Qian Fugui is thirteen this year, his father is the chief groom of Old Lady Gu, and he used to be in charge of the stables of the Protector Mansion, and the family life was much better at that time than now. Every time his father saw a nobleman riding a tall horse to the house, he would ask his two elder brothers to lead the horse, and the reward was much more than the monthly money. But since the eldest lord inherited the knighthood, there were fewer people who came to the door, and after Daddy Qian served more than a dozen old horses of the old lady, he went home to hug his grandson. The eldest brother went to the north of the city to manage a small village of more than ten acres, and the second brother went to Tongda Goods Store, he was made a lot of money by his mother, and he tried to stuff it into the net screen service, and was in charge of collecting the horse manure in the stable of the Yiyuan.

After Tongda Cargo Bank collapsed, the family never saw the second brother and his wife again, leaving only a three-year-old nephew. The mother cried and beat her chest, regretting it. After the whole family followed Mrs. Gu to the Baron's Palace, the mother cried again and beat her chest and regretted it again. When the fourth lady sent their family and many families to the Zhuangzi managed by the eldest brother, the mother cried and beat her chest again and regretted it.

More than a dozen small courtyards in Zhuangzi were suddenly overcrowded, and they were all families with no income. The eldest brother smoked a hookah with his head stuffed, and no one came to him to speak.

Seeing that there was no play in Zhuangzi, everyone dispersed, and the next day began to find their own way to make money. Lao Tu, who was in charge of Mrs. Fang's treasury, took a few young and strong sons to the son-in-law's village next door to look for work, and the nurse of the five rooms and eleven girls planned to go to the West Market Tooth Store with her son tomorrow to see if there was a shortage of people, and she went to pull a string to earn a reward. On weekdays, the sisters and maids who are pampered and pampered like the young lady all pick up needles and threads, and ask Lao Wei, who used to manage tea in the gatehouse, to take them to other villages to sell for money.

Fugui also wants to do some work, but what can he do?

When I went to the Qingyi Courtyard, there was a small room in the inverted seat of the stable, and the brothers who were not on duty would follow a little guy named Alder to read and write. It is said that the county lord arranged the work, and each of them prepared three books and a slate charcoal pen that could be erased. Alder is the younger brother of the second-class maid Gan Ming next to the county lord, if the county lord is a Langjun, he can't be a personal servant.

He studied with Alder on and off for two years, and there was also a fixed seat for him in the hut, and now he would be able to read the three-character scripture and the thousand-character scripture in full, and he had only learned the beginning of the text. The handwriting is ugly, the brush has not been used, and the abacus is not good, but it should still be possible to find a place to be an apprentice, right?

He told his father and eldest brother anxiously, and Father Qian slapped his thigh, rushed into the back room and scolded his mother while scolding, "Let you do something unconscionable with the Gu Sanjia...... Now I'm still thinking about what Uncle Yan is looking for! …… Why don't you bring our dick to life? …… Look at the people who taught your son to read and write! …… He won't do anything bad with you, so you just throw him here...... It's not up to him to raise it now! …… I'll kill you black-hearted stupid woman! ”

He wanted to go in and see his mother, who was howling so badly, but the eldest brother stood in the way like a mountain, and he crouched back weakly on the ground.

The next day, Daddy Qian went out and brought Alder and a few other people with him, and took him and his mother, who had a swollen nose and a broken right leg. He and Alder sat in a brand-new carriage, and Alder was still very kind to him, giving him very fragrant snacks and drinking very good tea, and asked him what was the matter, and he cried and told him about yesterday's events. Alder comforted him and told him to continue working in the stables of the Seiyi Courtyard in the future. Later, he got a day off and went back to bury his second brother, and I heard from the eldest brother that the second brother did not have a good skin on his body, and the second sister-in-law did not see anyone alive or dead. The mother's broken leg was not picked up, lying on the bed as skinny as wood, holding the little nephew every day, and muttering to herself repeatedly with blank eyes, "Mother is sorry for you, mother shouldn't be greedy for that hundred taels of silver......"

After returning to the Qing Yi Hospital, he thought silently for seven or eight nights, and finally found Alder and asked, was that Mr. Yan killing his second brother?

Alder Mu pondered and said, "That Mr. Yan used to be unfavorable to Grandpa Guo, and I don't know the specifics, no one knows his true situation, only that he is involved in the palace." ”

He said that he knew where Mr. Yan lived, and Alder was stunned.

