Wang Xuan himself had never seen such a magnificent artificial canal, especially the mountain canal built to cut off the north-south mountain.

It is a pity that Jixiang-1 can only go down to a depth of 100 meters in the golden waterway, and any further one will hinder the navigation of other ships.

Originally, I thought that not many people came here, after all, it was located in the tourism industry, and few people were willing to test the water before the hype and word-of-mouth effect.

Another important reason is the origin of the New Song Dynasty.

They are 'Former Dynasty Desires', this name can at least scare the timid group of nobles, but they stepped on the corpses of the New Song Dynasty people to ascend to the throne, and there are no ghosts in their hearts.

But the opposite is true: the closer you get to the entrance of the waterway, the more boats there are.

At the gate of the entrance, there are people directing the order of navigation, which does not look chaotic.

After Wang Xuan changed to a flat-bottomed passenger boat, he enjoyed the operation scene of the cliff in front of the window on the second floor.

The waterway is flanked by a hewn stone path, and the outer side of the stone path is a cliff.

These cliffs are just cliffs in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Wang Xuan's eyes, they are an indispensable part of the development of the New Song Dynasty and a great boost to the sublimation of tourism.

At this time, some houses had already been built on the cliff.

It is not accurate to say that it is 'built', but it should be 'chiseled'.

The roads on both sides of the waterway are only two-way one-way streets, and there is no place to build a house, so you can only play the idea of these stone walls.

The gates, rooms, windows, and stairs were all chiseled out by the workers with chisels, and in the past year, only a four-story house with a length of 100 meters was chiseled.

The height of the cliff is only more than ten meters, and the upper and lower two households and four floors are already the limit, and no matter how high it is, I am afraid that I will have to worry about the attack of the beasts above.

The boatmen paddled hard, and the passenger ship moved forward leisurely under the action of the reverse force.

On both sides, you can already see sparse carriages coming and going, either carrying people or goods, and horses are also common breeds of Daxia, not Hu Yue's high-quality war horses.

There are also wandering vendors along the river who set up stalls selling fruits, meals, and even small handicrafts.

It's becoming popular.

The only fly in the ointment is that there are also flower boats here.

It seems that the market demand for this industry is really not small, but I don't know whether it is a wild ship or an official ship, so it's better not to be sick.

The last time Wang Xuan came, it took two hours to walk through the Gray Canyon, and now by boat, he can reach the end in one hour.

It's a fitting journey.

Xiao Wang Jing was already asleep in her mother's arms, her long eyelashes were like a black curtain, covering most of her eyes, Wang Xuan couldn't help but kiss her forehead, and she could see a smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were full of spring.

"Otherwise, let's have another son, and when we are all old in the future, we won't be lonely with a younger brother with her. ”

Qing'er looked at the person next to her in a daze, the mist in her eyes gradually rose, and after a while, she smiled and said, "As long as you want, you can have as many children." ”

Wang Xuan grabbed the mother and daughter, sniffed Qing'er's hair, and gradually calmed down.

By the time we reached the end of the waterway, it was already dark.

The ancestor of the Song family did not come to greet him, and Song Yi said that the ancestor was not in good shape and had already been bedridden to recuperate.

Wang Xuan's heart jumped for no reason, and a bad premonition hit him, making him frown.

Because it was late, everyone did not disturb the old man's rest.

Wang Xuan's family still lives in the house where they fell in love with Qing'er last time, and the layout here has not changed much, and the two of them suddenly felt a sense of intimacy rushing towards them.

"Mother, are we here?"

A childish child's voice swept away the tacit ambiguity between the two.

"Jing'er wake up, we're here, are you hungry?" Qing'er left Wang Xuan behind in an instant.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, Wang Xuan met the ancestor of the Song family.

With only skin and bones left, his breath is obviously more than his breath.

With a face full of age spots, prominent cheekbones, and deep-set eye sockets, the teeth that had been stubbornly clinging to earlier were gone.

Wang Xuan held the old man's two withered hands, his nose was a little sour, and he pretended not to care: "Old man, it's okay, you can't die now, otherwise the world won't be able to arrange for me to kill you, so you have to be good." ”

The ancestor of the Song family didn't know where the strength came from, so he withdrew his right hand from Wang Xuan's hand, pointed at Song Yi, and said half-clearly: "You all, all go out, I have ...... Hand over. ”

Song Yi and the others hesitated, this old man walked angrily.

Seeing that things were not optimistic, Wang Xuan didn't dare to delay time, and yelled at everyone: "Didn't you hear, get out!"

The room was empty, Wang Xuan's eyes were red and he stared at the old man's shriveled face, stepped forward, put his ear to his mouth and said, "Say it, even if you want me to kill Zhao Shengrui, I will answer you." ”

The old man's left hand moved, and he held Wang Xuan's right hand, and said intermittently in an inaudible voice: "The world ...... Since then, there is no Song family, only, only auspicious...... Auspicious New Song Town ......"

