Listen to your elder brother finish his words.”
Seeing that the situation was getting a little out of control, at this time, Elder Zhu stepped forward, in his heart, Elder Zhu was still considering for the entire Zhu family, at least that was what he thought. Zhu Pingan was his proud grandson, he didn’t want anything to happen to Zhu Pingan in a million ways, but things had already happened, it was only important to consider for the entire family now.
Apart from Zhu Pingan, the only one who could honour the Zhu family was the Boss.
In addition, listening to the things that the boss said when he just came, Master Zhu is still very much in favour of his proposal, after all, he is a scholar, he has seen a lot of things, he does not panic when things happen, and his brain is just lively.
This is the Ming Dynasty, the peak of the feudal dynasty, feudal rites and patriarchal patriarchal system dominant era. Elder Zhu is the head of the Zhu family, even though the Zhu Ping’an family has been divided out, but the identity of the Zhu family can not be erased.
The old man Zhu said, mother Chen, despite the heart of the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren indignation gritted teeth, but can only be concerned about the old man Zhu, forced to hold back did not have a seizure.
See Zhu masters control the situation, the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren one hand picked up the cup of tea, one hand tugged the sleeve, very elegant sip of tea, and then put down the cup of tea, put out a heart for the future of the Zhu family to consider the attitude of clearing the throat of a serious openings:
“Second brother, sister-in-law, your mood that I can understand, swine child is our Zhu family’s unicorn son, I also ten thousand don’t want swine child accident, but the sky has unpredictable wind and clouds, people have every day, when things happen, we have to think about for the future, I think as smart as the swine child is also will be like this.”
Heaven has unpredictable winds and clouds, and people have every day’s fortune and misfortune?
When she heard these words, Chen’s eyes glaring at her eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, were almost ready to burst with sparks, and her anger was almost ready to ignite the surrounding air.
“I don’t know if Second Brother has ever calculated the annual tax on your family’s fields?”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren ignored Chen’s gaze, and looked at Zhu’s father with equanimity as he asked.
“My family does not need to pay taxes.”Father Zhu shook his head slightly.
“Yes, right now you don’t have to pay taxes, but what about later?”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren got up and walked around with his hands behind his back for a moment. “You don’t have to pay taxes because of the swine child’s merit, but if the swine child is gone, you may need to pay taxes and bear the corvée.”
Swine’s son is gone?
These words irritated Chen again. Her teeth clenched with a grating sound, she coldly swept her eldest uncle Zhu Shouren a glance, and coldly said, “Don’t bother, I have a Sixth Grade An Ren Grant.”
Eldest uncle shook his head at the words. Sighing, he said, “According to the laws of Daming, younger sister, your Sixth Grade Anren Grant only has the treatment of etiquette, not kneeling at the sight of an official and so on, however, there is no real power, much less exemption from taxes and levies.”
“So what.”Chen’s tone was impatient.
“Not counting the tens of thousands of acres of land that the Li family dowered today, even if your family inherited those fields, then if you pay taxes, at least a hundred taels of silver a year na, this is not a small amount.”The eldest uncle Zhu Shouren said in an exaggerated tone.
Although the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren did not know the exact number of fields in Zhu Pingan’s family. But also know Zhu Pingan family property of the general number, Zhu Pingan exam in the Xiu Cai, Zhu Pingan family on the purchase of a land, Zhu Pingan in the lifts, Zhu Pingan family once again on the purchase of the land, this time the number is very large, there are a lot of people to contribute land, together is not a small amount, in addition, Zhu Pingan in the Scholar, Zhu Pingan family on the purchase of the land is even more. If you only count these lands, the tax will be hundreds of taels. The tax will be hundreds of taels of silver.
The more land, the more taxes, this is very obvious. Father Zhu glanced at his eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, and did not make a sound.
“This is still only your inherent field property. If you add the ten thousand mu of fields that the Li family dowry today, this tax would have to be doubled several times over.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren said it again and then sighed with his mouth wide open.
The dowry? That was the dowry of Li Shu, the second daughter-in-law, Li Shu’s private property! It was Li Shu’s bodily property, a property that only belonged to Li Shu personally.
“What does elder brother have to say?”Chen swept her eldest uncle Zhu Shouren a sarcastic glance and asked.
“I can’t talk about a high opinion. But it’s not a lost method. When the fields and properties were not subject to taxes because of the swine child’s merit, now if we find another person with merit and transfer the fields and land to his name, wouldn’t it be possible to exempt them from taxes as usual as well.”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren’s eyes shone brightly, and his tone was incendiary as he suggested.
