Chapter 458 Assassination
Recently, in order to increase revenue, reduce expenditure, and increase income, Yingbao had several large mushroom sheds and two baking ovens built in her mansion, and called on all the servants and guards to come and watch her grow mushrooms.
This time she mainly grows snow fungus, because it tastes better than golden fungus and is cheaper, making it more acceptable to ordinary people.
There are also a lot of golden fungus planted, but not as many as snow fungus.
These bacterial strains were brought from Dongchen Village, Qinchuan County, and then soaked in Pupil Spring. The bacteria emergence rate was very high.
When this batch of fungi matures, Yingbao wants to distribute some of the fungi to poor families in various villages, so that they can do side jobs in their free time, increase their income, improve their lives, and grow some of them themselves. After all, there are still more than 40 people living outside. A person who does things for himself.
Of course, the bacteria cannot be given away for free. The villagers must sign a contract and the money for the bacteria will be returned after the finished product is sold.
Everyone in the house studied seriously, including the guards, who even secretly asked Mu Dan if they could sell some of the cultured bacteria to them. They wanted to send it back to their hometown.
Mu Dan said with a straight face: "There are not enough bacteria at the moment. When there are extra, you can ask the princess yourself."
One and a half months later, it was May.
Five thousand snow ears and two thousand golden ears are ripe.
Everyone in the Princess's Mansion worked together and harvested all the mushrooms in half a day. Some of them were dried and some were baked.
To this end, Yingbao specially hired two pharmacists from an outside drugstore who were good at baking medicinal materials and asked them to help bake the mushrooms.
A few days later, the mushrooms were dried one after another, and more than 500 kilograms of mushrooms were obtained.
Yingbao sent Chu Shun to transport all the dried mushrooms to Qinchuan County and handed them to his elder brother Jiang Cheng for sale.
Because his specialty shop is very famous in the local area and sells the most golden fungus and snow fungus in the shop, he can earn a lot more money by leaving it to him.
A few days later, Chu came back with more than six thousand taels of silver, which just solved Ying Bao's urgent need.
You know, Yingbaotou has spent a lot of money on solving the livelihood problems of the villagers, but it has not yet achieved results.
The five hundred looms that were loaned out have not yet been paid back, and the more than forty temporary servants have to be paid monthly.
In addition to supporting the servants, guards and horses of the house, everything costs money.
But within a few days of being happy, as the summer harvest began, the temporary servants came back to report, and the officials and wealthy gentry in various villages and towns began to make frequent moves to collect taxes.
They exchanged the rotten food with the villagers' food, and also used big fights and small fights to harm the people.
Wei Zhan immediately brought a group of guards to check, and sure enough, it was so.
"Take them all back to the Yamen! Hand them over to the county magistrate!"
Wei Zhan turned to look at Li Zheng: "Do you know?"
Li Zheng was frightened and shook his head repeatedly: "How did I know that they would do this? If I had known earlier."
Before he could finish speaking, Wei Zhan waved his hand: "Since you don't know, I will tell you now. If anyone dares to bully the people in the future, he will not be lenient!"
His voice was high-pitched, deliberately intended for everyone present to hear.
The people whispered, and some knelt down directly in front of Wei Zhan and shouted, "Master Qingtian."
Wei Zhan saw that the heat was about the same, so he called four temporary officers and asked them to take over the work of the previous officers.
"When you collect grain, you are not allowed to be short of jin or liang, and you are not allowed to engage in malpractice for personal gain. You must not collect damp and moldy grains in the warehouse, and you must not collect grains mixed with sand and gravel. Do you understand?" Wei Zhan glanced at the crowd.
The four temporary officers quickly assured: "Young man understands, general, don't worry, we will definitely check it!"
"Okay, you can continue collecting grain!" Wei Zhan left two guards here to maintain order, while he took the rest back to the county seat.
Halfway down the road, countless arrows suddenly shot out from the woods on both sides.
Wei Zhan shuddered and knew that he couldn't rush forward at this moment.
After all, he had been fighting in the army for many years, and he knew that there must be snagging ropes or other traps on the road ahead, and there might even be an ambush in the rear.
Now the only thing is to go to the left or right and attack them one by one.
"Follow me and rush this way!" Wei Zhan drew out his sword and rushed towards the slightly flat woods on one side.
More than thirty guards followed, not even leaving behind the injured, and rushed into the woods together.
Fortunately, this forest was not too dense and was filled with dwarf pines. Wei Zhan was sitting high on his horse and soon saw about twenty people dressed as villagers fleeing into the distance.
"Catch them!" Wei Zhan clamped his horse's belly and rushed towards those people. He caught up with one person, slashed him with a knife, and then chased the next one.
More than thirty guards also gave chase and quickly cut down a dozen of the arrow-wielding men, while the rest quickly fled away.
"Don't be obsessed with fighting!" Wei Zhan called back the guards who were still chasing, pointed at the few people who were still alive and said: "Bring them here!"
Several guards dismounted, slipped over a few who were less seriously injured, and threw them in front of Wei Zhan's horse.
Wei Zhan looked at the few people coldly and asked, "Who sent you here?"
Several people were trembling with fear, but did not dare to speak.
"If you don't say anything, just kill him!" Wei Zhan winked to the left and right.
The guard understood, went over with a bloody knife, and chopped off a man's head with one blow.
Others screamed in fear and knelt down one after another, kowtowing: "I said it, I said it! It was Zhang Yuanwai who ordered us to ambush the official. I, I, we are all good citizens, please spare your life, official! Spare your life!"
Zhang Yuanwai? The tycoon who was killed to scare the monkeys last year seems to have the surname Zhang too, right?
"Take a few of them away, take the corpses and arrows with you, and let's go back to the county seat quickly!" If we don't leave, that Zhang Yuanwai must have someone behind him.
The guards immediately put the body on horseback, and the injured people were also taken away.
Wei Zhan urged his horse to gallop along the field ridge until he ran out of the area. Then he re-entered the official road and headed straight for the county seat.
Instead of asking for help at the inn, they rushed into the city without stopping, arrived at the gate of the county government office, and threw the body directly on the ground.
Several injured guards returned to the princess's mansion and reported the situation to the princess.
When Yingbao heard that Wei Zhan was ambushed halfway, she suddenly became nervous and asked, "Is Yibin injured?"
"Princess, don't worry, the general is not injured. Several of our brothers are injured, but they are not serious problems. We are asking the government doctor to deal with it." said the captain of the guard.
Ying Bao breathed a sigh of relief and took out a pack of pills and handed them to the captain of the guard, "There are powders for wound medicine and some for internal use. Take them and distribute them to everyone."
The captain of the guard was not polite, took the medicine bag, and said with a fist, "Thank you, Princess."
"You guys rest at home and wait until your injuries heal before you go on duty," Ying Bao said.
"Yes!" The guard captain retreated.
Ying Bao immediately put on her formal attire, put on her royal crown, and led a team of honor guards out of the mansion to go to the county government office.
At this time, many people gathered around the gate of the county government office and were discussing.
I saw two guards saying loudly: "These are assassins who assassinated our general in broad daylight! Come and identify yourself. Do you know anyone familiar with them? Who have they been working as servants before? If what they said is true, we will The general has a reward!"
The guard shouted several times, and sure enough someone came to check.
But most of them don't know them.
A man in ragged clothes said: "Official, I know these people!" (End of Chapter)