After Sun Xiangfu made sure that Li Tai was not being polite to him, Feng Ang decided to stay temporarily, the sports conference only started in mid-August, and now it is only the end of February, they can stay in Lingnan for about five months, so much time is enough for him to see Li Tai's character, ability, and teach him how to deal with the local Yi people and the Fangren tribe and govern the place.

"As soon as Zhengming is restored to the official title, he will rush to my Lingnan, to do something big!"

Although Feng Ang is more than sixty years old, his body is still strong, and he is full of anger when he speaks, in history, he has lived to Zhenguan for twenty years, and now this scene in Lingnan is only afraid that his mental state is even better than in history.

Sun Xiangfu said with a smile, "It's just to do big things, I can't say it, I have to bother you to arrange someone to take me around Lingnan." ”

"Yes, that's a good feeling, if you want to go out, it shouldn't be to collect items, but to row the field." Feng Ang smiled as if he had expected it.

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Yes!" If the overseas exploration ships can return smoothly, they will bring back a lot of species, some of which I need to try to plant in a large area in Lingnan, so if I am in the right place, I will also ask Feng Gong to allocate it to me, in addition, in terms of manpower, I also need a lot, mainly those skilled hands on my Zhuangzi, and please mobilize more locals who can understand Chinese to come and apply for jobs. ”

Sun Xiangfu has always been there in Zhuangzi on the Baiyun Lake Peninsula, where some of the local people who planted rice for him lived, and it is also the home of Ah Yue and many Lingnan exploration team sailors.

However, due to the increase in the number of people living there, the whole peninsula has been built more beautifully, comfortable, and has become a market town, and the farmers have not only learned Chinese, but also learned a certain amount of cultural knowledge in the school, and after so many years, there is basically no illiteracy.

Feng Ang smiled and said, "This is not a problem, I have to thank you for adding so many industries to our Lingnan people!" ”

"That's a lot? Feng Gong already knows the return date of the fleet? Sun Xiangfu had seen Feng An's expected appearance just now, and now, he heard something strange from his words, and immediately reacted.

Feng Ang smiled and handed a small note to Sun Xiangfu and said, "It's also a coincidence that you came, this morning, I just received a carrier pigeon flying from Luzon, and they will return to Guangzhou in seven or eight days at most." ”

The straight-line distance from Luzon Island to Guangzhou Bay is only more than 1,200 kilometers, and intensive carrier pigeons, even if they fly slowly, can be reached in two or three days, that is to say, the long-sea fleet has docked at the dock on Luzon Island two or three days ago to repair and replenish.

"This is great news." After Sun Xiangfu opened the letter, he immediately saw the news that all the ten Baotou steel ships had returned safely and would leave for the Guangzhou wharf in the near future, and his whole heart was immediately relieved.

"Master Sun, don't be too happy, they're coming back soon, but our work hasn't started yet! It seems that your previous plan to spend two days in Guangzhou City has been in vain. Li Tai specially reminded.

"You are too underestimate Feng Gong, he has been operating in Lingnan Road for decades, and he has long known all about the mountains and rivers here, as long as I say what I need, he will definitely be able to recommend many good places to me, that is, there are more snakes, insects, rats and ants here, if you want to go out of the city with me, you have to adapt to it." Sun Xiangfu said with a smile.

However, hearing his words, Feng Ang had a different opinion, and said, "When I came here at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was the first year of Zhenguan!" Now, this is not the case, the poisonous snakes and beasts within two hundred miles around Guangzhou City have basically been cleaned up by the old man, and the roads and new towns to the nearby states and counties, Chunzhou, Leizhou, Gangzhou, Duanzhou, and Chaozhou have all been built, and the rest of the states and counties are also being built one after another, which is not much lost to the Central Plains. ”

"In addition to Guangzhou City, Feng Gong, you also built five new cities? And, all the connected roads have been repaired? Sun Xiangfu said with some surprise.

Feng Ang touched his beard a little proudly and said, "Of course, in my Lingnan land, the taxes paid to the imperial court every year are millions of yuan, and without the corresponding economic strength, how can it be possible to collect so many taxes!"

In the past eight years or so, the old man has collected hundreds of thousands of laborers from all over the country, but he has never stopped working, and with the addition of those tribes that have come out of the mountains, the population of Lingnan Province has reached more than 1.5 million, which is not inferior to all the provinces in the Central Plains. ”

There is a good thing about the coastal land of Lingnan, that is, the climate is warm all year round, this period, even in the coldest time of winter, the temperature is more than ten degrees, which basically does not affect people's work, and there are still all kinds of free or cheap labor from overseas, hundreds of thousands of people, more than eight years, do nothing else, just do infrastructure construction, the amount of labor, but it is really not small, at least thousands of miles of cement roads, a few cities, there is no problem at all.

As soon as Sun Xiangfu entered the city, he felt the atmosphere of Guangzhou New Town, no wonder Li Shimin and his wife were full of praise for this place before, after going back, they broke the routine and sealed Feng Ang a hussar general, in a wild place like Lingnan, to build a first-class city that is not lost to the Central Plains at all, the money to be smashed into it, it is the sea, although Feng An's family is large, it is estimated that it has also been smashed on it.

What impressed Sun Xiangfu the most was the propaganda slogans posted along the street, all of which were key words for disease prevention and epidemic prevention and health knowledge, not only words, but also pictures.

"The population of Lingnan has grown so dramatically, Feng Gong is afraid that he has paid a lot of money! Are you still treating sick people for free? Sun Xiangfu asked with some sighs.

