When Shi Jiang heard Zhou Tianci's words, he couldn't help laughing.
"Didn't the eldest son realize that his current body is any different from before when he came back?"
Hearing what Shi Jiang said, Zhou Tianci was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he hadn't coughed up blood during this period?
Yes, logically, his body should have vomited blood long ago.
It’s been so long and everything is okay?
Is it possible?
Zhou Tianci raised his head and looked at Shi Jiang.
When he fainted, he thought he was about to die soon, but he didn't expect that he would slowly recover in Shi Jiang's village.
I haven't had any health problems since I came back.
Did that mean that his body was cured when he was in Shijiang Zhuangzi?
"As long as the eldest son has such ambitions, Shi Jiang will definitely help him with all his resources. He does not care about anything else, he just wants to be happy and worry-free."
"Okay, I promise you that if everything comes to pass, I will keep you happy and worry-free."
When Shi Jiang said this, Zhou Tianci was suddenly filled with pride. He stretched out his palm to Shi Jiang and gave her three high-fives, and then promised.
With Shi Jiang's help, Zhou Tianci's original worries were wiped away.
Moreover, he accepted Shi Jiang's suggestion and asked the people affected by the disaster to dig up land outside Shunan City and plant sweet potatoes and potatoes in exchange for food.
Things were arranged in an orderly manner, and the victims, who were originally agitated, settled down and started working hard.
The original riots and so on all disappeared without a trace.
After this disaster, people from all over the country came to Shunan City, and Zhou Tianci accepted them all.
Even when some state capitals in other places refused to keep the victims out of the city, Zhou Tianci also sent people to guide them to Shunan City.
For a time, the population of Shunan City increased dramatically.
The original population of more than 20,000 people suddenly increased to 130,000 people. With the addition of 110,000 people, I did not feel any pressure at all.
This is entirely because of the continuous supply of materials from Shi Jiang's side, giving Zhou Tianci no worries.
In addition, the flood victims were also plowing and planting sweet potatoes and potatoes. The harvest time of these grains was already short, and the gap created by Shi Jiang was immediately controlled after a few months.
Not only Shi Jiang, but also the warehouse in Shunan City Government Office, which was originally empty, is now slowly beginning to bulge.
Since Zhou Tianci and Shi Jiang cooperated, Shunan City has undergone great changes in just a few months.
From the perspective of wealthy households, these changes are very detrimental to them.
After all, they originally stored a lot of grain. During such a famine year, they could sell it at a high price and acquire and annex other people's land at a low price.
But now, Prince An's Mansion not only allowed all the wasteland outside Shunan City to be cultivated by the victims, not to mention the common people, it also provided them with high-yielding grain seeds for free.
Looking at the sweet potatoes and potatoes brought back by their subordinates, the rich people looked very ugly.
They have eaten both of these crops, and they are no worse than the rice.
Originally, they had to deal with Zhou Tianci, but now they can only bend down and cooperate with Zhou Tianci on how to grow these crops.
After all, many wealthy households who understand general affairs have seen the business opportunities.
Regarding these matters, Zhou Tianci directly asked the wealthy households to talk to Shi Jiang. After all, the sweet potatoes and potato seeds were provided by Shi Jiang.
In addition, only Shi Jiang knew how to process sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Although he can do business with wealthy people privately, once Shi Jiang finds out, there is no guarantee that Shi Jiang will feel uneasy.
In addition, Zhou Tianci had been fed up with the faces of these wealthy households before and was too lazy to argue with them, so he simply asked Shi Jiang to talk to those wealthy households.
He remembered very clearly that Shi Jiang's subordinate named Fang Lei was a master of business.
Zhou Tianci had such understanding, Shi Jiang would naturally not be stingy.
After signing a planting agreement with those wealthy households, they expanded the fan workshop and opened it directly into a factory, and then recruited the female victims to work in the factory.
In this way, it will also prevent some families from drowning their baby girls in order to avoid being a drag.
Originally, Jiang wanted to recruit girls above the age of sixteen. However, such girls were either preparing to get married or were already married, and their families were not willing to send such girls to the factory.
Therefore, Shi Jiang could only lower his age to above twelve years old, but even so, there was a family that sent a girl who was only about 78 years old to work pretending to be twelve years old.
Shi Jiang thought over and over again and asked Fang Lei to turn a blind eye, but let these little girls do some easy work.
In addition to the vermicelli factory, Shi Jiang is also planning to open a textile factory. After all, southern Sichuan is famous for its weaving and dyeing.
However, in the past, most women only knitted about one piece a day at home.
Shi Jiang drew drawings, improved the looms, and invited women who could weave to weave.
At the end of a day, one person can weave at least five pieces, or even more.
This fine cotton cloth is fine and thick, and is most suitable for ordinary people to wear.
Because the weaving is fast, the price is naturally not very high.
The native linen cloth cost almost 1,200 yuan a piece, but Shi Jiang's fine cotton cloth only cost 2,000 yuan a piece.
The quality is similar to that of Songjiang cloth, but it is nearly half the price.
Although victims of the disaster are still flocking to southern Shu, the people in southern Shu are not panicked at all now.
There was even money left over to buy cheap muslin and buy a new set of clothes for the adults and children in the family.
By the end of the year, the emperor in the capital finally suppressed the courtiers and sent people to provide relief.
However, when the imperial envoy arrived at the disaster-stricken area, he found that the area had long been deserted and several cities had become empty.
It wouldn't matter if it was just one city, but it was like this for several cities in succession, and cold sweat broke out on the imperial envoy's back.
Not caring about disaster relief, he sent people eight hundred miles away to deliver a letter to the capital in an urgent manner.
The emperor was furious when he learned that the city had become empty, and the courtiers were looking for trouble. He was so angry that he immediately pulled people down and viciously chopped off the heads of several people before suppressing the courtiers.
However, as a result, the capital city naturally became turbulent.
However, no matter what was said in private, at least on the surface, the emperor had the upper hand.
The emperor sent his subordinates to conduct a careful inspection, and found that at first a large number of victims rushed to the capital, and then in order to prevent the victims from entering the city to cause trouble, the capital directly turned away the victims.
At the beginning, there were ladies from the city who were giving porridge outside the city. The emperor was also aware of this and even wrote letters of praise to those families for their good deeds.
However, the emperor later issued an order to send the disaster victim back to his place of origin as soon as possible.