A pillar of fragrance, emitting curling green smoke in the air.

The incense burner was lined with flowers and fruits, and three animal offerings.

Thanks to Zhou Xingxing's version of Lord Wei, Shouhan also knows that Chongyang, like Qingming, is a day to worship ancestors.

After Taiwan started, Zhang Xiaohu was left to serve as the acting governor of Taiwan, and Shouhan returned to the camp with a group of civil and military teachers. Leaving Xiao Liuzi in Taiwan is certainly a surprise to many people, but Shouhan also has his considerations in doing this, "Commander Zhang had dealt with the natives as early as when he was in Luzon, and he also dealt with the Spaniards. Nowadays, Taiwan is the same, there are many commercial houses in the mountains and forests, and there are many commercial houses in the city, and these commercial houses will have to do business in the future. ”

Leaving Zhang Xiaohu with a wry smile on his face, Shouhan sailed to the river quietly. The ancestral grave of the Li family is here, and the ancestral graves of many old people during the garrison period are also here.

Respectfully sprinkle and sweep the grave of his father Li Zaitian, and then kowtow and offer incense. Kneeling on the futon, Shouhan muttered to himself in a voice that he could hear.

"Daddy, you should know who I am in the Heavenly Spirit, but you, this son, definitely don't embarrass you."

Behind him, the old men who came out of the garrison mansion together, including Wang Bao, the Li family brothers, Xu Huanshan, Zuo Tianpeng and others knelt behind him. On the right side of Shouhan, Yan Mei'er, Li Muhua, Meishan sisters, Xiuzhu, and the Tianzhu orchid Jimei were all dressed in Tsing Yi and plain clothes, and their children stood on the side waiting to worship.

After the three bows and nine bows of the Han Dynasty, Li Peilin, Li Peiting, Wang Bao and others knelt down and bowed in accordance with the etiquette in Fu Bo's still strong voice.

Next. It is the turn of the next generation of the Li family to come to the incense and worship the ancestors.

Seeing that all the civil and military members of the Li family had finished their salutes, and as a family member, it was their turn to sacrifice to the next generation, Li Muhua pulled his son Li Huayu from his side to him, ready to let Huayu step forward to offer incense.

Fu Bo, who was saluting at the offering table, discovered Li Muhua's small action with the rest of his eyes, and inadvertently met his eyes with the Li family brothers who were standing behind Shouhan with a smile, and in a flash, the three of them had already exchanged opinions!

"This woman wants the eldest young master to take the lead in offering incense, that is, to tell everyone. The eldest young master is the heir of the Li family. In the future, he will take over the throne of the lord! If she succeeds in this move, she will have to give birth to many rights and wrongs in the future! ”

"Damn! This woman was going to let her evil seed go to incense first, did she think that her son would become the heir by incense? Lao Tzu is not dead yet! If you want to achieve this goal, unless I, Li Peiting, die! ”

Li Muhua had already taken Li Huayu's hand and took half a step forward. As long as Fu Bo shouted the words "please incense the young masters". Immediately let Huayu come forward to worship with incense. created this impression in front of a group of civil and military personnel, Huayu is the eldest son of the Li family, and he will take over Li Shouhan's foundation in the future!

But. But I remembered such a voice in my ears.

"The daughter of the Li family, Li Huamei is fragrant! Worship! Kneel! ”

A series of password sounds, like more than a dozen fists slammed into Li Muhua's chest, made her eyes black, and Venus swayed.

Standing behind Li Huamei, her Taoist master Liu Guidan still looked cold, and everything had nothing to do with her, but she quietly gave Li Huamei a gift in her hand. So, without being alarmed, Li Huamei, who was dressed in the uniform of the Sailor Academy and wearing a white robe outside, was sent to the incense case.

Watching this daughter of the Li family kneeling on the futon and kowtowing in a proper manner, offering incense, kowtowing again, and bowing and dancing has ended, everyone's hearts don't know how many times they have turned!

"The sons of the Li family, Li Huayu, Li Huabao, Li Huaning, Li Huaxuan, Shangxiang! Worship! Kneel! ”

The four sons of Shouhan lined up in a row and knelt down on the futon and kowtowed.

I could see that Li Muhua's teeth in his mouth were creaking.

After the sacrifice, it is time to scatter blessings.

Nominally, after the sacrifice, the food offered to the ancestors and gods during the sacrifice was distributed to everyone to eat, but now, with the status of Shouhan, it is natural that his subordinates will not be allowed to eat those three animal sacrifices, but will set up a banquet in the general's mansion to entertain everyone.

