After a morning rain, the air is filled with a fresh aroma, and the courtyard of a newly built mansion in the new city of Gaoliang County is also humid, the flowers and trees in the garden are bright, and the pond is full of frogs.

The newly built house tiles are still dripping water downward, and there is a dripping water jar under the eaves, which is used to receive water when it rains, and the rainwater is used to water the flowers on weekdays, and the water droplets like a bead curtain drip in the water jar, making a series of hollow valley dripping sounds.

"Tick" a drop of water down the eaves and down into the water jar below,

This was followed by another "tick".

A graceful lady in her thirties leaned against a windowsill made of fine wood and looked out, outside of which hung two birdcages made of fine gold bamboo, but the door of such a beautiful birdcage was open, and there was not a single bird inside.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still some bird droppings, footprints, and some gorgeous feathers in the cage, I am afraid that people would think that this was just an empty cage, and maybe they would think that the owner of this house is really strange.

At this time, just after the first sunny day, the rain clouds in the sky have just dispersed, and the rays of sunlight are scattered down, and the various flowers and plants in the courtyard are becoming more and more fresh.

In the yard through the excavation of the pond, the accumulation of mountain stones, imitation in addition to the most fashionable landscape garden landscape of the Southern Dynasty nowadays, although the mountains and stones are not tall, but look carefully because of the mountains and water, there are landscapes, trees and flowers, as if the sky is open, which makes people's eyes shine.

Because Gaoliang County is located in Lingnan, the landscape in this courtyard not only has the advantages of landscape gardens in the homes of wealthy scholars inside and outside Jiankang City, but also adopts a large number of landscapes formed by native plants in Lingnan, such as clusters of bananas, frangipani and coconut trees, making this place like a fairyland.

If any scholar came here, he would probably be mad at the scenery, but the woman leaning on the windowsill did not look at these wonderful sights.

Although this woman looks only in her thirties, she can also be seen from the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, she should be a middle-aged woman who is nearly forty years old, but because of her natural beauty and natural wealth, she does not look so old because she is well-maintained.

The woman's skin is slightly dark, the bridge of the nose is high, the lips are tight, and she doesn't like to say much, although a pair of phoenix eyes are only slightly open, but they reveal a trace of essence, obviously a capable woman, the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes do not affect the woman's image, but it looks a little more powerful.

The hair on his head was tied in a bun, and instead of the beaded flowers that were common in the Southern Dynasties, a fresh flower, it was much more angry.

As the clouds dispersed, the sunlight became more and more intense, and the time gradually entered the noon time, with the gentle footsteps in the yard, several slang girls dressed in small clothes and short skirts walked in with a variety of local specialty food, and saw the woman who was leaning on the windowsill in a daze, so the first maid stepped forward and bowed her head and whispered: "Madam, it's time to eat at noon!" ”

"Alas, no appetite at all! Just leave some fruit behind, and withdraw the rest! The woman turned back to the maid at the head and said.

It turned out that this middle-aged woman was Mrs. Xian, the old lady of Feng Servant, and the courtyard she was now in was built under the guidance of a carpenter sent by Wang Ze.

For Mrs. Xian, who has been married to Feng Bao for many years and has long been accustomed to the life of the Han people, she is still very comfortable with this mansion, not to mention that this mansion also uses a large number of slang people to build houses, so it is very comfortable to live in.

However, what Mrs. Xian values most is the new city of Gaoliang County that is under construction outside, the scale of the city built at the request of Feng Servant is not large, but it is very in line with Mrs. Xian's thoughts, and she also has great respect for the two young people who presided over the construction of the city.

Mrs. Xian knew that the two young men who presided over the construction of this city were sent by Wang Ze, the eldest brother of her precious son Feng Fu, although she had a lot of opinions about her baby son Feng Fu going to the East China Sea without permission, but she liked this city that had been built for most of the time.

The city is seven or eight miles southwest of the old city of Gaoliang County, and it is only more than ten miles away from the excellent harbor by the sea, once the city and the road connecting the port are completed, then it can be more closely connected with the economic ties of Nanhai County, Guangzhou, hundreds of miles away, which is very good news for the slang people under Mrs. Xian.

