The capital is full of wind and clouds, and Liu Yan and his party have arrived in Suzhou, the provincial capital of Suzhou. Suzhou City is probably the richest place in the world except the capital, although there is the impact of drought, but Suzhou City has not reduced anything, the same is very prosperous.

Since Chen Wenhui came to this world, she has never seen such a prosperous city, most of the shops on the street are very elegant, there are many bustling streets, there are all kinds of sales, and restaurants are one after another.

After Chen Wenhui and the others stayed, Mingzhu and Wenhui went shopping with the Hu family, of course, accompanied by the guards.

Liu Yan and the others collectively went to the Yamen of the Assassin Shi and read the holy decree. After reading the holy decree, Liu Yan and Assassin Shi Lu Shangyi made contact. To Liu Yan's surprise, Lu Shangyi was respectful to them and was very in line with etiquette norms, but they were not very suitable for Liu Yan.

Zhao Chongyi originally wanted to set off immediately to behead his house and do evil things, after all, it had been so long, and those people should have transferred their property a long time ago, but in the spirit of going a moment earlier, he could make more money for the victims, Zhao Chongyi still wanted to go early.

As a result, the assassin Shi Lushang told them that there was no need to worry, because as soon as he took office, he sent officers and soldiers to surround them, and the water was impassable, and probably they had no chance to transfer their property.

It was a surprise to everyone to hear this. In this way, Zhao Chongyi was not in a hurry to go, he still wanted to visit the local snake Ma Jingren earlier.

Then we talked about disaster relief, the first is to open porridge sheds for the disaster area, the second is to open free medical centers, and the third is to provide relief through work. As a result, Lu Shangyi surprised them again. Because Lu Shangyi is very capable, more than ten days before they came, the porridge shack in the disaster area had been opened, and free medical points had been set up.

It was the first time they had encountered such a successful official, so they were a little uncomfortable for a short time. Then I thought there would be an inevitable grand banquet, but it didn't. After Lu Shangyi respectfully reported his work, he invited them to rest at the post station, and of course the dinner was solved by himself at the post station. Of course, the post station is also a branch of the government, and the meals in it are free, but Lu Shangyi's approach makes them a little confused.

Zhao Chongyi didn't care about this, and hurriedly went to contact Ma Jingren, and it happened that Ma Jingren was in Suzhou City, and the two of them met.

In the evening, Zhao Chongyi returned to Liu Yan's guest room with a shiny face, and found that everyone was waiting for him.

He smiled and said, "You're all wondering about today's strange thing." I sue you, the head snake Ma Jingren sues me, this Lu Shangyi has been in office for more than ten days. Work vigorously and resolutely. The granary has been opened in a short time. Disaster relief, reduction of excesses and miscellaneous taxes, soothing the people, and surrounding the homes of those who were going to raid their homes. Including the residences of the three salt merchants. Ma Jingren said, if nothing else, just take three salt merchants who can probably copy the house and make a lot of money. ”

A smile appeared on Liu Yan's face.

Chen Wenhui said: "Today I went shopping with my sister and Aunt Hu, and found that the most talked about by the people was this new assassin Shi, who said that this assassin Shi was a good official, and probably the results were what Brother Yi said, and there was one thing, he also took the time to retry the prisoners in prison. A lot of unjust cases have been discovered, and people have been released. But because the successive Suzhou assassins were all corrupt, the prison was full of people, and the trial could not be completed for a while, but everyone saw hope. Because the assassin has only been in office for a few days, and he is busy with disaster relief, he will definitely be able to release all the wronged people when he frees his hands. Everyone calls him Lu Qingtian. ”

Liu Jingyuan said: "You see, we have encountered so many corrupt officials along the way, and it is easy to solve so many people who have harmed the people, but now that we have met a virtuous minister, we are not adaptable." ”

Mingzhu said: "My mother said, according to this, there is already free medical care in the local area, and our manpower and medicinal materials do not have to be wasted here, and she still wants to hurry up and go back to Huzhou, where there are not enough manpower and medicinal materials." ”

Liu Yan said: "In this way, we don't want to leave too many people here, and let some people go back to Huzhou and Heyang with Hu Shuren." ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Then I will go back with me?" ”

Liu Yan said suddenly: "Although Lu Shangyi has done all the disaster relief work, but the cash-for-work relief has not been done, let's proceed according to the original plan." Wen Hui, you know a little bit about this, so let's stay and help the people of the Lan family. ”

Chen Wenhui thought about it, since she came, it would be good to do a little bit of things.

Liu Yan said: "Ayi still went to work as planned. Ah Yuan and I are going to visit Lu Shangyi to see how Lu Shangyi is doing. This is also the duty of the chincha. Brother Lin went to several seaside states to see where to develop maritime trade, and when he returned to Beijing, he would have to deal with this matter. ”

Everyone nodded their heads. Chen Wenhui suddenly felt that this Liu Yan was not only good-looking, but also very talented. When I first came to Deqing, I didn't understand anything, and I was waiting for my father and daughter to plan, but now I can assign everyone to act, and I have the wind of a general. What a talent.

