New Shun 1730

Some people may be able to afford a nice set of clothes, but they may not be able to afford a nice horse.

Especially the horse that Liu Yu was leading, with very high shoulders, obviously a top-grade horse, fat and strong.

The people following behind also had arrogant expressions on their faces. Although they were all wearing common people's clothes, it can be seen that speaking human words and ghost words is also a basic skill for adults.

Liu Yu sang a nod, thinking about the names of the randomly selected failed students, and asked: "Excuse me, is Chen Qinghai from here?"

The name is very characteristic of the times. It should be that the father had just finished fighting in Qinghai and gave his son such a name.

Calculating the time, it is about the same. It should be the battle to recapture Qinghai when Liu Yu was born.

This Chen Qinghai is a failed student.

His knowledge of geometry and surveying is still good, but the others are a little worse. The competition is too fierce, and there are only so many places, so he has no chance to enter the Wude Palace.

There is no chance to "retake" in the camp school. If you fail the exam, you will not be admitted. In order to prevent people from taking advantage of loopholes, there are also rigid age regulations.

If you can study in the upper dormitory of the camp school, you are considered a talent.

Sure enough, this person is still very famous in the village. When Liu Yu asked, the person pointed to a house in the distance and said, "The fifth house to the north, the one with no couplets on the door and a persimmon tree. What is this?"

Listening to Liu Yu and others' Beijing accent with Shaanxi flavor, this person dared not be underestimated.

"Oh, nothing, just come to see. Thank you."

After bowing, several people came to the house pointed out without paying attention to the people in the village pointing and talking behind them.

The persimmon tree inside was hung with red fruits, like lanterns. At the intersection outside the street, there were ashes from burning paper money, and there was no couplet on the door.

The door was ajar, and there was a big dog in the yard.

After knocking on the doorknob, a dog barked and barked to inform its owner.

Soon, a shout came from inside.

"Stop barking! Heizi, go into the den and be quiet."

Then a sturdy young man came out. He was startled when he saw Liu Yu and others, and asked with a bow: "Who are you looking for?"

Liu Yu also bowed.

"I'm from Beijing. May I ask if it's Chen Qinghai?"

Hearing that he was from Beijing, Chen Qinghai was ecstatic and thought to himself: "Could it be that someone cheated and it's my turn to enter the Wude Palace?"

He couldn't ask directly, so he hurriedly said: "It's me. Please come in, please come in."

He opened the door, scolded the loyal black dog twice, and went into the house with Liu Yu and others.

The house was quite spacious. Chen Qinghai shouted, and a woman who was also about seventeen or eighteen years old came out from inside.

Without too much shyness, he bowed to Liu Yu and others, quickly cleared a small table, took a pot and went outside to boil water.

An old man who looked to be in his fifties came out from the next room, with one arm broken, and asked: "Qinghai, who's here?"

"Dad, from the capital."

"Ouch..."

When the old man heard it, he moved into the inner room, and heard a clanging sound of bottles and cans. Soon he took out a small paper bag and shouted: "Second brother, make this tea. I haven't been willing to drink the New Year's reward yet."

After shouting twice, the woman outside responded, and the old man asked: "What's the matter with you all?"

"Oh, nothing, good things. Old man, please sit down."

After saying a few words of gossip, Liu Yu winked at Mantou, and Mantou took out a paper.

"Do you have a pen at home?"

Chen Qinghai saw a paper and thought his guess was right, so he said, "Yes, yes."

He hurriedly took it out. Liu Yu handed him the paper and said with a smile, "It's a small matter. Please answer this paper. It will take half an hour. You answer yours, and we will accompany the old man to drink tea for an hour."

After that, he took out a pocket watch, looked at the time, and said nothing.

Chen Qinghai had been in the military school for many years, and he was already familiar with the examination. Although he didn't know the other party's identity, he had a guess in his heart. Seeing the expensive pocket watch at this time, his heart was more confirmed.

"Dad, accompany these people to drink tea."

After giving the order, he hurriedly picked up the pen and looked at the handwritten paper in front of him, and couldn't help being a little surprised.

