Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 63 Xinping's Treasure
The prince is still the prince after all, and the extent of this old fox even shocked Xia Lin. Putting his second brother here is basically like providing a layer of super insurance for the little princess.

Fire prevention, theft prevention, and Xia Lin prevention. In name, it also sounds good. After all, his sister keeps the faith for him, and he keeps the virginity for his sister. This arrangement is extremely clever and cannot be blamed.

Fortunately, Xia Lin didn't have too many unrealistic thoughts about the little princess. It's not realistic to say that he didn't have any. As a young man, every night he has nothing to do, he would have some random thoughts. He thought about it, but not too much. After all, she was still a child...

"Second brother, you must keep a good eye on Qianqian for the next three years. If I'm not mistaken, there will be many spies here in the future. If she runs around, she will become a knife stabbing into the palace." Xia Lin sat down, and his bad habit of not being able to control his hands started again. He started eating his second brother's cold dishes.

"I know this without you telling me." The second brother rolled his eyes and said, "You ate all my bamboo shoots!"

"This bamboo shoot is delicious, spicy. Is there any chili pepper added in it?"

Then Xia Lin was driven out of the guesthouse under the reluctant eyes of the little princess. There was really nothing she could do if her second brother didn't let her in. The little princess stood at the door and tightly grasped Xia Lin's sleeve: "You must come to see me more often... I will be here for three years."

"I know, I know." Xia Lin patted her head and said, "Don't be so depressed. You will only be eighteen years old in three years. Just think of it as going to Hengshui to study in high school."

"Hmm? What Hengshui? What high school?"

"That's what I mean. You think I'm talking nonsense." Xia Lin said with a smile, "Well, it's time for me to go. Because of you, my work has been delayed for more than two months. If I don't go back, the village will riot."

The little princess didn't say anything, but tears quickly gathered in her eyes. They rolled around in her eye sockets before they flowed out, making her look like a sad puppy, and anyone who saw her felt sore.

"Oh, there's nothing I can do about you." Xia Lin turned around and opened his arms towards her: "Give me a hug."

The little princess didn't even think about avoiding people at this moment. She just jumped over with a "yeah" and refused to let go. She repeatedly told Xia Lin to come and see her once a month.

"One month is a bit short. It's not like I don't have things to do. How about three months?"

"No, I would die of lovesickness in three months."

Love-brained! This ghost is really hopeless, so he can only continue to bargain: "Then two months is okay, right?"

"Well... okay, two months is two months, but you can't lie to me."

“Okay, okay… Oh…”

Only after making this promise did Xia Lin get released. When he returned to Xinping Township, his desk was already filled with various matters from the beginning of the year to now. Although those trivial matters such as catching chickens, robbing ducks and cheating cows had been handed over to Chuntao to help deal with, the matters at the workshop and various businesses were still piled up there.

Moreover, Xia Lin is now going to start recruiting soldiers and storing food, so he has a lot of things to do.

"Master, last month a very beautiful woman came to look for you, but she left when she saw you were not there."

While Xia Lin was handling his official business, Chun Tao came over and placed a cup of tea next to him, then whispered, "Do you know him?"

"I know. That's Yu Tingyun, the famous prostitute from Jinling."

When Chun Tao mentioned this name, she was also secretly shocked, and then suddenly she had a strong sense of crisis. Although as a maid, she could not be jealous, but Yu Tingyun was really beautiful. Didn't Chun Tao know whether she was beautiful or not? Of course she knew, because she knew how beautiful Yu Tingyun was.

"She's always talking about sports cars, never telling the truth. She flirts with people just because she's pretty. She's not bad looking, but I don't think she's as good looking as you." Xia Lin looked up at Chun Tao and said, "Yeah, she's definitely not as good as Sister Chun Tao."

There aren't many scumbags who can change a person's mood from gloomy to cheerful with just one sentence, but Xia Lin did it. Extreme comparison is always more effective than direct compliments. If someone says Chuntao is as beautiful as a fairy, she will only think that the master is just trying to say something nice. But if someone says that someone is as different from her as heaven and earth, she will think that the master has a unique vision.

"Then I won't bother you with your official duties."

"Wait a minute." Xia Lin raised his head and looked at Chun Tao: "By the way, why is there so much surplus money in the government account only two months after the New Year? What happened?" Chun Tao said: "It's like this, after the New Year, a group of wealthy businessmen came to the village, from Suzhou and Hangzhou, relying on the competition of wealth to buy a large piece of land. I said at the time that the village chief was not there, but these wealthy businessmen still left money as a deposit."

After hearing Chuntao's description, Xia Lin touched his chin and sighed in his heart that the people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are really awesome. The business gene is deeply rooted in their bones. Even in a place like Xinping Township, they can smell business opportunities and start hoarding land there.

Okay, if they like to stockpile, then let them stockpile.

