Chapter 24 Gifts: Asking for Collections and Recommendations
"Washed with shochu?" Guo Fu'er was stunned when she heard this, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she glanced at Monk Liu with some reproach, "Monk, the second brother is young and ignorant, how can you not know that knife wounds and arrow sores will kill if they are not cured well!" β
"Ah......" Monk Liu was stunned, isn't it the secret recipe of Guo Dalang to clean the wound with soju - this is what Chen Dexing personally told him.
"Mother, it's okay, the child's sores have scabbed over and will not be inflamed again...... Uh, it's not going to fester. Chen Dexing hurriedly explained. He would rather entrust his life to shochu than to this beautiful lady.
"Second brother, why don't you take off your robe and let your mother take a look at the wound?" Guo Fu'er frowned tightly, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied with her son's appearance today...... Although this child is not her own, it is very intimate, and she listens to her own words the most on weekdays, why is there something wrong today?
Chen Dexing had no choice but to take off his robe and show a good boy in front of the young woman. Guo Fu'er looked at the scar on Chen Dexing's back, her eyes were red, and the two teardrops suddenly turned in her eyes.
"It's really hard for the second brother...... This army, don't follow the second brother, there are shops and land at home, and it's not that you can't open the pot, why bother to look for fame on the battlefield? If the second brother wants to be an official, he will take the martial arts exam. β
This Guo Fu'er is also a hard-working woman, not many days after marrying Chen Dexing's uncle Chen Huai'an, her husband and father-in-law both died in the country, although she was given the title of a widow and left her a family business, but the life of being a widow was not easy. Fortunately, her husband's brother Chen Huaiqing passed on his second son Chen Dexing to her and inherited Chen Huai'an's incense. But this son did not accompany her in Yangzhou in the past, and he didn't come from Lin'an more than a year ago, and he was a petty official in the Wurui Army, and he lived a happy life, but he didn't expect the Mongolian Tatars to hit Yangzhou at once......
Chen Dexing always had a strange feeling that this mother seemed to be too enthusiastic about herself...... He hurriedly put on his shirt and said respectfully: "Mother, where does the child have the ability to be admitted to the Jinshi, now this official body is exchanged for his life by his father, how can he give it up?" β
In the memory of Chen Dexing's life, a small military attache from the ninth rank is not even a role in the official sea of the Great Song Dynasty, but for the family where Chen Dexing is located, it is a matter of importance! Because he is an official, his family is an official household, and he does not need to bear the burden of errands, and he does not have to worry about the oppression of local officials - the Song Dynasty implemented "officials are not feudal, and officials are hereditary", and local officials, such as Confucius, Hook Division, Demolition Officials, Heads of Lines, Miscellaneous Affairs, and Forwards, are mostly hereditary, and most of them have no or meager salaries, which are simply not enough to support their families.
And these public officials naturally will not be Lei Feng, and it has long been a practice to try their best to harsh the people. There may be some clean officials among the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, but everyone is corrupt and bribery, and it can be said that all of them are dirty officials with black hearts! However, no matter how black and ruthless the filthy officials are, they will oppress the small people who have no official status, and they will never provoke the official account, even if the owner of the official household is only the most inconspicuous military attache from the ninth rank in the officialdom, and it is not the one that those officials who are deeply rooted in the local government are willing to provoke...... A Xu official who dares to challenge the authority of officials will become a public enemy of officialdom 100 percent!
Guo Fu'er shook her head and said, "Why do you need to resign?" As long as you resign from the mission, the official body is still there, and in the future, you can run your family while studying, if you can get a jinshi, you will become a civil official, and don't let your mother be frightened anymore. β
When Chen Dexing heard this, he remembered that there were many idle officials in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty who did not send any free money. And even if there is a dispatch, there is not necessarily much to do, isn't his cheap father a doctor of martial arts who can read the Four Books and Five Classics all day long?
However, Chen Dexing knew that he did not have such a good fate, because if history did not change, the Great Song Dynasty would completely collapse in more than ten years, the Mongolian iron hooves would trample on the north and south of the river, and Yangzhou City would not be spared! At that time, if he is still an idle military attachΓ©, I am afraid that he will not even be able to keep his home!
