Forced to farm for the princess

What's more, most of the caravans that can talk now are controlled by other aristocratic families, and there are very few caravans like Zhu Cheng who have no aristocratic family behind them and can grow so big.

Wei Ruojin thought that it would be great if he could unite all the caravans to form a chamber of commerce, so that he could control the prices of the items, and the taxation could be basically transparent.

"I don't care about that side, I want to fill the entire northwest with shops, Xinglin City alone is not enough." Wei Ruojin can't stop the caravan for the time being, but he still has no problem with the shops in his hands. Let's see who the people buy from.

"Young master, the general opened a shop before seeing you, so he bought a lot of shops in other streets of Xinglin City, but the shops that are particularly good are not willing to sell, only the second-class ones." Then Xin Yi said that the palace still has a lot of shops. other shops.

"Why didn't I know when it happened?" Wei Ruojin frowned.

Xin Yi quickly lowered his head, and said: "For a while, the maid saw that you were busy, and wanted to wait until you were free, but I didn't expect it to be delayed until this time."

"Understood, you send all the land deeds here and I'll see." Wei Ruojin waved Xin Yi out, and after a while Xin Yi sent a stack of land deeds.

Wei Ruojin rummaged through it, and in each street, one shop was selected to be used as a grocery store, and the other shops were reserved for now, and they haven't decided what to sell yet.

However, he started to have troubles again as to who should be allowed to visit these shops. It was embarrassing for no one in his hands who wanted to do something.Wei Ruojin focused her attention on Butler Shang, but unfortunately the palace really couldn't do without him, and there was no suitable general in the mansion.

Look for someone outside, who can speak well but is illiterate, let alone settle accounts, such a person cannot be a shopkeeper.

Wei Ruojin rubbed her forehead, and looked for the shopkeeper slowly, first, let's decorate the shop first, it's really impossible, isn't there still some people in the palace who are studying with Qin Chong?It's not impossible to pick some who can't study medicine and send them to the shop, and be a small shopkeeper for a while.

After figuring it out, Wei Ruojin sent someone to repair the shop. Feeling a bit cold, he put on an extra layer of clothes.The leaves on the tree turned yellow, and a gust of wind blew them down one after another.

Some people should have started harvesting food in the past few days. It happened that I haven't been to Pinghe Town for a long time, and I don't know what's going on there.

Wei Ruojin only left a message for Lin Heng, and took her family to Pinghe Town.Pinghe Town is still desolate; however, the streets have been cleaned up, and some dilapidated houses have been repaired to accommodate people.

"Young Master, Young Master, the young ones are planning to collect all the food, and want to go back to the palace to report and find some cars."

This person was unfamiliar, Wei Ruojin didn't know how long he had stayed in the palace, so he said: "I have transferred the car, let's just collect the food."

There are few people in Pinghe Town, almost all of them are prisoners. Because they harvested a lot of corn before, these people seem to have a lot of peace. After having sweet potatoes, they are more careful. All planted.

Wei Ruojin was worried that the Ranjue people would suddenly kill him before, but seeing the truckloads of grain being transported away, his heart gradually eased back.

It took three days in a row before they harvested all the grain grown in Pinghe Town, and Wei Ruojin even transported all the corn stalks back.

"I've seen you son..."

Wei Ruojin was in a good mood, and he also read the records made by the old man, which were very detailed; the old man was illiterate, so someone else should have helped me to write it down.

"Huh? Just say something."

"Young master, you said before that if you are willing to stay here to open up wasteland, and if you are willing to change your past, you can get fields and household registration here, then..."

Wei Ruojin looked up and saw that he was dressed like a general of the Wangfu, "Of course, the same is true for other people. If you have this idea, of course it's okay. Whoever made this record, let him come to see this young master."

After a while, the family general brought up a young man who could tell at a glance that he was not from Dachang.

"Little Lian Ping has met the young master."

"Young master, Lian Ping's mother is from Ranjue, and his father is from Dachang. He studied with his father since he was a child." The family general lowered his head very much, afraid that Wei Ruojin would blame him.

Having never heard of the surname Lian, Wei Ruojin thought, maybe it was just a small family that was not well-known, but he was a little curious about how a member of a family could be related to Ran Jue.

"How many books have you read?"

"The young ones read all the books written by his father himself. My father wrote more than 30 volumes, and the young ones still have a few volumes to read." Lian Ping said respectfully.

When Wei Ruojin went there last time, she didn't realize there were such talents there, "I read your record, it's very good, my son will give you one more thing, there are people who are willing to settle here under the registration, including prisoners and other good citizens."

Lian Ping was full of astonishment, did the young man in front of him not mind his background at all?

"Don't want to?" Wei Ruojin waited for a while before realizing that the man didn't answer, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the young man seemed to be in a daze.

