Chapter 202 Han Xing is back

When the telescope was put into Grandpa Ling's hands, Twelve Niang, dressed in red, was like a fire phoenix, waving the golden whip in her hand and shouting something into the telescope.

She knew there was someone watching from the watchtower. Although she didn't know who it was, she was very excited. It was like she had been away from home for many days and finally returned. Just seeing a fellow villager would make her feel very familiar.

If she knew that the person looking at her at this moment was Jin Sui, she would probably scream on horseback! Yan Jiu was not sitting in the carriage either, but also riding a horse, wearing a snow-white cloak and a thick white fox fur collar, which made him look like a banished immortal.

Only Grandpa Ling uttered a hissing sound: "Wearing such white clothes while riding a horse, it will be so difficult to wash them if they get dirty!"

Jin Sui was successfully led astray by Grandpa Ling: "I have always been curious, the young heroes who travel the rivers and lakes all like to wear white clothes, but it is so difficult to wash them when they are splattered with blood or mud. Do they wash their clothes themselves?"

Grandpa Ling sneered, "That's just nonsense from a storybook. I've been traveling around the world for so many years, and I've never seen any rich kid wearing white clothes. They're not in mourning. Good materials and colors are all good-looking."

Yan Jiu was an exception, he always carried carpets, tea cups, porcelain bottles and tea sets with him wherever he went, which was different from the norm for rich kids, as he was the head of a family and could afford to change into new clothes every day.

While they were chatting, Gu Changxiao and his group arrived. Jin Sui hurriedly said to Hei Hu, "Go pick up Han Xing and the others."

"Notify Mr. Cheng and arrange a welcoming banquet."

Yan Shiyi appeared again miraculously: "Tonight, my Yan family is hosting a welcoming banquet for the head of the family. Please invite all the soldiers of the Black Feather Camp to join us."

Jin Sui smiled and said, "Well, save a meal. Prepare more wine and meat!"

Yan Shiyi wanted to look at her with contempt, but he didn't dare, fearing that he would be beaten. He just said proudly: "How can the banquet of my Yan family be bad!"

Seeing that Jinsui was deliberately ignoring him, Gu Changxiao picked up Jinan and asked him to go with Heihu to pick up Hanxing.

Grandpa Ling naturally put the telescope in his arms, and then took a group of apprentices to see the address of the Taoist temple he had just chosen.

Yan Shiyi also ran to pick up his brother and sister. After a while, everyone left and only Jinsui and Gu Changxiao were left.

She pointed to the boundary of the red silk with a stern face and said, "Your Highness, please have a look. I have already chosen the address for the academy."

Gu Changxiao saw that she had just laughed with Grandpa Ling and was also chatting and laughing with Yan Shiyi, so he frowned when it was his turn. But he was not angry at all, and apologized to Jin Sui: "Are you still angry Sui Sui? I'm sorry, I promise there won't be a next time! It's just that you were too excited at the time, and I was afraid that you would overwork and tire yourself out, so I gave you some sleeping pills."

Jin Sui snorted coldly: "You betrayed my trust! I had no defense against you at all, but you drugged me!"

Gu Changxiao spread his hands in front of her and said, "It's okay if Suisui hits me or scolds me, as long as you don't get angry."

Jin Sui's hand slipped, and a bottle of medicine appeared in her hand: "If you drink this, we'll be even."

Gu Changxiao didn't even smell it, he took it and drank it, then he made an expression on the spot, just like a cat that had eaten chili peppers.

There was a hiss and a gasp: "What is this?"

Jin Sui laughed: "Aren't you afraid it's poison?"

"Sui Sui will never give me poison to drink!"

Jin Sui snorted, "If you dare to do it again, I promise to make you drink poison!"

Gu Changxiao's scalp suddenly felt numb and he broke out in a sweat. He wanted to find some water to rinse his mouth, but he didn't dare to close his mouth because his mouth was full of a strange taste.

"Take a look at Cantonese-style herbal tea. I even added a special herb to it."

Adding too much Huang Lian, it makes him miserable! "Is Sui Sui relieved?"

Jin Sui couldn't keep a straight face anymore, so he held back his laughter and watched him still making expressions. He picked up a tomato and started to eat it, but it was snatched away by Gu Changxiao after he had taken just one bite.

“I’ve eaten it!”

"So what?"

Jinsui's ears turned into the color of tomatoes. I am a magnanimous girl and I won't argue with you.

She rode on Gu Changxiao's horse, letting him lead the way, and introduced her plan for the college to him: "First, build the road. We have to urge Liuyun to find oil as soon as possible. That thing is the best for building roads."

She brought back some oil, but it was too little to do anything but research. It wasn't enough to build roads or refine fuel.

"We'll be busy after the spring. We'll have to build the road in the first month of the year and then transport the building materials. We're short of manpower! People are busy with spring farming, and we can't mobilize young and strong people to build the college."

Once upon a time, everyone complained that there were too many people in the border town, and they were afraid that people would flood into Yanzhou City, so Yanzhou simply closed the city gates. As a result, after only one year, the border town was already seriously short of people.

