Chapter 203 Shame on you
Qin Zhao and others were right. Lu Songli was worried that they would make things worse.
First of all, these medicinal herbs have been collected. Unlike before, they can no longer be sold as they move forward with a good opportunity. This time they must be transported back to Chang'an City to be sold for cash.
In fact, the investment period of three or four months is already very short. But in the early stages of wealth accumulation, Lu Songli still felt that it was too slow.
Secondly, there are the overall environmental factors.
Dali divided Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuantu, and Lelang into Pingzhou, with its seat in Xiangping. Pingzhou, with a large area bordering foreign tribes to the north, was inferior to Yanzhou and Jizhou. Even Youzhou, with its backing on Jizhou and Bingzhou, was slightly better off.
In ancient times when transportation and communication were inconvenient, if the emperor wanted to manage a remote place, he would usually send a leader who was very loyal to the emperor but had little ability.
Before being exiled, when Lu Songli was making plans for his backup, he checked the governors of several remote cities and counties in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest, and found that it was indeed the case. Zheng Xun, the governor of Liaodong County, was one of them.
After thinking about it, Lu Songli understood the emperor's intention of employing people in this way.
Loyalty to the emperor is what is called correct thinking. Correct thinking can ensure that he will not easily rebel or cause chaos. On the other hand, lack of ability ensures that even if he rebels or causes chaos, it will not be a major threat to the imperial power.
The emperor was assured of having such people govern the area.
As the saying goes, if virtue doesn't match the position, disaster will follow. If talent doesn't match the position, disaster will follow. Because of this, Zheng Xun has a strong control over the areas under his jurisdiction. Any major power movement will alert them and lead to direct action.
These considerations of Lu Songli are rather difficult to explain, so I did not mention them.
Lu Songli was unaware of their confusion. She was discussing dinner with Qin's mother. They had already started cooking, but with the arrival of Qin Yan and his group, they needed to change the menu for tonight.
Now the two teams have come together, and the children have also gathered together. It can be seen that although Qin Jia and the others are thin, they are very thin, and their eyes are bright and they are in good spirits.
Qin Yun, Qin Che, Qin Xiao, Qin Bin, and Qin Dan were in worse condition, with sallow complexions and thin bodies. Especially Qin Xiao, the second child of the Qin Yan family, who had received less care along the way and had lost a lot of weight. If you touched his chest, you could feel protruding ribs.
Mother Qin just looked at the other five skinny children and felt so distressed. Moreover, after going through the misfortune, each of them was still very well-behaved.
Looking at the wild animals piled together, Qin's mother was thinking about what to make for dinner.
Qin's mother had heard her daughter-in-law mention that fish is very nutritious and that eating more fish is good for children's health and brain development. So she asked her daughter-in-law to help with the decision, and decided to make fish porridge for the children for their first meal together. She had been ill before, and her daughter-in-law had someone make it, and she found it delicious.
Lu Songli thought it was feasible. Children have weak stomachs and have been deprived of oil and water for a period of time. If they suddenly eat a lot of oily and meaty food, they will not be able to tolerate it.
The daughter-in-law also said her idea was good, so Qin's mother called her youngest son over.
A moment later, Qin Sheng took people to the river to fish.
Nie Yunniang was used to the situation where her mother-in-law liked to consult her sixth brother's wife when she had something to do. This was the first time that Shen Erniang and her two daughters-in-law had seen it, but they had heard Zhou Da mention Lu Songli's intelligence before. Seeing this situation, they only felt that what Zhou Da had said before was true.
For Qin's second sister-in-law Cai and Qin's fourth sister-in-law Su, they felt bad when they saw that their children were thinner than their other nephews and nieces.
Especially Su, whose father-in-law was gone, and her husband Qin Ming was gone too. She was carrying her two sons, and although she had the help of her second uncle along the way, she was still terrified. Now that she had caught up with the main force, she finally felt relieved, knowing that her mother and the prince would not ignore them.
