In the early morning, the Governor's Mansion was shrouded in flames. The fire was so powerful that people dozens of meters away could not approach it. Li Xiao had no choice but to watch the fire burning.

After the fire, there were countless charred corpses, and it was unclear which one was Yang He and which one was Yang He's son.

The burning was not complete, except for the human form, which looked like a ghost. There was no other way, so Li Xiao could only order to dig a big pit and burn it again. It was burned completely, and the ashes were sprinkled into the Pearl River, completely crushing the bones and scattering ashes.

The city of Guangzhou was handed over to Li Dingguo, and Fu Ren'an, the prefect of Guangzhou, ran out of the city with his family on the first night of Yang He's rebellion.

"Commander! I am really not Yang He's party. I really wanted to send someone to report to you that night. But... I really couldn't make it, so I could only hide in the countryside with my family. I

The Jinshi in the third year of Tianqi was chosen by Mr. Sun as a lower official. Just ask Mr. Sun and you will know. The lower official dare not lie." Fu Ren'an knelt at Li Xiao's feet, crying like a baby in confinement.

Li Xiao nodded. When discussing with Sun Chengzong, he mentioned Fu Ren'an. He was indeed Sun Chengzong's student. The prefect of Guangzhou was recommended by Sun Chengzong back then.

"If there is no new decree, you are still the prefect of Guangzhou. Now you are accompanying Li Dingguo into the city to calm the people, and you must restore social order and public security in Guangzhou as soon as possible. If there is trouble, you will be dealt with strictly according to the Ming Law." Li Xiao had no choice.

Move to Ren'an.

What Guangzhou City needs most now is to restore social order. Fu Ren'an has been the prefect of Guangzhou for three years and is relatively familiar with the situation in Guangzhou City. Now that he is helping Li Dingguo, I believe that Guangzhou's social order will be restored soon. As for the entire Guangdong

Province, it will require subsequent deployment of garrison troops and the arrival of officials rearranged by Sun Chengzong before proceeding.

"No! Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for your great kindness!" Fu Ren'an was so excited that he didn't expect that Li Xiao would let him go. As an official in Guangzhou, he really couldn't do it without hooking up with Yang He. He

Fu Ren'an's butt is not clean either. I didn't expect that Li Xiao would offend him.

While I was grateful to Li Xiao, I was also glad that my master was Sun Chengzong. Without this giant Buddha, I might have been thrown into a pit and burned.

After Fu Ren'an retreated, Li Xiao said to Sun Xing behind him: "Order Nie Dayong to march into Guangxi and control the entire territory of Guangxi as soon as possible. At the same time, we must pay attention to the fact that there are many Han and barbarians in Guangxi, and the situation is very complicated. We must use force,

We also need to be gentle and gentle, and we can’t just hit and kill.”

"promise!"

"Tell Deng Yongchang to set sail and let's return to Beijing!"

Killing Yang He in this battle can be regarded as eliminating the biggest hidden danger of the Ming Dynasty. The remaining people, such as Mu Tianbo from Yunnan and Jin Changyuan from Guizhou, should know what to do if an order is issued. If they dare to refuse the order of the imperial court, Yang He will do it.

example.

Walk along the coastline and inspect along the way.

To be honest, the development of Guangzhou Port is really unflattering. Because of Yang He's relationship, it was impossible for Guangzhou Port to invest money in transforming the imperial court. And a considerable part of Yang He's money was entrusted to others to find connections and bought a big eight-pellet rifle at a high price.

This has led to the renovation of Guangzhou Port being stalled due to lack of funds!

Quanzhou Port is different. The starting point of the Maritime Silk Road has now completely turned into a military port. There is no way, the status of Fujian's largest maritime trade port was taken away by Fuzhou. Farther away is Huating Port, which will be a port in later generations.

A more magical name - Shanghai.

Because Li Xiao started his career in the north, Liaodong became the heavy industry base of the Ming Dynasty. Shandong became the light industry base of the Ming Dynasty. There are many factories in these two provinces. Everything produced is docked at Huating Port, Fuzhou Port, and Guangzhou Port for domestic sales.

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For export, it is directly loaded onto ships and transported directly to Singapore along the coastline across the South China Sea.

The commercial center of the Ming Dynasty has been in the south of the Yangtze River for more than 200 years, but now it is completely reversed. The commercial centers are now concentrated in several important port towns in the north! Ports such as Lushun, Gaizhou, Jinzhou, Tianjin, Yantai, and Qingdao have a large number of people visiting them every day.

Merchant ships set sail.

After replenishing supplies in Quanzhou, Li Xiao went north along the coastline. The further north you go, the more ships there are on the sea. Most of them are sailing ships. These are ships for domestic trade. Because it is cheap to go along the coastline, there are still many ships.