"In fact, as long as the notice of providing food and accommodation is issued, I believe that many people from the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan will come to the border town."

Gu Changxiao sighed softly, "Don't worry, a group of people will come to the border town soon."

Jin Sui asked hurriedly, "What happened? If the plague is still spreading, the people cannot be allowed in for the time being. They can only enter the city after they are cured."

“It’s not a plague. It’s the Yellow River that burst its banks last autumn and flooded thirteen counties. Until now, the people affected have not been resettled and are all setting up tents on the outskirts of Luo City, waiting for the government to resettle them.

The people in Luocheng were unwilling to accept these disaster victims, who could not return home. I don’t know who in the court proposed to let these people come to the border town. There are about 70,000 people.”

Jin Sui chuckled and said, "It seems that Lord Cheng has done a good job in hiding the situation in the border town! I guess Prince Yu thought that sending you 70,000 refugees would cause you a lot of trouble.

I didn’t know that we are extremely short of manpower now.”

Gu Changxiao said softly, "There were 170,000 disaster victims last autumn."

Jin Sui couldn't laugh anymore. Where did the 100,000 disaster victims go? How many of them survived? The noble families were like a country within a country. They only cared about their own family.

There was serious internal fighting and factional strife in the imperial court, and no one cared about the lives of the common people.

She could only comfort Gu Changxiao: "Don't worry, our Lida Wuxian City is worthy of their hardships along the way! We will definitely let the people live and work in peace and contentment here."

She scolded Prince Yu again: "He came up with this idea to deal with the Northern Border delegation? Sending you tens of thousands of refugees, if they were from the border town last year, we really couldn't accept them, we wouldn't even have enough food."

"But the situation is different now. If we harvest another batch of sweet potatoes and potatoes from the military farm, the people will be able to eat their fill."

"By the way, do the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan allow refugees to enter?"

Gu Changxiao said in a deep voice: "I sent an army to the border to meet the refugees, and at the same time issued an order to all the nobles in the sixteen states not to stop the refugees from reaching the border town."

"We have to send another army to prepare. If any noble family wants to be the first to hurt a refugee, it will hurt the people of the border town! We must kill the chicken to scare the monkeys!"

Jinsui looked at Yan Jiu's team in the distance with a bit of contradiction. This man came back just in time.

If he hadn't come back, without him to mediate among the Yan nobles, one or two brainless guys would definitely come out to embarrass the refugees, and that would be a good opportunity for Gu Changxiao to kill people to establish his authority.

Although the Yan area might be in chaos for a while, Gu Changxiao could also take advantage of this incident to make the Sixteen States of Yan area completely surrender.

It is probably no use now. Yan Jiu will definitely inform all the noble families not to embarrass the refugees and not to become enemies with King Li.

In the past there were naturally some nobles who would not listen to Yan Jiu, but now Yan Jiu has a huge piece of cake in his hands, and the nobles in the sixteen states of Yan all want to have a piece!

That is the trade rights in the northern border. The imperial court deliberately hindered the development of Yan area. There were many restrictions on trade with the interior, and the taxes were heavy.

But it’s different when going to the northern border. You just need to pay taxes to the border town. The market in the northern border is so huge! As long as you can get on this trade route, you will make a lot of money!

Jin Sui was worried about another thing: "We also have to be careful about the nobles luring the common people! Soon the whole Yan area will be extremely short of workers."

"After months of suffering, the refugees came to the rich land of Yan and saw that they were provided with food, lodging and wages. They would definitely be willing to become tenants of the nobles immediately."

"We have to create files for the people before we pass the checkpoint. If anyone dares to take one of us away, the Black Feather Battalion will come to demand their return immediately!"

"Hey, do you want me to go there? I feel uneasy."

Gu Changxiao said hurriedly: "Cheng Yu has already gone to pick up these people in person, and if necessary, I will also lead the troops there in person.

Don't worry, Sui Sui! Don't you want to draw up the construction plan for the college? You'd better draw up the construction plan before the spring."

Jin Sui laughed: "That's right, I should be fully focused on the academy now. Border Town is getting bigger and bigger. I'm no longer the King of Li, so I can't take care of everything."

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"It's not like that. I'm just afraid that Sui Sui is too tired. You just mentioned setting up files for the people and checking their health in the suburbs. Cheng Yu and I didn't think of these things. We can't live without Sui Sui."

"Don't try to fool me! The officials in our border town are already very familiar with the process of arranging refugees, but let's make a deal first. I will select a group of craftsmen for these people."

Gu Changxiao nodded: "Of course! Whenever you need talents, just select them first. It is a blessing for these people to be able to serve under you."

“After this matter spreads, it is estimated that more people will flee to the border town. We should make early preparations and expand the urban area.

I originally wanted to keep the old city as a battlefield site, but now it seems better to clear it out and plan it into a new district!"

