When the little guys who were doing things saw the arrival of the people, they stopped the movements in their hands and bowed to the people tacitly: "Welcome back."

The customs of Xiliang and the Central Plains are different, and there are also great differences in living habits. Qin Zhuo has been in Xiliang for nearly a year, and many places have been affected by Xiliang. For example, those who can cook Xiliang meals, the Xiliang Festival, and the things that need to be prepared for the Xiliang Festival, are recited backwards, and they are even more Xiliang people than Xiliang people.

Qin Zhuo treats his subordinates very well, every time his subordinates greet him, he will return a salute, and gradually, those subordinates also like him.

But the strange thing is that when they greeted him this time, Qin Zhuo didn't reply, but said "um" and returned to his room.

"What's going on?" Seeing Qin Zhuo like this, the subordinates panicked, "The Prime Minister is not usually like this, what is going on, why is his expression so strange?" ”

"Didn't you get some stimulus from the king?" One humanity.

"How is that possible?" When another subordinate heard what the maid said, he immediately began to refute the mode, "He is stimulated by whom, and it is impossible for him to be stimulated by the king." Don't forget, the king and the prime minister have been together for a year, and the relationship between the two is extraordinary. Even if the prime minister is angry with anyone, it is impossible to be angry with the king. ”

"Not necessarily." After Qin Zhuo came to Xiliang, the first maid who served him spoke, "The king's mind is very difficult to guess, I once went out to buy something, and I happened to see the personal girl next to the white deputy minister I saw at the last banquet in the palace come out to buy something, so I chatted with her for a few words. That girl is from the same township as me, and she barely knows me, so she told me that his master, that is, Vice Minister Bai, was scolded to death by the king because he did not do well in a certain place. He didn't dare to say it in front of the king, but behind his back it was different. I heard my fellow countryman say that after the vice minister returned home, he kept scolding, saying that the king had stolen the country or something. He, that is, he should be glad that those people in the mansion are sensible, and they will not tell others what the deputy minister complains about like a fool. If it weren't for that, he doesn't know how many times he would have died. So, don't look at our prime minister as the king's confidant and the person he trusts the most. But today it is, tomorrow may not be. Tomorrow is, the day after tomorrow may not be. As serving people in the official's family, we should still be completely prepared, otherwise we don't know how we will die in the future. ”

The maid's words are reasonable, they are just servants who serve the court officials, their status is humble, and they have a sense of oppression when they talk to people of their age, not to mention the masters.

And the Xiliang law stipulates that officials like Qin Zhuo commit any particularly serious crimes, or capital crimes. In addition to his own death, the whole family will die with him. This whole family naturally includes these slaves and slaves who are serving.

Those of them who are subordinates are all because their families are poor, and they have to do so. After all, in Xiliang, those rich families, including officials like them, need to spend a lot of silver to buy slaves. The amount of money spent means that they have become their own masters from body to mind. They have to do whatever their master wants them to do. Even if they are allowed to die, they must be grateful to Dade for going.

After all, from the moment they were bought, they were no longer individuals, but someone else's property, someone else's private property.

Even if you have money later and want to redeem yourself, it will cost a lot of money to successfully redeem yourself and get the deed of sale. With the deed of sale, even if you officially break off the relationship with the main family, you can go wherever you like, do what you like to do, even if something happens to the main family, it has nothing to do with you, and naturally they will not find you to handle the case, or arrest you and behead you directly without saying a word.

And if you haven't reached that time, you will take your life because of such a little thing, and it will be more than worth the loss.

Of course, because there is too much silver to redeem the deed of sale, and the money of the subordinates of the foreign officials' families is too small. If that's all it takes, they spend money lavishly and don't care about anything.

As a result, the following situation arises.

Most of the people did not get the money to redeem themselves, so they could only work obediently in their master's house, and pray that the master would always do things smoothly and that the people above would never pick on his thorns.

And those who got the money for redemption, because they felt that the treatment of their master's family was too good, and the salary was also high, they couldn't find such a good master's family and such a high salary if they left rashly.

So they tried their best to curry favor with their superiors, and they thought about how to make their masters become big officials, so that their status would rise and they would become the most popular figures in the circle of people in Xiliang Capital.

Obviously, Qin Zhuo's subordinates belong to the latter.

Although they didn't know where Qin Zhuo came from, why he was taken by Gu Changling, the king, and cultivated him as a confidant. But after all, people are their own masters, and only when the master is good, can they follow well, so they think about others wholeheartedly. Qin Zhuo can figure out every expression and demeanor for a long time, lest he accidentally mistake people's minds and cause irreversible consequences.

This appearance is exactly in response to a sentence circulated in the Central Plains. What is that called, well, the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry.

"Makes sense." One said, "Then should we find some way to relieve the Prime Minister's worries." If something happens to him, what should we do? ”

"Of course, we have to find a way to relieve him." The man who has been by Qin Zhuo's side for the longest time, "He is our master, is it possible that we should abandon him?" If we really do this, and the matter is spread out by someone who doesn't have a long eye, it will be poked in the back. We're not stupid, so why do we have to do it. ”

"That's what my sister said." Hearing Qin Zhuo's personal maid's words, everyone bowed their heads obediently, only to see one person flattering and saying, "Then sister, who should we persuade the prime minister." ”

Asking why the master is unhappy, and persuading him to be happy, this matter is not as easy to do as imagined.

Let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about this master-servant relationship. If you don't do your own thing as a servant and ask your master how he is doing in front of his master, there is a high chance that he will be sold.

If you don't want to be sold, there is a way, and that way is to ask the person who is serving him how he is, so that he can prescribe the right medicine.

(End of chapter)