Like many families' concubines, Cai Changgeng's situation in the family was not very good. His mother was originally a maid and looked pretty good. After being pushed down by the sect leader, she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy, which was him.

Cai Changgeng ranked fifth, for Cai Wulang, but the mother and son were not very good in the family. Cai Changgeng, a illegitimate child, could not even compare to those favored slaves.

The legitimate mother, the legitimate brother, looked down on him, and the uncle also looked down on him. He called him around on weekdays, just like sending slaves, and even those favored slaves could call him at will.

Cai Changgeng was sensible since childhood and tried to please his father with his own performance. He worked hard in the clan school and hoped to get his father's praise. However, he had fewer opportunities to see his father than those slaves.

When he grew up, he realized that studying was useless. Even if the family members had the opportunity to enter the officialdom, it would not be the turn of a illegitimate son.

Not only that, as a concubine, the biological mother is not qualified to enjoy too much. Even if she gave birth to a male child for the Cai family, she would have to do things like a maid from time to time, and even wash her feet for the main wife. Cai Changgeng was not convinced, but he had to swallow his anger even if he didn't agree.

He is old and should talk about marriage, but the marriage has not settled down for a long time. It doesn't matter, because Cai Changgeng fell in love with Chunyan, the maid next to his mother. The two of them are in love and hope to stay together forever.

In order to please his mother, Cai Changgeng did not hesitate to be a cow or a horse, and whispered to serve his mother and her favored slaves around him. His mother also knew that he liked the maid Chunyan, but in the end he rewarded Chunyan to the eldest son's companion as his wife.

As the son of the leader of the Cai clan, he was not even as good as a slave. The heartbroken Cai Changgeng wanted to run away from home, but he couldn't bear to leave his mother. He couldn't live without his mother, so he could only endure it and endure the rolling eyes and ridicule of countless people.

At this time, where are the so-called relatives?

Cai Changgen finally waited for an opportunity. The opportunity was given by the King of Xiyang, but he needed to fight for his life. Cai Changgen did it and exchanged his life for a fort. When he learned the good news, he hugged and cried with his partner who shared life and death.

But when he really managed the fort and managed hundreds of hectares of fertile land, he became helpless: he had no money and food, had no enough helpers, could not resume production, and could not maintain the operation of a fort.

When Cai Changgeng and his partners set out from Shannan, they did not expect to get a fort, but they just wanted to get a job with their military merits. Now that such a large fort was handed over, Cai Changgeng and his partners were helpless.

The relatives and tribesmen who flocked in later could solve the problem of insufficient manpower, and some people contacted him, saying that they could borrow money to solve the urgent problem.

All of this looks beautiful, but Cai Changgeng has experienced all the warmth and coldness of the world since he was a child and has seen many dirty things, but he has not easily agreed to it.

Relatives? They just come to take advantage of the situation. If you want to say a few good things, they will divide the fertile land they exchanged for with their lives from him. They will be the kind that they can get for nothing. But the uncle and brother who suddenly became enthusiastic may not only want.

Cai Changgeng knew that if he asked his relatives to "help" like this, the fort he and his friends exchanged for their lives would sooner or later occupy it.

These so-called relatives will gradually embezzle land and control accounts. When the time is ripe, the fortress owner will probably "death from sudden illness". If there is a wife and children, the son will also "death". His wife will either die in a bad life or disappear for no reason.

The fort will be inherited by one of his nephews. Similar things have happened before. There are too many dirty things in the big family, so the so-called relatives are simply unreliable.

There are also those who come to borrow money. Once they are not careful, they will make a profit and continue to borrow money. In the end, they will owe a lot of debts and will never pay them back in their lifetime.

Even if there are hundreds of hectares of fertile land and a fort, they will sooner or later be used to pay off their debts.

Cai Changgeng and his partners understood this very clearly, but they were really helpless. They knew that the ones they had to eat were a soap of shit in front of them, because they had no choice.

At this moment, a new choice appeared, that is, Rixingchang Cabinet.

Feng Zhengzhu from Rixingchang Guesthouse talked with him that he would not pay the loan this year, but it would be fine if he would pay it back next year. The interest will remain unchanged and there will be no profit.

