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The problem that the Cheng family encounters the most is exactly the problem that all noble families encounter - complicated personnel matters.

There are four Qingyue Yuanlong branches in the Cheng family. It is said that there are at least forty legitimate sons and nearly a hundred legitimate grandchildren. If we include the concubine, there is no problem for the number of male descendants to exceed 200. As for the family members within the fifth server What's more, in the entire Shaonan City, anyone with the surname Cheng can always get relatives with three crutches. Just in the name of the Cheng family, there are as many as three to four thousand people in need of care. In the foreseeable future, this number will continue to increase exponentially.

The main manifestation of the strength of human beings is that they are in estrus all year round and are on duty to have children all year round. In a patriarchal society, the theoretical birth interval is perhaps 7 times a day?

Having a strong population is something worth boasting about for the family. For example, when Master Cheng Wenzheng goes on an expedition, he can easily bring with him three to four hundred people from the Cheng family, and they are all strong, enthusiastic young people who are eager to serve the motherland and the family. people. These children of families who have received basic military education and cultural education, have broad horizons, and have noble status, actually have an advantage over the officers who serve as hard labor in the army - hundreds or even thousands of people can die casually, and they can train a He is a qualified battlefield commander, but many ordinary officers do not even know the words. Not only that they will not be able to command large armies in combat in the future, but their learning ability and even communication ability in war are somewhat limited. The comparison between aristocratic officers and ordinary officers is like a credit card and a debit card. The former may have to pay interest if you are not careful, but there will be points rewards and an increase in the limit. Although the latter is safe, it will stay like that for a lifetime.

However, when maintaining the development of a family, a large population becomes a trouble. Economic factors are the main factor. Within the same family, men have no such thing as being diligent and frugal. They just want to live a better life than others and have possessions. A better life than our parents' generation - in modern society, this is the driving force for social progress; in feudal society that pursues stability, this is the liquefied gas that destroys the balance.

The tribesmen require conditions consistent with the family's status, and the expansion of the family also requires the assistance of the tribesmen. However, the former's growth is so rapid that it only takes one, two, or three or four nights of pillow wind, while the expansion of the latter may require one, two, or three or four months of planning and implementation.

As a result, the work of the head of the Cheng family has become very troublesome. Arrange work for thousands of people, and it must not be tiring or hard, and the salary must not be low. In addition to daily strikes, this kind of work can only be encountered by state-owned enterprises that monopolize industries. Unfortunately, it does not exist in Daxia.

Cheng Jinzhou wondered if the old lady went to the Taoist temple to have some quiet time because she was tired of dealing with the Cheng family's internal affairs. After all, in the past, the Cheng family could only take care of their legitimate sons and grandsons. Now that the Cheng family has grown, it will inevitably need the help of concubines and side branches in the expansion of its territory. The distribution of profits is closely watched by everyone - not worrying about scarcity but inequality. The nobles do not believe in "distribution according to work with fairness in mind". They demand "absolute fairness in getting something without working".

Now, all these troubles have piled on Cheng Jinzhou's head. It’s not okay to blame others. Apart from the old lady and Cheng Wenzheng, the only person in the Cheng family who holds the position is Xiao Cheng. Ordinarily, Mr. Cheng Yun'an can be regarded as a top figure in the Cheng family, but his character ruins what the Cheng family can do and makes the nobles become beggars. He cannot allocate resources fairly and reasonably.

Arranging for thousands of family members, especially those who left their hometowns to come to Shaonan to look for opportunities again, such a challenging task was all placed on Xiao Cheng's desk. In his opinion, it was like realizing three days before his graduation defense that he had forgotten the title of his graduation thesis...

Of course, no matter how depressed Xiao Cheng is, he cannot be more depressed than Cheng Bingxun and his son.

Cheng Bingxun's reputation did not expand with the expansion of the Cheng family. On the contrary, the Cheng family cherishes feathers and is too embarrassed to spread bad words about Cheng Bingxun outside. Outside Shaonan, ordinary squires and nobles only know that Cheng Bingxun is the legitimate son of the Cheng family. Who knows that he and his son have conflicts with Cheng Jinzhou? .

Unbeknownst to others, Cheng Bingxun would have room for further development. Now that he is older, his intelligence has finally increased, and he knows that he is using a tiger's skin as a banner, and he knows how to keep a thin line in his work. In just one year, he has made himself look exquisite, shiny, and even more unknown. The public praised him and felt that he was more modest and modest than other Cheng family members.

