"Xuzhou is just a good place to be born, and he also caught the good opportunity. He just seized the two important places in Huaibei and Huainan, Shouzhou and Xuzhou, one is a granary and the other is an iron-producing place. Otherwise, with his military power, how could he be able to afford it?"

Liu Yong still couldn't help but "slander" his future "son-in-law". He didn't think Jiang Feng could refuse this marriage. With his younger sister's appearance, demeanor and wisdom, it would not be an exaggeration to be a prince as a wife. However, the royal family is worthless now and worthless.

"Haha, brother, you're a little jealous. Shouzhou was originally a granary, but why didn't Wu know to annex and develop it and let it wander outside the country?" Liu Yu glanced at his brother's facial expression, and was a little interesting. "And the yellow porcelain kiln in Shouzhou was also rebuilt at Jiang Feng's hands. It has become a major specialty in Shouzhou. It's best-selling in the Central Plains and is also very popular in our Nanyang. It can't be faked, right? Xuzhou iron smelting industry has long existed, and it has a longer history than our Nanyang, but the output and quality? It's far less than us, but now it's under Jiang Feng's hands, it's completely reborn. Isn't this Jiang Feng's ability? Brother, we have to face up to our shortcomings and correct them in order to catch up with the other party, avoid medical treatment, and cover up the ears and steal bells, which is useless."

Liu Yong looked at his little sister with a smile and smiled slightly: "Little sister, are you starting to defend my future sister-in-law? I am really worried that you will marry, can we still talk to our Liu family? Don't stand tilted."

Unpredictable, Liu Yu's face turned red when he was stabbed like this by his brother. Yingting's face suddenly became a little embarrassed, but immediately looked resentful, "Brother, you have to speak with conscience. This marriage was caused by your instigation of your father. I never thought about getting married, so why are you sarcasticating your younger sister now?"

"Haha, little sister, you really didn't want to get married before, so you didn't want to marry mediocre people, but is Jiang Feng a mediocre person? You are always showing your own eyes for him, what else can you say?" Liu Yong sighed with emotion: "This girl is outgoing, and this is true."

"Brother!" Liu Yuzhen was a little annoyed, and he squeezed the horse's belly hard, and the strong horse galloped out and ran forward.

Liu Yong shook his head. Having said that, if Liu Yu married Jiang Feng, he could indeed greatly improve Nanyang's strategic situation. Even if it was just a gesture, it would force the Shatu people to consider threats from the east when they rode south. This restraint would force the Shatu people to station heavy troops in the east to prevent accidents.

After urging the horse to catch up, the group headed towards the south gate of Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is the eastern transportation hub of the Central Plains. Businesses and travelers from south to north, from east to west gather here, while Sishui and the ancient Bian River meet here, making it the most important water and land port between the Huanghuai River.

Liu Yong and his party came from the direction of Guangzhou. Instead of taking a boat, they rode horses through the state and crossed the county.

They stayed in Shouzhou for a day and observed the situation of Xuzhou's most important commercial city in Huainan.

The prosperity of Shouzhou made Liu Yong and Liu Ju shocked him.

They found on the market that there were many merchants with accents of Bianluo in the Central Plains, and the city was still expanding rapidly. The main reason was that a large number of exiled gentry and merchants from the Central Plains chose this place as their living place, which made Shouzhou usher in another period of great development.

The local government also actively promoted the expansion of the city, and removed the city walls on the southwest side to expand along the Huai River and Feishui. The newly built houses were lined up one after another, especially the areas of Dongtai Lake and Daogong Temple. It was originally in the wilderness, but now it has become the favorite settlement area for wealthy families from Bianluo. A large number of wealthy families from Bianliang and Luoyang have set up houses here. One house is more luxurious and elegant than the other. It is impossible to tell that this is a group of people who have just escaped.

In the dock area north of Shouchun City, this place is the busiest area in the Huai River. Liu Yong and Liu Zuo made preliminary estimates that there were more than a thousand teachers who were transporting and working in the dock area alone. There were at least dozens of dock areas built along the Huai River. There have been some professional dock divisions, such as special grain storage and transportation terminals, porcelain and iron docks, and shipbuilding docks, which shocked Liu Yong and Liu Zuo.

It is impossible for ordinary cities to have such a professional division of labor transportation terminal. The ability to have this division of labor means that both transactions and transportation volume must reach a considerable number of levels to be able to support it, and there is also the need for such division of labor.

But Shouzhou obviously meets this condition.

They observed the grain storage and transportation terminal for a brief observation. In just one hour, more than ten large ships were docked and loaded and unloaded. The ox carts coming from the warehouse almost never broke the line, and hundreds of Lifu kept moving up and down.

