Poisonous Peasant ‘Concubine’

Looking carefully at his father, Xiao Baozi said with consideration, he has never forgotten his dream of being a general. In the past, he would follow his father every year when he went to the Golden State Camp, but the time was very short, and he was not familiar with it yet. If he is leaving, this time the army is camping at their doorstep. If he doesn't go, he will feel sorry for himself. He doesn't want to be a general who can only talk about soldiers.

Like him, Xiaohuzi, who loves to learn martial arts and is full of fantasies about joining the army, also has bright eyes. What a good opportunity, I am afraid that the master and the others will not agree.

"It's a good thing, but your father is responsible for everything related to the army. I can't make the decision. If you want to go, go act like a spoiled child with your father, and he will eat your way?"

The son wants to work hard for his dream, he has no reason to object, right? Although he really doesn't like him going into battle to kill the enemy.

"It's alright, it's fine if daddy agrees, who doesn't know that father and king listen to daddy?"

The little steamed bun immediately smiled brightly. In the eyes of outsiders, it was taken for granted that their father was just a man in the back house, and their father was the real head of the family. Their brothers knew better than anyone else, how could a father dare to be a king? Home, inside and outside of their family, Daddy has the final say, and persuading Daddy is equivalent to persuading the king.

"Ghost spirit jīng! How old is a child, and he still acts like a spoiled child with daddy all day long."

Making him amused, Ling Jingxuan poked his forehead dotingly, and the little bun leaned over and hugged his arm coquettishly and said, "No matter how old he is, he is still daddy's son, what's wrong with the son acting coquettishly with daddy? No one else can handle it."

In fact, it's not too old, only nine years old and less than ten years old, just a little older than a few years ago.

"You, Sheng Rui is in front of the yamen to accompany Xiao Bei to deal with things, go and tell him, but I can say my ugly words first, don't think about the three-minute popularity of the exam, no matter how hard or tired, don't regret it, I will also act on behalf of Yan Yi and cannot be merciful. It is important to know that you sweat more during training and less blood during wartime, and the generals who are always victorious are all trained, no one is born with it."

Ling Jingxuan was stern when he spoke, if he could, he really didn't want him to go, okay? ? He respects his child's dreams, and the only thing he can do is teach him as best he can.

"Yes!"

Ling Wu Xiaohuzi both imitated the Thunder team to stand at attention, Ling Jingxuan slapped them on the buttocks with a slap: "What is the skin, let's go."

"hey-hey"

The two children smiled and ran out happily. Ling Jingxuan watched their backs disappear before shaking his head and turning around.

"Halo, my little bastard, what are you doing?"

It was not until this time that he found out that the little dumpling had climbed onto the table at some point, and his greasy hands were holding a leg of lamb and nibbling on it with relish, his face and clothes were all covered with oil.

"Eat meat, Daddy, how good is it??"

The little dumpling gnawed contentedly while talking, Ling Jingxuan suddenly felt that there were hundreds of millions of tons of black lines on his forehead, this child? ? Who is it like?

Chapter 563 The plan of the father and son

After arriving in the southern border, the children found what they wanted to do one by one. Except for the occasional rioting of the small group, the other children performed their own duties and were obedient and obedient. Yan Sheng, Rui, and Ling Jingxuan were also happy and leisurely. Yan Xiaobei brought back an invitation card. It was the Fan family in Enan City who invited them to be guests. It is said that the heads of the four major families will go. Yan Xiaobei was undecided and did not reply to the other party.

"The Fan family has nothing to do with us, right? Could it be that they also want to be prominent?"

Looking at the beautifully made invitation card, Ling Jingxuan threw it away in disbelief. The only person the Fan family knew about him was the married Fan Changle. People he didn't know, why would he give them face? "Go back to him."

Seeing that his daughter-in-law was not interested, Yan Shengrui refused immediately, but Yan Xiaobei looked at them carefully and said tentatively, "I heard that the Fan family apparently invited major families to get together this time, but in fact it was Mr. Fan. If he wants to choose a marriage for his eldest son and second daughter, the people who can marry the Fan family must be famous families in the southern border, or directly the four major families, don't you want to see who has this honor?"

As long as it is related to the four major families, Dad should be interested, right?

"No, unless you want to marry the second daughter of the Fan family to be the princess, but that second daughter's character is not good. I don't mind what kind of person you like, whether the reputation is good or not, but at least the character must be decent, don't do it. It's enough for our family to jump around."

Ling Jingxuan is still joking with his son lazily. While the rectification of the Kang family is still in the stage of preparation, he is thinking about how to completely improve the southern border. How can he have the spare time to manage who gets married to whom?

