A few days later, a news came out of the Pengze County Ya Prison that the night before Zhao Yan and Zhang Kun were transferred to the Jiujiang Prefecture Ya Prison, Zhao Yan committed suicide in fear of crime, tied his belt to the iron fence of the cell window, and was taken back by the Zhao family for burial after an autopsy. I'll tell you that the fastest update of the novel is the eye. Hurry?

Hearing this news, Li Yuntian felt a little sorry, if it weren't for Zhang Kun's extreme nature and wanting to take revenge on the Zhao family, Zhao Yan would probably have another life.

In mid-October, accompanied by Chen Bozhao and other deacons of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, Li Yuntian inspected the construction progress of the trading market in Baishui Town.

Poyang Lake is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and is an important land and water transportation hub, while Baishui Town is located at the mouth of Poyang Lake that flows into the Yangtze River, which has a very important geographical location.

Li Yuntian had the idea of building a trading market in Baishui Town early on, and according to his plan, he could use the geographical advantages of Baishui Town to build it into a trading center on the Yangtze River waterway.

Travelers traveling from south to north and east to west can conduct business transactions in Whitewater, greatly reducing the time spent on intermediate transportation.

Because it is a private facility, the trading market was built by Chen Bozhao, and the deacons of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce contributed to it, and the members did not have to pay to avoid the suspicion of apportionment.

Naturally, the rights and interests after the completion of the market belong to Chen Bozhao and those deacons, and each person enjoys the corresponding rights and interests according to the percentage of capital contribution, of which Chen Bozhao is rich and rich, and the proportion of investment accounts for half.

At the same time, the wharf supporting the trading market is also in full swing, and the construction of the wharf is a public welfare project, so it is funded by the Hukou County Government.

However, the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce also contributed a sum of money for the construction of the wharf, and of course, it was handed over to the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce for management after the wharf was completed.

Li Yuntian happened to take advantage of the opportunity to build a wharf and spend the money and property collected from Wang San and Zhang Youde in the county government's house.

He is sure that the construction of this wharf will bring huge benefits to the people of Hukou County, and it has already brought benefits.

Because the people who built these two projects are all from Hukou County, not only the monthly salary is good, but the food is also very good, which makes many people from other counties envious.

As an emerging trading market, the first thing to do is to expand the market, make a name for yourself, and let the outside world know about its existence.

Therefore, Li Yuntian found Wang Yu some time ago, and asked Wang Yu to get acquainted with several major cloth merchants in Jiangxi, the so-called clothing, food, housing and transportation, he is ready to start from the cloth aspect, so that the Baishui Town trading market will gradually enter the business circle in the south of the Yangtze River.

Under Wang Yu's maneuvering, at the end of October, several major cloth merchants in Jiangxi came to Baishui Town from Nanchang City, and Li Yuntian personally received them and led them to visit the trading market construction site and the wharf construction site, both of which were in full swing. The update is the fastest and most stable

Li Yuntian elaborated on the future development prospects of the trading market to several major cloth merchants, and even analyzed the possible impact of the trading market on the business circles in Jiangnan, which made those major cloth merchants nod their heads from time to time, and looked at the young county lord in front of them.

Originally, several major cloth merchants came to Baishui Town because of Wang Yu's favors, and they didn't think that the small Baishui Town had any future for development.

But after listening to Li Yuntian's planning and analysis of the trading market, especially the freight terminal under construction, he immediately became interested in the prospects of this trading market.

Before meeting Li Yuntian, they originally thought that Li Yuntian would just be able to try cases, but they never expected that he would be so proficient in business, which was really beyond everyone's expectations.

In order to reassure those major cloth merchants, Li Yuntian intentionally or unintentionally revealed the news that he was about to marry Zhou Yuting at the end of the year, and Zhou Yuting was the daughter of the Marquis of Zhongyong.

Several major cloth merchants also knew something about Li Yuntian, knowing that he was a new science and technology jinshi, who studied under the old Yang Shiqi of the cabinet cabinet, and it was with the help of Yang Shiqi that he escaped from the attack on Wang San and his gang in Baishui Town a few years ago.

However, they never expected that Li Yuntian's future father-in-law would be so powerful, and he would be a marquis, although they didn't know the Marquis of Zhongyong, but he must also be a high-ranking nobleman.

With Yang Shiqi and Zhongyong Marquis protecting Li Yuntian, then the young Li Yuntian's achievements in his career will be limitless, even if they don't look down on the trading market of Baishui Town, then they must give Li Yuntian face and express it appropriately.

As the saying goes, the so-called mountains do not turn around, and a jinshi like Li Yuntian, who was born in two lists, will either hold important positions in the capital or be important local ministers in the future, even if those cloth merchants don't need Li Yuntian now, they can pave the way for their children and grandchildren.

Therefore, due to a combination of factors, several major cloth merchants have expressed their willingness to do business in the trading market in Whitewater Town, and as long as the trading market and docks are built, they will send people to settle in.

Li Yuntian was very satisfied with this result, and at the dinner party where he saw off several major cloth merchants, he staggered with everyone, got drunk, and was helped back to Chen Ningning's bedroom.

Zhou Yuting and Chen Ningning were talking to the ladies of the Chen Mansion, and when they learned that Li Yuntian was drunk and was carried back, they hurriedly rushed over, looking at Li Yuntian who was sleeping on the ** and couldn't help but shake his head.

She didn't understand, how could Li Yuntian get mixed with those businessmen and go back drunk, wouldn't he lose his identity as the county master?

