The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 529 King Wu can’t help it tonight

"What a shame! I'm not lucky enough to witness that moment in my lifetime!"

Many generals felt extremely regretful, and the biggest regret was missing out on this battle.

If I had known this earlier, I would have begged His Highness to let me follow the Northern Expedition Army, even if I could be a small soldier, I would have no regrets!

"Your Highness, our army suffered a total of 5,000 casualties and 30,000 injuries in this expedition. This is the memorial submitted by Duke Fu requesting credit for the sacrificed soldiers. The other one is requesting credit for the loyal and righteous clans..."

Prime Minister Ning handed over two memorials.

King Yan took it, looked at it and waved his pen: "Immediately issue pensions according to the highest standards in the army. No meritorious soldier should be treated unfairly!"

"Yes!" Lord Ning nodded silently.

All the court officials were deeply moved. This was the charm of Prince Yan. He would reward those who had made contributions and treat his subordinates well. Only then could so many people risk their lives for him and follow him till death.

But this is not the end. The King of Yan spoke again: "As for Shen Zhiqiu, what do you think? Although Tangjia Village is a military supply village, it is right for it to provide military supplies to the court.

However, Shen Zhiqiu was a man of great intelligence and talent. When he first entered the Ministry of Households, he promoted the method of using corn straw as silage. Although no results have been seen yet,

But during the previous spring ploughing season, he researched new farming tools with outstanding results, so he deserves a reward!"

However, not all the court officials agreed this time. After all, no one is made of gold and cannot please everyone.

What's more, why should you, who have not passed the proper imperial examinations and have only made some strange and tricky things, be valued so much by His Highness?

"Your Highness, Lord Shen is indeed talented, but he has only been in the Ministry of Revenue for a month. It would not be a good idea to make any changes in such a short period of time. Moreover, it is not in accordance with the rules to promote him so quickly."

The King of Yan glanced at the official who was speaking, but said in a neither light nor heavy tone:

"What rules are against this? Which rule said that people cannot be promoted if they have made contributions? Or is it because you think that people are capable and it offends you?"

The way the King of Yan spoke was truly in keeping with his status as a horse emperor who was always harsh in his words.

It was still Prime Minister Ning who came forward and said, "It is true that Lord Shen has only been in office for a short time. It would be better to wait until the Northern Expedition is over before rewarding him together."

Although there is still one Taialu that has not been resolved, the purpose of this Northern Expedition has been achieved. Even if Taialu is not caught in the end, the opponent will no longer be able to covet the Guanzhong area in the near future.

Therefore, the credit is set in stone.

The court officials nodded in agreement. Some of them really felt that what Prime Minister Ning said made sense.

The other part is that they really think that the later the promotion is, the better.

Some people even had other ideas. They heard that there were many unmarried men and women in the Shen family, so why not see if there were any men and women of marriageable age among the relatives? Then they could win over one or two of them through marriage.

This Lord Shen from the Shen family will definitely be someone extraordinary in the future!

However, the King of Yan did not give them too much time to think about it. He laughed heartily and announced: "Pass the order down. The Jinwu will not be restrained tonight. Celebrate the victory of the army and capture Ben Yali alive!"

With such a great victory, how could we not celebrate to our heart's content?

The news spread throughout Shuntian Prefecture, and the entire Kyoto was suddenly brightly lit all night long.

Shops, restaurants and people took to the streets to celebrate, and the lively atmosphere was comparable to New Year's Eve.

After a whole day of revelry, even the maids and servants from the nine clans in the supermarket took the initiative to open the door for the first half of the night.

I don’t know whether the ancients couldn’t resist the temptation to go shopping in supermarkets, or whether it was because all kinds of gossip spread too quickly.

Everyone knows about the contribution of the Nine Clans to the battlefield in the northern border.

Anyway, there are a lot of people walking around in the supermarket, and almost everyone has a pair of new sports boots.

Luncheon meat, stewed meat, self-heating hot pot, and various cooked foods, such as pig heads, pig ears, pig hearts, livers, and lungs, were all sold in large quantities.

Many people also responded: "When will you also sell some compressed dry food? We are very curious about that magical dry food and really want to buy some to try."

At the same time, Tangjia Village

After Shen Zhiqiu became an official, he was always busy. When he returned to the village for the first time, he was warmly welcomed.

"Boss, take a look, this is the account book."

The moment Zhou Qian knew Shen Zhiqiu had returned, he came out to greet him with the account book.

But Shen Zhiqiu couldn't see the words clearly, and it was already dark when he got home.

I shone the torch around, then gave up and went back inside to take a look.

I went to the workshop again. Even at this time, there were still many people working overtime after dinner.

"You have to take care of your body while working, do what you can, and rest when you need to."

"Don't worry, boss. We know what's going on. We finish our meal early and won't be able to fall asleep when we go home. We might as well work a little longer so we can go home later and fall asleep."

"Okay, do you have enough military supplies for this month? Let's deliver the military supplies first. If there is any delay, the supermarket ones will be delayed."

"We have already collected enough for the army, and now we are supplying it to supermarkets. I have discussed this with the old men in my family.

We can hire a group of temporary workers for sports boots, ask them to pay a deposit, and then take the materials back to sew military boots. In Yoyo's words, that's outsourcing business."

It seems that Zhou Qian has mastered all the steps of the workshop. Shen Zhiqiu nodded: "That's fine, you guys can do whatever you want, as long as you strictly control the quality."

Father Shen also said: "If the work of boots can be outsourced, the freed-up female workers can be assigned to do other things, such as what Yoyo suggested before.

We can let the women workers make clothes with new fiber cloth, which is very profitable. We can also make some snacks into small foods, such as cat ears and small twisted dough sticks, and sell them in supermarkets in individual packages. "

However, Shen Zhiqiu refused this and said, "We don't have enough manpower for now, so let's focus on military boots first. Our sports boots are selling well.

As for ready-made clothes, Lao Shen and his men will add them later. We can just take their ready-made goods. We still have less manpower than the old merchants.

They have a large family and a large business, with sufficient manpower.

As for those snacks, Zhou Qian, you can find someone to contact the high-end shops, we can provide them with packaging bags and let them produce for us, this is called 'OEM'."

In fact, Shen Zhiqiu had another thought. He estimated that the war in the north would last about a year or so, so he had to prepare for the future war with Guanzhong.

Anyway, compressed dry food and vermicelli have a long storage time, and military boots and other items must be prepared as much as possible. This is to avoid being caught off guard in the event of a war with Guanzhong in the future.

At this moment, Tang Guangzheng also came over with a torch in hand, shouting as he ran, "Nephew is back!"

Ever since Shen Zhiqiu became an official, people no longer called him "Little Sanzi" but "Old Third". But calling him "Sir Shen" seemed too strange, so everyone just called him "Master".

But Tang Guangzheng didn't call him that, and never had.

He used to be the head of the village, Shen Zhiqiu was the boss, and his son was an official, so he called his eldest nephew to show his closeness.