Qiao Xin looked at the two people standing in front of her and was also drunk.
She just sent a letter to her two older sons to borrow some help, but why did they send her two teams of a hundred people? They wanted to join in the fun, but they already arranged for the captain and the military advisor. Who would believe that they were escorting?
If she wasn't afraid that among the people she borrowed from Qiao Yunqing there might be local acquaintances who might leak the news, she wouldn't have gone so far as to look for her two sons who lived far away from her to mobilize manpower!
Now that we are here, we can only make do with what we have for now!
Wang Da Kui was so excited to see Qiao Xin again! This was her lifesaver. If Qiao Xin hadn't gone to Laohu Town, the grass on the graves of Wang Da Kui's family would have grown so tall!
"The old lady is well!"
"Hey, it's Da Kui. Did you have a smooth journey? How's Lao San doing?"
"Third Master, everything is fine. I didn't encounter any major trouble on the way here. It's just that the road here is a bit difficult to walk on. It took some time."
"Everything will be fine in the future. Do you have any instructions, Third Brother?"
"My Lord asked me to bring some things here, and also asked me to ask when I would have time to visit Jiangcheng. The rest is for me to follow the old lady and do my job well!"
"I have to go to Jiangcheng, but I can't leave right now. Please ask your parents to wait a little longer!"
"Why!"
Qiao Xin chatted with Wang Da Kui for a while and then looked at Zhang Yun who was standing aside.
"Zhang Yun, we haven't seen each other for a long time!"
Zhang Yun knelt on one leg, bowed and said, "Your subordinate Zhang Yun greets the old lady. Long live the old lady!"
"Get up, get up, you are considered an elder in our Qiao family, you should know my temper.
To be honest, you two are soldiers selected by me, so I won't be polite to you. You all know each other and have worked together before. I only have one request now, that you two teams can get familiar with each other as soon as possible in the next period of time, so that you can cooperate well in the future!"
"yes!"
Zhang Yun was sent by Qiao Xin to the military camp to protect the two brothers. Zhang Yun and Wang Dagui and others had worked under Qiao Yunxin.
But later, Wang Da Kui was assigned to be Qiao Yunting's personal guard, which led to the two no longer working together.
Now that they were working together again, they didn't need to spend too much time getting used to each other. In less than half a day, the two team leaders had become good friends.
Qiao Xin left time for the two of them, and took the others to check the terrain of the village. When they reached the top of the mountain, Qiao Xin's eyes lit up. There was actually a large piece of flat land dug out here, and more than 30 thatched houses were built, although most of them had been burned down!
She was still delighted. After looking around, Qiao Xin became more and more satisfied. She couldn't help but exclaimed: "What a great place! I was just worrying about where to put the address of the tea factory. Now I have it!"
"It's good, but it's a little too difficult to get in and out!" Shunzi agreed.
"The roads in this world are made by people walking. When more people walk on them, there will be roads. We can slowly repair them in the future! You see, this place is located on the top of the mountain, and there is only one exit. It can save a lot of trouble in terms of safety protection!
The sunshine hours here are long, the air is ventilated on all sides, and there is also frequent foggy weather. The system gave her data that listed this place as the preferred place for natural fermentation.
Don't think that such places are easy to find, they are something you can only encounter by chance.
In later generations, when making the golden flowers in Fuzhuan tea, the tea leaves had to be transported to Jingyang County in southern Shaanxi, and undergo secondary fermentation to produce satisfactory golden flower fungi.
As far as Anhua County is concerned, there is no suitable place under natural conditions.
It was only later through human intervention and setting of appropriate conditions that this bottleneck was broken.
What Qiao Xin is doing now is just the same as this method!
Qiao Xin did what she said and quietly settled the territory in the mountain village. When President Meng came again, she only saw Shunzi who was in charge of supervision and some busy workers in the wasteland.
I have only been away for half a month, but the wasteland in front of me has been almost cleaned up. The former desolation is gone forever. There are dozens of straw huts on the ground, and one or two hundred young and strong people are busy running back and forth.
, except for the dozens of people he helped to deliver, most of them were unfamiliar faces!
Chairman Meng was puzzled. He had also heard about the Lou family and the Xia family preventing local people from coming to help. How did the Qiao family get so many helpers in such a short time?
Shunzi was very happy to see him, and was about to take him to see Qiao Xin, sighing, "President Meng is here just in time, the old lady just asked me about you!
County Magistrate Wu has found many people from the countryside and neighboring counties, and they are meeting the old lady now! You don’t know yet, do you? His Majesty has rewarded our family with 20,000 acres of mountain land, which is in Anhua and the neighboring Yiwu County. "
"How much? Twenty thousand acres?" President Meng exclaimed.
Shunzi said with a Versailles look on his face, "Yes, the old lady with so much mountain land is worried. His Majesty has spoken, how can we delay any longer? We have to get some land out as soon as possible!"
Chairman Meng became even more respectful after hearing this. The Qiao family's opinions can always be directly conveyed to His Majesty. Then, wouldn't everything that happened in Anhua County escape His Majesty's eyes and ears?
Your Majesty strongly supports the Qiao family in developing tea gardens. Doesn't this mean that the court will definitely pay more attention to the development of border tea in the future?
So what the Lou and Xia families did was not just against the Qiao family, but also against the imperial court?
President Meng shuddered and secretly thanked himself for his composure during this period and for not succumbing to the conditions offered by the Lou family.
Siming Mountain, Xiaoqingfeng Village, under the ancient tree.
Qiao Xin and Magistrate Wu chatted about the current problems they were facing.
County Magistrate Wu's trip was not smooth either. The noble families colluded with each other and were determined to drive Qiao Xin out of Anhua County. Even Yiwu County heard the news. The gentry and the village chiefs naturally did not dare to offend these local wealthy families.
If the people in some villages were not so poor that they could barely make ends meet, they would not dare to leave the village to come and work. Even if the county magistrate repeatedly gave them assurances, they remained unmoved.
You must know that in the past few decades, the county magistrates of Anhua County have been replaced in a hurry, except for those few aristocratic families who remain unchanged.
Magistrate Wu looked ashamed and said, "Please forgive me, old lady. This is my fault!"
Qiao Xin shook her head and said, "Don't blame yourself. I understand how difficult it is for you to be an official here. Since the locals don't want this job, then find foreign help!"
"Foreign aid? Should this matter be reported to the court?"
"That's for sure. Just tell your master the truth. I have already sent people to various places to recruit people. This chaotic world lacks everything except homeless people! Anhang and Yiwu have a combined population of only 40,000. It is more than enough to resettle tens of thousands more people!"
Magistrate Wu was shocked and hurriedly tried to stop her, saying, "Madam, you must not do that. Anhua is already poor, and there is no way it can take in tens of thousands of refugees. They can't even provide them with food, drink, and food! If a riot breaks out, the dozens of yamen runners under my command will not be able to handle it."
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