Chen Wenhui's eyes lit up and said, "Father's idea is good. I'll set out tomorrow to recruit the people. It just so happened that I was now the emperor's joy, and I wanted to spend so much money for him, but he was willing to take away a few of his people. ”

Chen Yuanheng said with a smile: "You are really shrewd, no one can count you, I think of this day when you were going to build a gym, right?" ”

Chen Wenhui smiled slightly. This was indeed within her consideration.

In the following days, Chen Wenhui took the manpower to prepare to go to a remote place in the northwest to recruit people. In fact, Chen Wenhui's consideration of this point was raised by Zhao Chongyi when he inspected the Taoist temple. Zhao Chongyi saw that it was really hard for her to recruit people in the mountain villages of the capital, and she had only had such a small number of people after recruiting for so long, so he told her that many poor people in the northwest had no land and lived on tenant land, and the whole family did not even have a single piece of clothing, and it was normal for them to be hungry. It could be a matter of giving a bag of grain.

Moreover, in recent years, the population of the northwest has grown relatively rapidly, with more people, less land, and barren land, and local officials also hope that there will be fewer such poor people, and they will be easier to manage. Zhao Chongyi in the northwest is the most familiar, after all, after so many years of fighting, he has dealt with officials from several provinces in the northwest, and he knows more people.

In this way, Zhao Chongyi can follow Chen Wenhui to the northwest under the sign of helping Chen Wenhui. Two people working together, can't they see each other every day? Chen Wenhui still saw through Zhao Chongyi's careful thinking at a glance, but. She also wanted to see Zhao Chongyi every day, so she was very supportive, and immediately started to prepare to go to the northwest. However, at this time, Bai Shi urgently called a stop, and she said to Chen Wenhui: "Your wedding date is set for September, how many days can you stay at home?" How can this be done if you have to go out? ”

Chen Wenhui grinned and said, "Anyway, I don't have anything to do when I stay at home." It's better to find something to do. Besides. You also know that my Qingchun City also needs the people now, and the newly built Vermilion Bird City needs the people. Not to mention the Jade Rose City under construction. There is a great shortage of people. Why don't you ask me to recruit people myself? ”

Bai Shi was unmoved and said, "Recruit people." You don't have to go in person, just call the stewards and your officials to go. Don't you know when I don't? You've pulled a whole boatload of people back. Still worried about no one to use? We raise these people just so that they can do things for us, and there is no reason for them to be idle and let you do it yourself. Besides, why don't you have anything to do? It's March now, and after your birthday in June, you're going to have a wedding ceremony, which is a sign of a girl's coming of age, which is very important. Shall we ask the praiser, the celebrant, for a whole lot of things to do? Also, next month will be the day of the Zhao family's dowry. You can't be there when you can't give a dowry, right? Do you calculate how you have time to get out? ”

As soon as Chen Wenhui heard that it was, she knew that this wedding could not be passed so easily, in the previous life, there were a lot of ceremonies for getting married, not to mention ancient times, not to mention the wedding of the royal gift, or between two top nobles. Hey, forget it, there's no good chance to go out and let off steam.

Think about it, Zhao Chongyi should be sad, but there is no way. A wedding is indeed very troublesome, and as a bride, she must have a lot to do. In the same way, as a bridegroom, he has a lot to do.

Chen Wenhui had no choice but to send a letter to Zhao Chongyi.

There is no way to say Zhao Chongyi's disappointment.

Although the careful thinking of the two people was interrupted, the matter of going to several remote and poor counties in the northwest to recruit people still had to be carried on. Chen Wenhui sent some capable men to the northwest with silver. Now she only has 50,000 taels of silver, so she has to save some money, but this matter does not cost much, that is, about 30,000 taels of silver. The people in the northwest are relatively poor, and the settling-in allowance for a bag of grain can already allow those people who have not had enough food and clothing for a long time to follow them to Nanyang. Besides, going to Nanyang now is a little different from going to Nanyang before. At that time, when Chen Wenhui recruited the first batch of people to go to Nanyang, the people knew nothing about the future, and many people were reluctant to leave their homeland, so the recruitment work was still a little difficult. But that's not the case now.

It has been many years since the development of Nanyang, and the first generation of people who went to Nanyang not only got rid of poverty, but also made a fortune. Some of the better ones like Da Niu are already rich on the first side. Driven by such examples, the recruitment work is very easy to do. So, the cost is also much smaller.

However, Chen Wenhui has always been generous to those who follow her, and this time it was formulated, and those who are willing to go to Nanyang will be given five taels of silver, two sets of clothes, and two bags of grain per person, all of which are good rice. The settling-in fee does not need to be paid by Chen Wenhui, but can be paid from the construction cost of Yumei City. This can be settled between Nanyang Bank and Da Chu Bank, and Da Chu Bank can transfer money for Chen Wenhui to use. All the clothes are made in Qingchun City, and the food is also bought from Tongren City.

