A trip starting from the courtyard

Chapter 603 You Can Make Up Your Own Reason
When he opened his eyes again, he looked at the window, it should be the next morning.

"No!"

The one who was busy with sanitation work in the living room hurriedly ran to the bed, "My lord, wake up."

"What time is it?"

"It's already time." (From 07:09 to [-]:[-] Beijing time)
Wipe, I slept for 12 hours at a time.

This medicine can definitely be used as a sleeping pill!

Another day, I have a chance to go to Imperial Physician Wu and ask for the prescription.

When Wang Lidong got up, he found that his head was no longer dizzy, but his body was still a little soft. It seemed that he would recover after a day of rest.

As expected of an imperial physician, the severe cold was completely cured in only 2 days.

The effect is almost the same as that of western medicine in later generations, but the taste really needs to be improved, and the side effects are also a bit serious.

After getting dressed and being served by Chunlai, after washing, he came to the living room, had breakfast, and asked the chief financial officer to report the details of his small treasury.

Chunlan immediately reported the figures calculated last night, "39856 taels of copper coins, 6523 taels of silver, 985 taels of gold, 16 shops, 2 workshops, 5 farms (3210 acres), and ancient jade wares."

"How much is gold, silver and copper coins? How much are other things worth?"

Chunlan said: "The total amount of cash is 72602 guan. The land property and shops add up to almost 56300 guan."

In today's market, gold and silver are precious metals with little circulation, and copper coins are the mainstream, of course, there is no problem in using them.

Exchange ratio, 1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 20 copper coins = 16000 copper coins.

And the purchasing power of consistent money is about 500 yuan in later generations.

Wang Lidong estimated that his private money was almost 6000 million.

Smack your lips!
Mother Qi threw tens of millions to him without batting an eye.

But thinking about the property of the entire Duke of Qi's mansion, I don't think it's surprising.

His cheap father is now the boss of the Yantie Division, and the banknotes passed by him in a year are about 1500 million guan, just a little sticky, that is tens of millions of guan.

Father Qi has been doing this job for ten years.

The entire government has been passed down for almost a hundred years.

It is estimated that the entire Duke of Qi's property is at least about 4000 million guan, which is about 200 billion in conversion.
The Duke of Qi's mansion was regarded as the top dignitary in the Song Dynasty, so they acquired such a small amount of assets, so they would not know how to exploit.

Look at others and Zhongtang. In a few decades, 11 billion taels of silver have been embezzled. According to the current exchange rate, it is 22 billion copper coins, 11 trillion four sea coins.
The difference is too big!
After Chunlan continued to report on the situation of the workshop and shop, Wang Lidong said: "Look for a tooth shop, find out if there is any government-run smelting workshop to sell recently, and buy a bigger herbal medicine shop. Finally Well it's nearby."

Chunlan nodded:
"Okay, son."

After resting for two more days, Wang Lidong, who was blushing and lively, reluctantly waved goodbye to the life in the pigsty, picked up the Four Books and Five Classics again, and studied stereotyped essays with a student who had been failing in the rankings all year round. article.

Within a week, the old gentleman found Qi's mother and told Wang Lidong that he had left his teacher and that he had nothing to teach.

Mother Qi didn't believe it at all.

The gentleman she invited, although he is a Juren, his level is not inferior to Jinshi. He is 50 years old and has not yet passed the Jinshi exam. The main reason is that when the little old man took the exam for the first time, he saw him in the dormitory diagonally opposite. A candidate was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. From then on, as soon as he entered the examination room, his hands and feet would sweat, his heart beat faster, and his head was buzzing with paste.
Thinking of the incident that his son reached out to ask for private money two days ago, Princess Pingning was furious, and the horizontal bar of anger floating on his forehead immediately filled up to MAX, dropped the small object in his hand, and rushed To Wang Lidong courtyard.

When he opened the door and entered the room, and saw his son holding a copy of Laoshizi Daojing, his eyebrows were raised.

Wang Lidong saw that his old lady was eating people, he quickly put down the scroll in his hand, and went forward,

"Mother, who is not long-sighted to make you so angry? Is it father?"

Qi's mother glared at her son with a hippie smile, "Heng'er, I heard that Mr. said that he has nothing to teach. Even if you take the provincial examination immediately, you will be sure of your success?"

Wang Lidong nodded with a smile.

His Chinese is LV4 level, not to mention juren, even if he takes the Jinshi examination immediately, he can get in the top three.

Princess Pingning was furious when she saw her son smiling.
"Puff puff!"

Loud farts filled the room.

The room suddenly became very quiet.

Seeing that the old lady's face was so dark that she was about to drip, her parents were in trouble, as a cheap son, how could she just stand by and watch, Wang Lidong reprimanded the one not far away who hung his head:
"No, I don't have any eyesight. Why are you standing there in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and order a cup of tea for your mother."

Buwei replied in a hurry, and ran out without hesitation.

What the hell!

Wang Lidong was a little speechless.

The tea set is in the closet. Damn it, where are you going now?
Mother Qi suddenly said:
"Chunlan, bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone!"

After Chunlan finished grinding the ink, Qi's mother wrote two test questions on a piece of paper to teach her son.

She stayed in the palace since she was a child. After she was six years old, she would go to Xinyitang (Gongxue) with a group of royal children to go to school every day. The teachers there were all top literati and Confucians.

With her level of self-confidence, if she ends up in the imperial examination, the Jinshi dare not say it, but the Juren is still somewhat sure.

Half an hour later, Princess Pingning looked at the test paper in his hand with a look of shock.

If she hadn't watched her son write the answers stroke by stroke with her own eyes, she wouldn't believe that Wang Lidong wrote the test paper even if she was killed.

The standard of the article is so high, don't say it is an example, just let a Jinshi write it, that's all
Moreover, the handwriting on the paper is round and smooth, beautiful and vigorous, with smooth and mellow strokes, which can be described as "the number one scholar in calligraphy, a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation".

"Heng'er, when did your handwriting become so good?"

Wang Lidong replied solemnly: "Mother, after my son recovered from his illness, he found that his calligraphy has improved a lot. Is there a reason?"
Make up your own mind why.

He believed that Qi's mother or Qi's father would help him find a suitable reason, which was more credible than his own.

The same goes for studies, anyway, I had a high fever for half a month. Everything is possible!
Moreover, in the Northern Song Dynasty, child prodigies were not uncommon, such as Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Fang Zhongyong. One of today's ministers, Yan Shu, was 7 years old and was recommended by local officials for being a "prodigy" at the age of 14. He directly crossed counties, provinces and other places. Examination, participated in the palace examination with more than a thousand candidates in the mid-term examination of the year, and was awarded the title of Tong Jinshi by Song Zhenzong because of his quick answers, and awarded the official secretary provincial Zhengzi.

However, these people are still within the scope of normal people. The most powerful one, the child prodigy Cai Boyu, was only 3 years old when he became a Jinshi. He became an official at the age of 3 and finally retired at the age of 83.

Looking at Qi's mother who was surprised but lost in thought, he knew that this person should be trying to figure it out. Wang Lidong secretly gave a thumbs up and gave himself a thumbs up.

"Heng'er," just as Wang Lidong was enjoying himself, his husband, the little old man Zhang Han, smiled and handed over a question, asking him to help correct it.

Wang Lidong's forehead was a little dark.

Come to take advantage of yourself again.

In the past few days, the little old man would take a written policy question every day and ask him to help him read it.

He remembered that Qi's mother paid as much as 50 yuan a month for tuition in order to invite this man to be his teacher.

The current fourth-rank officials of the imperial court have a monthly salary of only 55 guan.

(End of this chapter)