The questions were all about geometry and arithmetic, and some astronomical knowledge. The difficulty was slightly greater than the entrance examination of Wude Palace.

However, these studies were exactly what he was good at, and he had an idea in his mind, so he quickly picked up the pen and wrote, his mind was free from other things.

In the main hall, Liu Yu asked the old man with a broken arm to take the main seat, and he accompanied him, while the others stood behind him.

The old man had also been in the army for more than ten years, and when he saw the demeanor of those people standing behind him, how could he not know that these people were from the army?

Since he was from the capital, he only wanted good things in his heart.

"How old are you, old man?"

"Hey, I can't say how old you are. I'm only 44. I broke my hand in the northwest, and I've been blowing sand for seven or eight years, so I look old."

"Oh, so you're an old hero. Qinghai is the second oldest, and what about the oldest?"

"He's gone. He was from the fifth battalion, and when he had a male child, he had to think about the day he would die. He died in the north last year. He left behind a grandson, who is now of school age and is studying in the camp school. The eldest son teaches the girls in the camp school to read."

When the old man talked about his dead son, his tone seemed calm, but he couldn't hide his sadness. He felt a little relieved when he mentioned his grandson.

"The third and fourth children are still young and are not good at studying. They have been helping the family in the past few years. When they get older, they will have to go out."

Liu Yu heard that the old man said that there was a third and fourth child in the family, so he asked: "When the third and fourth child grow up, can they be the sons of the fifth and fourth children of a good family?"

"Yes, as long as my grandson is qualified, Yongye Field will still belong to the boss's family. In addition to Yongye Field, there are also some properties outside. When the time comes, the second, third and fourth brothers will get a share. The second brother will get it. If you go to the camp school, you can become a teacher in the camp school in the future, and you will still have military status. Even if you become a soldier, you will not be a good family son, and the court will not have Yongye Tian in these years. There is no more official land.”

This military status is very different from the military households in the previous dynasty. Although many people died in battle, every family is competing for this military status.

With military membership, there is no need to pay taxes or perform labor service, and the children and grandchildren can enjoy the benefits of studying in the camp. If you are lucky, you can soar into the sky and become a Dragon Guard in the Forbidden City.

Even if you can't do it, being able to enter the Wude Palace is much easier than taking the imperial examination. The population base is here.

Liu Yu was also curious and asked: "Old man, are you busy with the work at home?"

"Hey, what's not to do? I broke my hand and my boss is gone in Nenjiang. When the farming is busy, the young people in the village come to help. We also have big livestock, and we usually hire three or two long-term workers. How can I be too busy? I still have a fortune and five taels of silver a year, so I can get by."

After thinking about it, if there are big animals, the work in the field will be really busy.

As long as he can give birth to a son and hold the military status of a good family son, he can at least ensure the life of a wealthy farmer and can hire long-term workers.

Chen Qinghai is the second eldest brother. His eldest brother has died in the war. He has no share in the military membership, unless his eldest brother's child dies...

But as long as the old man is still here, this kind of thing should not happen. Forcing the sister-in-law to jump into a well to die as a martyrdom and then killing the nephew is probably not allowed in the Laowu Camp... The woman's family is also a good family in the Laowu Camp. You can go directly to Baoding Prefecture to play the drum.

However, Chen Qinghai was admitted to the Yingxue Shangsha. Although he was not admitted to the Wude Palace, he could still retain his military status.

As a teacher in the camp school, each village community has a special teaching field. The next generation can also get Yongye field, and the imperial court should be able to use this land.

The third and fourth children were a bit miserable.

If he had been born thirty or forty years earlier, when there were still many official fields, and had qualified martial arts, he would probably be able to become a son of a good family with military status.

However, nowadays there is no free land in the world. They must either immigrate to Liaodong, Hetao and other places; or they must join the army and gain military merit and gain a good family status by virtue of their service; or they can only become citizens.

Yongye field belongs to the imperial court, and the father is not eligible to share it, so he can only get a share of the rest of the family property.

