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  Chapter 238 236 [Story of an old friend]

  Fei's family slaves rushed to tell each other, no matter whether the maids, mothers-in-law or young servants, they all put down their work and came to wait.

  They had heard the rumors a long time ago, but they still couldn't believe it.

  The house slaves in Fei Yingke's courtyard, the third eldest, had the most difficult life, and the mistress beat and scolded her frequently. As long as they can survive away from here, it is absolutely impossible for them to stay, no matter how much salary they are given in the future, they will never stay!

  But at this moment, Fei Yingke said to the slaves: "Your monthly money has been withheld by the fifth master, quickly follow me to arrest people!"

   "If you have grievances, revenge, if you have revenge, follow me to arrest people!" Fei Yingqi also shouted in his inner courtyard.

  The two brothers were in such a hurry to separate, because they were afraid that if time dragged on for a long time, extra problems would arise.

  They have a common enemy—Lao Wuye!

   is Fei Yuanyi's confidant domestic slave "Old Fifth", who was born as a book boy and has been with the old man for decades.

  In the past few years, Fei Yinghuan and Lou's couple were not at home, and the second and third children were not welcomed by Fei Yuanyi. As Fei Yuanyi became more and more ignorant, the house slave "Old Fifth" was simply domineering, and gradually took over many properties of the Fei family, stealing a lot of money secretly.

  The second and third children are gradually being ostracized. They are really slaves and deceitful masters!

  The two brothers rushed into the old man's Gongbei garden with their slaves in their respective courtyards, and beat the "old five" cronies when they saw them. Not only is the "old five" domineering, but so are these dog-legged domestic slaves, who usually don't pay much attention to the brothers.

   "Fifth Master, where are you going?"

  Fei Yingke held a stick and looked at "Old Five" with a sneer.

  The sons of the fifth child have all become shopkeepers, and they are not around to protect them now. Seeing that the situation is not good, this guy was going to run away, but was blocked by the two brothers, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "This old slave is confused, this old slave is confused, please forgive me, two masters!"

Fei Yingqi stopped Fei Yingke who was about to hit someone, and reminded: "Third brother, don't beat anyone to death. Brother Han has posted notices everywhere that lynching is not allowed. Such people will be handed over to the government for trial. Brother Han is in charge, he has to spit out all the money he has embezzled. The most important thing now is to send people to take over the various properties and keep those account books from being burned."

   "Yes, the masters of the peasant association are the masters, we must keep the account books and check slowly!" Fei Yingke nodded.

  The two brothers **** the house slave "Lao Wu" and asked the peasant association to help take over the business.

   As for Fei Yuanyi who was still cursing, they didn't bother to pay attention. An old fool who was deceived by his slaves, he doesn't believe in his son, he only believes in outsiders, he should die sooner!

  The old lady was still knocking on the wooden fish in the Buddhist hall. The disturbance outside had nothing to do with her, and she kept chanting scriptures.

  Even the mother-in-law who served her to recite the Buddha could not help but step out of the Buddhist hall, lying at the gate of the courtyard and listening carefully to what was said outside. Hearing that the land could be divided, the woman couldn't help but be overjoyed. She has two sons and a grandson, both of whom belong to the family slaves who can divide the land.

  The woman suddenly turned to the Buddhist hall and knelt down, saying very piously: "Amitabha, Amitabha, the Bodhisattva bless Brother Han to live a long life, and bless the old woman and her family to be able to share good land..."

  Jing Xing Yuan.

  Fei Cheng (Qin Xin), Fei Ze (Jian Dan), Fei De (Jiu Po), and a few domestic slaves who used to have a good relationship with Zhao Han, all gathered together to discuss the future.

   "After the field is divided, I will go to Brother Han," Fei De asked, "Which one of you would like to go?"

  Fei Ze said: "Fei Cheng and I are going too, who else is going?"

   "I'll go too!" said a house slave named Fermont.

