"Brother! What do you want to do? Please tell me clearly, okay? As long as you explain it clearly, I will fully support you."
"As long as it's good for you, you will support me with all your strength?"
"certainly!"
"Well, then." Zhang Shixun walked to the door, stuck his head out to look outside, closed the door, turned around and said to Gao Yanei: "In a month, I will select two or three hundred people from the First Army to organize a guard of honor."
"Guard of honor?" Gao Yanei was confused.
"The honor guard is a display of military might. Every member is in meticulous uniform, standing tall and straight. Hundreds of them look as if they were cast from the same mold. Watching them makes people feel surprised, shocked, and their blood boils."
"Oh! So what?"
"You have a pig's brain!" Zhang Shixun knocked his head and said, "If a team like this were to go out, others would look at it and say, 'Oh my god, these soldiers are so impressive! Whose soldiers are they?'"
"Hey! Go on."
"When people find out they're Gao Chengzong's soldiers, they'll definitely open their mouths wide and look like they've had a bowel movement..."
Gao Yanei hurriedly stopped him and asked with a puzzled look on his face, "Wait! Brother, wait a minute, what do you mean by constipation?"
Zhang Shixun suppressed his laughter and said, "They were so shocked by the sight of such a majestic and powerful army that they forgot to defecate. This is called constipation."
Gao Yanei was stunned for a long time, but he still couldn't understand how such a mighty army could be related to feces.
Zhang Shixun further beseeched him, "Young Master, if you organize a guard of honor like this, you and your son will be able to show off your reputation."
Gao Yanei's heart was pounding, and he hurriedly asked, "Is it easy to train a guard of honor like this?"
"It's not easy to practice. It's too difficult." Zhang Shixun shook his head and sighed, "Without three to five months of hard training, it's impossible to practice it."
"Three to five months?" Gao Yanei pondered for a moment and asked, "Brother, no matter how long it takes, can you train a guard of honor like this?"
"Nonsense! If I can't practice it, why would I tell you all this?"
Gao Yanei gritted his teeth and said, "Tell me, what do you want me to do?"
"I want to select three hundred men from the First Army, of about average height and strong build."
"That's easy. There are over a thousand people, and we can easily pick out three hundred."
"We also have to make sure these people don't work or leave the barracks. They just train! Train! Train!"
Gao Yanei hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not a big deal."
"They also need to eat well and have enough food, otherwise they won't have the energy to practice."
Gao Yanei gritted his teeth and said, "This... shouldn't be a problem."
Seeing that he had fallen for it, Zhang Shixun clapped his hands and said, "That's all for now. Go back and talk to General Gao. If he agrees, I'll start making preparations."
"I'll tell Dad when I get back, but I can't say whether he'll agree or not."
Gao Yanei seemed unsure.
"Yanei, I'm not doing this on a whim. I want to help General Gao wash away his bad reputation for military misconduct, and at the same time win praise for us brothers."
"Well! It's really boring to drive these soldiers to make money every day." Gao Yanei sat down on the table and whispered, "To be honest, my father worked hard to make money, and most of it was earned for the officials... the government."
Zhang Shixun was shocked. "What? Making money for the government?"
"Just know it, brother. Don't tell anyone."
Zhang Shixun nodded. Zhao Ji and his ministers were really in cahoots with each other. They wanted to make money and even spared no effort for their own imperial guards.
It would be strange if such an emperor did not destroy the country.
Gao Yanei said, "I almost forgot. Prince Yun asked me to ask you, when did you start building the glass workshop?"
"My cousin said it will probably start at the end of this month, and he will bring the budget to you in advance for you to see."
"Prince Yun also said that he would send an accountant over when the time comes."
Zhang Shixun nodded: "That's what I should do."
Gao Yanei added, "My father is also very interested in this glass workshop and has asked me about it several times."
Zhang Shixun laughed, "Your father is very cunning and can tell at a glance that this is a money-making business."
Gao Yanei was displeased when he heard his rude words: "Brother, how can you talk like that? You can't use such cunning words to talk about my father."
Zhang Shixun pulled him down from the table and said nonchalantly, "If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it. It's okay to say that he's cunning and scheming, right?"
“No way!”
"Foresight and foresight?"
Gao Yanei grinned and said, "That's fine."
Zhang Shixun looked at him thoughtfully and asked, "Yanei, how many years have you studied?"
Gao Yanei said, "I started learning at the age of four and studied in a private school until I was seventeen or eighteen... Why are you asking this?"
Zhang Shixun said: "Nothing, I'm just curious."
"You're not telling the truth, you're just curious?"
"You want to hear it?"
"I want to hear it."
"Okay." Zhang Shixun had no choice but to say, "You're a person who, even if you say you haven't been to school, can sometimes speak with a few elegant words. Even if you say you've been to school, sometimes you foam at the mouth like an illiterate idiot!"
"Zhang Shixun, you are humiliating me." Gao Yanei slammed the table, "The one foaming at the mouth is a crab."
Zhang Shixun spread his hands and said, "Look, I haven't even said anything unpleasant yet, and you're already showing your rascally face."
Gao Yanei stepped forward and grabbed his collar, shouting, "No! First you spoke rudely to my father today, and now you're being rude to me again. You need to apologize to me."
"Okay! I apologize." Zhang Shixun pushed his hand away and bowed, saying, "I was rude to you today. I'm making a formal apology. I hope you won't hold a grudge and forgive me."
Gao Yanei smacked his lips in satisfaction and said, "That's not bad... Oh no! You are the villain, the real villain."
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Ever since the Fanlou assassination incident, Wang Fu has been staying at home in bed to recuperate.
He hadn't had a good night's sleep for many days. Whenever he closed his eyes, the horrific scene in Fanlou would linger before his eyes and could not be shaken off.
The moment his roots were cut off by the flea on the drum, he lost not only an organ of his body, but also his face and dignity.
A handsome prime minister of the time suddenly turned into a eunuch who was neither male nor female.
How embarrassing is this?
From then on, Wang Fu's life was dark.
He was now upset whenever he saw his concubines, so he simply drove them all away.
Out of sight, out of mind.
What’s hateful is that the murderer Gushangzao is still at large, as are the two so-called Liangshan heroes Lu Zhishen and Li Kui.
For several days, Wang Fu lay in bed, the flame of hatred burning in his heart.
If you don't avenge this, you are not a gentleman.
I must tear Shi Qian into pieces and grind his bones to scatter his ashes to relieve the hatred in my heart.
All the servants went out to look for information everywhere, but they couldn't find out anything about Shi Qian.
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