That time, he just finished delivering horse manure, and saw his mother come out of the shop where his second brother worked, and go to Xishi with Gu San's aunt. He secretly followed, thinking that if he saw the Luban lock last time, he would take it directly and ask his mother to pay. Mother has always loved face, and she will definitely not pick the door in front of Gu San's sister-in-law, she will definitely buy it for him!

When he saw that they had disappeared into the alley, he waited outside until it was dark, and then he saw his mother come out of a chaimen hut in the alley behind him. And Aunt Gu San walked out of the alley half an hour later.

Alder stared at him solemnly for a while, and took him to find the seventh master in the flying fish suit. After many days, Alder took him to a new school run by the county lord and the prince, where the master of the Gongqiao Pavilion was invited to teach all kinds of mortise and tenon carpentry, and he seemed to have entered a new world. The first bamboo carving carved by himself, he gave it to Qian Dad. Listening to the sister-in-law and the eldest niece chatting, Daddy Qian cried all night.

After many, many days, Alder led him to an unsealed thin-skinned coffin, in which two corpses were lying, saying that this was Mr. Yan and his younger brother in the palace, who wanted to help other princes usurp the throne, and used the second master, and his mother and the second brother's family helped the second master to send a message to Mr. Yan, which led to a monstrous disaster.

If he hadn't told the seventh master where Mr. Yan was, they would have almost killed the county lord.

Two innocent pieces of garbage!

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When Qian Fugui's family was thrown to Zhuangzi, Gu Ci was stumbling on the genealogy and accounts of the Xie family, and only showed his face when he saw off the Ren brothers, and the rest of the time he was on the desk, and he couldn't even take care of preparing a birthday gift for the prince.

The ancestral business of Xiao Xie's two families is the main purpose for her to come to Anton and Langya, and there are no people in the two families, but there are still a large number of industries and some side lines that have come out of five suits and five suits.

After Xiao Lu tied his hair, the Queen Mother had already given him the position of the head of the Xiao family, and now Xiao Lu handed over the property to her, and several local collateral clan old bloodlines were far away, so naturally they would not and did not dare to disagree. After the Xie family is Xie Gongyi, the head of the family was originally Xie Xiang, the eldest son of Xie Caiqing, and gave birth to Dalang Xie Hong, Shilang Xie Xian and Jiulang Xie Chi, and the younger brother Xie Dong has Erlang Xie Yi and Wulang Xie Yi, and the younger brother Xie Yu is the father of Sanlang Xie Tao and Liulang Xie Mi.

After Xie Chi succeeded as the head of the family, the Xie family's property was given to their two daughters, Xie Yu and Xie Yun. Xie Yu's part was used as a dowry, and under the witness of Xie Yun, Xiao Lu was the master and merged into the East Palace. When Yuan Yi was worshipping Xiao Lu as his teacher, he handed over these things to Xiao Lu and Xie Qing to take care of on his behalf, and now of course they are also in the hands of Gu Ci. Xie Yun's part has always been in Gu Yao's hands, and Da Yu's good father adheres to the principle of 'earning money is the son's business, and spending Lao Tzu's money is the baby's daughter's business', and handed it over to Gu Ci.

Therefore, Xiao Xie's two properties, whether they are shops or granges, even sacrificial fields are under Gu Ci's name, and the two families are just working for her.

However, the situation of the Xie family is more complicated, and there are two side branches living in Langya City. A current clan elder is called Xie Yin, his grandfather Xie Yanqing can be regarded as the cousin of Xie Caiqing's generation, has been passed down for two generations, his father Xie Qi is an only son, he is also an only son, there are no concubines, four daughters were born before, and two twin sons are only four years old. The patriarch of the other branch is the acting patriarch of the Xie family in Langya City, named Xie Qiang, his father Xie Lin, and his grandfather Xie Zhong. It is only because they have lived here for generations, and the three sons are all adults, that they can faintly hold the bull's ear. Knowing that Gu Ci came this time to clarify the land and income, he has his own little Jiujiu.

Xie Qing is the chief steward of the Xie family, and he is in charge of all the shops, Xie Pang is Xie Qing's second brother, who manages the genealogy, ancestral house and sacrificial fields, and Xie Lian is the third brother, who is responsible for taking care of the branch in Langya City. It's easy and enjoyable to check these accounts, and there are no major problems.

