Chapter 16 16 Selling Official Positions

"Boss, I always feel that what you said is unreliable."

"I am also very hesitant. The most important thing is that Wencai is still young. If he grows up a few years, I will feel more at ease."

"Yes, but I still think, why would the court do this business?"

"I have said it twice, it is not the court, but to send money to the old man Yan."

"Is the old man still short of the two hundred taels of silver?"

Wei Guangde practiced calligraphy all night and wrote several pages. He felt that his calligraphy had improved again.

I came out of the house and stood in the yard to stretch my body. I vaguely heard what my parents were saying in the house. I was curious and quietly leaned to the window to eavesdrop.

It was late at night and the yard was very quiet.

I heard my parents nagging in the house for a long time. Although Wei Guangde did not hear the previous words, he roughly knew what it was based on the few sentences he heard.

Two hundred taels, given to the old man Yan, my father should be promoted. This is selling official positions.

As for what kind of official position this little silver could buy, and what kind of official position his father wanted to buy, the conversation was too short, and Wei Guangde still didn't understand.

Moreover, from what he heard before, now thinking about it, it seems that his father wants to be promoted, but he doesn't want to give up the Bengshan Baihu Office, and he also wants his eldest brother to inherit the official position of the Baihu.

However, his eldest brother is only sixteen, and it seems that it is a bit difficult to inherit the position.

After that, the old couple talked for a long time, but Wei Lao was still a little shaken.

This time when he was resting in Zhenjiang, someone found Wei Lao and asked if he wanted to be promoted.

Wei Lao has worked in the Bengshan Baihu Office for twenty years, and he naturally wants to be promoted if he has the opportunity.

To seek a position of a thousand households, two hundred taels of silver is not much, but there are also restrictions, that is, there must be no one in the position, that is, if two hundred taels of silver are sent, it is really hard to say where the thousand households will be.

Wei Lao wants to be promoted, but he is reluctant to give up the Feng Shui treasure land of Bengshan Baihu Office.

Even if he did nothing, he could still earn more than 100 taels of silver a year, so he wanted to be promoted and wanted his eldest son to inherit the current position.

As for promotion within Jiujiang Guard, Father Wei had long given up hope.

The official positions in Jiujiang Guard were actually lucrative positions. In addition to the positions of the hundred households below, the positions above would be occupied by parachuted people if they were vacant, and it was impossible to be promoted internally.

The conversation in the room ended quickly, and it seemed that there was no result.

Wei Guangde guessed that his father still hadn't given up, but he had too many concerns, so he chose to give up for the time being.

After eavesdropping for a long time, Wei Guangde's legs were numb, and he quietly left there and returned to the yard, kicking his legs and swinging his fists to exercise.

After all, he was born in a military household, and his family didn't have any high-powered martial arts inherited from his ancestors, but he still had the ability to kill enemies in the army, but they were all straight-forward and open-and-close fighting styles.

To be honest, Wei Guangde felt that this kind of boxing was not good for physical training, and it was only useful in battle.

Although Wei Guangde did not intend to practice this to get ahead, it was still good to use it to stretch his muscles when he was tired.

After stretching his hands and feet, Wei Guangde saw that it was getting late, so he went back to the house to rest. When he entered the door, he saw a bird gun hanging on the wall, and a medicine pot on the wooden table against the wall below.

After the gun test a few days ago, although Wei Guangde thought that this bird gun still had many defects and could not be compared with the weapons of later generations, he heard and saw the amazement of his elder brother and Zhang Ji and the other guys about this weapon, and thought about the guns of later generations compared with this bird gun, which were separated by hundreds of years.

Well, Wei Guangde believed that in this era, the bird gun seemed to be the sharpest military weapon.

The two bird guns that were taken out were not put back, but Wei Wencai and Wei Guangde each took one.

Although the bird gun is not as fast as the bow and arrow, it is really powerful.

In that gun test, although Wei Guangde, Wei Wencai and others failed to hit the target, Tang Sanwa did hit two shots in a row and directly shot down two birds, and the name of the bird gun is well deserved.

That is why Wei Wencai also became interested and said that he would keep one for himself to study.

Children who grew up in the army are actually very enthusiastic about weapons, especially those new weapons.

Although they look down on firearms, as Wei Lao said, well-made firearms are actually very popular among soldiers.

Of course, this is also because firearms training is really simple, and new recruits can use them proficiently after training for half a month.

Moreover, when using firearms, there is no need to fight face to face with the enemy, and there are not many requirements for courage and killing skills. It is really a weapon for quickly forming an army.

As for the fact that the officers and soldiers of the Ming army do not like firearms, it is actually caused by those idiots in the weapons bureau. The rough production is fine, but the key is to cut corners, which is fatal.

Walking over, Wei Guangde did not reach out to take the bird gun off the wall.

For a child in his teens, this bird gun is still a little long and heavy.

However, the bird gun made in the Jiajing Dynasty is very similar to the rifles seen in later generations in terms of appearance, and I saw in the news online before that some bird guns confiscated in mountainous areas are also very similar.

In later generations, how many boys do not like guns?

No words all night.

In the morning, Wei Guangde got up and brushed his teeth and washed his face as usual. Although there was no toothpaste in this era, he just brushed his teeth with a toothbrush dipped in salt and then rinsed his mouth.

Toothbrushes, in this day and age, already exist, with wooden sticks and boar bristles, and the cost is not expensive.

Of course, there is also something similar to toothpaste made from medicinal materials, but Wei Guangde’s family can’t afford it.

After breakfast, he took a few pennies from Wei Wu and went out to study in the school.

In fact, Wei Guangde himself is rich, but his inherited body has such a habit.

In the box under Wei Guangde's bed, there are also hundreds of copper coins saved by his predecessor.

Wei Guangde's understanding of this is that maybe his predecessor also understood that the main things in the family may be inherited by the eldest brother. Although everyone is the legitimate son, there are still differences between elder and younger, so he saves money so quietly.

Of course, the current Wei Guangde doesn't have money to save. He basically spends what he has. If he doesn't, he won't touch the money saved by his predecessor.

When I came to the school, I followed my habit and sat down to start reading.

The morning passed quickly, and after lunch, several people were still resting in the corridor.

"Master Sun is too rigid. In fact, we could just let the students go into the classroom and lie down on the desks to rest."

Wei Guangde complained in his heart more than once, but Master Sun would not agree.

School is a place for studying.

But during today's break, the Taoist priest who came to visit the teacher yesterday also arrived in the front yard at some point and looked at the young man resting in the yard without saying a word.