Today's Liaodong is a well-organized military fortress. Although the last war has been four years, the people here are still accustomed to living in a war-like way. People who have experienced displacement feel very lacking in their hearts.

sense of security.

In Li Xiao's view, the material level of people in Liaodong has been greatly enriched. This can be seen from the food in the villages where they stay. Ordinary farmhouses already have dishes such as potato fried meat slices and large pancakes on the pot.

On the side, there is a piece of crucian carp full of seeds in the middle, which is full of fragrance in your mouth. When I am about to go to school in the morning, my mother will boil an egg for me.

Although there is no such thing as cow's milk, there is still no shortage of goat's milk. The cheese and yogurt residue made by women using goat's milk are delicious. It is said that this method was learned from the Mongols.

With sufficient nutrition, the hungry and cold children with good food disappeared. Instead, children as strong as calves ran all over the ground, their little faces flushed by the spring breeze, showing the huge power contained in their bodies.

vitality.

Because of immigration, there are not many elderly people in Liaodong. And there are no particularly old people. An old man who is fifty years old can definitely be regarded as a senior citizen.

The health clinic in the village is simply useless. Apart from bandaging wounds, it can only deal with mosquito bites, cat scratches and dog bites. If you have a headache and a fever, you have to take the road to the health clinic in the village. If the village also

If it cannot be cured, you can only go to a hospital in Shanhaiguan or Jinzhou.

These days, there are no examination equipment such as B-ultrasound, CT, and breast X-rays, so there are naturally no high examination fees. Li Zhongzi’s disciples and grandchildren have made significant progress in their craftsmanship after incorporating Tang Ruowang’s Western medicine. Patent medicines have already

Mass production began. As long as it is not a difficult or complicated disease, it can basically be cured. There is nothing that can be done about those that cannot be cured. This is the level of medical care in these years.

I don’t know why, but the people of Liaodong are in surprisingly good health these days. Headaches and brain fever are rare diseases. Li Xiao asked the village chief. In one year, there were not many colds in the village. There were also very few other illnesses. I don’t know what caused them.

thing.

Li Xiao believes that this has a lot to do with the popularization of soap. The unkempt farmers have disappeared, and the smelly farmhouse dry toilets have disappeared. Instead, there is a clean and refreshing village, even the children who have only been able to walk for a few days.

We all know that we should wash our hands before eating and after going to the toilet. If we wash our hands with fragrant soap, we will have a cute fragrant baby.

As for serious infectious diseases such as the plague, they had never heard of it. Who would eat marmots when they had enough food to eat? There were a large number of cats in every village. Li Xiao walked around eight times and couldn't see any more.

Forty cats. It is estimated that the rats in and outside the village will not have enough food if they are not actively reproducing!

Every ten days, there will be a big market in the countryside. At that time, people from eight villages in ten miles will come to buy things with money. The market is very lively, you can see people doing the Yangko dance, and you can also see roasted mutton.

You can even see stalls selling various floral fabrics.

Li Xiao bought a cute and naive pig pillow for Chitose Tokugawa, which was highly praised by Chitose Tokugawa.

Walking on the land of Liaodong, Li Xiao feels extremely at ease. Although there is no spring breeze of commercialization here, simple smiling faces can be seen everywhere. Li Xiao knows that commercialization will happen sooner or later.

As materials become more abundant, frequent transactions will gradually appear. When frequent transactions appear, trade is born. It is the ever-expanding trade that allows people in different regions to get the goods they want.

What surprised Li Xiao the most was that the people of Liaodong quickly accepted money. Whether it was golden copper coins or shining silver coins, they had become the protagonists of business. Many adults standing behind the stalls were sitting next to them.

A child who knows how to settle accounts.

That's right, because I learned the mathematical knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The person in Liaodong who is best at calculating accounts is not his honest parents at home, but his son who has just entered the third grade of elementary school.

Although they don't know how to use abacus beads, they can use strange Arabic symbols to accurately calculate how much money they charge and how much change they have. As long as the children are not careless, there will be no mistakes.

There is money here, resources here, and talents that thrive here. Li Xiao believes that as long as peaceful development is maintained for twenty years, Liaodong will become the center of Northeast Asia.