Zhao Chongyi suddenly said again: "Fourth, Ma Jingren wants to see you." ”

Liu Yan nodded and said, "I've wanted to meet him for a long time." If I was in the capital, I wouldn't have had a chance to see him, a prince who was not favored. ”

In this way, everyone proceeded according to the assigned work. Hu Shi left, he was going to take Mingzhu with him, Wen Hui had to pull Mingzhu as a companion, and after waiting for a day, Lan Shanghan took his younger brother, son, Lan Caiyu and his wife also came, and Mingzhu saw that Lan Caiyu was also back, so he didn't want to leave. Hu thought that his daughter had worked hard since she was a child, and it was rare to play for a few days, so let her go. I agreed, and left with the people from the hospital.

Liu Jingyuan was the most happy, originally thinking that if the Hu family was gone, Mingzhu would naturally leave, but when his sweetheart left, he would inevitably feel bitter in his heart, and even before the person left, the lovesickness had already begun. Now that he suddenly knew that Hu was gone, but Mingzhu stayed with Wen Hui, he was naturally overjoyed.

In this way, the group, except for Chen Wenlin and Zhao Chongyi, went to those places that were more severely affected. Liu Yan and Liu Jingyuan followed Lu Shangyi to see the disaster relief situation, while Chen Wenhui and Mingzhu joined forces with Lan Shanghan and the local small silk merchants to discuss the cotton textile business together.

While they were negotiating, Zhao Chongyi had good news from time to time. Lu Shangyi's work is really good, and there is really nothing missing in the homes of those officials and businessmen who want to raid their homes. Of course, for such a long time, it must be a little less, but which point is really insignificant compared to the total amount.

Suzhou is the richest place in the world, and the merchants and officials here are much richer than those in Heyangzhou. Moreover, the family property of the merchants and officials here is generally characterized by gold, silver, pearls and jade, and most grain, but not too many fields. Unlike the raid in Heyang Prefecture, the most obtained is the field. This is more difficult to deal with, because the fields cannot be directly used for disaster relief, they have to be sold, and the price of the fields is reduced to a minimum during the disaster year.

The most important thing for officials and wealthy merchants in Suzhou is money, grain and shops, because Suzhou's economy is so developed that business abounds, and everyone is not so keen on land.

Therefore, Zhao Chongyi's family is really rich, especially the property of the three salt merchants, it is estimated that even if it is not for work, these are enough for disaster relief. It will probably be able to feed the victims for a year or two. Well, there may be some leftovers. This was estimated by Liu Jingyuan.

In this way, disaster relief will be too easy, and with enough money and food, it will be easy for the government to do it. Liu Yan's inspection work is also very pleasant, because Lu Shangyi is too capable and very meticulous and thoughtful, which makes Liu Yan very relaxed.

Lan Shanghan fortunately took Chen Wenhui to negotiate with these businessmen. Chen Wenhui was an executive of a large company in his previous life, and this negotiation method is endless, with a variety of cooperation methods, such as technology shares, workers shares, silver shares, and many more, which dazzled these relatively honest ancient businessmen, and they were defeated one after another, and they were obediently incorporated into the Lan family. Of course, the Lan family also paid a lot of silver. Fortunately, with Wang Zhicheng, the son-in-law of the Lan family, with the backing of the bank, the Lan family is rich and wealthy, and it is very smooth to complete these preliminary work.

Chen Wenhui is impatient to follow up, these people from the Lan family will naturally do it. Chen Wenhui still goes shopping with two friends to enjoy the style of Suzhou.

In this way, the work was completed in a few days, but Chen Wenlin has not returned yet. In the middle of this, Liu Yan secretly met Ma Jingren, and Liu Yan did not say what he talked about. Everyone was also very interested in not asking.

On this day, back in Suzhou City, Liu Yan said: "I should have waited for Brother Lin, but Brother Lin wrote to me saying that I would stay for a while longer, so let's go back to Deqing." ”

At this time, Chen Wenhui said: "The four princes want to go back to Deqing just to send me and Sister Mingzhu back, in fact, it is not necessary, Sister Mingzhu and I have to live for a few days, it is rare to come to Suzhou City, we have to go shopping." can still wait for the second brother. The four princes are pressed for time, so let's just seize the time to go to Beijing from here to recover their lives. ”

Liu Yan thought about it, so he left a team of guards to protect them, and specially greeted Lu Shangyi, and then took Liu Jingyuan and Zhao Chongyi back. Zhao Chongyi also used the excuse of dealing with the follow-up matters of the house, such as the auction of items, etc., to stay for a few more days, but unfortunately this matter was vetoed by Liu Yan, on the grounds that this Lu Shangyi is so capable, these simple follow-up matters don't need to be taken care of, let's go back quickly. Just took Zhao Chongyi away directly.

ps：

It's the weekend, and it's still raining.

Finally got the manuscript fee. It's not easy, it's the first time I got a manuscript fee for writing an online article, although it's only 800 yuan, but I'm very happy.

Haha, it's been three whole months.