Chapter Ninety-Six: Arrangement

When Jiang Feng was preparing to go to 'turn stones into gold', Zhao Xiucai and Zhang Liang returned to Huifeng Building together, and after the two of them came back, they immediately learned about what happened the night before through different channels, and immediately rushed over, and it was already lunch time.

Zhao Xiucai and Zhang Liang stood at the corner of the street and saw that the flow of people in Huifeng Building was still in the same state as before, and even the carriages and horses of many people on the road were slightly relieved.

"The owner, Tie Dan bought a total of one hundred and thirty people, seventy children of artisan families, sixty military families, all of them are strong young men under the age of twenty, the Zhuangzi more than ten miles south of the fifth floor mountain, is the one where we store things, I used three hundred taels to buy all the things there, and the people inside are unwilling to leave, so they are directly accepted as tenants."

Jiang Feng sat in the wine shop, looking at Zhao Xiucai and Zhang Liang with a smile, these two people are his cronies, if the two of them were here a few days ago, things may not be in trouble.

Zhang Liang was still a child's temper, and when he heard Zhao Xiucai finish speaking, he immediately jumped out and asked Jiang Feng anxiously:

"Master, you suffered a loss that night, I'm afraid there will be trouble in this matter, those noble children are bastards, we have a saying here, called 'Fanzi is like a dog, Dongchang is like a wolf, Xungui's family is not a person'......"

Jiang Feng and Zhao Xiucai laughed together, but then Zhao Xiucai also looked at him with an inquiring eye, after all, it was Zhang Liang who asked just now and what he cared about:

"You kid, you don't have to think about it when you speak, so aren't we all dogs."

Jiang Feng scolded Zhang Liang with a smile, and then his voice was low, and he said seriously:

"Sure enough, relying on a few of us, there are still too few people, so lonely and helpless, it's really too much of a loss, Lao Zhao, do you understand what I mean by buying people?"

This sentence was a little bit, Zhao Xiucai suddenly understood something in his heart, but there were still some deep-seated thoughts flashing in his heart, and he didn't continue, Zhang Liang saw that Jiang Feng didn't answer his question, and he was anxious to ask questions in his heart, Jiang Feng stood up and walked to the window, sighed and said:

"Tonight, I'm going to the house of Admiral Zhang Yong in Beicheng to thank you!"

As soon as the words came out, the two people behind were stunned for a moment, and then Zhang Liang asked in a trembling voice:

"It's the great eunuch Zhang Yong who commanded the soldiers and horses of the 12th Regiment ......"

Jiang Feng didn't explain anything, and asked Zhao Xiucai if he needed to rest, and directly asked him to go to Huifeng Lou to help, and walked out of the door directly with Zhang Liang, and the two of them rode directly to the Mellow Building, which is known as the largest restaurant in Jingshi Zhili. His message was that he would visit him tomorrow.

At this time, Jiang Feng just wanted to look around here, when Jiang Feng walked into the area of Mellow and Building, he was surprised to breathe a breath, although the Beijing division of the Ming Dynasty also had a rough plan, for example, the city is also divided into southeast and northwest, each area has a general function, the north city is the official nobles, the east city is where the official yamen is located, the south city is the residence of the common people, and the west city is a transitional place.

The details are still a little messy, the world knows the wealth of Jingshi, there are more and more people, and the houses are getting denser and denser.

But in front of the door of the mellow building, it is a huge open space, this size can almost catch up with some modern city squares, the open space is full of cars and horses, servants and family members of various costumes are talking and laughing loudly there, vaguely there is a feeling, here is like the human market seen in Tianjin Wei, messy.

I couldn't help but shake my head there, thinking to myself, how can this business do this, standing at the door to greet the customer is simply high-pitched, to put it bluntly, this is a Ming Dynasty standard restaurant, operating to the best state, I really can't see anything unique.

However, Zhang Liang behind him saw something different, exclaimed in the back, and sighed:

"Good girl, you can't see officials below the sixth grade in front of the door?"

Hearing this, Jiang Feng turned his head suddenly, which immediately startled Zhang Liang, and Jiang Feng then asked:

"Who's the boss here? What is the background? ”

A series of questions made Zhang Liang's face wrinkle, and he explained awkwardly:

"Master, the best restaurant we have ever eaten is our Huifeng Building, and it is panicked to look at it from a distance like Mellow and Lou, and the scattered money in my hand in the past can afford to come here."

Looking at Jiang Feng's face, Zhang Liang didn't dare to continue ridiculing, so he had to say there:

"Why don't you go back and ask my dad to inquire, he should know about this place."

