Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 396 Situation in Liaodong

Li Jing nodded slightly: "Tell me, if I ask someone to compile a dictionary that includes all words and meanings, do you think the person who compiled this dictionary will be famous in history?"

"Needless to say, this is a major event that will go down in history." Yang Ai continued without hesitation.

Li Jing smiled, nodded slightly, turned to Xiao Wu and said, "Xiao Wu, I will give you 20 taels of silver rewards for each of your sisters. Hehe, today's song is not in vain. It solves my problem." A problem."

"Ah?" Everyone was taken aback, not knowing what problems Li Jing could solve by listening to the music.

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Li Jing smiled. When he heard Yang Ai talk about allusions just now, he suddenly thought of the matter of preparing to compile a dictionary when he was talking with Xu Guangqi two days ago.

Compiling a dictionary is not an easy task. It requires not only financial resources, but also a lot of manpower, especially a large number of scholars.

Although the Hanlin Academy has many knowledgeable literati, it is obviously not enough to compile a dictionary only by these people.

And it is appropriate for people from Fushe to assist Kong Zhenyun and others in this work.These people have nothing to do all day long, they only know how to gossip, find a real business for them, and save them from talking nonsense all day long.

Of course, there are thousands of people in Fushe, and it is impossible to transfer all of them to the capital, but it only needs to transfer a hundred or so well-known people to Beijing, or even transfer a few hundred more, and the rest will not be worth mentioning.

But before transferring these people to Beijing, Li Jingde knew whether these people were willing to do this job, and it was not sweet to force them. If these people were not interested in this job, they would be passive and sabotage.

Compiling a dictionary is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. If these people continue to slack off their work, they will not know how long it will take to complete this work.

That's why Li Jing asked Yang Ai what the wishes of those literati were, and whether they would be interested in things like compiling a dictionary.

As for why he only asked Yang Ai and not others, it was because Li Jing saw that Yang Ai seemed a little hesitant when he mentioned Chen Zilong, and Li Jing could tell that among the people present, only Yang Ai was not a virgin. It is suspected that Yang Ai has a special friendship with Chen Zilong. If Yang Ai has a deeper relationship with Chen Zilong, then she should know more about the people in Fushe.

From Yang Ai's words, Li Jing can conclude that as long as people from Fushe are called to come to Beijing to compile dictionaries, these people will definitely agree and work hard.

In this way, it not only solves the problem of shortage of manpower, but also solves the problem of rehabilitating the society, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

But before things are done, Li Jingzi won't talk too much to Yang Ai and the others.

Seeing Xiao Wu sitting still, Li Jing frowned: "Why don't you go get the reward?"

"Marshal, how can there be so much cash in our house?" Xiao Wu smiled wryly.

Li Jing was taken aback: "Don't you even have more than 100 taels of silver at home?"

Xiao Wu smiled bitterly and said, "Marshal, we didn't bring any money when we came to Beijing. During this period of time, I asked the housekeeper to borrow money from Uncle Wu's shop."

"Ah? Why didn't you say it earlier?" Li Jing patted his head lightly, sighed and said, "It seems that Madam is not here, we don't know how to arrange these housework."

Looking at Xiaolian's four maids, Li Jing smiled wryly and said, "I guess you haven't paid your monthly bills these past few months, have you?"

Seeing Xiao Lian and the others shake their heads, Li Jing smiled apologetically: "I'll ask someone to send some money later, alas, there is no one in charge at home, and even things like monthly money are ignored."

Xiao Lian hurriedly said: "The commander rescued us from a place like Jiaofangsi, and he also took care of food and shelter, so there is no need to give us a monthly fee."

Li Jing shook his head: "You are all girls, don't you need money to buy rouge and gouache? Seeing that you don't wear makeup all day long, you probably don't have money to buy these things. There are also clothes, and I haven't seen you change them in the past few months." What kind of clothes do you wear, how can a girl not have a few beautiful clothes? Sigh, I don’t usually pay attention to these things, but I have made you feel wronged.”

"The Marshal's kindness to his servants is as great as mountains and seas, how can the servants be wronged!" Xiao Lian hurriedly said.

Li Jing shook his head, sighed, and said, "What kindness do I have for you? In fact, it is because of me that you have fallen into this situation. Letting your family members out is just doing things according to the law. As for keeping you in the mansion , It is also because you are temporarily homeless, and I am also somewhat used to having you take care of me, so it is just selfishness."

"Marshal, to tell you the truth, I used to hate Marshal, thinking that you caused our family to be ruined, but after arriving in the mansion, I saw that you are worried about state affairs every day, and you are still dealing with government affairs late at night. Even your life is not the same as yours. Your status is far from matching. The servants and servants say in private that as long as the elders in the family have [-]% of your honesty and diligence, they will not be in the situation they are today, and the disasters in the servants' family are actually their own fault." Xiaolian said.

Li Jing smiled and waved his hands: "I'm not as good as you say."

Xiao Lian sighed and said: "The commander is too modest, a man like the commander is a man who stands up to the heaven and earth, it is a blessing from the previous life for the servant to be a girl by the commander's side, the servant would rather not marry in this life, I will be the handsome girl for the rest of my life."

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "That's okay, girls will marry after all, if you will be my girls for the rest of your life, then I won't be guilty."

Xiao Lian hurriedly said: "This servant is speaking from the heart."

