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Li Han slept on the ship for many days, and his cabin was of course the largest, but even then it felt cramped and cramped, and the hull of the ship swayed left and right, so he couldn't sleep well for more than ten days.

After going ashore, the Nan'an Hou Mansion arranged for him to rest in the original military village, which was originally the official hall of the Eastern Domain's defense envoy, and the entire row of houses were post houses, specially entertaining officials who came to the island on business, and the conditions were quite favorable.

In the morning, when the sky was bright, Li Han got up according to the habit of being in Beijing.

However, the island was silent, and the office hours of the Eastern Domain were late, and no officials appeared at all, and there was no one in the entire official area.

After Li Han finished grooming, no one came to serve, so he decided to go out early in the morning.

When I got to the outside, I saw someone walking, and I looked everywhere during the day, and found that Nan'an was originally in the middle of the official office, surrounded by private houses, and the periphery was the planning and setting of the restaurant and commercial house.

It's just that there are no walls...... Li Han is familiar with the history of the scriptures, this is a compulsory course for every Hanlin Academy, as soon as he enters the Hanlin Academy, the first thing is to help repair the history of the former dynasties, and familiarize himself with the stories of the previous dynasties, including long compilations, characters, lines, notes, etc.

Therefore, Li Han remembers quite clearly that when he opened up the Eastern Domain, he chose a site to set up a village in Nan'anxi, first set up a military village, then built a yamen, then several Taoist temples, then attached houses, and then commercial shops. Taizu's original intention was to build a transshipment port here and develop the Eastern Domain into a trading port city.

Therefore, from the beginning of the opening, there was no intention to build a city wall and fortress here, after all, the island that hangs alone outside will not have the worry of invasion by the north, that is, there will be rebellious pirates at most...... Pirates weren't a good thing to worry about back then.

Now the Eastern Domain has built castles in the port and several places, Li Han saw several when he got off the dock, all of them are rammed earth and bricks, about ten zhang high, boxy, divided into three or four layers, each layer is about 300 steps, there are multiple arrow holes, there are obvious bed crossbows and stone cannons placed at the highest point, such a military fort, and then build a few more on the periphery, even if there are pirates of tens of thousands of people again, it will be difficult to harm everything that the Eastern Domain has now.

The current plan mainly highlights the commercial area.

From the wharf to the market town, a large number of commercial houses are built quite magnificently, close to the official road, and there are roads leading directly to the wharf and storage area, trading, storage, and transshipment of goods, are quite convenient.

Then there is the restaurant area that serves the business, and then there is the residential area, but it is not large, and it should be the residence of the men, workers, sailors, and officials and guards of the service business area.

Then there is the farmland on the periphery, and the entire Nan'an here, the southwest of the official camp has been squeezed to the periphery side.

The whole area is about five or six miles in radius, with about 30,000 or 40,000 residents, and in the interior of the Great Wei Dynasty, it is about a relatively developed county seat, or an underdeveloped prefecture, but Li Han has no doubt that with the advantage of defeating pirates, there are more and more ships docked, and the open space here is enough to add more buildings and serve more immigrants, and the whole place has developed to more than 100,000 or 200,000 residents, and it may not be long before it becomes a Dafu city.

Li Han was suspicious or dissatisfied with Xu Zixian's ambition and management methods, but it did not mean that he would deny Xu Zixian's ability, just as he was uneasy when he saw the difference between the north and the south, but he could not deny the prosperity of the south.

What went wrong, this well-educated man could not get an answer.

After having breakfast at a restaurant, Li Han also had to be satisfied with the food here and the attitude of the shopkeeper.

Li Han did not wear official clothes, nor did he ask the officials of Nan'an Hou Mansion to follow, the guys in the restaurant should not know his identity, but his attitude is still quite polite, and the restaurant is exquisite and clean, and the taste of the food is also quite good, which makes the breakfast always sloppy, and Li Han, who doesn't care too much, also eats a full meal unintentionally.

"The South is not without its merits." Lu Sien, a staff member who was also from Hebei Road, said with a smile: "The food is not bad, and the morning is not too hot, well, the students also try their best to eat to their heart's content, and it seems that the appetite is not bad." ”

Li Han smiled: "How can you have an appetite for the boat? I slept well, got up to eat again, and my appetite was much better. ”

"There is no need to rush the edict." Lu Sien joked: "The food here is not bad, especially the snacks, which are quite exquisite, and our food in the north is far worse than that of Jiangnan and the southeast." ”

Everyone laughed, and Li Han also agreed, the snacks and feasts in the north are quite ordinary, even if they represent the highest level of court cuisine, in fact, most of them are southern dishes...... Taizu is a southerner and set the capital in Nanjing in his early years, and later moved the capital to Yanjing, a member of the royal family, and his speech is still Nanjing accent, because the court is an island of dialects, and his accent has not changed for hundreds of years.

