Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 127
After Li Jing lived in Yuan's residence for four or five days, Yuan Keli's health finally recovered.

On this day, Yuan Keli ordered his family to pack up their luggage, load the books into the carriage and return to Kaifeng with Li Jing.

Considering Yuan Keli's old age, Li Jing ordered his subordinates to find an inn to rest after only walking fifty miles a day. In this way, it took more than four days to reach Kaifeng after a journey of more than 200 miles.

After arriving in Kaifeng, Li Jing only introduced Yuan Keli to Shen Zheng. Everyone including Shen Yi only knew that Yuan Keli was Li Jing's husband. As for his identity, everyone knew nothing about it.

At the same time, Li Jing also issued a gag order to Zhuzi and other people who knew Yuan Keli's identity, and no one was allowed to disclose Yuan Keli's identity.After all, Yuan Keli had a large family, if it was known that Yuan Keli and Li Jing had arrived at Hongshanling, it would not be a trivial matter to implicate the entire Yuan family.

At this time, everything in Kaifeng was almost done, but the jewelry was still a little short of being sold. In addition, the purchased grain needed to be transported back, and a large number of carts and grooms had to be hired, so they had to wait for several days.

What surprised Li Jing was that the Princess of Zhou Palace and Shen Ying seemed to have become friends, coming over to talk to Shen Ying almost every day.

On this day, Zhu Yuyu came to visit Shen Ying again, and when Princess Zhu entered the inner house, Li Jing pointed to Zhu Yuyu's carriage and secretly asked Shen Zheng: "What's going on? When did your lady become friends with the princess of King Zhou?"

Shen Zheng smiled wryly when he heard the words: "I don't know either. After Shangxiang came back that day, the princess came over the next day, and then came almost every day. I don't know what happened to them. But according to the little girl, The last batch of jewelry we sold seems to have been bought by the Zhou Palace, and the fact that we hired so many carriages this time may have been helped by the Zhou Palace."

"People from Prince Zhou's Mansion help? I'm afraid it's the princess who helped? What's the intention of this girl?" Li Jing frowned.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing said: "We will drive the carts containing the silver with our own people. After the grain carts arrive at Weihui Mansion, let Liu Hong arrange for us to transfer them. No one here will be needed."

"Are you afraid that people from the Prince Zhou's Mansion will investigate us? He is a feudal lord, he won't make things difficult for us, will he? What's more, as long as he leaves the boundary of Kaifeng, he won't dare to reach out, right?" Shen Zheng asked doubtfully.

Li Jing shook his head. He didn't suspect that the King of Zhou was against him. The new emperor ascended the throne, and the world gave amnesty. Even if he had a criminal record before, it is now cleared. He just wondered why the people of King Zhou's mansion would be so kind to help a businessman.

You know, no matter how rich the Shen family is, they are just businessmen. With the status and status of King Zhou, I am afraid that they will not take people like the Shen family seriously.

Zhou Wang is helping now, but someone behind him can only encourage Zhou Wang to do so.

But the Shen family has nothing to do with the king of Zhou at all, and they don't know anyone in the palace of the king of Zhou, even if they do, they can't get along with the big tree of the king of Zhou.

The only possibility is Princess Minde, but Shen Ying and Princess Minde have only known each other for a few days, and the two of them still don't have such a friendship.

What's more, no matter how good the relationship between Shen Ying and the princess is, it would not be possible for King Zhou to work so hard. Li Jing instinctively suspected that it was the princess Minde who was playing tricks.

So even though the princess was helping them, Li Jing had to be careful.

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When returning to Hongshanling, the speed of everyone was several times slower than when they came, not only because of Yuan Keli's body, but also because of the slow movement of the vehicles carrying the goods.

The silver taels brought back from Kaifeng amounted to more than 100 taels. Except for Li Jing's batch of jewelry, Shen Zheng sold almost all of his property in Kaifeng, and bought a large amount of grain, cotton, salt, etc. The necessary materials are fully loaded with more than [-] carts.

When the vehicle arrived at the Weihui Mansion, Liu Hong had already received a letter from Li Jing, and had prepared the vehicle early on, replacing all the carriages and drivers in the Zhou Palace.

From Kaifeng to Weihui, the road is fairly easy, but after passing through Qi County and entering the mountainous area, the road gets worse and worse. Fortunately, after Gao Qi received Li Jing's letter, he urgently ordered Zheng Yucheng to lead people to repair the road from Qi County. The road into the mountain from the county direction.After receiving the order, Zheng Yucheng dispatched almost all the labor force of the whole mountain, and it took nearly a month to finally build a road for vehicles to enter the mountain.

Even so, by the time Li Jing and the others returned to Hongshanling, it was already mid-October.

Li Jing has been away from the mountain for almost a month, and he has many affairs to deal with after returning.

First of all, Li Jing and Shen Zheng came forward at the same time to gather all the people on the mountain, not for anything else, but to tell everyone that the relationship between Li Jing and Shen Zheng is still the same, and this time they brought back a large amount of money and various supplies. Let all the brothers rest assured that the military salary is guaranteed, and all kinds of daily necessities are also guaranteed. As long as everyone follows him, you don't have to worry about what you need in the future.

Then Li Jing cleaned up the roster in front of everyone, and deleted the names of all the people who left the mountain.