They also noticed that some quite interesting things appeared in the dock loading and unloading area. The loading and unloading tools similar to sliding hanging seemed to greatly reduce the labor intensity from the dock to the ship. Liu Yong and Liu Ju were thinking about it. This should be a new thing invented by Jiang Feng's Arts and Materials Office.

But even so, the Master in this dock area maintained hundreds of people and had almost no time to rest.

Liu Yong and Liu Zuo have long known the special status of Shouzhou in the Xuzhou General Administration, convenient water and land transportation, convenient irrigation of Shaobi and Huai Rivers, and unique location as the key to the Huai River, making this the throat connected to the Jiangfeng foundation with Huaibei, Yanyun and other prefectures.

The grain supplied from the north must be transported from here, while the grains of Shuzhou, Guangzhou, Shouzhou, Wuzhou, Luzhou, porcelain, paper, tea, medicinal materials, linens, mountain goods, Xuzhou's iron materials, ironware, carbonite, and salt from Haizhou must be gathered here to trade and radiate to the entire Huainan region.

In a sense, this place is gradually replacing Yangzhou, which has had a huge impact on Yangzhou's business, so it shocked Liu Yong and Liu Ju quite a lot. They found that the Nanyang business they were proud of was less prosperous than Shouzhou, and this place was only a place under Jiang Feng's rule, and Xuzhou was the center of the General Administration under Jiang Feng's rule.

Of course, Liu Yong and Liu Ju also looked down on Jiang Feng a little over the top. In fact, Xuzhou's current business is not far from Shouzhou, but Xuzhou's current situation is not inferior to Nanyang, especially in the iron smelting industry, it has left Nanyang far behind.

Liu Yong and Liu Ju also realized that this was probably Jiang Feng's greatest confidence in his courage to slap the Jin army. With such strong business support, he could afford this big battle.

Just because of these businessmen gathered in Shouzhou, Liu Yong and Liu Jue both believed that Jiang Feng could ignore the threat of the Shatu people. Even if the Shatu people now attacked Xuzhou, even if Jiang Feng did not have Nanyang and Caizhou's support, Xuzhou could still deal with it.

The demeanor and clothing of Liu Yong and Liu Ju quickly attracted the attention of a group of people under the Nanmen. He rushed forward and walked to Liu Yong and Liu Jue and bowed, "But Mr. Liu Yong, Nanyang?"

"It's Liu Yong." Liu Yong also dismounted. Nanyang had sent envoys to Xuzhou before, saying that he would send Liu Yong and his party to Xuzhou to discuss related matters. Although there was no specific content, the envoy also vaguely mentioned the issue of returning Guangzhou. However, such a big thing is definitely not something that an ordinary envoy could decide. Nanyang also had to send heavyweights, and the result was that Liu Yong came.

Hou Chen had never seen Liu Yong, but he knew Liu Yong's general appearance from some of the pictures sent back from Wuwentang. He could identify it with a brief look. However, the young man who was parallel to Liu Yong looked at the extraordinary posture, which made him a little confused. But after careful observation, he knew that this was a woman dressed as a man. When he thought of a mother below Liu Yong, he probably should be the three women of Liu Xuan, who are known for his intelligence and agility.

Although outsiders cannot know the name of the three daughters of Liu, this is not a secret for Wuwentang. Of course, Hou Chen would not say it in person, that would be too rude.

However, how the messenger Liu Yu came with Liu Yong made Hou Chen a little curious.

"I have met Mr. Liu Yong, who is Hou Chen, the political affairs hall of the Xuzhou General Administration Office. He is ordered by the first deputy minister, Lord Chen, to welcome Mr. Liu Yong." Hou Chen was neither humble nor arrogant, and had a smile on his face.

Liu Yong and Liu Ju have already dismissed. Although they are not very clear about Hou Chen's identity and Hou Chen has not introduced his identity in detail, it can be seen that Xuzhou still attaches great importance to visiting Nanyang.

After a few greetings, Hou Chen took the initiative to lead the way. Other entourages had already separated the road and asked Liu Yong and his party to enter the city first.

When entering Xuzhou City, Liu Yong also felt the difference between Xuzhou City and other places.

The roads and streets of Xuzhou City are much wider than those of other cities, but if the population is dense, it is not as good as Shouzhou. However, it can be seen that these business travelers and travelers are still smiling. The stable situation here should give these scholars and business travelers great peace of mind, especially when the Shatuo people had already gained a foothold in the Central Plains and began to rule, this place was still under the Han regime, and they had to be much more at ease from the heart.

Another feeling that Liu Yong gave Liu Yong a different feeling is that there are many horses in Xuzhou City, and most of them are used by the people. Although these horses are of different ages, many of them should have been eliminated by military horses. However, for the southern vassals, so many horses are among the people, this also means that the transportation capacity here is much stronger.
Chapter completed!