Chapter 90: Earth Turned Upside Down
But at this critical juncture, someone came to sabotage him, no matter what their motives were, how could the county magistrate sit idly by?
He immediately ordered that the group of people who led the trouble be punished with a stick.
Magistrate Sang said, "Regarding the refund, as the victim, I am the official in charge. I will not allow them to refund the money, and you do not need to pay any more money to set up a guarantee."
Seeing that the county magistrate was so fair and selfless, Su Shengsheng knew that he was not partial to the gentry and wealthy families in Pinglai Street.
She stepped forward and bowed, saying, "The Su family has already made a promise. If we break it just because of your grace, I'm afraid that the neighbors will find it difficult to trust the Su family in the future."
Seeing that she was young, the county magistrate wanted to raise his hand to prevent her from being ostracized by the many merchants.
Unexpectedly, she didn't appreciate it.
"What do you want so much land for? Do you really want to farm it?"
The county magistrate was also an official from outside the city. He had endured many years of hardship at this frontier, and his aspirations were far from comparable to those who lived a life of luxury in the imperial capital.
He also had a bit of admiration for the exiled imperial teacher and wanted to kindly remind her not to waste her efforts.
Su Shengsheng lowered his head and replied, "Food is the most important thing for the people, and all this food comes from the earth. Without this heaven and earth, the people would be rootless and drifting, so I want to take root here."
The county magistrate didn't expect that a young girl like her would have such ambitions.
However, not only is the soil here poor, but the climate is also extremely cold and hot, making crop rotation difficult.
But who isn't a passionate young man? When he first came, he also wanted to benefit the people, but didn't he end up with nothing?
It's better to let her hit a wall, so that she won't be ignorant of her own limitations and offend the powerful without knowing it in the future.
Not long after, the troublemakers who were beaten confessed the identities of several shopkeepers in Pinglai Street.
The county magistrate looked at the silent Su Shengsheng and sighed, "This frontier land really cannot tolerate any unrest!"
Su Shengsheng knew from the sound that even if the county magistrate knew what was going on, he would not favor her alone and disappoint many merchants.
So, she quickly replied, "I'm a newcomer, and my words may have been inappropriate, so the seniors came to teach me."
Seeing that she was so sensible, the county magistrate could no longer favor either side.
"Don't worry, after this incident, if anyone dares to cause trouble again, they will be my enemy."
He did not mention the government, but only talked about himself. This was a hint to Su Shengsheng that he would spread the word that if anyone tried to trip her up again, it would be a disrespect to him.
Su Shengsheng immediately understood and bowed respectfully, "Your Excellency is diligent in your work and loves the people. Under your rule, naturally no villain would dare to cause trouble."
The county magistrate nodded with satisfaction and said, "I will sign the land lease agreement for you right away, so you don't have to run back and forth anymore."
The county magistrate is an honest official and does not put on airs.
Seeing that the time was right, Su Shengsheng proposed to break ground.
The electricity is now ready, but laying heating pipes to both sides of the Tianqian Pass is not only a huge project, but also requires crossing two adjacent streets.
If she wanted to build large-scale projects at Tianqian Pass, she had to inform the county magistrate in advance.
After hearing the lengths of the several sections that needed to be constructed, the county magistrate approved it immediately without asking her what she wanted to do.
If he had asked one more question, he would not have made this decision so easily.
Who could have imagined that Su Shengsheng could turn the Tianqian Pass upside down?
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Su Shengsheng held several freshly issued documents given by the government in her hands and started working immediately after returning without waiting a moment.
As the old saying goes, if you don’t have the means of a diamond, don’t have the heart of a bodhisattva.
She did not really forgive those who had been playing tricks behind her, but it was inconvenient for her to refute the county magistrate in person.
Didn’t they say her stuff couldn’t be sold?
Then she would let them see who couldn't sell it.
When Su Shengsheng learned that Mr. Liu Sanye was the mastermind behind the scenes, she decided not to endure it anymore.
This time, she didn't allow their things to even touch the stove.
Plastic plates, plastic cups, plastic buckets, plastic insulated food boxes, plastic thermoses, anything she can produce, she uses.
