Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

The person Han Zheng wants to recommend is Jiang Chengze.

His cooperation with Li Yu has not been interrupted in the past few years. Li Yu provides him with braised meat and snack recipes, and he gives Li Yu a share of the profits every year.

Han Zheng had met him several times and had some understanding of him.

Of course, he was chosen not because he is Li Yu's partner, but because he has good abilities. A person who opens stores all over Dayu must be capable.

Moreover, Jiang Chengze is from Jiangfu County and is familiar with the county, making it easier for him to coordinate among all parties.

After the flood, the Jiang family was the first wealthy family in Jiangfu County to provide porridge. The Jiang family is very kind-hearted.

From all aspects, Jiang Chengze is the most suitable candidate.

However, Jiang Chengze also has a shortcoming - he is a businessman and has no achievements.

Han Zheng said everything he wanted to say, and then waited quietly for Master Jiang to give the result.

Tutor Jiang didn't care about Jiang Chengze's identity. Emperor Tianyuan advocated employing talents in an unconventional way, and it was not uncommon for merchants to become officials in the past.

"Since you say he's suitable, let's invite him here tomorrow to ask him. If he agrees, we'll finalize the matter, and I'll also notify the prefect of Nanzhou Prefecture."

Under normal circumstances, neither he nor Han Zheng had the qualifications to appoint a county magistrate, as this was the job of the Ministry of Personnel. However, this time, Emperor Tianyuan said that he had to make decisions in an emergency, so he gave him certain powers, so it was no problem to appoint a temporary county magistrate. Anyway, he was not a formal county magistrate, so as long as there was no big trouble, he would not be a big hindrance.

If this Jiang man can do a good job and is willing to be an official, he can find a way to make him an official county magistrate when he returns to the capital.

*

After making all the arrangements, it was already the Chou hour and seeing that it would be dawn in two hours, Han Zheng and Master Jiang decided to take a rest.

Today they all live in the county government office.

There was a crescent moon hanging in the sky. Han Zheng carried the lantern and returned to his room. Halfway through, he thought of Li Yu and Han Xiaomei.

He has been busy these days and doesn't know how his second sister-in-law is doing. He heard that the situation in Jiangyang County is much better than that in Jiangfu County, so his second sister-in-law should not have so much to do.

He wanted to ask the guards to go to Jiangyang County to take a look, but after thinking about it, Han Zheng did not make any arrangements.

Minister Pei has been missing for many days, and the people he sent out have not been able to find him. He has to send a few more people out to look for him. If he sends more people to Jiangyang County at this time, there may not be enough people.

As for the capital, Xiaomei has been learning from her second sister-in-law in the past few years and is now able to stand on her own. Plus, there are people watching over her in the capital, so everything should go smoothly for her.

*

Although Master Li refused to say anything, the matter in Jiangfu County was almost coming to an end.

Early the next morning, the officers and soldiers followed Han Zheng's order and invited Jiang Chengze to the county government office.

Jiang Chengze thought that Han Zheng and Master Jiang wanted his family to take some money and grain for disaster relief, and he had already thought about how much money and grain to take on the way here.

He was from Jiangfu County. Since he had been doing business for many years, he had no shortage of money. He was willing to make some contributions to the county residents. As a result, the first thing Han Zheng asked him was if he wanted to be the temporary county magistrate.

Jiang Chengze thought he had heard wrongly.

It was not until Master Jiang repeated it that he realized it was true.

Seeing that the two of them didn't seem to be joking, Jiang Chengze hesitantly asked them why they chose him.

Han Zheng repeated what he had said to Master Jiang yesterday.

Jiang Chengze thought for a while, then bowed deeply and said, "I am willing to be the temporary county magistrate."

Although it is temporary, it allows him to work for the county, and he is willing to do so!

*

In order to make Jiang Chengze accepted by the people more quickly, Han Zheng sent people to expose all the dirty things that County Magistrate Wei and Master Li did in private. In addition, after discussing with Master Jiang, he released two yamen runners who had made few mistakes and were capable, and asked them to obey Jiang Chengze's orders.

The two yamen runners didn't expect that they could come out safe and sound. They were extremely grateful to Han Zheng and raised their hands to the sky and swore that they would be loyal to Jiang Chengze.

As for the other yamen runners, they were all punished one by one.

Those who committed many bad deeds and whose circumstances were serious were sent to Nanzhou Prefecture and sentenced by the prefect.

Those who committed many bad deeds but whose impact was minor were fined, imprisoned, beaten, and had their rights as yamen runners revoked.

This process continued unabated, until finally there were only two yamen runners left, and new ones needed to be recruited.

Fortunately, Jiang Chengze had connections in Jiangyang County, and in just half a day, he formed a new team of yamen runners.

He also gathered a group of strong men with clean family backgrounds and divided them into several groups, each of which was responsible for watching the food and keeping records.

In order to restore Jiangfu County to a clean state more quickly, he hired a group of women in good health to clean the streets and handle the sludge.

In addition, he summoned all the bricklayers in the county and asked them to help the county residents clean up the houses that were damaged by the flood.

In the past, during the peak season for house repairs, some bricklayers would raise their prices, otherwise they would not do the work.

In order to reduce the burden on the people, Jiang Chengze directly prohibited the masons from asking exorbitant prices. But he did not let the masons suffer any loss, saying that as long as the masons did a good job, the Jiang family would give each of them a subsidy.

When Master Jiang saw that Jiang Chengze had arranged things in an orderly manner, he secretly thought that he was worthy of being a businessman. Not only did he have a clear division of labor, but he also took the interests of all parties into consideration.

To be honest, when he first saw Jiang Chengze, he saw that he was tall and strong, simple and honest, and he even suspected that Han Zheng had misjudged him. Now it seems that he judged people by appearance. He just looked a little rough, but he was actually a careful person.

Since he could do this, he naturally would not let him suffer any loss, so the silver subsidy for the bricklayers was paid by the government and used the government’s account, and all the silver for hiring people was also paid by the government.

*

On the afternoon of the second day after Jiang Chengze became the temporary county magistrate, Master Jiang and Han Zheng left Jiangfu County.

They also took Magistrate Wei and Master Li away.

Because the people all knew that Master Li and Magistrate Jiangfu used the yamen runners to gain a good reputation, they hated them to the core and prepared a lot of mud. As soon as the two men appeared, they threw it at them without hesitation.

When Han Zheng and his companions left the Jiangfu County gate, Wei Li and the other man had mud all over their faces and bodies.

Anyway, the mud didn't cover their noses and didn't affect their breathing, so Han Zheng didn't care and just asked everyone to hurry up.

They are going to Jiangming County, north of Jiangfu County, today, and they don't know what the situation is there.

*

Clearwater Village.

Li Yu accompanied the doctor to see the villagers.

In the past few days, the couple took medicine on time and their condition improved, but the situation outside the village was not so good. Among the people who had contact with the couple, three showed symptoms of the epidemic. They had persistent fever, coughed, vomited, and felt weak all over.

Fortunately, they were separated from other people at the beginning and did not infect others.

As for the village, because nothing had happened in the past few days as they had followed the rules, some villagers began to become restless, especially those who were locked in the snack room.

They felt that living in the snack room was inconvenient and wanted to go home, and their families also felt that there was no need to keep them locked up.

When Li Yu was thinking about how to persuade them to leave, news came that three people outside the village had contracted the plague.

Not surprisingly, the topic came to an end.

The people in the snack room no longer clamored to go home, and their families also closed their own doors with dry laughs.

Since their lives were at stake, they just listened to Xiu Wen's wife and stopped moving.