After everything was negotiated, Su Ziheng stayed in Zhao Mansion and spent a happy New Year with Zhao Wan'er.

As soon as the New Year passed, Zhao's firm, together with Zhao Chengwen and Zhao Wan'er, threw themselves into the intense recruitment of manpower.

Although Jiangning is a rich land of fish and rice, not everyone lives very well, and in the bottom society, there are still many poor people who do not have enough food and clothing.

I heard that Zhao's firm recruited people to build a reservoir in Donghai County, and each person also issued ten taels of silver to settle in, and after arriving in Donghai County, there were three taels of silver every month, compared to only two taels in Jiangning Mansion, or even less than two taels of silver, three taels of silver a month can buy six stones of rice, for a family of five to eat for several months.

Therefore, knowing that it would be very difficult to go to Donghai County to leave their hometown and build a reservoir, countless people still signed up to go.

In order to increase the population of Donghai County, Su Ziheng secretly played a trick when recruiting. The strong man who has successfully signed up is allowed to move with his family, and the wife of the family also has a salary of one or two silver every month to do some simple work.

In addition to the hard work such as building a reservoir and building a castle that is about to begin, there are still many chores that need to be done in Donghai County, so the more people who go there the better. Su Ziheng wished that their family would stay in Donghai County in the future and not return to Jiangning.

Originally, many men who were reluctant to have a small wife at home, heard that they could bring their families with them, and that their wives could also find a job for more than one or two silver a month, so they couldn't do it anymore and told them to sign up and move their families.

In the past few days, Su Ziheng ordered the escort to return to Donghai County, drive all idle ships to Jiangning Mansion, and transport the workers back to Donghai County.

In order not to cause trouble, Zhong Qinghan, the princess of Donghai County, also came to Jiangning Mansion in person, visited the Jiangning prefect, and made a notice about it, so as not to cause his jealousy and displeasure in his wanton human trafficking.

In fact, what neither she nor Su Ziheng knew was that there was already a person in the mansion of the prefect of Jiangning Mansion at this time.

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The residence of the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture.

The prefect Jiang Ankang was standing tremblingly in the study, carefully waiting for a young man in front of him. After the prefect's maid brought tea and retreated, he knelt down in front of the young man.

"Jiang Ankang, the prefect of Jiangning, has seen His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness Chitose Chitose Chitose."

Yao Fusu looked at Jiang Ankang indifferently, waved his hand and said: "Calm down, this trip to Jiangning from this palace is a secret visit, and you must not reveal the identity of this palace." ”

Jiang Ankang replied respectfully: "Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince rest assured, the lower officials will definitely not say more." ”

"Hmm!" Yao Fusu turned his head and smiled slightly at the beautiful and fragrant woman beside him: "Concubine Ai, take out the emperor's secret decree and give it to Lord Jiang." ”

The dignified and gorgeous woman took out a secret letter from her sleeve, handed it to Jiang Ankang, and said with a smile: "Lord Jiang, this is the secret decree of the Long Live Lord, remember to burn it after reading it, and don't leave a single word." ”

Jiang Ankang lowered his head, didn't dare to look at the woman's eyes, raised his hands above his head, took the secret letter handed over by the woman, and replied repeatedly: "Crown princess, please rest assured, the lower official will definitely obey the will and dare not disobey in the slightest." ”

Although Jiang Ankang didn't know where the crown princess came from, he had always learned that she was deeply favored by the current saint and His Royal Highness the prince. It is the concubine designated by the Holy Lord to the crown prince, and it is rumored that she is both talented and beautiful, proficient in civil and military affairs, and is the right-hand man of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Bowing down and exiting the study and returning to his bedroom, Jiang Ankang instructed the concubine to fetch a basin of water, and after cleaning his hands, he carefully opened the secret letter.

The letter was not long, Emperor Xia only ordered him to do one thing, to do everything possible to assist Zhong Qinghan, the lord of Donghai County, to develop Donghai County, but he could not let the officials of the imperial court know.

Jiang Ankang lit the oil lamp, and according to the instructions of the crown princess, he set the secret letter on fire, and washed away all the paper ashes with the water in the basin, leaving no trace.

He knew why Banzai was so careful, even though Great Xia was the Yao clan's world today. However, when Taizu established Great Xia, he once said that he would rule the world with scholars, so in Great Xia, Confucianism would be more respected than the other three kingdoms.

Now that His Majesty has opened his mouth in the court to give Donghai County to the Donghai County Lord as a fiefdom, then all the development of Donghai County will naturally be the responsibility of the Donghai County Lord himself. If you still need to rely on the help of the imperial court, it will naturally cause a lot of criticism, and maybe there will be disputes in the court.

Now that the Lord is making every effort to recover Liangzhou, if there is a conflict with the court officials because of the incident in Donghai County, it is obviously irrational behavior. That's why the emperor will write a secret letter to himself alone, and ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go on a trip in person, the meaning of which is naturally self-evident.

This time Jiang Ankang is a little big, looking at the emperor's attention to the county lord of the East China Sea, it is obviously extraordinary, how can he support the county lord of the East China Sea without a trace at that time? If the scale is too large, it will not be possible to explain to the elders of the cabinet, if it is too small, Donghai County has not improved, and it is impossible to explain to the emperor, which is really embarrassing.

"Alas!" Jiang Ankang sighed deeply, "Don't worry about it for the time being, anyway, the development of Donghai County is not a result in a moment." As long as I don't intend to block the Donghai County Lord, and then provide her with some convenient conditions in private, I think I can explain the past on both sides. ”

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Yao Fusu temporarily stayed in the room, and there were only him and the crown princess at the moment.

Beigong Qing supported his chin with both hands, looked at Yao Fusu who was flipping through the scrolls under the window, and said a little bored: "Childe, let's go out for a walk, it's so boring to stay in the post station all the time." Now that you have arrived in Jiangning, when are you going to go to Donghai County to see your sister? ”

Yao Fusu put down the scroll in his hand, glanced at Beigong Qing dotingly, and smiled indifferently: "Don't be in a hurry for the time being, inquire clearly first." It's hard for us to go out of Beijing, don't you want to complete the task assigned by your father so quickly and rush back to the capital? ”

Beigong Qing pouted and said, "Qing'er naturally doesn't want to go back so early, but it's really boring to be at the post station all the time, or let's go out for a walk, I can't find any news in the room all the time." ”

Yao Fusu looked at her and shook his head helplessly, don't look at her graceful and luxurious appearance in front of people, in fact, she is a child who doesn't grow up behind her, and she is very playful. In addition, after she followed herself, many things were not as they seemed on the surface, and her heart was also very bitter.

But my body ......

Thinking of this, Yao Fusu let out a long breath, he must find a way to reverse this situation in the future.

He got up, came to Beigong Qing's side, reached out and rubbed her hair, "Why don't you go and change your clothes yet." ”