People who have never been to the capital naturally don't know that there is a greasy thing here, and the beggar gang can be said to have become a mudslide of the underground forces in the capital. It has become common to ask for money in the capital and bully beggars from other places. Even secretly, he also did some human trafficking and ticket kidnapping and extortion.

This time to come to the east to Shun, in fact, it is Liwei. Isn't the Li family's business covered? I just want to find you to operate, as long as you are smooth, I am not afraid that others will not be on the road.

Ai Husheng has never been in the capital, where does he know these doorways. At first, I thought it was my own plan to bully others, but I didn't expect it to be my own guy being bullied by others.

"Humph! Beating people in broad daylight, there is no royal law. We're going to sue the officer! The two beggars on the ground immediately became menacing when they saw the man who had come to take charge. Lying on the ground, one screamed like a pig, and the other pointed to Ai Husheng's nose and wanted to pull Ai Husheng to sue the official.

Of course, Ai Husheng won't say anything, Lao Tzu is Wang Fa or something like that.

After thinking for a while, he turned to the little guy he was carrying and said. The little guy immediately turned around and left!

"Just let them sit here!" Ai Husheng glanced around, and sure enough, there were many beggars in the crowd, and I am afraid that there were no less than a thousand people. As long as they come hard, these beggars will rush to the top. When the time comes, if the law does not blame the public, even if they are killed, they will be beaten in vain.

All the men and stewards of Dong Laishun returned to the door. Let the beggars outside make a noise and toss!

"Master Shen! What can I do? On the wall not far away, the dog-headed military advisor saw Ai Husheng retreating with someone, and hurriedly asked Shen Lian, the leader of the beggar gang in Dongcheng, Elder Nine Bags.

"Humph! Drag it with the guys, can we afford it? The smell at the door was terrible, and he couldn't do this business anymore. It's okay, today they don't come out, tomorrow they will continue to make trouble. Until he can't continue to buy and sell! ”

"Boss, I heard that the east comes to the Shuntong Mansion. What if they report to the official and come to get someone? ”

"What are you afraid of? We don't have much else to help, but there are a lot of people. Tomorrow I will find two more people from other provinces and let them continue to make trouble here. Catch all of us beggars, hehe! I'm afraid that the prison in the capital will be filled up, and I won't be able to finish it. Besides, this is what the helper has explained. If you don't do it well, you and I won't have good fruit to eat. ”

"The helper is also ......!"

"Silence!"

"Oh!"

Ai Husheng returned to the building, looking at the noisy crowd outside and not speaking. Xie Youcai came up, thinking that Ai Husheng had no choice. whispered: "Ai Ye, my subordinates still have some friends in the capital. You see...... Isn't it......! ”

"Huh! This matter is not so simple, and the whole capital knows that this Donglai Shun'er is the business of the Li family. has the experience of Baiyun Temple, and dares to come to our door to make trouble. Do you think it's really a few beggars who dare to do it? Ai Husheng sneered.

"You mean ......! Is there another reason for this? ”

"I haven't figured out the other party's origin yet, and I've already gone to find the fifth master. Hopefully he'll figure it out! The two masters of Zhang Wang want to go back to the construction site as soon as possible, and they have just gone to ask Lord Xu of Jinyi Wei to help. I believe that there is a Jinyi guard town, and they don't dare to go to the construction site to make trouble, just in case. The brocade guards on duty will give each person one or two pieces of silver a day, so that they can be supplied with meat. If anyone really makes trouble, let them do it. ”

"No!" Zhang Mazi and Wang Laosan agreed, and immediately left Donglai with his subordinates and returned to the construction site.

Ai Husheng didn't expect that the things he had to face would be even more tricky than he imagined.

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Li Xiao returned to Changxing Island with the boat and did not return for a year. Changxing Island has changed dramatically, and a transshipment dock has been built by the sea. There is a lighthouse on the top of Tower Hill, and at the foot of the mountain, there are small buildings of two or three stories next to each other.

Just a hundred and ten meters away from the pier is the barracks, where soldiers are drilling. The slogans were shouted loudly, and the "crackling" gunfire on the other side of Tower Hill seemed to be whipping.

As soon as he stepped off the springboard, Xiaoyu rushed into Li Xiao's arms like a cannonball.

"Bad big brother, I haven't come back to see Xiaoyu after going for so long." Xiaoyu hugged Li Xiao's neck and didn't let go, and hung on Li Xiao like a koala. Li Hao rubbed his hands on the side, his eyes were very hot.

