When Zhou Xueren returned to Xikou Village, he began to look for people who could sell official salt on his behalf. Not only did he need people around the village to be popular, but he also needed to be down-to-earth and loyal to him. If the Tartars turned against him and wanted to settle the account of selling official salt privately, he would not be betrayed at the first moment.
At first, Snowman Zhou looked for his relatives, especially those who were closer to him by blood. He thought about it again and again and felt that most of his relatives did not trust him. He usually interacted with them a lot, and his relatives often came to his house to take advantage of him, which made him angry.
Since it was difficult to find someone in the circle of relatives who were close to him, Zhou Xueren simply opened his head and thought about it. Who in the village could do it? He could become someone he could trust.
After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't think of a suitable candidate. He always thought that everyone wanted to take advantage of him. He was a rich person and was considered the richest in Xikou Village. The eyes of the villagers were filled with envy and jealousy, but in their hearts, they all hoped that he would die early and leave the property for everyone to divide.
However, most of the villagers 'hatred of the rich was not noticed by Zhou Xueren. He did not have the mood or time to study everyone's hatred of the rich. He only wanted to take a lot of money. Now it was the world of the rich. Whoever had money could call the shots. What was the point of not having money?
Therefore, Zhou Xueren did not think that everyone's dissatisfaction with him could bring pressure or even bad luck. Although the Tartars above were bad, it gave him a good opportunity to extort money from the people below. If the Tartars under his rule were not bad or corrupt, he really did not know how to make quick money.
Therefore, in order to earn money legally, he needed to work in the fields like ordinary farmers, just to save a few hard labor money.
Even if he took a fancy to someone's fertile land, because of the rules, he couldn't take it by force and artificially lower the land price. He could only bear the pain and sell it at a high price. If he couldn't make a huge profit, how could he make a lot of money?
Therefore, when it came to Zhou Xueti's irregular economic activities, he could not bear to hate the Tartar nobles who devoured the people's fat. He even hoped that they would become even more depraved and inhumane, so that he could completely open up his mouth to do bad things, so that he could be unscrupulous in Xikou Village and even Fenghua City, and vent his selfish desires as he pleased.
Snowman Zhou couldn't think of a suitable candidate and was anxious. He simply skipped lunch and went out to the stream by the village to relax. He wanted to see the natural scenery and see if he could find a suitable candidate for inspiration.
Zhou Xueren's wife, Li Shengfang, saw that her husband was going out. She remembered that she had met Jiang Siqian's wife in the morning. Jiang Siqian's wife and Li Shengfang lived in the same village. Both parties had some relatives. Jiang Siqian was looking for a wife because Li Shengfang was the one who pulled the strings.
Jiang Siqian's family wasn't rich, and Zhou Xueren didn't belong to the Zhou family. He couldn't climb the threshold of Zhou Xue's family at all. It wasn't Li Shengfang's turn to care about him and introduce him to her relatives.
Jiang Siqian had no money in his pocket, but he had a good figure and good looks. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes. He had a pear-shaped face and often worked in the fields. His bones and muscles were strong. Most women would fall in love when they saw him.
Therefore, since Li Shengfang married Zhou Xueren and saw Jiang Siqian a few times, the woman's heart was firmly tied to him. In addition, Zhou Xueren's own promiscuity, often went to Fenghua and Ningbocheng to visit prostitutes, gave her ten thousand reasons to find a man to cheat.
Although the three cardinal guides and five constant virtues had a deep concept of restraining women and there were many restrictions, Li Shengfang had read a lot since she was young and had ambition in her bones. Why were women inferior to men? She often muttered in her heart that women had low status. When she met a domineering man, she wished she could kick him away.
Because she was not convinced by strong men, Li Shengfang liked men with weaker economic status. Most of them were soft in their bones and could satisfy her competitive spirit, which was not considered strong. At the very least, she could control men to listen to her and not live a woman's life in vain.
Li Shengfang was not a shy woman since she was young. She had a bold and unconstrained personality. When she saw Jiang Siqian, she was like a scholar who had failed the examination. He still exuded a strong elegance. She immediately liked him. She really wanted to stretch out her arms and hug him gently. She wanted to show the grace and luxury of the Queen Mother and fully satisfy the instinctive vanity of women.
So, one day, Li Shengfang took advantage of her husband to fool around in Fenghua City and found Jiang Siqian to tell him her heart. When a man met a woman, especially a woman with more characteristics, it was difficult not to be tempted. They quickly entangled together.
When Snowman Zhou went out, he told his wife that he had gone to the city to visit his relatives and see if there were any ways to make a fortune in the officialdom recently. He would seize the opportunity to make another windfall.
There were no state-owned enterprises in the Qing government era. Once the officialdom needed economic activities, they could only rely on private entrepreneurs, which undoubtedly expanded the vitality of the private economy. Although the bureaucrats inevitably filled their own pockets in the process of operating the economy, they still sprinkled oil and water on the vulnerable people. Compared to the social and economic structure where the state-owned economy dominated the world, it undoubtedly improved the fairness of wealth and met the value standards of fairness and justice pursued by people of insight.
Although Zhou Xueren was wealthy because of his official background, his economic influence had also helped many poor people who lacked food and clothing to achieve food and clothing and even become rich.
Therefore, from an economic point of view, Zhou Xueti was not an evil person. He was just stingy and did not intend to force people to die.
Therefore, Zhou Xueren, under the influence of his wife Li Shengfang, chose Jiang Siqian as his agent to sell official salt in Xikou Village. In modern times, he was called the executive manager. He was the chairman of the board, only responsible for the operation of money. The specific management was handed over to Jiang Siqian, who was Jiang Jieshi's grandfather.
It was Zhou Xueren's help that led to Jiang Siqian's economic rise and injected a strong foundation into Jiang Jieshi's carefree economic life as a child.
Without the economic vitality of Jiang Siqian's era, when Jiang Jieshi's father, Jiang Zhaocong's era, the Jiang family was also a peasant family that relied on the heavens to eat and feed. It was not easy to raise Jiang Jieshi financially. How could they have the spare money and mood to send him to a private school to read the books of sages?
Jiang Jie did not have any literary foundation and did not understand the Kung Fu of Confucius and Mencius. He could not be appreciated by the government in the future. As for his bad behavior and becoming the public enemy, it was because he did not understand the essence of Confucius and Mencius and was not good at applying Yangming knowledge flexibly from reality.
Therefore, Jiang Jieshi, who only knew how to read dead books, was like Zhao Kuo, the famous general of Zhao. He only learned how to talk eloquently, but he did not cultivate the righteous wisdom hidden in his heart. He had no choice but to drink the bitter wine of tragedy.
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