Chapter 35: Candles in the Cave Room
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In the twenty-fifth year of the Heavenly Sage, the twenty-eighth day of October, it is suitable for marriage and matching, and it is an auspicious day.
Tianjiazhuang Wubao held a grand and grand wedding.
The feast of guests and friends, the flowing water banquet was opened for seven days and seven nights, the delicacies of the mountains and seas, all kinds of food, any guest, as long as they say a word of applause, they can be seated and enjoyed.
A large stage was also set up in front of the dock fort, and the various groups of the Deyun Club in Yugang Village were invited over with a lot of money to attend the wedding for the guests and friends, and performed for seven days and seven nights.
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In the wedding hall, it was crowded.
"Worship heaven and earth. ā
"Two worship high halls. ā
"Husband and wife worship each other!"
"Send it to the cave!"
"Woo woo woo~!"
In a burst of laughter, the brides threw the peanuts and red dates in the dustpan on the heads of the bride and groom, and Tian Feng and Cui, who drank the bride's flower tea, were even more red-faced, smiling from ear to ear.
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At night.
After entertaining relatives and friends, Zhou Ming, who was slightly drunk, walked into the new house with bright red candles and a window wall covered with Xi characters with the support of two wedding maids.
"Give birth to a noble son early, bring the red envelope!"
"Red Envelopes, Red Envelopes!"
"Cousin Zihua, I want a red envelope!"
In the new house, more than a dozen children waiting for the red envelopes to be sent around, surrounded Zhou Ming, and he had to take out a stack of red envelopes from his pocket, distribute them, and send this group of children away.
The two reluctant bride maids were also sent out, and in the room, only himself and the bride sitting on the edge of the bed were left.
In the dustpan, Zhou Ming took a handful of jade Ruyi, gently walked to a phoenix crown and xia veil, put his hands on his lap, his body trembled slightly, as if he was a little excited in front of his wife, and used the jade Ruyi that symbolized "satisfactory" to pick up the red hijab on her head, and was stunned: "Rou'er, why are you crying?"
"Woo woo~ Brother Zihua, I'm not dreaming, am I?
The woman lifted her face, which had been crying and wearing makeup, and when she saw the man standing in front of her, she cried even more.
Zhou Ming stepped forward and hugged her, wiped her tears with his sleeve, and said softly: "Silly girl, today is our big day, a day worth being happy, don't cry, you should laugh more." ā
"No, I'm going to cry! I'm going to cry happily!"
After the woman finished speaking, she crawled on her lap, buried her head in her chest, wrapped her hands tightly around her waist, and said leisurely: "Cousin Zihua, do you remember what I said to you when I was eight years old? Let me tell you: When I grow up, I must marry Brother Zihua and become your wife...... I've been waiting for this day for ten years, and do you think I can stop crying?
Eight years old?
Decade?
Zhou Ming's head sweated, when did his charm become so big? Eight-year-old girl, he thought it was just a child's joke, and he didn't pay much attention to it, but he didn't expect that she had really waited for ten years for this moment, and her original intention had never changed.
There was a hot and moist touch from his mouth, and in the moment he was stunned, his wife Cui Rou had wrapped her neck around him, her breath was slightly chaotic, her red lips couldn't help but kiss her, and she used a small fragrant tongue without a teacher.
"Wait, I haven't had a glass of wine yet, I'll do it later. Zhou Ming gently pushed the woman away.
"No, I'm going to give birth to my husband first!"
The woman's body pressed down, and she hurriedly took off her clothes for herself, and Zhou Ming, who was lying on the bed, soon came to feel it, blowing out the lamp and pulling out the wax, turning over and pressing the woman under her.
On the night of the Spring Festival, the red waves were turned over, like glue and paint, and they went to bliss together.
Tian Feng and Cui, who were squatting at the door and eavesdropping, looked at each other and laughed, this grandson will definitely be able to hug next year!
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Soon after marrying his cousin Cui Rou, in order to add more people to the Tian family, which was relatively thin, and asked Cui Rou's consent, under the auspices of his parents and wife, Zhou Ming also accepted a few concubines.
