There were a few thin clouds floating in the clear sky, and the sunlight gave off a glimmer of light in the light blue sky, and even the sea surface became bright, feeling like the sun was shining from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the sea, and the waves became rapid when the wind rose, rippling on the beach layer by layer

Lei Qi held the fishing rod with both hands and looked at the sea quietly, suddenly he threw the fishing rod back and caught a palm-sized sea fish, I quickly got up and ran over to take the fish off the hook

Lei Qi: You kid is really a member of the lucky general, and he accidentally led to a fraud case of collusion between officials and businessmen, and it is also thanks to you that you smuggled 2 million quintals of grain from the south, or our country will suffer huge losses, and handing over the right to the sea to you is to prevent such a thing from happening in the future

Li Yang: The grass people can make a modest contribution to Zhejiang, which can be regarded as the prosperity of the family, but the general is just the grass people who feel wronged in their hearts

As he spoke, he raised his sleeve and wiped the tears on his cheeks, and Lei Qi laughed when he saw this: Whatever the old man says, cry, say it, I will make the decision for you

Li Yang: General, you didn't see how the people from the Criminal Department tortured and persecuted me, although Jia Ze died, the people who tortured me were safe and sound, and the people were angry

Lei Qi: Brother Wang knows that you have been wronged this time, so I will reward you with the seal of Tonghaiquan, I know your thoughts, but you are not in the court, I don't know that it is complicated, and now the court factions are lined up in Tianlu, in order to rescue you from the prison of the criminal department, but it took a lot of painstaking efforts, and the general Wang Ben has worked hard to manage the northern border pass for more than 20 years, and has been an iron plate

Jia Ze, the squire of the military department, was promoted all the way by Prime Minister Qin Jingyi, and this time the border guards involved and those commanders and Jia Ze can be caught if they want to

Brother Wang didn't let Yu Tianlu check down, it was for the future layout, and it was also to balance the various factions, Brother Wang also took this opportunity to place people in the northern border pass and the military department, these things shouldn't have been told to you, but let you understand the current situation, maybe you will figure it out

The meaning of Lei Qi's words, Li Yang didn't understand it very well, but he didn't show it, thinking to himself, I just want to clean up that Liu Hong, how did you pull things into the officialdom, hey, how did I forget this stubble, in fact, before I came back, I should have cleaned up that Liu Hong, and my body was enlightened by my parents and allowed others to trample on this revenge, I must take revenge

Lei Qi glanced at Li Yang with his spare eyes, and saw that he was staring at the sand on the ground as if he was thinking about something: I heard that you are going to build a coastal fortress near here

Li Yang: The general Taizhou Mansion is often harassed by the Dongwei Haikou in the sea, and it just so happened that this year the grass people earned some money and wanted to build two military fortresses on the beaches near Lanxi Village and Xilan Village, and after these two fortresses were completed, they could rely on the terrain to block the Haikou from the sea, and they could attack and retreat and defend, and the grass people also planned to build a port on this beach for merchant ships to dock and open maritime trade and develop fisheries

Lei Qi took a deep breath: I don't see it, you kid is not ambitious, this is to build a fortress - a port, and to build a warship, do you know how much silver it costs

Li Yang scratched his head with his hand and let out a silly smile: General, Caomin, this is not a total of one year, if it can't be completed in one year, then two years, if it can't be done in two years, then three years - if it doesn't work, then five years until it is completed

Lei Qi: You kid is quite capable of tossing, so is there a place where officials can help?

Li Yang: That's not true, but I don't know if the government can allow grass people to build these things

Lei Qi: You go to Sun Yuanwu for this matter, after all, he is the prefect of Taizhou, I am not good to intervene directly, don't say that this old man built a fortress first, and when he finishes building, he is talking about the port, step by step, if you say it all at once, with my understanding of him, he is choked enough to allow it

Li Yang: What the general said is that the grass people have been taught

Lei Qi: If you have anything, you can go to the state camp

Lei Cai put away the fishing rod in his hand, stood up from the chair, and waved to the nearby Thunder Fire Dragoon, the Thunder Fire Dragoon who was guarding the side rushed over from a distance, a 4-seater carriage, Li Yang saw that the general was leaving, so he took the initiative to take his fishing rod and followed closely behind

