After eight years of disappearing, how many people in the world will still remember the world-famous 'fortune boy'?

At least, Cai Dao's father and mother in this life are likely not to shed a single tear for him.

Cai Dao, Cai You and several of his cousins have been captured by thieves to Taihang Village for nearly eight years, but during this time, only three people have cared about Cai Dao's situation.

The first is Cai Jing, Cai You is his eldest son, no matter how unfavored he is at home, Cai Jing must send someone to negotiate with Taihangzhai, otherwise, Cai Jing will let his other sons think of himself.

What's more, the fundamental reason why Cai You went to Hedong Road was that Cai Jing asked Cai You to go in the first place.

The second is Zeng Gong, the old gentleman is old, of course he will not come by himself, but he sent his eldest son and the official family to Taihang Village to negotiate.

The third is a person that Cai Dao didn't expect - Dian.

This guy came out of the military camp on Shuibo Liangshan privately, and prepared to break into Taihang Village single-handedly. Cottages, cottages, the reason why the thieves occupy this place is because of the terrain, as long as the pass into the mountain is guarded, even if Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, comes alone, don't want to break the cottage. After a random meal without arrows, Dean had no choice but to leave.

If Zhao Xu didn't make it difficult for Liu Bei to ask Zhuge Liang to invite Cai Dao, he would not be willing to go out of the mountain. After waiting for a year or two, Cai Dao would have reached the age of eighteen.

At that time, Cai Dao will be able to sail out to sea and travel to Kyushu.

The exploration of North and South America was still left to his children and grandchildren, and Cai Dao's plan was to accumulate enough strength and population to conquer the islands of the South Seas and the later Australia, as well as New Zealand. Of course, the Wa Kingdom and the Goryeo stick could not be spared.

As for clowns such as Da Yue Guo, if the Great Song Kingdom completely gave up, Cai Dao would be the first country to be destroyed.

Yang Wei has overturned several prime ministers in the past few years, such as Liu Zhi, who has always been good friends with him, and Fan Chunren. This made the officials of all sizes in Bianliang City very afraid and disgusted with this sinister guy.

He left Beijing abruptly this time, but after a secret conversation with Zhao Xu, and he was not demoted out of the capital. This matter is naturally a little intriguing, and the diamond leader naturally sent people to keep an eye on Yang Wei's whereabouts in secret. However, the purpose of his trip to Beijing this time was unknown to anyone except Zhao Xu and himself.

However, Yang Wei's subsequent actions soon revealed the purpose of his trip - Cai Dao.

The people of the seven-color collar quickly passed the news to Cai Dao.

Looking at the letter in his hand, Cai Dao stood on the highest peak of Taihang Village and looked around, and couldn't help but sigh.

Eight years have passed, and under his guidance, with the efforts of the owner and brothers, Taihang Village has changed its old appearance. However, is Bianliang City still the same scenery as when he left?

Eight years have passed, what has Cai Dao brought to Taihang Village, Taihang Mountain, and the three mountain ranges surrounding Hedong Road and Hezhong Fu?

Change is everywhere.

People outside the entire Hedong Road, Hezhong Mansion and the surrounding three mountain ranges are not very aware of the changes in these places, but the people in these places know very well in their hearts where such changes come from.

In the past eight years in Hedong Road and Hezhong Mansion, the lives of poor people, even some small and medium-sized landlords, can be described as dire and miserable.

The heavy snowstorm in the eighth year of Yuanfeng not only ruined the grain harvest of that year, but also delayed the grain planting in the first year of Yuanyou, and the snowstorm in the first year caused a large number of poor people and tenants to flee from Hedong Road. Due to Zheng Xia's inaction, many people died along the way to escape the famine, and more than eighty percent of the old people who had no strength to continue to escape from the famine were frozen to death in their homes.

Some elderly people are even reluctant to burn the wooden utensils at home to keep warm in order to allow their relatives to return to their homes in the coming year.

In the first two years of Zheng Xia's rule, he did nothing at all. He is neither able nor powerless to act. For two consecutive years, the grain harvest has been cut off and the output has been reduced, and he, the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture and the transshipment envoy, is naturally not hard at all. The eight years of Yuanfeng were completely supported by Taiyuan Prefecture's own reserves.

But in the first year of Yuanyou, Hedong under Zheng Xia was completely supported by the relief of Bianliang City.

In the last year of his tenure, the deputy envoy of Hedong Road and the judge of Taiyuan Mansion dared to follow him, and the officials under him disobeyed all his orders.

