Chapter 14 The Future of Yangzhou

On the third day, the five county guards were notified to all arrive at the princess's mansion, probably because they had seen Zong Zhengjin's ruthless methods, but no one dared to be late this time.

In the waterfront hall, everyone gathered to discuss countermeasures. As soon as Zong Zhengjin sat down on his seat, he introduced Yi Chu to them and said, "This is Mr. Yi Chu, who followed this princess to manage Yangzhou."

Everyone turned their eyes to Yi Chu, and saw that he was dressed in white, with a lofty instrument, exuding an indifferent aura all over his body, like the cold moon on the top of Kunlun, which made people fearful.

Yi Chu only nodded at them, and then sat directly on the left side of Zong Zhengjin, everyone was surprised when they saw this, but seeing that the princess was very natural, they knew that this person's identity must not be simple. Some people even guessed that the reason why this little princess was so powerful was that Mr. Yi was behind him to give advice, and suddenly everyone looked at him differently.

Fang Junen is quite calm, his wife had already told him about this person the day before yesterday, and when he looked at it today, he was really a person who could become a great person. After praising it in his heart, he slowly spoke: "Dare to ask the princess, summon you and others to come here today, but for the development of Yangzhou?"

Zong Zhengjin glanced at Yi Chu, then nodded and said: "Yes, this princess has discussed with Mr. Yi yesterday, Yangzhou's economic development is not up, mainly because there is no organized management, the market is disorganized, the attraction is insufficient, and foreign businessmen are reluctant to stop." Secondly, the public security in Yangzhou is too poor, bandits are rampant, and no one dares to come to do business. ”

"Princess, we all know what you said, but we can't do it without financial resources." Bai Zejun Shou Wu Fan was full of helplessness, and the others nodded with their heads, no matter how good the plan is, it won't work without strong financial resources.

"Actually, development doesn't necessarily require strong financial resources." Zong Zhengjin's words have a slight meaning.

"I wonder what the princess is referring to?" Fang Junen looked puzzled, but he was a little expectant, he felt that this little princess would definitely be able to surprise him.

"Unique?" All five of them are confused, what does this mean?

Zong Zhengjin looked at them and said in a childish voice: "Each place has its own specialty, but not every place can make full use of it. And we have to use Yangzhou's specialties to bring us abundant financial resources. Now, what do you all say about this Yangzhou that is not available in other places or is better than other places?"

At such a mention, everyone also understood, Fang Junen immediately thought of something, and said: "The red sandalwood fan carving in Liancheng County is exquisite, and the fan surface is beautiful, which can be said to be the best in the country."

"By the way, we have the most medicinal materials in Yangzhou, almost all the mountains and mountains have medicine collection, and every household will collect medicine." Xiao Mingzhi, the warden of Heyuan County, was not to be outdone, and also actively offered advice.

"There is also Yangzhou's specialty purple jade, which is warm and crystal clear to the touch, but it is troublesome to mine and the output is small." "Yes, yes, and ......" everyone, you and I will keep talking one sentence at a time. Zong Zhengjin and Yi Chu looked at each other and smiled, this was similar to what they thought yesterday, and the two of them discussed it for a long time before deciding to use this plan.

Seeing that what he said was almost over, Zong Zhengjin coughed lightly, and everyone immediately stopped, all looking at her excitedly. Zong Zhengjin raised his lips and smiled, and said: "This princess knows that you want to do this, but everything must have a plan, and Yangzhou's specialties are known all over the country, but how to make them make a lot of money, there must be a unique method."

"I wonder what the princess has come up with?" Fang Junen hurriedly asked, he really thinks that the road of specialty products can be taken.

"That's for Mr. Yun." Zong Zhengjin turned his gaze to Yi Chu and blinked mischievously, he couldn't let her say it alone, and let others know that he knew Yi Chu's ability.

Yi Chu seemed to see her careful thoughts, and after smiling at her, he turned his head to look at the county guards, and said, "Yi is just talking about my opinion, if there is anything wrong, please bring it up to the adults."

