Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 144.

The imperial examination system quickly spread throughout the country, not only causing a big storm in Wang Hao's territory, but also other princes knew about it.

Huang Zhen: "Uncle, did Da Sima really say that?"

Huang Zu: "This matter is a foregone conclusion, really, you'd better not be stupid..."

Huang Zhen: "But in this way, wouldn't our Huang family..."

Huang Zu: "So what? This matter was an order given by Grand Sima himself. The person in charge of the new law is Hu Che'er. As the commander of Grand Sima's guard, Hu Che'er has won the trust of Grand Sima... ..."

The Huang family is one of the largest and most powerful families in Jingzhou. Many civil servants and generals in Jingzhou come from the Huang family.

Wang Hao established the academy, which dealt a great blow to the aristocratic families in Jingzhou, especially the Huang family, a local family.

Although the talents cultivated by the academy can quickly enter Wang Hao's command, they are just some small officials and have not touched the core class.

There are only nine academies in Jingzhou, which can only tolerate tens of thousands of people. For Jingzhou, which has a population of tens of millions, if you want to enter the academies, you have to go through layers of screening before you can enter.

The Huang family had Huang Zhong as a great general, and now Huang Zu was heavily relied on by Wang Hao. It could be said that the Huang family was about to rise steadily, and the number of referrals for the academy would naturally be indispensable to the Huang family.

But Wang Hao suddenly promulgated an imperial examination system, which was definitely a huge blow to the Huang family. In the past, they could monopolize the number of places in the academy, send their own family's juniors to the academy, and they could also introduce some poor students to join the Huang family.

Now they can also be sent to the academy, but it is no longer the same as in the past. Entering the academy means that the future is bright, because the final decision rests with the high-level, and Wang Hao needs to nod to enter the core.

But if Wang Hao wanted to hold the imperial examination, he had to set up academies in various states and counties. In the future, those who could study would also hide, and entering the academies would not be as difficult as before.

Huang Zeng: "Young master, recently many farmers have asked for a refund of their money..."

Huang Zhen: "It's really hard to eat, a group of untouchables dare to come to Huang's mansion!"

Huang Zeng: "Why don't the villains ask the guardians to drive them all out, lest they don't know who is in charge of this Wuling County..."

Huang Zhen: "Not for the time being, how much money I owed them before, just return it to them..."

Huang Zeng: "However, the money in the treasury has long been taken away by the young lady..."

Huang Zhen: "How about this, go and see how much money is left in the treasury, and pay them back part of it first, as for the rest, let's talk about it in a few days, and I will naturally return them..."

When Liu Biao was forced to leave Jingzhou, Wenpin and Huang Zu chose to stay. After Wang Hao captured Jingzhou, Wenpin chose to serve Wang Hao, but Huang Zu was unwilling to work for Wang Hao because of his disagreement with Huang Zhong.

Although Huang Zu did not serve Wang Hao, Huang Zhong and Huang Zu were brothers of the same clan. When Huang Zu was imprisoned in Juxian Villa, his family stayed in Wuling County, Jingzhou.

Although Pang Bo won the trust of Wang Hao and was appointed as the prefect of Wuling County, he was in charge of Wuling County's affairs, but he was not as good as Huang Zhong.

As Huang Zhong's only son, Huang Xu often came to say hello to Mrs. Huang Zu during Huang Zu's imprisonment, and he had a good relationship with Huang Zhen, a cousin, so Pang Bo kept a close eye on Huang Zu's family. Close one eye!

Pang Bo: "Shiyuan, you said this time about the Huang family, should we..."

Deng Shiyuan: "Reporting to the prefect, in the opinion of a villain, this matter still needs to be reported..."

In the yamen of Wuling County, Pang Bo frowned and remained silent. Deng Shiyuan sat on the left and waited quietly, not angry because of Pang Bo's silence.

In the past few days, the affairs of the Huang family have been widely circulated in the market. Huang Zhen, the young master of the Huang family, has collected gold and silver from a lot of people for the quota of recommending the academy.