Many factories were built on the edge of Jinzhou, and horse-drawn carriage convoys often appeared on the wide cement road. They were heading in the surprisingly same direction, which was Jinzhou Port.

It only took Jinzhou Port three years to transform from a military port to a commercial port. Now, glassware, soap, perfume, cloth and other industrial products shipped from here every year are swallowing up the

A considerable part of the wealth of Japan and Korea was sold further to Guangzhou.

Then they were transported from Guangzhou Port to various parts of the world by merchant ships from various countries.

Today's most important town in Liaodong is definitely not Shenyang, nor is it the former center of Liaoyang. It is Jinzhou City, which is stuck in the transportation chokepoint from Liaodong to Guanhai!

Entire commercial streets and countless restaurants and tea shops have appeared in Jinzhou City. On the huge playground, strong children wearing separates are running, and tens of thousands of workers are working in the factory. In the hospital, all

Doctors and nurses all wear white coats.

This is an old city with the prototype of a modern city. The ancient city walls and the newly built reinforced concrete buildings form a sharp contrast. The houses with cornices and brackets have disappeared, replaced by matchbox-style buildings.

On the wide cement road, carriages running on fixed routes will stop under the stop sign to let the guests waiting here get on and off. You can get on and off at the front door and get off at the rear door. If the horse is replaced by an engine, the handlebar-type

The whip is replaced with a steering wheel, and this thing looks just like a bus.

The store has a dazzling array of products. In addition to the traditional rice and grain shop, there is also a cloth shop selling dyed cloths of various colors. Li Xiao also saw several kinds of floral cloth, but he didn't know how they were printed.

Next to the tailor shop, there may be a ready-made clothing shop. Li Xiao even saw crocodile skin bags. It seems that the ships coming back from the south brought back a lot of things. This is how trade is, as long as there is demand, there will be supply, which is a natural adjustment of the contradiction between supply and demand.

weapon.

When Li Xiao wanted to enter a shop, he was stopped by several fat women. Tokugawa Chiki took a look inside and told Li Xiao that this was a place selling women's underwear.

Oh my God! This is women's underwear?

When he walked to the gate of Wang Tong's majestic governor's office, Li Xiao was once again stopped by the wolf-like guards. This time, the badge Wang Tong gave him was not easy to use.

"Master Qingtian, you have to make the decision for me." Shunzi was just about to tell the boss's name when suddenly an old man tremblingly knelt down in front of the governor's office.

Li Xiao pulled a straight, and the group of people stood aside and watched the excitement.

"Go, go, go! Everyone wants to see the Governor, so the Governor is busy as hell. If you have any grievances, we will discuss them in a few days. Recently, we have distinguished guests in Jinzhou City. If you bump into the distinguished guest, the Governor will skin you!"

The vicious soldier hit the kneeling old man with a stick.

The reason why I didn't use a stick to greet Shunzi just now was entirely because of his military uniform. Otherwise, he would definitely be beaten.

Li Xiao frowned. This Jinzhou city looks prosperous, but Wang Tong's official position is similar to that of Datong. After all, they are still bureaucrats who grew up in the Ming Dynasty. They don't care about the demands of the people, but are more concerned with Shangguan.

Face. In Wang Tong's opinion, welcoming Marshal Li is far more important than receiving a few petitioners.

He pushed Li Hao and signaled Li Hao to reveal his identity.

Li Hao flashed his badge in front of the guard, and the guard who looked fierce just now turned into a husky. He nodded and bowed to Li Hao, almost kneeling down and sticking out his tongue. Li Xiao sighed, it's really no matter who leads the soldiers.

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"Where's your governor?" The old man with grievances can't see Wang Tong, and Fourth Master Li has no problem. Usually, when Li Hao shows his identity, Wang Tong will personally greet him. When it comes to the commander's youngest brother, Wang Tong

Tongda spent 12% of his energy to please.

"If you go back to me, the governor left the city early in the morning. I really don't know where he went!"

"Have someone ask Wang Tong to come back." Li Xiao helped the old man who had just been beaten and gave instructions while reaching out to pat the dust off the old man's clothes.

Seeing the guard stunned, Li Hao kicked the guard: "Didn't you listen to my brother? Find someone to bring Wang Tong back to me."

"Oh! Oh!" The guard was kicked twice and immediately ran into the governor's office.

