Chapter 30 Drywood and Fire
Chapter 30 **
Because of the skill of gathering spirits with fingers, Zhang Ziqiang realized that he was several times faster than ordinary people. He was ecstatic and couldn't help himself. He didn't know that although fingers can gather spirits, other nobles and wealthy families can also use the spirit gathering array, but it was not as good as his fingers.
Amilia had limited knowledge, and Zhang Ziqiang didn't know at all. He stood up while dancing, but he didn't expect that after the explosive practice just now, his strength suddenly increased. He couldn't control his strength for a while. He leaned forward and rushed towards Amilia in front of him. He hurriedly pressed Amilia's shoulders. Amilia was stunned for a moment, then threw herself into his arms, stretched her hands through his waist, and hugged her tightly.
Zhang Ziqiang raised his hands, so embarrassed that he didn't know where to put them. It was his own movement that caused He Milia's misunderstanding. You can't push it away, it would hurt others' hearts too much. Fortunately, Amilia smelled the strange smell on his body and remembered that it was his first practice, and she needed to take a bath after she was exhausted. So she let go of her hand and said, "I'll pour water for you, you can go and take a shower first."
Now Zhang Ziqiang misunderstood. Amilia's original intention was to really let him take a bath. After the first time, there was a detoxification process. The toxins in the body were discharged to the surface of the skin and formed a black layer. However, after the practice just now, this guy had not had time to calm down, and he was hugged by Amilia, which was extremely embarrassed. In addition, wouldn't he smell "I'll enter the orchid room and don't smell the odor for a long time?" Although there was a strange smell on his body, he was always in this environment and was used to it, so he couldn't find out. Suddenly, he heard someone pouring water to let him take a bath. He thought it was because of a long drought that others were impatient!
"It's a problem if you go up or not, this is a problem!" Just as Zhang Ziqiang was in the struggle between morality and the highest, Amilia came into the room with the bathtub and water, poured the water into the basin, and turned on a special formation switch. Zhang Ziqiang saw her shyly and gentlely pouring water for herself, trying to see the water temperature. In addition, before entering this world, he had been abstinent for more than a year because of having a son, and had been in this world for seven or eight months. Under this temptation, his persistence was transformed by a tenderness. Don't take off his clothes quickly, and he didn't notice that Amilia looked shocked, hugged her and entered the basin together... There is an old saying that men refuse to bend the judgment because there is not enough temptation; women refuse to bend the judgment because there is not much money! Zhang Ziqiang originally planned to stick to the bottom line of his heart, but the bottom line that he insisted on could be broken by the tenderness.
After a while, Amilia lay in Zhang Ziqiang's arms. She looked at her posture and wanted to integrate herself into Zhang Ziqiang's body. She hugged Zhang Ziqiang tightly, cried gently, and said while crying: "I'm happy."
Yes, in this world, women are basically vassals of men. Their main function is to pass on the family line and take care of men's life. Which man will pay attention to women's feelings? But Zhang Ziqiang is different. He comes from another world. He is a smart person. In order to handle the relationship with Wang Lian, he has read many articles on the Internet about how couples get along with each other. At the same time, he has also seen many complaints from other men. Many men complain that women's status is too high and has become a world where women make the decision. Men are like a cow. You have to be as busy as a cow outside, and you have to work like a cow before going home at night! Some women say it well, husbands and husbands have to be long-term workers until they are old. If women are not satisfied, they can loudly tell the judge that our husbands and wife are incompatible and divorced! And men can only lower their heads like children who do the wrong thing, and have no face to see people.
Although Wang Lian is not like the woman mentioned above, Zhang Ziqiang is not old and is like a cow - strong like a cow! After all, Zhang Ziqiang comes from that world. Influenced by the general environment, he is thousands of times stronger than the men in this world. Karin is twelve years old, but this is the first time Amilia has experienced this feeling of ecstasy and death. She is so beautiful as a woman. How can she not be obsessed with her?
Under gentle caressing and comfort, Amilia stopped crying, wiped away her tears and said to Zhang Ziqiang: "In a few years, when Kailin grows up and can marry into a noble family, my wish will be fulfilled, and all my wishes will be fulfilled in this life."
Zhang Ziqiang thought about it and said, "Don't worry, even if I go back to that world in the future, as long as I have the finger in my hand, it will be very convenient for me to come back here. Since you have followed me, let's spend your life with me."
When it comes to love, Zhang Ziqiang still attaches much importance to Wang Lian. After all, he has been together for five or six years, but he is a responsible man. Since he has reached this point, he will still be responsible to the end. A little woman who is so gentle will not be willing to let go if he succeeds. Love can be cultivated slowly.
Amilia tightened her arms around Zhang Ziqiang's waist and said, "When I finish this order business, after I get the money, I will take out 40,000 gold coins and buy some land around our manor. As long as our bid is slightly higher than the market, the surrounding owner will still sell it, leaving a 3,000 turnover at home, and another 2,000 will give you your usual expenses. Is this possible arrangement?"
Sweat first, men make money in that world, women spend money, women make money here! But then again, if a man wants to have money to spend, he must practice his cultivation solidly, or work hard to improve his social status, or work hard to create a good environment for women to make money. Otherwise, you will not expect anything. From this perspective, the principles on both sides are the same. What the men here often pay for is life, while men in that world only need to work.
Zhang Ziqiang sighed and said, "Why did you think of buying land? How much land can you buy for 40,000 yuan?" The small farmer was unwilling to think that he wanted to buy land when he had money, as if he could only pass on his family.
Amilia pinched her finger and calculated, "From the current market, our family can sell more than 16,000 gold coins, and forty thousand yuan, I think I can buy two hundred acres of land and buy some slaves back. In this way, there are a total of about 300 acres of land in the family. If we have children in the future, we can also let the children live a good life."
