Chapter 24 Gifts,
"Wash with soy wine?" Guo Fu'er was stunned when she heard this, her beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly, and she looked at Monk Liu with some blame, "Monk, the second brother is young and ignorant. Why don't you know that if you can't cure a knife wound and arrow sore, you, Yu Xingwu, will you be alive if you can't cure it!"
"Ah..." Liu Monk was stunned. Isn't it the secret recipe for cleaning the wound with soju? - Chen Dexing told him personally.
"Mom, it's okay. The child's sores have scabbed and will not get inflamed again... well, they won't ulcer." Chen Dexing quickly explained. He would rather entrust his life to Shaojiu than to this beautiful mother who is as beautiful as a flower.
"Second brother, why didn't you take off your robe and let Wei Mom see the wound?" Guo Fu'er frowned tightly, and seemed a little dissatisfied with her son's behavior today... Although this child is not her biological child, she is very considerate. She listens to her most often, so why are she a little distant today?
Chen Dexing had no choice but to take off his robe and show a good man in front of the young woman and his mother. Guo Fu'er looked at the scars behind Chen Dexing, her eyes were red, and two tears beads immediately turned around in her eyes.
"It's really a pain for my second brother... I won't let this army go. I have a shop and a property at home, so I can't get rid of it. Why bother to go to the battlefield to find fame? If my second brother wants to be an official, I'll just be a martial arts master."
Guo Fu'er is also a miserable woman. She didn't have much time to marry Chen Dexing's uncle Chen Huaian. Her husband and father-in-law both died for the country. Although she brought her a title and left her a family business, she was not easy to live a young and widowed life. Fortunately, her husband's brother Chen Huaiqing adopted her second son Chen Dexing and inherited the incense of Chen Huaian. However, this son used to be her company in Yangzhou. He didn't come from Lin'an until more than a year ago and became a small official in Wurui's army. He lived a happy life. Unexpectedly, the Mongolian Tartars suddenly fought outside Yangzhou...
Chen Dexing always had a strange feeling. This mother seemed to be too enthusiastic about him... He hurriedly put on his clothes and said respectfully: "Mom, how can I give up the skills to take the Jinshi exam? Now this official body was exchanged for the first father and old man with his life. How can I give up it easily?"
In Chen Dexing's memory in this life, a ninth-rank military officer was not even considered a role in the official sea of the Song Dynasty. However, it was important for Chen Dexing's family! Because he was an official, his family was an official household and did not need to bear the service, nor did he have to worry about the local clerks' oppression and harm. The Song Dynasty implemented the "officials are not feudal, and officials are hereditary". Local public officials, such as Kongmu, the seizure department, the demolition of officials, the heads, the miscellaneous matters, and the progress of the country were mostly hereditary, and most of them had no salary or were meager, which was not enough to support the family.
Naturally, these public officials would not be Li Feng, and it has become a common practice to try their best to restrain the people. Among the officials and men of the Song Dynasty, there may be some honest officials who are self-disciplined, but everyone is a corrupt official. It can be said that they are all ruthless officials! However, no matter how ruthless the officials are, they are bullies who have no official status and will never provoke the official account. Even if the owner of this official account is just the most inconspicuous ninth-rank military officer in the officialdom, they are not those who are deeply rooted in the local area who are willing to provoke... A clerk who dares to challenge the authority of officials will become a public enemy of the officialdom!
Guo Fu'er shook her head and said, "Why do you need to resign? Just resign from your mission. Your official position is still there. In the future, you can study while managing the family. If you can become a civil servant, don't be afraid of your mother anymore."
After hearing this, Chen Dexing remembered that there were many idle officials in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty who had no sending to get their salary for free. And even if there was a sending, there was not much to do. Isn’t his cheap father just a martial arts doctor who could read the Four Books and Five Classics all day long?
However, Chen Dexing knew that he did not have such a good life, because if history had not changed, the Song Dynasty would collapse completely in more than ten years, Mongolian iron hooves would trample across the country, and Yangzhou City would not be spared! At that time, if he was still an idle military officer, he would be afraid that he would not even be able to save his family!
