The newly bought subordinates are all considered safe, especially Qi and her daughter Qingyang. may have been subjected to too much torture in other mansions, and the mother and daughter especially cherish the peaceful and stable time with Yan Niang. They are diligent and loyal, and slowly, Yan Niang relies more and more on the two of them.

Yan Niang promoted the Qi family to the housekeeper of the Jiang Mansion, and the maids and mothers-in-law in the inner house were all under her control, and she also made Qingyang her personal maid. The little girl who was full of service was originally called a big girl, and after following Manman, Yan Niang changed her name to Mu Xiang. Mu Xiang is honest and steady, and she is full of her, and she is very relieved.

Mother Jiang has Taozhi Town, and the new Mother Xu is also a person who can look at her face, in addition to being responsible for Jiang's mother's daily life with Taozhi, the rest of the time is to accompany Jiang's mother to chat.

The only thing that made Yan Niang a little uncomfortable was the two women who took care of her son, the two divided the work, one took care of the other, but always belittled the other party's little master between the lines. At first, Yan Niang didn't know that if she hadn't heard the conversation between the two when she went to see her son that day, she might have been kept in the dark.

Wen Yan and Wen Bo are still young and can't understand their words, if they keep them all the time, when the brothers grow up, they won't be provoked? Yan Niang immediately called Ya Po to come, retreated the two of them, and chose an honest and gentle woman and two twelve or thirteen-year-old girls.

After they entered the mansion, Yan Niang did not rush to arrange for them to serve the brothers, but asked the Qi family to teach them the rules, when to learn the rules, and when to serve the master.

The new woman, Ji Niangzi, doesn't talk much, but she does things quickly and steadily, and she is a good hand at taking care of the children. Yan Niang learned that she originally had a daughter, who was pushed into the water by the nephew of the uncle's family and drowned when she was more than two years old, and set fire to the uncle's house in a fit of anger, and was sold by her mother-in-law and husband to Renyazi to compensate for the loss of the uncle's family.

Although Yan Niang had pity for her, she still sternly warned her, "No matter what unfair treatment you have encountered before, it is all in the past." I hope you can take good care of the two young masters, and don't provoke the relationship between the two brothers like the two before, if I know it, there will be absolutely no good fruit to eat. ”

Ji Niangzi nodded again and again, "Madam, please rest assured, from today onwards, the two little young masters are the lives of the slaves, and the slaves will definitely do their best to take care of them." ”

After listening to her assurance, Yan Niang was quite satisfied, she turned her gaze to the two little girls, and said sharply: "Lily of the valley Shizhu, you two will give Ji Niangzi a hand on weekdays, if Ji Niangzi is not there, you two must stay by the little master's side all the time, do you know?" ”

Lily of the valley and Shizhu responded tremblingly.

Standing up in front of Ji Niangzi and the two maids, Yan Niang was in a good mood. This was proposed by the Qi family to her, before the Qi family's husband was convicted, he was also a good hand at family affairs, and she followed Yan Niang and taught her a lot of things that she didn't know before.

Qi's vision of people has always been very good, she has seen Jiang Yucheng a few times in the inner house, just one glance she felt that he will have a great transformation in the future, now there is only one lady in his back house, there is no concubine room, presumably a person who values love and righteousness.

Mrs. Nie's appearance is outstanding, although she comes from a small family, she is gentle and kind, and she gets along with Mrs. Jiang's mother-in-law like a mother and daughter, not to mention that there is a daughter and two sons under her knees. Even if Lord Jiang takes a concubine in the future, her status as the wife of the main house will not be shaken.

Qi's mother and daughter are the family members of the criminal ministers, and under normal circumstances, it is only the fourth generation that they can redeem themselves or be redeemed to get rid of the fate of being slaves and maids. There is also a situation where the main family is willing to release the person, and after the government declares it to pass, the third generation of descendants can redeem themselves as commoners.

The Qi family served Yan Niang wholeheartedly, in order to earn a bright future for her daughter, so that she could marry a flat-headed family as a wife, and no longer suffer from being a slave and a maid in the future.

The days passed in a flash, and the Jiang family had been in Sui for three months. When she first came, Jiang's mother often counted how long it would be before she left, and now she never mentioned leaving except for occasionally missing Leng Ruru and Changsheng. In her words, Xiumin has a son and daughter-in-law with him, and his granddaughter and grandson Chenghuan are under his knees, and it is much better to stay here than in Lingjiang Town.

Three months is long and short, Jiang Yucheng finally gained a firm foothold in Sui, and he also dealt with the mess left by the first two magistrates. At the beginning of the summer, the red jade soup and herbs were sold to the capital, and the people and merchants of Sui all tasted the sweetness of making money, and the contradictions between the two ethnic groups were eased, but the problem was not fundamentally solved.

The contradictions between the two ethnic groups have a long history, and the root cause lies in the dispute over land. When the fields are scarce and the people do not have enough to eat, the disputes related to the fields will expand to bloody fights.

Towards the end of July, Jiang Yucheng tried his best to open up more than 100 acres of land in Suixin, but the quality was not good, so it could only be attributed to the second-class field. He divided this part of the second-class land into two, and the Han people and the Yi people each got a share, so that many people who did not have land or whose fields were previously encroached upon were secured.

