Boyan glanced at the high wall of wealth, and did not ask the soldiers to load the cart and take it away.

Zhu Chengjun was about to ask Bo Yan to smile, but when he saw that he didn't mean it, he gave up, but he really wished that he would treat money like dung, as long as this money was in hand, Zhongli County would be a different scene in less than half a year.

"This prime minister is busy with military affairs, so it is inconvenient to delay, Zhongli County will be handed over to you." As he spoke, Boyan glanced lightly at the corpse in front of the county government that was still bleeding, and then raised the long sword in his hand to warn: "If you let the prime minister know that you are using your power to do evil, I will use this sword to take your head." ”

"Please rest assured that you will fulfill your duties and work wholeheartedly for the well-being of the people." Zhu Chengjun met Boyan's stern warning eyes, and assured him with a correct attitude.

Boyan nodded faintly, turned around and stepped into the carriage.

"The army is out!"

The general was instructed by Boyan to order the army to set off in full gear.

"Congratulations to the Prime Minister!"

Zhu Chengjun led the people of a county to watch Boyan and his party leave, until the army was all out of the city.

A military disaster was finally passed safely, and everyone's hanging heart was finally let go.

"Fellow villagers, we are safe, let's all go home." Zhu Chengjun gestured for everyone to get up with both hands, but everyone was unmoved, Zhu Chengjun was slightly stunned and asked, "Do you still have anything to do?" ”

"Master Zhu, no, my lord." Knowing that Zhu Chengjun's identity has changed now, the person who spoke quickly changed his words and said tremblingly: "We have eaten all the food in our family...... I don't know the price of this grain...... Is it still the same as before? ”

Today happens to be the day of queuing to buy low-cost grain, if there is no accident, everyone will go to queue up to buy grain as in the past, and the Yuan soldiers crossing the border disrupted this rhythm. The people of the county all know that the reason why they can eat cheap food is all due to one person, and now that this person's identity has changed, can he still be good to them as always?

In their cognition, once this person becomes an official, he is a different person.

Zhu Chengjun saw the worries and worries in everyone's eyes.

"Don't worry, I'm here to make sure everyone can eat." Zhu Chengjun paused, glanced at the corpses of the two families on the ground and Tian, and shouted: "The price of grain has changed, but it is reduced by one percent on the basis of the original!" ”

"One more percent?!" The crowd didn't believe their ears.

"We heard it right, it's Master Zhu, no, it's Lord Zhu himself."

"Great!"

As soon as the news spread, the whole city was in an uproar.

Being able to eat low-cost food in this year is something that everyone couldn't imagine in the past.

"It's definitely the cheapest food I've ever had!"

"All this is the grace of Lord Zhu."

"Thank you, sir!"

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"Everyone, please." Zhu Chengjun saw that in addition to gratitude in everyone's eyes, there seemed to be a desire to speak and stop, Zhu Chengjun asked: "If you still have any difficulties, just say it, let's find a way to solve it together." ”

"My lord, many of us have been idle for many days, and there is not so much work for us to do in the whole county."

"Yes, my lord, you can't make money without work, where can you get the money to buy food?"

"I beg you to show us all the way."

Zhu Chengjun's ability is obvious to all, from a little-known unknown boy in less than two months to become a pivotal figure in Zhongli County, everyone believes that Zhu Chengjun's ability will definitely be able to get everyone out of the predicament.

"I beg you, sir." The crowd kowtowed and bowed.

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Zhongli County is in a depression, everyone's life is not easy, even if you don't suffer from the invasion of the Yuan soldiers this time, it will be difficult to live for another month with the money and food in your hand.

Zhu Chengjun looked at the money intercepted from corrupt officials and powerful bullies, and then looked at the ordinary people kneeling on a street behind him, even if he made his own decisions to distribute the money to them, he could only solve the temporary urgency, but if this money is used in this way, it will not be able to play its due value at all. However, if you have money in hand, if you can't create a value far beyond itself, you can't do it. As long as there are obedient people in your hands, you don't have to worry about not being able to make a career.

"Rest assured, trust me, there will be work." Zhu Chengjun pondered for a moment, and in the current situation, unless labor-intensive industries are launched, they can provide enough jobs, and casually asked, "What will everyone do?" ”

"My lord, I'm a carpenter."

"I'm a blacksmith."

"Mason."

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After a rough calculation, there are hundreds of craftsmen with a skill, and in Zhu Chengjun's view, people with a skill in this era are rare talents. We must not let them sit idle, as long as we gather them together and make the best use of their talents, we will definitely be able to create amazing value. Zhu Chengjun raised his hand to suppress the noisy people, and said loudly: "After everyone goes back, register the skills of each of you, and count the idle people, gather here at this time tomorrow, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." ”

"We all trust adults! When I go back, I will do as the adults say. ”

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Zhongli County suffered a food crisis because Zhu Chengjun controlled the price of grain so that everyone could eat, and today the Yuan army crossed the border and Zhu Chengjun led them to spend it safely, and everyone saw what they did, so they had absolute trust in Zhu Chengjun.

After everyone left, Deng Yue, Shi Qian and others came to Zhu Chengjun.

"Brother Zhu has thought of a way to deal with it?" Deng Yue asked.

Zhu Chengjun shook his head and replied, "Give me some time, there will always be a way." ”

"What about these...... How to deal with it. Shi Qian glanced at the money silk piled up on the wall and the corpses on the ground.

