Ruan Bai felt that he was a little blind in his job. He doesn't know a few big characters, he still guesses by himself, and he doesn't know the official language, he learns Liniang's Shunyang accent. Chu Hao usually speaks with a Xijing accent, and he can also speak a little.

As for the official language? Mu Caiying, Mu Wenfei and Tian Kaifu have said some things, but he has not been in contact with these three people for a long time.

Chu Hao also felt that this was the case, and asked Tian Kaifu in private: "What's the matter?" ”

Tian Kaifu was also helpless: "Drawings." The drawings of the fire kang presented by the lower officials are Ruan Di...... Painted by Lord Nguyen. "Ahem, it seems that His Royal Highness the Prince attaches more importance to this "second brother" than expected. But think about it, since Ruan Bai is Chu Hao's younger brother, if he also calls him a younger brother, then he and Chu Hao are not......

Chu Hao looked at Tian Kaifu inexplicably and suddenly blushed, and tapped a few cases with his fingers: "Go on." The drawings were seen by the old ghost of the Ministry of Engineering? ”

The old ghost of the Ministry of Works...... The corners of Tian Kaifu's mouth twitched, that is, this master who dared to say this about the Ministry of Works.

"Yes, after Lord Qin saw it, he went to find His Majesty...... "What exactly was discussed, he definitely didn't know, otherwise he wouldn't be the official of the seventh grade," and then there was this order. In addition, Xia Guan came this time to have another official business. ”

"Huh?"

Tian Kaifu raised the corners of his mouth: "Xiaguan was ordered to teach Lord Ruan to read and hyphenate." ”

Chu Hao originally wanted to say that it was enough for him to teach these things, but then he thought that he had already agreed to teach Ruan Bai a long time ago, but he was always delayed because of such and such things. Although Tian Kaifu's level is not very good, it is still okay to teach a little foundation.

"Hmm." Chu Hao nodded.

Tian Kaifu breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, if Chu Hao insisted on refusing, then he had no way at all. As the companion of the prince, he has already been labeled with the Chu family, no matter what he does, he must put the Chu family first.

As a speech official, he knows too well the faces of those people in the court. If he is loyal to His Majesty, there is no need to estimate, but someone will definitely scold the two family slaves like this. Fortunately, so far, the interests of the Chu family have been consistent with those of Jinshang. And with his current status, there is nothing worth taking advantage of by the Chu family......

Ruan Bai finally ushered in his own cultural teacher, plus a box of books, serious books.

After three days of school, he realized that what he had been using to ponder his knowledge was actually a book of words, and he still read it as a sage book. Originally, what he thought he understood was even more far away, almost equivalent to making up a story himself.

However, in a place where productivity is so low, there can still be a script or something...... Or is this Shunyang Pass he came to belong to a place that has lagged behind China for 50 years in terms of social economy?

Ruan Bai was very unhappy to find that he had guessed correctly. Because he is an adult, Tian Kaifu's teaching is not like teaching children, and after he went to school casually for two days, he found that Ruan Bai's memory and comprehension ability are very strong, and it is commonplace to draw inferences.

He sighed while teaching: "It's a pity, Brother Ruan is really a pity." "With Ruan Bai's qualifications, if it weren't for his poor background, if he could have a master to teach, I'm afraid he would have ...... by now Well, fourteen, it's a little smaller; But when it comes to the year of the weak crown, it will be able to achieve a career, so why bother to be a post now?

However, thinking that Ruan Bai would definitely be able to make a difference in officialdom in the future, his heart was hot. He can also be regarded as Ruan Bai's master!

Ruan Bai calmly continued to study in Tian Kaifu's regretful eyes. At the end of the first seven days, he suddenly asked Chu Hao: "Don't you have a dictionary?" ”

"Word dictionary?" Chu Hao heard a new word from Ruan Bai's mouth again, and after some explanation, he understood and nodded, "Yes." Because his whereabouts have been exposed recently, he simply brought some things from home, of course, following the path of Tian Kaifu, and finally taught him in his name. The books were now in the room between the two of them.

