Cannon Fodder Ex-wife Dressed as Shoufu

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Chapter 36 Love life is extraordinary.

Everyone in North Korea and China was paying attention to the refugees in the suburbs, and saw them set up simple houses to live in temporarily.

Fortunately, it's summer. This kind of house can live in temporarily, but when it's late autumn and winter, you will have to change the house. However, Xiaoxia Qiao and Shen Li didn't consider these things at all.

In fact, the officials in the DPRK did not ignore this matter, but waited for Shen Li to speak.

Although he was an official in the same dynasty, Shen Li was promoted too quickly, and it was inevitable that some people would not accept him. He had an affair with the Queen Mother, and everyone was on the sidelines.

Especially the household department, the household department is in charge of the money and grain. Without him, it would be difficult to open the warehouse and put the grain. Therefore, the empress dowager would take the initiative to find him and ask him to confess to her grandma.

But this time Shen Li bypassed him directly. Instead, he contacted Houye Department Store, the largest department store in Beijing, and bought dozens of carts of rice, and he would still have a steady supply of goods. Is Shen Li so rich?

The Hubu Shangshu felt strange, what did Shen Li pay for? Is their family background very deep?

It was not until Qi Shurong came to the household department slowly with the bill that he wrote the food used for these days, and even gave a cost price, even the cost price of shipping.

"Master Shangshu, the freight will not be mentioned. I see that the people are pitiful in this world. It is a donation. You only need to pay the cost of the food." Qi Shurong said simply.

But this directly asks for money? !

And what about the bill?

Ji Shangshu couldn't help but said: "Who allows Shen Li to take credit without authorization? Why do you ask the Ministry of Household to pay for him? Who knows if your food quantity is fraudulent?"

Qi Shurong raised his eyebrows: "Fake? This world lacks your silver. ?"

This is true. In the current home of Qi Shurong, it is famous and rich. Houye Department Store even opened in Jiangnan and outside the Great Wall, saying it was a chain store, and all the specifications were compared to Beijing.

Coupled with the name of the relatives and relatives of the emperor, every government gave the green light. Not only that, they are also active in paying taxes, and local officials are not too happy to be a big taxpayer.

To say that there is too much food, Qi Shurong may be greedy for ink, but the bill this time is not much money to be honest.

The refugees have been here for seven days, and this is only a seven-day ration. Ji Shangshu, as the Shangshu of the Household Department, is still clear about the money.

But it doesn't feel right to give the bill directly.

Qi Shurong handed over: "I also ask Ji Shangshu to pay the money, and the refugees will have to build houses. This cost of materials is also not a small figure. In fact, I want my son to say that Ji Shangshu should directly open the warehouse to put food and money, otherwise every time. It's too much trouble to come and send the bills. And it's not just our family who will send the bills next."

"Shen Li is so ridiculous, he can't ask the Ministry of Household for something? He actually borrowed money outside!" Ji Shangshu was anxious. He has such an undecent approach.

"Really?

Mrs. Shen said that every day the memorial is written, but the Ministry of Household has not approved it." After Qi Shurong finished speaking, he put the bill on the table, clearly asking for money.

If ordinary merchants had been driven out long ago, no, ordinary merchants would not even be able to enter the door of the household.

But Qi Shurong's identity is different. Even if their family is doing business well now, it is the Hou Mansion. The emperor doesn't care about these Hou Ye princes, but the little emperor is different.

The little emperor obviously had some respect for these uncles.

But if the money is given and there will be bills in the future, will they still pay?

Everyone thinks that Shen Li's memorials can be seen without seeing them. What is needed is Shen Li's begging instead of paying for the last memorial.

Now people come around directly, Shen Li is outside taking things all over the sky, and the bills are flooding into the household department. Is the money given or not? !

The unspoken rules of officialdom let this outsider destroy it.

Thinking about it makes people angry. Qi Shurong sits here, meaning not to leave without paying.

Gentle sweeping, really gentle sweeping!

Ji Shangshu can only let people report the matter to the empress dowager, how can there be a solution.

If you don't give this money, it won't work.

The queen mother originally wanted to let people say that Shen Li and Qi Shurong were greedy for ink, but their accounts were clear, and all prices were the lowest prices. They sent people to the scene. No refugee spoke ill of Shen adults, and even praised the Shen family. There is nothing in the sky below.

What a good bridge Xiaoxia and Shen Li, not only unexpected, but also seamless.

The money was given through gritted teeth.

But Ji Shangshu immediately sent someone to find Shen Li and told him not to buy things outside, as they were in the treasury.

Shen Li raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "I didn't mean that money and food were tight before the memorial? Isn't it easy to dial things?"

The faces of the people who were sent to spread the word were all red.

Obviously what everyone knows is that they want to embarrass people with money.

This Master Shen did not play the cards according to common sense, which is simply a headache.

"This is not something ready, just waiting for you to get it." The servant hurriedly said, not daring to answer directly.

Shen Li seemed to smile, but when he saw his lady coming, he said: "You order a good number and send it over, we are not very free." He

said that Shen Li passed these people directly to bridge Xiaoxia.

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Tired ?" "Not tired, I will be planting sweet potatoes in a few days, a little nervous." Qiao Xiaoxia subconsciously grabbed Shen Li's hand, "What if there is a problem?"

