Rise From the Humble

After listening to Zhu Pingan's further explanation of hunger marketing, Liu Mu seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand. He was roughly at a critical point between understanding and not understanding.

Zhu Ping'an was not surprised by this. After all, hunger marketing is hundreds of years ahead of this era. How can it be so easy to understand? However, a great man has a famous saying that true knowledge comes from practice. After some practice, he slowly understood it, so he smiled and took the photo. He patted Liu Mu on the shoulder and said softly, "You will understand everything after a while."

"Well, although I don't quite understand what Young Master is talking about, hunger marketing, it sounds very reasonable. In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't understand. I will do whatever Young Master says." Liu Mu said with trust.

Seeing the trust on Liu Mu's face, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but sigh. It was their destiny to meet Liu Mu and the others, and it was his own destiny. Having them by his side really helped him a lot.

After Zhu Ping'an sighed with emotion, he took out two ingots of ten taels of silver from his arms and handed them to Liu Mu, "Brother Mu, we have been resting for more than a day since the day before yesterday when we exterminated the Japanese pirates and entered the city. It's time to have a celebration banquet. You can bring it with you. Twenty taels of silver, take people to the nearby market to buy a fat pig and a sheep. With the remaining money, you can buy some food, and you can also buy less wine. Pigs and sheep will be slaughtered at noon today, and the people will join the army. With the food delivered, our Zhejiang Army will hold a celebration banquet. At the celebration banquet, as an exception, each person can drink half a bowl of celebration wine, just taste it and feel it."

"Is that your order?" Liu Zhuang took the silver, nodded vigorously, turned around and opened her mouth.

"Oh, by the way, you bring more troops, take these 1,500 taels of silver notes, plus the 300 taels of the secret magic knife sore medicine sold today, and on your way back, stop by the bank and exchange them all for scraps of silver. It's best to With about one tael of broken silver, before the celebration banquet begins, we will hold a reward and commendation meeting to cash in the promised silver reward for killing Japanese pirates."

Zhu Ping'an looked at Liu Mu's back and suddenly slapped his forehead. He had been writing at his desk for too long and almost forgot something important. When he remembered it, he immediately stopped Liu Mu, took out a stack of banknotes from his arms, and counted two thousand three hundred. All the two silver notes were given to Liu Mu, and he was asked to go to the bank to exchange for broken silver in order to give everyone a silver reward.

Liu Mu did not reach out to take the banknote, but raised his head to look at Zhu Ping'an. After hesitating for a moment, he finally couldn't help but bitterly persuaded, "Sir, you have been worrying about the soldiers' pay for a while and running around to raise it. The imperial court pays silver. You are in arrears. Last month’s pay has not been paid out by the end of this month. It is already very difficult for you to pay everyone the military pay on time. It is not possible to pay this reward.”

"No, no one can stand without trust! The promised silver reward must be fulfilled, so as to keep the morale of the army! In addition, I was really worried about the pay of the soldiers some time ago, but we wiped out the Japanese pirates the day before yesterday, but we made a huge fortune from the Japanese pirates. There is no need to worry about salary in the short term. Of course, even without this windfall, the silver reward must be cashed. This is the principle." Zhu Pingan gently patted Liu Mu's shoulder and firmly pushed the silver note into Liu Mu's hand. , insisted that Liu Mu go to the bank to exchange broken silver.

"Obey my son!"

Zhu Pingan's persistence and integrity made Liu Mu admire him. He looked at Zhu Pingan with admiration, nodded vigorously, took the banknote with both hands, and was filled with emotion in his heart. His young master is really a great man! Being able to follow him is really a blessing for them. Blessing!

Liu Mu came out of the handsome tent and met Liu Dadao who was walking outside to bask in the sun. Liu Dadao learned that Liu Mu was going to work outside, so he insisted on going with him. Liu Mu knew that he had been recovering from his injuries in bed for the past two days. I have long wanted to go out for fun, and now that I have the opportunity, I naturally don’t want to miss it. After thinking about it, I decided to take him with me. Anyway, I have to take a lot of people out, and he won’t be too much.

At noon, the smell of pork and mutton could be heard from the Zhejiang Army camp, and the fragrance spread for miles.