It was too troublesome to just say it, so Jin Sui decided to make a sand table of the border town as soon as he got back, which would make it much more convenient when discussing the city construction with Gu Changxiao.

So busy! Fortunately, she had a good sleep in the morning, so she is in great spirits now.

When Han Xing and his companions entered the Great Wall, Jin Sui and Gu Chang Xiao just arrived. Shi Er Niang was extremely enthusiastic and shouted, "Sui Sui!"

She jumped off the horse and picked her up. Twelve Niang was half a head taller than Sui Sui, so she picked up Sui Sui and spun her around in a circle.

Gu Changxiao was extremely envious, and he also wanted to hug Sui Sui like this.

"Sui Sui, you smell so good! I'm already smelling stinky. No, no, I have to take a shower quickly."

Jin Sui smiled and said, "My house is close and I have a bathhouse. Let's go to my house and take a bath!"

It’s still a long way to go back to Yanzhou, so we must spend the night in the border town.

Of course Twelve Lady agreed, but Yan Shiyi disagreed: "What kind of girl would go to someone else's house to take a bath? Let's go to our own house to take a bath."

"Our home is too far away!"

"Who said that? I bought a house in the border town. We don't have to stay in an inn when we come to the border town in the future."

Jin Sui asked in surprise: "When did you buy the yard? Do you want to be a border town resident?"

Yan Shiyi said proudly: "I am a salt producer after all, so what's wrong with buying a yard? Not only did I buy one, but every son of a scholar who participated in the polo match also bought one."

"Your Lord Cheng built the new city district with the money raised by selling our house first!"

Jin Sui didn't know about this yet, so she asked curiously, "Are you saying that you didn't even see the house, but just heard Cheng Yu say that and paid the money to buy it?"

"Not only did they talk about it, they also gave me a house design."

Jin Sui was very impressed. Cheng Yu's brain was really quick! He had figured out the real estate business in the future. After all, they built a sales office before they dared to sell the property, and the payment was in installments.

You are even more courageous. You just took a blueprint and sold it for full payment.

Jin'an and Grandpa Ling were looking at the goods brought by the Yan family, which were really dazzling. Jin'an curiously asked Han Xing how he fought the battle to kill Zuo Xian Wang?

Although he had heard Hei Hu and the others say it many times, he wanted to hear it from the person involved himself.

Han Xing held King Zuo Xian's head and asked King Bater to chop it off. Jin'an felt his blood boiling just thinking about that scene.

Grandpa Ling was chatting with Yan Jiu, who respected Grandpa Ling very much. Yan Jiu asked him which goods from Daxia were in high demand in Northern Xinjiang?

Yan Jiu chuckled and said, "In addition to the conventional commodities such as tea, sugar, and silk, the most popular item among the people of Northern Frontier is Miss Ji's glassware."

Grandpa Ling is one of the few people who knows the raw materials of colored glaze. His eyelids twitch involuntarily. He takes out a few glass balls from his brocade bag. These are the ones that cannot be formed by firing. Jin Sui uses them to teach Jin An how to play checkers.

Grandpa Ling liked it very much too, so he carried a bag with him.

Yan Jiu held up a glass ball and said with a smile: "This is exactly it. If such a glass ball is set on a gold hairpin, its value will be more expensive than jade and gems!"

Grandpa Ling laughed dryly, his hands shaking a little, and he would never let the child play with this thing again.

At the same time, he felt scared and pulled Jin Sui over: "You are cheating the people of Northern Frontier like this, aren't you afraid that they will chase you to the border town?"

Jin Sui was confused at first. What the hell? After sorting out the cause and effect, she smiled disdainfully and said, "It's the people of Northern Frontier who are so easy to deceive! They treat Liuli as a treasure."

Think about how merchants from the Western Regions used colored glaze to defraud the nobles of Chang'an. Now it's my turn to defraud people from outside the region. What's wrong? Grandpa Ling gritted his teeth and said, "Then you must not let anyone know that the thing is made of sand, otherwise they will definitely come to the border town to attack!"

Jin Sui snorted, "If you want to fight, you can use any excuse. So what if you come? You will be burned to death by me anyway!"

Grandpa Ling once again realized how courageous his granddaughter was! At his age, the most he could do to deceive people was to make the fortune sound more serious and ask them to pay a small amount of money to avoid disaster.

This is what wandering Taoist priests do.

Then look at his granddaughter. If he deceived one person, then his granddaughter deceived an entire country!

When Grandpa Ling thought about the reaction of the people in Northern Border when they knew the truth, he wished he could take Jinsui back to the mountains and live as a refugee.

Warning: "You must never go to Northern Frontier again!"

Jin Sui agreed to this: "I'm not going! King Bater wants to capture me to be his saint, and I have a brain problem to run to the Northern Frontier."

"Grandpa, don't let anything slip. We can do this glass business for at least two to three years. Not only in the northern border, I plan to sell it to Baekje, Japan, and India.

When we make enough money overseas, we will make it available to the general public. We will use colored glaze instead of paper to cover windows in the future!"