Tian Kaifu said that even if there was a war, he could not delay his homework. The word dictionary as a reference book is also in it. Chu Hao turned the book out: "Shi Ya" and "Collection of Notes". "Shi Ya is to explain the meaning of the text, and the collection of notes is to mark the sound.

Ruan Bai took it and saw that there was still a piece of paper in it, which read-

My son, don't return, mother.

Ruan Bai now knows how to read, and there is anything I don't understand about the meaning of these six words, but I don't think it's right. Why does the mother miss her son, but let her son not come back? What is the password?

Chu Hao added a little synopsis: "My mother...... It's a bit fierce. "His eldest cousin went out and was said to be his mother's daughter. A Hedong lion like Princess Min is simply a perfect daughter-in-law candidate in the eyes of his mother. His father is suing him, and his mother is not dead set on letting him marry Princess Min.

Ruan Bai connected with the context and raised his eyes: "You ran away from home?" ”

it! This can be guessed, his second dog is really smart. These days, he sees Tian Kaifu praising Ergou every day, and he is simply praised as a flower.

He has seen a lot of bear children, what is so difficult to guess, as for being so surprised? Ruan Bai took his reference book, asked for advice on how to use it, and after learning it in three or two times, he started the road of self-study.

Tian Kaifu suddenly found that Ruan Bai didn't need him much anymore.

"There are several common official documents, and the format is roughly like this." Tian Kaifu was still puzzled while explaining, it had only been half a month since he lectured, and it was unbelievable that Ruan Bai was illiterate half a month ago.

Ruan Bai nodded while taking notes, and the pen sharpened into carbon strips wrote quickly on the paper.

Tian Kaifu was not without ideas about the so-called pencil used by Ruan Bai. When I saw it a long time ago, I asked Ruan Bai's consent and tested it. Helplessly, there are too many differences between the various methods of hard pen and soft pen, he holds a pencil in his hand, and pokes a hole in the paper, which is not at all as good as Ruan Bai's pen.

Tian Kaifu has seen Ruan Bai's calligraphy, and the writing is not fast, and it is not very good-looking, but the strokes are particularly neat. What kind of calligraphy you want to practice is not something that can be practiced in a day or two. He didn't ask for much.

As for pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, as the largest consumable for studying, it is especially expensive in the border area. However, they had their backs to Chu Hao, and they could not consider such consumption at all.

After the official document format is finished, the rest is the responsibilities that various posters need to bear.

Before the professional class started, Pan Daning came in to call someone, and the others saw that Tian Kaifu was still a little restrained, but he was the only one who didn't feel any different from Tian Kaifu as an adult.

"Master, a businessman from the capital came to you and said he wanted to buy something."

Before Ruan Bai could answer, Tian Kaifu took the lead in picking up the teacup: "Brother Ruan, just go." "Anyway, his progress here has far exceeded expectations, not to mention the merchants in the capital? I don't know which one it is, but the news is really fast. This little barren post, no, Ruan Bai's little head has a lot of good things hidden in it.

Ruan Bai apologized to Tian Kaifu before following Pan Daning out. The merchant surnamed Niu from the capital said that he wanted to buy mutton fat, and he avoided the relationship with Xiao Xizi at all.

"Steward Cai said that it was easy to use, and he read it every day. It should have arrived a long time ago, but it was cold before, and it was delayed for a lot of time in Xijing, and the villain was only many days late. ”

Only then did Ruan Bai know that Xiao Xizi's surname was Cai. This cattle merchant is also worthy of being a cattle businessman, even if he still maintains respect in front of him, he is not groveling like Hu Laoliu, and there is a little arrogance in his expression. If you put it in words, it is, we have never seen the mud legs of the world, but we are from the feet of the Son of Heaven.

Business is to be done, but Ruan Bai doesn't need to get used to this "cow man". In these days, he also generally understands the status of officials and businessmen. He may need to give face to the little Xizi behind the cattle merchant, but he doesn't have to give face to the cattle merchant.

Ruan Bai smiled, like the shyness that a fourteen-year-old boy should have. If Chu Hao was here, he would definitely know that this guy was bubbling up again. But after changing to a cattle businessman, I only felt that the child in front of me was very much in line with what I expected.

is young, has a flexible brain, and is smart enough, and his luck is even better, so he can become a petty official at a young age. But that's it, I've never seen a big scene, and when I meet a big businessman like him, I will definitely lose three points of momentum first.

