Xu Zixian finally returned to the Hou Mansion tonight, of course, to take Wei Yi to meet his younger sister.

Looking at the beautiful sister who is so shy and pretty talking to Wei Yi, Xu Zixian felt a little uncomfortable. Maybe as a father and brother, even if she is her best friend, she would not feel happy.

But then I thought about it and seemed that I was going to marry Chen Wenjun soon. Chen Zhengzhi, the eldest brother-in-law, seemed to be nothing unhappy, and Wei Yi in front of me, was waiting.

The dinner was extremely simple. Xiuniang and her younger sister cooked a few light side dishes. Wei Yi accompanied Xu Zi to drink porridge first. After a serious illness, the diet should be light.

However, the military camp and official residence areas outside the Marquis' Mansion were quite lively, and the aroma of wine and food was blown into the Marquis' Mansion by the sea breeze.

There are still extra meals in the camp, but there are not many soldiers returning to the camp now. Most of the soldiers are stationed everywhere or searching for the remaining pirates. They also have extra meals, just eating outside.

Most of the officials in the official residence have returned home, and the aroma of wine and food is mostly heard from there. The civil servants banned alcohol during the time of the on-duty period, and after the on-duty period, they couldn't help but banned extravagance and waste. Under the leadership of Xu Zixian, most of the officials on the island are usually very frugal. Of course, everyone is very happy this time, so they made an exception to lift the ban. Many people should be scrambling to fish and take the opportunity to drink two more glasses.

After the meal, everyone chatted for a while, and the younger sister and Xiuniang went to the back house. Their reputation was about to be decided, and young men and women should not be together for too long.

Xu Zixian had not had any nourishing sperm for many days. Today, he made an exception. He drank the ice sour plum drink. The ice crystals were frozen on the porcelain cup. After drinking one cup, the heat of the heat was completely eliminated.

"I have to say, the south is still too hot." A maid handed over a warm towel. Xu Zixian wiped the sweat from Wei Yi's face. Xu Zixian said to Wei Yi: "How about Penghu?"

"Same." Wei Yi said: "It's much hotter than Fuzhou. There are many rocky mountains outside the island of Penghu, and there are many strong winds inside. It's better when the wind blows. Although it's hot, it's not stuffy. On the Dongfan side, it feels like there's sea breeze, your body is still sticky and uncomfortable."

"That's right." Xu Zixian said: "I, Lord Taishan, spent 300,000 yuan to build this villa. It is enough to place 50,000 yuan or 60,000 yuan in Fuzhou. I feel very ashamed. At most, I will move to the central government in one or two years."

Wei Yi smiled and said, "Of course your father-in-law hopes that your young couple will live more comfortably. As long as you don't take Miss Chen to live in the mountains, or set up a tent or hut, why should he be troublesome?"

"I can spend tens of thousands of yuan next year and build a good villa. From now on, I will live in the middle in winter and summer, and come to the south in spring and autumn, so I can run on both sides."

Wei Yi nodded. Of course he wouldn't say anything about this. The climate in the middle is good, and almost everyone who has been there said that it is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is indeed a good place. In comparison, the south of Dongfan Island is indeed too hot.

Wei Yi asked with great concern: "I heard that coal mines and iron mines were found in the central region?"

"Yes." Xu Zixian said: "The iron ore is located in the middle of the mountain to the east. The coal mines are a little north, and there are some coal mines, almost even at the northern end of Dongfan Island."

"How about iron ore?"

"Not very good." Xu Zixian shook his head and said, "The iron quality is not good, but one advantage is that there is a large amount of iron ore in shallow veins, and it can be mined for many years without digging deep holes."

"This is indeed good news." Many counties in Fujian are economically supported by mining and iron smelting. Fujian iron sells the world and is famous for its outstanding quality. Mining and iron smelting are also pillar industries in these places. Wei Yi has been the chief editor of the newspaper and is also from a family of officials and gentry. He is quite clear and clear about these things. He nodded and said, "Min Iron is famous for its high quality. Mingda. Your iron stone is not of great quality. You plan to make iron with coal. I am afraid that your iron will not last long after it comes out, and it will ruin your reputation."

"Don't worry about this." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "Since I want to start a mine, of course I am not doing it nonsense. I will first build roads, build houses, build logistics, and then talk about setting up blast furnaces and erecting mines."

"You have always been careful in your work, so I just remind you casually."

