The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 874
The chief secretary was naturally very upset, and the county magistrate didn't say the time, so he wasn't in a hurry. He didn't arrange this matter that day, and he didn't arrange it the next day. When Ding Ye came to the door on the third day, he said he was sorry. Forget it, let's set it up right away.

Everyone can't disobey the imperial court's order, but you can still do it if you obey and disobey.

Ding Ye had waited for two days and hadn't seen any civilians gather at the designated place, so he knew there was something wrong with this matter.

When he came to see the attitude of the other party, although he was polite on the surface, he was obviously not very enthusiastic.

At this moment, Chang Jin pulled Ding Ye aside, and said in a low voice, tomorrow is the government's day off, how about inviting the county magistrate and several officials of the county government to have a meal tomorrow?

Ding Ye is higher than the county magistrate in terms of rank, but after all, he can't control the county magistrate. On the contrary, the county magistrate and the local officials are willing to help Ding Ye with all their strength, which has some influence on Ding Ye's project.

If it were more than a year ago, Ding Ye had never experienced the affairs of the Ministry of Finance, so he would definitely not want to. Why should I invite them to dinner? I have a higher official rank than them.

But after working here for more than a year, Ding Ye has matured a bit, and after thinking about it, he nodded in agreement.

Chang Jin immediately went to ask Qian Zhicai to have dinner with county officials.

Unexpectedly, Qian Zhicai had a strange way of yin and yang.

Chang Jin said, we just have a normal meal, there is nothing wrong with it.

Qian Zhicai still shook his head, it's not convenient to go to this county, why don't you ask other people.

If the county magistrate doesn't go, the others certainly won't either.

The treat, of course, failed.

At this time, Ding Ye had found 600 people in the hoard, and they were in groups of three, ready to cook and cook. Every hundred people had meals and rest in one place, and they were divided into two hundred groups.

In the early stage, I have already started to spend money, buy vegetables everywhere, and bring in food supplied by the Ministry of Households.

However, the officials of the City Affairs Bureau of the county government are not in a hurry to post, publicize, and mobilize people everywhere, which is a bit inefficient.

Ding Ye saw that this was too slow, so he decided to start it himself.

Fortunately, the hoarding of soldiers can still be used, and now they have not started working, and they pay fifty cents a day. Ding Ye mobilized the hoarding of soldiers to nearby villages to publicize and mobilize the peasants.

The folk husbands brought their own tools to help the court dig mud, and provided food every day, as well as fifty Wen.

The working hours are not long, from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm, with breaks in between.

You don't have to come every day, every day counts as a day's wages.

In this way, Ding Ye slowly gathered civilian husbands in the local area.

But soon there was a new problem. The prices of the nearby counties and towns suddenly rose. The various tools, vegetables, oil, salt and sugar that Ding Ye wanted to buy all increased in price in a short period of time.

In this way, Ding Ye's original budget will increase.

All of this is of course caused by Qian Zhicai and shopkeeper Wu. If you don't let me make money, I won't let you have a good time.

Shopkeeper Wu scavenged a large number of goods in the market, and the prices rose immediately. All the materials used to clean up the river, plus food and drink, all went up.

He scanned things from other stores, and then put them in his and Qian Zhicai's stores to sell at high prices. Ding Ye couldn't buy them elsewhere, so he had to go to his store to buy them.

I think Ding Yi cheated others like this back then, but I didn't expect his son to be cheated by others now.

And Ding Ye had to take care of 2 people to eat and drink, and had to prepare a lot of materials, so he immediately felt that the money was not enough.

In the plan he reported to the court before, it cost about 20 yuan.

It clearly doesn't feel like enough right now.

But the plan was reported and agreed, and if you want to add more money, this is not acceptable.

To put it mildly, it’s because you didn’t plan well in the early stage. To put it in a big way, you said that you don’t have enough money, do you want to fill your own pocket?
If others want to know that Ding Ye is the eldest son of the emperor, of course they think he won't do this, but in the eyes of others, he is not the eldest son of the emperor, and no one knows him.

After entering April, this section of the project finally started.

But Ding Ye and the others are in a bad mood, spending money every day like water.

There are only [-] to [-] people, but they can start working.

It's just that the local prices are ridiculously expensive.

Of course, everyone knows why, and they were baited.

But the other party didn't break the law, who told them that these young people didn't understand.

At this time, Chang Jin proposed to go shopping in Huai'an Mansion.

For a while before the repair, it was relatively close to Huai'an Mansion, and shopping was no problem, but it became farther and farther behind, and they used to shop nearby.

Ding Ye is 17 years old now, and his height is about 1.7 meters [-]. In addition, he has been rich in nutrition since he was a child, so he is relatively tall and strong among the crowd. He has developed a beard and looks more mature.

The young Ding Ye lowered his head and thought for a while: "Just buy it locally and complete this project as soon as possible."

Chang Jin was surprised: "The local prices have been raised very high, isn't there enough money?"

"I don't have enough money to find a solution. In short, it can't affect the progress." Ding Ye decided to compromise, not to argue with Qian Zhicai and the others for the time being. If you want to make money, I will let you make it. I will still buy locally to speed up the progress.

His family has plenty of money.

Everyone sighed helplessly after hearing the words.

Everyone also understood that Ding Ye had to pay for it himself.

Ding Ye's fiancée He Xiaohua is by his side.

In the third year of Rende, she ran away from the capital city and followed Ding Ye all the time, almost pissing off her father to death.

