Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 681 Returning to Lingnan
It was only after Sun Xiangfu confirmed that Li Tai was not courting him that Feng An decided to stay temporarily. The sports meeting will only be held in mid-August, and it is only the end of February. They can still stay in Lingnan for about five months. This much time is enough Let him see Li Tai's character, ability, and teach him how to deal with the local barbarians and Liao tribes and govern the place.

"As soon as Zhengming regains his official rank, he hurried to Lingnan, he must be doing something big!"

Although Feng An is in his 60s, his body is still strong and his speech is full of spirit. Historically, he lived to 20 years in Zhenguan, but the current situation in Lingnan may make his mental state even better than in history.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "I just came here to do great things. I can't say, I have to trouble you to arrange someone to take me around Lingnan."

"Really, that's a good relationship. If you want to go out for a walk, it should not be to collect things, but to draw fields." Feng An smiled as if he had expected it.

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Yes! If the overseas exploration ships can return smoothly, there must be many, many species brought back by them. Some of them, I need to try to plant them in a large area in Lingnan, so if I am in the right I would like to ask Mr. Feng to allocate it to me. In addition, in terms of manpower, we also need a lot of people who are familiar with my village, and please mobilize more local people who can understand Chinese to apply for jobs."

Sun Xiangfu has always been in Zhuangzi on the Baiyun Lake Peninsula, where some local people who planted rice for him lived, and it is also the home of Ah Yue and many crew members of the Lingnan Expedition Team.

However, due to the increase in the number of people living there, it has changed a lot now. The whole peninsula has been built more beautifully and comfortably, and it has become a market town. The farmers not only learned Chinese, but also learned a certain amount in the school. After so many years, there is basically no illiteracy.

Feng Ang smiled and said, "This is not a problem, I have to thank you for adding so many industries to our Lingnan people!"

"That's a lot? Mr. Feng already knows the return date of the fleet?" Sun Xiangfu saw Feng An's expected look just now, and now, he heard something strange from his words, and immediately reacted.

Feng An smiled, handed a small note to Sun Xiangfu and said, "It's also a coincidence that you came here. This morning, I just received the pigeons flying over from Luzon. They will come back in seven or eight days at most. Guangzhou is here."

The straight-line distance from Luzon Island to Guangzhou Bay is only more than 200 kilometers. Even if the homing pigeons fly slowly, they can reach it in two or three days. Luzon dock docked for resupply.

"This is really great news." After Sun Xiangfu opened the letter, he immediately saw the news that all ten steel-clad ships had returned safely and set off for Guangzhou Wharf in a few days, and his heart was relieved immediately.

"Mr. Sun, don't be too happy, they will be back soon, but our work has not started yet! It seems that your previous plan to play and rest in Guangzhou City for two days has come to nothing." Li Tate pointed out.

"You underestimate Mr. Feng. He has been in Lingnan Road for decades, and he knows all the mountains and rivers here. As long as I tell my needs, he will be able to recommend many good places for me. It's just that there are more snakes, insects, rats and ants here, if you want to go out of the city with me, you have to get used to it." Sun Xiangfu smiled.

However, upon hearing his words, Feng An had a different opinion, and said, "When I came here in the early Ming Dynasty, it was the first year of Zhenguan! Now, this is not the case. The poisonous snakes within [-] miles around Guangzhou City The beasts have basically been cleaned up by the old man. The roads and new cities to nearby counties, Chunzhou, Leizhou, Gangzhou, Duanzhou, and Chaozhou have all been built. The rest of the counties are also being built one after another. Not much lost to the Central Plains region."

"In addition to Guangzhou City, Mr. Feng, you also built five new cities? And, have you repaired all the connecting roads?" Sun Xiangfu was a little surprised.

Feng An stroked his beard proudly and said, "Of course, my land in Lingnan pays millions of dollars in taxes to the imperial court every year. Without the corresponding economic strength, how could it be possible to collect so much tax? !
Over the past eight years, the old man has recruited hundreds of thousands of laborers from all over the world, but they have never stopped working. Including those tribes who came out of the deep mountains, the population of Lingnan Road has reached more than 150 million. Lost to the Central Plains. "

There is one good thing about the Lingnan coastal area, that is, the climate is warm all year round. During this period, even in the coldest winter, the temperature is above ten degrees, which basically does not affect people's work. Moreover, it can continue to get foreign products here. All kinds of free or cheap labor, tens of 10 people, did nothing else for more than eight years, just doing infrastructure construction, the amount of labor is really not small, at least thousands of miles of cement roads, several There is nothing wrong with the city.

Sun Xiangfu just entered the city at the first day of junior high school, and he felt the atmosphere of Guangzhou New City. No wonder Li Shimin and his wife were full of praise for this place before. To build a first-class city that is not inferior to that in the Central Plains, the money that needs to be poured into it is a sea of ​​money. Although Feng An's family is big, it is estimated that it has been spent on it.

What impresses Sun Xiangfu the most is that the slogans posted along the street are all keywords for disease prevention and epidemic prevention, publicizing health knowledge, not only with words, but also with pictures. To this day, Feng An has been implementing the slogans that Sun Xiangfu used in the past. Here is what was written in the epidemic prevention manual.

"Lingnan's population has grown so dramatically, Mr. Feng must have spent a lot of money! Now, are you still treating the sick people for free?" Sun Xiangfu asked with a sigh.

