"Boom..."

"Open the market!"

The energetic shouts of the city officials, mixed with the melodious morning bells, resounded throughout the North City.

Accompanied by Chen Hu, Chen Sheng slowly climbed to the third floor of Youyu Restaurant.

Youyu Restaurant is the property of Lord Liu Qian, the county magistrate. The three-story restaurant stands out among the crowd in Bei City, which is dominated by bungalows and two-story lofts.

Chen Sheng leaned on the railing and looked out, and saw a faint mist floating over Beishi under the dark blue morning light, dotted with long straight streets and alleys that cut the Founder Beishi with great geometric beauty, presenting a tranquil and distant look.

The smoke and fire in the world.

Just like a farmhouse shrouded in smoke in the mountains at dusk...

"Dalang, what do you want to drink?"

Chen Hu, who was seated, asked loudly with a smile.

Chen Sheng replied without looking back: "Hot soup, honey water, whatever will do!"

"What kind of hot soup or honey water should I drink? On such a big day like today, it's just right to go with wine to cheer up the occasion!"

Chen Hu said contemptuously.

Chen Sheng looked back at him helplessly: "Second uncle, I'm still a child and I'm still growing!"

Chen Hu became more and more contemptuous: "You have been married for five years, and you are still a child? Listen to the second uncle and drink alcohol! If Qing Niang blames you after returning home, you can blame the second uncle!"

"No, thank you!"

Chen Sheng said helplessly: "If you don't have hot soup or honey water, just give me a bowl of minced meat porridge!"

"Okay, okay!"

Chen Hu, on the other hand, had a helpless expression on his face, saying "I really can't do anything to you." He shouted loudly: "Housemaid, bring me a pot of millet wine, three or two plates of meat and fish dishes, and a bowl of minced meat porridge!"

"Uncle, today I have the mutton heads slaughtered last night. It tastes great. Can I make some?"

"So, just go ahead and it won't cost you any money!"

"Okay, please wait a moment, sir, and I'll go make some arrangements now!"

The waiter in the waiter greeted Chen Hu with a smiling face, turned around and hurried downstairs.

Chen Sheng leaned on the railing and admired the early morning view of Beishi for a long time, then turned around leisurely and sat across from Chen Hu.

Then as soon as he sat down, the hard and cold rush mat ruined Chen Sheng's good mood.

He frowned, touched the square table in front of him with disgust, and put an oily hand on it.

Then he touched the rush mat on the ground and pricked his hand.

The decoration and sanitary conditions are not worthy of the status of a top restaurant in Chen County!

"Second uncle, look at the furnishings of Yuyu Restaurant. Mr. Liu from Chen County has been serving as the county magistrate for a long time, right?"

Out of the instinct of a dining chair businessman, the idea of ​​opening a club-level restaurant in other places and killing these rubbish restaurants immediately popped into his mind, and he quickly started thinking around this idea.

However, when Chen Hu heard his question, he showed a surprised look: "Da Lang, you don't think that 'Youyu Restaurant' was opened only after Mr. Liu became the governor, right?"

Chen Sheng showed a questioning look: "Huh? Is there something wrong?"

"No, it's so wrong!"

Chen Hu shook his head, then lowered his voice and said: "The Liu family where Mr. Liu belongs to is a big family in Chen County, and has been Chen Juncheng for generations. This Yuyu Restaurant is Mr. Liu's property, but it is not after Mr. Liu became the Juncheng.

, the industry that was created just now... You even got the order wrong. The Liu family did not come about after Lord Liu was born, but because of the Liu family, Lord Liu was able to establish the county magistrate."

"Just like the General Xiang Liang you met before, it was not because he became a general that the Xiang family came into being, but because of the Xiang family, he was able to take up the position of general!"

Chen Sheng immediately grasped the key point from his words, and his eyes widened slightly in surprise: "Generation?"

Chen Hu nodded affirmatively and said with emphasis: "Generations!"

Chen Sheng was even more shocked: "Can official positions be hereditary?"

Chen Hu was even more shocked than him: "You often say that you should read more bamboo slips, but what kind of bamboo slips do you usually read? You don't even know this?"

Chen Sheng said speechlessly: "You don't know what is recorded in the family heirlooms at home. My child was weak and sick in the past and rarely went out to interact with people. How do you know this...please talk to your child carefully!"

"That's true!"

