Now this great official actually met Li Qiao. He was excited, happy and envious.
After Li Qiao heard Zhuang Wen's words, he couldn't help but suddenly realized: "The second-level Jinshi in the first year of Shengping, so he was admitted to the Jinshi as soon as the Holy Emperor came to the throne."
Shengping is the reign name of the current emperor.
And Jiang Zhixian looked to be in his forties, so Jiang Zhixian also studied for more than twenty years before passing the imperial examination.
In addition, the current emperor made an exception and allowed him, a second-class Jinshi, to enter the Hanlin Academy. No wonder Jiang Zhixian likes to quote the emperor's short compositions when speaking.
This is the gift of knowing someone.
This is a great favor that can change your destiny as much as a mountain.
"When the magistrate speaks, he always quotes the words from the holy article. Is this actually a disguised attempt to highlight important points?"
he said again.
The chief examiner of the county examination is the magistrate of a county and one of the examiners.
This is the starting point for all scholars to embark on the road to the imperial examination, so it is important to find out the preferences of this county magistrate.
But Zhuang Wen said: "Don't think about this yet. Mr. Jiang's three-year term is about to expire. If he doesn't transfer, it won't be too late for you to study his preferences. You won't take part in the county examination next year." "
He had never thought about what help Jiang Zhixian could give Li Qiao in the imperial examination.
"……Too."
Li Qiao raised his hand and patted his forehead, but he had forgotten about it.
However, as long as Jiang Zhixian is still in Pingcheng, he is the boss of Pingcheng, and the matters assigned by the boss must be handled properly.
Especially when the other party has to bring vermicelli and qingtuan as gifts.
He couldn't make any mistakes on this, otherwise his imperial examination would be stillborn before it even started.
There is also the matter of affiliation.
Li Qiao had forgotten about this before, because the amount of money he and Tao Zhu earned every day seemed to be a lot, but after careful calculation, it was still far from ten thousand taels.
Now the sweet potato workshop can make about five to six hundred kilograms of vermicelli a day, and he only earns more than four cents per kilogram of vermicelli.
Even if it is calculated based on six hundred catties and five cents, he can only earn three taels of silver a day by relying on vermicelli.
Including corn, snacks, grilled sausages, etc., his daily income is about eighteen taels.
Eighteen taels a day, only 540 taels a month, less than 7,000 taels a year, still a long way from ten thousand taels.
More importantly, the income from vermicelli will disappear soon, because after the Chinese New Year, the sweet potatoes will either be made into dried sweet potatoes or spoiled, and the sweet potato workshop will be shut down by then.
So, when Magistrate Jiang mentioned this matter today, was he embarrassed and had nothing to say?
Or is it really for his own good?
…
Forget it, no matter what the situation is, since County Magistrate Jiang mentioned it, he will definitely comply with it.
The early application and the early peace of mind would not guarantee that he would find new ways to make money in the future. While Jiang Zhixian wanted to use his food as a New Year gift, he still hurriedly handled the matter.
According to the laws of the Sheng Dynasty, not counting the output of one's own fields, but only counting the income from selling goods, if the annual profit exceeds 10,000 taels, he will be classified as a merchant.
But there are policies and countermeasures. If you don’t want to be classified as a business owner, you can put your shop under someone else’s name.
The candidate for affiliation must be chosen carefully, otherwise, your business may become the other party's.
So, who should we choose as the person to be affiliated with?
Li Qiao thought about it all the way, but couldn't decide on a good candidate.
When the oxcart arrived at Sanliu Village, it was already dark. It gets dark early in winter, not to mention that there were light snowflakes today.
But fortunately it didn't snow heavily, otherwise it would have been difficult to walk on this road.
After saying goodbye to Zhuang Wen, Li Qiao drove the bullock cart back to the new house.
Li Dashan, Li Chuntao and Wang Xiaoya are all there.
Dinner is warming in the pot.
Wang Xiaoya led the bullock cart back to the old house, and Li Qiao's group started to have dinner.
Dasheng's restrictions on business registration are not strict, unlike the previous dynasty, which suppressed all aspects such as clothing, housing, and cars for travel.
Of course, there is still some suppression, but Li Qiao doesn't think it's serious.
The most serious one is that once you become a merchant, you cannot take the imperial examination for three generations.
It stands to reason that the most secure thing to find someone to be affiliated with is your own relatives, but the fact that he cannot take the imperial examination made Li Qiao unable to talk to his relatives.
Therefore, he looked at Li Dashan and Li Chuntao at the dinner table and did not mention this matter. He only mentioned that the county magistrate had specially expressed his opinion on him.
Just like Zhuang Wen, Li Dashan and Li Chuntao were shocked at first, and then excited and happy.
Emma, the county magistrate already knows about his brother-in-law/cousin!
"After dinner, we started making vermicelli. The county magistrate wants to buy 800 kilograms of vermicelli. Let's make the vermicelli first."
