"Ahem, how is your father?" After seeing fellow acquaintance Liu Jiyu and judge Cui Zhi'an leaving, Yuan Chao walked into the lobby from the side and learned Cui Zhi'an's way of saluting just now, and saluted Yuan An.

"Oh? Chao'er, why didn't he rest in the house and came to the front hall. Yuan An turned to Yuan Chao, his eyes were full of tenderness at this time.

"Father, the child has recovered, and he was about to go out, but unfortunately he heard a noise in the front hall, but he listened to it thoroughly." Yuan Chao did not shy away from saying that Yuan Chao knew that when he was a subordinate or an outsider, his best thing to do just now was to sneak away quietly, or selectively deaf, and his identity was the son of Zhizhou in front of him, at this time, he naturally did not shy away from chatting with Zhizhou's father, first, to solve his father's resentment, and second, to understand the situation in Chenzhou.

"You heard it just now, this Liu Jiyu, recently occupied two hundred acres of fertile land, for his father to reprimand him, he will become the first big landlord in Chenzhou, now the people pay heavy taxes, his occupation of the land, must have made many people lose their land and become a broken settlement, he still thinks the world is not chaotic enough?" Yuan An's mouth was full of anger, but Yuan Chao heard a trace of helplessness.

The second-in-command makes the first-in-command angry and helpless? Oh, this Liu Jiyu is really not simple, but if you want to know whether Liu Jiyu is leaning against a big tree, or a snake on the ground, or other reasons, then you have to ask again.

Thinking of this, Yuan Chao tried to say, "Father, since Liu Tongzhi is so domineering, why didn't my father ask Lord Futai to participate in him, and return Chenzhou to a bright and prosperous person?" ”

"Liu Jiyu, he is not an idle person, most of the money he has made in Chenzhou over the years has been used in Kaifeng Mansion, and his father is not absolutely sure that he will be defeated, not to mention that his father doesn't want to tear his face with him." Yuan An seemed to be saying to Yuan Chao, and it seemed to be saying to himself.

Yuan Chao nodded, it turned out that Liu Jiyu was a person who was good at drilling the camp superiors, and Yuan Chao, who was in the hall just now, listened to Liu Jiyu's words just now, and it seemed that he still had some of his father's handles.

By the way, there are more than 100 acres of fertile land, which is not a small number, but I didn't expect that I was still a "rich second generation" in the late Ming Dynasty? Yuan Chao simply continued to ask tentatively, "Father, just now Liu Tongzhi said that we occupied the fertile land of the Shaying River?"

"Well, for my father to come from a poor family, I have studied hard for more than ten years, and I have been up and down in the sea for more than ten years, so I have the power and status I have now, but now I am nearly half a hundred years old, and no one in the family has taken the imperial examination for high school over the years, and you are just a show of fame and fame, and my father does not want our family to become a poor family again, so I can only move to the clan, collect more good land, and strive to become a wealthy gentleman in Chenzhou, which can be regarded as leaving a way for you to retreat." Yuan An said lightly.

And these plain words of Yuan An aroused Yuan Chao's great interest in his heart. Because except for the Yuan Dynasty, no one can know how big the chaos of the Ming Dynasty will be faced now, and Henan, where the Yuan Dynasty is located, has become the key area of the peasant army uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which will also make Henan ten rooms empty and starve for thousands of miles.

The Yuan Dynasty didn't want to be broken by the rebels from all walks of life, and he was treated as the emperor's dog's leg and was boiled and eaten, and the Yuan Dynasty, who has now accepted the reality, doesn't want to lose his relatives in the Ming Dynasty, so that he can't even feel a few care and warmth in this strange world.

Therefore, Yuan Chao is now extremely eager for power, and hopes to get power as soon as possible. Because the thinking from later generations vaguely remembers that the peasant rebel army was restless a few years before the Chongzhen Dynasty and began to carry out extensive activities in Henan, so he had to master more strength in the shortest possible time, so that in this troubled world, he could not be so involuntarily.

"Father, how is the situation of our clan in Chenzhou recently?" Yuan Chao asked with great anticipation, because he knew that this was also his first pot of gold in this troubled world.

