The repeated failures in the imperial examinations made Xu Xiucai's life even more difficult.

Mr. Xu's hand was drinking the red date porridge. He looked at Bai Gui's face and said sincerely. He stiffened, took another sip of the porridge, chewed the red dates. The red dates filled with the porridge juice were sweeter than those picked, and the tip of his tongue was filled with rice fragrance.

He can't afford to hire a Western teacher in the translation subject.

When he went to higher education and studied Western languages, he couldn't help but learn from a group of children.

"Teach!"

Xu Xiucai licked the porridge bowl and licked each grain of rice cleanly, smooth and smooth. He repeated a few more times, as if he had strengthened a certain belief. He put down the bowl and chopsticks and carefully threw the date core into a small bamboo cage, which was already full of many date cores.

"I have a hard time winning the exam in this life. It is my blessing to teach a few students and a few students who can become successful."

He got up, said goodbye to Bai Gui, and walked to the school opposite where the sound of reading aloud.

Poetry and books are all in my ears.

"The heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, and the universe is vast and vast."

"The sun and the moon are full, and the city is surrounded by Zhang."

...

After returning home, Bai Gui and a group of classmates went to see the white pheasants raised in the tribe.

The breeding location is the willow forest they visited during their outings, and it is also the place where they "discovered" pheasant eggs. The ground is empty and flat, and it also nourishes many insects and can be used as feed for white pheasants.

The chicken husband was invited from the next county. I heard that he used to raise cockfighting. Cockfighting is different from ordinary chickens. A chicken costs several taels of silver or even dozens of taels of silver. It is a toy for the nobles of the princes and grandchildren. It cannot be raised to death easily. When it comes to the standard of chickens, they are of high quality.

But now most of the nobles who walk birds and fight cocks are dilapidated and lonely, and the chicken-fighting cock-fighting cock-fighting cock-fighting cocks have no way to survive. They are hungry and are introduced by Mr. Zhu's friend and become chicken-fed husbands in Bailu Village.

"If he dares to keep our chicken breed secretly, you see if he is on the ground and still has a way out nearby!"

Bai Jiaxuan smoked a dry tobacco and said to Bai Gui.

He refers to the chicken breed of the white pheasant, which can lay golden eggs. Twenty-four hours a day, he sends the Bailu Village tribe members to monitor Zhou Jigong. Once he finds something wrong, he will take ruthless action.

This seems to be contrary to the benevolence and righteousness of Bailu Village.

But this is the norm at this time.

Even fighting for water can be done, and there are countless casualties, not to mention the breeding of white pheasants.

No matter how kind and righteous you are, your eyes will be red.

"Uh, can we wait for the future to expand breeding, and we raise white pheasants one by one. Now it's still too slow to raise freely..."

Bai Gui made his suggestions in a timely manner.

Regardless of whether his suggestions are useful or not, these elders are still in charge when they are implemented. If they are really useful, they will definitely follow suit. If they are useless, they will not be adopted against their own financial path.

"Okay, I've written down this."

Bai Jiaxuan nodded in agreement.

"See if you can marry Zhou Jigong a girl from our Bailu Village, which family has a widow, and it's not a big deal to keep guarding Zhou Jigong."

When Bai Gui became concerned about hearing that Zhou Jigong seemed to be not married yet and was still a bachelor.

At this time, in-laws are reliable, and it is not a good thing to be careful of outsiders. As for widows, the village has so-called chastity, but as long as you don’t steal someone without authorization, remarriage is also a reasonable thing, and few people argue about it.

Stealing people is a destruction of the village style. It has nothing to do with whether the widow is single. In the law at this moment, widows belong to the husband's family. If they do not remarry, they must keep their integrity for their husbands. But if they remarry, they will not violate secular morality with the permission of their husbands and their elders, but gossip is still indispensable.

"OK!"

Bai Jiaxuan hesitated for a while and agreed to this matter.

There are not many widows in Bailu Village, so it is okay if anyone has the intention to remarry. With the ability to raise chickens, it is quite easy to get a wife in Bailu Village.

"By the way, Guiwazi, your father is illiterate and said he would wait for you to come back before talking about the distribution of shares."

When he returned to the ancestral hall, Bai Jiaxuan took out a contract, which stated the matter of family property and share distribution.

The shareholding system was introduced to the Qing court in the 1830s. Under the advocacy of the Westernization faction in the 1880s, a wave of investment and joint-stock enterprises was established in various places. For example, the Dasheng yarn mill run by the top scholar Zhang Jian was a joint-stock enterprise.

Bai Gui picked up the contract and saw that the profit allocated to his family was 2.5%, the Lu family who took out the secret recipe for gourd chicken was 2.5%, and the Bai family of the clan leader was 2.5%, and one was given to the Zhou family in Pangjia Village, Nanyuan. The remaining 2.5% belonged to all Bailu villagers, and there was also a more detailed division.

"Yes! The contract amount is quite satisfactory, but half of the amount will be donated to the Bailu Academy in our county. Each of our three companies has 20% of the shares. That's fine. In addition, the main part of this matter is under the leadership of the patriarch, so you will not participate in this matter..."

He said.

This contract seems to have taken advantage of him, but in fact he has given him a lot of benefits, because his family has no starting funds, and it is fair that the breeding of white pheasant breeders can occupy 25% of the shares.

As for the twenty silver dollars given by the county government, this little money is a drop in the bucket when doing business!

The Lu family is the first gourd chicken in the world, and it also has a secret recipe for gourd chicken. It has a certain reputation in the entire Qin Province and has also taken out a certain amount of money to do this. It is reasonable to have 20% of the shares.

The clan leader's family owns 20% of the shares, which is reasonable. He pays money to manage the villagers of Bailu Village, and there is also a relationship between Zhu Bai's family. If it doesn't have this relationship, it is also a matter of whether Mr. Zhu is willing to protect him.

"Donate to the academy, okay!"

Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin looked at each other and nodded.

This suggestion is also good.

Where is Bailu Academy? It is the county's official academies, which are full of students and scholars. This relationship is almost everywhere in the county. With this relationship, it will at least not be hindered in the county.

At the same time, they feel much more comfortable. Each family accounts for 20%, which is quite balanced, and no one is better than anyone else.

"Since both uncles and uncles agree, this matter is decided."

Bai Gui smiled. This contract seemed to have many disadvantages from later generations, but under secular morality, it was the most suitable contract. He had no intention of competing for these small profits.

Only with power can you get money!

This is the society of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, not the bourgeois society in the West. Even in the Western society, it is a collusion between money and power. No matter how rich or power is, it is a fat pig to be slaughtered.

"Okay! Guiwazi is worthy of being a person who has read books, he is so generous!"
Chapter completed!