The Spring Festival is coming soon, and for people living in the 21st century, the Chinese New Year is nothing more than buying New Year's goods, visiting relatives and friends, and reuniting with relatives and friends, so as to have a festive and lively life. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut for ordinary people who lived in the middle of the seventeenth century, the New Year was another "New Year's Pass"

In the usual year, the hard days of the ordinary toiling masses will come when the Chinese New Year comes. At the end of the year, people who owe rent and are in debt must pay off their debts at this time, and the New Year is like passing the customs. In order to pay off the debts of the landlord's family, there are countless cases of selling children and daughters. Families are ruined and people are killed.

But this year is an unprecedented happy year for the people of Laizhou, thanks to Liu Fan's land policy in Laizhou, the people of Laizhou basically got their own land before the start of the new year. With the land, the people finally have hope for the future, although the tax of the broken army is also very heavy, but everyone knows that as long as they are a little harder and survive the first few years, then a happy life will not be far away.

Although the land has just been allocated, although he is still burdened with a lot of debts, and although his family is still poor, all this cannot stop the people's gratitude to the broken army and Liu Fan. It can't suppress the people's yearning for a better life in the future. Yangge, opera, shadow puppetry, and paper-cutting also originate from life, and exist as an entertainment method in people's daily life, which has become the best means for people to vent their excitement and happiness. From Qingdao Port to Laizhou Port, from Jiaozhou to Laizhou, as long as it is in Denglai, you can see the joy of the people from the bottom of their hearts everywhere.

"It's been eight years since Chongzhen!" After the noise of Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Fan quietly snuggled in front of the window and looked at the twinkling stars in the night sky, but his heart was full of emotion. From Chongzhen's fourth year to Daming to now, almost four years have passed in a blink of an eye. In the past four years, Liu Fan has slowly transformed from an otaku who eats and waits for death to a powerful warlord. Only Liu Fan himself knows how much suffering and hard work he has experienced.

Liu Fan is not a very smart person, although he has been prosperous in the past few years with his "prophetic" experience. But Liu Fan understands that the further he goes, the smaller his advantage will become. In this billowing red dust, Liu Fan will inevitably collide with the "history" of the Ming Dynasty. Take the Liukou in the Central Plains as an example, this year should be the peak of their activity, in this year, Zhang Xianzhong will break through Fengyang and then pluck the ancestral tomb of the Chongzhen family. However, because of Liu Fan's reasons, the activities of the rogues have fallen into an unprecedented low ebb, not to mention the Central Plains, I am afraid it will be a little difficult to protect themselves.

The only thing that was not affected was the Jianyu outside the gate, although Liu Fan had not been in contact with the Houjin Tartars, but he never dared to relax about their news. According to the information that Liu Fan has collected now, under the leadership of Huang Taiji, the Later Jin has completely conquered Korea and the Mongolian tribes, and the internal worries have been calmed down, and there are no worries at all. Now the Tartars can be said to have reached their heyday, not only the Manchurian Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han Army Eight Banners, but also a large number of Korean servant troops. In terms of military strength, it is already a very powerful "country".

Against a sound military power on his own, Liu Fan did not know what the final result of such a thing would be. But Liu Fan knew that his chances of victory were not great, because he couldn't help but face the Tartars, as well as many enemies within the Ming Dynasty. No matter how strong the foreign invaders are, Liu Fan will not worry too much, the internal enemy is the most terrifying.

Time is getting more and more pressing, and Liu Fan knows that he must seize the development period of the last two years to develop and strengthen his strength as much as possible. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will not have such a good opportunity to develop my strength steadily for a while.

Therefore, Liu Fan felt that he had to solve the affairs of the Zheng family as soon as possible, and then try his best to form a strong fleet, so that even if he lost to the Tartars on land, there would still be a chance to make a comeback with a navy. This can be regarded as a retreat that Liu Fan prepared for himself.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, after cooling the Zheng family for nearly half a month, Liu Fan finally summoned Zheng Zhibao and others again. After learning that Liu Fan had summoned them, the Zheng family's uncle and nephew were overjoyed, to be honest, although Liu Fan had entertained them with delicious food and drink in the past half month, and even gave them a big house, but the Zheng family's uncle and nephew did not have any happiness in their hearts. After seeing the strength of the Broken Army, and seeing the huge scale of the Shihe Arsenal. Whether it is Zheng Zhibao or Zheng Cai and others, they can't maintain their original calm mind.

Especially after learning that Liu Fan was strong in Jiaolai, Zheng Zhibao's awe of Liu Fan became even stronger. In the face of such a person, Zheng Zhibao knew how to choose what was beneficial to him, but when Zheng Zhibao was about to throw an olive branch to Liu Fan, he didn't expect Liu Fan to choose to avoid it. One day, two days, and gradually more than ten days have passed, and Zheng Zhibao's mentality has slowly changed, and he has become a loser. In the past few days, Zheng Zhibao wanted to leave, but considering that this would completely offend Liu Fan, Zheng Zhibao thought about it for a long time and did not dare to leave.

"I've been busy with the New Year's Day today, and I can't be separated for a while, please forgive Brother Zheng for my neglect!" In the living room of the General Soldier's Mansion, Liu Fan looked at Zheng Zhibao and the others with an apologetic face

Looking at the fake smile on Liu Fan's face, the corners of Zheng Zhibao's mouth twitched and said, "It's okay, it's okay." It is reasonable that the commander-in-chief is in a high position and is busy with affairs! I wonder why you called us here this time? ”

Liu Fan replied, "It's not a big deal, recently the governor heard that Brother Zheng is very homesick and wants to return to Fuzhou, so he plans to ask Brother Zheng to ask." I would like to apologize. Second, I'd like to ask you about your plans for the future. I wonder when Brother Zheng plans to return to Fuzhou? ”

Zheng Zhibao was silent for a while, a little unsure of what Liu Fan meant, didn't Liu Fan want to talk to them about cooperation? After thinking about it, Zheng Zhibao still replied truthfully: "We originally planned to leave for Fuzhou as soon as the New Year came out, but my brother sent someone to bring a message, saying that we must reach an agreement with the chief soldier before we can return." Commander-in-Chief, what do you think about cooperation? ”

"Of course I can't ask for it!" Liu Fan said with a smile: "Brother Zheng, this governor has long said that the cooperation between you and me is a matter of mutual benefit. It is also a great thing for both of us to be able to further deepen the communication between you and me! (To be continued.) )