Li Gu walked out of the courtyard door where Xu Ziwen lived, and the middle-aged man in his forties was stunned for a while, and the Zhao Wangfu in front of him was the same as before, and the officials were mainly concentrated in the front yard and the main hall, waiting for the Zhao King to summon and order.

The soldiers are placed around the Zhao Wangfu, and the Zhao Wang only has more than 100 guards on the bright side, in fact, he has recruited a battalion of government troops, led by generals at all levels, and there are more than 1,000 people outside, all of whom are cronies in the palace to know the existence of these shadows, most of these people are hiding their identities in the Xiang Army, and the ordinary Xiang Army attached to the King of Zhao is different, these people who come directly from the Zhao Wangfu are of course more loyal and reliable.

In the palace, the guards patrol back and forth with crossbows or holding the guard, there are magnificent or exquisite houses everywhere, there are neatly trimmed flowers and trees everywhere and piles up beautiful mountain stones, a small courtyard is set together, connected by a bluestone road, from the main gate to the main hall and then to the back garden, one courtyard after another constitutes a huge prince's mansion with hundreds of houses, in Fuzhou City, Zhao Wangfu is the largest in scale, the cost is also the largest, and the manpower is also the most.

A few staff members came over with a smile, they were going to the back garden, King Zhao authorized these people to play in the back garden at will, they saw Li Gu, they all hurriedly bowed their hands, and Li Gu also smiled and returned the salute.

Under the weeping flower gate, in the light and dark, the expression on Li Gu's face was also uncertain, and in the end, the middle-aged man clenched his fist vigorously, and then strode towards his residence, where Li Gu's henchmen and Xu Ziwen's manpower were already waiting for the final decision, as long as Li Gu was determined to make up his mind, these people would go to Pu's house to receive all kinds of materials, use King Zhao's connections to open up the checkpoints along the way, and have been transporting these materials and manpower to Jianzhou in a steady stream.

Fame and wealth, this is what a man should pursue, at this time, don't fight hard, wait for others to rob the territory and power, and finally be depressed for a lifetime?

……

Xu Zixian greeted the horse team and carriage, arrived at the shore of Fuqing from the sea, and then set off from Fuqing, and arrived at the city gate of Fuzhou, it was already dusk.

Xu Zi looked at the sky first, and said with a smile: "The time is almost just right." ”

Wei Yi, who was riding on one side, laughed and said, "Mingda, are you nervous?" ”

Wedding in the era of the Great Wei is called the faint ceremony, the ancients married, the last of the six rites process is to welcome, that is, the groom personally takes his wife home, this is the last link of the etiquette, even if you are the Son of Heaven, although you can not go to the bride's home to greet, but if the Son of Heaven of the Great Wei is a teenager on the throne, the young man is married, it is also to open the minaret door, by the Son of Heaven out of the palace gate, outside the palace gate to welcome the wife, that is, the queen into the palace, the main gate of the palace gate is wide open, until the greenhouse hall.

Chen Wenjun is Xu Zixian's royal wife, and after marrying, he will also play the imperial court, and the two governments will send an envoy to come with an edict, the specification should be a grade lower than the canonization of Xu Zixian, it is estimated that he is a straight bachelor, holding the edict, serving the golden book, no gold treasure, and officially establishing Chen Wenjun's status as a princess.

Since then, even if the husband and wife are out of harmony, Xu Zixian is not qualified to abolish the princess, the court etiquette is not allowed, the husband and wife are not in harmony, and they can only live with the noble relatives, and even the Son of Heaven and his wife, are not a few.

Hearing Wei Yi's quipping words, Xu Zixian glanced at this young friend with a smile...... Now this young friend is already the magistrate of Penghu, and this great battle is also a lot of benefits, Penghu is heavily guarded, not to give pirates a chance to take advantage of, this is a great achievement, Wei Yi came to the front line, and it is also a matter of proof by the Penghu military and civilian gentry. In addition, although the warships attacking the pirate fleet were ships of the Nanyang Naval Division, Wei Yi organized and mobilized many Penghu people to participate in the battle, and this battle feat could be regarded as a direct command of the battle.

There is no doubt that Great Wei's military merit is the first, Wei Yi has bargained for a lot of money this time, and he should be promoted.

