Lingnan was called the land of the Southern Barbarians during the Han Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty a few hundred years later, it was called the place of exile by the officials, which shows its desolation, because the weather is very hot all the year round, most of the houses here are built with heavy thatched roofs, and the walls are repaired, but they cannot breathe the wind.

However, when it came to Guangzhou, the situation was slightly better, the population here was denser, and the city also had a scale, not losing to some counties in the north.

"Sun Zhengming, the pastor of the Pastoral Supervision Bureau, came to Lingnan to reward the Duke of Yue Guo with some things at the behest of the emperor, do you know the Mansion of the Duke of Yue?"

In fact, Sun Xiangfu asked a lot of questions, from the moment the Happiness entered the harbor, someone entered the city to report, and after a while, a team of carriages and horses came to the dock, and a tall and thin man of about twenty-five or six got off the carriage.

"This official Chunzhou assassin Feng Zhidai, I don't know which messenger is in front of you?"

"Feng Zhidai?"

Sun Xiangfu was stunned when he heard this, and then remembered the information on the Lingnan side that he had made up before leaving, this Feng Zhidai was Feng An's eldest son, who had fought with Feng Ang in his early years, and later descended to Tang with Feng An, and Wude sealed the Chunzhou Thorn History in four years.

Chunzhou is Xiazhou, yes, according to the imperial court system, Feng Zhidai is the official position under the four products, and he will welcome Sun Xiangfu, and the specifications are enough.

"Sun Zhengming, the lower pastoral supervisor of the Lower Pastoral Supervision Bureau, has seen Feng Tingshi, on this ship, there are some gifts from His Majesty to the Duke of Yueguo, and he also asked Feng Tingshi to arrange carriages and horses, and after unloading the ship, they can be transported to the house."

Feng Zhidai was overjoyed when he heard this, recently Chang'an went viral and rumored that the Feng family's father and son were going to rebel, which made them very uneasy in Lingnan, at this time the emperor sent someone to give gifts, that is the meaning of goodwill, you know, their Feng family has no intention of rebellion, and there is no need for that, because they are the only characters in Lingnan, and they know that it is impossible to seize the world based on Lingnan.

"There is a grandson who sent the royal gift from thousands of miles away, and drove into the city with the official car, here, someone will come to answer later."

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he agreed, and only brought Xi Jun to buy one person to enter the city with Feng Zhidai.

Soon, Sun Xiangfu was taken to the Yue Guo Mansion, and after a while, there were servants who put tea, water, melons and fruits, and after Sun Xiangfu entered the table, Feng Zhidai followed an old man who was about the same age as Li Yuan to the hall, this person was Feng An, the Duke of Yue Guo.

After a visit, Sun Xiangfu went straight to the point and asked, "In the territory of Yuegong, can there be people from the north recently?" ”

"Although my Lingnan is not abundant, there are still some merchants in the past, why does Sun Xiamu ask this?" Feng Ang saw Sun Xiangfu's anxious face, so he asked rhetorically.

"Yue Gong may not know, at this time Chang'an crazy rumors that Yue Gong wants to raise troops to rebel, are instigated by some family members, this time the lower official was supposed to stay in Yangzhou for a few days, inspect some of their own industries, but someone instigated the Japanese to rob the official ship, fortunately the accompanying several masters helped, to keep the ship not lost, and therefore, let the lower official alert, these people blocked the lower official to Lingnan, perhaps, is to want to make a move in Lingnan, therefore, the lower official sailed day and night, rushed to inform the Yue Gong."

"Rebellion? The old man is already extremely rich today, and he is still tossing around. Feng Ang looked at Sun Xiangfu with a smile on his face.

"The more public is wise, the more penetrating the world, the lower officials admire."

When he saw Feng An's relaxed and calm expression, Sun Xiangfu was completely relieved, he was a smart man, and he knew that it was impossible to conquer the world or sit firmly in the world by relying on these Shanyue people in Lingnan who were not fully civilized, so as long as he didn't really want to rebel, all provocative tricks were useless.

"Wu'er quickly sent someone to the dock to inquire."

On this matter, although Feng Ang is warm and calm, but he lives in Lingnan and knows the situation in his jurisdiction, the cultural level of the people here is not high, so his vision is not broad enough, it is easy to be instigated by people with a heart, a little little thing, it is easy to cause a big conflict, even if his Feng family father and son have a very high prestige in Lingnan, they usually handle things carefully, although there have been no major rebellions in these years, but small problems often arise.

After Feng Zhidai received the order, Feng Ang asked about some of the situation in Chang'an, and Sun Xiangfu naturally said on the good side, saying how much His Majesty trusted him, what gifts he sent him, how much he expected from the land of Lingnan, and so on.

After a while, dozens of carts transported the gifts given to Feng Ang by Li Shimin from the dock, Feng Ang saw the carts in the courtyard from the hall at a glance, and pointed to one of them, "This is what you call the Quyuan plow?" ”

The four-headed Quyuan plough is a little big, a carriage will pull a three, just ten Quyuan plows, it will take up three or four carts, last year when Li Shimin ordered the Guanzhong land to build a plow, but the imperial court implemented, slowly spread to the local states and counties, it takes a long time, at this time half a year has passed, Guangzhou only received a drawing that I don't know how many times it was copied, really see the real thing, this is the first time, no way, ancient is this office efficiency.

