Chapter 2 A glimpse of the whole leopard

Chen Jian's father in this life is a corrupt person, and he is a blatant corrupt bureaucrat. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After he opened his eyes and adjusted to his new identity, he didn't even notice how tall and fat he was, and he heard a conversation first.

"It's thirty silver dollars, please be sure to take it. I've done it all over the procurement department, and you can rest assured that our cables, uniforms, ropes and canvas will be fine. If something goes wrong, we have to be held accountable, right? Whose use is it not used? ”

A chubby middle-aged man sat on his knees, with a few pears and tea on the square table in front of him, and Jian Chen understood almost in a second that he had come to give a kickback to his cheap dad.

He glanced at the old man on the left, gently snorted the tea, and said for a long time: "It's not easy to collect some money from you, and I have a lot to do with it." You can't just take money all day long and don't make a show, right? ”

"That's that, that's."

Chen Siwen stopped talking, waited for a long time for a person to come in from outside, and said something in his ear, Chen Siwen nodded and said to the man: "What you said is also true, who is it not used for?" Okay, I'll take the money. ”

The chubby middle-aged man laughed and said a few more words, then stood up and withdrew.

After the others walked out, Chen Siwen coughed lightly, Chen Jian hurriedly raised his head, and held back a sentence for a long time: "Father." ”

"I let you watch it for a long time, do you understand?"

The son thinks...... Is it better to take bribes and hide something? Such a blatant ...... Isn't it good? ”

Chen Siwen was stunned and scolded: "First of all! This is a kickback, not a bribe. Secondly, this is in our own home, how is it blatant? Besides, everyone has accepted it, and the Procurement Department has also accepted it, so if I don't accept it, isn't it asking for trouble? I've had people see it all, and it's totally qualified. ”

"Also, collect some kickbacks, whether they are investigated or not depends not on whether I accept them or not, but on which side I am on. Now that a new king has just been elected, it is the time to use our faction, who is checking what I am doing at this time? Some money can be collected, some money cannot be collected, I can divide it clearly. ”

Chen Jian nodded again and again, Chen Siwen tilted his head to look at his son, and said, "Aren't you like those young people who are stupid in school, always thinking about what changes or something?" I'll tell you, it's okay to play with the party, but don't join the old party like those young people, don't touch it! ”

"If you touch it, you tell me, I have to go to someone to get you a clause to break off the father-son relationship."

Jian Chen didn't quite understand what this old party was, so he asked.

"You've been out there all day and you don't even know this? Back then, Ji Xia said that classmates are friends, comrades are the party, and over the years, a group of young people who have eaten enough have made an old party, and they are all rich and well-fed like you. ”

"They are demanding a maximum land limit, a land reform that allows everyone who has no land to have a small piece of land that is not allowed to be bought and sold to make a living, and a maximum amount of land to own. They even felt that the system of those Hou Bo countries was very good, and the serfs at least had land to plant, not nothing, as they do now. I feel that the morality of the aristocracy is actually higher than that of us mercenary people, and I hope to use noble and moral nobles to divide the land and protect the people. I feel that everything is not good now, and there is no warmth in the world. ”

Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Don't worry, I definitely won't mix with this group of people." ”

"It's good to know. This group of people, the idea is still good, but it is not realistic. Haven't there been a lot of books describing the life of the aristocratic manors in recent years? If any nobleman was like in the book, we would have been swept into the sea. ”

Chen Siwen shook his head and said again, and finally took out a piece of paper and handed it to Jian Chen: "This is the right thing you want to do in the next ten years, do more serious things, don't be out all day long, don't get sick at a young age!" If you get a child, you have to spend a sum of money to settle things, and it's easy for you to take bribes and get some money, isn't it? ”

"Father, what the hell is the matter?"

"The right thing to do...... You're eighteen years old, nominally you've been in the military for two years, you're doing well, and you're going to the officer academy in one year. At the very least, you have to learn how to shoot a gun, right? You have to learn how to ride a horse, right? Don't show your stuff! ”

"As for me, the ability to say that it is not big, it is not small, it can't be compared with the rich and powerful others, and I will send you directly to Taixue or Ji Xia Xue Palace, after all, our family is still shallow. But it's still okay to hire someone to serve in the army, and get you a place in a military school from the army. ”

"But, at the end of the day, it's up to you to get you in. In the next few years, there may be a war with the Qi State, and you don't want to go to the navy, the army is ...... You also know, it's all in line to fight, and who knows if a bullet can hit you? ”

"So, you have to become a quartermaster first, and when the war comes, I will find a way to transfer you to the rear, and I will be relieved to get mixed up for a few years."

