Today's Liaodong is a well-organized military fortress. Despite the last war, four years have passed. But the people here are still accustomed to living in the way of war, and those who have experienced displacement are very insecure in their hearts.

In Li Xiao's view, the material level of the people of Liaodong has been greatly enriched. This can be seen from the food in the village, ordinary farmers, there are already dishes such as fried potatoes and pork slices on the table. The big cake is attached to the side of the pot, and there is a crucian carp full of seeds in the middle, which is full of flavor in the mouth. When the half-grown child goes to school in the morning, the old lady will boil an egg.

Although there is no such thing as milk, there is no shortage of goat's milk. The cheese and yogurt residue made by the women from goat's milk were delicious, and it is said that they learned this method from the Mongols.

With adequate nutrition, the hungry and cold children with vegetables on their faces are gone. Instead, the sturdy children like calves are running wildly all over the ground, and their little faces are red and fluttering by the spring breeze, showing the great vitality contained in their bodies.

Because it is an immigration, there are not many elderly people in Liaodong. And there are no particularly old people, and a fifty-year-old guy can definitely be regarded as an old man.

The village health clinic is simply unsightly, except for bandaging the wound, it can only deal with mosquito bites, cat scratches and dog bites. I had a headache and brain fever, and I had to take the road to the village health center. If the township can't cure it, then you can only go to the hospital in Shanhaiguan or Jinzhou.

In these days, there are no examination equipment such as B-ultrasound, CT, and chest radiograph, so naturally there is no high examination cost. Li Zhongzi's disciples and grandchildren, after blending Tang Ruowang's Western medicine, have made significant progress in their skills. Mass production of patent medicines has begun. As long as it is not an incurable disease, it can basically be cured. There is no way to cure it, and the medical level of these years is like this.

I don't know why, the people of Liaodong are surprisingly good in this era. Headaches and brain fever are rare diseases, Li Xiao asked the village chief. In a year, there are few colds in the whole village. There are very few other problems, and I don't know what's going on.

Li Xiao feels that this has a huge relationship with the popularization of soap. The unkempt peasants are gone, and the smelly farmhouse dry toilets are gone. Instead, the people of the village are clean and refreshing, and even children who can walk for a few days know that they should wash their hands before eating and after using the toilet. Wash your hands with fragrant soap, that's the cute fragrant baby.

As for the plague and other virulent infectious diseases, they had never heard of them. He who eats the marmot when he is full of food? Every village has a large number of cats, and Li Xiao turned around eight times and saw no less than forty cats. It is estimated that the rats in the village and outside the village will not have enough to eat if they are not actively protive!

Every ten days, there is a big market in the township. When the time comes, the people of the ten miles and eight villages will take the money to buy things. The market is very lively, you can see the big Yangge twisting, you can also see the kebabs. You can even see stalls selling all kinds of floral fabrics.

Li Xiao bought a cute pig pillow for Tokugawa Chihime, which was highly praised by Tokugawa Chihime.

Walking on the land of Liaodong, Li Xiao is extremely down-to-earth. Although there is no commercial spring breeze here, you can see rustic smiling faces everywhere. Li Xiao knows that commercialization is a matter of time.

As material things become more abundant, there will gradually become frequent transactions. When frequent trading appeared, trade was born. It is the ever-expanding trade that allows people in different regions to get the goods they want.

What surprised Li Xiao the most was that the people of Liaodong quickly accepted such a thing as currency. Whether it is a golden copper coin or a silver glittering silver coin, it has become the protagonist of business. There are many adults standing behind the stalls, and there is a child who can settle accounts.

That's right, because the math of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division was learned. The most settling account in Liaodong is not the honest parents in the family, but the son who has just entered the third level of primary school.

Although they don't know how to use abacus beads, they can use strange Arabic symbols to accurately calculate how much money to receive and how much to find. As long as the child is not careless, there will be absolutely no mistakes.

There's money, there's resources, there's talent to thrive. Li Xiao believes that as long as 20 years of peaceful development are maintained, Liaodong will become the center of the entire Northeast Asia.

Many factories were built on the edge of Jinzhou, and horse-drawn carriage convoys often appeared on the wide concrete road. They are surprisingly moving in the same direction, and that is Jinzhou Port.

