The voice was not loud, but Shi Nanting could hear it clearly, so he asked, "But Xiangye's student?"

Xu Fan nodded, thought about it, and handed over the letter on the table.

Shi Nanting read it quickly, and said with the same doubts: "Wuwei Military Town?"

Xu Fan nodded silently.

"This ......," Shi Nanting was puzzled: "Isn't the Wuwei Army a local militia group?

"Nothing is impossible!" Xu Fan said: "Military reform is something that Li Xiang vigorously promotes, and it is also Li Xiang's pride to stationing troops in Tuntian and using frontier wasteland to reduce military expenditures." Although the Wuwei Army was only a militia group before, it has now made meritorious efforts to quell the rebellion, and if it is not disbanded on the spot, it will inevitably be turned into a regular army. ”

"Although there are few Wuwei soldiers, after all, there is an extra amount of military expenditure, and now they can find a place in Tuntian, not only can they solve the military expenses by themselves, but also pay an extra tax to the imperial court every year, killing two birds with one stone, what is impossible?"

Shi Nanting frowned and said, "Can ...... But after all, Ryukyu is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and now we are forcibly stationing troops on other people's territory, which is ...... Can't you say it, right?"

"Heh! The natives of Ryukyu have naturally been dealt with by that stinky boy! I'm afraid that if we nod our heads here, a letter of state from Ryukyu will be sent immediately, and I implore the Tang Dynasty to garrison troops in Ryukyu......."

"If that's the case, then this matter ......" Shi Nanting smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that no one in the government and the opposition will disagree!"

"Yes!" Xu Fan nodded slightly and said, "I said how can the third boy frequently visit the important ministers of the court these days, it turns out that this is the case!"

"In this way, they have been planning for a long time!" Shi Nanting joked.

"What does Xiangye mean?"

"What else can I mean? That stinky boy has always done it when everything is ready, and he wrote such a letter just to give me a little face and ventilation for this teacher!"

"Hehe......" Shi Nanting just smiled.

Xu Fan thought for a moment again, and said solemnly: "You send someone to the south, find a way to find out the current situation of Ryukyu, remember, send someone who is powerful!"

"Okay!" Shi Nanting nodded.

……

After a few more days, Xu Chen, who was in Keelung, received a reply from Chang'an.

Seeing that the eldest brother put down the letter, Lu Hao asked, "Is it done?"

Xu Chen nodded and said, "It's done!" The imperial court has agreed to let us set up a military town here!"

"That's great!" Lu Hao smiled: "In the future, we will have a foundation!"

Xu Chen smiled and nodded, and said: "However, the imperial court sent a county order over, and the third person said that he seemed to be just a rootless and bottomless unlucky ghost." ”

"It should be!" Lu Hao thought for a while and said: "After all, in the eyes of the officials and lords of Chang'an, Ryukyu is a more wild and smoky land than Lingnan, and generally no one wants to come!"

"Forget it!" Xu Chen said with a smile: "Wait until he comes, if he can do it, let him make a fortune quietly, if he can't do it, throw it into the sea to feed the fish, and then find a brother to pretend to be him, just go out for a walk from time to time!"

"Okay!" After going through so many things, now in the face of the eldest brother's extremely indifferent words, Lu Hao can also be like water.

"Let's make some preparations! We'll be leaving for Chang'an in a few days!"

"Good!"

……

Today's Keelung City has gradually stepped into the right track, although the war has ended, and some people have gradually returned to their hometowns on the mainland, but there are also many people who have stayed in Keelung.

Now, as long as you are naturalized in Keelung, everyone can get three acres of land, and you don't have to pay taxes in the first two years, which is a blessing for the mainland people who are deeply absorbed by the land!

For the land, Xu Chen didn't have the slightest enthusiasm, and he really didn't care about the money that was dug out of the soil.

The mines south of Keelung are being mined, and some of the aborigines have been fully utilized by Xu Chen, who are not black-hearted mine owners, and Xu Chen's benefits to the aborigines are not bad. Brick houses have been built, wells have been dug, and food, clothing, housing, and transportation have been greatly improved, but after all, it is a mine, and if you want to say that it is good, it is really not much better.

In the process of assimilating the aborigines, there were naturally many conflicts, but the rudimentary weapons of the aborigines were really difficult to resist Xu Chen's heavily armed army, of course, the speed of advancement was not fast, and Xu Chen did not want his brothers to be injured in vain.

Now that more and more outsiders are coming to the island, it won't be long before the madness over the land will urge these greedy people to start moving closer to the south. Except for a few mining areas, Xu Chen let go of all the rest of the places and let these people develop them on their own.

Just like the Homestead Law in the Westward Expansion Movement, a considerable amount of land could be reclaimed in the south for a small amount of money, and as long as the Wuwei army remained in the Ryukyus for a day, the people would protect all that land. It's not a very clever method, but it instantly raised the Keelung people's favorability towards the Wuwei Army to a crazy height!

Of course, most of the residents in Keelung City today are poor people after losing their land, and most of the wealthy families in the south have not yet recovered from the war, and most of them have not yet discovered the fat of Ryukyu.

