Chapter 33: Dong Shuai
Yang Chendong was embarrassed, he really liked Xiaoyu. Of course, she is treated as a child, but if the back door is opened because of this, will the impact be bad?
The embarrassment on this face was seen by Xiaoyu, who was clever, she knew that there was a door, and immediately mustered up the courage to say: "Big brother, I am just your little sister, and I am not one of those fifty people, are you right?" ”
"Huh!" was corrected by Xiaoyu like this, and Yang Chendong was also stunned. Yes, he can completely say that the other party is his sister, in the past two months, Xiaoyu will go to him if she has nothing to do, and in the end, they will not even stop Humang, this is a well-known thing, naturally, there will be no problem with her when she leaves.
Unexpectedly, he was still worried, Xiaoyu actually came up with a method and words first, which also made Yang Chendong impressed, "Okay, if that's the case, then you can follow me, and you don't have to go to the assessment." ”
Yang Chendong agreed, which also made Xiaoyu very happy, holding her mother Zhou Hua's hand and shaking it constantly, as if she was asking for credit, and seemed to express her happiness.
Zhou Hua didn't expect that once she went through the back door, the two children could follow the sixth young master. Especially the youngest daughter is even more amazing, she has become the only person who can follow the sixth young master without assessment.
The matter of Xiaoyu is just an episode. Next, some people wanted to go through the back door, and some Yang Chendong still saw it, just like Jing Shuang, the son of Jing Guang, the director of the cement factory, Kong Jie, the son of Kong An, the director of the paper factory, and a few other people. But most of them didn't go to see him, he just casually found a reason to push it off.
Three days later, the assessment began. It is divided into two comparisons: civil and military.
Wu is to run a three-kilometer run, and if he can keep up with the team and not fall behind, he is qualified.
The most important part of the essay is to take the arithmetic test and write an article on the understanding of the black pier. Words that cannot be written can be replaced by pinyin.
This can see what they think in their hearts, and they grasp the initiative of admitting who and not admitting whom.
The test of the day, Shangwu Xia, arrived at the evening of the same day, and the final results were announced. Naturally, some people are happy and some are worried. Fortunately, the Black Pier is full of prosperity, and there are many things to do, and Yang Chendong also said that he will come here to recruit people to his side if he has the opportunity in the future, so that the impact of the incident will gradually subside, and those who have not been selected have returned to their usual mentality.
Early the next morning, Yang Chendong left the black pier.
The selection is sent out before dawn, and it is required that each selected person should not be sent by the parents, otherwise their places will be cancelled. This is also the first lesson Yang Chendong taught everyone, stay away from your parents and learn to be independent.
It may seem cruel, but it's good for growth. Just like today's education, too much attention is paid to the score value, most of the children are dead to study, and few teachers and schools pay attention to the development of children's character.
Yang Chendong's approach is to start with independence. Then they will be allowed to endure hardships, only such children can have a deeper understanding of the warmth and coldness of human feelings, and the chances of making a difference when they grow up are naturally much greater.
A.D. 1447, the eleventh year of Orthodoxy.
The bell of the New Year was ringed, and from this moment on, Yang Chendong was seventeen years old, and it had been nearly two years since he came to the Ming Dynasty. From scratch, his power has developed to the present, and I am afraid that except for a limited number of people, I will not know what kind of powerful strength he has now.
The New Year is in the old house of the Yang family, and as usual, the people in the old house have been given silver taels to celebrate the year, and then they will go to worship their ancestors. Then Yang Chendong did not return to the old mansion, but went to Yangjiazhuang in the name of breathing fresh air and looking for inspiration to write a story, where there were fifty, no! Fifty-one students were waiting for him to teach. They will face a three-month study, which will be mainly based on cultural classes and supplemented by physical training.
The training was in full swing, and Yangjiazhuang also presented a semi-closed management, although people were allowed to enter and exit, but the scrutiny was extremely strict. During this period, Yang San had already found several people who were suitable for intelligence and security work, and the criterion for assessing whether they could become official members of the team was to closely follow everyone who entered Yangjiazhuang and find suspicious elements from them.
To say that money is easy to do, on the streets and alleys of Jianning Mansion today, I don't know how many pairs of Yang family's eyes are staring there, they are either ordinary peddlers and pawns, maybe they are guys from a certain restaurant, or maybe they are the owners of a grocery store, these people are not from the Security Bureau, and they don't even know who they are collecting intelligence for. These people only know one thing, as long as they report something unusual that happens, they may have money to take, and if the matter is still important, they will be rewarded even more.
