Chapter 97 Concentric
There are now five or six martial soldiers like the Lin brothers living in these ten small courtyards.
The three servants were responsible for washing clothes, drying bedding, and sweeping the room and courtyard. Of course, they were also responsible for picking vegetables and cooking. They would cook a few kilograms of pork for the elderly and children to eat every few days.
Relatively speaking, it is quiet and the scenery is not bad. The beaches, dense forests, shrubs, reeds, and the large vegetable fields behind it all make people feel at ease and quiet.
Of course, there are also shortcomings. Watering manure in nearby vegetable fields, the taste of pig pen and chicken houses sometimes comes with the wind, but for the farmers, this taste is not worth mentioning.
The two brothers walked along the path into the yard. The green bricks were covered with clean floors, and the yard was quite neat and clean. The yard was also quite large. The ropes blocked were hung with freshly washed robes.
Speaking of which, the conditions and environment are much better than the previous Lin family. Lin Da and Lin Lao Er both nodded to each other after seeing it.
They took a leave, and only half an hour later, and they didn't delay it. When they heard something was happening in the east wing, they bumped into it.
A dozen elderly people and children gathered around the table to eat. Like Wu Zu, they were half white beige and half yellow rice, and everyone ate very sweetly.
The dishes are a dish of steamed fish on each small table and a dish of boiled vegetables. Although there are only two dishes, the best is salt. Whether the elderly and children are eating with a bowl, the weather is cold, but the stove is very warm. With the aroma of the food, it makes people feel warm and pleasant.
Several servants sat aside and chatted. When they saw the Lin brothers coming in, a servant smiled and said, "The eldest brother is here to see you Azu again."
"Yes." Boss Lin said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work in the He family's sister-in-law."
"Boss Lin, you have become a martial servant, have you even read a book?" The woman surnamed He smiled and said, "Now she is more and more able to speak."
"No?" Boss Lin thought for a while, stroked his chin and said, "I feel the same way as my own."
Lin Laoer said: "Although we don't know a few words and have no time to learn, every night there are lecturers who tell stories about the loyalty and heroic stories of ancient and modern times. After hearing too much, I really feel that I have knowledge."
The two brothers said, sitting next to their grandfather. Dad Lin had been moist in recent times and his face had gained weight a few times. Although he was old and confused, his mind was sometimes clear and sometimes confused, his grandson still recognized him. When the old man saw his two grandsons sitting over, he was panicked and asked to find a bowl to prepare food for his grandson.
The meal in front of me was already rich enough in the eyes of the old man. I ate comfortably at home, but I forgot about my two grandchildren.
In the eyes of the elderly, their son is still like a child and needs to be taken care of by themselves, but they don’t know that their family is already too old and really needs their children and grandchildren to take care of themselves.
Boss Lin's eyes were red, and he saw that his brothers were almost in the same situation. He finally held down his grandfather at the moment, which showed that his brothers were already full.
Seeing that Dad Lin seemed to believe but not believe, the two brothers put out more than ten chunks of coins, Huang Cancan piled up a table of copper coins, and General Lin received the salary and finally said to his grandfather: "Don't worry, Azu, I originally said that our Lin family was going to be the last one, and it was as poor as before. Who would marry a daughter to our family? Now, within one year, my second brother will definitely be able to get married. I will also marry a wife in two years and come to serve you together."
"It's unnecessary to serve me." Dad Lin was happy that he was sober. He shook his head apart. He said, "Boss, you marry first, and then the second. Don't spend money randomly. Save money to repair the old house, hurry up and get married. I think the prince is a good person. The old man who raises me will give you all the money. If you marry a wife in the future, make sure you want to serve the prince, and don't be grateful and don't repay you!"
Of course, the two brothers were alone. Before leaving, they specially left a deposit of money for the He family's sister-in-law to keep. It was clear that when a peddler came over, they would buy some snacks for their grandfather to enjoy. If the grandfather refused, they would say that it was rewarded by the prince.
The sister-in-law of the He family took the money and said, "This is a small matter. If your brothers build a house, they will come to find her sister-in-law. If there is a marriage for you, then."
The two brothers thanked each other, and were happy and melancholy. I wonder if my grandfather could really last until the day when the two brothers became biological and had children?
"Second," On the way back to the barracks, Boss Lin suddenly stopped, looked into his brother's eyes, and said seriously: "Azu told us to be conscience and be kind to you, you must remember."
"I can't afford it." Lin Laoer said: "Anyway, we have to practice seriously, fight in battles, and fight to the death."
"If it were before," said Lin Lao Da: "I will definitely advise you to save your life first, and then talk about something else, but now I want to advise you to be loyal and brave in the event of things, to be the first, to be the first to make contributions, to be the first to serve, to be the first to save your life, to be the second to save your life. If I die, you take care of the elderly, and you die, and I will have me. If we all die, he will not suffer. After marrying a wife and staying, there is nothing to say. If you are kind, if you don't want to serve, who will our brother become?"
"That's the reason." Lin Laoer nodded repeatedly.
In fact, the two brothers themselves did not fully think that many of these words were heard when they were listening to the preaching of loyal and wise ministers at night, such as eating the food of the people, you have to fight for the people. Otherwise, they will work hard all year round and you are practicing in the camp, so why do you come from? It’s nothing more than protecting the country and the people so that you won’t be stabbed by others. Every night, you will say that every battalion, the capital, and the whistle, and you will find a sensible person to be a propagandist. After the training is not so hard, you will talk for about half an hour every night.
