The transfer of supplies is very fast. Xinghe Supermarket has a warehouse in Nancheng. After all, the rent in North City is very high, and there is a lot of wasteland in South City. Yang Fan can rent a few hundred acres of land, harden the ground, and use wooden pillars and tile steel as roofs to build a large number of warehouses in a short time. .
A four-wheeled heavy-duty carriage carrying a seven-ton caravan pulled noodles packed in wooden boxes and wrapped in oil paper to transport them to Nanyuan.
These noodles come in one kilogram tube and are the cheapest noodles produced in modern times. Although the flour grade is not high, it is definitely made of pure flour without any mixed grains.
Yang Fan has no shortage of horses, but he is relatively low-key and does not want to show off in the capital.
The Ming Dynasty was short of horses, both for public and private use. So the caravans were pulled by strong oxen. The speed is very slow. After all, oxen are strong, but their walking speed is not as fast as horses.
Nine strong oxen were divided into three rows at the front and back, pulling the heavy caravan forward. This is mainly due to the convenience of entering and exiting the city gate. It is too wide to enter and exit the city gate.
The small flag guarding the city watched the caravan pulled by four ox carts leave Yongding Gate. Quickly command the soldiers to make way for other people and cars entering and exiting the city. Let the car from Xinghe Supermarket go first.
His salary comes and goes, and his family relies entirely on the food provided by Xinghe Supermarket.
Ever since Xinghe Supermarket allowed military households in Beijing to apply for grain books, the military households were extremely happy. In such a disaster year, having cheap food can save a family's life.
Of course, some people are happy and some are unhappy. Many civil servants were dissatisfied.
Because although food prices have gone up. But many ordinary people don't go to their grain stores to buy food at all. Only those immigrants who do not have Gyeonggi household stickers will go to grain stores to buy food.
Now, Xinghe Supermarket has begun to provide grain books for military households, which has reduced their customers. Two-thirds of the population in the capital went to buy cheap food.
They raise the price of food to the sky, but it is of no use, because there is a price but no market. Not many people came to buy it.
They and the nobles of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion jointly withheld half of the money and food distributed to the army.
30% for civil servants and 20% for nobles. There were also other officers who handled the matter, so they added sand into it and continued to be greedy.
The food they are greedy for will appear in the food stores opened by their relatives. Then sell it at a high price.
Of course, it must be sold at a high price. After all, it is a famine year now, and food prices have skyrocketed, so how can we sell them cheaply?
Grain is a special commodity. One hundred people need one hundred rations.
If there is one less portion, the price will not simply go up. It’s not a one percent increase, but a price increase from one hundred to one hundred, or even several hundred.
The reason is simple, because no one wants to be the one who starves to death.
People will compete to raise prices in panic, and food prices will skyrocket immediately.
It is precisely because of this irrational surge that there will be huge profits. Running a grain business relies on waiting for this kind of unconventional opportunity to make a fortune.
After so many layers of ink, there is still more than 30% left.
Even though we arrived at the military camp, the food was definitely not enough.
Soldiers will resist if the food they receive is not enough to sustain life.
After all, the military is an institution of violence, an armed group, and composed of people who hold weapons. And these people's profession is to kill people.
The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were willing to wipe their butts after taking poop.
Because if they don’t, they will walk around without food.
It's not what they want to see if it gets to this level. They just want to get rich, not die.
The civil servants added the old grain at the bottom of the warehouse and the moldy old grain from various grain stores. With 50% of the quantity collected, the soldiers could barely survive by eating porridge without starving to death.
Because civil servants have more than two thousand years of experience in ruling.
They know that you can go too far, and it doesn’t matter if you go too far. However, leave a way for those below. Don't let the people below despair.
In a time of great calamity like this, soldiers can easily be satisfied if they have something to eat.
Didn’t you see that there are road failures everywhere outside the city? If they can stay alive, they won't cause trouble.
Otherwise, the soldiers will be driven into panic and everyone will break up. I won’t play this game with you anymore. The trouble is big.
Didn’t you see that Huang Chao was forced to rebel like this?
If only the examiner had controlled his greed.
One less gift to receive, one less back door to take, to admit him. Is there no such disaster star anymore?
He was a serious person who passed the exam, but he was forced to pass the exam.
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism, civil servants have been constantly adjusting their strategies, with the goal of stabilizing their rule by any means necessary and expanding their interests infinitely.
Every time I messed up, I learned my lesson and reopened.
They invented many opportunities that seemed to change their class and origin.
