Yu Guozhen didn't expect such a coincidence, he followed Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan brothers, wanting to go to their hometown to see. This journey did not move the people, in order to see a little bit of the most real situation in the countryside under his rule. Since the Li family brothers followed him in Chongzhen for nine years, and now Chongzhen has been twenty-four years now, and they have not returned home for a full fifteen years, but an old man pulling a cart at random turned out to be the father of Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan's brothers.

What's even more ridiculous is that the father didn't recognize his son in the first place, and the son didn't recognize his father!

So the situation has changed now, Yu Guozhen and Li Laoqi are sitting in the car, and some of the luggage in the car is carried by the horses of Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan's brothers, and Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan obediently drive for them.

"I said that you two turtle sons, you haven't caused trouble for the Lord all these years, grow up, these two turtle sons have to be beaten and scolded, don't beat for three days, go to the house to uncover the tiles, and your old man will take care of ......"

Li Laoqi'er has never been a person who can speak, but he wants to say a few words to Yu Guozhen to show his respect, and he can't avoid shouting and scolding his two sons. Several guards around Yu Guozhen were holding back their laughter, even the orderly soldiers of Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan's brothers, and they couldn't laugh out loud.

In terms of personality, Li Qingshan is more like Li Lao'er.

"You gave birth to two amazing sons, Kaifeng and Luoyang, but they beat them down!" Yu Guozhen said with a smile: "They have not been around all these years, but you have worked hard!" ”

"As I said, these ten years...... OK. OK. ”

Li Lao'er was originally bitter and wanted to vomit, but when he saw the backs of his two sons and the epaulettes on their shoulders, he swallowed back his complaints.

What else is there to mention about the hard work of the past, as long as the sons have a chance, everything is worth it, and now that they talk about it, there is no reason for them to worry and be angry.

"This long. These two turtle sons of my family have really made great contributions in the Huaxia Army? ”

"That's natural, look at their clothes, look at the shoulder flowers on their shoulders, this is a major general - do you know the ranks of the Huaxia Army?"

Old man Li shook his head, and Yu Guozhen laughed, old man in the countryside. It would have been impossible to notice the details of the rank division of the Huaxia Army.

The Huaxia Army has now been fully regularized, and the military rank system has been determined. The most senior is the generalissimo. Below the generalissimo are marshals, generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals. Then there are colonels, lieutenants, and non-commissioned officers, among which lieutenant generals and major generals all have star ranks.

"Li Qingshan is now a one-star major general, his younger brother is more promising than his elder brother, and he is already a two-star major general, so let's put it this way, whoever sees the two of them can be called a general."

I heard Yu Guozhen explain like this. Li Laoqi probably understood a little, in short, his two sons were great officials in the Huaxia Army.

The two sons became high officials. When I came back, I also bought a lot of gifts, and brought back a bigger official - which made Mr. Li, who had been honest all his life, feel happy. Sitting in the carriage and looking around, I felt a little like a majestic general.

But then he became worried again: this general is a martial artist in the sky, and he asked them to drive the car for him...... Will God not be able to see and give him a thunderbolt?

Quietly looked into the sky, although it was a cold day, it was a beautiful sunny day, and there was no sign of thunder at all, which made Li Laoqi proud again: "They are Wuqu descending to earth, and after all, they are only the sons of Lao Tzu!" ”

"But the young man looks young...... The prime minister is bigger, and he has to wait for a good student, so don't let him annoy and ruin the future of his two sons. The identity of these two turtle sons is not easy to come by, but they are fought together with a knife and a gun. ”

Li Laoqi'er had his own idea in his heart, and he was more humble when talking to Yu Guozhen, and Yu Guozhen was no longer uneasy when he was looked up to at the beginning, over the years, he has become accustomed to being looked up to. The initial discomfort, to the current calmness, he doesn't know if he has improved, or if he has fallen.

"Be vigilant." He reminded himself.

It took four hours for the cart to finally reach Genglou Village, and on the way it enjoyed a sumptuous lunch consisting mainly of canned food for the march. Yu Guozhen asked Li Laoqi'er a lot of things, such as the harvest in the field, whether the village office is clean, and the infrastructure construction in the village.

Yu Guozhen's emphasis on infrastructure construction surprised his subordinates. Bridges, roads, rivers, schools, hospitals, markets, these things that seemed to be supposed to be taken care of by him personally, but Yu Guozhen was staring at them closely. Every year, most of the income of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee is used for this.

"Old man Li, it's strange today, you don't solicit customers, but let guests pull you, why is this?"

As soon as they entered Genglou Village, someone greeted Li Laoqi, and they stared at Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan, who were driving the car, showing a look of surprise. Others didn't speak, and Liao Xiaoyan, a student on duty in the village, was familiar with him, so he asked first.

"What's the guest, it's just the old man and my two sons, you kid, it was the old man who I came here with a vegetable pocket to survive, and I didn't call them uncle when I saw them?"

"Uncle, two uncles, and this uncle, several little uncles!"

This Liao Xiaoyan is a clever ghost, he looked at the Huaxia Army uniforms of Li Qingshan, Li Mingshan's brothers and two guards, he was already very greedy, and when he saw the short muskets they carried, he was even more salivaful, and when he heard Li Laoqi's words, he immediately climbed up the pole, called everyone again, and then came over.