"Exactly, using this plough to plow the land can get twice the result with half the effort." Sun Xiangfu came to the courtyard with Feng Ang and replied.

Feng Ang was overjoyed when he heard this, "My Lingnan is rich in melons and fruits, but farming is weak, and there is a shortage of food every year. ”

In Sun Xiangfu's view, the people of the Central Plains during this period were not very good at farming, let alone Lingnan people.

The Lingnan people who hold Baoshan don't know how to develop, it doesn't matter, Sun Xiangfu came to teach them, when it comes to farming, Sun Xiangfu, who was originally a southerner in later generations, will be energetic.

"Yue Gong, the climate of Lingnan is mild, crops can be grown all year round, with this plough, you can first cultivate some fertile land along mountain streams and low-lying land, and then ······"

Feng An, who is good at political affairs, was very interested in these reclamation, field opening, and planting, and chatted with Sun Xiangfu for half a day, until Feng Zhidai came back from the dock with a solemn face.

"Father, I found out that many people from the north have gone to the tribe of the people in the village in the past two days."

"Really? It's okay, some guys who can't be raised are just cleaned up, as for those who come from the north, if they catch them alive, hand them over to Sun Xiamu to deal with! ”

Feng An's tone was still calm, but there was a hint of fierceness in his eyes, he was a general who had been fighting for many years, although he himself was better at government affairs, but he had long been accustomed to seeing life and death, if those sons of the family were inciting his hardcore subordinates to persuade him to advance, then he still had a little headache, but he was just inciting the rebellion of the bureaucratic tribes, and he could suppress it between his hands, and he had been in Lingnan for many years, and he had already made the business here a monolith.

The war came so quietly, no matter whether the means of those families were high or not, it was none of Sun Xiangfu's business, as Li Shimin's envoy, he would not be sent to the front line, after being received by Feng Ang in the mansion with a high standard, he couldn't be idle and taught Feng Ang to plant the land.

Lingnan mountains and forests are staggered, and the land is moist, it is a tropical rainforest climate, most of the land has been uncultivated for thousands of years, it is very fertile, almost all staple food rations can be planted here, and it can be planted for two to three seasons a year, so that if you open up the wasteland, you basically do not need to choose what season.

Driving the cattle and pulling the plough and rake, in a relatively flat mountain and wasteland, Sun Xiangfu decided to show Feng Ang and the hundreds of farmers he brought over to show the effect of the Quyuan plough, and even Xuanzang and Li Chunfeng, two religious elements, followed the large team to the edge of the field to watch the excitement.

"Yue Gong, please see, this plough is simple to operate, as long as the people in front will drive the cattle, the people behind the plough hold the handle of the plow, if it is a single-headed plow, only one person, you can hold the plow with one hand, and drive the ox with one hand."

After a while, a few craftsmen brought by Sun Xiangfu set up the plow, and at this time, the surrounding area of this wasteland was already surrounded by hundreds of farmers.

"Up, uh."

The two oxen walked side by side, Sun Xiangfu personally supported the plow handle behind him, and everyone felt that the mud that was usually difficult to dig seemed to suddenly become brittle, and was immediately ploughed out of a trench more than one meter wide.

Under everyone's stunned expressions, Sun Xiangfu walked back and forth in this field in less than ten minutes.

"This, this, how many acres of land will be cultivated?"

Feng Ang couldn't believe his eyes, snatched the handle of the plow in Sun Xiangfu's hand, and said to the farmer who was driving the cattle in front, "Drive the cattle, the old man will try it himself." ”

Then, almost at about the same time, Feng Ang returned to where he was.

"With this plough here, I am afraid that the land that can be planted in Lingnan will not be more than ten thousand in the coming year."

As soon as Feng An's exclamation came out, this quyuan plow was regarded as a treasure by the local people, and many farmers cheered around a few ploughs, Feng Ang immediately ordered that all craftsmen in Guangzhou must learn to build this plow, of course, this is why Sun Xiangfu will bring more than ten craftsmen from Chang'an, professional teaching.

However, even if all the craftsmen came, in fact, there were only a few hundred people, no way, there were few people in Lingnan during this period, and the rumored belt armor was 100,000, that is, all the young and strong, the total population should only be three or four hundred thousand, not as large as the population of a county here in later generations.

When everyone was immersed in cheers, Sun Xiangfu felt a little itchy on his legs, and at a glance, there were actually two leeches staring at it to suck blood.

"Jun buy, bring the alcohol."

For the creature leech, Sun Xiangfu, who has been dealing with farmland for many years, is naturally familiar with it, and he didn't expect that after walking in the wasteland for a few minutes, he would be hit in two places.

Knowing that Lingnan at this time is a place of smoke and miasma, before coming, Sun Xiangfu also made a lot of preparations, and after a while, Xi Junmai took a bottle of distilled liquor, Sun Xiangfu smeared it on the adsorption of leeches, and after a while, two leeches fell off his legs.

"Hehe, Sun Xia Mu is used to being in the north, so he is squeamish! This leech can be found everywhere in our Lingnan miasma, and it is in vain that this bottle of good wine is blind. Feng Ang smelled the strong smell of wine, and while laughing, he easily ripped off the two leeches on his legs.

"The more public it is, the more you deal with it, the suction cups of the leeches are easy to break into the skin and cause infection." After that, Sun Xiangfu took the alcohol and smeared it on Feng An's body.