The river is gentle and flows slowly. When the rainy season arrives, the water level of the Chao Phraya River, which flows from north to south from the land of the Kingdom of Siam, rises again, rolling and churning all the way towards the Gulf of Siam.

Near the Golden City on the lower reaches of the Chao Phraya River, a fat man dressed in a Ming Dynasty-style silk robe, with a Siamese servant who carries an umbrella for him, and an extremely dignified official in a crimson Ming Dynasty official uniform holding an umbrella strolls on the riverbank in the rain. To the east of the river is a large field of lush rice paddies, which are probably the property of this fat man, and when he sees the rice growing in the field, there is no place to pile up the smile on the fat man's face.

And the official seemed to have something to ask the fat man for help, and he said flattering words: "Old Ye, when it comes to the ability to plant rice in this area of Golden City, you are still very good!" Look at these two thousand acres of rice fields, they are growing really well! How much yield per acre? Three or four stones? ”

"Peng Zhizhou, don't make fun of my fat man, how can there be such a high yield per mu here in Siam? Do you think this is Hubei? Although there are many paddy fields in Siam, the soil is not very strong, and there is no manpower to cultivate them intensively, and it is usually a season for rice to be delicious...... It's good to produce rice with one and a half stones! ”

"Your one and a half stones are golden fragrant rice, which is worth three or four stones of two seasons of rice..... But Lao Zhang, do you really plan to farm in Siam for the rest of your life? ”

"What can you do without farming? I'm not like Lao Yao who can do business, and I'm not like you're from a good background...... I'm a kind of field. Now that there are 2,000 acres of paddy fields here in the Golden City, what is there not to be satisfied with? ”

"You mentioned Lao Yao...... I think about it, do you know, Lao Yao is now a noble! ”

"Honorable? Promoted by Lord Luokun? ”

"It's not...... It's with Luo Kun Wangye's younger brother Jiaqing Wangye, and now he is the Hou Ye! ”

"What? Hou Ye? How can it be...... How noble is the marquis of the Ming Dynasty? General Zhang under the command of the prince of Luokun is a difficult to level Nanhou. ”

"Hehe, of course it's not the Hou Ye of the Ming Dynasty, but the Hou Ye of the Jiaqing Kingdom!"

The two people who were talking came out of Hubei to break through, and Peng Zhizhou was the parent official Peng Ziqin here in the Golden City, and he introduced Yao Daqiao, who had taken the shit luck, to Luokun Wangfu.

Unexpectedly, now Yao Daqiao is already a dignified marquis, with a fiefdom of thousands of miles! And Yao Daqiao is only a Zhizhou, and it is also the Zhizhou under the feudal town, and it is the Golden State Zhizhou under the Ming Dynasty Western Festival Envoy.

The so-called Golden State is the land that belongs to the Ming Empire in the area around the mouth of the Mekong River with the Golden City as the core. Of course, this land was not forcibly occupied by the Ming army, the Ming army was a benevolent and righteous army, how could it be possible to do such a thing? This piece of land was dedicated to the Ming Dynasty by the King of Nalei of Siam in order to thank the Ming Dynasty for helping him restore the country, and it was also to provide the Ming army with a nearby base to be stationed - the Golden City is near the city of Ayutthaya, where the Ming army can garrison the city of Ayutthaya at any time to protect the King of Siam.

There are about 5,000 miles of arable land in this Golden State, and except for a small part of which has been developed into castles, docks, and commercial ports, the rest is rice paddies, which is more than 2 million acres!

The rice produced in this area is called golden fragrant rice, and it does not take the path of high yield, but pays attention to taste. The annual output is less than three million stones, but it can be sold for seven or eight million stones.

The fat man who was talking to Peng Ziqin was named Ye Jiaxin, the rich peasant who was brought out of Hubei by Yao Daqiao.

Now he is also considered to have a successful career, with 2,000 acres of paddy fields in the Golden City, and he can earn more than 3,000 taels just by selling rice every year.

But his burden is also quite heavy - he has a little more wives and a little more children!

He now has two wives, originally had a wife when he was in Hubei, and after arriving in Siam, he begged a Siamese lady, and later took his wife and two children to the Golden City of Siam.

