Businessmen don’t offend people easily, and they don’t make friends easily, so the relationship between Xu Jie and Zhao Feng is not that good. In the two years when Zhao Feng repaid his kindness to Shen Tang, the two of them had more interactions. Zhao Feng often He entrusted Xu Jie to take care of his children.
Xu Jie has been doing very well in the past two years.
Seeing that it was him, Zhao Feng's cold face became warm and he took the initiative to greet him. Finding that Xu Jie's face was not friendly, he asked with concern, "What's going on?" Xu Jie turned his head and glanced at the lord's mansion with his peripheral vision. , frowning and sighing.
Zhao Feng noticed his little movements.
He immediately smiled and said: "It's been a long time since I had a drink and chat with Wen Zhu. There are still some jars of fine wine at home. Why don't you go to the humble house and have a drink?"
Xu Jie also needs a drink to relieve his worries.
He nodded and agreed.
Zhao Zhai, main hall.
Although members of the non-Tianhai family, headed by Qin Li and Zhao Feng, experienced ostracism in the workplace, in the final analysis it was due to personal conflicts among subordinates. As the lord, Wu Xian never treated those who worked for him financially and materially, and was very generous.
In the two years since Zhao Feng was away from Tianhai, the family and the children in the family lived well, with rewards for the four seasons and eight festivals, and the house was repaired several times.
but--
A good living environment cannot relieve depression.
Xu Jie and Xu Jie each have their own thoughts.
Zhao ordered his servants to go to the wine cellar and bring two jars of fine wine.
Opening the red cloth wine seal, the aroma of wine comes out.
Xu Jie sniffed lightly and joked: "Shen Jun is quite interesting. The wine presented to Dayi is actually not adulterated at all."
Zhao Feng was also teased so much that he couldn't hold back.
He later learned that the fine wine Shen Tang sold to various places in Tianhai was mixed with water, and then in the hands of the profiteer Xu Jie, it turned into water mixed with wine. Zhao Fengchu felt bad at first, but then he thought about it and decided to fight each other. It's hard to say anything if you want to suffer.
This time I came back and encountered workplace bullying...
Zhao Feng felt that they only deserved to drink water and wine.
"It's a pity that one cup of wine is missing one cup."
His mouth has been tricked.
I used to be able to drink a lot of low-quality and turbid wine, and I wasn't picky about my diet. But this time I came back and felt like I couldn't enjoy anything. I thought the wine in the original wine cellar was too low-quality, and the chef's skills at home were too rough. Somewhat familiar.
Xu Jie said casually: "Go back and buy some from Mr. Shen."
He didn't ask for it directly. In fact, with Shen Jun's enthusiastic and generous temperament, Zhao Feng could ask for wine as soon as he opened his mouth without giving money.
Zhao Feng said half-truthfully, "I can't afford to drink if I don't have money."
After drinking the whole bowl in one gulp, he asked Xu Jie.
"I just saw the annotation and it seems that I have something on my mind, but I encountered something difficult?" Zhao Feng didn't want to talk more about his own affairs, so he changed the topic to Xu Jie, "Although Feng is a soft-spoken man and can't help, but he gave birth to twins. Ears, can listen to what you say."
"Dayi has been very slippery in the past two years." Xu Jie smiled and shook his head. The Zhao Feng in the past would never have been able to say such teasing words. After laughing, his eyebrows were stained with sadness again, and he said seriously, "It's not that the matter is difficult, it's I feel uncomfortable in my heart."
Zhao Feng frowned when he heard this.
He has been actively getting to know Tianhai since his return.
Naturally, I also heard about Xu Jie's plight.
He suppressed his smile and listened carefully to what Xu Jie confided while drinking. His face became more solemn. He analyzed: "Wen Zhu, I am afraid that the lord is deliberately condoning this..."
Xu Jie's face darkened: "I know."
Heyin was originally a poor place with little to offer.
However, after two years of investment in governance regardless of cost, Shentang has been revitalized and prosperous, and every household still has a year or two of surplus food. Shentang also beats gongs and drums to recruit refugees and open up wasteland, so that when the refugees come, they will have land to plant and food to eat.
