Gazi sharpened his scythe by the ravine, the edge of which was polished brightly, and after testing the blade with his hand, he slashed into the water a few times at will. ()

The water of the stream is clear and translucent, and many small shrimps climb a water weed, wandering in the living water, and from time to time they bow over and bounce and slide out far away.

The weather is very good, all kinds of wild flowers are blooming on the ridges of the mountains, gently shaking in the breeze, Gazi is ready to cut five loads of grass, can be exchanged for half a pig's head, the sister-in-law in charge of the house leaves him a pair of pig ears every time, rubs one or two salts, can be eaten two or three times with wine.

Of course, the real place of use is in the autumn, when every household will invite him to threshh grain, and the fields of each family continue to release water, unlike the south with chicken coops in the field to cover fat carp, here is to catch loaches, but the mud snail government has repeatedly said that it is best not to eat, what parasites.

Gazi loves to eat carp the most, and if there is no one in the field, he will go to the dam built the year before to hook it, and if he is lucky, he can catch more than a dozen big carp in the middle of the night, and first use a large iron pot to stew a pot full of sauce-stuffed carp, not to mention how delicious the taste is. The rest of the carp and herring were all salted and hung in the stove room and smoked with firewood, which was his traditional practice in his hometown in the Central Plains.

Gazi's parents and relatives died due to the shipwreck, no one has nothing to worry about, and has never been hungry in Liaodong, the people here are simple and generous, and will not sit idly by and watch orphans starve to death.

Today's Gazi is in the prime of life, willing to contribute to trouble, and does not act indiscriminately, it is very easy to feed himself in life.

The place where he lives is fifteen miles away from the city and two miles away from Zhu Wu's house. The fifth master is a local rich man, and he is the external manager of the county lord's mansion, and part of the hillside fields are under the management of the fifth master, so the people who farm the land have a little relationship with the fifth master.

Zhu Wu watched Gazi grow up, and repeatedly asked him to do long-term work, but Gazi thought that doing long-term work was not to live in the fence and have to guard the mountain, and his actions were controlled, so he was reluctant to do it.

He himself chopped bamboo with a sickle. Peeling the bark of trees, moving stones, choosing a small dirt slope, not far from the stream, borrowing the land and bricks of the fifth master to build a small house, helping the fifth master to guard the two orchards as an exchange for borrowing land to settle, still cutting firewood and cutting grass part-time hunting for a living.

The people in the village are very fond of the hard-working Gazi, and when the farming work is busiest in spring and autumn, he helps every household everywhere, and the amount of food is worth two people. The strength is worth three people. Every New Year, the village donates money to the dragon to go to the city to compete, he will fight in front of the dragon's head, and dance a red cloth hydrangea like a fire, and be applauded.

The fifth master often gave him a few clothes and pants, or half a catty of salt or something, he was uneasy, and he must send some gifts in return as compensation.

Since the third master of the Xu family moved in, he took him into the city to play when he had nothing to do, and sent him a big bowl of beef noodles to eat every night. Today Gazi prepared a bag of walnuts. A bag of chestnuts and a weasel and a pheasant caught in a trap on the mountain were to be given to Xu Sanye.

In the courtyard of the Xu family, Zhu Qiaoqiao sat opposite Xu Hao and said, "The imperial court is going to dredge the Huitong River." If the completion of the north-south transportation is completed, the household department will ask for a halt to shipping, saying that it is a public and private convenience, do you say it will have an impact on Liaodong? ”

Xu Hao said indifferently: "Go to Cao to transport the grain to Beiping." From Beiping to Shenyang, Shanhaiguan, with the current conditions, it will always save manpower, material and financial resources than sea transportation, and it is not affected by the season. Of course. If Liaodong can't be self-sufficient in grain, with the depression of shipping, it will be pinched by the imperial court in the future, and the ministers are not without long-term considerations in this regard. ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao sneered: "I knew that I didn't have a good heart, seeing that this place was becoming more and more prosperous, I had to think about restricting it, but unfortunately they underestimated the black land in Liaodong, which was comparable to two lakes and two lakes." ”

Xu Hao nodded, speaking of which, as early as the Hongwu period, since the Yellow River broke in Yuanwu (now Yuanyang, Henan), a large area of the Huitong River was silted, and the water of the Yellow River moved south, leaving Henan to bear the flood alone. Kaifeng often encounters floods, and the lack of transportation also makes Kaifeng not prosperous, which is one of the reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang gave up moving the capital to Kaifeng, and Chang'an and Luoyang also have their own drawbacks.

In August last year, the Yellow River flooded, Kaifeng was affected, destroying more than 200 zhang of the city wall, flooding more than 7,500 hectares of farmland, and more than 14,000 households were affected by the disaster.

At that time, the imperial court was repairing the north-south canal in Dezhou, Shandong, and Zhu Gaochi was unwilling to work the people, saying that the war had just stopped, and the people's grievances were boiling, so it was not approved.

In February of the ninth year of Hongxi, Uncle Pan, the Tongzhi of Jining Prefecture, played Chen: "The total length of the Huitong River is 450 miles, and the siltation is only one-third. ”

Zhu Gaochi also thought that it was time, so he ordered Song Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and the governor of Zhou to investigate, and ordered Zhang Xin, the servant of the Ministry of Works, to inspect the cause of the flood in Kaifeng and prepare to dredge the old road of the Yellow River.

These two projects require the use of more than 400,000 people, which can be called a big project, Xu Hao firmly agrees with this, and anything that is beneficial to the people's livelihood must be done.

