Before going north, Xu Zixian had already decided to cooperate with the Changwen Marquis Mansion to plant cotton, and he would also immigrate to the island, which had been implemented in Fuzhou, and no one was expected to object.

The displaced people of Zhangzhou have become a burden on the governments and military prefectures, and they are not allowed to return to their hometowns when they are abroad, and the help of the government is a large amount of expenses, and their hometowns are ruined, and the expenses for immigrants to go back and resettle are too great.

And moving to the Eastern Domain to grow cotton was a matter of two pence for each other.

Although the Marquis of Changwen and Xu Zixian had to invest a lot of money together, they could get enough manpower to open up the wasteland, and at the same time, once the trial planting of cotton fields was successful, the abundance of the harvest could be imagined.

For the displaced people in Zhangzhou, someone can provide them with food and clothing for up to a year, provide them with farm tools, and even help them build houses and courtyards, which is also a pie-in-the-sky good thing, how can they not want to do it?

For the Marquis of Changwen, the development of the Eastern Domain was just a business, and for Xu Zixian, there was no doubt that it was necessary to build a reliable overseas base.

Starting with the cotton fields, Xingbu has many profitable trading businesses, firmly controls the locality, and it is best to set up regimental training to replace the current military villages of different sizes under Taiwan's defense envoys, and completely include the Eastern Domain, which is the most secret abacus in Xu Zixian's heart...... Unexpectedly, he was seen through by this Fang Shaoqun at a glance.

"I foolishly thought that it was important to develop cotton fields, other ways to make money, and horse breeding. However, there is one most important thing, the prince must start to act as soon as he returns to Fuzhou......" Fang Shaoqun said to Xu Zixian: "If there is no such thing, I am afraid that everything is a tree without roots, and it will not be able to withstand the ravages of the waves." ”

"Mr. Fang, please be clear."

"Water Builder." Fang Shaoqun said categorically: "It's not to build a water camp, but to rebuild a water division that is enough to resist the enemy bandits, if there is no water division, all the distribution of the prince and prince is likely to make wedding clothes for others." ”

Xu Zixian was slightly slighted, almost doubting that Fang Shaoqun could hear his heart, this mind was also too powerful, right?

"In the past few days, I have talked with Renfu and ...... prison," Fang Shaoqun continued: "I know something about the situation in Fuzhou, and I also know that the prince has a few witty words...... Things are divided into the following types, important things that are urgent to do, important things that are not in a hurry to do, things that are not important but anxious to do, and things that are not important and not in a hurry to do. ”

Fang Shaoqun suddenly sighed, and said a little gloomy: "Actually, I wrote to the Son of Heaven and suggested that the rebuilding of the water division was also done below, Liu Dashen didn't think so, but he still had a secret plan, and the Son of Heaven ordered the courtiers to discuss, Han was right, in fact, Liu Zhiyuan didn't agree with it...... Now it is too difficult to ask the imperial court to come up with tens of millions of yuan, even if it is invested in ten years, but the Son of Heaven and the rulers do not understand that in the current situation, it is useless to build a forbidden army of dozens of armies and hundreds of armies, if the imperial court can build a powerful naval division with a scale of 50,000 or 60,000 people and more than 1,000 warships, the whole situation can be turned over......"

"Mr. Fang is fortunately going south with me." Xu Zi was silent for a while, and finally said, "Otherwise, I really don't know what to do!" ”

"The meaning of the prince is that if he doesn't follow the south, he has to endure the pain and get rid of it, so that he can avoid future troubles, right?" Fang Shaoqun first smiled proudly, and then he was depressed for a while, he shook his head and said: "The goods must know the seller, and then be good at making suggestions, if no one appreciates it, after all, it will be difficult for a good woman to cook without rice." I went south, hoping to assist the prince and achieve a real career. ”

Xu Zixian said: "I am full of expectations for Mr. Fang. ”

Fang Shaoqun was already silent, Xu Zixian knew that this person had been reading the materials of the south every day recently, including almost a whole car of newspapers and various manuals, literati notes, overseas strange stories, official Di Baotang Newspaper and so on.

Through these materials, Fang Shaoqun was trying to understand the south, which was quite unfamiliar to him before.

It is not only Fujian Road, but also Liangzhejiang, Jingnan Jingbei, Jiangnan East Road, Jiangnan West Road, Guangnan West Road, Guangnan East Road, Yunnan Road, Guizhou Road and so on.

Even including the Heavenly Kingdom, the European countries that are still very rare, and of course the Eastern and Western countries, are all among Fang Shaoqun's understanding.

This person is really very thoughtful, and he is also extremely smart, drawing inferences from one another, touching on analogies, extremely agile in thinking, and his grasp of people's hearts is also extremely accurate, and in just a few days, he has already gotten along quite well with Chen Zuocai, Chen Daojian and others.

is a little arrogant, not particularly respectful to Xu Zixian, except for Chen Daojian, there is a feeling of disdain for others.

According to the news that Jin Jian heard, Fang Shaoqun was even more arrogant and domineering in Liu Zhiyuan's mansion, Liu Zhiyuan was often angry with him, if it weren't for this, Fang Shaoqun should be the first person in Liu Mansion, not the embarrassing situation later.

In this way, it is already quite restrained in the group of Nan'anhou Mansion.

"Let's get ready to head south." When Fang Shaoqun said this, Xu Zixian also felt that the burden on his body was extremely heavy, and the future was far from optimistic.

If the Great Wei court intends to cheer up, the whole world's sailors will be used by the imperial court, as long as a lot of money is invested, it is not too difficult to save a sailor who can sweep the coast of China within a few years.

