"Man...... Can you be invincible in the world from the palace? Guan Feng looked at Wei Ba suspiciously: "How can that woman be invincible in the world?" ”

"Do you believe that?" Wei Ba stood up angrily, patted his buttocks, and put on his shirt. He really couldn't communicate with Guan Feng anymore. He has repeatedly explained that this is just a story and can't be taken seriously, but this woman still can't tell what is a story and what is a fact. It's a woman, if it's a man, what if you get out of the palace?

"You lied to me?"

"I'm not lying to you, I said it at the beginning, it's a story. Stories, do you know what a story is? ”

"I'm not talking about that." Guan Feng had a calm face and looked at Wei Ba, who was walking like a fly: "You are not injured at all." ”

"Huh? Yes! Wei Ba suddenly realized, hurriedly covered his chest, and faked coughing twice: "Internal injury, internal injury." ”

"Dingguo is right, you are really a little scoundrel full of lies." Guan Feng glared at him and walked away with his head held high, like a proud little hen, but his hair was a little messy, which looked detrimental to his image.

Wei Ba was stunned for a moment, and then scolded in his heart: Guan Dingguo, you bastard is ruining my reputation behind my back.

Guan Feng didn't ask anyone to send it, so he went out and left. Wei Ba looked at the sky, and the time for morning exercise had passed, but he was not lazy today, he practiced what he should have practiced, and he practiced what he shouldn't. He found Xiahou Hui and told Guan Feng about his suggestion, planning to take a walk outside to see if it was possible to recruit some parts.

Although Xiahou Hui has been in Chengdu for so long, he has limited understanding of the situation in Chengdu. At the beginning, he followed Mrs. Zhang to accompany Huang Yueying to pick mulberries and raise silkworms. She didn't even have the right to move freely, and she was busy with family affairs during this time, so she didn't have much time to go out for a walk, and she didn't know if it was feasible for Guan Feng to say that it was feasible.

"It's okay to see, but you have to be careful, it's not that you are suspicious of your sister, but that you are trying to absorb the homeless people, which has always been a taboo thing." Xiahou Hui said: "The prime minister ruled the country by law, and took precautions against our Wei family in many ways. I'm afraid I won't sit idly by. ”

Wei Ba agreed with Xiahou Hui. In fact, he thought worse than Xiahou Hui. The Guan family and the Zhang family will help him, and he himself knows a thing or two. In terms of the relationship with Zhuge Liang, there is still a little difference between the Guan family and the Zhang family, and Guan Feng's antipathy to Zhuge Liang is the strongest. To say that Guan Feng dug a pit for him to jump. Tempt him to confront Zhuge Liang head-on. It's not a possibility.

Wei Ba then went to ask Mrs. Zhang again. Although Mrs. Zhang handed over the decision of external affairs to him, for the sake of family unity, there are major events. He still has to ask Mrs. Zhang. On the one hand, it is to borrow her experience and authority, and on the other hand, it is also to respect her.

Mrs. Zhang's opinion is similar to that of Xiahou Hui, you can take a look, but don't act rashly. It's easy to make a mistake. Zhuge Liang let the Wei family's father and son out of the Meridian Valley, which originally had the purpose of consuming the soldiers, of course, it was impossible to sit back and watch Wei Ba sit big again.

Wei Ba understood and took Lan'er and a few half-grown girls and boys to the street together. The students had a holiday, and of course Mr. also had a holiday with him, and Li Wei and Wei Ba were in the same car and went to Chengdu together.

Chengdu was originally a small city, but later commerce flourished, and many markets were opened outside the city. There are two rivers outside the Shiniu Gate in the southwest of Shaocheng: the Zhanjiang River and the Pijiang River, most of the goods from the south to the north come to Chengdu through the waterway, load and unload the goods between the two rivers, this place has become the most lively market outside the city of Chengdu, commonly known as Jiajiang City, even the bridge across the river is called the city bridge.

Wei Ba had limited time, so he placed the location of the investigation here. He grew up in Hanzhong, and he could barely understand Chengdu dialect, but he couldn't speak it, so Li Wei became his translator. As soon as he said a few words, Li Wei understood Wei Ba's intentions, but he didn't say anything, and faithfully conveyed his opinions for Wei Ba.

After walking around the river for a long time, when the sun was already west, Wei Ba took his younger brothers and sisters to the restaurant to eat. Li Yi wanted to go home to have a look, but Wei Ba didn't let him leave, pulled him into the restaurant, asked for some wine and food, sat by the window, looked at the busy market in the distance, and chatted.

"Qin Zhong, after walking for most of the day, you should know what I want to do."

Li Wei bowed his head slightly, smiling silently. Wei Ba saw his expression in his eyes and knew that he had different opinions, so he said sincerely: "If Qin Zhong has a clever plan, please advise." ”

"I'm just a scholar, so there's no way to do it."

Li Wei took a sip of wine, picked up a piece of beef and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly, as if enjoying such a delicious taste. Wei Ba saw it and didn't say anything. The Wei family's economic situation has not been good recently, and most of the meat has to be supplied to the military guards. Martial arts are the foundation of the Wei family, this is the consensus of the Wei family, needless to say. But Li Wei is Xixi, in the spirit of respecting teachers, there should be a meat dish, so as not to be so greedy.

