Chapter 357 Debriefing?
Of course Zhao Jiaerlang is a good husband now, but when he was not promising, didn't he always hang out with a bunch of bad friends?
Now that you have become successful, you can’t just forget your friends from back then, right?
So a lot of people came to the door in a roundabout way, hoping to establish a relationship with Feng Tubiao - if they got the woolen cloth from Feng Tubiao and made their mouths full of oil, wouldn't it be something they could do with their eyes closed?
Look at the Huang family now?
Look at the current six-bedroom Li family?
Not to mention the Guan family, which had given away the third wife of the Guan family to the **** in advance, two years ago the pillars at the entrance of the house had paint peeled off and they didn't have the money to clean them up.
What now?
A big red pillar with shiny water, almost blinded by the sun!
Zhao Erlang is a loyal person. He only said that he would mention it to his brother when he returned to Jincheng, but at the same time, he also said that there was no guarantee that his brother would agree.
"Erlang only needs to agree once, and it will be settled. Whether he agrees or not will make his own decisions."
The visitor didn't even meet Feng Tubao in person, but he had already affectionately called him brother.
After Feng Yong heard what Li Yi said, he realized that there were so many people willing to call him brother without him knowing.
I felt a little emotional at the moment, thinking that money is really a good thing. No wonder there will be a father Ma in the future.
At the same time, he asked Li Yi, "Wenxuan, do you think I should meet him?"
Li Yi has obviously been thinking about this matter for a long time, "I think it would be better for my brother to meet him. Those who Yiwen agrees to are all chosen."
"Either there is only an empty name in the family, and the family situation has actually declined, or simply the elders in the family have passed away, and I have to go out and work hard at a young age. After all, there is no need to worry about us being unable to suppress it. live."
"On this Nanxiang matter alone, we brothers already feel that we are beyond our capabilities. Before my brother returned to Jincheng, he took two to three hundred lives to sacrifice the furnace, and the manpower became increasingly insufficient. If we had the help of those people, This will supplement the labor force, which will be a lot more convenient. After all, even if their family is in decline, there are always some connections."
"It's not surprising that Wenxuan can consider this. I didn't expect that Yiwen himself could consider this in Jincheng." Feng Yong felt a little relieved. Since Li Yi said these words, it was natural that he had discussed it with Zhao Guang.
"In that case, let's find some time to meet up. But I'm afraid I won't be free these days, so let's stay some time."
“I understand, I will give them a message when I get back.”
I don’t have time to see others, naturally because I have to see the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty first.
After sending Zhao Guang off, the Prime Minister's Office quickly sent someone to send a message, asking Feng Yong to come into the office the next day to report on his duties.
The message was very formal, but the meeting was not formal at all.
The location is in the backyard wing of the Prime Minister's Mansion, not in the study room where the Prime Minister handles government affairs.
Zhuge Liang sat casually on top, with his daughter-in-law, Huang Yueying, next to him.
There was even a middle-aged man with a beard at the table next to him. When he saw Feng Yong arriving, he grinned at him.
This person’s surname is Pu, given name is Yuan, and his given name is... I don’t know.
“I’ve met the prime minister, I’ve met my wife, I’ve met this Mr. Pu.”
There is no other way, the etiquette cannot be discarded.
That's how troublesome it is for seniors. They have to bow to everyone they see.
Just as Zhuge Liang was about to speak, Huang Yueying said first with a smile on her face, "Why are you so formal in this house? Just be casual and sit down quickly."
The Han Prime Minister twitched the corners of his mouth, but did not close his slightly open mouth. He could only pick up the bowl and take a sip of water.
I thought that this time I was going to give a serious report on my work. Feng Yong had been preparing for it for a long time, but he didn't expect that it would be a simple matter.
And looking at this situation, Huang Yueying is indeed the woman standing behind the Han Prime Minister.
Feng Tuluo decisively abandoned Zhuge Yao and directly hugged Huang Yueying's thigh, "I will always obey my wife's orders."
"You have seen this Mr. Pu before. I won't hide it from you. I want to call you Senior Brother. So everyone here is my own, so you don't have to be restrained."
After hearing Huang Yueying's words, Feng Yong was surprised, thinking that Pu Yuan has such a big background?
