The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 7 Model Farmers and the New Compilation of Agricultural Books

After the three aunts and the four concubine children visited the mistress, Fourth Master Song waved them down, and Mama Xu, who was beside his wife, arranged the courtyard for everyone.

Aunt He is a good concubine, and she gave birth to a pair of twins for Fourth Master Song. Although Xu's mother doesn't like this Aunt He, she will definitely show her face and arrange her in Nanxiang Pavilion, except for the location of the courtyard. The main house and the front yard are far away, but the rest are excellent.

And Aunt Chun and Aunt Qiu are still slaves, belonging to concubines, so Mother Xu arranged for them in Cuizhuyuan, which is quite close to the main house, but the place is cramped, and it is a little better than the place where the maidservants live. .

Song Quan is Fourth Master Song's confidant. He glanced at Song Qingyue, who was expressionless and went back to the house with Aunt Chun, touched his nose with some headaches, and turned away calmly. Since the master didn't speak, he was not good at it. It is suggested that if there is any arrangement, it will probably wait a few days.

After Fourth Master Song settled down, Mrs. Liang took the bath and changed his clothes, and then took the four descendants to the Song family's descendants to meet the old man and the old lady.

When Aunt He heard that Fourth Master Song only led his wife and four descendants to visit the Song family's direct branch, she became anxious. She was not feeling well at all, and with a pale complexion, she held Nanny Qin's hand and asked, "But Chen Xing is also the son of the master! He can't, the bastard doesn't care about it, right?"

Nanny Qin patted the back of Aunt He's hand reassuringly: "I think our master has his own arrangements, so don't worry, Auntie."

"How can you not be in a hurry! Chen Xing is also at the age of enlightenment. Before coming, Mother specially sent someone to remind me that if she enters Beijing, she will try her best to arrange for Chen Xing to study in the Song family. In terms of money, our He family is not short of money. , if Chen Xing can be cultivated, he can also help his grandfather in the future."

Nanny Qin can't get in on these things. She is familiar with the fights in the inner house, but she doesn't know about the men in the outer courtyard. Things are indeed worrying.

Mrs. He's willingness to give her daughter-in-law to Fourth Master Song as a concubine was because of the Song family's background. It is so difficult for a Lingnan merchant to cultivate an outstanding scholar. All of them should be burnt with high incense.

You remember that before Aunt He got married, a cousin of hers who was nearly [-] years old passed the imperial examinations. Three or four generations of elders in the whole family gave the master Juren a big red seal. There are no Jinshi yet.

It's not like the Song family. When she first married Fourth Master Song, Aunt He was surprised that the little Sis around Fourth Master Song and the housekeepers in the backyard could write and count.

"Eh."

With a sigh, Aunt He asked Nanny Qin to serve her to rest. She had a severe headache and her stomach was extremely uncomfortable.

Seeing this, Nanny Qin wanted to go out and find a doctor to come over to show Aunt He, but Aunt He stopped her.

She looked at Nanny Qin and shook her head, panting for a long time before saying: "We'll talk about it when Master comes back."

Nanny Qin understood immediately, but she couldn't help feeling aggrieved for her own girl, her eyes turned red.

She watched He Xiner grow up, and in the He family, she was also a daughter of the daughter of a thousand and one pampered daughters, but she had to live so cautiously when she became a concubine in the Song family!
The master and servant planned well, this trick was tried and tested in Guangzhou, whenever she was unwell, Fourth Master Song would come over to see her in person no matter how busy he was.

However, the people on Madam's side were not vegetarians either. Not long after Aunt He lay down, Mother Xu who was beside Madam brought the doctor.This doctor is a live-in doctor supported by the direct branch of the Song family. His medical skills are not very good, but he is fast and able to handle emergencies.

"What's wrong with Aunt He? Just now in the living room, I noticed that her complexion is not good. No, Madam specially asked me to invite a doctor for her to have a look."

