Vol 2 Chapter 1158: Finale (9)

Brother Xuan was caught by the king of Lu Liuli. He forgot to eat and sleep every day, making his eyes flushed.
Liu Zhao was distressed.
He pointed at his son Liu Li and cursed Liu Li for having no conscience and squeezing the child.
Brother Xu is just the age of growing body, how can he stay up all night every day.
Liu Li was scolded with a dumb face, and sought comfort from his mother.
"The father really has grandchildren but no sons. It's too partial."
Gu Jiu couldn't help but laugh, "Your father has always been partial."
This is too heartbreaking.
Gu Jiu will continue to sprinkle salt on his wounds, "You are not as likable as Brother Xuan, and the elder brother is not too young, but he still depends on his parents. It is inevitable that your father is partial."
Lu Wang Liu Li wanted to vomit blood.
"Does the queen hate her son?"
"Of course this palace doesn't despise you, but if you don't return to Beijing, your father will personally come forward to drive people out."
"The son wanted to be filial behind his father and mother, but he was also rejected by the father. The father is too critical."
"It is enough to have brother Xuan to do his filial piety in front of us! You are indeed not as caring as Brother Xuan."
Lu Wang Liu Li wet his clothes with tears.
so poor!
So wronged!
So helpless!
Being disliked by the father and the queen is not as likable as the nephew.
Huh huh!
Lu Wang Liuli held the cold gaze of the Supreme Emperor Liu Zhao, cheeky and stayed for another month.
There are still two months before the New Year, and finally I have an idea.
He ran to the father and the queen mother and said, "My son wants to accompany you to celebrate the New Year. He will leave for Beijing when the spring begins."
Liu Zhao was particularly disgusted and waved, "Hurry up, go quickly! Write a letter if you have something to do in the future, don't appear suddenly."
Disliked again.
Liu Li looked at the mother's queen eagerly.
Gu Jiu smiled and said: "Business matters are important, and there will still be opportunities to visit the mountains and rivers in the future. When you make the results, my palace and your father will return to Beijing to celebrate for you."
"The son is waiting for his father and queen in the capital."
Lu Wang Liu Li packed his luggage and set off for Beijing.
Brother Xu sent him out of the city.
"Uncle has a good journey!"
"Honor your grandfather and grandmother, don't be naughty."
"My nephew listens to my uncle."
Sending away Wang Lu Liuli, the grandparents and grandchildren began to busy the New Year.
All kinds of lavender, hung under the eaves, in rows, look extraordinarily rich.
They are crowded.
The lavender made a thousand catties.
The butcher shop in the city knows their family.
With such a large population, they can still eat meat every day.
After the Chinese New Year, Qingming came in a blink of an eye.
Brother Xu personally fried two pots of tea to honor his grandparents.
With the Mingqian tea, Gu Jiu and Liu Zhao decided to go to the border to take a look.
When he heard that he was going to the border, Brother Xuan jumped with excitement.
He has always kept the idea of ​​going overseas to fight.
Continue south along the official road.
All the way, there are mountain roads.
It is not easy to be able to open an official road with three carriages side by side in such a place.
The money spent is astronomical.
The most intuitive benefit of the road opening is that there are many more pedestrians in the past, and the flow of goods is convenient.
Many merchants who make North and South goods take the initiative to buy local products.
The local Xiaomin sold his own dry and mountain products to the merchants, and the family finally had some income. They could buy two or two salt and three feet of cloth to make a new garment.
Brother Xuan asked curiously, "Is there no Sihai meat and vegetable shop in the local area? Why are some merchants buying mountain products."
Gu Jiu told him, "Sihai Meat and Vegetable Shop has set up two points at the toll booth. The output here is limited, and the guy usually enters the mountain once every six months. You see, the mountains are steep here, and every time you enter the mountain, it is not easy. A trip to the mountain takes as little as one month, or as long as three months to get out of the mountain.
