Xue Pan took Daiyu and Mrs. Xue to Ningbo to take office.

The port of Ningbo was used before, but it was abandoned again following the strategy of banning the sea.Many households have been relocated, and now it is sparsely populated and barren, and everything needs to be rebuilt by Xue Pan himself.

Regarding Ningbo's government affairs, the emperor gave Xue Pan the authority, allowing Xue Pan to specialize on his own.

Xue Pan promulgated the first government decree that no land tax would be levied on the land boundary of Ningbo for three years.The second government decree states that the government will build a wharf in Ningbo. Instead of sending corvees, the government will hire migrant workers to build it. The government will manage three meals a day. Depending on the type of work, there will be different remunerations available, ranging from [-] Wen to [-] Wen. wait.

Many residents who had moved inland before saw that they were exempted from taxes and no corvee, and they all moved back one after another, and even people from several nearby counties and cities moved here.Many families with surplus labor went to the wharf to find work.

Xue Pan was busy building the wharf, building a warehouse next to the wharf, and formulating tax regulations.

And Jia Lian recruited new members of the navy with his original navy team. Old brothers like Jing Ji who followed Jia Lian also had official positions this time.After Jia Lian recruited the sailors, he began to train the sailors, sailed from Ningbo port, and wiped out the pirates on the route.

According to Daqing's agricultural tax and commercial tax, as well as foreign trade profits, Xue Pan tentatively imposed a [-]% tax on ordinary commercial goods.As long as you pay taxes, you can enjoy the protection of all merchants from the government and navy in Ningbo.

Ningbo allowed private merchants to trade with foreigners.Although you have to pay [-]% of the commercial tax, if you use the warehouse, you have to pay the lease fee, but when you trade with foreign countries, including pepper, glass, porcelain, tea, etc., once you change hands, the profit will not exceed three times or even ten times.Moreover, there are sailors here, and the sailors are constantly swimming and patrolling the sea, which also ensures the safety of the merchants.

Non-governmental businessmen naturally flocked.

Foreigners see that the trading here in Ningbo is much more free than that in Guangzhou, and they don’t reject foreigners. Foreigners are allowed to trade in the mutual market, and they can even go ashore in Ningbo and live in the city. Therefore, foreigners choose Ningbo more. Carry out commerce and trade.For a time, Ningbo port business became popular.

The port of Ningbo was opened, and the policy of banning seas was cancelled. Merchants in Daqing began to build ships, and wanted to go to foreign countries to do business.

After Xue Pan knew about it, he naturally strongly supported it, opened a shipyard in Ningbo, started building ships, and sold or leased them to merchants in Daqing.

In two years, Ningbo has changed from a deserted town to a prosperous city that is no less prosperous than a prefectural city.There are many shops, large and small businesses have sprung up like mushrooms after the spring rain. Commercial firms from all walks of life have established stations in Ningbo, and various factories have also opened up near Ningbo.

With the development of Ningbo, more and more merchants are pouring in, and the commercial tax received by Ningbo is also increasing year after year.In the second year after the opening of the port, Ningbo already collected 500 million taels of business tax a year, which was more than enough for water breeders, and it could also pay 300 million taels of tax to the imperial court every year.

The difference between Ningbo and the outside is that there are some tall-nosed, deep-eyed, blond and blue-eyed foreign people everywhere.Here in Ningbo, men and women are very weak. It is common for women to go to the streets or do business.This phenomenon, along with the development of Ningbo, has spread to all parts of Daqing.

The emperor received Xue Pan's memorial and saw the development of Ningbo, he couldn't help clapping his hands in admiration, and praised: "Xue Qing is really my minister!"

Because of the smooth development of Ningbo, in the following five years, the emperor successively opened ports such as Xiamen, Fuzhou, and Shanghai. For details, refer to the policies formulated by Ningbo.

However, Ningbo is one of the most prosperous coastal cities in Daqing because it was the first to open the port.

To straighten out official affairs, Xue Pan often took Daiyu out for a stroll in his free time.Sometimes they would board a merchant ship and travel around the coastal waters or even the Zhenzhen and Qianxiang countries.They put on exotic clothes and wandered in a land that is completely different from Daqing's environment.

Daiyu looked at the things outside, very curious.After all, she usually stayed at home before and rarely went out.

Daiyu didn't expect that now she can go out freely without wearing a veil, and what she could only see in the storybook before, now appears in front of her.

Visiting the mountains and rivers of Daqing, looking at the turbulent and endless sea, admiring the exotic scenery, and experiencing the various states of life, Daiyu's state of mind has changed a lot from the original one. She no longer sticks to the inner house, but looks at the wider world.

Daiyu likes to write some poems, and puts them in a box in her room after she finishes writing.

One day when Daiyu finished writing and didn't put it away, Xue Pan accidentally saw it.

Daiyu's poems are full of inspiration, unlike Xue Pan's own poems. Although he can also write poems, they are full of craftsmanship.

However, Daiyu's poems are romantic, unique, romantic and colorful. At the beginning, they were a little sad and sad, but later they became more open and romantic, and the romantic and romantic remained unchanged.

Xue Pan was fascinated by watching, but he didn't expect Daiyu to come back and see him.She hastily pulled her poems out of Xue Pan's hand, and said to Xue Pan angrily, "How did you find them all?"

Xue Pan embraced Daiyu from behind, and said with a smile, "My lady's poems are so good, why are they kept in the box so they don't see the light of day?"

While sorting out the poems, Daiyu asked playfully, "Do you think my poems are good?"

Xue Pan put his head on Daiyu's shoulder, and sincerely boasted: "It's better than the number one scholar, and it's not as good as the ten number one scholar!"

Daiyu said in embarrassment: "It's just random writing, how can it be as good as you say? You're making me happy again."