Big market.

However, there are also many motor-driven sailing ships. These ships can also be used for domestic trade, but their speed is much faster, and their tonnage is large and they can carry a lot of cargo. They are obviously meant to replace sailing ships!

Occasionally, you can see large steam engine cargo ships. These cargo ships are not much different from the cargo ships of later generations, except that they have a few huge chimneys on the hull. Generally, such ships carry six or eight boilers and are responsible for ocean voyages.

Task.

Lushun Shipyard and Qingdao Shipyard are both factories specializing in the production of warships. In addition, Yantai Shipyard, Tianjin Shipyard, and Jinzhou Shipyard are all producing this kind of steel steam engine ships.

This kind of ship has a large cargo capacity, long range and fast speed. It is simply the favorite of those maritime merchants. Many maritime merchants rely on people to find connections to get a production order. As for the maritime merchants of Japan and North Korea who want to order, I think

Don't even think about it. I can't even get orders from Ming Dynasty, so I won't have time to build ships for you.

These shipyards have only been under construction for two years, and there are already more than a dozen smoking ships sailing on the sea. It is estimated that in a few years, 10,000-ton ships will appear.

The further north you go, the higher the degree of industrialization. Qingdao Port even has a power plant. At night, the lights are bright, and the shipyard is busy. Orders for naval warships have never been interrupted. Qingdao Shipyard and Lushun Shipyard are at full capacity.

The order could not be completed either. The person in charge of building warships at the Ministry of Industry was urged by Li Xiu to the point where he almost hanged himself. Finally, Li Xiao intervened and the situation was settled.

After eating seafood and visiting various ports along the coast, Li Xiao finally returned to Tianjin Port in October. When he left, the leaves had just sprouted, and when he came back, the water in the Haihe River was already cold.

Tianjin Port has completely transformed into a modern port, with wide docks, giant cranes, busy dock workers, and mountains of cargo waiting to be transported.

The battleship docked on the pier, and Li Xiao saw Li Lin and Xiaoyu standing in the autumn wind from a distance.

After not seeing each other for more than half a year, Li Lin has grown taller again. He greeted Li Xiao like a grown-up and said something like: "Dad, it's hard work." When you hear it, it's like an adult taught him!

Xiaoyu is becoming more and more beautiful, and her pretty face looks fairer under the bright red woolen windbreaker. She also seems to be a little taller, and when she looks down, she realizes that someone actually tinkered with high-heeled shoes.

She has a crocodile leather bag on her arm and cowhide high heels on her feet. She is wearing a bright red woolen windbreaker and a pair of sunglasses on her face. If you don't look at her hair style, she looks like an urban white-collar beauty.

"A gift for you!" Li Xiao smiled and took a large macaw from Sun Xing's hand.

"Thank you, Daddy!" When he saw the gift, Li Lin's little face smiled so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes. Little people just can't see these little animals. What kind of cats! Dogs!

Of course, the Li family is now a wealthy family. A wealthy family must also pay attention to big pets! Especially with an uncle like Li Hu, the family has tigers, leopards, golden eagles, sea green eagles, and all these things. It is enough to open a zoo.

In the end, Li Xiao had no choice but to take these things to Tongzhou Zoo. If Li Lin wanted to see them, he could only go to the zoo to see them.

From now on, if you keep pets at home, you can only keep these small ones, which will not hurt people. Otherwise, the backyard of Li’s house is full of women and children, and if one or two are taken away, they will be in trouble.

Seeing the parrot, Xiaoyu felt a little sad. She remembered that in Liaoyang City, her brother gritted his teeth and bought him a parrot named Xiaobai. Unfortunately, it was later captured by the Tatar Haidongqing.

Now when I see a parrot and think about a parrot, I will naturally feel sad.

"It's for you!" He took Xiaoyu's hand and stuffed a bag of gems into it.

The specialty of Ceylon Island is gemstones, and they are big gemstones. Thinking that there are many female relatives at home, Li Xiao brought back many. In the bag given to Xiaoyu, there is a huge sapphire, known as the Heart of the Ocean, which is said to be valuable

Liancheng.

Li Xiao doesn't care much about this kind of thing. He prefers pure crystal to gemstones. The glass made in Ming Dynasty still has poor craftsmanship and often has large bubbles.

Although it does not affect the manufacture of handicrafts such as mirrors, the manufacturing of sniper scopes is a bit poor. There is no other way but to use natural transparent crystals to grind and make them. Not only is it labor-intensive and time-consuming, but the cost is also high.

Jinzhou Sniper School has trained a large number of snipers, but unfortunately there are not enough sniper rifles. Many young men can only carry big eight pills and use them as sniper rifles.

