After Pingyang came to Qinzhou, he seemed to be busier than Li Chao.

Recently, she is busy buying land everywhere and having a lot of fun. Every day when she comes back, she smiles and talks to Li Chao about which land she has left. Li Chao looks at her enthusiasm and can only smile.

"I'll buy more industries for my son," said Pingyang.

Li Chao took off his clothes and said, "Shiyilang is already a county magistrate. Do you still worry about him in this life? Besides, my children and women will have a share in the future, and he will have a share in them."

Ping Yang gave Li Chao a blank look, "I still can't bear to leave Shiyilang."

Li Chao went to bed and hugged her shoulders, "I got used to it slowly. If you really can't bear to leave, then go back to Beijing."

"I can't bear to leave you either." Ping Yang said,

When Pingyang left Beijing, he had already sent Shiyilang to the Yue Palace. This was also considered as the promised that Pingyang gave birth to a boy, so that the children would recognize their ancestors and even recognize Cui Yingying as their mother. This did not mean that Cui Yingying bullied Pingyang, but instead cared for Shiyilang.

If you recognize Cui Yingying as your mother, then Shiyilang is the legitimate son of the Li family and the fifth son. In this era, there is still a very big difference between legitimate sons, let alone illegitimate sons in the outer room. Even if Eleven's mother's biological mother is the eldest princess and uncle is the emperor, the legitimate son is the legitimate son. Ordinary legitimate wife will never kindly accept the legitimate son as the legitimate son, unless the legitimate wife has no children, she can take the illegitimate son as her own legitimate son.

Pingyang also understood this, which was also one of the reasons why she went south this time. If she was still in the capital, she would definitely not be able to help but want to see her child.

"Don't worry, Shiyilang is your child. Even if Shisan Niang helps you take care of it, it will not change this fact."

In August, Lingnan is no better than the Central Plains. The weather in the Central Plains is already very cool at this time, especially in the north, which even gets cold, but Lingnan is still very cool.

Pingyang was wearing a tulle skirt, which was very attractive.

Li Chao pressed her under him, "Let's have a few more!"

The student's body pressed against Pingyang, and she hummed softly, already moved.

a long time.

Clouds stop and rain catches.

Both of them collapsed on the bed, gasping heavily.

"You are dead man, why are you so fierce recently? You're going to scatter the skeleton that has been tormenting everyone."

Li Chao wiped sweat from his forehead, "I think you have become much better recently, and almost flashed my old waist."

Pingyang heard this and reached out to pinch Li Chao's waist.

"I heard that Feng Ann was going to give you his daughter, but you refused?"

Pingyang was a little jealous when he said this.

Li Chao smiled, "Feng Ang wants to give it away, but I dare not accept it."

"The genius believes you. You left Beijing in the first month of the year, and you have been out for more than half a year. After traveling so many places, I am afraid that there are many women who have used them, right?"

Li Chao was a king of Yue, especially young, handsome and rich, and indeed attracted more peach blossoms. Wherever he went, people wanted to cling to Li Chao. Li Chao was not short of money and never liked to collect gold and cash, so many people thought of giving gifts. They gave various ancient books, such as bamboo slips from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, bronze and jade ware with inscriptions from the pre-Qin period, and some people even gave them to women directly.

Give it to beauty, or even daughter.

"It's absolutely nothing." Li Chao said with a smile. Of course, this is also a lie. Although Li Chao is not the kind of person who is addicted to women, he is alone and is not around him. Of course, he will occasionally take one or two. However, these are just Li Chao's maids, and he can't even count as a concubine, let alone a roommate.

This can be considered a normal behavior at this time. Which of the nobles, bureaucrats and merchants does not have maids? Some officials are outside, and it is inconvenient to bring a young scholar-child follower. They are scholar-child during the day and become people by their pillow at night.

These are the norm.

But Li Chao is indeed difficult to accept about men's affairs, even if he comes from later generations. He does not discriminate against him, but he cannot.

Pingyang has recovered his spirits.

Seeing that Li Chao was also very fierce, he was ready to move, "You can take some girls outside, it's okay. But you should pay attention to those who send their daughters. People don't send their daughters to you to be slaves, at least they want to be a concubine or even an outdoor room. I don't care, I'm worried that Cui will be annoyed."

In the era, women are acceptable for husbands to take concubines and take maids, but they must not accept the outer room. Neither concubine nor maid can challenge the status of their wives, but the outer room and illegitimate children will greatly damage their reputation and interests.

Pingyang herself is also an outdoor room, and she knows very well how annoyed Cui.

Li Chao turned over and fought again with his gun.

Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger.

Pingyang is a woman who is like a wolf or a tiger, especially when she has just recovered after giving birth. At this time, women have particularly strong desires.

Afterwards, Pingyang went to take a bath first, and Li Chao leaned against the head of the bed and laid his arm.

Feng Ang was already a little anxious and wanted to give Li Chao his daughter. Feng Ang has thirty sons and a larger number of daughters. This is also an awesome person, with many wives and concubines in the family.