"Cough cough..." Zhang Ziqiang almost breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "One hundred acres of land, with a net income of fifty or sixty gold coins per month, only seven hundred in a year. It takes more than twenty years to earn enough money to buy land. Why buy land? It's better to deposit it in the bank with a high interest rate!"
"After buying the land, it will be yours for generations? Which of the great nobles has not had hundreds of land, but they are afraid that others will not be willing to sell it! What is a bank?"
"Uh!" Zhang Ziqiang learned after some explanation that there was no bank here. The currency was made by the temple after various countries handed over gold and silver to the temple. If merchants from various countries purchased bulk commodities, they would entrust gold coins to the temple. After arriving at the destination, the local temple deducted the consignment fee and returned the rest to the merchant. "It turns out that there was no bank, but the remittance business was still done. Isn't the temple profitable? The temple controls the right to issue currency, no wonder it is the most powerful force in the mainland."
"Amilia, keep all the money after you get it. Then I can see if I can find other businesses to do it. It's better than buying land."
"Yes." Although Amilia doesn't think there is any business that is stronger and more reliable than buying land, with her usual character, she will still obey the instructions after her master makes the decision.
"Okay, don't think about this anymore. Why don't we work harder and have a baby?" It can be seen that once a man has fallen into depravity, he will have to relax his own requirements!
Amilia said shyly: "I can't have a child this year, I have to wait until next year."
"Why?" Zhang Ziqiang asked strangely.
Amilia also looked at him strangely and said, "There is only one chance to get pregnant in a year. This year's life is over. You can work harder next year, hehe."
"Next year?" After hearing this answer, Zhang Ziqiang asked curiously. In Amilia's shy words, he finally understood one thing, that is, the time for women in this world to have children is about twenty to forty years old! But men have no such restrictions. As long as their physiological functions are OK, they can still have sons at the age of fifty. Therefore, the law stipulates that women must get married during the childbirth period. No wonder that Gadev said that he would be fined six or seven years. Amilia is thirty-three this year, and it is not exactly seven years before she is forty!
Once a year, you may not be able to get pregnant. Moreover, you cannot practice during pregnancy! No wonder in this world, with the average life expectancy of people over 200 years old, it is so difficult to grow the population. A woman will have at most children in her life. The number of deaths in war is so many. In addition, boys are much higher than girls in a civilian family. In addition, many women delay their practice due to pregnancy and cannot break through to the foundation-building period in their entire lives, thus making their life expectancy shorter than men. Compared to women in that world, women in this world are really pitiful.
Looking back, thanks to this, if we calculate based on average age, the 100 years old here is equivalent to the thirties in the world. A woman, starting from the age of twenty, can have a childbearing period of at least eighty years. In a family, her grandson just gave birth to a son, but his grandmother was pregnant again. It would be terrible to think about it.
Through Amilia's narrative, I learned that there are many social problems caused by longevity. Some are grandfathers, but the newly married wife is his granddaughter's friend, and some father and son are his rivals in love. There is another thing that is most common. After finally raising a daughter and marrying her, she found that her son-in-law was older than her mother-in-law!
In recent hundreds of years, there is another saying, "We only have a thousand years of wealth." It turned out that it was the long-term invasion war of the Qianfeng Dynasty, which made the Kingdom of Al strengthen centralization in order to better restrict the great nobles. Therefore, the inheritance law was passed. The law stipulated that all sons enjoy equal inheritance rights. As soon as the law was introduced, a large number of great nobles fell in response. Amilia gave an example. It is normal for a rich man in the Jindan stage to marry four or five wives. When this Jindan stage passed away, the direct descendants of the family were counted for nearly ten generations, and there were more than 70,000 people who were still alive in the world! All have the right to inheritance, and the family was divided into more than 70,000 families, and all the property was divided into all.
There are policies and countermeasures at the bottom. Nowadays, children in ordinary noble families, after graduating from junior school, at the age of sixteen, if they do not reach the tenth level of Qi Refining, they basically accept some gold coins from the family, and then they are expelled from the family to make a living. Even if they stay in the family to do things, they have to voluntarily give up the right of inheritance. The family uses this method to ensure continuation. More and more people are abandoned by the family. These people were originally only noble children, but they are not nobles. Once they leave the family, they are all civilians, but they have no land and can only be hired. However, most of them died in wars and many families cannot continue, just like the original Kaili family.
If a civilian wants to make a name for himself, he only has one way to break through to the foundation building stage. Although he will have eight years of military service from the foundation building stage, his chances of survival are much higher. In addition, the foundation building stage is workmanship, and he can also find some high-income jobs, just like the white-collar class in modern life, while the Dan-kind stage is the golden collar.
Although there are still the problems mentioned above, compared with the past, the rule has been stable. Most of the strong are strong at the top of society, and there are few second-generation ancestors. As for the weak, they are not satisfied with their living standards, and they cannot even rebel. Who makes your fists not hard?
The inheritance law of the kingdom has another advantage, that is, when a king dies, there will be nearly a thousand legal heirs at least. The next king is elected by several great nobles and then recognized by all nobles. In this way, the king will not be all talented, but at least there will be no idiots as kings. Once a new king appears, except for his immediate relatives, the rest will be reduced to first-class viscounts. In other words, if the king has not made meritorious contributions to the kingdom within six generations and the title is continued, he will become a civilian after six generations.
Zhang Ziqiang swallowed secretly, and only after calming down could he figured out this fact. Amilia was a civilian and had little knowledge. He combined his own guesses and although some were close to the national conditions of the Kingdom of Al, some were not right. Only when he had a higher status in the future did he slowly figure out this fact. However, at this time he was still surprised by this social system.
"Amilia, this world is really crazy!"
Chapter completed!