If Liu Ji had the same prestigious family background as young people like Zhu Ji, Gu Shao, and Lu Xun, he wouldn't need them to laugh at him. He himself would have dared to ask Sun Quan for a marriage proposal to win the heart of this cheerful, bright, and intelligent princess.
Therefore, Liu Ji simply refused to respond to the ridicule from Zhuge Jin and others.
"Brother Ziyu, please stop joking. It's fine if you're just joking, but if the princess hears you, she'll be angry. And if it gets to General Sun, who knows what will happen then!"
As everyone knows, the Sun brothers, starting with Sun Ce, were known for being fiercely protective of their wives and sisters, and with Sun Quan, they were even more fiercely protective of their sister-in-law.
From then on, Zhuge Jin dared not come to make fun of him again.
On the way back, we traveled along the coast, passing through Xiamen and Quanzhou.
The people along the coast are very simple and honest.
Fishermen have been going out to sea to fish or boil seawater for salt since ancient times. Occasionally, there are a few slightly prosperous towns, but they only deal in salt and dried fish, and occasionally cotton and linen clothes from the Jiangnan region.
Sun Shangxiang frowned as she smelled the fishy odor emanating from street after street.
"Alas, the sea breeze is salty, and the fish are rotten. Have these people lived here generation after generation?"
Qiao Jingjing then told Sun Shangxiang:
"Those who live near the mountains live off the mountains, and those who live near the sea live off the sea. This has been the principle since ancient times. Living conditions by the sea are harsh. You can't farm, you can't grow grain, you can't raise chickens or ducks, and you can't raise silkworms. So people's lives are relatively rough, not as delicate as those in the Jiangnan region. Moreover, the weather by the sea can change in an instant. One moment it's scorching hot, making people's faces red, and the next moment, dark clouds cover the sun, strong winds bring heavy rain, and it pours down."
Along the way, even Ye Rong longed to return to Jiangnan as soon as possible.
As the saying goes, there's no place like home, no matter how good it is. It seems like I've seen many doghouses along the way, but the one at home is the real golden nest.
So Coconut still sighed, her master was truly special.
Those ladies all just wanted to live a life of luxury at home, but Madam Qiao had to personally go out to inspect things, and she didn't really do it for sightseeing, but she still managed to get so many things done.
During the day, Lady Da Qiao visited Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Xiamen. At night, she stayed up late by lamplight and wrote a book about the coastal areas.
Coconut Flakes couldn't read the words, but judging from the picture, it depicted the lives of the local people who raised fish, caught fish, and boiled salt.
Qiao Jingjing wrote some, and Ye Rong organized them.
"Madam, you've been working so hard all day, why don't you rest earlier tonight? Writing this takes so much effort!"
Qiao Jingjing just smiled:
"You don't know those people. They are high and mighty, holding power in their hands. They only care about issuing orders and never care about the real lives of ordinary people! Without in-depth and detailed research, they have no right to speak."
What the world doesn't know is that thousands of years later, this coastal area will become an economically developed region.
What I need to do now is not to think about things a thousand years from now, but to see if I can make life easier for these people in the present, within the next ten or twenty years.
Just as Qiao Jingjing finished organizing this coastal chronicle, Lu Xun also had his own ideas.
Lu Xun believed that while there weren't many people along the coast, there were some who had made a living by fishing for generations. Sometimes they would encounter pirates while fishing, and there was also the Ryukyu Island in the southeast.
Lu Xun then discussed with Qiao Jingjing that they should go back and discuss with Sun Quan about sending some troops to be stationed in the southeast of Quanzhou to protect the people of this area so that they could live and work in peace and not be disturbed by pirates and bandits.
I walked along the coastline.
Finally, after many twists and turns, they returned to Qiantang.
Qiao Jingjing and Sun Shangxiang went to see Hangzhou Bay.
Local officials wanted to demonstrate their effective governance to Qiao Jingjing and Lu Xun's inspection team.
They even staged a farce.
Because every time the tide comes in, especially around the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the tide of the Qiantang River reaches its peak, often bringing disaster to the local people.
Many superstitions say it's because there are monsters in the sea.
The solution to the monster theory was that a local official surnamed Qian sent many soldiers to form a neat array to fight off the enemy. When the tide came in, the soldiers would shoot arrows at the tide.
The arrows shot out in quick succession, and the tide receded.
A little while later, the tide rose again, surging towards us with a whooshing sound.
These warriors, lined up in formation, had their trousers submerged by the waves, but they remained fearless and continued to shoot arrows at the waves.
After many rounds and two hours, the wave finally receded.
Many onlookers cheered.
Such a scenario.
Sun Shangxiang asked, "Sister-in-law, are there really monsters in the sea? I didn't see any warrior's arrow hurting a monster?"
Qiao Jingjing was amused by this.
superstitious!
Qiao Jingjing asked Lu Xun to call the official over.
The official thought he was about to be praised because the people were all cheering for him.
In front of the people.
Qiao Jingjing said this about Qian: "As a local official, Lord Qian cares deeply about the people, and everyone can see that. Commandant Lu will write a memorial and report it to General Sun, who will definitely submit a memorial to the court to commend Lord Qian for his achievements."
Upon hearing this, Lord Qian's face lit up with a smile.
"but!"
Qiao Jingjing had more to say.
"Every time the tide comes in, Lord Qian sends warriors here to shoot arrows to thwart the monsters in the tide. This is quite a waste of manpower and resources. Why don't we think of a way to solve this once and for all? Does Lord Qian have any good ideas?"
Under Qiao Jingjing's guidance, this Mr. Qian really started to use his brain.
Lord Qian said, "Choose a site here and build an iron ox to suppress demons."
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