Dressed as a young lady, she became rich by relying on Pinxixi

Chapter 138 Rebuilding Lezhou

Pingxiang raised his hand again and asked someone to open the bags on Qu Chengzheng and his group's horses to see what else these people had taken away.

Under the starry night, the gold is dazzling.

"Look, you found a gold mine, but you didn't report such a big thing. You didn't want to take the legitimate path of promotion and wealth, but instead you didn't care about your life... Tell me, how can I kill you so that your life is worth a thousand gold?"

Qu Chengzheng knew that he was going to die, but he couldn't help but feel terrified when he heard people discussing how he would die.

Pingxiang had a calm expression and spoke jokingly, but in his heart he had already torn these people into pieces.

If the imperial court had known earlier that a gold mine had been discovered in Lezhou, it would definitely not have granted this place to Xu Siyu.

But after it is granted, it is impossible to regret it.

So, for the Ming Dynasty, this gold mine was lost.

In the end, Pingxiang did not give Qu Chengzheng time to argue, and coldly ordered "kill without mercy", took away their money, and left more than 60 people in this mountain forest.

……

In Lezhou City.

In front of the county government office, which had been burned down to only stone foundations and stone steps, more than a dozen foreign captives were tied to the stone archway in front of the government office.

Lin Yiqing picked the captive with the most ornaments on his neck and tried to interrogate him.

According to the Southwest Customs Records, when Qiang men reach fighting age, they are tied with woolen thread. Every time they win, they can make ornaments from the bones of their spoils, string them on the woolen thread, and tie them securely with knots.

The more knots a Qiang man has around his neck, the prouder he is.

The proud man seemed not to care about his situation and did not cooperate with Lin Yiqing's interrogation.

Just for the fact that they crossed the border, Xu Siyu could kill them all.

What's more, she found Rui'er's zodiac beads on these people.

She bought it from Pinxixi to amuse the maids around her. It was cheap, but it was unique in the world.

Xu Siyu still remembers the joyful scene of several maids picking beads in Cuihua Garden.

She grabbed the bead and asked angrily, "Tell me, where was this stolen? Where is the girl who was stolen?"

The Qiang people were still very tough, so Xu Siyu signaled the guards to torture them.

The guards picked up the torch and set it on the Qiang people chosen by Xu Siyu.

"I heard that fire can cleanse your soul, but in my opinion, the greatest function of fire is to eliminate the evil in this world."

The punishment fell on the man's skin texture, burning it until it was five-tenths cooked, and then moved on to the next intact skin.

Maybe they have faith, but the pain is real.

"Mu Jin River... They fell into the Mu Jin River..." The Qiang people confessed while screaming in pain.

……

The bodies of Huang Jiu and others were found at the location indicated by the captives, and Xu Siyu ordered people to take them back.

She looked at the Mujin River below the cliff, but could not see Rui'er and Long San, and her heart was filled with sorrow.

Xu Siyu had an answer to the decision she had not made before - she decided to move into Lezhou City and become a real city lord.

At first, Xu Siyu's plan was to run Lezhou City and collect the output.

But she forgot to think that this time she became the master of a city, and what she was taking away was not the businessmen's cake, but the foundation of the city's governance.

This represents greater benefits, but also greater dangers.

Xu Siyu felt more and more that she was living too slowly.

When she was an ordinary person, she was unaware of others' coveting her; when she became a superior, she still would not imagine in advance that she would be regarded as a threat and attacked.

She always believed that human nature was good and adhered to the principle of "I will not offend others unless they offend me." However, the truth was that there were many evil people in this world who would offend others simply out of malice, and their creed was "strike first, gain the upper hand."

Moving is a big deal, especially a cross-city move.

With the clan relationships entangled, Xu Siyu knew that someone from the Xu family would definitely follow her, but this time she hoped they would think it through before making plans to avoid regrets in the future.

"Even if we move to Lezhou City, we still have to do business in Changjia Mansion. It won't be affected wherever your family is..."

For this move, Xu Siyu also discussed their business layout with Lin Yiqing, and decided to only move the center westward, while keeping everything else unchanged.

Xu Siyu only planned to move the Innovation Workshop, and she had already sent the first batch of craftsmen to Lezhou City to build the City Lord's Mansion and workshop.

Based on the Qu family's luxurious mansion next to the stone quarry, she added a layer of wall and four corner towers for protection. The open spaces on the four sides were used to build workshops and residences. Xu Siyu had shops built on the site of the original county government office and opened her Bafang Department Store.

The former criminals will be pardoned by Xu Siyu and become free men again after completing the labor of repairing the City Lord's Mansion, Bafang Department Store and the city walls.

After the City Lord's Mansion was renovated, Xu Siyu moved into Lezhou and personally organized the issuance of new household registrations for more than a thousand households in the city.

She didn't expect that there was someone she knew in Lezhou City.

Her ex-fiancé Zhang Yue is actually here.

If the household registration had not recorded his origin, Xu Siyu would not have been able to recognize that this dark and short man was actually the scholar who was once known as a "talented man" in the village.

It seemed that in the year she got married, Lin Yiqing made some arrangements and moved Teacher Cao to another county.

Unexpectedly, the Cao and Zhang families fell into Lezhou and became criminals.

【Reselling test questions.】

Xu Siyu looked at their crimes and hesitated for a moment whether to restore their status as good citizens.

Lezhou City is not very big, but there are too few people.

It is said that there are thousands of households, but half of them are criminals in the quarry, and the ancestors of the remaining households three generations ago were also criminals.

The main duty of the so-called garrison troops was to guard these criminals while they worked, and they had almost no ability to defend the city.

The best of them were buried with Qu Chengzheng in the nearby mountains and forests.

Xu Siyu generously had someone dig a pit for them, firstly to show her kindness, and secondly because she was afraid that the corpses would rot and cause an epidemic, destroying her defenseless little town.

Thanks to the salt wells and gold mines, Lezhou City is not completely useless.

Lezhou needs to regain its vitality, and Xu Siyu needs people.

In the end, Xu Siyu pressed her seal. Since she had said that all would be pardoned, she would just handle the matter impartially. Her reputation as the city lord was always more important than past personal grudges.

After the criminals were forced to do forced labor, they were treated as prostitutes and courtesans.

There can be brothels and theaters in Lezhou City, but there cannot be prostitutes and whorehouses.

Xu Siyu gave them a choice: either become a good person or leave the city to make a living elsewhere.

The beautiful girls gathered together, no matter how old they were, it’s not that they didn’t want to become good people, they just didn’t know what to do?

Xu Siyu selected the dance troupe, theater, and teahouse, and also left a few routes to the embroidery workshop, herb garden, restaurant, and dessert shop.

Zhen'er talked to these girls one by one and asked them to move in according to their abilities.

"Miss Zhen'er, can we really become good people?"

The person being questioned was an old maid who was about thirty years old. She had spent half her life in a brothel as a girl. After her looks faded, she was still able to stay as a mother serving the girls thanks to her skills in hairdressing and makeup.