Not long after, a guy wearing a sixth-grade official uniform came out. When he saw Li Hao, he cupped his hands and said, "I have met the fourth master! My family heard that the marshal was coming to Liaodong, so he has been waiting on the official road early these days.

You want to see my master, this...!"

When this guy saw Li Xiao, his legs trembled with fear and he almost knelt on the ground.

With quick hands and eyes, Li Hao picked up this guy and said, "Send someone to get Wang Tong back quickly."

"No!" This guy suddenly became energetic and kicked a guard: "Why don't you let me lead the horse?"

"No!" The guard hurriedly went to the Yamen and brought a horse out. The guy got on his horse and whipped it to deliver a message to Wang Tong.

"Sir, you have to let the old man make the decision." When the old man saw that the official saw Li Xiao, he looked like a mouse seeing a cat, and immediately knelt down to Li Xiao.

"Old man, please get up. If anything happens, let's sit here and talk." Li Xiao helped the old man to the edge of the dismounting stone, and pushed the old man to sit down on the dismounting stone.

"What grievance do you have?"

"Sir, my home is about to be demolished by the evil government. My old house is more than 80 years old, and this is the ancestral home. They demolished it at their request. My son went to argue with them, but the result was that

I was also beaten up by the officers in the government office. I have been to the governor's office several times and I haven't seen the governor yet. Why should I ask him to make the decision for me?" As he said this, the old man knelt down again.

Li Xiao was confused. He didn't expect that there would be a demolition problem in these years.

It's also Li Xiao's own fault. In order to raise military expenses, he launched the real estate development project and made a lot of money from the Tsinghua Garden project in the capital. Wang Tong, who has money in his head, will naturally follow suit.

, followed him to engage in real estate development. Now that something happened, he actually left it alone.

"Please tell me what happened, so that I can give you justice when I see Wang Tong!"

"Our West City is the oldest part of Jinzhou City. When the Tatars attacked Jinzhou City, many houses in the South City, North City, and East City were destroyed and abandoned. Only our houses in the West City, most of them were preserved.

So when Jinzhou was established, there were newly built houses in the north, south, east, and west. Only our west city was full of old houses. My house was passed down from my great-grandfather’s generation, and it was the ancestral house. Last year, the official family came

People said they were going to demolish my house for some renovation.

They also asked my family to move to a newly built building outside the city. I am old and have stayed in my ancestral home all my life. I don’t want to move at all. So I discussed it with the officials. My home had a land title.

of.

Unexpectedly, the officials said that the imperial court had issued a new decree. All the land in the Ming Dynasty belonged to the imperial court, and there was no such thing as a title deed from now on. The imperial court wanted to demolish my house and build a big building, so it would allocate me a house outside the city, and also give me a house outside the city.

I will be compensated with two hundred taels of silver.

But this land is the old man’s ancestral home. The land deed is here and there, and the government can’t force the old man to buy a house. Isn’t this a plunder?

Because of this, the little old man complained. No one listened to his complaint. Yesterday, the policeman sent an ultimatum, giving my family three days to move. My son and grandson argued with them, but they were beaten by the policeman.

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The little old man just came to the governor's Yamen to file a complaint. He doesn't believe that there is no room for reasoning in this world." The old man felt aggrieved and told the reason why he was bullied.

Li Xiao felt dizzy after hearing this. Logically speaking, Wang Tong did a pretty good job.

"They didn't ask you, what are your conditions?"

"The officers asked me what conditions I could put forward. I said, little old man, that the condition is that I live in the yard of an old house in the city. I can raise chickens, grow vegetables, and live a leisurely life."

The old man looked at Li Xiao, his eyes full of hope.

Raising chickens and growing vegetables in the city? Do you want to live a pastoral life in the city? Li Xiao is now beginning to sympathize with Wang Tong. Meeting such an old guy is really unfortunate in the demolition work.

Elderly people of this age are generally stubborn. They don't like to live in matchbox-style buildings. They prefer to live in the environment where they grew up and live a life that has not seen troubles in a hundred years. If possible, they hope that their grandchildren will

, grandson’s grandson all live such a life.

"Sir, Mr. Qingtian...!" Seeing Li Xiao's wandering eyes, the old man became excited again.
Chapter completed!