This is another form of brainwashing, but it works quite well. The martial arts soldiers all listened to stories, sat cross-legged on the ground and listened with relish. After listening, they yawned and went to wash and sleep.
After a few months, not only some of the thoughts were deeply embedded in Wu Zu's mind, but even his way of thinking and conversation changed a lot.
Xu Zixian has no way to teach the martial arts soldiers to read and write. Those young generals are the focus of his cultivation. Reading and writing, reading military books, and reading history books. These methods are to cultivate military generals who know literacy and integrity.
Only when a general can understand the righteousness when he is able to be literary can he know the truth. This statement is not Xu Zixian's invention, but the words of Taizu of the Great Wei Dynasty.
In fact, the destruction of the Great Wei country was not due to the incompetence of military generals. The military generals who died for the country were no less than civil servants. The main reason was that the central government's finances collapsed, and the generals who could fight were not supplemented by the soldiers, and the soldiers were exhausted and were powerless.
The war between the Great Wei and the Donghu lasted for nearly fifty years. The final collapse was first of all the financial collapse, which was completely different from the situation in the late Ming and late Qing dynasties that Xu Zixian remembered.
Therefore, Xu Zixian thought this trick of Taizu of the Great Wei Dynasty was very effective.
Every night, nearly a hundred young people would gather together to read and recognize words. Sometimes Xu Zi taught himself first, and sometimes he sent Qin Dongyang, Li Yi, Kong He and others to take turns teaching.
All the young men were officially transformed into Houfu Yamen, and they also served in the troupe training, from team officials to sentry officials. There were young men who could still win the capital. After all, they were still too young and before they achieved real achievements, it was not easy to convince the people.
When the Lin brothers returned to the camp, the payroll in the camp was not over, and cheers came from time to time. There was no place for the brothers to save money, and it was even more uneasy to put it in my grandfather's place. Lin Da originally wanted to lock it in the dormitory cabinet, but he was still a little worried, so he went to the money house in the town to save money. Many Wushu had similar ideas. There were queues in front of the Pu money house in the town. The Wushu carried the loud copper coins and his face was full of sincere smiles. After getting the deposit slip, the Wushu, who had no fake, rushed back to the camp. The fake Wushu was not in a hurry to go back. He had a deposit slip of a few cents of money in his arms, and he had more or less left in his waist. They began to stroll around the town with their heads raised their heads and chests raised.
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"It's really a scene."
The number of Wuzhang who came to save money was gradually decreasing. The shopkeepers and friends in the Pu Family Money House finally took a breath. A shopkeeper walked to the door, looked at Wuzhang on the street with disgust, spitted and walked back.
"Damn it." A guy said, "They are happy. We have to save money and have to do it for them. It's really bullying people."
"Who said that the Pu family can't cure others now?"
"I heard that people from the Hou Mansion in the capital also came to the door for a fuss."
"I don't know what the boss is thinking. The Pu family really can't cure a prince of the Marquis's family?"
Most of these people have followed the Pu family for many years and have a stake in it, so they naturally look loyal.
The reason they were really angry was that after the group training was launched here, the past Pu family caravans had to pay a lot of money before they could pass through the country. This loss made Pu Shouchen extremely angry. In the past two months, they found multiple reasons to deduct the wages of the shopkeeper and the client. The Pu family is rich and powerful. It is difficult for people who have done things in the Pu family to find things to do in other businesses. As long as Pu Shouchen handed in a note, ordinary businesses would not take in people who rebel from the Pu family. So even if everyone was suffering, no one dared to resign.
The salary was reduced, and Pu Shouchen was always in a dark face every day, and everyone had to be more careful. It would be strange if the Pu family members were happy when the military soldiers of the regiment came to save money.
Pu Shouchen walked out from the back of the shop with his hands behind his back. Everyone shut up their mouths and lowered their heads, posing as if they were concentrating on their work, for fear of being angry with Pu Shouchen.
Pu Shouchen was too lazy to pay attention to them. He looked at the street from the door of the store. In addition to seeing the martial soldiers wandering along the street, he also saw Li Yi, Fengchang of the Hou Mansion, wearing a casual robe, checking the houses along the street.
This confirmed the rumor that the Hou Mansion would also open a money house. The income of the Hou Mansion was rising steadily. Xu Zi first placed the money donated by the regiment training in the military camp, but his spinning wheels and thousands of labor workers were still making money. He also made a lot of money with the dock warehouse built by the Nan'an Chamber of Commerce. It was difficult for the Hou Mansion to open a large factory, but it didn't matter if the merchants opened. The money house was not only to save money for the martial arts, but to earn money from the merchants.
Foreign merchants often bring gold and silver, and they will exchange them for copper coins when they arrive in the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty.
The profit of this business is quite large. The Pu family not only has money houses here in Nan'an, but also has branch signs in various towns such as Shuikou, but also has gold shops and silver houses in Fuzhou. There are also pawn shops and other businesses, which are profits of the exchange rate. In addition, there are profits from the profits of the merchants who have lost money by lending usury. The merchants at the loss always have maritime ships, manors and other collaterals. They can buy them into goods after they exchange money and go to sea to fight again.
If the battle is done, the Pu family will make money. They lose money. Anyway, there is a mortgage, so there is no need to worry that these people will not pay it back.
Chapter completed!