"The child also wants to find some opportunities in the army."
A hint of displeasure flashed in Guo Fu'er's eyes, and then she sighed lightly and said, "Why are you like your father, thinking about gaining fame right away?" Don't you know that this kind of fame is not worth much in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty officials? Only the fame that can be read by reading is really the best grade! β
Although it is a troubled time at this time, the emphasis on literature and light on military force has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people! The good men of the Great Song Dynasty are all talented people like Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu, not martial artists like Chen Dexing.
Chen Dexing sighed softly and said with a wry smile: "Mother, how did the child get the Jinshi?" β
The first subject of Jinshi was the most noble in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the prime ministers of all dynasties were all born in Jinshi. But correspondingly, Jinshi is rare, and Wen Jinshi is only five or six hundred people in one fell swoop in three years. Wu Jinshi does not open courses regularly, the number of people is smaller, and he pays attention to strategy theory (not the real study of battle formations, but military dialectics) light martial arts, and the test is actually good or bad! Although Chen Dexing was familiar with military books, he could not write that kind of good article, so he could not pass the martial arts examination.
"If there is no Jinshi, the current nine-rank official body will be enough." Guo Fu'er shook her head slightly, frowned, and said, "What if it's like Yue Wumu and Yu Qiaoyin?" β
Yue Wumu is Yue Fei, who has been rehabilitated by Zhaoxue when Song Xiaozong, while Yu Qiaoyin is Yu Jue, who was forced to death a few years ago, and is still suffering from rounds of liquidation, and the official positions obtained during his lifetime have been cut one by one, and even his family and cronies are also being persecuted.
However, in Yangzhou, where Yu Yu once served, there are still many people who complain about their grievances. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Yangzhou army, the reason why Yu Jue is so unlucky is because he started in the army rather than being a jinshi - Yu Jue used to be a student who joined the army because he fled because of breaking the law, and although he later transferred to civilian capital, he was regarded as a military general after all. And a Song Dynasty military general who climbed too high usually did no good!
"My mother laughed, how dare the child compare with Yue Wumu?" Although his heart was extremely twisted, Chen Dexing still respectfully called this twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old young woman his mother. Because at this moment, he has already remembered that this "mother" has a lot of net worth, and money and possessions are exactly what he needs urgently!
That's right, Chen Dexing, who has accepted the cruel reality of his soul being reborn, is ready to start his road to officialdom in the Southern Song Dynasty! And with his previous experience as a second mate on an ocean bulk carrier of a large state-owned shipping company, he naturally knows some officialdom tricks...... Oh, it should be the officialdom trick of the old society!
"But please rest assured that the child will not take such risks as today." Chen Dexing smiled and said, "The child plans to prepare a generous gift and go to see Liao Shibo tomorrow." β
Liao Yingzhong and Chen Huaiqing have a good relationship, Chen Dexing can be cheeky and call him a uncle, in Chen Dexing's officialdom tricks, this relationship can help him get out of the danger of giving his life at any moment!
"Liao Qunyu? Will he help? Guo Fu'er frowned and said, "Although he has a good relationship with the big official (referring to Chen Huaiqing), he has not helped you since he came to Yangzhou." β
It's not that they didn't help, but they didn't really try their best to help! And the reason why I didn't do my best was because the benefits weren't in place!
'I really don't know how the old pervert behaves as an official?' Chen Dexing scolded his father fiercely in his heart - although he was not filial, he scolded him reasonably! In the old society, it was rare to be an official and not to give gifts, and the most feared thing about gift-giving was that there was no way...... There is nowhere to give it politely, which is the first tragedy of officialdom! Chen Huaiqing is Liao Yingzhong's friend, this is a direct way to Jia Nidao! If the gifts are in place, now Chen Huai is Jia Yidao's staff early in the morning, with the old perverted martial arts and art of war, I am afraid that there will be no chance to rise to the top? If he is on the rise, how can he end up injured?
Thinking of this, Chen Dexing's face was already full of smiles, "Mother, Liao Shibo is naturally willing to help, but we should also show some sincerity, sincerity is here, this favor can naturally help!" β