Wei Yi could not admire Xu Zixian's ability much. He just nodded and smiled, and the matter was exposed.

"You defeated the two thieves in Luzon, killed the pirate king, and beheaded more than 20,000 yuan." Wei Yi sighed: "If those people in Fuzhou Evening News knew about it, they would not know how to jump in a hurry and want to grab this news."

"The significance of newspapers is not as great as before." Xu Zixian said seriously: "If power is not restricted, there is no question of supervision of public opinion. If education is not popularized, people are not open to wisdom, the circulation of information is not very important. In this situation, the central authority is not established and the locality is centrifuged. Newspapers will increasingly tend to local interests, and the negative effects will be increased."

Wei Yi focused his head and said, "Mingda, you really understand more than I do. I have thought about this, but it is not as thorough as you think about it. The newspapers in Fuzhou have recently complained about the Northern Expedition, and have complained about the court's emphasis on northern border defense and invested heavily in capital. I feel that even if the Fujian region is poor, pirates cannot be prevented. The court is too focused on the north."

"This is also a short-sighted statement." Xu Zixian said: "We have been to the capital and seen the tragic situation after the Donghu invasion. It was the slaughter of the entire village and town. No one can survive. The cruelty is still above the pirates. If we imagine that without the Northern Military Town blocking the Donghu, would the Donghu people go south?"

"That's the reason, but there are still too many short-sighted people."

"So I want to run a school. Not only do I read the classics of the saints... To be honest, the saint's words were said two thousand years ago. Ethically speaking, they are not outdated, but they will definitely not be able to be used to govern the world. Therefore, when setting up schools, Confucianism is just the basis for literacy, and craftsmanship is the foundation of craftsmanship.

,calculus, books, law, military, and geography are all knowledge. From primary schools to secondary schools, and then to universities, I have to be a new scholar who will raise a large number of tomorrow's trend. This is my greatest ideal. It would be good if I could do a bigger career, otherwise, it would be worth a lifetime to spend decades to cultivate a large number of truly useful talents."

Wei Yi looked carefully for a while before laughing and said, "Previously, Brother Zhang and you are with you, Mingda, everyone will express your ideals. Brother Zhang is willing to be a good general, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and restore the status of the royal family. My ideal is to become a Jinshi and to promote my Wei family. Your ideal is to do something and add a glory to the old Marquis of Nan'an at that time, but you never mentioned running a school at that time."

"The times will change, and people's ideals and aspirations will also change." Xu Zixian also remembered the past. At that time, he was still half a child and must have said a lot of naive words, but he did not have any shame when he recalled. People in the world, even saints, have no need to worry too much.

"I really didn't expect that you would run a school for talented people and make such a big deal."

Wei Yi has been to the Dongfan many times, and he is quite clear and familiar with the situation on the Dongfan Island.

"I'm just a little worried." Wei Yi said in a joke: "There is a lot of money to run schools on the island. Some people communicated with me privately, saying that there are many people waiting to see your joke in Fuzhou."

"I have never heard of a country that is poor because of running schools." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "Let's wait and see, and the children will be able to enter school this fall. Then the real joke is to see who will be the real joke."

"Mingda, you have always been targeted in your work, I know." Wei Yisan owed his body and sighed: "Tonight is a chat after the big victory. I feel really comfortable and leisurely. Unfortunately, Brother Zhang is not here, and Yao Weizhong, Zhong Weicheng and others are not here."

"It's been a long time since the capital." Xu Zixian sighed, "Yao and Zhong are both heroes of the Northwest General Sect. I don't know if they followed the army to the northern expedition? Logically speaking, they were from generals and their family would let them compete for fame on the battlefield. They are new martial arts Jinshi, and can be appointed as the commander of the camp to lead their troops to fight for war. In this way, they can be said to be in danger."

"Yao Weizhong told me that his family has always been like this. They have carefully raised their children. When they grow up, they will have to strive for fame and fortune by themselves. Compared with their generations of generals, a family of officials and gentry like the Wei family should be ashamed."