Lei Qi stopped: Yu Tianlu accidentally interrogated a person with a scorpion when he was interrogating the commanders of the northern border pass

When Li Yang heard the three words of the flower scorpion, he was suddenly startled in his heart, and a chill went up his spine, since I rescued my uncle and wife, I have been secretly investigating the flower scorpion, but so far I have no clue, and the only contact is that assassination

Lei Qi: I originally wanted to dig out some information about the flower scorpion from this person, but this person did die mysteriously under the heavy guards in front of everyone, this time you ruined other people's good things, I am afraid that you will encounter accidents, this is to remind you to be more careful in the future

Li Yang: The real hunters of the generals are often disguised as prey to lure the other party, and the grass people are worried that they will not come to me

Lei Qi patted me on the shoulder: In short, you have to be more careful yourself, remember that the enemies you can see are not terrible, they are terrible enemies that you can't see or touch

After Lei rode into the carriage, he gradually left under the escort of the Thunder Fire Dragoon, carefully calculated that I stayed in the country for exactly 25 days, during which time the family was not less worried about me, so the first thing I did when I got home was to report a peace to my mother and the second uncle and the third uncle, several elders knew that I was safe and sound, and the stone hanging in my heart was also considered to have landed, and I was able to come back safely this time It was also a happy event, and my mother asked Xiaozhou and Xiaozhuang to prepare a few tables of wine and food, and the manor and the whole estate followed to celebrate

As soon as Ma Nan heard that I was back, he came to the manor to pay a visit, and as soon as he met, he was full of apologies: Brother, this time because of my brother's matter, you have suffered, for my brother, I really didn't expect things to be like this, and I wouldn't trouble you if I knew it earlier

Li Yang hurriedly invited him to the banquet: Brother Ma saw what you said, this time I went to the country to complain that I have nothing to do with you, Brother Ma, I thought you had returned to the south or brother, I will go to visit you

Ma Nan: I was going to go back, but I was worried about my brother, so I didn't leave for a long time, I want to see if there is anything that can help

Saying that, Li Yang looked at Li Song: How about the second child's grain sales, and the money was not given to others

Li Song: The boss's 2 million quintals of grain have all been sold, and the 1 million taels of silver have been handed over to the shopkeeper to bring back to the south, and we have earned a total of 150,000 taels of silver this time after the freight is removed, waiting for you to come back and distribute it

Li Yang: If you have to wait for me to come back, you can divide what you should do, Brother Ma, let's divide it into five or five for one person, 75,000 taels and I will have someone prepare the silver for you

Ma Nan shook his hand: Brother, let's talk in advance, you only help me sell grain, and the amount of money you earn is yours

Li Yang: Brother Ma, don't mind, if you don't provide food, your brother can't earn this money, so don't I also say it, no matter how much money you earn, I will share it equally with you

Ma Nan: Brother, don't shirk this money, take it as a brother, feel better, and that's the only thing that can help you as a brother in Zhejiang

Li Yang: The second brother will give the silver to Brother Ma to prepare, Brother Ma, we are all businessmen, we can't be busy in vain with such a lot of effort, Brother Ma's love brother, I understand, but the business belongs to the business, whose money is not blown by the wind

Ma Nan: Then brother, you can take a big head and give 50,000 taels to your brother

Li Yang: Brother Ma, I might as well be respectful and obey my fate

Gao Yuan and Korean dramas are deploying some things during my absence, and the family is not in a mess because of his absence, Li Yang is very pleased with this, he picked up the wine glass and toasted everyone with a glass of wine, but the moment he raised his hand, he felt a pain in his chest, but he didn't care too much: let the brothers bother during this time, let's have a drink, I will do it first

As he spoke, he drank all the wine from his glass, and then swept the empty glass towards the people present, but they did look at me in surprise and pointed at my chest: Why is there so much blood on your chest?

