"Eighth! In addition to those corn potatoes, you should have other harvests on this trip! "Your Highness, I exchanged ten ships of gold and silver, agate...... Wait for the jewels to come back! And five boats of good spices! The total value is more than 80 million...... As soon as he went ashore, he had already handed over all the account books and items to the life-chasing guards. ”

When Li Mao heard the figure of 80 million, his heart was also shocked, but his first thought was not that he was happy because he got so much money, but because he was afraid that such a large wealth would bring disaster to him.

So after quietly glancing at Hai Lao Ba and Hai Xingzai, he said very seriously, "Do the crew know about this?" ”

"Back to His Highness, they only know that the goods they brought were sold for a good price, but the specific situation and detailed figures should not be clear, and the humble officials gave a gag order as early as when they were at sea, and they also understand that Shen Shallow will not go out and talk nonsense!"

"That's good, the gold, silver and jewelry should be put directly on the boat and don't move the nest, as for the spices and other items that can be sold directly in the Lingnan Yard in the future, you will be in charge of this stall!" Find a suitable time to bring everyone in the family here! And those crew members stay in Lingnan, this king will be of great use! ”

"Whoa! The humble post is the first to retire! "Go ahead! Rest for a few days, there will be a big deal to do with you soon, and I will inquire more about the situation of those pirates in the past few days......" Li Mao said and threw a golden waist card into the hand of the starfish.

"Your Highness...... What are you? "In the future, Xingzi will be the deputy commander of the internal guard of my Shouwang Mansion, now let him follow the chase, ruthless them will study for a few more years!" If you want to let Yuezi and Xiniang all come into the palace! The matter of household registration will be taken care of! Don't look at Lingnan now, it's still a place where birds don't, but in less than three years, it will become the first commercial city in my Tang Dynasty! ”

"Humblely thank Your Highness for your grace......" "Get up, get up, these are all exchanged for your lives with Xingzai, and you can also go and say about those crew members!" In the past, if all the lowly ones could be changed into good ones, the king would never go back on what he promised! After taking root in Lingnan, the affairs of the house, land, and even the family and children will be arranged properly...... By the way, the same goes for those who didn't return......"

After Hai Laoba heard this, his eyes turned red again, and when he just wanted to say something, he saw that Li Mao had already waved his hand to signal him to leave, so he consciously withdrew from the county gate after repeatedly kowtowing. 、

And Hai Lao Ba just walked to the street when he ran into Chaser and the others again, and he happened to rush back in a panic, "Old Ba, Your Highness, how will he settle you and Xingzi next?" "Your Highness, he is very benevolent, he has arranged me and all the crew members in Lingnan, and what is said to be of great use, in fact, my old bones have long been physically and mentally exhausted after this voyage to the sea, where will there be any energy to help His Highness continue to run errands!" Now that I think about it, I have to thank this little king and eight lambs for sneaking onto the boat, and I have finally seen the world for more than three years, and I will ...... later."

"Old eight, you're short-sighted, aren't you? His Royal Highness is now all over the world, it is the time to employ people, he didn't say a kind word to you, by the way, I will also give you a letter, this Lingnan is definitely the place where His Royal Highness focuses on the development of the next, and maybe there will be a school dedicated to training navigation! I heard His Highness say before, Your Highness has to squeeze your seafaring skills clean...... Ha ha...... You just wait for the ascension! ”

"The school that teaches navigation, aren't you joking with me after your life! Throughout the ages, I have only heard of the teaching of the Analects, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Tao of Confucius and Mencius in the schools, where are there those who teach running ships...... You don't have to say anything to comfort me! It doesn't matter if I'm actually useful or not, as long as Xingzi and Yuezi take off their lowly status and enter the palace, then all the sins they suffered before are worth it......"