Xue Pan released Daiyu, walked in front of Daiyu, held down Daiyu's hand, took the poem manuscript away from Daiyu's hand, looked at Daiyu sincerely and said: "This is my truth, my wife will do it. His poems are indeed much better than mine."

Daiyu smiled and said, "Then I would like to thank my husband for your compliment."

Holding the manuscript in his hand, Xue Pan re-read the poems word by word, but still couldn't bear to return them to Daiyu, and let Daiyu put them back in the box, where they were buried without being known to the world.

Xue Pan put the manuscript on the desk, sat in the chair in front of the desk, pulled Daiyu over, let her sit side by side with him, wrapped her in his arms, looked at the manuscript on the desk, He asked, "Yu'er, do you want these poems to be published and let the world know?"

Daiyu was surprised after hearing this, and said, "How can the words of the boudoir be spread outside?"

Xue Pan persuaded: "Yu'er, look at the world outside today, is it still the same as before? Women don't have to be confined in the inner house. Your poems are far better than most men. I can't bear to let you They don't see the light of day in this pile of old papers."

Daiyu still hesitated.

Xue Pan knew what Daiyu was worried about, and continued to persuade: "The world is very harsh on women, and it is easy to cause trouble when women's poems are spread. Yu'er, you can get an alias, and I will operate it. I will not let these poems and You connect. Since the Song Dynasty, there has been a school of gracefulness in poetry, and the style of writing focuses on the style of children, and your poems are not feminine when you put them in it."

Xue Pan pulled out the poems written by Daiyu in the last year and pointed them to Daiyu: "Besides, your poems have been open and generous in the past year. As long as you don't say anything, who can recognize you as a woman?"

After Xue Pan finished speaking, he sighed again: "It's just like this, as long as the atmosphere in this world is like this, no one will know that these poems were written by you, and you will be wronged."

Daiyu saw that Xue Pan was really wronged for her, and said in her heart: "My husband, you don't have to feel wronged for me. I don't care about fame and wealth. Since you are thinking about Zhou Xiang, it's okay to publish these things."

Xue Pan knew that Daiyu didn't care about these vain names, but he did. He really hoped that one day, the world would know that these peerless poems were all made by Daiyu.

Xue Pan thought of the direction he and Baochai were working towards, and he believed that there would be such a day.

Xue Pan asked, "Yu'er, what name do you think of?"

Daiyu couldn't think of it for a while, so she smiled and said, "Husband, please help me get one."

Xue Pan thought of what was said in the Dream of Red Mansions that Daiyu was transformed by the celestial crimson bead grass, and his heart moved, and he said, "Why don't you call her a layman of crimson bead."

When Daiyu heard the word Jiangzhu, she felt a sense of intimacy in her heart, so she naturally agreed.

Xue Pan and Daiyu picked out some sensitive poems in the manuscript that might reveal Daiyu's identity, and then Xue Pan copied the rest of the poems in Guange style, left the original manuscript for Daiyu, and copied the poems he copied. Take it out.

Xue Pan went to his bookstore, stared at it personally, printed twenty volumes of poems and put them in the bookstore.

Ningbo is now a mixed bag, and business exchanges are extremely frequent every day. If there is a collection of poems in Ningbo, as long as your bookstore pushes that you don’t know whose poems are written, it will be difficult to find the source.

Occasionally, some literati discovered this poem, and they were shocked by heaven and man, and they recited it to each other.

For a time, Layman Jiangzhu's poems became popular in Daqing, and everyone was proud of reciting Layman Jiangzhu's poems.

Everyone in the world guesses who the layman Jiangzhu is.Some people speculated that it was a woman, because some of the words contained delicate emotions, full of boudoir feelings; some people said it was a man, because some of the words were full of pride.There are different opinions and no consensus.

Literati always disdain women, and finally believe that Layman Jiangzhu is a passionate man.Because I don't know the identity of the layman Jiangzhu, it adds a sense of mystery to her and is admired by many.Her poems are also very popular in the boudoir.

Sometimes when Daiyu went out, her face would turn red when she heard other people's compliments on Layman Jiangzhu.Later, Daiyu heard a lot, and heard many different versions of guesses about the identity of the layman Jiangzhu, all of which were wild and unreliable, and each one was more unreliable than the other. Daiyu admired the imagination of these people, so she completely ignored it.

However, Daiyu didn't care about these anymore.

Two years after Daiyu arrived in Ningbo, she became pregnant again. She conceived in October and gave birth to a son.

Xue Pan remembered his promise to Daiyu at the beginning, and named him and Daiyu's second son Qian, and Daiyu's surname was Lin, called Lin Qian, and he would inherit the incense of the Lin family from now on.

Daiyu was grateful to see that Xue Pan had actually kept his promise.In this world, there are not many men who can do this for a woman.How lucky she was to meet one.

Seeing Daiyu looking at him with tears of gratitude, Xue Pan hugged Daiyu into his arms, and the two of them looked at Brother Qian who was sleeping soundly on the bed: "Brother Jin and Brother Qian, no matter what their surnames are, they are both You and my son, to me they are the same."

Three years later, Daiyu gave birth to a daughter.

When Xue Pan had a daughter, he immediately forgot about the two brats, Brother Jin and Brother Qian, and spent his free time every day with Daiyu and his own daughter.

Xue Pan named his daughter Xue Yu, a small name.It's not for any other reason, it's because this kid doesn't know who he looks like, and he really loves to talk.She was not yet one year old, and when she couldn't speak, she babbled all day long.When she learned to speak, besides sleeping, she talked non-stop every day.

Xue Pan simply named her Xue Yu.When Daiyu heard that Xue Pan was named, she couldn't help giving Xue Pan a look, thinking that he was too narrow-minded.

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