Humane Yongchang

Chapter 112
The third day of August.

Chen Sheng returned to Chen County.

When he arrived home, Chen Shou had already led more than half of his family and [-] soldiers in red out of Chen County the day before.

They will start from Shangcai, go south through Pingyu, arrive at Xincai, turn east, and run to Ruyin.

Then turn to the north and pass through Xingxian, Xinyang, Kuxian and Tuoxian.

Finally, take Yangxia and Guling to return to Chen County.

When it falls on the map, it takes Chen County as the center and circles the entire Chen County... Except for Xiang County, which is not moved, the other ten counties are all in the plan.

Every time they go, there will be a local Qinglong Gang who will provide them with target information, logistical support, human transportation, and possible personnel supplements.

It can be said that Chen Shou and the others do not need to worry about the rest except for the procedure of "borrowing food".

Even if you don't carry any baggage, and you only carry rations for two or three days on the road, it's not a big problem!

Chen Shou left home.

The power of the merchant Chen family once again fell into the hands of Chen Sheng.

The grain of the farm outside the city has been harvested, and there is no need to waste manpower guarding the empty farm.

Therefore, the first thing Chen Sheng did when he returned home was to move all the tenants in the farm to Panlong Village, where they would take on the important task of logging and building houses and continuing to expand the scale of Panlong Village.

And many young men who originally guarded the farm, all withdrew to Chen County to take up the responsibility of protecting the old, young, women and children at home.

After doing this, he began to really push forward the two things he planned before going to Guling.

The first one is recruiting!

He handed over this matter to Chen Qiu, who returned to Chen County with him. Through the power of Tiger Hall, he selected young and strong people from all the refugees around Chen County, secretly sent them to Panlong Village, and handed them over to Chen San Grandpa practice.

This matter is not difficult, the number of refugees gathered in Chen County has exceeded [-], and it is unknown how many refugees are on their way to Chen County.

As long as the time is a little longer, it is not a problem to select five thousand young adults.

It was just right for the Tiger Hall, a local snake whose tentacles spread throughout Chen County, to control this matter.

Chen Sheng also instructed Chen Qiu that this matter should be carried out secretly in the name of expanding the manpower of his Tiger Hall, and that the task should be split up, bypassing the incense owners in each square city, and directly to the specific red stick.

Moreover, when dividing tasks, they must also divide the responsibility area, strictly ordering them to only select young people within their own area, and not to publicize this matter, even among brothers from the same family.

Although this move still cannot completely guarantee that the wind will not leak from the Tiger Hall, but as long as Chen Qiu keeps an eye on it, it can greatly reduce the possibility of leaking the wind and delay the time for the wind to leak!

As long as he can delay the leak of the rumors until after the Yellow Turbans have conquered Yanzhou, even if it leaks, he will not be afraid!

Second, ask for an official!

No one in the Chen family can handle this matter, and Chen Sheng can only do it himself.

There are many advantages to wearing official clothes.

One can avoid the attack of the county government.

Second, it can justifiably take charge of a group of armed forces.

In the third year, you can also gather a wave of wool from the Great Zhou Dynasty before the Great Zhou Dynasty Building is about to collapse.

The position Chen Sheng was aiming for was Cao Ye, the thief among the two chief officers of the county commander, and Cao Ye, the thief among the soldiers.

The two chief officers of the county commander are both officers with a rank of five hundred stone, and the next level up is the "official" of the eight classics!

The difference between the two officers is that one is in charge of the county soldiers and the other is in charge of detecting thieves in the county.

According to Chen Sheng's ideas, he would definitely want to take charge of the commanding officer's position as Cao Ye, the three thousand commander soldiers and the matching bow and crossbow armor, but it's a big piece of fat!
However, the current soldier, Cao Ye, Li You, is the young patriarch of the Li clan and is in his prime.

If you want to squeeze him away, not to mention whether it can be done or not, even if it can be done, the price will be too great!
On the other hand, Wang Sheng, the thief of Cao Ye, was the younger brother of the former county commander Wang Xiong.

Although Wangjiazhuang has thousands of fertile fields and over [-] households, its wealth and power can be called the number one in Chen County!

However, compared to the Li family who has stood in Chenjun for 600 years, with intricate connections and unfathomable soft power, Chen Sheng is really not afraid of Wangjiazhuang.

Besides, this kind of grabbing for official positions is a common thing among the big families. Winning or losing depends on your ability, and there is a high probability that it will not rise to the point of confrontation.

……

At first, in the face of Chen Sheng's request, the head of the Chen family in Huaiantang refused. He felt that this could not be done... A businessman's son without any background in the family, without any official accumulation, directly took the post of the third one after one county. There are very few such examples in the entire Yanzhou and even the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, let alone Chen County.

However, Chen Sheng's repeated visits and repeated requests were unable to hold back his affection, and he agreed to try to help him operate, but he made no guarantees in the end.

