On the wharf of Guangzhou Port, there are crowds of people and flags flying, both deliberately organized and spontaneous. This port is the window of Datang's foreign trade, although Datang is declining year by year, and commercial transactions are also falling, but here is still the richest place in the southeast, and the people's lives are still relatively nourishing.

For ordinary people, the emperor is still a sacred and unattainable existence, but now, their daughter of Lingnan is about to become the queen of the Tang Dynasty, which is the first time that the world has been opened. In any case, it is something to be happy about. Today, the imperial court's welcoming procession will arrive at the port of Guangzhou, and it is natural to come to see a rarity.

The people who came from all over the world to watch the excitement and look strange made Xiang Xun a little caught off guard, and urgently transferred 3,000 troops to maintain order, which effectively controlled the scene.

Although there was chaos for a while, Xiang Xun was still very proud, in his opinion, this was the most effective embodiment of his popularity and popularity.

The whole harbor has been put under martial law, all the ships have been anchored, and on every ship, there are soldiers stationed, and more soldiers in new uniforms stand solemnly on the docks, and in the noise there is another quiet place. In the makeshift greenhouse, the bigwigs sat in it, drinking hot tea, while eagerly discussing the impact of this marriage on Lingnan and even on the situation in the entire southeast.

Xiang Xun is naturally the center of these people.

Twenty years ago, the riot that swept the Tang Dynasty, Lingnan was not spared, with the help of the family's power in Lingnan, Xiang Xun organized soldiers to assist the officers and soldiers to quell the chaos, repeatedly made war exploits, and the official position also soared, to the time when the riot was quelled, he was already the Lingnan Jiedu envoy, from the county lieutenant to the Jiedu envoy of the separatist side, he only took three years.

has ruled Lingnan for nearly 20 years, and Xiang Xun's official reputation is still good. Even if he also relies on the strong clan of Lingnan, but the strong and powerful in Lingnan is still very different from the strong in other places, because the big clan here attaches more importance to commerce, and Guangzhou Port provides them with a window to the outside world, and the profits brought by business are obviously not comparable to those in the field.

In the Lingnan land, land annexation is not very serious, and the price of land is not high, but in some important commercial ports, a good location of the shop, worth 10,000 gold.

Lingnan, with its strong business atmosphere, has given ordinary people better living conditions.

There is enough land for them to cultivate, even if there is no land, but to be a man for others, even if it is a coolie on the dock, they can survive.

The people's requirements are actually not high, as long as they can barely survive, they think that the government is still very good.

Lingnan still implements the government soldier system, but there are more than 20,000 standing armor soldiers, and once Lingnan is fully mobilized, it is not difficult to have an army of 100,000.

This is also the reason why the strength of Lingnan Xiangxun is unique in the southeast.

Li Ze rose in the north, and Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty and became independent, which made Xiang Xun see an opportunity. In this era, we have entered the era of relying on force to speak, and whoever has a big fist will speak more reasonably.

Naturally, etiquette has collapsed, so naturally there is not so much exquisiteness.

This is a great opportunity for the Xiang family to step out of the corner of Lingnan and become a wealthy family in the world.

However, the Xiang family lives in Lingnan, although it is famous in the southeast, but for the Tang Empire, the southeast has never been an important place, in the eyes of people in Luoyang, Chang'an, a place like Lingnan, it is an extremely remote and bitter cold place, and only those convicts will be sent to these places to suffer.

Under such an image, Xiang's influence in the world is almost negligible.

Wuyi's request made Xiang Xun overjoyed.

Regarding the current situation of the Tang Dynasty in Beijia Wuyi, Xiang Xun is naturally clear, the emperor is just an ornament, and it is the young lone minister Li Ze who really controls everything. Of course, in the imperial court, there are also a group of loyal royalists like Xue Ping, Han Qi, and Tian Lingzi. If there were no these people, I am afraid there would be no marriage with the Xiang clan this time.

The granddaughter got married, life must be bad, but Xiang Xun doesn't care about this, for the entire Xiang family, this is good news from the sky, anyway, after the granddaughter passed, she is the justifiable queen of the Tang Dynasty, and the Xiang clan will also be famous all over the world because of this marriage, from a place by the nameless festival town, and become the center of the world's attention.

It's not just the descendants who are so simple, the situation of the imperial court, people of insight are very clear, Xiang's move is not only to show loyalty to the imperial court, but more importantly, he puts himself on the opposite side of Li Ze.

Moreover, a person who is qualified to stand on the opposite side of Li Ze.

This is what Xiang Xun wants.

As for whether her granddaughter will be happy after she marries, and whether she will worry about her life in the future, in the face of the overall situation, Xiang Xun didn't think about it at all.

