Recently..., well, maybe since I learned that the troops in Qi Province had withstood the attack of the entire Tartar division, Li Feihu often felt a little regretful.

He regretted that when Xu Shiyang went to Jiangnan in poverty, he did not make any more efforts to win him over.

If Li Feihu knew that Xu Shiyang could achieve what he is today, he felt that he should persuade his elder brother to marry Li Feihuang directly to Xu Shiyang - Xu Shiyang didn't have a real wife at that time.

Unfortunately, Li Feihu did not have the ability of a prophet of the Pupu. He was good to Xu Shiyang at that time, but for a great man who could win the Central Plains, at least he was also a province in Neng Yongzhen, that little investment was still too little.

After learning that Xu Shiyang had made initial progress in counterattacking Liaonan, Li Feihu immediately made up his mind to tie the Li and Xu families together no matter what!

Even if his own daughter married Xu Shiyang's second son!

After making this proposal, Li Feihu stared at Xu Shiyang tightly, for fear of saying something irrelevant to him.

In fact, Xu Shiyang was not surprised when he heard about Li Feihu's marriage request.

Now the Xu family is no longer the past. The strength of the Qi Provincial Governor's Office is, with the Jurchen Tartars as a reference, everyone can see it.

Even if the Xu family doesn't want to sit in the south, they must be loyal ministers for the Great Zhou Dynasty. At least there is no problem with Yongzhen Qi Province.

This is already a well-known independent force, an absolute local emperor.

It is strange that ambitious people don’t come to marry.

Didn’t you see that even the Wen family, who was loyal to the court, left a way out here?

However, Xu Shiyang did not expect that the marriage partner proposed by Li Feihu was his newly born second son.

"Brother Li, I can agree to this marriage."

Xu Shiyang asked in confusion:

"I'm just curious, why did you choose my waiter? Your legitimate daughter is now two years old? Then she should be just right with my boss, right?"

Xu Shiyang's eldest son is three years old this year, one year older than Li Feihu's younger daughter. This seems to be more suitable than the second son of the wife who is two years younger than the woman.

"It's nothing, I don't want you to misunderstand." Li Feihu said generously.

"Misunderstanding? Oh..., it turns out to be for this."

Xu Shiyang was a little slow in this regard. After Li Feihu reminded him, he could barely understand some truths:

The Xu family is a promising independent force. In such a family, the transfer of parents in the future will inevitably be full of crises and competition like the palace.

But generally speaking, the one who is most competitive for that position should be the eldest son who is older and has a longer time to establish his own power, and the eldest son who has the title of great righteousness.

Shu's second son is in a natural disadvantage in this regard, and on the contrary he has a better chance of not getting involved in dangerous competition. Li Feihu thinks this is better for his daughter, that's all.

"Getting a wife and marrying a virtuous person, and being a virtuous wife will make you more love."

Li Feihu smiled and said:

"This is also good for your waiter, right?"

"Haha, that's right." Xu Shiyang did not explain his thoughts on future inheritance rights to him, but just responded: "Since Brother Li thinks so, then do it like this."

"Then find a chance to formally decide the matter for the two children." Seeing Xu Shiyang agreeing, Li Feihu said with a little excitement.

Xu Shiyang said in contemplation: "Well, but I have an offer."

“What proposal?”

"The children are still young now. We don't have a plan to grow up to what kind of people when they grow up. Why not do this? When the two children grow up to 5 years old, let them live back and forth between Qisheng and Shuangyu."

"Your daughter is two years older than her. She comes to my side first after she is five years old. My wife and I take care of her for two years and let the children get along well. Two years later, my waiter will go back to Shuangyu with your daughter and ask Brother Li to take care of her for two years."

"In this way, we can see the growth of our children and feel more at ease about the future of our children."

This can be regarded as compensation for Xu Shiyang's efforts to suppress a feudal marriage for his son - he has lived with his wife since he was a child, and his relationship should be better than strangers.

"This is a very fresh approach, are you willing to bear it?" Li Feihu smiled and said, "Also, there is no previous example in this matter, and others will not gossip about it?"

"Brother Li, you and I are both doing big things, and still care about this?"

Xu Shiyang said with a smile:

"I hope that all my children, regardless of gender, legitimate and illegitimate, can have broad horizons, have a bright future, and can open up their own careers, rather than quarrel over the little property I left for them."

Also, no matter what, Xu Shiyang would never hand over his children to the women in the deep palace or eunuchs for raising and taking care of them. That is definitely not a good thing for the country and nation.

...

Li Feihu left with a satisfied result.

According to the agreement, he will transport the sulfur obtained from the Oda family in Fuso to Qi Province within one month. In the next three years, he will transport another 10,000 kilograms of sulfur every year.

In addition, Li Feihu and his cheap price redeemed the fleet captured by Xu Shiyang in Lushun, including Li Feibao's ships that fled into Lushun Port, Fusang, and the ships of Goryeo merchants. Anyway, Xu Shiyang himself did not have enough sailors to operate these rags.

This is a significant enhancement for Li Feihu.

In exchange, Li Feihu will send some old sailors who can travel to the Southeast and Tianzhuyang to train naval officers for Qi Province.

Xu Shiyang plans to open a naval officer school and a special naval arsenal in the island city of his previous life, and Li Feihu's sailors will become a naval teacher in Qi Province.

According to Xu Shiyang's vision, the Island City Naval School is temporarily divided into two disciplines:

The Command Academy mainly studies navigation, artillery, naval command and maritime tactics.

The School of Science and Technology focuses on science majors such as shipbuilding and artillery making.

The former studied at school for three years and then took the boat for two years internship. The latter studied at school for five years, but during this period, they found several months to participate in the internship at the Navy Arsenal.

Regarding the Navy Arsenal, Xu Shiyang hopes that they can provide the Navy with professional ships, equipment and arms.

Xu Shiyang specifically proposed several equipment that the navy needs to focus on developing in the next stage: including sextant, various optical sighting equipment, and professional naval naval guns (the province's navy has to use army guns for every battle. When the army gets ashore, the navy will degenerate into a gunless fleet) and sailing ships that are more suitable for sailing in the sea.

The navy is a highly professional military branch. Now Xu Shiyang's navy can rely on artillery to dominate the eastern coast, but they cannot always shrink in the yellow water. Sooner or later, they will sail far away and go to the unknown world to open up new living space for this nation and country.
Chapter completed!