Yonghe nine years.

The cold winter subsides, and spring returns to the earth. The shoots are fresh, and the branches and leaves are green.

Most of the land in Yizhou is returned to spring, and only the southernmost southwest county has four seasons all year round, regardless of winter and summer.

In the southwestern county, a huge fleet is coming from afar. The sun shines and pierces the morning mist. As time passed, the sea was steamed, and the turquoise waters rippled with scales. As the giant ship approached, the giants of the sea were imprinted, pulling the ropes, revealing the surface of the sea, and landing on the shore.

Jiao'an, the southwestern county guard, stood on the shore, his hands behind his back, his sleeves swaying in the wind. The waves invaded, and a fishy smell faintly came, which was emitted by the sea slaves hidden in the sea.

Not all Sea Clan slaves can go ashore, and not all Sea Clan slaves like to go ashore, and the sea giants are considered an anomaly, both able to sneak in the sea and like the sun. A significant number of Sea Clan slaves broke away from the fleet on the spot and dived to the bottom of the sea.

There are a large number of sea fortresses under the bay of Golden Lion Harbor, which is not only a stronghold for sea tribes to rest, but also the first line of defense against external risks in Golden Lion Harbor.

It's been five years!

Although Jiao An is a native of Zhou, because of the Jisun Rebellion that year, the Jiao family avoided the southwest Yidi, and he grew up here since he was a child. After nearly a hundred years of relocation, in addition to being able to speak Zhou dialect and know the writing of the Zhou people, the rest of the customs and so on, the Jiao family is actually very similar to the local Yi people.

However, Jiao An is not willing to be a Yiren. Therefore, when Samoke rebelled, Yang Xian led the army to quell the rebellion, and Jiao An used the influence of the Jiao clan to resolutely surrender to Yang Xian with more than ten small tribes.

As it turned out, Jiao An's choice was not wrong. Yang Xian easily quelled the rebellion, recovered Samoko, established the southwest county, and made him the county guard.

In a county in the southwest, after the death of the two Yibu leaders who could be compared to Samoke, only Jiao An, who was supported by Yang Xian, could stand side by side with him.

And as Samoko led the army north and shined in the First Battle of Southern Zhou, the 10,000 Yi army was officially included in the Shu army to organize 'Zhaoye'. Yang Xian expanded the establishment of the Zhaoye Army, combined this 10,000 soldiers with the 300 tiger and leopard cavalry, and was only controlled by Yang Xian himself, stationed near Bacheng.

Jiao An has been a county guard for five years and has seen a little change in Southwest County. The southwest county was originally a wild place, and naturally it became a place of exile.

Sinners, and people who were sinners, and soldiers and monks who were on the frontier, were mixed together. Jiao'an gathered them together to develop Southwest County.

In the past five years, 12 county towns have risen from the ground one after another, with houses, government offices, markets, all kinds of shops, city walls, and military stations......

Outside the city walls, large areas of fertile land were also cultivated. A large number of razors and exiled criminals moved into the county seat.

In this southwestern county, three crops a year are just waiting for leisure. In the past five years, Southwest County has changed from a wild place that originally needed Yizhou to transport grain and grass to a large granary that in turn transported grain and grass to Shu.

With the rise of the navy and the large import of the benefits obtained from the crusade against the Sea Clan, Golden Lion Harbor has become the most prosperous place in this southwestern county, and even some counties in the south of Yizhou are incomparable.

The county guard of the southwest county was established in the Golden Lion Harbor, and the main naval forces and fleets were stationed in this port. There is the largest trading market in Southwest County, where all kinds of novel and exotic sea tribe items are traded, and even the sea tribe is bought and sold.

Merchants seeking huge profits are often not afraid of thousands of miles away, and conduct first-hand transactions here. Because the price of these novelty goods can often increase more than ten times or even dozens of times in the more northern regions.

Samoko didn't like this kind of boring construction days, preferring to fight on the battlefield, while Jiao An was the opposite.

With the influx of people, the city of Golden Lion has been rebuilt twice.

The fleet docked in the dock and dropped anchor. Commerce is an important source of revenue for the Southwest, and these fleets of exploring the seas are the most important part of this ring.

The sea area outside the southwest county is very vast, and the situation in most of the sea area is uncertain. These exploration fleets are the vanguard army, tasked with a series of tasks such as exploring sea areas, drawing nautical charts, finding land, and finding sea tribes, and providing intelligence for the next gathering fleets and armed fleets.

Jiao An waited for them to arrive, this fleet consisted of a huge ship and several support ships, and the captain of the navy in charge of this fleet was Li Fu.

Li Fu came with the soldiers, still holding a box in his hand. If it is about seniority, he should be the brother of Li Yu, the hot strategist in the Lianghou Mansion.

After Li Bi's death that year, most of the Li clan was sentenced to exile in Southwest County. Compared with those Yi people who can't read a word, there are a large number of people with a fairly educated level in the Li clan.

Soon, with the approval of the Prime Minister's Office, Jiao An selected these people and filled them into the government to carry out complicated work.

Li Fu is a concubine, and compared to Yang Xian, he hates Li Bi who made them fall into this situation. However, in the past few years, they have not had a bad life, on the contrary, they have been unexpectedly good.

For Yang Xian, the mentality of these people is actually very complicated. And Li Fu is the simplest of them.

Li Fu's attitude towards Yang Xian is not too much to describe with awe.

"Captain Li, this is the treasure in the sea that you accidentally found in your letter?"

"Yes!" Li Fu nodded and opened the box, "This was accidentally discovered by a Sea Clan servant at the bottom of the sea when our army passed through a sea area. I asked the alchemist who was accompanying the ship, and it was an extremely rare material, glazed algae. ”

Jiao An looked at it and closed the box.

"I have already told the Prime Minister about this. The prime minister has an order, so you will immediately take the glazed algae jade back to String City. ”

"Back to String City? I'm going back to String City! ”

Li Fu was overjoyed, and his voice trembled a little.

"Not only you, but the clansmen of the major families who have performed well in the past few years have also been recalled to Xiancheng. The latest of them had already departed the day before yesterday, and you were the only ones left. ”

Jiao An smiled, and there was actually a little envy in his heart. These exiles have gone from a prosperous place like Xiancheng to Southwest County, and they still have a gap and homesickness in their hearts.

Although Jiao An does not have these feelings, he has lived in the southwest since he was a child, and he has always yearned for the magnificent city of the Great Zhou in his heart.

And being able to enter the Prime Minister's Mansion in Xiancheng means entering the center of the Shu Kingdom. Jiao An had been in the county guard of Southwest County for five years, and according to the law, the deadline for transfer had already arrived. However, the situation in Southwestern County is special, and he will have to stay a few more days.

"The prime minister instructed that there may be risks along the way, so let you bring more good hands."

"Risk?" Li Fu was a little puzzled, but then gave up, "My subordinates understand!" ”