Such a large amount of orders has increased the income of the workshops in Qingchun City. Gui Yuxia's family has also benefited. Gui Yuxia's embroidery room received a part of the order, which was to make clothes. Their family also has a garment workshop, which specializes in making ordinary clothes. After they get the order, they divide the part out, such as buttons, soles, and so on. There is also Weigang who received a large order for ordinary cotton cloth. The workshops in Qingchun City are all producing at full capacity.

As soon as they all explained, Chen Wenhui's stewards and officials followed Zhao Chongyi's personal entourage with Zhao Chongyi's handwriting, as well as Liu Jingyuan's name, Chen Wenhui's name, and Chen Yuanheng's name. Many of these officials in the Northwest had dealings with Zhao Chongyi when they were supplying military rations for the Northwest War and when they were out of conscription, because Zhao Chongyi had a straightforward temperament and did not have a noble frame, so they had a good relationship with him. has his own letter, so he naturally gives face. As for Liu Jingyuan, now he is in charge of the power of the ministry, and all the official promotions are under his jurisdiction, can any official dare not give him face? Chen Yuanheng is the emperor's cronies and ministers, in recent years to promote new species, has not dealt with the officials of these poor counties in the northwest, and has also helped the people of these counties to do some practical things.

With the care of these bigwigs, the recruitment of officials in Yumei City is progressing very smoothly, and Chen Wenhui only needs to command in the capital.

Chen Wenhui, who has nothing to do, can only often go to see the construction of the Taoist temple and the construction of his own garden.

She also often went to the painting hall outside the capital to meet her master, Master Qiu.

Master Qiu hasn't seen Chen Wenhui in the past few years, and he was very happy when he saw it. Chen Wenhui naturally brought him a lot of gifts, those gold and silver utensils, satin cotton cloth and other things. Master Qiu didn't look at it, but he also had to thank Chen Wenhui, after all, these are all fine products.

But Chen Wenhui brought another gift, which made him very happy. That is the Nanyang landscape painted by Chen Wenhui in the past few years, and there are as many as forty or fifty pictures.

These paintings made Master Qiu see the exotic scenery of Guò painting, and he was also happy that Chen Wenhui did not give up his expertise in addition to his busy official duties, and also painted so many exquisite works, as a teacher, he was naturally very happy.

The painting hall has developed very well in recent years. Master Qiu's children have made the art hall prosperous. Among them, Master Qiu's youngest son, Qiu Heshun, who manages the affairs of the outer room of the painting hall, is now a sleek, neat businessman, and a well-known businessman around the capital.

Chen Wenhui deliberately chatted with Qiu Heshun for a while.

Qiu Heshun said with emotion: "Senior sister, if it weren't for your idea and your support, would our family have changed so much?" Now we live in a good house, wear gold and silver, and most importantly, my father and brothers can concentrate on painting, and the reputation of our painting hall is getting bigger and bigger, and the students are getting better and better. Now it is not far from the prosperity of the painting hall that my father is looking forward to. ”

Chen Wenhui smiled and said, "There is also your credit for this." If you weren't good at business, they wouldn't have the money to support them in painting and lecturing. ”

Qiu Heshun said: "The reason why my business can be done well is because of the foundation you laid for us. Those fields are just managed every year. And the works of the artists, according to what you said, we hold regular exhibitions to help the artists sell their work, so that the artists can support themselves and we can also take a commission. Not to mention, there is also the strong support of the imperial concubine in the palace. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wenhui couldn't help but think of Shi Yue, another female disciple of Master Qiu, who loved to paint like her life. The reason why Chen Wenhui was able to learn painting from Master Qiu was recommended by Shi Yuesi. The two of them are actually sisters. Therefore, Shi Yuesi has always been close to the Chen family and followed in the footsteps of the queen.

Now she has become a noble imperial concubine, the most favored by the emperor, and gave birth to the little princess Princess Huichuan. With so much power in her hands, she will naturally take care of the painting career she loves in many ways.

For the teachers she respects, she must spare no effort to take care of them. Thinking about it this way, it is normal for her to take such care of the painting hall.

Chen Wenhui said: "Where can I have a senior brother who says so well. Actually, I haven't been in the capital for the past few years, and I've been taken care of by the imperial concubine. ”

Qiu Heshun said with a smile: "Master often said that his life's wish was not expected to be fulfilled with the help of two female disciples. ”

Chen Wenhui thought about it and couldn't help laughing. (To be continued......)