"Lady Liu?"

Jia Qiang raised his eyebrows gently when he heard this. There were not many good people in Dream of Red Mansions, but Liu Laolao was definitely a highlight in the entire tragic world.

After the Jia family was defeated and confiscated, she, Jia Yun and Xiaohong tried every means to rescue Qiao'er and took her in.

You know, the opponents of the Jia family can crush Liu Laolao's family to pieces if they just stretch out a little finger.

But for the sake of the past kindness, Liu Laolao still rescued her, and she deserves the four words "feelings and righteousness".

Such an elderly person is rare in both past and present lives.

Li Jing smiled and said, "I brought a lot of fresh farms and sweet potatoes. This Liu Laolao is very interesting and has a special liking for sweet potatoes. I asked someone to inquire about it. She bought 20 acres of land from the Jia family last year and planted sweet potatoes. The harvest is excellent this year."

For those who are close to the Jia family, Ye Xiao cannot find out the truth.

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "Although he is a relative of the Wang family, please treat him kindly for the sake of Feng Yatou."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the personal guards come to report: "Prince, Xu Zhen has arrived, and is waiting for the prince to summon him."

Jia Qiang nodded and the guard went out. Soon after, he saw Xu Zhen, wearing a cloak and a brocaded clothes, holding his hands in his sleeves, and he came into the door with his bones hunched over.

Jia Qiang smiled and scolded when he saw it: "I know how to be a prime minister all day long. The winter in Yangzhou is not much colder than in Beijing? I haven't seen you like this!"

Xu Zhen smiled apologized and said, "Prince, I am more used to the coldness in the south, and the coldness in the north, and I am very fragile. How can I withstand it?"

Li Jing looked at Xu Zhen with a smile, and reminded him with a warning: "The prince is most annoying to the rabbit!"

Xu Zhen squirted out his saliva and said, "Auntie, you have to wipe your eyes again. Look carefully. My Xu Er is not a husband of the rabbit!"

Jia Qiang said lightly: "Is this the reason why you are lazy recently?"

Xu Zhen hurriedly said, "Prince, how dare I be lazy? What you ordered is always being arranged."

Jia Qiang shook his head and said, "Why did I hear that you have been very lazy recently and don't want to go out?"

Xu Zhen instantly returned to his seriousness, coughed dryly and said, "How dare you, the young man, be negligent about what you ordered? For more than a month, he has been busy exploring craftsmen with excellent skills, and only took a break in the past two days.

Prince, according to your opinion, blacksmith, carpenter, locksmith, bricklayer... no wise craftsmen can be spared. If they smash with silver, they can't be smashed, they can use the embroidered craftsmen's signature to slap... In short, nearly two thousand craftsmen with excellent craftsmanship have been sent out.

Prince, you are so clever!"

“How to say it?”

Jia Qiang was not very satisfied with this number, but it was not bad. After all, it was just the beginning. Moreover, people left their hometowns and were inferior, and most people would not voluntarily leave Beijing to go to Xiaoliuqiu. Having this number could be considered as Xu Zhen’s profit in doing things.

Xu Zhen smiled and said, "I was wondering before that the prince kept recruiting people to Xiaoliuqiu, and the conditions offered were amazing. He exempted from land tax for three years, and he also reduced it by half in the next three years. He could cultivate as much land as he could!

With this, I don’t know how many people will drool, but I can’t figure out how to continue Xiao Liuqiu without tax collection?

Now I have probably figured it out. For the prince, there is not much land tax in Xiao Liuqiu at present, and it is still in the process of reclamation of land. How can I make more money than doing business?

So many workshops and weaving workshops belong to the prince. Now that so many craftsmen are sent, it is becoming more and more useful. In addition, the Delin is becoming more and more prosperous in Dayan, and the commercial roads are connected in all directions. Xiaoliuqiu produces commercial goods. If you sell it to Dayan, you will not be able to make a mountain of gold and silver?

Using these silver is enough to last for a year. As long as you persist for a year, the people of Xiao Liuqiu will be rich and this game of chess will be alive!

The strange prince has always been reluctant to turn against the court. He is really smart, so smart!"

Li Jing and Jia Qiang said, "Prince, this guy understands so well, do you want to..." As he said that, he gestured on his neck, and then said, "Stop it?"

Jia Qiang glanced at Xu Zhen and said, "Don't worry about uselessness, hurry up and send people to Xiaoliuqiu. At most, it will be a good day for one year. When the court overcomes the difficulties next year, it will come back to its senses, and think about sending the craftsmen with superb skills and their disciples' families to Xiaoliuqiu as they do now. Don't even think about it.