"Impossible, these few times. Seedlings can also see that the rhizomes of sweet potatoes multiply very quickly, as do potatoes. Although we don't know the yield, this multiplication speed is fast enough." Shen Li comforted.

Farming is not a simple matter. Even sweet potatoes, a fast-growing and fast-producing crop, have a cycle of nearly five months.

It is equivalent to these five months, these refugees must eat relief food.

This is not a small expenditure. Although fewer than 30,000 people came and several thousand people slipped away in five months, the food they needed was huge.

Even if they don't insist on eating well, it will be very difficult to feed them.

Fortunately, Shen Li divided them, and part of them learned how to build canals, and they were assigned to build canals everywhere. There were about three to four thousand people.

The remaining refugees, who are willing to go home, are escorted by Xiaowei Guo, and then pull five thousand catties of sweet potato seedlings back to Yuzhou. Together with the sweet potato seedlings, there are several thousand catties of grain.

In this way, most of the walk is gone.

There are only more than 9,000 refugees in the suburbs. These people want to try. Can these sweet potato seedlings really be grown successfully?

After these things were done, the court finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Shen Li came out in time to prevent the influx of refugees into the city.

In fact, Shen Li didn't say anything, doing things all by himself, convinced the refugees that he could really tide over the difficulties.

The remaining 9,000 people, both old and young, look at the barren land and the sweet potato seedlings they have allocated. They feel incredible. Can this little sweet potato field really grow ten acres of land?

Can you really harvest it in autumn?

This is also incredible. It is May and June. According to Mrs. Shen, it is a bit late to grow sweet potatoes, but that's okay. Sweet potatoes are very vigorous.

It was the first time they saw this kind of crops, but when they were in Yuzhou, they all planted the fields, and they did not need to explain, they had already plowed the ground very well, and the water canals were well built.

Their progress is faster than Qiao Xiaoxia and Shen Li imagined. They may have experienced droughts and have not had enough food, so their movements are faster than ordinary people.

Only those who have truly experienced hardship can cherish their current life.

Qiao Xiaoxia was completely idle. After all, he did not have any particularly good experience in growing sweet potatoes and potatoes. Both of these crops grew very well.

She returned to the capital, but rarely went to the outskirts of the city.

But everyone knows that the crops that the refugees grow now are bought by Qiao Xiaoxia from overseas merchants.

I bought a lot of things at that time, and everyone laughed at them.

Now it's a wait-and-see attitude. After all, things are just being planted now. No one knows what it looks like and how many fruits it will bear.

But most people think that this is Qiao Xiaoxia and Shen Li's method to comfort the refugees, so they will go back to Yuzhou, or why the houses built for them are so simple, obviously they are not going to spend the winter.

Shen Li didn't explain. These refugees were forced to make a living, and they had no choice but to come here. If they could go home, they would definitely have to go home.

Fortunately, only these tens of thousands of refugees have come, and more people are still struggling to survive in Yuzhou.

However, Guo Zhong and Zhu Xuan's grandfather Zhu Scholars have already gone to Yuzhou for disaster relief, and Shen Li doesn't need to worry about these things for the time being.

When Zhu Xuan came to Qiao Xiaoxia's house, she was still saying to Qiao Xiaoxia: "My grandfather wrote back and said that your sweet potato and potato seedlings will sprout within three or four days after they are planted on the ground. They have never seen it. After such a fast-growing crops. Then those craftsmen who dig ditches brought in the water even more. Although it was less, it was better than before." After

talking a lot, the last thing was: "My grandfather said, let You are ready, don't be robbed of these credits by others. Judging from his experience, he will definitely help Yuzhou tide over the difficulties."

I wish the bachelor's degree to be an official for at least forty years. He has said so. Come to an end.

"Anything else, as long as the people are settled." Qiao Xiaoxia has never seen a real famine, after all, in the era when she lived, she was far away from the famine.

Occasionally joking about how Africa is, but those are too far away from her to see.

This time I realized more deeply that she was in ancient, barren ancient times.

Seeing that Xiaoxia Qiao didn't care, Zhu Xuan talked about another thing: "Do you know the second princess, she meditates at the Buddhist temple to pray for the Queen Mother?" The

second princess has been there for four or five months, and Xiaoxia Qiao certainly knows.

"Did something happen?" Qiao Xiaoxia asked.

"She was meditating in a Buddhist temple and met a scholar who had lived in Beijing ahead of time and was preparing to take the imperial examination tomorrow. I heard that the two of them had a friendship and were preparing to get married." Zhu Xuan was still a little embarrassed after she finished speaking. It's not good to talk about these things without getting married, but it's hard to be at ease in front of Xiaoxia Qiao, so naturally I just said it.

Xiaoxia Qiao couldn't believe it: "She meditates in the Buddhist temple, isn't she in the back mountain? A residence dedicated to female pilgrims?"

"Who said no, but they just met. Many people in Beijing said that they were destined to do so. Fate, I heard that the scholar is very handsome. Even the queen mother was boasting." Zhu Xuan said in a low voice, "It's spread all over the capital, that is, you are busy with refugees, no one will tell you."

Qiao Xiaoxia The hand holding the cup almost shook, this second princess is too courageous.

She deserves to be the heroine in the ancient novels, and her love life is extraordinary.