The next day.

Everything was almost nothing like usual, but the boy from the school was getting more intimate when he saw him.

The villagers in Bailu Village would greet him warmly when they saw him.

"Well, I just look at Guiwazi. It's a material that can read. In the past, sheep with Erdan from my family. Guiwazi is the best one, and sheep is the strongest one..."

"Although this kid is young, his future is limitless."

"Maybe there will be another scholar in Bailu Village. Even if you don't have a scholar, you can still be a decent accountant in the town, which will also add glory to our village!"

"I'm sorry, Ewazi entered school two years earlier than Guiwazi, why didn't he learn a little bit from Guiwazi? He felt dizzy when he went home to read the books for a while, and said he wanted to go out to play and couldn't calm down..."

Bai Gui also gave gifts to the villagers who praised him, not daring to be arrogant at all.

If there were rumors about his disrespect for his relatives, his reputation would be shattered. Not to mention that Mr. Xu would teach him seriously, he might also sweep him out.

The reputation of a person in the countryside is crucial.

During the Kangxi period of the previous dynasty, it was said that there was a man who could have won the Five Classics during the provincial examination, but when the exam was about to be released, the examiner knew that his hometown was poor. Even if he appreciated his talents, he could only lose the exam paper and failed from then on.

...

Before lunch, the children who returned from various families to have dinner came to the school one after another.

The Lu brothers' faces were a little as gray.

You will know the elegant meaning when you hear the stringed zither.

Bai Gui knew that it must be Bai Youde who went to Lu Zilin to resign this morning.

If Lu Zilin is so generous and wants to support him in school, he should have the Lu brothers pleaded with him, otherwise ordinary people would not have the will to make this decision.

Raising a full-time scholar is no small matter these days.

Just counting the shoji, Xu Xiucai collected shoji once every three months, and once was five liters of grain, which was consistent with the price of a nearby private school. In this way, two buckets of grain were needed for a year.

The yield per mu in the late Qing Dynasty was not good seeds or chemical fertilizers, and the yield per mu of land was about four dou.

But this is just a harvest.

You have to pay more than 50% of the land tax!

In order to consolidate the rule, Kangxi announced the implementation of a new tax system in the 51st year of Kangxi, and announced the implementation of a new tax system. The number of people in the country in the 50th year of Kangxi was the fixed tax amount. In the future, additional taxes were added and no more taxes were collected. It was called "the prosperous era is full of taxes and will never increase taxes."

In the first year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng implemented the "spreading of digits into a mu". He distributed all the more than 3.35 million taels of digits from the Kangxi Dynasty into the land and levies to collect them. The land and digits were combined, and the digits were distributed everywhere.

Later generations of emperors used more and more daily use, but they did not dare to violate the laws of their ancestors, so they tried to deal with taxes, and did not increase land taxes, but various corvee and labor taxes could be increased.

Since the Guangxu Dynasty, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, according to the Treaty of Shimonoseki, 200 million taels of silver were required to pay 450 million taels of silver. The Qing court's annual treasury income was about 100 million taels of silver.

The 450 million taels of compensation for the Xinchou Treaty claimed that every Qing Dynasty person would have to pay one tael. The A-ranking person in various places collected this money from every household, and it was also called the Gengzi period. In addition, since Zhang Juzheng's One-Whip Law, the people used silver to pay taxes.

After a few acres of thin land, even if there are a few acres of thin land, they can only barely reach food and drink. It is not affordable for ordinary people to support a full-time scholar.

Bai Youde's resignation was invisibly refuting the affection of the Lu brothers, so they were angry.

But what surprised Bai Gui was that the Lu brothers still maintained their temperament until now, did not speak harshly to him, nor were they angry. Just talking about this kind of character is far beyond his peers. At least Bai Gui asked himself, he could not do this at this age.

He sighed in his heart.

Although he did not intend to accept Lu Zilin's funding, he also invisibly accepted the Lu family's affection.

This is fortunate, you have to admit it!

"Zhaopeng, Zhaohai..."

Bai Gui took a breath and mustered up his courage. The stalemate with the Lu brothers was not what he wanted to see.

If others see him and the Lu brothers lukewarm, they may also complain about his character and whether it is worth dating.

To destroy a person, it is often enough to say a few gossips.

He took out two books he had borrowed from his schoolbag, stepped forward, and held the books in his hands. He had copied these two books on new paper and could read them warmly from time to time.

He said with a little apology: "These two books on the post were almost finished these days, but I wanted to read more, so I missed the time to return them. Please don't blame you both."

The Lu brothers were stunned for a moment.

The books they borrowed were all learned by them a few years ago and had long since been reading them. Therefore, when they lent to Bai Gui, there was no time to return them.

So precious...

Lu Zhaopeng was in a daze. Hearing that Bai Gui called him no longer the eldest young master, but his scientific name. He was lost for a moment, and soon the depression in his heart disappeared.

Soon, a smile appeared on his face again and he probably understood something in his heart.

Although he followed the words of Zigong from "Gongye Chang" in the Analects of Confucius, "I hope that the carriage, horse, clothes, clothes, and fur are light, and that they can share with friends, and that they are not rare." He used this to interact with friends, and that they value wealth and righteousness.

Therefore, we can work with our younger brother Lu Zhaohai to persuade our father Lu Zilin to support Bai Gui's studies.

But Bai Guicha is just like Confucius said that the three friends who benefited him. He did not flatter him, nor did he look at him because of his glaring eyes, so he no longer interacted with him...

"It's okay to stay for a while, and we both have passed the stage of enlightenment."

Lu Zhaopeng's expression calmed a lot, and his heart was opened. He put away the book casually, but when he saw the two neat books on his hand, he was a little dazed.

The two books I borrowed from the post-Meng Book are quite old.

The Lu family has a lot of wealth. Although it is not as good as the wealthy family in the city, it is also considered a household in Zishui County. Therefore, although the principle of scholars cherishing books is good, these two books are preserved well, but there are some creases on the pages and tilted feet.

But the two books that Bai Gui returned were neat and brand new. If it weren't for the yellowing book that showed that it was not a new book, he would have suspected that it was a book that Bai Gui bought and returned to him again.

"Brother, what are you?"

Lu Zhaohai was younger and suddenly felt that Lu Zhaopeng had betrayed him, so why did he make up again with this ungrateful villain? But he would not dismantle Lu Zhaopeng's platform in person, but just whispered.

"I will explain it to you later."

Lu Zhaopeng interrupted Lu Zhaohai and apologized to Bai Gui.

If he had just thought about Bai Gui's friendship with him when he was young, then he had really regarded Bai Gui as a friend worthy of making.
Chapter completed!