Chapter 348 Attending Speech
When Lu Songli stood up with her wine glass, everyone's eyes were on her.
Le Guicai was surprised. He had never expected that the first person to speak would be Lu Songli!
When he was attending the meeting just now, he had already glanced at Lu Songli several times in a subtle way.
He had just felt strange that not only could she attend such an important banquet, but she also had a very special seat.
In etiquette, the left is the most respected. Lord Lu actually let his daughter sit on his left, and no one was dissatisfied. It was so strange.
Le Guicai's gaze fell more on Lu Desheng.
Lu Desheng wasn't dead, so how could he not feel anything? He thought to himself, "What are you looking at?! What's wrong with his daughter being the first to speak? You don't know how powerful she is, huh!"
At this table, the first people to speak can only be the father and daughter.
Letting Lu Songli speak first was something that the father and daughter had discussed before, and it was also his suggestion.
Lu Songli also took the lead, and this scene happened.
Lv Songli smiled and said, "Everyone, the South has been in chaos recently. This time, our Liaodong Chamber of Commerce has achieved significant results in the South."
"The southern expedition, led by Mr. Xue Xu and General Wu Ren, seized approximately two million taels of silver and grain in the southern land."
"Except for the southbound team, everyone present here has made contributions. Once the merits of the past two days are calculated, subsequent rewards will be distributed according to the level of merit. Please stay tuned."
"Now, I toast to everyone. I hope everyone will continue to work hard and forge ahead in the days ahead."
After Lu Songli finished speaking, he drank the wine in the glass.
At this time, Lu Desheng followed up and said, "Your Madam Qin Liu is right. Now Liaodong County is our home. Let's work together to make Liaodong County better." As he said this, he also glanced at Le Guicai.
At this time, Le Guicai was completely bewildered. Two million taels of silver and grain! No wonder the grain prices in Liaodong County were so stable.
He always thought that Lord Lu was powerful, but he didn't expect that his daughter was even more powerful.
Judging from her performance at the table, everyone was very impressed with her.
It turned out that she was not given the chance to speak first on purpose by Lu Desheng, but she earned the qualification based on her real ability.
After the Lu family father and daughter finished speaking, they invited everyone to start eating.
Everyone picked up their chopsticks without hesitation. The meal on the table was very delicious, and each dish made people's appetite grow just by looking at it.
When they were half full, each of them offered a glass of wine to Madam Qin Liu, Lord Lu, and the Crown Prince.
Because the Sixth Lady was a woman, they did it themselves and let her do as she pleased.
But even so, after one round, Lu Songli also drank a lot of wine.
Eating and drinking like this will liven up the atmosphere.
Some people started to make a fuss and boldly asked Lu Songli, they wanted to know the details of the reward.
"Everyone can look forward to this reward." This was all Lu Songli said.
But everyone knew it in their hearts. They all came from the period of exile, and she was always generous to her subordinates who had done their work.
Lu Songli was right; this time's reward was indeed something to look forward to. She decided to give them two hundred thousand taels of silver as a reward. She had already discussed this with Wu Ren, and they would be rewarded based on merit. Those who made contributions during this southern operation would receive a reward. Even ordinary employees would receive double their wages this month.
Some people present also envied Wu Ren's limelight this time. One by one, they asked for permission and expressed their opinions to her, saying that if Liaodong County had any subsequent plans, she could just order them to do it, and they all patted their chests loudly.
Lu Songli naturally accepted all of it with a smile, and as for the follow-up plans, they would talk about it later.
Her next plan is to recruit talented people.
Many people have come to Liaodong County recently. She plans to let her father recruit a group of retainers first; then, in the name of the government, recruit a group of talents to serve as clerical staff or teachers in the academy; finally, let the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce absorb a group of new people.
This group of people are the reserve talents she has trained. When she helps her father get the position of governor of Pingzhou, this group of people will come in handy if necessary.
Lu Songli believed that after such layer-by-layer screening, most of the talents coming to Liaodong County should be able to be selected.
Everyone enjoyed the banquet very much.
They all left Tianshui New Village in sedan chairs or horse-drawn carriages.
When Lu Songli was sitting in the sedan chair and leaving the village, she could still hear the villagers talking about it, all praising the banquet.
At this banquet, each table had twelve dishes, ten meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one soup. Everyone who had eaten it gave a thumbs up and said that this banquet had a lot of delicious dishes.
Many elderly people sat at the entrance of the village to enjoy the cool air, and they all sighed that these days were really promising.
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Yue Shu never expected that these refugees could be transformed into this state in just half a month.
It should be said that he finally regained his human appearance.
On the day they set out with the grain team and camped overnight, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce distributed a batch of medicinal powder to them to treat their head lice.
Later, we passed a small town that mainly dealt in cloth, and exchanged the grain for a batch of coarse linen clothes.
Now the price of grain is very high everywhere, and grain is more useful than money, so cloth merchants are happy to exchange with them.
The cloth merchants felt it was a pity that they only wanted cheap coarse linen, not silk and satin. Coarse linen could not be sold at a high price, so they could only win by selling in large quantities.
This batch of coarse linen clothes were distributed in the form of wages.
Along the way, many people left the main group for various reasons. Currently, there are only about 20,000 people left in the entire group.
Among them, there are about 4,000 young and middle-aged people aged 15 to 30, about 3,000 men aged 31 to 40, and more than 10,000 of them are the elderly, the weak, women and children.
These 4,000 young and strong men, as well as older men, would take about an hour to train every day after setting up camp.
In the words of Mr. Lu Liu, they were transporting so much food north, and the journey was not peaceful. If they didn't have a strong fist, they would just wait to be robbed.
Most of those who joined the guard team came with their families, and their daily rations were provided by the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce's grain team.
If someone were to take the grain from the food team, that would mean they were taking their rations. How could that be allowed?
They've experienced the days of having no food to eat, and now life is so good. Although they have to travel every day, it's easier than farm work, isn't it?
After walking for half a month, they consumed about 10,000 dan of food just to feed so many people.
I heard that it would take another month and a half to reach Liaodong County, and the subsequent food consumption would be around 30,000 shi.
They ate up 40,000 dan of the 100,000 dan of grain. Thinking about it, Yue Shu felt a little guilty for some reason.
Qin Sheng was studying the map, thinking about which route their large army could take that would be both fast and safe.
At this time, a beautiful and elegant girl came in with a basin of water. "Sixth Master, I've got a basin of water for you. Would you like to wash your face?"
"Didn't I tell you to stop hanging around me?"
"You saved me and my older brother, and I just wanted to do what I could to repay you."
"unnecessary."
Qin Sheng had saved them with ease, but now he felt it was a nuisance. The Hou siblings were related to his eldest sister-in-law's family. They had been among the refugees from the south and had recognized him on the third day. As a relative, he couldn't help but take care of them.
"Get out."
Faced with Qin Sheng's harsh rejection, the woman felt a little sad.
"Miss Hou, please go out first."
After Hou Ya went out, Liu Erxi advised, "The water is here anyway, so just wash it." There's no need to waste it.
"If you want to use it, use it!" Qin Sheng turned and walked out.
If Xue Xu were here, he would definitely tell Liu Erxi that you don’t understand your Sixth Master. He is always on guard, fearing that he will be disliked by the Sixth Madam.
Hou Shuang caught up with him. "Sixth Master, my sister has caused you trouble. She means well and wants to repay you, but since you don't like it, I will tell her not to do those things again."
"Um."
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