bookrebus Chapter 194 It’s Not Easy to Be the Richest Man in Ming Dynasty 6
Chapter 194 It’s Not Easy to Be the Richest Man in Ming Dynasty 6
Shen Yujin also didn't want to live this kind of life. His family was rich, but he had to eat simple meals every day.
The Shen family has settled down now. They are living a happy life now that they have lost their wealth and no one is eyeing the poor and powerless Shen family anymore.
It's not worth it for him as a businessman. No matter what, Zhu Yuanzhang gave his family the last dignity. That piece of good deeds could bring peace to his family.
Shen Fu just loves to show off his wealth and doesn't have any mortal enemies. No one makes things difficult for them for the sake of that plaque. It's okay not to give them face, but if you step on Zhu Yuanzhang's face, then congratulations, you have won the Nine Clans Elimination Game!
If anyone makes the emperor lose face, he can tear off the face of your entire family and throw it on the ground and step on it.
Shen Fu decided that all his family members would join in to collect the rent for this season. The men in the family also needed to study, so Shen Fu contacted a Mongolian scholar from the neighboring village.
A clan school was set up at home to teach the children to read and write. At Shen Yujin's suggestion, the girls in the family also had to learn to read and write, so that the younger ones could be enlightened and the older ones could be free from illiteracy.
What's the saying that a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent? What wealthy family's mistress can be illiterate? Isn't this ridiculous?
After this incident, Shen Fu realized that he had been kicked in the head by a donkey before. He only learned from those poor scholars, but did not learn anything good. Instead, he learned a lot of bad things.
What elegance can a peasant born in the mud pretend to have? He never leaves the house, so forget it! Every country girl goes out to do things without hesitation.
How can I finish the farm work while staying at home? Who can I rely on to buy needles and thread? If I don’t have maids and servants, do I have to buy them now?
These annoying rules are set for those who have nothing better to do. Normal people would not do that. Young girls and wives should be more strict, but they don’t have to stay at home!
In Shen Fu's words, that's pure bullshit. Starving to death is a small matter, but losing one's chastity is a big matter. Shen Fu thinks that since you are already dead, what does it matter to you whether you are chaste or not?
"You are totally sick" is what people who are full say. People who are starving to death don't even have the energy to speak!
The younger generation of the Shen family began to live in dire straits. In the clan school, there was a big test every month and a small test every three days, and there were endless small papers to do every day.
The first place winner, Shen Fu, will be rewarded with two full bowls of meat and vegetables, and the last place winner will be beaten with ten canes at the ancestral hall.
Shen Fu also wanted to temper the will of his descendants and let each of them experience the difficult life of their ancestors.
The paper that the children of the Shen family use in school now is no longer the finest Xuan paper, but the ordinary rough-edged paper sold in shops in the county town.
Both sides are used. Anyone who is found wasting pens, ink, paper and inkstone will have no dinner at night.
Shen Fu gritted his teeth and said, "This won't do. Isn't this just living off the savings? The family must have income."
Shen Yujin suggested that they take back some of the land and grow some crops themselves, and raise more livestock at home. Now they live in the village and have to go to the town more than ten miles away to buy meat.
It is really inconvenient. With so many people in one family, they can’t just eat and not work at home!
Shen Fu is a shrewd businessman at heart. It is impossible for him to just eat and not work!
At noon, the kitchen finally cooked something meaty: stir-fried pork belly with fresh bamboo shoots dug from the back mountain. The pork belly was fried in a large pot until it was sizzling with oil, and then the bamboo shoots were added and stir-fried together with pesto, a little white sugar, and finely ground salt.
As soon as the dish with rich red sauce and crystal clear oiliness was served on the table, people from each room started to focus on the pork belly. These high-ranking masters finally realized that food and firewood were expensive.
In the past, the Shen family was rich and didn’t care. No one would eat this kind of fat meat. Now that there is so much oil, they will eat it to their heart’s content.
Everyone ate without raising their heads or opening their eyes, and even the remaining soup was used to soak rice.
Shen Fu looked at his family members who were eating happily, with a smile on his face: "I originally wanted to separate you all to live separately, but now is the time for our Shen family to work together to live a good life.
The meat smells so good! If I had a meal like this when I was a kid, I could have gone without meat for half a year!
We have to get by on this. The housekeeper has already bought the cotton, and thankfully, the looms that made our family rich are all in the storeroom. Ladies, don't be idle! Anyone who weaves a piece of top-quality Songjiang cloth can come to the public treasury and receive two coins. The more you work, the more you earn!
Except for the male members who go to school, the other male members in the family should not be idle. The bamboo forest on the back mountain also belongs to our family. You should build a pigpen. We want to raise 200 pigs, 1,000 ducks, and 2,000 chickens.
I also have to reclaim 100 acres of land to grow some taro for my own use. Besides eating it myself, I can also feed the pigs with the leftovers.
It is not okay to just eat and wait for death. There is no such thing as freeloading in the Shen family!
If you are good at needlework, you can take on embroidery work yourself. You can take 20% of the public proceeds and the rest is yours!
Whether you can have delicious meals every day in the future depends entirely on yourselves. Even when I am old, I still want to see you live a prosperous life! "
Shen Fu’s mobilization meeting was over, and everyone in the Shen family looked embarrassed.
My goodness, they used to be ladies, masters, wives and concubines, and they were unwilling to do any work. But looking at Shen Fu's attitude, there is no way he can get food and money from the public.
Shen Fu was happy to see everyone busy, as this reminded him of the days when he had just started his business and had not yet made a fortune.
Although it was a bit tiring at that time, life was really exciting. Later, after we became rich, everyone in the family became lazy and had no energy to do anything.
They are all so young and don’t learn their lessons well. Even an old man like him looks more energetic than them!
Everyone in the Shen family, you are so noble, why don't you steal the pig's trotters! Do you think we can't smell it? It's so unpleasant to be drooling with greed!
It seems that even if the family is down and out, the one with the most heritage is still the old man! If you don't cling to the father-in-law, you can't live a good life.
How dare these people from the Shen family not bow their heads now that they are under someone else's roof? The young man who used to spend a fortune in brothels now has to raise pigs.
This huge gap made them feel uncomfortable. Shen Fu's eyes flashed with coldness as he looked at these lazy and ignorant descendants!
If this continues, the descendants of the Shen family will be ruined! The old man's face was stern: "Those who don't want to work will have no food to eat! Think about it! I won't keep idle people in the family in the future!
Are you going to let me, an old man half buried in the ground, take care of all your wives, concubines and children?
You guys are really crazy! You know the situation at home! From now on, you will have to earn your own living!
Our Shen family cannot produce any trash! Whether you can eat meat or bran is a matter of skill! If anyone is not satisfied, they can move out and I won't stop them at all! "
The men in the Shen family were as wilted as quails without their feathers. The old man had taken ruthless action!
They walked out one by one, looking like they had lost their parents. God knows how tiring farm work is! From now on, the good days are over, and the hard days of the Shen family men have finally arrived!