Daming: From the end of Hongwu

It can be said that a big progress has been completed from a hundred households to a deputy thousand households and directly to a full-time thousand households.

Because Xue Lu traveled to Liaodong more than Zhang Wu, he was promoted to the position of Hundred Households just like Zhang Wu.

After the reward was over, Zhen Wu didn't have the heart to stay here anymore. Fortunately, he is now a thousand householder, and there is no need to do many things by himself, so he invited Zhang Wu and others to give a few simple instructions.

Let them convey their holidays, return time to camp, and deal with the issue of pensions for soldiers who died in battle.

Then, Zhen Wu planned to return directly to Beiping City.

But as soon as he got on the horse, Zhen Wu saw Cao Xiaoman also got on the horse, he cast a glance at Cao Xiaoman, and said angrily: "It's your first time to go out, your mother and sister don't know how to worry about you, if you don't go back, Still planning to follow me back to Beiping City?"

Cao Xiao blushed: "But...but..."

"But what, if I'm not afraid on the battlefield, how can there be any danger in the boundaries of Beiping City?" Zhen Wu said.

Cao Xiaoman's face was a bit tangled.

Zhen Wu smiled and said: "Okay, you can go back. The soldiers who go out have holidays, so I can let you follow me all the time? However, there is one thing you have to think about in advance. Since you are the captain of the personal army, you have to be a member of the team. Pick some first, and report to me after the selection is complete, and when the personnel are replenished, you can also take turns to sleep."

After Zhen Wu was promoted to a thousand households, he could lead a team of ten personal soldiers, and Cao Xiaoman naturally became the team leader and took the position of a small banner.

Cao Xiaoman never thought about this before.

He had only been a soldier for a long time, and it had only been a year since he had been fighting and calculating. Suddenly he became a small flag, like a pie falling from the sky, which surprised him with panic.

"Qianhu, I... I... I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of it. Why don't you let someone else take care of it? I'll be by your side." Cao Xiaoman said without confidence.

In the final analysis, he is still young and has little experience.

Zhen Wu saw Cao Xiaoman's worries, but he didn't intend to comfort him, he rolled his eyes and said, "It's not that you are asked to control how many people you don't care about, if there is anything you don't understand, go ask Brother Zhang Wu, or Brother Xue Lu, let them teach you, just say what I said."

After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu didn't want to stay any longer, flicked his whip, and galloped towards Beiping City.

Cao Xiaoman looked at the back of Zhen Wu's leaving, and suddenly a feeling of emotion rose in his heart. He knew that this was Zhen Wu's support for him. Looking at it, he thought of his father who died in battle. Biting his lip, he gradually became firm.

At this time, Xue Lu suddenly shouted at him: "Xiao Man, are you going back? Do you want to go all the way?"

"Brother Xue, are you done?"

"It's almost there." Xue Lu said as he came to Cao Xiaoman's side and asked doubtfully, "I see you are in a daze, what are you thinking?"

Cao Xiaoman scratched his head honestly, and said embarrassedly: "I'm afraid I can't handle the matter of the personal squad."

Xue Lu has been the General Banner for a year, and he has long given up on managing ten people, so he is just like Zhen Wu, and he said in a bad mood: "What's wrong with this, you follow Boss Zhen every day, just follow the boss. Didn’t learn anything? Think about how Boss Zhen manages us, you just learn how to manage us.”

"Is that all right?" Cao Xiaoman still asked without confidence.

Xue Lu whispered next to Cao Xiaoman: "To tell you the truth, most of our [-] households followed Mr. Zhen to study, including me and Zhang Wu. You can learn how Mr. Zhen managed in the past. wrong."

Cao Xiaoman nodded, and began to recall Zhen Wu's words and deeds in the past, but he didn't pay attention at all in the past, he didn't take it into his heart, and while discouraged, he secretly made up his mind to observe Zhen Wu's words and deeds more in the future.

However, in this way, it made him feel a lot more at ease.

And this is often the most effective way to climb the bottom and improve their skills. They have no chance to learn systematically and can only imitate in the way of others. This is also the reason why management styles are often inherited in the same strain.

……

On the other side, Zhen Wu walked all the way into Beiping City, and before reaching Qingshui Hutong, he saw Zhang Yuqing and a group of people gathered together from a distance, looking out of the city.

At this moment, Zhang Yuqing obviously also saw Zhen Wu, and waved excitedly.

Before the horse came to a complete stop, Zhen Wu got off the horse vigorously, ran a few steps quickly, and came in front of Zhang Yuqing.

He looked at Zhang Yuqing's white hair faintly appearing on his sideburns, his eye circles were a little red, and Zhang Yuqing's life was passing by year by year.

Zhang Yuqing looked around Zhen Wu excitedly: "How is my son? How is my son?"

Zhen Wu smiled and nodded.