"Mr. Yi, please speak." Everyone nodded, it doesn't matter who has the idea at the moment, as long as they can help Yangzhou, they can do anything.

When Yi Chu saw this, he said: "Yangzhou medicinal materials are widely distributed, but there is no big market for medicinal materials, so we can build a medicine market, specializing in the trading of medicinal materials, and the people can also go up the mountain to collect medicines, and then sell them to the medicine market, so that they can also supplement the family."

"That's good, but you need a lot of money to build a drug market, right?" Liancheng County Shou Du Heng asked rhetorically.

"It's okay, this princess plans to try to build a medicine market in Yangcheng County, and Zhengde Street is a half-abandoned street, and this princess thinks that it is more appropriate to build a medicine market there. The princess's mansion is willing to contribute 60,000 taels of subsidies. Zong Zhengjin's tone was very flat, as if it had been arranged a long time ago. When they heard the sentence of 60,000 yuan, the county guards were taken aback, this princess is really generous.

Yi Chu saw that they had no objections, and continued: "After that, all the profits from the Yangcheng County Pharmaceutical Market will be used to build the medicine markets in the other five counties." "It's the best." Everyone was overjoyed and felt that this method was feasible.

"Moreover, the red sandalwood fan is a traditional craft of Liancheng County, and Liancheng County should focus on building the red sandalwood fan market. For the red sandalwood fan, it is not much, but fine, the price can not be cheap, it must be expensive, the so-called things are vaguely expensive. ”

When Zong Zhengjin heard this, he looked at Du Heng and asked, "Du Junshou, do you understand?"

When Du Heng heard this, he immediately knelt down and thanked him: "Thank you Princess and Mr. Yi for giving Liancheng County such a good opportunity, Xia Guan will definitely live up to expectations."

Zong Zhengjin nodded with satisfaction, and Yi Chu said again: "There are not many purple jade mines in Yangzhou, so we should try our best to maintain them, and mine and sell them with restrictions." This jade mine is most in Heyuan County and Wumang County, so the jade mining is in charge of your two counties. ”

"In addition," Zong Zhengjin said, "Princess Ben found that there were several gold and silver mines in Baize County and Qingcheng County, but because she couldn't mine them, she had to give up. ”

"Thank you, princess, for your help." Wu Fan was very excited, he wanted to mine before, but the money above couldn't be allocated. Now, the princess can fund it, and that's the best.

"But the Qingcheng County Guard has been thinking about it at home now, so the mining matter can only be handled by Wu County Shou for the time being."

"Don't worry, princess, the lower officials will do it." Wu Fan was extremely happy about this.

After listening to Yi Chu's speech, everyone only felt as if they had seen the bright future of Yangzhou, and everyone was a little eager to try.

"However, before that, this princess needs you to work together to do something for me."

"The princess commands." The crowd didn't ask her what she was going to say, and she replied very simply. For her intelligence, everyone sees that she brings hope to Yangzhou, so they are willing to surrender to this eight-year-old little princess.

"Yangzhou bandits are indeed a big scourge, if you want to develop, you must get rid of them first. I want your six counties to work together to eliminate all the bandits in Yangzhou. ”

"Yes." The five of them said in unison, they had wanted to do this for a long time, but they had been lacking a leader.

"Mr. Yi will assist you from the side, remember, salute first and then soldier, it is best to persuade you to surrender." Zong Zhengjin told him very seriously, after all, many of those bandits were ordinary people and should not suffer for no reason.

"Yes, the lower officials remember the princess's teachings." They are also very pleased with the kindness of the princess, and the people will be blessed if the Lord is good. The princess will be a good leader.

After sending away a few county guards, Zong Zhengjin suddenly had a whim and wanted to go to the street to have a look, because of her identity, she had no chance to go to the market to have fun before, and now Yangzhou is her territory, how could she not go out to have a look? Yi Chu didn't say anything about her sudden willfulness, but just went out with her.