"The scenery is not bad either." Li Han said with a smile: "The sea and the sky are the same, and it is rare to see them in Beijing. ”

"yes, it's beautiful."

"The sea water is like a jewel, do you want to write a poem?"

In front of you, the sea and sky are indeed beautiful, and the scenery is incomparably magnificent. Surrounded by exquisite houses, down the terrain to the harbour wharf, and then to the turquoise sea.

The sea is extremely quiet, the water is incomparably deep blue, and the color is much deeper than the northern sea.

Everywhere there is green vegetation, white beaches, then black reefs and rocks, shrubs, from the forest, official roads hidden under green trees, early pedestrians and cars galloping on the roads.

It's a beautiful picture, like the kind of beautiful picture that the painter imagined, and it's much more beautiful than the picture.

Think about it again, Jingshi is actually not suitable for a metropolis, too far from the north, the sand and dust are very strong in winter, and people all over the city have to hide their faces and leave, because the population is too large, several rivers outside Jingshi have dried up, the groundwater is very salty, difficult to swallow, and the water in the palace is from the mountain spring water outside the city

Ordinary officials and ordinary people do not have this kind of treatment. It's cold, with snow all winter, and very few pleasantly sunny days.

Because of the large population, the poor drainage, and the large amount of garbage, because of financial difficulties, the roads are in disrepair, and the sky is full of dust on sunny days, and muddy and difficult to walk on rainy days, and the garbage is all over the ground, and the stench is smoky.

Li Han also sighed, after getting used to everything, there is nothing, but if there is a comparison, the damage is multiplied.

Not only the Eastern Domain, Jiangling, Mingzhou, and Quanzhou are not bad, but Fuzhou is bigger and more prosperous.

The entire Great Wei Dynasty seems to be separated by the Yangtze River and become two worlds.

The devastation of the north, like the cruel weather in winter, makes people feel oppressive and uncomfortable, it is a cold to the bone. The original north, fertile for thousands of miles, densely populated, and prosperous, even if it is not as good as the south, it can be called rich.

All the changes came from the rise of the Eastern Hu, and since then, the north has been attacked by the Hu cavalry for many years, and the population has suffered heavy losses, the place has been ruined, and it has not been able to recover for many years......

Li Han's mood suddenly deteriorated, he shook his head, and said: "No matter how good this place is, it is not a place where we should stay for a long time, it is only right to issue an edict earlier, take a little rest for two days, and leave and return to Beijing quickly." ”

"That's what the bachelor said." The staff complimented: "If you will enter the two mansions as the ruler, you always need to have the mind of the ruler." ”

Li Han smiled bitterly: "State affairs are like this, to be honest, I don't want to be the boss." ”

"That cool umbrella is the thing that thousands of readers want the most."

"Also score the timing, of course, in the matter of loyalty, only sincerity remains the same, if the Son of Heaven really wants to give me a cool umbrella, I will not quit, everything but listen to the will of God."

While everyone was talking, the crowd of people walking around gradually became denser, officials, merchants, men, ordinary peasants, people were busy, and they were all in a hurry.

In fact, farmers are the hardest, many people who go to the field actually go out before dawn, and then come out again to go home for breakfast, and then go out to work in the fields for the second time.

Li Han knew that a large number of acres of fields had been opened up around Nan'an River, with the most cotton fields and bean fields, and now they were all harvested, and the acres had been burned and were being ploughed.

After the water is brought into the field and the rice planting is completed, the farming work for a while is over, and after the solar term enters the winter, the whole farm work will be almost busy, and you can enter the winter break season, which is also the most idle time of the year for farmers.

The situation here in the Eastern Domain is slightly different, in addition to the acres of fields that rotate to cultivate and fallow the land, more wasteland will be opened up, Li Han and others have already seen, tea plantations, mulberry forests, and large sugarcane fields.

Some of the people are busy, it is estimated that they will be able to rest for a period of time before the year, the climate here is hot, the precipitation is sufficient, except for the typhoon will be raging, it is simply a natural granary.

