The next morning, the jailer saw Li Zhi dying of anger in the prison. He quickly reported it to the warden. After receiving the news, Cang Dao came with Wu Zuo for an autopsy and determined that he died of poisoning.
Cang Dao was also very surprised. Who wanted to poison Li Zhi? According to the information obtained from the investigation, this Li Zhi was one of the people Dong Youcai trusted and did a lot of things for him. When Prefect Lin was killed, it was Li Zhi who managed government affairs on his behalf. Therefore, no news of the Lin family's extermination was revealed. He is also a talent! For this reason, Cang Dao imprisoned him alone. Unexpectedly, he still died. Could it be Li Bin?
Now the new officials from Yizhou have not been sent over yet, and there is a shortage of manpower. It seems that he has taken advantage of the loophole.
Cang Dao ordered the jailers to carry Li Zhi's body to the mass grave. He did not notice anything unusual about Wu Zuo and one of the jailers. In this way, Li Zhi was carried out...
In a three-entry courtyard in Bingzhou, everyone rested for two days. Ling Xiaoyu, who had recovered his memory, was also with Xu Xiaoxiao all day long. They were so sticky that it was hard to watch. Even...even they got into the space together at night. This was when Xia Qingfeng was thirsty and drank water at night and found Xiaoxiao missing. Just found out. well! They are young now, so let them go. They are a couple anyway, so we can take care of them when they are older!
And the rescued Chu Jingru and Li Peilan were as good as mother-in-law. Li Peilan went to Chu Jingru's yard whenever she had free time. It seemed that the maternal love that had been missing for many years was satisfied here. Chu Jingru prepared delicious food for her every day and sewed clothes for her herself. She had never been so satisfied. She was really glad that she could survive.
On this day, Cheng Ye came to report that they found the miners who died deep in the opened mine. They were suffocated to death in the mine. The man named Xiao Wu tricked the miners into the mine, and then blocked the outside with stones. In this way, the miners died in despair inside.
Cheng Ye also investigated that these miners were villagers from several villages not far from here. They came here to mine just to earn more copper coins.
In the first three months, they also received wages, and the wages were very generous, so more strong men in the village came here to mine.
However, from then on, there was no news from these strong laborers and they never came back. In the meantime, some people in the village had banded together and searched in the mountains, but could not find anyone. They had no choice but to pray that these relatives were still alive.
And for families without labor, life is even more difficult. There was a family where the old man and his three sons all went to the mines. At that time, the mother-in-law thought that mining was not only hard work but also dangerous, and a male must be left in the family. However, everyone was blinded by money and did not listen to the advice.
In some families, only 13 or 14-year-old boys go mining. Hearing this, everyone fell silent. After a moment, Ling Xiaoyu said, "Let's first pay these families their wages according to their mining time. In addition, we should investigate how many people died in each family and give them a certain amount of compensation so that they can maintain their lives for the time being." .
Xia Qingfeng thought for a while and said: "Many families have no labor force. If things go on like this, how will they live after they spend all their compensation?
Xu Xiaoxiao also said on the side: "Yes, 'it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them how to fish.' It seems that we have to think of ways to help these villagers.
In previous lives, Shanxi had many specialties, and nasturtium tea was one of them. It is a perennial herb growing in alpine meadows. It has beautiful colors and unique flower shapes, and is known as the "Buddha flower". Nasturtium tea not only has the effects of beautifying the skin, clearing heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory and relieving cough, but also has the function of improving human immunity and preventing diseases. It can be used not only as tea but also as medicine.
Xia Qingfeng drew the appearance of the nasturtium and also noted the collection time and production method.
The other is to ask them to make sweet potato vermicelli, which Ling Xiaoyu knows. In his previous life, Ling Xiaoyu came from a rural area, but his parents did not make a living by farming. Instead, they opened an agricultural product processing factory, covering a wide range of areas, and sweet potato vermicelli was one of them.
The soil here is suitable for growing sweet potatoes, and the yield of sweet potatoes is high. Making vermicelli from sweet potatoes also allows them to have a stable income.
Ling Xiaoyu planned to open a sweet potato processing factory in the name of Xu Xiaoxiao, a village owner, hire villagers from these villages to process vermicelli, and then find suitable agents in various cities, thus opening up sales channels.
But these are not urgent, they will have to wait until next spring.
In the end, Ling Xiaoyu appointed Wu Si to stay in Bingzhou. Wu Si was not only smart, but also eloquent. Let him stay in Bingzhou, not only to build a sweet potato vermicelli workshop, but also to supervise the mining of iron ore, leaving him two deputies to assist him, and leaving him enough for planting next spring. Sweet Potato, the group is ready to set off for Youzhou.
On the other side, Cang Qiyuan used Xia Qingfeng's damaging moves to join forces with the old emperor to play around with officials from Cen Taichang's party in the capital.
For example: Zuosong, the imperial servant, was over fifty years old. He was a former subordinate of Cen Taichang. He was recommended to serve as governor of Yizhou. He was just appointed. After returning home, he fainted due to excessive excitement. The imperial doctor diagnosed him as hyperactivity of liver yang and his age. It is difficult to recover, so it is recommended to rest at home. So, with a stroke of his pen, the old emperor ordered him to retire and return to his hometown to take care of himself.
Another example: Zhongshu Ling Wang Yuan, a disciple of Cen Taichang, was recommended to be the governor of Yizhou. He was in his thirties and in his prime. On the second day of departure, he suddenly suffered from diarrhea. He took some medicine and continued on the journey without stopping. In the evening, I fell into coma due to dehydration...
In the end, the candidate for the governor of Yizhou was Song Jinzhi, the former prince's young master who resigned at home after the death of the crown prince; the prefect was appointed by Lu Runzheng, Cang Qiyuan's classmate and former censor.
Although Cen Taichang was filled with hatred, he couldn't help but that his own people were not up to par. We can only arrange for some minor officials from Yizhou to take office together.
After hearing the news, the second prince Ling Haoyang came to the house to inquire.
"Grandpa, what's going on with the appointment and dismissal of officials in Yizhou? Why are our people all petty officials?"
"Your Highness, I'm in a dilemma too! For the officials in Yizhou, I tried every means and argued hard in front of the emperor before recommending our people. But for some reason, they always have various symptoms in their bodies. situation.
well! It's our people who are not living up to expectations, and there is really nothing I can do about it. "
Later, Ling Haoyang mentioned the iron mine of the third prince, "Grandpa, where do you think the iron mine of the third prince is? His life is good, and he can find iron ore. But he is really stupid, he is rich and has soldiers. It collapsed without doing anything. If we had this iron ore, it would have happened long ago."
"Your Highness, please be careful!" Cen Taichang quickly stopped, then looked outside and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, don't be anxious! Now that the Yizhou incident has happened, we have only lost some money and food, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Now that the Emperor is old, the little one is The emperor and his grandson are still young, and we have plenty of opportunities. Now we should lie dormant, recharge our batteries and wait for the opportunity."
