I, Zhu Youjian: the first prodigal son of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 206

Sun Yuanhua, a well-known artillery expert in the Ming Dynasty, a scholar of Western language translation, and a member of the Ministry of War, actually became the village chief in Dong Zhiyuan of Qingyang Prefecture?

Sun Chuanting instantly petrified.

Before the establishment of the Daming Academy, Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and others presided over the design and casting of almost all new artillery and muskets in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, no matter whether it was the emperor or the ministers of civil and military affairs, whoever met them was a "national treasure" talent, which one was not polite, virtuous, corporal, and affectionate?
Even Huang Taiji, the Great Khan who built slaves back then, once said that if Sun Yuanhua could go to Liaodong, he promised a prince and would marry his own daughter to him...

Clinker, is such a big man willing to be a traitor here?
"Master Sun, what is your position here?"

Sun Chuanting asked with some stammer.

"Village chief, by the way, I also have a position in the army. I am an ordnance officer in our rebel army. I am responsible for testing the performance of new firearms. It is not an important position. The key is to feel comfortable."

Sun Yuanhua said with a smile: "Mr. Sun is the one who leads the soldiers to fight, and he is a talent of our Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Mr. Mao Da told him not to follow the rule of first farming and then becoming an official, and he was directly promoted to the village head. "

Sun Chuanting sighed and said, "It's just a scholar who has trained as a recruit for half a year, what kind of talent is he!
Master Sun...the village head is too modest. "

He finally realized that what Mao Yuanyi said about helping the idiot emperor to hide a secret army, and when necessary, to clear the emperor's side, kill corrupt officials, and step on the wealthy family, was true.

It's not that Mao Shatou is just talking about it.

What made Sun Chuanting ashamed was that he regarded himself as a character, and when he confronted Mao Yuanyi, he was inevitably a little hypocritical, and he was a little bit exaggerated for a while.

As a result, after meeting the village chief Sun Yuanhua, he realized that he was nothing at all.

At best, it's just a small county magistrate who leads troops for half a year...

"But, I'm new here, I don't know how to be the village head..."

Sun Chuanting smiled wryly and said: "Mao Yuanyi was in a fog, and tied me here without saying a word clearly. To be honest, I really don't know anything about how to cultivate crops."

"It doesn't matter," Sun Yuanhua said with a hearty smile, "There are still people above us.

People from Qin Tianjian and Daming Academy will deduce the general farming season guidance, and will pass down various instructions at any time, and you are responsible for implementing them.

As for the specific farming and planting, the old farmers in the village are much more skilled than us, so you need to listen more and talk less.

By the way, there is another difficulty in being a village head, that is, you have to speak hard, be reasonable, have a level bowl of water, and have a high level of theory.

At the same time, you must have good fist and kick skills.

Otherwise, you will be beaten into a pig's head. "

Sun Chuanting: "..."

This period of experience left him, a scholar, completely speechless.

What kind of strange place is this land of the three prefectures of Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu? Why does it sound so unreliable...

……

After a day and a night, the village chief Sun Yuanhua left.

Qingshui Village has a new village head.

Sun Chuanting.

The two village chiefs were both surnamed Sun, and the villagers teased, why don't we change the name of Qingshui Village to simply call it Sunzi Village.

Sun Chuanting endured it.

The common people in this place are not easy to mess with. The men have poor hands-on ability, but they are very talkative.

Mothers-in-law and aunts have relatively strong hands-on ability.

Sun Chuanting has learned this point deeply.

Therefore, the first thing he did after he took office was to carry half a bag of "souvenir products" and go door-to-door to "visit".

This is what Sun Yuanhua, the former village chief, taught him.

I heard that this kind of tradition has quite a strong background, and it was a trick Mao Yuanyi learned from the idiot emperor, saying that "governing the country is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships".

Anyway, it's quite mysterious.

"Oh, it's really embarrassing to tie you up as a spy that day, the village chief. Don't be offended."

"Village chief, is there a mother-in-law at home? If not, tell my sister-in-law, and I will find one for you."

"Yes, yes, I heard that there is a widow Qin in the neighboring village who killed three men. Why don't the village chief think about it? I think you are ugly and stupid, you should be a hard-fated person..."

……

After finally getting away, when he returned to the small courtyard, Sun Chuanting's face was almost stiff because he kept smiling for a long time.

He squatted by the well to wash his face.

Looking at the old face reflected in the water, he sulked for a while.

Obviously very handsome!

What's so good about Mr. Mao Shavedhead? Why are people in the village talking about Mr. Mao Da? Look at you guys, it's just...

"Mr. Sun is back?"

While feeling sorry for themselves, Gu Tinglin and Huang Lizhou came back pushing the rooster cart.

