Several forces not only bought all the inventory, but also placed a large order, Zou Yu did not refuse, all the orders were accepted, of course, he would not ask for money, they all wanted materials. Food, cloth can be, there is really no exchange for the population, especially the envoys of the three countries of the peninsula, who have placed such a large order, and if they want to obtain it most easily, they must pay attention to the population, and the envoys of the three parties also understand this, so they left in a hurry.

Li Xiuning is also gone, after all, it is almost the New Year, and it is not the same thing to be in Jinyang all the time, she has too many things, she wants to communicate with Li Yuan, from Tang Jian's mouth, she knows that the two brothers Li Shenfu have died so many sons, and they are shocked and have a headache, and the relationship between the two sides has no possibility of repairing it at all.

Pei Xuanji had no choice but to bring the samples back, but he believed that Dou Jiande would be jealous of these things; Only Xiao Yuexian, because this adventure came out in order to open up the trade route, so he brought a lot of silk tea to come, so he bought the goods and placed the most orders. Zou Yu was not stingy, according to the few ships of goods she brought, gave her a lot of perfumes and glass products, and at the same time transported many goods to Liaodong, so that Beisha's fleet could go to the south of the Yangtze River. Nominally, it is to transport goods and escort Xiao Yuexian and others, but the real purpose is, of course, to open up a channel, even if this is only an offshore voyage, but it is also the first voyage of the fleet.

He was accompanied by a young man, a young man hidden among the crew, who was the main person on the voyage. Li Chunfeng sailed with him, just to use his astronomical knowledge to sum up a set of methods for sea navigation and various weather directions! After all, the magnetic field on the sea is changeable, and the compass is not very effective, or even loses its effect, which Zou Yu has heard.

Of course, Xiao Yuexian didn't know about this, after all, there was no channel for this offshore navigation, and the boat ahead was to lead the way, after all, they were all flat-bottomed boats.

In the face of Zou Yu's big ship, the people from Jiangnan were very surprised, although they could make a five-tooth ship, but the cost was not low, and the five-tooth ship was only higher, compared to Zou Yu's battleship, it was obviously inferior, not so long, and this kind of multi-sail ship, they couldn't understand it.

Before the New Year, the first batch of goods was sold, and Dou Jiande also agreed to marry Luo Yi and marry his daughter to Luo Cheng, and the selected day was the first month. With Pei Xuanji's father and son, Zou Yu is still at ease after all, and he is not afraid of Dou Jiande playing tricks.

The happiest is Xiao Yuexian, the cargo of the whole two big ships is all in demand! made her famous all of a sudden. The most depressed is Li Xiuning, who came back to greet her, except for her family, she did not have a normal vision, and many people talked behind her back. The most important thing is the goods traded, the rest are normal, only weapons, there are only dozens of them, not as many as those displayed that day.

"Zou Changfeng is too deceitful!" Li Xiuning looked at the goods, kicked his feet viciously, and then grabbed the soldiers who escorted him and asked, "I have placed so many orders, why are there only so many handfuls?" What about the rest of the goods? ”

"Back to Miss Li, there are too many orders, who will sell them first, and the small ones can't be the masters." The soldier replied innocently.

Looking at the soldier's prepared answer, Li Xiuning was even more angry, but her unwilling appearance fell in the eyes of others, more like a resentful woman who was fooled by a man. Chai Shao, in particular, had a gloomy face, almost dripping water.

Think about it, my wife, alone, in the enemy's territory, lived for two or three months, and then came back unharmed, nothing happened in between, who believes! Anyway, Chai Shao felt that his head was green, and when anyone saw him when he went out, his eyes were weird.

As for Li Xiuning saying Jinyang so well, in his opinion, how is this possible! It's all a palace made of transparent glass, and it's really a fairyland.

"Slut!" Seeing Li Xiuning's face full of dissatisfaction and pouting angrily, Chai Shao was so jealous that he couldn't help but scold, and then turned around and left.

This sound stunned everyone, and then they all lowered their heads and pretended to be busy, but they didn't hear or see it, only Li Xiuning was stunned in place, and then tears swirled in his eyes, and when Chai Shao walked away and saw no one, he smiled miserably, and then returned to his princess's mansion!

This kind of gossip naturally spread very quickly, even if no one dared to tell Li Yuan and his son, after sunset, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin still appeared in front of Li Yuan.

