Turning his head, he saw a middle-aged man about forty years old leading a horse and approaching, this person was of medium height, with a short beard of two inches under his forehead and neatly groomed, looking very energetic. Dressed in a soap-colored brocade robe, looking at the jade belt style around his waist, he is a person with a knighthood.

The people in the Qin Palace, including the people in the court now, basically recognize everything, but this person really doesn't know him. Hesitantly, he jumped off the five flowers and arched his hand to this person and said, "In Xia Xiao Zheng, dare to ask who your Excellency is?" ”

This person also bowed his hand and said: "I have something to ask for in the lower warrior Tong to find the Duke of Yuguo."

"Samurai Tong?! The Empress's father? Xiao Zheng was taken aback, and couldn't help but take a good look at this person again.

"Ying Guogong is polite, I don't know what you're looking for?"

"If it is convenient for Xiao Gong, can you go to the restaurant in front of you?" Samurai said, pointing to a liquor store in front of him.

"Then it is better to be respectful than to obey fate."

The two sat in the wine shop and chatted, Xiao Zheng knew that Wu Shi Tong was born in a merchant family, and at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wu Shi Tong spent money to donate an official of the Eagle Yang Mansion. Later, Li Yuan stayed in Taiyuan and appointed him as a military commander to join the army. When Li Yuan recruited soldiers to prepare for rebellion, it aroused the suspicion of Wang Wei and Gao Junya, and the warriors did not give Li Yuan a lot of cover, and after the Jinyang army began, he invested thousands of dollars to help him raise troops and won Li Yuan's love, but since Li Shimin ascended the throne, he deliberately suppressed the courtiers who were close to Li Yuan, and he was marginalized by Chiyu.

After Wu Shitong finished speaking, Xiao Zheng understood that this guy was the front wave who was slapped to death on the beach by the back waves.

"But Wu Gong, what is the matter with you looking for the next, even if you want to be an official, you have to find Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji, it's useless to find it."

"Xiao Gong misunderstood, it is not that he is not here for an official position, but for another matter."

Since he said that Wu Shi Tong directly clarified his intentions, it turned out that Wu Shi Tong has been doing business for many years and mainly specializes in wood, and this time he knows that Xiao Zheng will have a big move in the future, so he wants to talk about pen business with Xiao Zheng, to put it bluntly, he wants to be Xiao Zheng's supplier.

After listening to this, Xiao Zheng looked at Wu Shi Tong very vigilantly and said: "How did Ying Guogong know this information, to be honest, there are not many people who know this information, if possible, please try to speak up."

"Before Emperor Wen of Sui, my father began to have business dealings with the public loser, that is, to this day, most of his family's timber is supplied by me, because there are your shares in the Qiao Workshop is Mr. Gong Yi asked me to come to you, and I also told Mr. Gong through the city that you have said about you, and I feel that your business vision is unmatched, and I also want to participate in Qiao Gong Fang this time."

I see! After listening to this, Xiao Zheng suddenly realized, and startled Lao Tzu, since it was introduced by Gong Yi, what else is there to worry about.

"Please rest assured that as long as your price is right and the quality is guaranteed, you can continue to supply the wood from my Qiao Workshop, and as for the contract, you can find a public loser."

"Please rest assured about the quality and price of this material, my martial artist dare not say anything else, but it is the largest wood supplier in Chang'an City, how can this deceitful business be done for a long time" Wu Shi Tong said to Xiao Zheng with a smile.

Think about it, if he is not honest in business, it is impossible for him to survive for generations, otherwise it is impossible to use thousands of huge funds to fund Li Yuan in the last years of his great cause.

"Then it's a deal!" The palms of the two slammed together, drank the wine in the glass, and went home.

There is a large open space on the Qujiang River not far from Dongshi, and there are no people along the river for six or seven miles. In the summer, some people come to fish, and in the winter, they only see reeds flying all over the ground. But in the past few days, it has suddenly become lively, and as long as the arresters of Chang'an City and the Wuhou patrolling the streets see the displaced people on the street, they will tell them to go to the Qujiang River in Dongshi, where they will prepare for large-scale construction, regardless of men, women and children, as long as they can do some work in the past, they will have food and clothing. Chang'an County was even more direct, sending officials to gather the displaced people and send them in batches in a team of 200 people.

Zhao Dazhuang's family is one of the homeless, originally his family still has a few dozen acres of land, although the harvest is not good and can still maintain the past, but last year his wife was sick and died all of a sudden, so he had to be a homeless person, and dragged his family to Chang'an City to see if he could find a way to live. Staying in the dilapidated temple at night, looking at the three children who were waiting to be fed in the cold wind, Zhao Dazhuang even wanted to go over to be a robber to rob the house, and when he was moving this idea, the two officials found him and said that he asked his family to go to the Qujiang River not far from Dongshi to find someone to work on the side of the river to earn enough to eat.

