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These people of the Zhao family are all literate.

Although Zhao Changyu was stingy, he never slacked off in educating his clansmen.

Not only does Zhao have a part of his clan land dedicated to education funds, but he also allocates an additional sum of money to clan schools every year.

Children of the appropriate age in the clan can study for five years in the clan school for free. The books, pens, ink and paper used for studying are all produced by the clan school.

For students who are orphans, widowed, and poor, the tribe will also pay for their food. Those with excellent grades and talent in reading will be specially trained by the tribe.

For example, Zhao Shi has an average family background and is an only son. However, because he is talented in reading and martial arts, in order to support his studies and study tours, not only his family members are responsible for spending money on his studies and study tours, but his parents' family members will also help take care of him. , so that he can concentrate on nothing.

The more talented and powerful someone is in reading, the more care they will receive from the clan.

For students without talent, if they enter school at the age of seven, study for five years, and then go to school for 12 years, it is enough for them to learn basic words, numbers, and principles.

At the age of twelve, he is already half an adult in this era. Even if he does not study, he can help at home or find other ways out.

Therefore, everyone in the Zhao clan is literate in writing and numeracy, and many of them also have a skill.

Such people cannot starve themselves no matter where they are. It is just a matter of whether their life is broad or not, whether it is satisfactory or not.

Like Zhao Wan, there were many clan members who felt dissatisfied. When Uncle Cheng inquired, he found out that six people were hesitating whether to go back to Xiping with Zhao Wan.

Zhao Hanzhang looked through their information and found that they were all people with a certain craft, such as tailoring, accounting, gold and silver jewelry carving, and one of them was even good at poetry.

Zhao Hanzhang looked puzzled, "Good at poetry? Then he is a scholar, why don't he take the talent test?"

Uncle Cheng bowed and said: "I went. I went there when I was in Xiping. I passed the exam, but soon I couldn't work anymore. He wrote good articles, but he only wrote good articles."

Zhao Hanzhang understood, glanced at his former employer, and became even more curious, "Why did Seventh Uncle invite him?"

"In order to talk to the literati and elegant guests," Cheng Bo said, "the seventh prince hired him as a guest, and he usually stayed in the house. Occasionally, he greeted the guests for the seventh prince, and helped the seventh prince to write some poems. It was still very interesting. There is money to be made."

Zhao Hu was quite generous to his guests.

Zhao Hanzhang was puzzled: "Then what is this?"

Uncle Cheng lowered his voice and said: "Some time ago, the Seventh Taipa wanted to take a concubine, and they were already looking at each other. But the woman did not like the Seventh Taipa, but fell in love with him. As soon as the two parties combined, they just got married. Qi Taiye When the Grand Master found out, he was furious and kicked the people out. Even the Fifth Grand Master couldn't make peace."

When Zhao Hanzhang heard this, he praised: "What a strange woman. This girl has great vision. Zhao Xun is quite good-looking."

Uncle Cheng also smiled, bowed and said, "Yes, Mr. Xunlang is not ordinary, but he is gentle and kind, and he looks pretty good."

Zhao Hanzhang thought for a while and said: "Ask him to bring me a few articles to read. You schedule a time for these people. I will go home to see them the day after tomorrow. If it is suitable, we will all stay."

Then he said: "You should pay more attention to it. If there are people in the clan who are having a hard time and need help, help those who can. Just do what your grandfather told you."

She felt that Zhao Changyu's policies towards his tribe were very good in the past. It was better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, find them a job and support themselves.

Uncle Cheng happily agreed and went to work full of fighting spirit.

He had long wanted Zhao Hanzhang to intervene in clan affairs. In his opinion, neither Zhao Song nor Zhao Ming were as capable of handling clan affairs as Master Lao Lang.

But Zhao Hanzhang had always deliberately avoided clan affairs. Secondly, she was really busy, so Uncle Cheng did not dare to disturb her with such things.

Now that he saw that she was starting to intentionally interfere in clan affairs, he was as happy as anything.

