Although Lingnan Province has been carefully governed by Chen Shou, it has prospered a lot. But after all, the days are still short, the population is insufficient, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is still a lot of wasteland that has not been cultivated. Of course, most of these wastelands are swamps, saline-alkali lands, mountains and other extremely unsuitable lands, which are difficult to develop, have a long cycle, too large investment, and low returns.

Most of those large families are unwilling to spend effort on reclamation, but some desperate small people are willing to intensively cultivate for decades for a few acres of thin land. Then, large families are waiting for disasters, whether it is drought or floods, and small people who have zero resistance to risk can only sell their hard-working fields at low prices in order to survive.

"Teacher Gao Yi, the squires and virtuous men will surely follow the clouds," Tian Hao praised. This is like the apportionment of the Celestial Empire, where the leaders take the lead in accomplishing political tasks, and the following are naturally positive. With Chen Shou's prestige in Lingnan Province, there will inevitably be many people who follow the trend.

"No, that's not enough," Chen Shou said, "There are more than 2,000 refugees at the East Gate, even more at the North Gate, and quite a few at the West Gate and the South Gate, adding up to an estimated seven or eight thousand people, and there should be many left." ”

"Well," Tian Hao pondered for a while, and then suggested, "Recently, among the five mountains, Shanyue often went down the mountain to attack and harass, and Zhengyue Zhonglang lost a lot of soldiers under General Zhao, and he could screen two thousand young men from among the refugees, and send a handwritten letter to General Zhao to replenish his troops. The remaining old and weak were allocated money and grain by the yamen, and wooden sheds were built in the south of the city to resettle, and doctors and doctors were recruited to inspect to avoid the outbreak of epidemics. ”

"Haha," Chen Shou was very happy, "Yuanfeng, the son of the world." ”

Chen Qi returned home, quickly adjusted his mood, and began to read and practice characters in the afternoon, he was not interested in the Four Books and Five Classics of the imperial examination, but was very curious about various history books, he wanted to understand the history of this world, whether there was any connection with the previous life, this world was too similar to the ancient times of the previous life.

However, there is not much progress at present, books are already rare, and history books are useless miscellaneous books in the imperial examination, which are equivalent to extracurricular books, so he naturally has no chance to contact them. However, Chen Qi already has a goal, that is, the Chen family's library building, Chen Shou is a great Confucian in the world, his home has a collection of tens of thousands of books, and a three-story small building has been specially built for the collection of books.

"Little young master, the master is back, the young lady ordered me to come to you to say hello," Xia Rong, the mother's personal maid, came to report the news.

"Oh, grandpa is back?" Chen Qi was a little surprised. In Xiaoyu's memory, this grandfather, as the governor, has been busy with official business, very busy, often does not go home for ten days and half a month, and lives in the yamen. Since awakening his memory, Chen Qi has only met a few times, and after kowtowing to say hello, most of them have taken school examinations and the like, which is completely feudal and old-fashioned.

Although surprised, but filial piety is greater than the sky, Chen Qi hurriedly went to visit, after a kowtow to say goodbye, the routine examination of school knowledge, finished, Chen Shou nodded with satisfaction, and then a little encouragement, and then make persistent efforts, can not be proud and complacent.

"Grandpa," Chen Qi took advantage of the old man's happiness and made a request, "The master has always taught us to read more, but the master does not have many books in his house, and the grandson wants to enter the family study building to have a look." ”

"Well," Chen Shou pondered for a moment, and then instructed, "Fu Bo, the young master of the study building can enter at any time in the future, but he must take good care of his life and don't damage the classics." ”

"Yes, sir," replied Fauber, bowing. He is a sturdy old man, in good spirits, I heard that he grew up with his grandfather, he is a confidant, as the big housekeeper in the house, his mother also let him score three points. From Chen Qi's point of view, this Fu Bo seems to have kung fu.

Following behind Fu Bo, he went to the library to select some four books and five classics, and by the way, he brought a few historical biographies. Then go to my mother's yard, greet her, and be cute and want some playmates of the same age. His mother thought that he had no siblings and was a little lonely, so she relented and agreed.

