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The moon rose into the night sky, the moonlight shone into Zhu Xiaobei's study, the cool autumn breeze blew into the study along the window, and the oil lamp on the desk swayed gently, as if it might be extinguished at any time.

Uncle Xie, who had been standing aside, said softly, "Master, do you need me to call the kitchen to bring dinner?" ”

Zhu Xiaobei waved his hand, "No need, I'm not too hungry, let's talk about it when I'm hungry, Uncle Xie, how is the matter I ordered?" ”

"Two hours ago in the Gathering Hall, I have already told all the businessmen in Tokyo who have the ability to take over the business cooperation with the Korean Kingdom, at the beginning, many businessmen wanted to take the opportunity to take over, after the old slave said that the business world was blocked, those businessmen should not take over anymore, but ......"

Zhu Xiaobei rubbed his temples and hesitated slightly, "But what?" Someone doesn't give up? ”

"Hmm." Uncle Xie nodded lightly, "The White House seems to have received a long time ago from the Feng Zhu family business group to suspend the cooperation with the Goryeo Kingdom, and the people in the audience, only the White House did not have the slightest surprise and doubt, and even a little bit of joy, and the business ban order only seemed to make the White House hesitate a little." ”

Zhu Xiaobei slowly closed his eyes and leaned there, his brows locked together from time to time, and then stretched.

After a long time, Zhu Xiaobei's brows were completely relaxed, he opened his eyes, and handed the account book on the table to Uncle Xie, "The White House is just guarding a rich man with alum in his arms, but he is relying on Wang Huang to support him behind his back, and he is not afraid of influence in the business world or financial resources, just pay attention to it a little, as long as he doesn't affect our plans and King Yun, let him make trouble." ”

Zhu Xiaobei said, pointing to the account book handed to Uncle Xie, "This is the disaster relief money I prepared for Jiangnan, food and clothing are included in it, inform the Zhu family business group industries around Jiangnan, prepare overnight, and it must be delivered to King Yun of Jiangnan tomorrow night at the latest." ”

When Uncle Xie heard the three words of disaster relief, he looked at the ledger again, and found that the amount was not small, and looked at Zhu Xiaobei puzzled.

Zhu Xiaobei saw Uncle Xie's puzzled eyes, smiled, and said, "I forgot to tell Uncle Xie, I received the news that King Yun sent back with a carrier pigeon during the day, and I have to say that King Yun has a business mind that you and I can't match." ”

Uncle Xie's eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly smiled and said, "King Yun is planning to let us donate to the Jiangnan disaster area, and in return, in the name of disaster relief, the reputation of the Zhu family's business group will be further promoted. ”

Zhu Xiaobei was not surprised by Uncle Xie's accurate guess, after his father died, Zhu Xiaobei was able to keep the Zhu family's business group, and it can be said that he basically relied on Uncle Xie's secret help.

"That's right, that's exactly what King Yun meant."

"There are a lot of people who want to make their reputation in the disaster area with aid donations, but the effect is not obvious, one is that the disaster area is chaotic and cannot be vigorously promoted, and the other is that after the disaster, most of the victims are sad and sad, and there is no way to pay too much attention to and remember the people who are helping the disaster, and it will soon be forgotten. Uncle Xie said as he flipped through the ledger.

Zhu Xiaobei showed a soft smile, "King Yun did come up with a brilliant idea to make our reputation, an idea that I couldn't refuse, but I decided to help King Yun more because I owed King Yun a favor." ”

"A favor?

"Yes, a favor." Zhu Xiaobei thought of the words that King Yun said to himself that day so that he could face himself calmly, and the corners of his mouth and the arc of a soft smile became even bigger.

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The next day, before the sun rose, the Jiangnan County Yazhong suddenly remembered the deafening sound of the gong.

In Zhao Zhi's room, Zhao Zhi suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, "What time is it?" Why is the gong still playing? ”

In Qin Hui's room, the sleepy-eyed Qin Hui slowly crawled out of the quilt and began to get dressed by instinct.

