Zhuang Shaoyou retreated from the Momei room in a daze, and sighed: "The long night is lonely, who sleeps with me!" ”

He grumbled and returned to his room in frustration.

In the Mo Mei room, the girls no longer smiled, and Cai Yan said softly: "Sister Mo, is it too much for us to do this?" ”

Mo Mei shook his head and said: "Men are like this, what they get is too easy, they don't know how to cherish it!" See one love one! From now on, we have to get him over this problem, and we must not let him succeed easily, and this is also for his good, why have emperors lived so short since ancient times! How? Wen Ji, haven't you been bullied enough by him? ”

Cai Yan's face turned red when he heard this: "Sister Mo, what are you talking about!" That unsentimental scoundrel! ”

All the women looked at Cai Yan with ambiguous expressions, and Cai Yan knew that he was speechless, and lowered his head shyly.

Mo Mei looked at Liu Xuan again and said, "Xuan'er, why don't you go and accompany him?" ”

Liu Xuan shook his head helplessly: "Sister Mo, Xuan'er is indeed inconvenient today!" ”

Mo Mei smiled slightly: "Then let him sleep by himself!" Let's talk! Wen Ji, what did you just say, what happened at sea that day? ”

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Early the next morning, Zhuang Shaoyou got up to practice swords, and practiced Hua Tuo's "Five Fowl Plays", which he had been groping for a while, but he had never been able to touch the doorway, so he had to lose his form!

It is rare to be idle for half a day in the floating life, and when the New Year is over, there is nothing to do, Zhuang Shaoyou went to the home of his old subordinate Qinling on a whim. Qin Ling was just a small commander of the cavalry battalion of the Yellow Turban Army, and he followed Zhuang Shaoyou when he became a centurion. Jizhou has fought several bloody battles, fled thousands of miles, crossed the Qinghe River four times, crossed the ocean, arrived in Liaodong, fought Goguryeo twice, Qinling has always been by Zhuang Shaoyou's side, and is now Tai Shici's deputy.

Came to Qinling's home, this two-in, two-out courtyard, the scale is not large but definitely not small, it is the high-trunk area built when the county seat of southern Liaoning was expanded, Qinling's daughter-in-law Xing'er is a native of Liaodong, is Zhuang Shaoyou just landed in Liaodong, when he eliminated pirates in Liujia Village, Qinling was quick at the time, so he hooked up Xing'er, and soon became a parent.

Qinling is thirty-one years old this year, and Xing'er has just turned twenty years old, so she definitely has to eat tender grass from old cows! However, Xing'er is already a mother of two children, which is normal in this era.

Look at the good brothers of life and death back then, now they are living very comfortably, Zhuang Shaoyou is very happy, the dead brothers can do very little for them, but at least let the still alive live a little better, right?

Coming out of the Qinling mansion, Zhuang Shaoyou began to feel melancholy inexplicably in his heart. Five years ago, the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, three bloody battles in Qinghe, Zhang Jiaoxu, the Yellow Turban was defeated, Zhuang Shaoyou fled, and was separated from Zhang Ning and Zhou Cang on the road, as well as the five hundred brothers in the original cavalry battalion, I don't know if they are still alive now!

I received news from Qingzhou last year that Zhang Jiao's son was in the Guanhai Army, and Zhuang Shaoyou guessed that it might be Zhang Ning! But the people in the Intelligence Department have not been able to verify it, because Qingzhou is really chaotic, and how can such a secret information leak out?

Zhuang Shaoyou made up his mind that he must go to Qingzhou in person after the year!

For several days, Zhuang Shaoyou did not deal with official business, but accompanied the women in the house, during which he finally found an opportunity to take Liu Xuan down, but in addition, the other women were like leaving Zhuang Shaoyou, except for their eyebrows, but they always refused to go upside down with him, which made Zhuang Shaoyou depressed.

In the first month, the county town of Liaoning once again engaged in temple fair activities, from the fifth day of the first month to the fourteenth, the temple fair for ten consecutive days, the lively extraordinary, the people are comfortable, the merchants are happy, and Zhuang Shaoyou is also happy.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a lantern festival was held in Yongxing Square, and Zhuang Shaoyou took the women in casual clothes to watch, but everyone wore masks on the street, although they attracted a lot of attention, but they were not recognized.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, Zhuang Shaoyou held a New Year's work conference, and Zhuang Shaoyou only returned to southern Liaoning at the end of last year, so last year's year-end inventory meeting was also postponed to today. In the five years of Zhongping, southern Liaoning mainly carried out handicraft industrialization, shipbuilding and armament, and the effect was naturally significantly abnormal!

In terms of administration, the treasury had a surplus of 160 million yuan at the end of last year, which was left after Zhuang Shaoyou squandered it. The Tianxia Jinbao minted and issued by Liaonan has become the hard currency of the Central Plains and has an excellent reputation. In addition, there are 120 million yuan left in Puyang's treasury, most of which was left over from the retreat from Luoyang, and a small part was handed over by Qiao Mao, the Taishou of Puyang City.

The treasury of Juye County is the most empty, only 10 million money, which was seized after the annexation of Dongping Kingdom; The treasury of the original three counties of Wenping is quite abundant, with about 90 million dollars, all of which are the spoils of Taishan's bandits, Zhuang Shaoyou handed over all this money to Zhuge Jin to spend, because this is the hard-earned money of the people of Taishan County, so take it from the people and use it for the people!

In terms of grain, last year's autumn harvest received a total of 6 million hui of grain, plus the surplus grain of the previous year, as well as 400,000 hu of Puyang City, 100,000 hu of Juye County, and 200,000 hu of Taishan County, totaling 7.7 million hu, and 7 million hu from the consumption of more than two months from last year to the Spring Festival.