For a time, the smell of wine inside and outside the house was soaring, and mountains of meat were piled up!

In the inner house, Shouhan and several henchmen drank and talked in the former study. The food on the table is different from the food outside, only three or five side dishes and a few plates of snacks.

"Fu Bo, did he send people to sweep the tomb of a thousand households back then?"

"According to your orders, at four o'clock and eight festivals, according to the standard of the old lord, the sacrifice is the same."

Shouhan picked up the wine glass in his hand, the wine in the cup was as amber as in the afterglow of the setting sun, and he bent down and sprinkled it on the ground, "Use this wine to honor someone!" If he hadn't been forced to force him that day, Shouhan might not have achieved what he has today! Maybe it's just a little bit of the family's property left by our ancestors! ”

When they heard this, they also spilled the wine in their hands on the ground.

On the wall hangs a map of Nanzhong, on which the Shouhan uses cinnabar to mark the areas controlled by the Nanzhong military and the areas infiltrated and controlled by the Fuken Bureau and the Han and Yuan firms. From the coastline bordering Yunnan and Guangxi all the way south, most of the rich and rich lands along the coast are suitable for farming, where the South Chinese Army resettled displaced people to reclaim wasteland. Several large rivers, such as the Kowloon River and the Chao Phraya River, have become the site of countless small workshops, where water power can be used as power.

Mountains and forests provide sufficient timber resources for the manufacture of ships. mines, which provide ore and coal for industrial manufacturing. The plains have become a paradise for rice and other crops, and the ducks, geese, fish and crabs in the paddy fields, and the pigs and chickens raised at home provide people with sufficient nutrition.

In addition, the Manraka waterway has become the most stable source of tax revenue, providing sufficient military salaries for the South China Army.

These places, like black holes, absorb countless natives and official slaves, and they are never satisfied.

From a small number of thousands of households, there are now nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, more than 200 large and small warships, and hundreds of Daifuku ships. After military training, there are more than one million strong men who can be mobilized into the army at any time, and they have been guarding the Han for more than ten years, which is not wronged!

Wang Bao, Ye Qi, Li Peiting, Li Peilin and several others all watched the Nanzhong Army gradually develop from an embryo to this point, how could they not sigh?

Just as everyone was sighing and sighing, there was a sound of small footsteps outside, but it was Hua Mei with a few younger brothers and sisters, who came to toast her father, Grandpa Fu, and several uncles.

"Huabao, Huayu, Huaxuan, Huaning, Huaning, Huawu, toast to my father!"

Hua Mei went to Taiwan to go around this circle, and the whole person has undergone great changes from spiritual temperament to words to treat people, and returned to Hejing. The first thing to do was to pick out a few delicate things from the loot. It was divided among the six younger siblings, and the price and quantity were basically the same, and the rest was sent by the mother to the aunts. Even the mothers-in-law who serve all the year round in the inner house have a share.

Time. Both up and down praised the eldest lady's kindness.

"Good!"

No matter how the mothers fight openly and secretly. The children are now being raised in front of Yan Mei'er. The relationship is also good, under the leadership of the eldest Hua Mei, four sons (the name is covered by Bao), three daughters (the daughters use the words next to the wooden characters.) In unison, they saluted the elders and urged them to drink. For a while, it was also enjoyable.

"Huabao, how did I hear that the article you wrote in the school was slapped with a big fork by Mr., and then strangled red and pasted on the wall, as a model text, so that other students could take it as a warning?" As the children's uncle, Pei Ting has always been neither big nor small. However, this uncle has always been generous, and the children also like him.

Hua Bao, who was asked, was Yan Mei'er's son. Hearing his uncle say this, his face flushed slightly, but he found a reason in an instant.

"Poetry and essays, that is only a small part of the knowledge, my handwriting is not good, the writing is poor, but my mathematics has been praised by Mr. Galileo! Moreover, which of Daddy's knowledge of farming, steelmaking, mining, shipbuilding, military training, and cannon casting is worse than the article? The article is well written, it is just a thing that can support the family, and if you really want to enrich the country and strengthen the army, you have to rely on Daddy's university to ask! ”

And voila! said this, not only washed himself cleanly, but also slapped Li Shouhan's ass with him. Li Peiting exchanged glances with Li Peilin under the cover of the wine glass, and asked him, can you propose to pass Huabao to the name of the sister-in-law, and let our brothers educate him? Cultivated as the Li family's subordinate dragon support object?

However, Li Peilin didn't take care of his brother's problem, just took the toast from a few children with a smile on his face and drank it all.

