Chapter 274 Fair Collection of Money
After returning, Zhao Yulin patted Yuqi on the face and said: Thank you, madam.
Wu Yuqi said that his second brother was an honest official. Shunfeng had received news that the provincial school refused to recommend unscrupulous disciples for officialdom. The people of Nanzheng had a high opinion of his second brother.
Yuqi told him: Manager Shen Baiyi from Guanzhong led a merchant group to build a new street on the banks of the Han River in Nanzheng. She had already informed Manager Shen to reserve a better spot for her second brother. The price would not be too high , and he must accept the money fairly.
Zhao Yulin was very satisfied with his woman's attentiveness and hugged Yuqi for a deep kiss.
The next day, he accompanied Yuqi to Yangzhou. He watched the woman enter the Ziwu Valley before riding his horse back along the Qinba Road. He arrived in Chengdu a month later.
As soon as he entered the house, Ma Linger told him that Changji Nima was already receiving treatment in Tianlong Temple, and that Huo Fenghuang had given birth to a girl.
The next day, Zhao Yulin set off for Yibin with his second brother's children. He wanted to visit Fenghuang mother and daughter who were still in Renhuai Fort.
Seven days later, he arrived at Sifangjing in Renhuai. There were construction sites everywhere, the dock town was filled with the aroma of wine, and Chen Zhongshun's Gujing Distillery had already started producing wine.
He didn't have time to appreciate the delicious taste of the sauce-flavored liquor. He walked into the government office in two steps at a time. Shunzhidi was playing with the child with Huo Fenghuang.
Zhao Yulin went forward and picked up the good girl, shaking her and teasing her. Shunzhidi immediately said, "Don't shake her, the baby just woke up and needs to play for a while."
He asked about Zhao Guangshun?
Why aren't I seeing my child?
Shunzhidi smiled and said that if both of them were crying, it would be enough for him, as their father, to hug them.
The Fire Phoenix laughed out loud after hearing this.
Zhao Yulin is indeed an expert in taking care of babies. After a short while, the baby closed his eyes and fell asleep. He gently rubbed the baby and put him on the bed.
Zhidi asked him to stand still so that she could take a closer look to see if he was okay.
Fire Phoenix teased her, saying that it would be better to bathe her brother at night and check it out clearly by touching him carefully.
Shunzhidi's smiling face immediately turned red, and she said shyly that her sister just liked to play tricks on people.
Zhao Yulin asked them to go to the banyan tree in the yard to have tea and discuss business.
Fenghuang told him that General Cao and General Yang Jia had crossed Zunyi and Guizhou and entered Guangnan West Road. They had found the descendants of Yue Family and were submitting to them in various places.
Zhao Yulin nodded and asked her if she would go back to Chengdu. General Cao and his men were far away from Renhuai, and Fenghuang had just given birth, so they might as well go back to Chengdu to work together. Cao Youwen heard that the general was too busy, so he went back to help the general gradually establish the garrison military district in Chengdu.
Fenghuang had already expected that Zhao Yulin had other arrangements for her, and she said with a smile that she would obey her husband, and that a follower also wanted to return to Chengdu.
He looked at Shunzhidi and asked if she really wanted to go back.
The little woman nodded at him with a smile.
Zhao Yulin was in a dilemma. They were all his wives, what should he do?
Shunzhidi covered her mouth and laughed when she saw his embarrassed look. She said happily, "I'm just kidding, brother. The stall in Renhuai has just been opened, how can leave? But brother, you should come to Renhuai more often in the future to see the changes in Sifangjing."
Fenghuang laughed at her, asking her if she wanted her brother to stay with Zhidi for a few more days.
The little woman shyly went up and gave Phoenix a massage-style blow.
The family was having fun when the maid shouted, "Real Madam, here comes Old Madam Shun." Zhao Yulin quickly sat back in his seat, tidied his clothes and went to greet the guests.
Mrs. Shun was in a good mood, sat down and took a sip of tea and said that Bozhou and Guizhou have been naturalized, the Shenwei Army has entered Guangnan West Road, and we can go to Bozhou.
Madam Zhen also looked at Zhao Yulin with joy.
He said that we should wait a little longer. In the future, these places will be under the jurisdiction of Renhuai, and will no longer be called Renhuai Fort. It will be called Guizhou Road. We will send personnel to the south of Guishan Mountain to find a small city and establish a new Guizhou Road administrative center. I have already thought of the name of the city. It will be called Guiyang, which means the south of Guishan Mountain.
Several women were surprised. How could Zhao Yulin know so much and think so carefully and meticulously?
This, they don’t understand.
Zhao Yulin said that the area they were controlling was getting larger and larger, with a complex personnel structure, so they had to put more effort into mobilizing people from various government offices to work together.
Shunzhi Di began to raise objections. Two of the new officials sent by the Zhizhisi looked down on us Yi people and acted like high officials. She scolded them severely and they returned to Chengdu. She still asked them to pay the standby salary on a monthly basis.
Shunzhidi was worried that the people in the Administration Office were dissatisfied with Zhao Yulin, and asked him if he would cause any more trouble.
Zhao Yulin shook his head and said that he had just returned and didn't know anything. We should do things according to our nature. As long as it is beneficial to the people, we will do it. But we can't let some people do whatever they want. The Song Dynasty has laws.
Fenghuang smiled and said yes, the judicial officer enforced the law, removed the royal privileges and asked the officials to strictly enforce it. Then he looked at Madam Zhen and said: She is in trouble again.
Madam Zhen said helplessly that she had met someone with a knot in his brain, which brought shame to the young master.
Zhao Yulin looked at them in confusion and asked what was going on.
