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"Oh, what else can it be? I don't have money to pay the rent!" The middle-aged man said: "You can tell from their appearance that this mother and son are from Beiyuan. They settled down in Yangzhou Mansion a few years ago. A Xiufang works as a helper. Her man is in Beiyuan. I heard that he is a miner. He sends money to them every month to support them. Didn’t a mine collapse in Beiyuan a few days ago? I heard that her man was also in it, so he couldn’t escape come out."

What happened afterwards is easy to understand. The husband died, the pillars of the family collapsed, the mother and son couldn't pay the rent, and were kicked out by the landlord.

The boy was about twelve or thirteen years old, and looked very thin, but he bravely stood up amidst the pointing and pointing of the crowd, blocking his mother behind him.

In fact, it's not that they are completely unable to pay the rent, it's just that the accident of the man in the family happened too suddenly, and all their savings were used as favors to have their husband's bones buried.

The people around said harsh words, and they didn't put the Beiyuan people on an equal footing at all.In their hearts, Beiyuan is a vassal state of Dazhou, and they have to pay all the fire engine oil as a tax tribute every year. Compared with their equals, Beiyuan people are more like mines for mining in the eyes of Dazhou people. The fire mechanism is not even as expensive as a real fire mechanism.

Situ Meng wanted to help them, but Jing Shen stopped him. Jing Shen glanced at the people around him and said, "If you can protect them for a while, can you protect them forever? Don't you still have to escort by the side?"

Mr. Bao also persuaded him: "Now what we see is just the tip of the iceberg. Before the founding of the Great Zhou, Beiyuan has been relying on relying on powerful countries to survive. The long-standing bad habits, coupled with their own slavishness, cannot be changed overnight. If we want to prevent this situation from happening again, we can only start from the root cause.”

Situ Meng still wanted to go forward, but he heard a girl's voice behind him, "How much is your house? I bought it!"

Her voice wasn't too loud, but it was very clear, and her timbre was as crisp as a yellow warbler.When the onlookers heard the sound, they subconsciously searched for the source of the sound, and soon found an engine-operated carriage parked by the side of the road, and a girl in egg yolk clothes jumped out of the carriage.

"Are you the owner of this house?" The girl in yellow walked up to a middle-aged woman in front of Beiyuan's mother and son, and asked.

"Uh... yes... miss, who are you?"

As soon as the landlord saw the ostentation of the girl in yellow, she knew that she was very human. There were many wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou, so maybe this girl was one of them.

"My surname is Zeng."

"Zeng... Is it the Zeng family in Yangzhou?"

"That's right, our lady is the eldest lady of the Zeng family in Yangzhou!" The maids of the girl in yellow chased after her and answered for her.

Jing Shen asked Mr. Bao: "The Zeng family in Yangzhou?"

"This is the lady of the Zeng family in Yangzhou, no wonder..." Mr. Bao muttered, and introduced to Jing Shen and Situ Meng: "The Zeng family in Yangzhou is the most famous philanthropist in Yangzhou. He has made a lot of contributions. Every month he will set up a porridge shed to give porridge to some homeless people, and he has also raised many children who lost their parents. He has a good reputation in the whole Jiangnan. Moreover, the Zeng family only gave birth to an only daughter in this generation. I think it's Miss Zeng."

Jing Shen nodded, and then looked at the center of the crowd. Miss Zeng quickly bought the landlord's house at twice the price. She took over the deed, glanced at it and put it away.

Seeing that she was going close to the Beiyuan mother and son, her servants hurriedly stopped her, "Miss!"

"Stand back, all of you!" Miss Zeng yelled at them, then turned to Beiyuan mother and son, "Are you all okay... Oh, your hand is hurt!"

Ms. Zeng took out a delicate silk handkerchief to bandage the boy in Beiyuan, and said, "This should stop the bleeding temporarily. Here, here, here is this for you. Take it to the medical center to buy some medicine! From now on, you and your mother can feel at ease." Live here and no one will kick you out again."

