Chapter 47 Bohai
Sea It is definitely not enough to rely on livestock manure to make fertilizer for the cellar. There are not many farmers near the border town. Even if you offer a price of one cent per basket, you can't collect much.
Jin Sui thought of Han Xing leading people to dig a canal, so he hurried over with Hei Hu to take a look. He also asked the Tuntianying to prepare things and carry all the river mud back to fertilize the land.
Riding a horse leisurely in the border town, this place is really desolate, but the scenery is also really beautiful.
Walking in the wilderness really gives you the feeling that "the sky is like a dome, covering the entire area". The area outside the Great Wall is lush green at this moment, and the grass is half a person's height in many places.
The border troops did not raise many sheep, and the herdsmen from outside the area naturally did not dare to graze near the border troops.
As a result, the grass in this area grew very deep, and people from the military camp came every day to cut the grass and store it as horse feed for the winter.
They would carefully pick out edible wild vegetables and dry them as winter food.
Jinsui waved to the soldiers who were cutting grass from afar. As he walked further, he saw a river like a jade belt hanging across the green land.
Turning a corner, he saw a group of soldiers working hard to dig mud from the river. Han Xing also rolled up his trouser legs to his knees and went into the river to dig mud without putting on airs of a captain.
The only person who did not work in the whole place was Cheng Yu. He sat on the river bank, enjoying the summer breeze, drinking wine from a gourd, and reciting a poem from time to time.
But his eyes were always looking towards the direction of Yanzhou City, and his eyes were very gentle, as if his lover was standing there.
Jin Sui knew that Wei Zhubo wanted to go back to Chang'an, so she asked Cheng Yu where he wanted to go. But Cheng Yu said that he just wanted to die at the border and not go anywhere else.
Seeing the prince coming, the soldiers all saluted happily. Han Xing hurried to report the progress and promised to clear the river before September.
When Jinsui saw the pile of black and yellow smelly mud, he told Hanxing that soldiers from the garrison would come soon to collect it and use it as fertilizer for the land.
Han Xing came up to answer after washing his hands and feet. Jin Sui looked at the calm river and the direction of its source. He wondered how many mountains and ridges the river had passed through to reach the border town. He then looked to the east and asked casually, "Where does this river lead to?"
Han Xing hurriedly said: "It flows into the Bohai Sea."
When Jinsui heard this familiar name of the sea, he felt very close to it.
When you travel to another world, even if you hear the same place names as in your past life, you will feel very close to home.
She sighed, "I really want to go and see it!"
Hei Hu was stunned and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Cheng Yu staggered over and said, "Your Highness, if you want to go, go ahead. It's not far, just over a hundred miles away."
Jin Sui was stunned at first, then asked in surprise: "What did you say?"
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "I heard that this place is only a hundred miles away from Bohai Sea, which is farther than Yanzhou City. If Your Majesty wants to see the sea, just go there."
Jin Sui was ecstatic and asked Han Xing for confirmation: "Really? Have you been there?"
Han Xing didn't know why the prince was so happy to see the 'sea', so he smiled and said, "We have to clean up this river all the way to the estuary, and we will go there several times every year."
Jin Sui called Hei Hu: "Let's go and take a look today."
Han Xing said in a coaxing tone, "Your Highness, it's too late today. Why don't you get everything ready tomorrow and I will escort you there."
They all thought that the King of Li was so excited because he had never seen the sea. But the King of Li said excitedly: "There is a sea! The border town is so close to the sea, how can there be a shortage of salt? How can there be a shortage of seafood to eat?"
Cheng Yu felt that the prince was too naive, and fearing that he would really go and drink sea water, he deliberately exaggerated:
"Sea water can kill you!"
Han Xing patiently explained: "Sea salt needs to be boiled, which consumes too much firewood, and the government does not allow border troops to boil salt."
"Without a boat, we can only pick up small seafood and cut some kelp to eat on the beach. Border troops can only go a few times a year, so they can't bring much seafood."
Jin Sui was like opening the door to wealth. Li Heng forbad the border troops to go to the seaside, but he could not stop King Li!
The entire border, including the seaport, was the fiefdom of King Li.
Others only know how to boil salt, which has low salt yield and high cost, but she knows how to make salt by sun-drying!
By reclaiming salt fields, there will be an endless supply of salt.
There are also seafood. If we don't have sea boats, we can build them. Wouldn't shallow-sea aquaculture be good? We have more than 3,000 loyal subordinates, mountains, seas, fields and pastures. With the space plug-in, as long as we give us some time, it will be hard for Border Town not to become rich!
