Since the snake bird started to help Zhou Shu, he has shown an extraordinary efficiency. So far, although most of the work is for her to do some negotiation work, and the technical content does not seem to be very high, it is not easy to be able to do every job she handles. At least Baiyu has been busy for so long, and she hasn't seen anything successful in negotiating.

This time, Zhou Shu asked her to take a few soldiers and a few clerks to check some people who worked in places such as lumber yards, timber yards, and construction sites, and asked them where the wages paid by the city lord had gone and what they were doing.

Snake Bird is an ordinary city girl, of course, the context of this refers to Nikko City, an important city in the East Country. Such a girl can walk in front of soldiers and officials when she goes out to work, which is a rare thing, Zhou Shu sighed for it. You must know that when he used to be an ordinary city boy, he was the last to go out with his friends.

The investigation of the snake bird lasted two days, which was somewhat unexpected.

"I thought you could do it in a morning, it doesn't seem like a big deal, right?"

Two days later, at dusk, Zhou Shu, who was practicing calligraphy with a dipping pen in the office study, said this. The snake bird in front of him waved his hand vigorously, "I haven't finished the investigation yet, I'm afraid you will have to let me go for two more days." ”

'Haven't you been in trouble for so long?'

"There must be trouble, or maybe it's just that I'm thinking too much. ”

As far as the work attitude is concerned, the snake bird is definitely too good to say, no matter what it does, it is very positive, and there is no possibility of being passive and running away from work. And she was surrounded by a lot of people, and there was nowhere to drive if she wanted to.

As for the hundred tongues. The hundred tongues were standing in front of a bookshelf in the corner of the study, poking straight at a well-bound book.

After all, she is the young lady of the Duke's family, and her current appearance of reading in front of the bookshelf is particularly camera-sensitive. has an excellent temperament, which caused Zhou Shu to grab his mobile phone and take a picture of her, and only after making sure that the effect is good did he call her to come over and talk back to him.

Hundred tongues in the past two days, the Lord grabbed and handed out money. Money is the purest and most benevolent thing in the world. is always used by all kinds of people, and is framed by a large number of people. Said to be deluded by it. Money is like Dou E and Meng Jiangnu, if you can speak, I'm afraid that snow will become the norm in June.

Zhou Shu asked Baiyu to help him raise the wages of the workers, hoping that the workers could read her well, change her nickname of 'Sunshine City Prostitute Woman', and become a 'generous prostitute woman' anyway.

Baiyu's betrayal of the Black Feather family is now well known in the city, but her reputation outside of this is still very fatal. Because of some misunderstanding, the three merchants who died created the legendary 'Sword Blade Hundred Tongues', and there are various versions circulating in the market. In short, the murderer is her, and there are some heavy tastes who say that she likes to dig people's hearts or something, this is definitely someone who has never dug other people's hearts and patted their heads, no one will like that feeling, Zhou Shu can testify with personal experience. He believed that there were not many people who had a better say in this than he did.

Baiyu's work report is very simple, "I sent out all the money." ”

"Uh, what's the list of workers who haven't received the money?" Zhou Shu asked.

"It looks like they're happy, but I think they're even happier if you give them food, and I see that they're fighting for food on the site. ”

Master Zhou frowned, a little dissatisfied with the rough answer of the hundred tongues. But it can't be helped. Baiyu has been snorting like this all the time, and he doesn't have the ability to help correct it.

"Since there's nothing to say, then you can go and get busy first. I'm fine. ”

Baiyu shook his head, grabbed his own notepad from his waist, opened it, took out a charcoal pen and scratched a certain paragraph handwritten on it, and then handed the book to Zhou Shu to read, indicating that he didn't understand something about this topic. The notebook should be the notes she took when she was studying economic principles before.

"I can't read, why are you showing me this. Master Zhou looked helpless, and the snake bird grabbed the book from the side, wanting to help Zhou Shunian, but was stopped by a hundred tongues.

"Snake birds. Put down my notepad and don't touch it. I'll read it. ”

The snake bird was called like this. With an embarrassed face, he put his things back on the table and tried to put on a smile.

Zhou Shu was angry by Baiyu's blow. He knew that this guy in front of him had never liked snakes and birds very much, and her current behavior seemed to be disgusting others. Zhou Shu didn't want the snake bird to be wronged, this girl and Baiyu were both here to help, and it was not a relationship between superiors and subordinates, so she couldn't be bullied because the snake bird was relatively weak. So Zhou Shu stopped the hundred tongues who came over to get the book, frowned and asked, "You seem to be a little mean to the snake bird." ”

Baiyu put on a surprised face, "Where do you start with that? Our cooperation has always been very pleasant. Except for the fat man who jumped off the building. ”

"Then why did you put that look on her face when she wanted to touch your stuff?"

