"Old man Cao, big brother Cao, sue for offense first." Zhen didn't turn his face much with anyone, lowered his head, and dodged a little. I saw that the honest man took a few breaths, and then said intermittently:

"We are all people in the mud, trampled under the soles of our feet. Now I don't have to worry about food and clothing, the family business is getting bigger and bigger, and people inside and outside the village have to say hello when they see it, and call the proprietor and the proprietor...... It's a great blessing. ”

Zhen honestly felt that he was just talking dryly, and there was no convincing power, so he pointed to the Lei blacksmith and began to give an example, "The iron tools produced by your Lei family's workshop, especially the iron kettle, iron pot, scissors, and iron fork, should account for two percent of the production of Zhuangzi, isn't it enough to be beautiful?" ”

The blacksmith first choked directly, and then also put down his chopsticks, rubbing his rough palms and pondering.

"And you, Brother Cao." Zhen Honest's tone trembled slightly, and his calloused left hand pointed to the carpenter, "The Cao family workshop has produced half of the chicken carts, drag carts and wooden carts. Since last year, forty percent of the newly built brick and stone buildings in the village have been contracted by the Shu family, right? Not enough scenery? ”

The scene froze.

Thunder Blacksmith touched his face a few times with both hands, adjusted his sitting posture slightly, and prepared to stop the two old men. It's okay to disagree, it's okay to quarrel, and it's really embarrassing to fight again at such an age.

After the carpenter made a fortune, the owner of the village did not say anything to him a few times, gasped for a while in shame, and scolded his daughter-in-law and grandson who came in with the curtain.

Zhen honestly drank the porridge, licked the delicate porcelain bowl clean, and apologized to the carpenter again, and then said: "Brother Cao, watching more and more people catch up with their own family, I have also felt sour in my heart, who doesn't want to crush others?" The old brother wants to bring us together, and go further, old man, I know in my heart. ”

"The owner of the village does not restrict a few of us, and the public middle school does not target people who are too outstanding, the elder brother of the Yu family only needs to work steadily, and the family business will always get bigger and bigger. But the sprouts in my brother's heart are unacceptable! The matter of the seven households surnamed Liu is right in front of them, what did those people do in order to expand their family business and overpower other people's families in order for their own families to be able to overpower other people's families? ! ”

"Why do the owners keep supporting new owners? Those people have merit, and loyalty to the owner is one thing. On the other hand, the owner of the village wants to prevent the recurrence of the incident surnamed Liu of the seven households. ”

"If there are only a few outstanding families, the outstanding families may only want to expand the family property, regardless of others, and the rest of the families who are not doing well will be dissatisfied, and they can still live their lives? The owner of the village continues to support the new family, so that everyone is checked and balanced, and they all know to abide by the rules, which is the way to long-term prosperity......"

Zhen staggered away honestly.

A moment later, Lei Cheng also left the Yu family with a complicated expression.

All afternoon, the carpenter sat in front of the window, watching the sun set in the west, watching the sun turn from white to orange and then to yellow. He kept his head down, his chest rising and falling from time to time, and his breaths were long and short. The children who rushed home did not dare to go up to persuade them, so they could only quietly heat up the earth dragon.

Carpenter recalled a few episodes:

"You're a carpenter? How is the craftsmanship? Come and help, get paid, as long as you have the ability, let's build a workshop together. On that day, Li Xiang, who had a kind face and a clean robe, stood in front of the woodman who was shivering from the cold, and stretched out an olive branch.

"Grandpa, is this meat? It's delicious, grandpa is so amazing! That day, when his hungry and skinny grandson ate meat for the first time, the carpenter cried profusely. The little boy was greedy and ran away from the thatched house for two days.

"The little master taught you how to save your lives, and the injured uncles and uncles are waiting for you to save your lives? The lives of the people in the grassy mountains are like grass, and we must fight for our lives to the sky! On that day, the carpenter slapped his granddaughter Cao Wenwen back to the bloody rescue scene, just to save a few more lives......

The sunset before sunset was brilliantly bright, and the carpenter's chest was illuminated. There are weeds in my heart, and I almost went to a fork in the road, so dangerous! It's really going back the more I live, and I have to boast that I am proficient in human affairs, but in the end, I need to be honestly reminded by Zhen who is usually silent.

It's rare for the family to get together once. The carpenter strode out of the back room and ate with his head down.

