Jiangnan Changshu Qian Mansion, early in the morning, a large group of people gathered at the door of Qian Mansion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Liu is so! You changwoman! Get the hell out of here! Return the property of the Qian family to the Qian family! Qian Qianyi's son Qian Sunai yelled at the door.

Qian Sunai is the son born to Qian Qianyi and his original wife Chen, after Qian Qianyi's death, at first Qian Sunai and his clansmen were afraid that Qian Qianyi had not come out of Qiqi, and did not dare to come to the door to make trouble. After 7749 days, Qian Sunai brought his clansmen to make trouble.

A few days ago, Qian Sunai instigated his clansmen Qian Zeng to blackmail and ask for 3,000 taels of silver. Liu Ru unceremoniously blew the Qian family away, saying that she didn't have that much silver at all. Today, the Qian family simply brought Qian Qianyi's son Qian Sun Ai to beg for money. Although Qian Qianyi's original wife, Mrs. Chen, has been dead for many years, according to the law of the year, Qian Sun Ai is the only legal heir to Qian Qianyi's estate, and Liu Rushi and her daughter are not eligible to inherit the estate.

What's more, Qian Qianyi's original concubines Wang and Zhu also came to collect debts, and since Liu Ru entered the Qian family, these two concubines have fallen out of favor.

Now that Qian Qianyi is dead, their chance has come. The Wang and Zhu families called Qian Sun Ai and the Qian family, and vowed to blast Liu Rushi and her daughter out of the Qian Mansion.

Daughter Qian Zhiyu has been arranged to go to Dongfan, which was specially arranged by Liu Ru. Although she can't get married during the three-year Ding worry period, if she puts her daughter in Dongfan, she can get Wang Xinyu's protection, and she can rest assured that she can deal with the Qian family.

Liu Ru walked out of the Qian Mansion and calmly said to this group of wolf-like guys: "Don't you just want silver? Good! Wait a moment! After saying that, Liu Ru returned to the house.

There was not much property left, and all the fields were sold by Liu Ru and converted into silver and given to her daughter, leaving only one house in this Qian Mansion. Everything has been arranged. She knew that after Qian Qianyi's death, the people of the Qian family would definitely retaliate, so they arranged it in advance.

Soon after the Qian family's land was sold, I don't know what the reason was, but the price of land in Jiangnan suddenly fell. Later, Liu Ru learned that it turned out that a large number of tenants no longer rented farmland, but chose to work in Shanghai, or even further afield. You must know that the money earned by part-time work, a month's income, is higher than a year's hard work in the farmland! It is precisely because of the high income of part-time jobs that many people choose to go to factories.

When there are fewer tenants, the price of farmland falls. Because of the decrease in tenants, the rent was also forced to decrease, and even so, many people were still unwilling to stay on the land and work for the rest of their lives.

Those who stayed to farm were those with high farming skills, or those who were really reluctant to leave home. But even so, the rural life, which was originally a man ploughing and a woman weaving, has now changed a lot, because the price of the cloth sold in the shops is cheap, and the farmers no longer weave their own cloth, but let women work in the factory, which can increase the family's income a lot.

Even some tenants who can only farm and don't know how to do anything else are not willing to stay in Jiangnan, because they have heard that they go to Nanyang to farm, and they don't need land rent or taxes!

In the Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid scholars from using their fame to avoid taxes, the original tax exemption for meritorious people in the Ming Dynasty was abolished.

In the Ming Dynasty, in addition to seeing officials and not kneeling, people with Xiucai fame were exempted from errand service, and the county was not allowed to be punished at will, but Xiucai could not be exempted from field tax. When you have a meritorious reputation, you can be exempted from field tax. In the Ming Dynasty, land annexation was very serious, and a large number of people with meritorious names annexed land, and many small landlords and yeoman farmers were also willing to put land under the names of famous people to evade taxes.

In the Qing Dynasty, the rules of Xiucai remained basically unchanged, but there were new regulations for lifting people above, that is, there were restrictions on tax-exempt fields, and taxes were still required if they exceeded a certain amount. Otherwise, the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not collect taxes, how could they raise hardcore crops?

However, after the Ming army recovered Jiangnan, it did not abolish this set formulated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which made many scholars dissatisfied. But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, the knife is in the hands of others, and those who should pay taxes can only pay taxes honestly. What Wang Xinyu said: You can pay taxes to the Manchu Tartars, why can't you pay taxes to us? We didn't ask for more, either.

At this time, there were many people who came back from Nanyang, saying that the land in Nanyang did not have land rent and did not have to pay taxes, which attracted many people to Nanyang.