The next day, Chen Qi came to the city outside the city with twenty or thirty family members fully armed, originally only wanted to buy a few, but he couldn't stand the bitter begging of the refugees, and didn't want to live up to the hard work of his parents who wanted their children to live, so he accepted it with a soft heart, but when he came back to his senses, he found that he had bought more than 30 children.

Chen Qi was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to explain when he went home. At this time, I saw that Fu Bo came to the human market with more than 100 people, all of whom were family nurses, and came forward to inquire, and when he learned his grandfather's order, he was immediately overjoyed, and begged Fu Bo to bring the families of those children with him, and by the way, buy more families with children.

Fu Bo nodded in agreement, regarding the two hundred refugees, the master did not give specific instructions, saving more children is considered to be a virtue, and the little master's face is not good.

In the following days, in addition to reading and practicing martial arts, Chen Qi spent the rest of his time educating those children who bought it, reading and literacy are essential, and girls are no exception, but it's just some thousand-character texts and the like, just let them be literate, and forget the four books and five classics.

The key things they taught were the Arabic numerals "invented" by Chen Qi, the simple four arithmetic, the modern bookkeeping methods, and the basic astronomical and physical knowledge.

The days passed, and the year was getting closer. One morning, Chen Qi went to greet his mother as usual, but found that his mother was unusually glorious, and her skin was ruddy and shiny, like a flower that was about to dry up, and was suddenly moistened by rain.

"Yo, this is Xiao Yi, haven't you seen you for a few months, you've grown so tall?" Just when Chen Qihu was suspicious, a male voice pretending to be surprised sounded, looked back, and secretly said in his heart: "Little white face!"

This is a man in his twenties, medium in stature, but handsome, graceful, wearing a white gown, wearing a scarf, but his face is a little haggard and pale, but in winter he is holding a folding fan, a handsome and chic appearance, very sassy.

"Mother, who is this elder?" was very tired in his heart, and Chen Qi deliberately pretended not to recognize it.

This is Xiao Yu's biological father, Chen Zong, a person who is difficult to describe in words, to use a word in Chen Qi's previous life, that is, "wonderful".

Chen Zong is rarely famous, he won Xiucai at the age of seventeen, he is also a genius, and he is the youngest son of Chen Shou, so he is very favored. However, ten years ago, things changed, and his grandfather Chen Shou was demoted to Lingnan.

What kind of place is Lingnan, in the hearts of the people of the Central Plains, it is a wild place, poisonous snakes and poisonous insects are everywhere, the terrifying smoke miasma is pervasive, people and animals will turn into pus if they accidentally inhale it, and there are cannibalistic mountain off-road people in the mountains, who go down the mountain from time to time to plunder.

Chen Qi's grandmother was very worried about her wife, so she gathered several sons and discussed sending someone to fulfill her filial piety in front of her father. The eldest shoulders the heavy responsibility of inheriting the heir, and he is also an official of the imperial court, so naturally he can't go, and the young and old are orderly, so the task falls to the second child.

The second child has been weak since he was a child, and he died less than half a year after coming to Lingnan because of unadaptability. So it was the turn of the third child to go, and the third uncle of this little boy was even more unlucky, and when he turned over the South Ridge, he accidentally fell off the cliff and his bones were gone.

The fourth child looked at it, okay, this is to do filial piety, this is to send his life, gritted his teeth, was admitted to the lifting of people, went to the capital to spend money for activities, and went to a certain county in Jizhou to be a magistrate.

Finally, it was the turn of the fifth child, that is, Xiaoyu's father Chen Zong. He was also scared and didn't want to go, so he rolled around coquettishly, playing cute, but he didn't want to go. The old lady felt sorry for her youngest son, and her two sons were lost in Lingnan, so she was very distressed, so she did not persecute herse.

However, a year later, Chen Shou wrote from Lingnan. It turned out that he had settled down in Lingnan, and understood that Lingnan was not as terrible as rumored, but the mountains and rivers were beautiful, the climate was mild, the land was fertile, and it was very suitable for living.

His father's life was like a mountain, and Chen Zong could only set off from Luoyang slowly. However, two months later, the subordinate who escorted the fifth young master to Lingnan came back, bringing bad news, when passing through Jingzhou, Chen Zong suddenly disappeared, and they searched for a radius of 100 miles, and there was no one alive or dead.

The old lady was in a hurry, and the old mistake was committed, so she didn't come up in one breath and died.