Ren Ning was slightly startled, then quickly sneered.
Although he was away fighting most of the time, Ren Ning also heard a lot of weird secrets about the royal family.
Many of them are just to deify the royal family and make the common people easier to tame.
Some are complete nonsense.
But it was the first time Ren Ning encountered him.
He snorted without even looking at the newspaper, "Master Qin, does my name, Ren Ning, appear in this story?"
Qin Pengju shook his head, "That's not true. But..."
Ren Ning sat up straight and interrupted the other party directly, "Then I dare to ask Lord County Sheriff, why do you think of me?"
In an instant, the aura of being killed in the battlefield for a long time was faintly suppressed on his body.
call.
Qin Pengju's breathing couldn't help but become a little heavier.
As a border guard, and the war of annihilation in Nanfeng hadn't been long ago, he had naturally seen the battlefield, but at this time he still couldn't help but feel chills and difficulty breathing.
"General Ren is laughing." Qin Pengju secretly wiped his sweat, "I only heard some rumors occasionally, and I am a guest in your house, so I just told the general for fun."
"I have no other intentions."
"Have fun?" Ren Ning shouted and stood up.
His face was full of ice, "I have been leading troops outside for many years. Even if I have seen many of my soldiers who have made great achievements in battle, even if I am embarrassed, I can't exchange for a few days of family leave. We are not like Mr. Qin and his family.
It’s so easy to live in the Sheriff’s Mansion and have so much free time.”
"If the Sheriff has nothing else to do, please come back."
"Butler, see the guests off!"
Zou Dahe, who was waiting outside the hall, quickly walked in and extended his right hand outward, "Master Sheriff, my general has some things to do. Please come over here."
"There is a misunderstanding." Qin Pengju waved his hands quickly, and was so anxious that he forgot to call himself an official, "I really want to discuss something with the general this time."
Ren Ning glanced at the newspaper, "What the Sheriff is talking about are not those random rumors fabricated by people, right?"
"Of course not." Qin Pengju smiled and shook his head repeatedly, "These are important matters related to Guangxin's future. This is also the main reason why I came to see the general this time."
After saying that, he looked at Ren Ning longingly.
Although Yingpan and Li Hezhu can also make the decision on many things, they are women after all.
Qin Pengju was a civil servant who passed the examination. Even if he wanted to talk to the two of them, he would not dare to come to the door easily to avoid suspicion, let alone recruit them from the Yamen.
Ren Ning snorted.
He glanced at Qin Pengju a few times, thinking that he would not dare to lie to him, and then sat down again.
Qin Pengju breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took the document handed over by his master.
"General Ren, please read these documents."
"Thanks to the government's vigorous development, Guangxin now has very smooth land and water routes. The county's rubber, various fruit products, and insecticide powder are very popular in the north. It can be said that as long as these things can be transported out,
We sell as many as we can, demand simply exceeds supply."
"Earlier, some people from the upper counties headed by Su Lan came, hoping to set up a special business center in our county for better transactions..."
Speaking of this, he hesitated.
"I wonder if the general knows about this? The people sent by each county have not left yet, and have been waiting for my official's reply. But the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and they will rush back to celebrate the Chinese New Year soon."
Qin Pengju was also a little bitter.
Naturally, Ren Ning’s permission is not required to set up a business location.
But now Nanshu City is overcrowded, and even the ten miles outside the city are filled with people who have moved from other places, and most of the land in the county belongs to the two generals Ren and Li.
Su Lan and other high-ranking counties want to come here to set up business sites, and Qin Pengju knows that this is definitely a good thing. But if the Li family's mansion doesn't speak up, he will not be able to make a promise to the other party no matter how tempted he is.
"I just found out." Ren Ning pondered for a long time, "I have to think about this first. No matter what the outcome is, I will give the county governor a prepared reply within three days."
Qin Pengju was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.
"The second thing is to open a school."
He was born into a poor man himself, so he knew how important knowledge was to ordinary people. It could be said that it was the only prerequisite for them to stand up.
And Guangkai School offers free classes, which is something that an ordinary county governor like Qin Pengju would never dare to think about.
Now that the largest wealthy man in the county has proposed it and provided sufficient funds, he, as the county governor, is naturally willing to help.
After all, if someone becomes famous in high school, it will be because of Qin Pengju's political achievements.
"Is there any difficulty in this?" Ren Ning asked.
Qin Pengju rubbed his hands in embarrassment.
"General, you know that it is easy to establish a school, but it is not so easy to find the teachers needed for the school. What's more, according to the general's intention, the entire Guangxin must set up schools. Then the number of teachers needed will be even more."
"Although I have asked the county magistrate below to search hard, the gap is still huge."
"I wonder what solution the general has?"
Ren Ning was silent for a while, "Continue to recruit foreign masters and strongly encourage them to move to Guangxin. At the same time, we must also train ourselves."
"Also, you might as well take the initiative to contact the major legions."
"All major legions?" Qin Pengju was a little confused.
He quickly reacted.
In recent years, the imperial court or Taishifu has been promoting pinyin literacy.
The first to benefit were the well-trained border guard regiments. For example, many rough guys like Gu Datou also knew a lot of words.
There have been a lot of wars recently, especially the just-concluded Dingxi War, in which various armies suffered heavy casualties.
Many of them were injured on the battlefield and often had to retire if it was too serious.
Although these literate soldiers were physically disabled, the knowledge in their minds was still there, and they could actually serve as teachers in the school.
"This..." Qin Peng frowned deeply in embarrassment, "It's not very appropriate."
He is not a person like the former governor of Misty County, who dared to ignore the laws of the court and work everywhere, and ultimately made the county's government, military, and supervision indistinguishable from each other.
It is indeed a bit difficult for Qin Pengju to send people to contact the border guards.
cough.
Ren Ning coughed with a strange look on his face.
He himself was also a soldier in the frontier army, and one of the eight generals of the Starfall Army. However, Qin Pengju seemed to have forgotten this.
"Let's do this. I will send people to contact the major legions to find injured soldiers who can become wives. If they intend to come to Guangxin, please ask the county governor to arrange them properly. How about that?"
Qin Pengju breathed a sigh of relief, "Of course it's no problem."
"Soldiers fought bravely to defend the country and shed blood on the battlefield. They should be respected and respected by all walks of life. But in the past, if they retired after being injured, they would often have to serve as bodyguards in the generals' mansions, or else they would go home and live a lonely life. Now
It’s the best to finally have another way out.”
Ren Ning nodded silently.
The two chatted about many other things.
Qin Pengju's eyes got bigger and bigger the more he talked.
As the forward lieutenant of the Starfall Legion, Ren Ning knew the military affairs well, so he was not surprised at all.
Now when the two of them talked about various affairs in the county, Ren Ning also spoke eloquently, and some of his opinions were even much better than his, the county guard's.
This inevitably made Qin Pengju look at him with admiration.
The more the two chatted, the more they became more and more interested. They chatted all morning, but Qin Pengju still felt that it was very unsatisfactory.
If he hadn't remembered that the general's wife was about to give birth and that he, as a county guard, had a lot of official duties to attend to, Qin Pengju would still be a little reluctant to leave.
After leaving the General's Mansion, Master turned around and looked at the plaque on the lintel of the door with great emotion.
"My lord, this general is truly amazing. He is both civil and military."
"If he is really the prince who is rumored to be living among the people, then the future of the empire will be really bright."
cough.
Qin Pengju coughed and said, "It's just rumors, don't take it to heart. Let's go back home."