In April of the third year of Tianbao, the war in eastern Yunnan was in full swing, Tang Sheng, the county lieutenant of Yibin County, stole ordnance, affected the morale of the army, the incident occurred, and was sentenced to death.

In addition to the county lieutenant, and the acting county order, Li Qing knew that this must be Zhang Qiu and Qiong's force behind him, and soon, Zhang Qiu and Qiong's private letter was sent, the letter only congratulated him on making the county order, and asked him to do a good job, but at the end of the letter revealed an explosive news, the imperial court has decided to open the Nanxi County wharf into a permanent military port, in other words, the opportunity of Yibin County has come.

Li Qing read it, couldn't help but boil his blood, eager to rush out of the house, convene all the people to make an inaugural speech, and make a generous statement, but the Tang Dynasty is not a later generation, political achievements are made, not by lip service, Li Qing's blood quickly cooled, secretly thought about it, the current wharf is too small, more than 300 stone big ships can not dock at all, must expand the wharf, and there are two other things to do, one is to rebuild the county government, the other is to build a bridge on the Hongshui River, this is what he has promised a long time ago.

The funds for repairing the bridge had already been implemented, and part of it was allocated by the county, and the rest was made up by confiscating Tang Sheng's family property, but Li Qing considered that there were often floods in the mountains, so he wanted to build a stone bridge that could be used for hundreds of years, and there was a gap in the funds, but the county really couldn't come up with the money, so he discussed with Lian'er and decided that the insufficient part would be paid by themselves.

Early in the morning, Li Qing went out with an umbrella and went to Wang Changling to discuss the expansion of the wharf. For several days, the sky was raining fine and dense light, as if like the tears of a crying woman, constantly falling, one after another, but not finished, especially in the spring, so that people with excellent tempers are also worried because of this unreasonable rain, and they have the mood of scolding their mothers.

The rain is slight, not into a point and not into a silk, under the chase of the small wind, the whole county is buried in this haze, although it is raining, but the side street is more lively than before, today is a rush day, the rain has just washed the bluestone slab in the early morning, but at this time it was trampled by countless mud feet into a muddy piece, the side street is full of red oil paper umbrellas, dense, high and low, at a glance can not see the edge, the price of Yibin has dropped, the county people no longer have to run Nanxi County to buy goods, there are more guests, and the business is slowly thriving, The goods in the store were abundant, the amount of food in the restaurant was sufficient, and a few inns were opened, and some discerning businessmen began to buy land in the area around the wharf.

Since the county lieutenant was beheaded for public display, Wang Changling seemed to be ten years younger, like a tireless old horse, running around the county all day long, and when Li Qing found him, he was about to go to the countryside to inspect agricultural affairs.

"Is the gentleman going to the countryside?"

Li Qing looked Wang Changling up and down, and saw that he had changed into a robe, wearing a bamboo hat on his head, and stepping on straw sandals, and he was an old farmer in the countryside, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "If Mr. came to my house that day and dressed like this, I would have thought it was a visit from Daxian." ”

Wang Changling laughed, "This is my true color, and my feet are itchy if I don't go to the field for a long time." After a pause, he glanced at him and said: "Yang Ming came to me early in the morning, but for the matter of repairing the bridge, I first said that in front, you responded to it yourself that day, and it didn't cost the county a penny." He pulled his leg and left.

Li Qing let him slip away, and dragged him back to the house, "When will I ask you for money, and you will leave an hour later to discuss things with you." ”

Wang Changling took off his coat and ordered two cups of hot tea to be served, Fang smiled and said, "Say it!" What are you not for the money? ”

Li Qing smiled proudly and whispered in his ear: "Exact news, the dock in Nanxi County is going to be assigned to the military." ”

"What?" Wang Changling jumped up in surprise and looked at him in disbelief, "Is it the news that the Lord of Jiedu gave you?" ”

"Yes!" Li Qing took out Zhang Qiu and Qiong's letter and handed it to Wang Changling.

Wang Changling hesitated, took the letter and glanced at it hurriedly, and his hands began to tremble slightly.

"Oh my God! Our Yibin County is finally coming out. ”

He kept pacing in the room, his face turned red from excitement, as if it was like an aged orange peel, he stopped, his eyes staring at Li Qing fiercely, "Yangming, we need to expand the dock as soon as possible." ”

"I came to you for this matter, and I want to discuss the funding of the expansion of the terminal."

Wang Changling frowned, there is no money in the county, the county has just allocated funds to repair the bridge, it is impossible to give it again, where to get money, he covered his head and squatted on the ground and thought hard, but his mind was like a ridge after the rain, muddy.

