On October 26, the ninth year of Chongzhen, his wife Zu Wan'er gave birth to a daughter for Li Xiao. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zu Wan'er, who was weak, heard the midwife and a group of maids laughing and running to tell her that when she gave birth to a big fat daughter, the smile on her face was somewhat stiff.

Zu Wan'er has always wanted to give birth to a son to Li Xiao in her heart.

She had imagined countless times that if she gave birth to a son, she would definitely be as heroic and handsome as Li Xiao, a hero among people, and she would have more status in this Li Mansion.

Although she is a flat wife, but now her wife Zhu Yujiao has given birth to a son, but she has only given birth to a daughter, Zu Wan'er feels that she has been compared to Zhu Yumei all of a sudden.

Then Li Xiao, will he look down on himself。。。。。。

She was so confused that she finally sighed softly in her heart, alas, why didn't God fulfill her wish?

It's just that when the midwife wrapped the child and handed it to her in swaddling clothes, seeing the child's pink and cute little face that seemed like herself, Zu Wan'er's mother's love in her heart rose, and most of the original unhappiness was gone.

At this time, Li Xiao had already entered the delivery room quickly under the leadership of a maid.

"My precious daughter, take it to the officer!"

As soon as Li Xiao entered the room, he immediately laughed and shouted loudly.

"Shhhh Zu Wan'er stood up slightly, and said softly to Li Xiao, who was walking quickly.

Li Xiao walked over quickly, gently picked up the child placed on Zu Wan'er's side, looked at it repeatedly, laughed while watching, kissed while laughing, and had a joyful expression on his face.

"Good fellow, it weighs six pounds, and she must be a strong and good girl in the future." Li Xiao grinned, and gently pinched the child's little face, and the child was touched by him, and suddenly burst into tears.

"Look at you, let you hug her so much, it will make her cry now." Zu Wan'er glared at him and said angrily.

However, Zu Wan'er said that, she was very happy to see that Li Xiao loved this daughter so much.

"Li Xiao, let me ask you, you have to tell the truth."

Zu Wan'er thought about it, and still whispered to Li Xiao.

"Yo, look at your serious little appearance, you say, for the husband must answer truthfully, haha." Li Xiao didn't care at all, and continued to laugh and tease the child in his arms.

"Do you really like her。。。。。。

The smile on Li Xiao's face paused, and he immediately understood in his heart what Zu Wan'er was worried about.

He turned his head and said to Zu Wan'er with a smile: "Wan'er, you, everything is fine, but you have always been a little cautious, let's tell you the truth, a husband is not a patriarchal person, no matter boys and girls, I like it equally, don't think about it." Li Xiao gently put down the child and caressed Zu Wan'er's scattered hair lovingly.

Zu Wan'er sighed softly, and like a gentle kitten, she enjoyed caressing and warmth in his arms.

Not long after, Zhu Yumei, Zhuo Naxi, Ingmar and other wives and concubines of Li Xiao all ran into the room to watch the children. Everyone loved Li Xiao's daughter very much, and carefully passed it on to each other to watch, while chattering and commenting.

"Look at this child's face and small mouth, how similar it is to Wan'er, when she grows up, she must be a little beauty."

"That's right, this kid's skin is good, white and tender, it's really cute, let me hug it more."

"You see, although she was just born, she has green hair like ink, and she is very rich and noble, and in the future, she will definitely be able to marry a prince and grandson, haha."

Looking at the harmonious appearance of his wives and concubines, Li Xiao was extremely happy in his heart.

At this time, Zhu Yumei raised her head and asked Li Xiao with a smile: "Husband, have you thought about it, what is the name of our little beauty?" ”

Li Xiao groaned slightly, remembering an ancient fu he had learned in his previous life, and said with a smile: "In Zhang Heng's "Si Xuan Fu", there is a sentence that Shu Miaojing's slender waist is tight, and the emblem of miscellaneous mistakes is raised. In my opinion, I will name the child Li Jing. Jing, the meaning of softness and chastity, its meaning is very good. ”

Zhu Yumei smiled and said: "It's good to get the name of husband, come, let me hug Xiao Jingjing again." ”

The wives and concubines are fighting for me, and the whole room is full of laughter.

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Three days later, Zheng Cai's fleet arrived at the port of Longkou in Chifengwei.

At this time, the officials who recruited the displaced people from Beizhili, Xuanfu Town, and Shandong Province have all led the displaced people back after nearly a month of solicitation, and according to the statistics of the Department of Civil Affairs, the total number of people has reached more than 363,000, which is almost double the number of people scheduled by Li Xiao!

Chen Zilong and Xu Xiuqing, who were in charge of recruiting the displaced people, explained to Li Xiao that the main reason why there were so many displaced people was because of the rampant thieves in Shaanxi and Shanxi, which caused a large number of Qin and Jin refugees to flee to Xuanfu Town and Beizhili and other places.

