When did the circumstances of life begin to change?

Yang Zhaolong sat on a wooden chair looking at the long coastline with the letter in his hand, stepping on a piece of fine silk under his bare feet, and the thin cotton blanket with dark lines draped on his body was blown on the beach and flew away with the sea breeze.

He turned his head, looked at Li Hualong, who was wearing a royal bullfighting suit, and said, "The southeast is much better than the north, right?" ”

Li Hualong didn't speak, although the food plate in front of the two of them was filled with huge lobsters and fine wine from the country, but no one was in the mood to feast.

After waiting for a while, Li Hualong spoke, and said with a little guilt: "There is an iron mine in the north. ”

Yang Zhaolong stayed in the north for a long time and did not find a mine, but as soon as he took the fleet to play around the island, Li Hualong found iron ore in the desert north of Xinming, and the more he searched, he found a huge vein, and used the official document he transmitted to the emperor to dig for 10,000 years.

It is precisely because of this official letter that Li Hualong put on a bullfighting suit this year, and was almost granted the official position of governor of Xinming by the emperor to take charge of all affairs of Xinming.

With the discovery of the mine, Xinming also officially became an independent administrative unit under the Ming Dynasty from a small area that only appeared in the map of the world.

"That's a mine, but do you think it can feed 100,000 people?"

It's okay not to mention the mine, as soon as Li Hualong mentioned the mine, Yang Zhaolong's face suddenly changed, the letter in his palm was slapped on the case, and he raised his hand and almost pointed at Li Hualong's nose and shouted: "You don't treat me as a person from Banzhou!" ”

The letter was sent by Yang Yinglong from Banzhou, two letters, one written in October last year and one written in January this year, which were delayed by a typhoon on the northern coast of Xinming in February, and were sent to Yang Zhaolong.

is only a few months away, and the tone of Yang Yinglong's two letters is very different.

The first letter was very happy, writing about the mess at home, all kinds of things, such as the southwest trade route is farther, the Yang family can buy and sell from Myanmar to Yangzhou, sea and land, and get 200 good timber to build a temple in a year, and all of them will go to Beijing.

The emperor was pleased, and he was awarded the rank of second rank hussar general.

The second letter was scolding, the emperor's edict arrived in Banzhou, to grant Yang Yinglong a new official position, according to the Banzhou radius expanded tenfold, he was allowed to lead the Banzhou army of 4,000, the people of 8,000, the military and civilian families of 20,000, the Yang family to Xinming, to be the greatest consolation of the governor.

And it is a good discussion, saying that the emperor favors Yang's loyalty the most, as long as Yang Yinglong agrees here, the local officials and clans behind will be sealed outward.

Other local officials also congratulated the Yang family, and they were still greedy.

Others don't know what's going on in Xinmingzhou, but Yang Yinglong knows very well, it sounds good to expand the land under his jurisdiction tenfold, but the green space in the north of Xinming is at most forty miles, and the rest is a desert, and the emperor asked him to take 30,000 people to the sea, he can't support it, no one can support it.

The seven-hundred-year-old clan foundation is about to disappear in the blink of an eye, and Yang Yinglong thinks that it was his younger brother in Xinmingzhou who said foolish things in his letter to the emperor, because this is not the first time Yang Yinglong has heard this idea - his brother-in-law Chen Mu used to think so.

But not Xinming.

Yang Zhaolong was very aggrieved, he didn't know anything, he didn't finish sailing around the island, and after passing through the rainforest in the northeast to the coast suitable for survival in the south, he immediately decided not to go, so that people built a house here and built a port, and the shrimp and crabs would eat comfortably all day long, and they were scolded by the eldest brother in a letter.

"I don't owe you anything, if you say it first, Yang has been at sea for half a year, and he will send someone to send you everywhere he goes-you don't remember me, you don't have to be like this, right?"

Li Hualong felt guilty at first, but as soon as he heard Yang Zhaolong talk about personal kindness, he didn't feel ashamed, and arched his hand towards the north and said: "It is the right way for the toast to change the land and return to the stream, sooner or later, now is the best opportunity, the toast goes to sea or the toast, the Yang family goes to sea or the Yang family, where to find such a good thing?" ”

"This matter is beneficial to the country, and it is definitely not a bad thing for your Yang family, you might as well think about it in a good place."

Li Hualong's face softened slightly, and he said step by step: "This is obviously a change of land and return to the stream, but some people in the court say that the emperor is opening up the territory, you say that you don't take the people of Banzhou as people in the next place, but there are people in the court who don't treat you as the people of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"There is too little intersection between the local officials and the imperial court, and now it is Your Majesty's magnanimity, what if your descendants meet Your Majesty who is not so magnanimous in the future? If you don't give anything, you will be reinstated, what can you do? ”

Li Hualong looked at Yang Zhaolong with a look of 'I have to thank you for it' and nodded unceremoniously, and said: "The land is still there, although it is not as rich as Banzhou, but there are still mines, not to mention that the imperial court has other rewards." ”

Yang Zhaolong heard the reward, leaned back in the chair and pouted, the Ming Dynasty was only established for two hundred years, and their Yang family was in Banzhou for seven hundred years, and the military service and tribute from generation to generation have been exchanged for countless rewards, if you want to say that the treasures are rare, the prince's mansion is not as good as their family, what do they lack?

Nothing is missing.

What is the meaning of reward?

Li Hualong took in Yang Zhaolong's expression, and said with a chuckle: "Both of your brothers are overseas, and when your brother has a successor, Your Majesty will allow the two eldest sons of the Yang family to enter the imperial examination, and one will return to China as an official; In the future, after the second son, the eldest son will still be allowed to enter the imperial examination and stay in the capital, and the Yang family will be divided into four branches in your next generation. ”

Yang Zhaolong's expression of understatement paused, it took him a long time to react from his mind what it meant.

Imply...... Yang is still a local official, but he is not a local official anymore.

The local officials are looked down upon by the local officials, which can be felt by any local official, especially the Yang family, who is a money bag in the eyes of the Sichuan Provincial Government.

But if people are elected, or willing to be a local official, which official can be as rich as Tusi and has the power to be compared to Tusi?

It's nothing more than this power and wealth, which comes from bowing your head.

But with the emperor's reward, everything is different, and in the future, the Yang family will be divided into four branches, two overseas inheritance of the Tusi, and two domestic imperial examinations.

has not only the confidence to stand, but also the power and wealth of toast.

"I know what you're worried about, you don't care about Yang's transfer overseas, but you care why it's not Xinming Northeast or Xinming Southeast, the mountains and forests in the Northeast are similar to Banzhou, and the situation in the Southeast is better, but I plan to set up a government in the Southeast, and the Northeast will be meaningless for a while and a half."

"Your Majesty, that's what you really said?" Yang Zhaolong ignored Li Zhaolong's pretended to understand, waved his hand and said, "In the future, the four branches of the Yang family?" ”

"Ask for yourself." Li Hualong said to Yang Zhaolong: "I didn't just come here to send you a letter, Your Majesty summoned you to Beijing to listen to what you said about what Xinmingzhou is like." ”

Until Li Hualong finished saying this, Yang Zhaolong was still thinking about it in his mind...... Why four?

They are going to have two governors in the Yang clan!