Nanny Qin said politely, "Mrs. Lao, I'm sorry."

Facing Nanny Qin, Mother Xu straightened her back, raised her chin slightly, and said with a smile, "It should be, after all, madam is the head mother of the family, and it is madam's responsibility to take good care of the women in the back house."

This is declaring sovereignty and warning.

Nanny Qin endured the unhappiness in her heart, bowed to Mother Xu, and thanked again: "Thank you Madam for worrying about my aunt."

After taking the pulse, Dr. Ma shook his head slightly at Mama Xu, and Mama Xu finally let go of her heart.

Then Doctor Ma prescribed a pair of medicines to soothe the nerves and invigorate qi, and said to Nanny Qin: "My aunt is tired from the boat and the car, and she is not acclimatized to the environment. She should rest more during this period. In addition, the diet should be light. The north is no better than the south." Moisturizing, drinking plenty of water is also good."

"Thank you, doctor." Aunt He thanked through the gauze curtain.

Doctor Ma waved his hand and went out with Mother Xu.Mother Xu sent her back to the Song family's direct branch mansion, gave her a purse of ten taels, thanked the lady in charge of the Song mansion over there, and stuffed her with two taels of silver.

The lady in charge of the Song family knew that Song Si was not well-off, and she didn't care about the amount of money. The two families were originally relatives, and Song Si was also a promising person. She was only about 32 years old and was already in the fourth rank. I have been working for six years, and I have made meritorious service in Lingnan before, and my future is limitless.

In the east wing of Cuiyuxuan, Song Qingyue took out a special homemade oil lamp with five lamp heads, each with a small oil storage tank under each lamp head, with a cotton core exposed, and a glass windshield on it. The difference is that Song Qingyue added a reflective lampshade made of white porcelain. When reading at night, the brightness is several times higher than that of ordinary oil lamps and candles.

With the brightness, the eyes are not so troubled, otherwise the eyes will be blind when reading with the candle oil lamp with the original brightness.

This oil lamp was designed by Song Qingyue. Fourth Master Song spent some money to find a craftsman to customize it. When making it, he made five lamps in total, one for Song Qingyue, one for Fourth Master Song himself, and three he planned to give away as gifts.

This lamp is not too expensive, but it is not cheap either. The glass alone is quite rare. After all, the raw materials for making glass are shipped from overseas, and there are probably only one or two craftsmen who can burn glass in the whole of Guangdong.

The quality of glass at this stage is still very poor, and the transparency is not high. Chinese people probably prefer porcelain.But Song Qingyue doesn’t think so. Glass is still an indispensable thing for the development of modern science. With glass, there are lenses, telescopes, and microscopes. The existence of glass, including the art theory of the Renaissance, should also be inseparable from the existence of glass.

I don't know where to start if I really want to set up a glass factory.

She supported her head and thought for a long time, as if she remembered where she had seen it before. The ancient Egyptians already knew how to burn glass, and glass was very popular in Europe and Persia.It would be great if I could inquire with the caravans on the front line in the northwest.

After making up her mind, she started reading again, looking for Chinese characters that she hadn't put in the comparison table of traditional and simplified Chinese.

She doesn't know what the purpose of this thing is. At this stage, it's just to kill boredom. There is no mobile phone and TV, so she has to find something for herself to do.

Aunt Chun was sitting by the bed embroidering, she had already yawned several times, but Song Qingyue didn't sleep, she didn't want to sleep either, she just wanted to be with her.

After a while, she couldn't sit still, and went to make a pot of light tea for Song Qingyue, and then went out to find the lady in charge, wanting to get some snacks for Song Qingyue.

"Auntie, don't be busy." Song Qingyue finally put down the book overwhelmed, "Why don't I teach Auntie how to read?"

"Read?" Chunhe shook his head again and again, "No, no, I can't read. Besides, women know so many words, what's the use of reading so many books, but you, when did you start to learn female celebrities?"

