A black-bodied man drove the boat and took Lin Xi's family, Zhang Erye, and Jiang Xiaoyi down the river.

The appointment of the governor of Yanlai has been officially issued, and although Lin Xi enjoys the comfort of the lotus lake, he knows that the villagers whose houses and fertile fields have been washed away after the dam of Yanlai are not at ease, and they are waiting for him to return.

Therefore he had no rest.

The river level is gentle and quiet, and the blue sky and white clouds are reflected in the water.

Zhang Erye's cough sounded again, and the black-clad man driving the boat had a worried look on his face, and the oars in his hand were a little chaotic, startling the swimming fish in the aquatic grass.

"Brother Zhang, your illness doesn't sound light, you have to ask a doctor to recuperate and recuperate for a while. ”

Lin Fu listened to the convulsive voice in Zhang Erye's chest when he coughed, and he also felt worried, and he couldn't help but persuade him to speak.

"It doesn't matter... Coughing and coughing get used to it. Second Master Zhang said a witty sentence that made Lin Xi couldn't help but upturn the corners of his mouth, and coughed a few times, but he looked at Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi and said: "It's a blessing in disguise, and if you recuperate for another year, you should be able to raise well." ”

Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi were slightly stunned, looking at Zhang Erye's sallow but smiling face, the two of them completely understood why Zhang Erye was in such a relaxed mood, and understood the true meaning of his words at the moment, so they really laughed happily.

The news of Xu Ningshen's escape had already arrived, and Ma Hongjun had also been picked up by the Anniversary Mountain faction, but Ma Hongjun's soul power cultivation method and some unique methods from the Great Mang's Thousand Demon Caves were already known to the three of them.

Some of the cultivation methods related to meditation and soul power shaking the body were naturally useless to Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi.

Because Qingluan Academy's cultivation methods at all stages of cultivation are more perfect than these.

For the two of them, the only thing that can be used is the magic technique.

Many of Yun Qin's academies and schools of cultivation, including Qingluan Academy, have Qi Gathering Techniques, the so-called Qi Gathering Techniques are desperate means to burst out a large amount of soul power at once and enhance the power of a single blow. Because a cultivator's body is a container for soul power, a burst of soul power that exceeds what the body can normally hold will naturally cause a lot of damage to the body.

The Demon Body Technique of the Thousand Demon Caves is also a means of mobilizing a large amount of soul power, but it is to gather and infiltrate the soul power in the flesh and skin of a certain part of the body.

This method can make a certain part of the practitioner's body become particularly hard and tight, just like ** has become a piece of hard armor.

But this method will also not be the highest secret technique of the Thousand Demon Caves, because Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi have already tried, it takes at least four or five breaths to gather soul power, and with this technique, while one part of the body becomes extremely tough, the rest of the body becomes more fragile than before. This is just equivalent to mobilizing the soul power that originally permeated the body to that place and used it as a shield.

Therefore, when Ma Hongjun and Qin Xiaoyu faced the enemy, they didn't have time to perform this technique at all, and their eyes were blinded, so this technique can only be used when facing a strong enemy desperately and secretly calculating.

But Zhang Erye is just an ordinary folk cultivator, and these meditation and soul power shaking methods in the Thousand Demon Caves have allowed him to gain more insights.

The wound of his chest and lungs, the medicine stone is already difficult to work, and only if his cultivation progresses again, his own vitality grows stronger, and the power of soul power shock is stronger, can he slowly recover.

Now that Second Master Zhang said so, it means that his cultivation should also be able to officially break through to the cultivation of the Great Soul Master in just one year.

His injuries were also caused by Ma Hongjun, and the benefits of his cultivation at this moment were also obtained from Ma Hongjun, which was really a retribution.

The light boat slowly crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains.

......

Donggang Sangyu Wai.

Chen Haozhi, who was dressed in filial piety clothes, was busy feeding a few little piglets.

The cut hogweed was mixed with bran, and a few small piglets grew well.

Suddenly, several people rushed into his courtyard like robbers and snatched the pig food bowl from his hand.

"Lord Kobayashi is here... He wants to see you, and what pigs are he feeding. ”

The words of these neighbors, both old and young, immediately made this wooden farmer who was not very flexible in his head stunned, but in the next moment, he immediately threw away the wooden basin in his hand and snatched it out quickly.

Lin Xi was surrounded by countless people in Sangyu.

"Lord Kobayashi!"

"Lord Kobayashi..."

A cry of excitement and kindness wrapped him tightly.

He smiled and talked to the people around him, and saw Chen Haozhi squeeze in.

"Chen Haozhi. ”

Lin Xi took the initiative to greet the cropper of Mu Ne.

"Lord Kobayashi!"

This wooden farmer didn't know what to say, so he wanted to kneel down and kowtow directly, but Lin Xi stretched out his hand to hold him steadily.

Patting the farmer's broad shoulder, Lin Xi asked directly: "Your grandfather is an old master of dam building, and he said earlier that he passed on everything he knew to you, if I asked you to help build a river dam again, would you be able to?"

