The fields, the houses, the toiling people. Along the way, only this place shows that it is full of life. Wei Qing was a little intoxicated, this place was originally the place of the Chu State. When Han Xin was renamed from the King of Qi to the King of Chu, Wei Qing was born in Chu, and he had a natural affinity for Weiqing, the homeland of Chu, so when he was desperate, he still chose to come to Hengshan Country and stayed for so many years.

The land of Jianghuai is not a good place, with the Huai River in the north and the big river in the south, surrounded by two large rivers, and floods are a frequent occurrence. Although the weather has been good in recent years, it has been flooded many times, and many places have turned into swamps. Wei Qing and Hou Yong are both from Hengshan, so they naturally know what Jianghuai is like, but what they see now is completely different from what they imagined.

"Welcome to my Jiangsu!" Su Ren stood on the carriage, stretched out his arms, and made a hugging motion. The action is very cool, but it's a pity that the carriage doesn't give face, a stone cushions, and the carriage shook suddenly, throwing Su Ren off the car and falling hard into the mud.

The people next to him tried to hold back the sound of laughter, and Huang Shisan and Manniu hurriedly dismounted and pulled Su Ren up from the mud. The robe he had just changed into was covered with mud, and even Su Ren's face and head were covered with muddy water.

"Phew!" I spit several times in a row before I salivated the muddy water from my mouth.

The driver hurriedly jumped out of the car, crawled and knelt in front of Su Ren and said goodbye. Huang Shisanyi pulled the driver up, glared at his eyes and cursed, eager to cut it down with a sword.

Su Ren looked at the muddy water covered in him and waved his hand: "Don't blame him, I was careless!" ”

"Humph! You're lucky! ”

Manniu is a sincere person, and he feels that Su Ren fell from the car, which was purely caused by Su Ren, and the driver should not be blamed. Seeing that Su Ren did not move his anger, he was completely relieved. Hurriedly found clothes for Su Ren from the carriage, and went to the canal next to him to fetch water for Su Ren and help Su Ren clean it.

"If you want to laugh, laugh, it's not good for your body to hold it!" While washing his face, he spoke to the guys around him who were almost holding back their internal injuries.

Wei Qingdao: "Mr. Zhenren, this matter is Mr. Wrong, and it has nothing to do with the driver, which Mr. has done very well." ”

"Don't be a sycophant, what do you think of my Jiangsu?"

"Qianmo traffic, the original swamp can have the current situation, Mr. is indispensable!"

"It's still sycophant, I'll let you give your opinion!" After washing his face and changing the clothes brought by the manniu, Su Ren continued: "It looks good, but there are actually problems, the most important thing is that the road has not been repaired, and the light rain last night turned the official road like this, so how can the people travel?" If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, this is the truth. ”

Wei Qing looked at Su Ren in surprise: "Is there always such a shocking phrase in Mr.'s mouth?" If you want to get rich, build roads first! Hahaha, the Qin Straight Road built by King Qin spent millions of manpower back then, and it did play a great role in resisting the Xiongnu. ”

"Military purpose is only one of them, the main thing is civilian, only the people can go out of the house at any time, will go to purchase what they need, businessmen can make money, even the people who bring things to make will also have money, those raw material providers can sell raw materials, so that everyone has earned money, everyone will get rich, everyone will get rich, the country will also get rich, the world will be rich, the court will be rich, who are you afraid of if you have money?"

Su Ren said quickly, Wei Qing couldn't understand it for a while, and blinked his eyes: "What does Mr. mean ......"

Su Ren smiled: "Don't understand? Slowly you will understand, let's go, there is someone in front of you. ”

Hawking's big black horse ran the fastest, and at Hawking's urging, his hooves fell into puddles on the road, stirring up muddy water. All the way from Jiangsu City, the big dark horse turned into a plum blossom horse, and even Hawking's body was full of mud spots.

"Big brother......!" Hawking shouted as he rode his horse.

Su Ren shook his head and smiled bitterly. Without waiting for the big black horse to stop, Hawking jumped, flipped a few times in the air, landed firmly on the ground with two feet, and rolled forward again, and the person had already arrived in front of Su Ren's eyes. The soldiers were dumbfounded, as a southerner, they had never seen such a good horseback riding, it was no problem to practice the horse like flying, and Hawking's dismounting action was not something that everyone could practice.

Regardless of it, he hugged Su Ren. Now Hawking has arrived at Su Ren's shoulder, five big and three thick, and he has long lost the appearance of a child: "Big brother is finally here, finally come to see us, I've been tired of staying in this place where birds don't in the past few months, and I have nothing to do except kill those crocodiles all day long, and now those crocodiles have made us kill the extinct species,......"

Hawking laughed and spat at Su Ren about their experience in Jiangsu City. Su Ren just listened with a smile, and let Hawking tell his credit one by one like a treasure.

