After a series of events, the time has come to the warm spring February of the tenth year of Jian'an.

The winter snow has long since melted into spring water, and the farmers in the fields are also busy with this year's spring ploughing. And here in Lu Ren, Mi Zhen's fleet has once again arrived in the Jingzhou area, which means that some of the things that Lu Ren is planning can be taken next.

However, before that, Lu Ren had to communicate with Shirley first, telling Shirley that Mi Zhen's fleet had successfully arrived in Jingzhou. Under normal circumstances, the communication between Lu Ren and Shirley can be done with the chip on his body, and there is no need to use the "Qianli Megaphone" that wants to "absorb the essence of the sun and the moon", but in some special circumstances, such as what Shirley has come out, he will use that thing to let Lu Ren see clearly.

For example, now, Cai Yan is holding Lu Feng and Lu Yu, who will be one year old in two months, and they are greeting Lu Ren. But this is just a simple report to Lu Ren about safety, and then let Lu Ren see his child. After all, calculating the time, Lu Ren set off from Yizhou in June of the ninth year of Jian'an, and now in February of the tenth year of Jian'an, eight months have passed. This is not a long time, and it is definitely not a short time, who will not have a little worry in their hearts? In that era, this was the kind of thing between Lu Ren and Cai Yan who could use this thing to greet each other, and they were going to change to someone else...... Forget it.

After each of them asked for peace, Cai Yan knew that there must be something serious to talk about between Lu Ren and Shirley, so he nodded to Lu Ren and then drifted away, and Lu Ren and Shirley talked about the so-called serious things, but most of the things were on Shirley's side.

The fleet led by Gan Ning has been operating in the Bohai and Yellow Sea regions for a period of time, taking advantage of the war between Cao Cao and the Yuan brothers to plunder the population. Originally, Lu Ren had Lianyungang in the Xuzhou area and Lu's wharf in the Wujun area as a transit port for the Ganning fleet, but with the expansion of the scale of the Ganning fleet and the sensitivity of the forces belonging to Lianyungang and Lu's wharf to large-scale fleets, these two places are a little unsuitable.

As for the current size of the Ganning fleet...... There are more than 30 large and medium-sized ships on permanent basis. You must know that when Lu Ren carried out the Great Movement of Right Beiping, he already had more than 40 ships. And the main reason for limiting the number of ships at that time was the insufficient number of people. However, after the completion of the Great Relocation of Youbeiping, the population of the small town of Yizhou surged. Therefore, whether it is the shipyard to increase personnel and expand production, or the fleet to expand personnel, there is no problem.

Now the fleet of Yizhou is mainly four. Mi Zhen's caravan on the Yangtze River waterway was one, including the ships left in the Yizhou dock for maintenance and standby, a total of twenty-five ships; The fleet of the "again" shaped business road led by Lu Xin was one, with a total of twenty ships; After Lu Cheng completed the transportation of Youbeiping, because Gan Ning wanted to grab the population, he took over the burden of the expedition fleet and led more than ten ships to form a new expedition fleet; Finally, there is Ganning's fleet, which is also the fleet with the largest number of ships. Moreover, the reserve ships on the Yizhou side are basically in a state of supporting Gan Ning at any time. Calculate it together. The total number of ships in Lu Ren's hands has exceeded 100.

The size and combat effectiveness of Gan Ning's fleet are completely equivalent to military strength, and if it stops at Lianyun and Wu County for supplies, it is indeed too easy to attract the oversensitivity of Cao Cao and Sun Quan, so it is also necessary to find a new transit port. After repeated discussions, Lu Ren and Shirley set their eyes on Jeju Island, which was almost halfway between Yiju and Youbeiping.

As a result, the fleet led by Gan Nyeong set out around October of the ninth year of Jian'an, arrived on Jeju Island in early November, and subdued the natives after several modest battles with the local natives...... At that time, the natives of Jeju Island were really backward. It's a strange thing to be able to beat Gan Ning's god-killing god! In Gan Ning's words, this kind of battle has no taste at all!

But fortunately, Lu Cheng led the support fleet to act with Gan Ning at that time, and after Gan Ning's big stick, Lu Cheng immediately took out the radish. Otherwise, with Gan Ning's personality, I am afraid that he will kill too much, and Lu Ren's construction of a port on Jeju Island will most likely be dragged down because of this.

All in all, by the beginning of the tenth year of Jian'an, the simple port on Jeju Island had been basically built, and Lu Cheng also followed the strategy formulated by Lu Ren and Shirley at the beginning. The children of the local indigenous patriarchs were sent to Yizhou for education...... Of course, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are hostages. Now Shirley is in the communication, and she is reporting these things to Lu Ren.

But for those who are backward. The radish offensive was still very effective, so effective that Lu Cheng and Gan Ning only left a few dozen people on Jeju Island to ensure the further construction and stability of the port on Jeju Island. Because Shirley's side adopted the method of basing themselves on trade at the right time, they established relatively good relations with several aboriginal tribes with the things produced in Yizhou, and then began to establish a trading port with the support of these tribes.

In fact, turning over the entire history of the Great Voyage, using commodities to break the opponent's psychological defense line is basically an invincible trick. Even if it is a **** in modern history who is closed to the country, is it not defeated in this kind of trick in the end? It's just that the country was first opened by a cannon with a strong ship......

