li Xuan said a few words to the accompanying secretary beside him, the relevant orders were quickly conveyed. The imperial guards stepped forward directly and opened the door. Inside were a few panicked men who looked like they were guarding a hospital.
But someone quickly came forward to comfort him.
At this time, two men also came out of the back room, one old and one young. Looking at the clothes and actions of these two men, it was obvious that they must be the masters of this house.
The elder of the two is about fifty years old. This age is definitely a long life for ordinary farmers in contemporary times, but for a gentry, being over fifty is not very old.
The young ones are only in their teens, fifteen or sixteen at most, but fifteen or sixteen is not considered a minor in contemporary times. Generally speaking, many men are already married at this age, even if they are
Not married, but probably engaged.
There are even many people who become the mainstay of the family at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
These two people are also discerning. Even if they are gentry living in the countryside, they are still gentry, and their knowledge is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary farmers.
They didn't know it until they came out just now, but now they came out and saw hundreds of tall and mighty cavalry outside, as well as hundreds of special black imperial guards. More importantly, they also saw hundreds of military and political dignitaries.
They also recognized that among these people was the local prefect of Jiaxing.
Looking at Li Xuan's clothes and the recent rumors of the Holy Patrol, if they still can't determine the identity of Li Xuan and others at this time, then they can just go to the rope hanging beam.
Immediately, this made the two of them kneel down together, shouting for the common people to kowtow to His Majesty.
Of course Li Xuan didn't come here to show off the emperor's majesty, he immediately raised his hand and said: "No need to be polite, get up and speak!"
Then Li Xuan asked them to take him around the gentry's manor, and asked them about their family situation.
Facing Li Xuan's personal inquiry, they naturally had nothing to hide, and in fact they had nothing to hide.
The He family has been a local gentry for hundreds of years. Although there were no Jinshi scholars in the pre-Ming Dynasty, they did have a number of scholars, and there were even more scholars. They were a very typical scholarly family in Jiangnan.
Although this scholarly family cannot be compared with the top scholarly family like the Chen family in Jinling East, it still has scholars for generations. In the local area, it is the top noble family.
The person who spoke to Li Xuan was the old man of the He family. This person was nothing but a scholar of the former Ming Dynasty. After Master Wang entered northern Zhejiang, he turned around and followed the dragon like other gentry, and then in the government
Of course, not everyone who served from the dragon in his early years could be promoted. In fact, the number of officials in the Tang Dynasty was so huge that most of them were low-level officials of the eighth and ninth grades, and most of them
It is impossible to cross the threshold of the seventh grade in a lifetime.
Mr. He was just an ordinary clerk at first, and he had been involved in officialdom for several years. He felt that the work of low-level officials was boring, but he resigned because he could not be promoted.
However, his son did have some talent. In the 13th year of Xuanping's reign, he passed the Zhejiang examination and ranked second. Now he is working in Hubei and is a section chief from the seventh grade.
From the seventh rank, although he is still a low-level official in the minds of many military and political officials present today, he is actually considered a mid-level official in the huge military and political class of the Tang Dynasty.
And this young man is the eldest grandson of Mr. He. In fact, it is wrong to call him a young man. He should be called a young man.
Because although this man is only sixteen years old this year, he is already married, his wife is pregnant, and he will be a father in the autumn.
However, even though he is married and has a family and is about to become a father, he is still a student!
Currently studying in Jiading Prefecture Junior High School!
To put it bluntly, this is a junior high school student, or a junior high school student who is married to a wife and is about to become a father!
This is not a special phenomenon. In fact, most of the students in Datang’s state middle schools are already married.
As for the preparatory or technical secondary school stage, the proportion of students who are married is even higher, often reaching more than 50%. Not to mention when they reach the university stage, nine out of ten students are married.
Married people!
There is no way, people get married early these days!
Regardless of whether they are men or women, they often get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. If a girl is over sixteen and has not yet married by the age of seventeen or eighteen, she has often become what others call an old girl.
And don’t think this concept is wrong!
In the 16th century, when the average life expectancy was only about thirty years old, do you still want to wait until you are in your twenties to get married like the people of later generations?
If we really did this, the Chinese nation would have become extinct long ago!
Therefore, the Marriage Law of the Tang Dynasty clearly stipulates that anyone over the age of fourteen can get married, regardless of gender!
The young master of the Sun family, who is already married, is about to become a father, and is still in junior high school, behaves better than his grandfather when facing Li Xuan, at least he does not tremble all over!
Even though I stutter a little, speak unclearly, and often say the wrong words, this is all understandable.
After all, whoever wakes up and finds the emperor appearing in his yard, and then drags him to ask questions, I am afraid it will be like this.
When Li Xuan chatted with them, they didn't talk about any major political issues. Li Xuan just talked about their daily lives.
Understand what the daily life of the gentry in the countryside was like under the rule of the Tang Dynasty!
After all, the number of these squires was extremely large. To a certain extent, the administrative rule of the Tang Dynasty was actually based on these squires.
This is not something Li Xuan is willing to do, but a fact!
What is the most important thing in administrative rule?
people!
People who have mastered knowledge!
Unfortunately, these squires are the ones who have mastered knowledge.
Of course, this squire does not necessarily refer to the landlord specifically!
It is a general term that generally includes the families of landlords, businessmen, and military and political officials.
Because the above-mentioned main groups actually live in the countryside, it does not mean that only landlords live in the countryside.
Unlike people of later generations, especially those who were rich, who liked to go to big cities and live in birdcage-like buildings, the gentry of the Tang Dynasty all liked to live in the countryside.
The He family is a typical example!
In fact, their family does not have much land, only a few dozen acres in total. They say they are landlords, but in fact, the rent collected after renting it out is not much left after paying the agricultural tax. Their main source of income is based in Jiading.
A flour factory on the outskirts of Fucheng and some securities investments.
From an industrial point of view, there is actually no need for them to continue living in the countryside, but the reality is that even if they need to frequently go to the city to handle business, their home is still in the countryside.