Little Scholar's Circle of Husbands

During the reign of Emperor Liang Jing, that is, Emperor Changping, Daliang was unprecedentedly prosperous, and its actual controllable territory far exceeded that of the previous dynasty. Daliang's caravans could continuously sell silk, tea, and porcelain to the West through the northern Silk Road. Bring back the rich products of the West.

It is also possible to go through the Maritime Silk Road, a huge fleet of three or four ships to Southeast Asia, passing through Java, to Tianzhu, to Aden.

The Zhenpinzhai run by Lu Fangzhou and Yan Yan happened to catch up with such a good time, earning a lot of money every day. At first, Lu Fangzhou would carefully calculate the daily income, but then he became tired, and later Simply throw it to the trusted accountant.

Obediently, if you do your own calculation every day, you won't even be able to guarantee your happiness at night!

Having too much money has its disadvantages. There is nowhere to use it. Even if you use it hard, there is still some left over. You can still buy a house or land. I don’t want the empress to knock on the door in person and protest Lu Fangzhou’s behavior of buying land.

"If you buy it again, will I still be the emperor? There is no land left! There is nowhere to spend money, right? Come, lend me!" The empress raised her eyebrows.

Of course Lu Fangzhou refused to borrow it. Lending it to the Empress means lending it to the treasury. As soon as the treasury changes hands, it will build this and that, and it will not be returned to you in the year of the monkey. He will not repay the loan.

Since he couldn't buy land, Lu Fangzhou had no choice but to focus on another place.

To be honest, he has been thinking about this place for a long time. He finally came to the ancient times. The desert in the north and the sea in the south are clear, so it is time to go out. He has not been to the ancient West and Southeast Asia. , South Asia, what does North Africa look like?

Be sure to check it out!

Lu Fangzhou did what he said. First, he found a group of old men who had traveled to the Western Regions all year round, and asked in detail about the customs of the countries in the Western Regions, how to go along the way, where to rest and so on.

Unexpectedly, it didn't take long to ask, when Yan Yan came over, raising his eyebrows: "Ask about the customs of the Western Regions? I know best, just ask me!"

As he spoke, he sent all the buddies out without any explanation, and then he hugged Lu Fangzhou and began to talk in detail, um!It's quite detailed, that is... the details are the details, what does it mean to have to draw the map on me!

Lu Fangzhou couldn't help but despise him.

However, after meeting Shang Yanyan's smiling eyes, Lu Fangzhou resolutely gave up his contempt, draw, draw, but don't just flirt!

"When did I give up halfway?" Yan Yan looked at Lu Fangzhou with a smile, and acted decisively.

The result of the action was that the customs of the countries in the Western Regions were explained one by one, and Lu Fangzhou was lazy, and he never had a chance to mention going out.

Now Lu Fangzhou was furious, and protested seriously: "Why don't you let me go?"/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

Yan Yan smiled and stroked Lu Fangzhou's back: "It's not that you are not allowed to go, it's just that in the Western Regions, you can only go out for a few months a year. I had to stop halfway, and I can't bear to let you stay in such a cold place for so long."

The word "reluctant" immediately made Lu Fangzhou stop thinking about going to the Western Regions, and he even comforted himself that the sun was very hot during the few months when he could go out, so he must be uncomfortable, so he will not go. up.

Instead of going to the north, Lu Fangzhou put his mind on the south, sailing south, our journey is the stars and the sea, the stars and the sea can still be imagined.

He's been to Mingzhou some time ago. Be good, with so many seagoing ships, sailing will definitely not be a problem.

This time, Yan Yan did not directly deny it, but adopted a curve-saving method: "Go to sea? It's not impossible, but the existing sea-going ships are not strong enough. If you want to go to sea, you have to improve."

What?Does such a large sea-going ship still need improvement?Lu Fangzhou didn't believe it, but soon he believed it.

In the summer of that year, Zhedong Road suffered a once-in-a-century storm. The ships anchored in Mingzhou failed to withstand the storm, and the entire Daliang Southeast Sea Division lost half of its warships.

