Before going north, Xu Zixian had already decided to cooperate with Changwen Hou Mansion to grow cotton and immigrate to the island. This matter has been implemented in Fuzhou, and no one would object.

The refugees in Zhangzhou have become a burden for all prefectures and military prefectures. They are not allowed to return home when they are left outside. The government helps them is a large amount of expenses. Moreover, their hometown is in ruins, so the expenses are too high to immigrate and resettle.

Moving to the Dongfan to grow cotton is a two-way deal for each other.

Although Changwen Hou Mansion and Xu Zixian combined to invest a lot of money, they can get enough manpower to open up wastelands. At the same time, once they try to plant cotton fields, they can imagine how much they can get.

For refugees in Zhangzhou, someone can provide them with food and clothing for a year, provide them with farm tools, and even help them build houses and courtyards. This is also a great thing like a pie falling from the sky. How could he not be willing to do it?

For Changwen Hou Mansion, the development of the Dongfan was just a business, and for Xu Zixian, there was no doubt that it was to build a reliable overseas base.

Starting with cotton fields, Xingbu has many profitable trading businesses, firmly controlling the local area. It is best to set up a group training to replace the current military camps of different sizes under the Taiwan defense envoy, and completely take the Dongfan into his pocket. This is the most secret abacus in Xu Zixian's heart... Unexpectedly, this Shaoqun saw through it at a glance.

"I foolishly think that developing cotton fields is important, other ways to make money are important, and raising horses is also important. However, there is one thing that is most important. The king and the lord must start to do it once they return to Fuzhou..." Fang Shaoqun said to Xu Zixian seriously: "If there is no such thing, I am afraid that everything will be a rootless tree and will not withstand the destruction of the big waves."

"Mr. Fang, please make it clear."

"Kang Shui Army." Fang Shaoqun said decisively: "It is not Jian Shui Camp, but rebuilding a navy that is enough to resist the enemy thieves. If there is no navy, all the displays of the king and the prince will probably make wedding clothes for others."

Xu Zixian made a slight attempt, almost suspected that Fang Shaoqun could hear his own voice. This mind was too moved, right?

"I have a few days to talk to Renfu, the lord and others..." Fang Shaoqun continued: "I have some understanding of the situation in Fuzhou, and I also know that Junhou has a few witty words... All things are divided into the following types, important things that are urgently done, important things that are not urgent, not important but urgent, not urgent, and not urgent, not important or urgent, the Navy's affairs are important, and the major things that are urgently done must not be delayed and slackened. In the next one or two years, the Hou Mansion and the Group Training, except for the public expenses in Qizhou, should all profits, except for necessary investment, be invested on the construction of the Navy."

Fang Shaoqun suddenly sighed and said in a slight silence: "Actually, I wrote a letter to the emperor to advise the reconstruction of the navy. This matter is also done by the subordinates. Liu Dasan disagreed, but he still wrote secrets. The emperor ordered the court officials to discuss it. Han opposed it. In fact, Liu Zhiyuan did not agree... Now asking the court to take out tens of millions of trump cards, even if it has been invested for ten years, it would be too difficult. However, the emperor and the prime minister did not understand that at this moment, it would be useless to build dozens of troops and hundreds of troops. If the court could build a powerful navy with a scale of 50,000 or more people and a thousand warships, the whole situation would be reversed..."

"Fortunately, Mr. Fang wants to go south with me." Xu Zixian was silent for a while, and finally said, "Or I really don't know what to do!"

"Junhou means that if you don't follow the south, you have to endure the pain and get rid of it. This way, you can avoid the troubles after all, right?" Fang Shaoqun smiled proudly at first, but then he was depressed. He shook his head and said, "You have to know the seller, and you are good at making suggestions. If no one appreciates it, it will be a good cook without rice. When you go south, you hope to assist Junhou and achieve a real career."

Xu Zixian said: "I am full of expectations for Mr. Fang."

Fang Shaoqun was already silent. Xu Zixian knew that this person had been reading information from the south every day recently, including almost complete vehicles of newspapers and various manuals, literati notes, overseas stories, official official diployal newspapers, etc.

Through these information, Fang Shaoqun is working hard to understand the south, a place that was quite unfamiliar to him before.

It also includes not only Fujian Road, but also Liangzhe, Jingnan Jingbei, Jiangnan East Road, Jiangnan West Road, Guangnan West Road, Guangnan East Road, Yunnan Road, Guizhou Road, etc.

Even the countries of the Heavenly Kingdom, the continental countries with very few travels, and of course the Eastern and Western countries, are among the knowledge of Fang Shaoqun.

This person is really very thoughtful and very smart. He learns from one example and learns from other things. He has a very quick mind and has a very accurate grasp of people's hearts. In just a few days, he has gotten along very well with Chen Zuocai, Chen Daojian and others.

He was a little arrogant and was not very respectful to Xu Zixian. Except for Chen Daojian, he felt a little thorny and disregarded others.

According to the information Jin Jian found out, Fang Shaoqun was even more arrogant and domineering in Liu Zhiyuan's mansion. Liu Zhiyuan was often angry with him. If it weren't for this, Fang Shaoqun should have been the first person in the Liu family, rather than the embarrassing situation later.

In this way, it has become quite restrained among the Nan'an Marquis Mansion.

"Prepare to set off to head south." After Fang Shaoqun said this, Xu Zixian felt that the burden was very heavy, and the future was far from optimism.

If the Wei Dynasty intends to cheer up, all the navy talents in the world will be used by the court. As long as you invest a lot of money, it will not be too difficult to accumulate a navy that can sweep the coast of China within a few years.

