The family was discussing the matter of going to Nanyang in the flower hall, and the maid led Xia Ni's family in.

"It's not too late for us to come, we could have come earlier, but it's just a little delayed." As soon as she entered the door, Xia Ni talked to herself, and looked at Xia Jing as she spoke: "Jingjing, you won't blame the eldest sister for being late." ”

Xia Jing curled her lips slightly: "How come!" ”

"Don't blame the eldest sister for not welcoming you today, I know that our family's Jingjing is a sensible and reasonable person." Xia Dani smiled from ear to ear.

The corners of the other people in the flower hall couldn't help twitching when they heard this, as if the fourth child was an ignorant girl.

Chen's eyes were on the few people who were following Xia Ni, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law are here, come and sit, don't stand." ”

The father of the Li family and the aunt of the Li family glanced at Li Jingfu, who was sitting at the top, pulled out a stiff smile, and sat down honestly.

Xia Qingshan's eyes turned around on the second elder of the Li family, and frowned slightly, today is a good day for the girl of their Xia family to return to her parents' house, the eldest sister came back with her husband and children, he can understand, why are these two old men and old ladies also here?

Xia Jing's eyes fell on the children of the Li family who greeted their elders.

Xia Ni married into the Li family and gave birth to two sons and a daughter, and the girl was Li Yingzi, who secretly communicated with Tong Song.

Xia Jing knew the dishes of Tong Song Restaurant, so she naturally paid more attention to Li Yingzi.

Li Yingzi gave a salute to several male elders, walked up to Chen's and saluted, and then saluted Xia Jing: "Yingzi has seen my aunt, I haven't seen her for many years, does my aunt still remember Yingzi?" ”

"Naturally, I remember." Xia Jing beckoned to her, and when she walked in front of her, she took off a bracelet from her wrist and put it on her wrist.

Seeing this, Mrs. Li hurriedly said: "Her aunt, you are too polite, how can your niece give such a valuable gift when she meets." ”

Saying that, the old lady said to Li Yingzi: "Yingzi, don't hurry up and thank your aunt, how valuable the gift she gives you shows how much she values you!" ”

It's over, and he smiled at everyone in the flower hall.

Xia Jing wiped the corners of her slightly hooked mouth with a handkerchief, and ignored the self-congratulatory Mrs. Li, but turned her head to Xia Ni and said, "Sister, you will be blessed in the future after giving birth to such a peugeot girl." ”

Xia Ni smiled awkwardly: "It is her blessing to be able to get a kind word from the Queen Mother." ”

When Xia Jing heard this, she glanced at Li Yingzi, who was standing behind the adult with a blushing face, with a little meaning, and did not speak again.

Chen glanced at his little son-in-law, that is, Li Jingfu, and then looked at Father Xia, who was the emperor and the most honored guest of Dayu. And the two in-laws of the Li family came, and they didn't see them bowing to Li Jingfu, who was sitting on the top.

Although the two families are relatives, at the small level, everyone doesn't need to talk about the vulgar etiquette, and at the big one, the second elder of the Li family is despising the royal family, and the crime is big!

And the old lady didn't seem to have this kind of consciousness, seeing Xia Jing silent, she opened her mouth again: "Her aunt, now the three children of our family, that is, your three nephews, only the eldest has become a family, and the other two have not yet been settled, you as their aunt also help staff officers, so many young talents and eunuchs in the imperial court, which one do you think is suitable for them and give them a marriage?" ”

"Mother-in-law, how can marriage be a child's play!" Chen said that by this time, she had understood why the two old men and old ladies of the Li family had come to the house.

This will make the Chen family still a little angry in his heart, it would be good for the in-laws to calculate themselves, and now they still want to calculate on their daughters, if it weren't for the face of the two families, maybe she would have turned her face at this time, how could she give her a good face.

Xia Jing looked at the angry Chen family, her heart warmed slightly, she raised her head to meet the shrewd triangular eyes of the old lady of the Li family, and the corners of her lips hooked up a sneer: "The emperor is particular about marriage, either a member of the royal family or a meritorious minister, and what credit does your Li family have to the court?" ”

Mrs. Li glared when she heard this: "This is still exquisite, isn't marriage just a matter of lips touching lips, is it so mysterious as you said?" ”

Xia Jing didn't want to have anything to do with this kind of old lady who didn't understand four or six, so she turned her head to look at the man sitting at the bottom, this is the so-called brother-in-law: "I heard that you have recently entered the academy to study, and you are preparing to take the exam to gain fame." Your mother doesn't understand these truths, you should understand, right? Or, can you help your mother explain Dayu's law well? ”

was named, Brother-in-law Li raised his head and smiled innocently: "My mother is an ignorant old lady, don't take her words to heart, my family has no merit and no merit, I dare not bother my mother to give them marriage, I hope you don't be surprised!" ”

Listening to this and the muddy words, Xia Jing's stomach was full of anger, "Since this is the case, don't ask for this and that with a shy face in the future." ”

"That is, your Li family has no merit, and second, you are not a royal family, where did you get the courage to ask for a reward with a shy face?"