Zhu Chengjun summoned the officials and instructed: "Please find a place to bury these corpses." "Seeing that the official was unmoved, was it the words of this Mongolian-appointed parent official?

Zhu Chengjun raised his eyebrows lightly and asked, "Do you have any difficulties?" ”

"Don't hide it, I don't want to hide it, we all do have difficulties."

Zhu Chengjun immediately asked Xu Xiao to go back and pay a sum of money to pay the salaries of the officials last month and the next two months, the emperor was almost hungry, Zhu Chengjun knew that he would have many places to use them in the future.

"Why do you have to spend your own money, just take a fraction of these sins."

Zhu Chengjun glared at the group of officials, and said sternly: "Now the people of the whole county are counting on this money to tide over the difficulties, and every penny has to be used in important places. ”

Zhu Chengjun saw that these people didn't get the money and didn't start working, for the sake of their recognition of themselves as a county official of the Mongols, he didn't care about them for the time being, and this account should be remembered first, we are still afraid that you will not be obedient in the future?

Let them move the corpse feel unlucky, and how positive it is to move the silver into the warehouse. They couldn't be clearer about the finances of the county government, and they don't pay food once in a few months, if it weren't for the fact that the officials are tolerant, they might have stopped doing it a long time ago.

After counting the silver into the warehouse, Zhu Chengjun immediately ordered someone to seal the warehouse, and Xu Xiao happened to take the silver at this time. Zhu Chengjun paid their salaries in person according to the number reported by the officials, and the silver was in hand, not to mention how hard these people worked to carry the corpses, they only hated that there were too few corpses, and thought that if there were more corpses, would this Mongolian official give them a little more silver.

Deng Yue and the others saw that the people had gone home, and the officials were also sent by Zhu Chengjun to bury the corpses, and they finally had a chance to say what they had been holding back, so everyone surrounded them.

"If you brothers have something to say, just speak up." Zhu Chengjun is ready to face the criticism of his friends.

Deng Yue and the others stared wide-eyed, and what they were about to say seemed to be difficult to say.

"The reason why Brother Zhu agreed to be an official of the Mongols was out of his own volition or ...... Or promised them what conditions. Deng Yue saw that everyone was not easy to open his mouth, so he decided to be this villain himself.

Zhu Chengjun glanced at everyone's expressions, presumably what Deng Yue said was everyone's voice.

"You brothers are not surprised to have this question, Boyan asked me to temporarily act as the county magistrate, and I don't know about it." Zhu Chengjun saw that everyone was still skeptical of his words, and asked rhetorically: "With Boyan's shrewdness, can't he see that we are making a show?" So why didn't he expose it to his face? ”

"Could it be...... Is the Great Song really going to die at the hands of the Yuan army? Shi Qian had a faint bad premonition in his heart.

Zhu Chengjun saw that everyone was depressed, they had only been in the middle for a few days after ten years of hard study, and the imperial court was gone, where should they go in the future, and everyone present fell into a confusion that they had never felt before.

"Brother Zhu, what do you think about this?" Deng Yue asked with a sad face.

Zhu Chengjun smiled and said: "Whether it is a change of dynasty or not, you and my lives will continue after all." ”

"Having said that, if the Great Song Dynasty is really broken by the Yuan army, and I really become a slave of the country, how will the Mongols treat us......"

Before the speakers could speak, everyone fell silent.

"I don't think everyone should stand here and speculate, no matter who sits in the world, in order to sit firmly in the world, don't they have to treat the people under their rule well? The Yuan lord was an enlightened and promising monarch, and I don't think he wanted to turn the splendid rivers and mountains of the Han people into wasteland pastures, and I dare to assert that this was not his original intention. Zhu Chengjun saw that everyone recognized his words, and then said: "Brothers, don't forget the original intention of our trip, although the Yuan soldiers have retreated, but the situation in this county is also obvious to all, although the grain prepared in the next is enough to support the summer harvest, but after all, these grains are bought by me with silver, and some of them are the grain of Yang's grain store, I have repeatedly lowered the price of grain has been benevolent and righteous, to let the family wealth in the lower part to do good deeds, I can't do this, I hope you can understand." ”

Everyone secretly bowed their heads and understood Zhu Chengjun's difficulties.

"Judging from the seized criminal property, there are nearly half a million taels of silver, and we can completely ...... this money"

"It's not enough, 500,000 taels is far from enough, I have calculated an account, and sent money to everyone to buy grain, even if Brother Zhu lowers the price of grain by one percent, it will not be able to support the summer grain market."

"It's definitely not appropriate to send money directly, in case someone sells miserably, it will only cause chaos."

"But it's not good to only give money to people in need, this move is easy to be hated."

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Everyone expressed their opinions, Deng Yue slapped his head, and he was so dizzy that he forgot about the powerful man around him, since Zhu Chengjun dared to let people come to him tomorrow, he must have thought of a way to deal with it.

"Brother Zhu just orders, and we will do our best to help." Deng Yue was deeply moved.

Zhu Chengjun shook his head and said: "There is a strategy to break this situation, as long as enough jobs are created and everyone has the opportunity to make money, all problems will be solved." ”

"Brother Zhu's strategy, wonderful! It's easy to screen out those who are really short of money, which is wonderful! ”