"Father, Chai Shao treats Xiuning like this, it's really unreasonable! Why don't you let them go together! Li Jiancheng said angrily.

Chai Shao and Li Shimin are very close, and Li Jiancheng wants to suppress him in public and private.

Li Shimin naturally wants to help his own people, although Li Xiuning is also close to him, he must take a degree in the middle.

"Father, the Emperor! The Chai family has a credit to the imperial court, so it is easy to make the people below dissatisfied. Li Shimin hurriedly dissuaded.

"Humph! Chai Shao bullied my daughter so much, how could he let him go so easily! Li Yuan said angrily.

"Not bad! If you don't punish it severely, you will be able to make a contribution to the court in the future, who will still put the royal family in your eyes! Li Jiancheng said with a little bit.

"Father, a small punishment is enough, I believe others will understand what my father means." Li Shimin was almost so anxious that his forehead was sweating, and he said cautiously, he knew that Li Yuan had always loved his three brothers and sisters very much, so he had to speak carefully so as not to burn himself.

"Small punishment, big commandment! You can also. Li Yuan's expression relaxed slightly.

"Will this make Xiuning dissatisfied, she is just a few of our relatives, if her father can't help her make the decision, this..."

"This..."When Li Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but be a little undecided.

"Father, after all, they are husband and wife, and it is difficult for a Qing official to decide family affairs, so let them handle these things better, we just need to support them silently in the back." Li Shimin hurriedly persuaded him.

"Well, pass on my oracle and reprimand Chai Shao! Don't do such a degrading thing in the future! Punish him for thinking behind closed doors for a month, and punish him for three months! Li Yuan pondered for a moment, and then ordered.

Generally speaking, there are official decrees and oral decrees, and this kind of oral decree does not need to go through the Zhongshu Province, and there are directly attendants to pass the decree! Ordinary ministers, receiving this kind of commandment, will be panicked, this is also the emperor to express a kind of dissatisfaction, but the crime is not big, not enough to sentence and punish, but it also represents the minister's fall out of favor, in this case, the rest of the people will alienate him, dare not approach, for fear of being affected, after all, because of a little implication in history, there are not a few people who have ruined their families.

Even if the princess gets married, she also lives in the princess's mansion, marrying the princess is not called marrying, she is called Princess Shang, and the princess is married, and the husband and wife both live in the princess's mansion, as soon as Li Xiuning returned to the princess's mansion, she couldn't help but close the door and cry, after all, she did so many things for the Li family, the more she thought about it, the more she was wronged, the more she wanted to cry, and at the end of the cry, she fell asleep tiredly, and she didn't wake up until it was dark.

"Has the horse ever returned?" Li Xiuning asked the maid.

"Back to the princess, no!" The maid didn't dare to raise her head to answer.

"Li Ying!" Li Xiuning shouted expressionlessly.

"Princess!" A woman with a knife and armor appeared, pressed one hand on the hilt of the knife, and bowed down to wait for Li Xiuning's order. She is Li Xiuning's personal guard, and she only obeys Li Xiuning's orders.

"There will be no order from this princess in the future! Chai Shao is not allowed to enter the princess's mansion for half a step! Li Xiuning commanded with a cold face.

People are most afraid of being sad, breaking their hearts, even if the relationship is good, it will be over, not to mention husband and wife, husband and wife are most afraid of holding grudges, if it is just sad, there is still the possibility of redemption, but once they hold grudges, they are more hateful than enemies. But Chai Shao occupied both, which made it impossible for Li Xiuning to turn his face and be ruthless, especially when he thought that Chai Shao left her alone and left Chang'an, he could say that this was to support Li Yuan's great cause, but now that he thinks about it, he completely abandoned himself and escaped alone.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, Li Xiuning almost couldn't help but take a weapon to chop Chai Shao.

"Say it! What's up! Looking at the guards who wanted to stop talking, Li Xiuning asked.

"Your Majesty has issued an order to reprimand the colt!" Li Ying replied.

"Chai Shao! Don't mention the title of colt in front of me in the future! Li Xiuning said coldly.

"Whoa!"

"This person, if you can't trust each other, there is no point in living together again!" Li Xiuning said disheartenedly.

Seeing that the maid didn't speak, and Li Xiuning didn't mean to let her answer, the princess's mansion fell silent again.

Zou Yu didn't know that his little plan had caused an effect in the Qi Kingdom, originally he was just a whim, what kind of effect could be achieved, he didn't know, but in line with the principle that it was a good thing to be able to cause chaos to Li Yuan, he didn't care about Li Xiuning's freedom in Jinyang, after all, she couldn't find out the secret.