The Grange is entrusted to the steward of Xiao to help collect rent every year in Anton's Zhuangtou, and there is more room for maneuver here. Gu Ci focused on explaining that Gan Ming took dozens of female soldiers with all-round talents in civil and military affairs to start checking the accounts of the Grange in the past five years, and the most important thing is that he also took out the county records of these years, did a good job of abridgement, and understood the year and tax situation.

As for the Shengqiang grain store on the grange, which specializes in buying and selling grain in a unified manner, he will check the accounts himself.

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On the day of Xiaoman, Xie Qiang, Xie Yin and others came to the ancestral house of the Xie family to meet Gu Ci.

Xie Yin brought her eldest daughter Xie Ran to the door, and it was said that she planned to make a mistake. Xie Qiang brought two sons, the eldest son Xie Wei managed the Shengqiang grain store, and the second son Xie Peng managed the Zhuang affairs.

When they met for the first time, Gu Ci was very polite, he didn't bring a fence, he only wore a veil, accompanied by Xie Qing, and received them in the flower hall, with Gan Ming and Mingxiu standing behind her.

After greeting tea, several people began to introduce their own situation.

In addition to the part of the land that the ancestors gave to Xie Yanqing, the other part is the land of the clansmen who purely rely on the clan land to make a living. The Xie family, which has been inherited for a hundred years, naturally also has a lot of hidden fields, and the small fields in the hands of several clansmen are put together to form a big one, which is put in the name of Xie Xiang, exempt from tax and exempt from military service, and it can be regarded as Xie Xiang's contribution to the family.

The fields managed by Xie Qiang are more miscellaneous, only a small part of them are ancestral land, and more of them are the small people nearby who hold the fields voluntarily or forcibly under the name of the Xie family in order to borrow the light of the Xie family, and after a long time, they will be merged into the Xie family's fields, and they will be used as the head of the village or as domestic servants, and then go to hire tenant farmers to work, these people are black households.

The state capital's field book only registers the Xie family's sacrificial fields and their own fields divided at the time of the founding of the country, and these hidden fields of other people's families are not included, and Xie Qiang and Xie Yin each have another small account to record.

In order to give her second brother a good head of land tax, Gu Yin is the first step of the Great Wall, and she must figure out this private account and find a way to include it in the state capital's land register without harming the interests of tenant farmers and small people.

In fact, the taxes paid by the imperial court are not heavy now, and because of the relationship between the Protectorate and the crown prince in Langya City, few officials dare to send excessively heavy conscription or additional harsh taxes to these clansmen. Therefore, it stands to reason that the head of the village left enough rations and grain seeds for the tenant farmers, and the rest was the grain of Gu Ci. But because Xie Qiang persuaded Xie Yun to build a Shengqiang grain store back then, the excess grain was sold through the grain store, and what went to Gu Ci's hands was only the silver money account. Over the years, I want to know that Xie Qiang and the grain bank will not be clean. After Gu Ci finished calculating the accounts of the grain bank, and then compared it with the output of the grange for several years, he probably had a number in his heart.

Originally, Xie Xiang's stipulation was that 'Tian is in the people', and whoever enters the Xie family will sign the deed and be the head of the land.

Here is also an interlude about the situation in Gu Zhuangyuan's family, which has faded out of everyone's sight. His ancestors were originally squires on the outskirts of Langya, and they also had a lot of fields, but their descendants were not infected with gambling, and there were only about 20 acres left in his father's hands. They don't know how to plant, and the tenant farmers rely on the Xie family for food, so they can't invite anyone to come to this small piece of land, and they can't open the pot at home. Seeing that the baby's only son was a genetically mutated reading seed, Gu Niang's heart was crossed, and she stopped Xie Yun who came back to visit relatives at the city gate, and asked for a grace, and Tian was merged into the Xie family, but the couple did not sign a deed of sale or become a slave, and made a deed to be hired laborers. In this way, they still belong to the Qi people who are taxed and have to serve in the government register, and it does not affect their son's imperial examination. When the levies went to build the embankment, the old couple did not hide and died unexpectedly when the embankment burst in heavy rain. After Xie Yun found out, he asked Xie Qing to pay special attention to the matter of repairing the embankment, and by the way, he sent some silver to Gu Zhuangyuan to take care of it, and sent him to the Xie family and Langya Mansion to study, so that he had the title of the gold list later.

