Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1330 Helpless
The second thing he did here was to inquire about the situation in Fangcaodi, and then consider whether to send his son to Lingao for school.Song Zongmao is not very prosperous in terms of heirs, he only has two sons.The eldest son failed to study, and he has been a child since he could not go to school, so he had to help him run the family business at home.The second son is 14 years old and has studied in a private school for several years. However, the imperial examination in Chengmai is similar to that in Lingao, and the possibility of getting ahead by studying is very low. Regardless of Da Ming's fame, he thought of using his son as a "proton" to please the Australians and strengthen his status in the county—it is said that the County Counseling Bureau will be re-elected soon, and he might be able to pick the Australians. superior.

Song Zongmao, according to the most simple thinking of Wangba, believes that the Australians are now gathering people's hearts. As long as he sends the child to Fangcaodi, he is determined to be on the Australian boat, and the Australians will definitely treat him. Look at it differently-you must know that even if you are a big soldier for an Australian, your family members are superior to others in the county and have preferential treatment.

Huang Shoutong didn't know much about Fangcaodi. He only knew that Huang Ping's eyes were wide open after going to Fangcaodi. He did learn a lot about Australians, but he didn't know what the school was like.Immediately, the caretaker invited Master Huang Er, who had just returned from Fangcaodi, to talk about it.

Huang Bingkun was eavesdropping on the conversation between the two, but now that he heard that he was being invited, he quickly slipped out from behind the screen and returned to the yard, pretending that he had just arrived.

Huang Bingkun had a hard time answering the question about Fangcaodi—it’s not okay to be obsessed with it. My father also asked Huang Ping several times, and he knew something about Fangcaodi, but he said yes because he was full of dissatisfaction. The Australian culture and school spirit of the Australian professors in Fangcaodi are also criticized.

Not enough, judging from what the master of the Song family showed just now, even if the grassland is a fire pit, he is ready to ask the child to jump.

Huang Bingkun had no choice but to make a big fuss about the style of study. Australian knowledge is useful, which is already a consensus of many people, and Master Song's original intention is to "conquer the truth with protons". From this point of view, he doesn't care what is taught in the school.

However, this kind of local rich man is the most important "family tradition", and he is most afraid of his children learning bad things outside-the primitive accumulation in ancient society is very difficult, and if he wants to accumulate, he must desperately reduce daily expenses. The land property of many rural rich men is Bit by bit, it is not easy to accumulate several generations of penny for penny, and catty of grain for every catty of grain. If a prodigal son is born, years of hard work will be ruined.

Huang Ping was pulled out as a typical example. As for the female students with very short skirts, it was just an insult to the rhetoric.

Sure enough, after saying these words, Mr. Song showed a troubled expression on his face.The masters of the Huang family had no choice but to remain silent. They all uphold the concept of "virtue outweighs talent", and they are most afraid of their children learning from others.Now hearing the second young master of the Huang family say that Fangcaodi is such an "immoral" place, I can't help but hesitate.

Master Song thought over and over again, and asked many things about the school's board, lodging and study conditions.Hearing that thirty people slept in one room and thousands of people ate together, the look of hesitation on his face became more and more intense.After that, I never mentioned the matter of going to Fangcaodi to study.After a while, he resigned and went back to his room to rest.

Huang Bingkun was secretly proud of himself: Finally, another good family member was saved from falling into the clutches of the Australians—this Australia seems to be drugged, and once they enter that school, everyone's temperament will change drastically.Seeing that Mr. Song had already left, he brought up the "business" to his father, complaining about why he had laid off the regiment and entrusted so much land and tenants to Tiandihui.

"...Father, you are so confused. The reason why our Huang family has always been the "pillar" of Lingao is not because of this bravery? Now you keep contracting out the land, and Tuanyong is abolished. This is not self-judgment Minions? From now on, won’t our house be rounded, flattened and rubbed at will by thieves?”

Huang Shoutong looked at his son who was very excited. He understood the son's sense of loss very well - the young master of the Huang family focused on reading since he was a child, and was not interested in dancing spears and sticks. He has always helped the family with the family business.On weekdays, the second son accompanied him to practice and lead bravery.Over the years, he has also contributed a lot to the county, and he can be called a young talent with both civil and military skills.

Ever since the conflict between the county and the Kun bandits failed, the Kun bandits' forces gradually infiltrated Lingao, and the status of the Huang family plummeted. Apart from the proud Xiangyong who took him out to fight a few small-scale battles when suppressing the bandits, They have already been reduced to migrant workers expropriated by the establishment system.The influence of the Huang family in the county has been declining, and now it is no different from the general gentry in the county. Although he is a member of the county capital bureau, he is not as loud as the Liu family and the Zhang family who joined him in time. It is that Li Sungan's family, who is more active than the same period, is far behind.