Modesty is cultivated by aristocratic manners, while modesty is forced by real life.

If there were a few more years, Cheng Bingxun could reverse the predicament of the Longzi branch again. Unfortunately, after finally returning to the position of the legitimate son of the Cheng family, Cheng Jinzhou returned to the Cheng family.

Countless high-level astromancers, knights attached to the astromancers, and even De'an's local armed forces. In the face of absolute force, Cheng Bingxun's so-called preparations and so-called methods were just like playing. It's like a rabbit buying a water gun to resist the tiger.

No matter how good he is, he is still doing things under the guise of the Cheng family. Now that Dr. Cheng Da has taken over the Cheng family, he feels that the good times are coming to an end.

Not only Cheng Bingxun, but also his son Cheng Jinhao and his father, Cheng Wenbo, an elder of the Longzi branch, are all worried about Cheng Jinzhou's liquidation steps. One by one, without waiting for Cheng Jinzhou to arrive, they hid in their villas in the countryside and left the matters at hand to their subordinates.

In fact, Cheng Jinzhou didn't care about them as he was too busy with his own affairs.

Nowadays, if you plan to buy something worth tens of millions of taels, you have to plan what to buy, where to buy it from, and at what price. Buying beans in the vegetable market, buying beans in the wholesale market, and buying beans in the futures market are all completely different. The latter will inevitably cause tight supply and demand in the market, thereby affecting prices.

After ordering the housekeeper to sort out the Cheng family's accounts, Cheng Jinzhou threw the koala Isu on the table and asked him to do what an accountant should do - but he could not control Comrade Isu's indignation and resistance.

For him, it was a bit convenient after Ys had his own body. When you look at something in the future, you don't have to watch it with two people. You only need to put the koala down and the work is done.

There are hundreds of accounts written on thick hemp paper. Even if you use the claws of a koala to flip through them, it will take several days, and it is said that you need to use your brain. Although the koala Isu is very opposed to the abusive behavior of classmate Xiao Cheng, with such a beautiful environment in Daxia, the pollution caused by human activities cannot infect the brains of animal protectors, causing them to commit mentally retarded and anti-human behaviors.

So koalas still have to do what accountants do. Cheng Jinzhou pretended to look at the accounts and started buying various books by himself.

While he was looking at it, he was counting the numbers: "Another 2,000 copies will be enough to reach Star Alliance level 5."

After hearing his words, Buddha's face looked a little ugly, like the Leshan Giant Buddha who had been exposed to rain, or the face of a poker player who had been ravaged all night. If it were in the past, of course he would have welcomed Cheng Jinzhou to spend money on books, which was also his achievement.

However, now that the border crossers have been sent, Lord Fo does not want Cheng Jinzhou's level to rise. Because if it exceeds Star Alliance level 6—Cheng Jinzhou is already Star Alliance level 4—the agent's rights will suddenly increase, and it is possible to bypass customer service. The work of border crossers will be too difficult to carry out. By the time Cheng Jinzhou can get more help, the black households will not be able to defeat the white households.

Compared with the performance of a Star Alliance Level 4 agent, Fo Ye was of course more concerned about the planting of real rice, so he slowed down the speed of giving Cheng Jinzhou books by three beats. Moreover, he consciously increased the word count of the book, slightly deviating from the agreement that year.

Because Cheng Jinzhou's habit is to copy all the books first and then buy other novels. If the average number of words in each book increases from 12,000 to 15,000 words, the time consumed will increase by at least 25%. In fact, since most papers have less than 10,000 words, while monographs often have more than 30,000 words, there are not many important books in the category Cheng Jinzhou selected.

Fo Ye has also studied Cheng Jinzhou's habits, so from time to time, he deliberately produces a monograph with a large number of words, such as "Experimental Research on the Use of Carbon Fiber Cloth for Seismic Reinforcement of Brick Masonry", which not only increases Cheng Jinzhou's copying time, but also eases his He was in an anxious mood, but it was not enough to give him any substantial help.

For their own reasons, the two customer service staff did not tell Cheng Jinzhou the reason. Therefore, Cheng Jinzhou was proud of having something to save and took great pleasure in copying. From his current point of view, useful articles seem to be more meaningful than simply burning Star Alliance points. As a result, he spent more time copying books, and his Covenant points increased more slowly.

However, when information is unequal, everyone is happy - so a transparent world is the most boring world. Only by being secretive can everyone be happy.

