Chen Zijian sat on the chair and listened to the return.

"Chief, the latest news, your request has been agreed to by the prefect, and more than 20,000 blacksmiths and their families have come over, and they are expected to arrive in half a month."

Chen Zijian nodded, "Send a brigade of brothers to pick them up, protect their safe arrival, and bring supplies, I don't want them to starve to death on the way." ”

"Yes, chief, go and arrange it immediately."

Chen Zijian: "Go!" ”

Send someone over, count it as the one who is interested, otherwise you will trouble him, why did the prefect send the blacksmith that Chen Zijian wanted so easily? The reason is very simple, if Chen Zijian asks for money and food, Wu Governor's Mansion will definitely not agree, not to mention that there is no money and grain in the government's warehouse, Chen Zijian needs Wu Governor's own money to pay for money and grain, Wu Governor's money belongs to his own, he will definitely not agree, Chen Zijian wants people It is much simpler, because the people belong to the country, give the country's things to the thieves, let them settle down, this is no problem, anyway, Chen Zijian wants more blacksmiths in Foshan Town, not to mention 5,000 blacksmiths, Chen Zijian opened his mouth to 50,000 blacksmiths, The prefect of Wu can make enough people, Foshan Town is the most famous iron town in the Ming Dynasty, and hundreds of thousands of people rely on this craft to eat.

casually took a look at the document, now Chen Zijian doesn't want to toss, he didn't start a new big project, he didn't deal with many things, and he quickly finished writing the handling opinions, of course, now there are 300,000 people in Zhangjiacheng, there are a lot of things, Chen Zijian is so easy, that is Zhang Youde's credit, Chen Zijian's first coolie, ordinary trivial things, have been handled by Zhang Youde and his management team.

As the chief, no one dared to say anything about him if he was lazy, so Chen Zijian slipped away in advance.

In a private house in District B, a large group of people are really happy and busy. Zhang Laosi is one of the principals, today is the full moon of Zhang Laosi's child, before Chen Zijian came, Zhang Laosi's wife was already pregnant, and after more than half a year, today's child is just full moon.

Zhang Laosi, as the first person to help Chen Zijian, obtained one of the largest households in Zhangjiacheng.

Several clan elders of Zhang Laosi were kissed over and sat in the top position.

The old Zhang family was dressed in clean linen clothes, and his spirit looked very good, he touched his beard and said with a smile, "This child was born to be blessed, think about what life everyone lived half a year ago, and what kind of day is now." ”

"Hehe, the third child, how can you envy the girl, this is incomparable, the old man also wants to live for a few more years to see what Zhangjiacheng can become."

Another clan elder said that a group of old fellows only enjoyed such a life before entering the earth, and it was a pity to think about it! It's a pity that the chief didn't come earlier, otherwise they could have entered the volunteer army to contribute and have a future.

It turned out that many young people in Zhangjia Village had gained a firm foothold in the volunteers, one of them became a brigade commander, and there were also a few volunteers who became platoon commanders.

The brigade commander and platoon commander don't understand how big the position is, but as long as they know how to be an officer in the volunteer army, the elders of the clan are a few years old, and when they see the young people in the village glorifying their ancestors, there is a reason to be unhappy.

Zhang Laosi came in and gave a red envelope to several clan elders, "The clan elders are sluggish, drink tea first, the kid is still busy." ”

Clan Elder: "Busy with you, we old guys don't have to worry about you." ”

At today's banquet, Zhang Laosi spent a lot of money to buy a large amount of seafood from Dianbai County to make a sumptuous banquet.

Zhang Laosi saw that his second daughter was secretly grabbing a handful of candy, followed by a group of children, and he smiled and didn't care.

Today he has a lot of things to do, picking up customers, receiving gifts, inviting people, and being busy with all kinds of things.

"Fourth, come out quickly, the four Li have arrived."

Li Si's appearance is still a little obscene, during this time, he followed Li Hu to do things for him, after coming back, Chen Zijian asked him to form a new legion, specifically to find some people with some unhealthy temperament to enter the regiment, Chen Zijian asked Li Si to form a legion, and he will be hacked for him in the future, although the legion formed by Li Si has some problems, but it has finally become an independent legion, because there is not much credit, and the current position is at the level of brigade commander.

This half a month, it is his holiday, he received Zhang Laosi's invitation, he came, Li Si is not a god who does not eat fireworks in the world, just an ordinary person, at most there is a title of volunteer brigade commander, here in Zhangjiacheng, a brigade commander is not a great officer, there are many people on his top boss.

"Oh, Fourth Brigade Commander Li, you're here, hurry up and kiss, go and sit inside." Seeing Li Si coming, Zhang Laosi hurried up to catch up, in the original Zhangjia Village, in addition to Zhang Youde's best, the other person is this Li Si, Zhang Youde is a scholar, and it is understandable that he is highly used by the chief, how can people say that he is also a scholar, even if he is not a child.

Many scholars in the Ming Dynasty can't pass the Xiucai exam, which doesn't mean that people don't have ink, but they just don't have a way, and the people in Zhangjia Village are convinced by Zhang Youde. But what about Li Si, his father and mother died a long time ago, leaving a bachelor, fortunately he was over twenty years old, otherwise he would have starved to death, but because of the tinkling of poverty, he never married a wife.

