The winter of the first year of the Heavenly Sage.

This is another bitter cold winter, the temperature is even colder than the previous year, the temperature of the entire Dongshengzhou has dropped for five consecutive years, and it is as cold as a year.

Even the Song Kingdom, where most of its land was located south of the Great River, could feel the power of the cold winter, and the people of the Tang and Ming dynasties, which were located in the northwest, Central Plains, and northeast, felt it even more.

Colder weather is not only a problem for winters, but prolonged winters are fatal to nomads throughout the north.

The late thawing in spring, the short time in summer and autumn, the insufficient growth period of cold-tolerant plants such as barley and wheat, and the sharp shrinkage of grain production have made the life of the semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural peoples in Western Tibet and the Western Regions even more difficult.

The grass sprouts late, the autumn ends early, the nomadic time is shortened, the cattle and sheep are not yet covered with autumn fat before winter, the pasture has not been stored, and the first snow comes.

A large number of livestock died of starvation, and the nomadic peoples in the northwest, north, and northeast who had no food to eat were even more likely to face extinction.

Before the life and death of the ethnic group, the priests of the four major holy religions (cults) -- White Lotus, Tianli, Hongyang, and Wenxiang -- continued to strengthen their preaching, squeezing the original religion of the ethnic groups in the western regions of the grassland, further intensifying the internal contradictions of the tribes, and also deepening the hatred of the tribes for the Huaxia people who occupied the most fertile land in Dongshengzhou.

In recent years, the leaders of the nomadic tribes began to gather warriors at the end of autumn to prepare to march south and east to invade the three kingdoms of China.

First, the warriors could go to Huaxia to eat to reduce the pressure on food within the clan, second, to control and reduce the size of the tribe in exchange for the hope of the continuation of the tribe, and third, it would be better if they could invade the interior of China and occupy fertile territory, if not at least to curb the speed of the strength of the three kingdoms of China.

Therefore, in the past five years, there have been many border battles of all sizes, and the Tang and Ming dynasties have paid the price of blood, and even the Song Kingdom, which does not directly border the nomads in the north, has also fought viciously with the Western Tibetan army in the west.

Xifan coveted the wealth of the Song State, and in recent years has given up joining forces with the Western Regions to attack the Tang Dynasty, but concentrated its forces to attack the Song State, and every year in late autumn, he will kill from the Mangkang Ancient Road and plunder the border land of Yunnan and Guizhou of the Song State.

Yunnan and Guizhou are considered to be a barren land on the border in the Song Kingdom, but in the eyes of the people of Western Tibet, it is a beautiful and rich place, and the soldiers of Western Tibet call it "Colorful Land" and "Colorful Land".

However, a group of believers in Yunnan and Guizhou who claimed to be "Wenxiang Eastern Mahayana Sect" actually took the initiative to assist Xifan in attacking the prefectures and counties of Yunnan and Guizhou, and every year Xifan only needed to capture more than ten prefectures and counties to subsidize the people of the former Xifan, so they were not tired of it.

Later, the nobles of Xibo knew that the land of China was so rich and sent coalition troops to go with them, so the scale of the war in the land of Yunnan and Guizhou in the Song Kingdom became larger and larger, and the people were terrified.

The contradiction between the foreign ethnic group and the Chinese ethnic group is accumulating deeper and deeper, and everyone is fighting for living space, so no one side will retreat, and in the eyes of each party, they are just.

Of course, there are also peaceful and peaceful places in troubled times, and Jinling, the capital of the Song Kingdom, is such a place.

It has been almost a year since the Tiansheng changed the yuan, Jinling City is more prosperous, at this time it has become the largest capital in China, the city has expanded again, and a new city has been added outside the outer city, and the expanded area is almost equal to the original Jinling City.

More of the farming population in the vicinity of Jinling became an urban population, and a larger number of workshops and industries with a more detailed division of labor opened in the new city, and many Gyeonggi farmers who served the residents of Jinling City were granted Jinling household registration, leaving the original agricultural registration.

The prosperity of Jinling City is growing to a degree that is visible to the naked eye, but no matter how it grows, there is one place that is definitely the most prosperous and lively place in Jinling City, and no street market can replace its glory, and that is Yuhua Lane.

Yuhua Lane was originally one of the most famous markets in Jinling City, and three years ago it was only slightly better than other bustling areas such as the Confucius Temple, but three years later it has taken the lead and stood out from the crowd.

Where the local people of Jinling, when it comes to business, entertainment, entertainment is none other than Yuhua Lane, the rest of the places are far from the same, and the reputation of Yuhua Lane is not only famous in Jinling, its reputation has also spread to the whole territory of the Great Song Dynasty, through the envoys stationed abroad to the Tang Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom, the foreign countries and other countries.

With the promotion of the Yuhua Lane model, the top 20 state capitals of the Song Kingdom have established their own Yuhua Lane, and the Jinling Yuhua Lane Management Committee is the big financier behind the Yuhua Lane in these cities, which further consolidates the unshakable position of Yuhua Lane in the field of commerce and trade in the Song Kingdom.

For the first time in the history of the Three Kingdoms of China, such a large business group has emerged, and it has maintained a huge potential for expansion, which makes it possible to place infinite hopes on it.

The scattered shareholder composition of the Yuhua Lane Management Committee ensures that there is no monopoly of wealthy businessmen, which is conducive to the officials of the Song State Household Department and reduces the concerns of the imperial court.

Yuhua Lane in Jinling City is no longer just a street and alley, more than 300 main bodies have already bought the surrounding six or seven blocks, forming a so-called "business district" industrial complex, the business scope covers almost all areas of the national economy and people's livelihood.

The original Jinling Xuanji Branch has now expanded into the previous three large scales, and the Yuhua Lane Management Committee is located in the Jinling Xuanji Branch.

