"I really didn't expect it!" Dressed in an apricot robe and shrouded in a thick crane, Chen Duan stood at the bow of the ship and stared at the distant Zhenhai Harbor, a massive port that had expanded much since his departure to meet the ever-increasing throughput needs.

Because the sea was frozen again, the icebreakers that had been increased to more than a dozen by Zhenhai Port broke a long waterway, which stretched from the port to the sea seven or eight miles away.

On the long waterway, huge sea ships loaded with all kinds of goods are constantly coming and going, and in the distance, there are more than a dozen icebreakers with iron armor on the outside, which are moving heavily, further widening the waterway that is already seventy or eighty zhang wide.

In the harbor in the distance, at this time, there are moored ships with a load of thousands of stones to load and unload goods, and rows of tall gantry cranes are constantly busy under the operation of workers, like huge arms, easily loading and unloading these heavy goods.

After the port, a large area of buildings towered up, completely covering Zhenhai City twenty miles away, Chen Duan still remembered that when he just set off a few years ago, he could still see the city wall of Zhenhai City in the distance from here, he couldn't help but admire: "It seems that the development of Zhenhai in recent years is really good!" ”

"Of course it's good!" He Liang, who was wearing a mink coat, appeared in front of Chen Duan wrapped tightly, and he smiled, "I heard that there are 400,000 people in Zhenhai City this year!" This is still the case of His Majesty trying to relocate all the workshops to other counties! Otherwise, there will be more people! ”

"Now there are only more than 4 million people in the East China Sea, even if you include all the foreign women, slaves, and those newly annexed indigenous tribes, there are only more than 5 million!" Chen Duan pondered for a moment and said worriedly, "In my opinion, in such a sparse population, a large number of people are concentrated in the national capital, after all, it is not a good thing!" ”

He Liang also nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty has noticed this matter a long time ago, and now we have to consolidate the occupied territories in the mixed Tongjiang, Wanshui, and Nanshui basins, and also seize a large amount of land from Goguryeo, if there is not enough population, we will not be able to occupy these lands!" Therefore, a large number of workshops were relocated to the newly established counties and many people were diverted! ”

Seeing that Chen Duan nodded in agreement, He Liang continued: "I heard that in the past two years, most of the newly relocated population of our Xia Kingdom has been allocated to Nanyang, Yizhou, Xiyang and other places, while most of the population from the Northern Dynasty has been sent to the land of Beji!" It has been several years since the counties of the East China Sea organized the migration of the government! ”

"Although this can also increase our control over the South Seas, the Western Oceans, and the land of Beji, after all, it is likely to lead to the widening of the gap between the North and the South over time, which will lead to more worries about the increase in the gap between the two!" Chen Duan really had new worries.

He Liang said with a smile: "If you want me to say, Daochang Chen, you are too worried, now we just need to turn these lands into the land of our Han people, and those children and grandchildren are not willing to live together in the future, that is also their business, we will never be able to give them the masters!" ”

"Haha, it's a poor way!" Chen Duan smiled to himself, "Anyway, the Central Plains countries have been fighting for decades, as long as they fight, we will have a steady stream of displaced people to obtain, and when the time comes, it will be easy to use the huge population of the Central Plains and the regional difference in population, so there is no need to worry about the difference between the north and the south!" ”

"Actually, it's not just these," He Liang said with a smile, "I have heard the crew members who went home to visit relatives this year say that in the period from last summer to this summer alone, there are more than 200,000 newborns in the entire Xia country, and these people will give birth more and more in the future, as long as there are decades, our Xia country can surpass the Central Plains countries!" ”

Chen Duan stroked his beautiful hair slightly and smiled: "I didn't find this point, if that's the case, it would be good, 'there are people and people, there are people and wealth' Now we are a vast land, and the population continues to increase, so why don't you worry that you will not become a big country in the future!" Even if the countries of the Central Plains are mixed and unified, there is nothing to fear! ”

"Not bad, not bad!" He Liang agreed, but then he saw the scene on the shore and said, "It seems to be the banner of the Central Protector Army, I think the banner should be the cavalry of Yulinwei on duty!" It won't be long before Your Majesty knows we're back! ”

"I haven't seen Your Majesty for years!" Chen Duan was full of emotion, because now the waterway is wide, the fleet soon entered the port and berthed neatly, and after Chen Duan and He Liang got off the ship, the first batch of people they saw was none other than the apprentices sent back by Chen Duanxian at the beginning.

As soon as he got off the boat, several young Taoist priests knelt down and cried, "Master, your old man has finally returned!" "That kind of sobbing is really unbearable!

Chen Duan looked at several disciples with sad faces and reprimanded: "What kind of body is it to cry and cry! Are you not happy to see you as a teacher? ”

After Chen Duan comforted several disciples, he smiled at Zhu Bofu who came to greet him: "It really made Zhu Duwei smile, it's okay if I haven't seen him for many years!" ”

Who knew that after Zhu Bofu finished saluting Chen Duan, he was very listless and said: "It's not good, I said that I would attack Goguryeo together in several war zones, but the other ways are in full swing, and we are a little annoyed by the way of the Zhenhai Protectors!" ”

At the beginning, the five-way army was going to attack Goguryeo together as planned, and the Zhenhaezhong Protector was responsible for the road to the mouth of the river, but after launching the attack, Wang Ze suddenly just let them gradually advance to the vicinity of Luojin City and could not continue to advance, as long as they contained the eastern Goguryeo of Sasayon Dazuo and did not reinforce Pyongyang City, the others were left alone, and they were not allowed to attack with all their might! Kiss

In this way, all the units of the Central Protector Army were a little listless during the attack, and while they were responsible for the attack, a guard would come to Zhenhai every three months to be responsible for guarding the safety of Zhenhai City, and at the same time, they would also shoulder the responsibility of training the National Guard around Zhenhai.