After drinking the Sanfu wine, everyone did not disperse, and the Han Shou ordered the people to make tea, and several people discussed secretly in the study.

"This is the secret report document sent by Lin Wenbing from Beijing, the merchant in Nanjing, and our businessman in Fusang, and the military information of these places. Let's see, and we'll discuss how to deal with these things. ”

A few people split up to circulate the documents that Shouhan took out.

Li Peilin saw the shape of the ground in Kyushu that the merchants of Fuso announced. The ground under the jurisdiction of the daimyo of Kyushu has been plagued by natural disasters since the seventh year of Chongzhen, with typhoons, torrential rains, and droughts coming one after another, especially in the two places of Shimahara and Amakusa, almost to the point of no harvest. In order to make a living, farmers have asked to work in Nanzhong, and a labor dispatch certificate is already to the point where they can be exchanged for 20 Nanzhong Tongbao. There are those samurai who have a way, so they simply start the business of organizing collective workers: you want to go to Nanzhong to work hard to eat, well, write a paperwork, owe me a certain amount of Nanzhong Tongbao, how much interest, after these people arrive in Nanzhong, I am afraid that they will have to save money and work hard for five or seven years to pay off these arrears, and the situation in the Satsuma Domain is slightly better, after all, farmers can go to Nanzhong to work, and those who have daughters at home can also freshen up and try their luck at Nanzhong Firm. In addition, a large number of southern and central goods circulated on the Satsuma land, and people's lives seemed to be able to go on. But a few daimyo in the neighborhood didn't have such good luck. Among them, the Shimabara Domain is even more so! In order to maintain his military superiority over a foreign daimyo like the Shimazu family, the feudal lord Matsukura Katsuya purchased all kinds of military equipment from Nanchu, and in spite of the famine, he stepped up the collection of grain taxes from the peasants in his domain. And for those Christians in Fuso, who are called Chezhidan, it is even more to the point of knocking out the bones and sucking the marrow. The Karatsu Domain, a subordinate domain of the Shimabara Domain, added three feet on the basis of the Shimabara Domain.

The reason is simple, because the former lord of the Karatsu domain, Terasawa Hirotaka, was a Christian. He turned a deaf ear to the ban on religion issued by the shogunate, and ridiculed the shogunate's elder Naka Doi Toshikatsu. offended the shogunate elders, so the shogun was very angry, and the consequences were naturally very strict. Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered Terasawa Hirotaka to join his son Terasawa Kentaka for seppuku, and then the domain of the Karatsu Domain was merged into the Shimabara Domain. The Matsukura family of the Shimabara Domain was a diehard loyalist of the shogunate, and they strongly disliked Christianity, so in order to show their loyalty to the shogunate, and at the same time, in order to expand their own strength and increase the income of the government treasury, it was natural to impose punitive taxes on these people who believed in Western cults!

Didn't that Jesus of theirs have five loaves and two fishes? Let them go to Jesus and ask for bread and fish!

The second letter is also from Fuso. But. It was sent by the Han Yuan Shogun's merchant house on Kagoshima, the site of the Shimazu family, and since last year, after the autumn harvest of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Shimazu family and its affiliated families of Kayama and Nabeshima have gone crazy to buy grain, knives, guns, armor, cloth, iron cannons, and gunpowder. For those drugs produced in Nanzhong to treat trauma, the price is not even asked. Just ask for the goods.

The 600 stone commissioners in charge of procurement opened their mouths to ask. "I don't know how many knives, guns, and iron cannons can be carried in one ship? How much gunpowder can be transported? How much can be shipped, my Royal Highness will buy them all! ”

After a few years of trade with Japan, the Shimazu family amassed a fortune that other great names could not match. The copper coins piled up in the treasury were second only to the Tokugawa shogun's house, and the more money they accumulated, the easier it was for people to have some ideas.

"The Japanese here have asked several times, can our South Central Army sell the collapse of the country to him? The artillery made by the Nanban was far inferior to the Franc machine made by our army in terms of price and performance, and the three companies of Shimazu, Kayama, and Nabeshima intended to jointly purchase a number of twelve-pound guns, large Franc machines, and eight-pounder guns. I wonder if the export of such goods is permitted? ”

It seems that the Japanese civil strife will be born! Li Peilin gently put down the two documents in his hand, stroked his beard and made such a judgment in his mind.

"Lord, what does Lin Wenbing mean by this?"

Li Peiting was a little surprised when he held the letter from Jingshi Lin Wenbing.