Wei Yi will definitely refuse, and transfer him to a certain military state to serve as a Tongzhi, or to a certain official position from Wupin, which is a leap in officialdom for him, but it will undoubtedly have a negative impact on the cooperation plan between Penghu and the Eastern Domain.

The Penghu magistrate, who was transferred by the imperial court, was unlikely to confront the Eastern Domain and the Zhongshan Palace, but it would not have a close relationship with Xu Zixian like Wei Yi, trusting each other and integrating the development of the two places.

Wei Yi will most likely refuse to be transferred because he has just taken office and everything is undecided, and the two governments are also well aware of this, and it is estimated that Wei Yi's honor and rank will be increased from the fifth rank or the fifth grade, for a young magistrate in his early twenties who has just taken office for more than a year, the rank is still an achievement worth boasting about.

Xu Xingwei rode on the other side, smiling at Xu Zixian and Wei Yi.

"Brother Zizhang, you seem to have something on your mind?" Xu Zixian and Wei Yi laughed a few words, and turned their heads to look at Xu Xingwei. Xu Xingwei's resolute face always had some gloomy look, outsiders can't see it, Xu Zixian has known him for many years, but Xu Xingwei's psychological fluctuations can't hide from him.

"Nothing else." Xu Xingwei said a little gloomily: "In the past few days, the advance of the army has arrived at the Daling River, and the Qiantun City is being built, and the main force has already exited the Shanhaiguan...... I felt like it was going a little too fast and was a little worried. I also thought that I had returned from the front of the battle, and there was no battle to fight on Fujian Road, like a deserter, and my heart was really uncomfortable. ”

"You received a letter from Chongji and Yao Pingzhong, right?" Xu Zixian said in a deep voice: "I also received it, the two of them are in Qiantun now, and you are also worried about the two of them?" Honestly, so am I. Judging from the copy of the house, in just over a month, the army suddenly went out of the customs with the main force from the area of Pingzhou in Jizhou, and a small number of people defended the northern captives in the area of Jibei, and the army came out in a hurry, there must be something wrong with this......"

Xu Xingwei said with some pain: "It's a pity that I'm far away from the army and can't know the exact news......"

"It's useless if you're there." Xu Zixian said: "This kind of decision is only under the talent of the Son of Heaven and the two governments, what is the use of you?" Now I hope that Li Shuqian can withstand the pressure and continue the previous strategy. If only the goal is to build the Qiantun, connect the Qiantun and the Guanmen as a whole, set up a military fortress, and set up some small military forts in the area from the Daling River to the old Jinzhou, the Donghu army will not be able to take advantage of it until the end of the year, and although the war cost more than 10 million yuan, it still has gained a lot of benefits in the end. In the spring of next year, half of the Northern Expeditionary army will be sent back to the original place to garrison, to prevent the Northern Captives and Xiqiang from taking advantage of the weakness, and to the internal can also play and suppress the Liukou, so that although the Donghu can not be broken, but the Donghu will enter the country after that, we need to beware of being blocked by our Great Wei Forbidden Army from the waist of Liaoxi, and it will take hundreds of miles of detours, which is also a great pressure on its logistics, and it is also the greatest achievement of the Northern Expedition. ”

Xu Xingwei shook his head and said: "The imperial court will not be satisfied with the completion of the Qiantun, at least it must restore the old Jinzhou and build the Dalinghe City, this is the lowest goal, otherwise tens of millions of dollars will be spent, 300,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of troops plus millions of people, only a protruding 200 miles of Qiantun will be built, and the court, including the Son of Heaven, will be greatly disappointed." ”

"Why bother what the Son of Heaven thinks?" Xu Zixian said coldly: "The Son of Heaven takes things for granted, there are too many times to take it for granted, Han Zhong of the two governments, Zhang Guangen, the cardinal envoy, and those big staff, the ruling power, and the Taiwei Deng Ming, can they also mess around like this?" ”

"The specific reason," Xu Xingwei said: "I have already written to the staff around Li Shumi, which can be regarded as an old acquaintance, and I can get the answer in person." ”

"That's fine." Xu Zixian nodded slightly, and his eyebrows were also full of melancholy.

