The lucky star of rebirth

Chapter 33 Righteousness
Ji Zhen is like this, even Ji Songxian can't help feeling worried.

She glanced at Ji Zhen and asked, "How were these projects done in the past years? Is there no one doing the work every year?"

Ji Zhen laughed when she heard her question like this: "You, you really don't hear anything out of the window. The moat has not been dredged for many years. In the past, the city wall was reinforced and the drainage ditch was repaired. Because of floods or droughts, there are many refugees. These people will do anything to have enough food. If they are given some money, countless people will rush to do the work. Only in the past few years, the world has been peaceful and the weather has been good. Who else is willing to do it? These coolies?"

Ji Songxian frowned and was stumped for a moment.

She thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a good solution, so she couldn't help but look at the memories of self-safety in her mind. Those memories were very vague, and she couldn't see most of the knowledge. She only remembered a little to lure them.

However, the Ministry of Industry has given a lot of wages and no one is doing it. It is really...

"Eighth brother, what kind of work do you need to do this dredging?" Ji Songxian and his party wanted to ask.

Ji Zhen had nothing to do, so he taught her patiently: "Speaking of which, this job is hard and tiring. People have to jump into the river to clear the mud from the bottom of the river to the bank, and then transport the cleared mud away. It’s easier than it is to do. The mud is so old and it’s from the bottom of the river, so it’s very laborious to shovel it up. In addition, the mud at the bottom of the river is so thick that if you don’t pay attention, you will fall into the mud and you won’t be able to pull it out. , no wonder no one wants to do this kind of work.”

The more Ji Songxian heard it, the more she frowned, and she thought that such a job must be assisted by a tool, so that people will be willing to do it when they are free, but... In her memory, there are indeed many tools that can do this job after more than 1000 years. It's not just that she only has such vague memories, even Cheng Ping'an probably doesn't know how those machines were made.

This is really embarrassing.

"No wonder the lords want to complain." Ji Songxian shook his head and said: "The time limit given by His Majesty is too short, the work is too hard, and there is no good way, not to mention the lords, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do it on anyone."

"Why not?" Ji Zhen nodded and admitted.

"It would be great if there are some sharp tools that can help with the work." Ji Songxian was troubled for a while and then thought that it was not his own business, so he smiled and chatted with Ji Zhen, and said some thoughts in his mind: "If There is a good tool that allows people to clear the mud up without jumping into the river. I don’t know how much trouble it will save. I am afraid that some people will do it because of the high wages, and then post notices in a few villages on the outskirts of Jinling. Tell the villagers that if they are willing to do the work, in addition to getting paid, they can also transport the cleared silt to their own fields to make fertilizer. A lot of things are coming."

Her unintentional words reminded Ji Zhen, and Ji Zhen slapped his head: "What my sister said is very true, why didn't I think of it."

He stood up happily and was about to go out, Ji Songxian quickly grabbed him: "Wait a minute, I have something to ask Brother Eight."

Hearing this, Ji Zhen had to stop and sit down patiently again.

Ji Songxian smiled at him: "I met a lady earlier, and I helped her a little bit. That lady's situation is very pitiful, so I pay more attention to it from time to time. She once told me that she hid some things in a school. In the house, if she passed away, ask me to take it out. Some are given to me by her, and some are left by her to her son. The things that were given to me are only these things..."

While speaking, Ji Songxian showed Ji Zhen the house deeds, land deeds, salt quotations and so on.

Ji Zhen took it over and was surprised: "This... this is too heavy."

Ji Songxian's face was a little shy: "I also know that taking some is not very righteous, but she was harmed by others, if I don't take advantage of those who harmed her, besides, it is always her wish, now she People are gone..."

Speaking of this, Ji Songxian was a little bit speechless.

Ji Zhen looked at her: "Sister, what do you think, it's a sincere gift from someone, so just keep it."

Ji Songxian nodded: "I took a look, these real estates are not easy to take care of, so I want to ask the eighth brother to help sell them, and sell these salts too, so I feel more at ease in exchange for money."

"Really sell it?" Ji Zhen was a little uncertain: "If my sister keeps it and rents it out every year, there will be a lot of rent. If she sells it, it will be a one-time transaction, and she will be gone if she wants to buy it in the future."

"Sell." Ji Songxian nodded firmly: "Please help the eighth brother."

"Okay." Even though Ji Songxian had made up his mind, Ji Zhen didn't shirk it: "I have a friend who wants to buy some real estate, but now there are good fields around Jinling, and he is not satisfied after looking around. Seeing that my sister's land is good, I might as well sell it to him."

"The eighth brother is the master." Ji Songxian got up and gave Ji Zhen a solemn salute, and then handed over the land deeds and other things to Ji Zhen.

When she came out from Ji Zhen, she still had some thoughts about what the adults said, so she didn't go back to the house, and went to Ji Yi's study room. Earlier, she said to help Ji Yi put the books in the study room. In the past few days, it was not possible to finish it. Today, I took back my own things and handed over the things left by the Song family to Cheng Huaijin. I was very satisfied, so I went to Ji Yi's study to put back the books while I was happy. .

This method of arranging the books was obtained by Ji Songxian from those memory fragments. It seems that those libraries have been doing this for thousands of years. As for how the library exists, Ji Songxian has not fully figured it out yet.

