In the temporary study room of Shiluo Village, Xu Hao was looking at a few secret reports intently, and Yang Shiqi was sitting on the side, holding a tea cup and blowing it gently from time to time.

In recent days, Wendeng County has completely lifted the sea ban, allowing fishermen to repair fishing boats and nets to go to the sea to fish, and women and children can take sailors' sampans to nearby islands to pick up seafood.

The county is full of construction sites that are in urgent need of manpower, and the people can not only earn rice and noodles with their efforts, but also dig wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains in exchange for food. Mu Hui was strict in administering the army, and the nearly 1,000 garrisons not only did not harass the localities, but made the public order in the territory unprecedentedly improved.

More than 600 orphans were sent to be raised collectively, and nearly 1,000 orphans became the first residents of the island.

Xu Hao knew that there would be darkness under the sun, and the officers and soldiers of this era were equivalent to bandits, and there would definitely be many things that bullied men and women in secret, so he warned Mu Hui not to be too indulgent, be careful of being impeached, and acquiesce to the vigorous development of the prostitution industry.

It is said that Yang Shiqi remembered his promise that day, and simply broke the jar and broke it, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one in the county office, and fried the atonement silver, gold, silver, wine vessels, and several silver belts.

In the same way, a baby protection bureau was set up, and more than a dozen women were raised, and all the children abandoned on the road in the surrounding prefectures and counties could be sent to them, and they were rewarded with one liter of rice, and the women had two buckets of food per month, which really saved hundreds of children.

In order to raise money and food, Yang Shiqi scavenged the paper and other things in the county and sold them to the barracks, donated his own money, and dismissed all the officials and officials who had escaped, and laid off a large number of personnel in the yamen such as schools. The next day, he opened a favor, and the person who wanted to return to the service brought fifty taels of treasure money.

Anyway, he will be dismissed in the coming year, Yang Shiqi is determined to follow Mr. Xu, and Xu Hao also values him, so the two of them are embarrassed and forcibly order him to donate money and food to the rich and big families under his rule. If you don't give it, the whole family will move to Liugong Island.

Yang Shiqi made the squire angry and resentful, but Xu Hao knew that Zhu Yuanzhang had begun to prepare for Zuihou to move rich families from all over the world to Beijing, and the household department was busy for a whole year, and found out that more than 14,000 wealthy families with more than six hectares of fertile land were provided, and Comrade Zhu was going to have a nest before he died.

Yang Shiqi worked hard, scraped together nearly 20,000 taels of treasure money, and sent people to other provinces to buy grain.

From 18 September, the county government asked Lichang Township to report the names of the poor people for registration. Yang Shiqi personally confirmed them one by one. Men with hands and feet were sent to the construction site, unwilling to work, and left to fend for themselves, and were assigned to the barracks for life for hard labor for breaking the law.

It is said that a large number of slaves are needed to sail a large ship, and Xu Hao can be said to be of great benefit to the death row prisoners sent by the local government.

Buying grain and setting up a porridge factory at the gate of the four cities, the local poor people took porridge tickets to beg for porridge to eat, the hungry people who came from outside had the physical strength to arrange work, and the old and young gave porridge tickets.

Yang Shiqi came today with something to do, and after sitting for a while, he saw Xu Hao looking at the ceiling thinking about things, and coughed: "Mr. hasn't taken the word yet, right?" ”

Xu Hao subconsciously said: "What do I want if the people don't take the words?" It is purely a person in Shilin who takes off his pants and farts, so he is elegant. You can call me Xu Hao from now on, and I will call you a husky. ”

"Huskies?"

Yang Shiqi, who was joked, naturally didn't understand, otherwise he would have to cut his robe with Xu Hao, and said that this noble man was good at everything. It is to be prejudiced against readers. Every time there is an argument, there will be a sentence that the Song Dynasty died in the hands of scholars, was the founding of the Ming Dynasty defeated by scholars? Guan Jiangshan didn't see the literati help which dynasty achieved long-term peace and stability, and the biggest sinner in the change of dynasty was the Wenchen who was good at fighting in the nest, and now the Confucian children are just a group of girls who only know what to do.

Fortunately, it is just the words of Xu Hao's family. He is a noble warrior, and he is not to blame for looking down on the literati, Yang Shiqi is too broad-minded and lazy to argue.