Although the memory of his previous life told Xu Zixian that the defeat of this war was inevitable and there was no possibility of winning by chance, if there was a change and the war would develop for the better, of course, it would be something Xu Zixian was happy to see.

He's not the kind of guy who's crazy enough to do anything for himself...... Donghu's victory, buried most of the elite of the 300,000 forbidden army outside the bone pass, and killed hundreds of thousands of people Zhuang and Xiang army, the Great Wei was hit hard, the northern defense line was shattered, and finally collapsed after a few years of barely supporting.

In the meantime, there were rogues raging, the north was full of beacon smoke, the prefectures and counties were broken, the villages were destroyed, and the market towns became ruins.

At least tens of millions of people mourned the Great Wei, and Xu Zixian didn't even want to think about how many tragedies there were.

If such a tragedy can be reversed, Xu Zixian would rather stop at the prince himself.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, it is not completely impossible for him to take charge of the entire Fujian, and even win the position after giving birth to a son.

If it weren't necessary, Xu Zixian would not want to flee to the Eastern Domain, develop overseas, and sit back and watch the mainland sink and fall into the hands of barbarians.

"Now I'm not going to let you talk about that." Wei Yi warned with a smile: "I'm busy all day long, Mingda has just finished harvesting cotton and weaving cloth in the textile factory, ready to sell, the salt industry is also successful, and tea, sugarcane, rice fields, factories, sea trade, and sailors are also developing rapidly." You may not feel it when you are on the Eastern Domain, but when I am outside the island, every time I go, I feel a sharp change. The docks, old and new, were moored with merchant ships every day, and hundreds or thousands of new immigrants arrived in the Eastern Domain every day. Mingda, this is something that the imperial court has not done for more than 200 years, and you have done it in two years. In the next few years, the prosperity of the Eastern Domain should not be under the Fujian Road, this is a miracle of the world, you in this life, you don't have to do anything anymore, just this credit is enough to go down in history. ”

Xu Zixian smiled bitterly, how could he not know Wei Yi's words? This is how things have changed, it takes a certain amount of time to change from quantitative to qualitative, and the imperial court's investment in the Eastern Domain was too small before that, and this amount has been in a constant state. When he suddenly increased his investment, the time, place and people were in place, and the people were ready, which made the Eastern Domain burst out with dazzling power.

The next few years will also be a period of rapid development, with Xu Zixian's investment and control, it is not impossible for the financial income to reach the level of Fujian Road.

But if it is said that it will take ten years to make the Eastern Domain and the Fujian Road side by side, this is of course completely impossible.

In about 50 years, with continuous and vigorous investment, when the population reaches the scale of more than 5 million, it is really almost comparable to Fujian Road.

It's too early to talk about that.

"Let's talk about the bride." Xu Xingwei also broke free from the decadent mood, he looked at the east gate of Fuzhou at dusk, where the bustling crowd had automatically given way to a passage, and the officials of the Zhongshan Palace, who were carrying the burden, were wearing neat robes and wearing the same red hats, and were happily entering from the city gate.

The city tower is crowded with the forbidden army and the box army on duty, in the past, the forbidden army looked down on the box army, and the box army did not want to get around the forbidden army, now the two soldiers and horses are crowded together, a large number of heads from the gap between the city tower and the city wall, every face is full of smiles.

Some officers, who may be cronies of Liu Guangsi and others, also have mixed feelings about the happy event in front of them. They knew that after Xu Zi entered the Fujian Road first, it must be the space and power of King Zhao, Liu Guangsi and others, and the contradictions and struggles between the two sides were inevitable, and of course these things would also affect these middle and lower-level military attachés, and their expressions were of course quite complicated, even weird.

However, according to the tradition of the Chinese people, before the wedding and funeral, the grievances must be put down, so these military attaches and the military attaches of the Xiang army who came from the capture camp maintained order at the city gate...... Hearing the news, more and more people rushed over, and the crowd became denser and denser, and thousands of people gathered inside and outside the city in an instant, and soon developed to more than 10,000 people.

Many of the residents of the city heard the news, and ran to the city gate stupidly, but the smarter ones were not in a hurry, and most of them stood in groups of three or five waiting on the road to Yijinfang.

Anyway, the king of Zhongshan is going to Yijinfang to greet his relatives, so he can't fly over, right?