Li Xiao, who understood the reason, did not delve into anything, after all, there are a large number of wastelands in Taiwan waiting for immigrants to reclaim, and these more than 360,000 people can be accommodated, and these displaced people, after hard work, traveled thousands of miles to Chifengwei to take refuge in themselves, and it is naturally impossible for him to send them back. It's just that when you go south by boat, it will be more crowded, and the amount of rice and grain that needs to be supplied will increase a lot.

However, these difficulties are relatively easy to solve.

He then ordered that all these displaced people temporarily set up tents outside Chifeng City to live, rest on the spot for three days, and then go to Taiwan to colonize.

At the same time, Li Xiao decided that he would personally go to Taiwan to transport the displaced people.

After all, only by going to Taiwan in person can we better understand the real situation and make better judgments and decisions on how Taiwan will operate.

After the arrival of the Zheng Cai and Zhenglian brothers, Li Xiao warmly entertained them. At the banquet, the guests and hosts persuaded each other to drink, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After a full meal, Li Xiao recommended the Chinese brand cigarettes and cigars produced by Chi Fengwei to the Zheng brothers.

For these two things, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian were not as curious and interested as Shen Zhixiang, the deputy chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, because they had already seen this kind of cigarette.

As early as the twenties of the sixteenth century, these cigarettes and cigars were produced in Indonesia and other places by the Dutch, but the price of Dutch cigarettes was more expensive, and the wholesale price of selling to Taiwan was basically 3.5 to 4 yuan of silver.

After tasting the Zhonghua brand cigarettes made by Li Xiao's cigarette factory, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian were pleasantly surprised to find that the cigarettes produced by Li Xiao here are not worse than those produced by the Dutch, and there are more small things such as filters, which greatly reduce the choking feeling of cigarette smoke, but they are more upscale and healthier.

And what made Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian the most happy was that Li Xiao quoted them a more favorable price for such a higher-end filter cigarette, that is, the same as the one reported to Shen Zhixiang that day, 2 yuan per cigarette and 4 yuan per cigar.

Seeing Li Xiao so generous, Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian were extremely happy, and immediately agreed.

Zheng Cai quickly thought that if the cigarettes were resold to Nanyang or Japan, the price could be tripled, and this more high-end looking cigarette should be more popular with smokers than ordinary cigarettes made by the Dutch without filters.

From the beginning of October to the present, Li Xiao has produced a total of about 2 million cigarettes, 1.3 million cigars, in addition to the 200,000 bought by Shen Zhixiang, another more than 400,000 have been bought by merchants in Shandong, North Zhili, South Zhili, Henan and other places, and another 400,000 cigarettes have been shipped to Jintangcheng, Xuanfu Town, to supply Xuanda region and Mongolian departments.

And now the remaining 2.3 million cigarettes, Zheng Cai saw that Li Xiao offered a preferential price, and it was not easy to come north to Shandong, so he had to buy all the remaining cigarettes.

Li Xiao was very happy when he saw that he wanted to buy them all. Subsequently, he agreed with Zheng Cai that this time to transport the displaced people, Li Xiao himself, will personally lead the immigration group to Taiwan, and take care of the food on the way, so that the freight rate of 2 taels of silver for a displaced person will be offset, so that the total price is about 570,000 taels. Li Xiao counted the whole number, including the grain, commercial goods, and guards to be shipped, and the total freight rate was 600,000 taels.

Among the 2.3 million cigarettes purchased by Zheng Cai, including 1.5 million cigarettes and 800,000 cigars, the total price was 620,000 taels of silver.

Because of the large number of displaced people, Li Xiao agreed with Zheng Cai that at least more than 300 ships would be set aside to transport the displaced people to Taiwan this time. After Li Xiaofu returned to Shandong by Zheng Cai's fleet, he used cigarettes to offset the freight.

Zheng Cai had no objection to Li Xiao's condition, and he was even thinking that the next time the fleet came to Shandong, Li Xiao should have produced a large number of cigarettes and cigars, but he bought them back at the same time, and then trafficked them to Nanyang and Japan on a large scale.

After reaching an agreement, the relationship between the guest and the host is more harmonious, after all, in these years, there is nothing more popular than interests and wealth.

The second day of November in the ninth year of Chongzhen.

On this day, the weather was very cold, the dark clouds were low, the sea breeze was cold, and the fine crystal snowflakes flew and fell from the sky, and the sea and the sky were full of the vast and gloomy taste.

Li Xiao took Li Haoran's escort of more than 100 people, as well as 1,200 auxiliary soldiers, led 283,000 displaced people, as well as a large number of doctors and construction craftsmen, and then brought 5 million stone grain, 6 million taels of silver, and a large number of various commercial goods produced by Chifengwei, boarded Zheng Cai's fleet and went south to Taiwan.

The ships transporting grain merchants' goods and silver were loaded onto the ships as early as two days ago, and a total of nearly 100 large ships were loaded, and more than 150 large ships were also loaded with cigarettes, ironware, woolen wool, raw silk, silk and other commercial goods purchased by Zheng Cai and others, with a total purchase value of more than 3 million taels of silver.

The remaining 350 ships were transporting the 363,000 displaced people. On average, more than 1,000 displaced people were carried on each boat, and although it was crowded, it was still basically acceptable.

