Xiao Ci spent four or five days arranging all the post-disaster matters in Ruizhou Mansion. During these four or five days, Xiao Jingtong was coaxed to drink medicine during the day, and Song Qinghuan was forced to change the medicine at night. The injuries all over his body were healed.
It's almost done.
Ruizhou Mansion was at the top of the list, and the court had no money to allocate, so Xiao Ci went to the Du family, Zhou family, and Li family to draw blood again.
Last time, he asked each family to sell grain to him at cost price, but none of them were willing. Later, Xiao Ci shipped grain from elsewhere. It was obvious that the grain stored by these families was no longer of use, and the flood
Once it came, it was so fierce and violent that the rice grains could not be moved in time. Even if they were not soaked by the rain, they suffered a lot of moisture. Now they really have no choice but to rot in the warehouse.
Just the food rotting in the warehouses of these three families was enough to make one cry. But at this juncture, Xiao Ci came to visit again and signaled each family to contribute. At first, none of them were willing, but Zuo Yiyi was at a loss.
Money, right sentence means no money.
Xiao Ci laughed: "No, right? That doesn't matter. I know that a lot of rice and grain are rotten in each family's warehouse. It's normal for them to be unable to raise money for a while."
His attitude was very good, and what he said was not forced at all, but it was very scary.
The last time Xiao Ci asked several families for rice, he had the same attitude, he was kind and friendly, and he was very talkative, but later...
He could destroy so much rice and food in one time, but he didn’t know what happened the second time. The Du family, Zhou family, and Li family were also afraid of Xiao Ci’s evil spirit, and they said it was useless, but on the second day every day
My family still gave me one hundred thousand taels as a gift.
In such a big Ruizhou Prefecture, with so many people, a family of 100,000 taels only adds up to 300,000, which is not much, but it is better to have it than not to have it.
Xiao Ci accepted it unceremoniously, and with a wave of his hand, he asked someone to build a monument of merit and deeds. He would engrave the incident of the flood on the stone monument, and also engrave the amount of money given by each family on it.
As soon as the news spread, merchants from some families who were not as well-off as the Du family, the Zhou family, and the Li family also sent money that day. Those who had some would give away tens of thousands, and those who didn't would also give away several thousand. The next day
, the Du family, the Zhou family, and the Li family all sent 100,000 yuan with livid faces.
Xiao Ci happily accepted it and chose a day to invite all these people over for a banquet.
Within two days, people escorted Empress Dowager Jiang's lackeys back to Beijing.
Going to Kyoto, in addition to those few lackeys, there was also a memorial that made people angry.
There were not a few words of truth in that memorial. It was just a bunch of nonsense. It was about the flood in Ruizhou and the suffering of the people. These lackeys actually used the reputation of Queen Mother Jiang to steal the relief materials. It is simply unjust.
wait...
Everyone in the memorial sent it to the capital in a big way, but Empress Dowager Jiang was very angry. The imperial court refused to send any disaster relief materials to Ruizhou, but things got out of hand, and Empress Dowager Jiang couldn't say that she had any feelings for Ruizhou.
The state refused to save him and sent people to take advantage of the situation, so he had no choice but to accept the accusations in the memorial and convict the lackeys.
Empress Dowager Jiang has been in power for many years and has a selfish temperament. In addition, the prince and several princes have grown up now. The person who worked for Empress Dowager Jiang was already a little shaken. Now that there is such an unjust case, it is even more...
Unpopular.
Some young people even organized themselves privately to collect evidence to overturn the verdicts of several innocent lambs.
If the case is overturned, the imperial court's failure to save Ruizhou will inevitably be revealed. For a time, the forces in the capital were divided into several factions, and the situation became so chaotic.
With the chaos in Kyoto, Queen Mother Jiang naturally had no time to reach into Ruizhou Mansion.
Xiao Ci dealt with the aftermath of the flood, and then promoted a few business-minded young people. These young people had brains, ideas, and drive. They were originally suppressed by the three families, but now Xiao Ci
With Ci as the backing, everyone is full of energy.
At first, the three families did not take these young people seriously, but within a month, these young people got together and opened dyeing workshops, incense workshops, embroidery workshops, and other businesses that did not depend on the weather.
Ruizhou was flooded once, and everything was damaged. The food that was planted in the spring could not be expected, so naturally there were more people looking for work. Once these workshops were opened, there was no need to search and manpower.
We have been able to recruit enough people, and at the beginning of the new moon, orders received from several other state capitals are already fully booked.
As the saying goes, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and these workshops have improved. The Du family, the Zhou family, and the Li family became completely panicked, and ran to Prince Rui's Mansion again and again to ask to see Xiao Ci.
After all, they also spent a lot of money to go out. Ruizhou Mansion is not as good as before this year, and if these young people are asked to share a piece of the pie, how willing are they?
But these three families, no matter how many times they went to Prince Rui's Mansion, they could not see Xiao Ci's people. They only said that Xiao Ci was seriously injured last time, and the old injuries always recurred, and they could not see guests. Every time, Xiao Jingchuan came out.
Sent.
Everyone thought these were just excuses, but after watching people for more than half a month and seeing that no one came in or out of Prince Rui's mansion, they believed those excuses.
Those young people who were working hard to start a business have not been to Prince Rui's Mansion, and Xiao Ci's people have not been in contact with these people. On the contrary, there is a constant smell of medicine in the mansion every day.
The three families gathered together and discussed privately whether Xiao Ci was very ill and whether they should send something to express their condolences.
Little did they know, Xiao Ci and Song Qinghuan had already quietly left Ruizhou City and headed to Youzhou, a border town adjacent to Ye State.
Youzhou is not as lush as the grasslands in the northwest, but due to its geographical location, most people there make a living by raising cattle, sheep and horses. Xiao Ci and Song Qinghuan took Song Qinghuan all the way to enjoy the mountains and rivers, and it seemed that they had to go there.
Nothing else, but buying a horse.
The two of them came out secretly through the young people's caravan, and they were afraid that something would happen, so they brought enough guards early.
Song Qinghuan didn't really want to come, but Xiao Ci said that there was no one to talk to along the way and it was quite lonely, so he pulled her along.
When I arrived in Youzhou, someone recommended me to a horse farm.
People in Youzhou have made a living by raising these for generations, and they are doing very well, but they are a little inferior to those in Liaodong.
Xiao Ci has never been to the northwest, but he has been to Liaodong. The horses there are strong, tall and extremely fat. He has seen the best horses, and the horses from Youzhou are a bit inferior.
But even though he was inferior, he still settled a lot in one go. When the money was given, the sight of the thick dozen banknotes made Song Qinghuan's body ache.
But I didn't say anything even though my body ached. I just found an opportunity at night and asked him quietly: "My lord, you are repairing the city gate, encouraging the young people to help you make money, and then buying horses. Is this right?"
Are you planning to rebel?"
Xiao Ci held her in his arms, stroking her hair every now and then, and said, "Yes, are you afraid?"