Misfortunes never come singly, and the Fusang people who have been coveting the prosperity of Daliang took the opportunity to attack Mingzhou, burning, killing and looting along the coast of Eastern Zhejiang Province.

Thanks to the fact that Daliang was in its heyday, Empress Changping immediately mobilized two naval forces from Henan and Huainan to attack the Fusang people. The Fusang people fled hastily in small boats. Half of them died, but the remaining half continued to harass them for revenge in the days to come. sea ​​boat.

Seeing this, Empress Changping knew that a short lesson was not enough to stop the people of Fusang, so she decided to secretly build a new ship that was much larger than the previous warships, and set off to Fusang, and ordered Xu Wen, who was then the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to personally supervise the construction.

Xu Wen is from Yin County, Eastern Zhejiang Province. Yin County is next to Mingzhou. The people of this generation have rich experience in fishing and voyages.

Xu Wen conducted on-the-spot investigations, consulted various opinions, visited a famous shipbuilder in person, and discussed the construction of the new ship with him, and finally finalized the design plan of the new ship half a year later.

Of course, Lu Fangzhou is also responsible for this. He originally wanted to go to sea, but later found that the existing sea-going ships were not strong enough, so he decided to find Xu Wen to study the construction method of the new ship together.

Lu Fangzhou's uncle in his previous life was assigned to the Jiangnan Shipyard when he graduated, which is the one on Changxing Island in Shanghai, and he often went there when he was a child.The Jiangnan Shipyard is large, with complete supporting facilities, and there is also a factory-run kindergarten. My uncle was single at the time, and my grandmother often went to visit him. It was only a month and a half. The kindergarten in the factory can accept short-term children. Garden, Lu Fangzhou also went together.

The classes in the kindergarten are not formal. For a few days, I took a group of children to let them watch the shipbuilding. Although the children are skinny, they like to see the shipbuilding, especially the boys, seeing so many cranes. Transferred, I really like it.

Lu Fangzhou also read some, and remembered some of what he knew half-understood. After communicating with Xu Wen and all the masters, he summed up some of them.

Of course, his conclusion is actually that he proposed a general appearance, and the master craftsmen helped to complete the design, but even so, it is quite helpful for shipbuilding, because the appearance proposed by Lu Fangzhou is basically a pretty good idea. The point of inspiration is the most important thing in designing such a thing. Once you have an idea, how to perfect it is just a matter of time.

Soon the plan came out. The Empress chose three sites along the Yangtze River as shipyards. First, one was moved, and after the first ship was taken out of the dock, construction was started on the next two.

When the first ship came out of the dock, Lu Fangzhou was very excited, as if he saw the child he had raised with his own hands finally grow up, and the empress even sent Jinyang Diji (that is, Sun Minzhi, Er Niu) to preside over it in person.

Er Niu has been nurtured by everyone in the past few years, she has become more and more outstanding, and her bearing is extraordinary. At that stop, the world, the sun and the moon will be overshadowed.

Lu Fangzhou became even more excited, that was also his child and had grown up.

The performance of the warships is very good. This time the formation went to sea, it dealt a heavy blow to the Fusang people. In the next few years, more and more warships went to sea.

Another two years later, the formation of warships was fully formed, and Empress Changping personally led the conquest, and Jinyang Emperor Ji supervised the country. After half a year, Fusang finally surrendered to Daliang.

So far, the sea area of ​​Daliang is completely peaceful.

Lu Fangzhou's dream of sea voyage, which he had dreamed about for many years, finally came true. His fleet of Zhenpinzhai consisted of eight large ships, sixteen medium ships, and thirty small ships.

He and Yan Yan set a time, on August 28, they will go to sea after their birthdays.

Lu Fangzhou's birthday this year is a whole birthday, and many people came to congratulate him, ranging from the prime minister of the dynasty, Xu Wen, the chief assistant of the cabinet, down to the proud disciples of the masters of the Zhou family tea garden in Sheng County.

Lu Fangzhou invited in one by one regardless of the poor or the lowly. The quality of the guests was also high, no matter rich or poor, high or low, everyone happily sat at the same table.

