In Jicheng, Youzhou, the governor's residence, Li Jing, who rushed back, just entered the backyard and saw that the concubines were all bitter, they felt a headache: "What's wrong? The concubine is angry again?"

The concubines nodded, and a beauty with a blue face turned blue. When Li Jing came back, her eyes began to turn red due to grievance.

Li Jing touched the tender but blue cheeks, and realized that the concubine must have been in trouble when she got angry. She comforted her and asked, "Now, who is with the concubine?"

"It's the princess."

It turned out that the princess came to put out the fire. Li Jing was a little calmer, dressed up and walked forward.

My mother is getting older and has a worse temper. Among her children and wives, only his inner men can coax her aunt, so her mother lives with him and follows her to Youzhou.

I turned around the small door and came to the garden, but I saw a lot of people surrounded by the pavilion.

Li Jing walked up to the pavilion and greeted her mother: "Mom, the child is back."

"Why did you come back so early today?" asked the concubine Feng Xiaolian. The years left many traces on her face. The stunning beauty who was fascinating in the past was no longer in her youth.

She watched her son appear in front of her, and her wife had already relieved her anger and completely disappeared.

"The child misses his mother, and the government has nothing important to do, so he is back." Li Jing lied with kindness, and Feng Xiaolian took his son's hand and asked his son to sit beside him.

The princess Peng, who was sitting on the other side, secretly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the reinforcements had arrived, but she did not dare to leave, so she would not let her aunt take advantage of the situation and talk with her.

Feng Xiaolian enjoys such treatment very much. She has a son and a wife chatting with her, and she feels much better.

But when she thought that Zhang Lihua's youngest son was sent to a good job, she was so angry that she was so angry: "Your brother's future, you, the elder brother, don't care about it?"

Since Li Jing received the "urgent report", he has figured out what the reason why his mother got angry today, so he quickly explained:

"Mom, Australia is too far away, the four seasons are reversed, and it is different from the Central Plains. I am afraid that my brother will not adapt to the environment and the environment, so I didn't fight for it."

"But the newspapers say that Australia is a good place, and it's a bit drought, but the climate is pleasant." Feng Xiaolian was a little unwilling, unwilling to let her son down by Zhang Lihua's son.

The one who fights is that tone.

Now, I lost a game, and I don’t know how proud Zhang Lihua is in Xuzhou at this moment.

Feng Xiaolian and Zhang Lihua have been competing for decades. Their best time was spent with Li Li together, so the "competition" was very fierce.

Comparing talent, being more "concerned", and even at night, when you sleep together, you must get one more blessing than the other party.

When raising children, you have to compare your grades when you are young, and when you grow up, you have to compare your future and your marriage.

After decades of fighting, Feng Xiaolian was still slightly inferior: she gave birth to one son less than Zhang Lihua, even though she had already given birth to six sons for Li Li.

Now, her youngest son was robbed of the position of Australian governor by Zhang Lihua's youngest son, and of course she was very angry.

Li Jing continued to advise: "Mom, the river is also good. The climate is pleasant, warm in winter and cool in summer, and can grow rice. It is known as the Jiangnan outside the border. Samarkand is a metropolis. Isn't it better to go to Hezhong to serve as a guardian than to go to Australia?"

"This is different, different..." Feng Xiaolian said, with sadness: "Australia is the place your father values ​​the most. It's such a big island, he kept talking about..."

Australia is the largest administrative region established by the State of Chu overseas. This place was discovered by the expedition fleet more than 30 years ago in the sea south of the South China Sea. It is large in area, but most of it is desert.

Feng Xiaolian knew that Li Li had always attached great importance to the development of Australia and specially sent princes out of the town to rotate regularly, with the purpose of encouraging the people to settle in Australia.

Therefore, in her mind, she has always been the position of governor of Australia by the royal family, and the significance is extraordinary.

Seeing that his mother was a little sad, Li Jing quickly changed the topic: "Mom, there is good news in Liaobei."

"What good news?" Feng Xiaolian's attention was indeed diverted.

"The expedition team is back. In the far north, it is indeed an endless ice ocean, with a big white bear with pure white fur." ​​Li Jing was a little excited, "and brought a few cubs back. This white bear is the same as what his father said!"

The last sentence shouldn't be said. Sure enough, when Feng Xiaolian heard it, his eyes darkened: "Of course, of course, the same, what kind of person your father is, you won't say it wrong..."

Her best years were spent by Li Li, so what she left was the best memories that she would never forget.

As a result, Li Li, who had agreed to accompany him for a lifetime, never went back on his word, broke his promise.

When Mrs. Peng saw her aunt crying, she cried in her heart: Oh, I finally persuaded her to make her feel at ease, you...

......

"Mom, don't be sad, it's bad for your health."

Li? said softly, supporting his white-haired mother and looking at the tomb in front of him.

This is the tomb of his grandfather, so the tomb of Emperor Wen of Liang, Xiao Gang, has been properly cared for after years of ups and downs.

In the autumn wind, Xiao Miaoqing looked at her father's tomb, thinking about the ups and downs of the past few decades, and was filled with mixed feelings.

Her son Li was appointed as the governor of Jiangzhou and was in charge of Jiankang. As the concubine, she took office, and played with her grandchildren and served her children and wives. She lived a carefree life. She should be satisfied, but...