With just this sentence, the old man rested for a long time.

Wang Xuan didn't dare to get up, and after a while, he heard the old man's voice in his ears, "Help me, help me dig his ancestral grave!"

This sentence was sonorous and powerful, and when he said this, Wang Xuan couldn't help but complain, but there was no sound in his ears.

"Hey, shouldn't I run around in the future, this is tourism, it's just the end."

Old man, don't you know, I went back to Jianye last time, and Old Man Gu left.

I went to see Aunt Liu, and Aunt Liu also left.

This time I came to see you, and you are gone.

Do you think I'm a broom star?"

With his right hand still in the old man's cold left hand, Wang Xuan gently pulled it out, covered him with the quilt, and said, "Cheng, just because this is your last request, I promise you to dig the ancestral grave of the Zhao family for you." ”

Following the old man's last wish, the ashes were sprinkled all over the land of New Song Town, even the canal.

Song Yi said that the ancestors were sorry for their ancestors and sorry for their younger generations, but fortunately when they met His Majesty's New Year's friend, they had nothing to repay in this life, so they had to turn into ashes and discipline their unsuccessful juniors for His Majesty, so that His Majesty could drive them.

This respectable and cunning old fellow is not good to be dead, what should I say?

Wang Xuan sat in front of the old man's tomb, thinking about the-for-tat confrontation between the two at the beginning, and then reaching a reconciliation later, and the Song people returned to auspiciousness.

"The ancestor said that the family background of the Song family is at the disposal of His Majesty. Song Yi spoke one sentence in the east and one sentence in the west, which made Wang Xuan very uncomfortable.

"Do you still have a family?"

Song Yi said proudly: "Of course there are, there are nearly a thousand gold bricks alone, not to mention dozens of boxes of jewelry." ”

Wang Xuanqi said: "Since you are so rich, how can you be reduced to become a lake bandit?"

Song Yi was a little embarrassed, and finally under Wang Xuan's increasingly playful eyes, he mustered up the courage to say: "Those are all things in the palace, once they are released, they will definitely attract officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, so they can't be used." ”

I see, Wang Xuan asked again: "What is the total value?"

Song Yi pondered for a while before saying, "It shouldn't be less than 10 million gold." ”

It's a lot, at least the follow-up construction funds for New Song Town are available.

After returning, news came from the clan that the old man who was guarding the warehouse had also gone, leaving only a letter and nothing else.

Wang Xuan scolded secretly and returned to the town government.

Halfway through Zhou Xiao's report, Qing'er stood at the door with tears in her eyes, and Wang Xuan immediately walked out.

"What's going on?"

"Letter, I have found my loved ones. ”

After Qing'er finished speaking, regardless of others, she plunged into Wang Xuan's arms and sobbed.

Yang Tao on the side took the internal guard to see the scenery with interest, and Zhou Xiao and other officials also went back to the room and loudly discussed the propaganda plan of the new Song Dynasty.

"Whose letter?"

After a while, after Qing'er's mood calmed down a little, Wang Xuan asked the source of the letter.

"It's my second grandfather's letter, the old man who guarded the warehouse just now. ”

Wang Xuan remembered that the one who had a lot to do with the ancestor of the Song family turned out to be Qing'er's second grandfather, but unfortunately he went before he knew each other, and he didn't know whether he was happy or sad, and then asked Qing'er how the letter came to her.

Qing'er wiped her red and swollen eyes, and said: "Some people from the Song clan opened the letter and found that it was an explanation of looking for relatives, which said the scene when the family was separated, I heard my father say it when I was a child, and it is consistent with what is written above, and the details are also correct, and my father has the dark red birthmark mentioned in the letter on his chest." ”

As he spoke, he began to sobb again.

Wang Xuan took the letter and read it word by word.

After looking at it, it really fits Qing'er's life experience.

Unfortunately, the letter only said that in order to avoid pursuit, the only son who was only eight years old was adopted by him to a family in Weizhou.

The rest only mentioned that the eldest brother's family had three brothers and sisters, the eldest nephew had died in battle, and the younger nephew followed his example and was fostered in an ordinary family in the royal capital, but the niece did not know where to go.

This is right, after buying Qing'er back, Wang Xuan once listened to his 'mother' chatter, saying that this girl has a poor background, and she is out of the sea of suffering when she comes to Jixiang, and she wants Wang Xuan to treat her well in the future.

It can be seen that his mother knows Qing'er's life experience.

"So, your surname is Song?" Wang Xuan figured out this relationship, and it shouldn't be better to laugh or cry for a while.

"Well, my real name should be Song Qing. ”

Although it is basically right, Wang Xuan still thinks that the family that adopted Qing'er's father must be found to reveal the truth, and he doesn't know if the family or descendants are still there after so long.

Although there was little hope, Wang Xuan still told Qing'er about his plan.

