prosperous age

Chapter 16 Chapter 16
"The head of the family, what you said, I always feel unreliable."

"I'm also very hesitant. The most important thing is that my literary talent is still young. If it is a few years older, I will feel relieved."

"Yes, but I still think, how could the imperial court do this business?"

"I've said it twice, it's not the imperial court, it's sending money to Yan Ge's hometown."

"Ge's hometown still lacks the 200 taels of silver?"

Wei Guangde practiced calligraphy all night, wrote several sheets of paper, and felt that his calligraphy has improved again.

After coming out of the house and standing in the yard to move around, I could vaguely hear what my parents were saying in the house, so I quietly went to the window to eavesdrop out of curiosity.

It was already dead of night, and the courtyard was very quiet.

Hearing his parents chattering in the room for a long time, although Wei Guangde didn't hear the previous words, based on the few words he heard, he probably knew what was going on.

200 taels, give it to Yan Ge's hometown, and my father should be able to get promoted, this is selling the official title.

As for what kind of official can be bought with such a small amount of money, and what kind of official father wants to buy, the conversation is too short, Wei Guangde has not figured it out yet.

Moreover, from what I heard before, now that I think about it, it seems that my father wants to be promoted, but he doesn't want to leave the Bengshan Baihu Office.

However, the eldest brother is only sixteen, and it seems that it is a bit difficult to get a job.

Afterwards, the old couple talked for a long time, but Father Wei was still a little shaken.

This time when he was recuperating in Zhenjiang, someone approached Father Wei and asked him if he wanted to upgrade to a higher level.

Father Wei has also worked at the Bengshan Hundred Households Institute for 20 years, so he still wants to be promoted if he has the chance.

200 taels of silver is really not much if you want to seek an official position of a thousand households, but there are restrictions, that is, no one can be in the position, that is to say, if you send 200 taels of silver to it, it is really hard to get a thousand households. not sure.

Father Wei wants to be promoted, but he is also reluctant to part with the Fengshui treasure of Bengshan Baihusuo.

As usual, if you don't do anything, you can get more than a hundred taels of silver a year, so you want to be promoted, but you also want your eldest son to take over the position.

As for promotion within Jiujiang Guard, Father Wei has long since given up hope.

In fact, the official position in Jiujiang Weili is still a fat vacancy. Except for the following hundreds of official positions, those who are vacant at the upper positions will be occupied by airborne people, and it is impossible to be promoted internally.

The conversation in the room also ended quickly, and it seemed that there was no result.

Wei Guangde reckoned that his father still hadn't given up, but he had a lot of worries, so he chose to give up for the time being.

After eavesdropping on the corner for a long time, Wei Guangde's legs became numb, and he quietly left there and went back to the yard, where he kicked and punched casually.

After all, he was born in a military family, and his family didn't have any ancestral high-strength martial arts, but the army still has the ability to kill the enemy, but they are all straight-forward and open-ended.

To be honest, Wei Guangde feels that this kind of boxing is not enough to exercise his body, that is to say, it is still useful in battle.

Although Wei Guangde didn't plan to practice this to get ahead, it's still good to exercise his muscles and bones when he's tired.

After moving his hands and feet, Wei Guangde saw that it was getting late, so he went back to the house to get ready to rest. When he entered the door, he saw a blunderbuss hanging on the wall, and there was a medicine pot on the wooden table next to the wall.

After the gun test a few days ago, although in Wei Guangde's opinion, the bird gun still had many flaws, and it was incomparable with the weapons of later generations, but when he heard that the elder brother and Zhang Ji were against The amazement of this weapon, and then think about the firearms of later generations, compared with this bird gun, it has been hundreds of years.

Well, Wei Guangde believes that in this era, the bird gun seems to be the sharpest military weapon.

The two blunderbuss that were taken out were not put back, but Wei Wencai and Wei Guangde each took one.

Although the bird gun is not as fast as the bow and arrow, but the power is really good.

In that gun test, although Wei Guangde, Wei Wencai and others failed to hit the target, Tang Sanwa did hit two shots in a row and directly knocked down two birds.

Because of this, Wei Wencai also became interested, saying that he still needs to study and study one of them.

Children who grew up in the army are actually very enthusiastic about weapons, especially those new weapons.

Although I look down on firearms, as Father Wei said, people in the army actually like well-made firearms very much.

Of course, this is also because firearms training is so simple that recruits can use them proficiently after training for a month and a half.

And to use firearms, there is no need to fight the enemy face to face, and there are not many requirements for courage and killing skills. It is really a sharp weapon for quickly forming an army.

As for the dislike of firearms by the officers and soldiers of the Ming army, they were actually harmed by those bastards from the Weapons Bureau.

Walking over, Wei Guangde did not reach out to take the bird gun off the wall.

For a ten-year-old child, this bird gun is still a little too heavy.

It's just that the bird guns made in the Jiajing Dynasty are very similar to the rifles seen in later generations in terms of appearance, and I read the news on the Internet before, and the shotguns confiscated in some mountainous areas are also very similar.

In later generations, boys, how many people don't like guns?
Silent all night.

In the morning, after getting up, Wei Guangde still brushed his teeth and washed his face as usual. Although there was no toothpaste in this era, he always brushed his teeth with a toothbrush dipped in salt, and then rinsed his mouth.

Toothbrushes, in this era, already exist, with wooden sticks and bristles, and the cost is not expensive.

Of course, there are also things similar to toothpaste made from medicinal materials, but Wei Guangde's family certainly cannot afford them.

After breakfast, he took a few pennies from Mrs. Wei and Wu and went out to school to study.

In fact, Wei Guangde himself is rich, but his inherited body has such a habit.

In the box under Wei Guangde's bed, there are hundreds of copper coins saved by his predecessor.

Regarding this, Wei Guangde's understanding is that maybe the predecessor also understood that the main things in the family may be inherited by the elder brother. Although everyone is a legitimate son, there is still a distinction between the elder and the younger, so they quietly save money.

The current Wei Guangde, of course, has no money to save, and basically spends it when he has it, and will not use the money he saved before.

When I came to the school, as usual, I sat down and started studying.

The morning passed quickly, and after lunch, several people were still resting in that corridor.

"Master Sun is too rigid. In fact, students can go to school and lie on their desks to rest."

Wei Guangde complained in his heart more than once, but of course it was not the same, Mr. Sun would not agree.

School, that is the place to study.

However, during today's break, the Taoist priest who visited the teacher yesterday also arrived at the front yard at some point, and looked at the young man resting in the yard without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)