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Chapter 23 Sweep away all pests
In terms of cash, Jia Daquan, a father who is less educated than his son, really doesn't have much in his hands. Even the copper coins are about 60 taels.

If he really wanted to support his son's purchase of an official, Jia Daquan's only choice was to sell the yard left by the old man. Besides, he had to sell dozens of acres of land outside the city.

Jia Hanfu, the old man of the Jia family, was a member of the second rank, so the Qing government allocated 12 rooms to the Jia family.

The house price in Beijing City is 32 taels per room in the outer city, and 38 taels per room in the full city.

According to the official salaries given by the Qing court at this meeting, excluding other gray incomes and maintenance money, the annual salary of seventh-rank officials is 45 taels.

That is to say, the annual salary of a seventh-rank official can buy one and a half houses in Beijing, and a first-rank official's annual salary of 180 taels can buy five to six rooms.

From this point of view, the current housing prices in Beijing are quite cheap.

The 12 rooms of the Jia family can be sold for about 450 taels at the normal price.

However, houses all over the city can only be bought and sold among banner people, and now everyone in the banner knows that something happened to the Jia family, and the two of them are about to pack up and leave to become Han Chinese. It's a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, and it's no wonder that people don't take the opportunity to lower the price.

Jia Daquan reckons that his house can sell for 30 taels at most, and 400 taels with the yard attached.

400 taels plus the cash at home, and more than 200 taels supported by two older sisters, the total is just over 700 taels.

The lowest price on the county list is 980 taels, which is obviously not enough, so we can only sell the land again.

During the Shunzhi period, due to the meritorious service of the Jia family, the Qing government once granted 300 mu of land (the land occupied by Han people in Gyeonggi). Later, the Jia family purchased more than 200 mu of land. .

After the death of the old man, the relationship between the three Jia Zuwang brothers was not very good, so they simply separated the family, and finally the land left on the side of the long house was 200 mu.

When Jia Zuwang was alive, he sold 50 mu for unknown reasons, leaving 150 mu.After Jia Daquan inherited the family business and became the master of the family, the land became popular every few years, and now there are only 68 mu left.

Right now, land prices vary from place to place, some places are expensive and some places are cheap.Expensive ones can be sold for eleven or two mu, but cheap ones may be sold for less than one mu.

The Jia family's land is in Shunyi County in the suburbs of Beijing. The land price in the capital is not bad, and it can probably sell for nine taels of silver per mu.

Calculated in this way, if all 68 mu of land are sold, they can also earn 600 taels at a time.

In addition to other messy things in the family that can be sold, including the big black horse that my father and I have lost weight, the Jia family can provide at most 1500 taels of funds for Jia Liu to buy officials.

With this little money, he can barely participate in the bidding for the county magistrate. The problem is that Jia Liu doesn't want to be a deputy county magistrate.

There is no reason for it, and there is no way to make money.

Although the county magistrate is a local official, the Emperor Tiangao must have a way to make money. However, the county magistrate is not the largest official in the county, and there is a magistrate on top, which obviously prevents Jia Liu from fully displaying his talents.

The old saying couldn't be more appropriate-it's better to have a chicken head than a phoenix tail.

Besides, if you really sell all your belongings to donate to the official, how will you live your life in the future?

It's good to be able to get a real job and take office immediately. If you can't get a job and wait for a replacement, the two of you and Shuan Zhu will starve to death in Beijing.

Even if Jia Daquan wanted to support his son in his career, he would have to leave some pension money and coffin books.

You can't go to the Wanchun Building in the future, and there are small alleys with low fees at the front door, and the doors are half closed.

People's normal expenses can't be saved, right?

Jia Daquan also told the truth at the end, his son really wanted to get in and buy an official, he would never hold back as a father, but he could only pay 1200 taels at most.

The implication is that if the 1200 taels can be bought in real shortage, then the father will recognize it. After all, which father and mother do not want their children to become dragons.

But if you can't buy the real shortage, the father can't daydream with his son.

If you really want to leave the flag, you will have to live in the future.

Don't be in a hurry to sell the land, the house may not be able to be kept, but you can use the money from the house sale to buy a small courtyard of three or four rooms in the outer city, so that the father and father will not have a nest in the future, just ask for a wife's house I also want to see if there is a house first.

Originally, the eldest sister who firmly supported her younger brother to struggle, work hard, and do a great job, was a little shaken when she heard her father report her family fortune. After all, a girl can't watch her father drink the northwest wind.

It seems that it is really not cost-effective to donate a small official with a fortune.

The eldest brother-in-law Wang Zhi'an came out to speak, so it's better to wait and see, in case the family and the guards get things done, the Jia family doesn't have to send out the flag.

The second brother-in-law, Gao Delu, also agreed. He still didn't quite support my brother-in-law's clamor to buy an official, and he didn't believe that my brother-in-law could be a high-ranking official, and would restore the old man's reputation in the future.

Is it so easy to be a high official in this world?

As for Jia Liu, he must not give up his dream of becoming an official, but he also has to consider practical issues.

Finally, a compromise solution is given.

That is, he first went to the Ministry of Officials to inquire about whether there was any more affordable official position.If there is, once the Jia family's sending out of the flag cannot be undone, they will immediately sell their iron to buy officials.

"No matter where you are an official, Dad, don't worry, your son will always take you by his side!"

