Wang Huan didn't take the carriage anymore, just sat on Ma Wannian's horse's buttocks, and hurried back, he also snatched Ma Wannian's horse whip, and he twitched wildly, and the horse's buttocks were bleeding, not fast enough, and Ma Wannian's face twitched with heartache.

Nearly a hundred miles of mountain road, a few people arrived that night, Wang Huan did not stop, and directly came to Tusi City, where the Xuanzhi envoy was located, and asked to meet Qin Liangyu.

In the flower hall of Tusi City, Qin Liangyu met him, Wang Huan's dusty appearance, Qin Liangyu was very puzzled, didn't he let him rest and wander, how did he get this look. couldn't help but look at Ma Wannian fiercely, and blamed: "I asked you to take Wang Huan around to understand the customs and customs, why did you make it as embarrassing as if you had fought a battle?" ”

Ma Wannian looked aggrieved, but he didn't dare to defend himself, so he had to stare at Wang Huan with peeking eyes.

Wang Huan hurriedly said: "My stepmother misunderstood, Ma Gongzi did treat Wang Huan with courtesy and was very thoughtful, today Wang Huan hurried back, but it was his own idea, not that Ma Gongzi treated me badly." ”

Qin Liangyu said curiously: "Then what is the urgency of you, to see me so urgently?" ”

Wang Huan said respectfully: "Without him, I just want to ask my stepmother for an errand." ”

Qin Liangyu couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "I see, you don't have to be so eager, first familiarize yourself with the geography of mountains and rivers, and after understanding clearly and knowing in your heart, I have my own position to make you tired." ”

Wang Huan saw that Qin Liangyu mistakenly thought that he was in a hurry to become an official, so he hurriedly defended: "My stepmother misunderstood, Wang Huan didn't mean that." Today I went to the Tubao Village, and saw that there were many refugees there, and the life was desolate, and I couldn't bear it, and suddenly I had an epiphany, so I came back in a hurry, and wanted to make a move to my stepmother, so as to calm the hearts of the people and boost the prestige of the army. ”

Qin Liangyu said solemnly: "It can calm the hearts of the people and boost the prestige of the army?" Okay, you can tell me more about it. ”

Wang Huan Zhengse said: "I look at the number of refugees in Tubaozhai, there are nearly tens of thousands, these people have fled to this place, helpless, food and drink, all rely on adults to maintain, in the long run, it is not a long-term solution, the stone pillar grain is not much, empty consumption, not cost-effective." ”

Qin Liangyu frowned and said: "But if you don't provide relief, sitting and watching the refugees starve to death will be degrading to me." ”

Wang Huan complimented: "The righteous mother cares about the people, the sun and the moon can be seen, I mean, since you want to give the refugees food and drink, you can't give it in vain, you have to let them work in exchange, first, they can contribute some labor, and second, they have something to do, so they won't sit and wait to eat and drink, but it is easy to get into trouble." ”

Qin Liangyu sighed and said: "I also have some consideration for this, I originally wanted them to settle the fields on the spot, and they can also support themselves in the future, but once the stone pillars are mountainous, the fertile fields are terraced, and it is not easy to reclaim; Second, these refugees are the people of neighboring states and counties, just to escape the military disaster, as soon as the thieves go, they will return to their hometowns, and the harvest of Tuntian will have to wait until the next year, and they may have left by then, so no one is willing to open the mountain and Tuntian, and the consolation envoy also feels that there is no need for this, so the refugees have nothing to do. ”

Wang Huan smiled, got up and arched his hand: "I have a strategy that can make many refugees use it for me. ”

Qin Liangyu was also unsurprised and smiled: "I know that you are resourceful, and when you came to see me in a hurry today, you must have a plan in your heart, let's say, what is your idea?" She is over 70 years old, and she still speaks with a crisp and bold voice.

Wang Huan hurriedly said: "The child watched the mountain in the Tubao Village, checked the earth veins, picked up stone samples, dug up the details of the rock mountain, and after exploration, he concluded that in the mountains of Qiyue Mountain, there are silver deposits, and the reserves are huge, which are enough for my Shizhu strong army!" I want to ask my stepmother for this job as a miner, and I will kill two birds with one stone. ”

Qin Liangyu frowned and asked, "Mining?" Is there really a silver mine in the stone pillar? ”

Wang Huan replied: "It's true, I know the method of prospecting, as long as I recruit a few miners, erect tunnels, and pave countless refugees to mine, I will definitely be able to make a big gain!" ”

When Qin Liangyu heard this, her eyes couldn't help but be confused, and she remembered her husband Ma Qiancheng, it was because she didn't bribe Qiu Chengyun, the mine supervisor, that she was framed by him and died in prison.

