Chapter 348: Attending Speech

When Lu Songli stood up with the wine glass, everyone's eyes fell on her.

Le Guicai was surprised. He had never expected that the first person to speak was Lu Songli!

When he was present just now, he had already looked at Lu Songli several times.

He just felt strange that she could not only attend such an important table, but also had a special seat.

In etiquette, the left is respected. Lord Lu actually let his daughter sit on his left hand side, and everyone was not dissatisfied. It was too strange.

Le Guicai's eyes fell more on Lu Desheng.

Lu Desheng is not dead, how can he not feel it? He complained in his heart, what are you looking at? ! What's wrong with his daughter speaking first? You don't know how powerful she is, hum!

At this table, the first person to speak can only be the two of them, father and daughter.

Letting Lu Songli speak first was something they had discussed before, and it was also his suggestion.

Lu Songli also took the lead, so this scene happened.

Lv Songli said with a smile, "Everyone, the South has been in chaos recently. This time, our Liaodong Chamber of Commerce has achieved significant results in the South."

"The Southbound team headed by Mr. Xue Xu, General Manager Wu Renwu, etc., has seized about two million taels of silver and grain in the South."

"Except for the Southbound team, everyone present here is a meritorious person. After the merits are calculated in the past two days, the subsequent rewards will be distributed according to the merits. Please look forward to it."

"Now, this cup, I toast to everyone. I hope everyone will continue to work hard and forge ahead in the days to come."

After Lv Songli finished speaking, he drank the wine in the cup.

At this time, Lv Desheng followed, "Your Madam Qin Liu is right. Liaodong County is now our place of residence. Let's work together to build Liaodong County better." When he said this, he also glanced at Le Guicai.

At this time, Le Guicai was numb. Two million taels of silver and grain! No wonder the grain price in Liaodong County is so stable.

He had always thought that Lord Lu was powerful, but he didn't expect that his daughter was even more powerful.

Judging from her performance at the table, everyone was very convinced of her.

It turned out that she was the first to speak, not because Lu Desheng deliberately let her speak, but because she was qualified by her real ability.

After the father and daughter of the Lu family finished speaking, they invited everyone to eat.

Everyone also stretched out their chopsticks without hesitation. This table of food was very good, and the dishes made people's appetites grow.

When they were half full, everyone toasted a glass of wine to Madam Qin Liu, Lord Lu, and the prince.

Because Madam Liu was a woman, they drank it themselves and let her do whatever she wanted.

But just like that, after a round, Lu Songli also drank a lot of wine.

Eating and drinking like this, the atmosphere came up.

Some people started to make a fuss and boldly asked Lu Songli that they wanted to know the details of the reward.

"Everyone can look forward to the reward this time." Lu Songli only gave this sentence.

But everyone knew it in their hearts. They all came from the exile period, and she was always generous to her subordinates who had done the work.

Lu Songli was right. The reward this time was indeed something to look forward to. She decided to give them two hundred thousand taels of silver as a reward. She had already told Wu Ren about this matter. Rewards were based on merit. Those who made contributions in this southern operation were all rewarded. Even ordinary employees received double wages this month.

Some people present also envied Wu Ren's limelight this time. They asked for orders one by one and expressed their opinions to her, saying that if Liaodong County had any subsequent plans, they could just tell them to do it. They patted their chests loudly.

Lu Songli naturally accepted all of them with a smile. As for the subsequent plans, they would talk about it later.

Her next plan was to recruit talents.

Recently, many people came to Liaodong County. She planned to let her father recruit a group of retainers first; then, in the name of the government, she would recruit a group of talents as clerical staff or teachers of the academy; and finally, she would let the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce absorb a group of newcomers.

These people were the reserve talents she cultivated. When she helped her father get the governor of Pingzhou, these people would be useful if necessary.

Lv Songli believed that after such a layer-by-layer screening, the talents coming to Liaodong County should be able to be selected.

Everyone enjoyed the banquet very much.

All of them left Tianshui New Village in sedan chairs or carriages.

When Lv Songli was sitting in the sedan chair and leaving the village, he could still hear the villagers talking about how well the banquet was organized.

Each table of this banquet had twelve dishes, ten meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one soup. Those who had eaten all gave a thumbs up and said that there were many delicious dishes in this banquet.

Many elderly people sat at the entrance of the village to enjoy the cool air, and they sighed that this life was really promising.

…

Yue Shu did not expect that in half a month, these refugees could be reborn like this.

It should be said that they finally recovered their human appearance.

On the day they set out with the grain team, when they stayed overnight, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce sent them a batch of medicine powder to treat their head lice.

Later, they passed a small town that mainly dealt in cloth, and exchanged grain for a batch of coarse linen clothes.

Grain prices were very high everywhere, and grain was more useful than money, so cloth merchants were happy to exchange with them.

What made cloth merchants feel sorry was that they only wanted cheap coarse linen cloth, not silk and satin. Coarse linen cloth could not be sold at a high price, so they could only win by large quantities.

This batch of coarse linen clothes was distributed in the form of wages.

Along the way, many people left the main force for various reasons, and there are currently about 20,000 people left in the entire main force.

Among them, there are about 4,000 young and strong men aged 15 to 30, about 3,000 men aged 31 to 40, and more than 10,000 of them are the elderly, weak, women and children.

These 4,000 young and strong men, as well as the older men, have to take out an hour or so to come in for training every day after setting up camp.

In the words of Mr. Lu Liu, they are transporting so much food to the north, and the road is not peaceful. If they don’t have a strong fist, they will be robbed.

Most of those who join the guard team are with their families, and the rations they consume every day are provided by the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce’s grain team.

If someone wants to take the grain team’s food, it means they want to take their rations. How can that be possible?

They have experienced the days of having no food for the next meal, and now their life is so good. Although they have to rush every day, it is easier than doing farm work, isn’t it?

After walking for half a month, they consumed about 10,000 stones of food just to feed so many of them.

I heard that it will take another month and a half to reach Liaodong County, and the subsequent consumption of food will be about 30,000 stones.

They ate 40,000 shi of grain out of 100,000 shi. Thinking about it, Yue Shu felt a little guilty.

Qin Sheng was studying the map, thinking about which route their large army could take to be fast and safe.

At this time, a beautiful and elegant girl came in with a basin of water, "Sixth Master, I got you a basin of water, can you wash your face?"

"Didn't I tell you not to hang around me anymore?"

"You saved me and my elder brother, I just want to do something within my ability to repay you."

"No need."

It was just a piece of cake for Qin Sheng to save the brothers and sisters, but now he just felt it was troublesome. The Hou brothers and sisters were related to his eldest sister-in-law's family. They followed the refugees in the south and recognized him on the third day. For the sake of relatives, he couldn't help but take care of him.

"You get out."

Faced with Qin Sheng's stern refusal, the woman was a little sad.

"Miss Hou, please go out first."

After Hou Ya left, Liu Erxi advised, "The water has been drawn anyway, just wash it." Don't waste it.

"You can use it if you want!" Qin Sheng turned and went out.

If Xue Xu was here, he would definitely tell Liu Erxi that you don't understand your Sixth Master. He is always on guard, afraid that he will be disliked by the Sixth Madam.

Hou Shuang caught up, "Sixth Master, my sister has caused you trouble. She is also kind-hearted and wants to repay you, but since you don't like it, I will tell her not to do those things again."

"Yeah."