Chapter 266

After Wu Meier returned to the mansion, she sent someone to ask her father where her family was in the mansion, and learned that her father had left Ruolan County last night and went to Yangzhou.

"If the young lady is in a hurry, the little one will send someone to report to the owner." Seeing Wu Meier's disappointed expression, the subordinate couldn't help but say cautiously.

"It's okay, you step back first, wait a minute, you go and call Wu Heng, the shopkeeper in charge of this trading company in Ruolan County, and say that I have something to look for him."

Seeing the subordinate take the order, Huang Li couldn't help but ask quietly. "Miss, what are you trying to do in such a hurry to find someone?"

"Brother He is so bent on sharing the worries of the people of Ruolan County, how can I sit idly by, and naturally I will do my part." Wu Mei'er rolled her eyes and said with a light sigh.

"I'm afraid that if you do it again, Miss, people won't be able to understand your hard work." Huang Li pursed his lips, and said with some disgust, that guy surnamed He is really a stupid and stupid piece of wood.

"Okay, leave him alone, these are things I am willing to do, and they have nothing to do with him." Wu Meierdai's eyebrows furrowed slightly, turned her head and said to Huang Li, seeing the young lady's face that suddenly looked serious, Huang Li shrunk her neck and didn't dare to say anything more.

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After the father and son discussed, He Zaixu summoned the officials of the county government to squat together, and then made public the matter of calling on the rich businessmen and gentry of the county to donate money to repair the Xu Zhen embankment that was washed away by the flood.

Maybe it was He Zaixu who killed Chen Zhubo with lightning speed before, and also raided the Lan Mansion, such a thunderous and resolute method really scared many officials who originally disobeyed He County's Lingyang Fengyang.

Therefore, no one stood up to oppose He Zaixu's proposal this time, but on the faces that seemed to hire someone, the eyes that were eager to watch a good show made He Jinghui secretly remember it in his heart.

Wait, when the time comes, the results will surely surprise you guys.

Just in the second half of the meeting, a messenger suddenly came to report that Wu Heng, the shopkeeper of the county's Wu Ji Trading Company in Ruolan County, had come to visit He County Order with several carts of things.

He Zaixu couldn't help but be a little confused, he didn't have any friendship with Jiangning Trading Company, what is this a swollen thing? However, I soon thought that the second aunt had mentioned that her son seemed to have a good relationship with the eldest lady of the Wu family, and that her son had also gone to the Western Regions with the eldest lady of the Wu family with the caravan before.

"Father, why don't we go and have a look?" Seeing his father's sweeping gaze, He Jinghui smiled twice and proposed. However, he really didn't expect Wu Meier to react immediately.

"It seems that this shopkeeper Wu is really a caring person, all colleagues, how about going to greet him with his own official?" He Zaixu didn't bother to think about it, and after standing up and straightening out the official robe, his eyes swept over the officials present.

If you still pretend to stay here, wouldn't you be saying that you don't want to bird you, and when the time comes, maybe you will be cleaned up by you as a bird, and you are really stupid to be everyone.

Everyone got up one after another and expressed their willingness to advance and retreat with the county magistrate, and soon the group came to the gate of the county government, and saw the very rich shopkeeper Wu Heng standing under the steps, and behind him, there were ten carts full of goods and sacks, and on the front car, there were two small boxes.

"Wu Heng, the grass people, has seen the county magistrate He." Wu Heng saw He Zaixu in the seven-grade official robe, and hurriedly stepped forward two steps and saluted.

"Shopkeeper Wu, please excuse me, dare to ask Shopkeeper Wu to come here, this is ......" After He Zaixu stretched out his hand to support Wu Heng, his eyes fell on those big cars.

"Today, my Ruolan County has suffered a flood that is rare in a century, but fortunately, Lord He has gone all out to make the people of Ruolan County escape from the disaster. Now I heard that Lord He is going to repair the embankment in Xuzhen, thinking that the people of Ruolan County will benefit ......"

"The owner of my family has confessed to the grass people before, saying that if there is a place where my Jiangning Trading Company can work, my Jiangning Trading Company will definitely not be willing to be left behind...... "Although Wu Heng's people are not tall, they are rich enough to speak with full of energy.

