The white sugar that Liu Qing brought back from Taizhou became popular in Yongdu City, and ordinary people and ordinary warriors had a great thirst for sugar and calories, and the price of ordinary brown sugar was also expensive, not to mention the snowflake-like white sugar.

In the Tsing Yi Wei Building, Zhou Fengxian, the pacification envoy, praised Jiang Cheng in front of everyone, and some rewards were sent down, which was a reward for Jiang Cheng Nanzhou and his party, and the rest of the personnel were also rewarded, and the sacrificed Tsing Yi Wei also had a generous pension.

Jiang Cheng is now the rising star of Fusi in Nancheng Town, not only has a backer, can solve cases, but also has a high level of martial arts, and he has not stopped guessing how high Jiang Cheng's martial arts are.

The most direct reaction is that Jiang Yong has more than a dozen more sworn brothers, and all the 100 households in Nancheng Fusi are his brothers, and this brother has a tendency to spread to the other three cities, because if Jiang Cheng wants to continue to be promoted, it is very likely to be transferred to the rest of the Zhenfu Division, and there is no shortage of thousands of households in Nancheng for the time being.

"My lord, someone from outside the door brought an invitation in"

A group of people coaxed Jiang Cheng to invite him to dinner, and a wrestler came in and told Jiang Cheng that someone had sent an invitation in.

Jiang Cheng opened it and glanced at it, closed it again, and said, "I'll go to Wansheng Building tonight, but I may be a little late, my father will help me say hello, just order, as long as it's not wasted, the meat will be made casually."

"Dad, you're going to have to call them tonight."

"No problem, it's all my own brothers"

Jiang Yong patted his chest and assured that he was the most suitable for this kind of occasion, and he didn't have to spend money to eat and drink, how cool it was.

Jiang Cheng went out with the invitation, and one of the advantages of being promoted is that he doesn't have to take leave, as long as he is not on duty, he can come and go freely at other times.

There was a person waiting at the door, and when he saw Jiang Cheng coming, he hurriedly came over to salute, and then asked Jiang Cheng to get into the carriage, Jiang Cheng also walked up, and the carriage started slowly.

It is estimated that for more than ten minutes, the carriage stopped in front of a large mansion, and a maid guided Jiang Cheng into the courtyard, which was extremely luxurious.

"Tsing Yi Weinan Town Fusi Jiang Cheng has seen Yao Xiang"

A middle-aged man was fishing in front of an artificial pond, Jiang Cheng stepped forward to salute, and it was none other than Yao Ce, the current prime minister, who invited him.

Yao Ce is the new prime minister this year, almost a year has passed, this Yao Xiang and the emperor have worked closely together, deposed many officials, promoted many people, and is slowly mastering the imperial court.

"Master Jiang, do you like fishing?"

"I like it."

Jiang Cheng smiled, he used to be a fishing guy for a while, although the technique is not top-notch, but it is also first-class, and Mr. Deng began to pay attention to it before he became popular.

"Okay, let's go fishing"

Yao Ce said that soon, there were people coming over with fishing rods and some earthworms.

"Does Yao Xiang enjoy the tranquility of fishing or enjoy the thrill of the moment when the fish is hooked?"

"Does it make a difference?"

"Of course, fishing is an activity that some people rely on for a living, and that doesn't talk about it, some people just enjoy the silence of the moment, and some people like the thrill of the fish being hooked."

"It seems that Master Jiang is a master of fishing, so I have to learn from Master Jiang."

"Then the next official will show Yao Xiang's hand"

Jiang Cheng smiled, and then called a subordinate, said a few words in his ear, and soon, he took some bait, that is, some leftovers, plus chopped pork liver, stirred, and then Jiang Cheng threw it down to make a nest.

"Master Jiang, you throw so many things down, the fish are full, can you still catch fish?"

"Yao Xiang doesn't know, this fish is stupid, and it's greedy, these baits are not enough after eating, just like people"

"I see, people are like fish, fish are like people, some people are indeed too greedy, but the sage also said that people are not sages, who can be without fault, if you beat people to death with a stick because of a mistake, it is too much, Lord Jiang, you say yes"

Jiang Cheng opened the topic intentionally or unintentionally, and Yao Ce followed the words, Jiang Cheng didn't think that a dignified prime minister would have nothing to do with him to fish.

"Yao Xiang is right, this is the same as being a man, knowing mistakes can be changed, and being good is great."

"Master Jiang is really smart, speaking of this fishing, or Shen Liuyun taught me, Shen Liuyun's family is very poor, he used up all the family's money when he was studying, and if he wants to eat meat, he can only fish to fight tooth sacrifices, he is a poor man, fortunately, he is smart and diligent, and he was admitted to Jinshi, but it is a pity that he is too impatient to be a man and do things."

"I didn't expect Lord Shen to have this kind of experience, it is very difficult to go from a poor family to Jinshi"

"Yes, Shen Liuyun is very talented, if it is broken like this, I am afraid it will be a loss to the imperial court."

