Old Taijun Shi sighed and called the mandarin duck over: "Mandarin duck, you go to my room, and the third box on the left hand side is moved over." ”

When the mandarin duck heard this, he asked in surprise: "Old lady! ”

"Go!"

At the time of half the incense, the mandarin duck and another maid came over with a large box, and it seemed that the weight of the box was not light.

"Grandma, what is this?" Jia Baoyu asked.

Shi Lao Taijun said: "Open it and you'll know." ”

However, without Jia Baoyu doing it himself, the mandarin duck took out the key and opened the box, but there were many precious jewelry inside.

What gold hairpins, jade bracelets, jade Buddhas...... A large box full of dazzling dishes.

"Grandma, what are you doing here?" Jia Baoyu asked.

Mrs. Shi said: "This is grandma's savings for half of her life, and they are all here, which can be regarded as the cost of training for you."

The emperor rewarded you with 10,000 taels of silver, looking at a lot, in fact, where is there enough, training is to burn money, and if you want to train an elite soldier, the amount of silver spent is gone.

Back then, your grandfather had 3,000 elite soldiers around him, and he spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and with these 3,000 elite soldiers, your grandfather could not fall into prestige and inherit the position of Duke Rongguo. ”

The box of jewelry in front of him is estimated to have seventy or eighty thousand taels, and if you can sell it slowly, there should be no problem selling it for one hundred thousand taels of silver.

But the emperor was in a hurry, so he could only take it to Tianjin and sell it slowly.

Jia Zheng immediately knelt on the ground and said: "The child is not filial, and when he gave birth to this evil son, he was so tired that his mother even took out her own money. ”

"What's wrong with you?"

Shi Lao Taijun said angrily: "Baoyu can be promoted by the emperor, that is his blessing, and it is also the blessing of our Rongguo Mansion, and this is not a bad thing."

I didn't want Baoyu to train as a soldier, because I was afraid that he wouldn't be able to endure such hardships, being a soldier is no better than being at home, and there are people to serve everything.

If you really start a war, it is possible to go without eating or sleeping for a few days, marching and fighting, it is the hardest, but there is no turning back when you open the bow, Baoyu, from now on, you are not a child. ”

Jia Baoyu nodded and said, "I know, grandma." ”

"Okay, it's not too early, the old woman can't hold on, if you still have anything to say to Baoyu, just say it quickly, don't wait for him to leave and regret it."

With the support of the mandarin duck, Mrs. Shi went to the back room tremblingly.

Only Jia Zheng's family of three was left in the house.

"Baoyu, have you really thought about it, are you going to train and fight?" Jia Zheng looked at the son in front of him who was about to catch up with him.

Last year, Jia Baoyu, who was less than 1.5 meters tall, was still like a child, and he grew into a big man in a blink of an eye.

Jia Baoyu said seriously: "The child is not a whim, it is carefully considered, these days the child is outside the city, and he has seen what the end of the dynasty is.

The situation in Heitu Village is good, but the food and clothing of the poor people cannot be guaranteed. Some families only have one pair of pants and go out alone every day, while others can only hide in the house.

Ordinary people are soaked in the ground all year round, but the imperial court has too many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and after paying the taxes, it can only ensure that the family will not starve to death.

However, natural disasters continue to occur in this dynasty, and last year there was a severe drought in Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Hebei, and the local people could not survive, so they could only flee with their families, and they did not know how many people died.

Tens of thousands of these people froze to death and starved to death outside the capital. The children have a bookstore outside, and many of the children in it have been recruited from the refugee pile, and if it weren't for that, they wouldn't even survive this winter.

Not to mention that thieves are everywhere, and they don't even give these ordinary people a way to live, they kill people at every turn, and they also set fire to houses, which is extremely destructive.

Officers and soldiers used to suppress bandits, but they were even more powerful than bandits, and they liked to kill good people and take risks.

The child heard that several villages under Liangxiang were slaughtered by officers and soldiers, but the emperor did not dare to take these soldiers. ”

Jia Baoyu spoke for a long time, but Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang listened to it as if it were a fantasy.