Xu Hao suddenly said, "You are here for the poor students in the county, right?" The protégé of the self-righteous saint disdains to exchange labor for three meals a day, but is at ease with the food that comes. Where are the scholars? Rushing to kill a group of people, they knelt on the ground and wagked their tails to beg for mercy. I want to eat porridge for free, but there is no door. ”

Gotta come again! Yang Shiqi smiled bitterly: "Students are decent, aren't you going to be enemies of the world's scholars if you go on like this?" ”

Xu Hao sneered: "Knowing that my temper is still coming, I'm afraid you can't do it, right?" The five grains are not divided into four bodies and are not diligent, and they disdain to bend down to help the county do what they can. ”

Yang Shiqi hurriedly said: "It's just about a hundred people, most of the scholars have backbone, many of them are moving bricks on the dock, and there are many people who help the officials to help the people, and they can't overturn a boatload of people with a rod." ”

Xu Hao thought for a while and said, "Don't you like to read?" Okay, send the children to the island to teach the children to read a thousand words, otherwise I will get Lao Tzu out of Wendeng County, and I am willing to be an uncle elsewhere to raise and support, I can't care about it. ”

Yang Shiqi sighed and said: "Sir, you are the county master, forget it, at least you have decent." ”

At this time, Mu Hui lifted the curtain and came in, and said with a smile: "Why is he just the county master?" Lao Tzu had to come to report to him in advance. ”

Xu Hao said angrily: "Are you willing to meddle with me? Is it not good to live in the capital and accompany the moon before the condensation? It's okay to go into the palace to chat with the saint, don't do business, and the command of the second product has been steady and steady for ten years. ”

Yang Shiqi said with a smile: "Mr. cares about the people, which is admired by the officials. ”

"Don't come to the sycophants, but I'm willing to listen." Xu Hao smiled and said to Yang Shiqi, who was crying and laughing: "You two are here, I have something to discuss." ”

Yang Shiqi said with a straight face: "Sir, please speak, the lower officials will listen to you." And Mu Hui leaned on the chair, picked up Xu Hao's teacup, raised his head and drank it all.

Xu Hao said slowly: "Shiqi, you are not an outsider, you can't hide that I have some things in my hands, and they are all confidential." Now I have received two secret reports, one about Sriwijaya and one about Korea. ”

"Srivijaya Kingdom?" Yang Shiqi suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, the more mysterious Xu Hao was, the better it would be for him in the future.

Turning his head to Mu Hui, who was at a loss, he explained: "It is recorded in the Southern Song Dynasty Zhufan Chronicles that the Three Buddhas and the Luzon border each other, and the country was established as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Tang and Song dynasties often came to pay tribute. The country of Srivijaya is strong, with fifteen subject countries and a population of millions. It is also a big overseas country. ”

Mu Hui was shocked and said, "There is such a big country overseas? ”

Xu Hao said disdainfully: "What is this, the population of Tianzhu Kingdom is almost the same as that of my Ming Dynasty, the culture is splendid and has a long history, and the military force is like that, and the Yuan Dynasty has almost conquered it." Let's just say that the three Buddhas have inherited thousands of years of national strength and weakening, I received the news that there are thousands of Han people in the local area, and the Han people who migrated around are even more unknown, in recent years, a pirate leader named Chen Zuyi, whose ancestral home is Guangdong, gathered a group of strongmen to occupy the sea route, burn, kill and loot all evil. The imperial court should give him a reward for official positions, and with this person, the southeastern countries no longer have to come to our Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. ”

Yang Shiqi smiled bitterly: "Sir, don't be sarcastic." Be careful and the wall has ears. ”

Xu Haoxin said that Lao Tzu is the head of the spies, who dares to play a big knife in front of the door? "If you should be ridiculed, you must be ridiculed, otherwise what is the use of clearing the stream? The Nanyang countries have repeatedly tried to come to our court to complain, but this time they finally came from thousands of miles away but were stopped by the Guangdong sailors and were not allowed to enter Beijing. ”

Mu Hui and Yang Shiqi both shook their heads and sighed, probably able to guess the imperial court's reaction to this matter. It is nothing more than a few words of condemnation and generous gold and silver to appease people's hearts.

Xu Hao smiled and said, "The Holy Lord is very angry about this, and has already offered a reward of 500,000 taels of silver to catch this thief." ”

Mu Hui was shocked: "Is this serious? ”

Xu Hao nodded and smiled, but in fact, he didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang to react so violently to this matter, 500,000 taels of silver? The imperial court pays less than 10 million taxes a year. Of course, he didn't know that Zhu Di later offered a reward of 7.5 million. As a result, Chen Zuyi was caught by the eunuchs of the Three Treasures, and Zheng Henai was the emperor's slave and the court did not need to pay.

