With this experience, Shen San's heart became a little sensitive, and he was not so easy to trust others. Even for Fan Jin, he has a certain degree of wariness. But Fan Jin's treatment made it impossible for him to have doubts, and besides, Fan Jin had no need to deceive himself, and the treatment he gave was completely out of his heart, at this point, if Shen San had not given birth to the emotion of dying for his confidant, he would have no heart at all.

Although nominally a staff member, Shen San can do very little work for Fan Jin at present. After all, whether it is the mastery of criminal names, or the grasp of the scale of official documents, or even the simplest calligraphy, Fan Jin's attainments are far better than Shen's. Not only is this staff member not a helper of the benefactor, but more like an apprentice, but he has climbed from the house to the sky and came to the county order to be a student. He knew in his heart that in the final analysis, in the final analysis, Fan Jin was more grateful in order to protect himself.

has become the master's henchman, Yu Fan Jin has a lot of people coming and going, and he knows more about Fan Jin's privacy side than the officials outside. Although he is not very old, in the kind of gold cave in Yangzhou, Shen San can be regarded as having experienced many vicissitudes of life, and he has seen a lot in life. Famous tricks to worship the Buddha, high monks in business, two sleeves of the breeze and thousands of family wealth since childhood, has long been strange, not to the heart. From the very beginning, he didn't think of Fan Jin as a saint, so some of his behaviors, in Shen San's opinion, would not destroy the three views, but would only be considered ordinary.

Whether it is intimacy with Zheng Chan and Xue Wu during the day, or the occasional sophomore in the family will come out of the study with red faces and disheveled clothes, it is not strange. As long as this old man is good enough to himself and can administer justice to his family, why bother with the rest? Besides, his own Lao Tzu is also in the salt merchant's tutoring hall, even if he is a relatively rigid and conservative Western businessman, there are some unknown things in that gold-dusted land, and he can't learn to be blind, how can he live to this day.

If there is anything uncomfortable, it is that when the master and servant of the Song family came, Shen San's mood inevitably fluctuated a little. It's not that Shen Sanfei wants to count the Song family among his enemies, this kind of thing is not to be done by the nine clans, but after all, this is the enemy's sister, and she will not have a good opinion of herself, and she wants to look at each other and hate each other, so it is inevitable that she will feel awkward, so she has to force herself not to see it.

As for taking revenge on Song Guofu? Shen San is not stupid, it is impossible to do that kind of thing. Moreover, from Shen San's point of view, perhaps the Song family is alive, which is more conducive to his revenge on Song Guofu. After all, the New Year gift that the Song family sent to Fan Jin privately, in addition to a wooden box that I don't know what it contained, there was also a woman who had not yet been filial piety. The woman never took it away, and she was always ashamed and didn't dare to look at people, which was completely different from the Song family's self-proclaimed outroom, and she knew from her twisted appearance that she was a woman from a good family, and her eyes were still full of tears when she left.

Afterwards, I learned through a few words that this woman was actually the concubine of the Song family, her mother's family was in the middle of the road, and her husband was always worried about taking the authority of the Song family before he died, and the woman herself was jealous of the Song family's chief steward of the family's finances, and always wanted to seize the authority and preside over the overall situation by herself. As a result, now that the Song family is in the Yang family, the fate of several concubines is in her hands, and this woman was also pulled into the water by the Song family because she paid attention to the child in Song's belly in private, and was forced to be her stand-in. It is conceivable that the fate of this woman will not be much better in the future, Shen San has also heard of this kind of dumping in the mansion door many times, and this time it is regarded as seeing it with his own eyes and opening his eyes.

If Song Guofu can be cleaned up one day, the Song family may send her sister-in-law to Master Fan like this, and order those women to take off their clothes for Fan Jincai. If there really is that day, he can be regarded as asking Song Guofu for a trace of interest, right? With such a thought in his mind, and even making up a few scenes in his mind, Shen San's body trembled slightly, and his heart was actually full of excitement and expectation.

