A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 937 New World

"Congratulations to the Prime Minister, mother and son are safe."

Po Wen opened the door and came out, announcing the good news to Wu Huaiyu with a smile on her face.

"reward!"

Po Wen, who received a bunch of reward money, smiled even brighter and kept saying good things, "Twenty-year-old man is white and fat, the sky is full and the earth is round, he looks like a born noble..."

What Po Wen said was correct. Wu Erlang was reborn in the Wu family, which means he was born in Rome. Even if his mother was a concubine, he, a bastard, would have no shortage of wealth in his life.

On Ludao Island, Wu Huaiyu entered the delivery room. Dong Asang was sweating, but when he saw Wu Huaiyu, he was smiling. Although the birth almost cost him half his life, after such long labor pains, he finally saw the child who was ten months pregnant. , everything is worth it,

"My son looks like my husband, especially his eyes." Asang said, holding the child in his hands.

Wu Huaiyu stepped forward to take the baby. The boy cried loudly when he was born, and he actually fell asleep now.

The black hair is quite long on the top of the head. With his eyes closed, his eyebrows really look like Wu Huaiyu.

"Let him sleep for a while first, and when he wakes up, let him try to nurse. It doesn't matter if you don't have breast milk yet. Let him suck first. After one or two sucks, he will get it."

"Thank you for your hard work. I've stewed astragalus soup for you. You can drink some."

Wu Huaiyu's stewed medicinal food not only replenished qi and blood, but also tasted very good. Asang happily ate a big bowl of it.

Thousands of catties of ginseng, ten thousand catties of ginseng, are not as good as one purple ginseng on the Purple Tuan Mountain in Huguan.

Those wet nurses are all breastfeeding their children. Their bulging breasts are so full of milk that their own children can't finish them all. They can be called cows.

Ginseng comes out of Shangdang, and its appearance is good, and the purple ginseng from Huguan is the most expensive.

"It doesn't matter,"

Even if you don’t have one, don’t be afraid. After all, we’ve already prepared a wet nurse.

Asang's delivery of the first child was relatively smooth. The amniotic fluid broke and the pain lasted for more than an hour. With the help of Wen Po and the midwifery maid, the baby was delivered smoothly. The baby was in the right position and the baby was born quickly. The baby was not held in. There were no tears or postpartum bleeding.

"No, I'll hold you for a while first,"

It's quite cute to see her panicking.

"You should take a nap first,"

Asang looked at the ginseng soup that his husband had stewed himself, and felt very warm in his heart.

"Then my husband will let me sleep with my concubine."

The two were talking softly, and then Chengsi's voice came from outside, "Aye, Aunt Sang, can I come and see my brother?"

"Xiao Lang wants to drink milk. Can I drink this soup?"

He was born on Ludao,
There are many egrets on the island during this season.
"Chenglu, this name is very good, I like it very much."

"Let me feed you. This soup replenishes qi and blood, strengthens the spleen and stomach, and is very suitable for pregnant women."

This soup was made by Wu Huaiyu himself. He used astragalus, Shangdang ginseng, angelica, and an old hen and simmered it for a long time.
That branch of Shangdang ginseng was a Dragon Boat Festival reward from the emperor. It was sent along with the flying white fan written by the emperor. It was also the human-like purple group ginseng produced in Huguan. This was the best of the Shangdang ginseng, a tribute.

Asang became a mother for the first time, and suddenly she didn't know what to do. "Should I breastfeed the child? Will he be hungry? Should I wake him up? But I seem to have no milk now..."

"How about naming the child Chenglu? The nickname will be White Bird." Wu Huaiyu picked up the name while holding his sleeping little son.

"Come in, keep your voice down, my brother is sleeping."

Wu Chengsi opened the door gently and came in. He said hello to Asang first, and then hurried over to see his younger brother. The newborn child was just a little bit older.
"My brother is so young, what is his name?"

"Chenglu, nicknamed White Bird."

"Can I call him Xiaobai?"

Huaiyu smiled, "Okay, do you want to hug him?"

"May I?"

"Of course you can. I'll teach you how to hold him. He should hold him horizontally, his arms should rest on his neck, and he should support his buttocks with one hand."