"The child still wants to find some opportunities in the ranks."
A hint of displeasure flashed in Guo Fu'er's eyes, and then sighed softly, saying, "Why are you thinking of getting fame immediately like your father? Don't you know that such fame and fortune won't be worth anything in the eyes of the Song Dynasty officials? Only fame and fortune read through books is truly the best!"
Although it was a chaotic time at this time, it was already deeply rooted in people's hearts! The good men of the Song Dynasty were all talented men like Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu, not brave men like Chen Dexing.
Chen Dexing sighed softly and smiled bitterly: "Mom, how did the child win the Jinshi?"
The Jinshi exam was the most noble in the Southern Song Dynasty, and all prime ministers were from Jinshi. But the corresponding one was that Jinshi was rare. The literary and Jinshi exam was won in three years, but only five or six hundred people were selected. The martial Jinshi was not given regular exams, with even fewer numbers. It also focused on strategy (not real martial arts learning, but military dialectics). The martial arts exam was actually good or bad! Although Chen Dexing was familiar with military books, he could not write such good articles with literary talent, so he failed to pass the martial Jinshi exam.
"If there is no Jinshi, the current ninth-rank official body will be enough." Guo Fu'er shook her head slightly and frowned, "What can I do if I am like Yue Wumu and Yu Qiaoyin?"
Yue Wumu was Yue Fei, who had been rehabilitated during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song Dynasty, while Yu Qiaoyin was Yu Jie, who was forced to death a few years ago. He is still suffering from rounds of liquidation. His official positions obtained during his lifetime have been removed one by one, and even his family and confidants are persecuted.
However, in Yangzhou, where Yu Jie once served, there were still many people who complained about him. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Yangzhou army, the reason why Yu Jie was so unlucky was because he started as a military rank rather than a Jinshi. Yu Jie was once a Tai student and joined the army because he broke the law and fled. Although he later transferred his literary resources, he was eventually regarded as a military general. It is usually not beneficial for a general of the Song Dynasty to climb too high!
"Mom is joking, how dare you compare with Yue Wumu?" Although her heart was extremely twisted, Chen Dexing respectfully called this young woman of 27 or 28. Because at this moment he had already remembered that this "mother" had a lot of wealth, and money and property were exactly what he needed urgently now!
That's right, Chen Dexing, who has accepted the cruel reality of his soul-piercing rebirth, is about to start his officialdom in the Southern Song Dynasty! With his experience of being a second mate on a large state-owned shipping company's ocean-going bulk carrier in his previous life, he naturally knows some official tricks... Oh, it should be the official tricks in the old society!
"But please don't worry, my mother, I won't take risks like this anymore." Chen Dexing said with a smile, "I plan to prepare a generous gift and go to see Uncle Liao tomorrow."
Liao Yingzhong and Chen Huaiqing have a strong relationship, and Chen Dexing can call him "Shiwang with a shameless face." In Chen Dexing's officialdom tricks, this relationship can help him escape from the danger of losing his life at all times!
"Is Liao Qunyu? He is willing to help?" Guo Fu'er frowned, "Although he has a close relationship with the high-ranking official (referring to Chen Huaiqing), he has never helped you after coming to Yangzhou."
It’s not that I didn’t help, but that I didn’t really try my best to help! The reason I didn’t try my best is because the benefits were not in place!
'I really don't know how the old pervert became an official?' Chen Dexing cursed his father in his heart - although he was unfilial, he was indeed reasonable! In the old society, it was necessary to give gifts, and the most feared thing about giving gifts was that there was no way to give gifts... There was no place to give gifts. The biggest tragedy in the officialdom! Chen Huaiqing is Liao Yingzhong's friend, which is a direct way to Jia Sidao! If the gifts were in place, Chen Huai was Jia Sidao's aide in the morning. With his old pervert's martial arts and military skills, he was afraid that there would be no chance to rise to the top? If he had reached the top, how could he end up hurting?
Chapter completed!