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Now that it has passed noon, all the courtiers have tossed for a day, and now the water and rice have not entered, and when they first went to court, who would have expected that things would have so many twists and turns?

Therefore, everyone was hungry and growling, but now the emperor was angry, and the big guys had to kneel down on the palace. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It's just that this kneeling, the emperor didn't tell them to get up, these old arms and legs were already sore.

Zhu Youzhu lost his temper, thinking that he would continue to insist, but who knew that Zhu Youzhang's words changed and said: "But what you said is not unreasonable, Liu Aiqing is still young, and I am afraid that it is a little earlier to entrust him with a heavy responsibility, but I still say that I have to reward merit, why not do this, when Liu Chengfeng was a marquis, I gave him Lianzhou as a fief, but the last time he was a duke, the fief was unchanged, and now he has made a great contribution, I also asked for a surname to sell personal favors, and a government and five counties near Lianzhou were allocated to Lianzhou to enrich the fief of Lianguogong." This matter is decided, and the cabinet will draw up the decree as soon as possible. ”

Show one’s true colors in the end.

It wasn't until this time that everyone knew what the emperor was thinking, ostensibly to add an official to Liu Chengfeng, but in fact, at first he deliberately tested the courtiers' tone, so that the courtiers couldn't help but object, and then the emperor made concessions again and again, and then made a look of no retreat, announcing the will he wanted to give, so that the courtiers refuted the emperor twice in a row, which had already provoked the emperor Long Yan to be angry, and the emperor threw out such a reward in a timely manner, if the courtiers objected again, I'm afraid it's a bit of a loss.

If it was said that the fief would be given at the beginning, the civil and military forces of this full hall would definitely oppose it, but now it is full of silence, for them, compared to knighthood and promotion, it is still acceptable to give a fief.

After all, the prefectures and counties near Lianzhou are mountainous areas, and they are really not worth a few dollars, and there are no values in this era.

Although this is also a broken rule, but the rules are already broken, and it has set a precedent, which is better than breaking another rule.

And Liu Chengfeng realized at this time that Zhu Youzhu was actually acting from the beginning, not deliberately asking him to carry any black pot, but just changing the way to give a reward. Lianzhou now has ten counties of land, if you add five more counties, this scale is really not small, especially the pimple place in Guangxi, now it is a wild land, so in terms of administrative division, the land of a county is larger than the land of other provinces, the reason is actually very simple, a palm-sized place in the south of the Yangtze River, the population may be as much as 100,000, but in Guangxi, the same geographical area, may not even have a population of 1,000, so Guangxi, especially by relying on southern Xinjiang, the scale of a county is really not small. If it is incorporated into five counties, the land area of Lianzhou, only afraid of being larger than half of Zhejiang Province, although the mountains are steep, but now the Chi Road has been built, coupled with the convenience of the port, it is the only outlet of the Ming Dynasty, one of the distribution centers of the world's goods, the population of Lianzhou has exceeded one million, it can be said that there are wharves, warehouses, workshops, these people are not engaged in agricultural products, only trade and handicraft for a living.

Today's Lianzhou has long surpassed Quanzhou, become a place where businessmen from all over the world gather, in fact, it has long been overcrowded, and now Zhu Youzhu is willing to seal five counties, which is of great benefit to Liu Chengfeng, although these five counties have no population, but now Lianzhou does not need population, Lianzhou has a policy that there is no whole world, that is, the right to go to the sea, once it is incorporated into Lianzhou, it will not take a few years, the population will skyrocket, so the population problem is not much benefit to Liu Chengfeng, and what he needs most urgently now is land.

Lianzhou Port has now been completed, the land price has been a thousand miles, the reason is actually simple, the export goods are from Lianzhou side out, many businessmen surnamed Jia Suo to establish a workshop nearby, at least can save a lot of goods transportation costs.

Just like the ceramic workshop, now in Lianzhou, has opened more than 90 stores, the scale is not small, only recruited to be responsible for the production of craftsmen and apprentices more than 100,000 people, these hundreds of thousands of people need food, clothing, housing and transportation, so shops, accommodation houses need a lot of land, don't look at Lianzhou Prefecture is a big place, but there are a lot of lofty mountains, although a variety of minerals such as porcelain clay, iron ore resources are a lot, but can not live in people, so land resources are very tight.

Although it is not that there is no spare land now, it is just that there will be a large influx of people in the future, which has made Lianzhou unbearable.

On the side of Lianzhou, a rough count of the population shows that there are already 500,000 households, and if you count it as a household of three, it will exceed 1.5 million, not to mention a large number of floating population.

