Although the businessmen donated a lot, and got a lot of returns, within a few days, the stele was carved and erected in the open space in the center of Heyang City, and every person could clearly see the names of more than 20 merchants and the name of the merchants when they passed by, and the Jusheng Bank of the Wang family was very eye-catching in the first place. In this way, the Wang family's semicolon business got better all of a sudden, and Wang Yihe rushed to preside over the expansion of the semicolon, and praised his son for spending the money too much.

At this moment, it is enough to give money and food to the four hard-hit areas. There are still more than a dozen people who are in light of the disaster, and they also have to do work, but this is much easier, first open the official warehouse and take out the grain for disaster relief, anyway, the emperor said that Liu Yan was in charge of a qiē matter, so Liu Yan opened the official warehouse. Of course, it was also reported to the emperor.

After the opening of the official warehouse for disaster relief, there were still some lighter things in the more than a dozen prefectures, all of which were handed over to Bai Jiayuan. These prefectures also began to provide relief for work, but these prefectures built very few roads, mainly to repair canals, or the Wang family's bank loaned to the prefects in various places, with Liu Yan and Bai Jiayuan as guarantees. As soon as these canals are built, they can bring together the few people affected by the disaster to provide relief for work, thus solving the problem and not worrying about another drought in the coming year. These canals also play a role in drainage, which is resistant to drought and floods during drought.

The cost of these canals is not high, at least less than the construction of roads, but because there are many places, the Wang family has loaned out a total of more than one million taels of silver.

Liu Yan made a rough calculation, now he has a debt of more than two million taels of silver, and as soon as he finishes the calculation, Liu Yan is also stunned, it is estimated that he is already the person with the most debts in the Great Chu Dynasty.

This is the first state. After Liu Yan finished doing these things, he rushed to Suzhou with his people non-stop. Fortunately, although there is a Huzhou between Suzhou and Heyang Prefecture, there is a big river running through the three states, and Suzhou is close to the sea, which is the estuary of this big river, so they went to Suzhou this time to go downstream.

On the boat, Zhao Chongyi introduced the situation in Suzhou to everyone. There are a total of 19 prefectures in Suzhou. There are 123 counties, with Huzhou to the west and the sea to the east. This year's drought is mainly in the western provinces, and the eastern part has not been affected by the drought because of the lack of rain due to the sea.

But man-made disasters in this place are more terrible than natural disasters. Speaking of this, Zhao Chongyi's teeth itched with hatred. Chen Wenhui hurriedly handed Zhao Chongyi a cup of tea. Zhao Chongyi smiled and said to Wen Hui, "Thank you, sister Hui'er." ”

Chen Wenhui ignored him, he sneered and said: "Several of the most severely affected prefectures in Suzhou have not lost grain, but farmers who grow mulberry and raise silkworms. Because the droughts all happen in the spring, rice has not yet been planted in the spring. It's all about silkworm farming. Later, when it was time to plant rice, it rained. Therefore, grain is not worried, and the key is that sericulture farmers have suffered great losses. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wenhui was strange: "Then there should be no disaster here, at most, I am not rich this year, and there is no income from silkworm raising." There's always something to eat. ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "At first, I thought so, but later I learned that they were really affected, because the history of Suzhou is not the history of the white thorn in Heyang Prefecture, this history of thorn is Wang Wenli, the queen's brother, the sister-in-law of the Wang family, scraping the ground, and doing evil things." This year, the silkworm farmers have been affected, and the imperial court has exempted the silkworm farmers from silk tribute, but this Wang Wenli actually added silk tribute to the silkworm farmers, so that it is not enough for these people to take out the silk silk saved at home in previous years, only to flee from their families. ”

Liu Yanqi's face was pale. He slapped the table hatefully.

Wen Hui is also very angry, how come there are corrupt officials and cool officials everywhere.

Zhao Chongyi continued: "But generally speaking, this year's silk is much less than in previous years, so this year's silk prices have risen sharply, Suzhou City, as well as several large silk merchants in Songjiang Prefecture, took the opportunity to hoard goods and raise prices, dominating the market, and the weavers could not afford to buy silk and could not start work, but the taxes assessed by the government still had to be paid, so the weavers were also bankrupt." Many of those who couldn't survive fled to the United States. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "There are no starvation deaths in Suzhou, they are all forced to die by the government, and this cannot be simply disaster relief." To soothe the people, it is important to restore the economy, which is different from that of Heyang. ”

Zhao Chongyi continued: "I told the fourth child about these situations, and the fourth child's recital was clearly reported, the emperor issued a holy decree this time, transferred Wang Wenli to the capital, and promoted him to a higher level, and the position of the assassin was taken over by Lu Shangyi." ”

Wen Hui asked: "Are you familiar with Lu Shangyi?" ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "Lu Shangyi is the nephew of Prime Minister Lu Yuanchu, his writing is very good, and he is very bookish, he is not a member of a big family, just a reading seed from a scholarly family." ”

Wen Hui nodded.

