In the nursing hall of the Fan family's compound, Luo Yuhong worked hard in the office.

Cao Santai reported that businessmen in Tibet had rented a lot of shops in the city. The price of horses has risen somewhat, and the price of pack horses and pull-back horses has risen to 25 to 30 taels, and war horses have risen to 40 to 50 taels. According to the size of our army, I am going to exchange 500 war horses, 1,000 miscellaneous horses, and the rest for cattle, sheep, cowhides, medicinal herbs, and other materials that you urgently need. Horses belong to the restricted breed of trade, and other merchants cannot be allowed to buy too much, which will impact the price of horses in Sichuan.

However, there are many goods in Sichuan and few goods in Tibet, and Cao Santai estimates that we will buy more than 300,000 silver this year. In the future, we will continue to enrich the trading varieties, and it is estimated that the excess of silver will be greater. Tibet produces sand gold, and Yunnan produces silver. Tianquan gold is cheap and silver, and the price of gold and silver is less than one to six. They voluntarily chose to settle in gold, and this girl was very welcome! ”

Gold and silver are the world's hard currencies. The gold standard and the silver standard are not inherently superior or inferior. However, China, as a country with scarce silver resources, has adopted the silver standard for a long time, which will only provide opportunities for other countries to shear sheep in the world trade system. At this point, Luo Yuhong and her husband have the same understanding. In the smuggling trade, allowing or even encouraging the other party to settle in gold is Luo Yuhong's pride.

No touch screen, no keyboard, too tiring to write. Luo Yuhong put down her pen and moved her wrist before continuing to write:

"There is no shortage of coal near Ya'an. There are small coal kilns in Ya'an, Hongya County and Yingjing County, and the price of coal is not high. However, the coal quality is very bad, the water content is heavy, the combustion smoke is large, and the flame is not strong.

The Qionglai iron ore and copper mine you said when you broke up last time, I asked Zhang Shilin and Fu Yuanlan to find it in person, and they brought a letter back, and the locals said that the Qionglai iron ore is commonly known as 'iron arrow', which is generally sandwiched in the coal seam, with a small number and low iron content, and is only suitable for small-scale smelting, and cannot be excavated on a large scale. The locals of Qionglai use more iron smelted in Yibin City, and I heard that there are iron mines in Xingwen County, Gao County and Yunlian County, and it is the people of Shu Wangfu who are mining them!

There is also no place to produce copper in Qionglai. There is an old place in Hongya County called Tongguan Mountain, and the mine has long been sealed. Recently, a wealthy businessman named Bi Wenchang asked to see Cao Sanbao and wanted to do business under the banner of the palace. It is said that several generations of the Bi family have been engaged in the business of coal mining and gold refining in Yingjing, Hanyuan, asbestos and other places, and I asked Cao Sanbao to pay attention to this person, as well as the mining industry in Liangshan and Xiaoliangshan. If there are metals such as gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, zinc, etc., we will buy some and store them first, and sooner or later you will be able to use them in military industry. ”

After Luo Yuhong finished writing about civil affairs, he was replacing the bald quill in his hand, when Wang Sizhong at the door somehow touched the door and made a squeaky sound. Luo Yuhong didn't know how to write about the army, so he started with Wang Sizhong.

"Wang Sizhong came to me every day to stand guard and sentry, and the affairs of the army were left to Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun. I heard that Jingyun fought a battle in Feixian Pass? He said no, and Chen Youfu also said no, they must have lied to me! I warn you, my dad is a son of Jingyun, and he who expects to inherit the lineage, he must not let anything happen to him! It's best for you to transfer him back to Chengdu and put him by your side, he and Chen Youfu are crawling together, I feel heartache when I look at it!

Chen Youfu is an honest man, he doesn't talk much, and when he sees me, he first shouts a report. He devoted himself to training soldiers and trained soldiers ruthlessly. I went to see them drill once, and they all stood like tree stumps. Listening to Jingyun, they stood in line during training, each time for an hour. Assassination training is also an hour. On rainy days, you have to run and climb the mountain with bricks on your back! It's even more ruthless than the devil instructor in our military training!

