The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 204
Xu Guangqi was relieved to see someone finally came out to speak up for Huang Han.

He said: "The veteran has been with Huang Han day and night for three months. This son doesn't care if he hangs out among farmers and artisans. He doesn't want to come to the capital to sell sweet potatoes to vent his anger. He really wants to sell the crops that farmers have worked so hard to grow. Good price."

Jin Sheng admired Huang Han from the bottom of his heart and hoped to help him. Of course, this was also because of the good relationship between his friend Liu Zhilun and Huang Han.

At this time, he heard Xu Guangqi's meaning. It turned out that Huang Han really wanted to sell sweet potatoes for money, not because he was willing to degenerate, so he bowed to Xu Guangqi and retreated.

Chongzhen's young heart found Huang Han's whimsical ideas very interesting, and wanted to see how this general who charged into battle helped the common people sell their output, and said: "For the livelihood of the common people, this is a good deed! I agree."

"Your Majesty, the old minister has accepted Huang Han as a closed disciple. Seeing what he has done during this time, the old minister is very happy. I wonder if I can ask for some kindness for him?"

"Aiqing, please speak."

"The veteran thinks that Huang Han is versatile in both civil and military affairs, so I implore His Majesty to grant him fame and fame."

This is an interesting matter, Chongzhen looked at the group of officials and asked: "I don't know if you have any suggestions."

Chief Assistant Zhou Yanru is also one of the representatives of the Donglin Party. At this time, how can he not take care of the old face of Xu Guangqi, a former party member, and quickly saluted: "Your Majesty, Huang Shoubei has made great contributions to disaster relief, and I can bestow honor on scholars."

Wen Tiren, Liang Tingdong and others who did not form a party also came out and said: "The minister seconded the proposal!"

In this way, Huang Han, who didn't know what stereotyped essays were, became a scholar. He could also wear a green shirt and swing a folding fan to be arty.

An incumbent military officer is not allowed to run around, especially going to the capital without permission, so Huang Han wrote a letter explaining that he was going to the capital to guide the sale of roasted sweet potatoes and potato chips, and hoped that his mentor would find a way.

Unexpectedly, Xu Guangqi actually asked for an order in the early court and got the order from the Holy Son of Heaven. Now Huang Han can come to the capital in a grand manner, but it is a pity that he is not here to sell sweet potatoes.

The moment he received Xu Guangqi's reply, Huang Han remembered a classic line from a certain movie in later generations, "Being an official is not making decisions for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes."

In fact, this sentence should be a common sense mistake made by the screenwriter. The background of that movie did not have crops like sweet potatoes at all.

Huang Han wanted to create a glorious image of himself, so he made a high-profile statement in front of Zheng Guochang and the civil servants and generals of Yongping Mansion, "When an official should make decisions for the people, he rushed to the capital to sell sweet potatoes."

Of course, Zheng Guochang intended to make his son-in-law famous. He repeated Huang Han's words in public many times and praised him greatly.

It didn't take long for the common people in Yongping Prefecture to know that the general of the "Red Banner Army" went to the capital not to run for office, but to sell sweet potatoes, in order to make a living for the common people.

On October 21st, Huang Han appeared outside Guangqumen with four servant knights. These four people all have the same characteristics, strong limbs and simple mind.

They are martial artists with a strong background in martial arts, but their reading and literacy is really not satisfactory, and they still can't write [-] words silently.

Therefore, although they are all veterans and have made many military exploits, they can only receive silver rewards but not promotions. Now they are just small banner officers without rank.

In order to encourage his subordinates to practice both Chinese and martial arts, Huang Han stipulated that under normal circumstances, soldiers who could not master more than [-] characters would end up as small banner officers, and the only way to go further was to learn culture.

But there are always too many people who are really not used to reading and literacy. They don't have lofty pursuits and are easy to be satisfied.

Gu Kui, Yan Congyou, He Yongqing, and Lei Mingchun who followed Huang Han to the capital this time were such people. Huang Han took a fancy to their strength and kept them by his side as his followers.

Wang Zhanpeng, Zhang Yang, and Wang Zhicheng, who had been following them all the time, had been promoted to chief banner officer and hundred household officer respectively because of their improved cultural level and outstanding military exploits. At this time, they followed the "Red Banner Army" cavalry training.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, more than 160 young students were recruited within the "Red Banner Army" system.

Among them, [-]% to [-]% are the children of martyrs, and dozens of people are direct relatives of great craftsmen or active soldiers with military merits. Among them is Gu Rushan, the eldest son of Gu Mancang, who has made great contributions to the promotion of potato and sweet potato planting this time.

Gu Mancang worked very hard after receiving the job opportunity personally given by Huang Han, and now he has been promoted due to his meritorious service in promoting the technology of planting sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Not only did he take a dozen households to demonstrate planting model fields, but he was also working hard to learn to read. An Xiaole, a student soldier and flag officer, was the teacher in charge of cultural support. In addition to Gu Mancang, there were two farmers and four craftsmen who studied with An Xiaole Numeracy and literacy.

Gu Mancang learned from An Xiaole that the "Red Flag Army" recruited young soldiers, and immediately thought that his eldest son, Gu Rushan, who was 12 years old, was in good health and had good brains and met the requirements.

The Gu family was even more excited when they learned that they had the opportunity to become a majestic "Red Banner Army" young soldier, worried that their father would not want to send him to join the army, and begged many times.

Gu Mancang had originally considered letting his eldest son pursue a career, seeing how enthusiastic he was, of course he spared no effort.He approached one of the persons in charge of the expansion of recruitment to ask for permission, because he knew Wang Zhicheng, one of the persons in charge of recruiting.

At that time, it was Wang Zhicheng who arranged for Gu Mancang to plant a demonstration field, and finally Gu Rushan got a spot as he wished.

Internal expansion is actually tantamount to going through the back door, which is very unfair to teenagers outside the system.

But doing so is conducive to unity and will give the "Red Banner Army" system a sense of superiority and a sense of identity. Huang Han never believes that there is absolute fairness in the world, and those who can achieve relative fairness are already saints.

Huang Han is not a saint, he is very realistic and unbearably vulgar.

At present, he only has the interests of small groups in his eyes, and he needs to twist the sphere of influence of the "Red Banner Army" into one rope so that they can fight for the collective interests of the "Red Banner Army".

When the sweet potatoes and potatoes were harvested, young apprentices participated in the labor without exception. They mainly carried out management, statistics and publicity. They also had an important task, which was to let the common people quickly master the methods of properly preserving sweet potatoes and potatoes.

These two things are not suitable for large-scale storage, and are more suitable for a family to store in a constant temperature cellar.

Therefore, Huang Han issued an order to all the growers. Since the Huang family does not have a large warehouse for storing potatoes and sweet potatoes, each household is asked to sell the output in four times, one and a half months apart.

The common people understand this approach very well, and each of them sold a quarter of the total sweet potatoes and potatoes, without exception, and got real money.

(End of this chapter)