Wentang

Chapter 46
"Think carefully about how you would solve such problems before, and reflect on why you did what you did just now." Yue Shan said sternly.

"Yes, I got carried away and almost discredited the baron's mansion, please punish me." Zhou Shangyun said with a red face.

"You are wrong again. What is your identity and what qualifications do you have to discredit the baron's mansion? There is only one person who can bring glory to the mansion and discredit the mansion, and that is me. You..." Yue Shan stared at him eyes seriously said:

"Thunder and rain, grace comes from above."

Zhou Shangyun stared at Yue Shan in a daze, he didn't expect the boy who was only ten years old to say such a domineering sentence.

This sentence comes from Yang Lian's blood book in prison during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty. The original text is: Thunder and rain, could it be God's grace.It means that whether it is good or bad, it is the emperor's favor.

Yue Shan naturally didn't dare to use "Could it be Tian'en', because "Tian'en" always refers to the emperor's grace, if he dared to use it, he would probably lose his head in seconds.

So he changed his learning and application to grace from the top. '上' can refer to the emperor, or to whom you owe your allegiance.

Combining the previous words, what Yue Shan means is: Everything in the Yue family is created by me and belongs to me. You are just helping and adding to the cake.

All your glory comes from me, without me you are nothing.So don't take yourself too seriously.

However, Zhou Shangyun didn't feel that he was insulted at all, because he also realized that there was a big problem with his mentality.

He is Yue Shan's staff, helping to solve problems rather than causing trouble.But what he did just now really made a small incident a big one.

Zhou Shangyun quickly found the cause of the problem.One is that becoming a staff member has a bright future, and he gets carried away with complacency.The second is that he doesn't know how to be a qualified staff at all.

He studied in a private school when he was young, but when he grew up, his family had no money, his intelligence was mediocre, and he failed to get a famous teacher. In today's words, he dropped out of school.

Later, I barely mastered some knowledge by self-study, and got mixed up in the history of warehouse accounting.His experience and knowledge only stop there.

He didn't know how the staff worked, but he often saw how the butlers of the big families handled things, so he subconsciously imitated them.

However, in fact, stewards and staff are two completely different professions.Staff are assistants, butlers are dogs.The most important thing for a staff member is ability, and the most important thing for a housekeeper is loyalty.

When encountering a problem, the staff needs to use their brains to solve it; butlers have more choices. They can solve it with their brains, or they can jump up and bite and defend their master without a brain. As long as they show loyalty, they will have a meal.

And Zhou Shangyun's behavior just now belongs to the last type, he went up to bite the Orion without thinking.

How would a really intelligent staff member solve this problem?Directly expose Orion's lies, tell him that this is the white rice, and take the opportunity to lower the price to buy the white rice at a lower price.Could it be that after being exposed, the Orion dared to bite the bullet and say that it was an iron-eating beast?
However, he chose the most mindless approach.He took the initiative to expose the identity of Baron Yueshan, and rushed to bite him, but the matter was not resolved and almost made a big fuss.

Zhou Shangyun was soberly aware of his abilities like never before.Before, he complained that he was unappreciated for his talents, but now he finally knows that he has no talents at all.Now that 'Yu' has come, I don't even have the ability to catch it.

This reality made him extremely depressed.

"I am not capable enough to serve as a staff member. If I want to resign, I hope the Baron will allow me."

"Hehe..." Seeing his dejected look, Yue Shan laughed instead: "Why, are you going to give up?"

Zhou Shangyun looked at him puzzled, what else could he do if he didn't give up?Would you use such a mediocre person as your staff?
Yue Shan decided to take this opportunity to have a good talk with him, after all, he was his only aide, so he was really scared away, so he was useless even as a mediocre person.

He brought the two of them to a place where no one was around, and asked Feng Luokung to be on guard, and he pulled Zhou Shangyun to chat:
"Everyone has their own strengths. As long as you make good use of your strengths and be a down-to-earth person, you can always find the value of your existence. Do you know where your strengths are? Do you know why I want you to be my assistant? "

"Isn't it because we know each other well?" Zhou Shangyun asked.

"Yes, I asked you to be my staff because we know each other well, but there are many people who know me well, why don't I ask them?" Before he could answer, Yue Shan continued:

"Because you are more knowledgeable than them, because you are kind and down-to-earth, and because you can endure loneliness."

"You are my staff, have you thought about what I should do next?" Yue Shan asked again.

"Closer the relationship with Prince Qin's Mansion." Zhou Shangyun blurted out, obviously he has also considered this issue.

Unexpectedly, Yue Shan kept shaking his head: "You are wrong, what I want to do now is dormant. I was made a baron when I was only ten years old, so what if I have a close relationship with the King of Qin? Can he still make me a baron? Can't be a high official? Don't forget that Muxiu will be destroyed by the forest wind."

"In the next five or even ten years, I will be dormant until I grow up. So what we have to do for a long time is not to stir up troubles, but to sink our hearts and consolidate our foundation, waiting for the right opportunity to fly soaring."

"During this period, what we have to do is to seek stability, not seeking merit but seeking no faults. Therefore, I need a staff who is stable, reliable, and able to endure loneliness. As for talent, it is second."

Zhou Shangyun's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he wanted to understand many problems.

Before, he was only thinking about how to make Yue Shan curry favor with King Qin to get more benefits, but he ignored Yue Shan's age. What can a ten-year-old child do?
If it is an outstanding child of a rich and powerful family, maybe he can get on the stage and get a chance to exercise.Yue Shan's background is too low and his foundation is too weak, and now he is courting death when he steps on the stage.

Hibernation is the most suitable strategy.

And such a strategy came from the mouth of a ten-year-old child, Zhou Shangyun was completely convinced by his little master.

At the same time, he also understood why Yue Shan asked him to be his assistant.

The affairs of the Yue family in recent years are very simple and can be roughly divided into two things.One is to maintain the relationship with Prince Qin's Mansion, so I won't mention this, it should be in the question.The other thing is to slowly consolidate the Yue family's family fortune.

The house needs to be repaired, the property needs to be well managed, and family talents need to be cultivated... It doesn't take much talent to do these things, even mediocre people with a calm mind can do well.

Those who are highly talented are not suitable for this job.Those people want to be trendy, and they won't stay dormant with a little baron for five or ten years. During this time, they might have reached the sky in one step.

And he, Zhou Shangyun, has no worries in this regard, let alone five or ten years, even 20 years can be waited.The mediocrity of intelligence has become an advantage at this time.

Of course, this has something to do with how he usually does things in a down-to-earth manner, being honest and being kind.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Zhou Shangyun's face again.

"Have you figured it out?" Yue Shan asked with a smile.

Zhou Shangyun nodded heavily.

"Would you like to say goodbye?"

"I don't want to say goodbye."

"Then let's go, let's go to the Ministry of War to handle the matter of defense and cooperation."

(End of this chapter)