Compared with the Weeping Blood Valley, which is worth every inch of land, this piece of shops located outside the valley is much more generous, stepping into the teahouse. "Two guests, are you looking for customers, or you want to drink tea!" The shop guy greeted him with a smile on his face.

"I'm just here to sit, but it doesn't seem to have any place!" Leng Zhuo glanced at the lobby, but it was full of people, and the hustle and bustle looked a bit like a tavern.

The shopkeeper obviously also noticed Leng Zhuo's expression, and said with a smile: "The people sitting in this lobby are all businessmen, most of them are from bitter backgrounds, the two guests are still with me, the upstairs is quieter, if the two of you want to talk about business, you can also go to the private room on the third floor!"

"Then let's go to the second floor!" Leng Zhuo looked at the loud lobby, although he was here to inquire about the people's feelings, but looking at it like this, he couldn't hear anything here, and his clothes also looked out of place on this floor, so it was estimated that sitting down would attract people's attention.

I have to say that the design of this teahouse is quite thoughtful, the lobby on the first floor and the second floor are not directly connected by stairs, but to walk into the backyard, there is a staircase that leads to the second floor, etc., the first floor and the second floor are separated.

And the environment on the second floor is obviously much better than the lobby, although there are also a lot of businessmen chatting happily at each table, but there is no such shouting, the rise of the talk also clapped the table, there are many people on the second floor, but there are still a few vacant seats, Leng Zhuo directly found a place to sit down, Leng Zhong ordered a pot of tea, a few snacks, and sent the guy.

"Why doesn't this guy seem to know the second grandfather!" Leng Zhuo asked in a low voice after sitting down.

Leng Zhong smiled and said: "I don't come here often, I usually go to the small teahouse of the old Yun family, and it is also the old man in the original territory, and his teahouse is built in the valley, which is very quiet!"

Leng Zhuo sighed: "How are the old people in the valley doing now?" At the beginning, the Leng family was in decline, and in the entire territory, there were only a few hundred families who followed his grandfather with all their hearts.

"Hehe, it's not bad, when the young master opened the Golden River, every family was assigned a job, and later, he also followed to do business, and now everyone doesn't say that the family has a million gold, it's almost the same, and the boys of each family are either in the army, or they are businessmen, and there is a young master in the mountains, but it's not bad to bully people!"

Leng Zhuo smiled when he heard this, he hadn't heard of the old man of the Weeping Blood Valley relying on him to bully people in the past few years, so Leng Zhuo was very pleased, but he also knew that the reason why this was the case was not unrelated to Leng Zhong and the group of old men who followed Leng Invincible.

"This is also thanks to the second grandfather to help knock, they are doing well, and the second grandfather is also more affected, if there is anything that can't be solved, send someone to tell me at any time, you can't treat your family badly!"

"The old slave is here to thank the young master for the big guy first!"

The guy quickly carried a large tray and sent eight kinds of pastries, plus a pot of Yunshan Wu tea, it is said that this tea was discovered by a barbarian tribe in the 100,000 mountains, used to flush water and drink, and was discovered by a foot merchant, so there was this Yunshan Wu tea, and in just two or three years, it ranked among the top ten tea products.

A faint cloud mist drifted on the cup, lingering, this is also the most wonderful place of Yunshan fog tea, holding the tea, taking a sip, Leng Zhuo's attention also shifted to the table not far away, although the few people on the table did not speak loudly, but Leng Zhuo's hearing was real.

"I said Lao Zhou, you just came back from Vermilion Bird City, is it really true that the recent rumors about the founding of the country are true?"

A fat businessman with a somewhat wide figure and a bit like Maitreya Buddha lowered his voice and asked a middle-aged horse-faced businessman beside him.

As soon as the fat businessman asked, the two people at the same table also turned their attention to the middle-aged horse-faced man named Lao Zhou, but Lao Zhou took a sip of tea, glanced around, and then said in a low voice: "This matter is rumored in the streets and alleys of Vermilion Bird City, this is groundless, in short, it is evil, but a few officials who have befriended me said that this matter is ten likely!"

"Oh, is this true?" the fat businessman's body shook, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he hurriedly asked.

"It's hard for me to say this, after all, there is no accurate word, but I heard that the cabinet received a folding seal, which is to change the prefecture and county to the two-level system of counties and counties, I pondered, if this is really restructured, this place will definitely not be handled by those imperial officials, and our Dachu officials will be corrected! If this is really done, the establishment of the country is reliable!"

"What's the rumor in the cabinet!"

"No, there is not even an announcement, I don't refute the rumors, I don't say anything, I guess, this will depend on how our King Chu decides!"

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu is wise and martial, first set Chuzhou, and then set Yangzhou, and now he has a million soldiers, some time ago, the forbidden army fought this, I have also seen it, it is called a mighty army, with such strong soldiers, and it is indeed a little ...... to be under the empire!"

"In my opinion, His Royal Highness the King of Chu should have already thought of leaving the empire, but His Highness still has concerns!"

