The emperor asked Ye Zhengming to treat his son full-time one-on-one, which was a kind of trust in Ye Zhengming's output.

When Ye Zhengming was young, he was a standard young master who was content with enjoyment and idleness. However, with the wealth of the Ye family at that time, as long as these young masters don't make trouble outside, the uncles of the Ye family don't mind raising them to eat and drink for nothing.

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The Ye family has nothing to do with the scholar family, and before the generation of the old man, the Ye family was still a very simple peasant identity. At that time, Zhou had not died, and the imperial capital was still located in Yedu, Zhonglu, but it was not far from the emperor at that time to move the capital, and it was precisely because of the relocation of the capital soon after that there was a little turmoil in Yedu. Of course, the emperor's family, who was about to move, was not affected by this turmoil, and it was the people of Yedu who suffered.

The forbidden army and the Yedu guards carried the last batch of furniture to be transferred by the Zhou Emperor, escorted a large group of concubines and royal families, and went to the new city and county in the east near Haiti, which made the Yedu guard work reach an extremely weak period in recent decades, and there were rumors at the right time that Yedu was about to be captured by the enemy, and everyone did not know who the enemy was.

Before the unwarranted enemy army arrived, the largest grain store in the capital was sacked by a legion composed of scattered local poor people in Yedu.

For a long time, the grain store has always relied on the strength of the store's backstage, and always priced the grain sold in the store two points higher than the market, so that it affects the price of grain in the entire Yedu. With the evolution of a long time, Yedu, which has the glory of the imperial capital for nearly 300 years, although it is the largest commercial capital in the country, the goods sold in it are always much more expensive than those in other counties.

Clothes are a little more expensive, ordinary people don't need much, and they can bear it, but the food they have to eat every day has been rising so much that many people have begun to stand it. Poor families have no money to save up, so they can't go to other places to buy more grain at a time. In addition, if a resident transports grain to a certain amount of food in the city at one time, he will have to pay a commercial tax, even if he does not sell it.

There are already many residents who are trying to find a way to move away from Yedu, but moving means giving up a lot of things, and long-distance moving is really not something that everyone can afford, so the people who can stay in Ye, except for some businessmen who can still think of ways to make money in this city, are mostly poor. The poor could not afford to hire wagons to travel long distances, and some of their squantiate houses and dilapidated utensils could not be exchanged for silver. But if they just give it up, they will not be able to get the money to rebuild it, and they will remain in the city. For the time being, I can still pick up some of the items discarded by the group of small rich people who have moved away.

These actions were passive and benevolent, but what happened in the grain store was an active outburst of anger from the poor at their unscrupulous management. Unfortunately, in this turmoil, when the army of poor people used their thin bodies as hammers to crash down the gate of the grain store. By the time the few officials arrived, the grain shops had been looted, and the officials had arrested a few poor people who were disabled and had not had time to run far, and put them in prison for a few days, and finally they were gone.

This grain robbery incident. Ye Daorong also participated, but he and his father gave up the snowflake-like rice, and only grabbed half a bag after being opened and looked at. The sorghum grains that were discarded in the corner of the house, what they really snatched were the chickens raised in the backyard of the grain store.

After the grain shop closes and cleans every day, it can always sweep out a small pile of dusty and dusty grains that I don't know how many feet have been stepped on during the day, but the owner of the grain shop is slamming the door and is mean and unwilling to sell these grain residues to the poor people at a discount, but raises a nest of chickens by himself. This litter of chickens has been eating these rice, wheat, sorghum and other compound grains for a long time, and they all grow strong. The rooster crows loudly and powerfully, and the eggs laid by the hen are not only large, but also fragrant...... Now, Ye Daorong's family picked up the cheap.

In fact, it is not that others have not noticed this, but it is precisely because other people know a problem very well in their hearts that they will let the opportunity to grab chickens fall into the hands of the Ye family.

It's just that all the chickens raised by the owner of the grain store were snatched, so how long can I eat them? And although the chicken tastes beautiful, it needs to be cooked, if there is a mud stove and a rusty pot at home, the taste of cooked chicken is estimated to be not as strong as rice. Moreover, bring this group of live chickens home, not slaughter and eat them in one go, but also paste the grain upside down, and it is even more impossible to sell them in the market...... It's still reliable to grab food!

However, since it is a question that many people can think of, how could Ye Daorong, who later revitalized the Ye family and integrated the country's largest business chain within a hundred years, not think of it? Ye Daorong snatched the chicken, not to eat it himself, and not to sell it, but the purpose was the "raising" that made people feel stunned!

Ye Daorong's father carried a bamboo cage with seven hens, and Ye Daorong himself carried half a bag of sorghum grains, and carried three majestic and struggling big roosters in his hands.