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A few days later, Lu Ren's people here had just been sent out, when they suddenly heard a report from the doorman that there was a team of people outside the courtyard asking to see him. And after handing over a letter, Lu Ren really stayed for a while before coming back to his senses, and said dumbly: "You dead old Guo!" Did you really send your precious son to me? ”

Guo Jia's son Guo Yi has no record in historical materials. When Lu Ren fled from Cao Ying in the sixth year of Jian'an, Guo Yi was only twelve or thirteen years old. And when Lu Ren was in Xuchang, he often made some small jokes with Guo Yi between his uncle and nephew.

On the night when Guo Yi came to Lu Ren Village, Lu Ren arranged for Guo Yi to live in a room next to Deng Ai. Don't think that Guo Yi is a son-in-law, in fact, Guo Yi was separated from Guo Jia's father and son when he was a child, and wandered around with his mother, and the two mothers and sons did not find Guo Jia in Xuchang until Guo Yi was eight or nine years old. In other words, Guo Yi was also a hard-working person when he was a child, and he did not have the bad habits of a half-pointed son, Deng Ai, who was several years younger than himself and was born poor, not only did he not despise him a little, but also chatted for a long time with Deng Ai who came to deliver supper after nightfall.

The next day, Lu Ren woke up early, felt that he was in good health, and came to Guo Yi's room alone. At this time, Guo Yi and Deng Ai had already gotten up, Deng Ai met Lu Ren in front of the courtyard gate and said hello and went to the study to clean as usual, while Guo Yi took a book and sat under the porch to read.

Lu Ren stepped forward and asked, "Yi'er, I've been working hard so early, what kind of book are you reading?" ”

Guo Yi saluted Lu Ren and said, "The little nephew is studying the "Eight Politics of Shangshu". ”

Lu Ren took the bamboo slip and looked at it a few times before returning it to Guo Yi, he is still afraid of those classical Chinese. Then he asked, "Yi'er, can you tell Shi Lingzun what you came to study here?" ”

Guo Yi said: "My father has confessed that my little nephew will come to Uncle Lu to learn the law of governing the country. ”

Lu Ren said: "So what do you think is the law of governing the country?" ”

Guo Yi thought for a while but shook his head and said, "The little nephew is young, and he is only a little learned, how can he understand the law of governing the country?" But the book says ......"

Lu Ren waved his hand and said, "Don't mention these books." If you can really learn the law of governing the country by reading these books, you can study hard at home for ten years, and Ling Zun will not send you to me. Uncle Lu doesn't hide it from you, in fact, I don't know anything about governing the country at all. ”

Guo Yi was stunned and said, "Why did my uncle say this? In Xudu, from Cao Gong and Xun Lingjun to the peddlers and pawns, they all praised their uncle's ability to govern the country......"

Lu Ren interrupted Guo Yi's words again and said, "You listen to me first." Uncle, although I don't read a lot of books, I can be considered to have read a few. The treasures of the world that have been handed down since ancient times are all sketches, and they are just talking about paragraphs. If you really want to talk about it, as long as you have read the book for a few days, everyone who understands some truth in your heart may understand it, but the question is how to do these so-called rough outlines? To put it simply, in the "Shangshu Eight Politics" in your hand, there is a "division", and the so-called "division" refers to the country's army. A country cannot protect itself without an adequate army, but how should the army deal with it? ”

Guo Yi groaned: "The book says 'foot soldiers and enough food'......"

Lu Ren smiled: "Don't answer me with anything in the book, I want you to think for yourself." ”

At this time, Guo Yibi is still only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, and he has read a lot of books, but where does he really understand? Mo Ran shook his head for a long time and said, "The little nephew is unknown, please let Uncle Lu make it clear." ”

Lu Ren said: "Is 'foot soldier enough food'? If I'm not mistaken, the book says that if the country wants to protect itself, it must have enough troops, so it must have 'foot soldiers'. 'Foot soldiers' may be relatively simple, and the next list is to solicit them. But the army all needs to eat, so the premise of the foot soldier is to have 'enough food', but how to do 'enough food'? ”

Guo Yi said: "Benevolence, gather the people, and strike harsh taxes." Heavy agriculture and mulberry, water conservancy. ”

Lu Ren smiled and said, "You're talking about the things in the book again, right?" Perhaps you have only read a few books and have not been exposed to many things, so I may ask you, how should this benevolent government be administered, and what should be the degree of governance? Heavy agriculture and mulberry, how to do the ploughing of the people? How to develop water conservancy? ”

Guo Yi was really asked, and he couldn't say anything after thinking for a while.

Lu Ren patted Guo Yi on the shoulder and said: "I told you just now that it is useless to just know these truths, the key is how to do it, and it is really useful to implement these truths step by step." Take farming as an example, the general practice is just to gather more people and open up more wasteland to make up for it.

"But no one seems to have thought that there are many things that can be improved in farming, such as the selection of land and crops, irrigation and care after planting, as well as insect control and disease prevention, and then the improvement of farming tools, and these are all things that can improve ......the harvest" (To be continued. )