Jincheng

This is a medium-sized city that is not prosperous in Yuguo, but twelve years ago, the city could not even sit on the suffix of the word "city", it was just a prosperous town with the name of "city".

But since the Yu family, who was originally a royal family twelve years ago, moved over, and Yu Li took over as the city lord, in just twelve years, Jincheng has become a veritable medium-sized city.

The status of the Yu family in this city is transcendent, of course, not only because Yu Li is the lord of the city, or because he was the unattainable prince, but Yu Li has really become the object of admiration in the hearts of the people of Jincheng in the past twelve years.

Twelve years ago, when Yu Guo issued a notice that Yu Li, who was originally a prince of the imperial family, would take up the position of the city lord of Jincheng, the people in the city complained, and they naturally knew that a prince could be sent to a city that was not even a real city to be the city lord, it must be because the prince had made a great mistake and was degraded. The people have never been able to touch and don't care about things at that level, not to mention that the prince, even if he is only a city lord, can still control the fate of most of them, so what they are worried about is whether this future city lord who was once the prince of the imperial family is the one who is flying and domineering and careless about people's lives.

The people in the city spent more than three months in worry, and the Yu family, who had migrated with their families, finally arrived at the gate of the city, this large group of people and horses was about more than 200 people, led by a young man who was about thirty years old, he was wearing armor, his facial features were like knife carvings, his dark skin could not hide his handsome face, and his high-spirited appearance always made people feel that this was a general who had just won a battle on the battlefield, and next to this young man, there was a woman with a refined appearance, but the strange thing was that everyone did not notice the woman's appearance first, and what was more brilliant about her body was the momentum of that body。

Like the youth, the woman is also dressed in armor, her complexion is not as black as the youth, but it is also wheat-colored, and the momentum on her body is the same as that of the youth, and no one doubts that they must be the couple who will be determined for life or have been determined for life, and may even be the family of the general who has just left the battlefield and has made countless meritorious contributions.

The young man and the woman behaved tacitly, they first looked around the city in front of them, due to the inaction of the current city lord, the city gate has been lacking repair for a long time, the wooden city gate seems dilapidated, the city wall is high and low, some bricks have fallen to the ground, I don't know how long it has fallen, no one has cleaned it up so far. If there is no guard at the gate, it should not be difficult for a seventy-year-old man to an eight-year-old child, and want to climb over the city wall full of potholes, but like the city wall, the city guards who are lazy on weekdays and don't even want to glance at it are also useless, obviously, this is a city that is completely undefended to the outside world.

But even so, the men and women still glanced at each other, smiled, and then officially took the people behind them to prepare to enter the city, compared to the momentum of the two of them, the scattered people behind them couldn't even mention the pawns.

In the city, the people have already heard the wind and gone home, except for some bold residents and some vendors who have not had time to close their stalls, there are very few pedestrians on the street, even if they are still staying on the street passers-by or vendors, they are all holding their breath, as if they are facing a great enemy, for fear that if they are not careful, they will become the object of the new city lord's prestige.

The young man looked at the eyes on both sides of the street that were looking out through the cracks in the windows, and smiled helplessly, of course he thought of such a remote town, and suddenly had to parachute a city lord who used to be a prince, after all, he was a little uncomfortable, but he still didn't expect it to be so unpopular.

So, he cleared his throat, raised his voice as much as he could, and shouted at the deserted streets: "Hello everyone, I am Yu Li, your new city lord, you can rest assured, from now on, I will definitely let you treat you as my own family, and make your life better and better!"

This somewhat simple and even lame opening sentence became the first sentence of the future lord of this city after coming to Jincheng, and in the future, many residents of the town even joked with Yu Li about this matter: When I heard this sentence, I thought to myself, I am obedient, what a prince, how can I talk like we peasants.

After Yu Li greeted the people in the city, he began to choose the place where Yu Mansion would settle, Yu Li did not choose for a long time, and soon decided to build Yu Mansion in the east of the city, which was called "the poor in the east of the city" It means that in such a poor place as Jincheng, the people who live here are poorer than the ordinary people in Jincheng, most of them are homeless, relying on a few bedding to get through the four seasons of the year, even if they are locals in Jincheng for decades, I don't know who these homeless people were before they wandered, one is that these homeless people are full of dirt and hair, and the other is that no one wants to understand.

Yu Li chose this location for no other purpose, this was his first time governing a city, and he had no experience, but he felt that if he wanted to change a place, he had to start with the place where the dirt and dirt were most hidden.

Naturally, the people didn't understand what it meant, and they only thought that the new city lord wanted to build the mansion in the middle of nowhere, so that no one could find out, so as to protect a good reputation, perhaps in preparation for returning to a high position in the future.

