Chen Siwen took a few breaths of cool air, and his fingers unconsciously tapped on the desk, and for a while he couldn't bear the things that Chen Jian said. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He had never thought about it, and it was obviously too far away, something he had never dared to think about before.

"Someone you said could help you...... It's actually hard to find. If that person is already an official like a county guard now, people don't look down on you for this amount of money. Even if you can go to some banquets now, you are still not qualified to participate in some exchanges after dinner, and people will not remember you, at most they will know that you are a drama writer, or a little famous in the school palace. ”

"Besides, don't look at the inside, everyone is happy, but in fact, once you stand in the wrong position, something big will happen. It's just a gamble...... If everyone can see that person is going to achieve great things in the future, it will not be your turn to stammer; The only way to find them is to find young people who have not yet jumped out of the pond, but what if you offend others? ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said: "Wealth and danger are sought, and they are tied together to advance and retreat together." I need a tree to cool off, so I will fertilize and water it under the tree. The tree can't be too tall now, or my little bit of fertilizer will be a drop in the bucket; But the tree must grow tall in the future, even if it may grow so tall that it will be broken by the wind, it is better than a weeping old tree that has been decayed by insects and ants. ”

"It doesn't look hereditary on our side, but in fact it's still the inside, but there are still some seats left in the middle and lower classes that make people look forward to it. Nowadays, large landowners, merchants, handicraft owners, and the army all have their own pursuits, and they can compromise with each other for the time being. The middle and lower levels may be used by careerists to ascend to the throne, and these people can be counted as non-existent for the time being. ”

"But this balance and compromise will be broken one day, and if it really goes out of the sea, the mill owners, the mine owners, and the big businessmen will always come together, and the stronger they are, the more they will want more support and policy tilt. It's going to be a force strong enough to crush everything else, but no one has seen the power in it yet. ”

"I hope that someone in politics can see the growing power behind it from nothing, and even when this force openly declares what he wants and forms a partisan alliance, he can join it."

Chen Siwen hissed, and the more he listened to it, the more serious he felt that this matter was getting more and more serious, and he couldn't help but say: "This thing of party faction is just for children, and I don't think it's useful." ”

"Father, that's because there is no strong group of people who have common interests to pursue and own most of the assets and money, so it has been a joke since it appeared. Nowadays different people have different interests, but if I succeed, if I go out into the sea, if there are many new machines powered by water, if there is a vast expanse of people out there, full of gold and silver, who can buy a great deal of goods...... And then? ”

"At that time, the merchants, the navy, the millers, the mine owners, and so on all had the same interests. Attacking and building navies, looting and suppressing other people's handicraft workshops, forcing the poor to serve as soldiers, and importing goods that we may be slightly weaker with high taxes...... When these pursuits can then suppress those differences, this is the power of partisanship. Make it clear to everyone that this is what we are after, and we will support the people who support and support us to come to power. ”

"If we don't prepare now, we will certainly emerge in the future, and once there are many things that have never been seen before and a world that was previously unimaginable, a party that has been prepared for it will certainly have a lot of support than those who suddenly panic. This is an opportunity to be prepared against unprepared, and perhaps it can really be small and big. ”

Chen Siwen was a little dazed when he heard this, and asked, "Are you so sure that there will be a vast world outside?" ”

"Don't you think that 80,000 miles around, but only us, a little too lonely? If there were no wider world, I am afraid that I would have died of thirst at sea, then all this I said would be meaningless. ”

"Hahaha...... Too lonely? Yes, if not, 80,000 li would definitely die of thirst. ”

With a wry smile, Chen Siwen finally said: "If you say so, there is really someone who can." This person is not very old, and he is already the head of a county, which is in Nan'an County, northwest of Mincheng. I know this man, and he knows me. ”

"How do you know?"

"Seven years ago, when I was out at sea, I encountered a storm and took shelter from the waves on a small island, missed the date of my return to port, and deviated from some course, only to come back with a group of pirates who were about to plunder a ship."

"I leaned over and fought with them. As a result, during the fight, I saw a classmate from the naval academy...... He was disguised, but I recognized him. ”

Speaking of this, Jian Chen couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "Classmates? Is it a fake pirate of the Navy? ”

"No, no one has the guts, but since he and I are classmates, I am not going to be a pirate, so I have some doubts in my heart. You know, there are some things that you can't get too close to, it's too dirty. ”

"When I've killed the pirates, and I've confirmed that the pirate leader is my classmate, I'll know that there might be some mess involved. I was terrified, afraid of getting involved in some fights, because you were still young at the time. So I had the pirate ship set on fire. ”

"When I got to the boat over there, I confirmed that the boat on the other side was okay and could run. A young man came forward to thank me, and that was the first time we met. ”

"I thought it was better to stay away from me, so I tried to say that I only happened by chance because I encountered a storm, and said that I had to hurry back to Hong Kong and I couldn't escort you."

"After I went back, I was worried that I would get involved in something I shouldn't be involved in. Just like the smuggling incident of alignment that made a lot of noise back then, the people sent to investigate from above accidentally burned to death in a few days after a fire, if it weren't for a person who was desperately holding a box of fire cloth before he died, the contents of which were not burned, he was afraid that he would die in vain. I didn't want to participate in this kind of big man fighting at all, my ambition had been exhausted at that time, so I just thought that I would not have a big deal in this life. ”

"As a result, half a year passed in fear, and suddenly I was promoted...... The reason is that the merits have accumulated enough. This kind of thing...... Hardly. A bunch of people who have accumulated enough merits but haven't risen yet, no matter how you look at it, it's not my turn. I also knew that maybe I was a make-up, but the problem was that I couldn't make up the numbers, and I didn't have much money to bribe at the time, and then I guessed something. ”

"Then, two years ago, I met that person for the second time, and he was already the county magistrate of Nan'an County at that time. I recognized it at a glance, and the man apparently recognized me and smiled at me. I said in my heart that you don't smile at me, it doesn't matter to me what you do, we don't know anyone now. I didn't say hello to him, I just didn't know him. After all, he is in politics, and I am in the military, so it is better to be less involved. ”

"That's it. I don't know if it's what I think it is. As for whether it is young and promising, anyway, the political achievements of Nan'an County in the past two years have been rated as high, which should be good. ”

"The only person I can think of in the neighborhood is more or less familiar, younger, and that's the only one who is there. I hadn't heard of what his parents were, maybe they were young people from a certain faction, or maybe the things I encountered at the beginning were just a coincidence. But it's also impossible to say, some people are only behind the scenes and don't come to the stage, and they are all related to them. Or the prospective son-in-law of whose family? Whose hidden illegitimate child? That's hard to say. ”

Chen Jian thought about it for a while, he had almost traveled through half of Min County in the past year or so, and he had been to many places, so he naturally also went to Nan'an County.

Nan'an is in the northwest of Mincheng, in the upper reaches of the Min River, and downstream is Mincheng by the sea. It is a big county, it is quite rich, there is coal and iron, and there are rivers and water transportation, it is indeed a good place.