Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 31
From spring to summer solstice, when the weather is getting warmer and warmer, a large area of ​​arable land has been planted with grain seeds, and the outside of Yangzhou is green.

The people are more active than usual.

Summer is here, and rising temperatures are also good for crops.

Zhu Biao asked Liu Bowen and the others to record all the methods of making simple chemical fertilizers, draw pictures and make booklets to distribute to the people of Yangzhou.

Let the local yamen organize the people, explain to them, and study and practice together.

By this time, the first batch of spring silk in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had already been produced.

Yang Xian suggested planting some mulberry seedlings on the deserted tidal flats on both sides of the Yangzhou Canal.

Zhu Biao inspected the route and felt that there were only a few lonely trees in Yangzhou, which looked really ugly, so he ordered Muying to take the soldiers to the nearby state city to cut a lot of willow branches and wood sections back.

Insert willow branches in water depressions and low-lying places along the way.

Willow is the tree species with the lowest cost and the easiest to survive, and it grows very fast, so it is the best choice.

Looking at the seedlings, Liu Bowen said to Zhu Biao: "Just wait until the fertilizer retting is successful, and then see how this year's harvest will be."

"Those new refugees, I have already resettled in the east of the city, let them cultivate wasteland, and hope to catch up with this autumn harvest." Yang Shen, the magistrate of Yangzhou, stood beside him full of hope.

Liu Bowen also sighed secretly in his heart, he was also very good at predicting things, and had a glimpse of the secrets, but he learned more from his Royal Highness during this period than he had learned in the past few decades.

Yu'er and Mu Ying followed Zhu Biao quietly.

At this moment, a soldier ran over from the embankment and said to Zhu Biao: "His Royal Highness, there is a girl who wants to see you, and she said she has something urgent."

Zhu Biaozheng and Liu Bowen discussed the matter of fertilization. After all, many notes in Wang Zhen's "Nong Shu" had to be practiced, and they could not be used immediately.

"What girl?" Zhu Biao felt a little strange. He didn't know any girl, but he still decided to go and see.

Mu Ying followed immediately and said, "Your Highness, I will go and have a look with you."

Zhu Biao nodded.

The river is full of bustling people carrying hoes and farming tools, planting trees in full swing.

At the end of the embankment, there was a girl kneeling there, and beside her was a middle-aged man with an anxious face.

The middle-aged man kept turning around in place, clenched his fists tightly with both hands, and kept looking around in the crowd.

The maid next to her kept wiping her tears and sobbing, and the middle-aged man standing beside her said solemnly, "Are you sure His Royal Highness is here?"

"Master, Xiaolian dare not lie."

"What if His Royal Highness doesn't help us?" the maid called Xiao Lian said with a handkerchief in her hand.

"If His Royal Highness is unwilling to help us, then I, Shen Qiancheng, will touch that stone even if it is an egg." The middle-aged man's eyes showed a trace of determination.

"Do you think that is it?" The middle-aged man pointed to the humanity coming from a distance.

The maid stood up and looked around, pointed at Zhu Biao and said, "My lord, that is, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The middle-aged man nodded, straightened his clothes and stood there.

When he saw Zhu Biao approaching, he suddenly rushed forward.

After seeing this scene, Mu Ying immediately stood in front of Zhu Biao, drawing her sword at any time, and shouted seriously: "What are you doing?"

"His Royal Highness, Shen Qiancheng of Suzhou has met His Royal Highness." The middle-aged man immediately knelt on the ground after answering.

Zhu Biao was slightly taken aback, everyone with the surname Shen was a wealthy businessman.

"Don't be too polite." Zhu Biao waved his hand to signal him to get up.

Shen Qiancheng knelt on the ground, did not get up, and said anxiously: "His Royal Highness, please save the little girl, His Royal Highness, I beg you."

Is this still the Shen family, the richest man in Suzhou who is well-known in the business field? This Shen Qiancheng looks like his clothes are covered in dust.

Zhu Biao, the little girl following behind, has seen it before.

Seeing Zhu Biao looking at her, the little maid immediately knelt in front of her and said, "His Royal Highness, please save my young lady."

Seeing that the two looked anxious, Zhu Biao asked Mu Ying to take them to a house in the city.

"How do you know I'm here?" Zhu Biao looked at Shen Qiancheng and said.

"Back to His Royal Highness, she is the little girl's personal servant girl. She said that she had a relationship with the prince before. It is really helpless to come here today."

After a while.

From the situation described by the two, Zhu Biao learned something.

A few days ago, Miss Shen's family, Shen Zhiwu, was counting silk in Buzhuang, but this guy Li Bin rushed in and took him away.

He said that there was something wrong with the cloth sold by the Shen family, and he wanted to ask the person in charge of the Shen family cloth shop to ask questions.

When Shen Qiancheng received the news that his daughter had been taken away, he immediately asked someone to find Li Bin. Li Bin said that as long as he brought 1 taels of silver, the matter could be resolved.

Asking for money is easy for him, Shen Qiancheng entrusted someone to send Li Bin a piece of 1 taels of Daming Tongxing Banknote yesterday.

Unexpectedly, Li Bin took the treasure note and said it was not enough, Shen Qiancheng then entrusted someone to send another 5000 taels.

However, when Li Bin accepted the treasure note, he had no intention of letting him go, and insisted that the 5000 taels of treasure note belonged to him and had nothing to do with Shen Qiancheng.

After hearing this, Zhu Biao was furious. Not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, ministers challenged the king's law at the feet of the emperor, oppressed the people, and robbed the people's daughters.

"Shen Qiancheng, if what you said is true, Guding will personally arrest Li Bin for interrogation."

"His Royal Highness, if the beloved daughter can return safely, Shen Qiancheng is willing to work hard for His Royal Highness, and I hope His Highness will check clearly and not protect her."

After Shen Qiancheng finished speaking, Zhu Biao looked at him and said, "Shen Qiancheng, the subjects in my Daming land are all my lonely subjects, and it is right to serve the people."

"No, Xiaomin knows that His Highness the Crown Prince has a lot of things to do every day, and restoring Yangzhou is a major event. It is really desperate to ask His Highness the Crown Prince for help this time. Shen Qiancheng is willing to try his best to make up for the delay in Yangzhou."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know, and my master and I can't see the Emperor, and those senior officials pushed back and forth, so we had to come to Yangzhou to beg His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Mu Ying who was next to him said: "This Li Bin is like this on weekdays. Taking advantage of Prime Minister Li's influence, he is greedy for money and lust, not to mention marrying folk women, and doing things rampantly. It's just that His Majesty has never been aware of it, and he has great praise for Li Bin."

Zhu Biao asked Shen Qiancheng to wait, and went out to find Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen is the censor Zhongcheng and the governor of Pingzhang.I have to discuss this matter with him.

"A villain can't beat a gentleman." Liu Bowen said after hearing this.

"Mr. Liu forgot that a gentleman loses to a villain a lot." Zhu Biao shook his head and said.

"This... that can't be right, and evil can't be suppressed anymore." Liu Bowen shook his head.

"If Li Bin really robbed Miss Shen and other women out of nothing, and then got greedy for the 5000 taels, it wouldn't be enough for him to pick them up a hundred times."

"This..." Liu Bowen hesitated.

Zhu Biao said: "Mr. Liu is afraid."

　Many readers pointed out that Shen Wansan died in the early Ming Dynasty.

　　The history books also say that he is not dead, and I have consulted a lot of papers about the Ming Dynasty.There are different opinions.

　　Change Shen Wansan to another richest man, the Shen family, as a foreshadowing for the future.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)