It is precisely because the price of land has been falling that some smart scholars decisively sold their land to invest in industry and commerce. But because of the big family of the Qian family, Qian Sunai and his clansmen did not have time to sell the land, and the land price fell to the bottom. It's nothing, and even the tenants are almost out of place.

It is said that if you go to Shanghai, you can find Nanyang Company as a shareholder, or you can open your own factory, and you can make money. But whether it's a stake or your own industry, you need silver! What if you don't have any money? So Qian Sunai and the Qian family thought of Liu Rus.

"I heard that the land of that stinky biao sells quickly, and he has a lot of silver on hand! The money is from our money's family! Can't be cheaper with this stinky biao and that little Chang woman! Qian Sunai said indignantly.

"Childe!" Clansman Qian Zeng said, "Your sister will also be a princess in the future, and we can't force her too hard, otherwise the prince will blame her, and we won't be able to do it." ”

Qian Sunai sneered: "What about the prince? The property of the Qian family can only be mine! Even if the lawsuit goes to the court, the reason is still on our side! ”

As soon as the land was sold, the price of the land fell, which made Liu Ru feel very relieved. The daughter has a private money, and after marrying into her husband's family, her life can be much better. What's more, her husband's family is the prince, and she has nothing to regret.

"Master, the concubine is following you!" Liu Ru hung a white silk on the roof beam.

Qian Sunai waited outside with a group of people for a long time, but he didn't wait for anyone to come out. So Qian Sunai raised his hand and said, "Let's go, go in and have a look!" ”

……

Fuzhou, the camp of the Ming army.

Wang Xinyu looked at the newspapers from Jiangnan, the price of land in Jiangnan plummeted, and a large number of scholars no longer focused on farmland, but changed their careers to become merchants, workshop owners, and factory owners, which made Wang Xinyu feel very gratified. The feudal system has gradually failed to keep up with the development of the times, and capitalism will inevitably replace the feudal system. If it weren't for the Qing Dynasty's seclusion, which severely restricted the development of commerce, the land of China would not have lagged far behind the West.

Now that business is developing rapidly, Nanyang Company's industry is just the banking industry, and the annual profit is tens of millions of taels of silver!

Don't underestimate the banking industry, at the beginning, Nanyang Company Bank issued bills of exchange similar to the original silver bills, which were actually silver bills in the eyes of businessmen, and they were very creditworthy silver bills. Bills of exchange exchanged at Nanyang Company Bank in Jiangnan can be exchanged for silver at any Nanyang Company Bank in any place, and only a certain handling fee is required.

Because of the improvement of the credibility of the silver bills, the Nanyang Company Bank issued large silver bills of 100 taels, 1,000 taels, and 10,000 taels at the beginning, and later issued small silver bills of 1 tael, 500 wen, 50 wen, and even 10 wen.

Small silver tickets are much more convenient than carrying copper plates, and ordinary people rarely use silver, and all they use are copper plates. However, the weight of the copper plate is large, and it is very inconvenient to carry, so after the introduction of small silver tickets, many people directly use small silver tickets to trade and buy things. Small traders also collect small bills, and after accumulating more, they go to the bank to exchange them for large bills.

As the credibility of silver bills increased, they gradually became paper money, replacing silver and copper plates in circulation in the market.

Large quantities of gold and silver returned to the banks, allowing them to have gold and silver reserves that allowed them to issue more banknotes. And the large amount of copper plate recycling can use the precious brass for other purposes, instead of using copper to mint money.

Copper is needed to produce artillery, copper is needed to produce gun parts, and copper is needed to produce a swarm of rockets. Brass recycling can contribute to the development of the weapons industry.

Another advantage of the issuance of paper money is that you can make more money with paper money. When the credibility of paper money can be recognized by all countries in the world, it will become a kind of hard currency in the world, just like the dollar in later generations. At that time, the country only needs to turn on the money printing machine, and it will continue to buy the resources of other countries.

The depreciation of paper money in the country can plunder the wealth of the people in the country, but Wang Xinyu will not do this, because he does not want to plunder the country.

But for foreign countries, it is completely okay not to care. In the future, the United States will not be able to turn into various strategic resources such as oil and grain just by turning on the money printing press? As for the inflation of currencies in the international market, there is no need to worry at all, other countries that sell things to the United States will be nervous for the United States, so they desperately buy American government bonds to prevent the depreciation of the dollar. In this way, the products produced by these countries, the resources they produce, continue to be sent to the United States, and in the end, they have to buy US Treasury bonds with the dollars they sell in exchange.

