Chapter 31
When spring passes and summer solstice and the weather gets warmer, a large area of arable land has been planted with grain, and the outside of Yangzhou City is green.
The people are more active than usual, and it is not as cold as winter in summer. Zhu Biao and Liu Bowen recorded all the methods of fermenting simple fertilizers and made them into booklets to distribute them to the people of Yangzhou.
By this time, the first batch of spring silk in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions had already emerged.
Yang Xian suggested planting some mulberry seedlings in abandoned places on both sides of the Yangzhou Canal.
Zhu Biao checked along the way and felt that there were only a few lonely trees in Yangzhou, which looked really ugly, so he asked Mu Ying to take his soldiers to the nearby prefecture city and cut back a lot of willow branches and wooden sections.
Along the way, plant willow branches in the water puddles and low terrain.
Willow trees are the lowest-cost and easiest tree species to survive, and they grow very quickly, making them the best choice.
Looking at the seedlings, Liu Bowen said to Zhu Biao: "Just wait for the fertilizer to be fermented successfully, and see how the harvest this year."
"The new refugees have been placed in the east of the city. After they have reclaimed wasteland, they can cultivate them. I hope they can catch up with this autumn harvest." Yang Shen, the governor of Yangzhou, stood aside with hope.
Liu Bowen also sighed in his heart that he was as expected and had a glimpse of the secrets of heaven, but during this period, he learned more with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince than in these decades.
Yu'er and Mu Ying followed Zhu Biao quietly.
At this moment, a soldier ran over the river bank and said to Zhu Biao: "Report to the Prince, a girl wants to see you, and she said she has something urgent."
Zhu Biaozheng and Liu Bowen and others discussed the fertilization. After all, many notes in Wang Zhen's "Book of Farmers" need to be practiced, and they cannot be used just by taking them.
"What girl?" Zhu Biao felt a little surprised. He didn't know any girl, but he decided to go and take a look.
Mu Ying immediately followed and said, "Your Highness, I'll go and have a look with you."
Zhu Biao nodded.
The river was filled with bustling people carrying hoes and farm tools, and planting trees in a hurry.
At the end of the river bank, there was a girl kneeling there, and there was a middle-aged man next to her, with anxiety on his face.
The middle-aged man kept turning around, clenching his fists with both hands and his eyes kept looking around in the crowd.
The maid next to him kept wiping tears and sobbing. The middle-aged man standing beside him said with a serious expression: "You are sure that Your Highness the Crown Prince is here."
"Master, Xiaolian dare not lie."
"What if the prince doesn't help us?" The maid named Xiaolian said with a handkerchief in her hand.
"If His Highness the Crown Prince is unwilling to help us, then I, Shen Wansan, will touch the stone even if it is an egg." A trace of firmness appeared in the middle-aged man's eyes.
"Do you see that?" the middle-aged man pointed to the human being coming from afar and said.
The maid stood up and looked at Zhu Biao and pointed at him, "Master, that's right, that's Your Highness."
The middle-aged man nodded and stood there when he took care of his clothes.
When he saw Zhu Biao coming, he suddenly rushed forward.
After seeing this scene, Mu Ying immediately stood in front of Zhu Biao, drawing his sword at any time, and shouted seriously: "What are you doing."
"Your Highness, the little polite Shen Wansan has seen Youth Highness." The middle-aged man knelt on the ground immediately after answering.
Zhu Biao was slightly stunned. The middle-aged man said that he was Shen Wansan.
In history, Shen Wansan, who helped Lao Zhu build a city wall, also said that he would help Lao Zhu reward the emperor's army.
"No need to be polite." Zhu Biao waved his hand to signal him to get up.
Chen Wansan knelt on the ground, did not get up, and said anxiously: "Your Highness, please help the young lady, Your Highness, please help me."
Is this still the richest man Chen Wansan, who is in the business world, looks like his clothes are covered in dust.
Zhu Biao, the little maid who followed behind, has seen it.
When the little maid saw Zhu Biao looking at her, she immediately knelt in front and said, "Your Highness, please save my lady."
Seeing that the two of them looked anxious, Zhu Biao asked Mu Ying to take them to the house in the city.
"How do you know I'm here?" Zhu Biao looked at Chen Wansan and said.
"When you go back to the prince, you are the little girl's personal maid. You said you had met the prince before, and you are helpless when you come here today."
After a moment.
From the situation described by the two, Zhu Biao learned some of the situations.
A few days ago, the Shen family’s lady Chen Zhifu counted silk at the cloth shop, but was directly captured by Li Bin, saying that there was something wrong with the cloth sold by the Shen family. He wanted to ask the person in charge of the Shen family’s cloth shop to ask.
When Chen Wansan received the news that his daughter was arrested, he immediately asked someone to find Li Bin. Li Bin said that as long as he took 10,000 taels of silver, the matter could be resolved.
It is easy to ask for money. Chen Wansan asked someone to send Li Bin a 10,000 taels of Daming treasure banknote yesterday.
Unexpectedly, Li Bin received the treasure money and said it was not enough. Chen Wansan then asked someone to send him five thousand taels.
However, Li Bin accepted the treasure money and had no intention of letting him go. He insisted that the 15,000 taels of treasure money was his own and had nothing to do with Shen Wansan.
After hearing this, Zhu Biao was furious. Shortly after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, ministers challenged the king's law at the feet of the emperor, oppressing the people and forcibly robbing the women of the people.
"Chen Wansan, if all you said is true, Gu will definitely arrest Li Bin for interrogation in person."
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, if your beloved daughter can return safely, Chen Wansan is willing to work hard for Your Highness. I hope Your Highness will make it clear and not protect you."
After Chen Wansan finished speaking, Zhu Biao looked at him and said, "Chen Wansan, the subjects on my Ming land are all my lonely people, and it is appropriate to do things for the people."
"No, Xiaomin knew that the prince's prince was busy with all his life, and restoring Yangzhou was a big deal. This time he asked the prince's prince for help, he was desperate. Chen Wansan was willing to do his best to compensate for the delay in Yangzhou."
"Your Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know that my master and I can't see the emperor. The adults have pushed each other and have to come to Yangzhou to ask you for your Highness the Crown Prince."
Mu Ying next to him said, "This is what Li Bin is like on weekdays. Then Prime Minister Li's power is greedy for money and lust, not to say he is tough and tough in marrying folk women, and is domineering in his work. But His Majesty has never known it and praises Li Bin for good reason."
Zhu Biao asked Chen Wansan to wait and went out to find Liu Bowen.
Liu Bowen is the Chief Censor and the Governor of Ping Zhang. He has to discuss this matter with him.
"A villain cannot beat a gentleman." Liu Bowen said after hearing this.
"Mr. Liu forgot that many gentlemen lose to villains." Zhu Biao shook his head and said.
"This...that won't make you unable to suppress evil." Liu Bowen shook his head.
"If Li Bin really robbed Miss Shen's family from nothing and greedy for that 15,000 taels, it would not be enough for him to peel off his skin and fill it with grass a hundred times."
"This..." Liu Bowen hesitated.
Chapter completed!