Chapter 19 Yang Family Classroom

In fact, he shouldn't be able to enter the west wing because it was not Yang Yunyan's own room. Yang Yunxue and Wang Daya also lived there.

Men and women should be separated by a strict separation. If the brother-in-law ran into his sister-in-law's room, I don't know how many people would gossip about it if this got out.

Yang Zhengshan naturally wouldn't care about these things, but he couldn't ignore the damage to Yang Yunxue's reputation.

"Don't stay in the room too long. Help your brother sweep the snow later."

A son-in-law is half a son. It would be a shame to make good use of his free labor. Now that he is here, we cannot let him sit idle.

It’s okay to look after your wife, but you also have to do this work.

Humph, this is the advantage of being a father-in-law.

"I understand, Dad!" Jiang He responded without turning his head.

This guy probably wanted to piss off his wife, so he rushed into the room without caring about anything. Fortunately, Yang Yunxue and the others knew he was coming, and opened the door before he entered.

"Brother-in-law, my eldest sister is inside, you two talk first."

Yang Yunxue said with a smile on her face, and at the same time she brought Wang Daya out to give the couple space to talk.

Jiang He and Yang Yunyan were talking in the room, while Yang Yunxue and Wang Daya went to the east wing of the main house.

On the warm kang, the two little ones were lying on thick quilts, babbling in baby language.

Wang and Li were already busy in the kitchen. Preparing meals for more than a dozen people was not an easy job. The two sisters-in-law worried a lot about the family's food and clothing every day.

However, the two of them did not have any complaints in their hearts, and they even enjoyed it.

Having enough food and warm clothes, and having meat for every meal, these were the days they could only dream of before, but now that they have come true, they are so happy.

The two of them prepared a table of food. Jiang He stayed for lunch and went to Jiangjia Village with Yang Zhengshan in the afternoon.

The two clerks left behind by the county government were specifically responsible for handling the fields in Jiangjia Village. They had also heard of Yang Zhengshan, so they were very gentle in their attitude towards Yang Zhengshan, without any arrogance at all.

When they learned that Yang Zhengshan wanted to buy 100 acres of land, they became even more enthusiastic towards Yang Zhengshan.

In such a cold weather, who doesn’t want to go home and hug his wife?

They had long wanted to return to the county town, but the fields in Jiangjia Village could not be sold, so they could not go back.

Yang Zhengshan's purchase of 100 acres of land was equivalent to helping them complete half of their task, so they were naturally more enthusiastic.

The land buying process went smoothly. Yang Zhengshan acquired a large piece of land near Yangjia Village, including 40 acres of paddy fields and 60 acres of dry fields, for a total of 440 taels.

He got the land deed on the same day, and when Yang Zhengshan returned to Yangjia Village, he had become the largest landlord in the village.

Upon learning that Yang Zhengshan had bought one hundred acres of land, the Yang family members were naturally delighted.

For ordinary people, fields are the foundation. Having fields means having food, and having food means they can survive.

Although the Yang family has begun to prosper, Yang Mingcheng and his family have not changed their mindset and still consider themselves ordinary farmers.

In response to this, Yang Zhengshan said that it was time to start classes in the Yang family’s small classroom.

No matter whether you are big or small, everyone come to class.

Practice martial arts in the morning and study in the afternoon.

Yang Zhengshan gave the lectures personally. From Yang Mingcheng and Wang Shi to Lin Zhan and Wang Daya, even the little kid Yang Chengye was grabbed by Yang Zhengshan to attend the class.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan was not talking about the Four Books and Five Classics or Confucian classics. He did not know these and could not have explained them even if he was asked to.

He was teaching mathematics. As a college student majoring in engineering cost, it was easy for him to teach some simple mathematics.

In addition to mathematics, Yang Zhengshan also teaches other things, such as bookkeeping, economics, management and other more practical things.

However, in order not to appear to be a maverick, he only selectively talked about certain things, and some of his words were rather obscure.

There is no complete course, he just talks about whatever comes to his mind.

Sometimes he would take Yang Mingcheng and others to the county town for observation and research. He visited everything from taverns to teahouses, cloth shops, grain shops, and even roadside stalls, wealthy families, and the county government.

Observe other people's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and study the business transactions of various shops.

Yang Zhengshan also specially borrowed some unimportant files from the county government from Lu Zhaoqi for Yang Mingcheng and others to read and study.

This process is not only a learning process for Yang Mingcheng and others, but also a learning process for Yang Zhengshan.

The learning progress of Yang Mingcheng and others was also different. For example, the three brothers of Yang Mingcheng were already literate and could be directly taught some simple knowledge, while the two sisters-in-law Wang and Li could only start from recognizing words.

I accompanied Yang Zhengshan to the county town for observation and research, mainly focusing on the three brothers Yang Mingcheng and Lin Zhan.

At the beginning, Yang Zhengshan personally took them to observe and study, but after a few times, Yang Zhengshan let them go on their own.

After a month, all four of them had made great progress.

That day, on the way back to Yangjia Village from the county town, Yang Zhengshan sat on the ox cart, looking at his three brothers and Lin Zhan beside him.

"Come on, tell me what you feel today!"

"Boss, you come first!"

Yang Mingcheng, who was driving the car in the front, said quickly: "Dad, I found that the best business to do is the cloth shop!"

"Why?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"I have observed other shops before, such as restaurants. There are two restaurants in the county town, but there are not many customers on weekdays. Maybe it's because of the cold weather. In short, there are very few customers."

"There are many customers in the grain shop, but the grain price is relatively stable and the profit is relatively low."

"The profits of drugstores and clinics are very high, and there are an especially large number of patients during this period. However, the business of drugstores and clinics is closely related to the medical skills of the doctors in charge, so they are not suitable for us to run."

"The last one is the cloth shop. The colder the weather, the better the business. People need cotton clothes and need to buy cotton cloth and cotton from the cloth shop."

Yang Mingcheng slowly spoke of his observations and conclusions, occasionally looking back at Yang Zhengshan's expression.

Yang Zhengshan nodded in satisfaction and said, "Your observation is correct, but you overlooked one point, that is, Anning County does not produce cotton. The cloth and cotton in the cloth shop are all shipped from other places. The business transactions involved are not something that ordinary people can do."

It is not easy to do business in Anning County.

Although Anning County is poor, those shops all have backgrounds.

In particular, businesses like cloth shops are not run by local people from Anning County.

"For our family, a cloth shop is not a suitable choice. On the contrary, the profit is relatively low. However, a grain shop is the best choice because it is stable."

"But those grain shops are backed by big landlords and big families. It would be difficult for our family to open a grain shop alone!"

Yang Zhengshan said.

He had considered all these, otherwise he would not have bought the land.

As a modern man, how could he not know that doing business is the fastest way to make money? However, without any foundation and background, it is nonsense to want to do business.

(End of this chapter)