Chapter 625: The Workers Return North
That night, Li Shimin and his wife, who returned to the guest room of the restaurant, had a round of deep reflection, this trip to Jiuyuan County, their harvest was simply too much, so they unanimously decided to stay for a few more days, and, after dinner that day, without discussion, they put on a cool dress, went to the People's Square, and joined the square dance army.
As for what else will be done after the dance, only Li Shimin himself knows, anyway, the concubines are all looking at him with silky eyes, and he himself also feels refreshed, there is a force in the body, and he does not feel unhappy.
There is also a square dance every day, as well as Shanghe Village in the No. 1 field, the rice ears have begun to bear fruit, that is to say, the main work of this round of rice planting has been basically completed, and the next step is to wait for the yield and the result.
The two brothers, Li Tai and Li Ke, as well as more than a dozen of their uncles, were all organized into a band by Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongsleeve, playing music for the people, so that the people could dance with more professional accompaniment.
However, the good times did not last long, and after a few days, there were more and more people from the north who came to No. 1 to say goodbye to Sun Xiangfu, and they all had to return to the north before the end of March, because the snow over there was almost finished, and they were going to start farming.
"Uncle De, help me go and say hello to Mayor Gao, and ask him to organize the workers of the vermicelli factories and food factories in various villages to work more overtime during this time, and produce some more, not more, one or two catties of each, pack them well, so that everyone can easily carry them, and transfer some from other mounds, I want to give gifts to those people who come to say goodbye."
"To everyone? In this case, I am afraid that the cost will be not small, and there are still more than a million people at various construction sites who have not returned to the north! Our family has no property now, I'm afraid we can't afford it! ”
Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Don't worry! The price of these foods is not high, one or two catties per piece, it is only the price of a hundred or ten yuan, more than a million people, not just hundreds of thousands, this money, someone will pay for us. ”
"Someone will do it for us?"
"Of course, do you think that those people from the northeast who have never seen me before come to say goodbye to me? It's not been mobilized yet, those people just want Your Majesty to see what I want, so as to be jealous of me, and further suppress me, so as to pull me into their camp, then let's take advantage of the situation and do something that seems to win the hearts of the people, and they will definitely jump out to help pay the bills and trumpet. ”
"Wouldn't that make Your Majesty misunderstand?" Uncle De said worriedly.
Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Don't worry! Your Majesty is very smart, such a little trick, even if they make it a hundred times, Your Majesty will not fall for it, we just need to let these people who return to the north get practical benefits. ”
Hearing this, although Uncle De still felt a little unreliable in his heart, he still did it.
So, from the next day, Sun Xiangfu lived a busy life of giving gifts to the workers returning to the north, he almost personally gave every gift bag to all the laborers, and told them to pay attention to safety on the road, don't spend the wages they earned, bring them back to their families, buy some new farm tools, improve the production conditions at home, and when the farmers are slack this year, you can come here again to catch up with the work, but it really makes those workers who return to the north a mess.
Of course, as Sun Xiangfu expected, Wang Xu's gang rushed to the No. 1 field on the same day, and insisted on paying the bill for these gifts given by Sun Xiangfu, and also added the code to the gifts, directly adding the value of each gift package to about two hundred Wen, Sun Xiangfu just looked at it with a smile and did not refuse.
"Brother Zhengming, with your fame and wisdom, why worry about big things."
"What's the matter, you still think your Wang family is not big enough and want to be bigger?"
Before nightfall, all the workers who came to say goodbye today were finally sent to the boat, standing on the dock, looking at the boats that were slowly moving away, Sun Xiangfu and Wang Xu talked.
"No one is content, including me Wang Xu, when I didn't achieve the position of the head of the family, my goal was only to achieve the position of the head of the family, but after the position of the head of the family, I hope to run it unbreakable, so that my future generations can enjoy my shadow.
And your situation is a little different from mine, your light is too hot, to the extent that a rare male lord like Li Shimin is afraid of the emperor, if you want to die well, you must have more things to add.
Fame, wealth, allies, are all things that can protect you, and as your friend, I don't mind helping you get them. ”
Wang Xu said sincerely, in other words, any person, listening to his heartfelt words, not to mention how moved, but at least he will show a trace of heartbeat, or an attitude of consideration, however, Sun Xiangfu smiled very casually and said, "Do you want to hear the story?" ”
Wang Xu was stunned when he heard this, and asked rhetorically, "What story?" ”
"Martial arts stories."
"Martial arts stories?"
This turn is a bit big, although Wang Xu was a martial idiot when he was a teenager, but at this moment, his thinking was also thrown out, and he couldn't keep up with Sun Xiangfu's rhythm at all.
"When I was young, one of my seniors could be said to be a teacher! He once told me a story about a sword demon who was lonely and sought defeat, and he said that this person was obsessed with the way of the sword all his life and divided the way of the sword into three realms.
The first realm is called the tangible sword, that is, there is a sword in the hand, there is a sword in the heart, the human sword is one, the heart is to the sword, and the enemy is killed between the lightning and flint.
The second realm is called the invisible sword, that is, there is no sword in the hand, there is a sword in the heart, and only with the sword intent, you can kill people in the invisible.
And the third realm is called the sword of non-martial arts, that is, there is no sword in the hand, there is no sword in the heart, and the soldier who surrenders without martial arts. ”
When Wang Xu heard the words 'human sword unity', he was extremely surprised in his heart, he had never imagined that there was such a kendo master in the world.
