Jia Min's Counterattack

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, five years had passed, and Lin Ruhai had served as the magistrate of Yingtian Mansion for two terms.Lin Ruhai is now in his thirties, and he is more calm and introverted than five years ago.

In the past five years, without Zhen Yingjia's intervention, coupled with the strong support of the emperor, Lin Ruhai has achieved remarkable achievements.Now the original unowned wasteland in Yingtianfu has been reclaimed. During the drought in the past two years, Lin Ruhai took in many refugees to open up wasteland. stand up.During the famine that year, Yingtian Mansion under Lin Ruhai's rule not only did not let the people starve to death, but also paid a lot of taxes and food to the treasury, and lent the remaining grain of Yingtian Mansion to several neighboring provinces. Mansion, so that the entire Jiangnan successfully survived the famine.

Lin Ruhai wins over a group of officials when Zhen Yingjia is "thinking behind closed doors".The character of these people is not bad, but based on Zhen Yingjia's previous deterrence, if they do not obey, they will not be able to stay in the officialdom in Jiangnan, so they have to be angry and dare not speak out.Lin Ruhai took this opportunity to draw these people into his camp. With his own team, Lin Ruhai will be more effective in doing things in Jiangnan.Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that Zhen Yingjia and his fans have become dormant. Their forbearance and concession gave Lin Ruhai the opportunity to further control the situation in Jiangnan.Through the opportunity of lending food to neighboring provinces, Lin Ruhai also established friendly relations with the prefects of those provinces, and at the same time weakened Zhen Yingjia's control over them.

Lin Ruhai dedicated the glass-making recipe found in Jia Min's space to the emperor, saying that he bought it from a businessman from the West at a high price.The emperor was naturally overjoyed, but he would not let Lin Ruhai suffer, so the emperor gave Lin Ruhai 1 taels of silver from his private treasury, and opened a glass workshop with the Lin family in an open and aboveboard manner.The cost of making glass is not high, but the profit is not low. Because the glass sold by the Lin family is not only of high quality but also much cheaper than imported from the West, and it is an exclusive business, the glass business has been booming in the past five years.Seeing that the Lin family can make a lot of money with just a small glass recipe, no matter how jealous they are, they dare not covet it. This glass workshop is owned by the emperor, who dares to compete with the emperor for business?

Jia Min's Xiangyun Silk and Satin Factory has now become the leading large silk and satin factory in the south of the Yangtze River, not only because of the fabrics woven by Qiluo looms and the unique white yarn of Xiangyun Silk and Satin Factory, but also because the fabrics produced by Xiangyun Silk and Satin Factory are more colorful, More beautiful and not easy to fade.

The year before last, Wang Tieniu successfully cultivated cotton in Jia Min's Yangzhou village. Although the yield was not high, it really made Jia Min and Lin Ruhai very happy.Jia Min asked the women in Zhuangzi to try to make some cotton-padded clothes and quilts during the slack season. After trying it out himself, he felt that it was much warmer than silk cotton and kapok, so he gave it to all relatives and friends as annual gifts. Two cotton quilts.

The emperor naturally received the quilt from Jia Min, and tried it out with the queen that night, but both of them were woken up by the heat in the middle of the night.The emperor happily asked Jia Daishan to write to Jia Min, asking her to send two more thinner quilts.Later, after the emperor saw the importance of cotton to the common people in Lin Ruhai's memorial, he decreed that cotton planting should be popularized throughout the country at the beginning of the next year.Wang Tieniu, as the No. 1 cotton planter in Daming, naturally became the main force in popularizing cotton planting this time. After more than a year, he visited all the states and counties of Daming, and concluded that the soil and climate in the northwest are most suitable for planting. Cotton conclusion.Therefore, Jia Min sent Wang Tieniu's family to purchase land in the northwest for the purpose of planting cotton, while his family stayed in the northwest to manage the cotton fields.Anyway, Lin Yu was already six years old, and she no longer needed a nanny to take care of her, so Jia Min also asked Mama Wang to go to the Northwest with her, so that their family could be reunited.

Last year, Daming produced more cotton, so the price naturally dropped, and ordinary people could afford it.Jia Min asked Xiangyun Silk and Satin Village to build a spinning wheel specially for spinning cotton. After several improvements, the spun cotton thread can already be used to weave fine cotton cloth.This time, Jia Min dedicated the drawing of the spinning wheel to the emperor, and asked the emperor to make the drawing public, so that those poor people can spin and weave by themselves, not only can wear comfortable cotton clothes, save money to buy linen, It can also be sold to supplement household income.The emperor is naturally happy to see this kind of good deed that benefits the country and the people, and he is not stingy with Jia Min, a great hero. In addition to rewarding a thousand-acre Dahuangzhuang in the northwest, Jia Min was also successfully promoted to From Princess Huigui of the first rank, this is only half a rank lower than the princess.

For a time, Jia Min's good name spread all over the Ming Dynasty, making her very popular among the people. Some places even set up a longevity card for Jia Min in the ancestral hall. This is the people's selfless dedication to Jia Min. The reverence and gratitude of the cotton spinning wheel is also the highest treatment that the people can give to their benefactors!

Jia Min is a smart woman. She knows that her reputation is too high now, so she is more low-key and cautious in her daily work.Among her dowry shops, only Xiangyun Silk and Satin Shop is the largest, followed by Jiangnan Embroidery Workshop in the capital. The remaining few shops, Jia Min, stopped their business one after another, and sublet the shops to collect rent.

Now in Jiangnan, she is still the most noble woman besides Mrs. Zhen, and the Zhen family has almost disappeared in the circle now. Zhen Han's family and other female family members of the Zhen family also stopped participating in any banquets, and the whole family really thought about it with their faces facing the wall.However, Zhen Yingjia's low profile in the past two years has changed the original impression of him by outsiders a lot, and gradually forgot about his involvement with the traitor.I have to say that Zhen Yingjia is indeed a very powerful character. He knows how to judge the situation and can endure for so many years. From this, it can be seen that Zhen Yingjia's ambition has not been eliminated. Even after experiencing such a catastrophe, he is even more eager to obtain the supreme power up.

Of course, Lin Ruhai also knew very well that Zhen Yingjia would never give up at this point, and was willing to be suppressed by him.Zhen Yingjia has been accumulating strength for these years, waiting for the best time to explode suddenly, and at that time, it will be the time for the Lin family and the Zhen family to officially declare war!