The boy from Beiyuan stared blankly at the jade bracelet in his hand, and said, "Thank you."

Miss Zeng smiled, and then patted the head of the boy in Beiyuan, "From now on, study hard and work hard. Although your father is gone, your mother is still here. You have to take good care of your mother for your father, you know? "

The boy from Beiyuan nodded, looking at Miss Zeng's back as she left.

Situ Meng said: "In the end, someone came to help. It seems that the world is not too bad."

Mr. Bao smiled. He saw the Zeng family's fire engine carriage just now, so he didn't let Situ Meng take action. This kind of compassionate thing should be done by a professional.

Back at the manor, Situ Meng sat in the yard staring at the moon in a daze. Jing Shen knew that he was still worried about the daytime affairs, so he just sat quietly beside him. Situ Meng looked at the moonlight, and he looked at Situ Meng's profile.

What Situ Meng thought about was the future of the country, and the attitude of the people towards the people in Beiyuan that he saw today. He knew that this was wrong, but he didn't know how to change this situation with his own ability.

Seeing Jing Shen, he invited Jing Shen to have a drink together. Originally, he planned to drink away his sorrows, but unexpectedly, Jing Shen was a person who drank a glass of wine, and fell asleep on the stone table after only drinking a small glass of wine.

At this time, the little chubby dog ​​Mengmeng also played wildly with the dogs in the garden for a day. When he was tired, he came back to find his master. Seeing that the master was asleep, he arched Situ Meng's leg with his head.

Situ Meng had no choice but to help Jingshen back to the room, only to find that Jingshen has grown a little taller than him now, gradually feeling like an adult man.

The depth of field was placed on the bed by Situ Meng, talking in sleep, "Brother Meng...uh...Brother Meng..."

Situ Meng laughed and blamed him, "Now I know how to call brother, why haven't I seen you so obedient before?!"

When he woke up the next day, Jing Shen had recovered his original vitality, Situ Meng saw that he didn't look hungover, so he ignored him.

However, he didn't care about the depth of field, but the depth of field found him the Fireworks Factory. Seeing Situ Meng drawing pictures alone in the design room, he sat down in front of him and said, "Amon, I want to ask you to do me a favor. A batch of firecrackers!"

"Fire blunderbuss? This is something we folk workshops can't do, right? That's what the fire department is qualified to do. Folk workshops who do this will be imprisoned."

Situ Meng thought that he didn't understand the rule that folks can't make firearms and weapons privately, so he popularized science with him, but Jing Shen said: "I know, of course I won't let you do it casually, I mentioned it to my brother-in-law. The order is placed in the name of Jiangnan General Army Battalion. You said that the original firecracker should be changed, so that the firepower should be greater, the recoil should be minimized, and the number of bullets in the firecracker is too small!"

"Are you going to change everything you said?"

Depth of Field let out a "hmm", "Try to be as fast as possible, you can make a small batch... a dozen or so pieces, and then mass-produce them."

Situ Meng wrote them down in a small notebook and asked him, "Are you free now? Take you to a place."

Depth of Field tilted his head. When he interacted with Situ Meng, Depth of Field always took the initiative, and Situ Meng followed his pace. Situ Meng was rarely seen taking the initiative. It was rare to see him now, and he couldn't react.

Situ Meng pulled Jing Shen out of the fireworks factory together, and the two walked along the main road of Chengning Villa. When they were about to leave the villa, Situ Meng led him to make a sharp turn, and the two turned to a remote path.

I don't know how long it took, and it was so long that the scene was deep enough to doubt whether it had crossed the boundary of the villa, so Situ Meng stopped. The two walked through a small forest and saw the grassland in front of them.

The area of ​​the grassland is not small, but half of it is surrounded by small forests, and half is the South China Sea. The grassland is like a separate world that has been cut off.