"Third Brother Shen, it's your turn!"

A young man's voice pulled Shen San's spirit back from fantasy to reality, and smiled apologetically at Fan Jin and Jiyin in front of him, "I'm sorry ......"

"It's nothing, but we study to learn to cultivate qi and concentration, this is the basic skill, it's not good to always wander, remember to change it in the future." If you have anything on your mind, just say it, and we'll discuss it together. ”

How could Shen San say this kind of thought, he hurriedly shook his head and said that it was okay, and his attention returned to the front of him.

Since Pan Qiong is gone, no one will bully him when Jiyin comes to Fan's house again, and besides, the New Year is approaching, and Guozijian will also have a holiday. His relationship with Fan Jin is better than that of his biological father and son, in order to coax his godson to play, Fan Jin can put down the work at hand, and pull Shen San to play this game called Dangchao Yipin, you know how much you spoil this son.

This is an improved version of a board game invented by Fan Jin with reference to the promotion chart, and Shen San has actually seen it in Yangzhou, so it is easy to get started. Although my father is still in mourning, people have to learn to be flexible in the yamen, if they cling to their own misfortune and ask others to be as sad as themselves, then in the end they can only isolate themselves from others and end up hating and hating ghosts. Shen San is not stupid, of course he will not take that road, not to mention that these days, Fan Jin has tried every means to relieve his loneliness, and Shen San's mood is slightly better than at the beginning, so it is not difficult to do this game.

As the dice turned, Shen San's son moved forward, and got a chance to govern, thought about it for a while, and chose "Governor." ”

Jiyin said: "Why didn't the third brother choose to collect taxes? If a tax is collected here, the third brother's performance appraisal will be excellent, and he will be promoted faster than the younger brother. ”

Shen Sandao: "This game is actually seen by the little brother in Yangzhou, and in the end, whoever does it will win the first assistant." The promotion in the early stage cannot be said to be useless, but it is not the key to victory. Collecting taxes will hurt the people's hearts, and if it reaches the point of civil unrest, it will be difficult to be the first assistant. So when I play this, I always like to choose the officials first, govern the officials to the level of obeying the law, and then collect taxes, which will damage the people's morale. Besides, the little brother had just levied taxes two rounds ago, and with such frequent collections, beware of drying up and fishing. ”

Jiyin looked at Fan Jin: "Father-in-law, the child doesn't understand, will this tax really hurt the people's hearts?" From the child's point of view, the people of Shangyuan are still very enthusiastic in paying taxes. In his lectures, he also said that taxation is the foundation of the imperial court, and if the taxation does not come up, the yamen cannot function, and the imperial court will be in danger. The southeast is the source of taxes, and my generation is an official every day, so he should pay attention to taxes, and he doesn't talk much about the officials. ”

Fan Jin smiled at this godson, "Your teacher is willing to talk about this, which proves that he is a good instructor, and his godfather will write a letter to the Prime Minister to protect him." However, his opinion is also biased, you can't look at taxes like this, you can ask your third brother Shen to know, where Yangzhou is so rich, what is it like to collect taxes. The officials and officials below only think about getting rich, and then they complain that they have less money and food, and they don't earn as much as the rich businessmen, and they don't want to work hard. I always want to bring my own emotions in it, such an evil official is not cured, and no matter how much tax is collected, the country will be destroyed. Governing the country first governs the officials, the officials are cured, they are willing to work hard, they will not let them do things and complain about it, they will be troublesome, they know that they should talk to the people well, and then they want to collect taxes. ”

Shen San had a flash of inspiration, "I heard that this product is from Dong Weng, could it be that since that time, Dong Weng has been thinking of teaching people to be officials through games?" ”