As for the change of water transport to inland rivers and sea transportation, this is a natural thing, the freight and consumption of sea transportation are large, the distance is long and the risk is large, and the influence of the weather is too great, and it can never be compared with inland rivers.

Of course, the imperial court also had no intention of clamping down on Liaodong, but the ministers of the court did not know that the cultivated land in Liaodong could be used to nearly a quarter, and in later generations it would have 17 percent of the country's cultivated land.

In this era, no one studied cultivated land, Xu Hao was the only one who knew that the Songliao Plain, the Sanjiang Plain, the mountain front land and the intermountain basin valley, most of which belonged to black soil, chernozem, meadow black soil and meadow soil, with a deep dark topsoil layer, rich in organic matter and total nitrogen content, fertile arable land concentrated and distributed in patches, almost all of them were the best fertile land, and it was the best place for the growth of one-crop crops in China.

The weather is also the biggest misunderstanding of the people of Kannai, not the perennial storm and snow, but the treasure land of feng shui with four distinct seasons. The climate of eastern Liaoning is mild, the rainfall is moderate, most of them belong to the temperate zone of the large 6-sex monsoon climate, and the southern part of Liaoning, that is, Dalian, is at the northern edge of the warm temperate zone. In later generations, the three northeastern provinces are also veritable granaries.

The reason why Xu Hao insisted on choosing Liaodong instead of Nanyang in the south naturally has his understanding, throughout history. It will always be the north pushing the south, even if there is the Northern Expedition of Mr. Jiang of the Republic of China, but it was also pushed back by Taizu, of course, there are various factors in this, such as most of the generals are southerners, and the soldiers everywhere are the same.

As a southerner, Xu Hao has no prejudice to discriminate against the south, but it cannot be denied that the north does have a congenital advantage.

If you choose Hainan or Taiwan, it seems that history has proven that it is not a good choice, and it will not even help the general trend at all, and it is often a corner of the corner waiting for the fate of recovery.

The geographical location of Liaodong is special. It is connected to Hebei and Shandong, rich in natural resources, and it is a battleground that can contain the Japanese state, and the most important thing is to completely suppress the Jurchens who are in great trouble, so it is absolutely impossible for Xu Hao to give up here. And people's energy is also limited, compared to colonizing the Americas and Australia on the other side of the sea, controlling the big 6 is the most reliable strategy, and it is also the territory that is most likely to be left to future generations, as long as it can repel Lao Maozi.

The climate of Xiaoice River that has arrived has left Xu Hao at a loss. Jinling and even Songjiang Prefecture actually snowed heavily every year, and various disasters were carried out year after year. Who would have imagined that in the ninth year of orthodoxy, it snowed heavily in Shanghai for seven days and nights, and the snow was more than a foot thick. Houses were crushed, and many people froze to death.

Disasters were the last straw that crushed the Ming Dynasty, but on the contrary, the Liaodong Jurchens were able to rise strongly, and it is likely that they will be affected very little. It may even be the best period of climate in hundreds of years, whether it is right or not, anyway, Xu Hao's plan to run Liaodong is self-evident based on this.

From the beginning. Xu Hao has never set his sights on the south at all, let alone Southeast Asia, and it is simply a luxury to expect Indians and South Asians to do something. Even if it is economic and trade, it is most correct to give priority to Jiangsu and Guangdong.

Looking at Europe, the United States and China, Russia and South Korea, Japan, which are in the same latitude, how much influence will be on a great power!

Xu Hao said to Zhu Qiaoqiao: "It's time to prepare for the seven eastern provinces, as far as the Zhenghe Strait and the northern polar regions, all of which will be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty. This is a very difficult and arduous undertaking, and if you can accomplish this, you will definitely become an unprecedented female national hero in the history books in the future. ”

drew a big cake and threw it to Zhu Qiaoqiao, Xu Hao came out and said to Gazi: "The courtesy is still exchanged, it's good." But Gazi, we have to have a plan for the future, we can't make a living by chopping wood every year, right? ”

Gazi scratched his head, obviously never planned for the future, Xu Hao simply walked out with him, pointing to the grocery store opened by a small businessman at the bridgehead not far away.

The boss is from Shanxi, at first he picked up the goods every day to go to various villages to sell, and then he saw that bridgehead, there are many people on the official road and guard the village and town where the Xu family courtyard is located, rather than working hard from the city to the countryside, it is better to set up a home in Qiaotou.

Xu Hao said: "Look at Lao Ruan, I think he had nothing like you when he first came, and now he has his own shop, and he is smart enough to build a pavilion on the side of the road for passers-by to rest, and he has done business with passers-by nearby, and in just a few years, he brought his wife and daughter, this is Lao Ruan has made a plan for himself, and he is working wholeheartedly towards the goal." Oh! ”

Xu Hao, who was about to make a statement for others, suddenly noticed that Gazi's gaze had changed, and then looked at the girl who was smiling sweetly in front of the shop, and understood a little.

Lao Ruan's wife is middle-aged, with a long black crepe handkerchief wrapped around her head all the year round, and her eyebrows are plucked thin, and she is especially good at talking. Just like the people who do business in later generations, when they see a man, they will call him eldest brother, and a woman will call him sister-in-law, and he will be very attentive to others.

Therefore, since she came, in less than half a year, Qiaotou grocery store is not only a place for people in the village to buy things, but also a place for everyone to chat and rest.

In summer, there are three towering locust trees at the head of the bridge, and it is unusually cool to sit underneath; In winter, the shop burns oil, cakes and coal, and the fire is so bright that customers are willing to sit a little longer. (To be continued......)

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