The descendants of the Xiang clan naturally have to serve the overall situation of the Xiang clan.

Competing with characters like Li Ze and Zhu Wen, Xiang Xun is not afraid, from a small county lieutenant to the present, he has almost always been victorious, even if there are small setbacks, he has never been able to reverse his upward momentum. Victory after victory has forged his strong self-confidence, and over the years of being in charge of Lingnan, Lingnan has changed from being devastated after the riots of that year to being rich now, which makes him feel that if he is given a chance, he can also govern the world well.

What he lacks is just a stage for him to display his means and ambitions.

Now, now that he has a stage, who else can he fear?

The fact is just as Xiang Xun expected, Xiang's reputation, with this marriage resounded all over the world, today, to Guangzhou Port to greet the imperial court to welcome the ambassador of the Qincha, but not only he is the Lingnan Jiedu envoy, but also includes the Rongguan Jing Envoy, the Gui Guan Jing Envoy and the heavier Fujian Observation Envoy.

The horn sounded one after another, rapidly approaching the dock from a great distance, indicating that the fleet from Wuyi was not far from the port.

Xiang Xunchang, who was full of red light, stood up and said to a few people around him: "Everyone, please!" ”

"Please!"

Xiang Xun turned around with a smile and walked towards the outside of the greenhouse.

As Xiang Xun and the others slowly walked towards the dock to moored the ship, above the sea level, a huge fleet of ships had already appeared in everyone's field of vision.

The fleet is getting closer.

Xiang Xun's smile was stiffening little by little.

The warship leading the way at the front is the largest warship in Lingnan, but against the backdrop of the behemoth behind it, it looks like a toy ship. Even the battleships escorting on either side of that behemoth's battleship were larger than the best warships in Lingnan.

The huge fleet of ships anchored a little farther away, leaving only Xiang Zhen's warship, the Dingyuan, and his three frigates slowly sailing towards the dock.

Thick sacks were hoisted down and hung from the gang, slowly squeezed and deformed as the hull approached, and the sailors, grasping the rope in one hand, slid down the deck like a monkey, and tied the cable they were holding around the thick wooden stakes above the dock. Then he climbed up the cable with dexterity.

The wharf has been renovated, the original wooden trestle has been removed, replaced by stone, seeing this scene in front of him, Xiang Xun can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if it is still the previous wooden trestle, I am afraid that it will be ugly today, such a large warship, or just such a gentle squeeze, the wooden trestle will fall apart.

Looking up at the huge battleship hull, the same as Xiang Zhen, the pressure on his face made him a little breathless, beside him, the Fujian Observation Envoy, the Rong Guan Jing Envoy, and the Gui Guan Jing Envoy Although they were still smiling, they were still smiling, but like Xiang Xun, the smile was also very reluctant.

There are only four battleships in the Datang Navy Division's battleships now, but they have already made everyone feel a little breathless.

In addition to the battleship itself, the soldiers on the battleship are also particularly eye-catching.

Dingyuan has a total of four layers, at this time, starting from the first layer, on both sides of the ship, the soldiers stand solemnly, black armor, helmets with visorats, people can't see the faces of these soldiers clearly, but it is more mysterious, covered with a red cloak, hunting under the blowing of the sea breeze, and the big knife in his hand is wrapped in red silk, which adds a little festive color to these fierce atmosphere.

Layer by layer, on top of the Dingyuan, there were more than 300 soldiers.

The so-called layman looks at the liveliness, and the insider looks at the doorway. The ordinary people and gentry on the dock cheered loudly for these martial soldiers on the battleship. Xindao is really the master of the imperial court, not comparable to our remote place in Lingnan, just this battleship, just this body's line, but it can compare the own warship moored on the side and the soldiers on it.

One is like a noble son among the big families.

The other is like a mud leg that rolls in the field all day.

"Play music, set up incense, and prepare to receive the order!" Xiang Xun finally came back to his senses and commanded loudly.

The long gangplank on the Dingyuan was on the dock, and Zhang Hui, who was holding the holy decree, carefully and slowly descended with a robe in his hand, the Dingyuan was too high compared to the dock berth here, so the gangplank was very steep, and he had to be careful, if he stumbled and rolled off from above, it would become a joke.

When Zhang Hui stepped on the field with both feet, after the incense case, Xiang Xun had already knelt down on the ground.

Seeing Xiang Xun behaving like this, the Fujian Economic Strategy Envoy and others behind him were stunned for a moment, and then they could only kneel down.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Hui couldn't help but smile slightly.

Xiang Xun's thoughts, in his eyes, are naturally clear at a glance.