Li Yang looked down and found that the clothes he was wearing had been soaked with blood, Song Shiting and Heng Yan were so frightened that they screamed loudly when they saw that I had shed so much blood, so I hurriedly comforted the big guy Don't worry, maybe the wound was opened just now, it's okay, but Song Shiting and Heng Yan still didn't feel at ease and came over to help me take off my coat, and the people present were all stunned when they saw the injuries on my body, and they could imagine what happened to me in the Criminal Department

Song Shiting and Heng Yan touched my wound with tears in their eyes: Husband, this injury was all beaten by them, how painful it is

The originally lively atmosphere also became lifeless all of a sudden, Li Yanghan smiled and picked up the wine glass: Why are you pulling your face Aren't I coming back well

Gao Yuan: You know, you shouldn't go with them, I see what the people in the capital can do to us

Li Yang: Brothers, there is no such thing in this world that does not work hard, without this experience, can we make so much money at once, I was worried about where to make money before, this time it is all solved, by the way, I am showing you a good thing

Saying that, he asked people to put the delicate wooden box on the table, he carefully opened the wooden box, a black jade carved seal letter presented in front of everyone's eyes, the top of the seal letter is engraved with a four-way god Xuanwu stepping on the waves, and the bottom of the seal letter is engraved with four big characters "all the seas are connected", and in the lower right corner there is also a row of small characters engraved Taizhou Mansion

Gao Yuan picked up the seal letter and read it repeatedly, then handed it to Yuan Kui: Is there anything special about this seal letter?

Li Yang: This is a seal of the sea power, and with it, we can go to sea to do business openly

Yuan Kui played with the seal letter in his hand: Then this is really a good thing

Li Yang: Although I suffered a little sin when I went to the capital this time, it was still worth it, and we didn't suffer

Yuan Kui: During this time, you will be at home to recuperate, and our brothers will do Zhang Le for you

Li Yang: That's okay, then I'll stay at home honestly to recuperate

In order to make the injuries on my body get better soon, Song Shiting and Hengyan let me lie on the bed all day long, this just lying down and that can't lie down, and going to the thatched house is even if I go out, as soon as I want to go out for a walk, I want to move my muscles and bones, Hengyan said that my injury is healed, and you want to teach me to practice martial arts, then this is okay, I still lie at home for a few days

After about half a month, my injuries are basically better, Ma Nan saw that my body was okay before I was relieved to go back to the south, today the weather is good, I and Li Song rode a horse and walked around, the vast fields in the suburbs can be seen everywhere farmers are hard and busy, there are busy weeding in the field - there are busy irrigating the fields and cleaning up the small river ditch - the tender green seedlings in the field make the farmers full of hope for life, a few old people sit on the edge of the field to rest, there are talking and laughing chatting about home, In the grass beside them, seven or eight cows were leisurely flicking their tails and nibbling on the grass

After a long morning, the two rode along the trail and slipped to the vicinity of Dadou Mountain, which is still 6-7 miles away from the Da Doushan Coal Mine, I have not been to this coal mine once, I just came today, then go over to take a look, along the rugged mountain road through a forest, Li Song and I soon came to the Da Doushan Coal Mine

At the foot of the mountain, there are some simple sheds built with straw mats, I gently shook the whole shed with my hand, and the whole shed followed the straight walk, which can also shade the sun, as long as the wind is strong, the whole shed can be lifted, if it catches up with the cloudy day and rain, it can neither prevent the rain nor play the role of keeping warm, I really didn't expect the workers in the mine to live in such a bad environment

Li Yang: How many workers are there in the second mine?

Li Song: There are 121 workers in the Dadoushan Coal Mine

Li Yang, what's a relatively open place: second, tomorrow, you let the craftsmen build 50 brick houses in this area for the workers in the mine to live in, and each house will live in a house with four people, and the extra house will be used as a warehouse to store some tools and food

Li Song: I'll implement this when I get back

At this time, more than a dozen workers came out of the mine at the foot of the mountain, all of them were bare-chested and carried out two buckets of coal with a pair of flat shoulders on their shoulders, and these ten or so workers were walking towards the coal pile with heavy steps, and when they passed by me, I found that they were wearing a pair of simple straw sandals, and they were thin and had a few ribs on their bodies, and they could see clearly

Li Yang: How did you arrange the meals for the workers?