"What expression?" Hundred Tongues scoffed.

"It's pretty much the same as it is now, but it's just annoying. ”

Baiyu snorted through his nose, indicating that he did not look down on anyone, nor did he look down on anyone who was unpleasant.

"I was born with this face, if you can't get used to it, then send me to reincarnation. ”

It was the first time Zhou had heard of the concept of reincarnation in this country, but he had no time to study the mythological system here. Obviously, Baiyu is playing a scoundrel.

The snake bird was embarrassed on the side, and kept glancing at Zhou Shu, telling him not to do anything more. This kind of thing is not a big deal, and it will only get more and more embarrassing to keep talking.

Zhou Shu didn't see the snake bird's eyebrows jumping all over his face, waved his hand at the hundred tongues in front of the desk, and threw her notepad to the snake bird next to him, "You read it." ”

The snake bird was embarrassed and held the book in his arms, and just about to turn it over, Baiyu immediately turned into an angry face, and yelled, "Put it down for me!"

Zhou Shu was frightened by this roar, his eyes widened and he blinked vigorously, he didn't expect the guy in front of him to react so much.

The snake bird quickly put the notebook away safely, and then raised his hand to show his innocence. She wondered how she had suffered such an unwarranted disaster.

Zhou Shu was a little weak by the roar of a hundred tongues, he was not good at teaching others, and after being yelled at a little, he began to think about whether it would be his own fault.

Baiyu stepped forward and grabbed his notebook in his hand. It was torn in half with difficulty and thrown out of the window. The whole process lasted nearly a minute, and in that time she struggled to deal with the quality of the notebook. It took a long time to break it. After that was done, Baiyu gasped for air. Obviously, the action just now was already considered physical labor for her.

"Okay, okay, you're grumpy, I'll throw in the towel. Zhou Shu also raised his hand as he learned from the snake bird beside him, and surrendered honestly.

Baiyu kept that angry face, and left the study without looking back, her whole behavior was inexplicable.

"Why don't I go pick up that notebook?" and waited for the footsteps to fade away. The snake bird asked from the side.

"Don't you, don't make her angry. ”

Snake Bird pouted, "Maybe she's angry because there's something in that book that she doesn't want us to see." ”

"Then don't provoke her, I don't want to be yelled at by her again......"

Listening to this unproductive speech, the snake bird changed to a surprised expression. But she didn't say anything, just stood by Zhou Shu's side honestly, no different from a maid, nothing happened just now.

A little later, Zhou Shu ran alone to find Baiyu. The castle is currently full of people, and Zhou Shu doesn't need so many people to serve it, but a huge castle does. There is also an advantage to being more crowded. If you want to find someone, you can find it just by asking.

Baizu was sitting in the courtyard garden in front of the main entrance of the castle, sitting on the stump of her father's tree, looking still angry.

Zhou Shu walked up to her. Say hello a little, then conjure up a bottle of juice for her to drink.

Baiyu glanced at the juice, but he was not polite, and after taking a sip, he asked in a soothing tone, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm just here to see my students, if there's anything you don't understand, I'll tell you. ”

"Student?" Hyakuyu's expression of disgust at the word was not stingy at all, and it was all written on his face. "Forget it, it's not a big deal. I have some circumstances that I don't know. Teach me. ”

The two got together and chatted a little. It's still an economic topic. Baiyu couldn't figure out the question of 'shorting', but Zhou Shu summed it up in one sentence. Then let her think about it for herself.

"Borrow someone else's goods and sell them for money, and when it's time to return them, you can use the money to buy the same amount of goods and return them......"

This sentence has been muttered by a hundred tongues for a long time. Zhou Shu also knows that it is still a little difficult for her to understand that she doesn't even know what the futures market is, especially when she is so smart. If you are a stupid person, such as Natty, you will announce that you have understood it after listening to it casually, and Hundred Tongues will have to go through the logic in your mind many times until you really understand it. There's a lot of stuff involved, and it's not easy to figure it out.

The two of them, one sitting and the other standing, chatted for a long time in the courtyard, seemingly completely oblivious to the unpleasantness that had happened before. The snake bird was watching them from a distance from the window of his room.

The result of the discussion between the two was not pleasant, and the 'stock' thing was too intense for Baiyu, and she didn't agree. Zhou Shu didn't want to argue with her about these things, "I'll just tell you a little bit about what I know, just listen to it as a joke, don't take it seriously." ”

After he said this, he habitually patted the head of the hundred tongues who was sitting on the stump.