Feng Zhuozhu also introduced that many Huangzhou merchants came here, and the other party could sell seeds, farm tools and oxen at low prices. Of course, farm tools and oxen rents can also be rented. Not only that, they also included "recruitment".

Recruiting people to farm, recruiting people to do long-term labor, and even hiring bodyguards to serve as guards. Bodyguards - the bodyguards in Huangzhou are now very famous.

Rixingchang Cabinet House provides many opportunities for choice. Cai Changgeng and his partners thought that Rixingchang, which had always had a good credit, was trustworthy, so they signed a loan contract with Feng Zhengzhu to borrow money and turn over.

Not only that, through Feng Zhuozhu as an intermediary, he signed contracts with several Huangzhou merchants. The farm tools, oxen and seeds were soon in place. Tenants and Tianke also recruited many, and even the bodyguards who seemed to be very capable of fighting had already started to guard the house in the fort.

As for these so-called relatives who flocked in...

Cai Changgeng took a sip of tea and began to complain to his amiable relatives: "You uncles know that now my nephew is just the lord of the garrison. The affairs in the fort are not the nephew who has the final say."

"The civil and military officials in the fort are in charge of the accounts, and the nephew uses money and grain. The accounts must be clearly defined, otherwise it will be considered a violation of military discipline, not to mention that if the matter is not done well, it will be considered a delay in military aircraft. Not to mention the head of the garrison, the position of the garrison leader will probably be lost."

"Since it is a garrison, it is naturally under the jurisdiction of the official army. There are beacon towers and post stations next to the fort, and there are letters or soldiers passing by every day. In order to prevent the enemy from doing detailed work, the fortress must be checked by military officials. If it is not the nephew who wants to use, he will use whoever he wants."

"As for why my nephew borrowed from Rixingchang, haha, you all know that the king is the backer of Rixingchang. If my nephew lacks money and does not borrow from Rixingchang, he will not be a human being. If Master Feng is allowed to file a complaint in the ear of the king... the boss, how long can the nephew sit in the position of the garrison master?"

"The government army said that my nephew is now the garrison master and the lorry of the fortress in the future, but there is a prerequisite, that is, pass the assessment every year. What is the assessment? Pay rent and service, and meet the standards. It is the position of the fortress master in this lorry and the nephew."

"So, even if the relatives of the tribe come to farm and settle down, the rent and labor service they should pay must not be less. Even if the nephew is soft-hearted, the civil and military officials will not be soft-hearted. If the assessment fails to meet the standards, the garrison will be replaced and the nephew will be powerless."

What Cai Changgeng said is reasonable and powerful. He wanted to use "family affection" to influence his nephews' uncles and uncles. They were full of thoughts and planned to take advantage or gain a better position, but now they have encountered a soft nail.

Seeing a group of malicious wolves being pushed back by me in a few words, Cai Changgeng felt very happy. King Xiyang appointed him as the lord of the garrison instead of directly appointed him as the lord of the fort. It was a wonderful move.

The garrison leader is the military position of the official army, and it is the official army that decides who will be the garrison leader. Therefore, even if Cai Changgeng died suddenly one day, it would not be the other children of the Cai clan who inherited the garrison. He needed to pass the assessment for three consecutive years to become the garrison owner. This time was enough for Cai Changgeng.

As long as he gains a foothold, those so-called relatives will not want to take away this family business.

The forts, land and brothers who have lived and died together are qualified to get a share of the pie. He wants to leave this family business to his son. If he doesn't have a son, then he will give it to his brothers who have lived and died, and it will never be cheaper to these so-called "relatives"!

Cai Changgeng's words made several uncles silent, and the scene was a little awkward. Cai Changgeng's second brother Cai Changyou asked tentatively: "Wulang, then... what else can the family help?"

This is begging Cai Changgeng to give some opportunities. If it were the past, Cai Changyou, who was the legitimate son, would not be so humble, but now it is different. He cannot be hard in front of Cai Changgeng.

Even if my father comes, he has to talk with kindness. Today's Cai Changgeng is no longer the Cai Changgeng of the past.
Chapter completed!