After drinking for three rounds, there was a reward from the Empress, and when the Empress came, Lu Fangzhou rushed out to pick her up, but the second girl had already entered the door with a smile, and she came from the yard reserved for her. Its name is that the daughter pays homage to the father's birthday.

Lu Fangzhou was never pretentious in front of Er Niu, and he followed Er Niu's opinion as soon as she saw her, and said with a smile: "My dear daughter, Daddy misses you."

Er Niu smiled: "I know what Dad wants, so I prepared to come here early in the morning, but there was a little accident."

Lu Fangzhou was surprised, and quickly asked with a smile: "What's the matter?"

Er Niu didn't go into details, she just said: "If someone asks you to borrow a boat to go out to sea, don't lend it to her."

Lu Fangzhou was at a loss when he heard that, so he had to agree first, and he didn't know what Er Niu meant when it was night. The person who asked Lu Fangzhou to borrow the boat was Empress Changping, and it was not for a while, but for a long time.

Empress Changping was tired of being an emperor for more than ten years. Seeing Er Niu grow up, she planned to pass the throne to Er Niu, and took Empress Tai'an out to have fun.

Erniu would not let Empress Changping succeed casually, she still thought about taking over such a tiring job for the emperor in a few years.So first came Lu Fangzhou, who blocked the empress' retreat.

Lu Fangzhou naturally turned his elbow towards his daughter, and shook his head as soon as he heard the empress's request: "No, how can you be the emperor like you, and the second girl is still young? Don't throw the burden on her."

"I know she can handle it, so I let it go. Hey, you have no confidence in your daughter?" The empress urged Lu Fangzhou.

Lu Fangzhou was unmoved: "My daughter is naturally capable, but if she is capable, you can't easily squeeze her."

"The four sides of Liangliang are calmed down, which eye do you see that I am squeezing your daughter?" The empress despised, and looked at Yan Yan, "Hey, just take care of him, it's getting more and more outrageous."

"I think what he said is justified. It's you who is outrageous, Your Majesty." Yan Yan smiled.

The empress hummed when she heard the words, threatened if the lure failed, and raised her eyebrows: "Will you give me the boat or not?"

"No." Lu Fangzhou straightened his back, he must not take a step back for his daughter, even if the other party is the empress.

"Okay, you wait!" The empress left angrily.

Lu Fangzhou waited for ten days. He didn't wait for the empress's revenge at all. Instead, he heard another news. The empress took advantage of these ten days to successfully pass the throne to Er Niu, and then took Princess Tai'an away. In the north, go out of Yangguan, and go to the Western Regions to be free and easy.

I'll go, Lu Fangzhou couldn't help but flip the table, is there such a shameless thing?Hit the east and the west ah ah ah!

Seeing this, Yan Yan smiled, and lightly cheered Lu Fangzhou up: "Okay, Mo Chou, if you worry about it any longer, you will miss the time to go to sea."

"Erniu is alone in court, why do I want to go to sea again?" Lu Fangzhou sighed.

Yan Yan smiled: "My daughter, how can you be bullied at will? Even if you want to, you have to see if we will let you go?"

"Uh...that's true." Lu Fangzhou was still hesitating.

Lu Yan wrapped his arms around Lu Fangzhou and boarded the boat: "Okay, let's go!"

The resounding boat chant was shouted, the sea breeze was coming, and a round of rising sun leaped from the sea level, as if confirming this prosperous and beautiful era. Lu Fangzhou calmed down and took a deep breath. Everything was so beautiful.

The lover is with you, the children are prosperous and healthy, and the happiness of life is really in your arms.

He suddenly remembered the verdict that the judge gave him in his life back then, half a life of glory and power over the world, is that the case?Lu Fangzhou couldn't help but smile.

Yan Yan lowered his head and smiled and asked, "Why are you so happy?"

Lu Fangzhou smiled without answering, just staring at Yan Yan, it is really a great blessing to be able to join hands with this person in this life.

Yan Yan understood: "Me too, it is a great honor to have you in this life."

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