However, the person she wanted to accompany was no longer there.

Jiankang is where she grew up, spending her childhood here. Decades have passed, and she has grown old. When she returns to Jiankang, although she is accompanied by her son, but...

God, why are you so anxious to take Saburo away?

We all did a good job, but Saburo... Saburo left first...

Xiao Miaoqing didn't understand why Li Li left before them because he was so good.

Li Li was a good man. He fulfilled his promise and treated Xiaoliang royal family with courtesy. Although he put people in house arrest in Poyang, he did not raise his butcher's knife.

The Xiao family members thrived in Poyang, and her half-brother spent the rest of her life safely in Poyang, with many children and grandchildren, and lush branches and leaves.

Li Li was worthy of her father's kindness. Not only did he treat the Xiaoliang royal family well, but also the Gaoqi royal family and Yuwen Zhou royal family who lost their country, he also had a good ending.

Li Li did such a good job, why can't he live for a long time? Leave her and take a step first?

Xiao Miaoqing felt sad. Seeing this, Li? quickly helped his mother sit aside and said, "Mom, don't be sad. If my father knew, he would be sad."

"Oh, I really want to look at him again..." Xiao Miaoqing murmured. Seeing this, the princess Wang quickly asked his sons to comfort his grandmother so that the concubine would not think too much.

The child is full of vitality and chatters around the kind grandmother, like a swallow returning to the nest in spring.

Sure enough, the melancholy in Xiao Miaoqing's heart was taken away by these lively "little swallows", and his smile appeared again.

Li? was relieved to see this.

My mother often looked at her father's portrait and then stared blankly. He advised her many times but she couldn't do it.

But when he saw the assistant officer aside, he seemed to have something to report, he told the princess a few words and walked over: "What's the matter?"

"King! Good news, good news!" Several assistants showed excitement on their faces, as if they had won the first prize by buying a horse: "The fleet is back, the fleet is back!!"

"What? What fleet?" Li? suddenly couldn't come back to his senses.

Now the fleet of the Hai Trade Department is traversing all over the world, with a large number of fleets sailing and intensively berthing on Jiankang.

As the intersection of rivers and seas, Jiankang has a large number of sea ships gathered in the sea trade port all year round. It is called the "Haidu". There are nearly 10,000 ships registered in the Jiankang Maritime Warehouse alone.

This stupid sentence "The fleet is back", how did he know which fleet it was?

"The king is a fleet going east, a fleet going east!!" The assistants' voices changed a little, "New, New World, the New World mentioned by the late emperor, they discovered it and discovered it!"

"What!!! Take it seriously!" Li? grabbed the assistant's hand, "Where is the ship? Where is the people?"

"I just arrived in Panyu, Guangzhou. I'm just here, the official has just received the good news!"

"I'm back, I'm back!" Li? Withdrew his hand and walked back and forth excitedly, "My father was right, sure enough, there was a new world."

"Sure enough, I was going from north and back from south. This is, it's the current..."

As he spoke, Li? He felt a little sad and looked up at the sky

Father, Father...have you seen it?

......

In the northern suburbs of Luoyang, the southern foot of the Mang Mountain, the imperial tomb, and Emperor Li?, stood at the entrance of the Shinto Road. After a long time, he whispered to his sons: "Go and weed the great-grandfather's tomb."

The prince and the princes responded, rolled up their sleeves, picked up the shovel, and began to weed.

Li? walked forward slowly and looked at the tomb ahead, feeling a little dazed.

Last night, he dreamed of his grandfather again, dreaming of his grandfather holding him and telling him the story of "New World".

The New World is in the far east, far away from the Central Plains, separated by thousands of miles of oceans.

Grandfather said that there are all kinds of magical animals and plants in the New World, such as corn, sweet potato, tobacco, sunflowers, chili peppers, such as alpacas that can spit, and anteaters who like to eat ants.

The magical new world has many magical customs and cultures that fascinate the young Li.

But he grew up and became more and more confused: What grandfather said about the new world really exists? Does corn, sweet potatoes, tobacco, sunflowers, peppers, and all kinds of magical animals really exist?

Could it be made up by mistake?

This doubt has been lingering in Li's heart, and as time goes by, it has been lingering.

However, what my grandfather said is basically nothing wrong.

My grandfather said that there was a large island south of the South China Sea, which was probably worth Henan. Hebei was so big. As it turned out, it was true that the imperial court then set up Australia and included this large island under its rule.

My grandfather said that there was an ice ocean north of northern Liao, and there were white bears covered with white hair. As it turned out, it was true;

Grandfather said that there is great potential to grow cotton, and it turns out that it is indeed the case.

Cotton has now replaced hemp and has become the main "textile crop", allowing the people to have better clothes to protect the cold in winter, and also allowing the merchants of the Central Plains to have another very profitable "Central Plains specialty" in their hands.

Especially in Anxi Protectorate, where the climate is hot and drought is not enough to expand grain production, but it is very suitable for growing cotton. Large tracts of cotton fields bring a lot of profit to the owners of the manor.

Therefore, without the need for the court to mobilize, the owners of the manor themselves would organize a large number of mainland people to settle down in various places under the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion, become hired workers in cotton fields, and form one settlement after another.
To be continued...