Chapter 3 Fame is Profit
When Ju Zizhou woke up, he saw Ying Zheng resting on his head and his arms, lying on the silk book, sleeping soundly.
He glanced at the silk book and said that what Ying Zheng looked at was the part of the second silk book that talked about the economic situation of the lower class raiders.
I saw this...
Ju Zizhou frowned and stretched out his hand to pat Ying Zheng on the cheek.
Ying Zheng did not react at all and continued to sleep soundly.
Ju Zizhou pursed his lips. If he saw this, Ying Zheng would not be able to sleep!
This is different from what he expected - in his expectation, Ying Zheng should be shocked after seeing the content of "The Investigation of Handan" he wrote, and he could see the daily lives of ordinary people in Zhao State from it, and saw the means used by the nobles to suppress the common people.
With his temperament, he should be so excited that he can't sleep!
But why do you sleep so hard?
Ju Zizhou was worried.
“Meow~”
Ju Zizhou was startled when he suddenly heard the sound.
Looking at the source of the sound, a fat white cat jumped into the house lightly from the window, with a graceful figure and charming movement.
"Meow~" Maozai glanced at Ju Zizhou, then jumped to Ying Zheng, leaned against Ying Zheng's arm, and formed a bun on the silk book, ignoring Ju Zizhou at all.
It was a cat raised by Ying Zheng's mother Zhao Ji, and Ju Zizhou curled his lips.
Ying Zheng and his son lived in Handan. Although they could be said to be in the enemy country, their living standards were not low.
Zhao even hired four teachers for Ying Zheng to teach him rituals, chariots, archery and Shang Jun's book.
As a noble daughter, Zhao Ji does not have to take care of her children personally like ordinary village women, so she has plenty of leisure. In her spare time, single women raise some pets or go to banquets with the princes and nobles.
This cat, called "Shikari", is one of Zhao Ji's favorites.
"Go ahead." Ju Zizhou reached out and swept the fat cat off his silk book: "Don't make trouble!"
"Meow!" The fat cat was swept off the silk book by Ju Zizhou, turned over and fell to the ground smoothly, glared at Ju Zizhou, and shouted.
Ju Zizhou rolled up the silk book and pinched Ying Zheng to wake him up: "Qin Zheng, wake up quickly."
"It hurts so much!" Ying Zheng was pinched to wake up in a daze, and was angry in the pain: "What are you doing?"
Of course, Ju Zizhou also knew that Ying Zheng would get up, so he pointed to the fat cat on the ground: "It has nothing to do with me. I saw that it was the raccoon who was biting the back of your neck."
Ying Zheng touched the back of his neck with his back hand. Although it shouldn't be bleeding, it hurts quite a bit.
He then kicked the fat cat who was glaring at Ju Zizhou: "Get out, how dare you bite me!"
The cat was kicked and was not injured, but just meowed with grievance.
Seeing this, Ying Zheng acted and stepped forward. The cat immediately jumped into the window and escaped.
"Does it still hurt? Let me see if it is bleeding." Ju Zizhou said.
"Probably not... This raccoon slave really deserves a beating..." Ying Zheng touched the back of his neck and turned around: "How is it, are there any wounds?"
"There is no wound. Maybe the cat wants to get close to you. Seeing that you ignore her, he made a joke with you." Ju Zizhou smiled, pointed to the silk book spread on the table, and asked, "How are you looking? Are there anything you don't understand?"
"Yes." Ying Zheng nodded, as if he had agreed to the statement that Li Nu was joking with him: "I don't understand many places."
"Oh?" Ju Zizhou raised his eyebrows: "You will tell me what you don't understand, and I'll help you solve your doubts."
"Well... I can't find the interests and violence you mentioned." Ying Zheng carefully said, feeling a little embarrassed: "I don't quite understand why you wrote about so many lives of rangers and civilians... What do those people eat and how to make money have nothing to do with us, right?"
Ju Zizhou was stunned.
This is completely unrecognizable!
In addition to being shocked, he felt relieved: "So that's it. You didn't understand my intention to write these..."