People die for money, under such an encouragement mechanism, naturally a large amount of information is uploaded to Yang San's hands every day, and he will hand over the valuable ones to Hu Mang and give them to the sixth young master for inspection. With this mechanism, it can be said that once someone from the imperial court comes to Jianning Mansion, any unfamiliar face will be discovered immediately.
In fact, all this is just Yang Chendong's worry and caution. There will be no one in the court who wants to target him as a small governor of Jiupin Jianning Mansion. If someone really wants to deal with the Yang family, then they will also take the sons and young ladies of the Yang family. Moreover, as soon as Yang Rong died, the power of the Yang family collapsed, it can be said that it is difficult for everyone to protect themselves, otherwise it would not be more than a year, and no relatives returned to the Yang family's old house to see his little brother.
Of course, Yang Chendong's understanding is that these brothers and sisters should also have their own hardships, maybe they are in Beijing, and they can't help themselves, anyway, he heard the old housekeeper Yang Hai say that several sons and young ladies of the Yang family are not doing very well in Beijing, that is, if they want to go out of Beijing, they also need to report layer by layer, and there is some trouble, so Yang Chendong also understands them a little.
Besides, he can be regarded as inheriting this body, and if possible, he can help or help.
It is true that no one in the imperial court pays attention to Yang Chendong, but he just made a "Yang Bao" and wrote a few wonderful stories, and in the eyes of the big people, it is just a sideshow. It's just a seventeen-year-old age, which can be described as milky and undry, even if it is, who will pay attention to it. Not to mention, the imperial court has its own sufferings.
On the seventeenth day of the first month of the 11th year of orthodoxy, Kuang Ye, the secretary of the military department, played the following songs: After Warat first annexed the Arutai tribe when his father was detached, it became stronger and stronger, and the Warat tribe wanted to violate the border, which caused tension on the border.
In March of the same year, Yingzong ordered the world school to be admitted to the attached student membership. This means that more students can be recruited, and they are not formal, but in the form of reserves, which is a way to accumulate talents for the country.
However, this is tantamount to invisibly expanding the power of the nobles, so that the number of privileged people becomes more and more.
So what was the privilege of the time? To put it bluntly, you don't have to pay grain for farming, and you don't have to pay taxes for business. And these students occupy a large amount of national land, which makes the quality of life of the people drop by more than one layer. So that many people have worked hard for a year, and at the end of the year, they have a bumper harvest, and they can't pay taxes and grain.
Compared with the changes in the outside world, Yang Chendong is indeed very honest this time, he stays in Yangjiazhuang, and writes stories quietly, and also prays for his parents. In fact, it only took a little time to write. More time is spent teaching these students.
"Smiling Proud Jianghu" has been completed after such a long time, and even the whole book has appeared, and this time it has been sent to Jingshi a lot, but it satisfies the appetite of some rich sons and noble ladies. Next, he wrote the fourth book - "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang".
As soon as the new book was released, it was as popular as ever, but this time it was issued at the same time, not only in Jianning Mansion, but also in Beijing, which caused a frenzy of chasing books.
In Hu's mansion, Hu Yan, a lightly dressed and chic girl, is looking at the latest issue of "Yang Bao", which is serializing the legend of Chu Liuxiang.
"Phew!" Somehow, Hu Yan suddenly scolded lightly, and then her face turned red, which was really shy and lovely.
Yahuan Xiaoqing on the side was dozing off a little, and was suddenly awakened by Miss's movement, and then she hurriedly looked around, and after not seeing others, she pouted and shook her head, "Miss, are you going to scold Dongshuai in your heart again?" ”
"What Dongshuai?" Hu Yan looked uncertain. Xiangshuai he knows, it's Chu Liuxiang, who is this Dongshuai?
"What? Doesn't Miss even know Dongshuai? That's the name that everyone gave to Yang Chendong, the sixth young master of the Yang family? You said that he wrote Chu Liuxiang in the book with eight confidants, and they all liked it, so is this person also an amorous young master? That's why everyone calls him Dongshuai. Xiaoqing took out the words that other people heard from buying "Yang Bao".
Hearing such an explanation, Hu Yan blushed and said: "That's right, the sixth young master of the Yang family must be a merry man, people say that they know what they do, that is, they mean a person like him." ”
Hu Yan looked very angry, in fact, I was angry when I looked at the book just now because I hated Chu Liuxiang for seeing one and loving one. She didn't believe it, how could a man really love every woman around him? Although it is said that the sons and young masters of the big family will take a few concubines, but that is just for the prosperity of the people, and which one will really love all their women? At least she wouldn't believe it.