"My lord, these people by the sea are all the officials of the Nan'an Hou Mansion and the soldiers, officials, and people under their command." After the two ships waved the flag, the escorted battleship sailed away and turned back to the port of Penghu.

After the other ship finally passed the news, the captain of the official ship escorting Li Han was relieved, and the shore of the Eastern Domain was far away from a large black oppressive crowd, which made people a little frightened, and only after confirming that the Eastern Domain was speechless through the flag, the captain of the official ship came to Li Han and explained to this Hanlin scholar in a low voice.

Li Han is over fifty years old, not young, running around the sea day after day, and he also looks a little tired, but at the moment he can only forcibly lift his spirits and say: "In this case, let's go to the shore." ”

"Yes, sir."

The captain went to arrange the docking, and as the big ship approached, several small oars soon sailed out of the harbor, and the sailors rowed their oars, and the long oars paddled the waves on the seashore, splashing white waves, and they approached like a flying fish boat, with a happy smile on their faces, and they put the zipline on the hull of the big ship, and then pulled the big boat, and sailed towards the port area.

Looking at the situation on the shore, Li Han's face turned pale, and he said to Congdao: "I want to be a little prepared." ”

Li Han also didn't expect that there were so many people on the shore, and he had previously recorded that the Middle East Domain had always been a barren island, with a population of just over 10,000 people, so you can imagine how desolate it was. In front of him, there seemed to be more than 10,000 people on the shore alone, and the continuous wharf, port and various buildings also completely shattered Li Han's previous impression.

As they approached the shore, thunderous cheers rang from the shore pier.

Everyone was shouting with almost all their strength, and the shouts formed a landslide and tsunami-like sound, and many sailors on the official ship had never seen such a scene, and almost all of them were shocked.

Even Li Han's face changed, and his expression was a little nervous.

I really didn't expect that Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian would be so popular on the Eastern Domain?

The boat flew forward and quickly dispersed, and the officer ship approached the shore, and the sailors held long poles against the pier to prevent the ship from going too fast and the hull of the ship was damaged after hitting the pier.

After the ship shook slightly, the more than 300-ton lucky ship finally anchored on the shore.

It seemed that someone had given an order, and then the drum trumpets sounded, and the whistling around them gradually stopped at the sound of the blowing and beating of the drums.

Then there was silence, with thousands of people on the coast, and almost everywhere there was a black oppressive crowd, densely packed, giving people a strong psychological impact.

But the crowd was quite quiet, almost no one made a sound, and there was an occasional cough, but most of the time it was silent, except for the sound of the sea breeze blowing and the waves crashing against the shore.

Li Han's back was almost soaked, the climate of this island was really no different from hell, the sun was extremely hot, the brightness between heaven and earth seemed to be turned up, the sun was bright and dazzling, the sky and the sea were the same blue, the blue was a little excessive, as if the paint was added too much when painting. The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the beach is continuous, the colors are bright, it was originally a good place, but the weather is too hot, it is the beginning of August, it is the hottest time of the year, people stand still, the sea breeze blows on the body or sweats, the light robe is also quickly wet, Li Han is quite uncomfortable, and even feels unorthodox.

It was also the first time that the people of the Eastern Domain had seen the purple-robed master who had come out of the capital division.

In the midst of the humming, Li Han walked down the pedal with a majestic expression, and several of his servants followed cautiously, as well as the attachés sent from the political hall, who also followed and disembarked.

When they reached the shore, Li Yi and others had already come up, flanked by some blowing and beating drummers, and farther away were some guards in charge of security.

"I'll wait to see Master Li."

Before Li Yi went south, he had already rolled orders to the Eastern Domain, and then this big man docked many times along the way, it seemed that he wanted to delay some more time, but it didn't matter, anyway, now that he had arrived in the Eastern Domain, the Nan'an Hou Mansion, it would soon be renamed Zhongshan Wangfu.

The civil officials of the Eastern Domain were quite dissatisfied with the title of King of Zhongshan, but the generals didn't care.

As long as the Great Wei Dynasty admits that he is a prince, and there are many benefits, it doesn't matter what the title of the king is.

Fang Shaoqun is also an outlier of civil officials, and after hearing the title, he smiled coldly and said: "Stubborn children's old tricks." ”

"Gentlemen are exempt."

Li Han frowned and looked at the civil officials in front of him, the ill-fitting, overly close-fitting official robes were obviously changed in cutting, not like officials, but like those little officials who hurriedly ran errands in various yamen in the imperial city, those little officials, who thought that the hem was in the way, often tucked the corners of the hem robe on the belt, Li Han reprimanded him once he saw it, it was simply unseemly.

