ushernet Chapter 242 A Female-Dominated World (14)
Chapter 242 A Female-Dominated World (14)
The old clerk looked somewhat numb, showing little reaction to the arrival of the new county magistrate. In her view, these people would be gone in a few days.
Wangyou called out to the trembling old clerk, wanting to understand the situation. Unexpectedly, the man spoke in fluent dialect, which Wangyou listened to very carefully. At the end, she even told the old clerk in dialect that she understood.
The old clerk glanced at Wangyou in surprise, not expecting that this person could speak their Funan dialect. His eyes became more eager. What if this person stayed? She was old and might die at any time. If she died, there would really be no one to take care of this place.
Wangyou instructed the servants to tidy up the county government office, while she chatted with the old clerk.
The county magistrates who came here did not serve for long, because the southwest was full of poisonous insects, snakes and ants. You could die from being bitten by any of them. In addition, due to the language barrier, they could not get timely medical treatment, so gradually no one came here anymore.
The old clerk was a local. She had studied Mandarin, but even if she could speak it, someone had to understand it. So, when she saw Wangyou and the others here, the old clerk's first reaction was to test me. She didn't want anyone else to die here.
Wangyou chatted a lot with the old scribe, and after returning home, she gently shared the information with Liu Xiang.
"Wangyou, how come you can speak Funan dialect?"
"You'll learn it if you read a lot of books." Wangyou did indeed come across a book about the Southwest region while reading, but the words were already familiar to Wangyou, enough to fool the two of them.
In the following time, Wangyou, Wenrou, and Liu Xiang were not idle at all. They conducted on-site investigations of the terrain, drew topographical maps, and learned about the local customs, soil conditions, and ethnic customs.
Wenrou and Liu Xiang also learn Funan dialect whenever they have free time. The three of them can talk about getting up earlier than the chickens and going to bed later than the dogs every day. Sometimes Wangyou would think that she had brought this trouble upon herself.
However, Wangyou also noticed that she had changed a lot. As she experienced more and more of the world, she gained more and more insights. Naturally, she was no longer as innocent as when she first came to the small world to play, nor as indifferent as she became later.
In Wangyou's own words, she has now become more humane.
During her field visit, Wangyou discovered that the soil here was very suitable for growing medicinal herbs and flowers, so she could develop this place into a medicinal herb cultivation area and a flower cultivation area.
However, at this time, only a few people would spend a lot of money to buy flowers, but there are many things that flowers can be used to make, such as rouge, face powder, lotion, and essence. Purely plant-based products are the best.
As she visited more places, Wangyou also discovered that the people here had long, black hair, and even those in their forties and fifties had no gray hair. After asking them carefully, she learned that this was due to their shampoo products passed down through generations.
After completing the visits, Wangyou led the group, who had become several shades darker, back to the county government office and began writing the proposal.
As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build roads first. So Wangyou simply paid for the road construction herself, since she didn't need the money anyway.
The people in the southwest are known for their tough and unruly nature, and both men and women can come out to find work. So when the news of Wangyou's recruitment was sent out, quite a few people came. Although there were more women than men, there were always a few slightly tall men mixed in.
There are many swamps and forests here, but the medicinal herbs are also very abundant. Moreover, there are witch doctors and Gu women here. When Wangyou was developing people's livelihood, she learned a lot from the witch doctors and Gu women.
"I've discovered that Wangyou is truly amazing. On the way here, I was prepared to fight someone, but I never expected that in such a short time, we would be able to build roads and farm together." Wenrou couldn't help but sigh. Everyone says that the people of Southwest China are tough, but Wangyou seems to be an exception. No matter how irritable a person is, they can let their guard down in front of her.
"Let's go, let's get to work. Wangyou has solved the biggest problem, we can't hold her back, can we?" Liu Xiang smiled and joined the busy team with Wenrou.
Wangyou exchanged medical knowledge with the witch doctor, and naturally learned a lot of prescriptions for repelling insects and snakes. The five poisonous creatures were everywhere here. Wangyou really hated toads. When the witch doctor took out a toad to demonstrate for her, Wangyou jumped three zhang away.
The witch doctor was at his wit's end, and the Gu woman was even more exasperated. Toads were needed to refine Gu worms, but Wangyou absolutely refused to touch toads. So she simply followed the Gu woman to learn some theoretical knowledge. After all, she didn't necessarily need to learn Gu techniques; she just needed to know how to cure Gu.
The Xie family, far away in Fengdu, received Wangyou's letter and also sent messages to the Liu and Wen families, saying that the three of them were doing well.
Of course, where there are good people, there are bad people. There are many bandits in the southwest, and they are mostly skilled in witchcraft and kill without blinking an eye.
Therefore, Wangyou personally led the men to eliminate the banditry, with Wenrou following by her side to deal with the bandits, while Liu Xiang was left to handle matters in the rear.
In six months, Wangyou had quelled the banditry in the southwest. However, the last bandit, Hama Village, was particularly disgusting. Each of them had at least one toad, and they were all highly poisonous. Wangyou was so angry that he didn't even dismount his horse and directly strangled them from the inside out from a distance.
However, afterward, Wangyou vomited for a long time. The county magistrate, who had never even blinked when the topic of the massacre came up, was so disgusted by a group of toads that he vomited until he was dizzy and disoriented.
This also made everyone present remember one thing: from then on, no toads should appear wherever the county magistrate went.
After everything was on track in Funan County, Wangyou established a beauty workshop and a medicinal herb workshop. The beauty workshop specialized in making beauty products unique to Funan, and the medicinal herbs were also unique to Funan. For example, Funan had a hemostatic medicine that was much better than the one used by the army.
During her busy period, Wangyou did not forget to send a message to Fengdu. After that, a caravan appeared, and Funan's specialties were effectively sold to various places, especially the hemostatic medicine, which was exclusively supplied to the army.
The Queen was so happy with the constant stream of good news that she ate two extra bowls of rice.
More and more people came to Funan to do business, and Funan's medicinal herbs were transported to various places. Beauty products were especially popular among men.
Looking at the Funan City she had built with her own hands, Wangyou felt very satisfied. Perhaps the meaning of her constant time travel was this moment.
Three years is enough time for Wangyou to fully develop the military strength of Funan City, so that even if someone wants to covet Funan City, it will be of no use.
After three years of hard work, Wenrou has now risen to the position of county magistrate of Funan County, while Liu Xiang is Wangyou's personal clerk. The two of them have found their own strengths and are working hard at it, so neither of them wants to go back.
Wangyou didn't want to go back either. The transformed Funan was beautiful with clear waters and lush mountains. So, Wangyou wrote a letter and sent it home, asking Xie Sanniang if she would like to settle down in the southwest.
After careful consideration, Xie San Niang still refused. The main reason was that all the men were getting married and the daughter was of school age. Fengdu was the best place to go, no matter where you looked at it.
After receiving the letter, Wangyou stopped mentioning the matter.
Later, because Minister Wen and Grand Secretary Liu were concerned about their children, they kept sending news from the southwest to the Empress. As a result, the three of them were promoted again and again. Finally, after ten years, they were finally summoned out of the southwest.