"Well, Quanxu Quanying has returned, and has been promoted again, and is now a five-rank thousand household."

After Zhang Yuqing sized up Zhen Wu, seeing that Zhen Wu was fine, he just relaxed, and then he was taken aback when he heard Zhen Wu's words.

The next moment, the smile in her eyes became stronger, and she said with the pride of being a mother: "I knew that my eldest son is the best, and it's true."

The people next to him heard it and looked at Zhang Yuqing enviously.

But now Zhang Yuqing's eyes were full of Zhen Wu, and while talking to Zhen Wu, he pulled Zhen Wu and walked towards the house.

"Let's go, let's go home. I have already asked the second sage to prepare the meals, and I have asked the third brother to order wine for you. It is from the one you like to drink, and our family has changed. You specify I also like..."

Zhen Wu greeted the neighbors with a smile, and couldn't care less, while listening to Zhang Yuqing's chatter, he led the horse and followed Zhang Yuqing to the house.

As soon as they entered the alley, the third child who had been waiting outside the gate rushed over in a swarm, surrounded Zhen Wu, with joy shining in their eyes.

Zhen Wu talked to them one by one, and Le's younger brothers and sisters were all very happy.

The third child took the rope from Zhen Wu, smiling like a fool.

Xiao Liu insisted on being hugged by Zhen Wu, but Zhen Wu didn't bother to hug him, so he pushed Xiao Liu aside, Xiao Liu was not angry, and turned his head to the horse's side, wondering what good things were in the horse's luggage.

Seeing Xiao Liu's movements, Xiao Qi left Zhen Wu behind and ran over.

Seeing this, the third child quickly stopped him: "You two go together, don't let the horse's hoof kick you."

"I'll blame you for not leading the horse properly if you kick it." Xiao Liu stuck out his tongue at the third child.

The third child stared: "I think you two deserve a beating again."

But Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi are used to it, and they are not afraid at all, especially in front of Zhen Wu and Zhang Yuqing, knowing that the third child has no criminal rights.

……

Zhen Wu smiled and let them fight, but he also touched the horse's face to appease the old man. This horse has been with Zhen Wu for a while, so it should be more or less sympathetic, so as not to hurt others.

The fourth and fifth younger sisters stood dignifiedly beside Zhang Yuqing, while listening to Zhang Yuqing's words, from time to time, they also added what happened at home recently and told Zhen Wu.

And there was a bit of generosity and reason in the speech, which made Zhen Wu have to lament that the upbringing of the palace is really good.

Under the upbringing of Xu Miaoyun in the palace and the mutual influence of some female companions around them, the two of them are not a little bit stronger than before.

Only then did Zhen Wu realize that Er Xian was not there, and asked curiously, "Where are Er Xian?"

The fourth sister replied: "My second sister and Xia Ju are boiling water, and they said that the eldest brother must use water to wash away the dust."

"Why don't you help your second sister, you know how to bully your second sister."

"We did. We wanted to help, but the second sister refused. It was the second sister who insisted that we come out to pick up the eldest brother." The fourth sister said aggrievedly.

Zhen Wu smiled, knowing that the fourth younger sister and fifth younger sister had improved a lot, so he slapped the fourth younger sister on the head: "Why? Can't the eldest brother wrong you?"

The fourth sister broke through in an instant, grinning and giggling, but when she smiled, she suddenly realized that something was wrong, so she suddenly withdrew her smirk, and changed into the dignified look before.

Zhen Wu looked at it and couldn't help but shook his head amusedly.

star fall in january

Chapter 147 - The Best Brother in the World

Soon.

Zhen Wu and the others arrived at the door of the house.

He looked at the house in front of him, feeling a little suspicious in his heart, but luckily he had experienced a lot, and he didn't show anything on his face, and then followed Zhang Yuqing into the house.

The landscape of the home has changed.

The previous appearance of things crossing courtyards has long since disappeared.

Beside the gate, there is a row of tile-roofed houses, followed by a small front yard with two big dogs, then another row of tile-roofed houses, and several corridors leading to different directions.

At this point, Zhen Wu was already in a daze.

Is this the house he bought back then? !

This already looks like a mansion of an official family.

The third child will show off and say: "Brother, how are you doing?"

"You asked someone to fix this?" Zhen Wu finally showed a hint of surprise on his face. He really didn't expect that in the past, he would surprise his family, but now his family unexpectedly gave him a surprise.

This house feels like it can be handed down for several generations.

Of course, the premise is that he is not knighted.

Zhen Wu didn't wait for the third child to answer, and asked again: "Do you have that much money at home? I see that there are quite a lot of places to start construction."

The third child replied: "It wasn't enough at first, but later the palace sent some money, saying that His Royal Highness Yan Wang had promised to reward you. My mother thought that this house might not last for several generations, so she gritted her teeth and made a big move once and for all." Once."