It's a pity that Xie Yun's kindness set a bad precedent for the clansmen who stayed in Langya, in order to avoid forced labor and taxes, when many people came over again, they neither let people sign a deed of sale as domestic servants, nor did they enter the government register to be a compiling all the people, and properly dragged their families to be black households. The small people are not stupid, it is these 'good citizens' who need to serve hard labor, and the slave official status is not included in the service, even if it is a craftsman service, it is a much easier and more comfortable technical work than them. The wealthy family has low taxes and cannot afford to serve, and the children with backers have a wide way out, which is much better than digging food in the soil, so why not? If the family does not have the life of a second Gu champion, it really doesn't matter whether it is a good citizen or not.

As soon as Gu Ci mentioned the issue of the identity deed to Xie Yin, Xie Qiang interjected, "I'm afraid the county lord doesn't know, the customs of one place and one place, and the farms around Langya basically recognize the Xie family's brand. The successive parents were treated with courtesy, and at the beginning of his tenure, he also specially worshiped the ancestral hall. This is also the legacy of our ancestors. ”

Gu Ci stared at him, "What does Qiang Gong mean is that my second brother is courteous to the Xie family, is it for the face of a few people here?" ”

Xie Qiang smiled awkwardly, "The county lord said with a smile." It is customary to follow the customs of the locals. ”

"You're warning me?"

Xie Wei immediately played a round, "The county lord is serious, my father is just upright and has no malicious intentions. ”

Gu Ci didn't look at him, and only said to Xie Qiang, "In that case, ask Qiang Gong to bring the accounts of the grange and the grain bank early tomorrow morning to reconcile." I don't care about Langya's practice, my practice is, first, the account problem is false one penalty ten; Second, if you don't want to deal with me, the Xie family won't keep anyone. Everyone, don't send it slowly. ”

After saying that, Gu Ci turned around and left, and all the maids and guards in the hall said in unison, "Congratulations to the county lord." ”

This brushed the ground and bowed, and the few people who saw Gu Ci for the first time in the hall were scared into a cold sweat, and then they really felt that the little girl in gorgeous clothes and snow just now was the most favored rare pearl of the dynasty, not as simple as an ordinary boudoir daughter.

Xie Qing didn't look at Xie Qiang's blue and white face, and said kindly to Xie Yin, "The county lord is deeply favored by the queen mother and the emperor, although he is young, he should not be underestimated, please think carefully." ”

Xie Wei muttered indignantly, "The county lord can't use his power to suppress people." ”

Xie Ran, who has never dealt with Xie Wei, retorted, "If a person can sit upright, who can suppress it?" ”

Xie Qing's smile faded, "It stands to reason that the county lord is a princess, and he must pay a big salute." Today, I treat you with family courtesy, and I am already a corporal of Lixian. ”

Xie Qiang's family left in a huff.

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On the second day, when Xie Qiang brought Xie Wei and Xie Peng again, he was taken to the main hall and drank a stomach of water. Gu Ci was late and met them through a landscape ivory screen.

Mingxiu held the county chronicle and the production account of the grange, and Gan Ming took the detailed account of the grain bank and began to ask.

"In the twenty-seventh year of Sejong, the total output of Zhuangzi is 5,000 stone less than last year, why?"

Xie Peng replied calmly, "There was a flood that year, and although one season of japonica rice was replanted, the yield was still reduced by two to three percent. ”

"The county chronicle said that the valley was flooded before the rain, and the summer harvest rice did decrease by three and a half percent compared with the previous year, but in the second half of the year, the wind and rain were smooth, why was the output of bud rice still less than three percent?"

Xie Peng said with some hesitation, "Then, the seeds of that batch of bud rice have been damp, which has affected the harvest." ”

Gan Ming immediately added, "But why is the income of the grain bank in the second half of the year the same as the income of the previous year in the same time?" What more grain was sold? ”

Xie Wei felt cold sweat on his forehead, and stammered a little, "Put, Chen Gu, sold some of the ......"

"Last year's wind and rain were smooth, and the output was 20% more than the previous year's disaster, why did the income of the grain bank not change from the previous year?"

Xie Wei answered very smoothly this time, "I didn't sell all of them." ”

Mingxiu pressed step by step, "That is to say, the current grain in the warehouse should be the 18,000 stone collected this year and the rest of last year?" ”

Xie Wei nodded and took a big sip of tea.