These concubines have a total of five rooms, including the two maids Xiaoyan Xiaocui who was married to his wife Cui Rou, Xiaocai Xiaohe, the bed-warming maid who had been serving beside him, and Chu Jingling, a woman who rushed to Tianjiazhuang a few days ago, and Zhou Ming brought all the way from Shengzhou and accompanied him to travel most of the world.
Among the five concubines, only Chu Jingling, Zhou Ming has a deep affection for her, after being included in the room, every seven days, two days will be set aside to accompany her, and the other four concubine rooms will be randomly selected for one or two days a week.
Cui Rou, the main wife, has to spare more than three nights a week to sleep in her room.
Zhou Ming has so many concubines at once, and Cui Rou, who was born in a big family, accepted so many women very indifferently and shared the reality of the same man with her, because her father, in addition to his wife, also accepted seven or eight concubines, maids and maids, and I don't know how many he was involved. Her husband is so good, it is impossible to have only one woman, and it is inevitable to have three wives and four concubines.
She is just a little jealous, the woman named Chu Jingling has accompanied her husband through thick and thin, traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, experienced countless things that make her envious, and she and her husband have countless beautiful memories that she has never experienced...... If it weren't for her sympathetic loneliness, she would have reluctantly agreed to this woman's entry into the Tian family.
Fortunately, with the accumulation of experience for many lifetimes, how to take care of the harem, Zhou Ming also has a set of his ways and methods, and has long invented the family table games such as mahjong cards, playing cards, Three Kingdoms Killing, Monopoly, and Brave Adventure, especially mahjong, women who like to play this can be addicted to playing day and night, and have no extra energy at all, to calculate this and that, and study how to compete for favor all day long.
Therefore, after teaching Chu Jingling how to play mahjong, within a few days, Cui Rou was commensurate with her as a sister, and formed a solid alliance on the card field, wanting to win Zhou Ming from every field and win back all the lost money.
In particular, Zhou Ming called his wives and concubines together, and after playing the extremely absurd "Big Quilt Sleeping Together" a few times, although every time it ended, he felt a little sore in his waist, but looking at a harmonious harem, no matter how hard and tired it was, it was worth it.
This kind of comfortable and comfortable life, with a group of wives and concubines, is also what Zhou Ming has always dreamed of, if he didn't consider the system in his brain and the customs clearance achievements to be achieved, he would have turned into a rice worm stallion a long time ago, and spent every day in the wine pond meat forest and excessive prostitution.
But......
This is impossible, at least in this game, he must get an evaluation of A or above.
Therefore, these days, Zhou Ming also found his father Tian Feng and asked him in detail about the development of the family's various industries in the two and a half years that he had traveled around the world.
Father Tian Feng, talent mediocre, but is an excellent plan executor, Zhou Ming formulated the "Iron and Steel Plant Plan", father Tian Feng meticulously, step by step in strict accordance with the steps in the plan to build, of course, there have been all kinds of problems in the middle, father Tian Feng has not according to his own subjective speculation, adjust the plan, indiscriminate command.
Therefore, less than two years after the Tianjia Iron and Steel Plant was completed and put into operation, the monthly output of steel reached 500 tons.
This output has fully met Zhou Ming's expectations.
Secondly, there is the development of marine fishing companies.
In two and a half years, the scale of Tianjia Shipyard has quadrupled, and the number of shipbuilders has increased sixfold, and now the marine fishing company, more than 1,000 large ships, a total of 149 ships, and the rate of new entry of 5 ships per month is increasing.
These new ships are basically "Sea Fishing Type II" and "Sea Fishing Type II" ships with a displacement of more than 2,000 materials.
There is also Tianjia Shipyard, two large docks, the two new ships under construction, respectively called "Haiyu III" and "Battleship No. 1", two types of new ships, the materials are more than 3,000 materials, the new ship inside, a large number of iron castings produced by Tianjia Iron and Steel Plant, the strength of the hull structure has been greatly increased...... It is expected that in a month, two new ships will be launched one after another.
With so many large ships and new ships, the Tian family's fishing and whaling industry, needless to say, has developed rapidly, and the catch is almost doubling every year, and now, the marine fishing industry alone, the annual net profit brought to the Tian family is more than twice that of the seawater salt industry, not to mention, the income is more than ten times that of the fishing industry.