"A little money, it's nothing, let's build more sea ships, we can get it back from overseas, but there is nothing left, the finished medicine made by your Shanyang Pharmaceutical Factory is too expensive, every year, my Lingnan procurement of medicines and medicinal materials is as high as 20 million. In the past few years, after the population has come up, the expenses have become more and more large, and some of the previous accumulation is about to be emptied. ”

Hearing this, Li Tai knew the meaning of what Sun Xiangfu said on the boat before, it turned out that this free medical care was not the first in Jiuyuan County, and the Lingnan area has implemented free medical care for all since the first year of Zhenguan, and now, the people are directly eating the high-priced Chinese patent medicine manufactured by the Shanyang Manufacturing Factory, and they are really not spending money.

"No wonder the population of Lingnan has increased so dramatically, Ah Yue is still a little unhappy when she hears that Xiaotai is coming to take your place!" Sun Xiangfu suddenly realized.

"Heheha, what's so unhappy about this, the old man has worked hard for the people here all his life, shouldn't he enjoy a few years of happiness?" Feng Ang laughed when he heard this, he is now fame and fortune, and he is over sixty years old, but he does not have the slightest desire to covet power.

Seeing Feng An's eyes looking at him, Li Tai also smiled and said, "Miss Ah Yue has such an idea, it really should, if it weren't for the fact that Gong Feng is old and needs to recuperate, my father will not easily mobilize you, Xiao Wang will stay with Gong Feng for a few more days, and he also wants you to teach me more about the means of governing the place, so that I can better do things for the local people, and ask Gong Feng to work hard!" ”

Li Tai said this beautifully, Feng Ang's father and son also nodded again and again after hearing it, and after a while, the car arrived at Feng An's mansion, the banquet had already been set up, Ah Yue came here, just like in her own home, with Peony and Hibiscus and some of her own followers, she went to the back hall to open a seat, accompanied by Feng Zhiji's wife's concubines, but it was also lively.

Sun Xiangfu, Li Tai, Yang Min, and the peasant students and guards brought by Sun Xiangfu all had a big banquet in the living room, and after eating and drinking, Sun Xiangfu first gave Feng An, and the sons who went to the dock with him to greet him just now, but were not qualified to get on the main car, more than a dozen sons who were officials in Guangzhou City, or took care of the industry, introduced the people they brought over.

Among them, the main thing is Yang Min, he is in the shipbuilding area, can provide some help and advice to the Lingnan shipyard, the key is that the navigation college in Hangzhou Bay, can basically be implemented, then Lingnan Road, whether it is to send people to study, or to follow up, in the local also to build a navigation college, need to negotiate and cooperate with him a lot, after a chat, Feng Zhiyu and other people in charge of the Feng family's industry, they are close to him, the problem of expanding the scale of navigation is also a problem that Lingnan needs to solve, they share technical resources with each other, which is of great help in solving problems.

Then, it was the agricultural students brought by Sun Xiangfu, there were more than 20 people, among whom the more outstanding ones were Li Mo, Zhang Jin, Chen Xuan, Han Wei, etc., they were all regarded as a new generation of disciples of the agricultural sect recognized by Sun Xiangfu, and they would lead the students to assist Sun Xiangfu in managing various new crops, as well as being responsible for the care of these new crops after Sun Xiangfu left.

Of course, when it comes to this, Feng Ang must ask how big the industry scale of these new crops is and what is the profit expectation.

"That's the case, Feng Gong, if the new crops are successfully planted in Lingnan, all species, whether they are not developed into industries, it is the Overseas Exploration and Investment Co., Ltd. that has the final say, and according to my previous communication with Wu Shangshu, he put forward a request on behalf of the Overseas Exploration and Investment Company, and all the profits of these new crop industries that they believe can be sold to the outside world, Overseas Exploration and Investment Co., Ltd. naturally accounts for 30% of the share income, and no matter how big or small this industry is, this is constant." Sun Xiangfu explained.

Feng Ang nodded and said, "They invested tens of millions of yuan and organized people to bring it back from overseas, which is understandable." ”

Seeing that he had no objections, Sun Xiangfu said, "My farmer is responsible for planting new crops, and continuing to optimize varieties and improve them, and launching them to the outside world, which also accounts for 30% of the share income of these industries, which is also constant." ”

"This is even more of a problem, only you farmers in this world know how to grow these new crops and use them to develop into an industry." Feng Ang was not surprised at all.

He knew that Sun Xiangfu's shares in the Overseas Exploration and Investment Joint Stock Company had been confiscated by Li Shimin, and Li Shimin restored his official title this time, but he did not have the consciousness of returning the original industry to him at all, so it is impossible for the farmers to invest human resources to work in vain, because the process of researching and planting these crops is usually very long, and even some types may not be able to be done in a lifetime.

"Then since you have no opinion, I will talk about other aspects. The remaining 40 percent of the shares are open to the outside world, and the local government and the people who provide the land for planting these crops can buy these shares first, and the land invested can also be discounted into the shares, and they naturally have the right to plant crops of non-government-controlled varieties cultivated locally. ”

Sun Xiangfu's explanation Feng Ang is very easy to understand, that is to say, the local government and people in their Lingnan can give priority to investing in shares, and the crops they grow, as long as they are not managed varieties, can also be planted at will, without restrictions.

In fact, it was Li Tai who could represent the Lingnan government in the future, so Feng Ang could only represent the Feng family, so he was not polite, and said, "The old man represents the Feng family, and he invested 20 million yuan, no matter how much, my Feng family will not have it." ”

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, his heart was sure enough, with the Feng family's many industries and huge profits, he should have been worth hundreds of millions, but in the past few years, he has built and smashed a lot, and he has paid out of his own pocket to protect the livelihood of all the people in Lingnan.