When did the encounters in life change?

Yang Zhaolong sat on a wooden chair holding a letter and looked at the long coastline. He stepped on a thin piece of silk under his barefoot. The dark-patterned thin cotton blanket draped on his body was blown on the beach and flew into the distance with the sea breeze.

He turned his head and looked at Li Hualong, who was wearing an imperial bullfighting suit, and said, "The southeast is much better than the north, right?"

Li Hualong didn't say anything. Although the food plate in front of the two was filled with huge lobsters and fine wines transported from the middle school, neither of them was interested in eating.

After waiting for a while, Li Hualong spoke, saying with a little conscience: "There is iron ore in the north."

Yang Zhaolong stayed in the north for a long time but did not find the mine. But as soon as he took his fleet to travel around the island, Li Hualong found iron ore in the desert in the northern part of Xinming. He searched more and more, and found huge veins. He used the official documents he sent to the emperor, so that tens of thousands of people could dig for ten thousand years.

It is precisely because of this official document that Li Hualong wore a bullfighting uniform this year and almost rose to the forefront by the emperor to be the governor of Xinming, in charge of Xinming affairs.

As the mine was discovered, Xinming also officially became an independent administrative unit under the Ming Dynasty from a small area that only appeared in the world map.

"There is a mine, but do you think that can support 100,000 people?"

It would be fine if Li Hualong mentioned the mine. When Yang Zhaolong mentioned the mine, he suddenly changed his face. The letter in his palm was photographed on the desk. He raised his hand and almost pointed at Li Hualong's nose and shouted: "You are too unfair to treat me as a Bozhou native!"

The letter was sent by Yang Yinglong from Bozhou. Two letters were written in October last year and one was written in January this year. Due to the delay of the typhoon on the northern coast of Xinming in February, they were delivered to Yang Zhaolong.

Just three months apart, Yang Yinglong's tone of the two letters was very different.

The first letter was very happy. I wrote about the messy things at home, such as the southwest's trade routes were farther away. The Yang family could turn their business from Myanmar to Yangzhou, along with sea and land, and get 200 good materials for building palaces in a year, and all of them went to Beijing.

When the emperor was happy, he was awarded the title of General of the Second-rank Cavalry.

The second letter was a scolding. The emperor's edict arrived in Bozhou and wanted to grant Yang Yinglong a new official position. According to the area of ​​Bozhou, he was allowed to lead Bozhou's army of 4,000,000, and his family members of 8,000, and his family members of the army were transferred to Xinming to be the greatest governor of Xuanfu.

Moreover, he was a good deal, saying that the emperor favored the loyalty of the Yang family the most. As long as Yang Yinglong agreed, the local officials and royal families behind him would be enfeoffed.

Other local officials congratulate Yang and are still jealous.

Others don’t know what happened in Xinmingzhou, but Yang Yinglong knows it very well, but the land in the jurisdiction is expanding ten times sounds good, but the green space in the north of Xinming is at most forty miles, and the rest is desert. The emperor asked him to take 30,000 people to sea, but he could not support it, and no one could support it.

The seven hundred years of clan foundation is about to disappear in the blink of an eye. Yang Yinglong thought that his younger brother in Xinmingzhou said something shady in his letter to the emperor, because this is not the first time Yang Yinglong heard this idea - this was what his brother-in-law Chen Mu thought before.

But it's not Xinming.

Yang Zhaolong felt very wronged. He didn't know anything. He didn't finish sailing around the island. After passing the rainforest in the northeast to the coast that is suitable for survival in the south, he immediately decided not to leave. He built a house and built a port here. The shrimp soldiers and crab generals felt comfortable eating all day, but the elder brother wrote a letter to scold him.

"I don't owe you any more. If you have any, Yang went to sea for half a year and would draw a picture to send you whenever he went there - you don't remember me, so don't have to do this, right?"

Li Hualong felt guilty at first, but when he heard Yang Zhaolong talk about his personal kindness, he didn't feel guilty and bowed to the north: "It is the right way to change the chieftains from all over the country to return to the land, sooner or later, now is the best opportunity. Will the chieftain go to sea or the chieftain, and the Yang family go to sea or the Yang family? Where can I find such a good thing?"

"This matter is beneficial to the country, and it is definitely not a bad thing for you, Yang. You might as well think about the better."

Li Hualong's expression was a little slow, and he instructed him smoothly: "This is clearly a change of land and return to the current situation. However, some people in the court said that the emperor was opening up the territory. You said that if you are not a person in the Bozhou people, you are a person in the lower court, but if you are a person in the court, you do not regard you as a citizen of the Ming Dynasty."

"There are too few interactions between the local officials and the court. Now your Majesty is magnanimous. What if your descendants meet His Majesty who is not so magnanimous in the future? If you don't give anything to an edict, you will be reborn as an official, so what can you do?"

Li Hualong looked at Yang Zhaolong with a look of 'Can you still have to thank you', and nodded without hesitation, and said, "The land is still there. Although Bozhou is not rich, there are still mines, not to mention that the court has other rewards."

When Yang Zhaolong heard the favor, he leaned behind the chair and curled his lips. The Ming Dynasty had only been established for 200 years. Their Yang family has been in Bozhou for 700 years. They have received countless favors from military service and tribute from generation to generation. If you want to say that the prince's mansion is not as good as theirs, what do they lack?

Nothing is missing.

What is the meaning of reward?

Li Hualong took Yang Zhaolong's expression in his eyes and chuckled, "Your brothers are both overseas. When your brother has successors, Your Majesty will allow two eldest sons of Yang to enter the imperial examination and one branch to return to the domestic official position. When the second son has his next son, he will still allow the eldest son to enter the imperial examination and stay in the capital. The Yang family will be divided into four branches in your next generation."

Yang Zhaolong's understatement paused, and it took him a long time to react from his mind what this means.

It means... Yang is still a local official, but he is not a local official anymore.

Local officials are despised by local officials, which is something that no matter who local officials are, especially Yang, who is just a wallet in the eyes of the Sichuan Provincial Government. Everyone wants to make a mistake when they come, but they still dare not take any action against others.

But if someone is still willing to be a local official, which official can be as rich as a chieftain and has the power to be as powerful as a chieftain?

It’s just that power and wealth are brought down.

But with the emperor's kindness, everything will be different. In the future, the Yang family will be divided into four branches, two overseas inherited chieftains, and two domestic imperial examinations.

He has the confidence to stand and the power and wealth of the chieftain.

"I know what you are worried about. You don't care about the Yang family's transfer of overseas orders, but you care about why it is not in the northeast of Xinming or the southeast of Xinming. The mountains and forests in the northeast are similar to Bozhou, and the situation in the southeast is better, but I plan to set up an office in the southeast, and the northeast will be meaningless for a while."

"Your Majesty, do you really say that?" Yang Zhaolong ignored Li Zhaolong's pretentious understanding and waved his hand and said, "Four branches of the Yang family in the future?"

"You go and ask yourself." Li Hualong said to Yang Zhaolong: "I came here not only to send you a letter. Your Majesty summons you to Beijing and listen to you what Xinmingzhou is like."

Until Li Hualong finished saying this, Yang Zhaolong was still thinking about... Why are there four branches?
Chapter completed!