Chapter Sixty-Seven: Commercial Test Field!

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At noon, after Li Daoyi had lunch, he took the patriarch of the five major families of Shajiabao, Wang Gui and his family members to the office of Shajiabao to deal with government affairs. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the office was closed, they began to officially open the ballot box and count the votes.

More than 700 votes were counted, and Li Daoyi and others were busy for three hours.

The patriarchs of the five major families of Shajiabao were all shocked when they saw the results of the statistics. Originally, the patriarchs of these five families thought that the final winner must be one of them, but they never expected that the final winner would be a talent from a poor family.

Li Daoyi looked at the final voting results and found that a person named Wang Xiang had won 408 votes, so he began to consult Wang Xiang with great curiosity.

In an era of underdeveloped information, people do not interact closely with each other, so the people who can be elected with an absolute majority of votes must not be ordinary people.

The patriarch of the family surnamed Wang stood up and replied: "Wang Xiang is a Confucian talent in Shajiabao, who is kind and filial to his mother. He once single-handedly broke into the large village of mountain bandits, and successfully persuaded the bandit leader to change his ways. However, Wang Xiang's most famous deeds are 'lying on the ice and begging for fish'. One winter day, his sick mother wanted to eat herring, but the Shahe River was already covered in thick ice, and there was nowhere to fish. In order to satisfy his mother's wishes, Wang Xiang took off his shirt and used his body temperature to warm up a big hole in the Sand River blocked by thick ice, and finally succeeded in catching a herring that came to breathe. ”

After listening to the introduction of Wang Xiang's deeds by the patriarch of the Wang family, Li Daoyi couldn't help but sigh: "Okay! This Wang Xiang is really extraordinary! If such a kind and filial person is elected as the lord of Shajiabao Fort, then the future of Shajiabao will definitely be very good." Patriarch Wang, please send someone to find Wang Xiang, and Master Ben wants to say a few words to this Wang Xiang. ”

After receiving the order, the patriarch of the family surnamed Wang immediately sent someone to invite Wang Xiang.

A moment later, a plainly dressed young man of about twenty-five or sixteen years of age walked in with a puzzled face.

"Are you Wang Xiang?" asked Li Daoyi.

"Back to the master, the little one is Wang Xiang!"

"Oh, hehe. First of all, I will tell you the good news, the results of the Shajiabao voting election have come out, and you have been elected to the position of the lord of Shajiabao Fort with a high vote of 408 votes. Wang Xiang, do you have anything to say?"

Plop.

Wang Xiang suddenly knelt down, he looked at the patriarch of the family surnamed Wang, and said in a trembling voice: "Return... Back to the old man, what kind of virtue does the little Wang Xiang have? He was actually elected to the post of the lord of Shajiabao Fort! The little one doesn't dare, he really doesn't dare! I hope that the old man will take back his life!"

Although this Wang Xiang is a good person, after all, he is from a great Confucian, and one of the values is the Confucian doctrine of "father, son, king, minister, minister", so he feels that the patriarch of the Wang family has not been elected as the lord of Shajiabao, so what qualifications does he, a member of the shabby Wang family, have to be the lord of the castle?

"Wang Xiang, it's not that the official wants to choose you as the lord of Shajiabao Fort, but you are jointly elected by 408 adults in Shajiabao, so you don't have to shirk anymore. Otherwise, you will only disappoint the people!"

The patriarch of the Wang family listened to Li Daoyi's words, and also nodded and said, "Wang Xiang, don't you hurry up and thank you! Let you take the position of the lord of Shajiabao Fort, this is the pride of our Wang clan!"

As soon as the patriarch of the Wang family said this, the patriarchs of the other major families immediately showed a dissatisfied look on their faces.

After listening to the words of the clan patriarch, Wang Xiang planned to accept the position of the lord of Shajiabao. However, Wang Xiang didn't know where he suddenly got some courage, and he actually said loudly: "Patriarch, if I, Wang Xiang, really serve as the lord of Shajiabao Fort, then I will not only be the pride of the Wang family, I should work hard to serve all the people in Shajiabao!"

It's really a slap in the face, and the old face of the patriarch of the clan surnamed Wang is red again!

The faces of the other patriarchs in Shajiabao looked a little better.

"Good young man, consciousness is really high enough!" Li Dao was secretly happy in his heart when he heard this, and then said: "Wang Xiang, the position of the lord of Shajiabao is yours." I have heard that you are a disciple of Confucianism, and I have also heard of your deeds of 'lying on the ice and begging for fish'. You must also know that there is a famous saying in Confucianism, 'The old and the old, the young and the young!', and I hope that when you do things in the future, you will take this famous saying as a strict criterion for yourself. ”

The reason why Li Daoyi said this was also because he was afraid that Wang Xiang would only be filial to his parents and indifferent to the parents of other ordinary people. After all, there are quite a few corrupt officials who are like this, they are in high positions, they are well-dressed on the surface, and they are selfless. But in fact, they are doing fake public and private things behind their backs, only taking care of their own families, and ignoring the lives and deaths of other people's families.

Wang Xiang has been studying Confucian classics since he was a child, and of course he also understands the meaning of "the old and the old, the young and the young!" Wang Xiang would treat all the young children as his own children! Of course, even if the younger one didn't take up the post of the lord of Shajiabao Fort, the younger one would do the same!"

"Okay, Wang Xiang, you can step aside for the time being. Early tomorrow morning, on Shajiabao Square, this official will personally preside over your inauguration ceremony!"

"Thank you, sir!" Wang Xiang thanked him for retiring.

This night, Li Daoyi continued to stay in Shajiabao. At night, before Li Daoyi fell asleep, he thought of the side quest released by the system, which increased the total population of Wudang County to more than 10,000 people. He thought about the current situation of Shajiabao again, and immediately pinned his hopes on Shajiabao for completing the population side line task in the short term.

After all, Shajiabao is the largest village in Wudang County, with a total population of more than 1,200, and there is also a lot of fertile black soil here, which is rich in grain production. Of course, these are the software foundations.

Shajiabao's hardware strength is even stronger. First of all, it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces a river on one side, which basically guarantees that it will be far away from the war. In addition, the Shahe River basin is active and wide, and can be developed into a large-scale commercial canal!

With a stable environment, there is convenient transportation.

Then, as long as the business of Shajiabao develops rapidly. In the next two or three years, Shajiabao will certainly become a village-level county larger than Wudang County, that is, a county within a county within Wudang County! When the time comes, it will not be easy to increase the total population of Wudang County?

After all, every time a new commodity-thriving city emerges, the population will explode there in a short period of time!

However, the status of merchants on the Warring States Continent is too low, so many people are reluctant to do business, so although Li Daoyi's idea is good, it must still be difficult to implement.

"Then my first task is to improve the status of merchants in Shajiabao, so that the surplus labor force is willing to engage in business!"

Li Daoyi lay on the bed and thought to himself.