There are sheep, cows, and horses in the grassland, and they are not ordinary breeds of horses, but horses that are taller and stronger than the existing war horses in Da Zhou.

"This..." Jing Shen was a little surprised when he looked at the dozen or so tall horses that stood out from the crowd.

"At this time, the war horses acquired from overseas, physical fitness and other indicators are better than our existing war horses in Dazhou. Although the price is not cheap, it is still within the acceptable range." Situ Meng said: "Remember Is it? Once you mentioned in a letter that you wanted better horses."

Of course Jing Shen remembered, in fact, he remembered all the correspondence with Situ Meng, but he didn't expect that the other party would take it so seriously.

Coupled with the restrictions on the types of war horses in the Great Zhou Dynasty, this kind of horses that can go to the battlefield has always been controlled. If ordinary people get more than five or six war horses, they will be fined and handed over the war horses.In order to keep these horses for him, Situ Meng even opened up a grassland that outsiders can't find out!

"Thank you..." Apart from these words, Jing Shen didn't know what other words could express his mood at the moment.

Seeing how moved he was, Situ Meng touched his shoulders in a good mood, "You have to keep it a secret, you can't tell this grassland! I'll tell you secretly, I'll ask the caravan to keep an eye on it, and let them take the good varieties With all the horses brought back, the grassland may not be able to hold it in the future...but that will happen a long time later."

"Don't worry, whether it's me or my brother-in-law, I'll keep it a secret for you. After all, this is the hope of our Great Zhou army."

The status of the Great Zhou army today is much better than when the two faint kings were in power, but it is still far behind when the Great Zhou first established its dynasty in terms of scale and military resources and weapons.

Great Zhou's army was strong on the outside but strong on the inside, so it would be fine in a peaceful age, but if any neighboring country took a fancy to the fat meat of Great Zhou, with the strength of Great Zhou's military, it would not be able to withstand a single temptation from others.

Every day, Jing Shen goes out to Yangzhou or further away in Jiaozhou, Qingzhou and other places to inquire about the information of reselling fire engine oil, but the enemy hides too deeply, and all he can get in touch with is just superficial. Even if it is simply a fantasy, it is even very possible to scare the enemy and make them hide deeper.

However, Situ Meng resumed his work as the owner of the estate. Now Situ Li spends less and less time in the manor. He spends most of his time in Yangzhou handling his own business, and occasionally helps Gao Haosi manage the affairs of the sea caravan.

With the experience of the first batch of volunteers going to sea with the caravan, the number of people sent by Situ Meng to participate in the caravan has tripled since then, and the goods exchanged have also been upgraded a lot.

The caravans lived up to expectations, and every time they brought back what Situ Meng wanted, Chengning Villa had its own technology, coupled with the technology of overseas countries, the two were integrated together to produce a lot of eye-catching products. A bright product.

The sign of Chengning Villa, together with the Fireworks Factory, has gradually become the dominant one in Yangzhou.

However, other businessmen in Yangzhou will not let Situ Meng take all the benefits alone, especially the Li family, which also focuses on fire mechanism tools. Before the fireworks factory appeared, their family was not the only one in Yangzhou. At least it can occupy half of the Yangzhou market.

However, after the appearance of Huahuo Factory, its novel design, affordable price and strong practicability quickly found its foothold in Yangzhou, and occupied most of the Yangzhou market at an astonishing speed.

The current head of the Li family is a Buddhist businessman who doesn't care about the family property, but the brothers below can't understand his lazy style and support the Li family's fire mechanism workshop.

Seeing that the fire mechanism workshop that had been built up with great difficulty was about to be banned by the Huahuo factory, the second and third sons of the Li family decided to destroy the Huahuo factory, so that Situ Meng would know that it is not that simple to gain a foothold in Yangzhou.

"Villager! Zhuangzhu! Look at this. It's the news from the direct-sale store in Yangzhou, saying that there is a problem with the products of the Huahuo factory. The new batch of leggings that leave the factory can't be taken off after wearing them!"