Although Qin Shi Huang sent hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer Baiyue and migrated 500,000 Han people to settle in various counties in Lingnan, making this land an inherent territory of the Han people, until nearly 800 years later, this fertile land was still sparsely populated.

However, since Emperor Wu of Chen, Chen Ba first established Nanchen and restored the land of the Southern Dynasty in Lianghuai, a large number of displaced people who were displaced and lost in the war were relocated here in batches, and then resettled in Guangzhou and Jiaozhou one by one, among which Guangzhou resettled the most immigrants.

With the good prestige left by Chen Baxian when he was here and the strong execution of Emperor Wen Chen and Chen Qian after his accession to the throne, after more than two years of hard work, the combined population of the Han people in Lingnan, Guangzhou, and Jiaozhou finally broke through the limit of one million people, reaching almost a quarter of the national population of Nanchen.

In addition, in the past two years, the Lingnan Governor Ouyang led the army to launch two attacks on Linyi, and also united with Mrs. Xian to clear the local rebel natives in Jiaozhou, and also plundered a large number of indigenous young laborers as slaves.

Although these slaves could not do too delicate work, for the thriving plantations in Lingnan today, such slaves were just right, which increased the profit margin a lot, and now the number of slaves in the whole Lingnan is at least three or four hundred thousand.

As a result, today's Lingnan is more and more prosperous than in the past, especially Nanhai County and Xinhui County around Guangzhou City, where the capital of Guangzhou is located, because the number of Han people influx is larger, so the development is changing with each passing day, so that the Lingnan Metropolitan Governor Ouyang Yu is confident that he can catch up with Yuzhang County and even Huiji County within three years. 3a Reading Network

The development momentum of Guangzhou is so good, and Mrs. Xian's territory, which is not far from here, has of course also hitchhiked, although because the land transportation in Lingnan is very inconvenient, but the sea transportation is not bad, and Mrs. Xian's territory is not far from Nanhai County.

Mrs. Xian can be said to be the largest force in Lingnan except for the Nanchen Mansion, and the land she occupies is from the Yangjiang River in Guangdong to the west to the Beihai 100,000 mountains in Guangxi, and even the Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island are most of Mrs. Xian's territory.

After more than two years of development, the slang people under Mrs. Xian no longer have the theory of starvation, hunger and hunger, and all this is based on the strategy that Wang Ze contributed to Chen Baxian and Chen Qian.

As soon as she thought of Wang Ze, Mrs. Xian felt very complicated in her heart, she couldn't see this person clearly, she felt that Wang Ze was just an island owner overseas, and she was a little wary of him approaching her precious son, for fear that her family would become the object of the other party's scheme.

is even more afraid that Wang Ze will try to be unfavorable to Nan Chen, whether it is the friendship between Mrs. Xian and Chen Baxian at the beginning, or based on the support for the orthodoxy of the civilization of the Han people in Nan Chen, or the interests of the Slang tribe themselves, Mrs. Xian does not want to see Wang Ze act unfavorable to Nan Chen.

But then Wang Ze not only helped Nan Chen quickly sweep away the prefectures and counties of Fujian and Zhejiang, but also helped Nan Chen to capture the two Huai in the Northern Expedition, quickly defeated the opposition forces led by Wang Lin, and also contributed a lot of medical skills to prevent miasma.

In addition, Wang Ze and Chen Qian, who was only the king of Linchuan at the beginning, jointly established a large number of industries with Feng Fu, a large number of plantations, salt works, workshops, ports, etc.

Because at this time, whether it is Nanchen, or the sea ships of Western and Nanyang countries, they are all sailing along the coastline of the mainland, so every year, a large number of ships from various countries pass through the waters near Madame Xian's territory, and these ships will inevitably go ashore regularly to replenish supplies when sailing.

