Accompanied by the owner of the ship, Gao Yu walked onto the wooden steamer with leisurely steps. Looking at the respectful expressions of everyone present and the adoring eyes of the crew on the ship, Gao Yu's unhappiness caused by the leakage of the cruise boat began to gradually dissipate.

The owner of the ship provided him with a separate room, which, although ornately decorated, was far inferior to his own pleasure boat. However, considering that this wooden steamer is already the best condition ship in the entire fleet, Gao Yu can only endure it for the time being.

Rejecting Jiang Feiyan's invitation to dinner, Gao Yu stayed alone in the cabin, carefully considering his future plans.

Speaking of which, his current identity is well known in Taoqiu, and he is also a well-known among the princes and nobles around the Song Kingdom, but Gao Yu has always had an unwilling emotion in his heart.

In his opinion, although he now has the fiefdoms of Wei, Lu, and Teng, and has official positions in the three kingdoms, and seems to have a noble status, his identity is no different from those servants who make the nobles laugh. In other words, there is not much difference between him and Jiang Feiyan, a famous prostitute who is now on the ship. The biggest difference between him and those servants and even famous prostitutes is that what he is good at is just keju.

Since arriving in Taoqiu, a place that does not restrict the development of any scholars, Gao Yu has a strong ambition in his heart: to become a celebrity who truly influences the direction of the world! Although he was only a poor Qi scholar before, he never forgot his surname - he was the queen of the country!

The second clan of the country and the high school, but the "two guards" of the Qi country appointed by Zhou Tianzi. When the Guo and Gao clans were prosperous, the Qi State and even the surrounding countries were proud to be able to marry the daughters of the Guo and Gao. If it weren't for the slow development of the Tian clan in the Qi State, the suppression of the Jiang family, and then the replacement of the Jiang family, the children of the Guo and Gao Er clans would never have fallen to the point they are now.

As a down-and-out scholar, Gao Yu naturally has arrogance in his heart and has the ambition to revive his family. And when he came out of Taoqiu, he picked up books again, read through history, and found a way to realize his dream.

In his opinion, if you want to revive the family, there is actually one best example to learn, that is, the Tian family, which now rules the Qi country. When Chen was in civil strife, the ancestor of the Tian family, Chen Wan, the son of Chen Guo, was exiled from Chen to Qi, which was the era of Qi Huan and the heyday of Qi's hegemony. Although Chen Wan fled to Qi and lost the opportunity to compete for the throne of Chen, he gained new development in Qi. He was appointed as a doctor by the lord of Qi Huan, which allowed the family to gain a foothold in the Qi country, and after several generations of development, the Tian family really prospered in the Qi country.

Today's Song Kingdom, after two civil strife, finally ushered in a British lord. Under the current Song monarchy, in just a few years, the Song State dared to go to war with the southern power, the Chu State, and in one fell swoop acquired ten times the vast territory of the Song State itself. Although such news is not valued by the big powers because the war between Chu and Qin, Wei and Han has not ended, in the eyes of the well-informed Gao Yu, this is not the case at all.

Gao Yu has territories in Wei, Lu, and Teng, and has official positions, so he naturally has eyeliner. After the end of the Song-Chu War, the Lu and Teng states were particularly touched, and these two countries have now almost completely become vassals of the Qi state, and they naturally do not want to be completely annexed by the Qi state like the Xue state.

In the eyes of these two countries, now that the Song State is strong enough to compete with the Chu State, it has the strength to challenge the Eastern Overlord Qi State. In the future, the two countries may be able to rely on the Song State to confront the Qi State as a way to reduce the pressure on themselves. Within the two countries, there is now a more obvious pro-Song faction!

Historically, the annexation of a small country is a sign of the imminent rise of a powerful country. For a rising power like the Song Kingdom, if he can follow the example of Chen Wan, the son of Cheng Chen, move his family to the Song Kingdom, and work hard to manage it, even if he can't reach the height of the Tian family in the end, he will definitely be able to make the family start to revive again!

He has never been willing to be a servant, and the development of Yangzhou is an excellent opportunity for the family to rise.

Therefore, he not only spent all the property in his current hands to buy an incomparably vast land in Yangzhou to operate, but also used all his connections to move all the clansmen who were previously related to the Qi State to the Song State. He wants to re-establish the new Gao family in the new land of the Song Kingdom and grow stronger.

He also knows very well that at present, the development of Yangzhou is the top priority of the Song Kingdom. The high-ranking officials of the Song Kingdom, and even the wise Song Jun, will definitely be willing to see an influential person like him take the initiative to stand up for the development of Yangzhou! And it turns out that his move is indeed the right one.

When the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty learned that Gao Yu had bought land in Yangzhou with all he had, he was greatly touched by this, and not only took the initiative to reserve the vast territory of Huaiyin, which was closest to the Song Dynasty, but also enjoyed the excess treatment of tax exemption within five years and half tax within ten years!

