The Concubine's Daughter Travels Through Time and Space and Takes the Road of Confrontation

As soon as he left Luo's house, Jiao Song stopped pretending and said, "Sister, I'm fine."

Jiao Ying was still worried. "Brother, I'll take you to the clinic." She ordered the coachman to drive the carriage to the nearest clinic.

Seeing this, Jiao Song had to confess that he was just pretending. Jiao Ying was stunned and her eyes instantly turned red. She was very sad. "Why did you do this? Do you know I'm scared?"

Caidie knelt down and cried, "Miss, it was this servant who instigated the young master to do this. This servant really——"

Jiao Ying closed her eyes and tried to swallow all the sadness in her heart. She ordered the coachman to drive the carriage to a nearby restaurant. If she returned home early, her father would definitely ask her the reason.

In the private room, the heartless A-di ate without even looking up. Seeing his brother eating so happily, Jiao Ying suddenly found it funny and patted the seat beside her. "Sit down, I know you are doing this for my own good."

Caidie sniffed, "Miss, I'm not hungry."

"Even if you're not hungry, sit down and eat something. If you miss this meal, you'll have to wait until tonight."

Caidie first took a piece of fish meat with chopsticks and gave it to her master, "Miss, you eat first."

There was a sour feeling in Jiao Ying's throat.

"Knock knock" someone knocked on the door, and the shopkeeper said politely, "Miss, my master said that this table of food is for the second young lady."

Jiao Ying was puzzled. "Who is your master?"

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "The second master of the Zhang family is my master."

Jiao Ying turned around and said, "Cai Die, bring the silver here."

Caidie stuffed the silver into the shopkeeper's hand without further ado. Jiaoying said politely, "Thank your master for me, but it's not necessary." After saying that, she closed the door in the shopkeeper's surprised eyes.

The shopkeeper returned downstairs and placed the silver ingot on the counter in front of the man, and said nervously, "Master, Miss Jiao Er said..."

The man said gently, "I already know, you can go ahead and do your work."

At the Jiao Mansion, Jiao Ying placed the box containing the letter on the bottom box and locked it with a large copper lock. After sitting quietly in the room for a while, he told Cai Die to move the box to the small storage room at the back.

Meanwhile, the first thing Gong Jinjin did when she returned to the mansion was to ask Yueqiao to find the bracelet that her mother had given her. She put it on her wrist and admired it for a while. Only this kind of full green could set off her jade-like skin, making her look unparalleled and noble. Half mountain, half water was nothing.

Lu Yun, who had been working late into the night on a mountain of books, sneezed. She wasn't sleepy, but her butt hurt from sitting. Although she had been an engineer in her previous life, she was still overwhelmed by the complexity of each field. She had gone over these drawings several times but couldn't find any room for improvement.

It seems that we can only start with the easiest filling.

For example, iron scrap cannons can be replaced with rusted iron sheets. South Vietnam is close to the sea, and if thin sheets of iron are processed and soaked in seawater for seven days, they will oxidize to varying degrees. Rusted iron sheets can cause tetanus. In ancient times, without antibiotics, tetanus was fatal.

Another option is to fill it with poison, but this solution has a considerable limitation - poison in ancient times was quite expensive, one ounce of red-crowned crane was worth one ounce of silver, and it was not suitable for mass use in filling explosives.

Lu Yun couldn't think of a substitute for the time being, so she put it aside for the time being.

You can also fill it with kerosene to form a wall of fire to stop the enemy's attack.

Lu Yun wrote and drew on the paper, and after writing down all her ideas, she closed the book, stretched herself, lay on her back on the couch, and closed her eyes to rest.

The next day, the old man looked at the imposing gate of the palace from afar. He couldn't help but lower his head, straightened his washed-out shirt, and slowly walked over. The gatekeeper looked at the old man standing on the steps and bowed to him. He was about to have him sent away when he saw the old man tremblingly pull out a very familiar business card from his pocket.