Shunzhidi told him that Zhen Youmei's father was very reasonable and wanted his brother to accept Zhen Youmei. Zhen Laobo said everywhere that Youmei was his brother's woman. He was his brother's old man and had to be the master of Sifangjing. He should have the final say here.
In recent years, the Shun family's popularity has soared because Shun Zhidi has become a local official in Renhuai. The balance between the two families has been broken after the real wife of the Zeng family was hidden in a transfer position.
Not to mention anything else, the Sifangjing specialty store opened by Shunzhidi's parents in Jiuzhouba, Yibin, has attracted countless people from the mountains to send their own hunts, bacon, ham and other things to Yibin for cash. Every household is happy that Shunzhidi is buying mountain products, thinking that she is doing a great deed to accumulate virtue.
To be honest, he must be unhappy to see his brother being so highly regarded by the blind date, and he must feel very uncomfortable. Who doesn't want to do something to be respected by the villagers?
However, although he had once said that he wanted to go down the mountain and become the boss of Sifangjing, it was not something that could be achieved with just a few words. There were already hundreds of families, big and small, in the town, and the government office of Renhuai had also moved here.
Fenghuang said that there was more to it than that, and You Mei's mind had also changed.
It used to be that Brother Abao, who had been pestering Ge'er to save her, was determined not to change his mind even if the seas dried up and the rocks crumbled. But now Abao was sentenced to five years in prison. After being sent to prison for labor reform, she was fed up with raising her child alone, so she came to pester Madam Zhen and said that she didn't want any status, but would leave the village even if she had to be Ge'er's concubine.
Zhao Yulin was confused when he heard this. What did it have to do with him? Why was it brought up on him again?
He was just wondering when he heard a loud commotion at the gate of the government office. When Madam Zhen heard it, she knew that it was her unreasonable brother causing trouble again, so she hurried out.
Zhao Yulin smiled helplessly and said to Madam Shun that Renhuai had been developing rapidly in recent years, and it was likely that some people from the Zhen and Shun families had left to work as officials or do business. The Zhen family might appear weak because Zhen Youmei did not come out to work.
Madam, you have to take good care of it. We appoint people based on their merits, regardless of their relationships. But we must not let these people ruin the good life that Renhuai has just started.
What can Zhen Youmei do? She can be asked to do something, but she cannot act arbitrarily. He said that he could cover the sky with one hand in Chengdu, but he always discussed office affairs with the gentlemen.
Zhidi nodded and said that in terms of merit and work done, Sister Fenghuang could definitely do something in Chengdu, but her brother called her to Renhuai to supervise the battle, and the people saw it all.
Old Madam Shun said that she would have a heart-to-heart talk with Madam Zhen when she returned, and asked her young sister to keep all the clan members under control.
In the evening, Chen Zhongshun asked someone to tell Zhao Yulin to go to Huoshui Fish Restaurant for a drink. The old man's first pot of sauce-flavored liquor had been brewed two months ago.
Zhao Yulin told him while drinking the new wine that it was better to age it for three years.
He suggested to the old man that he should try putting some apples in the newly baked wine. The fruity aroma of the apples would penetrate into the wine and effectively remove the smell of the koji. The fruity aroma would still remain in the wine, which would definitely taste special.
However, real sauce-flavored liquor still needs time to accumulate. The longer it ages, the more fragrant it becomes, and this cannot be achieved by adding any additives.
The old man was happy, looking at his son-in-law with wide eyes as if he was studying a liquor, and he always felt that the son-in-law had endless ideas in his head.
The next day, Chen Zhong asked someone to get some top-quality apples, wash them, and put them into the new wine for testing. Not only the sauce-flavored wine but also his Wu Gu Feng wine was to be tried.
Haha, this old man is really a drunkard.
Three days later, Zhao Yulin helped Shunzhidi sort out the emotional accounts between the Zhen and Shun families, convened officials from the government office to discuss matters, told everyone the future planning vision of Guizhou Road, and asked them to start planning from now on, strive to move to Guiyang in three years and rule the entire road.
Officials and servants at all levels in the government office immediately started a heated discussion.
Renhuai is the fastest-growing road in the western part of the Song Dynasty. It has only been a few years since the rebellion was quelled and the Renhuai Fort was restored. Now it has become the Renhuai Road General Administration Office. Now they are planning to move to Guizhou, build the new city of Guiyang, and establish a new Guizhou Road.
Only the Divine Power Army can achieve this speed.
Shunzhidi told the gentlemen that the most urgent thing for all places after the unification was completed was to build roads. Only when the roads were unblocked, it would be convenient to walk and do things. Renhuai should immediately send a team to explore the new road from Sifangjing to Guishan, and mobilize Renhuai's financial, material and human resources to build the road.
Fenghuang immediately applauded Zhidi and told everyone that she was about to leave Renhuai. She believed that everyone could build the new Guizhou Road better and better, and the people's lives would become happier and happier.
Everyone saw her off with warm applause.
The next day, Zhao Yulin and Fenghuang left Sifangjing together. Fenghuang held the child on his shoulder and admired the scenery along the coast. She said happily, "Let's give the baby a name. We can't just call him 'baby' all the time."
He said let’s call her Guangfeng, Zhao Guangfeng, our daughter.
The woman nodded happily and said that after Zhidi had Guangshun, she had been thinking about what to name the baby, and Ge'er and she agreed, so they named him Guangfeng. With Guangfeng, they would have both a son and a daughter, so they wouldn't have to have more children in the future.
Zhao Yulin held her in his arms and said that an important responsibility of a couple is to have children to continue the prosperity of society. A couple will always have children together, and everything depends on fate.
Once we have the child, we must give birth to it and take good care of it.