   "Let's go together, let's go together, Brother Han is righteous, and I will definitely remember the old relationship."

   "Yes, I will go too."

   "I won't go, I also want to help my wife run the paper trough (paper mill)."

   "I heard that Brother Chun has become a high-ranking official."

   "It's not too late to join us now, we can both write and count, and we can do things no worse than those officials."

   "..."

  Suddenly an official came over, and he opened his mouth and asked, "Who are Fei Cheng, Fei Ze, and Fei De?"

   "I am!" The three stood up together.

  The official took out a letter and said, "This is a letter written by Zongzhen!"

  The three of them took it apart and saw that it was Zhao Han who told them not to go to Ji'an Mansion, but to work as a reserve official in Guangxin Mansion to help with errands.

  As long as the work of dividing the fields can be successfully completed, they can immediately become official officials. Among them, those who excel in the evaluation will be promoted next summer and transferred to southern Hunan and Guangdong with the army.

   Fei Ze immediately clasped his fists together: "We must try our best to do things!"

   "Farewell!" The officer clasped his fists and left.

   In fact, it is not only on the Qianshan side, but also on the newly occupied land.

  Expansion is so fast, although there are barely enough officials, but next year it will go to other provinces to develop, and by then it will be stretched. We must take advantage of this division of land to train more reserve officials. After becoming a full-time official next year, they will be transferred to Guangdong and southern Hunan together with experienced officials.

  This is a routine, to absorb talents in the newly occupied land, and observe their ability and character through the division of fields. A large number of training and regularization, waiting for the next expansion, the old and the new are mixed together and promoted.

  It’s like a snowball, rolling faster and bigger as it rolls back, and every year a group of corrupt and dereliction of duty is eliminated.

   Not only Qin Xin, Jian Dan, and Jiu Po, but also other house slaves can also sign up, but the three of them must be promoted faster.

  The premise is that the work of dividing the land cannot be done in a basket!

  …

  The news that Zhao Han is Zhao Yan spread more and more widely in Qianshan.

  The servants of the Fei family, whoever had contact with Zhao Han, were talking about how they were at the beginning, and they had already seen that Brother Han was not an ordinary person.

  Even Zhao Han, who was enrolled in Hanzhu Academy and went through the formalities in the library building, has become a celebrity in the academy these days.

He is now a teacher, and he doesn't give lectures to students seriously. He started bragging when he entered the classroom: "This Mr. Zhao was also studying in Hanzhu Mountain. He came in with a school card and said he wanted to get books. He is a teacher." When I looked up, my eyes were filled with purple energy in a trance. Even if I knew that I was not a mortal, I would definitely be rich and powerful in the future! Sure enough, after only two or three years, I was already rich in learning. He proposed the theory of personality, and the Jiangxi supervisor presided over the debate. All the students in Mount Zhu were speechless, even the gentlemen in the academy avoided their sharp edge..."

   "Sir," a schoolboy asked, "isn't this Mr. Zhao a traitor?"

Master Meng shook his head and said, "No, no. Now the imperial court is lawless, civil and military officials are fatuous and greedy, and the people of the world have suffered from tyranny for a long time. Mr. Zhao is not a rebel, but a righteous teacher and resists tyranny! You schoolchildren, you know Mr. Zhao How do you read? Get up early and go to bed late every day, you can’t put down the book, even when you eat, you read!"

  Even Zhao Han himself didn't know, when did he work so hard?

  Shan Changshi.

  An official sent the letter to Fei Yuanlu: "Please pass it to Zheng Rulong, sir."

  Fei Yuanlu sighed: "Oh, Zheng Rulong has passed away."

  Zheng Rulong is Zheng Zhongkui, the scripture teacher Fei Yuanlu invited from Shangrao, and has a very close personal relationship with Pang Chunlai. This letter was also written by Pang Chunlai, inviting Zheng Zhongkui to be an official in Ji'an.

