After Ding Guogong finished scolding, he felt refreshed, and after taking a few steps, he suddenly became stronger: "What do you think of Wu Ninghou's call for everyone to donate?"

Xu Xigao pursed his lips and said, "It's just to show loyalty to the Long Live Lord!" It's a pity, our family didn't think of this method, so we can only watch him come out on top!"

Ding Guogong continued to walk forward slowly without looking back and said, "Is there anything else?"

Xu Xigao was stunned for a moment before he said slowly, "What else can this be? If you want to say that you can win the war, you can definitely win, but if you are good at provoking the border, I'm afraid the reputation will not be too good!"

After speaking, Xu Xigao said self-deprecatingly: "That's right, anyway, he is also a noble, and he doesn't need any reputation!"

Speaking of this, Ding Guogong suddenly stopped, and slowly turned around: "I know that I am fooling around in a day, and I can't think about things clearly!" In a while, you will personally send Liu Haojia 20,000 taels of silver!"

When Xu Xigao heard this, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide and said, "Huh?"

Dingguo Gong snorted and said, "Ah what, if you are told to go, you will go! In addition, when I come back, I will go to the ancestral hall and read the secret files of the ancestors in the ancestral tree!"

Xu Xigao was even more dissatisfied when he heard this, and his face wrinkled into a bitter gourd! It wasn't until Ding Guogong urged him again that he reluctantly turned around and left.

In fact, he was not satisfied with the 20,000 taels of silver. For the Dingguo Mansion, 20,000 taels of silver is nothing, and what makes him unhappy is to go to the ancestral hall to read the secret documents.

Genealogy is indispensable for a family, especially a large family! The genealogy does not only record which generation's name what, but also records what major events happen in the family every year with different degrees of writing. Write more about what is important, and write less about what is not important'

Especially for people who have made significant contributions to the family in history, or who have risen to high positions, they must record their every move in detail, and everything that happened to him, even the cause and effect of the matter, must be clearly written.

And all such people always have many things that cannot be seen, or when it comes to some major matters that are dealt with in such a way, such things cannot be left unwritten, so they can only be recorded in the secret files of the family. This kind of secret file can only be seen by people who have the right to inherit the family, and others can't see it even if they know it, and some people don't even know that there are these things!

The reason for this is to hope that the heirs of the family will really learn something from the records of their predecessors. And it is also very troublesome to look at this kind of secret file, there must be a family general to supervise it, and it is not allowed to copy, not to take it out of the ancestral hall, and not to damage it!

But those books that have been in place for tens or hundreds of years have long been very crunchy, and they will be damaged if you are not careful. And the person who breaks it is responsible for re-transcribing and binding, and must not fake the hands of others, which is even more painful! Often people who flip through the secret files have to recopy a batch of pages, which is very troublesome!

Two days later, Xu Xigao, who was staying in the ancestral hall, finally came out with a disgraced face! He couldn't wait to wash up and then eat a beautiful meal. Naturally, there is nothing good to eat in the ancestral hall, only dry cakes and water, at most a piece of pickles! After all, there are big fish and meat in the ancestral hall, and it is too disrespectful to the ancestors!

Just when Xu Xigao finally felt that he had come back to life, someone came to inform that Grandpa Guo wanted to see him. He originally wanted to sleep beautifully, but he had no choice but to go to the study.

Xu Xigao entered the study and sat down at the table after seeing the ceremony, and it was rare that Ding Guogong actually picked up the teapot and poured him a cup of tea! Xu Xigao was flattered and took the tea, and before he could say thank you, Dingguo Gong had already said, "Have you finished reading all the secret files?"

Xu Xigao nodded and said, "I've finished reading it!" The broken pages were copied and patched."

After beating Wen Yan, he smiled and said, "What do you think about that?"

Xu Xigao said: "If you want to talk about your feelings, I finally figured out one thing, it turns out that fighting a war is not necessarily a loss of money, as long as you win the battle and whether the court can make a fortune, I don't know, anyway, the generals who lead the team will definitely make a windfall!"

Ding Guogong smiled silently. This is simply obvious to him, otherwise where did the wealth of the Guogong Mansion come from? How can you really rely on the emperor's reward to reward so many things, and it is not obtained by plundering and forcing people to make offerings during wars

！ It's just that these things are not easy to record openly, and they can only be recorded in the family's secret files.

This is Xu Xigao said, "Dad, do you mean that after this battle is over, we can get the money?"

Dingguo Gong glanced at his son and said, "Isn't this an obvious thing! My Ming Navy can be said to be invincible in the world, how can it lose? As long as the flag is collected, it will become a pirate ashore and plunder, and how much money will not be recovered? It's just to get out of the side wall, grab a batch of livestock and come back and get a lot of money!"

After Ding Guogong finished speaking, he saw his son's shining eyes and said, "Don't worry about this time, no one has such a great prestige to dominate so many people now, otherwise you think that such a noble person would not have thought of this? And now that the civilian officials are in power, as soon as you get out of the border wall, you will immediately be charged with provocation, and only the navy is directly under the royal jurisdiction will not be blamed!"

Xu Xigao was immediately deflated when he heard this, but then he said, "Then you can only watch Wu Ninghou be in the limelight!" But will he rob our family of the name of the nobles in the future?"

Ding Guogong knew what his son meant, but he still glanced at his son before saying, "You count with your fingers, how many families are related to our family by marriage? How many families have been associated with each other for generations? How can he rob it?"

Xu Xigao couldn't help laughing when he heard this, he just wanted to speak when he heard someone knocking on the door. Ding Guogong immediately knew that there must be something urgent! Under normal circumstances, when their father and son are in the study, no one will easily disturb them, and those who dare to knock on the door are only two or three people.

So Ding Guogong sat up straight and said, "Come in."

The person who pushed in was unexpectedly the old butler in the Guogong Mansion, and he was just about to give a salute when the Dingguo Gong said, "Don't be rude, let's say, what is the matter?"

The housekeeper put the things in his hand on the table with a confused look and said, "Master, Shizi, this is someone just sent by the Marquis of Wuning."

Ding Guogong swept it away, and the first thing he recognized was a stack of silver tickets, which looked about 10,000 taels thick, and the other was an envelope, which had been pulled out and placed on top of the envelope. I think the old butler has already seen it beforehand, so that's why it's this expression.

Ding Guogong took the letter and opened it to look at it a few times, then laughed, and then handed it to Xu Xigao, who didn't know why. When he finished reading it, he let out a surprised "Huh!?"