I’m The King Chapter 940: :Huanghuang Hanwei (64)

After listening to Gao Yuan's words, Li Can paused for a moment, "I wonder what the king wants to know?"

Gao Yuan pulled out a chart from his side, stretched out his hand and pushed it in front of Li Can, "Take a look at this chart, I think your family should also have this kind of chart?"

After taking the sea chart that Gao Yuan handed over, Li Can just glanced at it, then raised his head in great doubt, looking at Gao Yuan with shock and puzzlement in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, is this picture?" He stammered and asked.

"Just tell me, where did your fleet arrive?" Gao Yuan asked: "Do you think this map is much bigger than the one you keep at home, and you have never heard of many places? "

"Exactly!" Li Can looked a little excited, pointing to a few places on the map and said: "My Li family's fleet mainly trades in these directions, and the place is uncivilized. Although the aborigines are cruel, they have countless We mainly ship out silk, porcelain and other things, although the risk is relatively high, but as long as we succeed, it will be enough for several years of expenses.”

Looking at the places Li Can pointed at, Gao Yuan nodded slightly, that is to say, Li Can's fleet has only reached Southeast Asia at the farthest.

"I know a place called Fusang." Gao Yuan pointed to a long and narrow island on the map, and said with a smile: "There are no other specialties on this island, but there is only one thing, silver, on these islands. There are many silver mines of good quality.”

Li Can's eyes lit up immediately, "Silver mine?"

"Yes, silver mine." Gao Yuan smiled and said, "I wonder if Li Yizheng's fleet is interested in developing it here?"

Li Can's heart moved, but then he frowned again: "Your Majesty, every time my Li family's fleet sails overseas, we will take great risks. Back, what the king said, Fusang has silver mines, which is an endless source of money, but the problem is, if you want to develop silver mines, you have to go ashore. With the current strength of my Li family, it is really beyond our reach. Catch it!"

"That's why I'm looking for you." Gao Yuan said with a smile: "You have a fleet and sailors for ocean voyages, and I have an army in my hands. Let's form an expeditionary army, with goods in one hand and If you are willing to do business honestly, we will exchange with them. If you have bad intentions, then we will brandish a knife and beat them to do business with us honestly.”

Listening to what Gao Yuan said, Li Can couldn't help rubbing his hands excitedly, "The king's intention is exactly what I want. In the past, my Li family was not strong enough. In those places, we have to make good friends with the local governors. I endured their exploitation, just hoping to return home safely, but now with the support of the king, it will be quite different.”

Jiang Jiaquan frowned and reminded: "Your Majesty, we don't have any extra troops on hand now, and this kind of laborious expedition has no logistical support. Once released, it is tantamount to resignation to fate."

Gao Yuan said with a smile: "Jiang Yizheng, do you think that a place like that needs thousands of troops? Just a few hundred elite men, fully armed, is enough to sweep away those natives. Li Yizheng, I don’t think it would be difficult for those localities to join forces and support local regimes that obey our orders?”

"Your Majesty is right. Those places often claim to be a country for tens of miles or even hundreds of miles. It's really ridiculous. They themselves fight to the death all day long. As long as there are hundreds of fully armed elites, With our warships, it is not difficult to sweep these places." Li Can nodded repeatedly.

"This matter is settled like this. The Li family is preparing for a long-distance voyage. As for sending troops, you should discuss with Ye Zhong after you go down, and try to send soldiers who grew up by the sea. Arm stretched crossbows, magic machine crossbows, stone cannons and other weapons." Gao Yuandao.

"Thank you, my lord."

"You don't need to thank me, I'll be able to get 80% of the harvest at that time!" Gao Yuan said with a smile.

"This chart alone is worth 80%!" Li Can raised the chart in his hand, "Your Majesty, I wonder if I can use this chart..."

"Since I took it out, it's yours." Gao Yuan waved his hand.

Carefully folded the chart, took out a sweat towel, wrapped it up, and stuffed it into his bosom, "Your Majesty, there is one thing I don't want to ask, I really feel uncomfortable. As far as I know, Your Majesty, you have never been to the seaside, where did you get this chart?"

Gao Yuan scratched his head, thinking that if you tell me something, can you believe it? After thinking about it, he said: "Oh, it's like this. One night I had a dream. In the dream, there was an old man with a white beard. He told me about these places, and when I got up early the next morning, I saw this map lying on the table. I thought it was drawn in a dream, and I didn’t know if it was true or not, so I took it out. Let you take a look, since it is true, you might as well go and explore it from afar."

Gao Yuan's nonsense, several people in the room looked at each other in dismay, everyone was a scholar, and his speech was chaotic and strange, Gao Yuan's words were too mysterious, but the king is the king, even if it is nonsense , It’s not easy for everyone to say anything. Maybe the king has some unspeakable secrets that he doesn’t want to reveal in public, and no one will ask.

"Your Majesty is indeed a person favored by the heavens. I don't know how many lives I gave for the chart of my Li family. !" Li Can boasted a few words against his conscience.

Gao Yuan laughed, and stopped mentioning this paragraph, but changed the topic to domestic livelihood.