Neither Zhao Song nor Zhao Hu noticed it. One of them was old and had limited energy. He left all clan affairs to Zhao Ming, and Zhao Ming was far away in Yuzhou and could not manage the capital;

One is busy with his own career, and his banquet is about to begin. He is so busy that he will not pay attention to such things.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Hu's banquet began, and Zhao Hanzhang also went to join in the fun, had lunch, and took out some borrowed money.

After getting the money, Zhao Hanzhang generously followed Zhao Hu for a lap in the garden and performed a harmony between ancestors and grandchildren with him before making an excuse to leave.

As soon as he went out, Zhao Hanzhang called Tinghe, "Go and find out who among the people who came here has food in their hands. Try to keep the price as low as possible and spend all the money."

Tinghe, who had just finished counting the money, was stunned and asked: "One million dollars to buy all the food?"

Zhao Hanzhang: "More than this million, I bought them all as much as I had at home. Then I went to the warehouse to look for them, and cashed in all the things that could be cashed. The money in exchange was all converted into grain. If Luoyang's grain was If you don't have enough, go to Yuzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou to buy it. You don't have to transport it back, just store the grain locally. This matter must be kept confidential."

She said: "I asked Yuan Li and Zeng Yue to allocate people to cooperate with you. You can rely on the power of the General's Office when buying, but you must be careful. Our large amount of grain storage cannot be leaked to avoid discrepancies in grain prices."

This request was a bit difficult, but Tinghe still agreed and made a quick plan in his mind.

The remaining objects in Zhao Hanzhang's warehouse are all artifacts that are difficult to cash in, but now a large number of nobles have moved back, and there are southern nobles in Luoyang. As long as they are from the former imperial palace or the Wang family, there are still many people who are interested.

Tinghe chose a few items and asked people to quietly take them out and cash them out.

After collecting some money, they began to select grain merchants and landowners in Luoyang, Yuzhou, Jizhou and other places.

With Yuan Li's information, it is not difficult for her to choose people, especially in Luoyang. Basically, everyone with some ability came to attend the banquet of the Seventh Master. As long as she squatted at the gate and took stock, she could find a suitable person in a short time. Trading partners.

There were also people who came specially from other places to attend the banquet. Tinghe wrote them down one by one and tried every means to get their contact information. He also sent several stewards to Zhao Hu's house to help and chatted with them by the way.

As soon as the banquet was over, Tinghe asked people to go to these people separately to start discussing business.

Some of them she went to in person.

As the eldest girl next to Zhao Hanzhang, her name and appearance are no secrets. After she guided her, the other party thought she wanted to do the grain business and make some money.

Although I thought this girl was so bold that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying and selling food, I felt relieved when I thought of her identity.

One person has achieved great success, Zhao Hanzhang is now the regent of the government, and the person around her, even if she is a girl, is comparable to a fifth- or sixth-rank official. The prime minister's concierge is also called a seventh-rank official.

Most of the big grain merchants and big landowners who were approached were willing to sell Tinghe the favor, so they sold her grain at a price slightly lower than the market price.

Someone else quietly reminded Tinghe, "You can't make much money from grain trading at this time. If you want to do it, you have to get all the grain out before April. Otherwise, when April comes and the summer harvest begins, this grain will be lost." The price is going to fall.”

Generally, grain merchants choose to buy grain from May to October. In addition to the usual grain sales, a larger part of the income comes in the three months from January to April. This is the period when the supply of grain is poor and grain prices are rising.

It was the beginning of the first lunar month, and grain prices had begun to rise. Tinghe came to do this business. In the eyes of the grain merchants, it was already too late.

But the little girl has limited knowledge. In view of her status, everyone gives her a little thin noodles and sells her a stone of grain for a few cents, which is considered to be a good relationship.

In this way, Tinghe obtained 1.85 million yuan of grain, which he kept on site under Zhao Hanzhang's instructions and was guarded by Zeng Yue's troops.

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