Urban Sims

Chapter 130
ten days later.

In the twenty-fifth year of Tiansheng, October [-]th, it is a good day for marriage and auspicious day.

Tianjiazhuang Wubao held a grand wedding ceremony.

For the big banquet for guests and friends, the running water banquet has been open for seven days and seven nights, delicacies from mountains and seas, all kinds of food, any guest, as long as they say a word of applause, they can sit in and enjoy it.

A large stage was also set up in front of Wubao. The performance groups of the Deyun Society of Yugang Village were invited by a lot of money to perform for seven days and seven nights for the guests and friends attending the wedding. At one time, most of the people in Haiping County gathered in Tianjia Zhuang, eating and drinking, very lively.

……

The wedding hall was crowded with people.

"Worship heaven and earth."

"Two thanks to the high hall."

"Bye husband and wife!"

"Send it to the bridal chamber!"

"Woooooo~!"

Amidst a burst of laughter, the bridesmaids threw peanuts and red dates from the dustpan on the heads of the bride and groom. Tian Feng and Cui's couple, who drank the scented tea presented by the bride, were even more rosy, smiling from ear to ear.

……

night.

After entertaining relatives and friends, Zhou Ming, who was slightly drunk, was supported by two dowry maids, and walked into the new house with red candles brightly lit and window walls covered with Chinese characters "囍".

"Bring a precious son early, bring the red envelope!"

"Red Packet Red Packet!"

"Cousin Zihua, I want a red envelope!"

In the new house, more than a dozen Zongjiao children who were waiting for the red envelopes to be sent around were making noise around Zhou Ming, so he had to take out a stack of red envelopes from his pocket, distribute them, and dismiss the group of children.

After sending out the two dowry maids who looked reluctant, only myself and the bride sitting by the bed were left in the room.

Zhou Ming took out a handful of jade ruyis in the dustpan, and walked gently to the phoenix crown and Xia Pei, holding his hands on his lap, his body trembling slightly, as if in front of his agitated wife, he used the jade ruyi, which symbolizes "satisfaction", and picked it away. After removing the red hijab on her head, she was stunned: "Rou'er, why are you crying?"

"Woo~ Brother Zihua, am I not dreaming? Am I really your wife?"

The woman lifted up her face that was already covered in tears, and when she saw the man standing in front of her, she cried even harder.

Zhou Ming stepped forward to hug her, wiped her tears with his sleeves, and said softly: "Silly girl, today is our big day, a day worth being happy, you should stop crying and laugh more. "

"No, I'm going to cry! I just want to cry happily!"

After the woman Jiaoman finished speaking, she crawled and sat on her lap, buried her head in her chest, wrapped her hands tightly around her waist, and said leisurely: "Cousin Zihua, do you still remember when I was eight years old, I Did I tell you? Let me tell you: When I grow up, I must marry Brother Zihua and become your wife... I have been waiting for this day for ten years. Do you think I can stop crying? ? My husband?"

eight years old?

ten years?

Zhou Ming's head sweated, when did his charm become so great?The eight-year-old girl, at that time, he thought it was just a childish joke, and didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, she really waited ten years for this moment, and her original intention never changed.

There was a hot and humid touch from his mouth. At the moment when he was in a daze, his wife Cui Rou had already wrapped his arms around his neck, her breath was slightly chaotic, her red lips couldn't help kissing him, and she even used her sweet tongue without a teacher. .

"Wait, I haven't had a cup of wine yet. We'll do this later." Zhou Ming gently pushed the woman away and said.

"No! I want to give birth to my husband first!"

The woman pressed down and hurriedly took off her clothes. Zhou Ming, who was lying on the bed, soon felt the sensation, blowing on the lamp and pulling out the wax, turning over and pressing the woman under him.

One night during the spring festival, the red waves were overturned, like glue and paint, and went to bliss together.

Tian Feng and Cui, who were squatting at the door and eavesdropping, looked at each other and laughed. This grandson will definitely be hugged next year!

……

Shortly after marrying his cousin Cui Rou, in order to add more people to the relatively thin Tian family, Zhou Ming asked Cui Rou for permission, under the auspices of his parents and wife, Zhou Ming took in several concubines.