“Where to find such a person?”Chen asked knowingly, her tone tinged with contempt.
“After all, with so many of your fields, if you look for an outsider, you won’t be able to rest assured, so you might as well find an acquaintance. As the saying goes, fighting tigers is like fighting brothers, fighting fathers and sons, a family doesn’t say two words, a single stroke can’t write two Zhu characters, there’s nothing more reassuring than a family. Your property should be transferred to my name, so that I am exempted from taxes and levies, and you do not need to pay taxes on your property. The fields are still your fields, they are just under my name, I don’t move a single cent, saving hundreds of taels of silver every year, what’s wrong with doing that.”
Hearing this, the irony in Chen’s eyes is even stronger, the fox’s tail is showing, after all the talk, round and round, the original idea is to play the family’s property.
Really look down on, more than adults, do not work hard to study, all day thinking about these crooked ideas, never think of relying on their own hands to work hard, decades of food are eaten in the dog’s belly. When the swine’s son was a pupil, he was still a pupil when the swine’s son was admitted to the school, and when the swine’s son was admitted to the school, he was still a pupil. If he doesn’t work hard, I don’t think he will be able to pass the examination even if I give him a few more decades.
“Oh field property transferred to your place, exempt from taxes ah, well, why not transfer the land that came with today’s dowry to your place as well. Oh, let me think about it, right, there are also shops in the town, well, quite a few shops that came with today’s dowry, all of them will be transferred to your place as well.”Chen faintly opened her mouth.
What?
Even the dowry was transferred over?
And the shops as well?
Happiness came too suddenly, so that the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren some do not believe what they heard, thought Chen is the most difficult to deal with, did not think that only said once, Chen agreed, really is a long hair short knowledge, excited eldest uncle forehead shortness of breath, veins on the forehead are exposed.
On the side of the eldest uncle’s mother and Zhu Pinganjun daughter-in-law’s face all showed a smile.
“Second younger sibling, you’re not joking, right?”Great Uncle Zhu Shouren asked with some disbelief.
“You’re the one who joked first ……”Chen sneered in contempt.
“You ……”The eldest uncle.
“If I remember correctly, big brother is not a Xiucai now, right? Don’t you pay the taxes as usual to go. It’s better to wait until the eldest uncle has won the Xiu Cai, then we’ll talk about it.”Chen glanced at her eldest uncle, Zhu Shouren, and mocked with disdain.
“Woman’s opinion, this time I won the Candidate of the Xiu Cai but it’s a sure thing, Lord Liu and the others have given me a promise. In addition, also introduced to the school government family steward, left a name tag. According to the usual practice, all those who leave a name tag are sure to pass.”The eldest uncle Zhu Shouren is very excited said, a look in the Xiu Cai is like a bag of confidence.
It’s the same old story again, what steady pass, what relationship to find how hard, this kind of words from his uncle first began to test the Xiucai said, said no less than ten times. Every time it is a vow of faith, every time is also a failure, only the old man and the old lady believe it.
Looking for relations, through the back door, the net is a crooked way, never think of relying on yourself.
Chen disdainfully rolled her eyes.
“It’s better to wait until big brother has passed the Xiu Cai exam.”Father Zhu glanced at his own big brother and spoke in a deep voice.
“You ……You guys still don’t know the things that swine child committed in the capital, right, swine child confused ah ……”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren does not stop until he reaches his goal, one plan does not work and throws another, with a heavy face, he opened his mouth, and then he repeated Zhu Pingan’s impeachment on the zhangbiao for killing Liang and risking his life to offend Yan Song, exaggerating the dangers and repeating it again.
“What the swine child did is definitely all right, I believe in the swine child.”Chen was unmoved.
“Why? The swine child is deluded, the other general ……”Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren said the same thing he did to convince Elder Zhu again.
“I don’t believe in swine’s son, do I still believe in outsiders?”Chen choked out her eldest uncle Zhu Shouren, a very different reaction from that of Master Zhu at first.
“We are family with swine’s son, sharing the same sweetness and naturally sharing the same suffering, as swine’s parents, we are not capable but we are not afraid of things, if someone comes looking for trouble because of this, we would want to seek justice for swine’s son.”Father Zhu also spoke back in a deep voice.
Eldest Uncle Zhu Shouren ……
“That tax is not a small amount.”Elder Zhu reminded.
“Father, for one thing, big brother does not yet have a Xiu Cai title, and for another, the output from the land is always more than the tax, so if there is a mouthful of food for us in the future, we won’t starve the two of you.”Chen faintly explained