"Thank you, brother!" Sure enough, women still like these sparkling stones. Xiaoyu rarely thanked Li Xiao. Although the expression on her face was still a little unnatural, it was already a great improvement.

Since the incident with Xiaoyu, the child has been very depressed for a while. Now she finally behaves like a normal girl, knows how to dress up, and knows how to like gems. This is a gratifying progress.

After waving to the officials, Li Xiao took Li Lin and Xiaoyu into the carriage.

A large number of cavalry escorted the carriage all the way to Tianjin Railway Station to board the train. In the special train compartment, Li Lin pestered his father to play backgammon. Li Xiao believed that he was a master of backgammon, so naturally he was not afraid of his son.

I didn't know, and I was shocked. Li Xiao was actually killed by his son without being able to fight back, which surprised Li Xiao.

"Haha! My sister-in-law is a master of backgammon, and she has been training Lin'er a lot these days. I didn't expect that you are no match for me, brother." Xiaoyu clapped her hands aside, watching Li Xiao being tortured by her son.

Along the way from Tianjin to Tongzhou, Li Xiao never won a game. When he got off the bus, Li Lin was very proud, but Li Xiao was dejected. Tonight, I have to ask Tokugawa Senhime for advice.

At Tongzhou Railway Station, there was naturally a large group of fawning officials waiting in the autumn wind. Li Xiao waved to everyone, then boarded the carriage and went straight to his mansion. After leaving home, he spent most of the year floating on the sea, and he was the one scratching the wall.

At this time, who wants to deal with you guys?

Naturally, when I got home, I closed the door and had a big meal with the whole family. If I dared to do something indescribable, I would see if I could make Tokugawa Chihime's belly bigger. Li Lin was a child and seemed a little lonely.

(Five thousand words are skipped here...!)

After resting at home for three days, Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan came hand in hand.

"What? Are you avoiding Mr. Sun and me?" Zhang Huangyan had nothing nice to say when he came in.

"Ceylon Island was beaten like that. Naturally, he didn't want to admit his mistake to us. He said at the beginning that he would not use the Ming army. But in the end, he still sent Yuan Chonghuan overseas. Commander! This military expenditure has not been paid yet. This year's

The military budget has been overrun again." Sun Chengzong rarely saw Li Xiao's jokes and stood by the side singing and chatting with Zhang Huangyan.

Li Xiao gritted his teeth and pretended not to hear. "Shunzi! Serve tea to Mr. Sun and Mr. Zhang."

Shunzi quickly brought over two cups of tea, and the two old foxes laughed while taking a sip of tea.

This is not in line with the rules of the world. The tea served in official circles is actually a decoration. When one party wants to end the conversation, he will pick up the tea cup and take a sip. At this time, the entourage around him will shout, "Bring tea to see the guests off!"

The guests have to say goodbye!

But these two people never had such rules when they came to the Li family.

Not only did he drink a lot at Li's house, but he also sometimes took it from Li's house.

There are only a little more than one acre of tea trees in Shifeng Peak on the edge of the West Lake. The tea produced in a year is divided among three families, and each family only has two or three kilograms.

Li Xiao is not at home all the year round, so he naturally drinks less. These two shameless old foxes, when they come to Li's house and ask for Shifeng Longjing by name, not only do they drink it well, but they also have to drink it in a timely manner.

Li Xiao knew that these two old guys wanted to embarrass him. At first, he insisted on fighting this battle for Li Hu. But now, the loss of troops and the cost of the battle were huge. Li Xiao dug a big hole in the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts.

, money is needed to make up for it.

"I made a mistake in this battle!" Li Xiao sighed helplessly. If he made a mistake, he would be considered a bachelor.

"Oh! It's rare!" The two old foxes looked at each other.

"First, I should not pamper Li Hu and confuse state affairs with family affairs. Second, I should not plan properly and underestimate the enemy. Third... I should not use Japanese people."

"Oh! The Japanese were used incorrectly. They are disadvantaged in battle?" The two old guys heard the third sentence and turned their heads to look at each other again.

"No! They fought very bravely, even braver than our Ming Dynasty field army." Li Xiao recalled the bravery of the Japanese army and couldn't help but shook his head.

"That's...!" The two old foxes were even more confused.

"It is precisely because they are so brave that I realize that I have hired the wrong people. The army is not a good boy, it needs iron and blood experience. The more tempered the troops are, the better they can fight.

After this battle, I saw the ferocity of the Japanese army. On the other hand, the Second Division was very arrogant before facing the enemy. If there was a slight setback in the battle, it would hesitate to move forward in fear of the enemy.

Good soldiers are made from fighting. I have protected them all these years for fear that they will cause a lot of casualties. This is wrong! I don’t want one day when the Japanese army is more powerful than the Ming army. At that time, our descendants will have enough.

Their suffering.”
Chapter completed!