It is said that in the past six months, thousands of people have migrated from the Central Plains and Jiangnan to Lingnan, all of whom admired the king of Zhennan and voluntarily came to defect. Xiao Xiang'er's tone carried a hint of respect.

"Oh," Chen Qi was a little suspicious, this weak King of Zhennan was so prestigious in the Central Plains that he made people come from far and wide to defect, he thought about it and said, "Since this King of Zhennan is not robbing the people's land, he wants to reclaim it himself, our Chen family naturally supports it, you go and spread the word, the quota limit of the immortal land of the Zhennan Wangfu has been lifted, how much they buy, how much we sell, of course, according to the market price." ”

"But, little young master, what if the palace resells the immortal land at a high price?" Xiao Xiang'er hesitated. Because of the quota sales, the supply of soil compound fertilizer has always been in short supply, and the price on the black market is even twice as high.

"Don't worry about him," Chen Qi said, "After all, he is a benevolent prince, give him some benefits to show his heart, I believe they will not be excessive." ”

"Yes, little master, the slave family understands," Xiao Xiang'er said, "However, recently, the fleet of our trading house has been expanding, and the goods are exported to the Central Plains and overseas, and the output is already insufficient, and there is a shortage of goods everywhere. ”

"Then expand a few more workshops and expand production. ”

"But we lack enough craftsmen, and almost all the idle craftsmen in Lingnan have been recruited by us," Xiao Xiang'er was a little helpless, "The slave family also sent people to the Central Plains and Jiangnan to recruit, but few people were willing to come." ”

Chen Qi first thought of the vocational and technical school in his previous life, but after thinking about it, he found that it didn't work, the craftsmen of this era regarded their own craftsmanship and technology as the foundation of their lives, and passed on men and women, which was more important than their own lives, so it was more difficult for them to go to technical schools as teachers and pass on the technology to most people than to kill them.

"You can only use heavy rewards to encourage apprentices," Chen Qi thought for a long time, "Any craftsman who accepts more than three apprentices, each apprentice is rewarded with ten taels of silver, after the apprentice is out of the school, he needs to take out one-tenth of his monthly salary to honor the master, and the craftsman who accepts ten apprentices will be awarded the title of master, regardless of birth, old age, sickness and death, the Chen family will be arranged, and when he is old, he can't do it, and there is a pension." ”

"Little Master is wise," Xiao Xiang'er said reverently, "so those craftsmen must work hard to recruit apprentices, and we will not lack craftsmen." ”

"Of course, don't forget to sign a death contract with those apprentices, be careful of being poached, and make wedding dresses for others. Chen Qi advised.

"Understood, the slave family wrote it down. ”

Spring goes to autumn, the grass and trees are withered, the four seasons are reincarnated, and two years have passed in a blink of an eye.

On the 29th day of the second lunar month, in early spring, it is Chen Qi's 12th birthday, which is an important age. According to the ritual law, children under the age of 12 are called children, and generally only have a small name, not a big name, because the daimyo is a sign of a person, and the world believes that a person's great name will be recorded in the book of life and death in the underworld and will be noticed by Lord Yama.

In this era, the rate of child mortality is very high, in order for the child to grow up healthily, you can't take a big name, you can only have a small name, the cheaper the name, the better, if you can deceive the king of Hades, let him treat the child as a beast is the best, because the life of the beast is big, and it can escape death.

Chen Shou thought about it for many days, and finally decided to name his beloved grandson: Chen Qi, the name is different from the pronunciation of the previous life, Qi, Meiyu, meaning rare, beautiful, and perfect. The level of naming is much higher than that of his parents in his previous life, Chen Qi, no, Chen Qi gladly accepted the new name.

Chen Shou also gave his grandson a word, called: Flawed. Flawed, some flawed jade, is afraid that he is too perfect, but will be jealous.

Chen Qi thought that those great poets and great writers in the history of his previous life had their own private names, for example, Li Bai called himself Qinglian Layman, and Su Shi called himself Dongpo Layman, which sounded very stylish, so some of them called themselves Yuxian Layman.