The people around heard that Lin Xi was going to talk about the important matter of rebuilding the Yanlai barrage, and their voices suddenly quieted down.

Chen Haozhi is not very good at speaking, so many people's eyes are focused on him at this moment, he is becoming more and more nervous, but he doesn't need to say anything more at this time, looking at Lin Xi's expectant gaze, he nodded heavily and spit out a word, "Yes." ”

"It should be easier to dredge and build a canal for the dam, you should understand it, right?" Lin Xiwen smiled and patted him on the shoulder again.

Chen Haozhi nodded vigorously and said, "I understand." ”

"We have saved Sangyu Dam, but we have not been able to keep Yanlai Dam, I think your grandfather is in the spirit of heaven, and I also want to see the dam rise again. Lin Xi bowed to Chen Haozhi instead, and said, "I want to ask you to be a member of the Yanlai Town Engineering Division to help me prepare for the construction of the dam, I don't know if you are willing?"

Chen Hao's heart was instantly filled with unspeakable emotions, of course he wanted to say that he was willing, but his nature was too wooden, and his mood was too excited and complicated, he opened his mouth for a while, but he couldn't speak.

"Chen Jiaxiao, hurry up and agree!"

He couldn't speak, but the people around Sangyu were already anxious and shouted one after another.

"There's no rush. If yes, just nod your head. Lin Xi knew Chen Haozhi's sex very well, and said with a slight smile.

Chen Haozhi opened his mouth, but he still couldn't make a sound, but he nodded hardest in his life, and tears rolled down his eyes.

......

......

Tongmu Town.

In an ordinary courtyard study.

A middle-aged scribe in a tulle shirt embroidered with green bamboo is looking through some account books.

These account books are sealed with cowhide dyed blue, and the words "Baichuantong" are embroidered with black thread.

The middle-aged scribe's hair was sparse and slightly bald, but his face was delicate and his eyes were bright, but he had a unique momentum that was not angry and arrogant.

"Dodo"

The door slammed.

Hearing this knock on the door, the middle-aged scribe raised his head slightly, put down the account book in his hand, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said, "Come in." ”

A red-faced old man in his fifties who looked a little wealthy pushed the door in, bowed slightly to the middle-aged scribe, and said, "Owner, Yan Lai is the town governor Lin Xilai's book." ”

The middle-aged scribe frowned slightly, and said, "It's to rebuild the river dam and ask for two silver taels... Heng Rongchang and Lu Fuji owe him a great favor, but I don't owe him a lot of affection, and I don't have as much financial resources as Heng Rongchang and Lu Fuji, and how many taels of silver do you need for this barrage, and how many taels of silver do you need to resettle so many people in the back of the barrage? If a lot of silver taels are produced this time, then it will be like a bottomless pit. Moreover, our merchant ships do not dock at Yanlai and Donggang, and there is no benefit. Shopkeeper Ning, you shouldn't be unaware of this, and you sent things away with hundreds of taels of silver, why do you still come to ask me?"

"This Lord Kobayashi is very interesting, asking for silver taels is asking for silver taels, but it is different from others asking for silver taels. ”

Ning Baiming, the shopkeeper of Baichuantong, the third-ranked business on the Xijiang River, smiled slightly, and handed over the documents in his hand as he spoke.

The middle-aged scribe saw the document handed over at a glance, but he was immediately stunned, and couldn't help but read it lightly: "Plan?"

The document handed to him was a small booklet, and it was written on the cover: The plan, and the payment was Lin Xi.

......

Just when Baichuantong's proprietor Qu Benqiao received Lin Xi's letter, Da Dexiang's proprietor Xing Derong was looking at three pieces of soap cream.

This soap paste is a paste made from soap horn, which is used to wash the body and clothes.

The entire Yun Qin called this thing soap cream, only Lin Xi had always been used to calling this thing soap.

Da Dexiang is not famous in the whole Lu Dongling, and it has never been a big business, but in the past two years, under the circumstance that all the big businesses in Lu Dongling have not paid attention, Da Dexiang has made a lot of money at an astonishing speed.

In terms of the cash that can be obtained, Dadexiang may not be able to rank in the top 20 of the entire Ludongling Commercial Bank, but two years ago, Dadexiang was not even ranked in the top 100, and I am afraid that even taking 500 taels of silver at one time will lead to unsustainability.

This speed of development is astonishing, and if a big business suddenly notices the rapid growth of Da Dexiang, it will definitely be surprised.

Xing Derong is already fifty years old, although he inherited the shrewdness of his ancestors, and in his early years, he followed some horse teams to the north and south for many years, and his vision is much higher than that of ordinary business owners, but the financial resources of small business houses are limited, and generally speaking, without the help of nobles, it is absolutely impossible to make a big splash quickly.

