In the afterglow of dusk, Zhao Long's side face was flushed by the red glow. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he came back from Bowen Academy, he said to Xiao Ming with a smile: "Your Highness, many students of Bowen Academy said that they wanted to surpass Lu Tong's people under the agitation of the announcement. ”

"Well, these students do need some encouragement, by the way, you can take this tomorrow and post it in each academy."

These days, Zhao Long and Zhao Hu follow Xiao Ming every day, always an auditor outside the school, and after a long time, he has also known a lot of words, he looked at the paper handed over by the King of Qi.

On this paper are more detailed incentives, including scholarships, science and technology creation awards, progress awards, major contribution awards, etc., and the back of these awards lists exactly what awards will be awarded.

And what surprised him the most was the extraordinarily large contribution award, on which Xiao Ming wrote a set of generals in Qingzhou City, three thousand taels of gold.

Putting away the reward regulations, Zhao Long bowed and left, his heart couldn't help beating violently, this regulation is not only for Bowen College, but also for the entire fiefdom, as long as someone reports their scientific and technological achievements to the government, the government will evaluate it.

"If I can get the Great Contribution Award, it will be enough to marry ten wives." The thought of such delicious food made his saliva drool.

It's just that when I secretly fantasized in my heart, I suddenly remembered that King Qi seemed a little unhappy when he looked at the sunset just now, and I don't know why?

The sunset is beautiful, especially under this pure sky, and the sunset on the horizon is like a colorful color in a glass ball.

It's just that in Xiao Ming's opinion, this kind of beauty is very dangerous, at least for his fiefdom.

As the saying goes, the morning glow does not go out, and the sunset travels thousands of miles, which means that the morning glow will rain, and the sunset will be sunny again.

Now Qingzhou is basically sunset, which also means that Pang Yukun's prediction may come true, and Qingzhou may face drought this year.

Since ancient times, the river. South, River. North, mountain. The eastern part of the region was the hardest hit by drought and locust plagues, and there were many chaotic incidents in history because of the disasters in these three areas.

During the Kuomintang rule, Henan suffered a severe drought from July 1942 to the spring of 1943. There was a great famine in the south.

At that time, famine spread throughout the province, and countless people starved to death.

Recalling the bloody archives, Xiao Ming couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, at that time, the drought was fighting against Japan on the front line, and this aggravated the disaster.

And now the blood wolf tribe is eyeing the state, if it is merged, the Jizhou generation will be chaotic because of drought and lack of food, and the situation that the Great Yu Kingdom has just been saved by him at this time may take a sharp turn for the worse.

It's just that he is a human, not a god, and he can't do anything about this natural and man-made disaster, not to mention that Bingzhou is the fief of King Liang, and Jizhou is the fief of King Yong, so he can't interfere, and he can't interfere.

Now being able to protect his fiefdom from disasters is already blessed by the heavens.

"It's raining, no matter how beautiful this sunset is, it can't be eaten as a meal." Xiao Ming muttered to himself.

Because of this matter, he worried about it for a night, and Xiao Ming went directly to the Chamber of Commerce the next day to prepare to personally supervise the purchase of grain.

"Your Highness, the lower official has already explained that he will exchange things for goods, and he is ready to purchase a large amount of food."

Knowing that Xiao Ming was for food, Li Kaiyuan hurriedly explained.

"It's not enough, let all the ships of the Chamber of Commerce go down to the south of the Yangtze River to purchase grain, the grain in the north has never been enough to eat, so you can only start from the south."

Xiao Ming thought about it all night and prepared to go to the south to buy grain reserves.

Li Kaiyuan now knows why Xiao Ming wants to purchase grain on a large scale, he knows the severity of this problem, and he suddenly said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, there is someone in the Chamber of Commerce who you may want to meet, if he nods, there should be no problem with our food in Qingzhou." ”

"Who?" Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment.

"Your Royal Highness, this Jiangnan is rich in the world, but there is a Cao family who is rich in Jiangnan, today, some people from the Cao family are ready to purchase glass mirrors from the Chamber of Commerce, saying that they will visit His Highness in the future, since this is the case, it is better for His Highness to meet them now."

"The Cao family?" Xiao Ming frowned.

Although he has made a lot of goods since last year, this Cao family has never been slow and doesn't seem to care about the profits of these goods.

Now the Cao family finally can't help it?

After a moment's hesitation, he said, "In that case, let him come." ”

Li Kaiyuan nodded, and immediately went out, and after a while, he led a man in a white robe wearing satin to walk in.

"Cao Zhengyang greets His Highness!"

Seeing Xiao Ming, the white-robed boy was polite, neither humble nor arrogant.

"Cao Zhengyang? The Cao family's concubine came out to let a concubine come out to see the king, it seems that the Cao family has not put the king in their eyes. Xiao Ming sat on the chair with a light expression and a slightly dissatisfied tone.

He deliberately tested this Cao Zhengyang.

Cao Zhengyang set off from Lin'an seven days ago and arrived in Qingzhou today, and this time he was assigned by his family to come to Qingzhou.

Hearing this, he said indifferently: "It is said that His Royal Highness is the dragon and phoenix among people, and the model of the Great Yu Kingdom, but I didn't expect His Highness to divide people by his descendants, but unfortunately, unfortunately, I thought His Highness was different." ”

"Bold, Your Highness, how can you criticize at will, I knew that this was the case, and the mirrors in this chamber of commerce were not sold to you." Li Kaiyuan said angrily.

Xiao Ming stretched out his hand to stop Li Kaiyuan, who was about to continue scolding.

"In Qingzhou, the king naturally does not distinguish between the concubines, but between the gate valves of the Dayu Kingdom, they often respect the concubines, and when they go elsewhere, they must show respect to the concubines, do you think that if you put a high hat on the king, the king will be fooled?" Xiao Ming sneered.

When Cao Zhengyang heard this, he was suffocated, and he continued: "Your Highness is smart, it's not that the Cao family despises Your Highness, but that my father smells His Highness's wisdom, and the eldest brother is sick in bed, so he has to let him come as a last resort. ”

"Just tell the truth." Xiao Ming stood up, and he said: "This king has always disliked detours, let's say, what do you want when you come to Qingzhou this time?" ”

"Your Highness is quick to talk, since this is the case, Cao Mou will not hide it, presumably His Highness knows that the Cao family has been serving under the command of King Chu."

Xiao Ming nodded, "Isn't it?" ”

Cao Zhengyang said: "Your Highness, for a businessman, there are no borders, and what businessmen pursue is only real money and silver, so please don't treat the Cao family as the dog and horse of the King of Chu." ”

As soon as he said this, Xiao Ming's brows tightened, because this kind of thing should not be said by a businessman from the Great Yu Kingdom.

"This is the Great Yu Kingdom, what is the dog and horse of the merchant who is not a powerful person?"

"That's right, it's true in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but the difference lies in this, Your Highness is ready to prosper the country with commerce, maybe you can create a free country for merchants to belong to merchants."

(To be continued.) )