"Mr. Sun became the village head as soon as he came here. It's really enviable," Huang Lizhou sighed while washing his face. I feel like looking around, there is no one there.

I never thought that when I arrived at Dong Zhiyuan, the characters who appeared out of nowhere became more and more admirable! "

Gu Tinglin was also filled with emotion.

The two of them are well-known among the scholars in Jiangdong, and they thought that they would find Mao Yuanyi, so that they could become a "dog-headed military advisor".

At worst, it should be a character like a crouching dragon and a young phoenix.

As a result, he couldn't even be a village chief.

"Hiding in the study all day, what can I do?"

"Traveling thousands of miles, breaking through thousands of books, the ancients will never deceive me!"

Listening to the two flirtatious talents complaining about themselves, Sun Chuanting's mood gradually improved.

He was a little strange, with his age and experience, how could he start to care about these useful and useless things like a young man?
"I am a village head who is inexplicable. I still have a lot of things to ask the two of you for advice!"

Sun Chuanting bowed as a salute.

Huang Lizhou and Gu Tinglin hurriedly returned the salute, "I dare not do it."

The three of them started cooking.

The two young men rolled and sliced ​​the noodles with ease and knives. In less than a cup of tea, a large pot of shredded chicken fried noodles came out of the pot.

At this point, Sun Chuanting lamented once again that he, the former "Commander of Yulin Township", is simply a waste.

"By the way, village chief, have you been to Mrs. Hong's place?"

While eating, Gu Tinglin suddenly asked.

"Madam Hong?" Sun Chuanting was taken aback, "Which family?"

"It's Hong Chengchou's old lady's house," Huang Lizhou said with a smile, "it's the tallest house on the hillside behind the village.

It is said that she is the old lady of Hong Chengchou, governor of the three sides of Shaanxi;

At the beginning, because he couldn't understand his son's bastard appearance, after preaching earnestly, he didn't see any repentance, and in a rage, he simply moved to Dong Zhiyuan. "

"The old lady is such a good person, she made that bastard son very angry!"

Gu Tinglin added.

Sun Chuanting was speechless again.

This matter was rumored to be a bit mysterious outside. Most of the officials in the Ming Dynasty thought it was a conversation at the dinner table. Sun Chuanting always thought it was a sarcastic sarcasm on Hong Chengchou in the official circles.

Moreover, Hong Chengchou's old lady lives in Qingshui Village?

"After lunch, I will visit her old man's house."

Sun Chuanting said seriously: "Such an old mother who understands righteousness, we must not let her suffer and suffer."

As he talked, he thought of his old mother.

In Sun Chuanting's tiger's eyes, two clear teardrops appeared: "Hong Chengchou, as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, why is he so helpless? Didn't he ever think about taking the old lady back to Xi'an Mansion?"

Gu Tinglin and Huang Lizhou laughed loudly.

Sun Chuanting didn't know what was going on, so he had to ask honestly: "Why are you two laughing?"

"It's not that Hong Chengchou doesn't want to take it back, but that he doesn't have the ability to take it back at all," Gu Tinglin laughed loudly, "Three or four times before and after, the cowhide was blowing loudly, and [-] to [-] troops marched forward;
Then, Mao Zhisheng beat him so badly that his shit almost came out.

Several times before and after, the loss of troops exceeded 5. "

Sun Chuanting remained silent.

He is the commander of Yulin Township. From the perspective of military command authority, he is also under the control of the three governors of Shaanxi, and the command is unified.

At the beginning, Hong Chengchou also ordered several times to launch bandit suppression operations against Yan'an Mansion and Qingyang Mansion from the rear of the flank.

As a result, he only tried to attack once, and he was beaten to the ground. He simply stopped thinking about suppressing the bandits, and focused on training recruits...

Unexpectedly, without anyone noticing, his immediate boss was beaten all over the place?
The feeling is that the one who beat Sun Chuanting so hard that he couldn't find Bei was that fellow Mao Shaved...

……

After lunch, Sun Chuanting walked up the hill behind the village with mixed feelings.

In a trance, he even felt a little absurd.

More than ten days ago, he was still the commander of the Yulin Township. He was honored as 'Sun Dashuai' and 'Sun Zongbing', no matter how bad he was, he was also a 'Master Sun'.

Things are unpredictable.

After Mao Shatou was tied up abruptly, he transformed into the "Village Chief Sun" in the den of rebels!
This feeling of being kept in the dark made him very uncomfortable.

'The next time I see Shaved Mao... Forget it, that guy has good fists and kicks, and we don't seem to be able to beat him. '

On the hillside, there is a platform dug out by hand. There are three mud-skin thatched huts, surrounded by some wooden piles, which is a small courtyard.