At present, Nanyang's creditworthiness has not reached this level, and that will be a matter for later.

The development of industry and commerce, the development of banks, caused the price of farmland to fall; The development of land in Southeast Asia will allow more people to have access to enough food.

More importantly, because of the decline in land prices, the influence of the original gentry also declined, the gentry no longer fully controlled the common people, and the peasants could leave the fields, laying the foundation for the human resources needed for the future industrial revolution.

Just when Wang Xinyu was looking at the newspaper, Li Rui suddenly came in to report: "Handsome, Miss Qian is here!" ”

"How did she get here? This is the barracks, it's the battlefield, what is she running here for? It's not good to stay in Toban! Wang Xinyu stood up, obviously a little angry. Although women are now allowed to enter and leave the barracks, and women are no longer allowed to enter and leave the barracks as before, their families are still prohibited from entering and leaving the barracks.

Zheng Chenggong's failure in the third Northern Expedition that year had a lot to do with his family in the barracks. Because the family members are in the barracks, it affects morale very much.

Li Rui whispered in Wang Xinyu's ear: "Handsome, something happened to Miss Qian's family." It seems that something happened to Mrs. Liu. The last general just looked at Miss Qian's eyes and was red. ”

Wang Xinyu was taken aback when he heard this: Liu Ru is only in his forties, could it be that something happened?

However, the rule that family members cannot enter the barracks still cannot be broken, so Wang Xinyu arranged Qian Zhiyu to the island where Luoxing Pagoda is located in the lower reaches of the Min River.

"You take them to Luoxing Tower first." Wang Xinyu told Luo Xiang to arrange Qian Zhiyu and Luyun.

After explaining the things in the barracks to Wang Yuyou, Wang Xinyu took a boat to Luoxing Tower. When I saw Qian Zhiyu, I saw that she and Lu Yun were both dressed in white, and the eyes of the two women were red, as if they had just cried.

"Xianggong!" As soon as he saw Wang Xinyu, Qian Zhiyu jumped up and hugged him and cried bitterly.

"Yu'er, what's going on? What the hell is going on? Wang Xinyu gently stroked the smooth hair and said.

"Mother, my mother, she ......" Qian Zhiyu cried and cried and said what happened.

A few days ago, Wu Weiye Jiangnan went to Dongfan and told Qian Zhiyu about the changes in the Qian family. Upon learning of this, Qian Zhiyu cried and fainted on the spot. Not long after my father died, my mother followed. Qian Zhiyu, who lost all his dependence, followed Wu Weiye to Fuzhou together.

"Lord Wang!" Wu Weiye, who was standing on the side, arched his hand.

Wu Weiye is a poet and composer, because Wang Xinyu started an army drama troupe, Wu Weiye also came to join. He cooperated with Hong Sheng and wrote a lot of scripts. Wu Weiye has a lover named Bian Yujing, who is also one of Qin Huai's Bayan, but they haven't seen each other for ten years. After all, Wu Weiye is friends with Bian Yujing and Liu Ruyi, and Wu Weiye is saddened by Liu Ruye's death.

Wang Xinyu felt very uncomfortable, but he felt powerless.

The daughter of the year had no inheritance rights, not to mention that Qian Zhiyu was the daughter of the concubine! Even if it is the son of the concubine, as long as the head of the family has a son, the son of the concubine basically has no inheritance right.

At that time, the law was like this, and in addition to the law, the ruling power of the family was also very large, the patriarch could execute the clansmen who made mistakes, and the family law could punish the clansmen, which were all things that outsiders could not interfere with.

In this day and age, many laws are unreasonable, and the right of family adjudication is even more unreasonable, but what can be done?

Liu Ruyes's things, even if Zhang Huangyan came forward to help Qian Zhiyu fight the lawsuit, it may not be useful, if he offends one of the big families in Jiangnan, then the other families will die and the fox will be sad, and the matter will not end if it is big.

"Is this going to be the end of it?" Wu Weiye asked.

Wang Xinyu's eyes showed a hint of coldness: "Of course, it can't just be left alone!" I can't clean up those big families now, but I can clean them up slowly in the future! Now that the price of land has fallen, soon the family's voice will be weakened. ”

However, the issue of inheritance, this is still not good to use the knife. If the law is amended in this era, it will cause a great backlash, and the consequences are something that Wang Xinyu does not dare to consider. There are some things to change, but you can only defeat the Manchus first, sit firmly in the country, and then slowly change at that time. (To be continued.) )