Chapter 157: Someone from Nanming City
"It's low-key, low-key, let's just know it ourselves. Don't spread the word, so as not to affect the friendship between our Xuanyuan Village and the Golden Dao Tribe. After all, there are more than 100 miles of land in this vicinity, the only neighbor, and this relationship still has to be maintained. Cheng Siping said with a smile.
The other five also laughed, and after laughing, they immediately discussed the specific matters. Cheng Siping has always been not interested in these specific things, so he left early on the grounds that he was tired from the journey and tired.
Three days later, Ashali personally led people to Xuanyuan Village again. After Cheng Siping learned about it, he could only end his leisure on the mountain beam and go to the courtyard below to meet her. Ashali brought five carpenters this time, which meant to let Cheng Siping pick it, look at the suitable ones to stay, and bring them back if they were not suitable. Cheng Siping was generous, so he simply accepted all five. Anyway, the village is in urgent need of manpower at this time, and one more will give one more help. Ashali was quite satisfied with this, and in her opinion, if Cheng Siping kept one more, their village would get twenty more grenades a day.
In addition to bringing people over, Ashali also sent more than 1,000 catties of saltpeter by the way. She was quite satisfied with the mining explosives provided by Cheng Siping, and said that in the future, she would be able to supply at least 7,000 catties of saltpeter to Xuanyuan Village every day. Seven thousand catties of saltpeter are enough for Xuanyuan Village now, and there is still a surplus. This made Cheng Siping quite satisfied, and he could finally transfer all the manpower sent out to dig saltpeter mines back to the village and supplement them to various workshops. The only thing that bothered him was that Ashari seemed to be aware of the production of grenades in their village, which was far more than he said, pestering him to be coquettish and want to make more money.
Finally, Cheng Siping finally sent Ashali away. It's really a big trouble for this woman to stick to people. At this time, he was glad that no one had arranged for the cannon test today, otherwise, it would not be so easy to send it away. He can give grenades to the Golden Knife Tribe, and that's because of this thing, there are many of them in the village. Cannons can't do it, not to mention that this thing is purely handmade, and it will take a few days to make one. Even if you get it out, you will be blind without shells. Now the stability of the cannonballs made by Cheng Siping has yet to be tested. Short-distance transportation is not a big problem, long-distance transportation is inevitable bumps, who dares to guarantee that there will be no problems.
This problem is estimated to require the people of the explosives workshop to slowly debug it. Cheng Siping has already given them the correct formula, but how to achieve the stability of the artillery shells produced by the military industry in his previous life will need to be explored little by little by time. However, these are not the things that Cheng Siping is concerned about at this time, he can't let him do everything himself, idleness is his attitude towards life. His plan at this time was to take people to hunt beasts again in the next two days. Food is an extremely important strategic reserve, and it is clear that the village does not have enough of it at present.
It's just that before Cheng Siping organized the manpower and set off with Guoguo, a distinguished guest suddenly came to the village.
"This is Village Chief Cheng, he is really young and promising. This noble man smiled and hugged Cheng Siping and gave a slight salute, but it was extremely polite.
Cheng Siping was resting on the mountain beam, but suddenly received a report from the Nanming City Guard and sent an official to come. He hurried down the mountain to meet guests in the outer courtyard of the Zhu family's compound. When he arrived, the five elders had already gathered and were receiving the distinguished guests on his behalf. This distinguished guest is accustomed to seeing him in his early forties, and he looks quite rich, with a smile on his face, and he looks like a good talker.
"Your guest has come from afar, the boy doesn't know, he hasn't come out to greet him, he really shouldn't be, forgive his sins. Cheng Siping hurriedly put on a smiling face and politely greeted the other party. Although he doesn't like these vain ceremonies, after all, he is a human being in two lives, and he still understands what to do.
After some greetings, the rich middle-aged man immediately introduced himself. This person's surname is Cheng, and Cheng Siping has the same surname, and he does not give up his two names, and he is the deacon of the Nanming City Division. As for the reason why he came, it naturally had something to do with the merger of the village. Didn't Cheng Siping go to Mu Hanying to ask him for help in correcting the name of the newly established Xuanyuan Village, this is what happened here.
This deacon Cheng Buren, although he looks quite easy to speak, his tone is quite tight. Before he saw the main master, he didn't dare to say the purpose of coming this time. Therefore, it was only at this time that the five elders realized that this distinguished guest had actually come for the matter of merging the village. For a while, the five elders were all overjoyed.
In the past, although the five villages were also officially registered, they were not officially naturalized. So, their identities are a bit half-white and not black, which is quite embarrassing. In the words of Cheng Siping's previous life, they were actually treated discriminated against and could not have the same treatment as the villagers under the jurisdiction of the real Nanming County.
In terms of travel, if a normal villager applies for a quota to enter the southern capital, he can stay there and stay overnight. They can't, they have to leave the city before dark. There are as many as a dozen other similar rules, which brings great inconvenience to them. In addition to all kinds of inconveniences, more importantly, psychological discomfort. This bunch of restrictions against them made them feel inferior even though they were people of the Yunzhao Kingdom. It's a bit like being exiled in ancient China.
Now it's okay, the Nanming City Shoufu came to review and confirm the merger of the village, that is, to put Xuanyuan Village into the file. Once this procedure is completed, although Xuanyuan Village is not yet a village-level unit, the villagers of Xuanyuan Village can immediately get rid of this half-white situation and become the true people of Yunzhao Kingdom.
"Cough, cough, Village Chief Cheng, although you Xuanyuan Village has been naturalized and filed, there has already been a letter from the Nandu County Guard. However, there are still some necessary procedures to go through, and please understand. The excited expressions of several elders were all in Cheng Buqi's eyes, and he felt funny in his heart, but he didn't show it at all on his face. Although this person seems to be very good at talking at this time, he is actually far from that. This time, he was able to lower his figure so much because of Cheng Siping.
The fact that Cheng Siping was personally greeted by Mu Hanying in the southern capital has been spread to Nanming City. In any case, this is a strange thing to gossip about. And less than half a month after that, the Nandu County Shoufu Si Civil Affairs Bureau sent a letter to the Nanming City Shoufu to mention the matter of returning Xuanyuan Village to the file. How could these old oilmen of officialdom not understand that behind this is the result of Mu Hanying and even Lu Xiyue's operation. Obviously, the designated village chief Cheng must be the person of these two daughters. With this identity, Cheng Bu gave up facing Cheng Siping, and he could only obediently put away his official tone.
"Of course, of course, Deacon Cheng, where do we start. You see, we haven't done this before, so we don't know how to do it. Cheng Siping asked with a smile......