"Daddy, stop joking, I don't want to marry anyone."

Yan Xiaobei was thin-skinned, making him feel a little embarrassed when he said it decisively. Ling Jingxuan became more interested and deliberately muttered: "You are saying this now, when you are old, you may be in a hurry."

"I do not know!"

Well, Yan Xiaobei made his father blushed, and Ling Wen and others next to him couldn't help covering their mouths and snickering. Yan Shengrui helplessly looked at his daughter-in-law, and could only give his eldest son a condolence. The eyes of others, he can help one or two when others bully him, but if it is his daughter-in-law, he will be helpless.

"Okay, stop teasing you, let's take a look at this."

Afraid that his son would be annoyed with him, Ling Jingxuan decided to put it away when he saw it. He took out a rolled rice paper from the drawer of the table and spread it on the table. The father and son turned their attention and saw the dense paintings on the rice paper. After visiting many houses, fields and mountains, Ling Jingxuan pointed to those houses and said: "These houses represent the four cities in the southern border, and the fields are the soil that can be planted.

Earth, I don’t need to explain the rest of the mountains. This is what I drew based on the actual survey some time ago and after I recently sent people to look outside the city. It is easy to see from the painting that the four cities in the southern border occupy the land. The area is very small, less than one-tenth of the entire southern border area, and less than one-tenth of the arable land. The rest are mountains of different sizes, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea behind them. There is basically no other source of income for relying on the mountains and eating outside the mountains. In addition, the infrastructure is not developed, which indirectly causes them to be blocked. People such as the Kang family take advantage of the situation to monopolize the acquisition and supply of resources such as mountain goods, to break the four major families. Monopoly and dominance, I think the most important thing to do is not to defeat the four major families, but to lead the people to become rich first, let more businessmen from outside come in, and let the people from the southern border try to go out.”

When Southern Border has more and more contact with the outside world, they will naturally see through the hypocrisy of the four major families. Once there is no support from the people, they are just a little richer family. It is basically easy to overthrow them. matter.

"I understand what Daddy said, but how do we make the people rich? If we want to allow internal and external trade, we must build it first, but there is basically no money in the yamen. Do we need to ask the Seventh Emperor to allocate funds from the treasury?"

Sweeping away the previous embarrassment, Yan Xiaobei said in a heavy voice, this road is not an ordinary road. From Nanzhou to Shanyang City, it takes a whole day for a fast horse, and about three days for a carriage. It needs to be repaired. , I'm afraid it's very difficult to not have one million taels of silver. Although the national treasury is not without money now, it would be too labor-intensive to allocate one million taels of silver just to build a road for the southern border.

"This money can't be taken out of the treasury, why don't we think of a way to squeeze it out of the four major families?"

When it comes to money, Ling Wen is the first to give his opinion. They have all learned arithmetic from Ling Jingxuan since they were young. They probably still know how much it will cost to build a road. Need money from the treasury? Brother Yan's money didn't come from strong winds, no, he couldn't let Brother Yan's finally filled treasury become empty again.

"Hehe... Why do you think I would move the Kang family first? Don't worry about money, we don't have it, don't the Kang family have it yet? The richer they are now, the richer we will be in the future."

Ling Jingxuan smiled and winked at his man and his sons. He had already planned it. It was definitely unrealistic to urge the four major families to pay the taxes that had been withheld all the year round. The Kang family was the richest. With their money to develop southern Xinjiang, wouldn't they have the best of both worlds? As for the other people, if they bump into his hands in the future, their family property will just be added to the treasury. This year, many states in the south have not suffered serious disasters, so just think they are doing something for the people at the end.

"So that's the case. Daddy is really thoughtful. Then I'll arrange the road construction first? Start work the day before, and the road will be repaired sooner, right?"

Yan Xiaobei was stunned and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up. Daddy deserves to be Daddy, they just took one step, he has already thought of countless steps in the future, no wonder he will target the Kang family so quickly.

"Well, that's fine, by the way, let the Nanzhou magistrate know that they will start building the road from the periphery to the southern border together. Both sides will start construction at the same time, and the speed will be faster, and the Nanzhou Yamen will hold the money there first, just say yes. As your father said, when the money from our side arrives, we will return it to them. Also, you don’t need to hire any workers, just hire two professional masters, and the rest will be done by the army stationed in Nanzhou. There is no war. They probably have a few hairs of idle time. They just move their muscles and bones. The specifications of the road are better than the general official road. It should be about twice as wide. In the future, the southern border will become an important production base. We can turn things over at every turn. Of course, the same is true here. All roads are built by soldiers. They are soldiers during wartime.