Fan Jin shook his head and said: "I won't admit it, I'm my age, teaching others to be officials, I'm afraid I'm going to laugh at someone's stomach." It's just that today, there are still more rich people who have time to play this game. If a person is rich, it is easy to make achievements in studying, and there may be more officials than ordinary people. If these people who have played the game can think about the methods in this game a little bit when they become officials, it will be a blessing for the people of the world. When Hongwu set the world, the people's livelihood withered, and everyone was very poor, so everyone in the world wanted to be at ease. At that time, there were not many rich businessmen in the world, or you didn't wait for a few years to be rich, and you were killed and robbed. At the beginning of the country, there was nothing to do about maintaining the situation, and when the country and the people are safe, it is time to think about making some people rich. The richer the people in the world, the better the world, and I always wish that everyone in the world would become poor, which is actually asking for a dead end. For example, today is not the time when the seven kingdoms competed for power, and it is no longer the time when wealth is regarded as a sin, and the whole world is poor, and then they are all sent to war. Let everyone in the world be poor, and it is difficult to say who those people will fight first. Everyone who is an official must have a minimum conscience, and it is right to ensure that the country is stable and stable, and if you can't even do this, then you will have no heart at all. ”

"It is possible for you to become officials in the future, so you should pay more attention to this. If we lose the game, we can start the game again, and if the official messes around, there is no chance to start over. And here, if you give an order casually, only you and me will be affected, and if you become an official in the future, it will affect the people under your rule. Therefore, we must be cautious and avoid the word impatient. Before doing anything, think about how many people will sell their children, how many people will be displaced, and how many will starve to death. Think about yourself if you are the one who starved to death, happy or not, willing or not, and finally think about what to do. Few of the people who can be officials are fools, and the reason why there is a big difference in the means of doing things and even in the wind evaluation is the mentality. It doesn't matter if you get rich, but you always have to get by, and in order to get rich, you have to suffer innocent fathers and elders, which is not a way to be an official. ”

Jiyin Zhengse said: "The teachings of the righteous father will never be forgotten by the child in his life. ”

Shen San looked at Fan Jin, but his eyes were a little blurred, and the face that appeared in front of him looked like both Fan Jin and his father. Fathers also have similar views, or more than half of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty have similar thoughts. It's just that thoughts are thoughts, actions are actions, and when you haven't been tested, you can naturally speak generously, and it's another thing to really be an official. After all, everyone is really in the position, the first thing to think about is not their own eunuch bag but also their own black yarn, at most consider the gentry giant room, as for the most grassroots people, who cares?

Toilets, ditches, and money spent on these projects are not a small amount of money from the money and food that the houses handle themselves. If these money and grain are kept and handed in as performance appraisals, in today's context of taking money and grain taxes as a hard indicator for evaluation, they can naturally be rewarded by the imperial court, and their faces will also be bright. Even if you want to build a building, you will repair a famous eunuch temple or a school, or else you will build a temple, which is the merit of being an official. Only he, a Dong Weng, would be stupid enough to spend money to repair latrines and ditches, which is convenient for the people, but spends money and does not help his future, and only he is willing to do.

When I think of this, I can't help but think of the manuscripts written by Fan Jin. In these years, the readers talked about their life goals in private: to take a number, engrave a manuscript, and ask for a small one. After the title of the gold list, publishing the book and engraving the manuscript is an idle matter, and you must do your homework. In the future, I will publish books as an official, but they are basically poetry collections, not current texts, but the content written by Fan Jin has nothing to do with these elegant things, from the perspective of officialdom, it can be called vulgar.

"Governing the County Hundred Sparsely", "Shangyuan Miscellaneous Notes", "Small Records of Breaking Cases", ...... There is a simple list of Shangyuan County's income and expenditure, which records Shangyuan's land, Dingkou and the total amount of income, plus the amount of expenditure, and the specific items are not so much books as account books. The other is Fan Jin's policy, thought and future blueprint in Shangyuan.

Some of these words could not be said directly to the people, so they could only be written in books, such as telling the officials how to make the people content with their own business, not to think nonsense, not to think about replacing the government, and how to maintain a balance with the gentry and clans, and to ensure that they cooperate with each other without being used by the clans, and so on. These are actually more like the secrets of being an official, most of them are professors from their own sons and nephews, and no one has yet printed a book.