After the family reunited, Ye Jiaxin had the life of "many sons and many troubles", two wives Bisai gave birth to children, and now he has five sons and four daughters just to survive!

The son is to divide the family business, and the daughter is to share the dowry...... And he himself is not good, recently he fell in love with a Siamese girl with Persian ancestry, and wanted to marry back as a third room - the race on the Siamese side is very mixed, there are local natives, Han people from the north, and Persian, Arab and Western races from the west.

Among them, Siamese women with mixed white blood are very beautiful (there are actually quite a lot of mixed races, because there was no Confucian education in the past on the Siamese side, and it was more casual), Ye Jiaxin met such one. A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, her family is still a dilapidated Siamese nobleman - Siam has also been very chaotic in the past two years, and from time to time there are people who oppose or be destroyed by King Narae.

The two wives gave birth to him five sons and four daughters, if there was another wife...... His 2,000 acres of family business is still a bit small!

Ye Jiaxin nodded, "Lao Yao really has official luck!" ”

"What about officials?" Peng Ziqin smiled, "And fortune!" The marquis of the Jiaqing Kingdom had a fiefdom...... 1,000 miles square, almost 400,000 acres! ”

"400,000 acres ......" Ye Jiaxin took a breath, his eyes were hot.

Peng Ziqin on the side had already taken his expression into his eyes, and asked with a smile: "Old Ye, do you want to get a knighthood and do some fiefdom?" ”

Ye Jiaxin smiled and shook his head, "How can I have the blessing of being a marquis?" And it's not as good as Lao Yao, he's a person who can get in! ”

"Hehe, the opportunity to be a marquis is rare," Peng Ziqin said, "but I think you can still be a vassal baron." ”

"Peng Zhizhou, you're kidding me again," Ye Jiaxin smiled, "How can I have this ability?" ”

"Ability?" Peng Ziqin touched his beard, "How capable do you think Lao Yao is?" This is his fate......" He looked at Ye Jiaxin seriously, "Old Ye, in fact, your fate has also arrived!" ”

"What? My chance? Ye Jiaxin was stunned, "What chance do I have?" ”

Peng Ziqin smiled: "Lao Ye, how about following me?" I protect you as a baron of a vassal kingdom...... 10 miles of eup, 4,000 acres of fields! With this family business, you can have more sons than you can share! ”

"What? Peng, Peng Zhizhou, what do you say? Ye Jiaxin couldn't believe his ears.

Peng Ziqin said: "Lao Ye, our chance has come!" You, as long as you follow me, let's go through it together, there is still an earl and a baron...... I'll be an earl, you'll be a baron, what do you think? ”

"Really?" Ye Jiaxin looked at Peng Ziqin, "Peng Zhizhou, what you said is true?" ”

"Of course it's true!" Peng Ziqin nodded seriously, "How about we go together?" Even if you can't break out, you won't lose anything! What if luck strikes? At that time, we will be earls and viscounts, and our children and grandchildren will have a future. ”

It turned out that this Peng Ziqin was also going to "test" a vassal earl to be a vassal country!

He is also at the end of the Western Army, and he is already Zhizhou...... There is no government under the Western Army, and the state is the Jiedu Envoy Division, where else can he rise? Judge of the Degree? That's all the henchmen of Lord Luo Kun!

So he had the idea of jumping ship and going to the newly opened Twelve Duchies to find an earl - he felt that he was quite sure of the "test", because he was now the governor of the Western Army, and the territory of the Western Army was next to Malacca.

He has been in the Jing Navy and the Western Army for many years, and he is very familiar with the situation in the Malacca area, and he may not be sure to be the head of a principality, but a tuntian official is more than enough.

Now the problem is to make up 10 retainers...... This is a problem, he is a "lonely minister", he has no retainers, and there is no old age. The only ones who can be brought in are a few staff members and a few relatives who follow him, and then there is anyone who is Ye Jiaxin, a big farmer.

This old Ye may not be able to do anything else, his ability to reclaim and farm land is also one of the best in Siam, and the golden rice he grows is better than anyone else!

Therefore, if you take this old leaf together to "test", you will have a greater certainty of becoming an earl!