Liang Xiao said happily: "Go and recruit as soon as possible." ”

Ever since discovering that the homeless people are more reliable than the average worker, Liang Xiao has become more and more keen to recruit workers from the homeless.

After being displaced for a long time, someone gave them food and work, and was undoubtedly a savior-like existence.

Even if there are people who mix in the opponent among the homeless, he is confident that he will be eliminated.

No matter how well the other party pretends to be, under the strict guardianship system of the Liang Mansion, he can't leak secrets.

Especially in his own hands, he also has a group of Xuanwei who are good at observing words and emotions and collecting intelligence.

Sugar production is in full swing in several workshops.

Liang Xiao and Gu Pingxiu rode in the same carriage and rushed to the northwest city.

If nothing else, these displaced people will be sent to the capital this afternoon to be supervised.

If the capital does not care, these displaced people may ransack the surrounding villages once they are hungry.

However, after the imperial court received the displaced people, it could not let them have enough to eat, and the household department always used the empty treasury as an excuse to advise the appropriation.

Therefore, these displaced people can eat a little gruel or dregs every day, and they are already thankful.

In the carriage, Liang Xiao asked, "Captain Gu, is there any news of the horse merchant recently?" ”

Gu Pingxiu replied: "There are a few Malaysian businessmen who came to the capital, but they were first boarded by the Gongsun family, and the Gongsun family gave priority to selecting good horses. ”

Liang Xiao frowned and reminded: "The Gongsun family may be reorganizing their armaments, has it always been like this?" ”

Gu Pingxiu nodded and said, "It has always been!" The Bashu Gongsun family is nominally a courtier of the Great Zhou, and the fact is separated, but a certain amount of taxes will be paid every year, and the court will let it go. ”

Liang Xiao was thoughtful.

In fact, the Great Zhou court can no longer control the Gongsun family, and compared with other warlords who have divided the territory, the Gongsun family is much more kind.

But the situation will always change, and he must be prepared for danger in times of peace, saying that tomorrow there will suddenly be trouble on the border and chaos in the world.

Da Zhou was in great need of an elite cavalry that could drive out Beihu, and he also needed to rely on this cavalry to take revenge.

He has the thoughts of modern people, but he is always the only son of the Marquis of Lanling of the Great Zhou.

When he was a child, he often dreamed that his father, whom he had never seen, was shown to the public by the head of the Northern Hu Owl, and then woke up from the dream crying, and the old man was woken up by the crying, and he would rush to hold him in his arms and comfort him softly.

But he also can't be in a hurry, let those families find a handle to refer to him, and accuse him of being disobedient.

Liang Xiao and Gu Pingxiu went to the northwest city, and after a small meal, the displaced people in the capital were also sent to the city one after another.

The two of them watched from the tall building.

All of them are unclothed, their faces are full of vegetables, and they are dragging their families with their mouths, and they are miserable.

The surrounding passers-by were afraid to avoid it, and many good people brought them some dry food and chaff, and they immediately began to scramble.

The good people who delivered the food were frightened by these disorderly displaced people, and most of them hid far away, never daring to approach again.

Liang Xiao was not surprised, and immediately set about arranging for people to be stationed in the northwest city to prepare porridge every day.

At this time, Duan Yunsleeve was in Mu Qinxue's boudoir, admiring Liang Xiao's ink treasure with her, and the sisters were fascinated.

Not long after, Lin'er came to report that Liang Xiao went to the northwest to relieve refugees.

"Your Highness, Miss, we heard from Xuan Wei that someone mixed into the group of homeless people halfway, and he didn't know if he was going to Liang Gongzi."

The two girlfriends suddenly became worried.

"The enemy must have spotted him to recruit outcasts!" Mu Qinxue was furious.

Duan Yunsleeve deeply agreed: "He can provide food and shelter for the whole family of the homeless, but those people can't give it, of course I can't see him...... But what is he going to do? ”

Liang Xiao is already their appointed concubine, of course, giving the homeless people a place to live is also beneficial to the imperial court, and they naturally fully support it.

Now they are more worried that Liang Xiao's sugar technology will be leaked.

Once the technology leaks out, his enemies will find ways to imitate white sugar, and then fight a price war, and after crushing him, he can monopolize the white sugar market and raise the price as he wants.

At that time, Liang Xiao had only two options to choose from, either to let the empress come out to support, or to hand over the sugar business to the Dingguo Marquis Mansion to do, and the two sides would share the accounts, in short, they had to find a backer.

Mu Qinxue didn't want her father to take over Liang Xiao's business, and the business was still in the hands of her own man.

Otherwise, her father may look down on Liang Xiao again.

Another hour passed, and Xuanwei Commander Feiyun came to report: "Your Highness, Liang Gongzi is already arranging soup kitchens for those homeless people!" ”

The two girls became more and more worried, and finally couldn't help it, even Mu Qinxue learned to dress as a man, and the two quietly followed to the northwest city to observe.

At this time, Liang Xiao was leading a team to comfort these displaced people from other places.

These displaced people were close to 500 households, but compared to the group he had already recruited, there were less than 1,500 people.

Because they had come from farther west and north, many had already died of hunger and disease, less than four people per household.

Gu Pingxiu looked at the cauldron of porridge boiling one after another in the distance, and wondered: "Boss Liang, don't we prepare dry food?" ”

"I brought dry food, don't use it yet." Liang Xiao smiled.

Everyone looked at each other.

Boiling porridge is much more troublesome than sending dry food and water.

"Thank you, great benevolent!"

Nearly two thousand homeless people swallowed saliva and kowtowed to Liang Xiao to thank them, and Liang Xiao hurriedly asked them to get up.

They can't wait, and if they don't eat something, they may faint from hunger.

According to Liang Xiao's instructions, Xuanwei announced in public: "It was my emperor who raised the point, and our boss Liang was ordered to help you, and if you want to thank you, thank you for my emperor's holy grace!" ”

The scene was full of "my emperor's holy grace", and the homeless people bowed to the palace.

In the crowd, Duanmu Yunqing, Nangong Ning and the others looked at each other and smiled.

"How can you be satisfied?"

Each family sent a few people to blend in with the ranks of the displaced people, which ordinary people could not see.

Because those who can blend in are all clever personalities, sallow faces, and unkempt and ragged, they look no different from homeless people.

Duanmu Yuncheng blushed his face, staring at Liang Xiao who was comforting the refugees in the distance, gritting his teeth.

It was this teenager who repeatedly disgraced himself in public, and won Mu Qinxue's favor!

He is known as the No. 1 talent in the capital, and this title was finally obtained by the family after three years of propaganda and publicity, but Mu Qinxue never looked at him squarely.

The only time he praised it was because he read a poem by Liang Xiao!

At the same time, Mu Qinxue and Duan Yunsleeve also quietly went up to the tall building, looking at Liang Xiao's back.

"The porridge is ready!"

With a shout, the so-called homeless people flocked to maintain order, all relying on the officials of the capital and Liang Xiao's guards to maintain order.

The onlookers were also taken aback by the impulse of the homeless people, and shook their heads one after another: "Hopeless! ”

At this moment, Liang Xiao's angry shout sounded at the scene: "Slow! ”

Under the puzzled gaze of everyone, Liang Xiao grabbed a handful of sand stones from the basin on the table and threw it into the pot where the porridge was boiling.

After a while, Liang Xiao's subordinates followed suit and threw all the sand and stones in the basin into the pot.

Complaints erupted in the streets.

The onlookers also looked at each other.