To Li Jing's satisfaction, there were not even 50 people in Lishan, which was beyond Li Jing's expectation.

After asking Li Jing, he learned that Gao Qi and Zhang Ao had done a lot of work during the period, and finally let those who hesitated stay.

After the people on the mountain stabilized, Li Jing began to deal with some affairs accumulated by Gao Qi, Zhang Ao and others.

After more than a year of tempering, Li Jing has become familiar with handling these matters. In just half a day, he finished handling the matters accumulated for a month. Seeing Li Jing's proficiency in business, Yuan Keli nodded silently.

But seeing that Li Jing bowed himself to every detail, Yuan Keli couldn't help shaking his head slightly.

After Li Jing finished handling all the matters, Yuan Keli sighed and said: "You can't do this. No matter how much energy you have, you can't do everything. Sometimes when it's time to delegate power, you must delegate power."

Li Jingwen smiled wryly and said, "Sir, I don't want to either. You don't know. Except for Zhang Ao who was born as a scholar on the mountain, only Uncle Shen can read some words. The rest of the people have limited literacy. It is still a problem to let them do things according to orders." It’s not big, I’m afraid it won’t work if I do things independently.”

Yuan Keli nodded and said, "Then do you have any good solutions to this problem?"

Li Jing shook his head and sighed: "To be honest, there is no other way for the time being. Ms. Shen can teach the children, but it is not convenient to teach these elders! At first I wanted Zhang Ao to teach the following people how to read and write, but As you can see, the affairs on the mountain are so complicated that Uncle Shen can't handle it all by himself. I have no choice but to ask Zhang Ao to help Uncle Shen. Alas, Uncle Shen and I have been away from the mountain for a month. You see, Zhang Ao is tired What is it like? I felt a little distressed when I saw it, but how could he be so tired if there are only a few people who can read and write on the mountain? Look! Here it comes again."

As soon as Li Jing finished speaking, he saw Zhang Ao bringing Zheng Yucheng over.

Seeing that the two wanted to meet, Li Jing waved his hands hastily: "You two are tired enough, don't mess with these useless things, come! Sit down and talk."

After finishing speaking, Li Jing poured tea for the two of them: "Speak, there is something to do."

Zhang Ao and Zheng Yucheng hurriedly took the teacup and put it aside. Zhang Ao said, "Brother, that's it. Yucheng said that we have built a road between the mountain and the outside. It is convenient to go in and out, but it is difficult to defend. He came here I want to ask, should we build a protective wall at the mountain pass?"

After hearing this, Li Jing looked at Zheng Yucheng and thought, "This kid has a strong sense of safety, not bad!"

Immediately said: "Well, I think Yucheng is serious about things, and he will be responsible for the construction in the future. Yucheng, if you think there is a need for construction, just tell me, and I will let Zhang Ao fully cooperate with you, but I think you'd better be able to Form the drawings of the things that need to be built, so that one is easy to understand, and the other is that building according to the drawings saves you from running around and giving pointers.”

Zheng Yucheng scratched his head and said, "Brother, brother can only do things, but can't draw pictures."

Li Jing shook his head, spread his hands to Yuan Keli, then turned to Zhang Ao and said, "Brother, I have to trouble you to work harder and help Yucheng draw a blueprint according to Yucheng's design."

Zhang Ao nodded.

After Zhang Ao and Zheng Yucheng left, Li Jing said to Yuan Keli: "Sir, you see, it's not that I don't trust them, and it's not that I don't want to delegate power to them. The key is that I don't have anyone under my command."

Yuan Keli nodded silently: "So you have to change your development thinking a little bit, you have to recruit some educated people to go up the mountain, otherwise, are you going to rely on these illiterates to govern your territory? Or is everything up to you Do it yourself? You can’t wait for the children on the mountain to grow up before expanding your territory?”

Li Jing hurriedly said: "Of course not, but those who have studied are probably unwilling to go up the mountain?"

Yuan Keli waved his hands and said, "Why do you have to let them join the team? You should hire people in the name of the book office. You must know that there are so many scholars in this world who can't afford to eat. As long as your price is reasonable, they will definitely have someone willing to work for you. work."

"In the name of the book office?" Li Jing asked in surprise.

"Of course, the book office, the book office, is something that scholars can do. The name sounds pleasing to their ears, and they are naturally willing to do things for you. When they go up the mountain, even if they know they have entered the bandit's den, as long as you don't call out the bandits They won’t leave in name. By the way, you must remember in the future that you and the people under you are not bandits, but decent people. Can others still see you as a good person?" Yuan Keli said.

Li Jingwen suddenly understood, yes, why do I always regard myself as a bandit?Even if what we are doing is a bandit thing, we have to be seen as righteous. Even that boy Song Jiang knew that he was doing justice for the sky when he rebelled. I didn't expect that this is really stupid enough. .

Li Jing looked at Yuan Keli, and saw the old man's righteous and dignified appearance, and Li Jing thought of an idiom: old, treacherous and cunning.

Yuan Keli's first strategy for going up the mountain solved the problem of lack of scholars in Hongshanling.

In the next few days, Li Jing took Yuan Keli from Hongshanling to Laohuling, and from Laohuling to Wanbaishan Valley.

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