In the study room of the back house of the government, incense and tea are quietly exuding a mellow fragrance.

Shi Qingjian looked at Jiang Anyi with a little worry, not only the loyalty of his subordinates, but also the concern of the elders for the juniors. Unconsciously, Shi Qingjian changed from a staff member to a subordinate, he admired the young man in front of him very much, as if he saw his own son and nephew become a weapon, and was willing to give him advice and help him go further and higher.

However, Shi Qingjian also found that Jiang Anyi was young after all, and his way of doing things seemed frizzy and blunt, and he looked tender compared with the old oilman in the Huazhou officialdom, whether he was a subordinate or an elder, he felt that he still had to say some unpleasant words.

"What Mr. Shi said is very true", Jiang Anyi let go of the teacup he was holding tightly, stared out the window, and sighed for a long time: "It's Jiang who thinks too simply, thinking that as long as he is impartial and cares about the people, the government affairs of Huazhou will be as handy as Fuluo County, even if there are any obstacles, with the support of the Son of Heaven and the trust of the people, he can continue to do it boldly." ”

"The trust of the Son of Heaven is important, but it is necessary to cooperate with many parties to do things, and we must not be rash, even if it is the Son of Heaven, it is difficult for everything to go well." Shi Qingjian said politely.

A wry smile hung on the corner of Jiang Anyi's mouth, and he said self-deprecatingly: "Yes, after Jiang came to Huazhou, he suffered setbacks. Zhou Zongxuan, who committed the murder in Shihe Town, had to hand him over to the Anxi camp in order not to offend Yang Xiangliang, the Marquis of Yiyong, but in fact, he couldn't bear the people who were unjustly killed, so Senior Brother Fan was very dissatisfied with me. ”

Shi Qingjian sighed and said: "An Yi doesn't need to blame himself too much, it will be the same if he changes the old man, the old man wants to kill that Zhou Zongxuan, but in this way, he has a feud with Yang Dashuai, and if the Anxi Protectorate points fingers at the government affairs of Huazhou, the situation of the adults will be even more difficult." ”

Depressed, Jiang Anyi tightened his brows and said: "I made it clear to the Son of Heaven in the secret performance of the secret trafficking of human beings in Washington, I thought that the Son of Heaven would issue a heavy punishment, but unexpectedly, the Son of Heaven in the criticism thought that the Hua family was the Marquis of Zhenxi, and because of the meritorious family, I was made lightly, and the case in Washington was forced to be closed in a hurry, which really frustrated me." ”

Jiang Anyi lowered his head, looked at the hot air coming out of the tea cup, and was speechless for a while. Shi Qingjian opened his mouth, and finally raised his cup of tea and swallowed back the words of consolation. He didn't know that Jiang Anyi was not only frustrated by the fact that the real culprit had not been investigated in the Washington case, but more importantly, the case of the robbery and murder of the Yuan Tianjiao was originally responsible for Xin Fei and him, and with the help of Long Wei, Jiang Anyi had already found the stronghold of the Yuan Tianjiao in a village on the edge of the Kurqi Desert. Just as Jiang Anyi was about to mobilize the officers and soldiers to close the net, Xin Fei suddenly told him that an envoy had come to the capital, and the special envoy was in charge of the matter of arresting the Yuan Tianjiao, and asked Jiang Anyi not to ask again. This is a typical peach picking, for the sake of Xin Fei's face, Jiang Anyi endured it, and did not mention it to Xin Fei after that, Xin Fei wanted to speak several times and stopped, Jiang Anyi knew that the secret guard and the dragon guard had strict orders, but relieved Xin Fei not to take it to heart, but this feeling of not being trusted made Jiang Anyi feel extremely uncomfortable.

The tea was cold, and it was bitter in his mouth, Jiang Anyi poured out the old tea, replaced Shi Qingjian with hot tea, and shook his head vigorously, as if he had thrown away all the unhappiness.

"Although the Son of Heaven has exempted Huazhou from taxes this year, there is no silver in the treasury, and everything is difficult to do, so I asked the Son of Heaven to set up a border city in Huazhou, and I estimate that if seventy percent of the goods traded with the Western Regions can be traded in Huazhou, the tax silver can reach about three million. The 800,000 taels of silver per year in the Anxi Protectorate's mansion and the 2 million taels of merchant endowments required in the secret decree of the Son of Heaven can be solved, and even some silver can be left in Huazhou. Jiang Anyi changed the topic of happiness.

Shi Qingjian knew that a few days ago, the caravans in the Western Regions traded in the city had a staggering 460,000 taels of commercial tax, and if it could continue like this, it would be possible to have a commercial tax of 4 million taels per year, but the key was to be able to operate normally.

"I'm afraid the lord is happy too early, I heard Mingyu say that there have been no caravans coming to Huiye City recently, I'm afraid that the border city of Huazhou will not be able to become a climate, and those merchants who originally traded with the Western Regions are afraid that they are not willing to trade in Huiye City." Shi Qingjian poured cold water.

"The largest merchant in the Western Regions in Huazhou is the Han family, and I saw many official eunuchs in the Han Mansion that day, even the family also has a few stewards who are guests, and these people secretly manipulate the prices and trends of goods in the Western Regions." Jiang Anyi said in a dry tone: "I set up a border city in Huazhou to take food from these people, these people naturally can't tolerate me, they have been operating in Huazhou for many years, and they manipulate the officials in the government to secretly control the elbows and exert power on me, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for my decree to get out of the Huiye Mansion." ”

Shi Qingjian didn't make a sound, he knew that Jiang Anyi was telling the truth, his second son Shi Mingyu had a hard time these days, he was sent by the adults to set up a border market trading office, but no one asked for money and no money, he ran between prevarication and prevarication every day, and he didn't think about tea and dinner when he returned home, and everyone was tired and thin.

