It was already summer, and the summer heat was in full bloom, but in a courtyard of Luoyang Tiance Mansion, because there was a canal leading the mountain spring to flow by, and there was a windmill driven by a waterwheel, the cool breeze was breezy, and I didn't feel a trace of heat at all.

The acacia flowers in the yard are in full bloom, full of flowers, the air is sweet and refreshing, and the afternoon sun is sprinkled with shade and mottle. Under the locust tree, a beautiful woman was sitting on a swing, smiling and looking at the father and son in the courtyard.

A twenty-three-year-old man named Xiao Quzhi was squatting on the ground at the moment, with his arms outstretched, and in front of him was a child who was not yet one and a half years old, also with his arms open, staggering towards him, making a "horn" sound in his mouth, looking quite happy.

Seeing that there was only a distance of three or four feet left, He Ke'er on the swing encouraged loudly: "Come on, Jingxi, it's coming soon!" ”

Then Xiao Jingxi ran up excitedly, seeing that when he was less than two feet away from Xiao Qu's illness, his center of gravity was unstable, and he fell down, and he was about to cry. He Ke'er's heart on the swing was pinched, she looked at Xiao Quai, her face was worried, Xiao Quzhi shook her head and said it didn't matter.

Xiao Jingxi, who was on all fours, waited on the ground for a second or two, quickly got up, didn't cry, looked at the person in front of him called "Horn", seemed to be a little farther away from him, and then turned his head to look at the person on the swing who was called "Ma Ma", who was smiling and signaling to himself with his eyes, and making a nice sound in his mouth, the word "Jingxi" was obviously calling himself.

So Xiao Jingxi, who had just turned a little more than fifteen months, opened his arms again and walked quickly to the "horn" squatting on the ground, this time he was very careful not to fall, and finally threw himself into Xiao Quai's arms, and then was picked up by Xiao Quai.

Xiao Jingxi, who was held up in the air, was very happy, and his mouth said, "Ahhh......h Horn ...... Ma Ma laughed and shouted. Xiao Quzhi was also very happy, lifted him up in front of him, and said with a smile: "Jing Xi is the best, and he doesn't cry when he falls!" ”

The little guy happily stretched out two dirty little hands to grab Xiao Quai's ears, and his little mouth spat bubbles and touched Xiao Quai's face. The saliva was smug Xiao Quai's face, and then Xiao Quzhi and He Ke'er both laughed happily.

From the twelfth year of Tianbao to the present, it is the best time for the rapid development of Sihai Trading Company, and the entire Datang, Jiannan, Lingnan, Hebei, especially the South China Sea and Japan, are all changing. But Togi Province has been calm.

In this rare quiet day, Xiao Qu's illness was also quite comfortable. On the twenty-first day of the first month of the twelfth year of Tianbao, He Keer gave birth to a baby boy weighing four pounds and eleven taels safely, named Xiao Jingxi.

This made Xiao Qubing very happy, except for an expedition in July of the twelfth year of Tianbao, when he led the army to drive 5,000 miles to pursue Absi, he stayed at home every day to accompany He Keer and take care of the children. If I have spare time, I go to the Tang Dynasty Martial Arts and Tiance Academy to teach. If you go to Tiance Mansion to see the training of recruits, sometimes you will go to Luoyang City and various industrial areas outside the city with Weifu and Li Qi. Commercial districts, residential areas are everywhere.

looked at his own descendant troops, and slowly became the strongest soldier in the world; Seeing that the Luoyang area is becoming more and more prosperous and rich, countless people have a better life for their own reasons, and hearing the gratitude of many workers' families to themselves and Li Qi, this sense of satisfaction cannot be replaced by anything!

Li Qi also felt a sense of accomplishment. In order to cultivate his administrative ability and understand the lives of ordinary people, Xiao Qubing specially put him in charge of intelligence work and civil affairs in Dugi Province.

For more than a year, Li Qi has gone to the bottom. After running all over the entire Dugi Road, the common people also have a very good impression of this young prince who treats people modestly, has no shelf, and is dedicated to doing practical things.

Now in the Dugi Province area, in terms of prestige, the only one who can compare with Xiao Quzhi is Li Qi, and as the actual general manager of this area, Li Xian, is not so famous, and his reputation is naturally there, but it is far inferior to Xiao Quzhi and He Li Qi.

However, Li Xian is also a smart person, how can he not see the deep meaning of Xiao Quai, as the Li Tang clan, he is also happy that Xiao Quai's arrangement is like this, at least in his opinion, Li Qi is better than all other Li Tang royal families, and even better than His Majesty in the Kaiyuan period.