Gu Ci spoke slowly at this time, "Does Qiang Gong still want to continue to reconcile?" ”

Xie Qiang was very arrogant, "A certain will of the county lord." ”

Gu Ci glanced at Xie Qing, Xie Qing hadn't spoken yet, Mingxiu took the total accounts of the past years calculated by Gan Ming and others, and walked in front of Xie Qiang with an arrow, "Please take a look at it, confirm that it is correct, please sign for it in triplicate." He also intimately handed over an abacus pen and paper.

Xie Qiang looked at it with a tense face, and signed it with his two sons.

Mingxiu left one for them, took the other two back, and quietly made the set board.

Xie Qing looked at Gu Ci helplessly, Gu Ci smiled and his eyebrows were bright, "Gan Lin, go and see if the little brother and chamomile have stored the grain and silver in the granary?" ”

The father and son outside the screen were like lightning strikes.

Gu Ci spoke slowly again, "Are you sure Qiang Gong still wants to continue to reconcile?" Ten penalties for one false! ”

Xie Qiang was really panicked this time, "County, county lord, there is still surplus grain in the granary that has not been put into storage......"

"How many days?"

"What, what, how many days?"

"Take a look at the amount of food and the balance of the money you just signed. Few days? ”

“……”

There was a deathly silence.

Xie Qiang closed his blood-red eyes fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "Please ask the county lord for a month of grace." ”

"Ten days."

"County Lord!"

"You're begging me." Gu Ci's voice has always been very soft and beautiful, delicate as a warbler, and with a special soft and lazy feeling.

Xie Qiang trembled his lips and was speechless.

"I came to Langya in the hope of doing my best to make the Xie family better in the future and not fall into the name of the ancestors. I'm not here to find an ancestor who dares to point fingers at me. Ten days, or ten times, remember? ”

Xie Qing ordered someone to help the paralyzed father and son out.

Gu Ci has invited the four sisters of the Xie Yin family, who have been waiting next door, to come over.

The four sisters listened to the whole process just now, and now they are a little weak.

Xie Ran took a sip of hot tea and calmed down, "County Lord, there is no concealment of falsehood in my family's accounts. "Xie Ran's account loan method, Xie Qing's three brothers have all promoted it in the shop, and she has learned it well.

Gu Ci asked people to remove the screen, and said with a smile, "I invited a few sisters over to talk about accounts." ”

However, Gu Ci, who did not wear a veil to reveal his true face, made the four sisters sturdy and amazed for a long time, and when Gu Ci spoke again under their attention, the enthusiasm he gained was obviously much higher.

"When my second brother first arrived in Langya, he reduced taxes lightly, exempted from all harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and is currently similar to the rent collected by the Xie family, and the family study and Mongolian school are also ready to be re-run, I don't know if the clansmen are willing to go to the slave family, so that the children can have another grain champion?"

Xie Ran, as the spokesperson of the sisters, began to ask, "Naturally, I want to, otherwise why would those people be black." ”

"Are you worried about Qi Min's service?"

"Not only that, but when there is a fight for water, a boundary monument or a determination of fields, my father and Uncle Qiang can speak in Zhizhou."

"These are subsections. If you are a Qi people, new farm tools, ploughing cattle, etc. can be used at low interest, and there are free new rice seeds and new agricultural books. ”

Xie Ran secretly thought to himself and asked cautiously, "How long will the prince stay in Langya?" Will this policy last? ”

"Second brother Fang and Guan, I am not as good as cardamom, the clan has a lifetime, if there is a change of course, you can come to me at any time."

"All surplus grain must be handled by the grain store......"

"It's okay, it won't let the Shengqiang family dominate."

Xie Ran solemnly thanked her, "I have to go back and discuss this matter with my father." ”

"Of course, and I still plan to run a girls' school, I don't know if it's feasible in Langya?"

Xie Jin, who was the eager, smallest and most lively, immediately interjected, "This is good! This is good! ”

Gu Ci was amused by her, and talked to them about the subjects of Xiangyuan City Women's Studies.

The cordial and friendly atmosphere of conversation didn't last long, Xie Jin ignored the angry glares of her two sisters Xie Qian and Xie Meng, and kept looking at Gu Ci with obsessive and blazing eyes, although Gu Ci himself didn't care, but the embarrassed Xie Ran hurriedly took a few sisters to leave.

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Seeing off the Xie family sisters, Gu Ci invited Xie Qing and Xiao Lu to come over to discuss matters.

