Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

"How many days will it take to arrive in Minzhou?" Li Xu asked Kou Xiao.

"Three days, if the weather is fine."

Li Xu originally thought that after three days, he would be able to lie comfortably on the bed in the palace and sleep in the dark, but it turned out that it would rain every day for the next three days. , and played it endlessly, killing a group of northern men.

The roads in South Vietnam are all muddy roads. When it rains for a long time, the roads become a combination of mud puddles. After a few steps, you can get muddy on your feet. The muddy shoes are damp and heavy, and you can't go fast.

As one of the disadvantaged groups, Ji Hanyu is sitting in the carriage, and he is the only one who sighs to Chunyu every time: "If there is so much rain in the Northland, why worry about the lack of grain storage."

When Li Xu heard this sentence by chance, he asked in surprise, "Master Ji still understands farming."

Ji Hanyu replied sickly: "I don't really understand it. I just read a few agricultural books. After I came out of the academy, I still had some money. I wanted to buy a few acres of land and become a farmer."

Li Xu glanced at his sickly body, and thought to himself: Let Ji Hanyu go to farm, I'm afraid there will be no crops. Fortunately, he was saved by kindness, otherwise he would starve to death within two years.

Li Xu brought him to South Vietnam, he felt a sense of responsibility, so he said, "When everything settles down, I will give you a few acres of fertile land and let you become a wealthy little landlord."

"The little boy thanked the lord in advance. I don't know if the lord has thought about the future. Along the way, you have met the poverty in South Vietnam, and you have also met the barbarians in the mountains and the sea. If you want to get rich in South Vietnam , it's not easy."

Seeing that he was talking about business, Li Xu asked him very seriously: "Master Ji thinks, what is the most important thing for the common people to be rich and stable?" Maybe it can be cultivated to the top.

"Scholars, farmers, and businessmen must be clean and honest, farmers must have enough food and clothing, workers must innovate, and businesses must benefit the people and the country. Of course, all of these must rely on a wise and capable monarch. With the ability of the prince, given time, South Vietnam will surely have Another look."

"You trust me a lot."

Ji Hanyu blushed slightly, "Ahem, the lord is the heir apparent of a country, but he came to South Vietnam only after being troubled by villains. You are a talent for governing the country. This place is too small for you."

"Then what if the territory of South Vietnam can't accommodate my grand ambitions?" It was the first time Li Xu showed his ambition in front of outsiders, and he meant to test Ji Hanyu.

I saw the little master laughed, and said more wildly than Li Xu, "It should be like this, Nanyue is too young, not worthy of your identity and talent." He looked at Li Xu with piercing eyes, his eyes were shining Star-like brilliance, "His Royal Highness will expand the territory and conquer the world in the future, and he will be a generation of Mingjun."

"Stop it," Li Xu said, "Don't put a high hat on me, no matter how nice you say, I won't give you a monthly salary increase. You should rest well. When you arrive in Minzhou, my master will do my best to serve my king." Served."

"Here."

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It took one day longer than expected, and Li Xu and his party arrived at Minzhou City. They were exhausted, and when they saw the tower, a group of elders almost wept with joy.

This long journey has finally reached the end, Li Xu doesn't know if this is the end of his life, maybe it is.

The first thing he said after getting off the car was to Kou Xiao, "Little Kou, let's fix the road first."

Kou Xiao was not used to this address, so he bit the bullet and pushed back, "My lord, I have no money."

Li Xu sighed quietly, "Then let's make money first."

Kou Xiao only thinks that he is daydreaming, there are really no business opportunities in South Vietnam, and because the roads are difficult, merchants from the north are not willing to come here at all, and the goods from the south cannot be sold, so there is no way to make money.

He was afraid that Li Xu would go crazy thinking about money, and that it would be the common people who would suffer in the end, so he changed the subject and asked, "My lord, let's go to Kou's house for a few days, and wait for the rain to stop, then I will immediately call craftsmen to repair the palace."

Li Xu really wanted to go back and start the sugar business right away. After a while, the sugar cane in the field would be rotten. A shelter from the wind and rain will do, and I’ve come here with food, food and dew in the open, so this king will be at peace with whatever comes his way.”

Kou Xiao doesn't believe this. He has seen Li Xu's obsession with cleanliness in the past few days. He has to drink boiled water, hot rice, and delicious soup. I don't want to eat hard rice cakes even if I make pancakes by hand. Such a delicate prince can call his mother's shit as he encounters!

"Then I will take you to identify the door." Anyway, when King Shun sees the palace, he will know how difficult it is to have a few houses that are sheltered from the wind and rain.

The last king of Nanyue has passed away for more than ten years. Because there is no successor, the palace has been abandoned for more than ten years. In the past ten years, the palace has been used as a refuge for the Kou family to resettle disaster victims. In addition, there are always people sneaking around. Go to the palace to steal firewood for a fire, or steal tiles to build a roof at home, or move a flowerpot today and a chair tomorrow, and over the years, the gate of the palace will be lost.

Standing in front of the palace with a missing door, Li Xu stared at the stone lion with a missing leg in front of the door, then glanced at the gate occupied by spider webs, then turned to Kou Xiao and said, "This king thinks there are still many I want to tell General Kou, why don't we have a long talk tonight!"