Since he saw the whole picture, that is, there was no need to continue to delay here, Jiang Feng's heart moved, he turned the horse's head and ran towards Beicheng, halfway through the road, Jiang Feng stopped and asked Zhang Liang in the back:

"Is there any way to become a soldier in the Jingshi?"

"The way? What's the way to do this? You can put a name in the regimental camp for a few hundred yuan, but you can't rely on this to eat, and the money is all used by the officers to support the soldiers. ”

The street is very quiet, most of the people are either taking a nap or busy making a living, of course, in this place, more people are busy with state affairs, but Jiang Feng still lowered his voice a little, and continued to ask Zhang Liang and said:

"You have relatives in your family who are soldiers."

Although Zhang Liang was puzzled by these words, he still nodded and replied:

"Master, that's what my family does, in the regimental camp outside the city, I have a few cousins, and now they are all 100 households, and one of them is still a thousand."

"Okay, come to me at night to get some silver, and throw all the one hundred and thirty people outside the city into the barracks, don't these people dream of having a military household, then I will fulfill their wishes."

This is also true, although the military households near the Jingshi are hard, but they still belong to the category of being able to survive, so those who have no chance to make up for this identity, the second or third son of the family, and the guards who appear for various reasons, and the orphans who appear in the artisan camp are all hoping to have an identity of eating imperial food.

In Jiang Feng's previous memories, the old officer once hired a child of a military family, and the treatment was not bad, but the young man received it at home and said that his brother had made war exploits and made up for the lack of a child of a military family, and he immediately ran back happily.

When Jiang Feng was in modern times, he had a rough idea of what the military households of the Ming Dynasty were like, and the military households were not so much the army as serfs or long-term workers, especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was already heaven and earth to be able to eat enough, but fortunately, it was stable.

In addition to the nine sides to guard against foreign invasion at all times, the rest of the guards are still living a stable life, and the world is barely peaceful, Jiang Feng sometimes thinks of this discovery is not incomprehensible, in modern times, many people would rather take a low salary to hold an iron job, rather than come out to work hard to see if they can change to a better life, people are always habitually avoiding risks, which is also human nature.

Hearing Jiang Feng's words, Zhang Liang, who also knew the thoughts of those military children, suddenly opened his mouth in surprise, and said anxiously:

"Master, what are you doing with those people you bought, isn't the silver spent in vain, I'd rather eat chaff in the military than meat in the civilian register."

Jiang Feng sneered, raised a few fingers, and said in a cold voice:

"Apprentice, tell your relatives that there are a few things to do after receiving my money, our more than 100 people, we must have a separate barracks, don't eat enough, practice hard every day, whip hard, as long as you don't beat them to death, I will follow them for the rest, and I have to say a word, the torture is more severe."

Zhang Liang wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and muttered in a low voice:

"Master, it's better to buy a hundred sheep, at least you can eat meat after you die......

Unexpectedly, Jiang Feng still had a sentence that he didn't finish:

"A month and a half later, when those people feel that life is worse than death, kick them out of the barracks, first ask your relatives to see if things can be done, if they can do it, ask for a price, you go to Lao Zhao to get it, I have something to do and leave first."

After finishing speaking, the horsewhip was pumped backwards, and the horses under the crotch rushed out in pain, leaving there, covered with cold sweat, more precisely, Zhang Liang, who was confused, rubbed his chin hard, but still couldn't understand anything.

The road in front of Master Liu's mansion was still deserted, and those servants of Shuntian Mansion were gone, Jiang Feng's heart suddenly became hot, he put the horse to the side, found the gap where he usually climbed the wall, took a few steps back, and rushed up with an arrow.

Stepping on the pothole with his left foot familiarly, and his hands on the wall, Jiang Feng showed a smile on his face at this time, and felt the ease of his whole body at this time, but he still told himself, don't rush to turn it down, it would not be good if there was an iron ruler waiting for him there.

"Master Jun, the door is open, why bother to climb the wall."

This voice suddenly came from behind, almost scared Jiang Feng to fall, but the voice was old, and it was not anyone he was familiar with, and when he looked back, it was a rickety old man, his face was full of wrinkles, and he was wearing coarse cloth clothes, looking at Jiang Feng curiously.

Jiang Feng jumped down as soon as he let go of his hand, smiled awkwardly, patted his clothes and walked towards the gate, the old man followed tremblingly, and said:

"There is no one in the courtyard for a long time, and I am the only one who looks at the house."

Jiang Feng turned his head suddenly, stared at the old man, and hurriedly asked:

"What about Bachelor Liu's family!?"

"I moved away the day before yesterday, I heard that there was a vicious dog harassment, the little old man is strange, people usually can't see it here, there are vicious dogs there......"