In the golden autumn of October, the osmanthus is fragrant.

In Guiyang City, the business of Osmanthus Sweet Fish Village is very prosperous, and I heard that the Duke of Qi paid tribute to the emperor last time a batch of Guizhou native products, among which is osmanthus pickled fish. After hearing that His Majesty had paid for it, he praised the delicacy and wrote down the three words of osmanthus fragrance in his own handwriting.

For a time, Guiyang's pickled fish became famous.

The crucian carp raised in the rice fields begins to be pickled with new wood pokes when the osmanthus is fragrant, which is a traditional delicacy in Guiyang. Now, thanks to the emperor's royal praise, the reputation of Guiyang osmanthus fish has spread all over the world for a while.

The osmanthus fish that the Duke of Qi paid tribute to the court came from Zewozexi and was pickled by Amu Ayi and Sha Ayi themselves.

In Guiyang City in October, Abu Ayi and Sha Ayi opened the Osmanthus Fragrant Fish Village, and the store hung with the three big characters of osmanthus incense inscribed by the emperor's imperial pen. The emperor's imperial treasure was sent to the hands of Qi Guogong with the decree, and when Qi Guogong opened the fish village, he made this imperial pen and ink treasure into a plaque and personally came to the venue to send it.

The three big characters of osmanthus fragrance are strong and powerful.

The personal praise of the emperor made the osmanthus sweetfish village very prosperous since its opening. In the store, Abu Ayi has reverted to his real name Qin Hu, and he has not returned to Chongqing. He only remembered that his family was in Chongqing, but when he was about ten years old, he was abducted and trafficked here, and 18 years have passed.

He used to want to run away from here all the time, but now he felt reluctant to go. Because he is no longer alone, he has just married Sha Ayi as his wife, and they have also opened this fish farm in Guiyang City, and the business is still so prosperous.

Qin Hu was wearing a long shirt on his body, a melon skin hat on his head, and a pair of long boots on his feet. With a smile on his face, he stood in the store and greeted customers who came to eat. It has the name of the imperial signboard and the royal tribute. Osmanthus fragrant business is very good. Now the city of Guiyang is also very lively, with the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, the local officials selected by the imperial court, the militia gathered from all over the country, and the merchants running around.

Guiyang is unprecedentedly lively, and the business of osmanthus fragrance is also extremely hot.

People who come to Guiyang City now. will come to the osmanthus fragrance to eat a bite of the osmanthus fish praised by the emperor.

"Okay, okay, I'll reserve a table for you and leave our signature dish osmanthus fish for you." Qin Hu smiled and said to the officer, the officer came here, but the fish village was already full, and many guests were already waiting. As for the boxes on the second and third floors, they were all booked out three days in advance.

Qin Hu had to say apologetically to the officer, and he finally proposed a solution, he reserved a table seat for them on the first floor for tomorrow. As for the upstairs box, it has been lined up for three days, and there is no way.

"Okay, then you must keep it for me, we have just returned from the south, and the brothers are about to celebrate."

"The chiefs must have made new contributions, congratulations." Qin Hu said with a smile. In a short period of time, Qin Hu has undergone earth-shaking changes. He is no longer the numb and desperate Xiaxi of the past, but has become a self-confident fish village owner.

"Our osmanthus scented pickled fish. It was the most authentic, and the emperor praised it greatly, and personally gave us Mobao. Qin Hu said proudly.

It was lunchtime, and the guests came in batches, and it has been more than a month since the opening. But the business of the fish village is getting hotter and hotter.

At the beginning, Qin Hu only planned to open a small shop, but now, Yuzhuang has taken down the upstairs and the left and right stores, and Yuzhuang has also hired many people. Now there are more than 30 people in the store, and they are still busy every day.

Sha Ai, who is quite business-minded, saw that osmanthus had a good reputation and opened a takeaway business. There are no vacancies in the store, customers can order food to be delivered, and they will deliver it to their door in person.

The takeaway business is also surprisingly popular, and now in addition to the 30 or so guys in the store, the store has also specially invited 20 guys to deliver takeaways.

Now Shah Yi has a new plan.

She persuaded her husband that he had bought the large courtyard behind the store, and was ready to recruit more men to start making osmanthus fish on a large scale, and then sell them in barrels to the merchants who came to buy them.

With the golden sign of osmanthus fragrance, how many osmanthus fish can be sold.

