In the Cai Residence, Cai Yan carefully held the piece of paper in her hand, protecting it like a child. A soft blush flashed across her face.
" I knew it. Brother Zihong won't forget me…"
At this moment, Cai Yong walked over and took the paper in Cai Yan's hand when she was not paying attention. When he saw it, his eyes lit up and he couldn't help but read it out,"
“... Once the golden wind and jade dew met, they would surpass countless people in the world…If the two feelings are long, how can they be in the morning and evening?”
"Good poem!" (There were no words then)
Cai Yong couldn't help but praise.
"Father…"
Cai Yan snatched the piece of paper and turned to run away in embarrassment and anger.
It turned out that after Qi Zhou and Tian Kai met the emperor in the throne room, they went to the Cai residence. The main reason was that Liu Yuan asked them to give Cai Yan a love letter and also to greet Cai Yong on behalf of Liu Yuan.
At this moment, Qi and Tian were in the secret room of the Hero Tower with Liu Yi.
"Mister Liu, the lord asked me to pass a letter to you.”Tian Kai took out a sealed letter from his chest and handed it to Liu Yi, but he had some doubts in his heart. This Liu Yi is the head of the Huaxia Trading Company. How does the lord know him? Tian Kai thought about it and only knew that his lord wanted to cooperate with Hua Xia Trading Company, so he suppressed his doubts in his heart.
Liu Yi opened the letter and read it carefully. After a moment, he put it away and said to Tian Kai,""Lord Tian, please inform the prefect that I know his request and will definitely do as he says.”
As it turned out, Liu Yuan's letter was to ask Liu Yi to secretly move the headquarters of the two trading companies in China and the Central Plains to Yuyang, leaving only an empty shell in Luoyang to deceive others.
Secondly, he would purchase all kinds of civilian and military supplies and quietly move them to Yuyang.
Third, hire all kinds of craftsmen at a high price and send them to Yuyang.
Fourth, secretly collect refugees and send them to Yuyang.
According to Liu Yuan's idea, Yuyang would be his base camp from now on, and he should try his best to increase its war potential.
The first was population. The more people there were, the more soldiers there were, and the more potential they had for war. The greater the population, the deeper the economic potential, and the faster the development. Then where did the population come from? First, Liu Yuan had a policy in Yuyang to encourage and reward childbirth. But this was not enough, far from enough. Yuyang was located in the northern border. Its population was not large to begin with. The base was too small. Even if the policy was relaxed in ten or twenty years, it would still be difficult to reach the population density of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and other places.
However, just because the natural population growth was too slow, it did not mean that the total population of Yuyang could not increase. The Great Han Dynasty was plagued by natural disasters, the government was corrupt, and there were poor refugees everywhere. As long as he obtained them, Yuyang would soar soon.
The second was resources, especially grain. Yuyang City had just survived the crisis and was at a critical stage of development. It was in dire need of all kinds of resources. If Liu Yuan wanted to recruit refugees, he would need food to feed them until they could settle down and produce on their own. If it was 50,000 or 100,000, it could still barely hold on. However, if it was 100,000 or 1,000,000, the amount of grain consumed was simply astronomical! Therefore, Liu Yuan had the two major trading companies do their best to purchase grain.
Third, talent. Whether it was building cities, roads, water irrigation facilities, or forging agricultural equipment or armors, they could not do without such professional technical talents. However, this kind of talent had a very low status in the Great Han Dynasty, so it was relatively easy to recruit them.
The most difficult thing for Liu Yuan was that he was a scholar with knowledge. Most of these people had high standards but low abilities. Letting them go to a bitter and cold place like Yuyang was even more difficult than killing them. However, Yuyang lacked them the most. Liu Yuan wanted to run a school and open up the people's wisdom, but he had no teacher to teach him, so he had to delay this plan.
Qi Zhou and Tian Kai spent a large amount of money and gifts over the next few days to visit the eunuch Zhang Rang, the Great General He Jin, and other important figures in the court. After that, they bid farewell to Liu Yi and the others and headed straight for Yingchuan.
Why did he go to Yingchuan? It turned out that Liu Yuan had instructed the two of them to bring the entire village to settle down in Yuyang. Secondly, it was for the quality of wheat seeds.
Back then, Liu Yuan had spent a few years to crossbreed better wheat seeds. The yield was several times higher than the best wheat seeds of this era. As long as this wheat seed was used in Yuyang, Liu Yuan believed that within a few years, the grain reserves in Yuyang would become the largest in Great Han!
The two of them led 2,000 infantry and quickly walked all the way. In just a few days, they arrived at Yingchuan. After searching in the mountains for another two to three days, they finally found Liu Yuan's secluded mountain village.
"Who are you? Why did you come to Yi Village?"
The teenagers in the village were practicing martial arts in the wild outside the village when they suddenly discovered this uninvited guest. They quickly ran back to the village, pulled the suspension bridge, and closed the gate. At this moment, he was standing on a cement wall that was several feet high, holding a bow and arrow in his hand as he questioned Qi Zhou and Tian Kai.
Qi Zhou was wearing armor. He took a few steps forward and cupped his hands."Is this Liu Yuan and Liu Zihong's hometown?”
"Brother Yuan?" The youth's eyes narrowed." Who are you? How do you know Brother Yuan?" he asked.”
When Qi Zhou heard this, he knew that he had come to the right place. He quickly gave the eloquent Tian Kai a look.
Tian Kai chuckled and looked at the youth on the city wall."We are the soldiers under the command of the Governor of Yuyang. We have come here to do something important.”
"Yuyang?" An old man walked out from behind the youth on the city wall. The old man asked in puzzlement,"Yuyang is located in the northern border. Even if it's for business, why would it come to our village?”
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