But even if it is discovered, Xu Chen is not afraid, the strength of the Wuwei Army is now expanding, Xu Chen is ready to initially expand the personnel to 5,000 people, plus about 3,000 sailors, less than 20 warships, not too much, take the route of elite soldiers, and must ensure the loyalty of the soldiers, only to Xu Chen and their brothers!

Economically, various workshops and workshops are also recruiting people one after another, except for the arsenal, which is all the first to follow their own people, the rest of the places began to divide the process, except for the core departments, large-scale recruitment of strangers, of course, the families of the soldiers of the Wuwei Army are given priority.

Today's Keelung City, with a total of about 80,000 residents, stems from the local feelings, after the rebellion was quelled, many people chose to return to their hometowns, but new settlers came with the caravan every day.

On this day, there were two more figures on the dock of Keelung Port.

"Wang Dabangzi, aren't you going back to your hometown?" Li Lao Er had one eye open, and he needed to turn his head all over to see his companion beside him.

"Home ......" Wang Shuwen smiled and said in a low voice: "I have no home for a long time......

"Besides, you're disabled now, if I'm not here, you won't be bullied to death?"

"Let your mother shit!" Li Lao Er's heart warmed, but he said strongly: "With Lao Tzu's skills, who dares to provoke Lao Tzu?"

The two people on the dock are the two generals under Zhao Feng, and now that the imperial court's disposal of Wang Zhonghei has come down, he has been transferred to Hanyang Taishou and will go to his post immediately.

This is also the result of the stalemate between the emperor and the crown prince for a long time, but the grade has not dropped much, but from Jane's general in the emperor's heart to the magistrate of a county, there is a feeling that things are wrong.

And Zhao Feng, who is a close confidant of Wang Zhonghe, naturally did not get much benefit in this round of meritorious deeds, and the guerrilla general from the fifth rank was a little higher than the previous deputy general of Zhichong Mansion, but compared to his merits on the battlefield, it was really nothing.

For recruits like Wang Shuwen and Li Laoer, this kind of fact is not new, the two may not have the ambition to make contributions, but the world is like this, and after getting the results, they can't talk about depression.

Get used to it, that's it!

After receiving a considerable reward, the two left the army, and happened to meet a merchant ship heading to Keelung in Fuzhou City.

"Looks good!"

From the wharf to the city is a spacious road paved with cement mixed with cobblestones, and there are a lot of cinders under the cement road.

Li Lao Er stepped on his feet heavily, looked at the immovable road, and said in surprise: "This road is so hard! What is it made of?"

As he spoke, he was about to bend down to break it, Wang Shuwen looked around at the curious gazes cast on the left and right, and hurriedly pulled him up: "Come on, can we come back to study it in the future?"

After walking for a while, I came to the tall and spacious city gate.

"Oh my God! this city gate is so bright!" Li Lao Er looked up at the eight-zhang high city gate, and sighed in praise: "This gate is much higher than the ones we have seen before! You think this is not even higher than the city gate of Chang'an City, right?"

I really couldn't stand the appearance of my companion who had never seen the world, Wang Shuwen frowned and said, "Chang'an City's is higher than this!"

"You've seen it?"

"I've been there a few times!" Wang Shuwen nodded and said, "But it takes more than half a year for Chang'an City to be a city gate alone, but I heard that the entire Keelung City has only taken more than a year, and I don't know if it's true?"

"Of course!"

An answer sounded in his ears, Wang Shuwen hurriedly turned around, and saw an old man driving a carriage coming.

"Uncle, are you familiar with this city?" asked Wang Shuwen with his fists clenched.

The old man nodded and smiled: "Very familiar! The old man is the first batch of people to come here, there is a doll in the family who is a soldier under General Xu, so he came with him, when I first arrived last year, this place has just been built by the city wall, and it is still a wasteland!"

"Oh!" Wang Shuwen nodded lightly, and suddenly said with a smile: "Our two brothers have just arrived, and we are not familiar with the place, so I don't know if we may ask my husband to be a guide?"

"Haha, okay!" The old man answered, and said with a hearty smile: "If you don't have money, you can get rid of it, the old man doesn't lack that money!"

Wang Shuwen nodded with a smile, looked at the coarse linen clothes on the old man's body, but only regarded these words as the old man's politeness in his heart.

"Get in the car and come with me!" said the old man, raising his horsewhip.

The two sat down on the wheels, and then they saw that the carriage under the seat was all made of solid wood and iron, especially the axle was made of stainless steel, and the most strange thing was that the carriage had four wheels.

"Uncle, this car cost a lot of money, right?"

Wang Shuwen didn't think that this car belonged to the old man in front of him, but he just met in Pingshui, and his words were not too presumptuous.

Who knew that the old man smiled and said, "This car doesn't cost money!"

"Huh?" Wang Shuwen said in surprise.

The old man said with a smile: "We are all the family members of the Wuwei Army, and after we arrived, General Xu not only built a house and enclosed land for us, but these guys in the family were also distributed for free!"

"Oh, I see!"

"Then how does this car have four wheels?" Li Lao Er on the side couldn't help but ask.

The old man waved his horsewhip a few times and replied: "This is a new type of car, and it is more stable to run!"

"Also, not only is it stable, but it's also not bumpy!"

……