The population of Anzhu City is getting bigger and bigger, and there are hundreds or thousands of new people almost every day, don't you think that these new people are all newborn babies, aren't they? They are all merchants, craftsmen and other immigrants from all over the world, and they have taken a fancy to the potential of Anzhu City in the future, so they have come to stand firm in advance and prepare for their future ambitions.

After there are more people, all kinds of supporting facilities must keep up, the progress of housing construction has been accelerating, and the number of temporary tents has also increased a lot.

In addition to these, there are some local villagers outside the city who build simple houses out of wood and rent them out to outsiders who do not have houses to live in, and some merchant ship owners also saw business opportunities and renovated their merchant ships and added many rooms, so that they can rent out to many people and earn considerable rent.

When there are more people, the demand for various facilities such as medicine will also follow, and the number of pharmacies will increase by several times, post stations will also appear, and private schools will also appear unconsciously.

That is, the big businessman invited Mr. Xixi for his children, and some of the children of the small businessman also came to join in the fun, of course, this is to share the tuition, for Mr. Xixi, who teaches, teaching a few children is teaching, teaching a few more children is the same teaching, and after comparison and competition, the effect of teaching is better.

Of course, there can't be too many students in the private school, and the effect of three or five is very good, but if there are dozens, in that case, Mr. Xixi will be too busy, and the effect of teaching will be greatly reduced.

The large class system is also very hated by students and parents in later generations, the number of nearly 100 people in a class at every turn, which makes the teacher in charge of lecturing unable to recognize his students, and too many people will create a sense of security for students, feeling that they are only a few tenths of a student, even if they do not listen to the class and are naughty, it should not be so easy to find that when they see other students naughty, they will also be naughty, which will lead to poor classroom discipline.

Once there are many children in a large class who are naughty, the teacher can't control it, because there are too many bear children, they can't control it at all, and they criticize the children on the left, and the children on the right start to be naughty again.

Bear children are naughty and active, let them listen honestly, itself violates their nature, and if not through education, a person will not have any talent, therefore, education is also necessary, in this case, it is necessary to use forced and inducing means, so that children take the initiative to learn, so as to obtain certain knowledge.

But Mr.'s energy is also very limited, if there are too many students, Mr. will definitely not be able to take care of them, so the effect of teaching can be imagined.

Therefore, the big businessmen who invite private schools will not let too many peers study with their children, especially those with bad conduct, let alone allow them, so as not to bring their children badly, and Mr. Xixi will also have his own requirements, such as not agreeing to teach too many students, and will not agree to teach children with bad conduct.

There are many children, because they are so naughty, Mr. Xixi can't stand it after just a few days of coming, and he quits and leaves if he doesn't want a penny, and he doesn't have much patience to educate the bear children.

A lot of bear children will brag to others, and they once beat away a few Mr. Xixi, so that how many Mr. Xixi can't get off the stage, and when they brag about the bull, they will spit.

Therefore, the average private school has only four or five students, plus a few boys who accompany the students, who are responsible for grinding ink for the master and accompanying the master to study.

The job of accompanying the reader is still relatively comfortable, there is no heavy work to do, just need to serve the master to learn, by the way, you can also listen to Mr. Xixi's lectures in a bright light, increase your knowledge, there are many accompanying boys who understand better than the master, the master learns to learn a mess, and the accompanying reader may be able to gain fame, this situation is there.

At present, there are more than a dozen private schools in Anzhu City, and there are sixty or seventy students who are learning cultural knowledge, but this is obviously far from enough, which can only meet the needs of a small number of children to learn, and most of the children are unable to learn cultural knowledge.

In order to meet the requirements of many children to attend school, it is necessary to build a large school, a school that can accommodate tens of millions of people, and such a school can only be built by the Tang Dynasty, and ordinary businessmen lack financial resources and experience.

For the time being, all the work is relatively tense, and the work of building the school can only be postponed for the time being, anyway, the learning pressure in this era is not very great, and it is not in the way to study a few years late.

First of all, the biggest good news is that a large iron ore has been found thirty miles away in the north, the quality of iron ore is very high, as long as it is mined, the output will be enough to support the construction of Anzhu City, and even, there is excess steel that can be used to cast rails and industrial and agricultural tools.

Hearing the news of the discovery of a large iron mine, Li An was naturally very happy, in this way, the main resources around Anzhu City are all ready, and there is no worry about the construction of Anzhu City, and even, after the increase in the output of these resources, it can also support the construction of the surrounding city and become a supply base for construction resources.

Of course, there are some resources that must be obtained nearby, and the cost of obtaining them from a distance is too high, and building materials such as sand and crushed stone, which are generally available in many places, are available in many places, while lime ore and iron ore are available but not available, and this is the most important mineral resource.

The efficiency of the Tang Dynasty was very high, and the hundreds of officials dispatched, as well as their families and retinues, soon arrived in Anzhu City one after another.

With the increase in the population of Anzhu City and various craftsmen, the 6,000 soldiers who had been unloading their armor and working also put on armor one after another, ready to set off at any time.

Although Anzhu City is gradually stabilizing, but after all, it is a brand new city, the new Anzhu Thorn Shi only has 500 officers in charge of public security, and the strength is really weak, for the stability of the new city, Li An decided to leave an army of 3,000 people to be stationed in charge, this army has an elite artillery brigade, 50 advanced breech guns, enough to deter all potential enemies with ideas.

Li Ang is about to leave, and he is somewhat reluctant in his heart, but in order to build a complete maritime Silk Road, Li Ang must leave Anzhu City and go to the next stop, Aden City.

The matter of the white fox and the magpie, Li Ang has already taken care of it, and the bustard didn't dare to say a word after taking the money, so he happily handed over the deed of sale of the two, and since then, Li An has two more slaves.