"It's good that this kind of thing is investigated clearly, I have no opinion, I have waited for so many years, and it is not bad to wait for a few more years. ”

When he was about to leave the New Song Dynasty, Wang Xuan was still thinking in his heart, how could anyone know that the foster young son mentioned in the letter was Qing'er's father and his father-in-law? Could it be that Qing'er's identity had already been exposed?

Wang Xuan didn't ask the man's thoughts, some things were better to go with the flow.

After returning to auspiciousness, Wang Xuan moved.

The first thing that was announced by the major newspapers, official media, and propaganda columns was the compulsory military system.

No matter how many modifiers and gorgeous prefixes Wang Xuan gave it, everyone just said that it was a wolf.

Many people can't understand that Jixiang is no longer weak, why do they still want to fight and fight all the time, do they want to dominate the Xingyao Continent?

No matter what others think, Wang Xuan doesn't have this idea, at least not now, auspiciousness is not Manchu.

As soon as the compulsory military system came out, two extreme phenomena appeared in the auspicious land.

On the bright side, the mascot supported him with both hands and said that he took the initiative to sign up for the army.

The bad side is that some idle and lazy foreign speculators gradually become restless under the encouragement of well-intentioned people.

This one-size-fits-all approach of auspiciousness has fundamentally cut off the hands and feet of external forces, and has also eliminated the thoughts of speculators.

If you want to live well in auspiciousness, you must either have talent or strength.

This can be regarded as a windfall, and it invisibly solidifies the auspicious rule.

Secondly, the Government Council announced that it will build an architecture school at the junction of Jianye Town and Lianhua Town, integrate the development experience of Jixiang over the years, compile it into a book, and pass it on to future generations.

This is a highly specialized university, with only more than 10 disciplines, all of which are related to architecture.

At the junction of Laifu Town and Baicao Town, an agricultural university will be built, and a forestry university will be built in Chiba Town.

These three universities plan to invest 15 million yuan in the construction of campus buildings alone, and plan to invest another 10 million yuan in the later decoration, all kinds of teaching materials, utensils, tools, etc., and the full construction budget of 20 million yuan is the envy of the northern territories, which is more than their total annual tax revenue.

In addition, Xiangyuan also plans to expand steel production.

It is planned to move the steel mill north to New Taipei, expand the local steel mill that has been expanded to ten times the original size, and send an army advance battalion to station.

The steel mill in Xishan also invested 10 million gold for technological innovation, equipment upgrading and plant expansion.

These two steel mills alone invested 20 million.

And that's not all.

Subsequently, Xiangyuan announced the new development direction of Zhongzhou in four years, the steam engine.

It is planned to invest 20 million yuan every year to support the research and manufacturing of steam engines, increase research and development funds, and improve the treatment of researchers.

And plans to invest 10 million a year in the research of new warships, insiders know that one is the steam engine on board, and the other is the ironclad ship.

However, the construction of the new town, which has been widely discussed, has not been mentioned.

Someone with a heart has calculated that only the government and Xiangyuan will invest 70 million yuan in these items next year, and will continue to invest 30 million in scientific research funds every year in the future, which is simply too loser.

Outsiders are talking about it, money is not spent like this, a lot of gold coins seem to be still in the water, only to hear the sound of 'bang', not even a bubble is gone, repair roads and bridges are more real, to build more factories can also increase the employment rate.

But people just don't do it, they are rich and capricious.

Although the mascot didn't say that his own king was not, he just said that he would invest in it, and it was strange that he could be happy.

It's just that in view of His Majesty's magical past, everyone will wait and see.

So judging from the reaction of the outside world, nine out of ten people scolded Wang Xuan for being a loser.

Even Zhao Shengrui was so angry that he said in front of Wang Yue that Wang Xuan had defeated his family to a new height, a new realm, and he couldn't reach it.

If you don't get angry, you can't do it, people have money to lose, the key is that he doesn't have it.

Although most people scolded Wang Xuan for being a loser, some people didn't think so.

When Jixiang first had spare money, Wang Xuan invested a lot in education, and some people said that he was stupid.

Looking at it in recent years, which of the endless new products and gadgets that have come out of Jixiang has not been made by a research institute that has invested a lot of money?

In the past, the gold-swallowing beast is now also a cornucopia of development.

Xishan has followed the example of auspiciousness and increased investment in education, and the current development of people is not bad, at least not worse than other territories in Daxia, which shows the success of the auspicious model from the side.

Besides, Zhao Shengrui, the king of Great Xia, is simply an auspicious follower, what Jixiang does, he follows behind.

If it weren't for the scientific research strength that couldn't keep up, with the size of Great Xia, auspiciousness would really not be enough to stuff his teeth.

Now that I think about it, the great wisdom of King Jixiang is really without water, and people's vision and strategy are far-reaching.

These measures are dazzling, but also breed the greed of careerists.

auspicious, far richer than they imagined.

King Jixiang is also far more likely to be a loser than they imagined.