Destiny Only Han

Chapter 603 Liu Ying: Large quantity and full control!
Bashang Wharf.

A steamboat spouting thick white smoke went upstream and slowly docked at the pier. Dozens of boatmen methodically tossed and tied the cables to fix a series of flat-bottomed barges behind the steamboat to the pier.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of laborers approached with cranes and flatbed trucks, and began to load and unload goods in cooperation.

Looking at the orderly scene in front of her, Liu Ying put her hands on her waist, raised her face, and proudly showed off to Liu Bang and Xiao He beside her:
"How is it? It was agreed that order would be restored within ten days, and it only took nine days. It's amazing!"

But no one responded to him, Xiao He turned his face to the left, and Liu Bang turned his face to the right, looking around to himself.

Well, Liu Bang didn't bother to talk to Liu Ying because he had already remembered the name Zhidu, and now looking at the messy wharf some time ago, it became orderly in such a short period of time, and he regretted it even more.

In Liu Bang's view, if he hadn't been lazy and went back to the palace to sleep, a capable minister like Zhidu would definitely not be able to escape his eyes!
As for Xiao He's displeasure at this time, it is easier to understand.

He has already found someone to investigate. This person named Zhidu is a Legalist, not only Zhidu, but Zhidu's whole family is a Legalist...

Thinking of him, a student taught by Huang Lao, who actually valued the Legalists, Xiao He felt his head buzzing...

Amid Liu Ying's complacency, Liu Bang looked at Zhidu, who was bending over and bowing his head, and asked softly, "Tell me about how you turned the messy pier into what it is now?"

Zhidu stepped forward and replied: "The crown prince said that extraordinary methods should be used in extraordinary times, and this is what I do. You only need to kill a few traitors who are in charge, and the rest will not dare to confront the government anymore." .”

Liu Bang was stunned for a moment, and nodded insincerely: "Okay, very good...you go down, the prince and I will go back to the palace after wandering around."

Looking at the back of Zhidu going away, Liu Ying shook her head invisibly. That sentence of treacherous people can be regarded as poking at Liu Bang's lungs. Blood spattered three feet...

So Liu Ying began to forcibly adjust the atmosphere of the scene. He pointed to the goods being unloaded from the ship: "Father, do you know what those are?"

Liu Bang squinted at him, shook his head and said nothing.

Liu Ying then cast her eyes on Xiao He: "Teacher, what about you?"

"The food brought from Kanto, I just don't know if it's rice or wheat..." Xiao He glanced at it for a while, then shook his head and said, "I'm old, I'm tired after standing for a while... let's go, find a place to sit Say."

Liu Bang naturally had nothing to do, and Liu Ying walked over like a dog, and helped Xiao He to a tea stand on the side of the pier that he had specially ordered to keep.

"Old rules, a pot of rough tea, two plates of jujube cake!"

"okay!"

The store owner responded loudly, and began to prepare the ingredients with a smile on his face.

Now, he already knows that no one dares to collect protection fees in his small shop, and the reason for bothering him is because the current crown prince likes the jujube cakes he made, but Liu Ying didn't identify himself, so he just Pretend not to know.

Liu Ying picked up the jujube cake, looked at Liu Bang and said:

"The teacher said that the grain comes from Kanto, but it's not true! These grains are all autumn grains shipped from the Nichinan Governor's Mansion, and they are cooked three times a year!"

"I won't eat it. It has a strange smell..." Liu Bang waved his hand and refused, but seeing the bewilderment in Liu Ying's eyes who stuffed the jujube cake into her mouth, he hurriedly changed his words: "The rice cooked three times a year is steamed. It’s soft when it comes out, it’s not as good as the rice in Guanzhong, which tastes chewy..."

Liu Ying swallowed the jujube cake in her mouth, pretending not to know Liu Bang's embarrassment just now, shook her head and said:
"It wasn't meant for my parents... Although this kind of rice doesn't taste good, it's better because it's produced in large quantities and it's cheap. So I always transport it here, mix it with local rice, and sell it..."

Xiao He frowned: "Isn't this shoddy?"

"I'm not, I didn't, even my teacher would sue you for slander..." After denying the three times, Liu Ying explained: "The premise of shoddy is to sell bad things as good ones. , this is a fraudulent act!"

"But I sell good rice and poor rice together, and the price is much lower than that of pure good rice. For example, the rice has just been harvested, and the current season rice in the grain store costs 150 yuan a stone, but I sell this kind of mixed rice. The ones are only sold for one hundred yuan and one stone, and you can get a discount if you buy two stones at once..."

"After all, not everyone doesn't care about the price. Although the taste of the rice mixed with good or bad is not good, the price is low. With the same daily food expenses, you can eat half a bowl of rice more!"

Xiao He nodded, stretched out his hand and touched Liu Ying's head like before, with a kind face.

Liu Bang has always maintained his identity as a strict father in front of others, so he just asked with a smile on his face: "This is why you poked Liu Xin to the south of Lingnan?"