Seeing the old man's relaxed expression, the children and grandchildren began to chatter about the new things in the village, which woman stole again, there was a mysterious sound in the back mountain, and which family died again...... The daughter-in-law with a big belly mentioned under her husband's prodding, "The old man of the Zhen family is really serious, he speaks so heavily." ”

The carpenter swallowed the soup and rice in his mouth, took care of the grandchildren in his stomach, and said in a slow tone: "What do you know about a woman who has never been to Mengxue? The brothers of the Zhen family are the great benefactors of our family, and when they are full, they quickly prepare things and take out the old ginseng stored in the back room, and the old man is going to worship him. ”

At three o'clock, the carpenter and his son came to Zhen's honest courtyard with large bags and small bags and all kinds of bags, and after two sticks of incense, Lei Cheng also arrived at Zhen's house. The three agreed to remind each other once they found that the other two were in danger.

The carpenter believes that there is only one way to expand the family business without committing the taboo of the owner: to put an end to the mind of infighting, to take a long-term view, and to ask for the market for the whole week!

After Gu Yu, the three workshops jointly established by the Zhao family, the Lei family, and the Zhen family began to ship, and the three types of wood-wheeled vehicles produced had their own uses, and the best cars also used iron axles and roller bearings rebuilt by the core workshop.

The three types of vehicles are:

The chicken bus with the widest application area and the smallest load is only suitable for internal use in the village or short-distance transportation, and one person can push and run, commonly known as single-wheeled vehicles and small carts;

Wide-wheeled double-arm car, need to pull forward and push back to move forward, the current load of 300 catties, is the main force of Qinling small caravan to transport goods;

Bowl-shaped flatbed car, the body is like an oval bowl to the sky, the load can reach 1,000 catties, eight to ten people or two livestock can be pulled, the current Qinling Mountains have not many places to run this kind of car.

……

Anji County. Outside the city, the night is quiet, and the lights inside the city are flickering.

Because many officials and gentry hid in the county seat, the wine shops and prostitutes in the city were more prosperous than usual. Qinglou is not nothing, but there is no Qinglou where the Qing people are in charge, just to let the county order, the chief bookkeeper and other economic officials from Jinshi listen to it comfortably and make a name, in fact, it is still a prostitute.

Anji is only a middle county in Jiangnan, and the terrain is too embarrassing to support the Qing people.

Zhao Zhiqiang came out of the brothel, and called a group of cool heads, commanders, first-class heads, team leaders, big heads, heads, presidents, and brave heads, and returned home step by step under the protection of two subordinates.

The Hun family, who was born in a child's family, served decanting soup.

Zhao Zhiqiang drank a few sips in a daze, cleared his mind a little, and actually cried, "Lao Tzu's life is hard." I thought that if I became a capital guarantee, I could eat for life, and I could earn a small family business if I was ruthless. ”

"Who knew that Fang La's army was so fierce and raged to this point...... In the small county town of Anji, what if Fang Lajun sent thousands of people over...... I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, woo...... Madam, I can't bear you. ”

Zhao Zhiqiang's Hun family is petite and timid by nature, and listening to her drunken husband talking nonsense there, he only feels ashamed, angry and flustered. Seeing that her husband from a small place actually spoke in dialects, Mrs. Zhao was completely panicked. She pulled her skirt out of the bedroom and called the hired servant, "Go and ask my father to come." ”

Mrs. Zhao's father, Zhao Zhiqiang's father-in-law is a middle-aged short and thin scholar, relying on the relationship of his son-in-law, as a clerk in the county government.

Half an hour later, the father-in-law with big bags under his eyes came to the Zhao family's courtyard and asked his daughter to apply a towel soaked in cold water to Zhao Zhiqiang's face. Zhao Zhiqiang was dreaming of being hacked to death by the ill-clothed Fang Lajun, and suddenly felt so cold, a spirit, turned over and sat up.

"In the county town, there are at least seven hundred men with weapons in their hands, why is the virtuous son-in-law like this?" Zhao Zhiqiang's father-in-law was very puzzled, "There are young and strong people in the county, how come there are 1,500 people, and it is not enough to defend the city?" Even if the Fang La army is coming, how many soldiers and horses can be sent over the mountains and mountains? ”

"The old man heard from the county lieutenant that the above means that since the line of Guangde and Huzhou in the north has stabilized, Anji is a chicken rib for the Fangla army. The battle line is long, and the county seat of Ji'an is a chicken rib, which is worth a lot of money for the Fang La army? ”

