The reason why Xiao Yuan and An Ning found a way to occupy the city so quickly was also to make a time difference.

Because they are fast, they will benefit from the chaos.

By the time others reacted, there was nothing they could do.

And Nanyi's side is very far away from the capital, and by the time the capital gets the letter and wants to suppress them, Xiao Yuan has already controlled the entire Nanyi Mansion.

In addition, An Ning and Xiao Yuan estimated that even if the capital got the letter, they probably wouldn't have time to take care of them.

After all, since last year, the entire Great Qi Dynasty has not been interrupted, and this earthquake is particularly serious, the entire Fucheng of Yancheng at the epicenter has collapsed, and it has also affected some surrounding towns, and even the capital has felt the tremor.

It can be said that such a serious earthquake has almost never been encountered by the Great Qi Dynasty since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

After the earthquake, there were victims everywhere, there was turmoil everywhere, and the turmoil near the capital and finding a way to rescue the disaster were enough headaches for Emperor Jingqing and the Chinese military minister of the dynasty.

A Tiangao Emperor is far away from Nanyi Mansion, and the court can't take care of such things at all.

This is exactly what Xiao Yuan and An Ning need.

An Ning was busy managing the accounts in the back house, while Xiao Yuan led the troops to arrest a number of rebellious people, and five days later, Xiao Yuan gathered a number of people under the city gate and pushed out several leaders who followed Yu Youcai to make a rebellion this time, as well as those who killed the most people, to a public trial.

Xiao Yuan personally counted the crimes of these people, and directly beheaded these people in front of the whole city.

He also frightened those who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to make trouble, and since then, Fucheng has been born in peace.

Subsequently, Xiao Yuan asked Xiao Jin to take Dong Da and these people to transport the materials stored in the mountain by truckload, as well as the salt that Xiao Yuan and the others got were also transported.

Some merchants in the city wanted to take the opportunity to raise prices, but who knew that Xiao Yuan had transported so much grain and salt, which made the people in the city settle down.

The common people are actually very simple, as long as there is something to eat, which can keep them alive, they will not make trouble.

After the price was stabilized, Xiao Yuan took people to visit some big merchants in Nanyi Mansion, whether it was to send troops to suppress them or to lure them with profit, in short, let those merchants also get on his ship.

By the time the city was completely stable, it was already a month later.

At this time, Xiao Yuan asked Xiao Ling to take the Yuan family to Yuan's house to ask the Marquis of Guangning and his sons to go out of the mountain to help.

After sending Xiao Ling and the Yuan family away, Xiao Yuan was able to relax a little.

By this time it was already very hot.

Xiao Yuan went to the government office that day and went home.

As soon as he entered, he felt a chill.

But I saw ice basins everywhere in the house, and An Ning was wearing a long dress with flowers and was watching the girls at home write.

"Where did you get the ice?"

Xiao Yuan asked An Ning.

An Ning smiled and pointed at Yin'er: "It was Yin'er who made the ice made of saltpeter." ”

Xiao Yuan touched Xiao Yin's head: "Our Yin'er is very smart, we actually found such a method from ancient books, and it has improved it even better." ”

Xiao Yin smiled: "I just saw that the weather was too hot, and my father and mother couldn't sleep at night, so I thought of a way to get an ice basin, and in the future, our family will not lack ice, and we won't have to be hot at night." ”

Xiao Fu finished writing a large character and glanced at Xiao Yin: "I can't say that this ice can still be sold for money." ”

"That'll do. ”

Xiao Yuan sat down and looked at a few girls: "In the future, the matter of making ice and selling money will be in your hands, and how much you earn is yours, which can be regarded as adding some rouge money to you." ”

"Really?"

Xiao Hui was very happy when she heard it.

An Ning nodded her forehead: "Your father can still coax you to fail, okay, this matter will be left to you." ”

The five girls saw that Xiao Yuan obviously had something to say to An Ning, so they all got up and said goodbye.

Xiao Yuan stopped Xiao Yin: "Yin'er, wait a minute." ”

Xiao Yin stayed in the house, waiting for her sisters to leave before asking Xiao Yuan, "What did my father tell me to do?"

Xiao Yuan smiled and said: "Yin'er will make up stories, this time my father gave you a task, my father found a few scholars for you to help you write, you carefully made it up, and after making it up, let the storyteller tell it in the teahouse in the city." ”

"What's the story?"

Speaking of making up stories, Xiao Yin must be good at it, in the modern society of information explosion, what kind of bloody story has she never seen.

