681 Reward according to merit
The tenth day after Xier's engagement.
The court’s reward for this trip to the south of the Yangtze River has arrived.
General Hao was changed from the Earl of Ding'an, who had been hereditary for three generations, to the Marquis of Ding'an, who had been hereditary for three generations. In other words, up to Hao Lei's generation, he was still a marquis, and Hao Lei's son became an earl from the marquisate.
Actually, it doesn’t matter.
After three generations, who will be in charge of whom? It will be a hundred years later.
Sun Sicheng and Ping An made great contributions. They came up with a solution to the plague, avoiding the deaths of thousands of people. They also donated a large amount of medicinal materials to prevent the loss of supplies.
The two marquisates' mansions changed from being hereditary for three generations to being hereditary without interruption, which means they are marquisates forever, no matter how many generations there are.
Ping An grumbled to himself that he donated the medicinal materials with real money, so the reward he got was better than nothing.
Whether Mu Yang’s grandson will be a marquis in the future has nothing to do with him.
As the old saying goes, if you raise a child who is not as good as me, what do you need money for? If you raise a child who is better than me, what do you need money for?
The old saying is actually true. If you raise your children and grandchildren well, they can earn anything on their own. If you raise them disabled, no matter how much you give them, they will eventually squander it.
What made Ping'an happiest was that the emperor gave him a piece of mountain land of moderate size in the southern part of Jia'an Manor. This piece of gently sloping land covered hundreds of acres and would be worthless if it were somewhere else, but it was in the south of Jia'an Manor. After demolishing the southern wall, he could directly enclose this piece of land.
This southern slope can be used to plant large tracts of peach trees, grapes, and plum trees, and various medicinal herbs can be planted below.
In just three years, just three short years, this place will be the most beautiful place and can bring him a huge income.
Shi Erye has contacted him and is willing to sign a long-term contract with him to buy his peach blossom wine, purple wine, plum wine and rice wine.
The business master refused to get involved no matter what and let him do it alone, saying that the Sun family had enough assets and there was no need to share any more.
Never mind.
Zhu Yuanzheng had already resigned and was unemployed at home. The emperor gave him some practical things, including a shop, a farm, and silver.
Zhang Jinping and Bai Jiaxuan were both promoted to a higher rank.
Not long after Mr. Shi Sanye came to Beijing, the emperor met him. In the end, the emperor listened to him and stopped giving him any rewards. The Shi family believed that the emperor had given their family the greatest reward forty years ago by giving them the entire area of 100 miles around Zi Teng Mountain. It would be too much to ask for another reward from the royal family.
As for how the officials in Jiangnan, including Huo Zhi, were rewarded, Ping An didn't know.
However, he estimated that the prefect and his friends, including his friend Wang Qing, would most likely not receive any reward this time, nor would they receive any punishment in consideration of their hard work. The dam was in disrepair, after all, it was their fault.
Ping'an didn't think about it anymore. The village was busy and so was the hospital.
The Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel were both vying for him, but none of them succeeded. Dean Wang finally resigned, and his disciple Ping An was his successor.
Ping An didn't care about this. The condition the emperor gave him was that he could still work half a day and continue to go to the hospital for the remaining half day. If he went to the Ministry of Revenue or the Ministry of Personnel, these two departments would be too busy, so he would probably have to work full-time.
He was originally a fifth-rank official, but now he is the youngest fourth-rank official in the court. To be honest, he will only be twenty-three years old in August.
At noon, he left the Hanlin Academy and just as he walked out of the city gate, he met Chen Sheng.
"Safety."
"Chen Sheng, when did you come back? Are you leaving the city now?"
"I went to the hospital to look for the eldest son. I came back yesterday and brought my grandfather with me. I wanted to see when the eldest son would be free. My grandfather is not in good health."
He also bought a small two-story house in the capital. The house was not big, but it was big enough for his family to live in when he returned to the capital occasionally.
"I'm going to the hospital too, get in my car."
Chen Sheng got in the car.
"I heard from Chen Xuan that something happened at your home. Have you resolved it?"
Chen Sheng smiled bitterly. The reason was the same as what Chen Xuan said.
"My grandfather had already resigned from his post and filed a lawsuit against my second uncle's family in Gyeongju Prefecture, not only for swallowing up my mother's dowry, but also for defaming the reputation of court officials. When I returned to my hometown, the verdict had just been announced. The prefect ordered my grandmother and second uncle to return my mother's 10,000 taels of dowry and apologize to us. My cousin was stripped of his status as a student and was ordered not to take the imperial examinations for the rest of his life.
But he couldn't take the exam anyway, so it didn't matter to him. It was just that a lot of my mother's dowry money had been spent, and after selling 80% of the land that my grandfather had allocated to them, they could only scrape together 6,000 taels.
I didn't take the remaining four thousand taels. My grandfather made everyone in the family sign a document stating that if they did anything bad in the future, they would have to pay it back, otherwise they would be kicked out of Chenjia Village.
I took my grandfather out and he won't be back anytime soon. I never thought they would cause such a thing. If my grandfather really collapsed, I don't know what I would do. "
Ping An patted his shoulder and said, "First, cure Grandpa's illness. Everything else doesn't matter."
Huo Zhi's family was also very excessive. They received a letter from him two days ago, saying that the two brothers of the Huo family finally divided the property within ten days after they left. He only got Huashou Hall, twelve medicine shops, two medicine valleys, a house in the city, and 100,000 taels of silver. The rest all went to his eldest brother.
His father's request was that the division of the family property should only be made public after they were a hundred years old.
He agreed to all of this.
If he had not kept some in reserve beforehand, how could this mere 100,000 taels be enough as the start-up capital for Huashoutang after the disaster?
His elder brother got all the shops, fields, and millions in cash, but still asked him to continue helping manage the business, but he refused.
My eldest brother and sister-in-law clearly knew that the loss of medicinal materials this year was heavy, so they donated half of it, sold a lot of the rest, and took away more than 70% of the property.
It's almost all.
He had already sent a pigeon letter to Wan Hua, asking him to donate all the medicinal materials in Jiangnan to Hua Shou Tang and not to pay a penny for the time being.
Even if Huo Zhi still had some private property, it would not be convenient for him to take it out now.
When they arrived at the hospital, Chen Sheng told the eldest son about his grandfather's condition.
Sun Sicheng said that it was just a minor stroke and not serious, but the old man could stay in the hospital for a while, so as to avoid the trouble of running back and forth.
Chen Sheng naturally wished it would.
His three-month vacation is about to end, and he has to hurry back to the county government to take up his post as a director. This is because his immediate superior is Chang Chunfeng. If it were anyone else, it would be difficult to take such a long vacation.
After Chen Sheng left.
Sun Sicheng told Ping An, "Bai Jiaming brought his wife here this morning. She got pregnant twice after they got married, but both times she miscarried within a month, and there were no signs beforehand.
Leng Yue examined his wife and she was fine, but I also examined Bai Jiaming carefully and he was fine too, and he had recovered well from his previous illness."
"Master, since both of them are fine, it should be habitual miscarriage. Let her stay in bed and take good care of the fetus after she gets pregnant. We don't have any other good solutions."
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