These people are sent to Xiaoliuqiu, and they will be under your control from now on. Set up a Xiaoliuqiu Work Department. How many people you can manage and how much energy you can have depends on your ability now."

Xu Zhen was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, the more you keep, the better. The most important part of the capital is worthy of the Shenjing. There are many people who rely on their skills to make a living. Prince, can you also be from other provinces?... In short, there are at least 100,000 in a year."

Li Jing pulled the corner of her mouth aside, always thinking that this guy was unreliable and full of firecrackers, but Jia Qiang trusted this person very much.

Sure enough, Jia Qiang said, "You can do everything. In short, if you want someone to give it to others, you can give it to money. Whatever you can do this depends on your own. Not to mention 100,000, if you can send one million, it will be yours."

After hearing this, Xu Zhen did not stop and hurriedly left to continue recruiting troops.

He was a very smart person and knew where his future lies. In a limited time, the more craftsmen sent to Xiaoliuqiu, the greater his power will be in the future.

Xiao Liuqiu did not expect the land tax to survive for three to five years, and the focus was on the workshop...

Jia Qiang said that he would be in charge of all craftsmen, and in this way, his weight will be greatly improved!

It depends on how many people he can send...

After Xu Zhen left, Li Jing and Jia Qiang smiled and said, "This man is easy to say a lot."

Jia Qiang shook his head and said, "The number of 100,000 is not too exaggerated. Next year, if Xu Zhongluan doesn't send me 100,000 craftsmen, he will have a lot of them."

Li Jing said astonished: "One hundred thousand craftsmen, how many things do you have to make? Can you sell them..."

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "Don't underestimate the Great Yan, the billions of people. Once you recover from the natural disaster, don't have too many rich people. Opening the sea to the outside world requires a sea of ​​gold and silver, and a large number of people are needed to be the foundation, all pointing to the mainland."

Li Jing said worriedly: "But once the drought passes, will the court attack us? Even if we don't do it directly, we will suppress us in every way. Does Delin still sell movable goods..."

Jia Qiang said funny: "Why do we work hard to provide disaster relief, is the fleet of Delin sailing everywhere? We work closely with Yangzhou salt merchants, the nine surnames and the Thirteen corpses in Jiangnan, to tinker with them to develop on Xiaoliuqiu, and to go to Siam with Delin to capture land in Annan. In a year, their interests outside will not be much less than those in Dayan. Especially, there is no need to pay taxes outside. The new policy of placing acres and gentry in Dayan is implemented in the territory of Dayan, which is very unfriendly to them. With these giant local snakes, all of them want to suppress the Delin? Give them face, let's change the signboard. If you don't give them face, you don't even have to pay attention to them.

OK, you don’t have to worry about this. As long as you are ready to have a baby, it’s only half a month. Are you not worried about my mother?”

Li Jing smiled and said, "That's not. Yue Zhixiang is indeed a capable person. After returning to Beijing, I didn't even show my face. I didn't give up and asked someone to search for it in private, but there was no trace of it."

When Jia Qiang heard this, his eyebrows raised and reminded him: "You can't do such a thing for the second time. Don't be exposed by your own people if you can't find someone outside."

Li Jing hurriedly said, "This time it's mine, no, no more. I didn't go to look for it with great fanfare, just paying a little attention. I still understand the rules and dare not destroy them myself."

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "It's good to know... Let's rest, I'll go back and take a walk."

...

"The prince is back!"

The family members of the Jia family were laughing at Qinfang Pavilion. Suddenly, they heard the girl screaming in surprise. Except for Jia Mu, the rest of them stood up and looked at the bamboo bridge.

Jia Qiang's steps were not fast, he looked very steady and calm, as if he was leisurely.

But after crossing a bamboo bridge, we arrived in a blink of an eye.

He laughed and said, "There is no need to welcome you like this in the future. Whether the national gift is great or the family gift depends on the situation. Didn't Lin Meimei sit in the main seat?"

Feng Jie'er laughed loudly from the side and said, "It's amazing! The prince is coming back to stand up for the princess!"

Everyone knew it was a smirk, and they all started laughing.

Daiyu looked at her in anger, but she smiled with Jia Qiang and said, "It turns out that the old lady insisted that I sit with her and my aunt. How could I stand this? I'm not laughed at by my sisters to death. It's better to sit with them and be more comfortable."

Grandmother Jia and Aunt Xue sat on the railing board with big brocade mattresses. Daiyu would never sit like a stern prince, and she would laugh so hard...