After saying that, Xia Lin approved these plots of land, and then turned around and marked the surrounding more than 1,100 acres of prime land as arable land. However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that this place was full of weeds and wasteland, and it was hard to tell how it could be equated with arable land.

But Xia Lin was not in a hurry. They liked to hoard land, so they just hoarded it. After hoarding land, the idle land that was not built for a year was directly confiscated and the money was not paid back. Moreover, the industries in the township were not without rules. Four major industries were not allowed to appear. One was the alchemy workshop. The people of Dawei had continued the Wei and Jin style to some extent. Alchemy and pill making were one of them. This was an industry strictly prohibited by Xinping Township. If it appeared, it would be cleared out and the money and land would be confiscated. The second was that brothels and other yellow industries were not allowed to appear. All the enjoyment in Xinping Township was green. If you have the ability to bring technicians back, you can do whatever you want, but blatant buying and selling of sex is not allowed on the surface.

The third industry is the human trafficking business. The biggest problem with this business is actually human trafficking. If there is a disaster year, there will still be human trafficking. Mr. Xia is kind-hearted and cannot bear to see this, so he banned it directly.

He can't do anything about it if it's opened somewhere else, but since he enjoys a relatively high degree of autonomy here, he won't give it up.

The last business is gambling houses. If people gather together privately to play a few hands, the officials will not investigate even if the people do not report it. However, official gambling houses are not allowed to appear, because the appearance of gambling houses is not only a problem of gambling, but also involves money lending, gangs and forcing women into prostitution, which is a huge challenge to regional order. It is very difficult to control, so it is better to just cut it off.

As for the ban on pornography, gambling and drugs, where will people get entertainment from? Of course, it is to vigorously promote all kinds of cultural programs for viewing. In this era, there are no real scripts and plays. If the entire cihua version of Legend of the White Snake and Journey to the West is released, wouldn’t it be a huge hit? Most people can’t read, but they can understand words, right?

Therefore, the construction of Xinping Grand Theater started before the New Year.

What if businessmen refuse to accept these measures?
Refusal? If not, get out. If they cause trouble, I will gouge out their eyes and slam the military token on the table to let them see the deterrent power of a small warlord.

We have soldiers, brother~ Come on, let's give it a try. Suppressing rebellion is a special permission granted by the emperor to execute first and report later. Anyone who doesn't have eyes can challenge what is the national authority. If 500 are not enough, go to Hongdu Prefecture to mobilize troops. If 30,000 are not enough, then 50,000. If 50,000 are still not enough, then it's not Xia Lin's turn. Do you want to test the power of the Wei cavalry? If you can't beat the northern barbarians, you can't beat you merchants?

This is why Xia Lin has been thinking about the military talisman so much. With the military talisman, the whole concept is different. Even if he has no one under his command, the awesomeness of this military talisman is self-evident.

After dealing with the businessman's matters, he looked up and found that it was already late at night. He felt exhausted all over and was too lazy to even get up. He simply pushed the things on the table aside, lay down on the long table and fell asleep.

It was not until dawn that day that he felt some movement beside him. He opened his eyes and found that Chuntao had woken up and was covering his stomach with a blanket.

Xia Lin sat up and rubbed his eyes: "Good morning, Sister Chuntao."

"Master, please go to bed..."

"No, no." Xia Lin waved his hand: "I have a lot of things to do today. I have to get up."

Chun Tao's eyes showed worry: "But the master has only slept for less than two hours."

"Hey, eighteen or nineteen is the time to make a living, there is no time to sleep." Xia Lin jumped down from the table: "Come with me, don't be busy today, let's go out to eat."

Chun Tao responded, "Then I'll go get some water for the master to wash up."

Xia Lin's main job today is to light the furnace. This iron factory was built in the first batch, but it has been idle because it has no salt and iron rights. Today happens to be March 3rd, and he takes advantage of the emperor's birthday to light a fire and share in the emperor's good luck. From now on, Xinping Township will become the largest and best steel production area in the world.

The coal in Yongshan is extremely good. Although the production capacity of traditional coking is average, it is enough to cope with the current scale of iron and steel smelting. Anyway, Xia Lin downloaded a complete set of "The Essential Handbook for Time Travelers" on his mobile phone. It contains detailed tutorials on everything from traditional penicillin to traditional steelmaking and even "how to rub a submachine gun by hand". Just follow them step by step and you'll be done.

Sometimes Xia Lin would sit there and fantasize that if he could use three to five years to build an advanced military force equipped with 7.62 semi-automatic rifles and cannons, he could wipe out the entire world.

But after repeated discussions, it seems that... it's not very possible. The number of people limits the upper limit, but if there are 30,000 to 50,000 people, coupled with excellent supply guarantees, it is really hard to say who will win the world.

(End of this chapter)