Don't make trouble, let's build infrastructure!

After Qiulang and his gang were captured and returned, Tong Ran directly handed over the matter to Song Gui, who was in charge of the procuratorate.

The young and middle-aged coolies and women rescued from the mountain were placed by Gu Lan. Some of these people were insane. Gu Lan asked a doctor to prescribe medicine to try to appease them.

"My lord, the last general's suggestion is to keep these people for the time being. After checking that their confessions are correct, and they are not pretending to be bandits, they will be sent back to their hometowns." After handing over the people to Song Gui and Gu Lan, You Yang Go to the study to meet Tong Ran.

"Well, have you found Mrs. Liu's granddaughter?" Tong Ran asked.

You Yang shook his head: "There is a girl who is about the same age, but her mind is not clear enough to be confirmed."

After a moment of silence, Tong Ran sighed softly: "Give her to Gu Lan, you go out first."

"Yes." You Yang in armor exited the study, the door opened and closed, Tong Ran sat behind the desk and stared at the table for a long time out of focus.

"Wow." The little tiger jumped down from the museum shelf and scratched his calf.

Only then did Tong Ran's out-of-focus eyes recover, and he picked up the little tiger under his feet, and stroked its fur gently.

"Wow." The little tiger rubbed against his arms, stepped on his thigh with its hind legs, and stood up.

"What's wrong, cub?" Tong Ran habitually talked to the tiger.

Unexpectedly, the little tiger didn't make a fuss at all, buried his hairy head in the crescent of his neck, and rubbed against him.

"Zai Zai." Tong Ran immediately choked up, he blinked and swallowed the tears in his eyes.

Early the next morning, Gu Lan, Song Gui, and You Yang each received a document from Tong Ran, which began with the words in vernacular: "Drafts for the arrangement of yamen sentries in the areas below the counties in the southern part of Dunan Road."

Sang Le was in charge of sending the documents to them one by one, and conveyed Tong Ran's words, asking them to read them first, and go to the governor's office to discuss matters before the time.

Tong Ran's initial idea is to imitate the modern police system and assign a group of yamen servants to the villages to protect the safety of the people and enforce the law.But since there is no instant messaging method here, for the sake of efficiency, he plans to set up a sentry post so that the villagers can seek help nearby.

With the deterrence of these sentries, people like Qiulang dare not be so rampant anymore.

Gu Lan and You Yang naturally supported Tong Ran, and Song Gui did not object. The unofficial discussion went well, and the three of them put forward many opinions from the perspective of their responsibilities to further improve the plan.

Song Gui still had a bunch of bandits to interrogate, and the Chengxuan Political Envoy Division under Gu Lan's charge had little to do with this matter, so Tong Ran handed over the follow-up work to You Yang, asking him to gather opinions as soon as possible, and then drafted a plan. A more complete and detailed plan came out.

After all the discussions were over, Youzheng had passed, and after Gu Lan and the others left, Tong Ran leaned back in his chair. Finally, another major event was on the agenda.

Lord Fengle, Chu Min, is in a good mood these few days, because his daughter, who is hurting like an eyeball, finally looks like a young lady.

"Daddy." Chu Shuang met Chu Min before going out, and smiled blessedly.

Today she wore a water-red skirt embroidered with peonies, and asked the maid to comb her hair carefully. On the hairpin was a gilt phoenix wearing peonies. She wore a matching wreath around her neck, and her earrings were also carefully selected.

She came slowly, her skirt swaying, and she saluted dignifiedly and generously. Chu Min unconsciously nodded twice and looked at his only daughter approvingly.

"Where are you going today?" Chu Min asked.In the past two days, Chu Shuang suddenly became interested in the flower viewing banquets, tea tasting banquets, and poetry meetings held by the women's families in various prefectures, and he often dressed up to attend, which made him both gratified and proud.

"Daughter met the young lady of the Jin family at the banquet yesterday, and today is going to her tea tasting banquet," Chu Shuang said.

Chu Min frowned when he heard the surname.

In the past two days, Chu Shuang went to noble families with comparable backgrounds. Today, the status of this family is not enough, but a big merchant, although the business is big, the family status is much lower. If his daughter and the young lady of this family Make friends, no gain or loss of identity.

Chu Shuang knew what her father was thinking without looking at it, and added after a pause: "The Lord of Fu'an County also said to go today, and my daughter has to meet the scene."

"Fu'an is also here, so go and be her company." Chu Min relaxed her brows a little, and then warned, "Just get to know the merchant's daughter, don't get too close."

"My daughter knows." Chu Shuang said, blessed again, and went out to get in the car.

Miss Jin did invite the county head of Fu'an, but Fu'an has always been arrogant, and I am afraid that she would never go to Miss Jin's appointment.As for herself, of course she knew what her father meant, but Miss Jin was a righteous person and good at business, she had long wanted to make friends with him, and now not only had the opportunity, but she could also pull her to do something together.

keep distance?

impossible.

Chu Shuang maintained a decent smile, and got into the carriage with the help of her maid Luo Yang.

Two days ago, she went to Wanghai Tea House to meet with Tong Ran again to confirm the preliminary cooperation.Tong Ran said that if the funds are not enough, she can borrow her, but Chu Shuang didn't want it. She wanted to try it out on her own and see how many people she could recruit.

Because the cotton cloth factory will be dominated by female workers, Chu Shuang's target of cooperation is also the female relatives of the various prefectures in Chuzhou.The frequent invitations in the past two days are to pave the way for this.