Pork head meat, braised pork, braised pork ribs, large pot stewed pork and mutton, mutton stewed with radish, mutton meatballs.

Each dish has strong military camp characteristics and is served on the table. The meat is a big piece of meat and the bowl is a big bowl. It fully satisfies people's ideal of eating large pieces of meat and drinking in a big bowl. It makes people salivate.

Tables filled with wine, meat and delicacies were arranged in a "hui" shape around the temporary school grounds.

There is an empty field in the middle of the back shape surrounded by tables.

"Hey, it's the celebration banquet. Look at the table full of delicious food. Just smelling the smell, the saliva will flow down."

"Wow, did you see that there is still wine. When will you let me in, I can't take it anymore."

"Hey, I followed Brother Liu to the market outside to buy vegetables. We spent a full twenty taels of silver on all the ingredients for our celebration banquet. We bought a pig, a sheep and two large carts of vegetables. Tell me. You guys, the pig we bought weighs three hundred taels, and it’s a big fat pig.”

As the food and wine were served, a group of soldiers from the Zhejiang Army came to the school grounds led by officers at all levels. Looking at the delicious food on the tables and smelling the aroma of the wine and meat, all the soldiers drooled.

"Haha, the dishes are all served. Let's all sit down in groups." Zhu Pingan, surrounded by Liu Mu and others, stepped into the open space in the middle of the zigzag and said to the soldiers with a smile.

"Thank you, my lord." All the officers and soldiers thanked each other, and couldn't wait to take their seats under the leadership of the corps leader.

"Today's meal is a belated celebration banquet to celebrate our Zhejiang army's victory over the Japanese pirates in Shangyu the day before yesterday. At that time, the Japanese soldiers surrounded Yingtian City, and tens of thousands of Yingtian City defenders could not hold on. It was our Zhejiang army who stepped forward to expel them. You all did a good job in eradicating the Japanese pirates, and today's celebration banquet is what you deserve."

After all the soldiers took their seats, Zhu Pingan looked at everyone with approval and said loudly.

"It's all adults who lead well."

"If you hadn't anticipated the enemy and planned in advance, we would have capsized, let alone annihilated the Japanese pirates."

All the soldiers spoke one after another, and they all admired Zhu Pingan.

"Haha, it's your credit that's yours, no need to be polite. Oh, by the way, today's celebration banquet, you can drink alcohol as an exception, but each person can only drink half a bowl of wine at most. If you drink more, you will be severely punished. Each one is a member of the team. The chief must effectively shoulder the responsibility of supervision and prevent excessive drinking in Benwu.”

Zhu Pingan smiled.

"Oh, what a pity. Such a good dish can only be consumed with half a bowl of wine."

"Half a bowl of wine is not enough to fit between the teeth."

Many soldiers couldn't help but lamented when they heard that they could only drink half a bowl of wine.

"Alcohol is prohibited in the military camp. Today is the celebration banquet. If your Excellency can make an exception and let us drink half a bowl of celebration wine, we will be satisfied."

"That's right, it's good to drink some."

Some people could see it, and comforted them with contentment.

"Before the celebration banquet begins, let's delay everyone's tea time." Zhu Pingan said to everyone with a smile, and then clapped his hands.

Snap.

Along with the applause, everyone saw eight soldiers, a group of four carrying two heavy boxes across the crowd and into the open space in the middle of the zigzag.

"Open." Zhu Ping'an Langsheng said.

The eight soldiers opened the box in response, and a dazzling white light suddenly burst out.

"Ah, my eyes are going to be blinded, so much money."

"That's a lot of money."

All the soldiers screamed suddenly.

"When our Zhejiang Army was established, I promised you that for every Japanese pirate killed, we would be rewarded with thirty taels of silver. The day before yesterday, our Zhejiang Army killed fifty-seven Japanese pirates from Shangyu, and we would be rewarded with thirty taels of silver for every Japanese pirate killed. , that is one thousand, seven hundred and eleven taels of silver. Now, I have fulfilled my promise, and there are a total of one thousand, seven hundred and eleven taels of silver in these two boxes, and now they will all be distributed to you." Zhu Pingan pointed to the two boxes and faced each other. The soldiers said.

"Long live!"

"Long live my lord!"

When all the soldiers heard this, they were already intoxicated even before they drank.