If the elder's children are gone, or if they fail the examination and cannot enlist in the army, then the third or fourth eldest son will be the successor. Once the second child starts teaching formally, it means the family is separated.

Different from the equal share inheritance method for ordinary people, these good family members of the Old Fifth Battalion still inherit aristocratic titles, mainly inheriting their military status. Although the title of this aristocrat is too small to be smaller, it will soon catch up with the "common people" during the Han Dynasty. Although he is a knight, it is a special status after all.

For this military status, one can only study and practice hard. At the very least, one must pass the test before he can inherit the military status. As the basic foundation of the royal family, this management is still very strict.

Liu Yu secretly wrote down these details, and then asked: "Old man, since you have military status, your sons are eligible to enter the camp, right?"

"Yes. I have military status. Even if my eldest son inherits military status, my son is still my son and can study in the camp. But this is not necessarily the case for my grandson. If the father is from a good family, his son can study in the camp; If you are not a father, then you cannot. The grandchildren are not among them."

"Studying in a camp...well, there is something for one year, right?"

"The things in the camp are not worth much. A few stacks of paper and a few feet of cotton. The main thing is that I can learn to read and write, do arithmetic, and not be blind in the future. If you are lucky, you will be admitted to Wuhan. Virtue Palace, that is the right path.”

"Can girls also enter school?"

"Girls have a girl's school. They can't enter the school. They can only learn some literacy and arithmetic. When they have babies in the future, they can teach them how to read since they were young. Female teachers teach female babies how to read and count. Do the math, I have five or six coins and thirty kilograms of rice a month to support myself."

"Hmm. Then what should we do if we have no property outside the family, except for Yongye Field, and we have many sons, but we can't pass the exam?"

"What should I do? Become a soldier. Even if you don't have a good family, you can be a soldier. You will have some money a month, but you won't starve to death. If you are really going to starve to death, you can also immigrate to Liaodong, Mongolia, or Hetao. The imperial court People are sent to ask every year, but not many people go. But when the day comes that I will starve to death, I have no choice but to go.”

After asking a few more questions, the so-called "good tea" in the pot lost its taste.

It may be because of the broken hand and the lowest first-level honors, and there are some rewards every New Year, but the grade of the tea is also a bit inferior, and it may have been passed on.

This time, Liu Yu mainly asked about the life details of the good family in Lao Wuying.

After thinking about it, I want people to rush to apply...

The prerequisite is that the treatment should be high.

The main reason is that even the failed students of the Butoku Palace are guaranteed by their military status. In the village community, there is a teaching field. When I go to Liugong Island, my wife and children have to follow me... I can't get on the boat by myself and let my wife and children stay at home and tie their necks like cormorants.

"Old man, if you are a teacher in a camp school in Qinghai and have military status, not to mention the teaching fields in each village, how much silver will you be paid per month?"

"Well, being a teacher is the same as joining the child army. Two taels of silver per month. There is also food and rice during the New Year."

I roughly calculated in my mind that at least 40 taels of silver would be paid for the whole year.

If it is less, no one will go.

The main reason is that the navy is just emerging and the future is uncertain. Who knows if this thing has a future? If there is no future and the payment is small, it is better to be a teacher in the village camp school.

In addition, their permanent fields must be guaranteed to be temporarily handed over to the rest of the village to cultivate, but they will have to be returned in the future.

And they must also ensure that the children of these people are enrolled in school and the level of enrollment is not lower than that of the village camp school.

According to the first batch of trainee officers and trainee non-commissioned officers, 300 people, they must be prepared to pay at least 20,000 taels of silver a year.

After becoming a regular employee in the future, the salary must be improved, otherwise who will work hard? Talking about feelings is nonsense. The salary will be doubled if you become a regular employee, and even higher if you become a captain.

As for the sailors... those who cannot enter the various camp schools must be of high quality, and at least they can read and write.

But the high-quality ones are too expensive, and Dashun cannot afford such a high-quality navy, at least not for the time being.

Liu Yu thought about it and decided to wait for floods and droughts to catch sailors from the victims. If he gave them a steamed bun and one or two taels of silver a month, he should be able to catch a lot.