So just the year before last, Wang Ze's technology included four layers of money and grain, Chen Qian produced three layers of money and grain, and together with Feng Fu, a large number of laborers occupied three layers, and jointly developed and built the two major ports of Zhanjiang Port and Beihai Port, which were famous in later generations.

As soon as the construction of the port was completed, it attracted a large number of ships to dock and replenish, and a large number of goods that were originally unattended in the local area also found sales channels, making the surrounding people suddenly become rich.

In addition, they also set up two small ports in the south of the Leizhou Peninsula and on the north coast of Zhuya County on the opposite bank, where a small naval army could be stationed in peacetime and could ban sea ships coming and going here at any time.

That's not all, Wang Ze even joined Feng Fu to jointly build a large-scale salt farm in the southwest of Hainan Island in the later generations.

For these industries, Mrs. Xian didn't feel that there was any profit in the first year, but by the end of last year, the income of a few ports alone amounted to millions of East China Sea silver coins, that is, more than one million yuan.

Coupled with the income from the big salt farm in the southwest of Zhuya County and the plantation jointly established by Wang Ze and Feng Fu, the sugarcane, tropical fruits and other cash crops planted by Wang Ze and Feng Fu, the resulting income even a well-informed heroine like Mrs. Xian was extremely surprised!

It's just that although Wang Ze has brought a lot of benefits, Mrs. Xian still has a lot of opinions about Wang Ze, not on other aspects of Wang Ze, and Mrs. Xian still appreciates Wang Ze's behavior of partnering with Feng Fu in Lingnan.

What Mrs. Xian was most unhappy about was that when Feng Fu was on the pilgrimage to Chen Qian, she secretly followed Wang Ze's ship to the East China Sea, and this stay was more than a year, which made Mrs. Xian, who had died early and had only one son, happy?

If it weren't for Ah Kun, the leader of the guards who followed Feng Fu to the East China Sea at that time, he wrote a lot of letters one after another, constantly reporting Feng Fu's recent situation, I'm afraid that Mrs. Xian would have thought that Wang Ze had kidnapped her precious son.

At the end of last year, Mrs. Xian, who couldn't think of her son, finally couldn't bear to miss it, and sent her henchman A Niu to the East China Sea to forcibly bring back Feng Fu, a guy who had herded sheep in the East China Sea.

But I didn't want Ah Niu to go this time, and I went for nearly half a year to come back, but fortunately, Ah Niu visited the counties in the East China Sea under Wang Ze's rule, and described the actual investigation to Mrs. Xian at any time.

This made Mrs. Xian, who originally thought that Wang Ze was just a local king in the East China Sea, was greatly surprised, everyone knows that in ancient times, the Chinese people thought that except for China, all around were barbaric, and Mrs. Xian also knew that in the past when she was in Nanliang, there would be envoys from Baekje, Wa Kingdom, and Goguryeo every year to ask the imperial court for books, scriptures and other educational techniques.

Therefore, when Mrs. Xian received the letter written by Ah Niu, her first reaction was not to believe it, but when she saw the city outside the courtyard, Mrs. Xian also had to believe it.

For the growth of Feng Fu in the East China Sea in the past year, Ah Niu also made a lot of descriptions, and was very relieved to learn that Feng Fu learned a lot in the East China Sea.

It's just that I finally waited for Ah Niu to come back, but I was told that Feng Fu followed the sworn brother to Yizhou again, and he might have to delay for three or five days to come back, which made Mrs. Xian, who thought that Feng Fu and Ah Niu came back together, angry.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Xian, who was still angry, didn't have much appetite to eat, but just picked some after-dinner fruits to eat, and drank a glass of juice to feel much better, after putting down the cup, Mrs. Xian thought to herself, 'Wait for that kid to come back, see if I don't clean him up!' ’

Imagining how to clean up Feng Servant, I heard the hurried footsteps of someone 'kicking' outside the courtyard over there, and when I walked to the gate of the courtyard, it had slowed down, and then I heard someone report: "Madam! Madame, the fleet of the little master has arrived at the port ten miles away! ”

Hearing the report from the servant, Mrs. Xian stood up at once!