For half a month, the Chen family in Huaiantang would hold small banquets every day to invite the heirs of various official families in the county to a banquet and introduce Chen Sheng to them.

In fact, most of these people, Chen Sheng, had met on the night that Lu Zheng held a banquet at the county government office.

In addition to the previous episode, the five alliance trilogy headed by the businessman Chen family, and their outstanding performance in the battle west of Mogou Road, many aristocratic families in Chen County have the intention to make friends with the businessman Chen family.

As a result, after meeting Chen Sheng, these second-generation officials were very enthusiastic.

After the small banquets, Chen Sheng's relationship with the second generation of officials and officials was really as good as mixing oil with honey.

You are a world brother.

My brother.

Sometimes they get together to perform martial arts.

Sometimes I sit and talk about books.

There is no estrangement between the official family and the merchant family.

Chen Sheng knew that Huai Antang was passing on the second generation of these officials to convey to the family behind them Chen Sheng's intention to become an official.

And the enthusiastic attitude of the second generation of many officials actually represents the family behind them, saying to Chen Sheng: It's okay, you can stand up and choose, we will support you!
This is for him!

The system of selecting officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty was the parallel between the official system and the inspection system.

Not to mention the official system of the world, Chen Sheng's father is not an official, and there is no official position for Chen Sheng to inherit.

Therefore, if Chen Sheng wanted to become an official, he could only follow the inspection system.

The census system was originally a kind of election system that took off the pants and farts and came up with these officials' families to control the officialdom.

Because most of the occasions where the scrutiny system is used, the speaker will first say the sentence "outward actions do not avoid hatred, inner actions do not avoid relatives", and then take advantage of the situation to say the names of their cousins ​​and nephews.

And most of the time, the real interest transaction has already been completed before the name is uttered.

So, when the name was uttered, it was naturally a sound of praise of "high morality, outstanding talent, and noble character".

Even the owner of that name is actually a scumbag who has all the five poisons and does not recognize six relatives!
And those who really have the ability and character but come from poor backgrounds simply cannot appear on such occasions.

Even the name can't be passed to the ears of those adults...

……

For more than half a month, Chen Sheng soaked in these large and small banquets.

Every day I say something insincere.

Drink some unbearable alcohol every day.

Running between the delicacies of mountains and seas, the beauty of flowers, praise and praise, and the death of starvation, dire straits, weeping and wailing.

It's like going back and forth between heaven and hell.

The strong sense of tearing made him feel an absurd sense of unreality.

It is often unclear whether I am at the peak of the prosperous world or before the troubled world...

Finally, on the eve of the end of the summer, the head of the Chen family in Huaiantang, feeling that the heat was coming, contacted a few well-known officials and family heads, and jointly recommended Chen Sheng to the county government as a fake thief Cao Ye.

The so-called fake thief Cao Ye means to temporarily replace, temporarily lead, and replace the thief Cao Ye.

This is because Chen Sheng, as the son of a merchant, made an extraordinary compromise as a county official.

It also gives Wangjiazhuang a step down.

Chen Sheng felt that this should not be a big problem based on the warm and sincere attitudes of many second-generation officials towards him the older he got.

Just go home safely and wait for the notification.

In the end, it was the county governor Xiong Wan who invited him to go to the county government for a banquet.

……

"Dalang, will this be fraudulent?"

Chen Dao stood beside Chen Sheng, looking at the invitation card in his hand, his expression was a little dignified: "Is it possible that the second master and the others have leaked the news?"

More than half a month has passed, and Chen Shou and his party have borrowed grain from Shangcai, Pingyu, Xincai, Ruyin, and Xianxian counties, and the grains they have sent back to Panlong Village have exceeded [-] stone. .

Today, even in Chen County, there are rumors that "a group of rogues are burning, killing, looting and looting in Chen County, targeting big families".

Chen Sheng pondered for a few breaths, closed the brocade invitation card in his hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle Dao, if the county government sends three thousand county soldiers to come and take me, can you and your uncles protect me to break through?"

Chen Dao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "If I am promoted to the day after tomorrow, I may be able to protect you from the [-] county soldiers to break through by means of the combined attack method, but now... [-] county soldiers who advance and retreat are enough! "

"Isn't that enough?"

Chen Sheng said with a smile: "If the county government around him wants to take me, we can't escape if we go or not, so what are you afraid of?"

To be honest, he couldn't figure out why Xiong Wan invited him to the banquet.

It stands to reason that although the thief Cao Ye is a high-ranking official, but after all, he is only the assistant officer of the county commander, and the commander commander can make a decision.

Moreover, he had been drinking with Zhou Zhang's son a few days ago. From his tone, Zhou Zhang should have no objection to this matter... Buying one with five hundred shi of refined grains does not object, but Chen Sheng has been in pain for a long time!