And Xu Zixian is difficult, no matter how high his current prestige and power are, can he compare with the Great Wei court?

How many talented people, the imperial court can be recruited as soon as the edict arrives, why is the Nan'an Hou Mansion?

Talent is more rare than money, and Xu Zixian is far behind in money.

Not to mention anything else, if the imperial court makes up its mind, it is not impossible to invest five million yuan a year in the water master, Xu Zi sold himself first, how much money can he sell?

This year is more optimistic, and the maximum income may be more than 800,000 yuan, but there is a lot of money to be invested in the regimental training of military soldiers and Qizhou soldiers, and how much can be spent on the sailors?

Without a strong sailor, as Fang Shaoqun said, no matter how big the force is, it is a tree without roots, with the situation of Fujian and the Eastern Domain, without a sailor, you can only defend passively, and there will always be a time of negligence in a thousand days to prevent thieves, and if you are not careful, years of hard work will be completely in vain.

The situation is like this, Jingshi is also a tiger's den in Longtan, it is not advisable to stay for a long time, of course, it is better to leave as soon as possible.

Everyone shouted and promised, although the time in the north is not long, but the sword and sword, everywhere is dangerous, everyone is a southerner, the climate and environment of the north are not very adaptable, the diet is not very like, the Fujian people are located on the side of the sea, love to eat seafood, although the Beijing division is near, the sea in the north is inconvenient to transport, especially in winter, even if there is fish is not fresh, so that the southerners are quite unaccustomed.

In addition to the more pasta, less rice, Fujian has been growing rice for many years, the people eat more rice, even if the rice noodles are similar to noodles, the taste and flavor are absolutely different, when I heard Xu Zi first said that he wanted to return to the south, everyone was happy, although they carried a lot of items, they were in a hurry, but they still packed up all the things in the shortest possible time.

When he went out of Nanxun Gate, Fang Shaoqun went to his father's grave to worship, everyone knew that they might not be able to come back for a few years, and the other party's thoughts could be understood, so they were waiting outside Nanxun Gate.

Groups of forbidden troops stationed in Henan and Shandong were already marching towards the Beijing Division, and the nearest forbidden army general had already rushed to the Beijing Division with his cavalry, and the speed was certainly not slow.

Chen Zuocai and Xu Zixian rode side by side under the huge tower of Nanxun Gate, an open field and starry villages outside the city, and then Xu Zixian found that there were very few trees outside the Jingshi, similar to the bare mountains of Fujian Road.

"It's been more than 200 years." Chen Zuocai seemed to understand Xu Zixian's thoughts, and said: "The firewood of more than one million soldiers and civilians is obtained from outside the city, and even the densest forests are cut down. ”

Chen Daojian said on the side: "This is indeed the case, just like many mountains on our Fujian Road, there are very few big logs. ”

"I'll test you." Xu Zixian smiled and said: "Prison, now that the trees in Jingshi have been cut down, then let me ask you, when the cold weather is pressing in winter and spring, the people also need to keep warm, how many restaurants and restaurants also need firewood, and there is no such thing in the palace, so where does this thing come from now?" ”

Chen Daojian didn't think about it, thought about it, and said, "Did you switch to charcoal?" ”

Coal is coal, Henan Road, Hedong Road, Yongxing Military Road and Qinfeng Road because of the many open-pit coal mines, coupled with the early development and dense population, there have been no green mountains and green waters for a long time.

Many books think that traveling back hundreds of years must have a wonderful environment, which can be said to be a misunderstanding. The river water is indeed very clear, there are a lot of fish and shrimp, this is an undoubted fact, but the green mountains are definitely not visible, unless it is a place where the remote wilderness is underdeveloped, such as Guizhou and Jingnan in Yunnan, a large number of barren mountains are full of greenery, which is completely different from Fujian Road, Guangdong South Road and Liangzhejiang Road.

"No, no." Chen Daojian first overturned his words and said: "I didn't smell the pungent smell, the sky was not gray, and it didn't look like a large-scale charcoal." ”

Henan Road, which uses charcoal for heating on a large scale, Kaifeng Mansion is a famous fog capital, and when it is serious in winter, it is impossible to reach out and lose five fingers, and there are many similar jokes registered in the newspaper.

"It is the charcoal of Hedong Road, Jingxi Road, Shandong East Road, West Road, Henan Road and other roads." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "The palace will use more than five million catties in winter and spring, which is a royal tribute, and all walks of life must pay tribute free of charge." The people of Jingshi are purchased, and it costs tens of millions of catties a year, but compared with those used in the palace, the civil, military and fine people are already used less. ”

Chen Zuocai said with a smile: "The civil and military officials don't have to buy it themselves, and there are many millions of catties in the palace that are given to the officials." ”

"That's just as well." Xu Zixian said: "From the bottom of the slaughter to the ninth grade, there are charcoal ranging from thousands of catties to dozens of catties. ”

"There aren't many trees on the roads, do they?" Chen Daojian shook his head and said: "If you continue to cut down like this, I'm afraid that everywhere you see will become barren mountains." ”

"So we still have to use coal." Chen Zuocai traveled south and north, with rich experience, and said at the moment: "I went to Hedong Road, where the coal reserves are amazing, and many of the coal mines are open-pit shallow mines, and they can be dug out directly with a spade, which is very convenient." ”

"The smell of soot is too big when the charcoal is burned." Chen Daojian said: "And it can't be used to make iron." ”

"In the north, iron is still made of coal," Chen Zuocai said, "It is true that there are many impurities, easy to rust, and brittle." ”

Xu Zixian nodded slightly, these officials are still outstanding, and the shortcomings and advantages of coal are clear.