There are five concubines in total, including the two maids Xiaoyan Xiaocui who was married by his wife Cui Rou; The heroine Chu Jingling who was brought all the way from Shengzhou and accompanied him to travel most of the world.

Among the five concubines, only Chu Jingling, Zhou Ming has a deep affection for her. After being included in the house, every seven days, he will set aside two days to accompany her, and the other four concubines will randomly take one or two days a week. .

The regular wife, Cui Rou, spends more than three nights a week sleeping in her room.

Zhou Ming had so many concubines at once. Cui Rou, who was born in a wealthy family, accepted so many women very calmly and shared the reality of the same man with her, because her father, in addition to his wife, also took in seven or eight concubines. Concubine, maidservant, I don't know how much I have been involved in.With such an excellent husband, it is impossible to have only her as a woman, and having three wives and four concubines is unavoidable.

She was just a little jealous. That woman named Chu Jingling had accompanied her husband through thick and thin, traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, and experienced countless things that she envied. She and her husband had countless things that she had never had before. The beautiful memories she has experienced... If it weren't for her sympathetic and lonely life experience, she would never have agreed to this woman's entry into the gate of Tian's house.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming also has his own way of managing the harem with accumulated experience from many lifetimes. He has long invented family board games such as mahjong tiles, poker cards, Three Kingdoms Killing, Monopoly, and Brave Adventure. It's mahjong, a woman who likes to play this game can be so addicted to playing it day and night, she has no extra energy at all, to calculate this and that, and study how to compete for favor all day long.

Therefore, after teaching Chu Jingling how to play mahjong, within a few days, Cui Rou became a sister to her, and formed a solid alliance in the poker field. Get back all the money you lose.

In particular, Zhou Ming called all his wives and concubines together, and after playing the ridiculous "big quilt to sleep together" a few times, although he felt a little sore in his waist every time it ended, looking at a harmonious harem, no matter how bitter he was. No matter how tired you are, it's worth it.

This kind of comfortable and comfortable life with wives and concubines is what Zhou Ming has always dreamed of. If he didn’t consider the system in his brain and the achievement of clearing the customs, he would have turned into a rice bug stallion, spending his days in the wine pool and meat forest, and wanton debauchery. pass.

but……

This is impossible, at least in this round, he must get an evaluation of A level or above.

Therefore, these days, Zhou Ming also found his father Tian Feng and asked him in detail about the development of the family's various industries during his two and a half years of traveling around the world.

His father, Tian Feng, is mediocre, but he is an excellent plan executor. In the "Steel Plant Planning Book" formulated by Zhou Ming, his father Tian Feng meticulously followed the steps in the planning book step by step to carry out the construction. There were all kinds of problems, and his father Tian Feng never adjusted the plan and commanded indiscriminately based on his own subjective conjectures.

Therefore, less than two years after Tianjia Iron and Steel Works was completed and put into operation, the monthly output of steel reached 500 tons.

This output completely met Zhou Ming's expectation.

Secondly, it is the development of marine fishing companies.

The ocean fishing company was the fastest-growing industry in Zhou Ming's family during his travels around the world. Within two and a half years, the size of Tian's shipyard had expanded by four times, and the number of shipbuilders had increased by six times. Fishing companies have a total of 149 large ships with more than 5 materials, and the new entry rate is increasing at a rate of [-] ships per month.

These new manned ships are basically "Sea Catch II" and "Sea Transport II" large ships with a displacement of more than [-] materials.

There is also the Tianjia Shipyard. In the two large docks, the two new large ships under construction are called "Haizhuo Type 3000" and "Battleship Type [-]". Inside the ship, a large number of iron castings produced by Tianjia Iron and Steel Factory are used, and the strength of the hull structure is greatly increased... It is expected that two types of new ships will be launched one after another in one month.

With so many large and new ships, it goes without saying that the fishing and whaling industry of the Tian family is developing rapidly, and the catch is almost doubling every year. The net profit brought by the Tian family is more than twice that of the salt drying industry, not to mention the whaling industry whose income is more than ten times that of the fishing industry.

There are two main reasons why Tian family's fishing and whaling industry develops so fast and earns so much.