  Unfortunately, Zheng Zhongkui died half a year ago.

  As for Zhu Shunshui, he returned to his hometown Yuyao a long time ago, and is experiencing a famine in Zhejiang this year.

  Here on Qianshan Mountain, things are different from people!

  Cai Maode, who tried to accept Zhao Han as a disciple, is now the Henan Youbu Political Envoy.

  The drought in Henan is severe, bandits are raging, and the imperial court has to apportion heavy taxes. Many counties are empty, and Cai Maode has long been unaware of how to manage them.

  He tried to recruit refugees to return to their hometowns to cultivate, but every time a refugee came back, he was either robbed by the rogues, or searched by officers and soldiers, and then exploited by the county magistrate.

   After going back and forth two or three times, Cai Maode completely gave up, and simply hid in the city all day to give lectures, and became a muddled official who didn't care about world affairs.

  …

  Wei Jianxiong did not go to Ji'an with Fei Yinghuan, but escorted Mrs. Chen to Jianchang Mansion to reunite with her son.

  After they arrived in Yingtan City in later generations, they abandoned the boat and took the official road, passing through Dongxiang to Fuzhou, and then took a boat along the Weishui (Jianchang River) to Jianchang Mansion.

"Mother!"

  Fei Yuanjian went out of the city to greet him, and knelt down on the pier to worship.

  Chen said with tears of relief: "My son has grown up and can do great things."

  Fei Yuanjian not only grew up, but also turned black. When he was a county magistrate, he not only often inspected villages and towns, but sometimes led farmers and soldiers into the mountains to wipe out bandits.

  Almost every county in Jiangxi has mountains, and many rebels fled into the mountains to become bandits. Therefore, one of the magistrate's responsibilities is to exterminate bandits in the mountains. With the help of the mountain people, the work of suppressing bandits is relatively smooth.

  The mother and son went to the city hand in hand, entered the government office to settle down, and told all the things they had experienced in the past few years.

  Fei Yuanjian called his wife and child over again, and the child was almost one year old.

  Chen was very happy, hugged the child to tease, and gave his daughter-in-law a pair of jade bracelets.

Until Fei Yuanjian's wife took her son to nurse, and there were only mother and child left in the room, Mrs. Chen finally couldn't help but said: "Yuanjian, mother has something to tell you, don't get angry when you hear it. "

  Fei Yuanjian smiled and said, "Mother, tell me."

  Chen said: "The person who sent me to Jianchang this time, as you have seen, is Wei Jianxiong, the head follower of the Ehu Fei family."

   "I recognized it, and I will go to thank you tomorrow." Fei Yuanjian said.

Mrs. Chen said: "My mother was also a lady of the official family when she was young. Wei Jianxiong was actually a servant of my family. After I was sent to the Jiaofang Division, he searched for several years and came to Qianshan. I refused to see him, so he worked in Ehu Lake. This time he came back and pestered me again, but I didn’t promise him anything.”

  Fei Yuanjian was very surprised, he didn't expect such a story to exist.

   However, Chen is not his biological mother, and even the grace of nurturing is only two or three years. Now he has lost sight of it, and sighed: "If mother is tempted, you can go to Ji'an Mansion with him to settle down, and the child will not stop."

  Fei Yuanjian still wanted to save face. He started a family in Jianchang Mansion, and he didn't want the Chen family to remarry someone else here.

   Each does not interfere.

   Moreover, it doesn't matter if Mrs. Chen is gone, Fei Yuanjian can be completely separated from his former self. He pretended that he had never been to Qianshan Mountain, and when he was free, he moved his parents' tombs. From now on, he will be the first ancestor of the Jianchang Fei family.

  Chen hesitated to speak, only sighed.

  Fei Yuanjian said with a smile: "Mother, let's leave after the Chinese New Year, and let the child show some filial piety."

  (end of this chapter)