Li Jingfu has also been annoyed by this kind of unreasonable old lady for a long time, since they entered the flower hall, disturbing the rhythm of his conversation with his father-in-law.

Moreover, this old lady likes to speak loudly, as soon as she speaks, he will be dizzy and irritable.

"What the Emperor said is that we have overpassed!" Brother-in-law Li was so frightened that his forehead was sweating, wiped his sweat, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to make amends.

"Son." Looking at his son, who was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and looked embarrassed, the second elder of the Li family was so distressed that he almost suffocated.

"Jingjing, this time for the sake of my sister's face, let's spare them!" Xia Ni also knelt down.

Chen stroked his forehead with a headache and scolded: "Dani, you get up!" ”

How did she give birth to such a brainless girl, the Li family is relying on their own family to take advantage of the little girl, and it is the kind that is cheap and not full.

The Li family is so insatiable, isn't it just right to let the little girl scare and scare?

Daddy Xia looked at the farce in front of him, hurriedly asked the kitchen to prepare a meal, and invited everyone to eat together.

It was also at this time that the Li family and Xia Jing and his wife were arranged separately, so as not to let them get together again.

Xia Jing shook her head, no wonder, the mother of the love brain gave birth to a girl with a love brain.

In the past, when Li Yingzi was still young, in fact, Xia Jing was still very optimistic about her, she was beautiful, and she was her niece, so that her marriage could be said to be hot in Lingnan, but she took a fancy to Tong Song, who was mostly calculating.

Although the Tong family is a big family in Lingnan, compared with the entire Dayu, the Tong family is not ranked at all, and the most important point is that the Tong family has declined.

Now the Tong family, which is mixed in officialdom, can no longer support the rise and fall of the entire family.

has long been reduced to a low-class family, and the family background has also become a merchant, exaggerated, or a wealthy businessman.

After returning from the Mingyue Marquis's Mansion, Xia Jing and Li Jingfu never went out again, and the two stayed in the Qianwang Mansion, each busy with their own things.

And the battle in Donggo has also been full of good news.

It wasn't until good news came from the port that the fleet to South America had returned, that Li Jingfu and Xia Jing went out again.

The two go to the port to welcome the heroes home, and dare to go forward to explore the unknown, they are heroes.

South America is a continent that Yu has never been to, they are risking their lives to go to another country, and now they have returned safely, and they can afford to be welcomed by the emperor and the queen mother.

Such a courtesy almost did not confuse all the officers and men of the whole fleet.

They didn't expect that when they came back from South America with great difficulty, they learned that the emperor had changed, and the previous emperor had become the emperor.

And now the Emperor and the Queen Mother actually came to welcome them back in person, how could this situation not shock and move them.

The fleet brought back many species from South America this time, and what made Xia Jing happiest was that the fleet led by Mingshui this time successfully brought back rubber trees and cinchona trees from South America.

These two kinds of trees, one can drive the industrial progress of Dayu, and the other is a special medicine for the treatment of malaria.

In particular, if the soldiers who are suitable for the southern climate develop malaria in Dongwu and other places, if there is no special medicine, then it is very likely that they will not need to be attacked by the enemy, and they will be defeated and retreat. And countless soldiers will die from malaria.

Rubber trees and cinchona trees, Xia Jing asked people to plant some to the southern part of Taiwan Frog and the southern part of Annam, and then the planting area was slowly expanded.

The indigenous people of South America brought back by Mingshui were divided into two groups and went to the two places to plant these tree species.

Xia Jing promised them that if they planted these two trees well and were rewarded, they could also take a boat back to visit relatives next time they went to South America.

"Niangniang, this time we brought back not only the tree species, but also a lot of cinchona tree bark."

Mingshui learned from Li Dingguo that this tree can cure malaria, and it happened that this time he went to South America, and more than a dozen soldiers in the fleet were not accustomed to the water and soil and suffered from malaria and high fever, so he asked people to find this bark to boil water for them to drink, and he was cured without admitting it.

It occurred to me that since the bark could cure diseases, it was better to buy the bark from the locals, dry it and bring it back.

This is not only easy to preserve, but also equivalent to bringing back life-saving medicinal materials.

It's much easier than the cinchona tree you brought back, and you don't have to wait for the cinchona tree to grow before you can harvest it.

"You brought back a lot of cinchona bark?" Xia Jing looked at Mingshui with a look of surprise, why is this young man's head so smart?