This kind of treatment can only be enjoyed by the old aristocratic families who strongly supported Peng Cheng in the Song State and strongly advocated that they move their families to Yangzhou in the south. And behind this decision, there is the shadow of Dai Yan, the monarch of the Song Kingdom, personally intervening.

It is not surprising that Dai Yan made such a decision. After all, whether it is an old aristocratic family of the Song State or an upstart in Taoqiu like Gao Yu, since they are willing to support the great politics of the Song State and follow Pengcheng to act, then of course they must give specific rewards. If you don't do this, how can you set an example for others and make Yangzhou land develop faster and better?

Gao Yu now has a very high reputation, and the property in his hands, although it cannot be said that he is all his net worth, but it is not a huge amount of money that he can easily give up. With such a huge amount of money, if he can't see it with his own eyes, he really doesn't feel at ease. In addition, he personally went to the south to explore, which can also give Song Jun a good impression, even if the Taoqiu Juju Tournament is approaching now, no matter how important his work is, he can't take care of it!

Such a fleet sailed from Taoqiu to Pengcheng, and the entire fleet was receiving Xiangguo Huishi as he wished when Pengcheng was replenished. Behind this, there is Song Jun's encouragement, and Hui Shi even directly told Gao Yu that when he finishes exploring in the south and takes care of everything in the family, when he returns to Pengcheng, the monarch will meet him in person!

This kind of encouragement is naturally extremely moving for Gao Yu who has lofty ideals. In the following trip, he began to become secluded, without any interest in the scenery on the surrounding waterways, and he did not pay any attention to the invitation of a beauty like Jiang Feiyan. The only thing he thought about was how to settle his family in the new land.

Gao Yu's deep residence is simple, which not only makes beauties like Jiang Feiyan lost, but also disappoints loyal Keju fans like Guo Er and Lu Fang. It is indeed painful to be in the same boat with idols, but it seems to be thousands of miles apart.

However, when the ship gradually moved away and the touch brought by Gao Yu became lower and lower, everyone gradually ignored his existence, and began to slowly get busy with their own affairs.

When the ship sailed to Xiapi, some people disembarked to help unload the cargo. This is the custom of the domestic route of the Song Kingdom, every time you arrive at a place, in addition to replenishing the local goods, the ship will also add a lot of supplies, including not only coal and other fuel, but also a lot of fresh vegetables, fruits, etc., among which the special need to replenish is oranges.

The ships of the Song Kingdom replenished oranges, and the surrounding countries thought that this was a hobby of the Song people, and the Song people liked to eat oranges. However, in fact, it is the solution proposed by Dai Yan after the great development of the shipping industry in the Song Dynasty and the gradual increase in scurvy.

In the later European Age of Discovery, the extreme epidemic of scurvy was a very difficult problem. The Europeans could not solve this problem, and they could only alleviate it by drinking that unpalatable rum by virtue of their rich seafaring experience. And to find out the cause of this problem, it will take until the thirties of the twentieth century with the discovery of vitamin C.

However, this is not a problem at all for a traverser like Dai Yan. With the breadth of knowledge cultivated by the explosion of knowledge in later generations, he naturally knew that scurvy was caused by a lack of vitamin C, and that it would not be too easy to solve such a problem in the current situation of ruling a country.

In today's Warring States Period, there are not many vegetables that are familiar to later generations. As far as he knows, the foods rich in vitamin C are mainly oranges and oranges.

Therefore, he directly ordered people to teach a large number of people to grow oranges and cultivate all kinds of fresh vegetables to supply ships in the cities that passed along the various routes of the Song Kingdom. At the same time, a decree was issued stipulating that all ships that sail at sea for a long time must carry sufficient quantities of oranges to all crew members to prevent the occurrence of scurvy.

Even if the Song State was so powerful, they didn't dare to openly confront Song Jun, and the Lord Monarch was also for the sake of their health, so they all readily agreed. And when they implemented such a policy, the scurvy of the Song sailors really decreased a lot, and almost disappeared.

This kind of incident greatly touched the entire Song shipping industry, and they all believed that such a move must have been discovered by the various schools of thought attached to the Song Dynasty through investigation, and they also realized the powerful power of the Mo, Nong, Ming, Dao, and Yin and Yang schools.

Dai Yan naturally did not explain to the shipping industry of the Song Kingdom, in his opinion, let the various schools of thought shrouded in a layer of mystery, and have the ability to solve major problems on the surface, so that the people of this era can fully realize the power of knowledge!

There were many similar things in the Song Kingdom, and after Dai Yan solved the problem many times perfectly, the habits left behind gradually became accustomed to all Song people. Up to now, the replenishment of oranges by the Song crews along the way has almost become a unique cultural phenomenon of the Song Kingdom.

Knowledgeable figures like Guo Er and Lu Fang naturally wouldn't be surprised by this kind of thing they were used to.