"To Haizhou and Xuzhou?"

Hearing Wu Haogu's suggestion, Old Man Wu Chengchang frowned a little.

"Is that good?" The old man, who was still a few years younger than Wu Chengzhi, asked, "Our martial artist has been in Luoyang for hundreds of years......

The ancestor of the Baibo Wu family moved to Luoyang when Wu Zetian was the empress - Luoyang is the capital of Wu Zhou! But now that the emperor's surname is Zhao, and Luoyang is declining day by day, there is nothing good at all, it's just that it is difficult to leave the homeland.

Wu Haogu smiled: "Of course Haizhou and Xuzhou are good!" Haizhou has a port, close to the Huai River, developed water transportation, and Yuntai Xianshan, which can be described as outstanding people.

As for Xuzhou, it is even better, not only with the benefits of the canal, but also from the iron ore and copper ore of Panma Mountain, as well as the charcoal, which can be described as abundant. ”

In addition to painting, trading, and sycophants these days, Wu Haogu also carefully studied the customs and customs and products and transportation of various parts of the Great Song Dynasty - there is a map of the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty in the Hanlin Painting Institute, although the painting is not accurate, but it indicates the properties and populations of various places.

After some investigation, Wu Haogu found that the best territory in the Great Song Dynasty was actually the land of Xuhai (Xuzhou Naval Battle).

Because Xuzhou has very good coal mines and iron mines! And they are all mines that have been mined, among which the iron ore is located in Panma Mountain in Pengcheng County, is a thousand-year-old mine, but there is no sign of exhaustion (it is still digging in the 21st century), the Great Song Dynasty Taiping Xingguo set up a national prison there in four years, specializing in iron smelting, and now it is the iron smelting town of the Great Song Dynasty!

Needless to say, Xuzhou was a famous century-old coal city in later generations, and Xuzhou's coal mines were discovered and mined in the Song Dynasty.

And if a place is concentrated in coal and iron mines, and it is close to Haikou, the water transportation is very convenient, and it is also a grain producing area and a large plain, and the population is relatively large...... The future is limitless!

By the way, there are many porcelain kilns near Xuzhou, which is an important porcelain production center in the Northern Song Dynasty! Although it is not a good porcelain, the scale of production is not small, and the products can be exported to all directions through Haizhou port.

Therefore, Wu Haogu is now thinking about making Xuhai Erzhou the focus of future investment after Christie's business has achieved considerable success.

He looked at his clan uncle and said with a smile: "If the seventh uncle intends to let some of the martial arts family members settle down in the Xu Hai area, the little nephew can invest in the purchase of thousands of hectares of land at most." ”

A thousand hectares is 100,000 acres!

According to the average land price in Xuzhou and Haizhou, it will cost up to 200,000 yuan!

As soon as this mouth opened, not only Wu Chengchang was a little stunned, but even Wu Dalang and his father Wu Chengzhi were also stunned.

That's 200,000 yuan, just give it to those poor relatives for nothing? Didn't Wu Dalang drink too much, right?

Wu Chengzhi thought for a while, and asked uncertainly: "Big, Da Lang, do you mean to let the children of the Baibo Wu family go to Xu and Hai Erzhou to settle down?" ”

"Daddy," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "The child means to let some of the children of the martial arts family go to Xu and Hai Erzhou."

The Baibo martial arts family now has more than 1,300 men alone, and it's not good to be crowded together, so they should be divided. Divide one point, and then you can spread the branches! ”

Of course, Wu Haogu would not take out 200,000 yuan for nothing...... He meant to split the Baibo martial arts family in two, take half of it and go to Xuhai Erzhou to build a branch, and be the patriarch of this branch.

So that he has a clan to rely on!

Didn't that Ma Zhi say it? For the way of the general, it is necessary to have a counselor, a dead soldier, a disciple and a clan.

Strategists and dead soldiers have to rely on the Six Arts Academy to cultivate, and the disciples can be recruited slowly, and of course the clan has to go to the Baibo Martial Arts to find it...... They are! Moreover, the Baibo martial arts family is a righteous sect for the imperial examination, and Wu Haogu can completely open the "Six Arts Family School" in the name of Ying Wuju, and first teach a group of sons and nephews who are proficient in the six arts.

In addition, if there are hundreds of martial arts men who move to Xuzhou and Haizhou, and then gather to live together, then one or two "big insurances" can be built.

This Baoding is a legal civil force in the Great Song Dynasty!

"This matter is also beneficial to the children of the martial arts family who stayed in Baibo." Wu Haogu then persuaded him, "If half of the people can be divided, the land is still the same as the original, isn't it equivalent to twice the amount of land per person?" ”

This is actually a win-win situation, Bai Bo Yimenwu did not rely on fighting to run rampant in Luoyang, people relied on the imperial examination. It's useless just because there are too many people, you have to run a good school. Although the cost of education for moral essays is relatively low, it will cost a little money after all. And the difficulty faced by the Shiraba samurai family now is actually that the population is too multiplied, and the land has not grown, so that the money that should have been spent on education is not used to support people.

If the population is halved, the education funds will naturally be relatively abundant, and every child can be guaranteed to receive a relatively good education.

"This matter ......" Wu Chengchang turned his gaze to Wu Chengzhi, as if he was asking the meaning of the head of the Kaifeng martial family's family - does the condition that Wu Haogu said count?