From a military port to a completely commercial port, Jinzhou Port only took three years. Glassware, soap, perfume, cloth, and other manufactured goods, such as glassware, perfume, and cloth, are now being shipped out of the area every year, and they are devouring the wealth of the Wa Kingdom and North Korea. A considerable part of it was sold farther to Guangzhou.

It was then transported by merchant ships from various countries from the port of Guangzhou to all over the world.

Today's first town in eastern Liaoning is definitely not Shenyang, nor is it the former center of Liaoyang. Instead, it is stuck in Jinzhou City, which leads to the traffic throat of Liaodong to Guannei!

In Jinzhou City, there is a whole commercial street and countless restaurants and tea shops. On the huge playground, sturdy children are running in split clothes, and tens of thousands of workers are working in the factory. Inside the hospital, all the doctors and nurses are wearing white coats.

It is an old city with the rudiments of a modern city, with old walls and newly renovated reinforced concrete buildings in stark contrast. The houses with cornices and arches are gone, replaced by matchbox-like buildings.

On the wide concrete road, horse-drawn carriages that follow a fixed route will stop under the stop sign for the guests waiting here to get on and off. If you change the horse to the engine and the whip in the handlebar hand to the steering wheel, this thing is the same as a bus.

The shop has a wide variety of products, in addition to the traditional rice grain shop. There are also cloth shops that sell dyed cloths of various colors, and Li Xiao also saw several kinds of flower cloths, and he didn't know how they were printed.

Next to the tailor's shop, there may be a ready-to-wear shop. Li Xiao even saw crocodile leather bags, and it seemed that the ships coming back from the south had brought some things back. Trade is like this, as long as there is demand, there is supply, and it is a sharp weapon to naturally adjust the contradiction between supply and demand.

When Li Xiao wanted to enter a shop, he was stopped by several fat mothers-in-law. Tokugawa Chihime went in to take a look and told Li Xiao that this was a place to sell women's underwear.

God! And that's where women's underwear comes in?

When he walked to the gate of Wang Tong's majestic governor's yamen, Li Xiao was once again stopped by a wolf-like servant. This time, the waist card given by Wang Tong is not easy to use.

"Master Qingtian, you have to call the shots for the villain." Junzi just wanted to report the name of the boss, when suddenly an old man trembled and knelt down in front of the governor's yamen.

Li Xiao pulled a straight, and the group stood on the side to watch the excitement.

"Go, go, go! Everyone wants to see the governor, but the governor is not busy and is dying. If there are any grievances, I'll talk about it in a few days, and we have recently had distinguished guests in Jinzhou City. Ran into the distinguished guest, and the governor stripped you of your skin! "Fierce soldiers, when it comes to sticks, hit the kneeling old man.

I didn't greet Junko with a stick just now, it was all for the sake of his military uniform. Otherwise, beatings are inevitable.

Li Xiao frowned, this Jinzhou City looks prosperous, but Wang Tong, an official, is almost the same as the same time. In the final analysis, it is still the bureaucrats who grew up in the Ming Dynasty, they do not care about the demands of the people, but are more concerned with the faces of the officials. In Wang Tong's view, greeting Li Dashuai is far more important than receiving a few petitioners.

pushed Li Hao and motioned for Li Hao to reveal his identity.

Li Hao flashed his waist card in front of the guards, and the guards who were fierce and vicious just now immediately turned into huskies. Nodding at Li Hao, he almost knelt down and stuck out his tongue. Li Xiao sighed, what kind of soldier is really it.

"Where's your governor?" The old man who has been wronged can't see Wang Tong, and Li Siye has no problem. Usually, Li Hao shows his waist card, and Wang Tong will greet him in person. Treating the youngest brother of Dashuai, Wang Tong played a full twelve points of spirit.

"If you go back to your lord, the governor will go out of the city early in the morning. The villain really doesn't know where the adults have gone! ”

"Let people find Wang Tong to come back." Li Xiao picked up the old man who had just been beaten, and while reaching out to pat the dust on the old man's clothes, he commanded.

Seeing that the guards were stunned, Li Hao kicked the guards: "Didn't listen to my eldest brother?" Find someone to give Wang Tong back to Lao Tzu. ”

"Oh! Oh! The guards were kicked twice, and immediately ran into the governor's yamen.