Wang Huan saw her thinking about it, stood aside and waited quietly, and Qin Liangyu was silent for a long time before raising his eyes and saying slowly to Wang Huan: "Child, I have a few major generals in the Shizhu soldiers, even if I get countless silver coins, it is useless, I know that you have great ambitions in your heart, but Qu is in the Shizhu Mountain, and I am dying, even if you are talented, it is also difficult for you to enter the house and worship the marquis in the future." ”

Wang Huan listened to her words, and his heart was also sad, this heroic woman who was a powerful woman in the past, experienced countless hardships, looked down on the warmth and coldness of human feelings, and now he is disheartened, without the fighting spirit of the clouds when he was young and prime, the seventy old man, it is time to take care of the old age, according to the historical process, the year after her hundred years later, the stone pillar will be occupied by the Qing army Haoge Department, and then during the Qianlong period, the stone pillar will be changed to the stream, and the stone pillar that shines in the world will eventually turn into the dust of history.

But now that he has come here, he will definitely change everything, he must seize a strong army before Qin Liangyu dies, occupy Sichuan, and resist the Manchus with the danger of Tianfu, otherwise everything is empty talk.

So Wang Huan said angrily: "Doesn't the stepmother know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer the tiger mountains?" If you don't go through hardships, how can you succeed? Wang Huan is not talented, he would rather use his own strength and enthusiasm to dye the mountains and rivers red, even if the future is difficult and dangerous, he is not afraid. ”

Qin Liangyu sat firmly in the chair, not moving like a mountain, but her heart was emotionally tumbling, and her feelings were infinite, she looked at Wang Huan's eyes, faintly shining, full of kindness and love, what are the regrets?

She said softly: "Since you have such a great ambition, of course, my stepmother will support it, so I will arrange it to make the local leaders obey your dispatch and instruct the refugees to cooperate and open the mountain to mine, and you will let me comfort the counselor of the embassy and handle this matter with full authority." ”

Wang Huan was overjoyed, knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted: "Ordered by the righteous mother, the child dares to disobey his fate!" ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Qin Liangyu resolutely found several leaders, handed them over to Wang Huan, gave an order in person, and found a few officials to comfort the envoy for Wang Huan's disposal, and finally called his own personal generals to accompany him to protect Wang Huan's safety.

Ma Wannian has been walking with Wang Huan these days, and has heard a lot of new things, and when he heard that Wang Huan was going to open a mine, he was even more pestered to go with him, Qin Liangyu was helpless and agreed.

Wang Huan was not ambiguous, and the next day he took his men and horses to the Tubao Village, first ordered the officials to count the number of refugees living here in accordance with the armor protection system, record the names one by one, and arrange them into A according to the original area of residence, and each A appointed a chief, changing the chaotic and disorderly state of the refugees, and obtained the specific number of 8,400 households and more than 23,000 people.

Wang Huan also worked with the local leaders to change the distribution method of relief grain, from distributing two meals a day free of charge to one meal every morning, cooking gruel in the open space in a cauldron, and the refugees lined up to receive it, and then did not distribute it again on the same day, and if they wanted to eat again, they had to work.

As soon as this order was announced, it aroused a commotion among the refugees, who had been eating the relief food of the Xuanfu envoy for more than a month, and had taken it for granted, and now they suddenly had to reduce the rations and work, so they naturally did not want to, and gathered outside the residence of the local chief, which was set up as Wang Huan's temporary office, and made a noise and demanded the resumption of the daily food supply.

"Shengmien fights against rice, the ancients don't deceive me." Wang Huan stood at the head of the wall with a sneer, looked at the crowds outside, and said to the head: "When Ma Chongming first rescued these refugees, did he think of today?" ”

The head man standing beside him, called Ma Chongming, is a short fat man, with small eyes and big bags, a round face and a wide nose, a handful of goat beards, and his face trembles when he speaks. I'm just supplying on time, Counselor Wang, so many people are making trouble, but how can it be good? Why don't you resume serving two meals a day? ”

Wang Huan had already been as hard as iron in the more than a month of running, and he was used to seeing life and death, so he said coldly at this moment: "Recovery? I'm afraid that if I recover today, there will be more refugees tomorrow, Shizhu is not a grain-producing area, where did I get so much food for them to eat for nothing? Besides, relief is a matter for the imperial court, and the imperial court has not allocated a single piece of rice, so does the consolation envoy want to slap a swollen face and become fat? When the time comes, the rice in the treasury will run out, and these people will demolish your house and steal your grain. ”