Humane Yongchang

Chapter 131

The soft sunlight in the early morning, through the fence window, cast a mottled time on Chen Sheng's sleeping young face.

He opened his mouth slightly, breathed evenly, and there was still a bit of crystal saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth, sleeping like a bit of a fool, not as shrewd and sinister as he was usually.

Zhao Qing was lying on the edge of the bed, his big eyes curved into crescents, and he carefully brushed his cheek with a small pinch of blue silk.

Chen Sheng opened his eyes dimly and glanced at her.

Zhao Qing hurriedly put away his smile and said softly, "Dalang, get up and eat..."

"Well."

Not wanting Chen Sheng to just look at her, he closed his eyes again, his hand fell on her waist naturally, he hugged her in front of him, and muttered vaguely: "Sister, don't make trouble, let me I'll get some sleep..."

He has been stretching a string every day for a while, and he has been busy until the early hours of the morning. Before dawn, he gets up again to practice and handle government affairs, like a clockwork machine.

When I got home, the string couldn't be stretched any longer.

Even the habit of getting up and practicing the exercises every day has been left behind by him today.

He was so tired.

Zhao Qing was hugged by him, and his body was immediately flabby, and his hands still tried hard to support his strong chest, supporting his soft noodle-like body, so as not to lie completely on Chen Sheng's body, with a handsome face facing the sky. On his face, his ears blushed with shyness, but he couldn't tell the joy.

"But, but..."

She raised her head hard, her face flushed as if steam was coming from the top, "There are many people waiting for you in the yard."

Chen Sheng, whose eyes were slightly closed, seemed to have fallen asleep again, and frowned impatiently.

Zhao Qingcai discovered that there was a wrinkle between his eyebrows at some point in time, he felt distressed and slowly loosened his raised hands, letting himself lie down on Chen Sheng's chest, then stretched out a hand and gently stroked him into a wrinkle. brows of the group.

Warm fingertips, like magic.

Chen Sheng's tangled brows were actually ironed out by her.

Chen Sheng snorted, his hands around Zhao Qing's waist tightened slightly, and he muttered without opening his eyes, "Let them wait..."

Zhao Qing was stunned for a while, and immediately understood that he was confused, shook his chest gently, and said softly: "Those people from the county office are waiting outside the gate, and the brothers at home are waiting in the courtyard. , You forgot, it was you who ordered last night to invite your brothers at home to have breakfast this morning and say you have something to tell them."

Chen Sheng still didn't open his eyes, but he sighed in melancholy, then let go of Zhao Qing's waist, raised his hands and said roguely: "Eldest sister, help me wash my face."

Zhao Qing's cheeks were flushed and he propped himself up from him. He glanced at him as a rogue, and lightly pinched his cheek in a fit of anger, and said angrily, "Little thing, it's getting worse and worse!"

Really light.

It's like he's afraid to touch the cold hair on his face.

Chen Sheng grinned, bared his big white teeth, and smiled confidently!
……

Last night, I took a good bath and slept.

Putting on a clean white robe today, Chen Sheng only felt refreshed, and the hard work and fatigue of the past few days were swept away.

He strolled to the front yard, and saw seventy or eighty high-spirited young people in their early twenties, down to the half-eldest boys in their twelfth, all in a mess in the courtyard, making a mess.

On the top of the courtyard wall, there are many old people who are worried about their children, sitting on the top of the wall with their hands folded, grinning like every honest old peasant staring at the rambunctious boys in the courtyard.

But when Chen Sheng saw those old men from a distance, he was both angry and funny.

The old saying is really not bad at all.

These are the best examples of these endlessly confused people.

Seeing Chen Sheng come out, the boys in the courtyard stopped one after another and greeted him respectfully and intimately.

"Big brother, we haven't practiced martial arts together for a few days."

"Boss Chen, why did you just get up at this time? We've been waiting for you for a long time for dinner."

People with the surname Chen are called eldest brother, and people with foreign surnames, regardless of age, are called Boss Chen.

Chen Sheng glanced at the steaming cauldrons outside the kitchen, and scolded with a sullen smile: "Eat, eat, you know how to eat, can you still make some progress... Big sister, it's dinner, talk while you eat!"