When the huge fleet left Anzhu City, at least tens of thousands of people stood on the beach to see off Li An, which made Li An full of emotion, feeling that he was so special that he could let so many people see him off.

In fact, most of these people who saw off the people were watching the excitement, especially the young children, they didn't know who Ang Lee was, and the reason why they followed the adults was to watch the steam ship start and leave.

They had long heard that when a steam ship was started, a lot of black smoke would come out of the chimney, and the sound of the ship was very loud, which was very different from ordinary ships.

The adults and children in the harbor had seen huge steamers in the harbor, but they didn't know what was going on when they were stationary, and they didn't know what the steamboats were moving when they were moving, so when they heard that the huge steamship fleet was leaving, they all ran to the beach to see what was going on.

It is estimated that if Li An knew that most of these people who saw him off were to watch the excitement, not to see him off, would he spit out a mouthful of old blood?

Although it is very cruel, but this is the truth, businessmen are the most profitable people, and they will not have too many feelings at all, they will not worship Li An because Li Ang created Anzhu City, at most they will admire it in their hearts.

Ang Lee had been standing on the deck, waving to the crowd of people seeing them off from time to time, in a very leader's style, until he was far away from the harbor, and then he completely lowered his arms.

The crowd in the distant harbor became as small as ants, but these ants stood stubbornly in the harbor, refusing to leave, as if they would not stop until they could not see the black smoke coming from the steamship at all.

"Unconsciously, Datang already has three states overseas, and each state is very important, and none of them can be lost."

Li An looked at An Zhucheng in the distance and sighed.

"What Li Shilang said is that these three states are the throat of the Maritime Silk Road, and indeed none of them can be lost, especially Anzhu City, which is not only the transportation artery of the Maritime Silk Road, but also connects Chang'an City from the land, which is the most important state."

The subordinate said.

Li An nodded and said: "That's right, the three overseas states of Datang, with Anzhu Prefecture as the most, the two states in the back, and the two states in front of it, all need the support of Anzhu Prefecture, and the railway of Chang'an City can also be directly extended to Anzhu Prefecture, so this overseas city is the most important, which is why this official wants to leave an army, and only a few people are left in the first two states?" Not a single artillery piece was left. ”

"Not only is the geographical location important, but the enemies faced are also much stronger than the enemies of the previous two states, the Great Food Country has hundreds of thousands of troops, which is much stronger than those small countries encountered before, and it naturally requires more troops to deal with them."

A military general spoke.

Li An agreed: "What you said is very reasonable, although the Great Food Country is much weaker than our Datang, but at their doorstep, we still have to be careful, and we must be on guard." ”

For the leader of the black-clothed food, Apos, Li Ang still knows very well, this hero is very brave, and he is very ruthless, he is definitely not easy to match, if he wants to bully him, he really can't do it without absolute strength.

Although Li An has defeated Apos once a few years ago, and is friendly with the big food country, ready to jointly build a railway, and develop the economy of the two countries, this does not mean that Apos is convinced, how can this hero be so easily convinced, there will definitely be some discomfort in his heart, if the Tang Dynasty makes territorial claims to Aden City, it is estimated that this hero will be stabbed, and in order to prevent this old boy from stabbing and attacking Anzhu City, it is necessary to garrison strong soldiers and horses in Anzhu City to dispel this guy's idea.

"Li Shilang, our ship is an advance ship sent out a few days ago."

A soldier ran over to report.

Li An nodded, looked back left and right, and said, "I must have found out important news, otherwise, it would be impossible to return in such a hurry, and drive over quickly." ”

Soon, some of the soldiers on the advance ship boarded Ang Lee's boat and reported a very important piece of news.

"What, Apos is seriously ill, so fast."

Li An exclaimed.

Historically, after ascending to the caliphate, Apos defeated the Anxi army of the Tang Dynasty in the second year, but died of illness after only four years, and he reigned for only four years.

But it's only been two years since Apos ascended to the caliphate, and Apos shouldn't have been seriously ill so early! It is obviously not true that the historical Apos was seriously ill for several years before he died.

In this way, there is only one reasonable explanation, that is, because Apos was forced to accept Datang's request, he was angry in his heart, and he was not happy all over his body.

There is a common sense called anger hurts the body, if a person is unhappy in his heart, he is very easy to get sick, and may even lose his life, so there will be so many depressions in history, that is, death caused by depression and anger.

If Apos is depressed because he has to accept the requirements of the Tang Dynasty, then Li An will not be able to escape this sin, because he is the one who made Apos forced to accept the alliance under the city, if it were not for Li An's invention of mechanized troops and the easy lesson of the army in black clothes, Apos would not need to accept the alliance under the city of the Tang Dynasty, so he would not be angry and sick.

"What does Li Shilang mean? It was as if he knew that Apos was going to be sick. ”

The subordinates beside him all looked at Li An with a curious expression, and they wondered very much in their hearts, how could Apos's serious illness have anything to do with Li An in front of him.

Li An smiled, looked at the subordinates around him, and said: "It's nothing, the last time I fought with Apos, this official heard from the mouth of a big food country official that Apos was irritable by nature and didn't eat in time, so he thought that this person would not live long, but he didn't expect to get seriously ill so soon, it was really unexpected." ”

can only talk so nonsense, you can't tell them that you are a person in the future, you know this history! In that case, wouldn't it scare the subordinates around him to death?

"Oh, I see."

The subordinates all of them suddenly had expressions of sudden realization.

However, the advance team brought back very important news, Apos is the founder of the Black Clothes Eat, and the first caliph, equivalent to the founding emperor, if he loses his life, there will inevitably be a certain degree of civil strife within the empire, so wouldn't Ang Lee have a chance.