Not long after, a guy wearing a six-grade official uniform came out. Seeing Li Hao, he arched his hand: "I've seen the fourth master!" My family heard that the marshal was coming to Liaodong, so he waited on the official road early these days. You want to see my lord, this is ......! ”

This guy saw Li Xiao at a glance, and his legs trembled in fright, and he almost knelt on the ground.

Li Hao's hands were quick, and he scooped up this guy: "Quickly send someone to find Wang Tong back." ”

"No!" This guy suddenly came to his senses and kicked a guard: "Don't you want me to lead the horse to the master?" ”

"No!" The guards hurriedly went to the yamen and led a horse out, and this guy turned on his horse and whipped his horse to deliver a letter to Wang Tong.

"My lord, you have to let the old man call the shots." When the old man saw that the big official saw Li Xiao, it was like seeing a cat and a mouse, and he immediately knelt down in front of Li Xiao.

"Uncle, get up, let's sit here and talk about something." Li Xiao helped the old man to the edge of the dismount stone, and pressed the old man to sit on the dismount stone.

"What grievances do you have?"

"My lord, my home is going to be demolished by the black-hearted yamen. It's an 80-year-old house, this is an ancestral house, and they actually said they would demolish it. My son went to reason with them, but he was beaten up by the officials in the yamen. I've been here a few times since I came to the governor's yamen, but I haven't seen the governor's master, and I ask the eldest master to call the shots for the little old man! As he spoke, the old man wanted to bow down again.

Li Xiao had a black line in his head, but he didn't expect that there would be a demolition problem in these years.

Speaking of which, it is also to blame Li Xiao himself, in order to raise military expenses. Offering the banner of real estate development, the Tsinghua Park project in Beijing made a lot of money. Wang Tong, a money string head, will naturally follow the same example and follow himself to engage in real estate development. Now that he has made things happen, he still leaves them alone.

"You always tell me what happened, and when I see Wang Tong, I can give you justice!"

"Our Xicheng is the oldest place in Jinzhou City, and the Tartars attacked Jinzhou City at the beginning. Many of the houses in the south, north, and east cities have been destroyed, and only our houses in the west city have been preserved.

Therefore, when Jinzhou was established, there are newly built houses in the southeast and north, and only our west city is an old house. My family's house was handed down from my grandfather's generation, and it was an ancestral house. Last year, the official family came and said that they were going to do something to renovate and demolish our house.

I also asked my family to move to a newly built building outside the city, and I am old. I have lived a lifetime guarding my ancestral home, and I don't want to move at all. So I discussed with the officials and gentlemen, and I had a title deed in my house.

Unexpectedly, the official said that the imperial court had issued a new decree. The land of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the imperial court, and there was no longer such a thing as a title deed. If the court wants to demolish my house and build a building, they will give me a house outside the city, and they will compensate me with two hundred taels of silver.

But this land is the ancestral house of the little old man, the title deed is here, and the government can't force the old man to buy a house, isn't this a clever robbery?

Because of this matter, the little old man will sue. As a result, no one listened anywhere, and yesterday the messenger sent an ultimatum to my family to move within three days. My son and grandson reasoned with them, but they were beaten by the servants.

Xiao Lao'er just came to the governor's yamen to complain, and he didn't believe that there was no place to reason in this big tomorrow. The old man was aggrieved and told the reason why he was bullied.

Li Xiao listened to it for a while, and it stands to reason that Wang Tong did a good job.

"They didn't ask you, what conditions do you have?"

"The officers have asked, "What conditions do I have?" Little old man, I said that the condition is to live in the courtyard of the old house in the city. It's okay to raise chickens, grow vegetables, and spend a leisurely life. The old man looked at Li Xiao, his eyes full of hope.

Raising chickens and growing vegetables in the city? Is this to live an idyllic life in the city? Li Xiao is now beginning to sympathize with Wang Tong, and it is really unfortunate to meet such an old guy.

The elderly are generally more stubborn, and they do not like to live in matchbox-style buildings. They prefer to live in the environment where they have lived since childhood, and live a life that has not seen waves in a hundred years. If possible, they want their grandchildren, grandchildren's grandchildren, to live like this.

"My lord, Lord Qingtian ......!" Seeing Li Xiao's eyes wandering, the old man's emotions began to get excited again.

"Dashuai, why are you here? I have been waiting outside the city gate to greet you since the morning, but I didn't expect to receive it. Please forgive me! Forgiveness! ”