But unexpectedly, here in the Eastern Domain, the style of official robes has been changed in a grand manner.

Li Han's throat surged a few times, and he wanted to say a few words, but in the end he gave up in despair.

Before coming here, Li Han had put in some effort, he looked at the appearance of the official headed, the middle-aged man, and the Yan Zhao people, and said, "You are Shi Liyi, the head of the Hou Mansion?" ”

It was too rude to ask, Li Yi frowned slightly, but still smiled: "What the bachelor said is that the lower official Li Yi." ”

"Xiaguan Nan'an Regiment practiced and recorded the matter of joining the army, Kong He."

"Fu Qian...... who joined the army under the army"

A group of civil officials came up to salute, and Li Han knew that they were all civil officials who were in the Hou Mansion or under the former Nan'an regimental training, and most of them were only seventh-rank and eighth-rank, or even ninth-grade officials.

But what they actually did was to open up a desert island, govern 100,000 people, and have their own sailors and troops, and it is not wrong to say that they are princes.

Li Han's face was unhappy, this was an unpleasant errand, he had been mentally prepared before, but everything in front of him still made him extremely uncomfortable.

"Gentlemen are exempt." Li Han said to Li Yi: "Li Changshi, where is Nan'anhou?" ”

"Waiting for the bachelor to arrive in the Hou Mansion Annex."

This can't be said to be a faux pas for Nan'anhou, after all, the marquis is precious, and it is unlikely that Nan'anhou will be waiting at the dock, even if it is an edict from the Son of Heaven, before he started his studies, Li Han's identity was a bachelor, and compared to the marquis, he had the most enemies, and he couldn't be regarded as overpowering.

Moreover, Nan'an Hou is about to be crowned prince, sitting in the southeast, holding real power, and his status is much higher than Li Han, a bachelor of Hanlin.

At this time, Li Han noticed a lot of people, and of course hundreds of guards who maintained order.

Short black robes, cowhide belts with horizontal knives or ring-headed knives, some with swords, round hats, red tassels, copper buckles, short sleeves, some carry short crossbows, and many carry long bows, waist hanging pockets, or hold long swords.

These heavily armed soldiers looked brave, capable, shrewd, and alert.

Although they were not armoured, the soldiers were all dressed in leather boots, and their bodies looked strong, lean, and full of strength.

Although Li Han was out of place and angry, he couldn't help but nod secretly, no wonder it was an army that had killed more than 20,000 pirates, and it didn't seem to be under the elite of the forbidden army in the north.

"These are the Nan'an group exercises on the island?" Li Han praised: "Sure enough, it looks like a strong army, a warrior of the country." ”

"This is the island's guard." Li Yi couldn't help but smile and explained: "They are only responsible for defending the natives externally, suppressing the thieves internally, and Jing'an is regarded as the camp of the Great Wei Dynasty." ”

This explanation is a roughly complete introduction to the role of the guard, in fact, there are also detectives, robberies, or ordinary criminal cases, security patrols, mediation of disputes, and even directing traffic.

There are more and more horse-drawn carriages on the island, foreign businessmen open restaurants and various shops, and even two new brothels have been opened on the island this month, there are more outsiders, and the public security cases will rise in other places, but there is no such problem in the Eastern Domain, the number of guards is sufficient, trained according to the standards of the army, strong and powerful, quick response, brave and brave, and there are many people, they can be stationed at fixed points, patrol at no fixed points, day and night, the island is not an exaggeration to say, that is, the road is not left behind, the night is not closed, quite safe.

Listening to Li Yi's introduction, Li Han said expressionlessly: "Why don't you call it a thief camp?" ”

"The Eastern Domain still has to form an army." Li Yi smiled: "So in the name of the Xiang Army, it's not good to ask them to use it." ”

Li Han snorted coldly, said no more, and turned his head to ask where Jingguan was.

"That's it." Li Yi pointed to the southwest direction, where there was obviously a towering place, and he said: "After a long time, it has become corrupt and weathered, and it looks like a big mound, but it is actually the head. Fortunately, there is no one near the shore, otherwise the epidemic will spread, and it will be a big trouble. In addition, the smell can be unbearable. ”

The Hanlin bachelor from Beijing did not rush to get on the bus, but stopped to watch, and after half a ring, Li Hancai said: "Isn't this a little unkind?" ”

"Ren can't be used on these people, doesn't the maester know how pirates act?"

"There's always something that can be influenced, right?"