Li Jing pondered for a while and said, "You don't want to marry Zhang Ao? If you don't want to, I won't force you."

Xiao Lian hurriedly shook her head: "The servant knows that the commander is doing it for the benefit of the servant, and the servant also knows that the commander must have told Mr. Zhang. If the servant refuses to agree, it will damage the prestige of the commander."

Li Jing sighed softly: "Little Lian, you will gradually get to know Zhang Ao in the future, and when you do, you will know that the marriage I arranged for you is for your own good."

Xiaolian nodded slightly.

At this moment, a person outside the door suddenly said with a smile: "Hahaha, brother is so excited, he actually drank at home by himself, I wonder if it's time for brother to come?"

While talking, one person pushed open the door, and Li Jing looked up, but it was Ma Wu.

Li Jing was overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and waved: "Fifth brother, when did you come back? Come and sit down, Xiao Lian, and get your fifth uncle tableware. Xiao Wu, pour wine for your fifth uncle."

Only then did Ma Wu realize that Li Jing was drinking with all the maids in the mansion, and he couldn't help being startled, pointing at the girls and asking, "Huh? Commander, who are you?"

Li Jing smiled, took Ma Wu's arm and said: "At this time in the past, the brothers all gathered at my house. This year, everyone is not with me. I feel a little bored. I asked a few girls to accompany me to drink a few glasses of wine."

Ma Wuwen sighed softly, and said with emotion: "Brother, brothers are all busy, so don't be surprised if you didn't come back to wish you New Year's greetings."

Li Jing shook his head: "It's okay, aren't you coming back? You alone are enough."

Seeing Ma Wu coming, Xiao Wu smiled and got up to give up his seat and said, "Uncle Wu, sit here with me, I'm already full."

"Stinky boy, I want to run away if I don't have a drink with Uncle Wu. You sit in your seat, and I'll sit next to Big Brother. You chicks will pull a chair over." Ma Wu laughed.

Seeing a few maidservants get up, Ma Wu chuckled and said to Li Jing in a low voice: "Brother, is there no sister-in-law here? If there is, Ma Wu would be rude."

"You're talking nonsense, but you were really rude just now. This girl Xiaolian will be our younger brother and sister in the future. I have already promised her to Brother Zhang Ao." Li Jing pointed to Xiaolian who was holding the tableware to Ma Wu. laughed.

"Ah?" Ma Wu was taken aback when he heard that, turned his head to look at Xiao Lian, shook his head and clicked his mouth: "Damn it, Zhang Ao is so lucky, let me tell you, Zhang Ao owes his elder brother a lot in his life. Too much."

Li Jing shook his head and said, "What do you owe? Don't you think about how much brother Zhang Ao has done for everyone? What I gave him is what he deserves."

Ma Wu nodded, then turned to Xiao Lian and said, "Miss Xiao Lian, you are so lucky, Zhang Ao's character is just like this among our brothers!"

As he said that, Ma Wu stretched out his thumb, and then continued: "It goes without saying that this kid is loyal to the commander-in-chief, and he is also very kind to his wife. What is there a saying called a phase?"

Li Jing smiled and said, "Respect each other as guests."

"Yes, respect each other as guests. His grandma, I can't always remember this sentence, how can the couple be as polite as guests?" Ma Wu shook his head and said.

"Don't be ashamed of yourself here, these girls are all learned people." Li Jing said with a smile.

"Hehe, you forced me to learn all the knowledge in my Ma Wu's stomach. I have nothing to pretend in front of you. They can laugh if they want to." Ma Wu said with a smile.

Li Jing shook his head with a smile, picked up the wine glass and handed it to Ma Wudao: "Stop talking nonsense, drink quickly."

Ma Wu took the wine glass without being polite, drank it down with a sip, put down the wine glass and continued: "I haven't finished talking yet, Miss Xiaolian, take good care of our brothers Zhang Ao in the future, don't worry, that kid Zhang Ao Wait until my wife is gone, but I won't have a chance to drink with my younger siblings in the future, so take advantage of you as your elder brother's maid now, come, pour me a glass of wine."

When Xiao Lian heard this, her face flushed with shame, but she respectfully offered Ma Wu a glass of wine.

Ma Wu picked up the wine glass and said to Li Jing: "Brother, you are the one who lifted us brothers up to this day. Ma Wu doesn't know how to talk, so I can only toast you."

Li Jing picked up his wine glass and said with a smile: "Fifth Brother, we have known each other for ten years. You and I have been in love with each other for the past ten years. What's the point of talking about this?"

As he spoke, he raised his wine glass, and drank it down in one gulp.

He waved his hand, pointed to Xiao Lian and the others and said, "Fifth Brother is not an outsider, so don't be restrained, drink whatever you want as before, and sing if you want, just so that Fifth Brother can also feast his ears."

Xiao Lian hurriedly said: "Then I will sing a tune for Fifth Master."

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

……

With these little girls to cheer, Li Jing and Ma Wu were in a good mood, and after a while, they drank a jar of wine.

Seeing that the faces of all the girls were drinking like peach blossoms, Li Jing smiled and said: "You all go down and rest, I have something to say to Fifth Brother."

When the girls heard the words, they hurriedly got up, and bowed to Li Jing and Ma Wu to leave.

After the girls retreated, Li Jing looked at Ma Wu and said, "What's the situation in Liaodong now?"

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