After the completion of the Yu Mansion, Yu Li and the previous city lord did a handover ceremony, and since then, Yu Li has finally officially taken over Jincheng.

Twelve years is not a long time for the development of a city, but only in these twelve years, Jincheng under Yu Li's governance, the earth-shaking changes, as for the people, as early as a few months after Yu Li became the city lord, they recognized the new city lord from the bottom of their hearts, and finally understood that the first opening sentence of the new city lord after coming to Jincheng was not a lie.

The successive city lords of Jincheng, they like to go shopping very much, but every time they go to the street, what to buy, what restaurants to eat, they have always been free to spend, this is naturally not that the vendors do not want, but the city lord does not have the intention of giving money every time, and the vendors naturally do not have the courage to ask for it, so that if it is some small objects, it is just that, but every time the city lord goes to the street, the type of things purchased, the quantity, and the price are expensive, which makes the vendors cry bitterly, but they can only grit their teeth and swallow in their stomachs, and in the long run, for this reason alone, there are many vendors who are doing small business bankruptcy, which once made many vendors cowardly and wavering, but after several "lucks" from the city lord, he finally made up his mind to withdraw from the market helplessly. But even so, the rule that the city lord does not need to spend money on the street is deeply established.

So when Yu Li moved into Yu Mansion for two days, ready to add objects to the new mansion and go to the street, many vendors were silent, but Yu Li had already gone to the street, and it would be too deliberate to close the shop at this time, and it would be retaliated against by the new city lord afterwards, so the vendor bosses had to look at Yu Li who was walking on the street and watching everywhere, for fear that the city lord would come to his shop in the next moment.

And Yu Li, who was shopping, was confused, he watched the shop owners walk to the door of the store and look at him deadly, the frightened faces seemed to be looking at monsters that would eat people, Yu Li really didn't understand what he was so afraid of, he could only try to smile, so that these people who nominally belonged to his people could relax.

Yu Li was the first to walk into a wood furniture store, the boss looked at Yu Li walking straight towards him, almost fainted without slowing down, the furniture of his shop is made of high-quality century-old mahogany, even a table and a stool are worth a lot of money, it is one of the few objects in this small city that can be considered luxury.

Yu Li walked into the store, and a refreshing woody fragrance went straight to his nose, for some reason, his nose perennially smelled the rotten smell of dead corpses and the smell of blood, which disgusted him to the extreme, so whenever he had the opportunity, he would always go to places with rich vegetation and smell the refreshing fragrance of nature.

Yu Li looked around the shop, he liked these furniture very much, his former identity and his character of not being good at squandering money, caused him to be degraded until he was degraded, he did not know that he had very amazing savings, in the past, money was a very chicken thing for Yu Li, and now, he can take this opportunity to experience the feeling of squandering money that most people think is a pleasure in the world.

So Yu Li just ruled out a few pieces of furniture that were absolutely unusable, and then said to the boss: "I want the rest." ”

"Both.... All of them?!"

The furniture store owner's feet were so weak that he almost didn't stand firm.

Yu Li looked at the boss and wondered, "What's wrong?"

And in the ears of the boss, Yu Li's words carried an undisguised threat, as if if he did not agree, the next moment the city lord would burn him as one of the three fires of the new official.

"No... No problem. ”

Thinking of this, the boss could only nod without tears, and his whole person seemed to have become a lot of vicissitudes with him.

Then, Yu Li seemed to suddenly remember something, turned his head and asked again, "By the way, does your store provide transportation services?"

The boss gritted his teeth in his heart, although they can indeed provide furniture removal services with extra money in the store, but the previous city lord still seems to be ashamed of taking things for nothing, and he will never give up until he asks the people in the store to send things to the mansion, it seems that this new city lord is really as they think, after all, it is really a wishful thinking for people who have come down from such a high position, so that they can sympathize with the people's feelings.

"Yes, if the city lord needs it, I will immediately ask the guys in the store to put down what they are doing and help the city lord move these furniture back to your mansion first. ”

Although the boss secretly slandered in his heart, he could only break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, for civilians like them, even if he was just a small city lord, he could already be called powerful, and it was not difficult to let his family ruin with a little trick.

"That's not necessary, just free up a little time in the past three days and ask someone to help me move to the house. Yu Li looked at the group of guys behind the boss who were pretending to be busy, but their eyes kept glancing this way, and said helplessly.

"Okay. The boss nodded, trying to keep smiling as much as possible, but from an outsider's point of view, the smiling facial muscles looked really weird.