"No... no, thank you young master." After Lian Ping stepped back, he realized what he had promised after walking a long way. If you hide in this small place, you can still take your parents away from this poor place.

After harvesting the food, Pinghe Town also became quiet. Wei Ruojin counted the number of people. There are 345 people in total. Excluding the generals of the palace, there are also 200 people. It’s fine if they live here in summer, but it’s going to be cold winter soon. , If you live here again, you will freeze to death.

But taking them back to Xinglin City is not easy to settle down. After all, they are all criminals. Although there are few real criminals, they are committed crimes;

Except for the real villains, they were basically locked up because of trivial matters or offending the nobles. For such people, Wei Ruojin stayed in Pinghe Town, and took the rest back to mine.

In fact, in Wei Ruojin's view, Pinghe Town needs to be completely demolished and rebuilt.But now he has very few people who can use it, so where can he find craftsmen.

It would be great if only cement could be produced. Wei Ruojin lowered her head and called out the system store. After searching for a while, she found the formula for cement. This system store is not humanized at all, and you can't search directly.

His fingers hesitated for a while on the cement formula, but he decided not to buy it for now, in case he thought of something to buy again and was short of points and didn't know when he would be able to like it.It's better to go back to Lin Heng to discuss it. It would be even better to find a professional person. At that time, a city wall will be built here, at the junction of Ranjue and Pinghe Town.

Wei Ruojin took the people away, but Pinghe Town became lively, and the people who stayed started to build new houses in the place where Ranjue and Dachang people lived together.

The harvested sweet potatoes need to be placed for a period of time to let the water lose some of the sweetness, and the corn also needs to be dried. Wei Ruojin is also very worried when looking at these grains. It can't be dried even in the sun, and if it is put outside, it may be stolen by others.

"My lord, these mansions can't be opened. If it's put in the granary of Xinglin City, will it be yours or the court's?" Shang Butler has lived his whole life, and he has never seen anyone except in the barracks. There is so much food in the family, the entire palace can't be filled.

The whole person is dizzy, and he has been dreaming these few days.

Wei Ruojin pondered for a while, and said, "Send all these sweet potatoes to the dungeon, they are empty anyway, pay attention to ventilation."

Steward Shang immediately gave orders, and seeing Wei Ruojin frowning at the corn, he didn't dare to make a sound. He had never eaten this kind of grain, and he didn't know how to handle it properly.

The millet, wheat and soybeans that are usually planted are all to be dried in the sun. Butler Shang touched it with his hands and found that the outer shell is not hard. When he took it in his hand, he peeled it unconsciously, revealing the golden yellow flesh.

"My lord, this... is this all for food?" Butler Shang was more surprised when he saw this than when he saw sweet potatoes. "It doesn't look like jade, it should be called golden rice."

"It's fine to eat these now, or to grind them into noodles after drying; by the way, you can take some baskets and save some to send to Taishou Yin and Chen Wei." Wei Ruojin thought for a while, and then said: "Give me some Send a basket to the past."

"Yes, young master." Those who want to give away, butler Shang will do it himself.

After thinking about it, Wei Ruojin decided to keep only two carts of corn as seeders, and send the rest of the corn to the military camp, so that they could dry it and eat it by themselves.

The old general Di came to apologize last time, and he, a junior, can't really pretend that he didn't see anything.

Wei Ruojin directed people to set up poles, peel off the corn husks, tie them to the poles, and let them dry in the sun.Then let Hu Qi go to the military camp with five carts of corn.

"General Di, my lord, the palace has sent something, and it is waiting for you to check and accept it at the gate of the barracks."

Lin Heng was discussing with Di Rong about raising soldiers, when he heard the report from the deputy general outside the door, they looked at each other, got up quickly, and asked, "What is it?"

"It is said that the food sent by the princess is five carts." The deputy general is very happy. Since the general's grandson married a daughter-in-law, the life of these military men has started to live better. Most of the others are injured and wait to die. They all take medicine and occasionally get a full meal.

"Didn't you say that Ah Jin is angry, and all the things given to the barracks have to be calculated at the market price? Then this food..." Di Rong looked at his grandson.

"Let's go and have a look first. I can't let you pay for this food even at the market price." Lin Heng and Di Rong walked to the gate of the barracks together, and they saw Hu Qi standing leading the convoy.

"Did the concubine send it?" Lin Heng asked.

"Yes, the princess said that there was not enough space in the mansion to dry it, so she asked her subordinates to bring the corn over, saying that it was..." Hu Qi gave him a somewhat embarrassed look.

"say what?"

"Let General Di dry it out and collect it himself. He only needs one cart." Hu Qi quickly lowered his head after speaking.