However, from the first day of the war, Zhu Bofu was unfortunately selected to guard Zhenhai City, so he had to become the defender of Zhenhai City, and after three months, he had to stay for a period of time due to other factors.

In the past few months, Zhu Bofu heard the news of the achievements of various armies from other people every day, and he was even more upset, what Jiang Chuan recovered the news of Damurwei and established Yangwu City, Xu Ning and Hu Bingchang defeated Gao Wencan's 120,000 army to seize the new pill capital mountain city, and named it Jiangzhou.

There are also Qu Liulang and Sun Xing's army teamed up to eliminate the Goguryeo naval army, broke through the port city on the west coast of Goguryeo, and Zheng Kui and Han Zigao on the South Road achieved good results, which undoubtedly made Zhu Bofu feel extremely sad, when he used the army, he was trapped in the rear like this, it was too uncomfortable!

After hearing Zhu Bofu's complaints, Chen Duan comforted: "Captain Zhu and rest assured, I think Your Majesty is not a safe person, and he will inevitably lead the crowd to attack in the future. ”

"I hope so!" Zhu Bofu is not unaware of this, the key is that Wang Zedu has been here in Zhenhai for half a year and has not seen any movement from him, and he has nothing to do all day long just with a group of staff officers who have no combat experience to analyze various combat examples against a huge sand table, which is really boring!

As he was talking, he heard everyone shouting, "Your Majesty is here!" ”

As soon as he said that, the rumbling of horses' hooves was heard, and dozens of knights rode to a twenty-foot wide avenue not far from the port, and when they entered the port with a large number of people, they slowed down and trot, and many people on both sides gave way to cheer.

Even if Wang Ze still hasn't stopped his habit of wandering around all these years, it is still very difficult for the people of Xia Kingdom to see him, and for the people, it is a thing worth cheering to be able to meet Wang Ze when they go out.

"Daoist Chen! It's been a hard time for you all these years! Wang Ze stared at Chen Duan, whose appearance had changed a lot in front of him, and sighed, "At the beginning, you went to sea in the ninth year of the summer calendar, and now you see that the fifteenth year of the summer calendar will pass!" It's six years in the blink of an eye! ”

"But for my thousand-year-old inheritance of China, what the poor Dao has done is not as good as Your Majesty!" Chen Duanji bowed and said, "I don't know if the crops and seeds brought back by the few unsuccessful apprentices of the poor road have been planted alive?" ”

Chen Duan is still very concerned about this matter, after all, these things are all things that Wang Zeqian told him to bring back before he set off, and if they can be done, it will also be a great merit.

Looking at Wang Ze's subsequent face, Chen Duan knew that this matter was inseparable!

"Don't worry, Daochang Chen!" Wang Ze said with a smile, "As soon as Huang Yi and Lin Qing came back, I ordered people to bring these crops to Yizhou and Luhan for cultivation, and this year it happened to be in Pingyang County and Sanqi for cold-resistant trial planting, although the yield is not ideal, but it will be good in the future!" ”

In the spring of this year, the Agricultural College carried out small-scale trial planting in Pingyang County and Jiaozhou County in Sanqi, where the latitude is far north but the climate is relatively warm and humid, and most of the crops can grow smoothly in the summer in these places, but the yield is still very low, and further cultivation and breeding are needed.

Among these crops, especially tomatoes and peanuts are the most popular among people everywhere, and corn is a good winter feed for cattle and sheep because of Wang Ze's good name, and it has also won the popularity of farms and pastures around the country, and they are all beginning to look forward to the spread of this new crop.

However, the potatoes that Wang Ze specially instructed to bring back were treated coldly at the beginning, because many people were not used to the smell of potatoes at first, until Wang Ze invented various ways to eat potatoes such as beef stew, which is very suitable for planting in the land of Beji, and quickly became popular in Zhenhai, Jiangkou, and Sanjiang!

What Wang Ze attaches the most importance to is undoubtedly the dozens of rubber saplings planted in Luhan County, after the past few years, these saplings have grown in very good conditions, it is said that the thickest saplings have a diameter of five centimeters, Wang Ze estimates that it may take another six years to harvest the first batch of glue, which will take a long time to wait.

Seeing Wang Ze talk about the excitement of these crops, Chen Duan finally felt relieved, and Wang Ze finally had time to express his condolences with Mi Ke and other sailors and scholars who came back with him, so that these wanderers who had been away from their hometown for many years couldn't help but burst into tears.

Wang Ze attaches great importance to these people who have returned safely, he has already prepared a banquet for these heroes in the palace, and just as he was about to say a few words to Mi Ke, suddenly another ship docked, and it was Wang Yu who came down from it!