Kou Xiao didn't know what he thought of, his eyes lit up, and he said happily: "That would be great, the general will sweep the couch to welcome you." Along the way, Kou Xiao can't forget Li Xu's fragrance and soft waist , I dream of wanting to hug him at a close distance again, and smell where the vague fragrance comes from.

Of course, he has no further thoughts for the time being. He has heard too many dirty jokes in the military camp. He has never been attracted to any woman. Let him understand what it's like to have Ruanxiang in his arms.

Once a man is enlightened, it is easy to be distracted. Whenever Kou Xiao is in the same space with Li Xu, he can't help but be distracted. He wants to get close to him, to get close to him, to smell if the fragrance on his body has changed, to touch him. The flesh on his body was still not that soft.

The team diverted to Kou Mansion.Kou's Mansion is not far from the Wang's Mansion, only two streets away, but it occupies a larger area than the Wang's Mansion, the entire street is Kou's territory.

Li Xu's face was unpredictable, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he asked, "How many people are there in General Kou's family?"

Kou Xiao replied honestly: "The Kou family has a simple population. The grandparents are still alive, but my father has passed away, leaving only my mother and a few aunts and sisters."

Li Xu thought he would hear a huge number, but he didn't expect the Kou family's population to be so simple, wouldn't the big yard on this street be more than half empty?

Li Xu's heart moved. He is short of money now, so he definitely can't afford to build a house. With the remaining money, he still needs to build a sugar factory. If he can get a few houses from Kou's house, it will solve the problem for a while. Urgent.

With such calculations in his heart, Li Xu became more and more kind, "This is the first time I came to the door, and this king didn't prepare a serious gift. I'm really rude, Xiao Liu." He called Liu Shu over, "You send the county magistrate Qiao I took out the box of pearls I owned and gave them to Mrs. Kou and the others to make jewelry."

Liu Shu hesitated and said: "But the lord..." Before he finished speaking, he saw Li Xu winking at him, suddenly realized, and said happily: "Yes, I will go get it now, the pearls in that box are all shining. It is most suitable for the ladies."

In fact, because the box of pearls was the least practical, they sold some of them intermittently on the way, saying it was a box, but in fact there was only half a box left.

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As soon as the convoy entered this street, the Kou family got the news. The whole family was waiting at the door together. Li Xu looked around and felt that the gate that was more than ten meters wide was about to be squeezed through.

This is what Kou Xiao said about simplicity, he really is too naive.

When he got closer, Li Xu found that almost all the people standing at the door were women. An old man was sitting on the chair in the front, followed by an old housekeeper, and the rest were all women.

Li Xuliang's eyes were dizzy, there was a large crowd of red, green and green, and he didn't even see a face clearly.

Kou Xiao got off his horse and went up first, saluted the elders, and said: "Aweng, my grandson is back." Then he introduced Li Xu to them, "This is King Shun, who is also the king of Nanyue. When you arrive in the fief, you will stay at our house tonight."

He had sent someone back to tell the news before, so the Kou family was not surprised at all, and they saluted in a polite manner. Li Xu asked them to get up, and then gave them the half box of pearls, and said sincerely and movingly: "On the way! Thanks to General Kou for saving me, otherwise I would have died on the way. I will not be able to repay this kindness for saving my life. I am a newcomer here, and I don’t even have a place to stay. I am really ashamed to bother you all. "

The old man of the Kou family had a fiery temper, and retorted coldly: "Don't dare to be, you are the king of South Vietnam, and the Kou family are all your retainers. You can live as long as you like."

Li Xu just acted as if he couldn't hear the sarcasm in his words, and replied cheekily: "Then thank you, Master Kou."

Li Xu and his party followed Kou Xiao into the door, while the Habayashi Army went to the barracks outside the city to settle down, and sent Li Xu safely to Minzhou. Their mission was over, and they could leave for Beijing at any time, but no one said that. Mentioned, Lin Zhao only said that the journey was long and difficult, and they had to rest in Fujian for a period of time.

Li Xu didn't let them go. At that time on the mountain, dozens of people suffered injuries of varying degrees. These injuries are usually nothing, but the rainy weather will always affect their recovery. If they don't take good care of their bodies, this I don't know how many lives will be lost on the way back.

It's not a problem to have a group of people blocking the door. Kou Xiao took the lead and invited Li Xu to come in, "My lord, please come in. Kou's mansion is simple and poor, and it can't compare to the palace compound. Please bear with me if you don't like it."

Li Xu looked up at the high lintel. The plaque hanging in the middle reads "General Kou's Mansion". He was a little curious about the origin of this plaque. The Kou family guarded South Vietnam for generations. Shou, then where did the general's mansion come from?

At this moment, Li Xu was sure that the Kou family was a family with a story, so he wondered whether his friendship with the Kou family would last forever.

He glanced at Kou Xiao from the corner of his eye, and he knew in his heart that conquering Kou Xiao was equivalent to conquering the Kou family, and his position in South Vietnam would be stable, so he had to take down this person.