In addition, they also trained in various tactical subjects, such as night raids on villages, field encounters, fortified defensive battles, and urban fortifications. Jingyun said that these were all arranged before you left. We have been married for more than ten years, why didn't I know you would still do this? What else are you hiding from me?

The soldiers were well fed. Chen Youfu complained that there were too few 180 people in Ya'an. The city gate, the state government, and the Fan family compound must be guarded by soldiers. Huang Nigang inspected the goods, and Cao Sanbao also asked him to send troops, so he never could concentrate the whole company during training. Luo Jingyun suggested separating the soldiers defending the city from the soldiers in the field. I don't understand these things, I don't dare to make a decision, waiting for you to come up with an idea. ”

Luo Yuhong finally made it clear that she was neither familiar nor interested in military affairs, and Wang Sizhong reported to Mr. Hong at the door to ask for a meeting. Luo Yuhong had no choice but to accept most of the letters she had written, and asked Mr. Hong to come in.

Hong Qihui's office is just outside the Yiyang Hall, and there is only a middle door from the small courtyard. However, in this middle gate, there is a guard guard sentry of Tianquan Tusi, which is located at the shadow wall facing the middle gate. Except for Hong Qihui, Xiaohong and Wang Sizhong, who can enter and exit freely, anyone who crosses the middle gate must be stopped. Even if you are allowed to enter through a bulletin, you must register your name, position and time in the register. Of course, ordinary brushes are not good to use on this occasion, so a quill pen is also placed at the sentry.

Hong Qihui held a few pieces of paper under his armpit, bowed his hand to Wang Sizhong at the door, and walked straight to the front of the house and pushed the door in.

"Mr. Hong, please be seated. Sizhong on tea. What happened to Mr. Hung? After following Zhu Pingjin for a few days, Luo Yuhong also learned a little bit of the style of the superior in this era.

"It's still a matter of land donation!" Hong Qihui said.

"There is not much progress in the land donation of Qiongmei, Zhang Shilin and Fu Yuanlan have reported several times, saying that Yang Tianguan does not move, and the other gentlemen do not move. I wonder if we should take the initiative to push him. ”

Luo Yuhong knew what Hong Qihui meant by "pushing". It's okay to push it, but if you can't push it, your head may fall to the ground.

She said, "Have you done a risk assessment?" Is there an emergency plan? ”

Miss Luo objected, and Hong Qihui breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he had just received the news that Shizi had sent his fiancée to Yazhou to take up the town, and he still had an opinion on this. He once sighed in his heart: The hero is sad to pass the beauty pass! The world is no different! How much knowledge and ability can a doctor's daughter and a teenage girl have to straighten out the mess in Yazhou?

As a result, when he saw Miss Luo, he was even more surprised. The appearance is mediocre, tall, taller than the prince, and there is a group of toast guards around the front and back. She is in a hurry, speaking like a bead, and often saying words that he doesn't understand, writing words he doesn't recognize, and doing things he can't see. A few days after she came, she sorted out the accounts of Wang Zhuang clearly, and easily found out that Fan Zhen had stolen money from Wang Zhuang Wang Shop, and now the unlucky guy was locked up in a small room next to the silver vault. Hong Qihui reported on Zhang Dahu's matter, and Miss Luo went to the state prison to visit Zhang Dahu's family in person. Seeing that the future prince and mother came to visit, he kowtowed through the prison door and confessed his mistake, promising to dedicate all the land to the palace, just to spare his family's life. Surprisingly, Miss Luo did not accept the offer, but only asked Zhang Dahu to reduce the tenant rent to 50% of the same as the palace.

Zhang Dahu escaped from prison, and his bad habit of messaging in the circle of friends still does not change. The palace did not take a penny from the big households, but for the sake of the poor people, and the rumors that the palace was plotting to seize the people's property were self-defeating, and the image of the palace suddenly became much taller. Even with those Yazhou gentry who cut off diplomatic relations with Hong Qihui, they had to say a few words of greeting when they saw him on the road.

