Always positive.

At the same time, Sheng Qingyuan also brought some people to the bamboo forest to collect a batch of bamboo.

Sheng Qingyuan took a few workers disguised as secret guards, and went to Zeng Qi's bamboo house with carts and large boxes.

Sheng Qingyuan said to Zeng Qi, "Uncle Zeng, I need to wronged you for a while."

Zeng Qi shook his head, dipped his fingers in water and wrote a few words on the table:

[No grievances, thank you princess]

The box is large enough to lie down for a person, the wheels of the cart are processed to reduce the bumps, and the box is also covered with a very soft quilt with enough air holes around it, and it is covered with cut bamboo as a cover.

Two mansions, most of which was used as a rest for Sheng Qing Yuan, they also moved here from the inn.

The environmental conditions here are much better than those in the bamboo house, and Sheng Qingyuan also gave Zeng Qi a simple treatment here.

They won't leave Qingcheng so quickly in a short period of time, and the reason on the surface is that the corresponding work processes here need to be determined to ensure that the transportation routes between Qingcheng and the capital can operate normally, and the actual reason is to deal with the problem of Qingcheng.

When the prefect of Qingcheng learned that Sheng Qingyuan was going to set up a workshop here and open another shop, he suddenly became two big: "So, they still have to stay here for a long time?"

The general judge said: "It seems that yes, Princess Jing seems to be planning to open a Zhushan Fang here, and then expand the place to make a place dedicated to handling bamboo."

"How long is this going to take?" The prefect had a headache.

"I heard it will take at least half a month." The general judge said.

"What?!" The prefect collapsed all at once.

Although he didn't care about Shen Zhao and Sheng Qingyuan, some superficial work still had to be perfunctory.

The general judge said, "My lord, the lower officials think that this is actually a good thing."

"A good thing?" The prefect was puzzled: "What kind of good thing is this?"

Tong Juan smiled and said, "My lord, you think, as long as they are still in Qingcheng for a day, then the people in the city will continue to be as they are now.

In this way, for those shops, the more money they get, the more taxes they have to pay. Besides, the people also know that this is for the sake of who has to do things, and if those two don't come, they don't need to cooperate with these things, and we are also forced to be helpless, so if the people want to hate, they should also hate those two."

The prefect smiled, "You have a lot of point, and I think Your Majesty will be very happy to see this situation."

After thinking about it, the prefect said, "In this way, you go and send an invitation to King Jing and Princess Jing, invite them to come, and I will personally set up a banquet for them."

"My lord, didn't you say before that you were very busy and didn't have time to see King Jing and Princess Jing?" The general judge asked.

The prefect said meaningfully: "Since the prince and the princess are going to stay in our Qingcheng for so long, then this official, as a subordinate official, no matter how busy he is, he must always take some time to receive the prince and the princess, as for the affairs of the people, I can only ask them to take care of them more, after all, I am a small prefect, and I can't afford to offend the prince and the princess."

The general judge smiled and responded: "Your Excellency is reasonable, and the next official will do it."

The prefect was going to hold a banquet to entertain Sheng Qingyuan and Shen Zhao, and the news soon spread.

I learned that the prefect also called the best chef in Qingcheng for this purpose, and asked for the best ingredients.

This news, falling into the ears of the people who are still worried about their daily livelihoods, is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.

The general judge deliberately respectfully handed over the invitation to Shen Zhao and Sheng Qingyuan in front of Sheng Qingyuan's house.

Sheng Qingyuan looked at the invitation and asked lightly, "Your prefect is finally done?"

The judge hurriedly said: "Please forgive me the princess, there are too many affairs in Qingcheng, and the lord does not mean to snub you, and the lord did not expect that the prince and the princess would like Qingcheng so much, no, the lord learned that the prince and the princess would stay in Qingcheng for a while, so he immediately put down what he was doing

If you have something, you have to make up for this reception banquet for the prince and the princess first."

Seeing that there were more and more people behind him, Tong Juan raised a smile slightly, and pretended to be sincere and said, "In order to make the prince and princess eat well, my lord specially invited ten of the best chefs in our Qingcheng to cook one hundred and eight dishes for the prince and princess."

As the people heard this, they became even more angry.

They don't even have anything to eat, but these dignitaries can be so luxurious with a feast.

It's really Zhumen's wine and meat stinky and there are frozen bones on the road.

Sheng Qingyuan asked in a slightly cold voice, "Are the one hundred and eight dishes you said ready?"

Tong Ju hurriedly said, "We have already started to prepare, and the preparation of each dish is unique."

"So even if you stop now, you're just wasting food?" Sheng Qingyuan continued to ask.

The general judge smiled lightly and said, "You can say the same."

So, if you accept this invitation, then it will cause serious dissatisfaction among the people.

But if you don't accept it, these processed ingredients are also wasteful, and it will also cause anger among the people.

Sheng Qingyuan said, "Since we have already started to prepare, we can't pause, then we promise."