When I saw the national map for the first time, Gu Ci found that Dayu not only has a special place name, but also the whole landform and terrain are not exactly the same as in the previous life, from north to south can be regarded as a developed river, in addition to the Yellow River that is roughly similar to the Yellow River, as well as the Yangtze River, the Pearl River three major water systems, the northwest of the Hetao area to the north of the more than one Zhuan River, along the northwest of Fushun City, Yuye City south to Dingwu City, through the Beijing section becomes the Yuzhuan River. The existence of the Zhuan River compresses the overall direction and basin of the Yellow River, so that there are not so many natural hazards and floods in the Yellow River area. Naturally, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the previous life is gone, replaced by the canal that goes straight to the south from Shangjing through Shuofang City, and is divided into two at the Mihu Lake in Dingkang City, and continues to go south through Dongting Lake in Guangling City to Xiangyuan City is still called the Tong Canal, and the Xiaonan Canal from Mihu Lake to the southeast through Suyang City, Jinling City, Langya City to Andong City, is connected with the mouth of the Yangtze River in Andong City.

The reason why the previous dynasty was so poor in the later period was because it spent a lot of money to build these two canals in its heyday, so it couldn't afford the losers of unscrupulous descendants, otherwise it would not be impossible to hold on until the next Ming monarch appeared.

Because Andong City is an important town in coastal defense, most of the surplus grain of the Xie family was transported to Andong through the Xiaonan Canal in the past. After Xiao Lu became a monk, Ren Lei, the prince of Dingguo, took over the Andong Army, and the military rations were allocated by the imperial court and transported from Fubo City, Qufu City, Guangling City and Fengling City by the Yangtze River route. Therefore, Xie Yuncai agreed with Xie Qiang to build a Shengqiang grain store at the berth point of the Xiaonan Canal in the northwest corner of Langya City, and sold Langya's surplus grain to Suyang City and Jinling City.

Before Gu Ao took office, Gu Ci gave him an idea through the mouth of the prince, of course, His Royal Highness the prince's plan was more thorough. First, some black household servants were recruited to voluntarily join the compilation with measures such as water distribution according to the book, new agricultural books and farm tools, and running schools, and then Gu Ci came forward to declare the hidden fields for the Xie family, forcing some people who were reluctant to completely merge their fields into the ancestral property of the Xie family to become Qi people, and then levied in the name of dredging the river from Langya to the southwest of Fengling Chengbo Lake, and Shangshu asked for 'the official gentry to serve as one'. Then when the court had enough quarrels, Gu Ao, in order to take care of his grandmother's family, proposed to 'serve according to the land and pay the silver for service', and after receiving the money, it was good to levy beggars and homeless people and officials and prisoners on death row to work. Anyway, as long as this kind of people have enough food and shelter, the wages are very cheap, and they also have the opportunity to commute their sentences through labor reform, killing two birds with one stone.

If the pilot project of Langya City is successful, the rivers of Bohu Lake to Tangjin City, Linan City, Yingdu City, Yuehai City to Liuling City further south can be done in this way, and they can be connected to become the West Canal, which runs through the Xiaonan Canal, the Yangtze River, the Tong Canal and the Pearl River.

So she never cared about how Shengqiang Grain Bank made money, her goal was to make a wharf and cargo storage center in the southwest corner of Langya City, which was connected with the Xiaonan Canal and the West Canal in the future. In addition to temperature-controlled and easy-to-load warehouses, the center also has a complete urban plan such as restaurants, inns, dental stores, specialty shops, post stations, medical centers, and even a red light district.

Will anyone go to Shengqiang Grain Store at that time?

She was also selected as a large-scale logistics transit point in Guangdong City, Tianjin Port and Shangjing, and the next level is Shuofang City and Dingkang City, these two places are to take land to build houses and collect rent, and the business is for the gentry to do, she does not grab this piece of cake. She plans to do it herself, and Xie Qing and Xie Pang will go over there to buy land later. The military significance of Shangjing and Tianjin Port was too important, and she planned to give the plan to the emperor and let the army build it. Shuofang City is the throat of Shangjing to the south, let the prince come forward and let her come out. Dingkang City, if the little brother really looks at the sister of the Ma family, you can consider letting the Ma family take shares, if the two of them don't have a chance, build a cheap rent to the Ma family, and let the Ma family collect two rents. So she didn't care about Xie Qiang's family at all, and she didn't want to be so ruthless. But these days, Xie Qiang's third son, Xie Ju, has found Gu Yi several times in the name of Xiucai, and also sent a few beautiful and moving singers, and hinted that Gu Ci is a little girl in charge of 'not having a good name'. Gu Yi inquired about Xie Qiang's family while dealing with him, and when he took people to the inventory warehouse in the morning, he also sealed a private warehouse of their family nearby.