The palace sent money again?

Zhen Wu was taken aback for a moment, but then he thought that Zhu Di should have given him a reward to save him from worrying about the future, so he didn't worry about it, and just went to thank him another day.

But how many generations have lived, this is really uncertain, at least their family will definitely move to Nanjing for a period of time in the future.

Seeing that Zhen Wu didn't say anything wrong, the third child happily introduced him to Zhen Wu.

Which one is the guest room, which one is where the family members live, which one is where Zhen Wu lives, which one is where the servants live, and there is even a martial arts training hall.

The more I look at Zhen Wu, the more satisfied I am.

After all, if you can live well, no one wants to live poorly.

At this time, the hot water had already boiled, Zhang Yuqing took out a new set of clothes, and started a new round of chatter, talking about what kind of material it was, how she chose it, and how she sewed it. As he said that, Zhang Yuqing thought about the cakes he bought a few days ago, and ran over again, insisting on letting Zhen Wu taste the cakes.

What Zhen Wu said was moved, but he couldn't laugh or cry.

His mother, since he came back, wished to put all the things she thought good in front of Zhen Wu and give them all to Zhen Wu.

"Mom, let me go wash up first, can we talk later?"

Zhang Yuqing patted his head: "Look, I just said it in a hurry, you wash it first, and when you're done, wear this dress and let your mother take a good look at it."

Zhen Wu nodded.

Only then did Zhang Yuqing leave.

Then, after the third child helped Zhen Wu bring the hot water over, just as he was about to go out, Zhen Wu stopped the third child, and the third child looked at Zhen Wu suspiciously.

Zhen Wu opened his mouth and said: "You help me wipe my lower back, I have injuries on my body, and I can't soak in water."

The third child was surprised, and just as he was about to shout, Zhen Wu hissed: "Keep your voice down, don't let our mother and the others know."

While speaking, Zhen Wu closed the door.

When Zhen Wu took off his clothes, the third child saw Zhen Wu's injury, his eyes were a little red, but he didn't say anything provocative, and helped Zhen Wu wipe it carefully.

The wound has actually scabbed over, but there are two scars on the arms and one on the chest, which looks a little scary.

Therefore, when Zhen Wu was getting dressed, the third child carefully planned to serve Zhen Wu to get dressed.

Zhen Wu kicked the third child angrily: "Don't say the injury is about to heal, even if it doesn't heal, it's just a little injury, and you need someone to take care of it, then your brother is too worthless."

The third child opened his mouth and didn't speak. He was injured before, last time he was injured a little bit, the whole family greeted him with care, and Shi Nuan even stayed by the bedside to wait on him for a while, which he felt was right at the time.

But at this moment, he knew what Zhen Wu was facing.

"Seeing my injury, do you still want to join the regular army?" Zhen Wu asked suddenly.

The third child didn't hesitate, nodded and said: "I still want to, I'm not afraid, because I want to be like the big brother."

Zhen Wu nodded and said: "Okay, when I turn around, I will find a way to arrange you into the patrol battalion. You first get through your qualifications and get used to it, and then I will transfer you to my side."

The third child nodded, but this time he was not as excited and happy as last time, but looked a little determined.

Zhen Wu looked at it, and nodded in satisfaction. The army is never a place to show off its prestige. Only a soldier who knows the meaning of the existence of the army and knows that he will face life and death can be regarded as a soldier.

……

At dinner that night, the third child had two drinks with Zhen Wuxiao.

While chatting with Zhang Yuqing and the others, Zhen Wu lamented that this is life, and gradually his whole body and mind relaxed, but while drinking, Zhen Wu thought of something.

A few days ago, he specifically inquired that alcohol was not forbidden in the Ming Dynasty, and anyone could make wine, so the wine shop industry is developing very well now, which made Zhen Wu a little happy, thinking about finding time to brew some high-quality wine.

Firstly, trauma is unavoidable on the battlefield, and high alcohol can not only sterilize bacteria, but also cool down if you encounter a high fever.

Secondly, Zhen Wu is a bit greedy for jujube wine.

He had made jujube wine in his previous life, and the taste was unmistakable. Now the jujube will be ripe in a month or two, so he can prepare it in advance.

And if he remembers correctly, there was high-grade shochu in the Ming Dynasty. In various Ming dynasties, the wine culture is all over the text, just like the ones that have already come out. Zhen Wu doesn't know exactly how many degrees it has reached, but with careful research and better equipment, it is possible to produce a satisfactory degree.

Just as he was thinking, Erxian suddenly asked Zhen Wu to go out for a while.

Zhen Wu followed the two sages to the outside, and the two sages took out a blessing of peace, handed it to Zhen Wu and said, "A few days ago, I went to the temple to ask for two blessings of peace."