Time has passed, and five years have passed since spring and autumn came in a blink of an eye, and Lin Ruhai has been in the position of the prefect of Yingtianfu for two terms. Today's Lin Ruhai has reached the age of establishment, and he is more calm and introverted than five years ago.

In the past five years, without Zhen Yingjia's involvement, coupled with the strong support of the emperor, Lin Ruhai can be said to have made remarkable political achievements. In the drought of the first two years, Lin Ruhai took in many displaced people to open up the wasteland, which not only solved the urgent need, but also made the original large amount of wasteland to be reclaimed and utilized. In the famine of that year, Lin Ruhai's Yingtianfu not only did not let the people starve to death, but also paid a lot of taxes and grain to the national treasury, and also lent the remaining grain of Yingtianfu to several neighboring provincial capitals, so that the entire Jiangnan successfully survived the famine.

When Lin Ruhai was Zhen Yingjia "thinking behind closed doors", he gathered a group of officials. The character of these people is not bad, but based on Zhen Yingjia's previous deterrence, if they don't obey, they won't be able to stay in the officialdom in Jiangnan, so they dare to be angry and dare not speak. Lin Ruhai took advantage of this opportunity to pull these people into his camp, and after having his own team, Lin Ruhai will get twice the result with half the effort when he starts doing things in Jiangnan. Of course, this also has a dormant relationship between Zhen Yingjia and his supporters, and their forbearance and concession gave Lin Ruhai the opportunity to further control the situation in Jiangnan. Lin Ruhai also established friendly relations with the prefects of those provincial capitals through the opportunity of lending grain to neighboring provinces, and at the same time weakened Zhen Yingjia's control over them.

Lin Ruhai dedicated the glass-making recipe found in Jia Min's space to the emperor, saying that he had bought it from a businessman from the West at a great price. The emperor was naturally overjoyed, but he would not let Lin Ruhai suffer, so the emperor took out 10,000 taels of silver from his private treasury to Lin Ruhai, and cooperated with the Lin family to set up a glass workshop. The cost of making glass is not high, but the profit is not low, because the glass sold by the Lin family is not only of good quality but also much cheaper than that shipped from the West, and it is an exclusive transaction, so the glass business has been very hot for five years. Looking at the Lin family, they can make a lot of money with a small glass square, everyone doesn't dare to covet it even if they are red, this glass workshop has the emperor's share, who dares to grab business with the emperor?

Jia Min's Xiangyun Silk Village has now become the premier silk village in the south of the Yangtze River, not only because of the fabric woven by the Qiluo loom and the unique silk yarn of Xiangyun Silk Village, but also because the fabric produced by Xiangyun Silk Village is more colorful, more gorgeous and not easy to fade.

The year before last, Wang Tieniu successfully cultivated cotton in Jia Min's Zhuangzi in Yangzhou, although the yield was not high, but it really made Jia Min and Lin Ruhai happy. Jia Min asked the women in Zhuangzi to try to make some cotton clothes and quilts during the slack time, and after trying it himself, he felt that it was much warmer than silk cotton and kapok, so he gave two quilts made of cotton to each family and friend as a New Year's gift.

The emperor naturally received the quilt sent by Jia Min, and tried it with the queen that evening, but both of them were woken up by the heat in the middle of the night. The emperor happily asked Jia Daishan to send a letter to Jia Min and asked her to send two thinner quilts. Later, after the emperor saw the importance of cotton to the common people in Lin Ruhai's recital, he ordered the whole country to popularize cotton planting at the beginning of the next year. Wang Tieniu as the first person to plant cotton in Daming, naturally became the main force in the popularization of cotton planting, after more than a year to travel all the states and counties in Daming, he came to the conclusion that the soil quality and climate in the northwest are the most suitable for planting cotton. So, Jia Min sent Wang Tieniu's family to the northwest to plant cotton, and their family stayed in the northwest to manage those cotton fields. Anyway, Lin Yao is already six years old, and she doesn't need the nurse to follow her anymore, so Jia Min also asked Wang's mother to go to the northwest with her, so that their family can be reunited.

Last year, Daming produced more cotton, and the price naturally decreased, and ordinary people were able to buy it. Jia Min asked Xiangyun Silk Village to build a spinning wheel dedicated to spinning cotton, and after several improvements, the spun cotton thread was able to weave muslin cloth. This time, Jia Min still dedicated the drawings of the spinning wheel to the emperor, and asked the emperor to make the drawings public, so that those poor people could spin and weave cloth by themselves, not only can they wear comfortable cotton clothes, save money to buy linen, but also sell them to supplement their families. The emperor is naturally happy to see this kind of good thing that benefits the country and the people, and for Jia Min, the great meritorious hero, the emperor is not stingy, in addition to rewarding a thousand hectares of great emperor village in the northwest, Jia Min has also been successfully promoted to the county lord from the first grade of Huigui, which is only half a grade lower than the princess.

For a time, Jia Min's reputation spread all over Daming, making her very prestigious among the people, and even some places set up a special immortal card for Jia Min in the ancestral hall, which is the people's reverence and gratitude for Jia Min's selfless dedication to the cotton spinning wheel, and it is also the highest treatment of the people to the benefactor!

Jia Min is a smart woman, she knows that her reputation is too strong now, so she is more low-key and cautious in her daily work. Among her dowry shops, only Xiangyun Silk Village is the largest, followed by the Jiangnan Embroidery Workshop in the capital, and the remaining shops Jia Min have stopped their business one after another, and the shops have also subleased out to collect rent.

Now in Jiangnan, she is still the most noble woman except for Mrs. Zhen, and the Zhen family has almost disappeared from the circle now, not to mention that Mrs. Zhen is old and has long stopped going out to meet guests, even the Zhen Han family and other female relatives of the Zhen family no longer participate in any banquets, and the whole family is really thinking about it. However, Zhen Yingjia's low profile in the past two years has changed outsiders' original impression of him a lot, and he has gradually forgotten that he was once involved with the traitor. I have to say that Zhen Yingjia is indeed a very powerful character, knowing how to judge the situation and be able to endure for so many years, it can be seen that Zhen Yingjia's ambition has not been eliminated, and even after experiencing such a catastrophe, he is even more eager to get the supreme right.

Of course, Lin Ruhai also knew very well that Zhen Yingjia would never give up and was willing to be pressed by him. Zhen Yingjia has been accumulating strength all these years, waiting for a sudden outbreak at the best time, and at that time, it will be time for the Lin family and the Zhen family to officially declare war! I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~