"I thought Huang Gongzi also liked cats, but it turned out that he was not a fan." Pei Qing smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth, and probed slightly.

Huang Gongzi's ventriloquist tone was a little cold and hard: "That's right."

Pei Qing asked someone to bring milk and put it on the table to watch the cat eat the milk, she looked at the cat attentively, but she didn't know that some people also saw her very focused.

When the cat was about to finish licking the milk, Huang Gongzi said abruptly in ventriloquism: "I want to leave for a while."

Pei Qing asked without raising his head: "Really?" Huang Gongzi is really hard, is he busy with big business again? ”

Huang Gongzi didn't speak, just raised a bamboo whistle and blew it lightly on his thin lips.

Soon, a snow-white pigeon appeared in his wheelchair.

"The princess remembers to write a letter to so-and-so," his tone was indescribably strange, "happy and unhappy, you can talk to so-and-so." ”

Pei Qing rarely took his attention away from the cat, and replied to him in surprise: "Really?" All right. ”

He didn't like to waste pigeons, she was happy to accompany her, and she had already made up her mind to turn her attention to him anyway, didn't she?

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After Huang Gongzi left, the ferry was completely completed, and the first phase of the river was also completed.

Pei Qing once again entered the account of 100,000 taels.

With the dredging of the Xihe River, the originally inconvenient Xixian County quickly became a prosperous commercial hub, especially the medicinal materials produced here are of good quality, and the merchants who came to the north to purchase medicinal materials all poured here in the former county.

The eight empty commercial streets were gradually filled up bit by bit, and each commercial street could bring Pei Qing a rent of 100,000 taels of silver a year.

During this period, the soybean harvest was abundant, with a yield of 300 catties per mu, which was several times that of local beans.

The rice harvest has also been abundant, with a yield of 600 catties per mu, which is an astronomical figure that local farmers dare not imagine.

The wheat harvest is to the point of making people open their mouths, the yield per mu has reached 800 catties, the location of the granary in the entire Xixian County is full, the cement engineering team has to work overtime, and several big granaries have been built day and night, so that they can bear so much grain.

The price of grain has been stabilized at five cents a catty, which is twice that of other places in the world.

The output of soybean oil soap has also ushered in explosive growth, and the cost has dropped to less than 100 yuan, so that the people of Xixian County, who are reluctant to buy a piece of soap, can finally take out their purse and add a few pieces of soap to their families.

Not only that, but there are also exquisite small mirrors that can show off people's faces, and exquisite glass vessels...... All kinds of novelties appeared in the shops of Xixian County, and the merchants who launched the movie of the Book of Changes looted, and the small mirror alone sold a thousand faces in one day, and a total of 10,000 taels of silver were harvested.

But Pei Qing doesn't care too much about these, but the thing she cares about most is a little cotton.

After experiencing the hot June, the cool July, and the refreshing August, the Northland starts to get cold in September.

It's been less than a month since the first snow.

During this period, the cotton she planted also achieved an astonishing yield, harvesting 800 catties of cotton per mu and 64,000 catties of cotton per acre.

According to the calculation of four catties of cotton per cotton jacket, so much cotton is enough to equip more than 10,000 people for winter!

However, of course, Pei Qing will not use all the cotton for bedding and cotton clothes, and the pure cotton fabric she has been thinking about is finally settled now.

Therefore, 10,000 catties of cotton were woven into cotton cloth, and the cotton wool in the sky was as soft as a cloud, and it was made into a special cotton coat in Xixian County, which was sold internally for one tael of silver and as high as ten taels of silver for the external price.

The people of Xixian County were grateful to Dade for harvesting a cotton coat, and when everyone in the county had cotton clothes, Pei Qing donated all the remaining thousands of cotton clothes to the border soldiers through Huang Gongzi.

You must know that the north is bitterly cold, the soldiers guarding the border pass are frozen in the snow every year, the former county is close to the border pass, Pei Qing has always wanted to contribute to the protection of the family and the country, after having cotton clothes, her idea can finally be implemented.

At the beginning of September, the osmanthus flowers in the south have not yet fallen, but the snowflakes have already been seen in the north.

The first snow in Xixian came quietly.

Along with the snowflakes, there is also the news of the invasion of the border by thieves.

The news was brought by carrier pigeons, although Huang Gongzi was in the south, his correspondence with Pei Qing was not broken, and sometimes it could even reach two letters a day.

Especially if Pei Qing made any requests in the letter, although he was not in the former county, he did his best to solve them.

Whether it was the difficulties encountered by the caravan in Xixian County in distributing goods outside, or Pei Qing complaining that she couldn't buy good dyes, in the end, it was Huang Gongzi who mediated to ensure that she lived comfortably.

During this period, Pei Qing never thought of Li Yi once, she wanted to forget him very deliberately.

As soon as he received the news, Pei Qing collected the extra Yun Tie Bow in his hand, handed it over to the Huang family's caravan, and asked them to take it to the border pass.

Huang Gongzi is said to have contacted a general surnamed Zhou, and all the cement and bows and arrows were delivered to that person, and it is said that the person has been promoted from a partial general to a pioneer because of his achievements, and the speed of promotion is impressive.

However, Pei Qing felt that it had nothing to do with herself, she sent weapons over, just to make the border pass stronger, and when the border pass was firm, she could make money safely and steadily.

The name of the Zhou general gradually spread near the border pass, and it is said that he repelled the attacks of the Northern Barbarians three times and twice, because the Northern Barbarians had a very bad time this winter, so the frequency of attacks was very frequent, and even tore up the armistice agreement.

The imperial court has reluctantly supported the border passes, but in fact, the army is unable to make ends meet, if there is no Huang family caravan and the full help of Xixian County, even the weapons in hand are not complete.

But these, Pei Qing doesn't know, now the egg breeders and broiler breeders he has in mind have begun to hatch chicks, the breeding industry in the former county has grown rapidly, the specific manifestation is that the fried chicken restaurants in the former county town are blooming everywhere, and even along the cement road that has been built to Rang County, all the way to the state capital, those who have learned fried chicken skills and gone to technical schools have made a lot of money, and they are no longer ashamed of their former county identity, but everywhere is promoting the deeds of the princess and the goddess of heaven who went down to earth to turn poverty into a country of abundance.

These deeds spread quickly along the mouths of the merchants, and when they reached the Central Plains, they also inevitably reached the ears of the Northern Barbarians.

So just when the first snow fell, a group of elite soldiers of the Northern Barbarians secretly bypassed the border pass from the small road and went straight to Xixian.