Chapter 177 A lot of business
The time Lou Yuyan actually met Feng Aoqing was at the residence of the city guard Lin Wenguang.
No one knew what the two of them talked about. In the end, he came in with his back straight, facing Feng Aoqing, and came out with his back hunched.
Just after leaving the study, Lou Yuyan and Lin Jingqi, the second son of the Lin family, were drinking tea in a snow room in the yard.
The snow house is a unique building here. It is actually a pavilion, but it has a fireplace where people can sit around and watch the snow.
The two of them saw Lin Wenguang personally escorting Feng Aoqing out. She was wearing a purple southern brocade dress. Before Lou Yuyan could see who she was, Su Hongyu at the door handed her a snow cape, and she put it on her head.
As she passed the corridor, she tilted her head slightly to look at the two people in the yard, but left without even a greeting.
"A merchant girl has such an attitude, how dare she!" Lou Yuyan is a businesswoman herself, and when she meets someone from the Lin family, she always has to be polite. After all, the Lin family is an official family.
"Have you forgotten what you taught me the day before yesterday? What Shopkeeper Su said." Lin Jingqi said with a smile.
"I remember, I remember! I still feel ashamed!"
"It's better to be faceless than headless!"
"Why are you here too?" Lou Yuyan threw his sleeves and left.
He left now because he was unwilling to give up and wanted to catch up and see what was happening.
Feng Aoqing glanced at him and said to Su Hongyu, "The weather is cold, don't neglect the road workers. They must eat well, wear warm clothes, and sleep softly."
"Yes." Su Hongyu replied.
"The faster they repair it, the sooner I can see my two children." Feng Aoqing sighed.
"Yes, Mr. Xing and Miss Yue are looking forward to it every day!" Su Hongyu responded again.
Lou Yuyan shrank back into the door and ran back to Lin Jingqi's snow room. Lin Jingqi seemed to know that he was coming back and had already poured tea.
"She... has a child!" Lou Yuyan exclaimed.
"So, Manager Su is right!" Lin Jingqi said with a smile.
Lou Yuyan wanted to slap himself. This was too embarrassing.
She was wearing a snow hat at the time, and the guard could see her face clearly, but he couldn't tell whether she had a girl's hairstyle or a woman's hairstyle, which made a fool of herself.
Chen Yanqi got on the carriage, revealing her womanly bun: "I'll be out and about a lot in the future, so this is more convenient. Let them call me Madam from now on!"
"Sister, I think so too! I really want to dig out their eyes." An Lei gritted his teeth.
"Okay, it's okay. There aren't many people coming in and out here in a year. I'm new here, so they're just curious. After a while, they won't pay any attention to me anymore."
"Master, Lin Chengshou, what do you think?" Su Hongyu handed the thermos to her again and asked tentatively.
"You know better than me! You're asking why I chose him to work with, given that he's clearly incompetent and unskilled, right?"
Su Hong nodded.
If Lin Wenguang had the ability, he would not have failed to repair the road to Yanguang for ten years, causing the city to become worse day by day.
"Because he has a good son, his second son, Lin Jingqi, who came here only a month earlier than me. He already knew that we bought most of the city, so he allowed his father to approach an unknown small merchant like you, so that you could become the city governor's guest of honor. Now, this city is actually guarded by Lin Jingqi."
"I am really blind. I met Mr. Lin Er twice and didn't notice it." Su Hongyu finally understood.
Feng Aoqing only walked around the street for two days and saw things that he had not seen.
"The person I want to cooperate with is not Lin Wenguang, but Lin Jingqi. Lin Wenguang is just a mobile badge, which makes it convenient for him to appear in the official name." Feng Aoqing said with a smile.
An Lei started scratching his head again.
"What's wrong?"
"Sister, I think you and that Second Young Master Lin may have thousands of tricks up your sleeve. Aren't you tired of living?" An Lei shook his head.
"No, it's tiring to talk and do things with people like Lou Yuyan." Feng Aoqing said with a smile.
Su Hongyu also smiled: "However, the Lou family is powerful, and we also need it."
"Well, you go and deal with it. Forget about me. It's far worse than the stone in my house." Feng Aoqing patted An Lei.
"Sister, I think you are scolding me." An Lei seemed to have grown a little smarter.
The three of them laughed together in the car.
The next day, Lin Jingqi went to Lanfeng Pavilion to take charge.
Since the son of the city keeper has gone to Lanfeng Pavilion to take charge of affairs, then for the people, looking at Lanfeng Pavilion is the same as looking at a government office.
Feng Aoqing divided the plan into three steps, and Su Hongyu was in charge of overall management and coordination.
The construction and planting of the greenhouse were entrusted to Guan Dashan.
The construction of roads and bridges was left to Yu Tiannan.
Lin Jingqi is responsible for all transactions and logistics.
Not long after, Su Hongyu had a more important job, which was mining nickel sulfide ore and forging ironware.
When Feng Aoqing came out of the mountains, she learned from Yue Jiu that there was a hot spring here, so she and An Lei went to try it out.
Unexpectedly, she discovered that it was a sulfur mine.
Originally, she wanted to mine sulfur to use as pesticides for greenhouses, but after mining some, she made a bigger discovery: this place turned out to be nickel sulfide mine.
A mineral used to make high-quality metals.
Su Hongyu spent a large sum of money to hire technical experts and talents in iron smelting from Jixiahua, and started to make better metals and create better agricultural tools and utensils.
They used almost everyone in the city.
The common people didn't care, because they couldn't earn a penny by staying at home, but if they went to the Feng family's businesses, they could get paid every month.
Everyone should report what they are willing to do or can do according to their abilities and preferences. Of course, those who are more capable will get more work.
By the time the greenhouses were producing vegetables and grain, the road had become wider.
The population in the city is not large to begin with, and half of the crops grown are enough for food. If more are grown, there will be surplus, which can be transported to Yanguan, or to Tianyao Kingdom or Dongyan Kingdom.
All the money earned from the sale was used to buy iron ore and bring it back to Hantian City, where it was given to Su Hongyu to make ironware.
Ironware became better and better, and more and more sophisticated. Even jewelers from Tianyao Kingdom came from far away to customize various tools.
When Feng Aoqing heard about this, she found it very interesting. She had good tools and many books about jewelry making in her space. Why not make jewelry herself?
So she asked Tianyao to buy various raw materials at low prices and process the jewelry herself.
Coupled with the unique design style, the jewelry in Hantian City is so hard to come by that some fine pieces are even sent directly to the capital as gifts.
Hantian City also attracted the attention of the person on the throne.
However, it was not because of the green vegetables and new grains in winter, nor because of the official road to Yanguan, nor because of the exquisite jewelry.
It was because someone handed a memorial to the emperor's desk, saying that Lin Wenguang, the defender of Hantian City, had privately manufactured weapons and maintained his own troops, intending to use the natural barrier to escape from Zhaojing.
Mo Nanzhou looked at the memorial and asked someone to find out about the situation in Hantian City.
Finally, in the middle of the night, Mo Beiyuan was called into the palace.
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