Another collection of records of Fan Jin's decision in Shangyuan, there are no strange cases in it, all of them are trivial civil lawsuits, and the scope involved is basically industrial disputes such as land, money and grain. From the perspective of the case itself, there is nothing particularly noteworthy, but Fan Jin made detailed annotations at the back of the case, including the merits of both parties and the reasons for his own decision.

These things that resemble reference books do not help Fan Jin's reputation in Shilin, especially at his age, a young man in his early twenties wants to publish this kind of book, which inevitably gives people the feeling that he is not able to do enough or is eager for quick success, which is not good for himself. Combined with the game in front of him, Shen San's heart was bright: his intentions were to tell the officials of the Ming Dynasty how to be officials.

If all the officials in the world can be like Fan Jin...... No, as long as there are half, or only three, your folks will not suffer this catastrophe, right? Shen San thought so. In addition to being grateful, Yu Fan Jin had a little more admiration at this time, and blurted out: "Even if the grass people are famous, they will not be officials." I am willing to follow Dong Weng all my life, saddle before and after the horse, and serve the work of dogs and horses. As long as Dong Weng does not dislike the clumsiness of the grass people, the grass people will always be Dong Weng's friends and housekeepers! ”

"That's a big deal. Shen San's words are too heavy, and Fan may not have this creation. ”

While the three of them were talking and laughing, there was a sudden commotion outside, and then a hearty laugh came: "Retreat!" This year's Chinese New Year is not as good as last year, last year you could eat wine at my house, this year you can't go out of the county line, dare to come to my house to eat wine, that's click! ”

The door was pushed open, and a gust of cold wind swept in with the figure of the person who came, blowing Shen San smartly. I saw a few richly dressed men walking in from outside, headed by thirty miles away, with a dignified appearance but a somewhat frivolous and rude demeanor, it was Xu Weizhi, the little grandfather of Wei Guogong who he had secretly seen when he came to Shangyuan last time. There were a few people behind him, and they didn't know a single one.

Fan Jin stood up at this time and greeted: "Little Grandpa, Little Grandpa Mu, and everyone, what kind of wind has blown a few of you, sit down." Jiyin and Shen San didn't come to see the ceremony. ”

Xu Weizhi waved his hand and said, "Excuse me!" I'm impatient with vulgar etiquette, although it's not the right day yet, but even if we meet at the end of the year, Jiyin will take it and play. Your godfather can't go out, it's okay for you, go to Qinhuaihe to find a beautiful sister, give this to her, and let her help you grow up faster. It saves you two years from marrying the beautiful lady of the Yang family, and I don't know what to do, and I will destroy the heavens. ”

While speaking, a handful of golden beans were stuffed into Jiyin's hand, Jiyin was very afraid of this meat-caved prince, a handful of golden beans neither dared to refuse but did not dare to accept it, at this time several other noble children also sent money over, Jiyin had to take the money and salute and withdraw, his face was embarrassed like a red cloth.

Xu Weizhi's gaze had already fallen on Shen San at this time, and he looked up and down for a while and said, "You are Shen San?" ”

"Grass people Shen San gave a gift to Shao Chitose."

"No need to be polite, get up and speak. I've heard about you, it's really pitiful, what's the matter, I'm not used to living here, if I'm not used to it, go to my palace to live and keep you safe. ”

"Thank you for your kindness, the grass people don't dare to have such delusions."

Fan Jin sent Shen San out at this time, and asked Xu Weizhi again: "You came to my house, won't you just rob Shen San with me?" You and I know the importance of this person, Brother Xu took people away, and the Wei Mansion has to come forward to carry this matter? ”

"Look at what scares you, if I really take people away, the sixth sister will have a famine with me, and I will be terrible to that little girl. When I came today, there were two things, the first is to find you to fight for wine, last year we lost a bunch of people to you one, today we brought sobering medicine, everyone to see a high number. The second is to negotiate a business with you. ”

"Business, what business?"

"Salt!"