"Oh, Lao Liu, where did you start talking about this!" "Hehe, this is a bit disrespectful, you don't want to think about it, in the past two years, those imperial Zhengyin officials were still doing wind and rain in the local area, one by one they were seizing power and training soldiers, but now, there are still a few Zhengyin Yamen who are still on the council!"

"They want to be a director, but now in the locality, the people are the peasants who lead my Great Chu nationality, and the merchants are the merchants who lead my Great Chu merchants, unless there are a few still stubborn guys, almost all over the Chu people, they don't care who goes, but our Great Chu patrol is busy every day!"

"That's right, we, the officials of Da Chu, are real officials, not only sit in the hall every day, but also go to the countryside to go to the villages and towns, we went, and we also helped to contact various places, where is this still an official, compared to those small officials in the empire, I see, His Royal Highness the King of Chu should establish the country as soon as possible, and then straighten them out!"

"We can't control this matter, I am now counting on His Royal Highness the King of Chu to establish a country and accept the eight mansions of Yangzhou, where it is said that a lot of villages and towns and cities have been destroyed, we are not greedy, as long as we can get seven or eight projects, work hard for him for two or three years, and I don't have to worry about it in the next life!"

"Lao Xin, you are not greedy, seven or eight projects, you are not afraid of dying, just the little people in your hands, can you eat it, you still have two projects here that are not finished, you still have people to spare!"

"Hmph, where do you think I've been going for a while, I managed to get a group of people, five hundred people, all of them are tall and strong men, and in addition to a stone mountain in the wild jungle, within half a month, there will be a continuous production of good stones!"

"Lao Xin, you old boy is not interesting enough, you went to the Miao country and didn't even say a word, your hundreds of people are all barbarian slaves?"

"Well, I bought it at a great price, and hired a small team of Miao soldiers to help take care of it, and I also wrapped a mountain over there, not far from the Red River, and the transportation is not a big problem, but it is nothing to go back to our Chuzhou, but to go to Yangzhou, you have to make a big detour! If only you could open a canal in the middle of the Red River and connect the lower waterways of the Jinhe River, then you can drive directly to Yangzhou!"

"In the territory of Miao Country, by the way, I heard that our navy has just recaptured the Penglai Islands, it seems that it will be used as a garrison for the navy, it is estimated that it will cost a lot of stones, you can go and inquire, so that you can follow the Red River into the sea, and then go north, it is not farther than you go around in a circle into Yangzhou!"

"You don't want to be me, where can you go to get a sea boat!

"I can't talk about the way, but I have recently raised some money and plan to open a shipyard, and now I have some shipwrights who are in charge of the situation, and I also heard that this time His Royal Highness the King of Chu won a great victory in Taihu Lake, and captured a lot of Japanese sea ships, many of which are seriously damaged, and it is impossible to act as a warship, but if you repair it, it is estimated that it can still be competent, and I plan to shoot one or two to come back!

"I really don't have much money on hand, but Lao Zhou, you said so, I naturally want to take a share, and it will be convenient to transport some things in the future, and I will mortgage my new stone quarry when I go back, and I am estimated to be able to borrow some money!"

"Hehe, it's still old and refreshing! Let's go back and sum it up, if His Royal Highness really intends to re-establish the country and take Nachuyang as the frontier, then next, there will definitely be a lot of construction, we have to prepare in advance, otherwise it will be too late to hold on to the Buddha's feet temporarily!"

Leng Zhuo listened to the conversation around him, but five or six out of ten tables were talking about this matter, the businessmen were responsible for circulation, going south and north, and the news was the most well-informed, from the words of these people, but they were all looking forward to getting rid of the empire, after all, with the empire hat to wear, it would be risky to invest in the place, and if the empire made a comeback, it would be equivalent to the money being wasted.

If the name is not right, it is not good, the word fame and fortune can be said to run through the top and bottom, how can anyone not be famous, not for profit! Leng Zhuo did ignore the feelings of the people below before, not everyone can think about the problem from a large level, they will only stare at the present.

The expatriate officials of Da Chu are down-to-earth and hardworking, running around day and night, for what, to benefit the people? Maybe there is, but more for a future, three or five years, they can work hard and be unknown, but for a long time, they work hard every day, but they can't get a room for improvement, so will they still work hard every day?

is not in his position and does not seek his government, Dachu now has only more than half of the nominal territory plus a city, so the number of officials is limited, and those expatriate envoys, the chief, although they have real power, but they do not have a name, and if they have no name, they are not even officials, let alone talk about promotions, if they can't be promoted, then what about the future!

Thinking about it from this point of view, the establishment of the Great Chu State is no longer a military problem, but a problem of the people's hearts, now the thirteen prefectures of Chuzhou, in addition to the two newly attached prefectures, the remaining eleven prefectures have completed the preliminary household registration policy, almost ninety percent of the people of Chuzhou have entered the household registration of the Great Chu, and there are Chu people everywhere, but they live on the land of the empire in name, if it is him, will he feel at ease?

Leng Zhuo fell into deep thought, perhaps he already had an answer!-