It's just that Zou Yu didn't expect that because of the rapid development of Jinyang, it also intensified Li Yuan's determination to expand.

Of course, this is also the trap set by Li Yuan in the previous period to work, Wang Shichong really became suspicious of Xin Wenli, Wu Yunzhao and others, and controlled the food more harshly, it is estimated that if it was not for the defeat, he would have already sent troops to attack.

Wang Shichong's behavior naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of Xin Wenli and others, especially the hot-tempered Wu Yunzhao and Wu Tianxi's brothers, who almost raised troops to attack Wang Shichong. As for Xin Wenli, he directly voted for Dou Jiande.

Fortunately, it was winter and it was not easy to march, so Li Yuanwei was only secretly preparing and secretly contacting Wu Yunzhao's brothers.

Jinyang! New Year's Meeting!

Today's Jinyang, whether it is officials or ordinary people, is full of vitality and hope, especially the high-level who know the existence of gunpowder, all of them are full of confidence to dominate the world.

Of course, the people who can know about gunpowder at present, in addition to Xi Junmai's more than 1,000 people, there are only Li Jing, Yin Shishi, Fang Xuanling's limited number of people, and craftsmen who are craftsmen and supervisors.

Even so, the people who worked as the superintendent only knew how to make firearms, the gunpowder department was only a refined material, and the mixed gunpowder was someone else, and Xi Junmai only knew how to use it. It can be said that after layers of checks, others want to make firearms and use them! It's simply impossible!

Jinyang is becoming more and more lively year by year, but Zou Yu does not have time to visit the Lantern Festival, and now it is time to chase the deer, the first artificially built here, a large reservoir, officially completed.

Half a year of preparation, most of the year to build, has mobilized 500,000 laborers, 20 caves are constantly burning, cement is supplied, 800,000 catties of steel are consumed, and sand and gravel are also constantly transported from Yishui.

In fact, the storage of water has long been started, after all, the reservoir was built from the bottom up, but this water is some well water in the mountains before, as well as rain on rainy days, so for most of the year, the reservoir is only filled with one-fifth of the water.

At present, the reservoir is completed, standing on the embankment, looking at the blue waves below, the mood can't help but be very happy, such a big feat, although there are still deaths and injuries, but it is just some accidents, the people did not complain because of the construction of the reservoir, but very happy, especially the people of Yizhou, because of the establishment of the Yizhou reservoir, so that the whole Yizhou no longer has a drought crisis.

This is only one of them, the second is irrigation, there are reservoirs to release water, can irrigate countless fertile fields every year, which does not require the people to do much, only need to put the water of the canal, put it into the field, the same reason, there are canals, you can reclaim more fertile land.

The difference between the field and the soil is that the field must have water and be in a convenient place for watering, so there are not many places that can be used for farming, especially in the north, where water resources are not as abundant as in the south, so there are fewer fields. With the reservoir, not only can more paddy fields be cultivated, but the dry land is also easy to irrigate, and the grain production can be increased a lot, and the people will be much more relaxed.

The reservoir within a radius of 20 miles is the size of two or three villages, and it takes three or four hours to walk on foot, but this time the reservoir dam is only more than 40 meters deep, so there will be many small islands in the middle of the reservoir in the future.

Zou Yu was already looking forward to the magnificent scene of rippling blue waves in the future, and the only thing to do now was to wait, wait for the water to be stored, to see if the dam could withstand the full water of the reservoir. Zou Yu is still very confident in this, after all, the dam is only a kilometer long, and for the sake of safety, the top dam is also five meters thick.

Glutinous rice triple soil, cement and steel bars, foundation pit plus bluestone, the combination of ancient methods and modern methods, there is no reason why even the average water depth of more than 20 meters can not be stored.

Looking down from the dam, there are some dizziness, the whole dam, plus the water in the middle, is like a giant dragon, connecting the two mountains, there are three iron gates for releasing water in the middle, on both sides of the dam, close to the mountain, you can also release water, so that the water of the reservoir flows down the canal to the distance!

"Miracle! What a miracle! The Yin Master sighed.

"If you build a checkpoint like this, or a city wall, where can anyone attack it!" Li Jing touched the cold dam and said.

"We don't need to build walls to defend, offense is the best defense!" Zou Yu said with a smile.