Don’t they want to block her materials?
Humph, the natural gas is in her hands, let’s see how they seal it!
I'm not afraid of getting hurt when I engage in a price war with her.
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When the others learned that the people they sent out had been punished and warned by the county magistrate, they all stopped and did not take any more action.
I thought Su Shengsheng would take this opportunity to come over and make some sarcastic remarks, but I didn't expect that she didn't even show up.
Just when they thought that the rich young lady had finally realized the reality that everyone was ostracizing her and was feeling fearful, news came that another strange thing had happened in the Su family.
Strange things happen every year, but this year there are especially many.
The beginning of winter was approaching, but the young lady did not want to hunch over like them to spend the long and harsh winter, but instead went out to farm.
"Is she crazy?"
The shop owners who learned the news were so shocked that even their smiles froze on their faces.
This joke was so cruel that they couldn't be happy at all.
Seeing the snow turning into ice in the daytime at the Natural Moat Pass, she wanted to go farming?
Oh my God, where did she get the courage from?
No matter how much money you have, you can't burn it like this, right?
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While all the shopkeepers were speechless, Su Shengsheng was very busy.
After circling the land of two thousand families, she started working immediately.
She personally drove an excavator that used natural gas thermal energy to convert mechanical kinetic energy to break ground on her thousand-acre field.
Qing Gang returned from a long journey and brought back the various seeds that Su Shengsheng had requested in a letter earlier.
At first, when Su Shengsheng said she was reclaiming wasteland and farming, I thought she was joking.
But when he saw Su Shengsheng driving that unknown, roaring behemoth to open up the barren land, he was speechless.
Last time, only Tang Zheng came. At that time, Su Shengsheng just watered the fields and did not do anything else.
This time, Wan Quan, who learned that Su Shengsheng had single-handedly beaten the people in Pinglai Street into submission, also came to join in the fun.
When they saw with their own eyes that Su Shengsheng didn't even get off the ground, but sat in an unknown machine and rushed all the way from one end of the field to the other, they were so shocked that their eyes almost popped out.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have believed that a little girl could turn over the ground without even touching it?
The two of them, four eyes, stared at Su Shengsheng.
I saw her digging three feet into the bumpy, cold and hard wasteland.
"not to be trifled."
"Don't mess with me."
As Wan Quan and Tang Zheng were expressing their deepest emotion, the seven-foot-tall Bao Da came over and said, "Don't mess with me."
The three of them looked at each other, their eyes full of awe.
Fortunately, they chose to stand on her side.
Everyone at Tianqian Pass stared with wide eyes as they watched Su Shengsheng plant the vegetable seedlings and grain seeds in the ground. Unbreakable plates, boxes as valuable as sand, and buckets so light that their weight was almost negligible also appeared one after another.
The merchants gathered together and complained bitterly, but then they heard the news that the Su family, with less than fifty embroiderers, produced nearly nine thousand pieces of cloth in ten days.
Let me ask you, who dares to believe this?
But the cloth sent to the Consulate General was actually made under the supervision of the campaign cloth shop, so they couldn't help but believe it.
And that’s not all. The 68 devices in the Su family’s inventory were sold out.
Not only that, it was also pre-sold to cloth shop owners who were interested in acrylic fiber, and they were scrambling to pay deposits.
It is unbelievable that they tricked their rival in the same industry into becoming a buyer.
What's even more bizarre is that they provided some kind of instruction manual under the pretext of providing it, but in fact they gave all the production drawings to their rivals.
Under this unconventional operation, merchants on Pinglai Street soon discovered that they couldn't close the business even if they wanted to.
You can block one person, but can you block everyone?
Logically speaking, with the border under martial law, business is not doing well and everyone is tightening their belts to make ends meet, right?
But the Su family was so good that after throwing out a few "baits", those shopkeepers who had previously vowed to drive out the woman who disrupted the market all fell silent.
The other shopkeepers who had been watching from the sidelines couldn't help but think of what the ten shopkeepers of Shixianglou said - the catfish effect.
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