Judging from the news that Xie Pang went to Suyang City and Jinling City to inquire, several grain stores there did not finish eating Shengqiang's grain. Gu Ci forced Xie Qiang to take the money so much, he also wanted to see where his hands were stretched out, and where the rest went, if there was smuggling, he would cut it off, and if there were customers, he would snatch it. Speaking of which, I don't know if it's a period of division on the eastern side, if so, the Japanese will be a big disaster in the future, if not, should you occupy the Ryukyus first and let them have internal strife, and have no strength to go outside?

Of course, no matter what the current situation of the mud bombardment is, if Xie Qiang dares to smuggle grain to Dongwei now, Gu Ci doesn't mind teaching them to be a human being.

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In August, the osmanthus was fragrant, and Xie Qiang's family, who had lost most of their family property because of the replenishment of grain and silver, completely withered after hearing the news that the third daughter-in-law's maiden family in Fengjin City was exiled to Yangguan for smuggling grain. The report of the guards of Fengjin City to General Anton Ren Lei stated that Xie Qiang had the merit of 'reporting the news with a camera, exposing and reporting, and killing relatives in righteousness', and it was specially announced to the public in Zhucheng. After Ren Lei sent Ren Qu to Langya City to discuss with Gu Ao, he generously promised the weak Xie Ju the position of a nine-rank platoon commander, and he would soon go to the Andong Army garrison in Fengjin City to report. Mrs. Xie Qiang wept and took out the dowry she had saved for many years, and ruthlessly poured out a handful of blood to check the official garrison of Fengjin City up and down to make up for the loss of their financial routes, so as to ensure Xie Ju's personal safety after taking office. As for Xie Ju's daughter-in-law's resentment because she secretly harmed her father's mother and brother because of the public announcement, and the resentment that she had to take her son to keep the empty boudoir alone in the future, it is a trivial matter that is not worth caring about.

Gu Ao's bracket was also very smooth, with thousands of hectares of fertile land and thousands of good people on the field register, plus a number of restless black homeless people were arrested and reduced to crimes. For the sake of intercession with acquaintances outside the family, these first-time offenders were given the opportunity to work through labor reform and become a new person, and when the farm was busy, the sergeant accompanied the water truck to dig the communication canal, and when he was free, he went to the construction site where she gave her sister paper to move bricks and soil, and be sure to become a skilled worker before the autumn harvest officially began to dredge the river!

The foundation has also been laid for a large logistics center in Gu Ci. Most of the land in Langya City is hers, including the two banks of the Xiaonan Canal in the west, a small piece at the north end is used by Shengqiang Grain Store, and the rest is her logistics center. After Xie Qiang paid the difference in silver and grain, Gu Ci said that he wanted to sell the grain store, Xie Qiang almost couldn't lift it in one breath, gritted his teeth for a few days, stomped his feet, and was willing to pay money to sell the grain at the market price. However, Gu Ci refused to sell the land, but agreed with him on a very cheap rent, and wrote the deed for 20 years, so that Xie Qiang, who was like thunder, felt that he had taken advantage of it and happily signed the contract.

The rest of the places within a mile distance on both sides of the strait, she has planned, the east bank is connected to Langya City, the focus is on the living service area, and the west bank has repaired cement roads and post stations, etc., which is naturally more suitable for warehouses. She demanded that the walls of the warehouse be equipped with smokeless heating and dehumidification functions, and that the wharf should have mechanical devices such as booms, winches, carts, and rotary sushi-like rollers, and that manpower such as porters and slender men should be used less, and that Old Man Tian and Xie Lian be responsible for completing the work. Because the project occupies too much land, everyone thinks that the lord of the trench is preparing to build a courtyard, except for the fact that people pass by from time to time and sigh that she is rich, no one can see her lofty goal!

Mary Sue's life was as lonely as snow.

When Gu Ci was about to pack his luggage and leave, Xie Qiang, who had half gray hair, came tremblingly and on crutches, and strongly asked Xie Yin to be the acting patriarch.