"Get out of the way, you all be careful, don't let this kid take out your short firebolts."

"I said old man, I don't like to hear what you say, when have I ever taken out someone's things, but that's, that is, I want to borrow it to see, little uncle, is it successful?"

He asked a guard with a salivating face, and the guard smiled, shook his head, and said, "We have military discipline, and muskets can't be given to others, so if we give them to others, then we will violate military discipline, and you don't want your little uncle to be dragged to everyone and spanked, right?" ”

"This baby didn't go to school?" Yu Guozhen asked.

"It's not. went to school, but recently the village office said that soon the small court of Jinling will be unified by us, for fear that bad people will take advantage of this opportunity to make trouble, and let the children in the school guard at the entrance of the village every day to see if there are any suspicious people. They are small, do not attract attention, see anything. Shout here, or bang the gong, and immediately the militia of the village will come out. ”

There is also a militia in Genglou Village, which was pulled up when he was engaged in farmland and water conservancy construction, and a group of stick boys, a total of 37 people, usually follow the drills and drills for training. I also have to follow the two gentlemen in the school to night school to learn to read and count. Although everyone didn't learn quickly, but over the past few years. It was enough for them to recognize the notice posted on the bulletin board in front of the village office.

"Little kids. It's time to go to school eventually. Yu Guozhen was a little unhappy, but he knew that the most grassroots people worked hard and often had to do things as a last resort, so he was not ready to delve into this matter.

"Come in, Liao Xiaoyan, please come with the director, the secretary, and the two gentlemen for me, and set up a banquet at my house in the evening. Also, the shopkeeper's side. You go and call for me, and ask him to bring me some good wine and sugar. You kid came along, there's always sugar for you! Li Laoqi drove Liao Xiaoyan away, looked at the villagers around him, and thought that his two sons were generals, so he had to celebrate: "Nephews, go back to prepare the house, go to Lao Tzu's side to help, and kill the pig today!" ”

"Okay!" Suddenly, there was a cry, and all the people who had gathered around to watch the excitement dispersed, but a few smaller babies, who had not yet been able to go to school, were still following behind the Li family father and son.

The people in the same village were originally enthusiastic, distant relatives were not as good as close neighbors, and when they heard that the Li family killed pigs, all the families suddenly came with their belongings, and the Li Laoqi's house suddenly became lively.

After Yu Guozhen was welcomed into the house, Li Laoqi knew that his distinguished guest did not dare to slack off, and followed him around the house. Mr. Li's house is still the same kind of adobe house, with wooden planks nailed to the roof and a layer of tiles on the board. Look at these tiles are new, as for the rest of the place, they are a little rotten.

"Uncle Li, you can't build this house, you have to build a new one, I don't see that there are many households in the village to build a new one-the village has not been able to harvest in the past few years?"

"The harvest is okay, but it can't be sold at a good price, so it will be dragged to Anping Town, and the little money earned is not as good as being consumed." When Li Laoqi said this, he was a little bitter: "I can't do it, I can't eat it myself, and I can't eat it all, you see that the potatoes and sweet potatoes in my cellar are all piled up." It's strange to say, in previous years, I was worried about not having food, but now, I'm worrying about not being able to eat enough food, alas......"

Li Laoqi didn't know why this was caused, but Yu Guozhen knew very well that this was his intention. Because of his control over the seven places rich in rice and other food crops in Jiaozhi Province, Annam Province, Xiangjun Province, Lanjiang Province, Champa Governorate District, Dayuan Governorate District, and Nanyang Governorate District, coupled with convenient water and land transportation, Yu Guozhen artificially lowered the price of grain crops in the Central Plains and Jiangnan by subsidizing these seven agricultural areas.

The reason for this is that Yu Guozhen's aim is very simple: to attract peasants from the fields in the countryside to various industrial and mining industries in the cities through the difference in prices between industrial and agricultural products, especially through the difference in income between those engaged in industry and those engaged in agriculture.

It is impossible to completely abandon the land of a nation with such a strong land plot as China, even if most of the people in China live in high-rise buildings in the city after a few hundred years, they will always try their best to use pottery altars, iron basins, wooden shelves and the like to fill some soil, or plant some flowers and plants, or simply plant a handful of onions and garlic. But this does not mean that the Chinese people do not have the will to improve their lives, on the contrary, their will will be very strong, when one or two people take the lead appear, soon, they will join the tide of getting rich, and there is not even any difficulty to stop them.

After chatting for a long time, Li Laoqi heard someone outside say loudly: "Li Laoqi, are your two sons back?" Or the Huaxia Army? You old man, don't admit the wrong son, admit that your wife has nothing to do with it, and recognize the wrong son, your belongings will go to outsiders! ”

"It's the secretary, the old man went out to invite." Li Laoqi said with a smile.

After a while, a man wearing a training uniform of the Huaxia Army walked in, his leg was a little lame when he walked, and it was obvious that he had been injured. When he came in, he was still muttering in his heart, he had never heard that Li Laohan's son was a Huaxia army, only that his son was very uncompetitive and brave and ruthless, could it be that he was a wild bandit forest thief mixed outside, seeing that the world was peaceful, he pretended to be a Huaxia army to return to his hometown to visit relatives?

If so, it is better to have a good life. (To be continued)