Probably sensing Wei Ba's incomprehension, Li Wei smiled calmly: "I told Mrs. Ru, fold the meat and vegetables into money, and I will take it home." ”

Wei Ba suddenly realized, and then said embarrassedly: "Qin Zhong is a person who cares about his family. ”

"There's no way, life is too difficult, otherwise I wouldn't have been in Shang Shulingshi's position for so long." Li Wei said lightly: "This is also thanks to Wei Jun, going to the Wei family to be a Xixi seat is of great help to my family's livelihood." ”

Wei Ba laughed.

The 200 stone petty official's salary is about 1,500 yuan per month, which is a little less than those porters on the dock outside, and the benefits are only every month, there is no off-season and peak season, and there is a little bit of a small block for the New Year's holiday. Over the course of a year, there are about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. With the current prices in Chengdu, this amount of money is definitely not enough to pay for the family's life. Xiahou Hui asked Mrs. Zhang, and the salary offered to Li Wei was 2,000 yuan per month, as long as he attended classes 24 days a month, for an hour a day, and took care of one meal. For Li Wei, this is purely an extra money, and it is not a small amount to be able to get so much money.

"Qin Zhong, what kind of livelihood does Madame Zun do at home?"

Li Wei smiled bitterly: "Wash and wash people's clothes, sew and mend them, and then weave some cloth to supplement the family." ”

"These things need to be done in my family. Would you be interested in her coming to my house with you? ”

Li Wei glanced at Wei Ba, a little hesitant. Being able to move to the Wei family, of course, there are only benefits to him, there is no harm, not to mention anything else, the money from renting a house can be saved, and his children can also study together, and he doesn't have to run at both ends, he can live in the Wei family with peace of mind. It's just that in this way, he will be tied up with Wei Ba in the future.

"I'm just proposing, not mandatory." Wei Ba raised his wine glass and touched it with Li Wei: "If you want, I want to ask you to be a full-time Xixi, and the honorarium will definitely not treat you badly." ”

Li Wei hesitated for a moment, and said with some embarrassment: "Can the waiter be more specific?" ”

"Absolutely." Wei Ba nodded. Since Li Wei is interested, then things will be easy to handle. Guan Feng had already reminded him that the scholar in front of him, who looked a little wooden, was a rare generalist, and if he had the opportunity to be included in his command, it would certainly be great. "Your family, according to the standard of my family's trilogy, doubled. Personally, I will give you a reward of a thousand stones a year. The transformation of the loom will be handed over to you in the future, and you can extract a ...... from the new benefits of the machine."

Wei Ba said a plan unhurriedly, generally according to the standard of hiring a chief engineer in the company in his previous life, the salary is not too high, but the allowances and rewards are very generous, which is also hoping to give full play to Li Wei's talents, he does not want to raise an idler, and the current economic situation of the Wei family is not optimistic.

Li Wei didn't know much about the allowances in the back, but just the annual remuneration of a thousand stones was enough to make him excited. He knew very well that with his current situation, he might not be able to survive the official position of Qianshi for another ten years, not to mention that Wei Ba also arranged his family's life.

"Shizhong, aren't you afraid of losing?" Li Wei laughed rarely, his face slightly red.

"I won't lose." Wei Ba said confidently: "I think you far exceed this standard, but I can't take out so much money for the time being." ”

Li Xun clapped his hands with emotion: "With such haode conditions, I have no reason not to agree." Okay, that's it, I'll get home and I'm ready to move. ”

"That's great, your new home is temporarily arranged in the West Cross Courtyard, how about it?"

"That's the best." Li Wei said with a smile: "Then I am now a staff member in the Wei Servant?" ”

Wei Ba shook his head: "It's not a staff member, it's a staff member." ”

Li Wei was stunned for a moment, and then understood. Friends and friends are both staff and friends, not a simple master-servant relationship. He nodded, pondering for a moment: "Then I'll go into the first strategy now: the matter of recruiting the tribe, it's not appropriate." ”

Wei Ba gave Li Wei such a Haode solicitation condition, just knowing that Li Wei had different opinions, and what he was waiting for was him to speak. But he didn't expect Li Wei's first sentence to directly reject Guan Feng's proposal. He pondered for a moment, "Why? ”

"There are three inappropriate ways to recruit the troops." Li Wei said unhurriedly: "The prime minister suppressed the powerful family, but you recruited subordinates, which is contrary to the prime minister's policy, which is inappropriate; These people have no strength, but except for farming and doing some coolies, they are of little use, and if they want to become military soldiers, it is impossible to do it without three or five years, and it is difficult to quench their thirst from far water. And since he is going for money, he is not loyal, and he is far from being able to compare with the existing soldiers. This is not the right thing either; Most of these people dragged their families with their families, and if they recruited one person, they had to support the family, and the Wei family was overstretched, and the number of people who could recruit was very limited. This is not the third inappropriate; ”

Wei Ba nodded repeatedly. Now there are two large groups of people employed in the village, one is to cultivate silkworms, and the other is to fight soldiers. As Li Wei said, if these people want to become military soldiers, it is impossible to do so without three or five years. If it is only used to grow land and raise silkworms, it is not cost-effective to use it as labor. The first is that these things are seasonal, and the second is that the Wei family is using machinery on a large scale, and the manpower problem can be solved soon, and these people will soon be idle when they are recruited, but they will waste a lot of money that is already tight.

"Then what is Qin Zhong's opinion?"

"No recruitment, only hiring, for a period of March and May, temporarily solve the current shortage of manpower." Li Wei smiled slightly: "After three or five months, it will depend on the situation." (To be continued......)