At the same time, Li Xiao assigned 20 auxiliaries to each of the 600 ships to maintain order with the Zheng soldiers. And all the healers and craftsmen, as well as the escort team, all went south with Li Xiao on the largest No. 1 lucky boat that Zheng Cai was sitting on.

The scale of the 360,000 displaced people on the ship was extremely huge, but fortunately, the Department of Civil Affairs had already made a plan and assigned a specific ship number to each group of displaced people, so that the team of displaced people on the ship was busy but not chaotic, although the scale was large, but it was well organized.

For a while, there was a cry on the dock.

It is understandable that the homeless people are so sad. Because every homeless person knows that it will be difficult to return to his homeland in the north after traveling thousands of miles to the south in this life and this life.

It's just that in the face of the cruel problem of survival, all the nostalgia can only be quietly hidden in the heart.

Families of displaced people, dressed in rags, dragged the old and the young, and took the few remaining belongings, and got on the boat, and then disappeared into the sea of people.

According to historical rumors, the number of displaced people in the entire late Ming Dynasty added up to nearly 10 million, and in Li Xiao's eyes, these 360,000 displaced people can have the opportunity to go to Taiwan to make a living, in fact, it is still a rare lucky person.

If Li Xiao had not crossed into this world, the fate of these displaced people would have been quite tragic, either dying of hunger, cold and disease, or slashing by swords, and finally died silently in this bloody era of war and famine, becoming a cold death number in the history books.

Now, Li Xiao believes that these displaced people are like seeds, which have been sown to distant foreign lands, and then take root there, and since then, the displaced people have been able to recuperate and reproduce, and those foreign lands that have been painstakingly opened up by the Han people will forever become the inherent territory of China.

It took nearly a day from the time the displaced people began to board the ships and all the ships left the shore.

And Li Xiao was also at the dock, hugging and saying goodbye to his wives and concubines.

Because Zu Wan'er was still in confinement, she didn't come to say goodbye, only Zhu Yuji, Zhuo Naxi, and Ingmar came. Thinking that his daughter Li Jing had just been born and had not yet enjoyed much fatherly love, he was about to leave her, Li Xiao felt a little guilty in his heart.

The wives and concubines looked at Li Xiao, who was wearing a sword at his waist, wearing a red cloak on his shoulders, and dressed as a senior military attaché, and everyone's eyes were full of affection and reluctance.

"Husband, how long are you going to stay in Taiwan?" Zhu Yumei, whose hair was a little scattered by the wind, asked Li Xiao with a worried expression.

"From Chifengwei to Taiwan, it is cheaper to go back and forth for two months, and if the husband is in Taiwan, I am afraid that he will have to stay for at least two months, and it will take about four months before he can return to Shandong." Li Xiao groaned for a while, and then whispered to her: "Mei'er, if you go here for your husband, I will ask you to take good care of Cheng'er." ”

Zhu Yumei stared at his handsome face, nodded lightly, and said softly; "Husband, don't worry, I will take good care of Cheng'er, and we will wait for you to come back together in Chifeng City."

"Li Xiao, then you went to Taiwan, I have been in Shandong for so long, and I should return to the Tumut Department. We'll see you next time you come to the prairie. As soon as Zhu Yumei finished speaking, Ingmar smiled at Li Xiaolang and said, "I remember that you said that you would marry me from the Tumut Department in a beautiful way." ”

Li Xiao laughed out loud and patted him lightly on the shoulder: "Don't worry, Li Xiao's words are out, and his deeds will be fruitful, look at this time next year, I will personally go to the Tumut Ministry to propose marriage to your father and mother, and welcome you into the house in a beautiful manner!" ”

Ingmar gave him a wink, but at the same time pinched Li Xiao's waist fiercely, making Li Xiao grin in pain.

"Husband, you are going to Taiwan, you have traveled thousands of miles, you must take good care of yourself." Zhuo Naxi, who had not spoken, sounded timidly.

Li Xiao turned his head, looked at Zhuo Naxi's petite and weak figure, and looked at her with a look of concern, his heart was warm and astringent.

This Manchurian woman, who had a tragic background, was rescued by her own luck, and has now become her own concubine, always filled Li Xiao with a desire to protect.

"Well, I will, it's cold now, and you guys have to take care of yourself. You know, you are my Li Xiao, the person I care about the most in this world. After Li Xiao finished speaking affectionately, he gave each wife and concubine a deep hug.

In the evening, Li Xiao, who was reluctant to cling to his wives and concubines, finally boarded the leading No. 1 lucky boat and left.

The sea breeze is bleak, the fine snowflakes are already flying all over the sky, the Longkou Port in the south is getting smaller and smaller, and between heaven and earth, there is no one in the vastness.

Sailing in such an empty and monotonous environment, Li Xiao felt that the ship under his feet seemed to be still, as if it was forever stagnant between the increasingly dim sea and sky.

Li Xiao, who was looking from the side, let the cold snowflakes caress his handsome face, his eyes were deep, his expression was serious, and no one knew what he was thinking. (To be continued.) )