His Majesty the Emperor is naturally serious!

If Lord Qian and Deputy Commander Han found out that Ye Shen did have any inappropriate behavior during the secret investigation in Yuzhou, the ones who appeared in front of Ye Shen today would not be Lord Qian and Deputy Commander Han who looked smiling!

Lord Qian and Deputy Commander Han did not just arrived in Yuzhou Prefecture today. They came from the capital on a merchant ship as medicinal materials merchants. They did not stay in Yuzhou City. Instead, they followed the real medicinal materials merchants with them to Hanshan Town, which has become the base for medicinal materials cultivation in Yuzhou.

Starting from Hanshan Town, the two of them visited all the way, and almost traveled throughout Nanzhu County. What they saw was no longer the legendary Nanzhu County, which was poor and backward, which was lacking in food and clothing.

In addition to the medicinal materials in Hanshan Town, there are also tobacco in Donglin Town, wheat fields that can be harvested in thousands of acres of pomegranates, and of course, there are vineyards, pomegranate forests and wineries that have occupied a place in Nanzhu’s taxes.

Of course, Nanzhu is still far from prosperity, but the words "poverty" can already be seen on the faces of the people of Nanzhu. Some are content with their current life and yearning for the future.

Of course, Lord Qian and Deputy Commander Han could not only look at Nanzhu, one county, and the two turned into tea merchants to conduct secret visits in other counties.

Wuyuan County is their second stop. Looking at the continuous tea mountains and listening to the cheerful singing of the flower-picking girl, Wuyuan County brings a different feeling to Lord Qian.

Nanzhu County adopts a development model where multiple economies advance together, while Wuyuan County is a special development model.

Although Ye Qing had been the county magistrate of Wuyuan County for less than two years, under the advice of Ye Shen and Lin Wan, he took advantage of the situation to rely on Wuyuan County's wild tea resources to embark on a path of development.

However, in just two years, Wuyuan County has expanded the tea forest by nearly ten times based on the original wild tea, through transplanting, cutting and other means. At the current planting rate, Wuyuan County can have nearly 1,000 acres of tea forests in at most two years.

Although the current reputation and production capacity of Wuyuan Tea are not enough to go abroad, it only took two years to leave Shu and enter the wealthy families in the capital.

Judging from the current development trend, as long as Wuyuan County is given some time, Wuyuan Tea will definitely enter thousands of households in Dayu, and even begin to consider going abroad to strive for better profits for tea farmers in Wuyuan County.

Lord Qian and Vice Commander Han were responsible for the emperor's orders, so it was impossible for him to just take a quick look, and local people were bound to communicate.

In order to obtain more real first-hand information, Lord Qian had to use some extraordinary means, but was almost besieged and beaten by the excited villagers. Fortunately, Deputy Commander Han and Guards with an overwhelming force were spared.

Since he was ordered by the emperor to come to Yuzhou for an undercover investigation, it is natural that Lord Qian and Deputy Commander Han could not just visit Nanzhu County and Wuyuan County. He had to visit other counties and towns, and even visited counties adjacent to Yuzhou Prefecture, including the county chaired by Chen Ankang.

After more than half a month of undercover investigation, Lord Qian and Deputy Commander Han also discovered some shortcomings under the jurisdiction of the Yuzhou Prefecture, but compared with other nearby prefectures, it was really surprising. It can be seen that the counties under Yuzhou can develop into their current appearance, which is enough to show Ye Shen's ability and intention.

According to the requirements of His Majesty the Emperor, Lord Qian and Deputy Commander Han would write the secret visits that day into memorials and send them back to the capital every day. Lord Qian’s memorials focus on practice, while Deputy Commander Han’s memorials focus on local public security, and of course they would also write about what they saw and heard.

Lord Qian and Vice Commander Han were still in the first month when they set off from the capital. When they settled in Dongsheng Inn in Yuzhou City, it was already Qingming Festival.

The two of them rested for a day at Dongsheng Inn and began a series of undercover investigations of Yuzhou City, mainly focusing on the business development in Yuzhou in recent years and the big firecrackers reported by Chen Ankang to have a big banquet for guests.

Yuzhou is the second largest prefecture in Shu. The city is built along the mountains, and the heights are staggered to create a sense of elegance. Although it is far from comparable to the capital, and even not as developed as some small cities in the south of the Yangtze River, it is still quite prosperous. At least all the goods you should have can be seen, and the prices are quite reasonable.

Before coming to Yuzhou, Lord Qian and Vice Commander Han did some homework and knew that the Lin family had opened several shops in Yuzhou City, and the people around Lin Wan also opened embroidery and weaving workshops in Yuzhou City.

After turning the streets and alleys of Yuzhou, the next step was to conduct an undercover investigation of the Lin Family Shop and the embroidery workshop.

Ye Shen used to be a part of Hanlin Courtyard for six years. Lord Qian had many interactions and contacts with Ye Shen and Lin Wan. In order to avoid secret visits, Lord Qian was unable to show up again and simply went back to Dongsheng Inn to rest, and entrusted the full account of the secret visit to Deputy Commander Han.

Deputy Commander Han was a subordinate brought out by Mao Yanqiu. There is no need to say about the methods of undercover investigation, but the results of the undercover investigation surprised Han Hai deeply.

Whether it is Ye Shen or other officials in Yuzhou City, their reputation in Yuzhou City can be regarded as a compliment for their families.

If it weren't for the fact that no official in the Yuzhou prefect's yamen knew him, Han Hai would really doubt whether he had been discovered long ago, so the Lin family's shop, the embroidery workshop and the weaving workshop under the name of Qi Jun and his wife were arranged.

Since the secret investigation has already achieved results and no new tricks can be found when another visit is made, Lord Qian took Deputy Commander Han and went to the Yuzhou Prefect's Office directly.

"Teacher, why did you come to Yuzhou?" When Ye Shen, who had received the news, hurriedly came out to greet him, he was really surprised and happy to see Lord Qian.

Although he had already been prepared to be undercover, when Lord Qian appeared in front of him, Ye Shen did not associate the officials who undercover were undercover with Lord Qian as soon as possible.

After all, Lord Qian is also Ye Shen’s mentor, so he shouldn’t have sent Lord Qian to his undercover investigation.

However, Lord Qian's next sentence proved his identity as an undercover official and introduced Deputy Commander Han who was standing half a step behind: "Deputy Commander Han Hai of the Jinyiwei, thanks to him accompanying me this time!"

Ye Shen had never seen Han Hai before, but it did not mean that he knew nothing about Han Hai.

At this moment, what flashed in Ye Shen's mind was Han Hai's life.

Han Hai and Mao Yanqiu met when they were very young. Han Hai had been working in the southern Fujian army before. He only joined the Jinyiwei as the deputy commander under Mao Yanqiu's nomination two years ago. He was Mao Yanqiu's confidant.

"I have completed my mission to come to Yuzhou and will take a merchant ship back to the capital the next day. Do you have any questions to ask me to help you bring it back to the capital?" Lord Qian naturally could not tell Ye Shen the result of the secret visit. Today, I came to Yuzhou Prefectural Office and met Ye Shen. After all, I haven't seen each other for more than five years in a flash. Of course, I also had some small thoughts in this trip.

It’s true that when Ye Shen learned that Lord Qian and Han Hai were officials sent by His Majesty to secretly investigate him, he felt indescribable gratitude to Lord Qian.

Lord Qian’s ability to appear in front of him with a high sound means that Chen Ankang’s complaint to him was not valid.

Ye Shen saw through and didn't point it out, so he asked Lord Qian to bring some specialties from Yuzhou to the capital for him.
Chapter completed!