"Yes, two ships of bare bark!"

"That's a lot, young man, you've accumulated a lot of virtue this time!" Xia Jing praised without hesitation.

"This is the duty of the last general to go to South America this time, and he should not be praised by his mother!"

There will be no further delay, tomorrow there will be a fleet going to the town of Yi'an in Annam, and Xia Jing asked people to move some cinchona bark to Yi'an, just in case of emergency.

The southern jungle is full of miasma, and with this cinchona bark, the expeditionary force does not have to worry about not adapting to the soil and water, and does not have to worry about getting malaria after being bitten by mosquitoes.

According to the history of the original Dayu, if there is no Xia Jing's crossing, perhaps the Central Plains has changed now.

And now, under the influence of Xia Jing, Dayu's expeditionary force has captured most of Dongwu.

It can be said that the countries south of Annam were the most affected by Xia Jing.

For no other reason, the remnants of Annan's troops fled to Dongwu, and Dayu's army pursued them closely.

The remnants of Annam's army were almost wiped out, and Dongwu was almost destroyed.

The Dongwu people were forced to resist, and in the face of the firearms of the Dayu army, they had no choice but to escape.

The most unfortunate of all is perhaps the Punggara Khanate, which is thousands of miles away from Dayu and is not a neighbor, and the war caused the remnants of Dongwu's troops to flee to their country.

At this time, the Punggar Khanate was under the military threat of Nuna Puer, and in the face of the confrontation between the two sides, neither of them made the first move, and as soon as the remnants of Dongwu's troops entered the Punggara Khanate, their rhythm was instantly disrupted, and the city near the east fell into chaos.

When the news reached the palace, its king was so angry that he almost fainted.

An order was immediately issued to the generals for malfeasance on the border to be punished with a cane and exiled to the island to serve his sentence.

However, the eastern region has fallen into chaos, and the messenger has been beaten to death by refugees before reaching the border.

The four seasons of Punggara are like summer, the land is fertile, and the products are even more abundant, and the remnants of Dongwu's troops have rushed into Punggara, like a fish into the sea.

They were bullied and almost destroyed the country, why can the Banggara Khanate live and work in peace and contentment, and it will never be allowed, since I go to hell, it is better for everyone to fall into hell and sink together.

After learning that Punggara was affected by the remnants of Dongwu's troops and that the eastern region had fallen into chaos, Nuna Pu'er hurriedly gathered troops to attack Punggara, and they also knew that they would take advantage of people's illness and kill their enemies.

And Dayu's army is stationed in Pinnaerhong, at present, their position has been a certain distance from Dayu's homeland, and the war is far away from the homeland, so don't rush forward.

Now that a large area under attack from the rear needs to be managed, for the time being, Punggara and Nu Na Pu'er and the remnants of Dong Wu will be killed. Their best way to deal with it at the moment is to watch the fire from the other side, and when the fire is extinguished, it will not be too late for them to end the fire.

In the war of Punggara, they did not dare to ask other countries for help, and they were afraid that once they asked for help, they might add one or two more countries to divide up their Punggara Khanate.

And the powerful Poison Empire is now using troops against Afghanistan in the west, and they don't pay attention to the situation on Banggara's side for the time being, otherwise according to the urine nature of the Poison Empire, maybe they will really send troops to get a piece of the pie.

Annan and Dongwu were both attacked, and Li Chengyi, who stayed in the fiefdom of Malaga, was excited.

The Malay Peninsula belongs to his fiefdom, and Annan and Dongwu were attacked by Dayu, which is equivalent to relieving his worries, and he doesn't have to worry about being stabbed in the back.

"General Ren, now that we have no worries, shouldn't we use troops on the other side of the strait?"

Before leaving, Xia Jing told him that there were a lot of minerals on the opposite land, and the most important thing was that there might be gold mines.

Such a temptation, how can Li Chengyi not be moved, he dreams of digging gold mines at night, with money he can expand the army, and with the army he can grab more territory, for example, there are so many places on the left and right in front of him, they are all borderless land, why not grab it and manage it yourself.

Of course, the borderless land he is talking about here refers to the lord of Dayu, excluding the indigenous and Xiyi people.

"Our own team of 5,000 soldiers, as well as the 20,000 soldiers left to us by the Emperor, are on standby at any time, as long as the prince has an order, we will go immediately."

General Ren replied excitedly, he is the commander of Li Chengyi's private army, and now the 20,000 navy left by Li Jingfu to him is also under his command, he has long wanted to go out and try to command thousands of troops and horses, what a heroism!

Of course, if Li Chengyi is not satisfied with the use of these 20,000 soldiers, he can send these 20,000 soldiers back after he recruits his own army.

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