"Ling Lang was sent by me to handle the border market, I'm afraid he has suffered a lot of grievances. Mingyu is steady, which really satisfies me, and my husband can rest assured that as long as I am still the history of Huazhou Thorn, I will not forget his merits. Jiang Anyi saw Shi Qingjian's thoughts and said warmly.

"I thanked the lord for Mingyu, but the lord doesn't need to care too much, it can only be a big thing after wind and rain, although Mingyu is hard during this time, but it is also quite progressive, there are gains and losses, for Mingyu, it is a good thing." Shi Qingjian said with a smile.

"Where are these people willing to give me oil and water, they have rushed to trade with the merchants of the Western Regions before the caravan enters Huaye Mansion, and some people are thinking of ways to pass through Huazhou by other roads." A grim smile appeared at the corner of Jiang Anyi's mouth, "Since I don't eat the toast, I have prepared some penalty wine, and I am not in a hurry now, when I have my hands freed up in some time, I will naturally deal with them." ”

Based on Shi Qingjian's understanding of Jiang Anyi, although the lord is still immature, he is very intelligent, and the method he came up with will inevitably teach a profound lesson to those who play tricks. No longer entangled in business and trade, Shi Qingjian said: "The counties have learned the method of making honey fruits, and the price of melons and fruits on the street has risen by half. It's just that the cost of making honey fruits is too high, and I am afraid that those rich families will benefit from it. ”

Jiang Anyi smiled and said: "Hua Sima also told me that I was indeed a little careless about launching the honey fruit at the beginning, but this is also my sincerity to the Huazhou gentry. ”

"Oh?"

"If honey fruits can be produced in large quantities, the people's melons and fruits will not worry about sales, and the price will also rise. If the families of the gentry and wealthy merchants got this method, they would inevitably make a profit from mass production, and the taxes collected by the government would naturally rise; And I told them the way for free, so that they could have more ways to make money, and if they were interested, they should support me in the border market. Jiang Anyi sighed and said depressedly: "To govern Huazhou, after all, you have to rely on their help." ”

After several years of ups and downs, Jiang Anyi has learned to compromise appropriately.

In Pingshan Town, Xinqi, Texas, Dong'er watched Yan'er eating honey fruit absentmindedly, and the honeydew melon was like chewing wax in her mouth, and asked in surprise: "Yan'er, what's wrong with you, what's on your mind?" ”

Jiang Huang was holding his grandson and teasing, when he heard this, he raised his head and glanced at his daughter, and asked, "The honey fruit sent by your brother is not to your taste, I remember that you like to eat sweet things the most?" ”

Yan'er covered up in a panic: "It's delicious, I was exposed to the sun when I arrived in the back village just now, and my head was a little dizzy." ”

Dong'er believed it and said, "Hurry up and ask people to ask for a doctor, don't suffer from heat stroke." ”

"No, no", Yan'er stood up, hugged the remaining half jar of honey fruit, and said with a smile: "I'll go back to the room and rest, I'll take this half jar of honey fruit back and eat it." ”

Seeing that his daughter didn't forget to eat, Jiang Huang put his mind at ease, waved his hand angrily and said, "Go, your brother has sent a lot, enough for you to eat, eat less, don't eat your stomach." ”

Looking at Yan'er's back, Dong'er was thoughtful, the sister-in-law's demeanor was a little wrong, didn't something happen? When I have time to ask her carefully, Dong'er is not a few years older than Yan'er, and her aunt and sister-in-law get along very well with each other, and they are friends who talk about everything.

In the small single courtyard in the backyard of the remote inn in the south of Pingshan Town, Li Mingfeng stood solemnly in front of the window, his clear eyes revealing a faint sadness. It has been almost a month since he came to Pingshan Town as his master, and he deliberately left an impression in Jiang Huayan's heart with several coincidences, but this kind of practice like a flower thief made him bored.

The master was difficult to disobey, and the melancholy in Li Mingfeng's eyes deepened. He was born on the isolated island of the Yuantian Sect, and at the age of sixteen, he followed his master Liu Ziwei to the Qingshan Water Village in Bingzhou, where he learned from the uncles and uncles. The wind and sand in the northwest cast his wild appearance, and he gave birth to a face of sideburns and beard in his early twenties, and at this moment, Li Mingfeng shaven off Yu Si, revealing a young face of twenty-three, and his actual age is one year younger than Jiang Anyi.

Jiang Huayan didn't know that Li Mingfeng had already secretly paid attention to her, and the startled horse was deliberately scared away by Li Mingfeng hitting the horse's buttocks with a stone; Dancing above the gazebo are the figures who are making plays; As for the eyes of attention, they were always there, and Li Mingfeng was annoyed to find that the bright-eyed and well-eyed girl had squeezed into his heart at some point.

Irritably, he pulled out his sword, Li Mingfeng jumped into the small courtyard, the sword light was as cold as the wind, blowing the osmanthus flowers in the corner of the courtyard to fall, and the fragrance floated. Li Mingfeng's swordsmanship has been passed on by Wei Dachang, and he has taken a light and changeable path, the cold light in the small courtyard is rolling, and although the sword is fast, it can't cut the feelings in his heart.

There was a sound of talking coming from the courtyard next to it, and the guests returned. Li Mingfeng put away the sword and listened to the people in the courtyard, and after a while, a look of surprise appeared on his face, it was actually a person from the Huazhou Weiyuan Dart Bureau, from the words he learned that the leader was Zhang Tiangang, who led the team, he knew Zhang Tiangang, but Zhang Tiangang didn't know him, and he even knew the festival between Zhang Tiangang and Jiang Anyi.

Gently putting the sword into its sheath, a bright smile appeared on Li Mingfeng's face.