There are two reasons for the explosion of population in Ping'an Town, in addition to the stimulation of the small gold mine, the most important thing is because of the change, which made Zhao Yan and them not expect, but after Zhou Ju explained this reason in detail, Zhao Yan and they glanced at each other, and their faces were very heavy.

It turned out that after Zhao Xuan ascended the throne, Wang Anshi's change was immediately launched, and the change was not limited to the capital, but began at the same time in all parts of the country, although the southern coast is far away from the capital, but also began to change the law, and it is precisely because of the distance from the capital that the local officials here are more bold, for example, the Qingmiao Law is a law for the benefit of the people, but it has been turned into a tool for the government to make personal gains, and forcibly issue loans to the people, and they are not afraid of being known by the capital at all.

Of course, the Qingmiao Law is only one of them, and there are several new laws that have also become harmful to the people in the coastal areas, and as a result, the people in the coastal areas are miserable, and many people have gone bankrupt because of the new laws, and there are even many people who sell their children and daughters.

Compared with the coastal areas, the situation of Liuqiu Island is much better, first, it is isolated overseas, and the New Party does not attach much importance to it, and secondly, although there are not many people here, but the folk customs are very strong, you must know that many of the people here are pirates, and the officials who are officials here must be cautious, for fear of accidentally causing public resentment, maybe their heads will be cut off in the middle of the night, and it is precisely because of this that the new law is almost just a show on Liuqiu Island, and it has not really been implemented.

It was also the fact that the Liuqiu Island was not affected by the new law, and as a result, the news soon spread throughout the southern coastal areas, so that many people who were bankrupt by the new law began to take the initiative to migrate to the Liuqiu Island, at first it was only a scattered migration, but later more and more people migrated. There have even been cases of entire villages moving together.

For this situation, the magistrates in various coastal areas naturally disagreed, and even sent people to block the migration of these people, but it is a pity that the coastline of the Great Song Dynasty is so long, even the sailors can't defend it, let alone those magistrates. Therefore, this migration wave cannot be stopped at all, and even sometimes when the weather is sunny and the waves are calm, many people on the coastline around Quanzhou cross the strait on rafts to reach Liuqiu Island.

After a period of smuggling and migration of mad dogs, the population of Liuqiu Island has an explosive growth, among which Ping'an Town not only has gold mines, but also the surrounding terrain is flat and fertile, which is very suitable for cultivating wasteland, so many people who have migrated over have come to live in Ping'an Town, so that they can. Naturally, Ping'an Town expanded like a balloon, so much so that it was upgraded to a county last year, becoming the first place to be upgraded to a county after the establishment of Liuqiu Prefecture.

"The harsh government is fiercer than the tiger, but I didn't expect that it was because of the change of the law that led to the prosperity of the state, and I really should let the new party in the capital come here to see!" The young and vigorous Li Gonglin was the first to say hateful at this time, he didn't have any special hatred for the New Party before, but now he saw with his own eyes that the people were evading the New Deal. And the adventure to flee to this overseas land in the state of Liuqiu finally made him understand the horror of the new law.

"Alas. These people along the coast are okay, at least there is such a place as Liuqiu Prefecture where they can escape the new law, but the people in the inland are miserable, they can only silently bear the qiē brought by the new law, and even cut off their limbs and sell their sons and daughters for this reason, but unfortunately the imperial court can't see this qiē! At this time, Su Shi also said with a sad and indignant face. Zhao Yan next to him heard Su Shi's words, but he sighed secretly in his heart, Zhao Yan actually knew some of the evil consequences brought about by the change, but it was a pity that he turned a blind eye to it in order to achieve the goal of seizing power for himself.

After sending away that Zhou County Commander. Zhao Yan and the others did not stay in the sea area near Ping'an Town, but went all the way south to Princess City in the south of Liuqiu Island, which used to be Xu Yuan's lair, and now it has become the seat of Liuqiu Prefecture, and the Dong Zhizhou in Zhou Ju's mouth is also in Princess City.

Zhao Yan and their target this time is Princess City, whether it is because of Xu Yuan's reason, or Zhao Yan's attention to the big island, they all need to anchor here, and then see the situation on the island with their own eyes, so after their fleet came to the port outside Princess City, they notified the officials on the port to start entering the port to dock.

"This place is called Princess City, and the port is also called Princess Port, it seems that the second brother-in-law, you really have a deep love for the second sister!" Zhao Yan looked at the scenery of the ships coming and going in the port, and said to Xu Yuan next to him with a smile.

For Zhao Yan's ridicule, Xu Yuan smiled and did not speak, at this time he was seriously looking at the princess port in front of him and the main body of the city behind the port, although he had only been away for a few years, but because of the large influx of population, the princess city in front of him has also undergone a lot of changes, after all, this is where the state capital is, there must be many people who prefer to settle here, and there can be more opportunities to support themselves here.

However, what Zhao Yan didn't expect was that when their ship had just docked at the port, there were several local officials standing on the dock who came to greet them, but at this moment, they suddenly saw a team of soldiers hurrying not far from the dock, and when Xu Yuan saw these people, his face immediately showed an excited look.