"Then let him not fold"

Jiang Cheng nodded, as he spoke, Jiang Cheng had already begun to catch fish, the fish in the artificial pond, it is estimated that Yao Ce had been hungry for several days before he came, and it was very easy to fish.

"Master Jiang is really a good skill, if you make a living from fishing, you won't starve to death."

"This is because Yao Xiang is on the side, the wealth is pressing, and the fish dare not take the bait"

"Haha, it doesn't matter who fishes, and the old man can't force the fish to take the bait."

"So you have to give the fish bait, and if you don't have bait, why let the fish take the bait?"

"Reasonable, reasonable, the old man wrote it down"

"The lower official is ugly"

Jiang Cheng arched his hand, packed the fish, skewered it with a weed, and put it beside him.

"If Master Jiang is busy, you can go and get busy first"

"Then the official retired"

Jiang Cheng arched his hand, and then lowered the fishing rod, but took away the two fish that he caught.

"What a smart person, it's a pity that he became Li Hongsleeve's person again in Tsing Yiwei"

Looking at Jiang Cheng's back, Yao Ce said in his heart, casually threw the fishing hook into Jiang Cheng's nest just now, and within two seconds, he caught a fish, Yao Ce suddenly laughed.

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"Sir, what do you mean by bringing two fish, do you want to give me fish to eat?"

Li Hongsleeve looked at Jiang Cheng who was carrying two fishes, a little depressed, she was not in a very good mood recently, she checked some of the early history of Da Wei and found a lot of things.

"This is sent by Prime Minister Yao Ce, he just asked me to go fishing, in a big mansion in the inner city"

"Yao Ce?"

"Shen Liuyun is his student"

"Is he finally going to take it anymore?"

"Yao Xiang offended a lot of people this year, he deposed a lot of people by him, and he promoted a lot of people, but he can't occupy the entire court alone, he just became the prime minister this year, if he doesn't care about his students, it will inevitably make people feel cold"

"I know this, but what does he get in exchange"

"I don't know, I didn't talk about it, this needs to be talked about by the eldest princess, I suggest not to make too many requests, just mean it"

"It's a good opportunity"

"The problem is that the eldest princess is not yet full-fledged, and you still need to continue to set up a benevolent character"

Jiang Cheng replied, not to fall into the stone, this is benevolence, it is a rare virtue in the officialdom, and you can gain a lot of goodwill.

"Okay, then according to Mr."

"Eldest princess, it's okay for the royal family"

"It's solved, I'm not a man, in their eyes, I'm just messing around"

Li Hongsleeve replied, the identity of a woman is her biggest obstacle, and at the same time the best protection, if King Xin did this kind of thing, now the emperor has already taken action, it is precisely because she is a woman, so the emperor tolerates him.

"That's okay, then take over this mess, how is the eldest princess preparing here?"

"I don't dare to say that it is perfect, but according to Mr.'s strategy, it has been completely implemented, in addition to Yongzhou City, three prefectures and seventeen counties, I have a business name, only do loss-making small business, more than half a year has lost more than 3,000 taels of silver."

Li Hongsleeve said that she opened more than 50 stores in three prefectures and seventeen counties in Yongzhou, not a noble business, but a grocery store, selling some needles and threads, retail is secondary, mainly wholesale, and wholesale at a loss is given to those merchants who go to the village to visit households.

These merchants go from village to village in the villages, and they often have their own familiar territory, that is, which villages have merchants, others will not go, because the purchasing power of these villages is so little.

Li Hongsleeve's people wholesaled goods to these merchants at lower prices, and almost all the merchants from all over the country bought goods from her, and after a long time, Li Hongsleeve's people slowly controlled these merchants.

These merchants are people who are really familiar with the countryside, which village is rich, which village is poorer, and even accurate to which household, only Li Hongsleeve's people need to talk to these people, after all, they are just chatting, and they are not asked to do anything, basically no one will be vigilant.

On weekdays, the people in the grocery store will record these materials, and then synthesize them, now for more than half a year, I dare not say that I know everything about the people in the three prefectures and seventeen counties of Yongzhou, but at least I have a certain understanding of the basic situation.

"Since this is the case, then you can do it, negotiate the conditions with Yao Ce, and get the official appointment of the imperial court, and then you can act"

"Sir, do you have anything to mention?"

"The first point is naturally to crack down on corruption, replace all those people in Shen Liuyun, check them one by one, find out all the problems, such as the kind of money that must be severely punished, and the second is to abolish all the previous unreasonable policies, especially one-size-fits-all, for those poor households who have suffered from the policy, to compensate, and to ensure that this compensation will not be embezzled.

As long as it is done well, it will only take three or five years, and the thousands of poor households in the seventeen counties of the three prefectures of Yongzhou will be the ultimate loyal supporters of the eldest princess.

"Good, good"

Li Hongsleeve was a little excited, the royal family did not support him, and the ministers and nobles did not support him, so she went to find those poor people, those poor people, who wanted to do great things, how could there be no one to support her, she could imagine the scene where those people supported her at that time, and when there were some weapons and equipment, these people would become an elite soldier, a strange soldier.