When Li Ke arrived in Taiwan, the time had entered the winter of the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, and to Li Ke's surprise, Li Su did not stay in Taiwan, but took the whole family to Wazhou some time ago, and even his wife and children, as well as Qinghe and Gaoyang, also took the children, I heard that they were going to play skiing. This made Li Ke helpless, so he had to take a steamer to the north, and finally arrived in the north of Honshu Island in Wazhou a few days later.

Because Li Su himself had a considerable opinion of the Wazhou newspaper, he did not pay attention to it after conquering here. Moreover, the state itself is also resource-poor, except for some gold and silver mines and sulfur mines, there are almost no other minerals available. As for agriculture, although rice is abundant, the yield is not very high due to the limited arable land, but there are many fisheries, but Taiwan and Nanyang are also rich in fisheries, so it is not very conspicuous.

It is precisely because of subjective and objective reasons that after the occupation of Wazhou, Li Su has always regarded this place as a labor provider, the strongest Wazhou men were incorporated into the army, became the cannon fodder unit in Li Su's army, and the second-class men became laborers, with a higher status than slaves, and entered the plantation or construction site to work, and the second-class stayed in Wazhou, in addition to farming and mining, they were also responsible for giving birth to children and providing the next generation of laborers.

In contrast, the women of Wazhou have one more choice, that is, those women who have a bit of grace can go to Xiangcheng next to Nugang, as for what to do, it is estimated that a man can guess. It is worth mentioning that Xiangcheng not only became famous in Wuzhou, but even the inland of Nanyang and Datang also knew that Xiangcheng was a gold cave, and after several years of development. It has developed from a simple prostitution to a one-stop service of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling. It attracts a large number of tourists every day.

Especially in the previous two years, Lüvin discovered a second route to the Americas. And this route just starts from the east coast of Wazhou, which makes the port on the east coast of Wazhou lively, among which Nugang is not only good in location, but also has the most complete facilities, coupled with the help of Xiangcheng next to it, so that Nugang soon became the largest port in Wazhou.

This also just confirms Li Su's vision at the beginning, when he built Nugang, it caused a lot of controversy, believing that input and output are not proportional. But now, it seems that the port is not large enough, and even local officials are already planning to expand the port.

When Li Ke arrived at Nugang, it happened that Li Ke and the others also came back from skiing in the north of Wazhou, and even they secretly went to Ezo Island to hunt bears with special shotguns. Not to mention, with muskets, hunting became much easier, and even a few women such as Qinghe and Gao Yang hunted two bears.

It's a pity that Qinghe's marksmanship needs to be improved. The two bearskins were beaten with bullet holes everywhere, and even the royal tailors in the palace had no choice but to make a few pairs of bearskin gloves, and several women each took one pair as a souvenir. But even so. It still made them very excited, after all, it was more rewarding to hunt bears than to hunt those small animals.

Nugang has been developing for several years. It has also formed a bustling port city, with nearly half of the Han people in the city. Most of the remaining half are local Wa people, and there are also a few Sanhan, Grassland Hu or Western Regions people. There are even Persians and Tianzhu people, who mainly come here for business, and some people want to go to the Americas and stay in Nugang for a while.

Li Su chose a scenic place in the suburbs of Nugang, and then built a courtyard, and planted cherry blossoms in the courtyard, speaking of which the cherry blossoms were transplanted by him from Si Yu City, and now they have been spread out in Wazhou, and it is estimated that in a few decades, the cherry blossoms in Wazhou can also become a famous attraction, which is also a little contribution made by Li Su to the future tourism of Wazhou.

It's a pity that it's winter, Nugang is not as cold as Keelung, and the trees have lost all their leaves, not to mention the flowers. It just so happened that as soon as Li Ke arrived in Nugang, he encountered a heavy snowfall, although this snow brought some trouble to the traffic in the city, but for Li Su and others, who have been living in Taiwan for several years, it is also a happy thing.

In a warm pavilion in the back garden of the courtyard, Li Ke and Li Su sat opposite each other, on the stone table in front of the two, there was a small charcoal stove, and a casserole was placed on the stove, and the casserole was stewed with dog meat.

"In this kind of cold weather, the most suitable for eating dog meat, third brother, you taste it, when I stew dog meat, I let people add some turtle meat to stew, and the dog meat that comes out of this way is the best, it is said that Liu Bang liked to eat this kind of dog meat the most." Li Su copied the chopsticks and introduced Li Ke with a greedy face.

