New Year's Eve.
Listening to the sound of firecrackers going off all around him, Zhao Lin sighed, "Two years."
From time travel to now.
It's already the second year.
Strictly speaking, it is one year and ten months.
Although it was only a short twenty-two months.
But time flies and the world changes dramatically.
Zhao Lin actually felt as if he was in another world.
The memories of my previous life are gradually fading.
"Is this what it means to be integrated into this world?" Zhao Lin sighed.
"Husband, shall we set off fireworks?"
Fu Liqing and Yun Zhiyi came over together.
Lan'er directed several maids and servants to set up fireworks there.
Zhao Lin smiled and said, "Okay!"
Zhao Lin personally lit the first firework. The firework exploded in the air like a blooming flower, indicating that Zhao Lin's future would be as brilliant as fireworks.
“So beautiful!”
"We're coming too."
Fu Liqing and Yun Zhiyi lit fireworks one after another, and the sky was filled with dazzling lights.
The two girls, along with Lan'er, Zhu'er and others, all cheered.
"After all, she is only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl. In her previous life, she had just graduated from high school." Zhao Lin thought.
Sudi came over hurriedly and nodded to Zhao Lin. Zhao Lin said hello to the two women and followed Sudi away.
"Qing'er, don't you have any sense of danger?"
Seeing Zhao Lin and Su Di walking and talking, Yun Zhiyi asked.
Fu Liqing pursed his lips. "So what? Can we still drive Su Di away? He has supported my husband from the beginning. He also has a high status in the Jinzhou Su family and can be a great help to my husband. The only pity is that he is not a girl."
"Yeah, it's a pity that he is not a girl, otherwise he could have another sister." Yun Zhiyi sighed.
It's not that they are generous enough to share their husbands with others, but the social environment makes it useless for them to stop it even if they want to.
Gentlemen like Fu Chengwang and Li Xingye both had concubines.
What's more, what about Zhao Lin?
And they all knew Zhao Lin's difficulties.
The Zhenbei Marquis Mansion is so powerful that Fu Chengwang and Li Xingye dare not say they can win against it. Zhao Lin's revenge on them is like hitting a rock with an egg. He must have more and stronger help.
And the Jinzhou Su family is the best help.
If Sudi can convince the Su family.
Sudi said: "Everything is ready, just waiting for the rebels to arrive."
"I trust you to do the work." Zhao Lin patted Sudi's shoulder. "It's just hard for you that you can't go home during the New Year."
Sudi said disapprovingly, "Why go home? That family is nothing but scheming against each other. It's better to be here and talk to you."
Zhao Lin comforted him, "If nothing else, your parents will definitely miss you."
"Miss me?"
Sudi said self-deprecatingly: "If you really missed me, you would come to me."
Zhao Lin was about to persuade him again, but Su Di said, "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. When we successfully capture 50,000 rebels, the news will spread and will surely shock the government and the public. Then I will introduce the head of the Su family to you."
"That's great." Zhao Lin cheered up and said, "With the financial support of the Su family, we can do a lot of things."
Sudi narrowed his eyes: "For example?"
Zhao Lin smiled slightly.
"For example, another 50,000 soldiers!"
The inside and outside of Qingzhou City are two different worlds.
The sound of lights and firecrackers could be heard throughout the city, and fireworks were blooming, lighting up every corner.
Outside the city was darkness.
In this darkness, countless black shadows were wriggling silently like poisonous snakes, slowly approaching Qingzhou City.
"Damn, these people really know how to enjoy themselves. We're all out here starving, and they're not only enjoying the good food and drinks, but they're also setting off firecrackers and fireworks. That's all our money."
Li Feng looked at the fireworks in the sky with red eyes.
Envy, jealousy and hatred!
Why isn't he the one enjoying it so much!
The people around also echoed.
"Take the city of Qingzhou and capture Zhao Lin alive. Then we can become a prefect for fun."
"The Emperor must give the General a real general position, and the Qingzhou Army should belong to our General."
"Kill all the officials and take everything inside."
"Kill them all, rob them all, burn them all..."
Gradually, these people could no longer hold back, breathing heavily and looking at everything in the city with red eyes.
As long as they open the city gate and rush into the city, everything inside will be theirs.
Song Huaian stood there with his hands clasped, watching with an expressionless face.
Lai Changde laughed and said, "Although Zhao Lin is young, he has the potential to be a capable official. He's managed Qingzhou to this point in less than a year. If he had been given three to five years, Qingzhou might have become the richest city in all of Daqi. What a shame."
Song Huaian suddenly asked, "I heard that Zhao Lin is using soldiers to reclaim wasteland?"
Lai Changde nodded and said, "Yes. He mobilized the entire Qingzhou Army and bought a lot of oxen and farm tools. He can cultivate more than 10,000 acres of farmland a day. More than 10,000 acres a day, he is now a large landowner with hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland."
Song Huaian asked, "What does Mr. Lai think about this?"
Lai Changde scoffed, "What else can I say? It's just the way officials always do things. The soldiers do the work, the wages come from the court, but the land belongs to them. It's said that Zhao Lin is still recruiting soldiers, and after selection, all the new recruits are sent to open up wasteland. I estimate that they can now cultivate 20,000 acres of new land a day."
Lai Changde calculated and said, "If this continues, in less than half a year, all the farmland in Qingzhou will belong to Zhao Lin. Calculating based on 500 kilograms of grain per acre, hiss..."
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