The more people watched, the higher the voice of the thing. After a bunch of crooked chatter, it means that Jiangning Trading Company heard that He County ordered to repair the Xuzhen embankment that was washed away by the flood.

Jiangning Trading Company knows that with the power of Ruolan County's county treasury, there is no way to support such a large project, and Jiangning Trading Company, as a member of Ruolan County, naturally can't watch He Daxian Ling cry so much for the people of Ruolan County, and decide to do his part for the people of Ruolan County.

Therefore, I specially offered 100 stones of rice, 3 carts of wood, and 600 taels of silver, hoping that He County would not dislike it, and must accept this little heart of Jiangning Trading Company.

He Zaixu was also so moved that he announced very excitedly on the spot that he would definitely write the righteous deeds of Jiangning Trading Company into official documents and play them to the court, so as to show that Ruolan County has such an excellent people as Jiangning Trading Company with the spirit of Confucian fraternity and love for the world.

He Jinghui silently watched his father He Zaixu and the shopkeeper Wu Heng exchanging acting skills, and was amazed in his heart, but he didn't expect that his father's performance on the spot was still quite in place, at least there was no problem of not being able to get on the spot.

He Jinghui's eyes rolled, grabbed Ah Qiu, and after muttering in his ear, Ah Qiu went to Nianxiang Pavilion and found Lin Wanghu to whisper.

And Lin Wanghu rushed back to his home with an excited face, found his father, and soon, Boss Lin also reached out and patted his thigh, let people find more than ten carts, and borrowed twenty carts of stones from his new brother, that is, Lin Wanghu's uncle, to repair the house, and then plus Lin Wanghu took the silver ticket from the silver village in exchange for five hundred taels of silver, and also formed a mighty team towards the county office.

He Zaixu finished the first scene and returned to the county office, and was about to take the hot iron to arouse the interest of these subordinates to do serious things, when he saw the messenger rush to report that it was Boss Lin who led more than 20 cars to appear at the gate of the county office.

He Zaixu reluctantly stopped the incessant brainwashing of his subordinates, and led a vote of Ruolan County officials to walk out of the county office again to carry out the second prestige and propaganda and advertising behavior.

With such two vigorous scenes, the news that He Zaixu was ready to let the wealthy businessmen and gentry of Ruolan County donate money and materials to repair the Xu Zhen embankment spread.

When they heard the news for the first time, 90 percent of the wealthy businessmen and gentry were dumbfounded by the news, and they didn't get any benefits for themselves, so why pay for it?

Maybe it was just a show, in order to fish themselves and others into the water, so after discussing it at night, the rich merchants and gentry of Ruolan County decided to ignore it.

But what happened next was beyond their expectations, first early in the morning of the next day, even the Xu clan, whose homes were washed away, under the leadership of the patriarch, donated a total of nearly 1,000 taels of silver to He Xianling.

The officials of Ruolan County began to post posts everywhere, stating that if anyone who donated money and materials to the county government this time, He County Decree would order someone to engrave the stone inscription on the stone tablet and stand on the embankment of Xuzhen to be remembered by future generations.

In addition, he would personally record the names and merits of these meritorious people in official documents and recite them to the court in recognition of their benevolence.

After hearing the news, those wealthy merchants and gentry were a little confused. I never thought that He Zaixu, the new county magistrate who had been a powerless county magistrate for so many years and was unknown, would actually think of such a trick.

In addition, in the past two days, He Zaixu divided five by two to take down Chen Zhubo, who conspired with the Lan family and took advantage of the flood to steal and sell grain from the official warehouse, combined with the current series of means to repair the Xu Zhen embankment.

It's definitely not a trick that ordinary officials can think of, and the important thing is that these tricks seem to be really tempting.

At noon the next day, the first customer, oh no, another local tyrant from Ruolan County, Zhao Dahu, came to visit the county government and took out 1,500 taels of silver, and soon, the entire Ruolan County was shaken.

One thousand five hundred taels, of course, for these wealthy merchants' families, it is impossible to break their bones, but such a sum of money is definitely not a small amount, and the goods surnamed Zhao were still vigorously contrarian the night before, but who would have thought that he would become so active and so generous the next day.