Jian Chen couldn't help but blurt out: "The rise and fall of Huaxia is the responsibility of the husband, and this battle will run to the back......"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Siwen had already jumped up angrily and said, "What are you eating today?" Isn't it you who asked me to transfer you to the rear? I thought about asking you to become a navy, and you said that you have to eat bean sprouts and salted fish to be a navy, and you don't want to go; I asked you to be in the army, and you said you were afraid of being killed by lead bullets, but now you are talking to me with such? I've also started a little bit from the lieutenant, and you still need to teach me these words? If you didn't make it, why would I pull down my face and beg for someone? Get out of here! ”

was scolded for being bloody, and when he was leaving, Chen Siwen took out a silver coin and threw it over, shouting: "Save some flowers!" Get lost! ”

After Chen Siwen left, Jian Chen looked around, this should be his home, the decoration of the home is acceptable, but there is an atmosphere of vassal elegance everywhere.

On the wall hung two expensive self-made fire handguns, as well as a long knife, and a pair of crooked ink characters: Huaxia Wansheng.

Turning out the silver coin thrown to himself, there was a dragon printed on the back, and a sailboat was printed on the front, and there was no letter at all, and the simple square script said one dollar.

This silver dollar is a lot of income, and I have the impression that one can buy about 400 catties of rice, of course, this is not a small income compared to the hired workers who have nothing.

As I recalled, the family had neither land nor a workshop, so they relied on their father's salary to suppress pirates, take kickbacks, and use the privileges of military officers to resell a little goods.

Although my father is a school officer, he is really not a character, and the specific manifestation is that if he wants to enter the military academy, he has to pretend to serve in the army for two years, instead of directly entering those Taixue or Jixia Palaces.

In the small city of Fujian, the Chen family is still a character, and they ran to the capital Xinxia, but they are afraid that they are not farts.

Compared to what Jian Chen wants to do, it can really be called a light talk.

Now is the era of the bloody accumulation of capital, the monarchies that have just been annexed are also developing rapidly, all kinds of handicraft workshops and water workshops are developing wildly, capital is not conscious, but naturally wants to devour and struggles to accumulate until some specific invention appears, and finally becomes able to devour everything.

Compared with the naivety of the previous life, Chen Jian has matured a lot, and no longer thinks of fantasizing about the association of free men, a real, non-petty-bourgeois fanatic, in an age when the level of productivity has not reached the level at all, and what he should do at this time should be to be the most qualified capitalist, both bloody and devouring, and unscrupulous.

This is to advance the course of history, otherwise it would be utopian socialists and doomed to failure.

What to do if you don't have money? How can you hire skilled watchmakers and blacksmiths without money? If you don't have money, how can you promote the technology and eliminate the old group of people? How can you sail without money? How can you bribe if you don't have money? How can you become a councillor if you don't have money? How to accumulate without money?

The military exploits of this era are not easy to earn, this ethnic group has never had any aristocratic spirit, and I have never heard of the legend that any bullets are not aimed at officers, but they have heard of it and shoot at the officers...... Although the problem of flintlock pistol price and bayonet has not yet fully arrived, lead bullets and cannonballs can be Browned at more than 200 paces, and no one knows where they will fall.

Snap to death, the points are zero, and I'm afraid that it will be more difficult to mix in the next life.

Looking at the silver coin in his hand, Jian Chen sighed angrily: "Poor! ”

"Have you learned to cry poor? This is strange, let me ask you, where are you going to play tonight? ”

When I looked back, I saw that it was a man of the same age as myself, with his hair tied up, wearing this right wide suit, with a round face, not fat, but a handsome face, a piece of jade hanging from his waist, wearing a decorated long sword, and holding a book in his hand, the sides of which were all torn and black.

Chen Jian remembered that this person's name was Zhang Xuan, the word Bolun, the eldest son of the Mincheng tax officer's family, a playmate who grew up together since childhood, and he studied much better than himself, and next year he would go to Taixue in Xinxia, the capital to learn arithmetic and statistics.

Zhang Xuan approached Jian Chen mysteriously, handed the book in his hand to Chen Jianjian and said, "I got a good thing, this is a manuscript." ”

Jian Chen flipped the page at random, and what caught his eye was "set aside...... Jamming ...... More than 300 ......" and other words, reading it carefully, I suddenly felt bored, not that he was out of low-level interest, but just a few adjectives over and over.

"If it weren't for the of those council guys, this thing would have been reprinted. A group of old men, what do you know? Hey, I said, what were you crying there just now? ”

Jian Chen turned his head and looked around, and sighed: "Is there still too much money?" My family has no workshop property, and it is not as good as your family's three hundred looms, and you have bought shares in a cargo ship, which will be yours in the future. My dad is a school officer, so this thing isn't hereditary. ”

"Hey, I'm begging you something?"

"Say it."

"Your father is a tax collector, can you let me see the tax list, or you know a lot of people, take me around."

Zhang Xuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "What for?" ”

"Write a report, and analyze and investigate all levels of Mincheng. See if there are any ways to make money. ”

"Forget it, you still want to be a member of the council? Besides, how many words can you write? ”

He knows the word class, Chen Jian used it many times in his previous life, and the residual influence of this life is still there, but some of the content of the more red fruit has been deleted in the book.

When Jian Chen heard this, he said in his heart: "I can not only write, but also write, most of these words are copied by me, can I not write?" Why do I know how to solve a quadratic equation geometrically, do I have to tell you? ”