"Roughly speaking, when there is no way today, so that disasters are frequent, in addition, you have to let people preach how Emperor Jingqing is unreasonable, how to favor the adulterous concubine, how to harm the minister, in short, the more people want to bite him down, the better. ”

Xiao Yuan told Xiao Yin what he requested.

Xiao Yin clapped her hands happily: "This must work, Dad, you can take a look." ”

She came out of the house happily, and went back to the room first to think about how to harm the reputation of Emperor Jingqing and Concubine Li.

Xiao Yuan talked to An Ning about business.

"Now that many people in the city are in trouble, some big houses are vacated, you take the money to buy one, and I will let the fourth child go and pick up my father and mother. ”

An Ning nodded: "Okay, I see." ”

She thought about it and said, I will also buy a house on the Yuan family's side, after all, if you want to use them, you have to give some favors.

"You can do it. ”

Xiao Yuan smiled and held An Ning's hand: "When the people are brought in, I will lead the troops to level some of the small messes around, and then let the fourth and sixth children lead the troops to collect some of the prefectures and cities next to Nanyi, and when our territory is bigger, you will scatter some of the luck you got from Li Guifei." ”

An Ning smiled: "I know, Nanyi Mansion is full of waste, and it should be more lucky, after all, there is more luck, and it is easy to attract people to vote." ”

"And the grain thing. ”

Xiao Yuan said in a low voice: "This time, I will let the sixth child come back to bring the grain seeds of our three families, and when the time comes, we will try to plant them in Nanyi Yifu, this time, we will use three years to build Nanyi into a land of fish and rice." ”

Xiao Yuan was not in a hurry to expand.

He must first stabilize the situation, and he must fight steadily.

Nanyi Mansion is said to be a prefecture city, but in fact, the area is very large, equivalent to the area of a province in other places, and when he takes down the surrounding towns, this place is really not small.

Xiao Yuan planned to build a few more prefectures in addition to Nanyi Mansion, and began to seek development after integration.

He came to Nanyi for too short a time, and he actually lacked elite soldiers and strong generals in his hands, and also lacked food and grass population.

An Ning knew Xiao Yuan's thoughts, so she said softly: "During this time, I will cultivate good seeds, and in addition, the industry and commerce here in Nanyi also need to develop." ”

The two discussed for a while, and Xiao Yuan was also tired, so he lay down to rest after washing up.

And Xiao Ling took the Yuan family back to the county.

As soon as he went back, Liu County, who came to the county, looked for him.

Xiao Ling knew the relationship between Liu Xianling and Xiao Yuan, and he didn't beat around the bush: "My third brother said, let you help guard the county, and wait for him to choose a reliable candidate before letting you go to Fucheng." ”

Liu Xianling also thought of this, so he smiled and said: "The sixth master let go, I will definitely guard the county." ”

After Xiao Ling talked to Liu Xianling, he went to Houshan Village with Yuan.

The Yuan family already knew about Xiao Yuan's occupation of the city, and when they saw Xiao Ling coming back with the Yuan family, their expressions were very complicated.

The Marquis of Guangning even shouted at the Yuan family: "You evil girl, I ...... Why did my Yuan family come up with such a disloyal and unfilial thing as you, you are still with this thief, you are really angry......"

He clutched his chest and gasped.

Mrs. Guangning Hou wiped her tears and took Yuan's hand: "My son, are you okay?"

Yuan shook his head.

She looked at the Marquis of Guangning: "Dad, my daughter knows that you are loyal and patriotic, but you can open your eyes and see what has become of the world, since the drought last year, how many people have suffered, on the way we came, don't you see enough? In that case, what has the court done? What has Your Majesty done?" And our family, my sister is cautious in the palace, and she has never harmed anyone, but she was killed by that demon concubine and ended up with no bones, father, if you want to be loyal, you go to be loyal, anyway, I have resentment in my heart, I feel sorry for my sister, I don't want to end up being persecuted, besides, I am married, I am the wife of the Xiao family, so I naturally have to act with my husband. ”

Yuan's words made the Marquis of Guangning even more angry.

He glared at Yuan desperately: "You ......"

Xiao Ling took a step forward and arched his hand at the Marquis of Guangning: "Father-in-law, my Xiao family just had some friendship with the abolished prince back then, but it ended up being exiled from the family, what is wrong with your Yuan family, it was seized and confiscated just because of a few words of pillow wind from Concubine Li, and the faint prince and the traitorous concubine have already forced us to such a point, do we still have to sit still?"