Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 176 Planning for the future
After suppressing Wang Xifeng, Jia's mother really focused on Yingchun.

Before, Yingchun had to marry Shi Zhongkui, no matter what the reason was, it boiled down to investing and seeking help.

Now Shi Zhongkui has brought Jia Zheng along to make some credit for opening up wasteland, and now he has kept his promise to help Jia Baoyu plan his future, and even planned a specific official position for Baoyu. For the Jia family, this investment can be said to be fruitful. .

The position of Shi Zhongkui, the grandson-in-law, in Jia Mu's heart tended to surpass that of Wang Ziteng.

So in order to reciprocate or benefit each other, Jia's mother not only planned in her heart how to help Shi Zhongkui, but also hoped that Yingchun would give birth to an heir for the Shi family as soon as possible.

After sending Tanchun, Xichun, Lin Daiyu and other young girls, as well as the widowed granddaughter-in-law Li Wan out of her house, Jia's mother began to talk about private matters with Yingchun.

After hearing Yingchun say with a blushing face that even if she and Baochai stayed with Shi Zhongkui on separate days, it was beginning to be unbearable, Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing and Wang Xifeng became more and more surprised when they heard it.

And the more she listened, the more envious she became, Wang Xifeng even blushed and stirred the handkerchief in her hand, looking enviously at the blushing Yingchun.

Even if Jia Lian drank Babao wine, he didn't have such fighting power, so how can people not be envious when compared with Shi Zhongkui?

Mother Jia sighed and said, "I heard that my uncle is not only outstanding in reading, but also excels in martial arts. I thought it was just a compliment from outsiders, but I didn't expect that my uncle is really versatile in both civil and military affairs."

After Jia's mother finished speaking, she said with a smile on her face, "This is a good thing, it's a good thing for my Jia family and my uncle."

Mrs. Xing didn't understand yet, but Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng understood Jia Mu's meaning as soon as they heard it.

The real background of the Jia family is actually in the military.

In the past, I only felt that Shi Zhongkui was partial to literary affairs, and there was no chance to help him, let alone be kind to him.

Now that he is also good at and likes martial arts, there will be even greater opportunities for everyone to cooperate in the future.

It also gave the Jia family a chance to reciprocate, and even show their favor first, and win over Shi Zhongkui.

Moreover, the average number one scholar would never have the chance to leave the capital and serve as a local official. Shi Zhongkui was the leader of the six yuan, and he would definitely only stay in the capital for a long time.

There is no need to worry that after helping Shi Zhongkui, he will go to the south of the Yangtze River to become an official like Lin Daiyu's father Lin Ruhai. If he wants to help the Jia family, he can only help the Jia family's side house in Jinling.

In this case, there is no need to have any scruples.

Tell Yingchun to go home with Shi Zhongkui today, and then promote amber and pearls to fill the house.

As for the establishment of two concubines, it can be discussed after Yingchun conceives herself and gives birth to an heir.

Then he said something about the secret of not being able to get pregnant even if Amber and Pearl became Shi Zhongkui's housemates, Yingchun suddenly realized and nodded with a blushing face.

When Shi Zhongkui came home with Yingchun, Jia Mu immediately called Jia Amnesty, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen and Jia Lian to her room.

Together with Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng, they discussed it together.

For the Jia family's all-out efforts to help Shi Zhongkui, if it was before today, Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng would definitely still be dissatisfied.

After all, the more famous the elder brother and uncle of the two are, the higher their status in the Jia family will be.

But Jia Baoyu was almost able to become a doctor of Taichang Temple from the seventh rank. Now, although it was replaced by Jia Lian, Mrs. Wang thought carefully, of course, a son is more important than a brother.

Besides, Wang Ziteng has been appointed as the second rank, unless he is transferred from the Beijing camp and resigned from the position of Jiedushi, there is no chance of promotion.

With this premise, it's nothing to be wronged and wronged by my brother.

As for Wang Xifeng, Jia Zheng had explained before that when Shi Zhongkui was in Rongxitang, he said that Jia Lian should be the doctor of Taichang Temple first, and be in charge of the 'guest ceremony'.

After making meritorious service, it will be logical to be promoted from the fifth rank to the Si Cheng.

The subsequent goal is the Taipu Temple, an institution that specializes in raising horses for the emperor and managing the royal horses of the palace.

Don't look at a horse breeder as inconspicuous, but anyone who can raise horses for the emperor has a lot of opportunities to get in touch with the emperor.

Even when the emperor was on tour, the person in charge of driving the carriage was the minister of Taipusi.

And this position is definitely a fat job, compared to Sun Houzi's Bi Mawen position, it is a world of difference.

Not to mention whether the relationship with the emperor is close or not, it's just that a person who is too small to have a rank can see the difference when an official worships a third rank.

Therefore, Wang Xifeng was more willing that Shi Zhongkui's official position would grow bigger and bigger.

