"Xuzhou is also a good place to be born, he also caught up with a good time, just grabbed Shouzhou and Xuzhou, the two important places in Huaibei and Huainan, one is a granary, and the other is a place where iron is produced, otherwise with his poor army, how can he afford it?"

Liu Yong still didn't hold back, and somewhat sourly "slandered" his future "sister-in-law", he didn't think that Jiang Feng could refuse this marriage, with the posture, bearing and wisdom of the little sister, even if it was not too much to match the prince as a wife, but now the royal family is worthless and worthless.

"Hehe, big brother, you're a little jealous, Shouzhou turned out to be a granary, but why didn't Wu Guo know to annex and develop it, and let it wander outside Wu?" Liu Ji glanced at his brother's facial expression, feeling a little interesting, "And Shouzhou Huang's porcelain kiln was also rebuilt in Jiang Feng's hands, and it has become a major specialty of Shouzhou, selling well in the Central Plains, and it is also very popular in our Nanyang, this can't be fake, right? Xuzhou iron smelting industry has long existed, and it has a longer history than our Nanyang, but what about the output and quality?" It is far inferior to us, but now that it has fallen into the hands of Jiang Feng, it has been reborn all of a sudden, isn't this Jiang Feng's ability? Big brother, we must face up to our shortcomings and correct them, so that we can catch up with the other party. ”

Liu Yong glanced at his little sister with a smile, and smiled slightly: "Little sister, this is starting to defend my future sister-in-law? I'm really a little worried that you are going to marry in the past, can we still talk to the Liu family? Don't take a wrong position." ”

Caught off guard, being stabbed by his brother like this, Liu Ji's little face turned red, and Yingting's face suddenly became a little embarrassed, but immediately he was angry, "Big brother, you have to speak with your conscience, this marriage was made by your father, I never thought of getting married, why is it that I am sarcastic about my little sister now?"

"Hehe, little sister, it's true that you didn't want to marry someone before, and you didn't want to marry a mediocre person, but Jiang Feng is not a mediocre person, you yourself are looking for him, what else can you say?" Liu Yong sighed with emotion: "This girl is outgoing, this is true." ”

"Big brother!" Liu Ji was really annoyed, and slammed the horse's belly, and the healthy horse galloped out and rushed forward.

Liu Yong shook his head, having said that, if Liu Ji marries Jiang Feng, it can indeed greatly improve the strategic situation of Nanyang, even if it is just a gesture, it can make the Shatuo people have to consider the threat from the east when they are riding south, and this kind of containment can make the Shatuo people have to station heavy troops in the east in case of accidents.

Urging the horse to catch up, the group headed towards the south gate of Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is the transportation hub in the eastern part of the Central Plains, where business travelers from south to north, east and west are gathered, and the intersection of Surabaya and Gubian River also makes it the most important land and water wharf between Huanghuai and Huai.

Liu Yong and his entourage came from the direction of Gwangju, and instead of taking a boat, they rode through the county on horseback.

They stayed in Shouzhou for a day to observe and learn about the situation of Xuzhou, the most important commercial city in Huainan.

The prosperity of Shouzhou made Liu Yong and Liu Ji smack their tongues.

They found a lot of merchants with Bianluo accent in the Central Plains, and the city is still expanding dramatically, the main reason is that a large number of exiled gentry and merchants from the Central Plains chose this place as their place of residence, which made Shouzhou usher in a period of great development.

The local government also actively promoted the expansion of the city, removed the city walls on both sides of the southwest and expanded along the Huaishui and Feishui respectively, and the newly built houses were lined up one after another, especially in the area of Dongtai Lake and Daogong Temple, which was originally still a wilderness, but now it has become the favorite settlement area of the rich gentry from Bianluo, a large number of rich gentry from Bianliang and Luoyang are here to set up houses, a house is more luxurious than a house, and it is completely impossible to see that this is a group of people who have just fled.

In the wharf area north of Shouchun City, which can be called the most lively and busy area in Huaishui, Liu Yong and Liu Ji made a preliminary estimate that there are more than 1,000 masters who carry labor in the wharf area alone, and there are at least dozens of wharf areas built along Huaishui, and there have been some professional wharf division of labor, such as special grain storage and transportation wharves, porcelain and iron wharves and shipbuilding wharves, which have to make Liu Yong and Liu Ji greatly shaken.

It is impossible for an ordinary city to have such a professional division of labor and transportation wharf, and to have a wharf with this division of labor means that the transaction and transportation volume must reach a considerable level to support it, and there is a need for such a division of labor.

But Shouzhou clearly meets this condition.

They made a brief observation at the grain storage and transportation wharf, and in just one hour, more than ten large ships docked for loading and unloading, and the ox carts coming from the storage side almost never broke the line, and hundreds of lifu kept moving up and down without stopping.

And they also noticed that there were some quite interesting things in the dock loading and unloading area, the kind of loading and unloading tools similar to the sliding crane seemed to greatly reduce the labor intensity between the dock and the ship, Liu Yong and Liu Ji were pondering, this should be a new thing invented by Jiang Feng's magic material official academy.