Wu Chengzhi smiled bitterly, pointed to his son and said: "My family is divided, the eldest brother is long-sleeved and good at martial arts, and the family business is rich, he has paid tens of thousands of dollars for this big house, and the money to buy land in Xuzhou and Haizhou is also his own." ”

What the?

Lao Tzu is still there, and the sons are separated? This is also unfilial, right? It seems that although the Kaifeng martial arts have money, they are businessmen after all, and they cannot be compared with Bai Boyi in terms of filial piety and etiquette.

Wu Chengchang frowned, and just wanted to open his mouth to teach Wu Haogu a lesson, but suddenly thought that this kid was a god of wealth, although others were not good, but his money was good! So as soon as I got to the very side, I swallowed it back again.

Wu Haogu saw Wu Chengchang frowning, thinking that this old man wanted to benefit his little family, so he smiled and said: "Seventh uncle, I am now the chief of the Hanlin Picture Bureau, and after a while, I will follow the Jian Shangshu envoy Liao of the Ministry of Rites, and I can take a few students as usual." It's better to choose one of your own brothers who came to Kaifeng Mansion, although the students of Hanlin Tuyuan are not officials, but they are also officials, and they also have a share of imperial food. ”

What the? The officials of the Hanlin Temple!

At this time, Wu Lao'er's eyes lit up, the students of the Hanlin Painting Academy were not very good in Kaifeng Mansion, but they could already bluff people in Luoyang, at least they could bluff the officials in charge of collecting taxes in the county government. In addition, there shouldn't be too few people in this Hanlin Painting Academy, right? Why is it hung with the name of "Hanlin......

"Okay!" Wu Lao'er smiled, "Then ask your ninth brother to follow you." ”

Wu Haoyi is naturally Wu Chengchang's own son!

"So what about building a branch in Xuzhou and Haizhou?"

"It's wrapped up in Lao Er!" Wu Chengchang agreed, and he was the one who really took care of the Baibo Martial Family.

His father Wu Zhongyi actually didn't care about anything, the old man was a nerd, and he was obsessed with the imperial examination all his life. When he was young, he used to be a famous prodigy in Luoyang, and when he was seventeen years old, he passed the test for the first time in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, Wu Zhongyi's luck in the imperial examination stopped at the liberation test, and he took the exam seven times before and after, and each time he successfully passed the examination but folded on the Ministry of Rites exam. When he was forty years old, he also got the qualification of being exempted from paying tribute, and he could go directly to the Ministry of Rites to take the exam without going through the examination. However, after the exemption, Wu Zhongyi still fell to Sun Shan every time, and he did not give up until he was over sixty years old, and now he is still studying hard at home, preparing to participate in the three-year rite examination of Yuan Fu......

As he was talking, Wu Haowen walked in with a thin young man in his twenties.

"Daddy, the brothers from Luoyang have settled down," he told Wu Chengzhi, "I saw that they were all tired and hungry, so I told this ninth brother to let the brothers go to the flowing water mat first." ”

These poor relatives are really pitiful to say, they don't bring a lot of money when they go far away, they eat and sleep in the open along the way, and they eat dry food with little oil and water. When I arrived at the samurai mansion, I smelled the aroma of various meat dishes, and my belly gurgled involuntarily.

So Wu Haowen discussed with Wu Chengchang's son Wu Haoyi, and first arranged for most of the poor brothers of the Luoyang martial arts family to eat and drink first, and then he and Wu Haoyi went back again.

But as soon as he said this, Wu Chengchang's old face turned a little red, and when he was embarrassed, Wu Haogu stood up and started a round with a smile: "Second brother, I am a little hungry when you say this."

Daddy, Uncle Seven, let's sit down and chat while eating. ”

"Okay," Wu Chengzhi said with a smile, "Then let's take a seat...... Today, I invited the monks of the Great Xiangguo Temple Roast Pig Courtyard to come to cook meat dishes, and the seventh brother also tasted the craftsmanship of these wine and meat monks. ”

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"Outside the staff, the high-ranking officials of the Duanwang Mansion and the art hookers of the Hanlin Painting Academy have arrived."

Wu Haogu, Wu Chengzhi, Wu Chengchang and others had just entered the table, and before the wine and food came up, a servant of the Wu family came to spread the word.

It's Gao Yu who has arrived! He also brought with him a member of the Academy of Painting. Wu Haogu hurriedly confessed to Wu Chengchang and hurriedly walked to the door. I saw that Gao Yu and Gou Shi were both dressed as scribes, and their clothes were windy, and they were undignified. Gao Yu and Gou Shi each have a person behind them, and there is a woman standing behind Gao Yu, who is Lu Qian's wife Gao Niangzi, she is related to Gao Yu, and she is also a famous matchmaker in the north of the city. Gao Yu brought her here today for the marriage of Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian.

Zhao Ji's "matchmaker" is a saying, although it is a sentence of 10,000 sentences, but it can't just send Pan Qiaolian into the martial arts family - this is a wife, not a concubine! The procedure of the three books and six rituals is indispensable, and this process must be presided over by the matchmaker. Gao Yu brought Mrs. Gao over to discuss the matter of being a matchmaker.

Behind Gou Shi stood a young man with scholar equipment, looking a few years younger than Wu Haogu, holding a few scrolls in his arms, and I don't know if he was a student of Gou Shi.