After many years, Fanning once again set foot on the land of Kunzhou, the land for which he fought and wrote a gorgeous chapter, which had appeared in his dreams more than once, haunted him, and now he finally returned.

When Fanning's ship docked on the dock in Kunnan Bay, the soldiers and civilians and officials of Tang County who were waiting to greet him on the dock erupted in cheers.

Fanning stepped off the ship, and his heart was excited, and he finally set foot on this land again.

Lu Bangjiang, the magistrate of Tang County, and Ma Weiguo, the commander of Tang County, stepped forward to see the arrival of the envoy, Lu Bangjiang was born in a famous family in Hebei, Jiayou was a Jinshi for six years, the son-in-law of Zheng Taiwei, Jiayou served as the Taishi Bureau for seven years, Zhitang County, is a promising young man, and the commander Ma Weiguo was originally just a team leader, and was promoted to the head of the capital by Fan Ning, and has now been promoted to the commander.

The old people were also very happy to meet, Fan Ning smiled: "Yu Xiaonian said that Kunzhou has not changed very much, in fact, I am very happy with this sentence, I am afraid that Kunzhou will change greatly, and I don't even know myself, but I am looking forward to good changes in Kunzhou, and my mood is really contradictory!" ”

Lu Bangjiang bowed down and said: "Please rest assured that the changes in Kunzhou are in the bones, and we will never let you down!" ”

Fanning nodded, "Then I'm looking forward to it!" ”

At this time, dozens of old men stepped forward to offer Fan Ning the land, these old men Fan Ning still had a rare impression, he suddenly pointed to a person and said happily: "I remember that you are Liu Laohan, the grain king who I personally awarded the medal, and you got the first crop yield in the first year." ”

The old man was so excited that he burst into tears, "You still remember me!" ”

Lu Bangjiang said with a smile beside him: "Last year's leader in the yield per mu was taken away by Liu Laohan again, and it has been three consecutive years, and under the drive of the old man, the average grain yield per mu in Tang County has increased to 400 catties. ”

This result made Fanning very satisfied, and he nodded, "This is the change in the bones." ”

He knows very well that it is difficult to increase grain production, Tang County just started with a wheat yield of only 300 catties per mu, and now it has actually increased by 100 catties, it must have taken a huge amount of effort, it is not easy!

He smiled at Lu Bangjiang and said, "This is your greatest political achievement!" ”

Lu Bangjiang was overjoyed, bowed down and said: "Thank you for your praise, I will definitely continue to work hard!" ”

At this time, Fan Ning recognized an old man again and said with a smile: "I still remember you, your Zhang Ping from Baihe Village, your grandson is the first child from Kunzhou, or is it my name, how is he now?" ”

The old man nodded again and again, "Thank you for your concern, the child is already nine years old." ”

He hurriedly turned around and beckoned, and a tiger-headed young man ran forward, knelt down and saluted, "Zhang Kunsheng kowtows to the envoy!" ”

Fan Ning remembered something and immediately laughed, when he was interested, he gave the name Kunsheng, and as a result, more than forty children later were named Kunsheng, but the surnames were different, and even Mingli's son's nickname was Kunsheng.

He pulled the child up and smiled and asked, "Are you still studying?" ”

Zhang Kunsheng nodded, "Studying in the academy, in another three years, in the county school, and then in the state school, my grandfather hopes that I can go to Taixue to study." ”

"Good! Have ambition, finish Taixue, and then come back to work for the villagers and make Kunzhou better. ”

"The students have memorized the teachings of the king!"

Fanning waved to the tens of thousands of people who warmly welcomed him, and then boarded an open carriage and entered the county seat amid the cheers of the people.

The county has changed a lot, the wooden houses that were originally built in the past have almost disappeared, and have become all brick houses, which is also the cold winter in Kunzhou, the effect of brick houses to keep warm is better than that of wooden houses, and the much-criticized sewer system has also been perfected, and all kinds of domestic sewage finally flow into the sea together with hot spring water, and the toilets are also collected and treated every day like the capital.

"What is the population of Tang County now?" Fanning asked.

Lu Bangjiang bowed down and said: "Qi Qi envoy, the population of Tang County is now 3,120 households, which is 2,000 more than when the envoy left, but they are all in the countryside. ”

Fan Ning also heard Yu Xiaonian and Cao Shi say that a few years ago, when there was a great drought on Shaanxi Road, hundreds of thousands of people fled to Hebei and Beijing, and later the imperial court resettled in many ways, of which 8,500 households and about 40,000 people moved to Tanzhou and Kunzhou, but mainly Kunzhou, moving almost 30,000 people.

