I’m The King

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

Gao Yuan pulled out a picture from his side, stretched out his hand and pushed it in front of Li Can, "Look at this chart, I think your house should have this kind of chart too?"

After taking the chart that Gao Yuan handed over, just glanced at it, Li Can raised her head in a puzzled manner, and looked at Gao Yuan's eyes full of shock and perplexity.

"My lord, this picture?" he stammered a bit.

"Just tell me, where did your fleet arrived?" Gao Yuan asked: "Do you think this picture is much larger than the one in your house, and there are many places you have never heard of?"

"Exactly!" Li Can looked a little excited, pointing to a few places on the map and saying: "My Li family's fleet mainly trades in these directions, where it has not been civilized. Although the indigenous people are fierce, they have countless treasures. We mainly ship foreign treasures, spices and other items, such as silk, porcelain, etc. Although the risk is greater, as long as a successful one is enough, it will be enough to spend several years."

Looking at the places Li Can pointed at, Gao Yuan nodded slightly.In other words, Li Can's fleet had only reached Southeast Asia the farthest.

"I know a place called Fusang." Gao Yuan pointed to a long and narrow island on the picture and said with a smile: "There are no other specialties on this small island, but there are many things, silver, and these islands have a lot of quality. Great silver mine."

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

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

Li Can's heart moved, but immediately frowned: "Master Wang, every time my Li family's fleet sails overseas, it will take great risks. If you are unlucky, sometimes there will be no return, Wang The Fusang mentioned above has a silver mine, that is an endless source of money, but the problem is that if you want to develop a silver mine, you must go ashore. With the current strength of my Li family, it is really not enough! "

"That's why I'm looking for you." Gao Yuan smiled: "You have a fleet and sailors who sail in the ocean, and I have an army in my hand. We will form an expeditionary force with commodities in one hand and steel knives in the other. If you are willing to do business honestly, we will exchange with them. If you have bad thoughts, then we will brandish them and beat them honestly to do business with us."

Listening to Gao Yuan's words, Li Can couldn't help rubbing his hands in excitement, "Wang Shang's intention is exactly what I want. In the past, my Li family was not strong enough. In those places, I had to pay the local governors and endure them. Exploit, only to be able to return home safely, but now with the support of the king, that is very different."

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

Gao Yuanhehe smiled and said: "Jiang Yizheng, do you think that a place like this needs a thousand troops? Just a few hundred fine men, armed with them, will be enough to sweep the indigenous people, Li Yizheng, to those places , Fight and pull together, and support the local government that obeys our orders. I don’t think this is difficult?"

"The king is right. Those places often claim to be a country for dozens of miles and hundreds of miles. It is really ridiculous. They are fighting to the death all day long. As long as there are hundreds of well-armed elites, they are matched with us. It’s really not difficult to sweep these places." Li Can nodded repeatedly.

"This is the matter. The Li family is preparing for the voyage, and the matter of dispatching troops, you will discuss with Ye Zhong after you go down, and try to select those soldiers who grew up on the seaside to serve. In addition, on the ship, you must install an arm crossbow. , God machine crossbow, stone cannon and other weapons." Gao Yuan said.

"Thank you, King."

"You don't have to thank you, my big man will get 80% of the harvest by then!" Gao Yuan said with a smile.

"Just this chart is worth 80%!" Li Canyang raised the chart in his hand, "Wang Shang, I wonder if this chart..."

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

Carefully fold the chart, and then took out a sweat towel to wrap it up, cherish it and put it in my arms, "My lord, I feel uncomfortable without asking me about one thing, as far as I know. , Your lord, you have never been to the beach. Where did you get this chart?"

Gao Yuan scratched his head, and said in his heart that if you have something to say, you can believe it. After thinking about it, he said, "Oh, that's it. One night, I had a dream in which an old man with a white beard told me After these places, I got up early the next morning and took a look. There was this map lying on the table. I thought it was drawn in a dream. I don't know if it is true or not. Then I took it out for you to see. At first glance, since it is true, you might as well go further afield."

Gao Yuan's nonsense, the few people in the room are all looking at each other. Everyone is a scholar, and the son is not talking and is crazy. Gao Yuan's words are too mysterious, but the king is the king, even if it is nonsense, everyone It's hard to say anything, maybe the king is unwilling to confide in public, and no one will ask.

"The king is really a person whom God cares for. I don't know how many lives have been paid for the chart of my Li family, but the king is easy to come by with the guidance of the gods, which makes people not convinced!" Li Chan praised a few words with conscience.

Gao Yuan laughed, and stopped mentioning this paragraph, but turned the topic to the domestic people's livelihood.

In Jiyuan County, the county magistrate Li Weimin took a dozen guards and walked on the trails in the country. The official robes on his body have long lost their original color, and they are all covered by mud yellow, and even his head and face are stained. They suffered from a rain in the first two days. The roads in Jiyuan County are not like Li Weimin’s hometown of Jishi County. When I saw rain here, it was muddy and it was another sunny day after the rain. , Can make them suffer.