The eldest son, Chengsi, followed him out of Guangzhou last year. Originally he just wanted to go to Jiangzhou to receive the title, and then go back after a round trip. However, he encountered so many things. It has been more than a year since he left.
However, Chengsi was quite happy. He lived with his father day and night. Although his father personally taught schoolwork, he liked the teachings of his mother and teachers more than his mother and teachers. His father was not so strict and often took him to play.

He wished he was away all the time and didn't have to go back to Guangzhou. Although he would miss his mother and his brothers and sisters there, it was more relaxed and free outside.

"Grow up quickly, Shirou. From now on, my brother will take you to play with me, riding ponies and driving boats..."

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The summer on Ludao is not too hot. After all, it is an island. The sea breeze blows away the heat, and it is still very cool especially in the evening and morning.

Ah Sang's confinement period was not difficult either. Wu Huaiyu personally arranged confinement meals for her, which were basically non-repetitive, nutritious and delicious. During the confinement period, the child was well behaved, eating, sleeping, and eating.

Asang's milk was very good, and there was even a surplus, but none of the wet nurses he hired was used.

Because Asang gave birth, Wu Huaiyu postponed his return to Guangzhou again.

After sending someone back to Guangzhou to report the letter,
Fan Xuanfu immediately sent people to deliver many supplements, including many top-quality fish maws, which are very suitable for mothers who have just given birth to children during confinement.
Experienced servants and maids were also sent to attend the confinement period.

For this young man from the Wu family, all the concubines and concubines in Guangzhou also gave him gifts.

The atmosphere in the Wu family's home is still good.

Fan Xuanfu didn't urge Huaiyu to go back, but he was more concerned about whether Chengsi would become wild after being away for a long time.

In fact, the women in the family hoped that he would go back as soon as possible. They all followed him from Chang'an to Guangzhou. Unexpectedly, Wu Huaiyu had been gone for more than a year, and everyone was staying in Guangzhou to keep their vacant rooms.

Wu Huaiyu had been away for more than a year and had only one concubine, Ah Sang, so he only had one more child this year.
On the contrary, Fan Xuanfu felt that the Wu family had a lot of new members. During this period, he also mentioned in many letters that he would send some concubines from Guangzhou, or that Huaiyu would take some new ones here.

But Wu Huaiyu doesn't care too much about these now. Now he has twenty sons and eighteen daughters, which is quite a lot.

Let nature take its course, there is no need to fight so hard, even Lao Wu has figured it out now.

Lugang has been very busy recently, with floods in the Huanghuai River and thirty states affected by disasters.
Wu Huaiyu wrote a letter to mobilize people and supplies from Lingnan Road to provide disaster relief. After the imperial court approved it, there was also a lot of action here.

It's a rare opportunity to rob people openly, so why are you so polite?

Try your best to attract people to immigrate here.

If you don’t want to immigrate at the moment, then hire workers.

After this year's comprehensive adjustment of the divisions of the seven prefectures of Lingnan Province, provinces were merged with prefectures and counties. Now there are only 49 prefectures left, more than half of which have been merged. This time, the corresponding support of the 49 prefectures has been divided.

The Lingnan states sent officials directly to the disaster areas designated for their states and counties. The officials leading the team not only went with supplies, but also with tasks. If they could not complete the task of recruiting people, they would be recorded in the assessment. And if you can complete it, or even exceed it, you will be rewarded.

The six prefectures of the Fuzhou Governor's Office also tried their best. Wanda, the governor of Liuzhou, even went to the opposite city of Haozhou in Huainan to pick up people by boat, first from the Huaihe River to Sizhou, and then all the way to Hangzhou Port via the canal.
There are sea ships there to pick up people. Huge sea ships can pick up thousands of people at a time and take them directly to Lugang. From there, they will be transferred to Liuqiu via Penghu.

The people recruited from Zhangzhou and Tingzhou are basically sent to Lugang first.

There are also a large amount of materials gathered and distributed here.
Lugang is bustling with boats coming in and out every day. Countless people and goods flow in, making Ludao changing with each passing day. The island now has tens of thousands of permanent residents.

Workshop after workshop, shop after shop opened,
Now tens of thousands of acres of land have been reclaimed on Ludao, including acres of rice fields, sweet potato fields, corn fields, and many sugar cane gardens.