Forget it, Song Qingyue gave up, and only said: "I will be happy if I study hard."

Chunhe was stunned, as if aware of her daughter's dissatisfaction with her, her tone became cautious and aggrieved, and said, "Fourth Master...he hasn't seen me for a long time." Seeing that Song Qingyue completely ignored her, she again He began to sigh: "I have a hard life. I was sold as a slave by my parents when I was a child. This is my life. It's too late for the master to take care of his wife. I'm just a roommate. I shouldn't have any delusions..."

I started thinking about it again.

Chunhe is not very old. She was only 17 when she followed Song Si to Lingnan, and she is only 23 now. In addition, she probably suffered from malnutrition since she was a child, and her face was very tender. Song Qingyue lived to 29 in her previous life. After graduating with a Ph. Aunt Chun looks exactly like the big sister looking at the little sister, and she can't be regarded as the mother who gave birth to him.

In any case, she couldn't adjust her mentality into a real six-year-old doll.In her heart, she always felt that she was a bystander, an outsider, watching the joys and sorrows of the people around her with cold eyes.

"Song Siye likes women who can read and write." Song Qingyue made a point.

Chunhe's nagging was suddenly interrupted by Song Qingyue, she looked at the coldness and indifference in her six-year-old daughter's eyes, her heart throbbed again, her eyes were red, and she choked up and said, "But I'm just a housekeeper , Miss Madam is only studying, how can we study?"

what……

If you are so stubborn, you can't teach it, you can't teach it, forget it.

Compared with the group of concubines in the backyard, Song Qingyue was more emotionally inclined to the wife of the wife, and she even sympathized with Liang Shi more.

Forget about the concubine's house and the house, let's not mention it, she is still the house of the house.

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The mansion of the first branch of the Song family.

After Song Si visited the old matriarch, and several aunts, aunts, sister-in-laws, brothers and sisters, he had dinner with the Song family. The lobby uncle of the right deputy capital censor Xia Ya was also called to talk to Mrs. Song.

After coming out of Mrs. Song's study, Song Si's face was tense all the time, and as soon as he left the door of the Song Mansion, he finally couldn't hold back, and his face became ferocious.

Liang looked at him worriedly, wanted to open his mouth to comfort him but didn't know where to start.

Originally thought that I could have a good time with my husband tonight, but Fourth Master Song didn't feel so tender at all. He asked Mama Xu to serve his wife well, while he sat in the study for half the night.

Song Quan stood guard outside the study door, worried about his father, and also felt uncomfortable and unfair for him.

Early the next morning, Song Si took Liang's family to visit his father-in-law in Liang's mansion. As soon as he left, the Song family sent someone to send a message to Liang's family, inviting Liang Shilang to come over to the mansion for a talk. Avoid Song Jianming.

Song was surrounded by water, and after climbing into the carriage, he sat quietly for a long time, but the coachman and Song Quan didn't get any instructions for a long time, so they asked in a low voice, "Master, are we going back home?"

"Well, go back to the mansion. Song Quan, you go to Sun Shangshu's mansion in the household department and pass me the account post. I want to see Mr. Sun."

Three days later, the emperor announced that Song Jianming would enter the palace to report on his duties. There were also several bigwigs from the cabinet present.

This time, I mainly wanted to ask about the Japanese pirates along the coast. Now the imperial court is arguing endlessly about whether to ban the sea. Song Jianming had already prepared for this matter. He handed a booklet to the eunuch Yin next to the emperor, and said respectfully: "This book is also Lord Governor Shen hopes that the next official will present it to His Majesty."

The emperor opened the booklet, and his eyes became brighter the more he looked at it. The booklet mainly contained a series of statistical data, including the population of the whole of Guangdong, the area of ​​arable land, how many acres of it were mountainous land, and how many acres of flat land were good fields. In addition, they depended on fishing. The number of fishermen, the annual trade volume of sea goods between Guangdong and several other provinces, as well as the cargo throughput and trade quota of several major ports in Guangdong.