"Your uncles have moved their families to Chenzhou, I placed them in Zhoujiakou Town next to the Shahe River, and now my father has bought more than 800 acres of Shaying River water irrigation land at a low price, and now our family has more than 300 tenants, plus more than 10 shops purchased in Chenzhou, engaged in grain, cloth, wine and other businesses, our family can be said to have gained a firm foothold in Chenzhou, he will return to his hometown for his father, the family can also ensure prosperity, and his father can also retire as a gentry."

"It's just that in recent years, Liu Jiyu has also tried his best to take advantage of the vast occupation of fertile land, and he not only occupies the people's land, but the rent is even higher and scary, provoking many people to lose their land, and sell their property to live in a broken shack next to the Shaying River, for his father for a long time and that Liu Jiyu is not on good terms, and now he is eyeing me to buy good land at a low price, and my father does not dare to act anymore." Yuan An suppressed his voice and said.

"Well, there are more than 800 acres of fertile land and more than 300 tenants, which is really a big landlord, plus shops, I have to say that the Yuan family's family is still quite thick, not to mention that I am still a "rich second generation" in the late Ming Dynasty. ”

It can be seen from here that his father Yuan An is not the kind of rotten Confucian, what he cares about is the rise and fall of a family, there is no way, after all, he will not know what kind of troubled times will be in the next ten years, everything he carefully constructed, in the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, can not withstand the destruction of any party at all, but now that I have crossed over, I not only want to protect my family's one-third of an acre, protect my relatives, but also have to fight hard, with my own efforts, to incite butterfly wings, Strive to set off a storm in the entire land of China. Yuan Chao fell into deep thought for a long time.

"Chao'er? You seem to be thinking about something, and whether you can talk to the Father and listen to it. Yuan An saw Yuan Chao's pensive face, as if he was thinking about something.

Yuan Chao thought that since he wanted to maintain all this around him, and even wanted to change the general trend of the world with his arrival, he understood that there was not much time left for him to prepare, and he needed to quickly grasp the power.

And the imperial examination? He came from later generations, although he can also drag some literature and ink, but if he wants to take the imperial examination to high school, the difficulty is not ordinary, and even if this growth route is taken care of by his father, it is too long, maybe before he is lifted, Li Zicheng is going to break the Beijing Division, and the Qing Dynasty is about to enter the customs, and he will be crushed by the wheel of history.

So there is such a first pot of gold in the family in front of him, if he doesn't make good use of it, then he really has to wait for the homeless people from all walks of life to call, and he can quickly roll up and run away, so he wants to take charge of the power in the family in the fastest time, which is the first step that needs to be taken.

"Father, the child understands the father's good intentions, and the child has something to do today." Yuan Chao raised his head firmly and looked at his father.

"Oh? But it doesn't hurt to say that. Yuan An said bluntly.

"The child has been studying hard at home for too long, and the father is left alone to take on the important responsibilities of the family, and the child also has the heart of the imperial examination high school, but he also knows that this is not a day's work, and the child wants to take care of the family's fertile land and shops in the near future, and take care of the family chores for his father, so that his father has no worries." Yuan Chao's eyes were filled with longing and determination.

"Chao'er, you are twenty-four years old this year, it stands to reason that you should have started a family a long time ago, but you study hard all day long, you have no other heart, the ancients are clouds, fifty young jinshi, the road to the imperial examination is clear for the father, that is really too far, today you want to go out to experience it, support you for your father, you let go and take care of the family business, so that our Yuan family can be invincible, by the way, Chao'er, when do you plan to go to the clan manor to see." Yuan An replied happily.

"The child has decided to pack his luggage today and leave early tomorrow morning, and the child should go back to the house to pack his luggage first." After Yuan Chao got his father's affirmation, he hurriedly replied that now Yuan Chao's whole heart flew into the family industry, and he knew that time was precious now, and he couldn't afford to delay it at all.

"Okay Chao'er, I'll help you prepare for your father's side. Chao'er, you should also go down and prepare first. Yuan An waved his hand with expectation on his face and asked Yuan Chao to go down and prepare.

Yuan Chao took Yuan Xu to salute and retreated, looking at the background of Yuan Chao walking away, Yuan An suddenly felt that the child seemed to have changed a little after fainting, could this be the enlightenment that the ancients said? Yuan An didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly talked about the child's going out tomorrow.