"Believe it or not! A certain family went to recover first! But there is one more thing you must remember, tell all the crew members that what they have seen at sea must rot in their stomachs, and do not reveal a word without the permission of His Highness, otherwise you will know the consequences! ”

"I understand that His Royal Highness is no longer the little doll in the palace before, he is going to do big things! I and Xingzi have also said it dozens of times! Just now, His Highness also said that the ten ships, don't move the things on them first! "It didn't move, a certain family only went up to take a look, and now it is ruthlessly guarded by more than a hundred palace guards, and no one can get close!"

After chasing the fate after saying these few words, he also bowed his hand to Hai Lao Ba, and then rushed into the Dongguan County Ya again, and when he came out again, he took Li Mao's warrant and hundreds of guards and went directly to the ship division, and the next day he called all the more than 3,000 crew members including Hai Lao Ba to the battle to exterminate the pirates, and twenty specially made merchant ships became combat warships in a blink of an eye.

So for two months in a row, within 100 miles of the waters around Lingnan, including the Hainan Island that Zhang Jiuling couldn't set foot on after racking his brains, all of them were chased and ruthlessly wiped out, and more than 50,000 pirates who had been entrenched on the outer islands for a long time were descended to death, and they lost their place to live in an instant.

And Li Mao and Zhang Jiuling also continued to persuade the people of Lingnan to join the ranks of road construction in two months, but people never expected that at such a very critical moment, Li Sanlang of Chang'an City sent three summons and life charms to Lingnan in a row.

The content is also very concise and to the point, that is, if Shouwang Li Mao disobeys his orders and does not return, he will never have to leave the land of Lingnan! After knowing that Li Longji was really moving, Li Mao had no choice but to return to Beijing by order, but before leaving, he left Zhang Jiuling an unexpected gift package - a full 800,000 yuan in silver.

"Your Highness, you can't ask for this money!" "Do you want the king to give it back yet? Did the king say that the money was for you? You can see clearly, this is for the people of Lingnan to build houses, build roads and bridges, and not a penny can be spent on you Zhang Jiuling, understand? ”

"Your Highness...... At the time of parting, although Xia Guan said that he had a thousand words in his heart, he couldn't say a word in his heart at this moment, and Xia Guan could only thank you again for the people of Lingnan! Zhang said that the lord had written to inform the lower officials before, it is Your Highness, I am afraid that there will be a big change when you return to Beijing on this trip, and I hope that Your Highness will cherish it! ”

"A big change? Zhang said that when did that old man learn to be so alarmist! What did he tell you, so that he could say no to this king? "This ...... This...... Your Highness is careful of the East Palace, and at this time, many imperial histories in the court impeached Your Highness, you were greedy and reckless in the battle with Tibet, against the holy will, and even said that you secretly colluded with the Turks, collected Agul, and Nazai was used...... Finally, Shandong, Youzhou (Beijing) and other places broke out of hysteria, and now thousands of people have died violently, and some people are worried that this epidemic is also caused by your highness's wanton killing......"

"Donggong? Hehe, it's time to come or come, thank you Lord Zhang for telling this king these things in advance, and after this king leaves, I will spare you to take care of those crops on Hainan Island! It won't take a few months to get a big harvest! ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, Your Majesty will take care of it! In addition, the lower officials are puzzled, Your Highness, what kind of academy is this maritime academy you run, and will not the students who come out of this academy go to participate in the imperial imperial examination in the future? ”

"That's right! They only learn about sailing on the sea, and they won't go to participate in any imperial examinations, so it's good for you to report to the imperial court truthfully, presumably no one will deliberately make things difficult, anyway, the people who go to study are poor children, even if it is to seek a way for them to have food to eat in the future......"

Three days later, Li Mao set out from Hainan Island and traveled directly along the coastal road at the fastest speed towards the Bohai Bay, the closest to Youzhou, and then wrote a letter to people to send 800 miles to Chang'an to explain the reason why he took the sea route, that is, he hoped to extinguish the hysteria infection in Youzhou, Shandong and other places as soon as possible.