Not everyone is willing to wait for the folks from Sihai Meat and Vegetable Shop to pick up the goods. Moreover, the market for agricultural and sideline products cannot be monopolized by Sihai meat and vegetable shops, and it is always necessary to give other traders a way to survive. In any industry, people will hate eating alone. You have to make a living, you have to learn how to distribute the benefits. "
Brother Xuan thoughtfully.
Liu Zhao interjected, "Listen to your grandmother's right. It is about the distribution of benefits. In the world, your grandmother recognizes the number two, and no one dares to recognize the number one. Every shock in the court is ultimately a redistribution of benefits. Why? To the owner, not to the West? Why give to the surnamed Li and not to the Zhao? Are they inferior to others? Not so! But to the owner, to the surname Li, in order to maximize the benefits and benefit more More people are more conducive to the promotion of the system."
Brother Xuan suddenly realized.
Gu Jiu was very straightforward and immediately assigned him his homework, "On the word'interest', write a policy theory. Hand in homework within half a month."
"Grandson obeys!"
When I arrived at the border town, I realized that this place is already a bustling commercial town.
Merchants, literati and inkmen, unidentified people, people who flee here with a lawsuit, and the military forces who come and go, the three religions and nine generations gather once.
A small border town with a population of only a thousand people, because of the opening of the cement road to overseas, it was forced to become a border trade center.
Just as the fruits are on the market, Brother Xuan eats every day.
Sure enough, it was a half-and-a-half son.
With just this amount of food, a slightly poorer family simply cannot afford it.
Small landlord families, faced with such an appetite, have to be frustrated.
Brother Xuan was not content to go to the market to buy fruit to eat, and led people to the orchard and climbed directly onto the tree to eat fresh fruit.
Come back at night and bring back a few game dishes.
The guard reported that Gu Jiu and Liu Zhao realized that this kid not only climbed trees to eat fruit, but also went into the mountains to eat game. He chopped down three poisonous snakes and went down the mountain with game, and he was still screaming.
When they heard a poisonous snake, Gu Jiu and Liu Zhaoton jumped.
"This kid is too wild! I don't know how many times he is wilder than Lao Tzu."
"He dared to chop the poisonous snake casually. It's really angry."
Liu Zhao exhaled and ran to teach Brother Xuan. He was also worried about Brother Xuan's comfort.
Brother Huang lowered his head to admit his mistake, and Liu Zhao immediately relented and told him not to go into the mountains to play game, and there was no other punishment.
Gu Jiu rolled his eyes, duplicating old man.
He was so fierce before that when he saw his grandson, he was so gentle and disgusting that he was reluctant to punish the grandson.
Gu Jiu wouldn't be soft-hearted, "Think about it behind closed doors for half a month, and think about what went wrong."
"Oh!"
Brother Xuan honestly went back to the room and thought behind closed doors.
Upon seeing this, Liu Zhao was distressed.
"Thinking behind closed doors for half a month, are you punishing too harshly?"
Gu Jiu stretched out his finger and poked it on his head, "Are you confused? The thunder is heavy and the rain is small. No matter if you teach me, I still dare to say that I am too ruthless. Believe it or not, even you will be punished. ."
Letter letter letter!
How dare Liu Zhao not believe it.
Never disobey the decision of the empress dowager.
"It's all up to you. Whatever you say is what you say. You said to fine him half a month is half a month, and fine him one month is one month. I have no objection."
Liu Zhao was very persuaded.
Gu Jiu laughed, "You just spoil him too much, you can't do this in the future."
"That won't work! We sing the white face alone and the red face alone. We can't all be ferocious. That will hurt Brother Xuan."
Gu Jiu couldn't laugh or cry, "You didn't say that when teaching a few children back then."
"That's different. Brother Xuan is a grandson, not a son. How can those brats compare to Brother Xuan."
Got it!
This is my father, he didn't run away.
Liu Zhao was too disgusted with his son, and he was a treasure to his grandson.
Typical double standard!
After staying in the border town for a month, he officially left.
Following the departure of the Queen Mother and the Supreme Emperor, a decree of the Queen Mother was sent to the branch office of the prefecture.