Li Qiao said.
Fortunately, he had been asking Li Dashan, Li Chuntao, and Wang Xiaoya to make starch, otherwise, he would not be able to complete the county magistrate's order quickly.
Li Dashan and Li Chuntao have no objection. The county magistrate's order is nothing more important than this!
After dinner, they were just about to start making vermicelli when Zhuang Fengshou arrived.
Zhuang Fengshou came to Li Qiao to talk about vermicelli.
"In the past few days, many villagers and people from other villages have come to me and said that our vermicelli making speed is too slow. Once the Chinese New Year is over, we will no longer be able to do this business, so I thought about hiring someone. Specialize in making starch?”
"Starch can be stored for a long time. Make the sweet potatoes into starch first, so that the workshop can make vermicelli for a long time."
After hearing this, Li Qiao nodded immediately: "I also have this plan. I met with shopkeeper Wang today, and shopkeeper Wang also urged me. I hope I can eat vermicelli all year round."
"All year round?" Zhuang Fengshou frowned. If he wanted to be able to eat vermicelli all year round, the amount of starch consumed would not be something that the people in his village could make.
But if people from other villages are allowed to make starch, how long can the vermicelli recipe be hidden?
If the recipe for vermicelli is leaked, next year’s vermicelli will not be as good as this year’s.
However, can the people working in the sweet potato workshop really keep this secret until next year?
Even if he formulated harsh punishment measures, what if someone takes risks just for the sake of money?
The profit behind the vermicelli was so huge that he couldn't imagine it. If someone really chose to go to jail alone for money and live a happy family, then the interests of the villagers would still be damaged next year.
"Since it is so difficult to choose, let everyone vote."
Li Qiao was naturally unable to make a decision.
Since you can't decide, leave it to everyone.
Zhuang Fengshou sighed: "Okay, let everyone vote."
In this way, even if there are any bad consequences, everyone will bear it together. The minority will obey the majority, and no one will complain when the time comes.
So, while Li Qiao and others were making vermicelli overnight, Zhuang Fengshou was voting.
Zhuang Fengshou has always been vigorous and resolute. In this voting, except for children under ten years old, other villagers have the right to vote.
Not only those in the workshops need to participate, but also those who do not work in the workshops.
The results of the poll came out within one day. A full 90% of the people chose to make more starch this year so that they could continue making vermicelli after the Chinese New Year.
The idea of the villagers is very simple. Although they will not leak the recipe themselves, they cannot guarantee that others will. In this case, it is better to take advantage of this year to make a fortune from him.
Now you can earn 50 cash a day, which is 1,500 cash a month. If there are two people in a family, that is 3,000 cash.
If this work continues until next year's wheat harvest, it will be more than seven months' worth of money.
That is twenty taels.
No matter what happens to him in the future, he must first earn this money.
Moreover, now because people in the workshop are making starch, they can only make five to six hundred kilograms of vermicelli a day.
If they do not make starch but only vermicelli, then this number will definitely need to be doubled, and the money they earn every day will also be doubled.
If you can earn forty taels of silver in half a year, then you don’t need a bicycle.
Forty taels of silver can handle all the major things in life in one go: building a house, marrying a wife/husband.
So, make money first!
The villagers voted for this result, and Li Qiao and Zhuang Fengshou naturally acted according to this result.
Zhuang Fengshou first asked people in the village who did not work in the sweet potato workshop to make starch.
He went to several nearby villages to find the village chiefs and teach them how to make starch.
He also went to the town to find villages on the other side of Sanli Town and asked these villages to also make starch.
This was not enough. While Li Qiao was going to deliver goods to Jiangzhi County, he also went to the county government office.
Just one town is not enough. If everyone in the county is allowed to make starch, then the sweet potato workshop in Sanliu Village can run from now until the sweet potatoes mature next year.
Jiang Zhixian gave the money from the vermicelli and Qingtuan to Li Qiao. He originally wanted to send the two people away, but he didn't expect that Li Qiao and Sanliucun would make such a decision.
After confirming that Li Qiao and Zhuang Fengshou meant so, he immediately asked the yamen servants to call the village chiefs to the county yamen.
This is a happy event.
People who grow sweet potatoes can sell them for money, Sanliu Village can also make money, and the people under his rule can make money, so he will naturally support it.
Well, originally, he wanted to rely on connections so that he could be transferred to the county of his choice next year.
Although there are mountains here in Pingcheng, they are not famous mountains, and there are no distinctive flora and fauna on the mountains.
There was no water either.
In short, this is just an ordinary county in the north.
The people may say they are poor, but that is not the case. Anyone who is diligent can earn a living and not starve to death.
Without oppressing the people, he could receive sufficient grain and tax every year and submit a satisfactory report card to the court.
However, speaking of being rich, that would definitely not be called it.
