"A man... can he be invincible from the palace?" Guan Feng looked at Wei Ba doubtfully: "Then how can a woman be invincible?"
"Do you believe this?" Wei Ba stood up angrily, patted his butt, and put on his shirt.// //(Baidu search) He really couldn't communicate with Guan Feng anymore. He explained repeatedly that this
It's just a story, it can't be taken seriously. Unexpectedly, this woman still can't tell what is a story and what is a fact. Could it be that she wants to be invincible and has a demonic disease? Fortunately, you are a woman. If you are a man, what if you commit suicide?
"You lied to me?"
"I'm not lying to you, I said it from the beginning, this is a story. Story, do you know what a story is?"
"That's not what I'm talking about." Guan Feng looked at Wei Ba with a sullen face and said, "You are not injured at all."
"Ah? Ah!" Wei Ba suddenly realized it. He quickly covered his chest and pretended to cough twice: "Internal injury, internal injury."
"Dingguo is right, you are indeed a little scoundrel who tells lies." Guan Feng glared at him and walked away with his head held high, like a proud little hen, but his hair was a little messy, which looked detrimental to his image.
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Wei Ba was stunned, and then he cursed in his heart: Guan Dingguo, you bastard is ruining my reputation behind my back.
Guan Feng didn't ask anyone to see him off, so he walked out of the door and left. Wei Ba looked at the sky and saw that the morning exercise time had passed, but he didn't slack off today. He practiced what he should practice and what he shouldn't. He found
Xia Houhui talked about Guan Feng's suggestion and planned to take a walk outside to see if it was possible to recruit some troops.
Although Xia Houhui has been in Chengdu for so long, his understanding of the situation in Chengdu is limited. At first, he accompanied Huang Yueying to collect mulberry and raise silkworms with Mrs. Zhang. He did not even have the right to move freely. During this time, he was busy with family affairs.
, she didn’t have much time to go out and hang out, so she didn’t know whether it was possible to do what Guan Feng said.
"You can have a look, but you have to be careful. It's not that you are suspicious of my sister, but that it is more taboo to recruit refugees into your tribe."
We are taking precautions in every possible way, and I’m afraid we won’t sit idly by.”
Wei Ba agreed with Xia Houhui's views. In fact, his thoughts were worse than Xiahou Hui's. He himself knew why the Guan and Zhang families helped him. In terms of their relationship with Zhuge Liang, the Guan and Zhang families
There is another difference. Guan Feng has the strongest aversion to Zhuge Liang. It is not impossible for Guan Feng to dig a hole for him to jump into and induce him to confront Zhuge Liang head-on.
Wei Ba then went to ask Mrs. Zhang for instructions. Although Mrs. Zhang left the decision-making power of external affairs to him, for the sake of family unity, he still had to ask Mrs. Zhang for instructions on major matters. On the one hand, he relied on her experience and authority.
, on the other hand, it is also respect for her.
Mrs. Zhang's views are similar to Xia Houhui's. You can take a look, but don't act rashly. It is easy to violate taboos. Zhuge Liang asked the Wei family and his son to leave Ziwu Valley for the purpose of consuming the soldiers. Of course, it is impossible to sit back and watch Wei Ba sit down again.
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Wei Ba understood the idea and took Lan'er and several half-year-old girls and boys to the streets. The students had a holiday, and of course the husband also took a holiday with them. Li Zhuan and Wei Ba were in the same car. They went to Chengdu together.
Chengdu was originally a small town, but later business flourished and many markets were opened outside the city. There are two rivers outside the Shiniu Gate in the southwest of Shaocheng: Jianjiang River and Pijiang River. Most of the goods traveling from south to north pass through waterways. When we come to Chengdu, we load and unload goods between the two rivers. This area has become the busiest market outside Chengdu. It is commonly known as Jiajiang City, and even the bridge across the river is called Shiqiao.
Wei Ba had limited time, so he placed the inspection site here. He grew up in Hanzhong and could barely understand the Chengdu dialect, but could not speak it. Li Zhuan became his translator. As soon as he spoke a few words, Li Zhuan He understood Wei Ba's intention, but he didn't say anything and faithfully conveyed Wei Ba's opinions.
After walking around the river for a long time, when the sun was already setting in the west, Wei Ba took his brothers and sisters to a restaurant to eat. Li Zhuanben wanted to go home and take a look, but Wei Ba did not let him leave and pulled him I entered the restaurant, ordered some wine and food, sat by the window, looked at the busy market in the distance, and started chatting.
"Qinzhong, after walking for a long time, you should know what I want to do."
Li Zhuan tilted his head slightly and said nothing with a smile. Wei Ba saw his expression and knew that he had different opinions, so he said sincerely: "If Qin Zhong has a good idea, please give me some advice."
"I'm just a scholar, I don't have any clever ideas."
Li Zhuan took a sip of wine, then picked up a piece of beef and put it into his mouth, chewing it slowly, seeming to enjoy the delicious food. Wei Ba didn't say anything when he saw it. The Wei family's economic situation has not been very good recently. Most of the meat must be supplied to the military soldiers. The military soldiers are the foundation of the Wei family. This is the consensus of the Wei family. Needless to say. But Li Zhuan is a teacher. In the spirit of respecting teachers and teaching, there should be a meat. Food, I won’t be so greedy.
Probably sensing Wei Ba's confusion, Li Zhuan smiled calmly: "I told Mrs. Ru to fold the meat and vegetables into money, and I took it home."