Ordinary marriages, when blowing and blowing, will lead a large group of people to come out to see the excitement, how can the marriage of Xu Zixian, the king of Zhongshan, not be a sensation?

Not to mention those women who usually like to watch the excitement, those ordinary people, there are many businessmen, foreign tourists, monks, nuns, Taoists, officials, generals, generals, and soldiers who have heard the news this time, and of course, a large number of families and clans with national surnames and clans in Zongmu Street.

The nobles, the gentry families, and the officials with status were all looking for shops or restaurants on the street, going up to the second floor to rent a room, sitting down and laughing and waiting.

The matter in front of him was quite a sensation for the people, but how could it not be the case for these nobles and gentry?

A chubby old gentleman had a ruddy face on his face, and he smiled at the people around him on the second floor of a restaurant: "The family affair between the King of Zhongshan and the Marquis of Changwen Mansion is not an accident. ”

"That's good for us." Another official gentleman said with a smile on his face: "The Han family has a salt business in the Eastern Domain, and they are most afraid of any twists and turns. ”

"It's not really necessary." Someone answered: "The King of Zhongshan is the most disciplined, as long as you abide by their rules and there is no in-law relationship, there will be no twists and turns." ”

"That's not what I said." The smiling official said: "Chen Duzhu, why do Xu Jiuzhen have the most share, and they are not the most valued when they go to the island?" ”

"That's it, but it's still the rules that matter first." The person who answered the call was a maritime merchant, and he said leisurely: "Now that the strength of the Nanyang Navy Division has recovered, the Zhongshan Mansion has been calculating the rules of sea shipping trade, and everyone abides by the rules, puts an end to malicious competition and accidents, and purgizes pirates." Although we have to donate and pay taxes to the palace office, compared to the money for those dirty officials to stuff dog holes, this money still makes us happy and surrendered, and we are willing. ”

"Is the news confirmed?"

"Indeed!" The maritime merchant said with a smile: "At this time, the Nanyang Naval Division has forty or fifty warships, which escort the sea from Fujian and Zhejiang to Jiangling, and then extend to the route from the Liangguang Sea to the Japanese State, and the Nanyang Naval Division will ensure the safety of the merchant ships. If there is a loss, the Nanyang sailors admit that the protection is not effective, and bear half of the loss for the shipowner. It is enough to pay a tax at one-tenth of the value of the goods in normal times. ”

"A tenth, but a lot."

Paying according to the goods, rather than one-tenth of the profits, of course, will make a considerable number of people feel pain.

"Not much!" A maritime merchant had already stretched his eyebrows and said happily: "We have gone to sea ten times before, and there are always two or three times when we encounter pirates, and we have lost all our money. If the cost is increased by three or four percent, now it is only one percent, and the Zhongshan Mansion will ensure our safety. The route to the Japanese kingdom was opened first, and the bottom must be to Annam, Champong, Chenla, Siam, and finally Luzon. What are we looking forward to in the past twenty or thirty years, isn't it just looking forward to this day? ”

"Not really!" Someone sighed: "The waterway is not smooth, the loss of goods is still second, how many people's relatives and friends on the waterway suddenly disappeared, there is no strong wind and waves, there are no people, there are no boats, and I don't know if it was done by Luzon thieves, or Kang Tianqi of the Japanese Kingdom." Kang Tianqi seems to be about to close the mountain, and the people below will do a vote, can he still stop it? Only when the Nanyang Naval Division comes forward to escort us, can we be truly safe. No matter who else says they want to escort, I really can't believe it. ”

Indeed, as this person said, before this, Kang Tianqi and Wang Zhi had respectively engaged in escorting and collecting donations, and the operation method of this matter was not high-end, and the idea was not surprising, Xu Zixian could think of it, and these treacherous and slippery thieves could also think of it.

But trust is not something that can be built in a day or two, and the pirates don't have enough patience, and the pirates who provide protection rob the protected merchant ships in a blink of an eye, which has not happened once or twice.

In the end, Kang Tianqi and Wang Zhi's protection really became a joke, and the merchant ships still fled when they saw the pirates, and in the end, the matter was over.

Xu Zixian's escort was completely different.

Prince of Great Wei, the head of the Nanyang Naval Division, these two identities are more credible than the other.