Yes, yes.
Ju Zizhou suddenly felt relieved.
It was not that Ying Zheng’s reaction was separated from his expectations, but that he set his expectations high!
The reaction he asked for was certainly based on Ying Zheng's personality, but Ying Zheng was still a sensible nine-year-old child at this time.
It is normal for him to not understand "Handan Investigation".
Just like when I was fifteen years old in my previous life, I couldn’t understand Xunwu…
I...too anxious!
Ju Zizhou reflected and said with a smile: "It's my fault. I forgot to write you a supplementary explanation - let's have a meal first. After the meal, let's see if the guards were able to capture one or two rangers alive last night."
"Ranker?" Ying Zheng was puzzled: "Why do you want to find a Ranger?"
"Because they are used to explain the "Handan Investigation" in detail for you."
"Is this how?" Ying Zheng thought.
After breakfast, Ju Zizhou and Ying Zheng went to the escort office to ask. They indeed caught several attacking rangers last night.
Ju Zizhou was overjoyed and hurriedly pulled Ying Zheng to the place where the guards were imprisoned.
In the dilapidated wooden house, four rangers in worn clothes gathered their limbs and lying on the ground with their hands and feet tied, like piglets waiting to be slaughtered.
"Gentleman... These four people are all here to assassinate, so it's better not to get close to them." The guard who led the way said, "It's not good if you hurt gentleman."
"Not hindrance, we just asked a few questions. If you are worried, you can hold the sword aside." Ying Zheng waved his hand and looked at Ju Zizhou.
Ju Zizhou smiled, unfolded the silk book, and handed it to Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng took a look and found the part he saw last night, a description of the living and economic conditions of these goons.
"Four heroes, I want to ask four of you some things. I hope you can answer me honestly." Ju Zizhou squatted down in front of the four rangers with a smile.
After taking a casual look, Ju Zizhou saw three of the four people barefoot, only one of them was wearing shoes, and the worst straw sandals.
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He thought for a while and asked, "What do the four people rely on to make a living on their daily life? How is their income?"
The four rangers were all a little confused.
They thought Ju Zizhou would ask why he was assassinating and who was the mastermind behind the scenes.
But unexpectedly, the boy didn't know how to ask about their financial situation.
The rangers were speechless for a moment.
"I see that among the four heroes, three of them were barefoot and their clothes were quite worn, so they probably didn't have much money, right?"
"It's true! Naiweng is indeed extremely poor!" said a ranger with a somewhat strong physique: "How about you want to take Naiweng?"
"Not really!" Ju Zizhou smiled: "The four of you don't have serious income, but as rangers, you must have a sword, right?"
"How can a knight without a sword?" Another golfer spoke proudly: "Even if we die..."
"If you have a sword, you need to be maintained. Rangers need to eat wine and meat when they socialize. Four, is that true?" Ju Zizhou asked.
"Of course! Our hero..." said the only Ranger who had shoes.
Ying Zheng listened to the Q&A between Ju Zizhou and the Rangers, holding the silk book in his hand, thinking.
"Ying Zheng, did you hear it?" Ju Zizhou stood up and asked, "These are the "lower rangers" I mentioned in the book. Most of them do not have a fixed job or engage in agricultural production, so they do not have a fixed income. They often have a difficult life and cannot afford to wear many shoes."
"But they still need to maintain a high consumption quality to meet..." Ju Zizhou asked: "What will they do if they don't have money, but they need to spend money?"
"Give me a idler, steal, rob, fight to kill." Ying Zheng replied looking at the silk book.
"The most direct and fundamental way to meet their personal economic needs is to be a guest of wealthy and powerful nobles, but this requires a certain threshold - that is, it requires fame!"
"When you have fame, you are no longer the ordinary "lower ranger", but become... "higher ranger"?" Ying Zheng looked at the silk book: "So they need fame!"
"This is why they came to assassinate you!" Ju Zizhou smiled and said, "If you kill you, they will become famous, and there will be a large number of Zhao nobles willing to support them!"
Chapter completed!