Li Chong swallowed hard, feeling like he had run into trouble today.
In front of you, Li Chong carefully read aloud: "To the Great Commander of Xuzhou, Li Muyun, please accept..."
"Skip all that useless nonsense, just tell simply, what exactly does she want?" You didn’t even have the mood to listen to this cloying language, after all, being cooped up with nothing to do every day was driving you insane.
Currently, the entire Xuzhou is undergoing a major movent and reform. After this campaign, no one in Xuzhou dares to oppose you. Moreover, people soon discovered the various conveniences and benefits brought by the new policies.
Even the scholar gentry who initially resisted your new policies have started to change. Due to their own extensive connections and assets, they rise faster than anyone else and support your five-year compulsory education policy more than anyone. Additionally, your policies for the scholar gentry are more favorable than those for ordinary people, which fosters better relations between the scholar gentry and other classes, making the developnt of Xuzhou as orderly, stable, and rapid as a wound-up clock.
But as the Great Commander, you feel like you have nothing to do. Your seven beautiful wives are busier one than another. In the eyes of others, your good fortune seems boundless, but who knows that you’ve been sleeping alone most of the ti recently, damn it!
Even Zheng Zhi, who listens to you the most, has been transferred by Zhao Yu to Wushuang City. As the most important gateway in northern Xuzhou, it urgently needs personnel there. Although you know this is part of Zhao Yu’s "conspiracy," you are helpless.
Li Chong knows you’re in a bad mood, so he didn’t dare to complain even a bit, quickly saying, "Queen Himiko wishes our Lord would send troops to help them fend off foreign invaders."
"Fend off what? You didn’t even check, I’ve got a few shabby ships at the port that can’t carry anyone!" you spat in Li Chong’s face.
Li Chong wiped his face and said to you with a wry smile, "Brother, I ca to find you this ti to tell you that I got so information from the people. In Jingzhou, there is a descendant of Lu Ban who seems to know how to make warships."
"Warships? What’s that?" Upon hearing this, you couldn’t help but frown.
"Warships, they were the giant ships used by the Wu State Emperor, rumored to hold ten thousand people!"
"Is this information reliable?" you quickly asked.
"It should be reliable. Liu Biao of Jingzhou owns a powerful naval force, as the Jing Chu area has historically produced master shipbuilders."
You imdiately jumped up, standing on the rampart, and smiled at Li Chong below, saying, "Good! In that case, I’ll head to Jingzhou imdiately!"
Your actions have always been about efficiency, and you’ve been stifled for too long. After getting the precise location of the Lu Ban descendant from Li Chong, without another word, you leaped from the 15-ter-high city wall, sprinting away under the astonished gazes of Li Chong and Zhi.
Zhi tugged Li Chong’s sleeve and whispered, "Is Big Brother always like this?"
Since Zhi married Li Chong, she naturally called you "Big Brother," though she never dared to call you that in front of you because she once did so and was glared at by you, leaving her unable to eat for three days. The shadow you cast over Zhi was significant since she almost lost her life at your hands before.
Li Chong also scratched the back of his head and laughed, "Big Brother always acts straightforwardly, coming and going like lightning, disliking any delay or constraint. Although he seems fierce on the outside, he treats his family very well."
Zhi nodded in partial understanding.
Your running speed even puts thousand-mile horses to sha. Having been trapped for several months, you naturally take this opportunity to run wildly. You leave everything behind, imrsing yourself entirely in high-speed running.
At this mont, only the wind!
Having left Xuzhou, you directly passed through Yuzhou to reach Jingzhou territory.
According to Li Chong, the Lu Ban descendant resides in Jingzhou City, though the exact location is unclear. So, before leaving Xuzhou, you disguised yourself by taking off your brocade clothes and putting on a very ordinary hemp garnt, as you didn’t bother with other embellishnts, believing no one in Jingzhou could recognize him.
Upon entering Jingzhou, you no longer ran wildly as before, instead disguising yourself as an ordinary martial artist and walking on the post road with a rchant caravan.
In these tis, with the north at war, many people flee south. Through this journey, you notice a variety of people on the post road. Although Jingzhou hasn’t suffered from war and has been wealthy since ancient tis, you still believe that compared to here, Xuzhou is better in many ways.
Not to ntion anything else, just the roads here are lacking. You have always adhered to the principle of "to get rich, build roads first," which has made today’s Xuzhou very well-connected. Even borrowing the idea from Qin Shi Huang, several "high-speed passages" between major cities have been established. These high-speed passages are only for official military and transport use. The influx of people to Xuzhou has led to the developnt of lowlands and swamps, providing places for living, farming and residing; now, Xuzhou is truly "cattle and sheep everywhere, granaries full."
Speaking of transportation, we must ntion your Longn Escort Agency.
Under the managent of Zhen Luo and Mi Xiang, the Longn Escort Agency has now expanded to cover the five states of Jing, Yang, Yuzhou, Yi, and Jiaowu, transporting goods between these states and establishing the Li Family Business wherever the escort agency operates.
Since Zhen Luo and Mi Xiang married you, they naturally cut ties with their natal families. After the attack on you at Wuji, Zhen Luo and Zhen Jiang completely severed any connections with the Zhen clan of Wuji, and Mi Xiang rarely contacted her family. While managing Xuzhou’s finance, the two won have established the Li Family Business, selling specialties unique to Xuzhou across the five states via the Longn Escort Agency and bringing various resources from the five states back to Xuzhou, accelerating Xuzhou’s developnt.
Once, while the two won were doing accounts, you heard them conclude that even excluding Xuzhou’s official treasury funds, your personal funds alone could rank you as the richest in the Nine Provinces! You are now the undisputed wealthiest person in the Great Han!
Of course, all this money is controlled by your harem group, led by Zhao Yu, and you have no authority to use it freely. Sigh, it’s even more frustrating when ntioned, full of tears and sorrows for you.
"Damn, I regret marrying so many wives back then." Walking on the road, you suddenly slapped yourself.
At the sa ti, you thought about yourself in the real world.
Sigh, no need to say more, all tears.
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