At the Cheng family.

Cheng Bingxun's anxiety was not reciprocated. Instead, the fourth child of the Yuezi branch became the first victim.

The fourth young master of the Yuezi branch of the Cheng family is the person in charge of the Cheng family's grain store. Due to the special nature of the grain store, this position has become the most popular position after the land manager, and the money coming in and out is even worse than that of the commercial bank. Aristocratic families have the habit of hoarding land and regard it as the foundation of their family. Business Mostly auxiliary.

With the consumption level of a noble child, the fourth young master would naturally take advantage of his authority. In fact, there are many Cheng family members who have problems with their accounts or whose accounts are unclear, but in Cheng Jinzhou's view, the two most important positions are the grain store and the mine. Making a loss from buying and selling grain has caused the greatest damage to him. The young master naturally became an example of killing chickens to show to the monkeys - Cheng Jinzhou didn't have time to take out each chicken and vaccinate them, so he could only hope that the monkeys' blood would cheer up the chickens and use chicken skins Hot sweat from pimples in exchange for immunity.

Poor the fourth child of the Yuezi branch, he was having a good time in his old house, but he was picked out by the vicious Meng Da and whisked away to the Yamen of Shaonan Zhizhou.

Thanks to Cheng Jinzhou for remembering the importance of Ming Zhengdian punishment.

With the account books in hand and Cheng Jinzhou watching, the witnesses did not dare to hide anything. The fourth young master Yue Zizhi was immediately frightened, fearing that Cheng Jinzhou would kill him himself. In front of everyone, he begged for love and kept shouting: "Jinzhou, I am your fourth uncle."

The people of the Yuezi branch also burst into tears. It seemed that everyone pretended not to know about Cheng Jinzhou's killing of officers in Hongri Village, but when they thought about it, they felt terrible. At this time, everyone actually thought that Cheng Jinzhou was going to kill the fourth young master to establish his authority.

Dr. Cheng Da was secretly amused. Just because of his status as a three-star warlock, he doesn't need to kill people to establish his authority.

He still understands the art of civility and martial arts, the principles of relaxation and relaxation.

Gently waving his hand to Master Zhizhou, Cheng Jinzhou narrowed his eyes, as if letting him make his own judgment.

Cheng Yunquan, the current magistrate of the state, is the former Changshi. People who have served as civil servants in the military have always advocated fairness in rewards and punishments, so they were stunned, picked up the verdict and threw it down, saying: "Knowing the law and breaking the law, you will be punished..."

Before he finished saying the word "liu", Cheng Jinzhou coughed.

Exile is usually sentenced to 1,000 miles away. In the eyes of Daxia people who cannot leave their homeland, exile is a very severe punishment. But in the eyes of modern people, it is equivalent to replacing expensive prisons. While reducing costs, the biggest fear it brings to prisoners is nothing more than the torture they suffer on the road, and it has no merits other than that.

However, although it is said to be "just a little torture", many people die in exile every year. The dignified heir of the Cheng family nobles, his physical condition is like that of a Tibetan antelope that has eaten too much meat, and it is impossible to allow him to migrate thousands of miles. Cheng Yunquan probably took Cheng Jinzhou's factors into consideration before giving such an irreconcilable answer. If necessary, Cheng Jinzhou could naturally follow Gao Qiu and Lin Chong's story and put Cheng Yuesong on the migration road, just like a hunter hunting wild ducks.

But Cheng Jinzhou didn't want the matter to drag on for so long. He still closed his eyes and pretended not to interfere with judicial justice, while tapping rhythmically with his hands.

Mr. Cheng Yunquan cleverly took back the judgment that was about to be thrown away, and said with understanding: "...it's just a formality and doesn't do the right thing. The staff..."

He deliberately waited for two seconds behind the word "staff". Seeing that Cheng Jinzhou didn't respond, he waved his hand and continued shouting: "The eight punishments for the staff..."

"Cough cough cough..."

Cheng Yunquan grabbed the sign and almost left it, and said with a blushing face: "...count the number, count six..."

"Cough cough cough..." Cheng Jinzhou felt that fear of 60 big players would kill him, it was just a deterrent, there was no need for such a heavy punishment.

Cheng Yunquan couldn't understand Cheng Jinzhou's thoughts, so he wiped the sweat from his handle and started over: "Cheng Yue loosened the stick for 40 seconds."