When the two returned to Beijing during the Chinese New Year last year, He Xiaohua suddenly found that her father's attitude had changed. He was polite to her and asked her to take good care of Ding Ye. wonderful.

So now she is running around with Ding Ye openly and aboveboard.

This year, the Department of Water Resources still has to recruit people. Ding Ye asked her to take the exam, because there are many female officials this year, and He Xiaohua is of course willing.

After returning home from the meeting, He Xiaohua took Ding Ye to her boudoir.

Ding Ye's face turned red immediately, and he stammered: "It's not that it's okay, it's only after we get married——"

"You're so stupid." He Xiaohua was so angry that he almost wanted to push him on the bed.

This man is like wood: "You think it's beautiful."

She scolded shyly, and then pulled out a bank note from somewhere.

"I have 1 taels here. If you don't have enough, use it first."

Ding Ye quickly shook his head, how could he use a woman's money?

"I am your wife and a family, why can't I use it?" He Xiaohua put her hands on her hips and glared at him.

Ding Ye stammered, not knowing what to say.

He can't spend all the money of the Ding family, so how can he have the nerve to spend a woman's money?
And ten thousand is not enough.

"I will find a way to find someone to ask my father for it." Ding Ye said: "My father is doing business in Fujian, and he is rich."

"How far is it from Fujian to here? Every time I come and go, the project is over."

Ding Ye shook his head: "But ten thousand is not enough."

"Hold it first and then talk." He Xiaohua forced it into his hand.

Feeling the gentle little hands, Ding Ye's face turned even redder. He glanced at He Xiaohua shyly, and found that He Xiaohua's beautiful big eyes were staring at him, as if he was about to eat him.

Ding Ye panicked, turned around and left quickly: "It's a loan from you." He fled in despair.

"You're so stupid." He Xiaohua hurriedly stomped on the spot.

She got angry in the room for a while, then walked into the yard sullenly.

Ding Ye's house is in the yard next door to hers, and there is a wall between the two of them, but it seems that they are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.

He Xiaohua thought of herself as a girl running around with him, this stupid guy didn't know what to do, she was really stupid.

I really get angrier the more I think about it.

She kicked a small stone on the ground and kicked the stone into the air.

While sulking, the courtyard door suddenly opened, and a person walked in.

He Xiaohua was surprised at first, then overjoyed.

"Uncle Qi."

Uncle Qi is a middle-aged man in his 40s. When she returned to Beijing for Chinese New Year last time, her father introduced her to him, saying that the two families were family friends. But He Xiaohua was very surprised because she had never seen this Uncle Qi before.

"Hush" Uncle Qi stretched out his hand to signal her to keep quiet.

"Uncle Qi, why are you here?" He Xiaohua was surprised.

It's a good thing that she went to college, and if she was replaced by an ordinary pre-Ming woman, suddenly many men in the yard would still be afraid and panic.

Uncle Qi chuckled and touched it from his bosom.

Several bank notes appeared in front of her.

He Xiaohua took a closer look and found that they were all in large denominations of 10 taels, and there were three of them in total.

"Ah." He Xiaohua covered her mouth with a surprised expression.

"Your father knew you were short of money and asked me to send it. Don't tell Ruan Zheng." Uncle Qi said.

He Xiaohua took it over happily: "Daddy still loves me the most, thank you Uncle Qi."

Uncle Qi gave her the silver, looked around, and suddenly said, "Ruan Zheng usually lives in the next yard?"

"En." He Xiaohua nodded shyly.

"You have been running around with him for more than a year, and he has been like this?"

He Xiaohua's face turned even redder, she lowered her head in embarrassment.

"Damn it." Uncle Qi cursed, startling He Xiaohua.

This Uncle Qi is none other than Lu Chao, commander of Jin Yiwei.

Lu Chao will be quite speechless, Ding Ye has not even learned one-tenth of the great talent and mastery of picking up girls.

The Holy One is powerful in governing the country and the world, but he is not as good as Lu Chao in teaching his son.

"I said, you have to work harder." Lu Chao said dissatisfied.

He Xiaohua thought to herself, of course I want to work hard, you know he is so stupid.

Lu Chao shook his head: "I'm leaving—"

After a pause: "I think Ruan Zheng doesn't seem to be able to handle alcohol, you should find a chance to have a drink with him, and tell the truth after drinking."

After finishing speaking, he blinked at He Xiaohua, turned around and strode away, disappearing quickly.

He Xiaohua blushed, her mind was instantly filled with wine, wine, wine, countless wines.

How embarrassing, she thought secretly.

But thinking about it again, it seems quite exciting.

After Lu Chao left the courtyard, he originally wanted to find Qian Zhicai's bad luck, but after thinking about it, the Holy One hoped that Ding Ye would become smart as soon as possible and know how to communicate with all kinds of people.

Letting him experience all kinds of things outside is also for his growth.

Of course, the emperor didn't care about it on the surface, but in fact, he had been sending Jin Yiwei to follow secretly, watching everything that happened around Ding Ye.

No one knows better than Lu Chao how the Holy Majesty cares for Ding Ye.

Originally, the emperor didn't plan to support Ding Ye with money this time, so he had to let Ding Ye handle it himself.

It was Lu Chao's repeated persuasion that Ding Ye was still young and had been with his parents before, so he hadn't experienced these things.

Emperor Ding Yi scolded at that time, still young?When I met you, you were only this age, and you were as slippery as a ghost.

(End of this chapter)