Last year, three new counties were added, including East County, Juye County, and Taishan County, with a population of more than 650,000, plus a population of 250,000 in southern Liaoning, and the population of Zhuang Shaoyou has reached 900,000! To feed these 900,000 people, there are still eight months left until the autumn harvest every year, and it is estimated that the grain expenditure will be nearly 5.5 million hundred! Food pressure is not insignificant!

In terms of military and political affairs, in the past year, the army has rapidly swelled from 10,000 to 55,000, including 31,000 infantry in three divisions, 10,000 in one cavalry division, and 14,000 in two naval brigades!

Moreover, it is foreseeable that after the merger of the princes of the Central Plains this year, the army under Zhuang Shaoyou will be expanded on a large scale, there is no doubt about it!

In terms of armament, the forge was open day and night, and the 1st Cavalry Division was fully equipped; The equipment of the first and second infantry divisions barely passed; The third division, that is, the bandits that were reorganized after the surrender of King Sun Guan of Taishan, have not had time to distribute equipment, and although the forge has been expanded, the pressure is still huge!

At present, the naval division is equipped with eight five-masted warships, fourteen four-masted warships, six four-masted transport ships, and one three-masted warship, and the current strength of the naval division has reached 14,000. This is something that can only be done by ten dockyards working day and night!

It seems that there are a lot of warships in southern Liaonan, and it is enough to sweep the northern waters, but in Goguryeo in the northeast, six four-masted docks have been built day and night, and in the past two years, at least fifty four-masted warships have been built! Train 20,000 sailors! The strength has surpassed that of southern Liaoning!

Zhuang Shaoyou was very uneasy in his heart, the drawings of the four-masted warship were sold to Goguryeo in southern Liaoning, and now Goguryeo has devoted all its efforts to vigorously developing the naval division, and has annihilated all the Buyeo naval divisions, which is a huge threat to the north of China, and this threat is caused by Zhuang Shaoyou.

At the beginning, for 3,500 catties of gold, the drawings of the four-masted warship were transferred, and now the hidden danger has been highlighted. However, if there were no 3,500 catties of gold, the take-off of southern Liaoning would have to be delayed for at least two years, and a large amount of money would have been obtained during the critical period of development, so that the current situation in southern Liaoning would have been completed.

Therefore, no matter what, it is up to Liaonan to suppress the threat of Goguryeo by himself! Zhuang Shaoyou now has twelve docks in operation, and Goguryeo can build warships, but the weapons on the ship can't be built, so they can only imitate as much as possible, but the gap is still relatively large, and the combat power of the five-masted warship is more than twice as strong as the four-masted warship, and it is also a big killer.

However, what Zhuang Shaoyou is most worried about is that if the main army competes for hegemony in the Central Plains, and the Goguryeo army suddenly kills, then the trouble is really not small! But now you can't put a large number of troops in southern Liaoning without fighting, right? Therefore, there is no good way to do it other than to strengthen intelligence work.

After taking stock of last year's achievements, and then formulating goals for the development plan for the new year, Guoyuan and others have already made a draft for this, which is nothing more than to increase efforts to promote the economic development of the four counties under their jurisdiction, and the main goal of the three counties of Dongjun, Juye, and Taishan is to solve the problem of food and clothing for 600,000 people, and to properly develop business with reference to the model of southern Liaoning to enhance preparedness.

However, Zhuang Shaoyou vetoed it, clearly pointing out that the focus of this year's work is military and agriculture!

Liaonan County has made every effort to complete the three major projects that began in October last year: the military fortress of Hongya Town, the canal in the southwest of the city, and the expansion of the forging factory! It is necessary to ensure that all these three things are completed before spring ploughing, and the rest of the matters are postponed!

This year's spring ploughing is extremely important, the Central Plains war will start, the Central Plains will no longer have peace, and the grain harvest will further decline. Qingyan has a population of 7 million in the second prefecture, and the current grain produced in southern Liaoning cannot feed a large number of people in addition to supplying its own consumption, so this year's spring ploughing, we must do our best to reclaim the fields!

After the spring ploughing, the first priority in southern Liaoning is to support the forge to build armaments and build warships! The second is to support the research and development work of the Academy of Science and Technology to improve armaments! Once again, it is to improve the academy of the navy! As for the commercial aspect, develop without compromising the military!

Dongjun is committed to building Puyang into a military fortress, and is the bridgehead of southern Liaoning in the Central Plains, stationing heavy troops, building high walls, and matching sharp weapons! It can be expected that Puyang will become the focus of the Central Plains hegemony in the future.

Juye County has become the hub for controlling Yanzhou, and it is the core that connects the other three counties! Taishan County will become the core of the control of the three prefectures of Qingyan and Xu, the land of the three counties has a population of 200,000, and the people are fierce, the people are mostly engaged in hunting, and the physique is strong, and it will become the source of soldiers in the future!

Finally, the thrift order was once again enforced throughout the territory! This year, the importance of grain is even greater than in the past, and the people of southern Liaoning are generally wealthy, so it is necessary to establish a sense of frugality for them as soon as possible. It's not that you can squander money if you have it, because what you squander is other people's lives!

It's not hard to say this, it's not easy to say! However, the vast majority of the people in southern Liaoning are refugees who have migrated from Qingzhou and Jizhou, as long as they are moved with affection, reason, and anger, let them understand that in their hometowns, there are still millions of parents and villagers who have been displaced, and they can save a mouthful of food now to save a father!