Zhao Qing, who was busy at the kitchen, responded from a distance and called the cook to bring out the steamed cake.

Seeing this, a group of boys happily gathered around the door of the kitchen, holding corn porridge in one hand and steamed cake in the other.

That is to say, there are often so many big-bellied men eating in the Chen Family Courtyard, and the pots and pans are well prepared.

Putting it in an ordinary family, just gathering these pots and pans is not enough, let alone the food consumed in this meal.

Soon.

There was a lot of snoring porridge in the Chen family compound.

Chen Sheng was sitting on the steps, surrounded by half-sized boys standing and squatting, the sound of snoring one after another made him feel like he was standing next to the pigsty eating breakfast.

He took a bite of the steamed cake, chewed it twice, and then drank a big mouthful of corn porridge that had been boiled with a little salt.

Really fragrant.

"Our family's situation in Chen County has been opened!"

While chewing, he said unhurriedly, "I called the big guys over today to arrange for you in the future."

That's why he said that the old people on the wall were pretending to be confused.

Why did he call his siblings at home today?

Those old men have the same mind as Der Spiegel.

But one by one, they just pretended not to know, lest their children be ignorant and suffer a secret loss.

This is one by one climbing up the wall, pretending to watch the fun...

Chen Sheng knew something.

The situation in Chen County has stabilized.

It is indeed time to sit in rows and divide the fruit.

these days.

He also selected some shrewd and capable uncles from his family, entrusted them with important responsibilities, and went to various counties to hold important positions.

But after all, the Chen family is a family of merchants of Wu Lishi, and there are very few uncles who have the ability to be independent, but very few.

Chen Sheng selected more people from Huai An Tang than from his own!
This approach is definitely indistinguishable.

Don't say anything else.

When was it that the uncles in the family rushed to the forefront?

Which time the sword was used, and no one in the family burned paper money?
But in the end, no one said anything.

Whether it is the pillar of the family died in battle.

It was Chen Sheng who promoted his staff from another family.

No one has ever said a sentence from the old Chen family.

No one came to Chen Sheng to ask for an official position.

They are all just silently arrange funerals.

Knowing that Chen Sheng was very busy, he didn't even notify him to come back for the funeral...

When people close to each other start a business together, two situations often occur.

The first is relying on the close relationship with the boss, all kinds of cheating, cheating, and coercion. If you feel that there is such a relationship, you should enjoy it!
The other is because I have a relationship with my boss outside of work. I work harder, abide by the rules and regulations more strictly, and always want to help my own people and fight for my own people.

Chen family...

Both are second.

But they don't say it.

Chen Sheng had to think.

Aside from the effort, there should be a reward.

The fact that these buddies have maintained a symbiotic relationship with the old Chen family for four generations is a great treasure in Chen Sheng's eyes!

As long as it is well developed, it is a great treasure that can be divided into kings when it is advanced, and a great treasure that can become rich and enemies when it retreats!
……

"There is a way to share the blessings and share the misfortunes. When our family was in trouble, the big guys tightened their belts together to endure it together!"

Chen Sheng sat on the steps and ate his breakfast with a big mouthful, and said with a big smile: "Now our family is on the rise, of course the big guys have to eat delicious food, drink spicy food together, and be prosperous and rich together!"

When the boys of the Chen family who were squatting in other places saw him speak, they all held pottery bowls the size of their own faces, squatted in front of him, slowed down the speed of eating and drinking, and listened to his speech attentively.

Seven or eighty people looked up at him, giving Chen Sheng a sense of sight that he had become a teacher and was teaching these half-children.

"However."

He put down the sea bowl in his hand, and slightly closed the smile on his face: "What our family will do in the future will be completely different from what our family did in the past."

"Our family used to make a living as a trader of goods. Once we have strengthened our bodies, become proficient in martial arts, and sharpened our knives, even if we live together, we can follow the caravan to carry goods."

"But in the future, all of us will be officials!"

"Being an official is divided into civil and military affairs."

"Being a civil servant, reading and literacy is only the most basic, and you have to be able to do things."