"A little money is nothing. Let's build more ships, and we can buy them back from overseas. However, we don't have much money left. The medicines produced by your Shanyang Pharmaceutical Factory are too expensive. Every year, we Lingnan’s procurement of medicines and medicinal materials is as high as 2000 million. After the population has increased in the past few years, the expenses have also increased, and some of the previous accumulations have almost been emptied. No, I look forward to your coming and opening up for us Can some industries continue to be maintained?"

Hearing this, Li Tai knew the meaning of what Sun Xiangfu said on the boat before. It turned out that this free medical treatment was not the first in Jiuyuan County. The Lingnan area has implemented free medical treatment for all since the first year of Zhenguan. Moreover, now, The common people are directly eating the high-priced Chinese patent medicines produced by the Shanyang Manufacturing Factory, and they are really spending their money improperly.

"It's no wonder that the population of Lingnan has increased so dramatically. Ah Yue was a little unhappy when she heard that Xiaotai was coming to take your place!" Sun Xiangfu suddenly realized.

"Heheha, what's there to be unhappy about? The old man has worked hard for the people here all his life. Shouldn't he enjoy a few years of happiness?" Feng An laughed loudly when he heard the words. It's been ten days, but I don't have the slightest desire for power and position.

Seeing Feng An's eyes looking at him, Li Tai also smiled and said, "It's right for Miss Ah Yue to have such an idea. If it weren't for the fact that Feng Gong is getting old and needs to recuperate, father would not be so easy." To mobilize you, Xiao Wang will stay with Duke Feng for a few more days, and I also want you to teach me the means of governing the local area, so that I can better serve the local people, and I ask Duke Feng to spare no effort!"

What Li Tai said was beautiful, and Feng An and his son nodded after hearing it. After a while, the car arrived at Feng An's mansion. The banquet had already been set up. As well as some of her own attendants, since they went to the back hall to have a table, accompanied by Feng Zhichen's wife's concubines, it was also lively.

Sun Xiangfu, Li Tai, Yang Min, and a group of agricultural students and guards brought by Sun Xiangfu all had a big banquet in the living room. After eating and drinking, Sun Xiangfu first greeted Feng An and followed him to the pier. , but not eligible for the guest car, more than a dozen sons who were officials in Guangzhou City or took care of the property, introduced the people they brought over.

Among them, the main one is Yang Min. He can provide some help and advice to Lingnan Shipyard in the area of ​​shipbuilding. The key point is that the Nautical Academy in Hangzhou Bay can basically implement it. So Lingnan Road, no matter whether you send someone there To study, or to follow up, to build a navigation academy in the local area requires a lot of consultation and cooperation with him. After some chats, Feng Zhiyu and other people in charge of the Feng family's industry became close to him. The issue of expanding the scale of navigation , is also a problem that Lingnan needs to solve. They share technical resources with each other, which is of great help to solve the problem.

Then, there were more than 20 agricultural students brought by Sun Xiangfu, among whom Li Mo, Zhang Jin, Chen Xuan, Han Wei, etc. were more outstanding. They were all the new generation of agricultural students recognized by Sun Xiangfu. He will lead the students to assist Sun Xiangfu in managing various new crops, and be responsible for the care of these new crops after Sun Xiangfu leaves.

Of course, when it comes to this, Feng An must ask how big the industry scale of these new crops is and what is the profit expectation.

"That's it, Mr. Feng, if the new crops are successfully planted in Lingnan, it is up to the Overseas Exploration and Investment Co., Ltd. to decide whether or not each species will be developed into an industry. According to the previous communication between me and Wu Shangshu, his side On behalf of the Overseas Exploration and Investment Company, the request is made that the profits of these new crop industries that they believe can be sold to the outside world, Overseas Exploration Investment Co., Ltd., naturally account for [-]% of the share income, and, no matter how big or small the industry is, this is constant .” Sun Xiangfu explained.

Feng Ang nodded and said, "The things are brought back from overseas by investing tens of millions of dollars, and there is nothing wrong with that."

Seeing that he had no objections, Sun Xiangfu said again, "My farm is responsible for planting new crops, and continuously optimizing varieties and improving them, and launching them to the outside world. It also accounts for [-]% of the profits of these industries, and it is also constant."

"This is even more of a problem. In this world, only people from your farming family know how to grow these new crops and use them to develop industries." Feng An was not surprised at all.

He knew that Sun Xiangfu's shares in Overseas Exploration Investment Co., Ltd. had been confiscated by Li Shimin. Li Shimin restored his official title this time, but he didn't have the consciousness to return his original property at all. Human resources are invested in vain, because the research and planting of these crops is usually a very long process, and even some types may not be settled in a lifetime. These people need money to support them.

"Then since you have no objections, I will talk about other aspects. The remaining [-]% of the shares are open to the outside world, and the local government and people who provide the planting land for these crops can purchase these shares first. The land can also be discounted into the shares, and it naturally has the right to grow locally cultivated crops that are not government-controlled varieties."

Sun Xiangfu's explanation was easy for Feng An to understand. That is to say, in their Lingnan local government people, they can give priority to investing in shares, and the crops they plant can be planted at will as long as they don't control the variety, without restrictions.

But in fact, it will be Li Tai who can represent the Lingnan government in the future, so Feng An can only represent the Feng family, and he is not polite, saying, "Then the old man will represent the Feng family and invest 2000 million yuan. Feng's is gone too."

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he really thought that Feng's family should be worth billions due to the large amount of property and huge profits. However, in the past few years, the large-scale construction, large-scale destruction, and self-payment have ensured the livelihood of all the people in Lingnan. Up to now, he can only spend 2000 million living cash to invest, which is really not much better than himself, a person whose property was confiscated by the emperor.

(End of this chapter)