Coming out of Fengtianmen, Zhang Yao's carriage was waiting outside the palace gate.

"How's the glass bottle of wine going?"

"About 5,000 of them have been prepared and shipped to the city." Yang Fan nodded and said, "Put more straw in the wooden box, so as not to break it." ”

"Yes, sir." Zhang Yao set up the carriage and rushed to Jixianju. Yang Fan was thinking about the upcoming trip to sea. He shall manage the eating, drinking, and sleeping of 30,000 people. This is the most difficult problem to solve. Not to mention the food needed when he came back, it would take at least two months from Yingtian to Luzon, and at least 20,000 stone of food had to be prepared on the way, Yang Fan finally understood why the Western colonization always started sailing with hundreds of people, and the consumption on the way could not withstand the toss at all. Therefore, every time this fleet sailed for a certain period of time, it had to dock to replenish the food stockpile.

Otherwise, even if these dozens of boatmen arrived in Luzon, they would have become dead. This sea is not like the land, you can still look for grass roots and bark to eat when you are hungry, there are only fish on this sea, and the uncertain factors are relatively large, Yang Fan must be prepared. The envoy from Tianjin Wei must at least stay in Ningbo Mansion, Quanzhou Mansion, and Huizhou Mansion, and this route still needs the express approval of the government, and these imperial courts will naturally arrange it, and he does not need to worry about it.

The carriage slowly drove to the gate of Jixianju. Yang Fan rarely comes to Jixian Residence, and he doesn't like the decoration style here, which is too elegant, which is why many literati and scholars gather here. In contrast, Yang Fan prefers the free and easy style of Xianjulou. When he walked into Jixianju, the guys inside immediately recognized Yang Fan, and hurriedly greeted him, saying, "Sir, please here." ”

Yang Fan's entry immediately attracted the disdainful eyes of many gentlemen, thinking that such vulgar people were not as good as those businessmen who made up their makeup. Yang Fan walked into the private room, and Li Dao, Sun Chengzong, and two childish teenagers were sitting inside. One is Li Yuhuan, who has always been calm, and when he saw Yang Fan coming in, he bowed.

The other was the same age as Li Yuhuan, fourteen or fifteen years old, but he was tall and burly, his voice was as loud as a bell, and he clasped his fists and saluted: "Sir." ”

"Old Sun, this is ......"

Sun Chengzong said: "One of the old man's grandchildren, Sun Yi. Yang Fan put his coat aside and said, "Young general, look at your body, you have practiced since childhood." ”

Sun Yi smiled and said, "The lord is not mistaken, I have practiced a few tricks with the martial artists in my family since I was a child. "Their Sun family is a handsome man, and they naturally have a strong spirit of martial arts, and even a few years old children are clamoring to fight and practice martial arts. Sun Chengzong sat down and said, "Yang Fan, now that you are in charge, Zu Dashou and I can't influence your behavior, you have to do it yourself." ”

Li Dao also sat down. Li Yuhuan and Sun Yi stood behind and did not dare to be presumptuous. Yang Fan took a sip of wine and said, "What did Elder Sun say?" ”

"Don't you understand? You Yang Fan is not a stupid person, don't let the old man speak too thoroughly. Now that Liaodi Jiannu has reined in his minions, and Zu Dashou has sent troops to Linghe City, the imperial court can finally spare effort to solve the problem in the northwest. ”

"The solution that the Holy Lord wants is pacification, not repression."

Sun Chengzong poured the scalded wine into the cup and said, "It's naturally easy to say, appease?" How many people can be appeased by 10,000 stone of grain? What about those who are appeased, who are revolting in the coming year? I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, your 10,000 stone of grain really went to the hands of those northwest refugees, I'm afraid there are only a few. To suppress the civil unrest, you still have to rely on the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yang Fan's eyes were condensed, and his words were like a fish in his throat. "What Elder Sun means, it's a drop in the bucket to envoy Luzon, right?" Sometimes, the world of young people is very beautifully planned, but those old men are like a-stirring stick, sticking a stick horizontally, but he still uses his old experience to tell you, which is right.

"It's still a word, it's good to do it yourself. Today, Sun Yi and Yu Huan came over, just to go out with you to see the world, although there are many risks on this sea, but the Ming fleet channel Luzon is still not a problem. ”

"Let them follow me on my mission to Luzon? I'm afraid ......"

Li Dao said quietly: "The road was chosen by themselves, but the old man is such a lifeline, and the lord must bring it back to me safely." Li Yuhuan has made up his mind, even if Li Dao can't stop him, he knows that he should come down. As for this Sun Yi, he couldn't be idle, and as soon as he heard that Sun Chengzong was going to find a junior to follow Yang Fan to Luzon, he immediately volunteered to go.

Yang Fan shook his head and smiled: "It seems that the two adults are determined to eat the scales, and they want to hand over the two juniors to the subordinates, or not, there are also a lot of two bowls of rice on this boat, if there is really nothing to eat, these two people have fine skin and tender meat, and it is just right to feed the fish." ”

"Haha!"

“……”

Li Yuhuan saluted and said: "The students heard that Mr. raised his arms and shouted today, and they were very excited, but they didn't expect Mr. to have such a great righteousness, which really made the students admire." Li Yuhuan bowed again, his face was respectful, without any perfunctory.

"What did I do, sir, Lord Li, I don't dare to mislead people."

Li Dao waved his hand and said, "What can't you do?" Just based on the words of the lord today, he did it. Yang Fan laughed at himself: "In this life, students have not done decently, but they have come to be Mr. Ren, ridiculous, ridiculous." He drank a glass of wine, saw the snow stop outside the window, and muttered, "Tomorrow must be a good day." Come on, do it! ”

There was a knock on the door, Li Yuhuan turned around to open the door, and found that it was a few well-known talents in Jingshi. A few people entered the house with wine, saluted the two adults, and said, "Liu Zijun was born late." ”

"Late born Han Zhong."

"Late born Hong Yutao."

After a few people reported their homes, they explained their intentions. Liu Zijun saluted and said with a smile: "I heard that Lord Sun and Lord Li are at this banquet, and a few people from the late generation came to compose poems to help the fun, can the two adults appreciate the light and make a question?" ”

"Yo, Lord Yang is also here, look up for a long time."

Sun Chengzong is not interested, this kind of literary thing, he also did it when he was young, and now think about it, he is really young and does not know the height of the sky, and the poems that are exported are full of chapters, and there are a few sentences that can be on the elegant hall. Nowadays, the imperial examination is prevalent, and there are even fewer of them who can export chapters and outstanding talents.

Li Dao and Han Zhong's grandfather, Han Chenghao, were classmates in the world, so they were embarrassed to refuse, glanced at Yang Fan, and asked what he meant. Yang Fan waved his hand and said with a smile: "A few romantic talents, if you want to be 'dead', then do it." He deliberately pronounced the poem into a flat tongue, and I don't know if the people next to him heard anything. As soon as several talented people heard that Yang Fan agreed, they said: "Please also ask Master Li to come up with a question, so that I can have a comparison between high and low." ”