Suddenly, if he realized, he looked up at Li Qing, and saw a smile in his eyes, Wang Changling's heart was relieved, and he said angrily: "Since you have a way, why don't you tell me, make me worry in vain." ”

Li Qing said with a smile: "My method is very simple, I am going to set up two tables of wine in Minyi Building the night after tomorrow to invite guests, and raise funds among the giant businessmen in Yibin County, but I am not familiar with the land and need you to help me write a post." ”

Wang Changling thought for a while and said: "Although this method is ancient, it is also effective, but I want to remind you first, Yibin County is not as good as Nanxi County, there are not many rich households, and the only few huge riches have moved away. ”

Li Qing shrugged his shoulders, "How much can be raised, and I will make up for the shortfall." ”

Wang Changling smiled when he heard this: "Our Yibin County stalled your big county order, it is also its luck, people are officials to move money to the family, you are good, but also stick the old book, if you are an official for ten or eight years, you must not ask for food." ”

Li Qing shook his head and said with a smile: "How much money can I have, it's nothing more than a bridge, at most this pier, this kind of thing can be done occasionally, and I have done a lot, and the red-eyed people play a copy of you, saying that you invite the hearts of the people privately, and put on the word 'private', even if you don't lose your head, you can't escape from exile and confiscation into the army, so people say that public and private should be clear, that's the truth." ”

Wang Changling was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "I still want you to spend some money to run a few official schools, but you will die first." ”

Li Qing smiled slyly, "Don't worry, I will definitely raise more than a thousand yuan, and the extra will give you an official school." ”

Minyi Restaurant is the largest restaurant in Yibin County, with a total of three floors, standing on the top floor, the vast Minjiang River will come into view, only to see the sparkling and vast, rushing blue sky.

That night, the lights in front of the Minyi Restaurant were brilliant, saying that it was brilliant, but there were three dead lanterns hanging in front of the gate, which was particularly eye-catching in Yibin County, which closed its eyes at night, but there was a gloomy bright spot in Yibin County at night, that is, Pinhualou, the two places reflected each other, just like two shining eyes, one called full warmth, and one called *.

Hearing that the county order invited guests, a group of giant businessmen who received the invitation came to Minyi Restaurant early, although the invitation was at night, but several people rushed to the banquet after lunch, and did not enter the restaurant, only stood at the door and greeted acquaintances with a smile.

When you meet someone who is funny, you will ask: "Shopkeeper Wang, are you standing here....?" ”

"Huh! The county magistrate has a treat, I am too busy with business, I didn't want to come, but I can't stand the warm invitation of the county magistrate, so I have to come. "I was afraid that the questioner would not believe me, so I hurriedly took out the invitation card to show him, but my eyes were staring at the other party's expression, and the person who saw it was sour, 'Oh!' sounded, and the heart was even more proud.

When it was almost dark, twenty or thirty well-known people from Yibin County had gathered in front of the Minyi Restaurant, saying compliments to each other, as if they didn't need to eat, and they could fill their stomachs with only compliments.

As a small green sedan chair approached, there were already a few clever dogs who had found bones and rushed up, bowing around the sedan chair to laugh, the county magistrate, the county magistrate, holding two posts in his hands, one was the invitation card given to him by the county order, and the other was the post that he was going to reply to the county order.

This official title also has a special meaning, for example, it is obviously Deputy Director Wang and Deputy Director Wang, you can only call him Wang Bureau and Wang Division, and that deputy word cannot be said in any case, so although Li Qing is only an acting county order, the official product is still the ninth product of the main book, but no one dares to call him Li Agent.

The small sedan car landed, and the follower Zhang Wang lifted the sedan curtain, and the acting county commander Li Qing Li of Yibin County walked out of the sedan chair with official steps. Li Qing had just taken a step, and before he could show his official authority, there were already a few flattering faces blocking the way, and as soon as his hands were tight, he had a few more invitations, and a few of them were nervous, so they actually stuffed back the invitations that Li Qing gave him.

The people next to them also found the county order, such as a group of reporters who interviewed the peach news, hulala rushed up, surrounded the county order, and rushed to introduce themselves, eager to memorize the family tree of the eighteenth generation of the ancestors, a few really couldn't squeeze in, so they took Zhang Wang's hand and asked the long and short, and after a while, the county order's scandal lace knew a little about one or two, and began to worry about Li Qing's lifelong events. And Zhang Wang's pocket has a few hundred dollars more, hanging heavily in his crotch, walking and flicking, like a bull returning home leisurely.

Li Qing was almost drowned by the flying spittle stars, he pushed aside everyone, said that there was no comment, and rushed into the restaurant first, but it was a pity that he only took one step after practicing official steps for an afternoon.