Business, it's good to talk about!

In the world of Da Zhou, Ruan Bai really hasn't seen much. But there is a Chu Hao by his side, even if he is careful when he speaks, he will reveal some powerful values from time to time. These days, there is another Tian Kaifu by his side, and with his flattery to Chu Hao and his love for Ruan Bai, he can be said to know everything. In addition, Ruan Bai actually had a lot of contact with the merchants, and the little caution of the cattle merchants was quickly shattered.

As the negotiation deepened, the sweat on the cow merchant's forehead became more and more, and when someone came to call for dinner, it finally turned into beads of sweat rolling down his cheeks.

Ruan Bai still looked like a young man who didn't know anything about the world, and in the already dim light, he smiled slightly: "Let's have a light meal together, right?" ”

No matter how shy the little fox is, Lao Tzu will not be deceived again! "Bother Lord Ruan, and the villain will not be bothered."

Ruan Bai led the way in front, and the cattle merchant tried to open his legs, slightly softened, and calculated the accounts in his heart over and over again, and suddenly found that he actually did not lose money. The purchase price of mutton fat is not high, not to mention that there is one more than what Steward Cai said, the taste is still light, and there is not much difference, but it is said that the medicinal herbs are added, which is specially used to wipe hands and feet to prevent frostbite.

This is nothing, the key is the way this Lord Ruan asked for settlement, not to collect gold, silver and copper coins, but to collect materials. If he walked away with a bag of mutton fat on his back, he would have to pull five or six carts of daily necessities. Neither quantity nor quality can be compromised.

After washing up at night, Ruan Bai wiped his feet with the previous jar of mutton fat, raised his face and asked Chu Hao to wipe his face, pouting: "Poor and exquisite." "Exactly the same thing, not scored into two or three cans, and don't look at what the environment is now.

Chu Hao choked back with his words: "Didn't you say it?" When conditions permit, we still have to pay attention to what should be paid attention to. "Well, a white and tender child, at first glance, is a child of a powerful family, and he will not be bullied when he goes out. That bullshit cattle businessman, who dares to take advantage of his second dog, is really bold and fat. However, his second dog is more ferocious, and it would be good if he didn't bully others.

Ruan Bai rolled his eyes. His original room was occupied by the third family, and there was no movement to move the nest, and now he could only sleep in this room that was declared to be Xiao Chuge.

For Ah Keung, they are accustomed to sunrise and sunset. But just after dinner, it was too early for him. After the body gradually adjusted, the original routine also followed.

As soon as the low table was placed, the oil lamp was a little, and the quilt was a mess, Ruan Bai took the book and pen and began to fight at night.

Chu Hao glanced at it twice, reached out and touched the top of Ruan Bai's head, and took out the book himself. I haven't watched my homework for a year, and he has fallen behind a lot.

In the middle, when Ruan Bai encountered questions, he would ask Chu Hao. Today, Chu Hao waited for a long time and didn't see any questions, and felt a little strange, so he asked, "Did you understand today's lecture?" ”

"Well......" Ruan Bai wrote down a few words, "It's not difficult to talk about the format of the official document today, just fill it in according to it." He suddenly put down the pen and couldn't help but complain, "But does His Majesty the Emperor really read these official documents every day?" ”

"Huh? What Majesty looks at is a fold, and the official documents of a petty official like you are generally not presented directly to Majesty. Chu Hao looked at him with a strange expression, frowned and asked, "What kind of mess are you thinking about?" ”

It seems that as the two of them become more and more familiar, or rather, this guy is getting deeper and deeper into the play of a fourteen-year-old boy, there are more and more expressions and words on his face, and there are more and more thoughts.