"Big brother is not coming back, this time I want to stay here for a few days and accompany Xiaoyu well." Holding Xiaoyu in one hand, he pulled the envious Li Hao with the other.

There were a lot of people who came up to greet them at the wharf, including fishermen and Inatomi Yunao, who were wearing burlap overalls. John Tang, who was dressed in Western missionary clothes, and Sister Jiang, who was wearing a skirt under white clothes. The most eye-catching, of course, is Ao Canghai, whose beard is full of face.

Ao Canghai's big face leaned over and wanted to wipe Xiaoyu's face with the beard on his chin, but Xiaoyu immediately let go of Li Xiao and slipped to the ground and hid behind Li Xiao. The little head was exposed, and he grimaced at Ao Canghai.

"A handful of old people, and they still mess with children." Li Xiao vaguely heard that Sister Qiao didn't seem to be able to have children, so Ao Canghai was very fond of Xiaoyu and Xiaohao, and they were completely like his own children.

"If you don't mess with them, you don't mess with them. Where are those five imps around you? Ao Canghai looked behind Li Xiao suspiciously, but he didn't see the roast chicken brothers.

"Go to the capital to help the fifth master do something." Li Xiao said vaguely, and Ao Canghai was very smart and didn't ask again.

The Li family's single-family villa is on the other side of the pier, with a small three-story building facing the sea. The midday sun shines on the white marble tiles, scattering dazzling light. There is a small courtyard in front of the building, and there is a pond and a small pavilion in the courtyard.

Lotus flowers bloom in the pond, and you can faintly see red carp wandering among the lotus flowers. It is estimated that this thing is used to curry favor with Xiaoyu, but I don't know if these things will survive in winter.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Sister Qiao coming out: "I heard Lao Ao say that you are coming back, and I will prepare early this morning." Yesterday I let people go to sea to shoot seafood, and today we are still making dumplings. The hearty laughter peculiar to the Northeast woman even drowned out the sound of the waves.

"I'm not at home, Xiaoyu and Xiaohao are thanks to you." Li Xiao pulled Xiao Yu with one hand and Xiao Hao with the other hand and bowed to Sister Qiao. Sister Qiao didn't know how to speak, and she stood there at a loss, feeling that it was wrong to put her hands anywhere.

"Let's get inside!" Ao Canghai slapped Li Xiao on the back, and then pulled Sister Qiao and her party into the house with a smile.

It was the first time for Li Xiao to come in the house on Changxing Island, and at a glance, he knew that it was from Ao Canghai's handwriting. When you enter the house, there is a large living room, and you want to turn inside to the stairs. In the lobby on the first floor, there is a round table with seafood of various colors distributed by the waterway.

"I know you love dumplings, and you have a few fillings. This is mackerel filling, this is shrimp filling. This is chicken stewed with mushrooms, which is the favorite roast chicken of roast chicken. Why didn't that kid come back? Sister Qiao was busy arranging the seats, and she couldn't stop talking to hide the excitement in her heart. Li Xiao is now the head of the Li family, and he is also the character of this Liaodong who stomps and shakes three times. Being able to bow to yourself is a big face. Regarding her background, Sister Qiao still minds very much.

"That's it! When the wine is hot, bring it up, and we will have two cups. Ao Canghai pushed Sister Qiao to get the wine, and the old husband and wife knew best what Sister Qiao was thinking. At this time, if she is not allowed to calm down for a while, she will keep talking, saying whatever she wants. A woman's mouth is like this, muttering like a machine gun, and many times it annoys people's brains.

"Hey!" Sister Qiao agreed, and went into the back kitchen to get wine.

Xiao Yu was crooked beside Li Xiao and refused to leave, looking at the dumplings on the table with sinister eyes.

"Well, this island has changed a lot." Ao Canghai happily poured a cup for Li Xiao.

"It's not just big, I never thought it would become like this in just over a year." The changes in Changxing Island did make Li Xiao a little unexpected. He thought that the construction of Changxing Island would take at least a few years to complete.

"The cement kiln in Lushun has never been idle, just your house. It took less than a month to build it, and the old fisherman stayed in the arsenal all day and didn't know what to do with the old Japanese devil. You brought back that foreign monk and got a place called a hospital to treat people.

I have all moved the people of Mangui to Jinzhou, where the water and grass are much more abundant than here. There were only 100 Tartars there, and they stayed in the walled city all day. It is estimated that in a few days, it will have to be withdrawn to the north bank of the Liao River. Ao Canghai and Li Xiao touched a glass of wine and began to talk to Li Xiao.