Chen Zuyi was a murderer, and even the smuggling merchant ship flying the Ming flag was killed, and Xu Hao admired him very much. This is also the virtue of the Western Age of Discovery, and if he is not ruthless, he will not be the biggest pirate leader in Southeast Asia.

That is, in China, if the West shijie would definitely beautify Chen Zuyi as a generation of legendary pirates.

Comrade Zhu's reward order could not go out of the offshore sea at all. Useless.

Xu Hao thinks that I am an eagle dog for the imperial court, and I want to find a few suitable candidates to find Chen Zuyi, but I don't believe that he doesn't want to leave a way back, he doesn't want to glorify his ancestors, he doesn't want to favor his relatives and friends and fellow villagers, he doesn't want to sell the stolen goods to the Ming Dynasty at a high price, and he doesn't want future generations to return to his hometown as officials.

Xu Hao said righteously: "This matter is related to the prestige of the imperial court, I have to take the initiative to share the worries of the saint, Mu Hui, you immediately send someone to Guangdong to secretly visit Chen Zuyi's fellow villagers, I want to contact the other party, I hope he can restrain himself from the precipice and make meritorious contributions, otherwise even if he is far away, he will have to send a sailor to exterminate this fang." ”

Yang Shiqi nodded and said: "It should be like this before the soldiers, if this thief can put down the sword soldiers, the court will not need to work and lose money." ”

Xu Hao also said: "Regarding Korea, it was the king of Korea who asked the imperial court to send troops to help attack Tsushima Island, where the Japanese invaders were entrenched, and the Holy Lord ordered me to investigate this matter in detail, and the Holy Lord did not want to make a reckless war for the sake of Korea. ”

Yang Shiqi was pleasantly surprised in his heart, and secretly said that Mr. Sure enough, he was the emperor's confidant, and immediately said: "It is recorded in the thirty volumes of the Book of Wei that this island is probably the same as Liugong Island, the land on the island is dangerous and deep forests, and the roads are like bird and deer paths. There are more than 1,000 islanders, and there is no good land to live on the sea. ”

Xu Hao said: "This pair of Falklands is located in the middle of the two countries, the Korean and the Japanese have been in dispute over this island, the former dynasty Korea twice agreed to assist the Yuan and Mongolia to attack the Japanese state, just to get this island, who knows that the invincible Mongols have lost twice, it is in view of this, the Holy Lord is unwilling to deal with the rampant and rude Japanese people. ”

Mu Hui said with a yearning face: "It turns out that overseas is so exciting, I really sit in the well and watch the sky, and my husband should command the warship and make contributions." ”

Xu Hao smiled with relief: "That's how it should be, I am struggling to resist the north, and now the national strength is strong and cannot be done once and for all, so what about the future?" What do you think? ”

Yang Shiqi groaned: "Difficult! Take history as a guide, I'm afraid. ”

"I'm afraid it's more than lucky." Xu Hao said it calmly, "Every dynasty and every generation is the first few emperors who are eloquent and strategic, so that the Quartet surrenders, and there is no need to say more in the future." Who dares to guarantee that overseas countries will not take advantage of the weakness of the Ming Dynasty to wave their troops? The jishu that made the sea boats has been passed down and improved from generation to generation, and today it is different from before the Tang and Song dynasties.

I asked the Fujian shipyard that now I am able to build huge ships that can carry thousands of people and sail the seas as if they were on the ground. He Chen Zuyi was able to rob thousands of merchant ships from various countries in a year, can you imagine the shipbuilding strength of various countries? Think about the situation when tens of thousands of warships overwhelmingly killed my Weihaiwei, what can you resist? If you drive straight along the Yangtze River estuary, the consequences will be even more unimaginable, this is by no means my unfounded worries, in the past, Hu Weiyong and the Wa State colluded to have this agreement, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be a second Hu Weiyong in the imperial court in the future. ”

Yang Shiqi said in shock: "Xia Guan finally understands Mr.'s good intentions, but it takes countless money to support the water master, and the court can't support it if it's protracted." ”

Xu Hao had the answer in his heart, but he didn't say it, smiled and said very honorably: "That's what you Wenchen needs to worry about, it's not my responsibility." ”

Mu Hui smiled when he heard this, and said: "Yes, Lao Tzu took his brothers to lick the blood with their knives, you govern the world and collect taxes, and we will each do our part." ”

PS: It's already 3,600 words, I can say a few words. It seems that we are asking for a guaranteed monthly pass, although we don't dare to compete with the gods, but Xiao Hai also asks for it, because this is the power of the code word, as soon as I think of everyone's support, Xiao Hai wants to be a pirate. (To be continued......)