Cheng Jinzhou said nothing again. Lord Zhizhou finally threw the lot on the ground.

The government officials shouted "mighty", then pulled the happy and limp fourth young master down, pressed him down on the bamboo board in front of everyone, and spanked him.

The female family members shyly covered their eyes with cloths and cried loudly. The family members who were preparing to cause trouble also stopped and stared blankly at the man's white buttocks slowly turning red. Compared to a horrific incident like beheading, a little physical pain and a loss of fat are nothing.

Cheng Jinzhou stood up slowly, clapped his hands and said: "We are all Cheng family members and my relatives, but there are some things you can't do, so don't do them. Everyone should have a wider vision and don't be limited to this corner of Shaonan. Greedy A few thousand taels of silver is so simple, it would be a pity to lose future opportunities."

As he spoke, he glanced at Cheng Yuesong and whispered: "Fourth uncle, from today on, I will trouble you to stay at home."

The implication is that Cheng Yuesong will have no choice but to live with his birds in the future.

It's not a strong punishment, but it can't be called a gentle one either. But in other families, apart from the competition for titles, where official punishments are used, most of them are mainly quarrels, supplemented by secret fights.

Cheng Yuesong groaned, in his eyes there was the joy of surviving the disaster, but also the grayness of losing everything.

A woman with tangled hair had an expression that didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The corners of her mouth were raised and lowered. However, she took the red satin very seriously and covered Cheng Yuesong's lower body. She directed people to lift him up and gently used her hands to lift him up. Gently support his head.

For a moment, Cheng Jinzhou felt a little emotional.

Although Cheng Yuesong's sentence was not proportional to the amount of corruption, his family will always see the consequences.

Not wanting to see his family comforting each other, Cheng Jinzhou clapped his hands, floated out of the Yamen lobby, and shouted to Shi Mo: "Go and prepare the laboratory."

With that said, he drifted towards the old house.

Normally, the space in the old house is valuable, so he should find a laboratory in another courtyard, but everyone in the Cheng family disagrees and would rather waste the space in the old house.

What Cheng Jinzhou calls a laboratory is actually a writing table in a large room. There are many writing tables and a lot of paper, plus a quiet environment, which makes it convenient for him to excerpt articles.

Floating on the road, he took Ys off his lap, put it on his shoulder and said, "I think I should systematically review the mathematics of Euler's era."

"Why do you think you have to study again? I thought you were fed up with the practice process." After Yisu had a body, he was not very willing to move.

He used to actively improve Cheng Jinzhou's level and ability in order to create a body for himself to reserve. But now, after having a body, he is not very willing for Cheng Jinzhou to develop too quickly, lest he come into frequent contact with the Star Alliance and expose himself.

"Suddenly I thought..." Cheng Jinzhou was flying in the air, paused and said, "Suddenly I didn't want to be spanked."

"What?"

"I want to protect my territory. No one can invade it." Cheng Jinzhou said and added, "I want to add some mathematics from the Euler era."

Euler is actually mathematics from the 18th to 19th centuries. It is more advanced than the current mathematics in Daxia, and some subjects are slightly more advanced than Xingzhou. Cheng Jinzhou studied mathematics with Yisu for a long time, but within a specific period of time, he still did not study it intensively.

Mathematics is so vast and profound that one can devote one's entire life to studying only a very small part of it.

If human society wants to maintain development, it must increase human lifespan, especially the peak period of intelligence. Only in this way can future generations of scientists take enough time to learn the theories of their predecessors and delve into the latest technology. In the 19th century, Faraday, who started selling newspapers at the age of 13, was able to teach himself and become a famous physicist. However, in the 21st century, it will take more than ten years for any physicist to repeat the journey since Faraday. Research. The development of science will tend to become flat with each passing day, but the era of one person studying a certain kind of science in depth has completely ended.

Cheng Jinzhou is lucky. In the 21st century, the fun and enjoyment he had when he was young has completely destroyed his possibility of scientific progress - a mathematician trying to leave a name in history should have graduated with a doctorate at the age of 15, achieved results at the age of 20, and reached the age of 25. At the peak of his life, the 30-year-old mathematician is old enough to retire.

The genius of Cheng's father and Cheng's mother could not help Cheng Jinzhou bring out his genius.

But in Daxia, Cheng Jinzhou was only 16 years old.

Yisu raised his paws noncommittally, and lay firmly on Cheng Jinzhou's shoulders, saying: "Mathematics in Euler's era is not simple either."

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