"Huh?" Ruan Bai suddenly blushed and pointed to the official document in front of him, and said, "But every official document must be written with a long paragraph at the beginning, praising His Majesty for his wisdom and martial arts...... From the hair to the soles of the feet, and then at the end of the praise again...... "He has a lot of vocabulary, and he hasn't learned any rhetorical devices, I don't know if he will be beaten if he doesn't praise a few words, the key is, "It's a shame to write like this." Wouldn't you feel ashamed to look at these every day? ”

Why does the little old man of the emperor feel ashamed? That little old man's skin is thicker than all the people in the world combined! Chu Hao silently slandered, looking at the male ghost in front of him who was pretending to be stupid and stunned, pretending to be something, and snorted coldly: "Pretend, you pretend again!" ”

"Hush." No sense of humor at all. Ruan Bai immediately turned into a cold face, and his eyes became fierce. This ghost place where birds don't, there's no entertainment at all, and now he doesn't even let him entertain himself, and is there any human rights at all?!

Ruan Bai poked it again according to the official document, and asked coldly: "Isn't paper quite expensive?" ”

Chu Hao nodded: "Yes for some people." You don't have to worry about this, my brother has money. "He grew up with his unobtrusive father, and lived with his cousin-in-law, the general, for a long time, and was no stranger to the lives of ordinary people. His small coffers were saved at that time, and they have recently shrunk a bit.

At this point, Ruan Bai was not polite to him. Now the unicycle he's changing is a free project, and it's nothing to change a few pieces of paper.

"Then they still waste so much paper and write all this nonsense." The key is to make things clear in three sentences, why do you have to make it so complicated. Kumon, isn't it okay to highlight the key points one, two, three? However, he, a petty official who can't be smaller, shouldn't have any official documents to write. Well, if you're in charge of the courier business, it's at most a task to deliver official documents, right?

Chu Hao saw that Ruan Bai had said two sentences and was about to start learning again, so he knocked on the table with his fingers: "Wait, brother is asking you." ”

Ruan Bai raised his head: "Say." ”

Chu Hao didn't sell it, and said directly: "Brother bought a large piece of land in Xiyuan. "No one wants that place in the West Plains at all, and the price is as cheap as the one you picked up for nothing. Thinking of how heartbroken the little old man of the emperor would be when he knew it in the near future, he immediately felt that his whole person was brilliant.

The name Xiyuan, Ruan Bai has been thunderous recently. Not far from Shunyang Pass, there are open-pit coal mines everywhere. If it weren't for him...... Wait: "I'm going to buy it too!" "He's going to be a coal boss too!

Why did he forget it, even if the person in front of him didn't know how to come, he must be the second generation of officials. This person has also brainwashed him in front of him more than once, telling him not to be afraid of offending people, so that he is not afraid of running out of money.

It was rare that Ruan Ergou also had a time to beg for someone, Chu Hao instantly put up a shelf, his chin raised high, and squinted: "This is your attitude of begging for someone?" "At the very least, it should sound good, right? For example, brother; For example, good ~ brother ~ brother ~

Ruan Ergou gritted his teeth, and then changed his face in seconds: "Hey, if you don't help, you won't help, it's rare." "Let Chu Hao help buy it, but I just want to take a shortcut. He doesn't believe that there is no official path to buy a piece of land in these years?

Early the next morning, he asked Tian Kaifu about relevant questions.

Chu Hao was on the side of the breakfast table, his eyes showing a fierce light.

Tian Kaifu was so frightened that he swallowed a mouthful of hot tender tofu brain, so hot that he subconsciously scratched his chest, and his eyes were full of tears: "Ruan ...... My lord, we'll talk about this later. "Ruan Bai wants to buy land, why don't you look for his brother, come to him as a seven-grade sesame official? My brother doesn't ask my brother for help when he has something, but he is an outsider, and my brother is very angry!

However, Ruan Bai should know about this matter, and Tian Kaifu still sued him. Even if Chu Hao has an opinion, he still has his own affairs, and it is impossible to stare at people for twelve hours without relaxation.

Tian Kaifu also sued him about the purchase and sale of various assets, such as houses, bulk goods, and people.

Looking at Ruan Bai's shocked face, Tian Kaifu, who felt that it was an official's dereliction of duty, felt empathetic and ashamed: "If you encounter a famine year, you can still have a bite to eat if you enslave your children and others; If you hold on and don't sell it...... I couldn't hold on to that day. ”

He is a speech official, and it is his job to visit everywhere, and I have seen a lot of such things. He can save one or two, but can he save ten or twenty, and can he save a hundred and two hundred? In the event of a drought or flood, it is not just a village or a town that will suffer, but a state or even several state capitals!