Liu Ying nodded: "Well, as the saying goes, meat eaters are contemptible. If he is not allowed to make some achievements, how can he not contemptuously eat meat?"

For a moment, Liu Bang was stunned and speechless, and Xiao He's hand touching Liu Ying's head suddenly felt an urge to move downwards, wanting to cut off his neck...

So he trembled his lips, and the beard under his chin moved without any wind: "Meat eater despise, is this the interpretation of this sentence?"

Liu Ying shook her head indifferently: "Never mind him, anyway, that's what I meant. As a family member of the Liu surname, he has to be in a high position despite his insignificant achievements. I'm not ashamed! Oh, take it easy, it hurts, it hurts. , Teacher, I was wrong..."

Liu Bang squeezed his chin, and what came to mind was his second elder brother who had been stuck in Xinfeng City, Dai Wang Liu Xi...

Well, the main force of Wu Chu Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, Chu State and Wu State are actually the two clans that have the least reason to fight for the throne. After all, Liu Bang's descendants have not been cut off, so their failure was doomed from the beginning.

Amidst Liu Ying's begging for mercy, Xiao He let go of his braids, and just reprimanded him: "It's not like you don't want to understand well when you study well! Starting tomorrow, the time to attend lectures at Teacher Wei's place will be extended by an hour!"

In an instant, Liu Ying only felt that the sky was getting dark, and the jujube cake in her mouth was no longer tasty.

However, he looked up at Xiao He's wrinkled face, and decided to come to the door on time and listen to the class carefully.

After all, only he knows that in the original history, Xiao He will die this autumn, but the current historical line has changed under the disturbance of his butterfly. These old guys are all in good health, why not eat? Fragrance, so this kind of frequent reminder is not actually a kind of pain.

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Nichinan Governor's Mansion, Red River Delta.

Although autumn has entered Guanzhong, the sun is still scorching hot here. Liu Xin, who was not white in the past, has become darker and darker now, and his skin color is no different from that of the local aborigines.

As more and more buffaloes were raised in Yuzhang County and the three Lingnan counties, with the support of ox farming and new plows, the Red River Delta became a more superior granary than the Guanzhong Plain and Shuzhong Plain.

Although less than half of the current Red River Delta has been developed, the total grain output is already comparable to that of the Guanzhong Plain.

After all, the land here has not been reclaimed by humans for thousands of years. The soil is so fertile that a handful of seeds can be sprinkled almost casually. After two months, the yield per mu is not even inferior to that of the Central Plains, and even the Guanzhong Plain has built a large number of irrigation canals!

Well, one of the reasons for the low yield per mu in Guanzhong is that the land there has been reclaimed by the Zhou people since the end of the Xia Dynasty, and the fertility of the soil has long been consumed.

Today's yield of nearly three stones per mu is mainly due to the large amount of compost and the use of new plows, which can turn up the deeper soil... well, it is to get the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other elements deposited deep underground to the surface for the plants. absorb.

On the pier in the estuary delta, Liu Xin wiped the Hanshui from his forehead, and laughed loudly as he watched the last big ship loaded with grain sail out of the pier and head for the sea.

This is a real achievement!

And the confidence to sell the second round of development bonds!
At the beginning, he questioned the big cake that Liu Ying drew for him, and he came to this wild place only out of helplessness.

But now his mentality has completely changed. If possible, he even wants to be crowned king in the future, the fief will be here instead of in the Central Plains!

This has nothing to do with the fact that he took in seventeen concubines and gave birth to more than a dozen children with different skin colors...

Liu Xin is nostalgic for the fact that he built this place with his own hands, and every fertile field is stained with his sweat...

Well, not really, the main thing is the blood of Yue people...

Land reclamation in the north requires a lot of financial resources or manpower, and this kind of place is extremely hot all year round. If you want to cut down trees, drain swamps, and open up wasteland for farming, you need to invest not only financial and material resources, but also human life!
It is no exaggeration to say that almost every thousand-acre plantation has buried the corpses of at least twenty slaves!

The golden rice is watered with blood!

But it makes sense.

If the Han people want to eat well and eat well, the Yue people have to pay a certain price, after all, they are the conquered.

So Liu Xin turned and left from the pier, and joined those veterans who had been hired with high salaries from the Han Dynasty, and farther away, there were many shirtless and barefoot servants of the Yue people.

What they have to do now is to hunt in autumn.

Those who hunt are not animals, but people, hiding in the surrounding forests, watching the Yue people who are about to come to grab food.

Well, this is why Liu Xin hastily transported the excess grain away after the grain was harvested, not only because the slaves don’t need to eat too much and it’s good, the most important thing is to prevent the Yue people in the mountains from grabbing the grain!

Most of the Yue people here are in the ignorant and uncivilized stage, and all the materials are collected from the mountains and forests, so they don't have the concept that the food planted by others belongs to others and cannot be eaten directly.

Therefore, the only thing that can instill correct ideas in them is the sword!
(End of this chapter)