According to the ranking of ancient social status, Shinong, businessmen, and merchants ranked at the bottom of the four categories of people, although they were rich but had low social status.

"Go down." Waiting for a maid ring to call hot water, Chen Ningning greeted quietly, and the maid rings in the house retreated one after another.

Chen Ningning wet the towel and handed it to Zhou Yuting, who was sulking at Li Yuntian, with a smile, although she wanted to wipe the sweat stains on Li Yuntian's forehead, but with Zhou Yuting's future main room, she naturally wanted to give it to Zhou Yuting.

"If you're so drunk, you don't even know that others sold you!" Zhou Yuting sat on the edge of the **, wiping Li Yuntian's cheeks while muttering, looking quite dissatisfied with Li Yuntian's drunkenness.

"The person who sold me is not born yet." Suddenly, Li Yuntian, who was asleep, grabbed Zhou Yuting's hand holding the towel, and opened his eyes with a smile, his eyes were clear and there was no drunkenness.

"You're not drunk?" Zhou Yuting was taken aback when she saw this, and looked at Li Yuntian with a stunned expression.

"I was already drunk, but when I heard that someone was going to sell me, I woke up in fright." Li Yuntian took the towel from Zhou Yuting's hand, wiped his face and said with a smile.

"I won't say it next time, just bundle you up and sell it!" Zhou Yuting snorted when she heard this, and then said with a straight face.

"Ning'er, let the kitchen put down a bowl of noodles, I was patronizing and drinking just now, and I didn't eat a few bites of food." Li Yuntian smiled, got up and sat down at the table, stretched out his hand and rubbed the temples on both sides of his forehead, and said a little depressedly, "I didn't expect those guys to be so able to drink, and they almost knocked me down." ”

Chen Ningning smiled when she heard this, and went to the kitchen to cook noodles for Li Yuntian personally, the more Li Yuntian drank, the better the relationship with several major cloth merchants.

"You deserve to be uncomfortable, you can't let others do this kind of thing? A dignified county magistrate went to drink with those unconscionable profiteers! Zhou Yuting poured a cup of hot water for Li Yuntian, sat on the side dissatisfied, looked at him and said.

"You can't say this right, there is nothing wrong with the pursuit of profit by merchants, they have driven the circulation of goods, prospered commerce, and promoted the economy, it cannot be said that they have no conscience, if they can control it well, it will become a great help in governing the country." Li Yuntian knew that a child from a wealthy family like Zhou Yuting looked down on businessmen, so he said with a smile after taking a sip of water.

"Anyway, I can't talk about you, whatever you say is what you say." Zhou Yuting's eyes flashed a few times, and she felt that what Li Yuntian said also made some sense.

"By the way, I heard that the Hou Ye Mansion has a letter today, what did the Hou Ye say in the letter?" Li Yuntian suddenly remembered something, put down the teacup in his hand, and asked with a smile.

"My father said that if you bully me, he will punish you as an old man." Zhou Yuting smiled slyly when she heard this, and said to Li Yuntian with her chin up, looking high-spirited.

"This is a great wrong, you have always bullied me, when have I ever bullied you?" Li Yuntian looked at Zhou Yuting with a depressed face, he now not only has to face the brutal Zhou Yuting, but also has to deal with the old man who protects his shortcomings.

"Hmph, what do you say, when didn't you make me angry enough!" Zhou Yuting curled her mouth and rolled her eyes at Li Yuntian.

"If I go against the grain, such a good wife will fly!" Li Yuntian laughed, reached out and held Zhou Yuting's pair of white and tender soft wattles, and said with a smile while gently rubbing them.

He felt very strange, it stands to reason that Zhou Yuting has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and her hands should be rough, but they are still smooth and tender, and he can only say that Zhou Yuting has this kind of physique.

Zhou Yuting's cheeks couldn't help but turn red when she heard this, and she lowered her head shyly, Li Yuntian was right, if it wasn't for Li Yuntian who made her angry half to death a few times, how could she stay in Hukou County, maybe she had already forced Li Yuntian to withdraw from her relatives and then return to the capital.

"My father didn't say that he would punish you in the letter, he praised you for doing a good job in Hukou County, and asked me to restrain Miss and not bully you." After a while, Zhou Yuting raised her head, bit her lip, and looked at Li Yuntian with a rosy cheek.

At this moment, the door creaked open, and Chen Ningning walked in with a tray with a bowl of steaming egg noodles and two side dishes.

Seeing this, Zhou Yuting hurriedly withdrew her hand from Li Yuntian's hand, her cheeks flushed, for fear of being seen by Chen Ningning, after all, she and Li Yuntian have not yet become married, and it is nothing to be intimate in private, it would not be good if it was seen by outsiders.

Chen Ningning had actually noticed a scene in the room, pretending not to know, and put the egg noodles and two side dishes on the table, and Li Yuntian devoured them.

"Master, in the afternoon, there was news from the county government that a common man from Jianchang Prefecture came to complain, accusing his father-in-law of stealing five hundred taels of silver from him and driving them out of the house." When Li Yuntian finished eating the egg noodles, Chen Ningning said to him with a smile.

"Jianchangzhou?" Li Yuntian was slightly stunned, Jianchang Prefecture belongs to Nankang Mansion, which is adjacent to Jiujiang Mansion, if it is all in Jiujiang Mansion, it is good to say, he can still find a way to maneuver, but this is not a mansion, if he manages it, it will belong to the dog to take the mouse. One