Chapter 127: Patrol (II)

The importance of Ninghe Town, this town, will gradually become prominent with the construction of the canal. Perhaps Ninghe Town will never have the current Sufeng Town, and the future Sufeng City will be as important to the entire region and even the whole country, but as an important node of the canal, Ninghe Town will become more prosperous and wealthy, there is no doubt.

Ye Tao didn't come to inspect the administration or supervise any projects. There is indeed a large lock on the canal section near Ninghe Town, but the project is not very difficult. Ninghe Town really attracted Ye Tao's attention because some anecdotes came out near Ninghe Town some time ago, which made him a little interested in several families near Ninghe Town.

There is a place called Fangcun Mountain near Ninghe Town, and the mountain specializes in a thing called purple pear. In terms of function, it can be regarded as a spice and a medicinal material, and with the undeveloped plant taxonomy and chaotic and unstructured medicine in this time and space, these two functions are actually unified in the eyes of most people.

The purple pear business has been controlled by the Lejia family in Ninghe Town for hundreds of years, and the Lejia has been divided into three since the Lejia family was divided into three decades ago due to some internal family changes, and the purple pear business has also been divided into three veins. But what is more strange is that these three veins still share a fixed part of the resources of purple pears, because no matter how they toss, it seems that purple pears cannot survive without the unique water and soil of Fangcun Mountain. However, the three branches of Lejia did not set aside a piece of land each, but used the resources of purple pears in turn according to the number of years, each family for one year, and then replaced......

The three branches of Lejia are known as Lejia Tongmen, Lejia Baoshantang and Lejia Dongmen. Among them, Tongmen is mainly engaged in the spice business, because of the line of several maritime merchants in Chunnan. In fact, the unique spice of purple pear has absolutely greater impact on the face than the actual benefit for the Tongmen branch. In terms of financial resources, Tongmen now occupies a huge advantage. Lejia Dongmen is the most declining of the three, Dongmen has a good relationship with many medicinal herb merchants in Dongping, and purple pear because of its unique nature, it is also a rare medicinal material that many famous doctors like to use when treating some incurable diseases. However, it takes three years to get one year's production, so the business is quite difficult. And Po Sin Tong is a different way. They forbade for about ten years when they compromised with the three companies and took turns to distribute them, and tried many formulas with the output of three rounds, and finally allowed them to successfully develop the world-famous medicine - "Shengsheng San".

Shengshengsan, in some rumors, almost has the effect of the flesh and bones of the living dead, and the most enthusiastic about Shengshengsan are martial arts people. Entered the field of patent medicines. Let Lejia Baoshantang have strengthened its strength and gradually get out of the situation of a single demand for purple pear land. In the past few years, although Shengsheng San is still the signature of Baoshantang, they have also expanded many projects in other fields of local medicine.

However, at the time when the vitality was just coming out. The branch of Baozentang was almost wiped out. The husband is not guilty, and he is guilty, which is really not bad at all. The three branches of Lejia, who used to look at each other very unpleasantly, have all kinds of stories that have happened in just a few years. It can be written as an extremely exciting series of more than forty episodes. Among them, there are co-optation and division, there are infernal affairs, there are seduction and framing, there are violent raids, there are serial murders, there are intricate economic and interpersonal struggles, and in the end, the three branches of Lejiadi have almost become a small epitome of the struggle of the three kingdoms of Dongping, Chunnan, and Xiling. Tongmen relied on the abundant financial resources of Chunnan merchants to advance step by step. Dong Men unexpectedly received the support of some powerful martial arts people from Xiling Kingdom, while Baoshantang was forced to give up the posture of being detached and **, and won a chance to breathe with the initiative of offering elixir to the Dongping royal family, and then gradually gained a foothold with the help of Zeng Man and others, intentionally or unintentionally. And Baoshantang has thus become a unique merchant loyal to the Dongping royal family.

The reason why Ye Tao came to Ninghe Town. It's because of some documents sent by Zeng Man a while ago. Mentioned Lejia in Ninghe Town, mentioned an old pharmacist in Baoshantang, who is said to have a strengthening formula that is full of vitality. It has a very good effect on the conditioning of internal injuries in the elderly, especially the cardiopulmonary veins. The old pharmacist had heard of Tan Weixindi's illness, and thought that this medicine should have a good effect on improving the health of Her Royal Highness the Princess. The imperial medical supervisor accepted the medicine from Baoshantang, but he didn't dare to rashly use it for the princess. After all, from the perspective of Shengshengsan, from the consistent pharmacological performance of Zili pear, it is really too domineering, and Baoshantang is unwilling to give a detailed formula for this enhanced Shengsan, so that the imperial doctors who seek stability more than change can't make up their minds to hand over the medicine to Tan Weixin to take anyway.

If it was just these things, Ye Tao might not be interested in coming to Ninghe Town. There have been a lot of strange people in Ninghe Town recently. Some of these people are obviously practitioners, and the interest shown by these people in the construction of the canal and in various things under the canal governor's palace makes people a little uneasy. The most suspicious thing is that there are actually two people pretending to be people from other places, mixed in the team of people who build the river, if it weren't for one time, a ramp to transport earth and stone suddenly landslided, and the two practitioners between the electric light and flint showed a little skill, so that a family official in charge of the construction site can see through the family, maybe these two people are still lurking. And after that incident, what was even more incredible was that the traces of those two people disappeared completely in just a few hours, so that the scout team of the Governor's Mansion who arrived later was now mainly responsible for intelligence gathering and sorting rather than battlefield reconnaissance did not gain anything.

Since the promulgation of the resolution to build the canal, people of insight from all over the world have seen the significance of the canal very accurately. The canal can not only revitalize all kinds of products on the Qingluo Plain, form a strong guarantee for Danyang, the capital of Dongping, and improve the economic development level of the surrounding areas and the living standards of the people. During the honeymoon period of the relationship between Dongping and Chunnan, in case of Xiling entering Kou Chunnan, the Dongping army could give rapid support. So, what if the relationship between Dongping and Chunnan is not so good in the future? Then the canal is about to become a sword hanging over the head of Chunnanguo.

Xiling, Northern Liao and other countries, in line with the idea of weakening Dongping, will certainly try to obstruct the smooth construction of the canal, but it seems that it has little to do with the dredging work in Ninghe Town, which has only one section of the river, a lock and a small section of the newly excavated river channel. So, is there something more interesting going on here? Perhaps, this is the most plausible explanation.