Chapter 21 Blessed Fate
Chapter 21 Blessed Fate
"Good fortune. When you encounter danger, you can consume your good fortune to turn danger into fortune or reduce the disaster that is about to happen, and even eliminate the black energy in your luck in advance."
"Consume ten strands of good fortune and you will get an opportunity that is within your own luck range."
Xu Qing understood the wonderful use of blessings, and the next question was how to obtain blessings.
"You can't just do one good deed a day."
"The most recent good deed I've done is probably to release the refugees who tried to commit murder on me."
Xu Qing gradually and carefully analyzed what he had done recently, wanting to know which one would help to increase his blessings.
"A family that accumulates good deeds will surely have good fortune. Since it is a blessing, doing good deeds should be the closest way to obtain it."
Xu Qing changed his mind and came up with an idea.
This year's provincial examination will be in June and the academy examination will be at the end of July.
There is still more than half a month left before the provincial examination.
While preparing for the provincial examination, he did not have time to do other things.
As he was the top candidate, in the eyes of others, it was already a default decision that he would be selected as a high school student.
And the fourteen-year-old students can be said to have a bright future.
So the same words, the weight they carried when he said them before, and the weight they carried now, are completely different.
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"My nephew Xu Qing, nice to meet Uncle Dong." Xu Qing saluted Dong Dahai, the scale master in the county government warehouse.
"I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it. Someone, bring the tea. Good tea."
After some pleasantries, Dong Dahai and Xu Qing sat down as host and host. He asked, "What do you want to see me for, Brother Xu?"
Dong Dahai knew that if Li Dianshi wanted to see him for something, there would be no need to ask his nephew with a bright future to pass on the message, so it was probably Xu Qing who came to see him himself.
Xu Qing: "My nephew wants to build a slightly larger chicken coop, but he is short of some capital, so he would like to ask Uncle Dong to invest."
"Chicken coop?" Dong Dahai thought it was something big, but he didn't expect it was just raising chickens. He waved his hand and said, "It's just a small matter, why invest in it? I'll lend you as much as you need, nephew."
Although he said he was borrowing it, he definitely had no intention of asking for it back.
Xu Qing smiled slightly and explained his idea.
Dong Dahai said, "Raising chickens like my nephew does requires a lot of capital and manpower. But now there are many people in Nanzhili and little land, so there is no shortage of manpower. The key is, can my nephew's method of raising chickens really make the chickens grow faster and produce more meat?"
Xu Qing: "My nephew and aunt have verified this."
He went on to say: "For large-scale chicken farming, epidemic prevention and water sources are of paramount importance, so the site must be carefully selected and skilled personnel are needed."
In this era, there are already chicken farms dedicated to raising chickens, and even the technology for castration of pigs has become relatively mature.
Dong Dahai: "I can help with this matter."
Xu Qing: "Also, I am aiming for the imperial examination, and business is a side job after all, so it is not suitable for me to personally take part in it, so it is better for my uncle to invest openly. However, I can say that I accidentally found this chicken farming technique from an ancient book and gave it to my uncle. I only hope that after the chicken farm is established, I can give some cured chickens to poor students in the county school and community school in my nephew's name to supplement their nutrition. I can also recruit more landless poor people to work in the chicken farm."
"This is indeed a good thing." Dong Dahai immediately understood Xu Qing's intention.
The students have a significant influence on public opinion, and there will always be a steady stream of students in the community school. These people will naturally speak well of Xu Qing after receiving the favor.
The landless poor are relatively easy to control.
This is what many powerful local gentry did.
Taking advantage of the famine, they bought people's land and made them their tenants. They also used their power to evade taxes and labor service, so that the rent paid by the tenants was less than the taxes collected by the government before, and they even had to thank the masters.
Moreover, the poor have lost their land and their lives are often broken. How can they not be grateful if they can have something to eat at this time?
On the other hand, no matter what Xu Qing's intentions were, he was doing good things after all.
Dong Dahai knew that scholars who had achieved fame were looked down upon from the bottom of their hearts by the common people as well as the minions in the yamen.
Public opinion in this dynasty has never allowed the government to compete with the people for profit.
What is the people?
Scholars who are not officials are called common people. Xu Qing is obviously different from the scholars he usually knows.
Of course, it is possible that I am still too young and really believe in the words of establishing a mind for heaven and earth, and establishing a destiny for the people.
After Xu Qing and Dong Dahai discussed it, they came to where the Guo brothers lived.
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"This beggar's name is Xiaomi, and he refuses to tell his name no matter what." Guo Zhuang said.
A black middleman, a thug who attempted to commit a crime, was released, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t be caught again.
Xu Qing still had some use for them. He walked up to the middle-aged man and said slowly, "Even if you won't tell me your last name, you can at least tell me your first name."
“Fu, the blessing of good fortune.”
Xu Qing smiled and said, "It is indeed your blessing to meet me. How about you take my last name and become my servant from now on?"
"Ah." The middle-aged man was quite surprised.
Xu Qing: "Why, you don't want to."
"No, I almost murdered you, why did you keep me by your side?"
"First, it's better to have a chance than to waste it. I have a business and I need a spy to keep an eye on it for me. Second, I have something on you and it's easy for me to control you. Third, it seems that you have nowhere else to go." Xu Qing said softly.
"I have a wife and children back home."
"If you behave well, I will help you find them in the future. If they are gone, I will help you start a new family." Xu Qing said calmly.
"Xu Fu greets the master."
"Call me Master."
"Yes, son."
Xu Qing then made Xu Fu sign a slave contract. As for Xu Fu's involvement in the Lotus Sect as a laborer, it was not a big deal at all. Because the court had already issued an order that as long as the people who were coerced into following the bandits took the initiative to leave the sect, they would be forgiven.
This is because if all the people who have any connection with the Lotus Sect were arrested, the chaos could never be quelled.
It will only strengthen people's rebellious determination.
Suppress and appease, suppression and appeasement, of course, appeasement is the main approach.
Xu Qing came to the beggar named Xiaomi again.
Xiaomi knelt down and kowtowed: "I am willing to be your servant."
Xu Qing: “…”
I've seen bones that are soft, but I've never seen bones as soft as this one.
But they are all beggars now, they are not soft-hearted and they will not beg for food.
He said calmly: "I'll give you a chance. Get rid of Du Lao San. From now on, you will take Du Lao San's position and gather information for me."
"Forehead……"
Xu Qing winked at Guo Zhuang.
Guo Zhuang kicked Xiaomi away and said, "Go away! Either you come back or your body will be left in the charity cemetery outside the city."
Xiaomi crawled away, covered in dust, and then realized, "Yizhuang."
He hurried to the charity cemetery outside the city.
Guo Zhuang: "Sir, Guo Li is already in the charity cemetery, just waiting for this little beggar to deal with Du Lao San and recruit the group of beggars under Du Lao San."
Xu Qing: "I'm sorry to bother you, Brother Guo and Brother Guo these days. Once the college entrance examination is over, I will find a way to get Brother Guo the position of head constable."
Guo Zhuang couldn't help but burst into tears. He knelt on the ground and swore to the sky: "I, Guo Zhuang, am willing to go through fire and water for the Xu family for generations!"
(End of this chapter)