As the first rich leader in Lingnan, the Feng family had more than ten thousand slaves, and the real ones were more than ten thousand. Feng Ang's wife was Xian, but he took many concubines, and there were many maids who didn't even have the status of concubines. Although Feng Ang was not old, his children were amazing.

Feng Ang even has a twin daughter who was just 28 years old and she is very beautiful. Feng Ang loves this daughter very much, and he didn't pick many people asking for marriage. Now, for the future of the Feng family, he has voluntarily proposed to give this pair of precious daughters to Li Chao as a concubine.

But how could Li Chao agree?

If the court has the chance, it will definitely deal with the Feng family. At least, it will take away the power of the Feng family and keep his wealth. But the court will definitely not accept Li Chao, the King of Yue, who has formed a family with the former King of Nanyue.

If Li Chao had taken Feng Ang's daughter as his concubine, Li Feng's two families would marry each other, one would have crossed the river and the other would have been a local snake. If these two families joined forces, Li Shimin would probably not be able to sleep in Hanjing.

Now Li Chao represents the court and fights these heroes and slang in Lingnan, Li Shimin is very happy.

Feng Ang hit a nail in Li Chao and wanted to make an idea of ​​the prince, but he actually wanted to give the twins to Chengqian. Chengqian was only ten years old and was not familiar with personnel at this time. Besides, Chengqian was not stupid either. He had known the attitude of the court and Li Chao towards the Feng family, so he refused to even see Feng Ang.

Li Chao smiled, Feng Ang probably was already desperate now.

He is unwilling to hand over the power territory and cannot control the situation. The only thing he can do now is to take risks.

Li Chao's people monitored Feng Xian's family day and night, and were very concerned about the former Feng Xian's territory in Gaozhou and other places. Recently, the Feng family was moving frequently, and money and grain were constantly transporting out, while the Xian family was moving more intensively. All the rivers and houses were gathering, and they were even constantly contacting other families.

However, what surprised Li Chao was that many Xidongs actually came to the government to report the conspiracy between Feng Xian and his family. Among these Xidongs, there were even those who were very close to Xian and Feng's family.

People's hearts are turned against each other, or are due to interests.

"What are you thinking?"

Pingyang was washed and covered with a gauze.

When Li Chao saw that his figure was delicate and tight under the thin gauze, his concave and convex curves were extremely attractive, and he couldn't help but get angry again.

Pingyang directly bypassed his claws, "Go and wash up quickly, excessive indulgence will hurt your body."

Li Chao stood up helplessly and went to wash.

After taking a cool shower, I finally got angry.

When he came back, Pingyang had already changed into a cotton skirt.

"The clothes made of white cloth are really good, soft and comfortable. How about you tell me that all the floors I bought here are cotton?"

Li Chao lay down next to her, reached out to touch her clothes, and quickly became unhonest and was photographed by Pingyang. "Growing cotton is good, and the prospect of cotton is very good. Weaving cotton cloth is still very high-end now, and even making quilts, cotton jackets and shoes is very popular. In Lingnan, growing cotton is not the most suitable, because although there is sufficient sunshine here, the temperature difference between day and night is not large."

"The northwest is most suitable for growing cotton, and the southwest is actually more suitable for growing sugarcane."

Li Chao introduced to Pingyang, but of course Guangxi can also grow cotton, but the output is not as high as the northwest.

"I suggest that rice is grown in paddy fields, sugarcane is grown in dry land, and cotton can be grown in the mountains. Anyway, mountainous land is not suitable for growing grain, and it is not a loss to grow cotton."

"Then as you said." Ping Yang said, "But there is a shortage of people, please help me get some people."

"Now there is a general shortage of people. This can only be hired from Li Liao or purchased slaves sold from Nanyang."

"Sanlang, I recently heard that there were many slaves coming over the Persian Gulf. It is said that the Persian Sassanid Dynasty captured slaves from their south, and those slaves were even darker than Kunlun slaves?"

"Well, that's the case."

Egypt was once occupied and ruled by Eastern Romans, but later it was occupied and ruled by Persia, and is still under Persian rule. The Persians engaged in slave trade from Egypt and even further south, which was actually something that happened since the Roman era and even earlier.

As the Tang Dynasty's merchant ships continued to increase in travel to the Persian Gulf in recent years, black slaves also became an important commodity for the trade between the East and the West. The demand for slaves in the Central Plains led to considerable profits in this transaction.

The slaves who are now sold to the Central Plains are mainly black slaves from Nanyang, Tianzhu, and Persia.

Li Chao is now short of labor, and there are no shortages of people in various territories, manors, mines and workshops in various industries. Li Chao is now relying on the sea slave trade to supplement his labor.

Especially since he has recently prepared to take a major project.

There is a huge coal mine between Qinzhou and Jiaozhou, which was also very famous in later generations, that is, Hongji Coal Mine. The mining area is more than 200 miles long and thirty or forty miles wide. The proven coal storage capacity is more than 2 billion tons. Especially the coal here is high-quality anthracite, with thick coal seams and thin topsoil, which can be mined open-pit. In addition, it is convenient to transport and export. It can be said that this coal mine is simply a huge treasure pot.
Chapter completed!