The officials who were called back overnight last night all opened the door one after another, and for a while, there were complaints and complaints.

"What's wrong? Fire? ”

"So early, who is beating the gong to keep people from sleeping, don't you know that we went to rush back overnight?"

"Don't let me know who struck the gong so early, let me know, I have to let him walk around without eating."

Zhao Mingcheng was dressed in coarse cloth, looked at Zhao Kai who was desperately beating the gong with a sad face, and shook his head slightly.

Half an hour ago, Zhao Mingcheng was woken up from his sleep by Zhao Kai, who was in full swing, and was pulled by Zhao Kai to beat the gong here without taking a sip of water.

Zhao Kai saw that the gong was almost struck, stopped, shook his slightly sour right arm, and handed the gong in his hand to Zhao Mingcheng, "Everyone should be awake, let's wait for everyone here." ”

As soon as Zhao Kai's words fell, Qin Hui, who was unkempt, appeared from the end of the porch and walked over slowly.

"King Yun is early, Zhao Zhizhou is early."

Zhao Kai put his arm around Qin Hui's shoulders, and said with a teachable look, "You have to be the undertaker, don't procrastinate, but you don't wash up, and you have to pay attention to whether the image is not." ”

Qin Hui touched his unkempt hair, nodded listlessly, and then hit a basin of well water, and plunged directly into the basin, and the slightly cool well water directly woke Qin Hui up from his dissociation.

The second one to appear was Zhao Zhi, when Zhao Zhi was in the northwest military camp, he often got up in the middle of the night because of the sudden war, he was used to it for a long time, and he didn't look as weak as Qin Hui, he greeted Zhao Kai and Zhao Mingcheng with a smile, and at the same time glanced at the gong in Zhao Mingcheng's hand, and said slowly out of kindness, "Zhao Zhizhou, next time you can change it in a gentle way, the sound of the gong is too noisy." ”

Zhao Mingcheng looked at the gong in his hand, slightly stunned, and was just about to defend himself when he saw Qin Hui, whose hair was dripping with water, staring at the gong in his hand, and his small eyes seemed to see through the gong in Zhao Mingcheng's hand, which made Zhao Mingcheng want to cry without tears.

The four of them hurriedly ate breakfast and brought the 152 officials to the open space in the backyard of the county government.

Zhao Mingcheng took the gong, looked at the resentful eyes of the one hundred and fifty-two officials, and smiled bitterly, Zhao Mingcheng finally knew why Zhao Kai had to bless himself again and again after breakfast, don't forget to take the gong.

Zhao Mingcheng wiped the sweat drops on his forehead, pointed to Zhao Kai and the three of them, and introduced in turn, "This is King Yun, this is King Xin, this is Cheng Shilang, an official sent by the imperial court for disaster relief, and in the next few days, King Yun, King Xin, and Cheng Shilang will be fully responsible for all matters related to disaster relief." ”

One of the officials below suddenly asked, "Zhizhou, what's wrong with letting so many of us come back?" Are there only a few people guarding the flooded area? ”

"Yes, Zhizhou."

"Zhizhou, let's go back quickly, we can't just leave a few people in the flooded area."

When Zhao Mingcheng heard the words of the officials, the sweat on his forehead increased, wiped off the sweat droplets on his forehead, and then said, "King Yun has his own plan to do things, you don't have to talk too much, if you are in vain, you will go and get the board yourself." ”

Zhao Mingcheng still had some strength in speaking, as soon as these words came out, no one talked anymore, Zhao Mingcheng secretly glanced at Zhao Kai, and saw that Zhao Kai didn't seem to blame, so he spoke again, "Lu Zhisi, you will point out eighty-two people to follow King Yun, King Xin, and Chengshilang to clean up the streets, and the rest of the people will follow me to recruit carpenters to the suburbs to see simple houses to resettle the victims." ”