Now Da Sima ordered again to build academies in the whole territory. All children over the age of six, regardless of gender, can go to the academies to study. The Huang family can no longer control the number of academies.

Huang Zhen may have received the rumors that although he did not return the gold and silver to the common people at one time, he also returned part of it, and promised to pay it back in the near future, so that there will be no major troubles!
The key lies in Huang Zhen's wife Yang's family. Huang Zhong has made great achievements many times. Huang Xu also joined the army and had his own position. Huang Zhong's family has no idlers.

For those gold and silver brocades bestowed by Wang Hao, Huang Zhong would ask his wife to distribute some of the Hui clan's land to those members of the Huang clan, and obviously the most were cattle, horses and fields.

Wang Hao made his fortune with pastures and farms. Many officials in the territory have learned from Wang Hao and taught their own clansmen to learn to manage pastures and farms. Although Huang's land and pastures are not the largest, they are also among the best in Jingzhou.

Such a large ranch naturally needs manpower, and the Huang family also employs long-term and short-term workers. Those short-term workers are often deducted some wages, but they only scratch the surface. They have always pretended not to know, but in fact they are unwilling to speak out.

Because of the treatment given to short-term workers by the Huang family, no one can compare with it except Wang Hao's official planting areas and pastures.

However, long-term workers are different. The wages are settled once a year, or only once a few months. This time, Wang Hao ordered the counties to build new academies and open up the policy of equality for everyone.

Many people who left their hometowns wanted to leave the Huang family to be self-reliant, because the land equalization system required going to the government office to register. Once these people had their own land, they would not be willing to do long-term work in the Huang family.

As long as he manages one-third of an acre of land with his heart, he can afford to go to school for his children, and even if he can't enter an official career in the future, he can still earn enough food and clothing.

In the past, I worked as a long-term worker for the Huang family, and I was considered half of the Huang family. Looking at the big tree of the Huang family, I can enjoy the shade. the future of the child.

The reason why the Huang family was in trouble was because of those long-term workers. Not only did Madam Yang like to take advantage of it, but this time she even withheld the wages of the long-term workers. It wasn't that she didn't want to pay them, but because there was no money in the treasury.

She let her squander all the money. Mrs. Yang was born in a big family in Youzhou. She was used to living a life of rich clothes and good food since she was a child, and she usually spends money lavishly without restraint.

This time, more than 50 long-term workers in the mansion proposed to leave Huang's mansion together. Yang's salary for this year has been spent in advance, and the rest of Huang Zhen has been pushed to those common people. The treasury of Huang's mansion has bottomed out .

Yang: "No, you absolutely cannot use grain as collateral..."

Huang Zhen: "Then what do you say? Now that the cattle and sheep have not been slaughtered, besides selling the hoarded grain, where do you want me to get the gold back?"

Yang Shi: "Why don't you ask your cousin or uncle, or let the master come forward and discuss with Governor Pang, first let those..."

Huang Zhen: "Father said when he came back a few days ago that during the implementation of the new law, our Huang family must not..."

Yang: "It's such a big deal, wouldn't you change your method and shut up those untouchables? After all, you are also Huang Xu's cousin!"

Huang Zu was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Second Jiangdong Navy, in charge of the Yangtze River and the East China Sea. When he took office, Qian made a special trip home to remind his son not to participate or have anything to do with this reform.

Who would have expected that his daughter-in-law would let Huang Zhen lie in the mud a few days after he left. You must know that Mu Xiuyu will be destroyed by the forest wind if you shoot the first bird with a gun. Why doesn't Huang Zhen understand this truth? ?

As for Huang Xu mentioned by Yang, because he didn't participate in the discussion on the first morning, he didn't know the seriousness of the matter.

However, after the discussion, Huang Zhong reminded Huang Xu again and again that he should not be involved in the change, otherwise no one can afford it if something goes wrong!

Huang Xu understood something from his father's eyes. He took up his post from the beginning of the reform, and went to Jian'an County to be the supervisor of the construction academy!
(End of this chapter)