If all the cash crops are counted, the income of the people of the Eastern Domain will be considerable, and Li Han is a little jealous when he calculates the harvest.

"Looks like a school over there?" Lu Sien's eyes were sharp, pointing to a place in the northeast, where there were two miles from the official road, and three or four miles away from the messy place like the business district, the distance was far away, there was the main official road from the north and south, and there was the east-west branch, connecting the official road to the west, and there was a large area of construction to the east, and then there was a large area of farmland, and several aqueducts spread along the periphery, separating that side from the commercial area and living area here.

"It should be." Li Han had already studied the political situation in the Eastern Domain before he set out on the road, and he also knew that Xu Zixian planned to implement universal free education on the island.

Regarding this matter, like ordinary scholars, Li Han is of course happy to see it come to fruition.

As a bachelor of Hanlin, Li Han is of course supportive of private schools, and Xu Zixian's incident also diluted his overly tough, tough, and murderous face for a certain period of time.

No one like Zhang Jiao, Huang Chao, and Zhu Wen thought of being a scholar, cultivating the seeds of reading, and encouraging non-governmental schools to study when they were still struggling to rise.

Many people are secretly appreciating, and feel that the Nan'an Hou Mansion is the surname of the country after all, and in such matters, after all, it is more thoughtful than ordinary officials.

"I'll wait and see." Li Han's mind moved, and he said: "I have long heard that Nan Anhou has built a lot of schools in the Eastern Domain, and encourages children to enroll in school for free. ”

The school is a few miles away, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the scenery is beautiful, the weather is getting hotter, Li Han didn't want to take a car, so someone led a gentle horse over, and everyone rode over, but a quarter of an hour's effort, it was already outside the school.

Just as the bell rang, after the bell rang, more than 100 children rushed out of several classrooms on a campus of five or six acres and made noise in the open space.

In Li Han's eyes, the open space of this school is a bit like the school field of the forbidden army.

There are ropes for children to climb high, there are high platforms inlaid with bricks and stones, and those half-grown children climb high and slide down, as well as many facilities such as uneven bars, which seem to be related to exercising arm strength and waist strength, those children are having a lot of fun, and there is a pile of sand on the ground, but there is no need to worry too much about what serious injuries these children will suffer.

"Aren't these kids afraid of the heat?" Li Han is over fifty years old, and his body is quite strong, otherwise the two governments would not have sent him, an important minister, to the Eastern Domain.

"That's the way kids are." Nan'an Hou Mansion sent a first-class official of the guest department, surnamed Hou Mingtong, in fact, Wu Shizhong was supposed to accompany him, and Li Han's status was enough, but Wu Shizhong and Li Han were academically contradictory, and they had many face-to-face debates when they were in Beijing, and the two sides were torn apart, Wu Shizhong had to be sick, Li Yi sent Chen Daojian, a young showman, to accompany him, and Chen Daojian was also a seven-rank official, no

That's rude.

It's just that it's still early, and Chen Daojian didn't rush over, so Hou Tong accompanied him first, but fortunately, he was also a talent, but he wouldn't make Li Han feel hateful.

At that moment, Hou Tong only smiled: "But I also put them in the morning and evening when it is almost dark, and they will not be released when it is hottest during the day." The child is the top baby of each family, and if something happens, it is not easy for our Hou Mansion to explain to each family. ”

"Yes, it's better to be safe."

While speaking, everyone followed Li Han into the school, the main entrance of the school was closed, only the small door had a gatekeeper, and there were guards guarding it.

"There are still some pirates who haven't been caught lately." Hou Tong explained: "These people can really hide, but the remnants are at most dozens of people, hiding between the mountains and the sea, catching snakes, rabbits, and fish in the wild for a living, and they can't escape if they want to. ”

"All the thieves who were caught were killed?"

"Those under the age of 16 who have been in the gang for less than half a year will be imprisoned after screening and will be used to atone for their crimes." Hou Daodao: "There are not many such people, less than 500 people, and they are escorted to the central part." ”

"It's still too harsh." Li Han wanted to say that it was too cruel, but when Li Yi greeted him yesterday, he had already dismissed it once, and after thinking about it, he didn't have to say it again to ask someone to dismiss it.

Hou Tong squinted and smiled, knowing what this Hanlin Master meant, the other party did not explain, and he would not be forced to quarrel with the Hanlin Bachelor...... In fact, in order to save trouble, it can be said that the death penalty will be pardoned, and the remnants of these pirates must have rushed out to surrender. The reason why they have persisted until now and have not been caught is because they know that if they are caught, they will definitely die, so they are desperate to survive, even if they are thin and out of shape, they still can't hide.