After showing his filial piety again, Jia Liu went to the Ministry of Officials without even eating lunch to investigate the actual feasibility of buying an official, hoping that he could catch a leak.

Soon, Jia Liu discovered that Qianlong was still a traitor, and the donated officials given by the official list of the Ministry of Officials were not only expensive, but also served in remote places, and most of them had no real power if they were not remote.

If you think about it, officials are the lifeblood of the country, and no matter how much Qianlong wanted to spend money, it was impossible to sell key positions.

It's basically a pot of sour porridge sandwiched with a few pieces of shredded pork, hanging people.

Of course, this is for Jia Liu.For those rich people who can only spend money to buy an official body, no matter what kind of official position is, it is a pie from the sky, and Long En is a gift from the emperor.

After reading for three days in a row, I didn't find any mistakes, but I got a basic understanding of the market.

It is roughly the same as what the second brother-in-law Gao Delu said. The price of the local city-level prefect (from the fourth rank) is 13300 taels, and the price of the vice-provincial Taoist (the fourth rank) is 16640 taels.For Beijing officials, the list price for bureau-level principals (sixth rank) is 4620 taels, and department-level doctor (fifth rank) is 9600 taels.

These are basically double the price of the list if they don't want to be replaced.

In the end, after looking at it, except for the county magistrate from the eighth rank who still had a slight chance to participate in the bidding, the others belonged to the existence that Jia Liu could not see.

As for the big donation list just posted, don't even think about it, even if the many official positions on it make Jia Liu's jealousy extremely red.

To be honest, Jia Liu's chances are pretty good, as soon as he comes, he can meet Qianlong's special donation for his mother's birthday, but others usually have to wait seven or eight years or even ten years to encounter it.

But the most painful thing in the world is that the opportunity is clearly in front of you, but you can't grasp it no matter what.

Looking up and seeing that it was already noon, Jia Liu wanted to go back, and it would be pointless to stay here any longer.

When he left, he glanced at the small donation list for the last time, and said rather bitterly: "These Beijing officials of the sixth and seventh ranks have no future, and the imperial court sells them so expensively. We really think we are fools."

Some people don't like to hear this. It was the middle-aged man who was watching the big donation list together with Raja Liu. He let out a "hey" and walked over and said, "Brother, don't underestimate this hopeless Beijing official." , does Mr. Li Minda know?"

"Mr. Li Minda? Who is that?"

Jia Liu really didn't know this character.

"It's Li Wei, the important minister of the late emperor!"

The middle-aged man thought to himself that there are still people in this world who don't know Mr. Li Minda, they are really ignorant.

If Jia Liu hadn't dressed up as a typical banner boy, this person would probably have thought that Jia Liu was a servant of some family.

Ok?
Li Wei!

How could this person Jia Liu not know, he is very familiar, the question is when did Li Wei call Li Min Da Gong?
After thinking about it, I realized that the word "Min Da" was a posthumous title given to officials by the imperial court.

Just as Zeng Wenzheng refers to Zeng Guofan, Zuo Wenxiang refers to Zuo Zongtang.

However, it is good to use Wen as the first character in posthumous titles given to civil servants, such as Wenzheng, Wenzhong, Wengong, Wenxiang, etc. Li Wei's "Minda" seems to be much worse, maybe it has some special meaning.

"Back then, Mr. Li Minda was just the son of a rich man in Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province, but it was because Mr. Li spent 10,000 taels to buy a Yuanwailang from the Ministry of Officials that he rose to the top and became the governor of Zhili, and became a senior official in the Yongzheng Dynasty. So, little brother, you Don't take the Beijing officials of the sixth and seventh ranks seriously, if you really buy it, you may one day be as famous as Li Min Dagong in history."

The middle-aged man looked envious.

In fact, many people spend money to buy Beijing officials of the sixth and seventh ranks, and they only buy them in order to become the second Li Wei. Otherwise, who would like to suffer that crime.

Next to him was a young man with the appearance of a scholar who was holding his sleeves and shrinking his neck. Hearing what the middle-aged man said, he couldn't help but sneered, and said: "Although Mr. Li Minda is also a donated official, but he is the late emperor's residence. A person whom he had always fancied at a young age, so talented, how many people in this world can have such opportunities and blessings as Mr. Li Minda?"

Qiandi?

He does not mean that.

Jia Liu was shocked at the time, and Mao Sai suddenly realized: Yes, I can also become the second Li Wei, because I know who the next emperor is!
what is this?
This is my advantage!

It seemed that some fresh blood had been poured into the originally heavy and dead heart, and it became hot and angry again.

However, I didn't get angry and excited for too long, and suddenly I became cold again.

Why?

It is now the 37th year of Qianlong, and the old guy will have to be the emperor for 23 years before he is willing to abdicate, and then he has to wait for another three years before seeing the king of Hades, so it will take 26 years for Jiaqing to come to power.

Jia Liu is 19 years old this year, and will be 26 years old in 45 years. His youth and youth are gone. What's the point of becoming the second Li Wei?

To be an official, to be a high-ranking official, you have to take advantage of your youth!
Twenty years is really too long, so long that the world does not turn around, and time is pressing.

Jia Liu only fights for the day and night.

Besides, he didn't want to become an official because he really wanted to be a filial son and grandson of Aixinjueluo's family, but to wipe out all pests.

(End of this chapter)