Zhao Chongyi continued: "Because we want to go to Heyang Prefecture first, the emperor's will will was read out first, and now Lu Shangyi has taken office, and abolished Wang Wenli's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and now some weavers have begun to return to their hometowns." So, we went and we should work better and do something. ”

Wen Hui thought about it and said: "If we don't do anything, Lu Shangyi can do a good job, and the economy can recover in two years, but this will not show our ability." I have an idea. ”

Liu Yan looked at Wen Hui expectantly. Zhao Chongyi smiled and said, "I see that you have robbed Ah Yuan of his position as a strategist." ”

Liu Jingyuan said: "It's good to rob it, although I am a few years older, compared to Wen Hui, I have learned a lot of things when I go out this time." ”

Mingzhu pursed her lips and smiled: "There are really not many people in this world who are so smart as my sister, you still don't know her benefits, enough for you to learn." ”

Zhao Chongyi hurriedly licked his face and said, "What benefits, you can tell me." ”

Mingzhu was about to speak, Wen Hui hurriedly said: "Okay, sister, don't sue him, I still have to be serious." ”

In fact, Liu Yan was also looking forward to listening to Mingzhu continue to say, but he didn't want to hear Wen Hui's idea so much. As soon as he heard Wen Hui's words, he realized that they had already digressed, and the strange thing was that why did he want to go off topic all the time?

Wen Hui said: "We need to restore the economy quickly, first of all, I think we can let the Lan family participate, and let the Lan family take this opportunity to recruit weavers to weave cotton." This year, the Lan family planted a lot of cotton in Deqing, and the harvest was also more, and after the autumn harvest, there will be a mountain of cotton, which requires a large number of weavers, and the Lan family alone can't swallow these cotton, so it is better for us to promote the Lan family and some local bankrupt small satin merchants to operate textile cotton together, so that the Lan family will become the largest cotton supplier. The Lan family lent money or invested shares in the small silk merchants, so that the small silk merchants came back to life, and the Lan family also expanded their business. As for the big silk merchants, they had other places besides Songjiang and Suzhou where they could get silk, so they were not affected much, but there were ways for them to trade more, so that they could pay more taxes. ”

Lan Caiyu knew about the Lan family, so she asked: "If we can have this opportunity to expand, it will be the best for our Lan family, but I'm afraid that our family won't be able to come up with so much money?" ”

Wen Hui smiled and said: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime development opportunity, first, the Lan family has expanded the area of cotton planting this time, if it weren't for the drought, where could cotton be promoted so quickly." Second, the Lan family was able to reach out to Suzhou Mansion this time. Before, the Lan family had a semicolon in Suzhou, yes, it was in Songjiang, but that was the silk industry, and now the cotton textile industry has also reached out to Suzhou, which is a big development opportunity. Third, cotton cloth is a new thing, generally such a new thing wants to be accepted by the people, it will take a long time, but this year the silk industry has been affected, silk is expensive, some ordinary people can not afford to use it, but they are not willing to use rough kudzu cloth, linen, at this time cotton cloth just fills the market, how good. Isn't it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Lan family? As for the money thing? ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wenhui laughed, and she couldn't speak, everyone was surprised that she didn't know what happened to Chen Wenhui so funny, Chen Wenhui couldn't say anything with a smile, just pointed at Wang Zhicheng with a finger.

Now everyone understood, and they all laughed.

Lan Caiyu also understood, blushed, and secretly thought, really, how could I forget about my family.

Mingzhu smiled and said, "Sister, your wife who runs a bank is still short of money, so what about others?" ”

Everyone laughed even more, Lan Caiyu was annoyed and angry, went up and pinched Mingzhu's mouth and said, "How can you learn to promote narrowness when you are a few years older?" ”

Mingzhu smiled while hiding: "Sister, don't be angry with me, hurry up and talk to your father-in-law to say a lot of good things, and see if you can let your father-in-law give you a loan without collateral?" ”

Lan Caiyu was even more ashamed, although Liu Jingyuan knew that their sisters were used to making trouble, they were still afraid that their sweetheart would suffer, so they hurriedly stood up to block Lan Caiyu, and Mingzhu took the opportunity to hide behind Liu Jingyuan.

Lan Caiyu wanted to catch the pearl several times, but Liu Jingyuan blocked it. Hu Shi was also smiling on the side, and went out with an excuse, letting the sisters make trouble.

Now that the Hu family is gone, Liu Jingyuan is even more blatant to protect Mingzhu, Lan Caiyu was tired and sweaty, and suddenly stopped grabbing it, and said with a smile: "I said Mingzhu, why are you getting more and more narrow, and you are joking with my sister and brother-in-law, and the feelings are taught by someone, do you understand?" ”

As soon as he said this, Mingzhu reacted, he had been hiding behind Liu Jingyuan, and suddenly blushed.

Liu Jingyuan is very thick-skinned, and he is still helping Mingzhu block it, Mingzhu slapped Liu Jingyuan and said: "Our sisters are making trouble, why are you here?" It's really annoying. ”

Liu Jingyuan was in the local area, and everyone laughed again.

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