Long.

Jia Zheng swallowed his saliva with difficulty and said: "Is the country really decaying to this extent? ”

Jia Baoyu couldn't explain much to him, and some things he wouldn't believe without seeing them with his own eyes.

As a scholar said in later generations, you haven't been to the Great Wall, all you see are photos and videos, what if it's someone else's PS? You hear this thing from someone else's mouth, what if someone else lied to you?

But just because you don't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Just like at this moment, there are hundreds of thousands of Han people, living like pigs and dogs under the rule of the Liaodong Tatars.

Those people were refugees who had been taken captive when the Tartars entered the customs in the past years.

A number of these Han people were killed, and a group died on the way, and those who were able to go to Liaodong were already considered fortunate in misfortune.

But they don't live as well as pigs and dogs, and those flag men either beat and scold them, and kill a few at will, which is even more common.

Not to mention far, at this time, there are more than 100,000 refugees outside the city wall of the capital, as long as you climb the city, you can see it, but how many people in the capital know the existence of these people, and how many people are willing to go to see and help them?

Even their Great Zhou Emperor, Emperor Longqian, had never seen these refugees.

Jia Baoyu asked: "Does my father know the state affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty, why did it become what it is now?" ”

Jia Zheng said cautiously: "It's nothing more than a traitor in charge, framing Zhongliang, Wen Tian and Wu Xi." ”

Jia Baoyu nodded and said, "This is only part of the reason, what else?" ”

Jia Zheng continued: "There is no reward for meritorious service, there is no punishment for mistakes, there are often people in the DPRK who have a vegetarian meal, so I say that I, a member of the Ministry of Labor, have a boss who does not know people, cronyism, if there is no filial piety and relationship, I will not be promoted in my life."

Among his colleagues, there are also those who are capable and outstanding, but because of their poor family background, they cannot be promoted, so they have to choose to be on time and slack off. ”

Jia Baoyu smiled: "This is lying flat." ”

"What does it mean to lie flat?" Jia Zheng heard this word for the first time and felt fresh.

Jia Baoyu explained: "It is to relax mentally, not to have extravagant hopes, not to be anxious, not to have any expectations for the future, to be satisfied with the present, and not to fight or grab."

Just like my father said, there is no room for growth on the official road, there is no motivation to struggle, there is no future, there is no hope, there is a nightmare, and I commute to work on time. ”

Isn't this Nima talking about herself?

When Jia Zheng heard this, he was shocked, he found that he was also a lying flat family!

However, in front of his son, Jia Zheng still has to maintain a certain degree of parental majesty: "It's not advisable to lie flat, there is still a long way to go, Baoyu, don't you want to learn from your uncle and Brother Zhen of Dongfu." ”

Jia Yu, Jia Rong, Jia Zhen: ......

Jia Baoyu said: "That's why the child will take the initiative to invite Ying to Tianjin, there is no elite soldier training in the capital, because there are too many constraints, I am afraid that the soldiers have not been trained yet, so they will be pulled to work by the noble ministers first."

Moreover, Shenjing City is too prosperous, and anyone who comes here will be corrupted, only know how to enjoy it, and refuse to use their lives. ”

Seeing that Jia Baoyu had made up her mind, Jia Zheng no longer persuaded her, turned his head to look at Mrs. Wang and said, "Yiyun, give all the silver taels accumulated over the years to Baoyu." ”

Mrs. Wang's eyes were red, and she begged, "Master, do you really want Baoyu to go so far away?" Baoyu has been with me since he was a child, he has never suffered or suffered, how can he survive the past? ”

Jia Zheng coughed dryly and said, "You can protect him for a while, can you protect him for a lifetime?" He is a man, and he has to take on the second room after all, rather than being a waste who eats and waits for death, it is better to take advantage of his youth, make contributions, and gain a background for future generations. ”

Mrs. Wang said: "I would rather him eat and wait for death, than let him go to such a bitter cold place, Tianjin?" Where birds don't, my Baoyu—"

She stepped forward and hugged Jia Baoyu tightly in her arms.