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "It's because of this principle. You can naturally enjoy the freedom when you live. How can you make me feel uncomfortable for those vain rituals? Wouldn't you put the cart before the horse?"

Jia Mu smiled and said, "You are the most reasonable." After that, an old woman with a common man next to her, with chrysanthemums on her head, and looked out of place with pearls and jade halls here, and said, "This is my great-grandson, the prince who has just been promoted, is much more glorious than his ancestors."

The old woman looked awe-in-law when she heard this. She knelt down and started kowtowing, muttering a lyrics: "The prince is thousands of years old and thousands of years old!"

Everyone burst into laughter. There was no such statement. They must be stupid when watching wild plays.

Jia Qiang pointed to Xiangyun, who was about to burst into tears, and said, "Please help Lao Lao Liu up. At such an old age, what's the point of kowtowing me?"

Xiangyun smiled so hard that he was obedient, so he went forward to help him.

A talented person like Liu Laolao was not willing to let her help her. She got up and then piled up a big smile and said to Jia Qiang: "No matter how old you are, you can live a hundred years old without being polite. The prince is a god in the sky. If I can kowtow and worship, it is also a blessing!"

After saying that, he pulled his grandson'er and kowtowed.

After Jia Qiang shouted, she sat down next to Daiyu's empty seat and asked Liu Laolao: "What is the land price this year? What is the harvest in the land?"

Liu Laolao was very happy and said, "I have to ask the prince for a thousand years of blessing. The land price is much cheaper than in previous years, and it has been reduced by 30% and there is still a surplus. Now the court has changed its rules and no longer collects taxes. So I point to the land to collect land. In previous years, the land of officials and gentry did not have to pay grain, and now there is no such good thing anymore, so they are all putting land out of the land, and the land price has been reduced. However, the price of grain has risen, and there are severe droughts elsewhere, and the price of grain has also risen. This year, I have planted dozens of acres of sweet potatoes. Hey, the harvest of a year has exceeded ten times. It just so happens that the silver borrowed from the mansion last year..."

"Oh! Grandma doesn't dare to say this, especially in front of the prince! He is more pity for the poor than we women, and he dispersed all year round to exchange the food, clothes and cloth for the poor for silver, and he can't pile up three gold mountains! If we know that we will help Grandma and turn back the little money, we will have no shame to see anyone again in the future!"

Before Liu Laolao finished speaking, Feng Jie'er laughed loudly and stopped her.

Everyone laughed again, and Jia Mu and Liu Laolao said, "It's all relatives. If anyone has a problem, they don't recognize him, they should help me, let alone our relationship. Needless to say, you are a big heart. You have come from all over the world and bring some money, so you are not afraid of others robbing you next time. I dare not do this. I really feel grateful. If my family has a good harvest next year, I will give you some fruits and vegetables."

Daiyu whispered to Jia Qiang, "You are the only one who comes back? Why haven't Ziyu come back?"

Jia Qiang shook his head and said, "The Empress Dowager stayed in the palace for a night and will be picked up tomorrow. But I will have to go to Zhuchao Street the next day, so I guess I will stay for a few days."

Daiyu smiled and said, "Okay. She is the only girl in her family, she looks like she is a little petted. Now that she is back, don't you have to stay for a few more days?"

Jia Qiang said worriedly: "You are the only one, how can you stand it..."

"Pooh!"

Daiyu suddenly heard this bastard and her pretty face was hot. She spat and quickly lowered her head so that people would not see the clues.

Fortunately, everyone is so happy with Liu Laolao and is about to set off for a tour of the park.

A large group of people arrived at Xiaoxiang Pavilion first. As soon as they entered the door, they saw a road with green bamboos on both sides, moss was covered with underworld, and a path with gravel intestines in the middle.

Liu Laolao gave her a way out to leave with Mu Jia, but she drove away the land herself.

Amberla said, "Grandma, come up and walk carefully, the moss is slipping!"

Grandma Liu waved her hands repeatedly and said, "Those who are irrelevant, we are familiar with each other, girls just leave. It's a pity that your embroidered shoes should not be dirty."

She only cares about talking to people, but she doesn't want to slip and fall down. Everyone clapped their hands and laughed. Jia Mu laughed and scolded, "Little Hoofs, don't you support me yet! Just stand and laugh." When she spoke, Grandma Liu had already climbed up, and she laughed, saying, "I just slapped my mouth as soon as she spoke."

I went to Xiaoxiang Pavilion to have tea and had rice at Qiushuangzhai, and I laughed so hard.

Later, I took a boat to pass by Feng Jie'er's flowers and headed to Hengwu Garden.
To be continued...