Since then, these people have become slaves, and their value is not even comparable to that of an animal, and even if the master kills them, they only need to go to the government to prepare a case, and spend a very small amount of money.

These children are bought to do the heaviest work. In general, the slaves and maids who follow the master of the large family are almost all born to the family of the master for several generations.

It's not about letting your child go out to work, it's really about working hard!

However, as Tian Kaifu said, if you don't sell your children and daughters, do you just watch your children starve to death and die of illness by your side?

This is not just a question of social welfare mechanisms...... For a long time, no matter what kind of society it is, it will not be able to eliminate this phenomenon.

Tian Kaifu suddenly heard Ruan Bai say softly: "I will make everyone's life better." "Slave, he did. He had been a slave for more than ten days, and he didn't want to try again at all. Even those slaves and maids who are "lucky" to be bought by good families, when their lives are only worth a few hundred dollars in their lives, or even less, what kind of luck can they talk about? Even in the future, their children will be worth only a few hundred dollars......

"It's easier said than done."

"Then start with the easy ones and start with the ones around you."

A gentle sentence hit him in the chest like a lightning strike, like the hot tofu he swallowed in the morning, dull and hot.

Tian Kaifu stood up suddenly, and saluted Ruan Bai with great respect: "But by Lord Ruan's orders!" ”

Ruan Bai patted the table, asked Tian Kaifu to sit down again, and said, "First of all, how much money do you have?" ”

Tian Kaifu has been a subtle/roundabout reader all his life, but he didn't expect Ruan Bai's first question to be so subtle, his face flushed, he touched his pocket, and took out a purse, which contained a gold leaf, two taels of broken silver, and dozens of copper plates.

"There's only so much on me."

In fact, this money is not small, let alone carrying it with you. The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not small, but they are definitely not much, especially Qipin like him, not only does he have no oil and water, but he is also an official who is easy to offend people. Most of his colleagues are living quite poorly.

Tian Kaifu's life is good, and it depends on him having a good background; Otherwise, he would not have been selected as Chu Hao's companion back then.

Ruan Bai got a lot of gold and silver from the Huns, but there was not much copper plate, and the largest amount was 10,000 gold last time. He didn't know the price of the land: "How much land can you buy in Xiyuan with all this money?" ”

"Do you still need to buy the land in the West Plains?" Tian Kaifu instinctively asked, "Coal is indeed a good thing." But it is not better for the people to pick up this ownerless thing and sell it to us. The people have one more input, and it will not delay our use. ”

"Lord Tian's words are wrong." Ruan Bai began to brainwash Tian Kaifu, "If we buy land, we have to hire someone to pick it up." We can give the people money to start work, like the weather now, we can also provide them with shelter from the wind and snow, and also provide some hot soup, isn't it much better than the people being exploited by those profiteers? ”

Tian Kaifu always felt that something was wrong, but it sounded very reasonable.

Ruan Bai had a lot of tirades, and when Chu Hao retreated early, he saw the person squatting at the door of the classroom. This is not uncommon. In Ruan Bai's words, everyone loves to learn. Tian Kaifu was ordered to be his master and couldn't teach others, but if he spoke too loudly and was heard by others, it was force majeure. Therefore, they always have a little crack in the door in class.

Today, however, the situation is different, and the object of education is clearly a different person.

“…… If we want to help others, we must first have the capital to help others. ”

"We can't let our families suffer when we help others. How can we let our fathers and mothers nurture us, our brothers and sisters love us, and our wives love us, so how can we let them suffer with us because of our own goals? ”

"Brother Ruan."

"At the end of the day, we have to make ourselves rich before we can be able to do more and help more people!"

"What Brother Ruan said is very true!"

"So, how much money do you have?"

"Ten taels of gold, two hundred taels of silver have been deposited in the bank, in addition to one industry in the capital and one in Xijing, and there is a small village on the outskirts of Beijing!"