NCCnovel Chapter 231 The Strange Emperor
Chapter 231 The Strange Emperor
Lu Shan let out an "ah" and continued to concentrate on playing Go.
He didn't know when the young master planned to attack the capital, so he wanted to retire early.
That old bastard Qingyun always writes letters to show off how happy he is in Taoyuan City. He is not envious! Humph!
In Beizhu County, in a small, dilapidated courtyard.
Qingyun lay on the kang, feeling hopeless about life.
Xu Yuanzhi wrote to him, saying that a rare mineral was found in the county, so he rushed over with Guiyi, but there was no mineral at all, only a group of dirty and smelly Taoist priests.
This group of Taoists were also unlucky. They were captured by Surile and brought to the grassland to make elixirs for him. After the royal court became chaotic, they fled collectively, got lost in the vast grassland, and ended up in Beizhu County, where they settled down.
Xu Yuanzhi and Wang Li were also shocked when they arrived. After learning what had happened, Xu Yuanzhi let himself go and sent a letter to Qingyun, who was planning to enjoy his old age in Taoyuan City, and tricked him into coming here.
The brat was quite eloquent, saying something like, "They are all Taoists. You are older than them anyway, so I feel relieved if you come and take charge of the situation."
In fact, I am just afraid that they will do something like rubbing gunpowder with their hands. He will be confused when he gets old!
I've written letters to inquire about them. The worst case scenario happened to Jiang Xinran. I heard that you raised pigs with your family, but it turned out that half of the piglets you bought died, probably because of the climate or something. You cried like crazy.
"Father, if he wants to make a move? You pay 200 taels!"
We have to do it even if it is difficult, after all, we boasted before leaving.
When Xu Yuanzhi first bought Beizhu County, he really planned to turn around and leave.
Qingyun was exhausted from the long journey and had to take over such a mess. He was so angry that he lay down and couldn't get up.
Who in the family understands? What emperor would send secret guards to pretend to be bandits to rob merchants of their money?
Under everyone's gaze, I opened the box, revealing a half-white, half-green glass bracelet.
The two secret guards who were following came back and reported the Qin family's blind box income today. Yuan Lian's hands couldn't help shaking.
Those seven people were secret guards sent by Wang Li to gather information.
Xu Yuanzhi bit the pen and sighed deeply.
Yuan Lian sat cross-legged next to me, picked up the half-written plan I had written and read it carefully. "You think the workshop is feasible, but you don't know if it can be accomplished."
After dealing with those things, it was time for spring ploughing, and he led the county residents to reclaim wasteland and plant sweet potatoes and potatoes.
After the people left, the two conspicuous vendors looked at each other, picked up their goods and quickly left the West Market.
His Majesty has specifically instructed that if the Qin family is alarmed, then it must be eradicated.
There have been so many minor incidents in the capital recently, so naturally I had to send people out to investigate, and that investigation led to the discovery of "Qin's Glass".
The result is predictable. There are only a handful of people outside the entire county who can read, and they all learned from these Taoists in those few months.
For this reason, he took the silver he brought to Taoyuan City to buy a batch of sweet potato and potato seeds, and found the "Sweet Potato Planting Manual".
But life is in the hands of the emperor, who can say "yes"?
Yuan Lianbin was so depressed that he couldn't sleep all night. He finally understood why Yu Chaosheng insisted on teaching his family literacy while fleeing.
Honglian, you and your group got off the carriage and left. Those who opened the blind boxes were basically not familiar with each other, so they gathered in groups of eight or eight in restaurants or teahouses to taste the glass skewers in their hands.
The only thing to blame is that the Qin family is too low-key and good at making money, which caught the eye of His Majesty.
Xu Yuanzhi threw the pen away, turned over, lay on his back, and murmured, "It's okay, I have to give it a try."
When I first came here, I was full of confidence, but when I really took over, I realized that every step was difficult. Fortunately, the situation in other counties was also quite different.