Not to mention that his third son was killed in the war with the Kun bandits. The Huang family did not let go of this knot, and it is impossible to let go.

"Bingkun!" Huang Shoutong said in a low voice, "Do you think that with these hundreds of heroes, the Australians can't squeeze us into rounds?!"

Huang Bingkun was speechless for a moment, speechless.

"Tens of thousands of imperial troops were wiped out in one day. Don't you think that the Huangjiazhai can continue to this day because the thieves are afraid of a few hundred townsmen in this area?! I think you are confused!"

"Yes——" Huang Bingkun replied dejectedly, but he was not convinced, and said again: "After all, the Kun thief has a shallow foundation. Now you have joined the Tiandihui of Lao Shizi. When the imperial court kills you, we are gang thieves." ah."

"The imperial court?" Huang Shoutong smiled wryly, "You still expect the imperial court to come back? If the imperial court lost the year before last, it would never come back. Now that the imperial court is too busy to take care of itself, how can it care about us, a small border town thousands of miles away? County? The Australians are going to break the ground and seal the border on Hainan Island. Mr. Liu told me last time that Da Ming might be dying of illness. Your father and I are not very educated, so I can’t see whether Da Ming is really going to die, but Da Ming’s Qiongzhou The mansion is definitely going to end! Our family doesn't want to be a dignitary in the new dynasty, and we can't follow the Ming Dynasty to die together!"

He knew that the second young master had been playing tricks against the Australians in private, and he was always worried about it--for fear that one day the Australians made a list, and the Huangjiazhai would be the second in Goujiazhuang.

It is no pity that the Gou family is destroyed, but the viciousness of the Australians to "destroy the food" made him secretly startled.If it really comes to this point, there will be no scum left in the Huang family - just like the current Gou family village, there is no trace left.

"...I know you can't let go of your third brother, but the third brother is dead, and the Huang family will continue..." At this point, Huang Shoutong was already in tears. The young master also cried out.The two hugged each other and cried.

After crying, Huang Shoutong made another important decision. He decided to send one of his eldest brother's children to study in Fangcaodi.Huang Bingkun knew that this was an act of "losing sincerity" by his father, and no matter how unwilling he was, he could not object.After all, the continuation of the family is the most important thing compared to the individual.

"But we've lost money by hiring out these dozens of tenants—they will become Australians in the future. You always know that what is valuable here is not the land, but the people."

"How can Zhuangzi afford to support so many tenants now?" Huang Shoutong showed a trace of bitterness on his face, "These dozens of households were half-starved on our land, so we can't help that their tenants have starved to death long ago. That's why we are willing to work hard. Besides, we men have contributed a lot to the county in the past, and the masters in the county who pay the imperial grain and national tax have turned a blind eye, and this has been able to maintain until now."

Huangjiazhai's current difficult economic situation can no longer tolerate what they have done in the past.In the past, although Huangjiazhai spent a lot of manpower and material resources to run the regiment and maintain a regiment of bravery that was not commensurate with the size of the village, it was relying on the help of nearby villages to "cooperate with the salary", and the government needed to use it. When it comes to them, they always have to give some benefits, so that they can be maintained forever.Now all these sources of income have been cut off, and if we run a group again, we will have to stick to our family’s capital.

In the past, running a regiment not only protected the environment and the people, but also had a little surplus in a year. Now let alone the surplus, they can't even pay the maintenance fee. If they can barely maintain it, the final fate of the Huang family is to go bankrupt and sell the land——Kun thief can Just waiting for this day, so Director Xiong never insisted that the villages abolish the regiments, but directly turned them into militias.But in terms of use, the militiamen of each village have to run "support missions" for the county. Although they don't need to bring their own rations, it is also a burden on the village to take away a large number of young and middle-aged people every time.As a result, the larger the size of the villages, the greater the burden of support. The villages abolished the regiments one after another just because of changes in the social environment and were forced by economic pressure, and replaced them with much smaller village soldiers.

"Can't we open up wasteland like the Australians..."

"Where are the seeds? What about the cattle?" Huang Shoutong said helplessly, "It's not that we have never opened up wasteland. But with the manpower and material resources in our village, we can't repair canals or change the water and soil. The land we open up is Susukida. If we can't get the world, we will Aren’t the seeds and fertilizers the same as before, what’s the use?”

Huang Bingkun was helpless, he knew what his father said was right, the land in his own hands was dirt, but in the hands of the Australians it was gold.

However, Huang Bingkun's mentality of fighting against the Kun bandits has not changed. He is not reconciled to Qiongzhou slowly turning into a new Australia, so he decides to lie dormant for the time being, waiting for new opportunities - there is no longer anyone on Hainan Island who can fight against the Kun bandits. The only way to find the power of thieves is to go to the mainland to find it.

(End of this chapter)