Lin Wenbing said in the letter that he had already selected warehouses in Gyeonggi, Tianjin, and other places, and had stockpiled grain, rice, salt, and oil that could supply 10,000 people for three months. ”

"He actually bribed and leased the Taicang, Nanxincang, and Beixincang in the capital to store grain and grass from the officials to store grain and grass, he, he thought, hey!"

Peiting said that Lin Wenbing didn't know how to sell grain and rice for profit, and when he criticized him, there was a sharp pain in his feet, but it was Li Peilin who stepped on him fiercely.

"My lord, how about transferring horse material from Nanjing to the north first?" Ye Qi, who rushed back from Nanjing, hurriedly diverted the topic.

"Now the thieves' Xiying, Cao Ying and other departments are active in Jiangbei, or Tongcheng, or Anqing, Luotian, ready to leave Nanzhili and go to Huguang, these horse fodder grain and grass are temporarily useless in Nanjing, why don't you transport Jingshi to the north and hand it over to Director Lin?"

"It's good! I'll make it up to you later! ”

"However, my lord, when I left Nanjing, Songjiang and other places a few days ago, a pair of nine-turn steel armor of my Nanzhong Army on the market was called for one hundred and fifty taels of silver! Pay in cash and wait three months to get the spot. That's it, it's been queuing up until the end of Chongzhen's ninth year. Director Lin's actions in Beijing have made our armor, swords, and firearms all become! ”

Several people in the room burst into laughter.

Hong Chengchou's battle of Lancaoguan, after killing and injuring the Liukou, drove Gao Yingxiang, Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan, Eight Kings, Cao Cao, Li Zicheng and other backbones out of Shaanxi, and this disaster led to Jianghuai.

On February 13, due to the loss of the imperial mausoleum, Yang Yihe, the governor of the four prefectures of Jiangbei and the governor of Caoyun, Wu Zhenying, the governor of the imperial history, and Yang Ze, the eunuch of the mausoleum, were arrested and imprisoned. Yang Ze committed suicide, Yang Yipeng abandoned the city, and Wu Zhenying took the border.

On 12 April, after the governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, changed his standard battalion soldiers into Nanzhong swords, guns and armor, and discussed the military situation with the generals at the Ruzhou Conference. encircled and suppressed the peasant army in Shaanxi, and Hong Chengchou ordered Deng Xi, You Zhaiwen and others to be stationed in Fancheng to defend the Han River; Zuo Liangyu, Tang Jiuzhou control Wu Village, tile house, guarding the main road of Zhejiang water; You Shiwei, Chen Shefu, and Xu Laichao were stationed in Yongning and Lushi Mountains to strangle the danger of southern and Zhuyang. Hong Chengchou personally commanded the army and entered Tongguan with Cao Wenzhao to suppress it. On June 28, he was surrounded by Gao Yingxiang's troops in Zhenning Hutou Town, and he could not break through the siege and killed himself.

For a time, the peasant army was in great momentum, and the imperial court was wandering through several provinces, and Hong Chengchou could not take care of it alone, so he promoted Lu Xiangsheng to prime minister Jiangbei, Henan, Shandong, Huguang, and Sichuan military affairs, and concurrently governor of Huguang. In this way, there were two governors in charge of military operations against the rogues. Hong Chengchou supervised the northwest, and Lu Xiangsheng supervised the southeast. They were all given Shang Fang swords, acting cheaply, and encircling and suppressing the peasant army.

"Brother Lin is not bad, I also have many people in Nanjing who come to me to buy knives, guns and armor with grimaces, and I think this is the generation."

Speaking of Liukou, Ye Qi couldn't help but talk about what he had seen.

"As Director Lin said, there are Shanxi merchants in Kyoto in the north and south who are now active in a big way, or buy weapons, cloth, oil and salt, cooked food from us, or make friends with officials in all directions, and explore the reality of the garrison, I don't know what is going on?!"

Wang Bao's eyes were full of light, put down Lin Wenbing's letter, and asked in an inquiring tone.

"The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. This generation is for a good word! Pei Lin summarized the behavior of these Jin merchants.

Instead, Shouhan looked at Wang Bao with his eyes, "Wang Bao, in the past few years, when this meeting is held in the school, are some of your muscles and bones moldy?" ”

"I don't dare to hide it from my lord, but I feel like this!"

"That's good! From today onwards, on September 20 of the eighth year of Chongzhen, you will hand over the deacon of the Wutang Society, and do one thing with all your might, and half a year later, you and I will go to the north! (To be continued......)

PS: This southern beacon smoke is over here in ten years. Tomorrow will be a real climax. Friends who like to watch pig's feet compete in the Central Plains can be happy.