In order to increase the effect, they also engage in a "pyramid selling model" - this term is what Xu Jie saw in Shen Tang's work diary - the specific operation method is that registered common people recruit an unregistered common people to settle in Heyin, and the former can get a bucket of new rice. .
The event is limited time but not limited.
The number of registered households exceeded 80,000 in one fell swoop.
Nowadays, wherever you go you can see the smoke from cooking fires.
Xu Jie knew that Shen Tang managed Heyin very well, but after reading the large amount of documents and data left by Shen Tang's team, he knew exactly how good it was. With 80,000 households, even if the proportion of young and middle-aged households is not high, they can still make up one A considerable number of troops and horses.
After a few years, the registered child will grow up...
Xu Jie also vaguely discovered that Shen Tang left behind a grand gesture, maybe because he didn't have time to destroy the documents, or maybe he didn't want to destroy them at all - Shen Tang had made excuses for villagers to conduct offensive and defensive drills with each other as a unit!
As He Yin's neighbor, Tian Hai was completely unaware.
Xu Jie also discovered it accidentally after taking office.
After some careful investigation——
He found that these villagers had surprisingly similar thoughts.
Li Zheng, who was full of gangster spirit, spoke confidently: "We have no place to go except He Yin. If the bad guys come, how can we not kill the eighteen generations of our ancestors? If one person can't do it, then two people can't do it. Just Murakami!]
【Whoever steals our food, we will fight to the death!】
【Go somewhere else? You don't even have to nibble on the grass roots.】
Not a village thinks so!
Everyone in Heyin County thinks so!
Occasionally, you can see adults teaching children how to work in groups of three, with one person attacking and two people supporting and assisting. At first glance, it looks like he is having fun, but combined with the notes left by Shen Tang - Xu Jie's mood is so complicated that it seems logical Unclear ball of yarn.
If Shen Jun had not been reassigned, according to this trend, every county bordering Heyin would be in bad luck in the next two years.
Because the soldiers and horses that He Yin can use are not only those young and strong, but also 80,000 households of common people who are ready to defend their fields and food!
Taking advantage of his surprise and attacking him unprepared, Tianhai was unprepared, so he might not be the first to bear the brunt and be set up as a role model.
Therefore, Xu Jie is very clear.
He Yin is fatter than those wealthy gentry in Tianhai imagined.
Zhao Feng asked him: "What are your plans?"
Let the protagonist Wu Hyun intervene in Ha Yin?
In doing so, I am sorry to Wu Xian but sorry to Shen Tang.
Wu Xian was kind to Xu Jie, but this kind of kindness was based on mutual assistance and mutual benefit. Xu Jie provided food, grass, and money for his development. Wu Xian improved the Xu family's status in Tianhai and enjoyed various invisible benefits. But Shen Tang treated Xu Jie, It can be called "the grace of knowing someone".
Due to the rule that merchants were not allowed to enter the officialdom, even though Xu Jie served under Wu Xian, he was still considered a white man in the royal court.
When Shen Tang was demoted, her first reaction was to recommend Xu Jie, a businessman, to be the head of a county. This was one of the conditions for her willingness to be demoted! Only then did Wang Ting agree.
The key is that Shen Tang is not seeking any benefits.
The grace of knowing and encountering, the grace of promotion.
For Xu Jie, who has been subject to invisible discrimination since he was ignorant, the kind of touch cannot be described in words!
If Xu Jieruo indulges Wu Xian and gives up the real power of Heyin, he will only be the governor of Heyin in name only. Shen Tang may choose to understand his difficulties, but can Xu Jie himself be open to it? This is the same as stabbing Shen Tang in the back. What's the difference.
How can this be done?
Xu Jie smiled bitterly: "...Now it's hard to get off the tiger... I just hope that I can have both. Xu Wenzhu has always been a subordinate of the lord, and this has never changed. Others..."
Wu Xian can ask for money or food. The Xu family can afford it due to its great business, but He Yin cannot be asked for. This is the bottom line!