royal husband

Li Jin raised his eyebrows, and said meaningfully, "Master Lan is talking about the Cheng family at this time. The Cheng family must have something special, so I will leave it to Master Lan to contact the Cheng family."

"Yes, the lower officials will persuade them." Lan Mingzhou nodded solemnly, and then said with a little embarrassment, "But the head of the Cheng family is a twin, the prince won't look down on him, right?"

Shuang'er has always had the lowest status in Daxia, let alone came out to do business.

in fact.

The Cheng family's Shuang'er pretended to be a man very successfully at the beginning. After all, his appearance was really rough. After wearing it and wiped his forehead, no one would believe that he was a Shuang'er. However, the Zhang family, the Chi family, and the Lu family were really jealous of the strength of the Cheng family. I don't know where to find out the news that the head of the Cheng family might be Shuang'er, and they teamed up to set a trap for Cheng's brother, not only forcing his Shuang'er's identity to be exposed, but also making the Cheng family's big business possible. It's yellowed.

Now, those who look down on Shuang'er in their bones start to make excuses and gradually alienate the Cheng family.

So much so that the Cheng family began to decline.

However, the Cheng family used to be the most prominent family in Zhuzhou. Although it is not as good as before, those contacts accumulated over the years will still buy face for the Cheng family, so that the Cheng family will not be completely defeated.

Li Jin smiled, "Shuang'er is also a citizen of Daxia, why should I look down on them?"

"With the words of the son, the next official can rest assured."

When Lan Mingzhou talked about the Cheng family, he was actually worried that Li Jin would mind that the head of the Cheng family was a twin and refused to use the Cheng family. Now he can finally relax half of his mind.

"By the way, before I came to Zhuzhou City, I stayed in Liujia Village outside the city for a while..."

Li Jin took advantage of the situation and told Lan Mingzhou what happened in Liujia Village.

Of course, Li Jin concealed Ying Ziqi's part. After all, Ying Ziqi's reputation is very good now. In terms of Ziqi's temperament, not only would Ying Ziqi not admit it, but he would even beat him up.

Therefore, Li Jin didn't plan to let others know about Jiang You's capture.

"Don't worry, my son, Liu Laicai and those who maliciously occupy the village's wells, the officials will definitely investigate and deal with them impartially, and we will never let them go unpunished." Lan Mingzhou cupped his hands and said, "And just now, you said that you arrested a man named Chen Manzhou people, but is it true?"

The evil deeds that Chen Manzhou did are too numerous to describe. When Lan Mingzhou first arrived, because he was like Chen Manzhou in his name, the people in Zhuzhou thought that he had something to do with Chen Manzhou, so he suffered a rotten egg. baptism.

"Yes, when we came, the people in Zhuzhou seemed to recognize him..."

Seeing that he had already spoken, Li Jin told Lan Mingzhou about the rotten egg that happened not long ago.

"He is the kind of person who will be treated like this. My son, Chen Manzhou is full of evil. After the relief food is successfully distributed to the people, the lower officials will immediately sentence Chen Manzhou to death." After hearing what happened to Chen Manzhou when he first entered Zhuzhou City, Lan Mingzhou The aggrieved heart finally regained some balance, and then asked, "My lord, what is the sweet potato you mentioned just now?"

Do not know why.

Ever since Li Jin talked about sweet potatoes, Lan Mingzhou had a feeling in his heart that sweet potatoes were the key to solving the famine in Zhuzhou.

"You are the county magistrate of Zhuzhou. You can make up your mind about Chen Manzhou, and I won't ask." Li Jin chuckled, "As for the sweet potato, I will tell you the truth. You can help me, so that the people in Zhuzhou can plant it. I have calculated that when the people use up the relief food, the sweet potatoes will almost grow."

Li Jin brought a lot of relief food this time, and the people still had some food in stock, so it was not impossible to survive the four months before the sweet potatoes matured.

After all.

It is impossible for the imperial court to provide endless disaster relief, so Zhuzhou must learn to save itself in order to have a chance of life, otherwise, like the last disaster relief food, once it is taken away, the people will really be no different from waiting to die.

Lan Mingzhou smiled wryly, "But my son, the imperial court stipulates that fertile land can only be used to grow grain."

"I didn't say to use fertile land." Li Jin shook his head and said, "They can use dry land for planting, so even if they fail, it won't have any impact on them. If it succeeds, the people of Zhuzhou don't have to worry about food shortage every day .”

"This... well, I will try my best to persuade the people to grow sweet potatoes in the dry land at home." Li Jin said so much, Lan Mingzhou would not agree.

Li Jin raised the corners of his lips and said, "Then I will wait for good news from Master Lan."

"Yes."

Lan Mingzhou solemnly nodded towards Li Jin.

The matter of planting sweet potatoes is related to the future of the people of Zhuzhou. It is the first thing Lan Mingzhou does after joining Li Jin. Lan Mingzhou will definitely do it carefully to prevent mistakes.

……

"Ajin, Lan Mingzhou is gone?"

Ying Yuan pushed open the door and came in, only to find that Lan Mingzhou was no longer there, presumably to go to work.