With the whole family holding the only hope to the edge of the Qujiang River, I saw that Zhang Cai, a homeless person I knew before, was carrying the stone hard, and after seeing him, he said: "Why did you come, go and sign up, the whole family has three meals a day, and you are full!" ”。

Just this sentence hooked Zhao Dazhuang's courage to life, took the whole family to the registration point to register, was led to a warm room to take a shower and comb his hair, and when he came out, he found that the three babies were each washed and had a clean and thick clothes, and he was a little dazed in his heart, and he didn't know what the people in the government wanted to do.

Seeing that the person who came first was digging under the command of others, digging and digging wood, he was taken to a row of houses at a loss, and the person who led him pointed to the front and said that your family will live here first and remember the number, this is the shack where you live. What kind of shack is this, clean up when you enter the door, and there is a warm earthen kang, which has never been so clean before.

After settling down his own affairs, the leader of the team led him to the team of transporting bricks and stones and began to work, and went back in the evening to take his mother-in-law and baby to the place to eat, and saw the white rice and meat slices in each of the bowls of the baby, Zhao Dazhuang's tears and yellow rice and dry rice swallowed, if you don't sell this strength well, you can't help your conscience.

Gao Lansheng, who was a military medical officer when he attacked Liu Heimin in Luoyang, received an order to be transferred with more than 30 military doctors to be responsible for the epidemic prevention of nearly 10,000 displaced people. was taking two assistants to check back and forth on the construction site, and when he looked up and saw Xiao Zheng walking over in civilian clothes, Gao Lansheng hurriedly walked over and saluted and said, "Xiaguan has seen Yuguo Gong."

He was full of gratitude to Xiao Zheng, and it was precisely because of Xiao Zheng's selfless teaching that he made a name for himself in the barracks and confirmed his status as the boss of the military doctor in the barracks.

"Lao Gao, we must strictly follow the epidemic prevention regulations in the army, otherwise these 10,000 people will be together, and the consequences of typhoid fever epidemic will be terrible, and if you need my support in terms of medical skills, you can find me at any time."

"Xiaguan understands, Xiaguan thanks Guogong for his support," Gao Lansheng said to Xiao gratefully, with him here, Gao Lansheng suddenly gained a lot of confidence.

It is impossible for such a big movement on the edge of the Qujiang River not to attract the attention of some officials in the court, and it is impossible to say that it is impossible to build a palace, and it is impossible for a saint to do something stupid today. When I inquired about it, the private boss was kind-hearted to build things on the edge of the Qujiang River, and when I saw that there were too many displaced people, I reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to help the court to help the victims with work.

After a while, God had a light snow, and although the weather was a little colder, it still couldn't stop people's enthusiasm. In the past few days, more than a dozen women have suddenly been busy on the construction site, people are boiling a pot of steaming ginger soup on the construction site for everyone while they are working, or going to the shack to see the children, bringing some food to the children, and sending boxes of chilblain cream.

The woman who was the leader of these people looked very noble but was dressed in cloth and had patches on her skirt, and she looked kind and kind, which made people feel very good.

At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just a relative from a housekeeper who came to help. Until one day, a royal historian came to the construction site and wanted to write a chapter to report to the court to praise this kind of good people and good deeds, and when he saw this woman, the whole person was stunned, and when he came to his senses, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to see the queen's mother.

At this time, the construction site exploded, and now the queen mother came to take care of the homeless people in the wind and snow for several days, but no one knows! All the homeless people knelt in front of the eldest grandson and cried after knowing the identity of the eldest grandson, and the eldest grandson also shed tears and said that it was my court's poor governance of the Tang Dynasty that caused you to suffer.

Zhao Dazhuang thought about the idea of being a robber at that time, and he couldn't wait to slap himself a few times, but fortunately he didn't take the wrong path, otherwise he would be sorry for such a virtuous queen, not to mention his wife and children.

The news of the eldest grandson taking care of the homeless people soon spread all over Chang'an City, and the next day the queen sent out a decree, saying that she wanted to recruit volunteers to take care of the homeless, and the requirements were very simple, the family conditions were good and there was free time, and women who could needlework or could take care of the baby and had a skill were preferred, and those who were willing to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to sign up, and the quota was limited to fifty people.

Everyone doesn't know what volunteers are, but it's a rare opportunity to do good deeds with the queen mother, and for a while, the civil department gathered in the chewing car, and the lady and the prince and princess who signed up came.

Fang Xuanling's eldest grandson Wuji, who was familiar with Xiao Zheng and Du Ruhui, took the form and filled it out and slapped it in front of the two of them and left, Yu Chi Laohei and Cheng bit the golden helmet and came over, and released cruel words at Du Ruhui and Xiao Zheng, if they didn't let their own wife participate in that volunteer, they would definitely demolish the Ministry of Civil Affairs this time, and they would also demolish the 10,000 yuan they owed last time.

In desperation, Xiao Zheng and Du Ruhui had to double the quota to coax this group of people away, and they stopped a bunch of people outside the Ministry of Civil Affairs. While the people of Chang'an were amazed by the good deeds of Empress Changsun, their views on the new emperor, including the court, were slowly changing, and the aftermath of Xuanwumen was slowly disappearing.

It's just that everyone is curious about where the divine can make such a big move, where is such a good person even the queen mother is alarmed, some people who like to get to the bottom of the matter want to ask the construction site manager, but people just don't say it.