"There is no place for officials and gentry to handle food and grass, and what the soldiers eat and wear are the same. Everyone must do their own duties." Xu Zixian looked to the north and knew that the soldiers there were traveling through mountains and rivers towards Pingzhou and Shanhaiguan. There would be a battlefield for hundreds of thousands of people to fight. The national destiny of the Great Wei battled here. Millions of civilians, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, 300,000 imperial guards, and famous officials and generals gathered on the battlefield, spending tens of millions of yuan. The imperial guards were fighting with the most vicious enemies. Both sides had very high tactical qualities, and the imperial guards were all

Armored, there are a large number of archers and divine armed archers. An army's imperial guards, at least 70% of archers and crossbowmen, there are more than a hundred divine armed archers, as well as a large number of waist-length crossbows, slash-length crossbows, and the Baniu crossbows that follow the army. The imperial guards are neatly arranged, and arrows can cover the sky when firing arrows. The Donghu cavalry is strong and has the power of formation fighting. They come and go like the wind. The soldiers wear three armors, are brave and invincible when attacking, and are skilled in killing enemies. They can harass each other for days or nights and can march for more than a thousand miles within a few days.

Such a war is a real war, a war that determines the fate of millions of people. Therefore, Xu Zi can understand from the bottom of his heart how the imperial court ignores local officials and how they ignore pirates in Fujian.

How did the people in the south imagine cavalry? The imagination was too poor, and they really couldn't understand it.

Outside the border, on the northern border, thousands of Hu cavalry roared in. The spectacular scene was comparable to that of nature's landslides and tsunamis. In front of thousands, even tens of thousands, or tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands, under the test of heavy cavalry charges, the people and the imperial guards in the north also made unimaginable sacrifices to the southerners. When the imperial guards in the north formed a formation and faced the Hu cavalry charges of thousands of cavalry, they did not have the courage or determination. In the face of such a charge, it was difficult for ordinary people to stand, let alone fight with them.

The imperial guards are heavy infantry, wearing multiple iron armor weighing 70 kilograms, wearing pussys, holding long scepters. The elite imperial guards each have their own military horns. The most elite crossbowmen in the Tianwu Army are required to be six feet tall, which is more than one meter eight seven!

The crossbowman, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, easily pulled the crossbow and shot the arrows at the fierce cavalry.

The long-drawn soldiers were like iron-armored beasts, waiting for the enemy in a solid formation. Even if there were thousands of enemy cavalry and the charge was like a mountain collapse and a landslide and the Wei army formation could still maintain the array before such an impact, and the landslide and tsunami was in front of it without changing his expression.

The cavalry of the Northern Lu and Donghu often gathered 200,000 to 300,000 people to invade the border. If the imperial guards of the Great Wei had not maintained their strong combat effectiveness, the border defenses in the north would have long been sieved.

Even so, the people in the north still suffer unimaginable pain in the southerners. Almost every household in the border county died of harassment, or were captured by Donghu and brought back to Yingzhou area to settle, becoming slaves, working hard for them, and being abused in the harsh natural environment. Even young and strong men may not live for ten years. Generally, the arrested people can only think that they are dead.

The entire north is always on the bank of the Yellow River. No prefecture or county dares to say it is safe. Every prefecture and county close to Great Wall County has had family members killed, and this kind of suffering cannot be understood by the southerners.

Pirates in the south have been raging for nearly twenty years, while northerners are enemies on all sides and have been fighting hard with foreign enemies for more than two hundred years.

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Brother Zizhang can come back as soon as possible." Xu Zixian said: "He is a rare talent. I have discussed with Uncle Shi of the Xu family. As soon as Brother Zizhang comes back, he will come to Dongfan to help me. There is no need to go elsewhere to find a job. I will arrange the position of a military officer for him."

Xu Xingwei is indeed a rare talent. He is a mature young man, steady and smart person. He is a family who can speak and do things without any leakage and make people feel comfortable.

He was immersed in martial arts. He was not only good at the skill of a hundred enemies, but also familiar with military books. Of course, he was not the kind of military books read by literati. He was a real military theories. He had to be familiar with the formation of marching and battle arrays and geography and astronomy. Xu Xingwei was able to become a martial arts Jinshi, which shows that his military science was also quite solid.

He was ordered by the Chaozhou in the north and passed orders back and forth on the Northern Expedition battlefield and at the sea, and dealing with independent forces like Wang Zhi, you can imagine what kind of training he has obtained in the past few months. If Xu Xingwei comes back, Xu Zixian will not plan to ask him to take office in the local area by obeying the Chaozhou order. He went directly to the Dongfan to lead his troops or preside over the department. Xu Xingwei is very qualified.