But when he heard Sun Xiangfu say, 'With sword intent alone, you can kill people invisibly', he immediately felt that this was a fairy tale, after all, in the past few years, Wangjiang Tower and major drama theaters have produced a lot of this kind of fairy and monster martial arts stories, and everyone is no longer surprised.
But when he heard Sun Xiangfu talk about the third realm, he knew that what Sun Xiangfu said was actually a truth.
Where does he need so many things to add to himself? The more these things are added, the more he will be feared by others and invite killing.
On the contrary, he maintains the state of having no sword in his hand and no sword in his heart, so that others can be impressed by his character, so that he can save himself for a long time.
The so-called desirelessness is rigid, and that's it.
Of course, this also shows that Sun Xiangfu has seen through his tricks early on.
"Brother Zhengming, you can't gamble on Li Shimin's mind with your net worth and life, so you will die a miserable death."
"This is my choice, and even if Your Majesty feels a threat to the imperial power in me, he may not have the only way to kill me, so! On behalf of these workers who received the gift package, and the people of Jiuyuan County, I would like to thank you, with these gifts you sent, when they return home, they will be able to give their families more warmth, which also helps our Jiuyuan County products, in the northern market to do a big advertisement, in the future these products to the north, sales will be very good. ”
In this era, with the cost of more than 200,000 yuan, in more than one million families, an advertisement, what is the effect, it is conceivable that Sun Xiangfu with the help of Wang Xu and their strategy, by the way, resisted them, and helped the workers who returned to the north and the people of Jiuyuan County to benefit, which can be described as a clever plan.
However, Wang Hao, who spent more than 200,000 yuan, didn't feel distressed at all, but walked towards the big boat that was slowly docking at home, and when he reached the shore, he turned to Sun Xiangfu and said, "Brother Zhengming, there are some things that are really out of your control." ”
Sun Xiangfu smiled and waved his hand at Wang Xu, turned around and walked to the embankment, he was hungry after a busy day, Red Sleeves and Xiangdie should have cooked a fragrant dinner waiting for him, as for the bad things planned by Wang Xu, let Li Shimin go to the bad things himself! He just needs to do his own thing and make himself harmless.
In the cabin, the one who came to pick up Wang Xu was not the patriarch of the Wang family, but his father Wang Rui, Wang Xu was a little surprised when he saw him, bowed and asked, "Dad, why did you come to the south?" ”
Wang Rui tasted the freshly brewed tea to himself, pointed to an envelope on the table and said, "There is news from the sea, you can take a look first!" ”
Wang Xu opened the envelope according to his words, didn't look at a few lines, and narrowed his eyes, the content recorded in the letter is basically the results of Zhao Long going to sea from the first month of the year, all the way from east to west, the seaport of Kyushu Island, the first battle to destroy the 30,000 navies of the Japanese State, capture the emperor of the Japanese State, uproot Wang Hao's stronghold set up here before, and behead all the hundreds of Wang Hao's diehards in the stronghold.
Only five days later, he once again wiped out the stronghold of Wang Hao's remnants on Ryukyu Island, more than 300 people were all beheaded, and thousands of local natives controlled by them were all beaten into prisoners of war and handed over to Zhang Gongjin, 20 days later, the battle of Yizhou Island, Wang Hao's remnants' largest base was uprooted, together with the young men of the two indigenous tribes who served them, they were also killed a lot, and thousands of indigenous captives were handed over to the Quanzhou Navy for disposal.
In the second half of the second month, several strongholds of Wang Hao's remnants on Luzon Island were all cleared, Zhao Long led the fleet to the west, thinking that he would sweep all the way to the southern coast of India, and destroy all the supply points that Wang Hao had established two years ago, which were not stable, and the miscellaneous coalition forces on the Indian side, I am afraid that they have been defeated in the hands of Feng An, and in a month or two at most, the news that Wang Hao's remnants of the armed forces have all been wiped out will definitely come back.
"What the second brother expected before his death is really true, as long as he dies, his arrangements will not be able to control Sun Zhengming at all." Wang Xu said with some excitement after reading the letter.
Now, he is no longer entangled in the gap between himself and Wang Hao, he is a monster who can take one step and count ten steps, he just wants to know if the next things will be carried out as Wang Hao calculated.
"So, I'm here to say goodbye to you."
"Resignation? Are you going to Yizhou Island? Wang Xu suddenly remembered some of Wang Hao's arrangements before his death and asked.
"Yes, I know, you should have been wondering in your heart whether I showed you all the things left by your second brother, and doubted that he left these things for me, whether he really wanted to repay my nurturing kindness, or whether he wanted to borrow the hand of my Wang family to help him fulfill his ideals.
I tell you now, I have no reservations about you.
Because you are my only living son-in-law, everything I have is yours.
Moreover, the trade projects that I personally opened up on the sea this time, and the things I had to do on Yizhou Island, would be clean and in line with the interests of Li Shimin and the Tang Dynasty.
Where, it will be a back road for my Wang family, even if you don't make the Wang family what your second brother described, there will be some of the foundation of my Wang family. ”
When Wang Rui said this, the door of the cabin was pushed open from the outside, and a little boy of three or four years old and a woman holding a baby swaddling baby walked in, this woman was Wang Xu's wife Cui, and the two children were Wang Xu's sons-in-law.
"Even they have to go, could it be that what I am going to do later will be in danger?"
Wang Rui shook his head and said, "Just in case." ”
"So, do you want to wait until you go to sea?"
"No need, you just follow the pre-arranged progress, remember, you have to push Sun Zhengming to come out, not yourself, even if something happens in the end, it is also Sun Zhengming and Li Shimin's business, you and the Wang family, don't fall into their hands."
"The child knows."