Ji Yi was not there when she passed by, so Ji Songxian checked all kinds of books first, so that he knew what he knew, then took a piece of paper and wrote them down, and divided them into four categories according to classics, histories, sons, and collections, and then divided them into four categories: Many small categories.

It's just that she thought it was simple, and thought it would be easy to arrange the book, but it was very troublesome to actually do it. After writing the charter for a while, Ji Songxian became a little impatient, thinking about how long it would take for her to do it herself. , I also thought that if it took a long time to get these books in Ji Yi's study room, which books Ji Yi wanted to find would not be easy to find, but it would delay the matter. It would be better to discuss this matter with Ji Yi, and everyone will work together to get it done .

So she carefully wrote a charter and took it to look for Ji Yi, who happened to find it in Wu's house.

At that time, Ji Yi was talking to Mrs. Wu, and he also talked about the difficulty in finding manpower in Jinling City, that is, it takes a lot of effort for a rich family to find a servant to do rough work, and the other is Jinling City. It is difficult to find manpower for many yamen to do work.

Thinking of her hard life in the countryside when she was a child, Wu also sighed: "Baby is very serious. I think how many of us didn't have enough to eat when we were young. It's just that we don't pay for our hard work. As long as we can manage our food, we don't know." How many people are scrambling to do it."

Coincidentally, when she said this, Ji Songxian opened the curtain and came in, greeted Wu Shi and Ji Yi first, and said with a smile: "Is daddy still worrying about the affairs of the adults? According to me, I should ask the adults to ask the young masters of the family for advice." Go, Mr. Cheng has always been a bit smart and has a lot of ideas, if not, he can come up with a good idea with all the adults."

Ji Songxian also thought for a long time on the way here before saying such words to Ji Yi.

She hates Cheng Pingan, and she doesn't even want to make Cheng Pingan feel better, but this is a personal enmity, and the Ministry of Industry built the city wall and dug the moat to strengthen the city's defenses. Flooded, if Jinling is really flooded, how many people will die? Ji Songxian still remembers that she once heard from the elders that there was a heavy rain in Jinling more than 30 years ago, and that rain lasted for three days and three nights. The water could not be drained out, the river was blocked, and many houses in the south of the city were submerged in the water.

When the flood receded, many corpses lay there, and because it was summer, the epidemic could not be avoided with these corpses placed there. In that year, thousands of people died in Jinling due to floods and epidemics.

Thinking about these things, Ji Songxian's scalp is numb, she can't ignore the life and death of the people in the city because of her personal affairs.

Although Cheng Ping'an is confused about the relationship between men and women, he is a person from a thousand years later, and he has more ideas than people today. Maybe adults can come up with good ideas if they ask them. If the projects in the city are done well, there are really countless people alive.

Ji Yi and Wu looked at her in surprise after hearing Ji Songxian's words.

Mrs. Wu said loudly: "Sister Xian, you... are you crazy, and you actually asked the ministers to ask about that thing?"

Ji Songxian smiled: "Mother, I also look down on the surname Cheng, but no matter what, we have to admit that he does have many ideas that others can't think of. I can't abolish state affairs because of my little selfishness."

Just this sentence made Ji Yi slap the table and shout: "Okay, sister Xian's words are good. After all, she is my Ji Yi's daughter. She has a big heart and a clear distinction between public and private. Even a father has to admire it."

Seeing Ji Yi like this, Ji Songxian smiled and blinked at Ji Yi: "Does father admire his daughter's words, or his father's good teaching?"

Hearing this, Mrs. Wu smiled and patted Ji Songxian on the back: "Come on, come on, you two don't praise each other anymore, you are both shameless and shameless, your skin is thicker than a city wall."

Ji Yi also stroked his beard and laughed.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Songxian handed the charter she wrote to Ji Yi, and stood aside to tell Ji Yi her thoughts.

Ji Yi looked at it very seriously, and thought for a while after reading it: "My son, don't worry, I will call your elder brothers and sisters-in-law here for my father, and ask them to help tidy up the study. After finishing it according to my son's method, I will take a good look at it In the end, the method of being a father because he thinks about my son is really a wonderful method, and it can be used in many places."

Ji Yi was also a man of swift and decisive nature, while talking to Ji Songxian, he asked someone to call over the sons who were still at home.

Now the eldest brother Ji Gang is an official in the court, and he lives with his wife and children in a mansion to serve the two elders. The second eldest Ji Jiang was released from his post and went to other places by himself, leaving his wife Wang and son Zongwen at home. After arriving at the place where everything is settled, I will pick up my wife and children. The third son, Jiyi, was only released this year, and the elder Sijiwei is a county magistrate in a county near Jinling. In the Hanlin Academy, the old seven and the eighth were studying at home and preparing for the Jinshi examination.

After a while, the six sons of Ji's family in the mansion rushed over, stood aside and listened to Ji Yi's orders after the ceremony, and after Ji Yi finished speaking, Ji Gang's eyes brightened, and he said with a smile: "Xiao Jiu, I will help you with this method." Just listen, let's put some effort into sorting it out, if it's really convenient, I'd like to sort out those files when I get to the yamen."

Well, someone asked about the background of the daughters-in-law of the eighth sons of the Ji family. The daughter-in-laws married by the eighth sons of the Ji family were not wealthy, but their fathers were all scholars, and their families were upright. These daughter-in-laws were also literate.

(End of this chapter)