At the riverside, Qin Sheng and others went into the water and soon caught more than 100 kilograms of fish.
Ma Jin, Zhou Da and the others had never seen anything like this before, and their eyes bulged out in amazement. They had never imagined that such a shallow river could hold so many fish? And were these fish so easy to catch?
Hu Guangcong and others who followed the large group all the way saw that they were eager to try, so they held back their laughter and asked them to go and have a try.
"Let's give it a try." Ma Jin, Zhou Da and others rolled up their sleeves, took the fishing net, and led the others into the underground river.
Zhou Dama Jin and others took a dozen brothers to the river to fish. The rest of the people, except those on patrol, all volunteered to help.
First, clean the fish, cut out the belly, marinate it with rice wine, ginger, and salt, and use it to make fish porridge. Because the belly is not cooked, you don't have to worry about fish bones getting stuck in your throat when feeding it to children.
Then they separated the fish head and the fish body. They used the fish head to make soup. They also put some chicken bones and ginseng roots into it.
The meat on the fish back is deboned, chopped into a paste, and then molded into fish balls.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner.
Several large pots were burning at the same time, making soup, boiling fish balls, cooking rice porridge, and steaming buns...
The aroma of food wafted through the garrison, and the children sat on the sidelines watching eagerly. The atmosphere in the garrison was as lively as a festival.
Qin Yan was stunned, "Brother, so this is how you got here?" No wonder the nephews and nieces of the eldest and third brothers are so good-looking.
In contrast, isn't he a bit useless? Second Mother, his wife, his fourth brother's wife, and the children, they really suffered a lot following him.
Qin Heng comforted him, "We don't eat like this often."
Before Qin Yan could even feel a little comforted, he heard his third son say quietly, "Before entering Liaoxi County, we basically ate like this, only changing up the food occasionally. Sometimes we'd have wild goose soup, sometimes venison, sometimes roe deer..."
Qin Yan: Is the food so good?
Qin Heng looked at Qin Zhao helplessly. Couldn't he give the second brother some face?
Qin Zhao turned his head. Xiao Liu had just humiliated him, and after taking it seriously, he was about to be defeated in three moves. Didn't he have any dignity? Now his second brother was embarrassed along with him, and he had a companion.
"Second brother, you will know later."
By the time they had processed more than a hundred kilograms of fish, Zhou Damajin and others had only caught a few fish.
The two were puzzled.
Qin Yan even came over to take a look, and was also puzzled. Same network, same technology, but different results. What's going on?
All the participants had sad faces. They were all fishing and hunting. If the results of their fishing and hunting were the same as Captain Hu's, would their team be so short of money?
Zhou Da was good at shifting the blame. "They must have been too ruthless just now. They netted away all the fish in this section of the river."
Qin Yan's heart moved when he heard this. He was the second child of the Qin family, and he had some impression of Xiaoliu's good luck since childhood.
At this moment, the sound of a carriage running on the road came from far away. Qin Yan turned and looked at the source of the sound. "Someone is coming towards us again. Judging from the noise, there are quite a few people and horses."
"Second Master, don't be nervous, our people are back."
It was indeed Wu Ren and the others who returned.
They were very happy to see the team of the second young master from the North join theirs, but when they were asked about the results of today's acquisition, they shook their heads.
"I didn't get much today." Shame on me.
Five carriages were dispatched, but they only bought a small amount of goods. Wu Ren was in a low mood.
Two days ago, they collected the herbs smoothly, and he thought it was a simple task.
Lu Songli came over leisurely.
"Sixth Young Master's Madam—" the devastated Wu Ren called out pitifully. Madam Sixth Young Master's prediction had come true; she had previously told them to bring fewer carriages and more people.
Qin Sheng glanced at him, moved his long legs slightly, and quietly inserted himself between the two of them.
He really felt that there were too many enemies, and he needed to be on guard against both children and adults...
Lu Songli patted his arm, signaling him to stop making trouble, as she had something to say.
Qin Sheng stood beside her obediently.
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