Many customers come, must order the fragrance of osmanthus, many people after eating is still unsatisfied, often want to buy some to take away. At first, Qin Hu was embarrassed because the need was too big. And their stock is not much.

The pickling of osmanthus takes time, and they don't want to smash their golden sign.

The newly rented yard at the back is full of freshly made wooden barrels, and the fragrance of wood still exudes. In this compound, as well as in the rooms, there are many men hired by Qin Hu and his wife, including carpenters who specialize in making barrels, and men who specialize in killing and salting fish.

In the next room, there are hundreds of barrels of freshly salted fish. These fish are different from the fish outside, all of them are osmanthus fish collected by Qin Hu himself in a village in the countryside, and they are all crucian carp that grew up eating rice flowers in the fattest rice fields.

When these fish were collected, the couple did not fake others, but all did it themselves, and each one was salted with the most care.

"His Majesty the Emperor is our benefactor of recreation, we have nothing to repay, we can only marinate these fish with our own hands, and ask the Duke of Qi to send them to Jingshi to pay tribute to Your Majesty."

From serfs to now famous merchants in Guiyang City, all this is like a dream.

Before the Han army attacked Zewo, he thought about escaping with Sha Ayi. As a result, before he ran, the Han army came over, and broke the stockade in one fell swoop, and that day Qin Hu cut off the heads of An Sheng and An Chonglei father and son and presented them to the Han army.

Although the two men were killed by the Han army's artillery, they were still rewarded by the Han army. Qi Guogong personally ordered and gave Qin Hu a hundred silver dollars.

Later, Qin Hu joined the newly built Qianxi County militia battalion in Zewo, and he followed the Han army with the militia battalion to attack the rebellious Tusi.

However, the militia camp did not stay for long, and soon the Tusi in Guizhou either died or fled, and the official army did not immediately go south to Yunnan. The Han army was busy changing the land in Guizhou and dividing the fields.

Qin Hu also returned home from the militia camp, and he was incorporated into the reserves, but was only drafted when he needed it most. Most of the militias were disbanded and returned to their hometowns. Only a small number of people remained in service. After returning to his hometown, there was no food, and the father and son of Ansheng died, and the fields were distributed to Bai Yi and the slaves in the past.

However, Qin Hu didn't want to stay there any longer, it was an unbearable past for him.

He took the settling-in silver, the severance silver, and the pay and rewards for his service, as well as the spoils of war that he had retained, and finally left the place with Sha'yi. Originally, he wanted to go back to Chongqing. But Sha Ayi wanted to stay in Guizhou.

Eventually, they arrived in Guiyang and opened a fish farm here.

Who knows, their fish was actually eaten by the emperor, and they also received the imperial gift of ink treasure, which made the business so prosperous.

Osmanthus fish, in fact, many people in Guizhou will pickle, for a long time, pickled fish wax moon. It is a tradition of the common people, and the marinated fish and meat have a unique taste and can be better preserved.

However, the osmanthus fish marinated in Shaayi is indeed more delicious than the pickled by ordinary people. In fact, Sha Ayi doesn't have any secret techniques, but it is more delicious than ordinary people.

Nowadays, the signboard of osmanthus fragrance is getting louder and louder, the business is getting better and better, and the fish village is also bigger. Upstairs and downstairs, three floors. And it is still a production workshop in the back, and now it is also doing takeaways. There were hundreds of people eating with them, inside and outside the shop.

However, these people are all his hired laborers, and there is not a single slave, and slaves are not allowed in Guizhou now, only hire, not slavery.

Qin Hu and his wife treated the hired men very well, in the words of the couple. Exploitation and slavery alone will not last long. Qin Hu and his wife were illiterate, so they hired a shopkeeper and a bookkeeper to help take care of the business.

Shaayi is pregnant, but she still refuses to let go of the business in the shop, after she opened a takeaway and pickled fish workshop. We also plan to open a branch. There are still two branches in Guiyang, and she plans to open new stores in the surrounding Fucheng and expand their pickled fish workshop.

She is full of hope for the future.

Now not only do many customers come to their fish farm, but also many merchants come to buy their osmanthus fish. Some merchants saw that the quantity was too small to be supplied, so they offered to buy the fish pickled by the people from the villages below, and then ship it out for sale under the brand of osmanthus incense.

However, Sha Ayi and Qin Hu refused.