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Having made up his mind, Wang Li sent someone to call the commander of the secret guards and gave him instructions, without noticing the stiffness on the commander's face.
There isn't even a single house outside the tiny county town. Every household lives in a tent, and there's animal excrement everywhere. If you're not careful, you'll easily step on it. It's so disgusting that you can even vomit out overnight meals.
Before paying the bill, the old man took a deep breath, closed his eyes and grabbed a box.
"He wants to build a workshop outside the county?" I took off the towel hanging around my neck and wiped my face, asking in surprise.
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The more Qingyun thought about it, the more he gritted his teeth. Tomorrow I will write a letter to the master to file a complaint against this eldest son. Let him get the title. Let's see if I dare to cheat an old man again!
He was confident about it, but after hearing the amount of money that the glass beads could earn, Wang Li started to think about the merchant named Qin Zhi.
If it is about literacy, then the work can be carried out.
Just wish you good luck.
It’s almost catching up with the tax revenue of the next county!
After opening the blind box, I also left, but I stayed where I was, waiting to see what my arch-rival would open.
I have to quickly take my grandson to Doctor Lu’s residence, hoping to use the bracelet to knock on the Lu family’s small door.
The old man excitedly stuffed the box back into his arms, thanked Lumei, and hurried away.
"We planted so few sweet potatoes, we have to turn them into silver."
In just half a year, Xu Yuanzhi and Xiao Shen were forced to become two old farmers.
So little?
Alas, it is difficult for all the big guys!
Before the old man left, everyone's eyes fell back on Wantong.
You earn so little, and you want to lend me some to fill the treasury... that's a stretch, right? And I want it all.
Over the years, he and his disciple Guiyi went wherever they wanted, and they were so free. But then they gave me more than 60 Taoists, what should I do with them?
Not to mention the food, is this for human consumption? It's worse than pig food, it's all real food, I ate this kind of stuff when I was in exile.
His originally fair and rosy face was tanned now, and when he spoke, he showed a row of white teeth. I guess even if Wang Meicai and Liu Guihua came, they would recognize him.
When Wang Li heard that the colored glaze skewers came from the northwest, he thought it was my bad nephew who came to the capital. After some investigation by the secret guards, he found out that it was a merchant named Qin from Anping County who took over the goods of a caravan from the northwest.
Capital, West Market.
I opened the damaged ones from Wantong one by one, and found that they were basically mixed colors. Some of them were pure colors, but I was still very unhappy because the birthday gift for my father-in-law was not finished yet.
Not every Taoist priest can make gunpowder. You are really young and think too much! Be careful not to grow tall!
It was quiet outside the West Market until all the blind boxes in the two carts were sold out.
"You pay 500 taels. I'll sell it to you!"
Yuan Lianbin knew that Qingyun was going to tell on me behind my back. I opened a school outside the county, where everyone, young and old, men and women, were taught to read and write. I tortured a group of old herdsmen and made them suffer.
It's really worrying!
Xiao Shen came back from the field carrying a hoe and saw Xu Yuanzhi lying on the ground writing a plan. He went over to take a look.
"Oops! That bracelet is wrong! Half mountain, half water!"
But the new county magistrate, oh yes, the new county chief said that whoever can learn the Thousand Character Classic in the shortest time will be given 50 kilograms less sweet potatoes when they are ripe. For the sake of food, everyone in the county is fighting for it.
Yes, we should take advantage of the fact that few households in Beijing have been robbed right now. We should act quickly. If the items are stolen again, the loss will be minimal!
Yuan Lianbin's hair fell out in clumps during those days because of work in the workshop, and his hairline moved down despite his old age.
"But as you know, other counties also grow sweet potatoes. If there is no market for sweet potatoes alone, you can think of setting up a sweet potato flour or potato flour workshop."
Fortunately, I brought a lot of supplies. I first used sweet potatoes as wages, recruited people from outside the county to build dry toilets, and then organized people to build houses to separate people and livestock.