It was very late when Li Ke came to Nugang yesterday, and Li Ke and his wife Yang have also been separated for a long time. However, after a night of heavy snowfall, the weather suddenly cleared up this morning, so Li Ke and Li Su were pulled to the back garden by a group of children, and now the children are having a snowball fight on the dry grass outside the warm pavilion, and the two of them are lazy to hide here to eat and drink.

Li Ke didn't have time to eat breakfast in the morning, and he and his wife reunited after a long absence last night, naturally they were passionate, and now they need to take a tonic, although dog meat can't be on the table, but it has the effect of aphrodisiac and kidney tonics, which is suitable for him to eat now, speaking of which, this is also Li Su's heart.

I saw Li Ke pick up a piece of tender dog meat and put it in his mouth and chewed it, it felt mellow and fragrant, the meat was rotten but not greasy, and what was even more rare was that there was no trace of earthy smell, so he also praised it: "Not bad, I went to Rome and tasted a lot of food, many of which are very rare, but compared with this pot of dog meat, it is still a few points worse in taste!" ”

Li Su also laughed proudly when he heard Li Ke's praise, although dog meat is delicious, it is generally not used to entertain guests, but Li Ke and Li Su are brothers, not outsiders at all, plus the snow outside is covered with snow, it is a good time to eat dog meat, so Li Su let people make a pot and taste it with Li Ke.

Li Su and the two ate dog meat and began to chat a few words, and soon Li Su began to ask why Li Ke came back so soon? If he goes to the Americas, it will be at least another six months before he returns.

Li Ke smiled after hearing this, and then slowly told what happened after he arrived in Rome, especially pointing out his plan to establish a foothold in the Iberian Peninsula and expand outward on this basis.

Li Su was still very interested in Li Ke's Yanfu in Rome at the beginning, especially when the other party seduced the Roman queen, which made Li Su envious and jealous, he knew that the Roman queen was so beautiful, and he should go to Rome one step earlier than the third brother, maybe he could bring the Roman queen back.

However, when Li Ke began to talk about the situation in the Mediterranean, Li Ke had already guessed a little, after all, with his understanding of Li Ke, if he got along with each other, I am afraid he would have the same idea. And when he heard that in the Strait of Gibraltar, the Visigothic general crashed into him and sent him to death, which made Li Ke slap his hands and laugh, and at the same time admired Li Ke's later revenge.

"Third brother, your trick is really wonderful, shelling the Visigoths' ports not only makes a name for yourself, but also can deter the Visigothic army, in the future, third brother, you will land on the Iberian Peninsula with a large army, and the resistance you will encounter will be much smaller." After listening to Li Ke's experience, Li Su finally spoke in admiration.

"Hehe, in fact, I have also collected some information about those Goths, especially in military affairs, these Goths are almost useless in other aspects except for their bravery, and even the generals don't even know the most basic arrangement, if it weren't for the Western Romans themselves greedy for enjoyment and hired too many barbarian troops, they would not have been wiped out by this barbarian." Li Ke said with some disdain.

After hearing this, Li Su also smiled and said: "The third brother is really to the point about the reason for the fall of the Western Roman Empire, no matter how the times change, the military power of a country must not fall into the hands of foreign races, just like my Great Qi, the real main army will always be the Han people, and those foreign armies can only be used as a foil at most, and can never become the main force, which I am ready to write into the constitution, so that all future generations can not disobey!" ”

When he said this, Li Su paused for a moment and then said: "As for the combat effectiveness of those barbarians, although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but listening to your analysis of the third brother, it must not be much stronger, but the third brother, you had better not be careless, strategically you can despise the enemy, but in terms of tactics, you must pay attention to the opponent, and the lion fights the rabbit also needs to use all your strength." ”

After hearing this, Li Ke nodded, pondered for a while, and said: "It's a little careless for my brother, I looked down on those barbarians before, and later defeated the navy of the entire Visigothic Kingdom with four warships, and I really felt a little light in my heart, but fortunately, Sixth Brother, you reminded me, otherwise I may really suffer a big loss in the future." ”

Li Su also showed a little smile, he had found that Li Ke's words were a little contemptuous of opponents, which was not a good habit, so he reminded him, fortunately, Li Ke was the most like Li Shimin among the princes, and he was really able to listen to the opinions put forward by others.

Immediately afterwards, Li Su thought of the difficulties that Li Ke was facing now, and immediately spoke: "Third brother, you choose to develop your own power in the Mediterranean, I have no objection to this, the level of civilization there is relatively high, and it is relatively easy to develop, plus although there are many forces there, they are all very weak, so it is not very difficult for you to gain a foothold there, but there are two prerequisites that need to be solved!" (To be continued......)