"Yeah." Li Jin nodded, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea, then signaled Ying Yuan to do it, "Ah Yuan, did you finish writing the reply letter?"

Originally, Ying Yuan was talking with Li Jin and the others, but after a letter came from the palace, Ying Yuan wanted to reply immediately and left first.

"Father refused."

Ying Yuan lowered his head while sitting down, feeling an indescribable depression in his heart.

Although Ying Yuan knew that Ying Zhengjing would not agree, he never expected to refuse so simply.

"Is it about building a reservoir?"

Li Jin once mentioned to Ying Yuan to build a reservoir to alleviate the drought, but Ying Zhengjing only thought that Ying Yuan was messing around, so he not only refused, but also scolded Ying Yuan, saying that Ying Yuan was not doing his job properly.

Yingyuan nodded and said, "Yes."

"No problem." Li Jin stroked Ying Yuan's hair gently, "Since the emperor thinks what you wrote in your letter is impossible, why don't we draw a picture of the result and show it to the emperor?"

"painting?"

Ying Yuan didn't expect Li Jin to say that, and was stunned.

"wait."

Li Jin did what he said, took out a blank piece of paper, and began to draw with special charcoal.

In modern times, Li Jin specialized in sketching, so after this painting, he actually drew the villages including Liujia Village and the surrounding mountains.At the same time, Li Jin also drew the reservoir. It was so lifelike that his eyes were straightened when he looked at Ying Yuan.

Ying Yuan has seen all kinds of paintings, but this is the first time Ying Yuan has seen such a realistic style painted by Li Jin.

Li Jin stopped writing, and looked at Ying Yuan with a smile.

"A Yuan, what do you think of my painting?"

"Okay... great..." Ying Yuan nodded abruptly in a daze, and then asked in confusion, "But why have I never heard of A Jin before, you can do this?"

"It's just a few small hobbies. It can't be listed in the elegant hall, let alone everyone."

"But I think Ah Jin draws better than them."

In Ying Yuanping/ri/li, those "everyone" in Li Jin's mouth often said that he was vulgar and didn't know how to paint, but he really couldn't see anything special about these paintings.

It was Li Jin's painting, he fell in love with it the first time he saw it.

Li Jin shook his head amusedly, "You can say this with me, but you can't say it outside."

Li Jin, the prince of Dingbei, has aroused the eyes of many people because he can often enter the palace. No, if the news of his painting skills spreads, many people may make trouble for him openly or secretly.

"Yeah." Yingyuan nodded, indicating that he would remember, "Then I am writing a letter to my father, it's just Ajin, why don't you let me say that you came up with this idea?"

Li Jin rolled up the painted scroll, handed it to Ying Yuan and said, "Because you need to show your face in front of the emperor more than I do."

It’s different in the past.

Since Ying Ziheng's position as the crown prince was sacked, the princes had a chance to take the position. Let me ask those princes who have been waiting for Ying Ziheng to have an accident, how could they give up this golden opportunity.

Ying Zhengjing will definitely begin to secretly assess them and choose a suitable successor.

Therefore, when Li Jin learned that Ying Yuan had written to Ying Zhengjing about the reservoir, he did not recover the letter.After all, the reservoir is a major event that benefits the people. It can be said that the merits of the present age will benefit the future.

Now that this is done, Ying Yuan will surely show his edge in front of Ying Zhengjing.

Furthermore, the Zhuzhou where they are located is not a good place because of the continuous drought. Even if Yingyuan writes back, those princes will only think that Yingyuan's letter is telling the hardships of Zhuzhou and wanting to come back sooner.

"Ajin, do you think it's good to write like this?"

Li Jin said so much, Ying Yuan didn't continue to dwell on this issue, but handed the letter he had just written to Li Jin for him to make up his mind.

"This place needs to be changed, try our best..."

……

boom.

As soon as Zhang Zhiheng returned to Zhang's house, he smashed the teacup handed to him by the maid into pieces in a rage, "Damn Lan Mingzhou, you actually made me lose a sum of money for nothing. We're not done this time."

Chi Zhen gritted his teeth and said, "That's right, Patriarch Zhang is right, we can't just let this matter go."

Lu Wentao's face was also very ugly, "Patriarch Zhang, Patriarch Chi, since Lan Mingzhou is not benevolent, let's show him the injustice and raise the price of salt, let's see what else he can do."

If they just wanted to suppress Lan Mingzhou before, then now they want to get rid of Lan Mingzhou directly.

"Okay, I agree." Zhang Zhiheng listened, nodded and said, "If someone asks why the price of salt has risen, we will all blame Lan Mingzhou and see what he can do this time."

"That's right." Lu Wentao also nodded in agreement, but he thought more than Zhang Zhiheng and Chi Zhen, "But, have you noticed those three people sitting next to the yamen court today?"

Chi Zhen was puzzled, and immediately remembered, "Yamen court? Yes, there are three people, could it be... They are sent by the Lan family?"

"Impossible. People from the Lan family have hated Lan Mingzhou for a long time, and asked us to greet Lan Mingzhou well. How could he come?" Zhang Zhiheng shook his head indifferently, "I think it's all some Insignificant people."