Therefore, when he left, there were only 1,000 households in Tang County, and now it has increased to 3,120 households, an increase of three times.

"Did they all move from Shaanxi Road?"

"Not only the immigrants from Shaanxi Road, but also the soldiers who are willing to stay, there are about 2,000 retired from the army to work in agriculture, most of them are married to Japanese girls, and there are more than 600 new families in Tang County alone."

Fan Ning frowned, "Isn't the population pressure in Han County very great?" ”

"The population of Han County is very large, so Kunzhou applied to the imperial court to establish two counties, one is Wei County and the other is Qi County, Wei County is in the north of Han County, and Qi County is on the Kunnan Peninsula."

Lu Bangjiang hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Kunzhou adopted the method of Fan Yuanjun back then, first built a town, and then repaired the county seat, Xinqi Town and Xinwei Town have already been built, and the population has exceeded 1,000 households. ”

Obviously there has been a lot of change, why did Yu Xiaonian say that it had not changed much? Fan Ning's mind turned, and he immediately understood that these changes mainly happened after Yu Xiaonian, so he didn't know about it.

Fanning visited the county seat again, and the business was indeed much more prosperous than before, with dozens of shops in Xintang Wazi, restaurants and brothels also increased to a dozen, but Fanning was pleased that various schools appeared, including adult literacy schools, private schools, schools, county schools, and so on.

"It's ......"

Fanning was surprised to find a thick pile of newspapers in front of a grocery store, and he went up to pick up the newspapers, mainly the tabloid and the Hong Kong Economic Journal, and even the newspaper from last October.

Lu Bangjiang explained: "Let you know that Kunzhou cannot be navigated in winter, this is the day before yesterday New Year's when the first fleet arrived in Kunzhou, in fact, we all know that the news of the death of the first emperor and the new emperor's accession to the throne was sent by the flying pigeon, Governor Liang was considering, Kunzhou also issued a weekly newspaper, this needs the approval of the imperial court, the people are very curious to know what happened in their hometown, we also think that this can be more closely connected with the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Fan Ning nodded and said: "This is one of the main purposes of my coming to Kunzhou, I have to decide a lot of things, please Luzhi County immediately send someone to inform the officials from all over Kunzhou, I will meet with the officials of Kunzhou in Xinqi Town." ”

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Fanning went to inspect the barracks again in the afternoon, and the current garrison of Kunzhou has 5,000 troops, and because the militia system was implemented eight years ago, Kunzhou can quickly arm 10,000 well-trained young and strong militiamen in wartime, bringing the total strength to 15,000 and hundreds of warships, mainly to guard against a surprise attack by the Japanese on Kunzhou.

Early the next morning, Fan Ning took more than 20 followers to ride horses along the official road of Han and Tang Dynasty in the direction of Han County, but he did not go to Han County, when he was about fifty miles away from Han County, Fan Ning turned south and ran along another newly built official road to Xinqi Town.

The official road has not yet been repaired, and you can still see Japanese laborers building the road along the way, and the Japanese laborers are now in the fourth batch, with 25,000 people in Kunzhou, mainly engaged in mining, logging and road construction.

On the contrary, they came to Kunzhou to eat well, put on thick clothes, and return to their hometowns with a large sum of money to buy fields after three years, which has always been the most sought-after and enviable occupation of the Japanese people, and because of the extremely low mortality rate, it is also popular with Japanese governments everywhere.

When it was dark, Fanning and his entourage arrived at Xinqi Town, which was the location of the original nest of the Kun people, and after the Kun people's rebellion was suppressed, all the Kun people were migrated to the Deyu country, and the Kunnan Peninsula was assigned to Han County.

The location of Xinqi County is very good, only ten miles away from the seaside, there is no mountain, there are plains all around, after the trees are cut down, there will be a large area of fertile fields, the Kunnan River that originates in the central mountain area flows all the way through Han County, and from Han County to the south, flows through the largest plain in Kunzhou, and finally flows into the bay from Xinqi Town to the north.

The Kun people are from this river canoe into the sea, ten miles away from the bay is also a natural harbor, the geographical location is extremely superior, Xinqi Town chose the location of the city here, is also the result of public expectations.

When Fanning arrived in Xinqi Town, a deep moat was dug around the town, and Fanning and his party entered the town with thousands of households through a wooden bridge.

The houses in the city are dense, the business is prosperous, the three horizontal and three vertical six streets divide the town into a chessboard shape, more than 1,000 families live here, where is still the town, it is clearly a county seat. 8)