This little girl can't be despised either! Hong Qihui admonished himself again. She is meticulous and especially sensitive to money. If you report it with a foolish mind, you will probably be unlucky.

"Brother Yuan Xiu made a risk assessment." Hong Qihui said as he handed over the assessment report in his hand, "He thinks that in Qiongzhou, it is more likely that we will encounter a joint resistance from the gentry." Yang Tianguan has a deep collusion with the Qiongzhou government, and perhaps the government will also oppose the palace. ”

Luo Yuhong carefully read Fu Yuanxiu's evaluation report and said: "Mr. Fu has done a good job. Qiongzhou is sandwiched between Chengdu Prefecture, Meizhou and our Yazhou. We have done a good job of rent reduction in the surrounding area, which must be a great stimulus to the people of Qiongzhou, if the gentry exploit the people excessively, the people will rise up and destroy them first, and we don't need to do anything.

In addition, Yang Tianguan's influence among the Sichuan gentry was great, and we must consider the political pressure that Zhu Pingjin was subjected to. Now is the time, the timing is not right! ”

Hong Qihui nodded and added: "Sit and watch the tide rise and fall!" ”。

Hong Qihui's view is the same as that of Miss Luo. But his position is the head of the contribution section, and there is performance pressure, so he took the opportunity to push Yang Tianguan through Fu Yuanxiu's mouth. Miss Luo has now vetoed his suggestion, and the responsibility is not his.

"What else is going on with Mr. Hong?" Luo Yuhong asked.

"Well, this, this, Yazhou farmers seem to ...... to that ecological pig breeding"

"What's the problem? Please Mr. Hong speak directly! ”

"Farmers say that pigs are not kept in pens, and they can't sell them in the market! The pigs ran all over the mountain, arching the crops everywhere, and the farmers had no choice but to kill the pigs and then ......"

Sending Hong Qihui away, Luo Yuhong sighed again, this is the first failed project? I can't even count it.

The ecological farming project failed, and the honeycomb coal project also failed. A bundle of firewood is worth only a few pennies, who wants to buy an expensive coal stove with a choking smell?

Where there's a will there's a way! I must do a few big things, and I must not let Zhu Pingjin underestimate myself! The competitive Luo Yuhong secretly made up her mind.

Everything was written on the letter, even about Fan Zhen stealing money. Luo Yuhong checked it twice and revised a few more words, and then began to translate in the blank space above the text.

When Niujiaozhai broke up, the two agreed that in the future, the communication between the two would use Hanyu Pinyin, and the most important keywords would be English. For this era, Hanyu Pinyin is a new set of text encoding schemes. The two believed that even if the letter was intercepted on the road, it would be difficult to decipher it in a short time. The decipherers had to figure out the meaning of Hanyu Pinyin, and the difficulty was comparable to that of the Martian script of their previous life.

Luo Yuhong finished translating, recopied it again, then folded the letter and put it in the envelope, dipped it in a few grains of soft rice, and burned the original letter on the candle flame, and then called Wang Sizhong in.

"Sizhong, send the son urgently!" Luo Yuhong commanded, writing five English capital letters "A" side by side from left to right on the envelope.

Five "A", this is the highest-level top-secret letter exclusive to Luo Yuhong and Zhu Pingjin. When the messenger sees this symbol, he will change horses instead of people, and go all the way to the Shizifu for hundreds of miles.

Three days later, a top-secret urgent letter also marked with five A's returned to Luo Yuhong. After Luo Yuhong sent Wang Sizhong, who delivered the letter, he opened the envelope and began to translate.

Zhu Pingjian's reply was very simple, in the typical telegraph style.

"I received the letter. The affairs of Yazhou are paid to the wife. The Yazhou garrison is planning to expand, and the will will be issued soon. Wang Sizhong is a traitor, don't startle the snake. After receiving the code, do not interrogate and immediately execute them secretly. Execution code: Pu Zhigao. ”