Carefully wiping his face with warm water, Zhao Zhiqiang said bitterly: "Lord Yue, I'm not worried about how strong Fang Lajun is, but these people in the city are really unreliable!" ”

"For the sake of his life and black hat, the county commander can't wait to pull all the middle-aged people into the city, which is not wrong. But look at the village soldiers, the archers, the officials, the thieves, the householders...... All together, it is reluctant to fight the bandits, let alone fight the Fang La army. ”

Zhao Dubao's father-in-law didn't know anything about the army's battle formation, and said as a matter of course: "Then it's okay to separate these people and guard a section of the city wall, right?" ”

"That's the way to die!" Although Zhao Zhiqiang, who was not good at scientific research, had not experienced a large battle formation, he had read a lot of military books and classics, and knew a lot of examples of defending the city, "Among all the battle examples I have seen, as long as they defend the city in various places, there is no one who can defend it." ”

Don't talk about ordnance, just about the process. The most orthodox siege is like this: the besieging side calculates the weakness of the defending army, and then begins to probe, so that the defenders are exhausted, and they see the flaws and go down with a drum.

The defenders fought each other, and there was no cooperation between them. In the absence of a strong reserve and a full command center, this kind of behavior is a proper sell-out.

"And that's not the worst." Zhao Zhiqiang leaned on the back of the chair, looked at the candle, and blew up the black material, "Those leaders, team leaders, heads, and brave heads, I still don't know their virtues?" On weekdays, I am in a wine shop and a brothel...... Ahem, there aren't a few reliable ones anyway. If there is really going to be an army of Fang La to climb the city wall, you see, one is running faster than the other. ”

"And these people have all kinds of contradictions on weekdays, I beat your people, you steal my food, I sue you, you steal his mother-in-law, it's just a mess of his mother. If the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant can come to the city wall in person to boost morale, and adjust all parties, it may be possible to hold out for a while longer. But, I think it's enough. ”

"The most annoying thing is that several famous adults on the emperor's list are obviously afraid to death, but they can't let go of their careful thinking, and they always can't trust a martial artist like a son-in-law. Nominally, Lao Tzu was promoted to the general system of the township soldiers, but three deputy commanders were set up, and the four of us were allowed to report to the county government in advance. What's going on with my township soldier system, is it the blame? ”

Zhao Dubao's father-in-law tightened his beard, "Maybe, maybe, when it is, the county commander is doing the way of checks and balances?" ”

"Who is the counterbalance, the township soldiers who are like a grain of rice in me?" The more Zhao Zhiqiang spoke, the more angry he became, and nodded on his nose, "I just take the township soldiers to train Dubao, and my subordinates don't recognize a few people, and sometimes, I can't see my subordinates a few times throughout the year." I, can, do, what? ”

"Lao Tzu's family business is all in Ji'an, can he still vote for Fang La? Who's with me? The city wall is defended, and the county commander wants to remove a few of our leaders, who dares to resist? The city wall can't be defended, so why bother to do such a little trick? I really don't know what the prefectural magistrate came up with......"

Halfway through the hour, that is, at ten o'clock in the evening, Zhao Zhiqiang's father-in-law came out of the main gate of the small courtyard.

The sound of the door closing sounded, and an old man passing by beside him. There was no moon in the sky, and the old tenant took a lantern to light the road.

Tong Sheng, who had just passed the age of not being confused, was delicate, carefully recalled some of the details that his son-in-law had just said, and said in his heart:

"It is precisely because the family business is all in Anji that people are worried about you investing in Fang La. Silly son-in-law, the county magistrate and the county are of course using you as a scapegoat. Otherwise, you are just a protector, how can you bear the name of defending the city? ”

"Once the Fangla army comes to attack, the county can be defended, which is naturally their strategic work; The county seat can't be defended, and as soon as they die, you who are nominally responsible for defending the city will be exterminated, and you may be charged with leading thieves to break the city and slaughter officials. If it really comes to that point, the old man and his daughter can't escape. ”

"It's insidious, it's beautiful. There are actually a few deputy general systems, and they want to cover up, just in case, and they are divided and co-opted, and there are enough back-hands, and the means of the county commander are really ...... It's a Jinshi! ”

Li Dai Taozhuang, one of the thirty-six strategies, was regarded as a model by some scholars in previous dynasties. The use steps, precautions, target selection, process control, and preparation of this meter...... The process has been quite perfect, moisturizing things silently, and those who are skilled in operation can rely on this plan to kill people and punish their hearts invisibly.