Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

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Bai Susu's behavior of giving money made Su Chen look at her with admiration, and his perception of her also became better.

To make the prodigal son turn back, to make the profiteer give up the profits, to make the Bai family generous... In Su Chen's view, they are all equally difficult!

"By the way, don't you have any other strings attached?"

Facing the sudden good thing, Su Chen was still a little puzzled, thinking that the Bai family should make some new demands.

Bai Susu glanced at him, shook his head and said: "There is no other request, I just hope to have a long-term and in-depth cooperation with you. In the next five to ten years, the Su and Bai families will advance and retreat together. In the future, the new business products you invent can be made by the Bai family or Sales, the patent fees and agency fees you mentioned can all be guaranteed.”

Su Chen nodded, and understood what she meant, which was to restrain Su Chen, stop further cooperation with families other than the Bai family, tie Su Chen to the Bai family's commercial chariot, and not take apart to fly solo.

It would be unbelievable to many businessmen outside, that the Bai family would care so much about a scholar with no background, and make such a big investment as a deep commercial cooperation alliance.

However, Bai Susu knew very well that Jiang Zuo Sulang's ability was far more than that.

In the future, his inventions and creations, many new things, will be transformed into commodities as soon as possible with the support of the Bai family, a large merchant family, and then mass-produced and distributed, turning into huge profits.

What's more, Su Chen's status is also rising, the reputation of a talented scholar is already well-known in the south of the Yangtze River, and Qiu Wei Jieyuan is about to win the first prize in the palace examination.Saved the lives of the queen and the prince, and won the support of Han Xizai, Xu Xuan and others. The network behind this kind of person gradually became stronger.

Maybe the Bai family will rely on Su Chen's protection in the future.

Therefore, Bai Susu has a long-term vision and is investing in Su Chen's future.

What's more, Bai Susu has already fallen in love with Su Chen in her heart, and she has also made an agreement in private, waiting for her to make a decision in three years, whether to talk about marriage again.

Bai Susu felt that if she wanted to marry someone one day, then Su Chen would be the best choice. Giving Su Chen more benefits now would also help her enjoy the benefits in the Su family in the future.

"By the way, suddenly there is so much wealth, how do you plan to put it? There is some danger in the home, why not replace it with some houses and fields, such fixed assets, no one can take them away." Bai Susu was a little worried, and reminded me one more time.

Because once there is a rumor of walking, there will definitely be robbers from the green forest who will come and steal. After all, the Su Mansion does not have a deep foundation, and there are no generals and warriors to protect it, so it is not enough to deter the thieves.

In the eyes of those thieves, the Su family with [-] cash and jewels is like a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered. As long as they are ruthless, they will become prosperous.

Su Chen thought for a while, and said seriously: "I plan to buy some manors, preferably outside the city, with fields and large manors, which can accommodate hundreds of people, and cultivate a group of servants who are loyal to my Su family, servants, samurai, long-term workers, tenants, etc., so that we can truly take root."

This has been the practice of powerful clans since the Han and Wei dynasties!
The powerful and powerful families were the basis for the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty regime. During times of war, these clans and powerful families could gather as towns to resist bandits and military disasters.

Cao Wei's nine-rank Zhongzheng system gave him political privileges, and the land occupation system in the Western Jin Dynasty gave him economic privileges, thus forming a typical aristocratic system of "the upper rank has no poor family, and the lower rank has no aristocratic family".

This system reached its peak in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.After the establishment of the patriarchal system, it continued until the Tang Dynasty, when it was gradually replaced by the imperial examination system based on the individual cultural level examination.

However, the aristocratic family did not disintegrate in the Tang Dynasty. Although the imperial examination was implemented in the Tang Dynasty, it gave poor families a way to advance through the imperial examination. However, the number of people enrolled in the imperial examination every three years was limited, and the children of poor families could really stand up until the Song Dynasty increased the imperial examination to obtain scholars. Number of people, it can be realized.

Regarding these, Su Chen, as someone who has read history books, naturally understands.

In the current environment, relying on huge financial resources and official background, continuously buying manors, absorbing refugees, and cultivating private armed forces, as long as they do not rebel, there is still room for survival.

Su Chen was worried that the Northern Song Dynasty would attack in the future, and if there was a war, he would not have his own family, warriors, and loyal servants, and the Su family would easily become a fat sheep to be slaughtered.

Once he has his own strength, when the time comes, Nantang will be shattered, and he will leave Nantang with his family by boat, and he can go to the island for refuge.

At that time, when Jiangnan is peaceful, he can come back or go to the Northern Song Dynasty. At least he won't be burned, killed and looted by the rebels, and become an innocent ghost.

According to history, the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, Jinling City was destroyed, tens of thousands of wealthy households were looted, and many people were burned, killed and humiliated. If Su Chen didn't make preparations early and didn't have the strength to escape, it would be a tragedy.

"Alright!" Bai Susu nodded slightly after hearing what he said, thinking that he just wanted to exchange money into fixed assets for easy storage, but he didn't think of anything deeper.

Su Chen said again: "By the way, you have a lot of servants in the White Mansion, so send them out to help me investigate. The villas that are sold outside, especially those that rely on mountains and rivers, can be built as villas."

"Build a villa?" Bai Susu was a little surprised.

Su Chen nodded: "Well, it's best to wrap up a mountain, so that it's easy to manage, and no one will come and disturb you." After speaking, he smiled slightly and planned to build a hidden sword villa.

In this way, warriors can be trained, family guards can be trained, and the team of the Su family can be built.

Surviving in ancient times, without some protective force, it is very likely that you cannot even protect your own personal safety.

Moreover, what to do in the future, you don't have to do it yourself, use personal guards, and dead men to do it.

"Okay, I'll send someone to do it."

Bai Susu didn't doubt that it was there, so she responded.

"There are not many homeless refugees now. If I recruit a large number of refugees, select strong men and children, and sign a long-term slave contract, will it be realized?" Su Chen asked.

Bai Susu explained: "Although the imperial court promulgated some regulations prohibiting the sale and purchase of slaves, and the slaves cannot be killed innocently, the major families and powerful families are all taking advantage of the loopholes. They will still raise hundreds of slaves, but generally they will sign a relative agreement. A legal contract maintains the servant's certain personal rights, life and death rights, etc., and the term is not lifelong. It can be agreed for 20 years or 50 to [-] years, and the contract can be terminated midway. This is an employment relationship.

"Since the loss of the fourteen prefectures in the north of the Yangtze River, the Tang State lacked salt farms, the economy shrank, and the number of refugees in various places continued to increase. Many tenants had no land to cultivate. In addition to the impact of disasters, plagues, and floods, large-scale famines appeared. If you sell children and daughters to make ends meet, if you send people around to buy them back and serve as servants of the Su family, you can take in quite a few people."

Su Chen nodded after hearing this. If this strategy is feasible, then he is ready to implement it.

In addition to raising scholars, some people can also be developed into long-term workers in workshops to carry out some commodity production, and they can make a difference in printing, weaving, and glass manufacturing.

(End of this chapter)