The strength of the Nanyang Navy Division has also swelled sharply, although it cannot compete with Kang Tianqi, and it is slightly inferior to Wang Zhi, but compared to the remnants of the two Luzon thieves, its strength is no longer below the other party.

The protection of the route of the Wa Kingdom must have been greeted by Kang Tianqi, who is now collecting taxes and mainly trading and trading, and for the sporadic subordinates who do not obey the order are exterminated by the Nanyang Naval Division, Kang Tianqi must also be happy to see it.

This is also the inevitable class of the development of a large number of pirates to the end, whitewashing ashore, turning pirates into state power or similar forms, no matter which group of pirates, has tried to do this.

Kang Tianqi disdains Wang Zhi's attachment, but if he can successfully transform into a serious military and political force in the Wa Kingdom, and no longer be a pure pirate in the eyes of people, Kang Tianqi will certainly be happy to see it.

The next escort route must be extended from Liangguang, including the routes of Annam, Champong, Siam, Chenla and Luzon to the Luzon countries.

The reason is also very simple, Xu Zixian has already disabled the second Luzon thief, how can he sit back and watch him slowly lick his wounds and recover his vitality?

The Nanyang Naval Division can also stay and develop, and slowly build ships to catch up with many pirate forces, but after the First World War of the Eastern Domain, Xu Zixian has already understood a truth, a strong navy, whether it is the country's economic division or the pirate ship, the combat power is slowly fought out, not built by sitting at home and building ships!

Going out, constantly fighting with pirates, benefiting from the battle, capturing pirates, obtaining their ships, compressing their space channels, expanding their sphere of influence, gaining more recognition and support, gaining more wealth, and using multiple shipyards to build multiple large warships at the same time, this is the right path for the development of the Nanyang Naval Division in the future.

The current reaction of everyone can also confirm that Xu Zixian's decision is right.

"The Nanyang Naval Division has more than sixty large and medium-sized warships." The maritime merchant continued: "The officials of the Zhongshan Palace's palace personally told me that there will be many warships going to sea before the end of the year, and it is estimated that by the end of the year, there will be more than 40 warships of more than 150 tons, more than 20 ships of more than 300 tons, and more than 10 ships of more than 500 tons, and the officers and men of the naval division will skyrocket from more than 2,000 people in one army to more than 10,000 people in five armies. With the ability of King Zhongshan to train his troops, these more than 10,000 people can reach 30,000 or 40,000 pirates, and by next year, when my generation goes to the Nanyang countries, we don't have to worry too much about pirates. ”

"That's great." Someone was full of relief, and stroked his palm: "My brother came to Lanfang six years ago, and he has not heard from him in the past few years, which is really worrying. ”

"Lan Fang is afraid that she will have to wait." Haishang shook his head and said, "Pu Xingfeng is in that area, and the Nanyang Sailor has no ability to provoke him for the time being. ”

"Well, too."

"Alright, alright." The chubby gentry also have shares invested in the sea, and the Nanyang Navy Division provides escort on a large scale and on a large scale, which is undoubtedly a good factor for his family business, and it is difficult to find a family with more than 10,000 yuan of official gentry or wealthy merchant families who have nothing to do with the sea trade. Listening to everyone's discussions, the fat gentry's face has been showing a happy look, the heartfelt joy is expressed by the smile on the face, when everyone talks about Pu Xingfeng, it is inevitable that some frustration, the fat gentry's face is condensed, and said: "Let's not have Longwang Shu, eat one bite at a time, we must believe that sooner or later the king of Zhongshan will exterminate Pu Xingfeng and completely return us to a Qingping sea area." ”

"That's, that's."

"I firmly believe in this."

"If only the King of Zhongshan could shelter all of my Fujian Road."

"I'm also looking forward to Zhongshan Wangli on Guangnan East Road."

Only then did everyone notice that there was a businessman from Guangnan East Road here, with a black and thin body and face, his eyes were rolling, his eyes were shrewd and sharp, and his dress was quite casual, with a unique sense of casualness, and the official language was not standard as the people on Fujian Road, but it had a unique charm. Everyone is a well-informed person, and when they see and hear it, they know that this person is indeed from Quang Nam East Road.

Seeing such a person and hearing such words, everyone couldn't help but laugh.