Later, it was Fan Zuyu who took over Zheng Xia's position, and it was also Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu who were dizzy. If Fan Zuyu is placed in other relatively wealthy places, a clean official like him is undoubtedly the greatest blessing for the locals. However, when he took over, it was also the time when the entire Hedong Road needed various methods to replenish its vitality, and he was quiet and inactive in his official position, but instead sat back and watched the people wait for death.

Yuanfeng's century-old snowstorm has caused the loss of a large number of laborers on Hedong Road, and Cai Dao is secretly transferring poor people to Yizhou Island. Therefore, in the past few years under the rule of Fan Zuyu, although the entire Hedong Road has been less tossed, its severe actions have still led to the loss of a large number of laborers.

This is also the fundamental reason why those small and medium-sized landlords are in pain.

In the third year of Zheng Xia's reign, although a large number of poor people who fled the famine were resettled on Jinghu South Road, because of Cai Dao's plan to hide the wealth from the people, the landlords had enough cattle in their hands, so the grain production that year was not greatly affected. However, because of the drought on Zhulu in the Great Song Dynasty that year, it still affected the grain harvest on Hedong Road, and finally confirmed the name of Zheng Xia's 'Zheng Disaster Star'.

In the following years, just like the three years after Fan Zuyu took office, the landlords of Hedong Road found that there was indeed more and more land in their hands, but they suddenly found that the tenants they could hire were getting fewer and fewer. Since Ding Youcai, a giant businessman from Qingzhou, opened a large-scale alkali making workshop in Fuzhou, there are even fewer farmers who cultivate the fields for others on Hedong Road.

Those big landlords could also borrow the van army from the official uniform to work for them, but these small and medium-sized landlords were completely desperate. By the year Fan Zuyu returned to Beijing, more and more landlords went bankrupt, and the cost of hiring tenants was rising.

The situation on both sides of the three mountain ranges is completely opposite to the situation in Hadong Road and Hazhong Province.

Because, by the sixth year of Yuanyou, the food needed by the cottages and mountain people in the Taihang Mountains, Zhongtiao Mountains and Luliang Mountains was completely self-sufficient.

In later generations, Shanxi itself was more mountainous and less flatland, and the flat dam land that could grow grain in the mountains was even rarer.

Cai Dao's solution is to plant trees.

Under his guidance, through diversified grain cultivation, three kinds of fruit trees are now planted on the peaks and slopes of the three mountain ranges within 50 meters above sea level, namely the three woody grains mentioned above – jujube, persimmon and chestnut.

In various cottages and places where mountain people live, Cai Dao also taught everyone how to breed, vigorously developed animal husbandry, and opened many pastures. The Mongolian horses, cattle and sheep bought from the Tatars were naturally not suitable for breeding in the mountains.

Therefore, there are two kinds of domestic animals that Cai Dao lets everyone raise - chickens and pigs.

The cultivation of woody plants is difficult to achieve results in a short period of time, but there is a fleet of Cai Dao to supply food for Cai Dao and them, plus a supplement of meat. The people living in the three mountain ranges have survived the six-year transition period, and they are actively cooperating with Cai Dao's plan to transform the three mountain ranges.

Once a person has consumed enough meat and has two taels of oil in his stomach, then the food consumed will be reduced a lot. This is also the fundamental reason for Cai Dao's promotion and construction of farms.

However, the focus of Cai Dao's work is not on the production of grain, he only needs to do a good demonstration and model in Taihang Village, and there are people in other places to do the rest.

Cai Dao focused on the reserve and cultivation of talents. Before, the twenty boys adopted by Cai Dao in Xiaoci were all surnamed Song, and I heard rumors before that after these children became adults, they could naturally become officials if they were successful in their studies and could be admitted to the Jinshi, and if they were not the children of this material, most of them were likely to enter the Imperial City Division.

The people of the Imperial City Division are the henchmen of Emperor Zhao Song!

The same is true for the children in the nursery, and it is difficult for those children to remember Cai Dao or not, and these children may not be as grateful to him as the little eunuchs and palace maids that Cai Dao personally cultivated.

I don't know how many of the 8,000 children who have studied in Cai's Academy will survive in the past eight years. In this era, even in Bianliang City, where conditions are very good, even if Cai Dao has inoculated them and them with cowpox, the survival rate of children is still very low.

The importance of talents, any person in any era, will attach great importance to it.

Cai Daocai will not be like Zhuge Liang, exhausting himself to death.