On the other hand, Li Qi, who is about to turn nineteen, also got married at the end of the first month of the thirteenth year of Tianbao, and his wife can actually be regarded as his cousin, named Zhang Yuting, who is the daughter of his aunt Princess Ning Qin and Zhang Yan, the commander of the concubine.

The girl is very beautiful, very gentle and virtuous, the two have a good relationship, and they got married after less than four months of dating, but according to Li Qi's private statement to Xiao Quzhi, the reason why he got married so quickly was because he wanted to have a child as soon as possible, whether he was male or female, he could be with Xiao Jingxi at that time.

When the family of three was happy, Li Qi walked in and saw Xiao Quai's face drooling, and his two ears were black and dirty by Jing Xi, and he couldn't laugh. Xiao Jingxi heard the voice, turned his head and saw that it was Li Qi, at this time he was already very good at recognizing people, and at this time he also happily opened his arms to ask Li Qi to hug him.

Li Qi happily took the child, held it in front of him and touched Jing Xi's nose with his own nose, and then Jing Xi happily grabbed his ears and twisted them, and shouted excitedly: "Horn, horn, horn, ......"

Xiao Quzhi hugged him back very unhappily: "It's okay to hug him, it's okay to call dad indiscriminately...... teasing him for a while, handing him over to He Ke'er next to him, the two took the wet towel handed by the maid and washed their faces, and came to an independent high-rise building on the east side of the courtyard.

"Master, Yan Zhuang has sent news that after the thief and Shi Siming were completely pacified, they had twice as much money and materials, and now there are countless gold, silver, cattle and sheep, and at the same time, the two elite soldiers have been recruited by him.

But the two of them also ordered the private soldiers of 50,000 Khitan and Xi who had been privately funded before, pretending to be two remnants, and swept everywhere in the two places, on the one hand, they plundered the Murwei and the Yan Yan, and obtained money, war horses, cattle and sheep, and on the other hand, they reported to the emperor's grandfather, and the remnants of the enemy were not cleared, and they continued to play the enemy and raise the enemy!

In addition, An Lushan has already banned alcohol in Hebei to crack down on the sale and smuggling of liquor~, so maybe they will really survive. ”

"Playing with the enemy, isn't this their usual trick, let's just deal with it according to the previous plan. An Lushan is also capable of this, but this Shi Siming really gave me a lot of surprises, it only took a year, and it was really defeated, you wait, when they are completely subdued and digested, it is when they rebel.

As for the prohibition of alcohol and the crackdown on ~ smuggling, there is no need to worry about this matter at all, how can it be so easy, let alone that they still have such a loosely organized and undisciplined group.

He is now using me to attract hatred, but if he talks too much, others will become numb, but the addiction to alcohol is real, he really dares to ban alcohol, and these Hu soldiers really dare to rebel against him, I have no doubt about this. ”

Li Qi nodded, stood up and turned his head to look outside, here, the scenery within a radius of four or five miles can be seen in full view. Li Qi looked at it for a while, and said with emotion: "Master, look, it's only been two years, and this place has completely changed.

In our workshops and small workshops, a large number of people are working every day; The displaced people were organized to build roads, canals, flowers and trees; Even the half-grown children who can't go to school for a while can find jobs to deliver newspapers, deliver milk, and run errands for others.

All the people have money, no one will go hungry, there are people with a household registration in Tsugi Province, even the poorest families have the money to go to the teahouse to listen to the books, and during the holidays, they can also eat meat.

Our Luoyang, as well as the entire Dugi Province, has also become better because of their construction and services, the scenery has become better, the road is better, and the life is more comfortable and convenient.

The rich people here are also happy, although they spend a lot of money, but in the end they earn it back through workshops and business, but in the middle they have eaten, played, enjoyed, and enjoyed the most thoughtful and intimate service, and live happily than the gods!

This is our cause, so that all the people who come to Luoyang live a good life, our Luoyang is also building better and better, more and more prosperous, every day there is the sound of children reading in the school, the laughter of the playground has never stopped, all people are very happy......

What a beautiful picture!

But An Lushan and Shi Siming are about to rebel, and they are about to fight, this time in our own place, Hebei is almost undefended, and the Youzhou soldiers will soon be able to fight our Duji Road and Luoyang.

Now there are more than 270,000 soldiers and horses under the fat man of Naan, and we only have 30,000 troops in our hands! If Hui Hui rebels with them~, our side will be even tighter.

At that time, hundreds of people will be displaced, and even the homes that we have built so well in Dugi Province may be destroyed...... Master, we can't ......"

Li Qi is now with the grassroots people every day, and he sees that Luoyang is so well built, so prosperous, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there is harmony between the poor and the rich. He genuinely felt a great sense of accomplishment, cherished all this very much, and didn't want the war to come here. (To be continued.) )