"Subordinates, see the leader!" I saw that after the group of soldiers came to the dock, they immediately saluted Xu Yuan at the bow of the ship, and the two generals led by them were the evil ghost and the fish girl, who were temporarily transferred here from Guangzhou with the help of Princess Chen Guo, nominally to assist the local garrison in defending the pirates, but in fact it was to avoid trouble, at this time seeing Xu Yuan coming, the two and the old Rakshasa army behind them also showed excited looks.

"Fish girl, evil ghost, you ...... Why are you here? Xu Yuan was also very excited when he saw Yu Niang and the others, and rushed off the boat with the next arrow, and then helped them up one by one.

"Boss! You have to make the decision for our brothers, if it weren't for Princess Chen Guo's secret help this time, I'm afraid we would have been killed by that dog official a long time ago! At this time, the evil ghost suddenly stepped forward and said loudly, he had been holding his breath since he left Guangzhou, and now seeing Xu Yuan's arrival, he finally found the backbone.

"What's the matter, you are the second brother-in-law's former subordinates?" At this time, Zhao Yan stepped down from the boat and said, just now I heard the conversation between Yu Niang and Xu Yuan, Zhao Yan could guess the relationship between them even if he was stupid.

"His Royal Highness King Yue, General Qi, they have been waiting here for a long time, before Her Royal Highness Princess Chen Guo confessed, and when you came, I will bring them, I didn't expect them to be well-informed, as soon as you landed on the shore, they came by themselves." At this time, an official waiting at the dock stepped forward and said with a smile, looking at the official uniform on his body, he knew that he should be the Dong Zhizhou in Zhou Ju's mouth.

Dong Zhizhou and Wang Shiyue are close friends, this time Yu Niang they were trapped in Guangzhou, Wang Shi asked him to help, so he used the excuse that there were pirates in Liuqiu Prefecture, and asked for help from Guangzhou, where there were more garrisons, and Princess Chen Guo opened up the relationship, so that Yu Niang's top boss, that is, the Xiang Commander let them go without authorization, although doing so would definitely offend that Cai Zhizhou, but Zhao Yan was about to arrive, and that Cai Zhizhou couldn't jump for a few days, so the Xiang Commander naturally knew how to choose.

Xu Yuan hurriedly introduced Zhao Yan's identity to Yu Niang and the evil ghost at this time, and heard that the young man in front of him was Zhao Yan, the king of Yue, Yu Niang and the others were also very excited, and immediately told the grievances between himself and others and that Cai Zhizhou, but Zhao Yan groaned for a moment after listening, and then looked at Xu Yuan, but found that the other party's face was gloomy, after all, his subordinates were bullied like this, and he was naturally very angry in his heart.

"Don't worry, since this king has come here, he will definitely not let you be bullied again, this time you go to Guangzhou with this king, then this king will definitely find out the truth of the incident, if it is really that Cai Zhizhou bullied people, then this king will definitely punish him according to law!" Zhao Yan immediately said, although this matter was a bully by Cai Zhizhou, but after all, this was just the words of Yu Niang and others, and Zhao Yan also needed to go to Guangzhou to investigate in detail before making a decision.

"Thank you, His Royal Highness King Yue, for making decisions for us!" The fish girl and the evil ghost also bowed down at this time.

"By the way, just now you said that Cai Zhizhou was born in the New Party and is also a backbone figure in the New Party, so what is his name and where is he?" Zhao Yan suddenly thought of this question at this time, so he asked, Speaking of which, he is relatively familiar with the main figures in the new party, maybe he has heard of the other party's name in Cai Zhizhou.

At the same time, in the Zhizhou Mansion in the city of Guangzhou, a young man wearing an official robe grabbed a vase on the bookshelf and threw it on the ground at once, resulting in fragments flying everywhere, and several officials in the frightened hall even took a few steps back, and their faces also showed helpless looks.

"Qin Yu, let him come to see me!" I saw that after the young official threw the vase, he walked around the hall a few steps angrily, and then roared loudly, Qin Yu is the commander of the Guangzhou Navy Division, and he is also the person who released the fish and the girl they left.

"Zhizhou, we have asked people to call Commander Qin, but he said that he has had a cold in the past few days, and he is afraid of infecting Zhizhou, so he refuses to come to see you!" At this time, an official below said helplessly, Qin Yu let go of the old department of the Rakshasa Army without authorization, which made the Qin Zhizhou in front of him very annoyed, and asked Qin Yu to come to the Zhizhou Mansion several times to give him an explanation, but the other party just didn't come.

"Humph! A good Qin Yu, he said that his wife gave birth before, and now he says that he is sick, he has a lot of excuses, and now the official will write an official document for him to come to discuss the matter and see how he can shirk it! The young official snorted coldly, reached out and took the pen and paper on the bookcase and began to write the official document, before he just sent someone to invite, which was a private invitation, but this time he switched to the official document, and now the other party didn't want to come and had to come.

Although he was very angry, he still wrote a good hand, and when he finished writing, he deliberately left his name at the end, which was the word "Cai Jing". (To be continued......)