It's just that no one thought that Li Si had been in obscurity, followed Chen Zijian to do things, and then it was out of control, the brigade commander was not a top high-level in the volunteer army, but in the eyes of the people of Zhangjia Village, Li Si's status was already high, he was an official master, Li Si, who no one looked down on before, now everyone wants to marry their unmarried daughter to Li Si. It's a pity that Li Si is not what he used to be, he has seen a lot of the world with Chen Zijian, when he was fighting local tyrants outside and cleaning up the landlords, what kind of woman he hadn't seen, and the original peasant woman in Zhangjia Village saw it.

Although Li Si did not get married, but he already had a concubine, when he was arrested in Yangjiang County, the daughter of a small landlord's family was taken by Li Si, and then invited all the family to Zhangjiacheng, and then things came naturally, Li Si, as the brigade commander of the Volunteer Army, married the daughter of a small landlord's family, which is really nothing.

As for the small landlord's family, it was not cleared by the volunteers, it was because the small landlord had not yet reached the scope of clearing, that is, less than 50 acres of land, and avoided a disaster.

Although Zhang Laosi did things for Chen Zijian and earned a lot of silver coins, but when it comes to status, it is not as good as Li Si, seeing Li Si coming, his heart has become happy, and he has a good relationship with the volunteers, which is more important than anything else, and a little leakage from the hands of the volunteers can change a person's fate.

Li Si was here, his expression relaxed, and he smiled, "Haha, fourth, there is nothing valuable, this jade pendant was found outside, I exchanged it for military skills, and gave it to my little girl." ”

Zhang Laosi waved his hand, "Brigade Commander Li has already given me face when he came over, how can I accept your jade pendant, or not, or not." ”

Li Si: "It's not for you, what do you excuse for the little girl." If you don't want me, I'll leave. ”

Zhang Laosi smiled like a flower, "Then I'll take it, please, a few clan elders are inside." ”

Li Si entered the house, several clan elders hurriedly got up, let Li Si sit in the first place, the class concept is very important in their hearts, Li Si as an officer of the Volunteer Army, his status is an official, several clan elders are just a common people now, Li Si is not in the first place, no one dares to sit down, the concept of hierarchy is not so easy to change, everyone is equal in the future, it doesn't work here, that guy dares to say anything here that everyone is equal, and he was tied to firewood and burned as wood every minute.

Even in the afterlife, everyone is equal, which means that there are too many examples to say that there is no need to say it.

Li Si chatted with several clan elders, and was proud in his heart, now he can be valued by so many people, it is not that he has taken refuge in the chief early, when others are still watching, he hugged the chief's thigh, and now the chief is already a big man, and it is not easy for others to hug his thigh.

By noon, there were already thirty tables of food outside, each table was full of seafood, lobster, abalone, and the fishing industry in Dianbai County, making these things cheap.

But so many things down, costing more than two hundred silver coins, was unimaginable before. Everyone ate and drank and enjoyed the benefits of Zhangjiacheng.

"Come on, Brigadier Li, I'll give you a drink."

Li Si and Zhang Laosi touched the wine glasses and drank all the rice wine.

Li Si: "Haha, you don't know, the chief doesn't have much interest in wine, if you have time to eat with the chief in the future, don't toast the chief!" ”

Zhang Laosi and several clan elders heard that it was the chief's matter and listened carefully.

Zhang Laosi asked, "What do you say?" ”

"It's nothing, the chief just doesn't like to drink much, except for a few corps commanders and Zhang Youde, he rarely drinks."

Everyone listened, they were amazed, everyone was curious about high-level things, in Zhangjiacheng, everyone wanted to know Chen Zijian's preferences, and there was no need to say much about what to do, pat yourself on the back! Shoot the horse's ass, Chen Zijian's fingers leak a little thing, it can make people happy for half a year, of course, if the horse's fart is patted and the horse's hooves are patted, it will be bad.

Hearing that the chief didn't like to drink, everyone couldn't imagine it.

Zhang Laosi was eating a piece of lobster meat, although he was happy today, but he was not without regrets, he gave the chief a wedding card, but unfortunately he didn't have time to come.

The feast was set out outside the house, and everyone was eating happily, when a small party came. Dressed in ordinary linen clothes, there was a person with a body different from ordinary people, after Zhang Laosi saw it, he put down his speed with Li Si and went over to greet him.

came Li Tieshan, Chen Zijian received the invitation, and he didn't have time to come, so he asked Li Tieshan to come over instead of him to give Zhang Laosi a gift.

Outsiders don't know Li Tieshan's identity, but Li Si can't not know, this is the chief's personal guard, he came over to explain a lot of problems, as for Zhang Laosi knows Li Tieshan's identity, because he often cooperates with the Volunteers, he knows a little more than others.

"Hey, big man, why are you here!" Li Si asked.

Li Tieshan: "Mrs. asked me to come over for a gift, this is a gift box." ”

Zhang Laosi's back molars came out, although the chief did not come, but he had this intention, which had already satisfied him.

wanted to leave Li Tieshan for the banquet, but he didn't stay long, put down his things and leave.

Li Si "Haha, fourth, it seems that you have a big face, your wife has given you gifts, and you will take care of it in front of the chief in the future!" Li Si teased.

Zhang Laosi: "Didn't Brigade Commander Li laugh at me, and thank Mrs. for her kindness." ”

The gift box is opened, it is a small copper core lock, which is a blessing from the elders to the younger generations.