At this time, in order to open up sources and reduce expenditures and increase profits, Sakura Bao asked several large mushroom sheds and two baking ovens to be built in the house, and called on all the servants and guards to come and watch how she grows mushrooms.

This time, she mainly grows snow fungus, because its taste is better than that of golden fungus, and the price is cheaper, which is more acceptable to ordinary people.

Golden fungus is also planted a lot, but not as much as snow fungus.

These strains were brought from Dongchen Village, Qinchuan County, and then soaked in the pupil spring, and the bacteria production rate was very high.

When this batch of fungus ears matures, Sakura Bao wants to distribute some of the fungus strains to the poor families in various townships, so that they can engage in some side jobs in their spare time, increase their income, improve their lives, and grow some of them themselves, after all, there are more than 40 people who do things for themselves.

Of course, the strains cannot be given away for nothing, and the villagers must sign a contract to return the money after the finished product is sold.

Everyone in the whole mansion studied seriously, including those guards, and secretly poked and poked Mu Dan to ask if they could sell some of the mushrooms to them, and they wanted to send them back to their hometown.

Mu Dan said with a straight face: "For the time being, the strains are not enough, and when there is any surplus, you can ask the county lord by yourself." ”

A month and a half later, it was May.

5,000 snow fungus and 2,000 golden fungus are ripe.

Everyone in the county lord's mansion worked together, and all the fungus ears were harvested in half a day, some of them were dried, and some of them were baked.

To this end, Sakura also specially found two pharmacists who were good at baking medicinal materials from the pharmacy outside, and asked them to help bake fungus ears.

A few days later, the fungus ears were dried one after another, and more than 500 catties of fungus ears were obtained.

Yingbao sent Chu Shun to transport all these dried fungus ears to Qinchuan County and handed them over to the eldest brother Jiang Cheng to sell.

Because his specialty shop is very famous in the local area, the golden ear snow fungus in the shop sells the most, and he can earn a lot more money by handing it over to him.

A few days later, Chu Shun came back with more than six thousand taels of silver, which just solved Yingbao's urgent need.

You must know that Yingbaotou has spent a lot of money on the issue of governing the survival of villagers, but it has not yet achieved results.

The 500 looms that were sent out on credit had not yet been repaid, and the forty or so temporary servants had to be paid monthly salaries.

In addition to the servants, guards, and horses that feed a house, all of them cost money.

But a few days later, as the summer harvest began, the temporary servants came back to report, and the officials and gentry in the townships who demanded taxes began to act frequently.

They exchanged the moldy grain with the villagers, and also used big buckets and small buckets to harm the people.

Wei Zhan immediately brought a group of guards to check, and sure enough, it was so.

"Bring them all back to the Yamen! Leave it to the prefectural order to dispose of! ”

Wei Zhan turned his eyes to look at Li Zheng: "Do you know?" ”

Li Zheng was frightened, and shook his head again and again: "How did the little old man know that they did this, if he had known earlier."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Wei Zhan waved his hand: "Since I don't know, then I'll tell you now, if anyone dares to oppress the people in the future, they will never be spared!" ”

His voice was high-pitched, deliberately for everyone present to hear.

The people whispered, and some knelt down directly to Wei Zhan and shouted Qingtian officials.

Seeing that the fire was almost the same, Wei Zhan called four temporary servants and asked them to take over the work of the previous errands.

"When you collect grain, you are not allowed to lack catties or two, and you must not engage in favoritism, and you must not collect the damp and mildewy into the warehouse, and you must not collect the sand and gravel, do you understand?" Wei Zhan glanced at the crowd.

The four temporary officers hurriedly promised: "The little one understands, the general can rest assured, we will definitely take care of it!" ”

"Okay, you can continue to collect grain!" Wei Zhan left two guards here to maintain order, and he took the rest back to the county seat.

Halfway through, a rain of arrows suddenly shot out from the woods on both sides.

Wei Zhan was stunned, knowing that he couldn't rush forward at this moment.

He had been fighting in the army for many years, and he knew that someone must have set up a stumbling rope or other trap on the road ahead, and even the rear might have been ambushed.

Now the only one is to the left or the right and attack them one by one.

"Rush this way with me!" Wei Zhan drew his waist knife and rushed towards the slightly flat woods on one side.

More than thirty guards followed, and even a few wounded were not left behind, and rushed into the woods together.

Fortunately, this forest is not dense, it is all some dwarf pines, Wei Zhan is on horseback, and soon sees more than twenty people dressed as villagers fleeing into the distance.

"Catch them!" Wei Zhan grabbed the horse's belly, rushed towards those people, chased one person, slashed down with a knife, and then chased after the next one.

More than thirty guards also gave chase, quickly cutting down a dozen arrow-wielding men, while the rest quickly fled.

"Don't fight!" Wei Zhan called back the guards who were still chasing after him, and pointed to the few people who were not dead: "Bring them over!" ”

Several guards dismounted, lifted a few of the less lightly wounded, and threw them in front of Wei Zhan's horse.

Wei Zhan looked at a few people coldly and asked, "Who sent you?" ”

Several people trembled with fear, but they did not dare to speak.

"Since you don't say it, let's kill it directly!" Wei Zhan glanced left and right.

The guards understood, carried bloody knives over, and cut off a person's head with a single sword.

Others screamed in horror and knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "I say I say!" Yes, it was Zhang Yuanwai who ordered me to ambush the big officials, I and I are all good citizens, and the big officials spare their lives! Spare your life! ”

Zhang Yuanwai? The gentleman who was killed last year seems to be surnamed Zhang, right?

"Take a few of them away, bring the corpses and arrows with you, let's go back to the county seat quickly!" If you don't leave, that Zhang Yuanwai will definitely have a back hand.

The guards immediately placed the body on horseback, and the wounded were taken with them.

Wei Zhan urged the horse to gallop along the ridge and ran out of this area all the way, and then re-entered the official road and went straight to the county seat.

They did not seek help from the post station, but ran into the city without stopping, came to the gate of the county office, and threw the body directly on the ground.

Several of the wounded guards returned to the county lord's mansion and explained the situation to the county lord.

When Ying Bao heard that Wei Zhan was ambushed halfway, she immediately became nervous, "Is Yibin injured?" ”

"Don't worry, the county lord is not injured, we have a few brothers who are injured, but they are not a big problem, and we are asking the government doctor to deal with it." The captain of the guard said.

Ying Bao breathed a sigh of relief, took out a pack of pills and handed it to the captain of the guard, "There are wound medicine powders in here, as well as internal medicine, you take it and distribute it to you." ”

The captain of the guard was not polite, took the medicine bag, and hugged his fist: "Thank you, county lord." ”

"A few of you rest at home, and wait until your injuries are healed before you get on the job." Sakura Treasure Road.

"Yes!" The captain of the guard withdrew.

Sakura Bao immediately changed into a ceremonial dress, put on the royal crown, and went out of the house with a team of honor guards and went to the county office.

At this time, there were many people around the gate of the county ya, and they were discussing.

I saw the two guards say loudly: "These are assassins, and they assassinated our general in broad daylight!" You all come to recognize, but there are people who know each other, who were they all on an errand before, if what you say is true, our general will be rewarded! ”

The guards shouted a few times, and sure enough, someone came to check.

But most of them don't know each other.

A man in ragged clothes spoke: "Official, I know these people!" (End of chapter)