"Brother Fan looks very happy. That noble man hasn't caused trouble for you?" Kong Lianshun asked with a smile while drinking.

"That kid is okay. He can afford to suffer, bear the pain, and understand things quickly. After all, it was from everyone, and he is smarter than me!" Fan Chang said with a smile.

"It seems that Brother Fan has given me all my gifts."

Fan Chang smiled: "A person with background is the lieutenant of the Zhiguo army as soon as he comes out. If he joins the army in the future, he will be destined to be a general. Maybe I will fight under his command in the future. Of course, I will give him all my money. Think about it, if he is really a fool, if he follows him in the future, wouldn't he be unfair to die? So, I tried my best to give him this little experience."

"Brother Fan makes sense." Kong Lianshun laughed: "This is called the rogue of the rain. Brother Fan rarely comes here during this period, but he is exhausted, right?"

"There is no way. Every time this time comes, it's like this. This year, I'm even more nervous because of this noble man. Thanks to Brother Kong, I'll pay a cup to Brother Kong." Fan Chang smiled and raised his glass.

"What is this matter if I get along with Brother Fan? Brother Fan doesn't bother me, but I'm very satisfied with being a businessman," Kong Lianshun said seriously.

"That's a long way." Fan Chang put down his wine glass, "First of all, what was Fan Chang used to be? He was just a farmer. Now his parents and brothers are all farmers. I never think that merchants are inferior to us. In Qi State or this, but in our Ming Dynasty, merchants are now amazing."

Merchants had gradually become a climate in the Ming Dynasty. Kong Lianshun was very clear about this. Through the commercial union and the unremitting support of the Ming emperors, their status has now risen sharply and has had a great influence on the government. The establishment of the Ministry of Commerce is an extremely typical political symbol.

Now, in addition to cultivating successors to their own business, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have vigorously trained their children to study and take exams and enter the officialdom. The reform of the Ming Dynasty's official system has created the best conditions for them. Traditional scholars have no advantage in the Ming Dynasty. The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty no longer can obtain one or half of their positions by relying on beautiful articles and poems that have passed down from generation to generation. The Ming Dynasty attaches importance to practice first, and businessmen are undoubtedly the most important people in this world.

In addition to their family background, they can also pay to hire the best gentlemen to pursue changes in the Ming Dynasty examination policy. Judging from the list of winners released this autumn examination, the children of merchants accounted for a considerable share. A few years later, when these people graduated from the Beijing University or some county schools, the power of merchants will inevitably occupy a place in the court.

Daqi has also paid attention to business now, but for Daqi, merchants and business are still tools for making money. The ultimate goal is to obtain a lot of wealth in order to confront the Ming Dynasty. Although the status of merchants has been improved, compared with the Ming Dynasty, it is one in heaven and one underground.

Kong Lianshun himself was a businessman, and naturally had the deepest understanding of this. In the Ming Dynasty, although he was just a businessman, he lived a free life. Even if he was the leader of a county, Ben Kuan was kind to him. Of course, the premise was that you paid enough taxes and don’t do those tax evasions.

If there were no concerns and no special identity, Kong Lianshun actually really wanted to be a true Ming person. He had no friends in Qi State, but here, at least one of him, Fan Chang, who really regarded him as a brother.

Looking at Fan Chang who was raising his glass to drink from the other side, he couldn't help but feel a little painful. He tilted his neck and poured a whole glass of wine into his mouth. In a daze, his wife and children who were still in Chang'an suddenly appeared, and his heart immediately became hard again.

"Brother Kong, how are you doing now?" Fan Chang asked with wine for him.

"The shopkeeper who started to come was very tough!" Kong Lianshun laughed, "but as he talked, he suddenly went back for some reason. He said that he would come to talk to me again."

Fan Chang laughed: "It seems that General Gan did not tell lies, but he really gave me this face and took action."

"You are still in contact with General Gan?" Kong Lianshun's eyes widened. Now he finally understood why the shopkeeper of the Tian family whom he had talked to him had a constipated expression when he left. The Tian family might not buy Ben Kuan's face, but they had to sell Gan Wei's face.

Fan Chang laughed and said, "It can't be said that it's my face, but the face of the noble young man in my army now. This is one of my conditions for accepting him. General Gan really did what he said."

"Thank you, Brother Fan." Kong Lianshun stood up and bowed to the ground.

"No, no!" Fan Chang waved his hand repeatedly, "But General Gan also said that with his face, at most, you will not suffer any losses."

"That's fine, that's fine." Kong Lianshun smiled. "Brother Fan, come, I'll give you a cup."

"I want to toast you this cup." Fan Chang glanced at the little sister who was still busy in the kitchen. "This time she came back to talk to her, her tone became much looser. I think it must be Brother Kong's credit."