But in fact, they are all institutional designs with little hope. The number of people who can move to the upper classes through these means is very small.
Its real purpose is to use the imperial examination to give you a hope, to numb people's hearts and weaken the consciousness of resistance. Their most successful institutional design is the stereotyped writing system.
The core idea of the system design of Confucianism and the Ming Dynasty civil servants is to make people lose their blood, become numb, and lose their sense of resistance.
On the surface, anyone can achieve class crossing through the imperial examination. But in fact, studying is very expensive. The level of education in a region is positively related to the degree of development.
It will be the same hundreds of years later. Educational standards in developed areas will naturally be much better. Compared with examinations, remote and poor areas cannot compare with developed areas. After all, educational resources are also piled up with money.
The educational resources available to wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty were beyond the reach of ordinary people. Can children from a scholarly family and those from a farming family be the same?
The most damning thing about the imperial examination is that this system gives people the illusion that it maintains social fairness and promotes class mobility.
Anyway, the opportunity is given to you. If you fail to pass the exam, it’s because you don’t work hard enough. If you can't compete with others, you can't compete with yourself. I can't blame the court and the emperor.
It's because you're not smart enough. This is given by parents, it is fate. It's your destiny, you have to accept it.
In the Ming Dynasty, all successful system designs ultimately attributed the causes of social injustice to the victims, and made the entire society and the victims accept this logic.
Besides, even if you don't look at these, the imperial examination is a joke.
In the Tang Dynasty, 19,000 people needed to become officials every thirty years. There were only 3,100 people who passed the imperial examination and became officials. Accounted for 16%.
The number of people who entered official positions outside the imperial examination accounted for 86%. These people are mainly from aristocratic families, recommended by officials, and favored by the emperor.
If the official class is included, only 1% of those who entered official positions through the imperial examination.
The Song Dynasty is recognized by everyone as the most friendly era for scholars. The number of people who took the imperial examination and became officials only accounted for 26.1%, excluding officials. The others are all from Enyin.
Don't underestimate the official class.
At the local level, there are the county magistrate (deputy county magistrate), the chief secretary (finance director, tax director), the county lieutenant (police chief), Dian Shi (criminal police captain and warden), the six departments of the county Yamen, etc. below the county magistrate. They are all departments with real power. They are also serious ancient civil servants.
Under normal circumstances, the specific number of departments and houses in most states and counties is six. It was established according to the names of central officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and workers.
But it is not absolute. In some states and counties, the number of departments is not necessarily six, and there are other departments.
For example, in Jingxian County, Zhili, in addition to six rooms, there are ten rooms such as grain house, salt house, warehouse, recruitment house, Cambodian house, and Chengfa, household head, taxation, and river. Altogether, there are 16 rooms in total.
These huge groups of officials are the ones who really manage the people. None of them came from the imperial examination.
During the Ming Dynasty, this dynasty expanded the imperial examination system unprecedentedly. Even for the top Qiqing, according to the total statistics for 276 years, those who did not come from the imperial examination accounted for 57.6%. Less than half of them came from the imperial examination.
The Qing Dynasty was no better off. Some scholars have calculated that the number of scholars who moved upward through the imperial examination only accounted for 3-4% of the total number of officials. Among other officials who entered the officialdom, the most numerous were Enyin, followed by those who sold their posts to the imperial court.
After leaving Yongdingmen, the road became very bad. Two deep ruts were half a meter deep. There is still water in some places. There was a foul smell. Flies buzzed.
A dozen servants on horseback, armed with weapons, were guarding on both sides.
The pillar sat next to the driver, and three people could sit sideways on the driver's side of the caravan.
"This dilapidated road should have been repaired long ago. If it continues to be bumpy like this, all the noodles will be scattered."
The driver who drove the truck was Zhang Shengwu, the deputy captain of the freight team of Xinghe Supermarket. He said: "There is no way. The master's order came very urgently and asked him to transport all the noodles in stock immediately. This is the only way. Why don't you go slower? , it can be much better."
Zhuzhu said: "I'm looking for you, I don't know what's going on."
Zhang Shengwu said: "You'll know when you get there. Why do you think so much? It's a waste of your brain."
Zhu Zhu said with envy: "Yes, Lao Zhang, you are living a really good life. You have a high income and you don't have to worry about anything. You have a couple of children, and your wife and children love each other. If I can be like you someday, I will be satisfied."
Zhang Zhenwu smiled and said: "I am like this because I have no future. You have been valued by the master at a young age. Naturally, your future is limitless. How can you compare with me.
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