After the apprenticeship banquet, the Xiao family became quiet again. Xiao Changsheng was still young after all, even if Qiao Mu had connections, he could get him an official position.
I¡¯m afraid he doesn¡¯t have the ability to sit firmly in his position.
So naturally there is no rush when seeking an official position.
The most urgent thing is to help him improve his abilities.
Regarding this point, Qiao Mu¡¯s plan is that if he can be promoted through the imperial examination, try to let him be promoted through the imperial examination. As for using the privileges of the nobles, that is the last resort.
¡°After all, once you use the privileges of being a noble, even if you can go to court, you will definitely be despised and ostracized by those officials who become officials through formal channels.
It has a bad psychological impact on children.
"Besides, the child is still young, only fourteen years old, so there is no need to be so anxious. People say that those who are thirty years old, those who are fifty years old, and those who are fifty years old are already considered young.
So there is really no need to rush into the imperial examination.
And if it really doesn¡¯t work.
Can¡¯t you still do martial arts?
With Qiao Mu¡¯s level, even if she gave her great-grandson initiation every day, she would be able to turn him into an innate master within a year or two, and an innate master would be enough to sweep the entire martial arts competition.
So Qiao Mu really wasn¡¯t worried at all.
Every day he patiently teaches Xiao Changsheng martial arts.
In her spare time, she will also greet her three married great-granddaughters and return to her parents¡¯ home if nothing happens. The most important thing is to bring back her great-granddaughter and great-grandson.
They haven¡¯t seen a child in their house for many years.
So far, the closest relationship is with the family of the three great-granddaughters and great-grandson-in-law.
So of course there will be more comings and goings.
It can also add some popularity to the house.
In addition, Qiaomu has devoted most of its energy to manpower training and asset restructuring.
Weren¡¯t all the housekeepers, shopkeepers, and village owners all killed by Qiao Mu before? But after they were caught, the family¡¯s many shops and fields couldn¡¯t just be left there. Someone had to take care of them.
Temporary training will definitely not be able to keep up.
So Qiao Mu could only promote some of the people who kept their own rules and let them take care of things temporarily. He didn't expect them to be smart or capable. He just asked them to follow the original process without making any mistakes.
Now that half a year has passed, Qiao Mu has finally cultivated some manpower and figured out the situation of those guys who were temporarily promoted to act as agents and whether they have the ability.
So of course we need to make drastic changes.
Those who are capable of their duties will stay, and those who are incompetent will be replaced with people trained by themselves. In addition, it will be a major reform.
For example, the integrated management of farms, the construction of greenhouses, various earthen workshops, etc.
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Everything is included.
The products he produced were sold in his own shop, and it didn't take long for him to make a lot of money. As for other people's jealousy, not to mention Qiao Mu's marquis title, his family had three top-notch imperial wives. The one with the lowest status is also a Marchioness.
Even if you want to take advantage of it.
Not many people dare to do that!
Not to mention that Qiao Mu specially sent a batch of things to the palace. At the same time, there was a great famine in the northwest some time ago and the imperial household department could not get out the money.
??Specially donated two million taels of silver.
This donation of money, although it showed a little bit of wealth, did make Emperor Qinlan quite happy and gratified. Although Xiao Changsheng was not promoted to a title, he still bestowed upon him a title that could be passed down to three generations. No downgrade.
At the same time, he also gave many things.
It¡¯s such a time when the holy love is strong.
Who dares to target their family¡¯s industries?
Of course, these were all done deliberately by Qiao Mu. If she wanted to hide it deliberately, then she could secretly train people, do business secretly, etc. There was no need to be so ostentatious.
The main reason why she did this.
It¡¯s still to give the Xiao family a sense of presence.
So that everyone knows that the Xiao family is not in decline, but just dormant and not struggling.
In addition, it is also a good thing to sell to the emperor.
After all this trouble, the emperor finally knew the name of their family member Xiao Changsheng, so that he would be more familiar with his name when he saw him again in the future.
For him to take the imperial examination in the future.
They are all beneficial things.
Actually, Qiao Mu had no intention of selling a good deal to Emperor Qinlan. After all, he was already sixty years old. Who knows when he would pass away.
But at the end of the year, Qiao Mu went to the palace, attended a palace banquet, and met Emperor Qinlan with his own eyes, and then found out from his face that this guy still had at least twenty-eight years to live.
Twenty-eight years!
If she wanted to please the next emperor, she would have to wait another twenty-eight years. This time was really too long. It was impossible for Qiao Mu to let her great-grandson lie dormant for twenty-eight years before taking the imperial examination, so she could only think of a way to hug him well first. With a hug on the lap of the current emperor, he can live for another twenty-eight years anyway.
After that, you don¡¯t have to worry about losing your position.
Just concentrate on protecting the emperor.
This is the policy set by Qiao Mu for the next thirty years. Taking the opportunity to donate money and sell well is the first step.
There will be many donation plans in the future.
The main purpose is to set up a golden sign for the Xiao family to do good deeds and accumulate virtues. However, in order to avoid letting others mistakenly think that their family has other ideas, what Qiao Mu needs to do next is to make everyone believe that while doing good deeds and accumulating virtues, Their family does good deeds not to win over people's hearts, but to accumulate merit and eliminate all the sins and killings their family is burdened with, so that their men can live longer and have more heirs.
As long as this impression can be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
? Then their families will be able to do good deeds and accumulate virtues without any scruples, and build up a golden body of benevolence.
Reached a certain point.
Even the emperor has to be afraid of something.
At the same time, it will also make others feel that although their family has made a lot of money, most of it has been dispersed, thereby reducing the hostility of outsiders.
But in fact, Qiao Mu will definitely keep some of it. She will secretly accumulate the money and then train some people who do not appear in the open and have nothing to do with their family.
And use those manpower to deploy overseas.
?Prepare for the future.
We are not preparing for a few decades, but for a few hundred years. No family in the world can be prosperous forever, so naturally we cannot put all our eggs in one basket. There is nothing we can do about the lack of heirs now. Wait for the future. If there were more children, Qiao Mu would definitely divide the family and property.
At that time, the direct descendants can seize the throne in the capital.
The Shuzi branch heads to other places.
Or settle overseas.
After several generations, although the relationship between them may not be as close as that of their ancestors, they are all descendants of the Xiao family. It has to be said that Qiao Mu has really thought far enough in order to fulfill his original wish of having no descendants. Deep enough.