But even so, the master of this dock area kept a crowd of several hundred, and there was little time to rest.

Liu Yong and Liu Ji have long known the special status of Shouzhou in the Xuzhou Governor's Office, the convenient water and land transportation, the convenient irrigation of Shaobi and Huaishui, and the unique position of being located in the upper reaches of the Huaishui River, making it the throat of Jiangfeng's foundation and Huaibei and Yanyun Prefectures.

The grain supplied to the north must be shipped from here, and the grain, porcelain, paper, and tea of Shuzhou, Guangzhou, Shouzhou, Huzhou, and Luzhou, the medicinal materials, linen, and mountain goods of Qizhou and Huangzhou, the iron, ironware, and charcoal of Xuzhou, and the salt of Haizhou must be gathered and traded here, radiating the entire Huainan region.

In a sense, Yangzhou is gradually replacing Huaizuo, which has a huge impact on Yangzhou's commerce, so it is quite a shock to Liu Yong and Liu Ji, who find that the commercial prosperity of Nanyang, which they are proud of, is not even half that of Shouzhou, and this is only one place under Jiang Feng's rule, and Xuzhou is the center of Jiang Feng's governor's mansion.

Of course, Liu Yong and Liu Ji also have a little high regard for Jiang Feng, in fact, Xuzhou's current business is not as far as Shouzhou, but Xuzhou's current situation is not inferior to Nanyang, especially in the iron smelting industry, Nanyang has been far behind.

Liu Yong and Liu Ji also realized that this was probably Jiang Feng's greatest confidence to dare to fight the Jin army, and with such a strong business support, he could afford to fight this big battle.

With these merchants gathered in Shouzhou, Liu Yong and Liu Ji both believed that Jiang Feng could ignore the threat of the Shatuo people, even if the Shatuo people launched an attack on Xuzhou now, even if Jiang Feng did not have the support of Nanyang and Caizhou, Xuzhou could deal with it.

Liu Yong and Liu Ji's bearing and clothing quickly attracted the attention of a group of people under the south gate, and one person came quickly, walked to Liu Yong and Liu Ji's horse and arched his hand, "But Nanyang Liu Yong's son?"

"It's Liu Yong. Liu Yong also dismounted, before Nanyang has sent an envoy to Xuzhou to send a letter, saying that it will send Liu Yong and his party to Xuzhou to discuss related matters, although there is no specific content, but the envoy also vaguely mentioned the issue of returning Gwangju verbally, but such a big matter is certainly not an ordinary envoy can decide, Nanyang of course also has to send heavyweights, the result is Liu Yong came.

Hou Chen has never seen Liu Yong, but he also knows Liu Yong's general appearance from some of the picture scrolls sent back from Wuwentang, and he can identify it with a little look, but the young man who is parallel to Liu Yong looks at the posture is extraordinary, which makes him a little puzzled who this person is, but after a closer look, he knows that this is a woman dressed as a man, and then thinks of a mother and compatriot under Liu Yong, it is estimated that it should be Liu Xuan's third daughter, who is known for her intelligence and cleverness.

Although the names of the three daughters of the Liu family cannot be known to outsiders, it is not a secret to Wuwentang, and of course Hou Chen will not say it to his face, which is too rude.

It's just that how the envoy Liu Ji came with Liu Yong also made Hou Chen a little curious.

"I have seen Liu Yong's son, a certain is Hou Chen, the political affairs hall of the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion, and came to greet Liu Yong's son on the order of the first governor of the political affairs of Lord Chen. Hou Chen was neither humble nor arrogant, smiling.

Liu Yong and Liu Ji have already dismounted, although they are not very clear about Hou Chen's identity, and Hou Chen did not introduce his identity specifically, but it can be seen that Xuzhou still attaches great importance to Nanyang's visit.

After a few words of greeting, Hou Chen took the initiative to lead the way, and other entourages had already separated the road, letting Liu Yong and his party enter the city first.

Stepping into Xuzhou City, Liu Yong also felt the difference between Xuzhou City and other places.

The roads and alleys of Xuzhou City are much wider than those of other cities, but if it is densely populated, it is not as good as Shouzhou, but it can be seen that these business travelers are still smiling, and the stable situation here should give these Shimin business travelers a lot of peace of mind, especially when the Shatuo people have gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains and began to rule, they are still under the rule of the Han regime, and they are much more down-to-earth from the heart.

Another different feeling for Liu Yong is that there are a lot of horses in Xuzhou City, and most of them are used by the people, although these horses are different in age, many should be eliminated by military horses, but for the southern domains, so many horses are in the people, which also means that the transportation capacity here is much stronger.

Another surprise is that the carriages here are also a little different from other places, where they are two-wheeled carriages, but here they are four-wheeled carriages, especially the carriages are extremely flexible in steering and have a larger loading capacity.