Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 494 Xia Lin, Be a Human Being
Xia Daosheng received a letter, which was a complaint from the Fuliang Finance Department, saying that the Weapons Bureau had been spending too much money during this period. In just one or two months, they had used up tens of thousands of kilograms of copper and nearly 100,000 kilograms of iron, and there were all kinds of miscellaneous expenses. Before the halfway point of the year, they had already advanced their expenses to two years later.

However, after reading it, Xia Lin wrote back directly and approved ten years of funding for them at one time, which was very generous.

"You are really generous to this weapons bureau."

The person who spoke was Tang Baoer. She happened to be coming to the capital to settle accounts in the middle of the year, so she brought the letter with her. She also had some complaints about the Weapons Bureau. After all, she was also in charge of some accounts in the county during this period. The Weapons Bureau was too exaggerated and too much. They spent money without restraint and it was extremely terrifying.

"Don't worry about it. It's a good thing that they can spend money." Xia Lin turned around and picked up another letter and handed it to Tang Baoer: "This is the letter they sent me before."

"what is this?"

Tang Baoer opened the envelope and found some strange pictures inside. There were horizontal and vertical lines and all kinds of messy size markings on them. She really couldn't understand them.

And Xia Lin smiled and said, "New armor and new cannons."

"Armor? What kind of armor is this?"

Tang Baoer pointed at the square box-like armor and said, "This thing can be called armor. It must weigh several thousand kilograms, right?"

"Forty thousand jin." Xia Lin laughed. "Is it strange to have more than a hundred thousand jin of iron? They are already very frugal."

"Isn't this thing just a lump of iron?"

Xia Lin stroked his chin and said, "It's still an iron box now. They didn't say it's not an iron box, but the problem is that they will soon figure out how to make this iron box move."

"Forty thousand pounds? Move?"

"Yes." Xia Lin said mysteriously, "I have already reminded them in my reply letter and also gave them a few blueprints. It shouldn't take long before this 40,000-jin iron box can be moved."

Tang Baoer still couldn't figure out how this bulky thing could move. He had seen what those little bastards had made. It was a huge iron box that was about three meters long and more than ten meters wide. It was all made of iron plates put together and then nailed together with huge rivets. How could this thing move? How could it move?

But Xia Lin didn't care, and she didn't know what to say. She just sat there swinging her legs and waiting for Xia Lin to continue talking to her.

"Speaking of which, Tang Bao'er, can you eat something cold today?"

Tang Baoer looked up and down at Xia Lin who was trapped in the fence: "You are already locked up here, and you are still thinking about this?"

"Let me ask……"

"I'm going to spend the New Year in Beijing, so you don't have to worry."

"That's good..." Xia Lin laughed, "Put your hand in and give me a kiss."

The gatekeeper couldn't help but start laughing when he heard this. Tang Baoer was embarrassed. She said angrily and amusedly, "Stop messing around."

Xia Lin sighed and sat down: "We've been apart for so many years, isn't it okay for me to miss you?"

"Oh, you think of so many people. On the way here, I went to see the eldest young master and eldest young lady of the Dugu family. The more I looked at them, the more familiar they looked."

"Don't talk nonsense. This is not allowed." Xia Lin waved his hand quickly: "It's their business."

"Yes, yes, I got it." Tang Baoer opened the package she was carrying and said, "I brought you some cakes from Luoyang."

Xia Lin took the cake, looked up at Tang Baoer, then sighed and said, "It's been a long time. When I left Luoyang, you looked like this. You still look like this now. It seems that nothing has changed."

"Gansu and Shaanxi women age slowly." Tang Bao'er laughed at this moment: "Okay, I'll go back and have a rest first. I came to see you even though I didn't even have a home."

"The results of the official examination will be announced tomorrow, and I will be released from prison for good. Don't run around tomorrow, or I will let you have a taste of my iron rod."

Tang Bao'er ran away with her face covered, her face flushed. The two guys standing guard at the door laughed their heads off after Tang Bao'er left. Xia Lin ate some cakes while calling them, "Come over and have something to eat."

The two of them came forward and squatted outside the fence and started eating cakes together. One of them said, "It has to be my brother-in-law. If it were someone else, he would definitely not be able to marry another after becoming a prince consort."

According to seniority, the person who was speaking had to call Xia Lin "brother-in-law". After all, Xia Lin was under the supervision of the Zongzheng Temple, where all the people were royal relatives.

"You don't know how much effort I put into this. Can't you?"

"No, I couldn't. A few days ago, I fell in love with Yan Fenglan, the top prostitute in the brothel. I wanted to take her home as a concubine, but my father almost beat me to death."

"You're just dreaming, marrying a whore home. If I were your father, I would beat you too." Xia Lin spat, "I'm your sister's sworn sister. If you can bring that whore back to marry your wife, it would be considered as sisters marrying together. Can you do it?" "You're dreaming... My wife is from the Changlin House of the Dugu family. The Dugu family married the top prostitute in the brothel..."