When the judge heard this, his face suddenly became happy, and he hurriedly said, "Xiaguan will arrange it for the prince and princess. The Lord also prepared other exquisite pastries for the Lord and the Princess, and the Lord and the Princess could go and enjoy them first."

"No need, my business is not finished yet, you go back to the prefect first, and say that I and the prince will go later." Sheng Qingyuan said in a slightly cold voice.

"Yes, Xia Guan will definitely convey your meaning for the princess." The general judge hurriedly said with a smile.

After the general judge told the prefect of this result, the prefect couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, she is a princess from the countryside, this vision, just can't do it, and I can't withstand any temptation. I don't know why King Jing wants to canonize a woman from such a background as a princess."

Tong Juan smiled and said, "What does King Jing think? If Your Majesty knows about this, you will be pleased, and when the time comes, you will be waiting for your promotion."

"Hahaha, I promise you good words, I promise you good words." The prefect laughed loudly.

Twilight is falling, and the agreed time is getting closer and closer.

The prefect waited for a long time, but he didn't wait for Sheng Qingyuan and Shen Zhao to arrive, and couldn't help but ask, "Go and see why King Jing and Princess Jing haven't come yet?" Do you want to eat a feast?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a servant hurriedly came in and said, "My lord, there are many people outside."

The prefect frowned, "What are those people doing here? Hurry up and drive them all out."

"Yes."

The little servant responded, and was just about to drive away the people outside the mansion, when the crowd suddenly gave way to a way, and Sheng Qingyuan and Shen Zhao walked from it.

Shen Zhao said in a faint voice, "These are the people invited by this king to join the banquet, and they are also tonight's guests."

The subordinate didn't expect things to develop like this at all, so he had to hurry in and report to the prefect.

"A bunch of people, please?" The prefect frowned.

The servant nodded.

The fellow governor next to him said to the prefect, "Your Excellency, why don't you go and see it yourself."

The prefect frowned tightly, got up and went to the door.

Walking to the door, when he saw Shen Zhao and Sheng Qingyuan, he raised a bright smile, "Xiaguan see the prince. Princess, I don't know what the princess and princess are ......."

Shen Zhao said lightly: "This king heard that the prefect of Qingcheng has always loved the people like a son, and today this king also heard that tonight's banquet will have one hundred and eight dishes just prepared at the beginning of the year, this king and princess, even if you add the prefect, this will only be a waste, rather than waste, it is better to take this opportunity to have fun with the people, what do you think?"

"But ......"

The prefect was just about to speak, when Shen Zhao interrupted him and said, "Because there are too many people, this king thinks, the cook you invited is not enough, one hundred and zero

Eight dishes are not enough for so many people, and this location is not enough, so this king invited some people with good cooking skills to help them cook, as for this location, he simply took this place as a starting point and put it all the way to the main street outside, so that the people of the entire Qingcheng can participate, I don't know what the prefect thinks?"

When the prefect heard Shen Zhao's words, the whole person was stupid: "Everyone in the entire Qingcheng?"

"Yes." Shen Zhao said very categorically.

"But, but this ......," the prefect said.

His words on Sheng Qingyuan Street: "The prefect is worried about the problem of money? This prefect doesn't have to worry, since you have spent so much money to feast me and the prince, and specially invited the best chef to cook one hundred and eight dishes, the money for the banquet will naturally not be good for the prefect to come out again."

These words made the prefect come to his lips, and the words were immediately swallowed back.

After stumbling for a long time, he finally forcibly squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "This, since this is a banquet for the people, and they are all the people of Qingcheng, it is natural that the lower officials have to pay for it, how can the prince and the princess pay for it?"

Sheng Qingyuan said: "All the taxes collected by the government will eventually be used back to the people, of course, it will definitely not be used for this kind of eating and drinking, so let me do it."

The prefect listened to Sheng Qingyuan's words, and almost spurted out a mouthful of blood.

With so many people watching, how could he let Sheng Qingyuan pay.

Originally, he wanted to take out some of the money from the prefect's treasury to settle tonight's banquet, but even so, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh.

But Sheng Qingyuan's words completely broke his thoughts.

Now I have to pay for a treat from the private treasury in my own house.

"This, this is natural, the princess is right, Xiaguan, Xiaguan has also accumulated a lot of silver taels over the years, and it is still possible to feast the people of Qingcheng once." The prefect felt that every word he said was like a sharp knife cutting at his heart.

Sheng Qingyuan looked extremely moved and said to him, "The prefect is really good to the big guy."

As he spoke, Sheng Qingyuan said to all the people behind him, "Why don't you come and thank the prefect."

"Lord Xiefu." Everyone said.

This thank you fell into the ears of the prefect, as if it had become a mockery.

Sheng Qingyuan said with a smile: "That big guy is still stunned for what to do, hurry up and find a place to sit down and prepare to eat, if there is still no one in the family who has come, go and call them to come to the banquet together."

Seeing Sheng Qingyuan arranging it in such an orderly manner, and seeing more and more people outside coming to eat, what the prefect saw was that a huge amount of silver was like quicksand, which was rapidly flowing between his fingers.

These are all silver taels that he has accumulated for a long time.