Chapter 486 Three-Year Agreement
Zhou Yunshu did not return to Haizhou alone.
She took Zhou Yuanruo with her when she left.
Yuan Ruo wanted to go back to Haizhou to find his mother, and Zhou Jianwu and Wu Yue both agreed.
However, before agreeing, they also told Zhou Yunshu that they hoped she could bring Yuan Ruo and Wu Gui back with her when she returned in the New Year.
Even though Wu Gui is no longer the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, they are willing to treat her as their own daughter.
After Zhou Jianwu learned about his son Zhou Yunhai's affairs and the affairs of Wu Gui and Kang Jingyu, he told Zhou Yunshu that if Wu Gui got married again, he would be willing to buy a new dowry for her.
When Wu Gui and Zhou Yunhai got married, it was the Zhou family who arranged the marriage to express their gratitude to the Wu family.
Now that the two have divorced, Zhou Jianwu and Wu Yue have never thought of becoming the same person as Wu Guixing.
Zhou Yunshu promised Zhou Jianwu that she would convey his thoughts to Wu Gui when the time comes. As for whether Wu Gui would return to the capital, it depended on Wu Gui's own wishes. She could not make the decision for Wu Gui.
When Zhou Yunshu and his group returned to Haizhou, they happened to meet Yan Shilei and others who were going to Anshan to obtain iron ore.
Zhou Yunshu had a small group, while Yan Shilei and his group had a large group.
And because the iron mine matter was too important, Zhan Chuan specially sent people to welcome Yan Shilei and others back.
When Yan Shilei and his team returned, they not only brought a fleet of raw iron ore, but also opened up water transportation from Anshan to Haizhou, making it more convenient to transport raw iron ore from Anshan to Haizhou.
Zhou Yunshu started to get busy as soon as she returned to Haizhou.
Those who were brought back from the island earlier have already become familiar with life on shore, including Lily and her daughter.
The place where the two of them lived was arranged by Wu Gui. When Zhou Yunshu returned, Lily was following Wu Gui and doing odd jobs.
Yuncheng is short of people, and Haizhou is even short of people.
In order to improve work efficiency, Zhou Yunshu not only utilized all the available people in the city, but also dispatched all the refugees who had gathered outside Yuncheng after registering them.
In addition, Zhou Yunshu also had people open a school in Yuncheng.
This school only teaches some basic knowledge, such as reading and arithmetic.
Anyone who wants to learn in Yuncheng can go and learn, regardless of gender or age.
Zhou Yunshu originally thought that most of the people who went there at the beginning were men, because most of those who were able to escape to Yuncheng alive were adult men.
But what surprised and delighted Zhou Yunshu was that most of the people who took the initiative to go to the school to study at the beginning were women from Yuncheng.
Whether they are teenage girls, women in their twenties or thirties, or even older.
They cherish the opportunity to learn more than Zhou Yunshu imagined. Even if some of them come to listen to the lessons only because the men at home are too busy, they will go back and teach their families.
But in Zhou Yunshu's view, they listened, learned, and then taught it to their family members, and what they learned would definitely be engraved in their hearts.
Later on, Zhou Yunshu also found a few good talents from among them and asked them to work behind Wu Gui or Cen Miaoying.
Without the pressure of redressing the Zhou family, Zhou Yunshu felt free to do whatever she wanted.
First, there was the iron mine in Anshan. Zhou Yunshu left half of the mined iron mine in Haizhou to make weapons and farm tools, and asked Du Mazi to transport the remaining half by boat to the northern border and hand it over to Zhou Yunqi.
Zhou Beifang was left in the capital by Ji Sheng, and now Ji Sheng has temporarily handed over the northern border to Zhou Yunqi in disguise.
Since Ji Sheng delegated power to Zhou Yunqi, Zhou Yunshu would of course help her twin brother to gain a firm foothold in the northern border.
With weapons and farm tools, Zhou Yunshu, on the basis of stabilizing farming, asked Zhanchuan, Huzi, and the two brothers Mengnan and Mengbei to each lead their own men to start sweeping out and recruiting water bandits near Yuncheng and Dongchuan.
In addition, with the help of Geng Jiang and Yu Yinghao, the entire Haizhou, starting from the south of the river, quickly became Zhou Yunshu's territory, almost like a spark that can start a prairie fire.
Even the area south of Haizhou was severely torn open by the brave brothers Mengnan and Mengbei.
That place was not originally the territory of the Great Zhou, but now that it has become Zhou Yunshu's territory, it naturally belongs to Haizhou, and even more to the Great Zhou.
During the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yunshu did not forget to bring Yuan Ruo and Wu Gui back to Beijing to celebrate the New Year.
But there were too many things to do in Haizhou, so Zhou Yunshu returned to Haizhou after staying there for less than half a month.
Seeing that the entire Haizhou and its surroundings were about to return to a peaceful state, she couldn't give up halfway.
Xixi also knew what her mother had been doing in Haizhou during this period. In addition to sweeping away the inland pirates in Haizhou, she had also been fighting the pirates closely.
In the words of the Grand Tutor, the Zhou family, regardless of gender, has a talent for fighting that ordinary people do not have.
Of course, when the Grand Tutor said this, he specifically singled out Zhou Yunjia.
Zhou Yunjia is an outlier in the Zhou family. He learns quickly, but as for martial arts...
The Grand Tutor had no hope for Zhou Yunjia, who could easily fall down on flat ground.
Once people have something to do, time flies.
When the three-year agreement between Zhou Yunshu and Ji Sheng came to an end, the entire Haizhou was completely under Zhou Yunshu's control.
Today, Haizhou is essentially autonomous, but Zhou Yunshu cannot split her daughter's territory in her daughter's world.
So she asked the court to send officials to Haizhou every year, but in reality the effect was minimal.
Now, under the heavy suppression of Ji Sheng, the Great Zhou is in ruins and needs officials to govern everywhere.
The imperial examination, which was originally held every three years, has now been changed to once a year. Even so, it still cannot fill the vacancies of local officials in the entire Great Zhou.
Especially in the past year, Ji Sheng has directly pointed his butcher knife at the vassal kings. If they voluntarily return the territory to the court, Ji Sheng is willing to be more tolerant and give them certain preferential treatment.
If you are unwilling, no one will survive under the iron hoof.
Ji Sheng, whose reputation was becoming more and more appalling, needed more people to take over the conquered territories for the court, so it was even less likely that there would be any extra talents coming to Haizhou.
However, Xixi asked the cabinet to give Haizhou the power to recommend officials.
With this power, Zhou Yunshu gave official positions to Wu Gui, Cen Miaoying, Chunque and even Baihe without any hesitation.
Of course, in addition to the female officials around Zhou Yunshu, Zhan Chuan, Hu Zi, Du Mazi, Yan Shilei and others also got official positions.
As they hold official positions, they work even harder.
While Ji Sheng was outside killing people everywhere and intimidating Xiao Xiao, who had ulterior motives, he did not forget that the three-year agreement between him and Zhou Yunshu was up.
Zhou Yunshu didn't forget either.
The only reason Zhou Yunshu didn't forget was not because she remembered it so clearly, but because in the month before the three-year agreement, Wei Zhong brought people around her every day.
Zhou Yunshu found it hard to forget the countdown that was whispered in her ear a month in advance.
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