Xiao Yu was very well-behaved and ate dumplings with Xiao Hao without talking, they knew that the eldest brother and Ao Ye were talking about business.

"Have you told Master Man about the relocation?" Li Xiao was afraid that Ao Canghai would make his own assertions, so if Man Gui was more serious, it would be troublesome.

"Master Man brought it up, you don't look at how big this Changxing Island is. They also built buildings to live in people, and they built hospitals to treat people. The arsenal covers an area of more than 200 acres, not to mention any glass factory, quilt factory, match factory and so on. The place is full, you let them go where to graze.

The water and soil in Jinzhou are good, and the apple is sweet and sour when you bite into it, which can make you eat it on your tongue. Besides, there are almost no people there who have been plagued by the Tartars, and the land is of great use. Take advantage of the fact that the Tartars don't dare to do anything to us now, so let's take it first. ”

"It's good that Master Man proposes it." For these things, Li Xiao is happy to see them come to fruition. Mongolian herders need pasture, and they are always stuck on an island. Now that he can have a broader world, it is estimated that Man Gui is also very satisfied.

Since everyone is satisfied, there is absolutely no reason for me to make irresponsible remarks.

"Smoke one?" Ao Canghai took out a box of large front doors and handed it to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao took it, Ao Canghai lit a match, and the two lit cigarettes against each other.

"I don't know who said it, cigarettes and alcohol are not separated. Don't say it, it's a fucking pick-me-up when you're drinking. It seems that the wine is more fragrant, and I don't know what's going on. Where did you get this thing back, goddamn it. Ao Canghai spit out a smoke ring, watching the smoke ring spread in circles, and he enjoyed it very much.

"This thing was made far away, and it was brought by the red-haired man. I met a red-haired man in Macau, and now they are growing this thing in Yizhou. He Kegang is in Yizhou, and he is responsible for protecting them. It shouldn't be a few months before a ship will bring potatoes and corn. This year, we can't catch up, and next year we will plant corn here. ”

"Potatoes? Corn? What's that? "Ao Canghai has been mixing in the city since he was a child, and when he grew up, he was a soldier with a knife and mixed in the barracks. Since I was a child, I have never farmed. Where did he know potatoes and corn, and even if he had grown them, he would not have known about the two high-yielding crops that originated in South America.

"It's all high-yielding things, and potatoes can produce three or four thousand catties per acre. Corn is not as powerful as potatoes, but it is almost a thousand catties per acre. Potatoes can be eaten as vegetables most of the time, and corn as food is not a problem at all. As long as corn and potatoes are planted around Jinzhou, we will be able to be self-sufficient in food. Li Xiao knew that after the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of China began to surge.

Looking at the history of China, there are few times when the population exceeds 100 million. Many experts come up with a bunch of reasons, but the most real reason is that the yield of crops is too low. Without that much food, you certainly can't feed that many people.

After the end of the Ming Dynasty, potatoes and corn came across the ocean, which not only had a short growing season, but also did not pick the land. Once these two high-yielding things were promoted, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the population of China had reached a base of 450 million.

"Oh, that's good." Ao Canghai has no concept of the yield per mu at all, but he also knows that three thousand catties and four thousand catties are a big number.

"From now on! Let's plant a lot of potatoes and feed them to the pigs. Find a place to raise tens of thousands of pigs, and then you have to worry about too many elbows to eat, not so hard to eat one elbow. Li Xiao saw that Xiao Yu and Xiao Hao were frantically attacking an elbow, and Ao Canghai watched and swallowed saliva on the side, but did not stretch out his chopsticks.

Compared with seafood, Ao Canghai, a carnivore, definitely prefers fat and thin elbows.

Ao Canghai is the highest military governor of Changxing Island, not to mention the status of Li Yu and Li Hao, they are both elbows to meet. It can be seen that there is really no idle grain to feed pigs in these years.

As for feeding pigweed to pigs, can the pigs that eat grass grow fat and strong?

"I'm rubbing! That feeling is good, Lao Tzu eats fish every day and eats birds in his mouth. Look at the things here, this chicken is still raised by Sister Qiao herself, and it's not that you are reluctant to kill it when you come back. And the two smoked rabbits, both of which were forced out. If you can eat pork now, it will be considered the New Year. ”

"In two years, we will celebrate the New Year every day."