At that time, the attention of the entire grain shop was in the warehouse and the front door shop, so only one person who looked like a family man saw them, but this family did not stop them, one because the grain shop was badly destroyed, and the boss was beaten very badly, so he was also about to get some benefits and leave, and second, he saw the heavy force of the father and son, and he really didn't want to use force against these two people for this grain shop that existed in name only, if he drew the anger of the group of poor people in the front yard to himself, it would be too worthless.

So the three of them just took a look at each other, and then they separated like a few people they didn't know on the street. Ye Daorong and his father were still a little weak-hearted, they were always thieves, but after seeing the attitude of the family, they suddenly felt a very strange self-confidence in their hearts, and the two almost turned around and went back to the grain shop to prepare to steal horses.

However, they did not do it in the end, not because they could not take it, but considering the special place they planned to go to, it was strange enough to go to the north of the country, with two large cages of chickens, and if they brought two more horses, it would be easy to be robbed by mountain bandits along the way, not to mention, even if they arrived there safely, a poor family had two horses, and it was easy to cause trouble for themselves in the north where there were often wars.

Ye Daorong and his father have the same opinion, in fact, it is more that Ye Daorong added some inappropriate details in his father's opinion, so the two quickly gave up the idea of stealing horses, and after returning home with chickens and sorghum grains, they cleaned up a little soft as quickly as possible, broke off the iron heads of the two hoes at home, plus a kitchen knife and a pot, wrapped two beds in the quilt and carried it on their backs, and gave up the house made of clods of soil that two generations had lived in for decades, and did not take care of the few thin fields that they still had outside the city, so they went out of the city.

Maybe it was God's will that happened to fall on this pair of fathers and sons, who had suffered the pain of losing their wives and mothers in their early years, and had been lonely and dependent on each other for more than ten years, or maybe the situation had its own certainty, and the Zhou Empire at that time had not yet reached the time of complete chaos, Ye Daorong and his father started to flee the famine in advance, and it was smooth along the way.

Go to the north, the group of chickens raised by the grain shop owner have lost a circle, but only less than half of the number of deaths, only one of the three roosters died, which is a faint hint of luck on the rise, after arriving in the north, they were lucky to meet a cattle man, Ye Daorong traded a few eggs to the cattle man, and finally slaughtered a hen and drank a meal with the big man, and finally these two people successfully formed an alliance and walked hand in hand, since then, in the north of the bitter cold and vast land, A strange procession of cattle grazing with a cage of chickens appeared.

However, relying only on the binding of interests is not a reliable way to make these two people who are not close to each other walk together for a long time, and Ye Daorong at that time could not continue to provide eggs and meat for the big man who likes to eat fried eggs and roast whole chickens although he raised cows.

In the end, Ye Daorong's father and son went around in the north with the big man who herded cattle, and the strength that had been walking together for more than ten years was Ye Daorong's seemingly innate business acumen and business sense, which may also be because he was born in the first powerful business capital of the Zhou Empire, and he was exposed to it, right?

In short, the half bag of sorghum owned by Ye Daorong was very lucky to survive in the north, but in the half a year before the sorghum matured, in order to prevent the chickens from starving to death, the father and son gathered around the herd of cattle raised by the big man every day, saying that they were herding cattle for the big man, but in fact, their eyes were like burning fire all the time staring at the cowflies that fell on the cow and were ready to suck blood.

Feeding chickens with blood flies that have sucked the blood of cows is a strange but powerful practice, so that the nest of chickens can survive until the day when the sorghum planted by Ye Daorong is harvested in the north of the country with a changeable climate and limited food every day.

Solving the food dilemma, Ye Daorong also had the confidence, so that his few cages of chickens began to breed, the eggs naturally began to increase, and the mouth of the cattle raiser also improved, but the group of cattle suddenly found that the two guys who suddenly appeared before were serving to catch mosquitoes and flies for them all the time, and suddenly they were no longer so diligent, and they often had to retract their sight from the grass on the ground, shaking their heads and tails to drive away the troubles on their bodies, and the number of cows howling was also more, I don't know whether they were complaining or melancholy.

The good appetite of the old man not only brought consumption to Ye Daorong's chickens and eggs, but also made him think of a business, I wonder if the people who live in the north will be used to eating beef and mutton, and like this big man to eat fried eggs and chicken? Ye Daorong's business acumen has made the beef business of the cattle breeder a lot better, so he naturally doesn't mind that in the northern town, every time in the middle of the month, when the market opens, he sells beef and asks Ye Daorong to bring his chicken coop at the same time.

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ps: There are three days in a month, one month and ten days, and the first month represents ten days.