The Great Tang Dynasty: The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain, Starts by Being Deceived into Ma

Chapter 43 The Zheng Family of Lantian

"Pfft!"

Upon hearing Lu Jinghe's words, Gao Yang couldn't hold back any longer.

She knew tofu all too well, and she quite liked eating it.

It's so soft and crumbly that it crumbles at the slightest touch; once it's broken, it's just like tofu dregs.

If she understood correctly, a shoddy construction project is a very, very bad project that will fall apart at the slightest touch and is extremely unreliable.

Just like Cheng Chumo, he's very unreliable.

Gao Yang laughed heartily, even the little Si Zi in her arms was bounced around a bit, tilting its head back curiously and asking, "What's Sister laughing at? Shi Zi wants to laugh too!"

"It's nothing." Gao Yang rubbed Xiao Sizi's head, but the smile in his eyes was impossible to hide.

"What do you mean by 'just like me'?" Cheng Chumo scratched his head, still not understanding, but seeing Gao Yang laugh out loud, he guessed it wasn't a nice thing to say.

Cheng Chumo was somewhat sullen, clearly feeling rejected. It was his own fault; he had come along to help, but hadn't accomplished anything.

Not only did he not do anything, he also pulled the other person back, almost pulling their pants down.

"Don't worry about it, I'm just praising you." Lu Jinghe patted Cheng Chumo on the shoulder and comforted him, "Just supervise the construction, you don't need to worry about the rest."

"Old Zheng, I'll leave the factory construction to you. We'll stay in Lantian for now. You know the inn we're staying at; just come find me if you need anything."

Lu Jinghe said something and then prepared to go down the mountain.

He wanted to write a letter to Li Shimin, asking them to stay in Lantian for a few days to help Zheng Rentai retain his position as county magistrate, and requesting that Li Shimin send some soldiers to keep an eye on him.

The Zheng family of Lantian will definitely cause trouble. I estimate that someone will impeach them in a few days. Magistrate Zheng Rentai of Lantian County is engaging in large-scale construction projects without regard for the people's livelihood. I request that he be dismissed from his post.

These matters will be left to Li Shimin to handle. He owns 70% of the profits from the glass factory, so he won't ignore them.

It's the early years of the Zhenguan era, and Li Shimin is desperately poor. He finally has a profitable business, so why would he let these people ruin it? Impossible. He'll definitely handle it very proactively.

"Alright, I'll go find craftsmen to design the factory as soon as I get off the mountain." Zheng Rentai didn't care how Lu Jinghe addressed him; it was up to the prince consort to decide how to address him, but he couldn't afford to be disrespectful.

Then, Lu Jinghe pointed to a location, finalized the address of the factory, and went down the mountain.

"Alright, I'll go find craftsmen to design the factory as soon as I get off the mountain." Zheng Rentai didn't care how Lu Jinghe addressed him; it was up to the prince consort to decide how to address him, but he couldn't afford to be disrespectful.

The factory was built very quickly, taking shape in just a few days.

Cheng Chumo worked very diligently. Although Zheng Rentai paid for all his expenses in Lantian, he never went to a brothel.

They worked from dawn till dusk, spending all their time supervising the mines except when they were sleeping.

Li Shimin also replied, telling Lu Jinghe to go ahead and that he would take care of everything. If Lu Jinghe did a good job, Li Shimin would also have the authority to issue an imperial decree to marry Gao Yang.

After several days of bustling activity at the factory, Cheng Chumo stood on a large rock, gesturing wildly and shouting, "Over there! Move those bricks half an inch to the left! Yes, yes, just like that!"

"Old Zhang, dig that foundation deeper. Brother Lu said the foundation needs to be stable, otherwise it'll collapse later!"

"And you, be careful when you're carrying the logs, don't drop them on someone!"

Suddenly, he heard a commotion not far away.

"What are you lowly people doing?!"

"Hurry up and start mining! Where did all the ore go these past few days?!"

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"Buyers are all coming to our door, where did all the quartz ore go?!"

Cheng Chumo frowned, then, like a lord, with a sword at his waist, he strode past with an air of utter disdain, picking his ear as he spoke: "Who the hell are you?"

He looked exactly like a bandit from the mountains.

The newcomer was an old man in his fifties, wearing a brocade robe, with a goatee, and his eyes darted around; he was clearly not a kind person.

Seeing Cheng Chumo's attitude, the old man was so angry that his beard stood on end: "I am Zheng Qianfeng of the Zheng family of Lantian! This mountain is the property of the Zheng family of Lantian. What right do you have to build houses here?"

It also delays the miners' mining operations!

"Don't know him." Cheng Chumo shook his head, flicked the earwax he had just picked out onto the man's face, and said, "If you know what's good for you, get the hell out of here."

"I am Zheng from Lantian! How dare you insult me ​​like this, you shameless brat!" Zheng Qianfeng froze, looking down at the unidentified object on the tip of his nose. His face turned from white to red, then from red to purple, a truly spectacular sight.

My father is Cheng Yaojin.

Cheng Chumo said something indifferently and drew his knife.

Who is Cheng Yaojin? An official? Zheng Qianfeng muttered to himself, then thought that he probably wasn't a high-ranking official. What high-ranking official's son would go up the mountain to supervise construction?

"The Zheng family of Lantian has influential figures in the imperial court!"

My father is Cheng Yaojin.

"Me! Me! You just wait until your father is impeached and demoted!"

Demoted? By whom? His father, Cheng Yaojin?

Is this guy out of his mind?

No wonder Zheng Rentai, after joining forces with Brother Lu, kept talking badly about the remnants of the Zheng family of Lantian.

How did this kind of scum survive until now? Could it be due to the support of the Yingyang Zheng family?

Just then, Zheng Rentai rushed over in a great hurry.

He had barely reached the top of the mountain, and before he could even catch his breath, Zheng Qianfeng pointed at his nose and berated him: "You disrespectful and ungrateful wretch! This is all the property of the Zheng family of Lantian!"

"The Zheng family of Lantian?" Cheng Chumo perked up at this question. This mountain was what His Majesty wanted, and he spoke before Zheng Rentai could, "This mountain was His Majesty's doing. How did it become the property of your Zheng family of Lantian? Are you plotting a rebellion?"

Zheng Qianfeng almost fainted from anger. What a huge accusation, slapped directly on his head.

"You're spouting nonsense! Ren Tai, nephew, teach him a lesson right now!"

"Brother Cheng is right." Zheng Rentai showed no respect for Zheng Qianfeng, who was his third great-uncle and one of the remaining elders of the Zheng family of Lantian.

A bunch of good-for-nothings who just want to eat and wait to die. They don't even know who Cheng Yaojin is. What's the point of living?

It will only attach itself to him and suck his blood.

"Get out of here while you still can, or I'll chop you up right now!" Cheng Chumo didn't want to waste any more words with him and pointed his long sword directly at him.

Zheng Qianfeng was so frightened that he turned and ran, saying, "You just wait to be impeached! His Majesty will definitely punish you!"

This fool never believed that the mountain was what Ji Shimin wanted, nor did he think Cheng Yaojin was any important person.

As long as someone from the Zheng family of Lantian impeaches him in court, that person will immediately suffer.

"Now I understand why you were so decisive in joining forces with Brother Lu back then."

"If all the Zheng families in Lantian are like this... they are far inferior to the Zheng families in Xingyang. They don't even deserve the surname Zheng."

Zheng Rentai nodded in agreement, inwardly cursing these people for being mentally unstable.