Even if the county government wanted to go through the procedures and inspect him in person, Zhou Zhang should have come forward and summoned him to the county government.

What if Xiong Wan came forward in person?
Is the sheriff so relaxed?

Do you have to take care of the big shit?

But after Chen Sheng reviewed what was going on under him, he really couldn't find a reason why Xiong Wan wanted to attack him!

As far as what he was doing, no matter what happened, there would only be two results!
Or, the county government immediately mobilized three thousand county soldiers and rushed directly into Changning Square to get people.

Or, the county magistrate pretended not to know, and secretly controlled everyone in the Chen family, and then waited for Chen Shou to return to Chen County to throw himself in the net.

What's the deal with inviting him to dinner?

Shouldn't it be a showdown with him?

"Let's go and see, what kind of dog skin plaster is sold in the gourd he bears!"

Chen Sheng put the invitation card in his hand and the sharp sword into Chen Dao's arms, turned around and strode towards the ear room, shouting as he walked: "Eldest sister, what you did for me a few days ago. What about a blue dress?"

Zhao Qing stuck his head out from the kitchen and looked at him with some distress: "Are you going out again? Chicken soup is stewing for you in the pot!"

Chen Sheng: "I'm going to the county government office, keep the chicken soup for me and drink it when I get back!"

When Zhao Qing heard this, he wiped his hands and walked out of the kitchen with a smile on his face: "The clothes are in my room, I'll fetch them for you!"

……

In the evening, the county government.

At the lakeside of the lotus pond where Lu Zheng held the Yan Hui before, Chen Sheng met Xiong Wan, the long-known governor of Chen County.

A thin old man with charitable features.

Just looking at the appearance, it's hard to believe that such a thin old man with benevolent eyes and benevolent features would be a traitor who shields Taiping Dao from feeding demons and colludes with Taiping Dao to surround and kill Lu Zheng.

But it is precisely because he knew the details of this thin old man that Chen Sheng ate like walking on thin ice during the whole banquet. Every time he said a word, he had to go through it three times in his mind before he dared to say it out.

Very few people were present at the banquet.

Apart from Chen Sheng, there are only Xiong Wan and Xiong Qi, the son of Xiong Wan.

Xiong said very little after finishing the banquet, except when Chen Sheng greeted him before the banquet, he smiled and nodded and said "Young Junyan", and he didn't say anything again.

When it was Xiong Qi, he sat beside Chen Sheng very amiably, and kept asking him for drinks, chatting about the scenery and food in Chen County, and the gossip and interesting stories between various noble families.

This kind of behavior made Chen Sheng even more suspicious, and he muttered in his heart, this is not a Hongmen banquet...

While watching the song and dance.

Xiong Qi suddenly leaned into Chen Sheng's ear and said in a low voice, "Brother Sheng, you did a really neat job with the Chen family in the north of Tuoxian County. I heard that Lu Zheng's unworthy son has forgotten his ancestry. , when I saw the handwriting you left, my face turned green!"

When Chen Sheng heard the words, he put down his chopsticks in astonishment and said to Xiong Qi, "Eldest brother, Gaotang acted rudely, but what is the offense against Master Lu? If so, please let the eldest brother inform the younger brother so that the younger brother can go home and ask his father to ask someone to go to Changyi. , looking for Lord Lu to plead guilty."

Xiong Qi looked at Chen Sheng fixedly, and suddenly said with a smile: "I treat brother Sheng with the courtesy of a cousin, why does brother Sheng treat him like a cousin?"

Chen Sheng shook his head again and again in confusion: "How dare you dare, but it is the words of the eldest brother, the younger brother has no idea at all, how to discuss with the eldest brother?"

Xiong Qi put down his chopsticks, raised the wine bottle, and shook his head again and again: "Brother Sheng is not refreshing, not refreshing!"

At the right time, when the song was over, the dancer at the center of the venue bowed and stepped back.

Xiong Wan, who was wrapped in a cloak above, suddenly said, "Chen Jia'er~"

Chen Sheng hurriedly got up and bowed: "Xiaomin is here."

Xiong Wan Yaoyao waved: "I told you, this is a family banquet, so you don't need to be too polite... Depending on your age, you haven't reached the crown yet? Have you ever been married?"

Chen Sheng's heart was condensed, and he pretended to be stupid: "Mr. Qi, Xiaomin was weak when he was young, and Gaotang was afraid that Xiaomin would not grow up, so he married a wife for Xiaomin, and Zhuojing has been in my house for many years, taking care of housework and supporting the elders. Very kind."

The voice fell, and the banquet was silent for a long time.

After a long while, Chen Shengcai heard Xiong Wan above him smiling softly: "It's really a childish talk..."

　I'm not very comfortable, I'm still stuck, and it's very difficult to write, so there is only this chapter... Rong Fengyun rests for a day or two, and the six chapters that owe the three bosses will be delivered as soon as possible.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)