Dadexiang's main business has always been to sell honey, and the honey produced in Yunying Town, where the commercial house is located, is of extremely high quality. But what has made Dadexiang grow rapidly in the past two years is the other two businesses, the lamp oil cover, and this soap cream.

Ordinary people in Yunqin light oil lamps at night, and the price of fire is cheap, but the smell of smoke is pungent to the eyes.

The lampshade made by Dadexiang is made of several layers of bamboo fiber filter paper, with two layers of fine bamboo charcoal sandwiched in the middle, and the smoke is smoked, and almost all of them are filtered out.

This soap paste was originally there, but the ones produced by Dadexiang were all spiced in it. It's just a small change, and it's a big hit.

At present, in the eastern provinces of Yunqin, most families have used Dadexiang's lampshades and soap cream, but the things are relatively small and usually not noticed.

But Xing Derong, who is the owner of Dadexiang, knows very well in his heart that these two things that make Dadexiang make a lot of money are the points of a Lin family's shop.

Right now, one of the three pieces of soap cream in front of him was pale cyan, one was a beautiful crimson, and one was pale gold.

It's just that wormwood, honeysuckle and other medicinal juices are added to it, which makes this soap paste look much better in color, and has a little more insignificant effect, but only a small change makes this soap paste cause a rush.

And this is the point of the Lin family's shop!

The owner of this Lin family shop may not be an expert in how to use silver to produce silver two, but he is definitely the most keenly aware of people's preferences and business opportunities.

Although he has made some achievements now, as long as such a person's point is used by a big commercial firm, he can easily crush Da Dexiang back to its original shape.

Xing Derong looked at the three pieces of soap paste and waited anxiously.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps outside, and before anyone knocked on the door, he couldn't wait to say out, "Come in!"

The one who came in was his son, the young owner of Da Dexiang.

"Father. "This young master of Da Dexiang has an excellent upbringing, and after entering the door, he bowed down first, but his expression was very strange.

Xing Derong could naturally see it at a glance, and immediately asked, "What?"

"That's the property of Lord Kobayashi's family. ”

"Lord Kobayashi?"

Xing Tianyang nodded with some admiration, and explained in disbelief: "It is Lord Xiaolin, who broke the Silver Hook Fang case and made miraculous achievements in Yanlai Zhenjiang Dam, and the owner of the Lin family shop is his father." ”

"What?!" Xing Derong was taken aback, "This Lord Kobayashi... Are you from Lulin Town?"

"This is what Lin Fu, the owner of the Lin family shop, said personally, and the others are in Yanlai Town at the moment. Xing Tianyang looked at Xing Derong, exhaled, and said: "And after he heard what we meant, he refused to say that he couldn't be our big shopkeeper, not because of anything else, but because those points were made by Lord Xiaolin, he said that if he became our big shopkeeper, I am afraid that he would mistake our big Dexiang." ”

Xing Derong opened his mouth, and was so surprised that he couldn't speak at all.

"Recently, Kobayashi has been settling thousands of villagers and organizing dam repairs, and he has also issued a plan for major trading houses. Xing Tianyang shook his head inexplicably, and said, "Probably because our Da Dexiang is too inconspicuous, we didn't receive it." ”

"Proposal?"

He did not directly ask the major commercial banks to support the silver two, but listed a complete plan. Xing Tianyang took a deep breath and explained carefully: "He is not going to rebuild the dam and then reclaim the land as before, but is going to dig deep behind the original river dam to make a huge reservoir. Then use a ditch to lead, so that not only can many dry fields in Yanlai become paddy fields, but also if the river is shallow in winter and the big ship is difficult to navigate, it can also open the gate and release water. Raise the water level in several difficult places. ”

In his plan, he said that the Governor's Mansion had stated that it would pay half of the silver taels needed in the plan and exempt those victims from paying taxes for three years. His plan also included a detailed plan for fish farming in the reservoir and for converting dry land into paddy fields, so that the victims would have to work together during the construction of the reservoir and the opening of the canal, so that their livelihood would not be a problem. The plan also listed the amount of water stored in the reservoir, and according to the calculations of the craftsmen and officials of the Ministry of Engineering he invited, when the major trading houses were shallow in winter, if they were slightly together, the big ships could make more than 20 more trips. For those large trading houses that relied on water transportation, it would probably take only two or three years to recover the silver taels that supported the construction of the reservoir. ”

After a slight pause, Xing Tianyang sighed, "And Lord Kobayashi also proposed to pay in installments in the plan, that is, as long as the major commercial houses quote a total amount, they can pay a certain amount of silver taels every month, which is enough to support the continuous construction of this river dam." There are definite benefits, and the monthly payment of silver taels is not much for these firms, so it is said that all the major trading houses that have water transportation in Xijiang have already been allowed in just one day. This speed of raising money is really rare in a century. ”

Xing Derong was stunned for a while, and suddenly, he shouted at Xing Tianyang: "Prepare the horse!"

Xing Tianyang was stunned: "Father... Do you want to ask Lord Kobayashi to be the big treasurer?"