Outside the office, people's hearts change three times a day, fluctuating up and down, but inside the office, it is warm and peaceful.

Li Xizhu rushed over from Donglai and delivered the new "Dutch Storybook". Hong Jinglai was quite concerned about this. After all, the latest European information either went through Macau or Nagasaki, and there were only these two in East Asia. It's a timely window.

"Is this the pervert you saw before?" Li Xizhu was still getting close to Hong Jinglai.

Even though Hong Jinglai was now the chief eunuch, he still took off his boots and changed his coat in front of Hong Jinglai. Even Hong Jinglai didn't care at all when he drank the remaining sugar pear water. He asked Hong Jinglai if he wanted to drink it, and drank it down.

"How is the business in Nagasaki this year?" Hong Jinglai looked through it casually.

Before Li Xi could answer anything, Hong Jinglai was shocked to see that in May last year, Napoleon ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, established the First French Empire, and the "French Code" that would go down in history was promulgated.

What a profound change that has not happened in three thousand years!

"It's not too good. I heard from the foreigners over there that the war is fierce and business is hard to do." Li Xizhu finally sat down.

"It's good to earn some money... By the way, you have a large ship, and it's not economical to only use it to go to Nagasaki and Bojin. Have you ever thought about going to Ryukyu and Annan?"

"There is a familiar boatman in Ryukyu, Annan..."

"I just mentioned it casually." Hong Jinglai actually had some purpose.

Annam, which is now the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, has many French forces, and it is easier to go to Annam than to Macau. Nowadays, Macau is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, and foreign ships of all sizes must report when entering the port.

If a North Korean ship sails into Macau, it may be reported to Yanjing. This is inconsistent with the routine "Chinese system". North Korean ships are only allowed to go to the Yangtze River and Ningbo. So there is no need to take this risk. Caused some diplomatic disputes.

"If you can find a familiar person, you can give it a try." Li Xi said without saying too much.

The pirate forces in this area are so rampant, and the risks are not small. But the greater the risk, the greater the profit. Southeast Asian spices, sandalwood, dyes, tobacco, etc. are all scarce goods in North Korea. In the past, they could only be purchased from Yanjing, which was expensive. It's small, how many kilograms can it be carried on a person's back? A large ship can carry hundreds of tons per ship, and it can travel once for ten years without having to travel again.

"This matter is not urgent. Have you seen the situation outside?"

"Does Gelang mean people outside the city or people inside the city?" When they got down to business, Li Xizu immediately calmed down.

"Of course you can see it both inside and outside the city."

"Whatever you say will be done! I won't say anything about it."

"Then if I ask you to transfer 100,000 shi of grain and rice from Donglai to Yuanzhou and sell it at a fair price, would you be willing?" Hong Jinglai knew that Li Xizhu would not object, but he still had to discuss it with him after all.

"I don't know what it is, it's just like this. Even if I lose thirty to fifty thousand taels of money, so what, helping you to be a good official is the most important thing." Li Xizhu did not hesitate.

This is a true brother. When he heard that Hong Jinglai asked him to do this business that would make no money at all and would even cost him a lot of freight, he not only showed no shirk, but actually thought about Hong Jinglai in every aspect.

"Hahahahahaha, my Li Xingshou." Hong Jinglai immediately stood up and held Li Xizu's hand.

Now that Lee Hee-chu, the leader of the Rae merchants, has joined, he can mobilize the Rae merchants' huge economic network in Gyeongsang Province and Jeolla Province through Yoo Seong-yong, purchase autumn grains on the market, and transfer them to the disaster-stricken Gangwon Province.

Then Hong Jinglai's entire plan is basically completed and is just waiting to be launched!

"Three stones, how much relief rice is left?" Hong Jinglai took Li Xi's hand and asked Han Sanshi with loyalty.

"Buying rice at a reasonable price in the city, and giving porridge day and night outside the city, it can last for five or six days." Han Sanshi had already planned.

"Is there any news about Hanyang's disaster relief rice?"

"No news has come at all."

"very good!"

Hong Jinglai knew that the disaster relief rice in Yuanzhou was about to be exhausted, and the successors from Hanyang had not arrived. How could the township officials in the city from Liu Xiaoyuan down, as well as the officials, big and small, not know this? Otherwise, why would they be so excited that they were afraid that Hong Jinglai would use some of the money from the official warehouse? Fifteen thousand stones store rice.

"Sound the cannon and ring the gong, I want to be promoted to a director!"

"Okay!" Everyone responded in unison.

He changed into a bright red gauze and woven official uniform, with peacock gold silk patchwork on the chest, and wore a black gauze hat upright. Hong Jinglai looked like an official of the Ming Dynasty. When the cannon fired eleven times, the king's command flag was raised on the playground.

Everyone inside and outside the city of Juyuanzhou knew about it, and he was ordered to supervise the relief of the capital. The two deputy envoys of Jiangyuan Province assisted in handling the food tribute affairs of the barracks. The Chengzheng Yuan and the deputy Chengzhi Hong Jing came to supervise the affairs!

Whether it was Liu Xiaoyuan, the pastoral envoy of Yuanzhou who claimed to have gone to Ningyue, or the rural landowners including Kong Shangxuan who temporarily lived in Yuanzhou City, or the officials and servants who were worried about Hong Jinglai misappropriating official warehouses, they were all grateful to Hong Jinglai at once. Like the people who were really helping out, they focused all their attention on the administrative office.

No matter what everyone was thinking, Hong Jinglai did not think otherwise. He walked into the front hall and the sound of the gongs stopped. Immediately, the township team came to petition again, and officials and servants came to ask how the official warehouse rice was being treated.

After accepting the petition and meeting with the ideological representatives, Hong Jinglai showed off his official skills and looked like he was close to the "village wise".

After all the matters were reported to the court, Hong Jinglai retreated to the flower hall in the back hall. Naturally, the only people who were eligible to enter the flower hall were the great squires like Kong Shangxuan and the middle and lower-level officials in Yuanzhou.

"I am aware of the purpose of your visit. Please wait a moment to allow me to take a breath." His current gentle appearance made the township officials present a little surprised.

"My lord, you have a lot of things to do. Please take a rest. I'll just wait here."

Everyone is a person on the scene, and no one will be shameless. Now that Hong Jing comes to respect them, they will naturally respect Hong Jing. Even if Hong Jing comes to leave them here for an hour, they will not do it. How many complaints, the status level is obvious.

"Hahahaha, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Now I will talk about the current matters together." Hong Jinglai took a sip of water and wiped his face again.

Everyone in the audience held their breaths, waiting for Hong Jinglai's explanation. After all, they could not confront the imperial envoy who spoke of the Tianxian. Hong Jinglai's decision represented the Hanyang court.

"First of all, the imperial court has not allocated grain and rice for disaster relief. The disaster is like a fire and we have to save it for a day. Secondly, there are still 5,000 shi of grain and rice in the official warehouse in the state, so I am going to borrow it for use. "

As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the people in the hall really changed. Even the faces of the senior officials in the city remained the same, but their eyes changed, which was a bit inexplicable.
Chapter completed!