Baiyu felt a few soft pats on the top of his head, and naturally stretched out his neck to meet the big hand, and then realized that he didn't seem to be doing it. This made her feel real again, and she sprang up from where she was sitting like a leopard, once again showing a hostile expression.

"What you say is really a joke, I don't take it seriously, and I don't have any interest! So don't think about being my teacher!"

Zhou Shu was used to the hostile words that suddenly erupted like Baiyu, so he didn't refute it, and waved goodbye to dinner with a smile.

After another two days, Snake Bird finally found out what she wanted to investigate, and she brought a group of unknown guys to Zhou Shu, these people were officials retained in the city.

Zhou Shu was a little afraid of this group of people. His current identity is an earl, but he doesn't know what the earl should usually be, and now in front of a large number of people, he is a little worried that he will look foreign.

Fortunately, the snake bird did not arrange for these people to go up to shake hands with Zhou Shu and take a group photo, but just ordered them to stand aside. The snake bird pointed at them and introduced them to Zhou Shu one by one. Most of them are involved in recruiting workers for lumberyards, timber yards and wasteland reclamation.

Just by hearing the positions of these people, Zhou Shu had already guessed something.

In front of the gang, he frowned and asked the snake bird. "You're saying these people are doing a trick with recruitment?"

Power rent-seeking. This kind of thing is universally found wherever there is a right. But all those who have the right will want to find people who need their rights and exchange their rights for benefits, which is human nature. The difference is that a good system can put an end to this kind of rent-seeking opportunity, reduce the power in the hands of the individual, and teach all the rights in the hands of the 'rules', and do everything according to the rules. This is the difference between the rule of law and the rule of man.

Zhou Shu was in a hurry when he opened a factory to make money. The project was launched without much self-research, and it was not surprising that there would be cronyism among some officials in recruitment.

Whoever was recruited was the money, and it was absolutely true that the money was spent, which did not explain the lack of money flowing in the entire Nikko City.

Zhou Shu pointed out a sentence in front of a group of people, and the faces of those officials turned white with fright. Snake Bird nodded yes, "They only give about 10% of the jobs to the citizens to compete freely, and the rest are all designated to a trade union." ”

Master Zhou grabbed his head, frowned and asked, "Let's do this." There's a union?!It's a little faster, isn't it?"

"It's those businessmen from outside. Snake Bird said: "It is said that it is a union, but in fact it does not seem to be the case. I've looked into it, and it's a bit of a detour......"

Four days. The snake bird has been running around diligently, asking around about the situation, and helping Zhou Shu with his errands. It was during this period of time that she was brought to the City Lord's Mansion to do business, and she was probably the one who knew the most about the situation of the civilians and had the most say in the castle, and her investigation direction was also here.

Soon she discovered that a place called the 'Sunshine City Union' had appeared in the city, which was organized by grain merchants who came from the hinterland to do business.

In terms of recruitment, the recruits are also people from the trade union.

"Isn't that nice? Zhou Shu didn't react to what was happening in the city for the first time. But as soon as he said this, he immediately felt that it was wrong. "Wait. You don't mean to say, that union ......?"

The snake bird looked at Zhou Shu's face. Knowing that he had guessed the situation, he made a helpless expression.

"As you might guess, the union withheld your money. ”

According to Snake Bird's investigation, the grain merchants who came from the hinterland of the West to do business were selling grain in a serious way in the first few days of entering the city. Soon, however, they heard that the Earl wanted to recruit some men to do some engineering work.

Originally, they wanted the people in the chamber of commerce to do it, but the business of selling grain was not very prosperous anyway, and there were not many rich people, so the chamber of commerce put more energy on exchanging grain for houses and land.

As a result, I inquired a little about the salary, and almost didn't let the chin of these businessmen drop. So, they organized a trade union, used food to gather a group of city civilians who could not afford to eat, and then went to bribe the recruiters and throw their own people to work on the construction site. As for their wages, of course, there is none, and the Chamber of Commerce gives these workers and their families food, and the wages are collected by themselves.

"The size of the union is huge. The snake bird sighed, "All your projects, Lord Earl, have been taken over by them without exception. No way, they have food in their hands, this thing is too good to use in the city. ”

Zhou Shu listened to the report calmly, and couldn't stand up and slap the table, the solid wood desk in front of him was very handsome, and it was Daddy Baiyu's thing, he didn't want to break it and make Baiyu angry.