In the governor's yamen, Tong Ran processed paperwork for four hours, and even the meals were used in the study. After finishing all of them, he stretched himself and walked to the backyard.

Qiulang and his gang have been convicted one after another, and the leaders will be executed tomorrow, while the rest will be exiled to various mining areas to do hard labor.

According to Sang Le, the folks are also talking about this matter. The place where Qiulang is stationed is not far from Chuzhou. There are many people in the city who have suffered from him. Therefore, although tomorrow's execution is a bloody murder, there are many people looking forward to it. , I heard that the rotten leaves and rotten eggs in the vegetable market are out of stock.

"Wow!" Tong Ran walked to the backyard, where the free-range chickens brought back from the bandit's den were raised. As soon as he stepped into the yard, he saw the kitten roar and pounce on one of the chickens.

The chicken was an adult, clucking and flapping its wings in fright.

It took only a second for the kitten to pounce on it, but the prey was thrown off without even touching its neck, jumping back in a panic.

The chicken probably realized that the cat was strong on the outside but not on the inside, so it turned around and pecked at it fiercely.

"Wow!" the cat tiger screamed and fled to the chicken circle. Tong Ran laughed, stepped forward to pick it up, raised his head and said to the watching tiger on the eaves, "Your son won't come down to help when he's being bullied?"

"Wow." The little tiger licked its paw gracefully, it was still a cub.

"Wow!" Once in Tong Ran's arms, the kitten, who found himself safe, yelled threateningly at the chicken again.

"Okay, you." Tong Ran held it down, and turned its face to the other side, "If you can't beat it, don't provoke others."

"Cub, go eat?" Tong Ran called the little tiger.

Then the little tiger got up lazily, turned his neck left and right, and with the help of a low wall as a buffer, he deftly jumped down from the eaves and jumped into the group of chickens.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck!" It was different from when the cat jumped on the chickens just now, when the tiger came down, the chickens all panicked, flapped their wings and fled towards the corner with all their might.

The little tiger didn't respond, and nimbly avoided the chicken feces all over the floor, and ran to Tong Ran: "Wow!" Let it down.

Tong Ran knew what the little tiger meant, so he put the kitten down, but he didn't pick up the little tiger either: "I'll let Dongqing wash your paws later." Although the little tiger is very smart, he doesn't want to be stained with chicken feces. I don't know what's wrong with it. Since these chickens were captured, tigers and cats are particularly keen to run here.

Attraction brought by food?

Two foodies.

Tong Ran took the lead, and the little tiger followed him. The little cat looked at the shivering chicken in the corner.

Chu Shuang returned to the mansion, took off the hairpin and clothes under the service of the maid, and soaked in the bathtub covered with a layer of flower petals.

In the past few days, she was still actively invited to the banquets of women's families in various prefectures. In addition, she hosted a flower viewing banquet in the other courtyard of the Chu family, and invited Miss Jin, the head of Fu'an County and others.

Unexpectedly, Ms. Jin was a little hesitant about her idea of ​​a cotton factory, but the Lord Fu'an and other aristocratic ladies were very interested.

Miss Jin's hesitation was not because she didn't want to do it, but because she had concerns. After all, Chu Shuang and the other noble girls were daughters of everyone who hadn't been in business and didn't even go out.For this reason, Chu Shuang deliberately revealed that she could invite someone familiar with the Jinhejian Cotton Factory to help, which gave Miss Jin a little confidence, and Fu An and the others were also more interested.

Master Tong sent the news yesterday that Jinhe Supervisor has confirmed the list of people, about ten people, all of them are experienced hands who can stand on their own, and have rich experience in weaving and managing female workers, which gives Chu Shuang a lot of confidence. some.

Of course, she can't rely entirely on Master Tong, this is her own property.

So today Chu Shuang pretended to go out to the banquet again, but actually went around Fu'an's house, and went to several places on the outskirts of the mansion to look for a cotton factory.

Chu Shuang has no experience in this matter. Among the girls, only Miss Jin has experienced a little with her father and brother. She thought it would be difficult, but she did not expect to meet Gu Lan, who was appointed as the political envoy on the way, and he took it quite enthusiastically. Taking over the important task of negotiation, the buyer was settled in no time, and the purchase of the land for Chushuang's cotton factory was negotiated at a very reasonable price.

Because Gu Lan was too proactive, on the carriage back today, Fu An didn't even look right at him.Miss Jin also joked that maybe their cotton factory could start a business of sewing wedding dresses, but Chu Shuang gave her a hard stare back.

"Miss, is the water too hot? Your face is so red." The maid Luo Yang opened the curtain and came in. Seeing the young lady's face flushed, she hurried over to test the water temperature.

"Nothing." Chu Shuang hurriedly sent her away, and then forced herself to think about the follow-up matters of the cotton factory.

More than ten days later, Tong Ran, who was buried in various paperwork, heard that a group of young girls with the most status in Chuzhou Prefecture, including Miss Chu Shuang, Miss Jin, and the head of Fu'an County, opened a cotton factory together, and now it has begun. Recruit the first workers.

After hearing Sang Le's words, Tong Ran stroked the little tiger's hairy head in a good mood.

The ten skilled workers he sent arrived yesterday afternoon, and the first batch of equipment ordered by Chu Shuang will also arrive and be delivered the day after tomorrow.

"Cub, this winter the entire Chuzhou Mansion will be covered with quilts." Tong Ran said, revealing the dimple on his right cheek.

"Wow!"

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