Wei Ba suddenly realized it, and then said embarrassedly: "Qin Zhong is a family man."
"I can't help it, life is too difficult, otherwise I wouldn't have stayed in the position of Shangshu Lingshi for so long." Li Zhuan said lightly: "I also want to thank Wei Jun for being a teacher in the Wei family. It helps a lot with my family’s livelihood.”
Wei Ba laughed.
The salary of a two-hundred-stone official is about fifteen hundred yuan per month, which is a little less than the porters on the dock outside. The advantage is that it is available every month. There is no such thing as off-season or peak season. It is only during the New Year and the holidays. There is still a little extra money. After a year, it will be about more than 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. With the current prices in Chengdu, this money is definitely not enough to cover the life of a family. Xia Houhui asked Mrs. Zhang for instructions, The salary offered to Li Zhuan is 2,000 yuan per month. He only has to attend classes for twenty-four days a month, one hour a day, and he also takes care of one meal. For Li Zhuan, this is purely extra money. That's a lot of money, not too little.
"Qin Zhong, what does your wife do for a living at home?"
Li Zhuan gave a wry smile: "I wash clothes for others, sew and mend them, and then weave some cloth to supplement the household income."
"My family also needs people to do these things. Are you interested in letting her come to my house together?"
Li Zhuan glanced at Wei Ba and hesitated. Being able to move to the Wei family would of course have only advantages and no disadvantages for him. Apart from anything else, he would be able to save money on renting a house, and so could his own children. By studying together, he doesn't have to travel between places and can live in the Wei family peacefully. But in this way, he will be tied to Wei Ba from now on.
"I'm just suggesting, not forcing." Wei Ba raised his glass and clinked it with Li Zhuan: "If you are willing, I would like to ask you to be a full-time teacher, and I will definitely not treat you unfairly with the remuneration."
Li Zhuan hesitated for a moment and said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, can you be more specific?"
"Of course." Wei Ba nodded. Since Li Zan is interested, the matter will be easy to handle. Guan Feng has already reminded him that the dull-looking scholar in front of him is a rare generalist. If there is a chance to be under his command, then of course It couldn't be better. "Your family will be doubled according to the standard of my family. You myself, I will give you a salary of one thousand stones a year. I will leave the renovation of the loom to you in the future. You can learn from the machine." 10% will be extracted from the new benefits..."
Wei Ba talked about a plan in a leisurely manner. It was generally based on the standard for hiring a chief engineer in his previous life. The salary was not too high, but the allowances and rewards were generous. This was also in the hope of giving full play to Li Zhuan's talents. He could It’s not that I want to raise an idle person, the current economic situation of the Wei family is not optimistic either.
Li Zhuan didn't know much about the subsequent allowances, but the annual reward of a thousand stones was enough to make him excited. He knew very well that with his current situation, he might not be able to reach the official position of a thousand stones if he stayed around for another ten years. Not to mention that Wei Ba also arranged the life of his family.
"Servant, are you not afraid of losing money?" Li Zhuan smiled rarely, his face slightly red.
"I won't lose money." Wei Ba said confidently: "I think you far exceed this standard, but I can't afford that much money for the time being."
Li Zhuan clapped his hands with emotion: "With such a good condition, I have no reason not to agree. Okay, then it's settled. I'll go home right away and prepare to move."
"That's the best thing. Your new home will be arranged in Xikuoyuan for the time being. How about it?"
"That's great." Li Zhuan said with a smile: "Then I am now considered to be Wei Shizhong's staff?"
Wei Ba shook his head: "Not a staff member, but a friend of the staff."
Li Zhuan was startled, and then he understood. Friends and staff are both staff and friends. It is not a simple master-servant relationship. He nodded and pondered for a moment: "Then I will move on to the first strategy now: recruiting troops. OK."
Wei Ba offered such good recruitment conditions to Li Zhuan because he knew that Li Zhuan had different opinions and was waiting for him to speak. But he did not expect that Li Zhuan's first sentence was to directly deny Guan Feng's proposal. He He pondered for a moment: "Why?"
"There are three things wrong with recruiting Bu Qu." Li Zhuan said unhurriedly: "The Prime Minister suppresses powerful families, but you recruit Bu Qu, which goes against the Prime Minister's policy. This is one of the wrong things; these people have nothing. He has strength, but apart from farming and doing some hard work, it is of little use. If he wants to become a soldier, it will take less than three to five years. Shangzhongxin is far from being comparable to the existing military soldiers. The second problem is that most of these people have families to support, and recruiting one person will have to support the whole family. The Wei family is stretched thin, and the number of people who can be recruited is very limited. This is The third mistake is wrong;"
Wei Ba nodded repeatedly. Now the two most employed people in the village are those who farm the land and raise silkworms, and the other are military soldiers. As Li Zhuan said, if these people want to become military soldiers, it will take less than three to five years. If it is only used to cultivate land and raise silkworms and use it as labor, it is not cost-effective. First, these things are seasonal, and second, the Wei family is using machinery on a large scale, and the manpower problem will be solved soon. Once people are recruited, they will soon become idle, which in turn wastes a lot of already tight money.
"What do you think Qinzhong has to say?"
"No recruitment, only hiring, for three to five months, to temporarily solve the current shortage of manpower." Li Zhuan smiled slightly: "It will depend on the situation in three to five months."