Chapter 199 Reputation
Most of the workers in the Rouge Workshop were family members of Lu Shiyan's soldiers. Jiang Tangtang gave them leave and distributed so many things as compensation, which naturally passed on to the soldiers.
The soldiers were already grateful to Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan, and now they are even more loyal to them.
Let’s not talk about that for now, let’s talk about Jiang Tangtang first. She has been either on the island or busy in Lizhou these days, and has not taken care of the shop for a long time.
This time when he returned to Yazhou, he planned to take this opportunity to inspect the properties under his name.
Affected by the war, the business of Yipinxiang and Gaosuguan has declined significantly.
Although the Nanyue people did not invade Yazhou at that time, the tragic situation in Lizhou still frightened the people.
Ordinary people subconsciously cut back on their spending, and the prices of the goods in the two shops were not cheap. Except for the extremely wealthy, ordinary people could not afford to buy. Now the business of the two shops was not as good as before.
After looking at the account book, Jiang Tangtang decided to slightly adjust the shop's business model.
In the future, the cake shop will make more affordable products. Yipinxiang is not suitable to be replaced by affordable dishes, so Jiang Tangtang plans to transfer some people from the shop to become training masters to prepare for opening branches in other places in the future.
In addition to Yipinxiang and Gaosuguan, Yanzhifang also needs to come up with a few more new products. Once the trade routes are opened up, they will open shops outside and have to come up with more samples.
In addition, there are seafood processing workshops and farms...
At one time, there were so many things to do.
But these things can’t be rushed, just take them one by one, slowly!
After all, having just robbed the private vaults of Zhao Kui and General Song, they wouldn't be short of money for the time being. Business could now develop slowly, without the haste it had before.
Jiang Tangtang's brows furrowed unconsciously as she thought about their private vaults. At the time, she was just having fun, quickly taking things from their homes. Now, these things were piled up in her space, which was a problem.
Just find a good opportunity to throw clothes and pants and other things into the beggars' group without anyone noticing.
As for the furniture, she hadn't figured out what to do with it yet. There was also something else that needed to be done urgently: the rare and exotic plants that had been moved from the Song Mansion needed to be planted quickly.
Her idea was to plant all the flowers and plants in the space first, and then plant them in the fields outside after the spring of next year.
The Rouge Shop needs a large amount of flowers and medicinal herbs to make ointments. If these flowers and herbs can be grown on a large scale, there will be no need to worry about the raw materials.
Thinking in his mind, Jiang Tangtang entered the space.
The sweet potatoes she had planted a few days ago had already matured, but she had been so busy that she hadn't had time to harvest them yet.
Jiang Tangtang rolled up her sleeves and began picking sweet potatoes.
Because the growth cycle of plants in the space is different from that outside, and she had planted the sweet potatoes for too long without harvesting them, all of them grew very large.
The smaller sweet potatoes weighed six or seven pounds each, while the larger ones weighed more than ten or twenty pounds each. Jiang Tangtang was exhausted and sweating, but he was happy in his heart.
After harvesting the sweet potatoes, Jiang Tangtang was busy planting flowers and plants. By the time she was done, she was so tired that she didn't want to move a finger.
She didn't bother to care about the few ancient trees transplanted from the Song family. Anyway, the space was full of spiritual energy, so they wouldn't die if left alone. She would wait until she calmed down before doing anything else!
It was not until the next day that Jiang Tangtang had time to think about where to plant the flowers and plants.
She thought about it and decided to go find Manager Xia and ask if there was any wasteland in the village.
When Manager Xia saw Jiang Tangtang, he hurriedly took out the account books he had prepared earlier and handed them to Jiang Tangtang.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Tangtang understood what he meant, but pretended to be surprised.
"This is the account book of the farm..." Manager Xia was in a complicated mood. He was worried that Lu Shiyan would rebel and implicate the Xia family in the future, but he couldn't help but think that if his Xia family supported Lu Shiyan, they would also rise to prominence in the future!
"Then what are you doing for me? You are the manager of the farm, and all the things in the farm are up to you to manage!"
Jiang Tangtang sighed and said, "Butler Xia, could it be that you also misunderstood us?
To be honest, this matter was caused by the workshop I run.
"That County Magistrate, Zhao, had someone frame us in order to seize my workshop. I was so angry that I went to court to argue, but when the truth came out, the people were so enraged that they beat him to death."
Although Lu Shiyan had planned to rebel a long time ago, he had to have a legitimate reason to rebel, so it was not appropriate to do it openly at this moment.
To hide his embarrassment, Manager Xia joined Jiang Tangtang in angrily scolding Zhao Kui, "So that's how it is! That County Magistrate Zhao was so evil! I knew from the beginning that he wasn't a good man! He died a good death, a good death!"
Jiang Tangtang talked about General Song's death again. "I never thought General Song was such a person. He had been embezzling the soldiers' pay for years..."
After she finished explaining how General Song had been killed by her own soldiers, she said, "My husband couldn't bear to see Yazhou in chaos, so he took over Yazhou temporarily. But the court will send officials here in the future. Things in the manor remain the same as before. We have to do what needs to be done."
She didn't just say this to Manager Xia. In fact, Lu Shiyan also arranged people to spread the song among the common people.
In short, the deaths of Zhao Kui and General Song were what they deserved, and had nothing to do with him. He had to stand up and take charge of the situation because he could not bear to see the chaos in Yazhou.
When the villagers lying outside the Xia family heard what Jiang Tangtang said, they all cursed Zhao Kui and General Song, and said that Lu Shiyan was a man of high righteousness!
As for why this happened so coincidentally, the people had no doubts. They all said it was a spirit of Wong Tai Sin, who, displeased with the people being bullied, deliberately exposed the evil deeds of the two men so that the people would no longer be oppressed by them and could live a good life from then on.
Not only the people of Zhounan Village think so, but the people of other places in Lingnan also think so.
Some people even think that Lu Shiyan is a messenger sent by Wong Tai Sin, standing in front of people on behalf of Wong Tai Sin to benefit the people.
Let’s not talk about the fact that Lu Shiyan took over Yazhou and his reputation was not damaged at all, and he also gained more support from the people. Let’s first talk about Jiang Tangtang buying land.
There isn't much in Lingnan except for a lot of wasteland. Manager Xia not only found a few pieces of wasteland for Jiang Tangtang, but also took out a few acres of his own fertile land that he had cultivated for many years.
Jiang Tangtang insisted on paying the Xia family the market price. She even gave the Xia family a little more than the market price for their land.
After buying the land, the next thing to do is to take care of the land and prepare for planting.
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