"For example, if you are asked to manage the granary in the county, you must at least know how much grain you manage, what types of grain you manage, which grains need to be protected from insects, which grains need to be basked frequently, how much food you have earned this year, and how much you have spent. How much food did you take, did you steal food from the warehouse behind your back, and did anyone make false accounts?"

"You said, if you can't even do these things well, can you manage the granary?"

"Being a military general, being able to fight and kill is only the most basic, and you have to be able to lead troops."

"First of all, you have to know how many soldiers under your command are thinking? If you don't know this, what if one day someone under you is sneakily stabbed with a black knife?"

"It's not enough to know what your soldiers are thinking. You still have to support yourself. How can you make them support you? First beat them, then give them food, warm clothes, full pay, and eat together. Live together and practice together, and treat them like brothers and sisters, so that when you fight, they will do their best for you!"

"Just knowing what the soldiers think, and being supported by the soldiers, is not enough."

"You still have to know how to train your soldiers, right? If you don't train them all to fight and kill like our men, all of them are soft-footed shrimp who can't even grasp a knife. You just bring a thousand, ten thousand, and another What's the use of it?"

"You still have to know how to fight, right? When the war started, there were people everywhere, and you couldn't hear anything. If you didn't know how to fight, it was a battle that you could win and come back alive. But if you lead your soldiers into the enemy's trap stupidly, wouldn't you be completely blind?"

He said casually.

After he finished speaking, he showed a wicked smile like a wolf grandmother: "Do you know these things?"

A group of half-sized boys, holding pottery bowls bigger than their own faces, looked at me, I looked at you, and shook their heads in unison.

"Know you won't be fine."

Chen Sheng clapped his palms, and the smile on his face became more intense: "No, then let's learn!"

"starting today."

"Brothers who are [-] years old and over, some enter the yamen and start as low-level officials, and some enter the Nanda Camp and start as soldiers, and they change every March."

"Today next year, come back and tell me whether you want to be a civilian or a military general. At that time, I will find a suitable position for you based on your comprehensive performance in the past year."

"There is no difference between civil and military, military generals are good as military generals, civil officials are wonderful, and what suits you is the best!"

"Let you be small officials and soldiers, that is not my purpose, nor is it your future, it is for you to learn, learn how to do things, learn how to lead troops, learn the world of people, you should see more, think more, and less Say!"

"By the way, all the brothers who have entered the county and Nandaying can't talk about it to the outside world. You are my brothers of Chen Sheng. If everyone respects you and holds you because of this, you will not learn the real thing. If you ask, you will make up an identity by yourself."

"Brothers who have not yet reached fifteen, will practice martial arts in the morning, go to school in the afternoon, learn a literature, and learn a day of martial arts. I will invite the old officials and old soldiers to teach you the way of being an official and the method of leading an army. The results of your studies will eventually be summarized into my hands in written form, and if you learn well, you will be able to become a key official when you enter each yamen, and you will be able to become a chief officer and a colony chief when you enter the Nanda Camp."

He stood up, his eyes slowly swept across the confused faces who didn't know what he was about to face, and his aunt smiled: "Brothers, I have given you the ladder to climb up. If you can get to that step, It depends on your own efforts... Your future will be in your own hands!"

A group of half-dozens haven't recovered yet, and the old people who are sitting on the wall with their ears eavesdropping have already raised their thumbs and said loudly: "Dalang, good work!"

"You are playing with a deflated calf, and you are still doing what you are doing, thank you brother soon!"

"Pig, are you a dog who is holding a golden rice bowl and can't bear to let go?"

"Darang, we think we're okay, and we can still contribute, do you think we can be a colony chief?"

Only then did a group of half-eldest boys come back to their senses and thank Chen Sheng happily holding pottery bowls.

Um, what is wrong with my eldest brother?

It must be for my own good!
Chen Sheng looked at the gang of old people on the wall who were giggling and giggling, and waved his hands angrily: "Okay, alright, after eating, hurry up and get out of the way, you should pack your bags, and you should buy the bamboo slips and knives. Bamboo slip carving knife, I still have business here!"

The officials of the county government have been waiting outside the Chen family compound all morning.

　There will be a chapter later to make up for yesterday's update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)