There are two main reasons why the fishing and whaling industry of the Tian family has developed so fast and is so profitable.
One, after Zhou Ming put forward the plan of "joint development and conspiracy Penglai", it quickly received the response of many families in Qingzhou, including the "Beihai Lu family", "Donglai Tang family", "scholarly Yao family" and other 27 families...... Resources from all sides have been concentrated, and the speed of development has naturally accelerated many times.
Second, unlike the salt industry, the marine fishing industry is a new type of industry, and it has not been highly valued by the imperial court, or in other words, the marine fishing industry is not like the salt and iron industry, which is a key industry that the imperial court must control.
Of course, there are also some officials who can't get rid of this little bit of petty profit, such as a few officials who want to bite a piece of fat from Hai Pingtian's family, and others, seeing the huge profits from the marine fishing industry, want to conduct in-depth field investigations...... These officials were quickly put to rest.
After all, behind the Tianjia Ocean Fishing Company, there is not only the Haiping Tian family, but also the twenty-seven families in Qingzhou, the energy of these families, superimposed, not to mention a small county guard, is the history of Qingzhou Thorn, if you want to find trouble with the marine fishing company, you have to be careful to lose the black yarn hat and be picked off the horse.
The development of various industries is smooth, and what Zhou Ming is most concerned about is the "ocean expedition" organized by the Tian family.
Father Tian Fengdao: "Our Tian family, together with more than 20 other families, has sent three groups of expeditions to the Ryukyu Island, the closest to the land, to build a small settlement and a small port, there are about 800 people living on this island, the conditions are very difficult, every four months to transport a batch of supplies over, at least two or three years later, the island residents, can initially achieve self-sufficiency." ā
In addition, his father Tian Feng said that there is a big difficulty, that is, Haiping County is still too far away from Penglai Xiandao, the shortest sailing distance is more than 2,000 miles, and the supply ships depart from the fishing port village and arrive at the island for colonization activities, one back and forth, at least two months to sail, the risk is very high, and the materials transported are not much, which is very troublesome.
And east of Haiping County, more than 1,000 miles away, there is an island called "Qizhou Island", owned by Gao Jiguo, if you can open up a port on this island, as a transit station for material transportation, the development of Penglai Xiandao will definitely be much more convenient.
However, Qizhou Island, which is shaped like a round jujube and covers an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, is not only inhabited by more than 300,000 Gaoji nationals, but also thousands of Gaoji garrisons.
"Father, how many soldiers does our Tian family have, and do they all use flintlock muskets?" Zhou Ming asked.
"There are more than 1,800 people, and they will use flintlock muskets. ā
In recent years, according to Zhou Ming's plan to strengthen the army, the establishment and expansion of the Tian family soldiers have never stopped, because of the high welfare benefits, the advanced distribution of weapons, and the special arrangement of teachers to impart cultural knowledge, the Tian family soldiers, it can be said that in this era, the highest degree of professionalism, the most advanced weapons and equipment, the highest average level of education, and the loyalty to the family is also unquestionable a strong military force.
"It's still too few, at least it has to be expanded to more than 10,000 people to ensure the absolute safety of the Tian family...... However, with these 1,800 clan soldiers as the foundation, it will be easier to expand in the later stage. In this way, father, from among these clan soldiers, 800 people will be drawn out and stationed on Qizhou Island to ensure the construction of the transit port, and regular rotation will be carried out, regardless of Gao Jiguo's reaction, if he is not convinced, we will train the troops in actual combat. ā
Father Tian Feng nodded, and said rebelliously: "Also, with the strength of my Tian family, even if I pull the flag and rebel, the court can't resist it, and that Gaoji small country is insignificant." ā
At the same time, Tian Feng was also quite puzzled in his heart, his son, who had the bones of the "Son of Heaven of the Nine Dragons" in the mouth of the fortune teller, had never expressed the idea of rebellion, but was full of interest in overseas founding.
However, no matter what his son wants to do in the future, he, as a father, will give his full support, everything in the Tian family now is brought by this son, whether it is the overseas founding of the country, or the rebellion of the flag, he doesn't dare to think about it or do it, he just needs to do what his son told him.