On the other side, on the north bank of Jiulong River, Houxi, and Xixi, countless fields have been reclaimed, including brand-new villages, rice fields, corn fields, sweet potato fields, sugar cane gardens, and cotton fields.

There are many salt fields and fishing villages on the seaside.
The victims who came from the Huanghuai disaster area were actually mentally prepared when they came. They came to endure hardship. They also thought at the time that even if they came here to endure hardship, it would be better than staying in the disaster area.

When people from Lingnan came to recruit people, they at least gave Anjia food directly, and they had meat porridge to drink under the recruitment banner. As for the land in Lingnan to distribute these, they didn't think about it that much for a while.

I just want my family to be able to fill their bellies every day.

Although we were all taking boats along the way, we took a boat from our hometown of Haozhou to the Sizhou Canal, from Sizhou to Yangzhou, then crossed the Yangtze River from Yangzhou to Runzhou, then took a boat through the canal to Hangzhou, and then took a boat to Quanzhou. Lugang,
It was a bumpy ride, but we had two meals a day, two dry meals, as well as salted fish and vegetables. When we got off the boat at Lugang,

They were a little confused when they saw that the business here was actually a bit more busy than their hometown Zhongguo Pier in Haozhou.

When you see the acres and acres of crops,
It was even more unbelievable. At the pier, they also saw the rich variety of goods, which were all available. The prices were not very expensive, and some things were even much cheaper than in their hometown.

I also heard that this place was even deserted two years ago, and the villages were all newly built. Those fields, which used to be wasteland, now belong to the immigrants, and those immigrants used to be mostly common people similar to them, but now But they all have one or two hundred acres of land.
The most common thing in the fields here is sugarcane. There are acres and acres of sugarcane plantations. Rice is less planted. In addition to sugarcane, the most planted ones are cotton, peanuts, and then corn, sweet potatoes, etc.

"As long as the rice is enough to eat, it's more cost-effective to grow sugar cane. Sugar cane can be used to squeeze sugar. You see those sugar workshops harvesting sugar cane everywhere and even giving deposits in advance. As long as they see the sugar cane being planted in the fields, they will place a deposit and go directly. You give money and the purchase price is agreed upon in a contract, so you don’t have to worry about the sugarcane you grow not being able to sell it or not being able to sell it at a high price,”

"What you are going to is Liuqiu on the other side of the strait. There is more land there, and more sugar cane is grown there. In your free time, you can go to the salt farm to dry salt, work in the shipyard, carry work at the dock, and even go into the mountains to cut wood. Camphor, let me tell you,

You are definitely in the right place when you come here. Even if you have nothing, you can start a business here from scratch. As long as you are willing to settle down, you can allocate fields and grant land. The land you allocate will still be a permanent business. As long as you can plant it, you can reclaim the land as you like. Can register as Yongye,
There are many opportunities to make money during the off-season. Also, every township and village here has a primary school, and children over the age of seven can study for free for several years. If they are talented, they can also recommend to study in the prefecture and county."

"If you are a bachelor and settle here, the Yamen will immediately arrange an official matchmaker to introduce you to you, and give you a sum of money when you get married..."

The victims who came from Haozhou were all dumbfounded and their hearts were filled with excitement.
The Huaihe River in my hometown is not a gentle mother river, especially for the people living by the Huaihe River. Flooding disasters are common, but the difference between minor and major disasters is that.

There were two consecutive years of severe floods last year and this year. Minor disasters in the past were even more common. If we move, our hard work will be in vain. We often even have to leave our homes and go out to beg for food.
It's bitter, it's too bitter, but what can I do?
But now, when they come here, it seems that they have opened the door to a new world, a world that they could only see in dreams in the past.

But looking at the bustle of Lugang and the dignity of the people on Ludao, they used to be the same as me, and some of them might even be worse than me. But now, just because they came here for a year or two first, they have completely turned around. Became a decent man, a landowner, a rich man.

All these deeply stimulated the newcomers.

And I heard that all this was brought to you by Mr. Wu.

That name was like thunder in the ears. This name made everyone believe in the story here and full of expectations.

(End of this chapter)