After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Both of them felt a little embarrassed.

The crowd fell silent after hearing the words.

In the past, the Zheng family had indeed done a lot of unscrupulous things.

After a while, Mrs. Zheng invited the young man up suddenly, and knelt down in front of him: "What happened before was indeed that I was sorry for your mother and son, and I apologized to you."

The crowd was shocked when they saw this: Mr. Zheng, who used to be aloof, actually kowtowed to the untouchables to apologize?

It seems that the Zheng family really wants to be a good person.

"The enmity between parents is not the same, I can't be magnanimous." The young man insisted on not accepting it and left angrily.Seeing this, the crowd sighed with emotion: Among all the old landlords and old fortunes, Mr. Zheng is already considered relatively benevolent.

Now there is the courage to admit mistakes, less than most gentry.

All these evil results were caused by the previous era.

Mr. Qin leads a new era in which landlords and gentry cannot exploit common people.

"The Patriarch of the Zhao Family, the Patriarch of the Cheng Family, please see me!" At this time, a member of the Zheng Family came to report.Mrs. Zheng looked back, and saw two merchant-like people walking over.

The Zhao family and the Cheng family?
Mrs. Zheng's heart skipped a beat.These two are not old aristocratic families, but newly grown wealthy merchants.The two mastered the local coal mining business and made a lot of money.

After the person came over, he also presented a generous gift to the Zheng family, and said a lot of polite words to bless the new couple.

After that, the Patriarch of the Zhao family went straight to the point: "Coal in Shanxi is a profitable business now. The Zheng family didn't catch up with the first spring breeze because they held their own status as scholars..."

"For the sake of the fact that the Zheng family is now a distant relative of Mr. Zheng, and that the Zheng family has indeed repented. After discussion, the two of us decided to let your Zheng family operate one of the three large coal mines."

"In the future, the Zheng family will not have to rely on rent collection, but rely on selling coal to maintain the family's operations." The head of the Cheng family said, "To be honest, the daily revenue of our coal mines exceeds your previous year's rent. .”

"The Zheng family used to rely on rent collectors to oppress the tenant farmers. How much money can the rent collectors make?" The head of the Zhao family said with a grand expression, "Not only does he earn little money, but he also easily commits numerous crimes and offends the villagers. ,"

"What's the trouble?"

Is the income from operating the coal mine for one day worth the rent of the Zheng family for one year?Mrs. Zheng was shocked when he heard the words.

As an ancient antique scholar, he couldn't imagine it at all.After the imperial court supports the behavior of merchants, the benefits brought to people are so considerable and terrifying!
The Zheng family used to have 3000 mu of fertile land, all of which were leased to tenant farmers for farming.No matter how high the tenant’s rent is, and regardless of the life and death of the tenant, he can only earn [-] taels of silver a year.

And they operate coal mines, earning more than 3000 taels a day!

The little money earned from producing food from the land is not even comparable to the small cows in the coal business!The yield of using land to grow food is not high, and if there is a famine, the income will be even smaller.

The coal mines in the mainland are so profitable, not to mention the business with overseas.

No wonder the Ming Dynasty is so rich and powerful now!
The emperor can send money to the people.

"It seems that the Zheng family really needs to change their outdated concepts. Using the old methods to make money, not only makes a pitiful amount of money, but also easily offends all the people and commits numerous crimes. It is the opposite of doing good deeds—— Doing a lot of evil. Consuming the blessings of the entire family." Mrs. Zheng thought to himself.

Before that, he thought that if Qin Yu was overthrown and the feudal aristocracy returned to the previous state of relying on rent collection to oppress the people, the feudal aristocracy would be able to grow and develop.

It now appears that this idea was a big mistake!

The rent collected by the Zheng family in a year is not even comparable to the family's daily income.

If Qin Yu hadn't suddenly become his grandson-in-law, he would have continued to maintain this concept.After knowing the income gap between each other, Mrs. Zheng changed his mind completely.

Even if Qin Yu is not his grandson-in-law, their families and aristocratic families should consider transformation.Instead of being confined to the old thinking of the past, to hate Qin Yu and try to move to him.

Living by oppressing people, you can only be a master in a poor and backward place.And earning money by doing business is to enable the family to embark on a more glorious and bright road.

Wouldn't it be nice to keep up with the reforms of the Ming Dynasty and earn hundreds of times more money than rent?
That is the true and correct path for the family!
Because of the transformation to make money, not only will you earn more, but you will not create bad karma.

At the same time, he also understood how amazing his grandson-in-law Qin Yu was.

The world is so big, besides him, who else has the kind of vision to see that the Daxing merchants can make a lot of money?So much benefit and no harm?
Qin Yu's measures can be said to benefit everyone.The imperial court, the common people, and even their aristocratic families.If their minds can keep up with the pace.

It's a pity that many gentry families nowadays have very low vision.

Most of them still regard Qin Yu as the enemy of life and death.They are still thinking about returning to the past, continuing to exploit the tenants, and becoming masters in backward areas.

"Thank you! Thank you two Patriarchs!" Master Zheng became excited.The Zheng family was worried that there was no way to make money to maintain the family's operations, so they offered to give it to him?

"We are also looking at the face of Mr. Cheng." The two Patriarchs Cheng and Zhao said, "If it weren't for Mr., who would care about your Zheng family?"

"Even a mine can send you?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Old Mr. Zheng said, "The Zheng family will definitely let the granddaughter serve the master well."

She is a princess, can you talk to her as a foreign relative?The two Patriarchs secretly said in their hearts.But he didn't show it, and after explaining something, he turned and left.

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After letting the congratulatory crowd leave, the Zheng family father and son dragged their tired bodies back to the back hall.

"Mr. Qin's face is really big enough!" Seeing the congratulatory gifts piled up in the yard, as well as the Wanmin Book and Wanmin Umbrella, Young Master Zheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said.

"And these Wanmin Books and Wanmin Umbrellas are all sent by the people themselves."

"In the past, some resigned county magistrates received Wanmin Letters and Wanmin Umbrellas, all of which were fake. It was all a face project done by the local gentry, because the people at the bottom didn't even know a single big character, so how could they write so many words? Signature? Those magistrates who are loved by the people are actually loved by the local gentry."

"Yes!" Grandpa Zheng sighed, and raised the Wanmin Umbrella and spread it out, "This Wanmin Umbrella can be said to be the first real Wanmin Umbrella in history."

"They all came here by themselves, not by the powerful gentry who asked someone to pretend."

"Look at the writing on the umbrella, a lot of it is crooked, it looks like it was really written by the people at the bottom."

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