Chen Hu recalled Chen Sheng's appearance in the past when he couldn't leave the front door. He nodded in relief, and even though he had a headache, he said: "But your second uncle is also a rough man. Even literacy is something that your fourth master forced us to learn with a stick."

Yes, how can the second uncle tell you about the scholar Chou Yin?"

"We only know that these officials in the imperial court, big and small, are not passed down from father to son, or from son to grandson."

"It's just those official families who collude with each other and push their own family members to fill the vacancies."

"Today you recommend my family, and tomorrow I will recommend your family. Their names are nice to say, and they are all loyal, filial, and benevolent people. But if the skin is removed, they are all wolves that eat people without spitting out their bones!"

"Anyway, you don't want to be an official from a merchant family like ours!"

"Make all the money useless!"

Chen Sheng said "hmm": "Has our family tried it?"

Chen Hu: "Of course I tried it, but I didn't spend enough money. In the end, I couldn't even get the pavilion chief!"

Chen Sheng: "What about the army?"

Chen Hu thought for a while and said: "To gain a foothold in the military depends entirely on ability. Naturally, it is a little better, but it is not much better. Two to five hundred masters is the highest official position that a civilian can get by joining the army. If you go up to the top, you can get a better position."

Even great military achievements cannot overcome it. Just the transformation of military households, without two generations of people carrying guns and fighting in the army, is not a real military household... If not, your uncle's branch will not take root in Youyou.

It took four generations of the state army to reach the rank of a mere general!"

After hearing this, Chen Sheng felt a chill in his heart and cursed secretly, "Fuck". Do the people in power in Zhou Dynasty have shit in their heads? They don't give the people at the bottom any hope of upward mobility. I am a servant, and my son is still a slave.

Can only be a servant? Doesn’t this intensify class contradictions to death?

A person as weak as a grass seed can still push away rocks and gravel to face the sun and rain, let alone a person's call?

It is simply unreasonable for this dog to have a big week!

Just when Chen Shengru was sitting on pins and needles, feeling that the land under his butt was a barrel of explosives, an overwhelming sound of "rustling" pulled him back from his sinking thoughts.

He turned around and realized that it was raining...

A blanket of rain enveloped the entire North City in an instant.

When Chen Hu saw the rain curtain, he stood up in a good mood, leaned on the railing and looked down at the huge Beishi City, and said in a low voice: "What a murderous good weather!"

Chen Sheng nodded in agreement. Rain will indeed wash away a lot of traces...

But then, his thoughts froze slightly.

Facing the bright spring scenery in the past, he never realized anything was wrong.

Seeing this rain curtain at this moment, he suddenly remembered that this was actually the first rain in more than two months since he traveled through the Great Zhou Dynasty!

Even if in his previous life he was just a businessman who didn't work hard, couldn't tell the difference between grains, and couldn't even remember the twenty-four solar terms, he still knew that if there was such a minimum amount of rain in spring, something big was bound to happen!

"Second uncle..."

He whispered in a trembling voice: "How long has it been since the beginning of spring that it hasn't rained?"

Chen Hu thought for a while and replied uncertainly: "Since the beginning of spring this year, it seems that there has only been one rain... Big things are coming soon. Why don't you think about our arrangements and care about them?"

"Is there any?"

Chen Sheng laughed angrily at his words, and finally couldn't help but ask the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time: "Second uncle, what on earth do you do when my father is at home?"

Chen Hu gave him a "Are you stupid?" look: "You still need to ask? Of course it's what your father said, what should we do...what?"

Chen Sheng stared at him with wide eyes... It turns out that you are pronounced Chen Hu and written Chen Zhaosi?

"Nothing!"

He took a deep breath and kept telling himself in his heart, don't behave like a fool, don't behave like a fool: "We are just waiting here to watch the show, you go and help the child with an urgent matter first!"

Chen Hu: "What's the matter?"

Chen Sheng: "Immediately inform all the stalls in our family... No, we are telling all the clerks in our family that those who have extra money on hand should exchange it for grain. From today on, the net profits of all the food stalls in our family will only be retained. The next 10% is for emergencies, and the rest of the cash will be exchanged for food!”

"You should handle this matter personally. You must tell all your uncles and aunts. This matter can only be kept in your mind and must not be leaked. In addition, I will contact Fourth Uncle Zhao as soon as possible about the location of the food storage..."

Before he finished speaking, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a rider tearing apart the rain curtain and leading more than twenty pavilion servants in a hurry.

The violent sound of horse hooves can still be heard clearly amidst the sound of rain.
Chapter completed!