"Then you are talking nonsense."

In fact, at the beginning, Xia Lin didn't know how large the branches of the aristocratic families were, but these days he really studied Gao Shilian's Records of Aristocratic Clans carefully. He was shocked when he saw it, and he realized that the power of the aristocratic families was really huge.

It can be said that the current Wei Dynasty and even the entire China are only one step away from the caste system. Before, he knew only one person from the Dugu family, Dugu Douya, but in the Aristocratic Family Records, the Dugu family is the first family under the royal family, with a family population of 1.85!
The unit is ten thousand!

The main family has a small population, while the branch families have a huge number of people. This is why it is difficult to eradicate the aristocratic family. If the main family is destroyed, the branch families will soon come to fill this position. No wonder there are such outrageous laws as "punishing nine clans and exterminating three clans". This law is obviously not used in ordinary people's families...

Moreover, the branches of these big families have penetrated into all aspects. For example, the more advanced ones include Emperor Jingtai. His mother was a commoner, but his half-sister was from the Dugu family and was the concubine of Emperor Hongbao. She gave birth to two sisters and a brother for Emperor Jingtai, but the brother died young. His two sisters married Yang Ying and Gao Fengchun respectively in their early years.

Yang Ying is Yang Guang, who is Emperor Yang of Sui in normal history. Gao Fengchun is the son of Gao Shilian’s younger brother, and Gao Shilian’s nephew.

As for the lower-level ones, for example, the largest restaurant in Jinling City, the boss behind the scenes is surnamed Dugu, and Lao Guo’s granddaughter-in-law is also the daughter of Dugu.

It is chaotic and huge, just like the laughable Europe. If it were not for the Northern Wei Dynasty's Taizu Tuoba Gui who unified and completely sinicized the country since he ascended the throne, this area would be no different from Europe now. There is a king every three steps and an emperor every five steps. There is nothing special that this princess kisses a frog and that princess plants a pea.

While they were chatting, Xia Lin suddenly saw Gao Yunjin pushing his sister Gao Yunmeng over. Gao Yunmeng had a puffy face, as if someone owed her a lot of money.

With someone else coming, the gatekeeper naturally couldn't continue chatting and hurried back to his post. Gao Yunmeng came to Xia Lin again and handed Xia Lin a big bag of things: "This is the dried flowers I grew myself. Can I use this to exchange it?"

Xia Lin opened the bag and was immediately filled with fragrance. He nodded with satisfaction: "See, this is the right attitude. What question did you want to ask?"

"I want to ask why women cannot take the imperial examinations or serve as officials in the court."

This question actually made Gao Yunjin quite embarrassed. He smiled awkwardly, bowed to Xia Lin, and turned away, leaving Gao Yunmeng sitting opposite Xia Lin.

"Yes, why not? As long as the law does not prohibit it, you can do it. There is no law that prohibits women from taking the imperial examination, right?"

"But why did no one agree when we wanted to take the imperial examination?"

Xia Lin simply sat on the ground, hugged his knees and said, "Because it's very simple, you are goods, how can goods become officials?"

"You! Why are you talking so harshly? Could it be that you are not born by your mother?"

"Yes, of course." Xia Lin smiled nonchalantly, "But the problem is that scolding me is useless. It's not me who treats you as commodities, it's your family. It's a habit passed down from generation to generation and it's also an unspoken rule. Let me ask you, when you said you wanted to take the exam, who stopped you?"

"My father, my brother."

"Then let me ask you again, are there any women around you who have successfully participated in the imperial examination?"

"No."

"The law does not prohibit it, but you don't have it around you. Why is that?"

Gao Yunmeng pursed her lips. She couldn't answer the question. Although many answers flashed through her mind, she felt that they were all unreliable in the end.

"Because you have your own logic, women should just get married and marry, and you can take the exam and get the official position you want."

“But there are none among the people either.”

"You all can't do it, so how could it be possible among the common people? Would your family watch a girl from an ordinary family pass the imperial examination? In short, this is not what you really need to get rid of."

Xia Lin patted her wheelchair, then pointed to the spot on his chest: "This is what's in your heart. If you want to change, you can't change yourself. No matter how strong you are, you can't change the reality. You need more people to stand with you. Do you understand?"

Gao Yunmeng frowned, but his expression was somewhat sad: "I'm just a cripple."

"No, you're not a cripple." Xia Lin shook his finger. "A cripple can still stand up, but you can't even stand up, so how can you be called a cripple?"

Surprisingly, Gao Yunmeng did not refute this time, but just lowered her head and cried.

"Cry! Crying is useless." Xia Lin suddenly came forward and said, "If crying was useful, there would be no disasters in the world, little sister. Wipe your tears for me, I told you to wipe your tears for me!"

(End of this chapter)