Shen Zhongxiao had high hopes for Shen Lin and meant to teach and cultivate him.
Of course Shen Lin could feel the kindness released by the old man.
It is a rare opportunity to listen to the teachings of a great master.
After all, Shen Zhongxiao is also a political master who has been in office for thirty years.
There's no harm in learning a little.
Go out and find Liang Zizhong, Shen Lin arranges it.
"The head of the family is going to Beijing, and there may be hope for his revival."
"I need to stay here for three days, and Lao Liang will find an inn to stay at."
"Everyone else, please go back. By the way, let Madam know that she is safe."
Shen Zhongxiao had to take away a lot of things, which filled a three-masted ship.
The Shen family has its own water transport business.
There are many ships, so there is no need to hire additional ones.
To go south to Fengqiu, the capital city, it is actually only six or seven hundred miles by land.
The carriage will arrive in seven or eight days.
The waterway starts from Qinshui at the entrance of Shenjiaji, goes eastward for more than 20 miles, enters the Huanglong River in Anding, and continues eastward.
Then at Chanzhou, it turns southward to the Grand Canal and finally enters the Yellow River.
Heading west to Fengqiu, it's really quite a circuit.
However, in this era, water transportation has unparalleled transportation advantages.
There are often large ships with tens of thousands of tons, traveling across rivers, lakes and seas.
You use a heavy-duty horse-drawn carriage to pull a shipful of goods.
One cart can only carry twenty or thirty loads. How many carriages are needed?
Shen Zhongxiao is very busy.
It would be great if I could spare an hour every night to teach Shen Lin.
It's not quite true to say it's teaching.
It would be better to say that the two of them were talking at night in the study, holding candles.
The old man basically recounted his thirty years of experience as an official.
From the county magistrate to the prefect, then to the governor of a province, and finally to the minister of household affairs.
How to govern?
How to stabilize a place?
How to cooperate or fight with the local aristocratic families?
How to survive the storm of the imperial court?
How did he end up being driven home by the eunuchs to retire?
When he talks about what he is proud of, the old man will have a drink and have fun.
When it comes to failure and decadence, he can't help but curse.
Shen Lin and Shen Sisi were so panicked that they had to comfort each other.
Actually.
Shen Zhongxiao lived to be in his fifties and still needed to talk.
He didn't rigidly tell Shen Lin what to do.
Which ones are correct?
Which ones are wrong.
How do you have to do it to be correct?
Shen Zhongxiao's most of his life experience is a history of growth.
I say you should learn from history.
How much you, Shen Lin, can understand depends on you.
This kind of treatment makes the young people in Nuo University envious.
When it comes to this family, of course it is not limited to the three brothers Shen Zhongxiao.
They are just direct descendants in power.
There are more than a dozen branches in the branch.
There are more than a hundred people living in the Shen family compound alone.
The entire Shen family collection.
There are more than 10,000 people, half of whom are named Shen.
Among them, how many are closer than Shen Lin?
Not one thousand, but three to five hundred, right?
Among them was the second uncle, whom Shen Lin had never seen before.
That is Shen Yi's biological father.
This man had been an official in another county before.
From literature to martial arts.
By virtue of his status as a juren, he served as county captain.
However, he was later implicated by his eldest brother Shen Zhongxiao.
Lost his official position.
It is said that Shen Zhongxin has been studying behind closed doors for almost eight years.
At that time, Shen Lin was only eleven years old.
Even if I saw it during ancestor worship, I still can’t remember what it looked like.
Besides, it’s not like people invite him to come every year when they worship ancestors.
At this time, the mysterious second uncle.
Shen Zhongxin was drinking with the third child, Shen Zhongru, admiring the moon.
"Third brother? I heard that you had a bad time with the great talent of our Shen family?"
Great talent?
Not born yet?
Shen Zhongru said disdainfully: "Just based on the crooked lyrics of "Water Dragon Song"?"
"You knowledgeable people, don't you admire that boy's bad feet too much?"
In fact, like Shen Lin, he couldn't even pass the junior college entrance examination.
Finally, he gave up studying and turned to managing the Shen family's business.
Shen Zhongxin chuckled.
"That "Water Dragon Song" is not a crooked word. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an eternal masterpiece!"
"Anyway, our old Shen family has numerous literati and poets."
“There is really no other poem that can compare with it.”
"I can't do it, and the same goes for big brother, haha!"
Shen Zhongru didn't take it seriously.
"Poetry is a small way. Isn't this what my eldest brother often talks about?"
"I'm surprised, after we talked for three nights in a row, he thinks so highly of that kid?"
"I think the younger generation should look after your brother Yi."
"Big brother is so partial, second brother, do you have no objection?"
The two brothers clinked their porcelain cups.
Shen Zhongxin shook his head and smiled.
"You don't need to provoke the general."
"Second brother, I am not interested in arguing with a junior."
"What elder brother did is actually right."
"Back then, we were three brothers who supported each other and overcame the difficulties together."
"The next generation can't rely on Shen Yi alone to support them, right?"
"Your Shen Dong and Shen Liang are unwilling to study."
"Alas, the situation is getting worse and worse, and our Shen family is no longer in business!"
The two of them were silent for a while.
After a while, Shen Zhongru smiled.
"Second brother, if your plan..."
"Be careful what you say!" Shen Zhongxin quickly shouted in a low voice.
"Hey, hey, your mouth...even if you want to say it, you have to wait until our nerdy brother is gone!"
Shen Zhongru still looked indifferent.
He has always been like this.
What do you want to do, what do you want to say.
As soon as your mind gets excited, you put it into action.
He doesn't have the so-called plan and then move like the boss and the second brother.
Hesitating and hesitating is extremely uncomfortable.
In business, if you are not decisive enough, you will not be able to drink the soup.
"Okay, that guy Shen Lin has a tough temper, but he has come up with a lot of good things."
"Listen to me..."
"You know how powerful it is, right? That guy may have improved the loom..."
"It is rumored that he is still smelting refined iron..."
"Which one of them will not help you in your future endeavors?"
…
At the same time, candlelight flickered in the large study room.
Shen Zhongxiao sighed.
"Shen Lin, you don't want to leave this small pond in Anding with me."
"What a pity!"
"In the future, I'm afraid you will have a lot of trouble."
"It's not that I don't know about some things, I'm just too lazy to take care of them."
Monk Shen Lin and Zhang Er were confused.
Can we not talk about the clouds and mountains?
What's the trouble?
"Uncle, you don't mean the third uncle Shen Zhongru, right?"
"A few days ago, he wanted to buy a technology that I just developed, but my nephew declined."
Shen Shensi snorted coldly.
"What kind of trouble is that? Third uncle is just a straight man and has no scheming ideas."
"When dad leaves home, our second uncle will come out and take charge, hehe..."
"Your hard life is so unbearable!"
Shen Lin was extremely surprised.
"Hey, I'm just confused. Sisi, didn't I offend my second uncle?"
"He and I have never crossed paths."
"He won't blame me just because I had a few quarrels with Shen Yi, right?"
My own brothers have some things that are hard to say.
Shen Zhongxiao thought for a while and then sighed.
"Your second uncle is not bad in nature, nor is he that narrow-minded."
"That's him, he wants to get everything in his hands, he has a strong desire for control!"
"The pursuit of utilitarianism is also very important."
"If I hadn't intervened in the first place, I'm afraid he would have colluded with the eunuchs!"
Now Shen Lin understood.
Shen Zhongxin lost his official position because of his emotional feelings.
Is it you, the dearest brother, who is behind this?