For example, in Lianzhou, a workshop a month of land lease amount of more than 100 taels of silver, a year is thousands of taels, although many merchants save a lot of freight, but the cost of renting land is too high, so that many merchants who want to set up a workshop there are discouraged, would rather produce goods in other places, along the gallop road to transport goods to Lianzhou to the sea.

But now it is different, if it is merged into five more counties, at least in a few years, the problem of land shortage in Lianzhou can be alleviated to a certain extent.

Thinking of this, Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, since the emperor opened Chrysostom, and the ministers did not object, he asked for a raw rice to cook mature rice, but he was not humble at all, and directly thanked the emperor.

Zhu Youzhang's mind is actually very clear, he owes Liu Chengfeng a lot of favors, especially to save Queen Zhang, this love has to be repaid, not to mention that Lianzhou's side has expanded a little, why is it not good for him? The various taxes on the Lianzhou side are divided into three parts, one is sent directly to the palace, one is Liu Chengfeng, the Lianguo Gong, and one is used to maintain the operation of Lianzhou, not to mention that in the Jubao Commercial Bank, Zhu Youzhu occupies the lion's share, and the more silver the commercial bank earns in Lianzhou, the richer the palace is.

Of course, this premise is that Zhu Youzhu is confident that the imperial court can completely restrain Lianzhou, although Lianzhou has fifteen counties of land and a population of one million, but for the Ming Dynasty, it is only a projectile land, without the Ming court to support them, and they have no capital to do trade with various countries, so this Lianzhou is not only close to the imperial court, once there is the slightest idea, as long as the imperial court comes down with an edict, it will be completely finished.

Zhu Youzhang's heart was like a mirror, and when he saw Liu Chengfeng happily responding, Suo surnamed said with a smile: "The fiefdom has expanded, and the guards have also been expanded, and the guards of the public mansion with two guards have been added to ensure the safety of Lianzhou." ”

One guard is 3,000 people, and five guards are 15,000, which is not too much, but it is enough to maintain the operation of Lianzhou.

Liu Chengfeng is cautious on this issue, in fact, although Lianzhou gave the three guards the right to protect earlier, but Liu Chengfeng did not completely replenish the three guards, each guard only recruited about 2,000 people, and all of them added up to only 6,000 people.

And now that two more guards have been added, Liu Chengfeng accepted it calmly on the surface, but he had no intention of replenishing the guards for the time being, but he still thanked him.

Zhu Youjiao's voice fell, and then he laughed, and said slowly: "I am really tired today, and I didn't sleep well last night, so let's talk about it today, the cabinet is responsible for drafting the decree, as for other things, I will talk about it tomorrow, I want to take a rest." ”

Zhu Youzhu said that he was tired, and then left the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, who had not yet returned to his senses, and walked back to the inner palace to rest without mentioning it.

The people in the palace were all talking, and many people secretly took their eyes to see Liu Chengfeng, and Liu Chengfeng was also stunned, no one paid attention to it, and went straight out of the palace.

In fact, he didn't expect that things would develop to this end, but then again, he was indeed a meritorious person this time, not only rescued the queen, but also held the people behind the scenes, but now he hasn't slept for nearly twenty hours, and now the whole person is starting to be a little confused.

Out of the noon gate, the carriage and horses when he entered the palace yesterday were still waiting outside, and the coachman must have waited until now, and came over with black circles and moved a high stool to invite Liu Chengfeng to get on the car, Liu Chengfeng entered the carriage and ordered very tiredly: "Madame, have they returned?" ”

The coachman said: "I'm back, Liu Er, they drove back." ”

Liu Chengfeng nodded and said, "Then let's go back and go." ”

When he finished speaking, the person was already sleepy, even the joy of the will could not cover the tiredness, leaning on the wall of the carriage and falling asleep unconsciously, I don't know how long it took to be called up by the coachman, when his eyes opened, Liu Chengfeng's head felt buzzing, and it was also thanks to his young strength, otherwise if he changed to an older one, he stayed up for so long without sleeping, I am afraid that he would not be able to bear it.

He got out of the car in a daze, went straight to the bedroom, and fell asleep.

Wen Chenxi and Princess Longting also came back from the palace at an hour, knowing that Liu Chengfeng had returned home, but they didn't bother him, knowing that he was really sleepy this time, he specially ordered his subordinates to block all the visitors, and not to disturb anything.

The two of them sat in the pavilion in the backyard and said some homely things.

(To be continued)