Time flies, and it's January again.

Zhu Yuanzhang still gets up early and goes to bed late every day, insisting on doing a good job as an emperor should do.

On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang was in the study to correct the folds, and Mao Xiang, who had been in Shanghu County for two months, finally returned to Jinling.

"Your Majesty, the things you have explained have been done."

As soon as Mao Xiang returned to Jinling, he rushed to the study non-stop and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang about the situation of the report in Shanghai County.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he instantly remembered what he had told Mao Xiang before, and he was overjoyed, and said loudly:

"Okay, Jinyiwei really didn't disappoint us, report quickly."

"Li Jin, a native of Fengyang, his parents died early, he grew up eating hundreds of meals when he was a child, his brain has not been very bright, and the first half of his life was muddy."

"Until four years ago, when Li Jin was seventeen years old, the Ming Dynasty was established, and the emperor founded the country, Li Jin seemed to have suddenly opened his mind, and he became smart."

"Not only that, Li Jin also overheard his husband's lectures outside the private school, and he became self-taught, and in the first year of Hongwu, he achieved fame in showing talent."

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Mao Xiang's more outrageous words, and his face became more confused, and he immediately interrupted Mao Xiang and said:

"Are you sure this Li Jin was an idiot before he was seventeen?"

Mao Xiang nodded.

"Are you sure he was admitted to Xiucai just by eavesdropping outside the private school?"

Mao Xiang swallowed, but nodded firmly.

"Ridiculous!"

Zhu Yuanzhang directly took the case.

"Mao Xiang, we have high hopes for you Jinyiwei, and this is how you repay us?"

"If this kind of child doesn't believe it, you dare to use it to prevaricate us?"

Zhu Biao listened to it with a face full of disbelief, how could such a thing happen in this world?

Mao Xiang was so frightened by Zhu Yuanzhang that he hurriedly knelt down and said in fear:

"The emperor is angry, and what he said is true."

"That Li Jin is also a popular figure in the local area, every family knows his past, and he didn't believe it at the beginning, but everyone in their village said so."

"If the emperor doesn't believe it, you can send someone to investigate, and if you have a word to hide, you are willing to die."

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the sincerity of what Mao Xiang said, and couldn't help but be shaken in his heart, is there really a genius who once had an epiphany?

But this is not Zhu Yuanzhang's focus, what he wants to care about is what Li Jin did in office?

"Okay, let's be even, let's believe you, you go on."

After Mao Xiang slowly got up, he continued:

"After Li Jin won Xiucai, he never continued to gain fame."

"In the first year of Hongwu, my Ming Dynasty unified the north and the south, and when people were employed everywhere, they were allowed to show their talents and fame, and they could serve as county officials."

"This Li Jin is an official fan, and after hearing this policy, he ignored the dissuasion of Mr. Private School, and went directly to Shanghu County to take office."

Zhu Biao exclaimed:

"He's already a county parent official at the age of seventeen?"

Mao Xiang nodded, after all, extraordinary times do extraordinary things.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang have so many reserve talents at the beginning, and someone was willing to do things for Zhu Yuanzhang, which was already very good, why did he need to pay so much attention?

"When Li Jin first took office in Shanghu County, there were no more than 100 households in the county, with a population of only 300 people, and there was no food in the county government's treasury."

"Not only that, but the county is full of swamps, and because of its proximity to the sea, most of the land in Shanghu County is still saline-alkali land, which is impossible to cultivate."

"Most of the people in the county are fishing for a living, which is enough to make a living, otherwise the people in the county would have run out long ago."

"But after the emperor issued a ban on the sea, these people planned to leave Shanghu County and go to other places to live."

"Li Jin immediately came forward and said that there was a way to keep these people fed and clothed, and he guaranteed with his life, and if he couldn't do it, he was willing to apologize with death."

"That's what I left, these only three hundred."

Zhu Yuanzhang's mind instantly floated up the crowded crowd in Shanghu County, and he really couldn't believe that before Li Jin took office, there were only less than 300 people here.

Today's Shanghu County is afraid of more than 300,000 people, which has increased by 3,000 times!!

In less than three years, this Li Jin has actually operated such a prosperous situation in Shanghu County!

When Zhu Yuanzhang fell into memory, Mao Xiang's narration continued:

"Next, Li Jin led the people of the county to start reclaiming wasteland as promised before."

"Not only that, but this Li Jin didn't know where to get a steady stream of food, and began to rely on this grain to recruit displaced people."

"During Li Jin's tenure, the people of Shanghu County grew explosively, until now the number of people in Shanghu County has reached 350,000."

"However, according to the lowly investigation, these people are not all exiles from the Ming Dynasty, and..."

Speaking of this, Mao Xiang secretly raised his eyes and glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang, and stopped talking a little.

Zhu Biao was hearing the highlights, but Mao Xiang was silent, which provoked Zhu Biao to speak directly:

"What else, say it quickly!"

Zhu Yuanzhang also looked at Mao Xiang with his eyes, and Mao Xiang continued to say:

"There are also a lot of people from Wajima."

Mao Xiang found that Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have known this for a long time, and added:

"Even there are people from Cochin, North Korea, and Luzon, and all of these people were sold as slaves before they settled in Shanghu County."

"According to the lowly investigation, at least seventy percent of the population of Shanghu County comes from these slaves."

"What? Seventy percent? ”

Although Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Li Jin was engaged in the so-called slave trade, he didn't know that Li Jin was so big.

With so many people being slaves, isn't Shanghu County extremely unstable.

"But don't worry, the emperor, these slaves are obviously domesticated, and they don't dare to hurt people at all."

"According to the investigation of the lowly position, Shanghu County has been able to develop so fast in recent years, and these slaves have made great contributions."

In the process of continuous investigation, Mao Xiang actually admired this county magistrate who had never met.

Whether it is intelligence or skill, if you can run Shanghu County to such a scale, you must be a great talent, which is why Li Jin said a good word.

"Humph!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was not very satisfied, for such a large-scale slave, Zhu Yuanzhang always felt that it was not very stable.

"How much silver does Li Jin have, has he investigated it clearly?"

Mao Xiang's cold sweat broke out all of a sudden, and he said tremblingly:

"Humble and incompetent, then Li Jin built a Pufa money village and deposited all the silver there."

"I have no authority, and I don't dare to startle the snake, and I don't know anything about Li Jin's property."

"Pufa Money?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry about this, but was very interested in Li Jin's bank.

"What's the size of this bank?"

Mao Xiang hurriedly said:

"The people, businessmen, and officials in Shanghu County all use the silver tickets of this bank, which is very convenient to use."

"Not only that, the scale of this money bank is very large, and now Songjiang Mansion has all the branches of Pufa Money Bank."

"According to the rumors of the people, Li Jin plans to open this money bank throughout the Ming Dynasty."

"Convenient? Is it convenient to have our treasure banknotes? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said arrogantly:

"We don't believe that the people don't need to use the treasure money, so what kind of money can they use from the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank."