After taking a shower, I changed into new and dry clothes, and then had a bowl of millet porridge, and I only felt comfortable.

Wu Wan'er acted like dancing, making a cup of fragrant tea for Chen Yue, and then looked at Chen Yue without blinking with her chin in her hands.

"Master, why don't I think you're so happy?" Wu Wan'er asked suddenly.

"Ahem" choked on a mouthful of water, Chen Yue hurriedly put down the teacup, took the handkerchief handed over by Wu Wan'er and wiped the water stains on his clothes.

"How do you know I'm unhappy?" Chen Yue asked.

"Intuition, you don't know, sometimes a woman's intuition is very accurate." Wu Wan'er twisted her handkerchief and said softly.

"There's nothing unhappy about it, it's just that I've been too busy lately." Chen Yue sighed and asked, "When did you buy this mansion?" Why are there so many people in the family, even Du Yuan and his wife have come to our house. ”

"I bought the house last month, and it only cost more than 800 taels of silver, which is very cheap." Wu Wan'er looked at Chen Yue's face carefully, and continued: "Now that the lord's official is getting bigger and bigger, he is now a guerrilla general, and you have also become a high-ranking official in the army, and our Chen family can also be regarded as an official eunuch's house, and there should still be dignity, so I took it upon myself to add some people to the family, and bought a total of about 20 maids and servants." By the way, those families in the front yard were sent to our house, and the lord said that those families will be the foundation of our family in the future. ”

Listening to Wu Wan'er's words, Chen Yue was silent, under normal circumstances, Wu Wan'er did the right thing, but now the situation is so dangerous, Beijing will not be able to protect it for more than a year, and the more people in the family, the more unfavorable it will be to go.

"What, am I doing something wrong?" Seeing that Chen Yue didn't speak, Wu Wan'er asked worriedly.

"Alas, there's nothing wrong with it, anyway, the family is not allowed to buy people in the future." Chen Yue sighed.

"I see." Wu Wan'er obediently agreed.

"In the past few months, our honeycomb coal has been getting better and better, and it has occupied most of the city of Beijing, thanks to the coal you borrowed before you left the city, but the coal in stock is not much, maybe, it may not last for two months." Wu Wan'er said worriedly.

The gates of Beijing are closed, and the materials from the outside cannot be transported in, and now the prices in the city are soaring, and many poor families can no longer eat, and there are many cases of selling children and daughters, and people are dying every day in the outer city, but fortunately it is a cold winter, otherwise there will definitely be a danger of an outbreak of plague.

When he heard Wu Wan'er's account of the tragic situation in Beijing, Chen Yue couldn't help but sigh.

"Many families have no way out, half a bag of grain to sell their daughters and sons, some don't want money or food, just for the sake of the child can survive, I remembered what happened to me before, and I bought a lot as soon as my heart softened." Wu Wan'er euphemistically explained to Chen Yue why she would buy so many subordinates.

"Since you like it, you can often help some," Chen Yue sighed, "but in this world, our family alone can't save many people." ”

The world is in turmoil, the world is turbulent, even if you can save them for a while, you can't save a lifetime!

After chatting for a while, Chen Yue sent Wu Wan'er away, since she learned that her younger brother Chen Ping followed her back to the city, Wu Wan'er couldn't sit still for a long time.

Chen Jianghe changed his guard in the evening, and as soon as he returned home, he ordered wine and food, and the father and son sat down together and drank each other.

"Our Chen family is prosperous again now, no, it has surpassed your grandfather's time, thanks to Ah Yue!" After drinking a few glasses of wine, Chen Jianghe's face flushed with a hint of redness. relied on his son to become a guerrilla general and became the commander of the left outpost battalion of the Shenji Battalion, and at the same time he was excited, he felt quite uncomfortable.

"Daddy, what you said, my son is just at the right time, if you are locked up outside the city, maybe you will do better than your son." Chen Yue comforted his father.

Chen Jianghe shook his head: "Maybe I'm better than you alone, but my management skills are far inferior to yours, at least I don't have the ability to pull up a team by myself." ”

These days, he has collected 100 families, and the money is like running water, if there is no honeycomb coal created by Chen Yue as the support, he can't afford to support so many people, so he knows the hardships of starting a business.

"Are these people reliable?" Chen Yue asked softly, they are all children of the army, although they can be regarded as knowing the roots, but will they be with their own family at a critical time?

"Whose food is loyal to whom, this has always been the rule in the army, as long as we don't rebel, they will always follow our family, even if they are enemies of their father and brother!" Chen Jianghe said indifferently.

Chen Yue thought for a while and nodded, indeed, in the late Ming Dynasty, the family system was already very common, and these family members only recognized themselves as the main generals, and many times they didn't even recognize the imperial court. The family members are not loyal to the country, but to their own commanders.

"Are you leaving tomorrow?" Chen Jianghe put down his wine glass and looked at his son.

"Hmm." Chen Yue nodded, "The army is stationed outside the city, I am very worried, besides, I need to go to office as soon as possible, recruit soldiers to train the army, the New Year is coming soon, the Mantar will definitely return in the spring, maybe it won't take a few months, the court will transfer me to the battlefield!" ”

"Be careful!" Chen Jianghe raised his wine glass and touched it with his son, and drank it all.

"Wu Wan'er has done a good job in the past few months, honeycomb coal has brought a lot of silver money to our family every month, and now I have saved more than 20,000 taels, bring the silver with you when you leave, so that you can recruit soldiers and horses." Chen Jianghe commanded.

"I don't need the silver, my son has money in his hand now, you should use this money to support your family and make them some good armor and weapons." Chen Yue said softly, he now has a huge sum of 150,000 taels in his hand.

"Alright then!" Chen Jianghe nodded, he knew his son's ability, and said that there was definitely a way if he didn't need it.

"By the way, Daddy, if you help me place some orders in private, you will find a craftsman in the army and ask them to help me build a bird bow and crossbow, the price is negotiable, and the quality must be good." Chen Yue said. Although there is no shortage of weapons in his hand now, with the recruitment of troops, these are definitely not enough, and it is too difficult to make them by himself, so he can only get them from the Beijing camp, but the quality of the fire guns and crossbows in the Beijing camp is too poor to be used at all, and the only way is to spend a lot of money privately to customize them from the warcraftsman.

"How much do you want?" Chen Jianghe asked.

"There is no limit to the number, the more the merrier!" Chen Yue said.

Chen Jianghe nodded and responded, this matter was very simple for him.

"By the way, Ah Yue, I have a few people here for you to take away, they are all real skills, and they should be able to help you." Chen Jianghe said suddenly.