"Catch some pirates one day, ask the bachelor to give it a try...... Li Yi was already very impatient, before that, when he was a talent in the north, these Hanlin scholars were his admired role models, Li Han was also from a famous Confucian family in the north, before he came to the Eastern Domain, Li Yi was still full of expectations for this person, and now it seems that it is really full of rotten Confucian atmosphere.

Such a person is also one of the candidates prepared by the Son of Heaven for execution?

What a joke!

"Didn't Master say that?" Li Yi's face was straight, and he said solemnly: "How can you repay grievances with virtue?" Zi said: How to repay virtue? Complain straight and repay virtue with virtue. ”

"I see." Li Han sighed, knowing that there was no need to say any more, and he was going to board the car immediately.

The carriage and horses moved forward along the official road, and took Li Han to the original defense to settle near the yamen, and the hour was not early, and it was impossible for Li Han to hurry at night to issue the edict.

The guards rode horses to escort on both sides, and Li Han sat in the car, feeling the scenery completely different from that of Jingshi and even Mingzhou and Quanzhou.

The buildings here are taller, more open, more magnificent, and the official roads are so well maintained that you hardly feel the bumps. The people are very confident, and there is no fear in the face of officials......

On both sides of the road, many people are making lint, and Li Han has seen a similar method of making it. There are also a large number of carts, pulling the prepared lint along the wide and narrow roads, upstream, pulling the lint over the river.

Li Han noticed that there were many buildings built by the river above, and he wanted to inquire, but he was told that this was a military facility, and Nan'an Hou ordered it to be kept secret and not to disclose the purpose, so Li Han could only give up in disgrace.

On both sides of the road, there were acres of fields that could not be seen as far as a glance, and the harvest had been completed, and many women and men had ploughed the burned fields with oxen or horses, and the blackened grass ash and soil were mixed together, and were turned over by iron plows made of fine iron.

Li Han also saw that in addition to the large cotton fields, there were more bean fields, bean fields, and sesame fields, all of which were good crops for land reclamation.

Burned grass ash is also an excellent fertilizer, plus beans originally have the effect of driving grass and fertilizing the field, along both sides of the field, there are many farmers and men in gray robes are digging ditches, seeing them sweating like dirt under the scorching sun, digging ditches to divert water, and clear water is drained in both sides of the field, Li Han knows that it should be planted soon, and after the transplanting is completed, there will be a period of busyness, and it will not stop until the winter season.

Along the road, there are dense mulberry forests, many acres of acres of edges, on the side of the hills, are planted with mulberry trees, it should have been planted for less than half a year, many mulberry trees are only the thickness of the thumb, and the size of a child is about the same height.

By this time next year, the mulberry tree will be the thickness of the wrist and grow to be taller than an adult, and by the year after that, it will be about the thickness of the calf, and two people will be tall.

Li Han's estimate is based on Jiangnan and the north, in fact, the Eastern Domain should have lived faster.

A large number of mulberry trees meant that the Eastern Domain could raise silkworms on a large scale, which meant that the Eastern Domain would become a production base for raw silk, and judging from the dense planting of mulberry trees, Li Han had no doubt that the raw silk production of the Eastern Domain would be quite eye-catching in a few years.

At the same time, Master Hanlin also noticed the tea mountains and large sugarcane fields reclaimed from the hilly land, Li Han knew that Fujian was originally a sugar-producing area, and it seems that the Nan'an Hou Mansion has not given up on this.

The farther he went, the more frightened Li Han became.

The Hanlin Scholar believed that there were many hidden places in the Eastern Domain that he had not yet been asked to see, such as the legendary salt drying field, the huge shipyard he saw when he disembarked, and the mysterious buildings of the river upstream.

There are also villages with excellent planning, and Li Han is also quite interested in them.

But there were a large number of guards around the carriage, either riding horses back and forth, or driving to follow, and there was no chance at all.

……

At night, there was a bright light flickering in the fields in the distance, and the Hanlin bachelor who was worried couldn't sleep anyway, the older people were afraid of the cold and the wind, and the temperature dropped a lot at night, not as hot as during the day.

During the day, there are few people, but when it gets dark, there are more people, and Li Han also knows that Nan'an was originally the place where the defense envoys and military villages of the Eastern Domain were located, and it was also the earliest place where the Eastern Domain was developed, so it should also be the most prosperous place.

The complex here is quite dense, much denser than the marina port area.

Judging from Li Han's preconceived critical eye, the architectural planning here is also quite good.

The residential area is separated from the commercial area, and the commercial area is very large, and most of the commercial houses are still closed on several streets that run in the east-west-north-south direction, and the outside of the store is lit up with lanterns.

