All Hail Cousin Brother

Yu Shande was the son of the clan leader's wife. What impressed him most was the imperial examination four years ago. He went to the house several times to visit his grandmother. Once, he met him and another clan brother behind the rockery and talked about the cheating in the imperial examination.

After a while, Yu Youyao said: "I remember that he has been promoted to the position of minister of the Hanlin Academy and is a close minister of the emperor. After gaining qualifications in the Hanlin Academy, he can rise through the ranks and directly enter the cabinet. Compared with Yu Zongshen back then, he is no less generous. ," She narrowed her eyelashes and said softly: "I'm not as good as him."

The world praises her as a saint and a living Bodhisattva, but she is far behind Yu Shande's scholarly spirit and awe-inspiring righteousness.

Her goodness is within her power.

The goodness of Yu Shande is to have the world in mind and bear the burden for the people.

Yin Huaixi frowned: "You have done more than him. It was you who mediated with the court, gained the court's support, and forced the gentry to pay for food. Only then did I allow a large number of refugees to flow into the north. You left the first nine Nineteen steps, Yu Shande just took the last step that you didn't take."

Yu Youyao chuckled softly: "I don't mean to compare with Brother Dezu, I just express my feelings and admire him for his heart towards Zhang Gong, his upright spirit of heaven and earth, his learning from the sages and uprightness, and the accumulation of it into morality, and the world is supreme." Rare and fresh."

Scholars and scholars regard Mr. Zhang as a sage, but how many people in this world dare to do what Mr. Zhang did?

Xie Jingliu shook his folding fan: "Most of the literati are shameless and cherish their reputation. They respect Duke Zhang but dare not imitate him for fear of being imitated and making people laugh. Even Yu Shande only planned to be with the refugees at the beginning. We starved and froze together, ate grass roots, peeled tree bark, and brought the refugees to the north. But I didn’t expect that we would meet more refugees fleeing the famine along the way.”

"The refugees who joined later had no food in their hands and often robbed other people's food. In addition, the imperial court sent troops to suppress it, which resulted in many deaths and injuries. He tried his best to appease the refugees. As a last resort, he wiped his face, followed the example of Zhang Gong, and entered the city when he encountered it. , requesting the wealthy households in the city to provide food."

"He comes from a well-known family. He is the son of the patriarch of the Yu family. He is a Jinshi twice in the imperial examination. He is a good scholar in the Imperial Academy. He is a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy and a close official of the emperor. Although the city gates in various places are closed and refugees are prohibited from entering, they cannot stop him. For most wealthy households, they cannot be offended, and they will definitely have to provide some food."

Yu Youyao was a little curious: "You don't seem to be surprised at all by Brother De's behavior."

Yin Huaixi said: "It's not surprising. Isn't it normal for the Yu clan to produce several virtuous people from the previous dynasty to the present? The purpose of educating people is to glorify their ancestors' merits. For example, Yu Zongshen is a high-ranking official and has a high salary. This is a glorification. If the ancestral merits of Yu Shande are so great for the people, how can they not glorify the ancestral virtues?"

A big family has both good and bad sides. The Yu clan behaves decently externally and fairly internally.

Although it is unavoidable that there is some heavy profit on the head of the Xie family, on the other hand, as far as the Yu family is concerned, the Xie family is the wife of the Yu family. Every member of the clan is making a contribution to the family. As the saying goes, no matter how strong you are, no matter how hard you work, It's such a big job, Xie has a lot of money, so naturally he has to put more effort into this aspect.

From the perspective of the overall interests of the family, this is correct.

Xie also understood.

If it were not for the Xie family's long-term vision, he took the initiative to give away 30% of the Yu family's profits.

How could Yu Youyao easily return to his mother's clan after he became a child?

Mrs. Yu is one thing, but after all, is it not the good relationship that Xie has forged in the clan as her daughter?

Without Mr. Xie's foresight in the past, how could Yu Youyao maintain a good relationship with Ms. Yu now and spare no effort to help Yu Youyao when she needed it?

Earlier, he helped her stumble in the court and delayed Jiazhou Mansion, so that Xie Mansion and her had to successfully evacuate Quanzhou.

Now he has helped her make this a "national policy".

There is certainly a reason for this because of Yu Youyao's noble status.

Could it be that this is not the attitude of the Yu clan towards their clansmen?

Yu Youyao believed deeply: "The refugees now have a backbone and food. Fewer and fewer people will starve to death, casualties caused by riots will also become smaller and smaller, and fewer and fewer people will survive." The more people eat, the tragedy of starving people eating each other and exchanging children for food will never happen again, which is really good."

Although the national policy has been implemented, whether the refugees can survive to reach the three provinces of Liaodong is still a big problem.

The distance to the north from the three provinces of Liaodong is only seven to eight hundred miles, and it is only two or three days' journey on horseback. However, the mountains in Liaodong are so steep that the refugees are hungry and walking to the north on one leg is no less than a gamble. .

Two taels of food a day can only guarantee that you will not starve to death. Two taels of food cannot sustain the consumption of a day's walking.

Half a month of procrastination is already fast.

A large number of refugees are like a group of hungry trapped beasts. The fatigue of traveling for a long time can easily lead to anxiety and panic. Conflicts are about to break out. A small quarrel or robbery may lead to a big riot and cause many problems. There were heavy casualties, and there were also people who were sick and weak and would die of illness or starvation before they could hold out.

After the national policy was implemented, she was most worried about these things, but she was far away in Liancheng and was helpless for the moment. She could only do her best and obey fate.

Unexpectedly, someone did what she wanted to do but couldn't.

Yin Huaixi didn't want to mention this anymore, so he got down to business: "Fu Town and Lian Town each plan to build one million acres of sericulture farms. I will leave the best land to you, each of the two towns has five hundred thousand acres. The rest will be divided among the soldiers under my name, individual silkworm farmers in Liancheng, and merchants from outside."

Fuzhen and Lianzhen are connected to Laomao Mountain. The size of the oak forest far exceeds 2 million acres. They are not all delineated because excessive sericulture will destroy the natural advantages and environment of sericulture and deplete the fish.

Yu Youyao monopolizes half of the two million acres of silkworm farm: "Isn't it too much? Why not transfer part of it from my name to yours? No one stipulates that the vassal king cannot purchase private property. It will always cost money." If you buy land with money, no one will say you are using your power for personal gain. If you don't have time to run the business, I can help."

All the land in the world is owned by the royal court. Every mountain and land in the Zhou Dynasty is owned by the imperial court. The government has the right to sell and buy the land and trees under its rule. Thirty percent of the proceeds from the sale and purchase goes to the government under its rule, and 70% goes to the national treasury. If one day the court needs to acquire land, the original purchase and sale price will be reimbursed.

This is for unowned land.

If there is an owner of the land, there is no need to go through the court. The buyer and seller negotiate on their own. During the transaction, the court has to pay a certain tax.

Yu Youyao united with retail investors for win-win cooperation. She could not eat two million acres of forest land by herself, nor could she eat it.

She is not a local. She can do business, but she cannot cut off the local people's financial resources. If everyone makes money together, and is competitive, the business will not die.

Being too greedy will lead to public wrath.