After seeing the pattern on the name card clearly, the doorman immediately put on a smile and invited the old man into the side hall, and sent someone to report to the Yueguan.

Because he has lived by the sea for many years, the old man's skin is dark and full of wrinkles. The knuckles of his fingers resting on his knees are thick, showing that they are a pair of hands that do heavy labor.

"Village Chief Wan, but the Jiang family is back again?"

The old man shook his head nervously, "My Lady Princess, since the Jiang family was driven away and never came back, all the fishermen in the village can go out to sea to fish."

"Village Chief Wan, I promised Director Wan that I would take good care of you while he's away, and I will do so." Lu Yun saw his worry and said to him gently, "Don't be afraid. If you encounter any problems, just tell me."

The old man twitched his fingers on his knees, his eyes filled with sorrow. "Princess, ever since the Jiang family left, we haven't sold a single fish from our village. The merchants who used to buy fish from our village haven't come back. I later went to the fish market and inquired, only to find out that they had received orders from above not to buy fish from our village."

Lu Yun's heart sank slightly, but her expression remained unchanged. "I understand. Don't worry, Village Chief Wan, I will give everyone an explanation on this matter. I want as many fish as your village has."

It was obvious that this matter was related to the Jiang family. The Jiang family started out as a fishmonger and had the support of the Gong family, so it was easy for them to control a small fishing village. However, the buyer and seller were both willing, so she couldn't cause trouble for the Jiang family just because they didn't buy the fish from the small fishing village.

He ordered Cai He to take Village Chief Wan downstairs for dinner, and also bought some rice and flour to send to the fishing village with Village Chief Wan. Lu Yun borrowed a few people from Zhou Boli to go to the fish market in Dali City to inquire about the situation.

As expected, the Jiang family can be seen behind all the fish markets, big and small, in Dali City.

Zhou Boli tapped the table twice with his finger. "The Jiang family has learned their lesson this time. It's not difficult to resolve this matter. The difficulty lies in how to solve it once and for all."

Lu Yun closed the account book. "A fisherman's annual income is between ten and twenty taels. The total annual income of all the fishermen in the fishing village is only more than three hundred taels. After deducting the cost of food, daily necessities, mending and repairs, there is hardly even one tael left." Not to mention that going out to sea to fish is life-threatening.

Lu Yun frowned and stared at the account book at hand, hoping to find a permanent solution.

The root cause was the Jiang family's wealth and lack of compassion. With the Gong family's backing, other merchants in the market had to give them some face. If she could break the Jiang family's monopoly on the fish market, it would naturally alleviate the fishing village's plight. However, achieving this would take time, so Lu Yun planned a two-pronged approach.

"Zhou Boli, is there a fish shop in the palace?"

The man coughed lightly and explained tactfully, "Ayun, the most profitable industries in the palace are various minerals." The fish shop is too small. The money earned by a fish shop in a year is not as much as what the palace earns in a day.

"My fish shop doesn't sell fish." Lu Yun glanced at him and snorted softly, "Just wait and see."

If the Jiang family dared to do it on the first day, she could do it on the fifteenth. Eighty percent of the Jiang family's catch was sold to the Qin Dynasty. As the princess of the Qin Dynasty, her sister was the future empress, her close friend was the princess, her father was a second-rank official, and she was also close friends with Dingyuan Bo, the head of the First-Class Earl's Mansion, and the young master of the Changping Escort Agency. If the Jiang family could sell a single fish in the Qin Dynasty's territory, she would lose.

If you dare to ruin your life, I will make you lose everything.

This is not enough. If the small fishing village wants to live better, it cannot rely solely on selling fish. It must develop some sideline industries in moderation, such as harvesting kelp to make a crude version of MSG. Don't worry about unsold sea fish, you can make it into meat floss. Meat floss has a long shelf life, is easy to carry, has high nutritional value and is suitable for all ages.