Age is not a problem at all. Mediocre people who are 40 or 50 years old do not mean that they know more, they just waste more food. And outstanding people are already mature enough by the time they are in their twenties and can take charge of the army and take charge.

Wei Yi nodded slightly, and the two of them were speechless for a moment. The northern battlefield and brotherly friendship made people a little worried and sad for a while, and the interest in chatting was interrupted. Both of them understood and discussed that the Northern Expedition was not optimistic, or even completely pessimistic. If Xu Xingwei was still stubborn and stayed in the north, it would be quite dangerous. Once the army collapsed, not to mention an ordinary family member of the state who had a five-serving regiment, even if he was a general of the army, he would not be able to save his life at that time. Xu Xingwei ran in front of the army and was also serving the country. He could not persuade him in a great way. He could only pray silently, hoping that this good brother could go south and return safely before the war.

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Wei Yi left Huaxi Port the next day and returned to Penghu.

Although the war is over, there are still many things to do for the aftermath.

The rise of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, including the current scale of the navy, is of course related to war. Every time you win, the Marquis Mansion will grow.

At the end of the afternoon, all the pearl pickers arrived outside Huaxi Port. Only then did they see the tragic battlefield. There were still stench and burnt smells from corpses in the air. There were more than a thousand corpses waiting to be dealt with on the beach. Thousands of Dongfan civilians and the government troops were handling post-war chores at the beach. Some officials in green and blue robes were commanding at the beach. Dozens of mule carts were already waiting, and it seemed that they wanted to pull the items from the beach away.

The people who pick pearls are used to life and death, but when they see such a scene, they are still quite uncomfortable. Many people have turned pale and even feel a little nauseous. If it weren't for these men with nerves like steel, ordinary people would probably vomit immediately when they suddenly see thousands of burnt corpses.

However, the military and civilians on the island seemed to have no mind and continued to pick up something in the pile of corpses, checking them very carefully.

After the ship docked, an official brought the pearl collector to a blue robe official. The official in his thirties was moderate in shape. At this time, many pearl collectors found that the officials in the Nan'an Marquis Mansion were basically thin and strong. This was also a civil servant, but his figure was not thin, but strong, which was in sharp contrast to the officials of the Great Wei Dynasty who were either too thin or fat. His eyes were sharp and his speech was clear and clear. When they came into contact on the first day of the first lunar month, they were quite awe.

"Your mission is to fish out valuable things in the wreckage shipwreck, preserved weapons, crossbows, and more importantly, gold, silver, armor and armor. I know you can catch heavy objects, carry ropes on your body. If you can't move them, you can drag the items to the water surface. I have already paid you for the labor expenses. I can say another word here. If you bring a lot of gold, silver, armor and armor, there will be a heavy reward. My Nan'an Marquis Mansion keeps your word."

The person in charge of this matter was Chen Zuocai. He was in a very good mood and had picked up thousands of stones of grain from the sea. Although the Nan'an Marquis Mansion doesn't care about this little money now, food is food, and harvesting spoils is always a pleasant mood.

In addition, there are many fine and soft items, which are estimated to be worth tens of thousands of coins in total.

Only some hard bows, crossbows, catapults, and of course arrows and some weapons were found from dozens of well-preserved warships. Most of them were not standard weapons, but they could be sent to Minzhuang for use.

Especially for a strong bow, a good bow can be made at least half a year. It does not mean that human hands or materials are used, but because the bow handle takes time to relax and does not have time to determine its stability, so a good bow cannot be made.

The production time of a true good bow starts from years, which greatly increases the cost.

In addition, the time cost. The standard bows and arrows I bought are all made in a short period of time. They can be used, but they are too far from the standard of good bows and arrows.

At least a few hundred hard bows were found on the ship, and the pirates were not bad goods. Although they were cruel and vicious, it does not mean that they were idiots. Good bows were used to kill enemies and save lives. Naturally, they kept the good goods for themselves.

In addition, there are more than a hundred armors, most of which are armor and mail. People there seem to be no good at making cotton armor.

These gains made people quite happy, but they did not find many antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and gold and silver affairs. Everyone met once, probably because the pirates wanted to give up these ships, so they cleared the items in advance.

There are some omissions, but not many, and they are almost worth mentioning.

What we can be sure of now is that there will be a lot of gains under the sea, which is the work of these pearl pickers in front of us.
Chapter completed!