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Chapter 372 Discovering Ning Feng

Yuanbao blinked, not understanding what his mother meant.

But his mother told him to continue playing, and to stop thinking about the things he couldn't figure out and continue picking fruit.

When Hui Chengyuan saw Yuanbao like that, he felt that he had to learn some manners as well.

Yuanbao had now become friends with the children in the village and was running around with them everywhere.

Yuanman glanced at it twice and then stopped looking.

With Yuan San following him, there is no need to worry about him getting hurt.

"Let's go back to the villa."

When the two returned to the villa, Nanny Xiao had already started cooking.

Seeing that it was still early, Yuan Man called Wang Rong over and asked him about Lingjia City.

After hearing this, Wang Rong sighed and said, "In fact, Lingjia City was very prosperous at the beginning, and merchants from all over the country came here."

"The people in the border areas like our silk very much, and they are generous in spending it."

"But since we changed the garrison general here, we don't allow people from outside the border to come here."

"If you want to enter the city, you have to pay a very high entrance fee. After a while, those foreigners stopped coming."

"Even foreign caravans are allowed to enter the city, but they have to pay a very high entrance fee."

"I don't know why he suddenly changed his mind recently and reduced the fees for caravans or civilians to enter the city."

"Before we release it, if you want to enter the city, you can't enter without several dozen taels."

No wonder they got in so smoothly yesterday.

Yuan Man asked, "Is this garrison general doing this just to collect city fees?"

"But how much can the entrance fee be?"

"Of course there are other benefits." Hui Chengyuan said lightly.

"All the noble families in Lingjia City have to trade with foreign countries. He controls the city gates, so naturally the noble families have to pay him respect."

Wang Rong nodded, "After the ban on opening to the outside world, he collected all the silk in Lingjia City."

"As for where it will be sold, no one knows."

"But the price is only 10% lower than before, so no one has any objections."

This made Yuanman even more confused.

"Since the price hasn't dropped much, why does Lingjia City look so dilapidated?"

"Could it be that the general doesn't allow the people to go shopping?"

Wang Rong shook his head. "All the shops in Lingjia City were taken over by the general. He almost forced several wealthy families here to death."

"Now those who have money have been forced to move out, and the rest want to move but don't have the means to do so."

"After the general took over the shop, he raised all the prices. The rest of the people didn't have the money to buy anything."

Yuanman couldn't understand the general's actions.

If he does this and drives away all the wealthy families, where can he make money from?

"Does he have some powerful backing? Otherwise, how could he dare to do this?"

"He has a backer, of course. His sister is a royal concubine." Wang Rong said while clicking his tongue twice.

"Royal Concubine?" Yuan Man and Hui Chengyuan looked at each other.

There was only one imperial concubine in the Song Dynasty, and that was Imperial Concubine Shu, the mother of the third prince.

Wang Rong nodded, "That's right."

"I heard that she is very favored, has a prince by her side, and is also favored by the emperor."

"So, no one dares to go against him when he does this."

"If we fight, it's just like an egg hitting a rock."

In fact, in Yuanman's opinion, this place is not far from the capital, and as long as the matter gets out of hand, the emperor will not be able to ignore it.

But the people didn't have the courage to make trouble.

In their view, the people can never defeat the officials.

The aristocratic families have more concerns.

Won Man looked towards Hye Seung Won.

Hye Seung Won knew what she meant.

"The most I can do is send a letter to Emperor Song. As for what he will do..."

"That's not something we can control." Yuan Man naturally understood this clearly.

"If he doesn't care, then we'll just ship all the silk from the farm away and not sell it here."

"By the way, Wang Rong, I think I know why the quality of silk has declined."

Then he talked about the impact of silkworms eating old mulberry leaves all the time.

Yuanman didn't say anything definite, after all, she had never raised silkworms before.

"Of course, this is just my guess now. After all, I am reading a miscellaneous book."

“So, if you want to see the quality of next year’s silk, you can plant some new mulberry trees specifically for silkworm breeding.”

“Those old mulberry trees are left with long fruit.”

Wang Rong nodded and said, "Yes, I will arrange for someone to plant them."

"If we plant them now, the young leaves will be just right for the silkworms to eat next spring."

"Are the plants you planted taken from cuttings?" If they were not taken from cuttings, it would be impossible for them to be planted now and have young leaves in the spring of next year.

Then the mulberry seeds she bought can only be left for them to plant later.

Anyway, this kind of thing needs to be replaced every two or three years at most.

Wang Rong nodded, "Yes, there is a farm five miles away that specializes in growing mulberry seedlings by cuttings."

"It's just that everyone has mulberry trees, so the business is not very good. We all rely on the silk from the silkworms we raise to survive."

Yuanman thought that after the product is tested next year, business would improve.

"Wang Rong, whose manor is that? Can we buy it?"

Wang Rong was stunned for a moment. "Of course, that manor belongs to a small landlord named Liu, and he has wanted to sell it for a long time."

"It's just that everyone knows his business is not doing well, so no one wants to buy it."

Yuan Man clapped his hands and said, "How much is the estimated cost? I want to buy it."

Wang Rong estimated, "About eight hundred taels of silver will be enough."

"There are about eleven or twelve farmers in that village, and about two hundred acres of farmland."

When Yuan Man heard this, he thought it was a good deal, so he went to get eight hundred taels of silver and handed it to him.

"Then please make a trip."

Wang Rong stood up and took it. "No, I just happened to be going to buy mulberry seedlings."

Lingkong came back at dinner time.

He brought back a piece of news that surprised them.

He saw Ning Feng in Lingjia City.

Her appearance hadn't changed much, but her temperament had.

Now he should be following the garrison general Chen Shu.

Hui Chengyuan looked at him and said, "Take Yuanyi to confirm it. If it is true, we will arrest him tomorrow night."

Yuan Man waited until Lingkong left before saying, "I didn't expect to run into him."

"He actually hid in Lingjia City."

"This is his cleverness. He predicted our predictions and eliminated all the places we could think of." Hui Chengyuan said while looking outside.

Yuan Man lay on the table and said, "If you are so smart, why do you want to follow Prince Gong?"

Hui Chengyuan said calmly: "He must be too smart and self-righteous."

"Maybe." Yuan Man turned and looked at him.

"I'll go tomorrow night, too."

Hui Chengyuan just thought she was out for fun. After all, in his opinion, Ning Feng's martial arts skills were not as good as Yuan Yi's, so there was no need for her to take action.

"it is good."

[Ding, next check-in point, return to the city west.]

Yuan Man lazily opened the map, and when he saw where Xihui City was, the corner of his mouth twitched.

The system is really good at picking places, it chose the farthest one.

"Ah Xiao, after we deal with Ning Feng, do you have any plans to go somewhere?"