And compared to Wang Ziteng who blindly reaps benefits without paying, Shi Zhongkui's credit is indeed higher.

The future is also brighter.

The family meeting only lasted for a while, and those in the Jia family who could call the shots agreed.

On the Sunday before the Chinese New Year, official documents from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry were distributed to the Tuntian Camp, and 500 pieces of iron armor that could only be used by the frontier army were quickly sent to the Tuntian Camp.

When Shi Zhongkui said that he wanted a vest, the people in the military department only hesitated for a moment, and then quietly came up with an idea.

As long as Shi Zhongkui is willing to spend three to five thousand taels of silver, a hundred pairs of full-body vests will be delivered in a year.

Shi Zhongkui looked at the official document of the Ministry of War in his hand, thinking that since he didn't have to worry about being impeached, there was no reason to hesitate.

With a big wave of his hand, 5000 taels of silver were sent out, and it was exchanged for a hundred sets of iron armor protected by man and horse.

When he got the things, Shi Zhongkui also put all the 38 grown mixed-breed horses in the valley dedicated to raising horses.

In addition to revealing the horses in the space ranch, he was also pure in heart, attracting the minds of some Yuanmeng cavalry.

Otherwise, even if he really took hundreds of cavalry out to fight guerrillas, it would not be so easy to find the opponent's main force.

It's better to attract people, take advantage of the terrain of the valley, and order the field soldiers to stand firm, while he leads the cavalry outside to wait for an opportunity to attack the enemy's tent.

Or attack the grain road.

Only after making meritorious service will they have the opportunity to command more troops to launch an encirclement and suppression of the Yuanmeng army going south, or a pursuit war.

As for the source of the war horse, it is enough to find the mountain god and the land to perform a scene.

Moreover, after the Chinchilla stalked secretly for a period of time, one of the four orchids that he used to exchange for the bloody horse was indeed a candidate saint of a certain sect in the Western Regions.

He took twenty personal soldiers, Yan Guixiang, the governor of Daxing, Xue Jinping, the governor of Wanping, and a dozen military officers from Tuntianying, and rode to the valley on horseback.

When Qiu Yougang, the god of Tianshou Mountain, the land of Changping, Daxing, and Wanping cities, plus the God of Riyou and his soldiers, changed into the appearance of a blond and blue-eyed barbarian and horse dealer, they came out to greet them.

Xue Jinping, Yan Guixiang and other field officials immediately misunderstood that Shi Zhongkui had found a relationship and bought a batch of bloody horses from the grasslands and even the Western Regions.

The reason why they think it is a sweat horse is because the male line of the hybrid horses bred in the space ranch is the real sweat horse.

Not only the appearance and appearance, after running and sweating, the dozens of fiery red horses looked as if their necks were bleeding from a distance.

When Xue Jinping, Yan Guixiang and others saw that the mixed-race horse had been running continuously for half an hour, that is to say, an hour without reaching the bottom of its strength, they couldn't get any more excited.

He clasped his hands and said to Shi Zhongkui, "My lord, if there are thousands of such horses, even the petty officials would dare to give up their heavy armor and lead people to fight guerrillas on the grassland.

If you have a guide, you can go straight to Shan Yu's court. "

Shi Zhongkui rolled his eyes involuntarily, Space Ranch only breeds 38 head a month, and it would take more than 26 months to collect a thousand horses.

At that time, it would be better to buy more sweat and blood from the Western Regions, or even breed Arabian horses to breed new stallions.

Five years later, with the addition of more than 2000 BMWs produced in the space ranch, plus the breeding of horses raised in the horse farm, it will be no problem to breed tens of thousands of war horses that are stronger than Dazhou, Grassland, and even sweat horses.

If the land of Hetao can be controlled, it will not be difficult to replicate the feat of Yuanmeng's attack on Europe as soon as the cavalry group with hundreds of thousands of horses capable of sweeping Asia appears in ten years' time.

It's a pity that although it is not difficult to do this, unless you are the emperor, or find a chassis to stand on your own, otherwise it is the way to die.

And in the Great Zhou rebellion, the people of the Great Zhou who died did not know how much injustice they would bear, let alone earning merit, as long as the merit column in the space is not a negative number, it is good.

However, if you think about it further, if you stand on your own in a place other than Dazhou, you can attack all the way to the west.

Maybe it will be possible to build a huge empire spanning Eurasia and composed of Han people and ethnic minorities.

Even if the empire collapses in the end, but Chinese characters still exist in these divided lands, it should be regarded as a kind of merit.

Although Shi Zhongkui's heart moved, he also knew that it was too early to think about those things.

But this did not prevent him from having this idea in his heart, and began to calculate silently.

After negotiating with the mountain gods and the land, he pretended to pay 4 taels of gold, which was obviously only 4 taels, and the bottom of the box was full of stones.

A group of large and small officials in the Tuntian camp were stunned. An average of 1000 taels of gold per horse is definitely not a BMW that they can think about.