In Jiyuan County, Li Weimin, the magistrate of Jiyuan, led more than a dozen guards, walking on the small road in the countryside. It was also covered with yellow mud. The rain two days ago made them suffer a lot. The roads in Jiyuan County are not like Li Weimin's hometown Jishi County. When it rains here, it is muddy. A sunny day can make them suffer.

This is already the tenth day of his inspection tour in the countryside. The dozen or so guards behind him are not ordinary government servants, but a guard team composed of veterans drawn from the regular army by Ye Zhen. After all, Jiyuan County is The new land, and the policies implemented by the imperial court here have violated the interests of many people, and some even offended the other party completely, leaving you to die, but these people turned out to be quite powerful , Han Guo naturally does not want the officials appointed by themselves to have their heads cut off before their buttocks are warm. Even if the murderer is caught afterwards, what is the use? A veteran who crawled out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood.

In fact, the concern of the Han court was not unreasonable. Li Weimin was assassinated three times after he went to the countryside for more than ten days, but in the eyes of these veterans, the assassin was not only unprofessional, but also clumsy. In his hands, they were like little lambs. The largest number of people was just a landlord who had been deprived of all his land and organized dozens of people pretending to be bandits to attack and assassinate Li Weimin. In front of the guards, it was not enough to watch. First, he killed him with a long-range weapon, and then left two people to protect Li Weimin. Naturally, it was a matter of course. The landlord had only been confiscated from the land, and his other properties were still there, but he attacked the imperial court official. Not only was he executed, but his family property was confiscated, and all his family members were **** with a rope. Now, send it to Chongbian in Liaodong Peninsula.

Han Guo's thunderous move in Jiyuan County completely suppressed the small thoughts of some people who were about to make a move. Since that time, Li Weimin has never encountered an attack again.

The spring plowing is just around the corner, and these officials appointed by the Han Kingdom naturally know their mission, and they dare not slack off. Li Weimin has already traveled half of the county, and he plans to travel all the places under his jurisdiction. It is important to ensure that all fields will not be left uncultivated.

In a field by the side of the road, several people were wielding hoes to loosen the soil. Li Weimin took a closer look and found that there were only two gray-haired old men and old women, and a younger woman, and the other two The seven or eight-year-old boy even waved a wooden stick to smash the bigger dirt.

"Old man!" Li Weimin came down to the field and greeted.

Although Li Weimin's official uniform has lost its color, just looking at Li Weimin's demeanor and the group of men carrying knives behind him, he naturally knows that he is not an ordinary person. .

"Meet the high officials!"

Li Weimin grabbed the old man, "Don't be too polite, old man, why don't you have a strong labor force, just you old and weak women and children?"

The old man let out a long sigh: "Don't mention it, senior official. Didn't you fight the war two years ago? The old man in the family was conscripted into the army. Once the battle is over, he's gone. I left my daughter-in-law and two underage children, and originally had a son, but later the Qin people occupied the place, and the youngest son was also taken away as a civilian husband. There are only a few of us left."

Li Weimin sighed, in the end, the victims of war are always the people at the lowest level, "How much land was allocated to the family this time?"

As mentioned, the old man's sad face suddenly became excited, and the layers of folds were opened with a smile at this moment, "This time I heard that the Eastern Zheng Army beat the Qin people away, and now we This place is under the control of the Zhengdong Army. A county magistrate of the Zhengdong Army came and allocated the land to us. People are exhausted, and they can only survive. If there is a disaster year, it will be miserable. Now it is different. There are five people in my family, and I have 15 acres of land. The government issued a deed Book, this land is mine. The old man is more than fifty today, be careful, he can live for another ten years, then these two boys will grow up, this land will be well taken care of, when the two boys Just rely on him."

Li Weimin nodded slightly: "Fifteen acres of land, can you plant it all?"

"Of course we have to finish planting!" The old man raised his chest, "Don't look at me with gray hair, but I still have a lot of strength! If the land is not planted well, there will be no harvest after autumn. If you don’t have money to buy land, but you have signed a contract with the government, you have to pay one bucket of grain per mu of land at that time!”

"Then do you think you can pay it?"

"This senior official doesn't seem to be a farmer at first glance, it's just a bucket, no matter how much an acre of land can produce a stone of grain, if the service is good, it is possible to double it." The old farmer He smiled and said, "The current government is really good, but I don't know if they will stay for a long time?"

"How can you not stay for a long time? If you feel good, you will naturally stay for a long time!" Li Weimin laughed.

"Of course we think the Eastern Army is very good!" The old farmer said sincerely.

"Now they are no longer called Zhengdong Army, but now they are called the Great Han Kingdom. These policies were formulated by the king of the Great Han Kingdom." Li Weimin said with a smile.

"The Great Han Kingdom, the old man knows, this high official, are we considered citizens of the Great Han Kingdom now?" the old man asked.

"Should... count it!" Li Weimin was a little uncertain. A few days ago, the announcement about the lease of these areas by the Great Han Kingdom had already reached his yamen, and the officials appointed by Daliang would soon come to Jiyuan.

"That's good, we are afraid that if we change the government, we will take back the land allocated to us!" The old man breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry about it." Li Weimin smiled. (To be continued)