But Xu Zixian is in trouble. No matter how high his reputation and power are, how can he compare with the Wei court?

How many talented people can be summoned as soon as the imperial edict arrives. What is the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion?

Talent is more rare than money, but Xu Zixian is far behind in money.

Not to mention anything else, if the court made up its mind, it would be impossible to spend 5 million pounds a year to invest in the navy. Xu Zixian sold himself, how much money could he sell?

This year, I am more optimistic, and I may earn more than 800,000 yuan at most, but I have a lot of money to invest in the military training and military affairs of Qizhou. How much can I use it on the navy?

There is no strong navy, as Fang Shaoqun said, no matter how powerful the power is, it is a tree without roots. In the situation of Fujian and the Dongfan, without a navy, you can only passively defend. There will always be negligence when defending thieves for thousands of days. If you are not careful, years of hard work will be completely in vain.

In this situation, the capital is also a den of a dragon's pond and tiger's nest, so it is not advisable to stay for a long time. Of course, it is better to leave early.

Everyone shouted and said that although they were not in the north for a long time, they were dangerous everywhere. They were southerners, and they were not very adaptable to the climate and environment in the north, and they did not like the food. Fujian people are located on the side of the sea and are fond of seafood. Although they are near the sea in the capital, the northern seas are inconvenient to transport, especially in winter, even if there are fish, it is not new, and it is quite unaccustomed to the southerners.

Besides, there is a lot of pasta and little rice. Fujian has been growing rice for many years, and people eat more rice. Even though the rice noodles are similar to noodles, the taste and flavor are completely different. When everyone heard Xu Zi first said he wanted to return south, everyone was excited. Although they carried a lot of items and were in a hurry, they still packed everything in the shortest time.

When he left Nanxun Gate, Fang Shaoqun went to his father's grave to worship. Everyone knew that he might not be able to come back in a few years. The other party was considerate of his thoughts, and they were waiting outside Nanxun Gate.

Teams of imperial guards stationed in Henan and Shandong are already heading towards the capital. The nearest imperial guard generals have already rushed to the capital with their cavalry and light cavalry, so the speed is not slow.

Chen Zuocai and Xu Zixian rode under the huge city tower of Nanxunmen. There was an empty field outside the city and a dense village. At this time, Xu Zixian realized that there were very few trees outside the capital, similar to the bare mountains on Fujian Road.

"It has been more than 200 years since the capital was established." Chen Zuocai seemed to have realized Xu Zixian's thoughts and said, "The firewood and firewood of more than one million soldiers and civilians was obtained from outside the city, and even the densest forests were cut down."

Chen Daojian said on the side: "It is true, just like the many mountains on our Fujian Road, there are very few big woods."

"I'll take the exam for you." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "I'm going to be cut down now. Now the trees in the capital are cut off. Then I'll ask you, when the cold weather in winter and spring is so cold, the people also need warmth. How many hotels and hotels also need firewood and firewood, and this thing cannot be found in the palace. So where does this thing come from now?"

Chen Daojian didn't think about this, and thought about it for a while and said, "Have you switched to carbonaceous?"

Carbonite is just a coal block. Because there are many open-pit coal mines on Hedong Road and Qinfeng Road, there are many open-pit coal mines, and the development is very early and the population is dense, there are no green mountains and clear waters.

Many books think that the environment must be excellent after traveling hundreds of years ago is a misunderstanding. The river water is indeed very clear and there are many fish and shrimps. This is an unquestionable fact, but the green mountains are definitely not visible, unless they are far away and inadequately developed places, such as Guizhou and Jingnan in Yunnan, where a large number of barren mountains are full of green, which is completely different from Fujian Road, Guangdong South Road and Liangzhe Road.

"No, no." Chen Daojian overturned his words first and said, "I didn't smell the pungent smell, and the sky was not as bad as it looked like a large-scale burning of charcoal."

Kaifeng Prefecture is a famous fog capital when it is severe in winter. When it is severe, it is almost impossible to see the five fingers. There are many similar jokes logged in to the newspaper. As long as you are a scholar, you can learn a lot and remember them well. Chen Daojian immediately avoids thinking wrong.

"It is the charcoal tributed on Hedong Road, Jingxi Road, Shandong East Road, West Road, Henan Road and other roads." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "The palace needs to use more than 5 million kilograms in one winter and spring. This is the imperial tribute, and each road has to pay free tribute. The people in the capital purchase it, and tens of millions of kilograms a year, but compared with the use in the palace, civil and military people and the minority people have used less."

Chen Zuocai smiled and said, "The civil and military officials don't have to buy them by themselves. Many of the millions of pounds in the palace are benefits given to the officials."

"That's true." Xu Zixian said: "There are charcoal gifts ranging from thousands to dozens of kilograms from the ninth rank."

"There are not many trees on all sides, right?" Chen Daojian shook his head and said, "If you continue to cut down like this, you may be the barren mountains wherever you see."

"So you still have to use carbonite." Chen Zuocai traveled around the country and had a rich experience. He said now: "I have been to Hedong Road. The carbonite reserves there are amazing. Many carbonite mines are open-pit shallow mines. They can be dug out directly with one shovel. It is very convenient."

"The smell of soot when the carbonite is burned is too strong." Chen Daojian said: "And it cannot be used to smelify iron."

"The north is still made of charcoal," Chen Zuocai said: "It is indeed because of the many impurities, which are prone to rust and brittle."
Chapter completed!