At the end of the official road, there was another sound of horses' hooves. As a guard officer, although Hou Yong knew that those people should be Su Ren's subordinates, he still beat a drum in his heart when he heard the sound of horses' hooves. As the saying goes, the north horse and the south ship, and the most important point, the Han is short of horses. Even the richest king of Huainan had no more than 3,000 regular cavalry under his command. However, judging from the voices heard, there were at least five hundred of these cavalry, and they were a considerable force wherever they were placed.

When those cavalry appeared, Hou Yong's mouth grew in surprise. Not to mention the people on the horses, those war horses are fat and strong, although they are not good horses, at least they are rare good horses. Turning his head to look at his mount, Hou Yong sighed.

"Why are you so slow?" Hawking greeted Shi Bao and Li Dare with a smile.

Shi Bao smiled, turned over and dismounted to give Su Ren a salute. Li Kang sat on his horse and nodded at Su Ren. At this point, the superior and the lower are from a family of military generals, no matter what time they are, they will never leave the saddle sword, and even if they encounter an emergency, they can react as quickly as possible.

Hawking pulled Li Dang off the horse: "Seeing that my eldest brother didn't even get off the horse, didn't you kid listen to me, the boss?" ”

Li Dare scratched his head: "My father once said ......"

"Okay, okay, don't move your father's father, we all know that your father is a general."

Su Ren looked at the mess he had just changed into and was messed up by Hawking, and sighed: "Come here, I will introduce you to two people, this is Mr. Han Qinghan, this is General Hou, they are all their own people, and they are not allowed to target them in the future." ”

Shi Bao sighed: "Hey! Busy in vain. ”

"Are you really ready to do it?"

Hawking snorted coldly: "It's all this kid's attention, he said that this time King Hengshan sent his eldest brother to Huainan, and the people around him were all spies, so let's slaughter them all, since they are all our own people, then forget it." ”

When Han Qing and Hou Yong heard this, they looked at each other, and they all broke out in a cold sweat. Only then did it be noticed that the cavalry who came stayed a stone's throw away, and none of them dismounted. If Su Renwan said a word, their group of people would immediately become ghosts under the knife of the adult family.

For Hawking to sell himself so quickly, Shi Bao smiled and arched his hand at Han Qing and Hou Yong: "Forgive me, forgive me, I don't know it's my own person." ”

With these three living treasures, there is a little less loneliness on the road. With 500 cavalry guards, Hou Yong immediately felt that his burden was much lighter. Everyone's mood has improved, and the haze that Liu Ci didn't send was swept away. The sky was blue, as if it had just been washed, and a few fluffy white clouds leisurely glanced from the west to the east.

This is Su Ren's place, in order to settle the Yue people, Su Ren even coaxed and deceived the land obtained from Hengshan and Jiujiang countries. Although it is still being cultivated, anyone can tell that it will not be long before this place will become a patch of fertile land. Villages along the route are being built, and the people who have cleared the land work in the fields shirtless. Han Qing once asked Su Ren whether the land here was sold to the Yue people or leased to the Yue people, and with the current situation, the Yue people could not afford to sell or rent it.

Han Qing is a very observant person, and he can see that those who are working have smiles on their faces, and it seems that Su Ren has handled this problem very well.

"How? My Jiangsu is good, right? ”

Han Qing nodded approvingly: "It's very good for now, I still don't know how Mr. made these people so happy." ”

Su Ren drew a big circle with his hands: "Because these lands are mine, I negotiated with them that they will only receive one percent of the rent within ten years, and the rest of the harvest will be their own, ten years is enough for those children who crawl all over the ground to become adults." ”

"Ichisei? The lowest land endowment in all parts of my Han Dynasty is 30%, will it be ...... for Mr. to do this?"

"That's those people who are black-hearted, don't underestimate it, there are more than 200,000 hectares here, how many are you counting a year? Isn't it scary? Su Ren looked at the people who were working and waved at them, and a few stunned young people also waved at Su Ren, which immediately aroused the vigilance of the surrounding soldiers.

Han Qing smiled: "It's really a lot, not to mention that Mr. doesn't have to pay taxes here for ten years, no matter how much he collects, it's all Mr.'s." ”

That's right! According to my estimates, it will not take five years, even if the agricultural tax is not collected, the commercial tax will be able to feed the entire Jiangsu people. Su Ren raised his head and looked triumphant: "Don't look at me with adoring eyes, if you don't believe it, we can gamble!" ”

"Sir, are you going to do business here? If a businessman pursues profits, how can he do a loss-making business? ”

Su Ren smiled and pointed ahead. Han Qing hurriedly turned his head to see that the rudiments of a city appeared at the end of the official road, and a large number of people were working, and they were in full swing. The city was not very large, it looked like the smallest county town, and there were no soldiers to supervise the construction, and there were no officials who came and went. Men, women, and children all worked hard, and compared to that small city, there were dense thatched huts outside the city, and I don't know how many circles larger than the city.