This is already the tenth day of his patrolling in the countryside. The dozen or so guards behind him are not ordinary government officers, but the guards composed of veterans drawn from the regular army by Ye Zhen. After all, Jiyuan County is a newcomer. However, the policies implemented by the imperial court here violated the interests of many people, and some even offended the other party cleanly, leaving you to die and to survive. These people were originally quite powerful, Han. Naturally, the officials who are unwilling to appoint by themselves have their heads cut off before their buttocks are hot. Even if the murderer is caught afterwards, what will happen? Take precautions, county magistrates like Li Weimin are surrounded by a group of Congshishan. The veteran who crawled out of the blood.

In fact, the worry of the Han court is not unreasonable. Li Weimin went to the countryside for more than ten days and encountered three assassinations. However, in the eyes of these veterans, the assassins were not only unprofessional, but also very clumsy. Just like a little lamb, the largest number of people was only a landlord who was deprived of all the land. He organized dozens of people to pretend to be mountain bandits to assassinate Li Weimin, but a team of dozens of people stood in front of the dozen guards. It's not enough to see, first kill with a long-range weapon, and then leave two people to protect Li Weimin, and the rest rushes up three times five times two, the battle is over, this bold landlord becomes a prisoner, the next thing is naturally natural. It turned out that the landlord had only been seized of the land, and other properties of his family were still there, but he attacked the court commander. Not only was he executed, his family property was confiscated, and all his family members were **** with a rope and given away. To the edge of Liaodong Peninsula.

Han Guo's thunderous actions in Jiyuan County completely detained the careful thoughts of some people who were already ready to move.Since that time, Li Weimin has never encountered another attack.

Spring ploughing is just around the corner. These officials appointed by the Han Kingdom naturally know their mission. They dare not slacken their efforts. Li Weimin has already left most of the county government. He is going to travel all the places under his jurisdiction, so he must make sure. All fields will not be deserted.

In a piece of land on the side of the road, several people were waving their hoes to loosen the soil. Li Weimin approached and saw that they were only two gray-haired old men and women, and a younger woman, and the other two were seven or eight years old. The kid also wielded a wooden stick to hammer the larger soil.

"Old man!" Li Weimin greeted when he went down to the field.

Although Li Weimin's official uniform has no color, but only looking at Li Weimin's attitude and a group of men with knives behind him, he naturally knows that he is not ordinary people, and he quickly lost his **** and knelt down with his knees.

"I have seen a high-ranking official!"

Li Weimin grabbed the old man, "No need to be polite, old man, why don't you have strong labor, just you old and weak women and children?"

The old man sighed a long sigh: "This senior official, don't mention it. Wasn't it a war in the first two years? The boss of the family was conscripted as a soldier. After a battle, he was gone. He left his wife. With two underage dolls, there was originally a son, but after the Qin people occupied it, the younger son was also taken away as a husband. After this walk, there was no more news, and only the house was left. A few of us."

Li Weimin sighed. In the war, the people at the bottom were always the victims. "How much land was allocated to the family this time?"

As mentioned above, the old man's sad face suddenly became excited, and the layers of pleats were opened with a smile at this moment." This time I heard that it was the Zhengdong Army who ran away the Qin. Now we are here. The Eastern Army took charge, and a county magistrate from the Eastern Army came and divided the land for us. This high-ranking official and the little old man planted land for a lifetime, but the former were all planted for others, and the family was exhausted. If you work hard, you can only survive. If there is a disaster year, it will be miserable. Now it is different. My family has five people and has 15 acres of land. The government issued a deed. The land is mine. The old man is more than fifty today. Be careful, and you can live for another ten years. Then the two boys will grow up. The land can be served well. Then the two boys will lean on. Him."

Li Weimin nodded slightly: "Fifteen acres of land, can you finish planting it with just a few of you?"

"Of course I have to finish planting!" The old man puffed up his chest. "Officials don't look at my gray hair, but I still have a lot of strength! The land is not good, and there will be no harvest after autumn. We didn't have the money to buy it. Land, but he signed a contract with the government. At that time, I had to pay a bucket of grain for an acre of land!"

"Then do you think it can be paid?"

"At first sight, this high official is not farming land. It's just a fight. One acre of land can produce a stone of grain. If it is served well, it is possible to turn it over." The old farmer laughed: "The current government is really good, just don't know if they will stay for a long time?"

"Why don't you stay for long? If you feel good, you will naturally stay for a long time!" Li Weimin laughed.

"Of course we think it is very good to conquer the Eastern Army!" The old farmer said heartily.

"Now they are not called the Zhengdong Army. They are now called the Great Han State. These policies are all formulated by the king of the Great Han State." Li Weimin said with a smile.

"Dahan, the old man knows, this big official, we are now citizens of the Han country, right?" the old man asked.

"Should... be it!" Li Weimin was a little uncertain. A few days ago, the announcement about the lease of these areas by Dahan had reached his yamen, and the officials appointed by Daliang would soon arrive in Jiyuan.

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

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