Beside the chai gate in the courtyard, there is an elm tree as thick as a bowl, with luxuriant branches and leaves, covering a small area of ​​shade.

An old woman is drying beans in the garden.

A servant girl was sitting in the shade of a tree doing needlework, she looked very serious about each stitch.

"Excuse me, is this the old Mrs. Hong's house?"

At Chaimen Gate, Sun Chuanting cupped his hands and said softly, "I am Sun Chuanting, the new head of Qingshui Village, and I am here to visit Mrs. Hong."

The maid hurriedly stood up and shouted to the old woman: "Madam, there is a visitor."

The old woman responded, turned her head and smiled, "Should I buy dried tofu or tofu?"

"If you want to buy dried tofu, it's in stock, but there's no more tofu, so you can only wait until tomorrow morning."

Sun Chuanting bowed and said: "I'm not here to buy dried tofu, Xiaosheng Sun Chuanting, I heard that the old lady lives in seclusion here, so I came to visit."

Mrs. Hong stood up and walked over rubbing her waist: "I am an old woman who makes dried tofu and grinds tofu, so I dare not bother Village Chief Sun.

Huh, not right.

You are not Village Chief Sun. "

Sun Chuanting said with a smile, "I am the new village head, and my surname is Sun."

Mrs. Hong nodded, looked Sun Chuanting up and down a few times, and said softly, "He is another promising young man, unlike my son who does not live up to expectations and is treated like a beast when he becomes an official.

Come in and drink some water.

Girl, go and pour a bowl of water for the guest. "

The servant girl responded and went into the room to pour water.

"Sit down, Village Chief Sun," Mrs. Hong pointed to the small stool under the shade of the tree. "The conditions are simple, but this place has a wide view, and it is a beautiful thing to be able to see very far."

Sun Chuanting was shocked.

This old lady Hong is not simple.

A few simple words are full of deep meaning, and there is a sense of open-mindedness in the ordinary. She deserves to be an old lady who can educate the three governors of Shaanxi.

"Thank you, old lady." Sun Chuanting bowed in a respectful manner before taking his seat.

"You should have just arrived, right? How's the situation outside?" Mrs. Hong suddenly asked.

"It's just been a few days since I came here, and the outside situation... is rather bad. I don't know what aspect the old lady is asking about?" Sun Chuanting said generously.

He still didn't believe that Hong Chengchou's old lady didn't want to stay in the Xi'an mansion, so she went to this rural place to 'recluse'.

'It is estimated that Mrs. Hong was also kidnapped just like me, right? '

"It's always been like this outside, and there's nothing to make a fuss about," Mrs. Hong sat on the small stool with a sad expression, "How can a world where people can't get enough to eat, be any better.

I often teach my son Hong Chengchou that it doesn’t matter if everyone doesn’t have enough to eat, and we can work together to find a way, even if we open up wasteland and farm, we can gradually get better.

However, if some people do not have enough to eat, or even have no food, people will starve to death at every turn;

But the other part of the people just eat fish and meat, that is, our Ming Dynasty, something went wrong.

Those of you who are officials, you have to find a way to balance it.

In any case, people should not starve to death.

Why?

This is a sin, a heinous crime that even the heavens cannot forgive!

My son is disobedient, and he still talks about life and death, wealth and honor, my old woman thinks this is wrong..."

Sun Chuanting sat upright on the small stool, and was 'taught' by Mrs. Hong for more than half an hour.

He finally understood why the two scholars, Gu Tinglin and Huang Lizhou, insisted on him coming to visit Mrs. Hong.

This is clearly brainwashing...

"By the way, haven't you asked Village Chief Sun's name?" Mrs. Hong suddenly asked.

"Late-born Sun Chuanting."

"Oh, I see that you have a handsome appearance and a bit of a scholarly spirit, so you can't help but say a few more words. Don't be offended by Village Chief Sun." Mrs. Hong said apologetically:

"At the beginning, I taught my son to study to become a talent, and I babbled every day, but in the end I raised a boneless thing. Now that I think about it, this person, knowledge, insight, talents, etc., can be cultivated the day after tomorrow.

Only this backbone and compassion for the common people are innate.

You are a very good young man, one or two points better than my son. "

Sun Chuanting blushed and even said he didn't dare.

"Do it well, try to beat that bastard Hong Chengchou to the ground, tie him up, and help his old lady grind beans for a few more years."

Mrs. Hong said with a gentle smile: "This person didn't realize what he was when he was in a high position. If he wants to change his mind, the only way is to return to his original form and let him experience the livelihood of the people in the past.

If he grinds beans for several years, Hong Chengchou won't be able to wake up...

I am willing to die! "

(End of this chapter)