Yu Li looked at the boss who was still guarding him, and after glancing at the distorted smile, he quickly turned his head, even if he thought that although he was young, he had never seen such a terrible smile after experiencing ups and downs.

After a long time, Yu Li saw that the boss was still standing beside him with the same standing expression, and finally couldn't help but ask: "May I ask at this time, shouldn't I go to settle accounts and collect money?"

The boss was stunned and didn't react.

Yu Li pointed to the counter: "Hurry up and calculate how much it is?!"

The boss finally reacted, his expression became a little shocked, then he looked incredulous, and then he was ecstatic, usually it takes five or six steps to reach the counter, and two steps to fly over.

Faced with the strange behavior of this boss, Yu Li was confused, and didn't understand why there was such a big contrast in emotions in such a short period of time.

Due to his background and position, Yu Li has never really had much contact with the ordinary people, and has never stepped into the market and countryside for a long time, so he naturally can't understand that in today's world, the people's requirements for officials are so low, as long as they don't exploit them, as long as they don't make the official privileges difficult for the strong people when they come into contact with the people, they are already satisfied, and they dare not have more extravagant hopes.

The boss has been tinkering at the counter for a long time, of course, not calculating the price, for those who have been in the mall for a long time, how many things and how many prices can be said to be almost at a glance, what he is struggling with is how much to quote to the new city owner to be appropriate.

After thinking about it for a long time, the boss finally made up his mind, looked at Yu Li with an embarrassed smile on his face, and said a number after careful consideration.

Yu Li was a little surprised, this price is too cheap compared to his estimate, if this mahogany is a real material, it is really good and cheap, I don't know why this boss still has a smile that has made a lot of money.

I can't figure it out and don't think about it, Yu Li simply took out the money bag, counted the points, added a little more, as a service fee for transportation, and then put it on the counter, and then turned around and went out.

Seeing the city lord who paid so neatly, the boss was a little stunned, and then his face could not hide the joy, although the price he just quoted was far lower than the usual market price, but the wood furniture business is almost a huge profit, each order is enough to eat for a long time, although the price is far lower than the market price, but the emphasis is on the quantity, there is still a lot of money, since I saw Yu Li come in, the boss is ready to lose half of the store, at this time there can still be a profit, it is really like a dream.

After sighing, the boss hurriedly chased out, and shouted to Yu Li, who only had his back left: "The city lord go slowly, the city lord will come again next time!" At the same time, he lit up the handful of money in his hand to the vendors on both sides of the street, and then raised his head arrogantly and walked back to the store, after all, this is the first money received from the city lord in the entire Jincheng and among all the merchants.

After the vendors on the street understood, they all looked at each other in surprise, and then looked at each other and smiled, they finally didn't have to be distributed at the corner of the street in the future, vigilantly observing whether there was a figure of the city lord around, and finally they didn't have to worry about being lucky by the city lord, and lost those months of revenue in vain.

Of course, if the new city lord only buys things and pays, it can only prove that the new city lord is not a very vicious person, but it also cannot prove that this is a competent and good city lord.

So, Yu Li's next actions finally dispelled the doubts of the people of Jincheng, he first paid out of his own pocket, repaired the city gate, renovated the block, and then divided a large area for opening shops, the rent is much more affordable than before, and at the same time, it also reduced taxes, which undoubtedly reduced the living pressure of the people of Jincheng instantly.

Among these people, some of them have been living in Jincheng for decades, and have settled here for generations, and some people have migrated from the poorer and more remote places, but without exception, although Jincheng is poor, the pressure of life is not light at all, they also have to work from 9 to 5 to do the things that are repeated every day, take the money that is only enough to eat and drink, if there are dignitaries and nobles on the street, they have to be scared, for fear of inadvertently offending, and occasionally talking about it, it is also from the mouths of passers-by, even if it is just a small matter of hearsay, it can make a large number of people gather on the street and talk for a long time。

This kind of seemingly fulfilling, but in fact contentless life never made them feel relaxed for a day, but when they told these depressive things to their relatives and friends living in the nearby big city, the relatives and friends always asked with a little sarcasm: In such a poor place, do you need any money besides food and drink? Where is all this pressure born out of thin air?

They only have helplessness, yes, since there are people who don't want to bear the pressure of only worrying about eating and drinking, so those people hold a bed of bedding and live that life without worry, otherwise how did the people who live in the "poor and poor in the east of the city" come to be?

Now, with the arrival of the new city lord, from the current measures, they finally saw that Jincheng, a small city that has been the same for decades, has begun to change somewhat, and it has also made them have an unprecedented look forward to their future.

And all this is just what happened in the few months that this new city lord first arrived in Jincheng.

All in all, twelve years later, Jincheng is now prosperous on the streets, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.