When I fatten up the title of Li Wang and return it to Gu Changxiao, he will be so grateful that he will burst into tears!
Jinsui was too excited and didn't want to go back to the camp. Han Xing was afraid that she would run off to see the sea at night, so he stopped digging in the mud and followed her with Heihu.
It’s not that Han Xing doesn’t believe that Hei Hu can’t keep an eye on the prince, it’s just that Hei Hu is too easy to fool.
Jin Sui went around to the pasture outside the Great Wall, and Han Xing hurriedly said, "There have been no bandits coming in the past month, but it is still unsafe outside the Great Wall. Your Majesty, please return to the camp!"
Jinsui pointed at the grassland and asked, "There should be a lot of wolves here, right? Why don't you organize some people to hunt them?"
Black Tiger pointed to the forest in the east and said, "There are many black bears in that forest. I said I wanted to give the prince a bear paw, but Brother Han wouldn't allow it."
Han Xing glared at him, then smiled at Jin Sui and said, “Our weapons are not good enough. We need to round up the prey when hunting, otherwise the soldiers will get hurt.”
This is just one of the reasons. Before King Li came, they, the border soldiers, had endless hard labor to do and had no time to go out of the border to hunt.
Jin Sui thought of the anesthetic in the space, and with the help of Hei Hu's archery, hunting would be a piece of cake! "Not only for eating meat, but also for hunting small wild boars, deer, and roe deer to raise. Our border town is open to trade, and this game is one of the important sources of goods."
Han Xing whispered, "We are short of food and grass in our border town. It's difficult to just raise horses."
Jinsui smiled but said nothing. It was too early to brag now. Once the potatoes and sweet potatoes were grown, the border town would no longer be short of fodder!
Industries such as aquaculture, seafood, land reclamation and farming, salt drying, etc. must be prepared in advance.
As the three were talking, they suddenly saw Wei Zhubo running over, holding down half of his face with one hand and waving his other hand vigorously:
"My Lord! My Lord, please return to the camp!"
Seeing his anxious look, Jinsui couldn't tell whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, so he hurriedly rode his horse back to the camp.
Halfway through, I heard Wei Zhubo's excitement, and he panted and said, "What a great event, Your Majesty."
Jin Sui then stopped and asked with a smile: "Could it be that the imperial court has sent an imperial decree?"
She was teasing Wei Zhubo on purpose.
Ever since the letter reporting safety was sent out, Wei Zhubo has been wondering every day when the emperor will reply to the prince.
Wei Zhubo shook his head and smiled, "It's another happy event. The head of the Yan family came to visit the prince in person with a valuable gift."
Jin Sui was stunned for a moment, then turned to ask Han Xing: "Who is the head of the Yan family? What good news is he coming for?"
Wei Zhubo answered quickly, not caring about the toothache, and covered half of his face and said happily: "The Yan family is the largest aristocratic family in Yanzhou, and even in the entire sixteen states of Yan, it can be ranked in the top three."
"The current head of the Yan family, Yan Jiulang, is also known as Jade-faced Jiulang. He is handsome, well-read, and talented..."
Jin Sui raised his hand to interrupt: "Stop, stop, I've only heard of the Jade-faced Fox! Doesn't this Yanzhou noble family dislike me? What is he doing here?"
Wei Zhubo smiled awkwardly: "I asked the Yan family master why he came, and he said he wanted to see the prince for something."
Seeing Jin Sui's indifference, Wei Zhubo said earnestly:
"The prince just came to Yanzhou and he was already at odds with the local nobles. The head of the Yan family took the initiative to show goodwill. The prince must seize the opportunity. If he can get the help of the Yan family, the prince will be in Yan..."
Jin Sui's ears were already hurt by these words, so she interrupted again: "Lord Wei has bad teeth, so don't talk too much when you are in such a bad situation. This is what I will do when I see him."
Did she not want to make friends with the Yandi nobles? It was obviously the Yandi nobles who did not welcome her, okay?
I am the dignified King of Li, how can I please you? Besides, it’s not like I can’t survive at the border without the help of the nobles!
Of course, another important reason why Jinsui did not want to make close friends with the local gentry was that she was afraid that someone would know King Li and expose her as a fake.
Thinking of this, she passed by Tuntianying on her way back and went to see "Mr. Niu" again, who knew that she was a fake.
My dears, it's almost the end of the month. Are there any of you who haven't voted yet? Give them all to Jinsui! Jinsui is holding a small basin, waiting for the dears to vote.
(End of this chapter)
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