They have to be honest, and they need more credit to do business, and they can't smash the signboard given to them by the emperor.

The couple was grateful to the emperor, and the first thing they did when they got up every morning was to bow to the north and thank the emperor for giving them a new life.

They are working hard to manage the osmanthus fragrance and insist on doing two things, one is to operate in good faith and make the best osmanthus fragrant pickled fish. Second, pay taxes conscientiously, and pay not less than a penny in taxes. Business tax, real estate tax, income tax, urban construction tax, education tax, stamp duty, etc. are not a lot, and they will never be concealed or omitted.

In addition to paying taxes truthfully, the couple has also donated a lot of money to build two primary schools and three bridges.

"We must know how to be grateful, everything today is a new life given to us by His Majesty. It was the emperor and the Han who gave us these, and we should be grateful and reciprocate. ”

If the emperor needs it, even if he asks him to donate all his property, including their shop, he is willing. At first, he also planned to hand over most of the profits of the business to the imperial court, but he went to several yamen, but the officials refused. The imperial court levied taxes according to the tax law, and did not allow evasion and concealment, but it would never levy an extra penny and a half.

In the end, it was Liu Qiao, the Duke of Qi Guo, who heard about this, and specially came to his store again to cheer and talk to him. He told him that if he paid his taxes truthfully, he would be a good citizen of the empire. How do they want to better repay the society with gratitude, then they can take out some money to do some public charity, such as donating money to build primary schools, and now the imperial court has to build primary schools in each township and implement three years of free education, but there are still many villages below the township, which are too far away from the township and inconvenient to go to school. And the imperial court was not able to set up primary schools below the township level for the time being.

The village primary school below the township has to be built at the expense of the villagers themselves, and it also needs to be funded by people with good intentions.

They can also help fund the construction of bridges and pave roads, and the imperial court is now planning to build roads in Guizhou to connect counties to large roads. However, the township roads below the county level cannot be connected to the townships, and the township roads have to be built with free financing from the local government.

The next day, Qin Hu took out the money to build bridges and paved roads to build schools, and in the end, with this money, they built two village primary schools and paved three small stone bridges. Officials from Qianxi County also recorded these in the county annals and named the two schools and Shiqiao after Qin Hu, one called Qinhu Primary School and the other Shayi Primary School.

The school and the bridge also let the stonemasons erect stone monuments, and the inscriptions will be remembered forever.

Liu Qiao also reported the matter to the emperor, and the newly appointed provincial and provincial officials in Guizhou also regarded Qin Hu and his wife as a model of local goodness, and reported and rewarded them for the squires and people everywhere to learn.

Now that Qin Hu and his wife are really famous, their fish village is becoming more and more popular, and the couple plan to continue to fund the construction of primary schools and bridge and pave roads in the future, and they also plan to regularly donate money to the nursing homes, orphanages, Huimin pharmacies, and leaky hospitals set up by the imperial court in the future.

Nursing homes are widowed and widowed to support the people; The orphanage is used to support the orphans who abandon the babies and have no care, and the Huimin Pharmacy is used to help the sick and the poor; Drainy Garden to bury the ownerless dead;

Qin Hu felt that the imperial court was willing to take out money and grain to set up these institutions in various parts of the world, and they should also do their part.

"If you are poor, you will be good alone, and those who are good will help the world." Qin Hu has also recently begun to read and write with the bookkeeper in the store, and the words that Mr. said have always made him forget deeply.

At the beginning, he was just a Xiaxi, and he couldn't even do it alone, but it was His Majesty the Emperor and the court who rescued him. Now his life has changed, he doesn't worry about eating and drinking, and he makes money every day, which he didn't dare to imagine before.

But with money, he didn't want to be just a miser, he didn't want to bury his money in the ground, he didn't want to use it to buy land, and he didn't want to just put it in the bank to earn interest.

He felt that he had to do something, and that was well said in the article of the sages that the gentleman had taught him.

The emperor and the court rescued him, and he should also rescue those who are still in the same situation as him before, and help the weak and the poor, which is what they should do.

repay the emperor's reinvention grace, and also accumulate blessings for future generations.

His wife is pregnant, and Yang Hu hopes to accumulate more good fortune for his children.

Personally marinated osmanthus fish for the emperor, which is a thank you to Your Majesty. It is an obligation to the imperial court to pay taxes conscientiously, and it is a conscience to help the weak and the poor. (To be continued.) )