In addition, he flipped through the county records of Quansui in recent decades and visited a large number of local old farmers, intending to start by increasing grain production. He asked his mentor Zhang Yuan for help, and transferred an official who was good at agricultural affairs from the central government and appointed him as a special envoy for agricultural affairs in Sui, specifically responsible for assisting Jiang Yucheng, a county in Suisui Prefecture, to increase the grain production of Sui.

It was already early September when the special envoy of the agricultural affairs of the Emperor Song Xiu Song came to the country, and in addition to the books on agricultural affairs, he also brought a kind of crop called "golden potato" that was paid tribute by the Yunze State of the Great Banquet Dynasty.

When the children of the Yunze royal family went to sea, they met an eagle-nosed man who came from the ocean and carried half a boatload of golden potatoes, and wanted to exchange some grain and utensils with Yunze that their country did not have.

King Yunze also saw the golden potatoes for the first time, and out of curiosity, he agreed to their request and exchanged some grain and porcelain for half a boatload of golden potatoes.

The golden potato is drought and cold tolerant, and the yield is nearly twice as high as that of rice and wheat per mu. King Yunze offered this thing, because Yunze was close to Jin in the north, and was often harassed by Jin sailors, he pleaded for Emperor Xianqing to send an army on the border of Yunze to protect the border security of Yunze.

Emperor Xianqing agreed, and just at this time Jiang Yucheng wrote to Zhang Yuanqing for help, and Zhang Yuanqing proposed that part of the golden potatoes be left in Huangzhuang on the outskirts of Beijing for trial planting, and the other part should be taken by Song Xiu to Sui.

According to the eagle-nosed people, the cultivation of golden potatoes does not need good land, as long as there is soil and sunny places can be planted, Jiang Yucheng and Song Xiu surveyed the territory of Quansui for several days before the selected good place was circled, and after planting, they sent special guards to take care of it.

When they were busy solving the problem of exhausting the people's livelihood, there was one person who was not idle, and she was Jin Yuqingqing. Since the last time she planned to appear in front of Jiang Yucheng with her mother, she has been waiting for an opportunity.

At the beginning of September, Jiang Yucheng summoned the rich businessmen and gentry of the county and wanted to buy grain seeds from them at the standard of exhausting the market price, but as a merchant who could not afford to make a profit, how could he agree so easily, even if you were the county lord.

The merchants led by Master Jin Yu proposed that Jiang Yucheng hand over the right to sell the red jade soup to the Suisui Chamber of Commerce, otherwise they would not agree to sell grain seeds.

Jiang Yucheng naturally didn't allow it when he heard it, he grabbed the right to sell the red jade soup in his hands, and he was afraid that he would encounter today's situation. If the right to sell is handed over to the Chamber of Commerce, they will definitely lower the purchase price and raise the selling price in Beijing. In this way, the people who are exhausted will not be able to make money, and the people in Beijing will also be trapped.

Jiang Yucheng has always regarded the red jade soup as an important source of income for the people, and he will never send it to the Chamber of Commerce. Since the Chamber of Commerce refused to sell grain seeds, Jiang Yucheng sent people to neighboring counties overnight to buy them, of course, the price was twice as high as the market price, and he also posted some silver coins himself.

Song Xiu saw that this magistrate, who was about the same age as himself, was indeed a good official who cared about the people, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for her.

After the autumn sowing, Song Xiu and Jiang Yucheng had free time. Jiang Yucheng thought that Song Xiu, the envoy, had been busy with him since he came to Sui, and he didn't even have a decent reception. So he set up two tables of banquets in the county government, and invited Deng County Cheng, Wu Zhushu and other county officials to wash the dust for Song Xiu.

Halfway through the banquet, the atmosphere of talking and laughing was interrupted by the sudden sound of the piano, and everyone couldn't help but look at the place where the sound of the piano came from, five women with white veils and slender bodies walked out slowly, and everyone looked at Jiang Yucheng in surprise.

Since the last time Yan Niang rejected Mrs. Jin Yu at the banquet and said that she did not allow Jiang Yucheng to take a concubine, everyone agreed that Master Jiang was afraid of guilt. Now, Lord Jiang, who is afraid of the inside, has invited a dancing girl to help the fun, which is really a rare spectacle.

Jiang Yucheng lost his smile on his face, his brows furrowed tightly, and his eyes fell on Master Wu. Master Wu was also shocked and sweating profusely at this time, he had mentioned to Jiang Yucheng before that he wanted to invite a dancer to help the fun, but after Jiang Yucheng sternly refused, he didn't dare to mention it again. He thought of his wife's greedy temperament again, and he was afraid that she was a ghost with Mrs. Jin Yu.

"My lord, I—" He wiped his sweat while trying to explain to Jiang Yucheng.

Who knew that Jiang Yucheng waved his hand, "Master Wu, let's enjoy the singing and dancing, and I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

It will be too late to talk about it tomorrow, and Master Wu complained in his heart. If Jiang Yucheng first came, he could still comfort himself that he was fine, but after more than three months of getting along, he knew that his boss was not easy to mess with at all.

Seeing that the others were also looking at him, he had no choice but to suppress his anxiety and sit on the seat in pain. A quarter of an hour later, the singing and dancing finally ended, and he watched one of the dancers walk towards Jiang Yucheng with light steps, and Master Wu's heart suddenly rose to his throat.