“I called you here this time because I want to hear what you said about Nanxiang County. When others say it, it always feels like they are separated by a layer of fog and cannot see clearly.”
After Huang Yueying saw Feng Yong sitting down, she continued, "You don't know, there are all kinds of rumors in Nanxiang County these days. It is said that demons are rampant, that gods are coming, that it is unruly. Well behaved…”
Feng Yong glanced at Old Demon Zhuge and saw that although he didn't speak, he looked like he was listening.
I understand, it seems that this is what Zhuge Lao Yao asked out of shame, so Huang Yueying came forward to ask.
“What do you want to hear, madam?”
"Listen to everything. Why don't you first talk about the road paved with a single stone?"
“Madam, that’s not paved with stones, that’s called a cement road…”
…
Although it was for Zhuge Liang, Huang Yueying was also very interested and asked a lot of questions.
He even asked why he gave a dog as a gift every time a child was born. He also asked whether the servant's family could support so many dogs if there were several children.
I didn’t feel at all that there was any ambiguity in what she asked.
"Back to Madam, there are pastures in Nanxiang. A lot of dogs are needed to take care of the cattle and sheep. The workshop also occupies a large area. Just relying on the nursing team is not enough. It is much more convenient to use dogs, and dogs are more agile than humans at night. Awake."
Feng Yong's mouth was a little dry when he spoke, he licked his mouth, picked up the bowl and took a sip of water, and then continued, "If the servants' families can raise a good dog, they can exchange it for a year's rations." Woolen cloth."
"Even if it can't be raised, if it grows bigger, it can be exchanged for food. Some families have enough food to eat, and it is normal to use it as rations in winter."
The wind of raising dogs in the Han Dynasty was very strong and used in a lot of use, but the most important thing was to eat.
That's right, eating dog meat in the Han Dynasty was as common as eating pork in later generations.
But the reason why Feng Yong asked his subordinates to raise so many dogs was because he had a pasture and needed shepherd dogs.
The workshops also need guard dogs, and the mines in the mountains also need guard dogs. In fact, there are simply not enough qualified dogs raised in Nanxiang that can be used.
The difference between Nanxiang County and other places is that as long as you have a household registration, you don’t have to worry about going hungry.
Only by solving the problem of food and clothing can we consider other things.
People have to be full before they are willing to keep more dogs.
Moreover, if the servants’ families raise a good dog, the superiors will recycle it, and the price is not low.
If Mu Wuzhe takes a fancy to him, a good dog can be exchanged for a year's ration.
So this is actually considered an investment.
Muwuzhe was the Qiang leader who was semi-forced to join Feng Yong in the first place. Now he is the dog steward in the pasture.
Attention, this "dog steward" is a real dog steward, not a curse word.
There are many people among the Hu people who are good at looking at dogs and training them.
This should be a skill they have developed through long-term grazing.
I heard that Muwuzhe’s tribe avoided many disasters by relying on the dogs they raised.
So Feng Yong pulled him out as the former leader and directly appointed a dog to take charge.
The dogs that were favored by the barbarians and trained were extremely intelligent and could understand simple commands. They already had the prototype of later generations of police dogs.
“There are so many ways to raise a dog?”
Huang Yueying's eyes widened and she asked with great interest, "Can you really use dogs to herd cattle and sheep? Isn't that like humans?"
I don’t blame her for asking, because farming and nomadic life are two different concepts.
Furthermore, she is from the south and has never seen nomadic people, so naturally she doesn’t know that there are so many ways to herd.
Even in the north, this kind of craftsmanship is not on the stage in the eyes of the nobles, and it is only worthy of being laughed at.
As for the dogs of the Han people, in addition to guarding the house, they are also used to store food rations. Who would have thought that there are so many ways to raise dogs? And you don’t need so many doorways.
But this craftsmanship and this bit of knowledge are of great value in Feng Tubao's eyes.
“Not all dogs can be used to do this, only a few dogs are qualified. And they must be in good physical condition, carefully selected, and finally trained, so that they can have such abilities.”
“This matter should be true.”
Zhuge Liang listened for a long time and finally said, "In the past, dogs were raised in the Han army, but later on, there was not enough food to eat, so the dogs could no longer be raised."
Feng Yong was moved when he heard this.
(End of this chapter)