Now the helmsman of the Yuhua Lane Management Committee is President Li Maoli, who was originally sent by the Tang State to the Song State to observe the wind, and joined the Yuhua Lane Management Committee at the invitation of Tianhuo, the former chairman of the Management Committee, and temporarily acted as the president.

From being distrusted to now being in the hearts of all people, Li Mao has demonstrated his strong business acumen and execution, and under the business development guidelines formulated by Tianhuo, Li Mao has led Yuhua Lane to exceed expectations and achieve annual goals for three consecutive years.

In the secret ballot of member units for three consecutive years, Li Mao's support rate has continued to increase, 5 into 9, 7 into 1, and 8 into 7, which shows that Li Mao definitely has real talent and learning.

Some shops that later joined the Yuhua Lane Management Committee believed that Li Mao's talent was above the original president's natural fire, but this argument was severely refuted by the first members of Yuhua Lane.

In their hearts, Li Mao's talent as a general is indisputable, but Tianhuo is the real handsome, even a genius of the sky!

Every year, Yuhua Lane's financial report, audit report and business plan for the following year are sent to Taiyi University, and three days later, Tianhuo will put forward detailed revisions and more updated business models and product development directions.

As long as the eight founding members of Yuhua Lane pass the collegiate agreement, the results of the implementation will exceed expectations, and many people don't understand why a cultivator who doesn't go down the mountain all year round has such a keen sense of business, so he regards Tianhuo as a god.

On this day, the Big Eight of Yuhua Lane came to visit Chairman Li together, preparing to discuss the matter of visiting the main officials of the various departments and provincial governments at the end of the year, and at the same time confirm the business goals and plans for next year.

When the Big Eight came to visit, Chairman Li was writing hard in the conference hall, and when he saw the eight people visiting, he immediately instructed the staff to serve tea to the eight people.

"Everyone, wait a minute, the business plan for the second year of Tiansheng that I have drafted will be completed soon, and I will have a meeting with you after I finish writing this page. ”

Everyone saw that Li Mao was busy with what everyone was thinking, so it was inconvenient to urge, and chatted and waited in a low voice while drinking tea.

At this time, Li Mao's temperament has changed a lot from Li Mao three years ago, although he is still not tall, but the momentum of the superior person is spontaneous, and he has a calm and shrewd temperament, which makes people feel a sense of trust at a glance.

Although the Big Eight were all ordinary people, they were well-informed, and naturally heard that President Li had ascended from the Foundation Building Realm to the Divine Realm in three years, and he was considered one of the high-level monks, but he was still willing to work for secular affairs, which was really commendable.

Moreover, his status as a monk is actually a kind of protection for Yuhua Lane, and everyone is a beneficiary, so naturally no one has any objections to this.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Mao put down his pen, dried the ink on the paper, and said: "I'm sorry to wait for everyone, since everyone is here today, then we might as well hold the annual executive committee today, so that we have more time to prepare for next year's things." ”

Everyone agreed, but Wanfeng of Vientiane Tower asked, "President Li Dai, is it because President Tianhuo still can't go down the mountain this year because he is preparing for next year's things so early?"

At the beginning of him, others also asked about it, and everyone missed Tianhuo very much for three years, especially Tianhuo silently supported everyone's development behind his back, but he was doing penance in the mountains, which made everyone feel very embarrassed, and hoped that Tianhuo could come down the mountain and let everyone thank him in person.

Li Mao shook his head and said, "The third brother is too busy with cultivation and still can't go down the mountain this year, so ask me to bring you a good one." Because he missed the contract for three consecutive years, the third brother was embarrassed and agreed with everyone for a seven-year contract, but the president will still work together with everyone through the annual plan every year. ”

"Oh!" Wanfeng made a disappointed sound, and others made similar noises.

Ten years is just a flick of the fingers for cultivators, but for ordinary people, it is a long time, Lei Meng, the shopkeeper of the Lion King's Mansion, is sixty-seven years old this year, and his asthma is getting worse and worse, and it is difficult to say whether he can live for another seven or eight years.

Li Mao distributed the prepared things to the Big Eight and said: "These things are the national layout plan for next year that I have prepared, everyone has no opinion, I will send them to Taiyi University, and the management committee will officially implement them after the president's instructions." ”

After looking at it for a while, Xing Daolin of Xinyizhai said: "Why do you want to shrink the business scale of Quanzhou next year, now the Duanjun King has a clear advantage in Quanzhou, and in less than three or five years, the Duanjun King will win the Quanzhou Prince Competition, and the crown prince's position will be one step closer to him, and now it will not be in vain to withdraw from our previous investment?"

Li Mao said: "This time not only will we withdraw, but even Duanjun Wang will also withdraw. The king of Duanjun has asked the Holy Lord to guard Yunnan and Guizhou and guard the country for the Song State. ”

Pan Fengyi, the shopkeeper of Phoenix Terrace, patted his thigh and said: "Sure enough, good eyesight and courage, if the saint can approve it, Duanjun Wang will be the first prince in this dynasty to hold the provincial military and political power, which is much more beneficial than the champion of the prince competition of the playing family." ”

Mi Youcai of Mi's silk said: "Well, the land of the two provinces is enough for the Duanjun King to show his personal ability, and it is more likely to become his capital for winning the throne in the future." ”

Li Mao said: "Correct solution, and the Xuanji Zi Immortal Master is now temporarily replacing the military power of Yunnan and Guizhou, and it is the general helm of the Xuanji Chamber of Commerce, where we go to war, it is estimated that the benefits will be more effective." ”

For the Xuanji faction and the Xuanji Chamber of Commerce, the people here are extremely admired, it is rare for a sect to have so many talents who have entered the world, if they can work together, the effect will be amazingly good!