A few days later, Fucheng Shaofu dispatched all over the place, took the embroidered clothing guards to the pass of the town, smashed the frontier staff to the end, and arrested them all and took them back for interrogation.
In particular, if you dare to reach out to tariffs, you must be prepared to die.
In order to take care of the hard working environment at the border, the Shaofu paid high salaries to the border staff, and there were also generous bonuses at the end of the year.
One year's income can catch up with a year's decent income of a first-grade member.
With such a high income, I still don't forget to reach out to the tariff, but I even hit the hands of the empress dowager.
After leaving the customs, I encountered many caravans carrying supplies along the way.
Sanhe Express is the main force.
In order to ensure the safety of such overseas cargo transportation, firms usually entrust Sanhe Express.
Although Sanhe express charges are expensive, it is guaranteed.
If the goods are robbed and cause losses, Sanhe Express will compensate according to the tax value.
"This concrete road leading to the sea is much more lively than I expected."
Gu Jiu thought that there would be very few people walking along this road, and the most would be caravans.
Walking along the way, I found not only the caravans going north and south, but also many local people, rich masters.
The closer you are to the town, the more people on both sides of the road will hawk along the street.
Gu Jiu sighed, "I thought the local aborigines were full of hatred for Dazhou people, but I didn't expect to see a scene of peaceful years."
Brother Xuan spent a few days inquiring outside and frequently contacted the locals, but asked him to find out many things.
"The small people who set up stalls along the street can basically speak a few words in Chinese. They specialize in the business of Dazhou people. The overseas branch runs a free elementary school, and local children can study for free. This is quite popular."
"The grandson also heard that the overseas camp held the first imperial examination last year, and local scholars flocked to register. The overseas camp promised that as long as they can get the fame as a scholar, they can work in the camp and eat official meals. Those with excellent grades will be recommended. Go to the Jingcheng Shanhe Academy to study. These two items alone are very attractive to local scholars."
"One more thing, the Sun family was ordered by the emperor's grandmother to promote Han culture overseas over the years, with outstanding achievements. In the eyes of local scholars, he is already a saint-like figure and highly respected."
After listening to Brother Xu's inquiries, Gu Jiu and Liu Zhao did not rush to the camp.
I searched for a town and rented an inn.
The husband and wife, dressed as businessmen, wandered around all day.
Markets, villages, farmland, mines, schools...
It has been operating overseas for many years and its achievements are obvious to all.
"In another ten years, when these children who have received Chinese cultural education grow up, they will be able to formally incorporate overseas camps into the imperial court, and establish an official government here."
Liu Zhao nodded repeatedly, "There can be five counties and twenty state capitals."
"You have taken too much this step. Setting up a county and a state capital should not be rushed. You have to take your time. First set up one or two state capitals and test them for three to five years to ensure that they can replace overseas camps before discussing setting up a county. Just stay away from here. The capital is a wild land in people's minds, and the place of exile, I am afraid no one wants to be an official here."
"When your "Wonderful People and Strange Tans" are published, there will always be someone who will be tempted. You can also attract a group of people by raising their salary."
Gu Jiu sought stability and didn't want to cause chaos here, "Think about this matter again, don't worry."
They went to the camp.
This is the first time since going out to play.
The camp is like an enemy, like walking on thin ice.
How come the Supreme Emperor and Empress Dowager!
Security is the top priority, if something happens, that's terrible.
There is a lot of pressure up and down the camp, and all worry about security.
It turned out that the population close to Dazhou has always been relatively close to Dazhou. After years of intensive cultivation overseas, it slowly accepted Dazhou people and took the initiative to learn Dazhou dialects and Dazhou etiquette. Scholars are also willing to work in the camp.
Therefore, Gu Jiu and the others have seen a scene of peaceful years.
After the camp, continue to the south, the closer to the sea, the more resistance to the Great Zhou.
Half of the army was sent out to quell the chaos.
Some time ago, some people created an atmosphere of terror in the town where the camp was located.
Three days before Gu Jiu and Liu Zhao arrived, Xingying had just cut down a group of anti-thief. The smell of blood in the city has not disappeared.