Almost all of the pirates that have been caught recently are already emaciated and immaculate, and they are simply not human.

Even so, it is beheaded, Nan Anhou's attitude is quite resolute, since there is a decree, it must be obeyed, if a person who has committed a great crime can be spared death by suffering something, then what else do you need the law?

If the punishment is lowered because it is difficult to capture, then wouldn't the previous killings be meaningless?

If you coax pirates to come out and surrender and then kill them, wouldn't it be cruel and faithless in the eyes of outsiders?

Therefore, the Nan'an Hou Mansion is not in a hurry, with the guards continuing to pull the net, and a small number of cavalry cooperating, it is only a matter of time before all the remaining remnants of pirates are wiped out.

The square of the whole school is huge, several acres of land, and there are about two or three hundred children running.

Li Han said to Hou Dao: "I heard that your prince is planning to call people into the school in September, why are you only enrolled in August?" ”

"The harvest is largely complete, and farming is not as urgent as it used to be." Hou Tong replied: "Before that, children had to work hard, and those who couldn't do work had to boil water at home, the older ones learned to cook, and the younger ones brought water and food. At this time, the whole family is on the same page, and there is no reason to say it......"

Li Han said with a smile: "The old man is also a cultivator and heirloom, and these old men you said understand." ”

Hou Tong also laughed, and then said: "At this time, I am almost busy, but I still have to plough and prepare for transplanting seedlings, as well as sugarcane fields, and now we have to compost and plant seedlings in the beginning of autumn, so I can't delay." There are also a lot of soybean fields to be sown, and tens of thousands of mulberry trees will be planted before winter, which is really busy. The children of each family are put away, and the half-grown ones can still be played, and the smaller ones will be herding sheep all day long, the prince said, since this is the case, simply go to school in advance, and the boys and girls can learn to recognize some words, and they can save themselves from running around without worry. ”

"That's a good idea." Li Han also had to agree with this, he saw a lot of manure piled up on the edge of the field last night, and then he knew that it was compost to grow sugarcane, this thing is the most Fujian Road, the temperature is also the most suitable, the sugar squeezed out is the sweetest, marketing north and south, the middle class of the Beijing Division, every New Year's holiday, or the child's birthday, will buy some sugar to celebrate, for the poor, this thing is an out-and-out luxury, more expensive than salt, and not a necessity of life, there may be some people from childhood to adulthood, once a sweet has not been eaten, which is not an exaggeration.

The climate here in the Eastern Domain is quite suitable for planting sugarcane, Li Han said: "Now planting sugarcane, is it autumn planting?" ”

"Yes, the bachelor is in business." Hou Tong flattered and said with a smile: "When the winter begins, we will plant another batch, and the winter ones actually taste better, sweeter, and more crisp." In the climate of our Eastern Domain, sugarcane grows quickly and coarsely, but if you want to say that it is the sweetest and the most brittle, it still has to be winter, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, so it is sweet, and there is a lot of sugar to squeeze. ”

"We northerners don't have this blessing, the soil is frozen and hard in winter, and the snow is knee-high, what can we plant?"

Hou Tong smiled and said nothing, Li Han himself shook his head and smiled, he continued: "If there is no Jiangnan silk, cotton, tea, if there is no Jinghu rice, Shandong noodles, Jingshi and the soldiers of the northern borders, they can only fight hungry." It is the Fujian Road, separated by thousands of miles, with tens of millions of taxes every year, and how many soldiers and horses are raised for the imperial court, and the people of the world can work together to become the Great Wei. ”

Hou Tong said movingly: "The words of the bachelor are the important words spoken by the important ministers of the country, I remember it, and I will preach the teachings to the people of the Eastern Domain." ”

"I heard that in each of your villages, there are officials stationed in the village to preach the mansion copy on a regular basis?"

"Yes, every seven days, the 100 households will gather the men and women of each 100 households to preach the government affairs of the mansion and the Hou Mansion. The prince said that it is necessary to make the officials know what they are and why they are so, and the officials know why they work hard, why they pay taxes, and why the affairs of the north are closely related to our Fujian, not that the northerners are not related to the southerners......"

Li Han nodded slightly, but there was a sense of more identification in his heart. The similarities and differences between the north and the south, if everyone has such intentions as Nan Anhou, they can make up for a lot.