One, after Zhou Ming put forward the plan of "joint development and conspiring with Penglai", it quickly received responses from many aristocratic families in Qingzhou, including "Beihai Lu Family", "Donglai Tang Family", and "Scholarly Yao Family" The 27 families, these families, seeing that ocean fishing is profitable, and that Penglai Xiandao is indeed true, have contributed money and effort, invested and invested in shares... all resources have been concentrated, and the speed of development has naturally accelerated a lot times.

Two, unlike the sun-dried salt industry, the marine fishing industry is a new type of industry that has not yet received great attention from the imperial court. In other words, the marine fishing industry is not yet a key industry that the imperial court must control like the salt and iron industry. Qingzhou Officials at all levels did not pay special attention to it, and even the fishing tax was not sent to collect it. A few thousand guan filial piety and a few hundred stone dried fish oil were given every year, and all these officials could be dismissed.

Of course, there are also some officials who can’t get rid of such petty profits. For example, several officials want to bite off a big piece of fat from Hai Pingtian’s family; ... These officials were quickly settled.

After all, standing behind the Tianjia Ocean Fishing Company is not only the Haipingtian family, but also 27 aristocratic families in Qingzhou. The energies of these families are superimposed, not to mention a small sheriff, but the governor of Qingzhou , If you want to trouble the ocean fishing company, you have to be careful to lose your black hat and be picked off the horse.

Various industries are developing smoothly. What Zhou Ming is most concerned about is how far the "Ocean Expedition Team" organized by the Tian family has progressed in the colonization of Penglai Xiandao in the past two years or so.

Father Tian Fengdao: "Our Tian family and more than 20 other families have sent three groups of expeditions to build a small settlement and a small port on Ryukyu Island, which is the closest to the land. There are currently more than 800 people. , Living on this island, the conditions are very difficult, and a batch of supplies must be transported every four months, and it will take at least two or three years for the island residents to initially achieve self-sufficiency."

Father Tian Feng also mentioned a big difficulty, that is, Haiping County is still too far away from Penglai Xiandao. The shortest sailing distance is more than 2000 miles. It takes at least two months to sail back and forth, which is very risky, and there are not many materials to be transported, which is very troublesome.

To the east of Haiping County, more than a thousand miles away, there is an island named "Qizhou Island", which is owned by Gaoji State. It will definitely be much more convenient to develop.

However, on Qizhou Island, which is shaped like a jujube and has an area of ​​more than 30 square kilometers, there are not only more than [-] Gaoji citizens living there, but also thousands of Gaoji garrisons. They want to "lease" a piece of land on this exotic island , To build a transit port, there must be some resistance.

"Father, how many soldiers are there in our Tian family? Do they all use flintlock muskets?" Zhou Ming asked.

"There are more than [-] people, and they can use flintlock muskets."

Over the years, according to Zhou Ming's plan to strengthen the army, the expansion of the Tian family's soldiers has never stopped. Because of the high welfare benefits and advanced weapons, teachers are also specially arranged to impart cultural knowledge. Tian's family soldiers, it can be said, It is a powerful military force with the highest degree of professionalization, the most advanced weapons and equipment, the highest average education level, and unquestionable loyalty to the family in this era.

"It's still too small. At least it needs to be expanded to more than 800 people to ensure the absolute safety of the Tian family... However, with these [-] clan soldiers as the base, it will be easy to expand later. How about this father, from these clan soldiers , Draw [-] people out, go to Qizhou Island to garrison, ensure the construction of the transit port, rotate regularly, don't care about Gao Jiguo's reaction, if he refuses to accept, we will do actual combat training."

Father Tian Feng nodded, and rebelliously said: "That's right, with the strength of my Tian family, even if the court raises the flag to rebel, the court will not be able to resist it. That small country with high economic benefits is nothing."

At the same time, Tian Feng was also quite puzzled. According to the fortune teller, his son, who had the appearance of "the son of the real dragon", had never expressed the idea of ​​rebellion. Instead, he was very interested in founding a country overseas. You know, this The road is full of difficulties and countless investments are made, which is much more difficult than direct rebellion.

However, no matter what the son wants to do in the future, as a father, he just needs to give his full support. Everything in the Tian family is brought by this son. , and dare not do things, he just needs to complete the things his son entrusted to him.

(End of this chapter)