Li Song: The workers in the boss mine are tired from work, so they eat three meals a day in the mine, and breakfast is usually rice porridge and steamed buns - stir-fried vegetables and rice at noon and evening

Li Yang: Second, you are building a special place for the workers to eat, and for breakfast, you can get some soy milk-adzuki bean porridge-steamed buns-leek boxes-steamed buns or something, and the standard at noon and evening in the future is four dishes and one soup, and there must be meat for each meal

Li Song: Boss, it costs a lot of money

Li Yang: When can the old two not forget their roots, although we have some family business today, but we are also ordinary people, but we have caught up with some good opportunities to achieve a little success, as long as we don't waste more than a year, you can't spend a few dollars, you see them are thin and shaking

Suddenly, there was a burst of children's laughter from the place where the coal was stored, Li Yang heard it and wondered how there could be children running here to play in such a remote place, following the laughter, Li Song and I walked over and saw that there were about twenty children picking coal there, the older children were only thirteen or fourteen years old, and the younger children were only ten years old, and a few of them were little girls, almost all of them were wearing a tattered coat, and there was a big snot hanging on their noses

Li Yang: Second brother, how do you manage this mine, how can there be children running here to play, if they have something scattered here, you can tell clearly

Li Song: Boss, those children are not here to play, but our mine workers, hey, no, why are there more than a dozen missing, it may have gone to the mine

After Li Yang heard this, a wave of anger surged into his heart, so he was so angry that he entered the mine, and he didn't care about any danger, the mine road was very narrow, not much higher than people, when the workers came out, I had to turn his body sideways to pass, every once in a distance there would be an oil lamp on the ground for lighting, and when he reached the depths of the mine, the space here suddenly became larger, and in some places there was a log erected to prevent the mine from collapsing

By the dim light of the fire and the clanging-clanging sound I quickly found the children, so I looked at Li Song viciously and gestured to him, Li Song saw that my face was ugly, and knew that I was angry, so he went to take the children out, the air here was a little sparse and a little stuffy outside, I was already sweating profusely before I could work, no wonder the workers were all naked

I watched in the mine for a while, the workers mined the coal and stone by a handful of strength, the small coal workers would use a flat pole to pick out, and the large coal and stone could only be carried out, there happened to be a slightly older old man in the move of a large coal stone, he moved several times did not move up, so I went over to help with the handle, then the coal stone was moved, the ground scattered stones walked up and stepped on the very uncomfortable and a little awkward, and so the old man did not want to thank me after lifting the coal stone to the coal pile, When I saw that the old man's watch skin was hard and the joints were wide, even the fingers were wider, and there were still some cracks on the surface of the hands

Li Song saw that I came out of the mine, and hurriedly came over to explain: Boss, don't be angry, there are children hired to work in other places, not just our family, the most important point is that it is cheap to hire children to work, and they are all rushing to do it with 300 yuan a month, not to mention that these children are really good at doing odd jobs, and they eat less

Hearing Li Song say this, Li Yangzai couldn't hold back the anger in his heart: Second child, you are doing a loss, look at these children, if they are your children, can you be strong in your heart

Li Song: It's not that their parents don't know that they receive the salary every month

This is people's helplessness in life, so I grabbed Li Song's collar and roared: I don't care about the second child, but in the future, our Li family industry is not allowed to hire children under the age of 18, and tomorrow we will pay all the wages of these children and let them go home

Because I was talking louder, the children all ran over when they heard me, and they grabbed my clothes with their little hands and shook them gently, and cried: Uncle, please don't drive us away, we can do more work

Seeing the child begging for himself, Li Yang felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and even tears were already welling up in his eyes: Uncle children, you don't want to twist you away, you are still young, you shouldn't come out to work so early, to your age should be the age of being cared for and playing, do you want to go to study and meet more children, when you grow up, you can go to the test to make a name for yourself to glorify your ancestors and use your knowledge to benefit this land

When the children heard this, they stopped crying and cheered happily, "Read-read"

Yes, why didn't I think of this before, if Alan County wants to develop in the long run, education can also be important, no, I have to study and study and open a academy so that children in the north can study