When looking at the total amount of Guangdong Province's annual maritime trade tariffs and commercial taxes, the emperor, who had already been inclined to implement a sea ban policy, hesitated again.

The military pressure in the north is increasing, the treasury is empty, and the warehouses of the household department are so empty that mice can run away. He originally thought that Lingnan was a remote area, and its importance was not worth mentioning compared to Jiangnan. There are so many taxes!
Why didn't anyone tell him?
He looked around at the seven ministers in the cabinet, and a burst of anger suddenly surged in his heart, but the emperor kept his face closed, and he gently closed the booklet, saying, "Ask Sun Weimin to come see me!"

The six yamen were not far from the cabinet, and within half a cup of tea, Sun Weimin, Minister of the Household Department, brought two servants and four principals, panting and followed the servants in.

Mr. Sun is in his early fifties this year, he is well maintained, his beard and hair are still completely black, and he doesn't look so old.

"I see your Majesty!"

"Sun Aiqing doesn't need to be too polite. I called you here today because I want to see the tax situation of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces."

Sun Weimin knew that Song Si was here today, and he had already prepared the materials of Guangdong Province, so he handed them over immediately, and asked for instructions: "The account books of Fujian and Zhejiang are still available, let me ask someone to go back and find them."

The emperor looked down at the account book, waved his hand, and signaled him to go quickly.

The account books presented by Sun Weimin are from ten years. It is obvious that in the six years since Song Jianming was transferred to Guangzhou, the tax revenue of the Guangzhou government has increased year by year. This year, it is [-]% more than when he first went to Guangzhou. Tax!
This is a capable minister!
Next, the emperor asked Song Jianming for a long time, and Song Jianming talked about how he grew corn, raised chickens, and raised pigs. If there were more chickens and pigs, there would be more chicken excrement and pig food, which were just used to fertilize the field. , the crops will grow better.

Song Jianming also summoned those planting experts to the government, and rewarded each of them with a sum of money and a silk banner of "model farmer". All priority will be given to "model farmers".

In addition, he also organized people to rewrite the "Qi Min Yao Shu" of the Five Dynasties and the "Four Seasons Compilation Yao" of the late Tang Dynasty in the colloquial vernacular commonly used by the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The planting methods of various varieties were recorded and written into a set of "Lingnan Collection of Dazhou Agronomy Essentials". Because most of the planting experience recorded in the book is applicable to the seasons and soil conditions in the Lingnan area, so the title of the book is added. "Lingnan compilation" three characters.

After compiling, Mr. Song printed hundreds of volumes at his own expense and distributed them to the villages and farms under his jurisdiction.

Of course, these are all ideas inspired by the precious girl Song Qingyue.

The emperor flipped through the "Great Zhou Agricultural Science Essentials Lingnan Edition" written in the vernacular of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and praised it greatly. Hearing that those silk banners and silver rewards were paid for by Mr. Song himself to the farmers, the Emperor was almost moved. Wanting to shed tears, I immediately asked Eunuch Yin to call some people from the Imperial Academy over. Since there is "Lingnan Edition of Agricultural Science Essentials", there should also be Jiangnan, South China, Northwest, and Northeast editions. Ah, isn't it in the Bashu area? Also need a separate edition?
Compilation of books, as well as agricultural books, is a matter of merit in the present age and benefit in the future!
The emperor glanced at the officials sitting there, and suddenly felt that the imperial court spent so much salary to support a group of wastes with corpses and vegetarian meals, and really wanted to take off their black hats!
Such a wonderful idea, why has no one thought of it for so many years?

Why can't there be more capable officials like Song Jianming?

However, the elders in the cabinet looked at Song Si with deep eyes, especially those who supported the sea ban, almost wanted to slap Song Jianming to death!

A little fly who doesn't know the so-called is simply overwhelmed!
(End of this chapter)