"What contribution can you make? It's just to talk about your own experience. You are lucky, and you have relatives and parents, and what else do I have? My son wants to support him but his relatives are not here to stay. Now I have made much more money than the previous family, but I am alone and can't even find someone to talk! My little sister is angry, but as long as I often see my lonely appearance now, she will naturally miss her parents. Brother Fan, don't worry, give her more days and slowly recover." Kong Lianshun said.

"Okay, I have patience. As long as I have hope, will I be strong in everything?" Fan Chang was happy: "By the way, Brother Kong, you are a rich man now. What kind of woman does not have in Mawang gather? Why didn't you think about re-releasing another one? There are three unfilial things, and no descendants are the greatest. Your Kong family wants you to re-released incense?"

Kong Lianshun laughed: "Let's say to me, aren't you a grand general of the Ming Dynasty? Isn't you a bachelor?"

"We are different!" Fan Chang smiled and said, "I have brothers and nephews. Someone in the Fan family inherited the incense. No one burned paper on the grave if they die. I, don't look at your general shouting, if you really fight, you are a person who charges in front of me. To be angry, the fastest one is a person like me. If you can survive until now, I will be very happy. There will definitely be a big battle with Qi. Qi, Chu and Qin, and this battle will definitely not be easy. I will not look for it now, otherwise if I die in battle and leave an orphan and widowed mother, even if my family is taken care of, it will be different. A woman has no husband and a child has no father. So, even if I want to look for it, I will have to wait until I overthrow Qi. If I am still alive, I will find someone to live a safe life."

"I didn't expect you, a soldier, to think so far." Kong Lianshun smiled and said, "Didn't the two countries sign a peace agreement now? Maybe they won't fight? In the past, the four countries relied on each other for a hundred or two years?"

"Why can you let others sleep soundly next to your bed?" Fan Chang laughed: "This is what our general said. Look, it will take only three or five years at most. Maybe it will be a fight in just one or two years. If they don't come to beat us, we will also fight them. How can we let the golden cup be in short supply in the world?"

"One or two years?" Kong Lianshun said in a daze.

"This is not my idea." Fan Chang laughed. "I heard General Gan say this."

Kong Lianshun took a deep breath. Fan Chang's words might be the courage of ordinary men, but Gan Wei, nicknamed Wild Dog, was also a reckless man, but the words he said from his mouth had to be taken seriously. Such words might be said by the Wild Dog, but perhaps they were said by the Ming Emperor Qin Feng.

Kong Lianshun knew that the most optimistic Qi State was probably five years old, and in their cognition, the one who took the lead in launching the attack would inevitably be Da Qi. But now, the aggressiveness shown by the Ming Dynasty far exceeded the perception of the Qi State court.

"There is another time when I can't come here. My little sister still has to bother you and take care of you. Just as you said, slowly relax."

"Or training behind closed doors?"

Fan Chang shook his head: "Ten days later, I am going to take the recruits to Xiangxi. After training for so long, it is time for them to see what the real battlefield is? If you don't bleed or wander around between life and death, no matter how well you train, you will never become an elite."

"What you said is slap in the fish!" Kong Lianshun whispered.

"Yes, at this point, the border troops of the Ming and Qi countries have a tacit understanding and will put new recruits on that battlefield to compete." Fan Chang smiled and said, "Elite soldiers are poured out with blood. My greatest hope is how many people go and how many people come back, although this is just a luxury."

Kong Lianshun nodded.

Five days later, in the military camp, Min Qi stood on the small earthblock, raised his whistle of military flag, waved it desperately, and shouted with a loud voice. There were less than ten soldiers around him, but his opponents had all fallen. This was Min Qi's first victory since participating in the drill. Even if it was a tragic victory, he finally won.

Fan Chang looked at the two secretary and logistics officers beside him who were smiling from ear to ear and flattered his mouth, "This is killing one thousand enemies, and losing one thousand themselves!"

"It's not bad, it's not bad." The two of them didn't think it was offended at all. "General Fan, you are still brushing shoes and washing underwear for veterans. Our young master can already command the army to kill the enemy and show his power."

Fan Chang snorted, these two guys couldn't spit out ivory from their mouths anyway.

He strode out and looked at Min Qi on the small landfill: "Yes, today's summary, military discussion, after reviewing, your department will have three days off, you can go out of the camp at sunrise and return to the camp at sunset. There are many good things in Mawangji, I hope you have a good time! But don't forget the military discipline. Mawangji has supervisory officials and constables from the Ministry of Justice. I don't want to pick you up at that time."

Browse and read address:
Chapter completed!