The two of them strolled through the lively streets, followed by three or five attendants. Zong Zhengjin looked left and right, and felt that everything was very novel. Yi Chu looked at her childish appearance, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise slightly, this is what an eight-year-old girl should look like.

Zong Zhengjin stood in front of a puppet stall, looking at the cloth tiger with rough stitching and was slightly stunned. Her mother had made her a beautiful cloth tiger before her death, and the tiger's eyes were still made of Dongzhu, and then the cloth tiger was thrown by her somewhere, and it has not been found.

She was thinking about it when a conversation between a mother and daughter suddenly woke her up. The little girl, who was younger than her, took a fancy to the cloth tiger and clamored for her mother to buy it. The young mother said with a doting face: "Greedy little girl." Then he took out the money bag from his bosom and bought the ugly cloth tiger, and the little daughter got what she wanted, and took her mother's hand and slowly left with joy.

Zong Zhengjin watched this scene, her eyes gradually moistened, and just when she wanted to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, a snow-white cloth fox appeared in front of her.

She looked up at Yi Chu, who was expressionless, and couldn't help laughing, "Sir, what are you doing here?"

"The cloth tiger is gone, this fox is more suitable for you." Yi Chu was a little unnatural, he had never bought such a thing, and he gave it to the little girl, and he had never done it.

"Why is the fox right for me?" And it's an ugly fox.

Seeing that Zong Zhengjin looked a little disgusted, Yi Chu's face became even worse, and he said coldly: "Because you are as cunning as a little fox." With that, he shoved the fox into her hand and turned away.

Zong Zhengjin was stunned for a while before coming back to her senses, where was she cunning! If you want to comfort her, it's good to say it directly, why do you want to hurt her so much. Looking at the ugly fox in his hand, Zong Zhengjin gradually laughed, without her mother's cloth tiger, she still has Yi Chu's ugly fox, which is also very good.

After shopping for a while, Zong Zhengjin was a little hungry, so several people went to the restaurant to eat. Yi Chu sat opposite Zong Zhengjin, and saw that the little fox in her hand was playing happily, and her mood was much better.

Zong Zhengjin was playing, and suddenly remembered one thing, this Yi Chu never seemed to have mentioned his parents, since the day she met him, he has been with the national teacher, so where are his parents?

There was a problem in her heart, this Zhengjin couldn't sit still, held it for a long time, and after she repeatedly made sure that Yi Chu's love was okay, she finally asked: "Sir, where are your parents?"

Yi Chu's hand as soon as he picked up the wine glass suddenly paused, his face changed slightly, and he didn't say anything for a while. When Zong Zhengjin saw his expression, his heart sank, and he secretly wondered why he couldn't hold back, why did he ask such a question, in case his parents were already ...... That's not revealing someone's scars.

Just when Zong Zhengjin was thinking about how to change the topic, Yi Chu suddenly spoke, and he said, "I am an orphan." Zong Zheng Jinxin "chuckled", and sure enough, this was the case.

"My parents died when I was very young, and Master raised me." Yi Chu's expression was very calm, as if he was talking about something unrelated.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ask that, I ......" Zong Zhengjin was a little at a loss.

"It's okay, I don't care." Yi Chu smiled faintly, "People will experience misfortune, but God will also arrange luck to meet him at the same time." It was my misfortune to lose both parents, but it was a great blessing in my life to meet Master. Ah Jin, you are the same, losing your mother and leaving the royal capital, these are your misfortunes, but the experience of Yangzhou is your luck, do you understand?"

"Well, Ah Jin understands." Zong Zhengjin nodded, he was still talking about him just now, why did he turn to himself in a blink of an eye.

"Alright, let's eat." Yi Chu didn't say much, lowered his head and ate by himself.

Zong Zhengjin was eating the rice carelessly, but he was thinking about what he had just said. She felt that the fortunate thing that God had arranged for her was not the experience of Yangzhou, but the man in front of her who was so elegant and charming even when he ate, and it was his appearance that made her life shine again. He is the great fortune of her life.