The commercial and trade area is very close to the entertainment area full of restaurants, restaurants, and brothels, and it is much more lively than the slightly cold commercial area.

A large number of people are rubbing shoulders in the area of the restaurant brothel to hang out, this area is designed near the mountain and the sea, on the side of Nan'an Creek, and a large number of flowers and trees are planted, there are all kinds of shops selling overseas goods, there are many small stalls and vendors, there are still many people selling snacks, the guests who hang out, whether they are full, or have just arrived here, can buy a fried oyster to try fresh, the seafood fried with gouache and eggs in soybean oil, the smell is fragrant.

Even Li Han couldn't help but ask Yuan Sui to buy one, and everyone found a pavilion, with Li Han sitting and Yuan Sui standing to enjoy the local food of Fujian.

Turning his head and looking around, there were many similar benches, pavilions, and gardens planted with flowers and trees, and Li Han unconsciously sighed: "If the Marquis of Nan'an is Jing Zhaoyin, I am afraid that the income of the Third Division of the Great Wei is not enough for him to toss." ”

Li Han's perception at this time was that Xu Zi did things magnificently, but it seemed to be too hasty and fast, and there was a suspicion of waste.

"I don't know." A Yuan Sui wiped his own grease mouth and said with a smile: "The villain was wandering around before dark, and then I realized that most of these restaurants and firms in front of me were touched by the merchants themselves in the past two months. There are no thieves here in the Eastern Domain, the management is good, the development is effective, the population is surging, it is because the merchants of Fujian are willing to try it here, and the officials of the Hou Mansion are also very honest, and the taxes are not high, so they generally do not leave. In the past few months, there have been many times more buildings here, originally there were only one or two restaurants here, but now there are dozens of miles. ”

It turned out that the development here was the spontaneous behavior of the merchants of Fujian Road, Li Han only then learned some details, the Eastern Domain planned to use the land, and then the merchants received a license, the cost of buying land and building a restaurant here, because they came to the Eastern Domain to invest, the Eastern Domain was exempted from its fees and taxes for a number of years, which was considered a combination of two benefits, the ground of the Eastern Domain was prosperous, and the merchants could also obtain heavy profits, naturally they were eager to come, a large number of merchants were willing to come before this, and after the Nan'an army of the Eastern Domain defeated the pirates, It is conceivable that more businessmen will come.

"The dockings at the harbor are all recent." The Yuan Sui, whose mouth is full of oil, has a round and chubby face, is good at dealing with people, and has a mouthful of official dialect on Hebei Road.

"Ships docked recently?"

"Yes, the villain asked clearly." Yuan replied: "There were only a few ships the day before, and it was the ship that Nan'anhou Mansion kept selling deerskin, flax, and shajin to attract them. Recently, in the past half month, due to the defeat of the pirates, Nan Anhou said that the combat power of the naval division is fought, not raised, so the ships of the Nanyang naval division take turns to leave the port and go to sea every day to patrol everywhere. I heard that Nan'an Hou intended to collect donations from the Hai'an regiment at sea, and the owners of merchant ships in the past said that as long as the Nanyang sailors could catch and patrol at sea, they were willing to pay this tax. And the Eastern Domain here is obviously the safest place along the coast of the Great Wei, so there are more and more ships to dock, half a month ago every three or five days only two or three, it is much more than last year, they said that last year's Eastern Domain wharf, narrow and dilapidated, ten days will only come to a ship, now, there will be ships to dock every day, today a day, there are ten ships. Bachelor, in the villain's opinion, I am afraid that in a few months, there will be dozens, hundreds of docks every day. ”

Li Han was disgusted when he heard this, the situation in the south was really not known to him, and he was not good at these ways of business management.

And Nan'anhou Mansion, that is, Nan'anhou, is obviously particularly proficient in this kind of thing, and its way of operation has exceeded Li Han's imagination.

The Yuan Followers did not quite understand the hidden worries in their master's heart, but they were amazed by the vitality and impending prosperity that was evident in the Eastern Domain, which was obviously a good place, and the northerners did not know much about the sea, but it was obvious that the Eastern Domain was in the center of trade and waterways.

The good location, the large and well-equipped port terminals, as well as the supporting commercial banks and livelihood facilities, are enough to attract most sea vessels.

Coupled with the strong Nan'an Hou to ensure the safety of everyone, as well as the elite and powerful government army and the same strong and daring sailors, this sea area will usher in an unprecedented period of development, and it is obvious that the merchant ships in the past, as long as necessary, will dock in the Eastern Domain.

The more ships that dock, the more trading houses there are, and the more complete the supporting facilities, which will attract more people to trade here, forming a virtuous circle.