After the snake bird said these words, the white-faced officials standing behind her seemed to be less afraid, and they thought that the girl in front of them was helping them to intercede for the earl, and planted all the matter on the head of the grain merchant.

Zhou Shu actually didn't blame these officials much, he didn't have time to design an investment index, and their violation was not a big problem. As for the behavior of grain merchants, there seems to be no rules and regulations that do not allow them to do so.

The officials stood cautiously there, not daring to breathe. Zhou Shu waved his hand at the gang, and after a few random reprimands, he let them go.

The snake bird looked at Zhou Shu with a puzzled expression, she thought that these people who were caught by herself would die today, but she didn't expect Zhou Shu to be so tolerant. You must know that these are just small officials, and they are all from the country of the east. A big nobleman doesn't need to scruple anything if he wants to punish them.

Just when the snake bird felt that Zhou Shu was a person with a more tolerant personality, Zhou Shu gritted his teeth and stood up without saying a word. Flew away directly through the window.

It's not the first time that the snake bird has seen its own adults flying without a shadow, but every time I look at it, I feel weird. I thought for a moment about his expression before he flew away. The snake bird was sure that something seemed to be going wrong on the grain merchant's side.

Zhou Shu was really angry, and for half a month, all the things he planned were mixed up by a bunch of mercenary guys. These businessmen have nothing to break the law except for bribing officials, but bribery itself is a big crime in the West Country, and Zhou Shu feels that these guys deserve to die. His time was precious, and it was impossible to spend too long on the Plains of the Blade. He had to forgive those who wasted his time.

The snake bird took care of its own business. After watching her adults fly away, she waved goodbye to the window for a while, and then left the study, just as she met Baiyu at the door of the study holding a stack of files and preparing to go to the next room to deal with them.

Baiyu glanced into the study, "What about Zhou Shuren?"

"Lord Earl, he flew out, as if to trouble the grain merchants. ”

In a few words, the snake bird said the situation a little, her description was concise and clear, and after listening to it, Baiyu nodded her head, and threw the work in her hand to the snake bird, "You go and help me deal with these texts." I'm going out for a trip. ”

Baiyu has always had a question, which is about the combat effectiveness of Zhou Shu.

Humans can fly, and it's not that unusual. Some guardian spirits will give their power to humans. It even directly attaches itself to the body of humans, making humans warriors with god-like strength.

Baiyu has always thought that Zhou Shu is such a person, and at the same time he has expressed a certain curiosity about his combat effectiveness. I heard that he flew out angrily, so he naturally wanted to follow the past to watch the excitement.

When the grain merchants first arrived in Sunshine City, Baizu was in charge of reception, and in order to make a good impression on these guys who came with life-saving food, Baizu also lent them a large house in his family's name. The legal heir to these houses is Mochizu, which is also her only possession.

Follow the familiar route to the grain merchants' trading houses, and find a circle of wolves around the door, surrounding the entire building like guards. There was no one nearby, and they were probably scared away. This situation also shocked the hundred tongues into a sweat. wanted to escape, but she soon saw Zhou Shu walking out of the firm. This was followed by a group of people who were tied together by the wrists with ropes.

"What the hell is going on with that guy?"

Baiyu could see that these wolves seemed to be listening to Zhou Shu's command.

Master Zhou was angry with this group of bad businessmen, and after flying to the right place, he rushed down directly, conjured up a pack of wolves to surround this place, and whoever escaped would bite him to death and share the food.

He is not afraid of any notoriety at all, and in this place where it is all the country of the east, it is estimated that there will be no notoriety if he pits a little merchant of the country of the west.

There are also guards in the Chamber of Commerce, anyway, the army is of little use at the moment, and some officers are sent to protect the merchants in the city, which is an additional benefit in an unconventional state.

The soldiers recognized the exotic face of their earl, so they dispelled the idea of fighting with these wolves and turned to help Zhou Shu do things.

Master Zhou didn't say a word, and ordered these people to arrest all the businessmen, so there was a scene that Baiyu saw.

After seeing Zhou Shu, Baiyu endured his fear of those vicious canines and forced himself to follow.

"What are you doing here?"

Baiyu pursed her lips and pointed to the notepad hanging from her waist, the notebook she had lost yesterday had been picked up by her, and it was the same as new after being rebound.

"Let me see what additional factors are interfering with your theory. These are the people?"

Zhou Shu nodded, "There are still some that haven't been caught, and I have already mobilized the army." ”

"Army ......" Baiyu felt that Zhou Shu was making a bit of a fuss, "What are you going to do with them?"

Zhou Shu spread his hands, "The adults are all hanged, and none of them are left." (To be continued)