Recently, ......, well, probably since he learned the news that the soldiers and horses of Qi Province withstood the attack of the entire Tartar division, Li Feihu often felt a little regretful.

He regretted that when Xu Shiyang went to Jiangnan with poverty and whiteness, he didn't make more efforts to win him over.

If Li Feihu knew that Xu Shiyang could achieve today's achievements at that time, he felt that he should persuade his eldest brother to marry Li Feihuang directly to Xu Shiyang-Xu Shiyang did not have a wife at that time.

It's a pity that Li Feihu doesn't have the ability to be a prophet, he was good to Xu Shiyang at that time, but for a cow who is likely to win the Central Plains, at least Nengyongzhen Province, that investment is still too little.

After learning that Xu Shiyang's counterattack on southern Liaoning had made initial progress, Li Feihu immediately made up his mind that this time he would tie the Li and Xu families together no matter what!

Even if his own daughter marries Xu Shiyang's second son!

After making this proposal, Li Feihu stared at Xu Shiyang tightly, for fear of saying a word in his mouth.

In fact, hearing Li Feihu's request for marriage, Xu Shiyang was not surprised.

Now that the Xu family is no longer what it used to be, the strength of the Governor's Mansion of Qi Province can be seen by the world with the reference of the Jurchen Tartars.

Even if the Xu family doesn't want to sit facing the south, they must be loyal ministers to Da Zhou, at least there is no problem in Yongzhen Qi Province.

This is already a well-known independent force, an absolute emperor of the soil.

It's strange that ambitious people don't come to marry.

Didn't you see that even the Wen family, who was loyal to the imperial court, left a way out here?

It's just that Xu Shiyang didn't expect that Li Feihu's proposed marriage partner would be his newly born second son.

"Brother Li, I can agree to this family business."

Xu Shiyang asked suspiciously:

"It's just that I'm curious, why did you choose my second child? Your own daughter is now two years old? That should be a good match for my boss, right? ”

Xu Shiyang's eldest son is three years old this year, one year older than Li Feihu's youngest daughter, which seems to be more suitable than the second son, who is two years younger than the woman.

"Nothing, I don't want you to be misunderstood." Li Feihu said very generously.

"Misunderstanding? Ahh......h ”

Xu Shiyang was a little sluggish in this regard, and after being reminded by Li Feihu, he barely figured out some truths:

The Xu family is a promising independent force, and in such a family, the succession of parents in the future will inevitably be full of crises and competition like the palace.

But generally speaking, the most competitive for that position should be the eldest son who is older and has a longer time to establish his own power, and the eldest son who has the name of righteousness.

The second son is at a natural disadvantage in this regard, on the contrary, he has a better chance not to get involved in dangerous competition, Li Feihu feels that this is better for his daughter, that's all.

"Marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous wife, a longer wife will hurt people more."

Li Feihu said with a smile:

"It's good for your little two, right?"

"Hehe, that's what I said." Xu Shiyang didn't explain his thoughts on the future inheritance to him, but just responded and said, "Since Brother Li thinks so, then let's do it." ”

"Then find an opportunity to formalize the matter of the two children." Seeing that Xu Shiyang agreed, Li Feihu said with a little excitement.

Xu Shiyang pondered and said, "Well, but I have a proposal here. ”

"What proposal?"

"The children are still young, what will they grow up to become, we don't have a spectrum yet, it's better to do this: when the two children grow up to 5 years old, let them live back and forth between Qi Province and Shuangyu."

"It just so happens that your daughter is two years older, and she will come to me first after she is five years old, and my wife and I will take care of her for two years, and let the children get acquainted with her. Two years later, my family will be 5 years old, and then I will follow your daughter back to Shuangyu and ask Brother Li to take care of me for two years. ”

"In this way, we can see the growth of our children, and we are more assured about the future of our children."

This can also be regarded as Xu Shiyang's compensation for forcing a feudal marriage on his son - he has lived with his wife since he was a child, and his relationship should be better than that of strangers.

"This is quite new, are you willing to do it?" Li Feihu smiled: "Also, there is no precedent for this matter, and others won't chew the root of their tongues?" ”

"Brother Li, you and I are both doing big things, do you still care about this?"

Xu Shiyang said with a smile:

"I want all my children, male and female, to have a broad horizon, a bright future, and to be able to develop their own careers, instead of fighting over the little property I have left them."

Also, no matter what, Xu Shiyang will never hand over his children to the women of the deep palace or eunuchs to raise and take care of, which is definitely not a good thing for the country and the nation.

……

Li Feihu left with a satisfactory result.

According to the agreement, he will transport the sulfur he received from Fuso's Oda family to Qi Province within a month, and he will transport another 10,000 catties of sulfur every year for the next three years.

In addition, Li Feihu and his cheap price bought the fleet captured by Xu Shiyang in Lushun, including Li Feibao's ships that escaped into Port Arthur and the ships of Fusang and Goryeo merchants—Xu Shiyang himself did not have enough sailors to handle the rags anyway.

This is a big reinforcement for Li Feihu.

In exchange, Li Feihu will send some veteran sailors who can sail to the South China Sea and Tianzhu Ocean to train naval officers for Qi Province.

Xu Shiyang planned to open a naval officer school and a special naval arsenal on the site of the former island city, and Li Feihu's sailors would become naval instructors in Qi Province.

According to Xu Shiyang's vision, the Island City Naval School is temporarily divided into two disciplines:

The Command College focuses on navigation, gunnery, naval command and maritime tactics.

The Faculty of Science and Technology is dominated by science majors such as shipbuilding and artillery building.

The former studied at the school for three years, and then went on board for two years of internship. The latter studied at the university for five years, but found a few months each year to participate in an internship at the Naval Arsenal.

For the naval arsenal, Xu Shiyang hopes that they can provide the navy with specialized ships, equipment and armament.

In particular, Xu Shiyang proposed several equipment that the navy needs to focus on developing in the next stage: including sextants, various optical sighting instruments, and professional naval guns (the navy in the province must be recharged with army guns for every operation, and when the army goes ashore, the navy will degenerate into a non-artillery fleet) and sailing ships that are more suitable for sea navigation.

The navy is a highly specialized service, and now Xu Shiyang's sailors can rely on artillery to dominate the eastern coastal waters, but they cannot shrink in the yellow water forever, sooner or later, they will set sail and go to the unknown world to open up a new living space for this nation and this country.

At that time, it will be too late to start building a professional navy, and everything Xu Shiyang is doing for the navy now is to prepare for a rainy day in the future.