And the 4000 taels gold was sent back by the mountain god at night.

Early the next morning, Shi Zhongkui deliberately selected four pure-white mixed-blood horses, took his servants and servants, and went directly to the imperial city.

When Emperor Jing Long saw these four steeds, his excited hands trembled slightly.

The high-spirited busy man put on his saddle, rode his horse and ran for half a morning in the horse farm of the Yumajian, and then he calmed down and repeatedly praised Shi Zhongkui for his loyalty and patriotism.

Regarding the fact that a barbarian came to him and exchanged a bloody horse for a candidate saint from a rival sect, he agreed directly.

Even after hearing that there were thirty or forty horses, or even more sweat horses, that would be brought over again, he simply handed over the matter to Shi Zhongkui.

A blood-sweat horse breed is indeed rare in the Central Plains.

The second is a sect in the Western Regions that has never been heard of, how can it be put in the eyes of the emperor.

It's better to exchange some benefits for the reality.

After Shi Zhongkui left the palace, he called Cui Hezhong, a hundred households of Shangxiuyiwei, and escorted four orchids and the imprisoned Hu people to the valley where the horses were raised.

Hu people who handed over people to mountain gods and transformed the land.

There is really a reasonable reason for the source of the mixed-blood horse.

The four orchids and hu ren thought they would die, but they didn't expect that the mountain god and the land would release them not long after they left the Great Wall.

After escaping from the dead, they heard that Shi Zhongkui helped a lot, and they all felt very grateful to Shi Zhongkui.

He repeatedly promised that the promised two bloody mares would be delivered, and increased the number to ten at once.

After that, the emperor didn't care at all about Shi Zhongkui's gift of four pure black horses to the Supreme Emperor.

He even told Shi Zhongkui that he spent 4 taels of gold to buy a horse, not only didn't ask any more questions, but pretended to be confused and perfunctory.

Although the Supreme Emperor was dissatisfied that what he got was a black horse, but thinking about these four horses, they were the heavenly horses that Emperor Wu of the Han did not hesitate to launch a war to get, and his body was so honest that he couldn't bear to refuse them at all.

And like the emperor, he praised him with a lot of free nonsense.

Of course, the new and old emperors probably also knew that Bai Na's words would chill the hearts of the courtiers.

On the day before the Chinese New Year, Dai Quan and Xia Shouzhong came to Shi's house one after the other to announce the decree.

With Shi Zhongkui's meritorious service in donating horses, the emperor promoted him to be a court official of the fourth rank, and the Supreme Emperor promoted him to be a doctor of the fourth rank Zhongshun, which really opened up the way to be promoted to the third rank in the future.

And looking at it like this, it is equivalent to saving at least five years of time.

Most people in the ruling and opposition circles are just envious of this, and only a few people have written to oppose it.

When there were rumors that Shi Zhongkui agreed to help various families raise seeds, all opposition voices in Gyeonggi dropped by 7% at once.

And because Yu Honggao was working in the Procuratorate, the reason was that after Tong Fu came to the door in person, all the officials above rank five in the Procuratorate received an invitation letter.

This group of people said that Shi Zhongkui was ridiculous, but they were very honest in their actions and asked the servants to find good horses and send them to the farm for breeding.

With this precedent, all the nobles and officials who had good horses in their families eagerly sent their horses to the Tuntian camp.

For a while, there was a tendency to turn the camp into a horse farm.

And this also gave Shi Zhongkui the opportunity to select the best mares among these steeds and continue to breed them.

Otherwise, all bloody horses are male, and the probability of giving birth to defective horses will greatly increase.

However, in the breeding of good horses, if you want to keep the pure blood, there will inevitably be inbreeding.

This may seem simple, but the knowledge is great.

Although Shi Zhongkui doesn't know so much, he still knows the principle of choosing the best from the best.

What's more, it takes others ten, twenty or thirty years to slowly breed a new breed of horse, but it only takes half a year or one year for him to breed seven or eight generations, and he can always select a few horses with the strongest endurance and speed stallion.

On New Year's Eve, a housekeeper or heir from another family came to the door early in the morning with gifts.

In addition to the fact that many people want to cultivate as soon as possible, it is also because the government and the public are convinced that Shi Zhongkui's upward trend is already unstoppable.

If he can be promoted to the position of Minister of the Six Departments at the age of 25, it will only take a year or two to join the cabinet.

And if you join the cabinet at the age of 30, as long as you don't make big mistakes in the future, you can also kill the previous cabinet ministers.

It can be said that in the next few decades, the Shi family will inevitably be an existence with endless flowers and scenery.

This kind of existence with boundless future is inevitable, everyone wants to curry favor with him at this time.

But Shi Zhongkui is surprisingly rational and calm. Joining the cabinet is inevitable, but he doesn't want to become the chief assistant of the cabinet early.

(End of this chapter)