After his birthday, Chen Qi had free time to return to Xishan Manor to continue to practice martial arts year after year, day after day. After all these years of hard practice, Chen Qi naturally and completely controlled the muscles and bones of the whole body, the strength can be put and retracted, rigid or soft, every inch of the muscles of the body can explode the strength, and he has restored the cultivation of the national art in his previous life: turning strength.

In order to achieve this realm, it is extremely difficult to move forward half a step, because the next realm is the legendary Baodan, in his previous life, Chen Qi rummaged through many Guoshu cheats and visited many Guoshu masters, and he was always confused about how to reach the realm of Baodan.

Because most of the information he got was a theoretical description of the state of Bao Dan, and through those steps, there were those actual exercises and practices that could lead to Bao Dan, and there was no mention of it at all.

There are many possibilities for this, first, how to achieve Baodan is the secret of each sect, passed on by word of mouth, and people are unwilling to teach him; second, it is likely that everyone's method of reaching the Baodan realm is different, there is no unified method, and third, the Baodan realm only exists in theory, but those masters of national arts have a vision for the future development of national arts, in fact, no one has ever reached the Baodan realm.

After his own martial arts practice could not be improved, Chen Qi's main focus was on the training of his subordinates, and the orphans adopted in various parts of Lingnan every year were selected to teach the national arts without hesitation, of course, he paid the most attention to his follower and bodyguard Chen Xin.

On this day, Chen Qi sat upright on the stone bench in the garden, drinking tea, staring at Chen Zhen boxing, in fact, Chen Qi is not only talented, but also practices very hard and does not need to be urged at all, but he always likes to point at the side and enjoy the fun of being a teacher.

This is, there was a sudden exclamation outside,

"Look, heaven!"

"Is that a shooting star?"

"This meteor turned out to be purple!"

Chen Qi looked up at the sky and was stunned, only to see a purple meteor the size of a human head, crossing the southern sky and flying to the north.

This meteor looked a little familiar, Chen Qi said secretly in his heart, at this time, a memory emerged from the depths of his soul, and he was stunned.

Chen Qi awakened the memories of his past life when he was very young, but most of them, but there were always some fragments of memory that were lost, including the memories of how he died in his previous life and how he traveled through. At this time, he finally remembered the virtual online game "Great Martial Arts" he played in his previous life, and remembered what he had encountered in the Temple of the God of War.

"This purple meteor seems to be the purple gem that fell from the top of the Temple of the God of War in the previous life? Is it the same one? But it is just a virtual online game, whether it is the Temple of the God of War or the gem that acts as the North Star at the top, it is all virtual, how did it come to reality and become a meteor? If you came to this world with this meteor, why did it come to this world 12 years later than yourself, this is not right in time?"

All kinds of questions filled Chen Qi's mind, which made him feel a little painful, but only one thing was very certain, this purple meteor definitely had some mysterious connection with him.

"Quick, prepare the horse, I have something urgent to go out!" Chen Qi shouted.

After a while, Chen Qi rode out of the manor on a fast horse and headed north, he wanted to chase the meteor, maybe he could find out the secret of his crossing. After all, it was daytime, and many people in Guangzhou City saw this strange purple meteor, but they thought it was a warning from heaven, and they all knelt down to worship God, and no one dared to chase the meteor at all.

At this time, the meteor had already fallen to the ground and disappeared from the sky, but Chen Qi had an inexplicable sense, as if something in the north had summoned him, it was the purple meteor, he shouted in his heart, and confirmed his guess even more.

Chen Qi hurried dozens of miles and came to the bottom of a hill, vaguely feeling that he was close to his destination, which should be somewhere in the mountain, so he dismounted and walked and led the horse into the mountain to search.

The hill is not big, but it is very weird, the other hills are all lush, only this hill is bare, full of stones, but this is also convenient for Chen Qi to find, in less than half an hour, Chen Qi found the crater, which is more than three feet in circumference.

At this time, the meteorite had just fallen, and it rubbed violently against the atmosphere, which was very hot, and Chen Qi drew water from the stream next to it to cool down, and then took out a meteorite the size of a bowl. The whole meteorite is irregularly round, purple all over, and it seems that it is faintly cracked because the impact is too violent.