Su Yonglin and Su Jue were very excited to see each other again after several years apart.
"You won't blame me for leaving you alone in Liaodong for so many years, right?"
"The chairman has always been fair. He placed me in Liaodong because he believed in me. He has entrusted me with important matters. How could I blame you?"
"Having said that, Liaodong is also a bitter and cold place."
Su Yonglin smiled helplessly and said: "Even if I want to change your residence, I won't go to any prosperous place. They are all borders, places with bad environment, and they are far away from the Central Capital. With your position, unless You step back and take a backseat, otherwise it will be difficult to arrange for a place with beautiful scenery.”
"Chairman, you understand me."
Su Jue said with a smile: "As a revolutionary soldier, I prefer to work rather than rest. Wherever there is something to do, just let me go. The more things there are, the more complicated they are, the more troublesome it is to do them, and the more people are needed." The more I deal with it, the happier I’ll be.”
Su Yonglin had nothing to say. He understood Su Jue's workaholic nature.
So he patted Su Jue's shoulder and gave him a hug, that's all.
Compared with Su Jue, Su Haisheng and Han Jinggui are much more lively. They are both typical talkative types who will die if they don't talk or have fun. Fortunately, the Western Region and the grassland are wide enough to give them enough space to move. Otherwise, these two Sooner or later, people will be suffocated to death.
When Su Yonglin saw them, they came hand in hand. As soon as they arrived, they chatted and laughed with Su Yonglin, telling them interesting things that had happened on the grasslands and in the Western Regions over the years. Their words were full of excitement, and they were obviously very happy with their current situation. Is satisfied.
Compared with them, Zhang Yuejing seemed much more down-to-earth, sometimes lively, sometimes calm, more like a normal person, so Zhang Yuejing became the first general to lead an army on his own.
Compared with them, Zhao Yucheng's feelings for Su Yonglin were obviously stronger.
After receiving the news that he was elected as a representative of the Central Committee, he quickly set off back to Zhongdu. When he met Su Yonglin, he dedicated the pearls he bought to Su Yonglin with his own money to Su Yonglin.
"This is the famous Hepu Nanzhu. It has been a royal tribute hundreds of years ago. It has always been a precious and luxurious object, but in our Ming Dynasty, it has become an ordinary item.
No one wants it, no one buys it. The Zhu households who used to make a living by fishing for pearls and a group of merchants who operate Nanzhu are really having a hard time. Thanks to the previous alliance between Guangdong and Guangxi, Nanzhu was nationalized and sold overseas. Otherwise, many people will really go bankrupt. "
Su Yonglin took the Hepu Nanzhu brought by Zhao Yucheng, held it in his hand and admired it for a while, then smiled.
“The meaning of the existence of luxury goods is nothing more than to highlight the different identities of the upper class and to facilitate them to stay away from the people. The last thing we revolutionaries can’t allow is to stay away from the people, so in any case, it is more valuable for these things to be ordinary goods than to become luxury goods. significance."
Zhao Yucheng blinked.
"Don't you like this?"
"You bought it yourself and gave it to me, so I'll accept it."
Su Yonglin smiled and said: "Although I don't use this thing, and your wife doesn't use it very much, I heard that these pearls ground into powder have medicinal value, so I will keep them for emergencies. By the way, speaking of it, I I would rather suggest that all major pharmacies across the country purchase a batch of pearl grinding powder for later use.”
Zhao Yucheng was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed dumbly.
"The elites of all dynasties are like pearls of treasure, but when they come to you, they become medicine and need to be eaten."
"Medicine can save people, but luxury goods can only harm people."
Su Yonglin accepted the box of precious Hepu Nanzhu and said with a smile: "If you have too much medicine, keep it in reserve so you don't worry about not being able to use it. If there are too many luxuries, the country will be in danger."
"The Point Guard Is Here"
After saying that, Su Yonglin smiled and asked: "How are you living in Lingnan these days? How are you getting along with your wife?"
Zhao Yucheng touched his head and smiled.
"At first I was not used to it, but now that we are far away, I miss it a little bit."
"Hahahahahaha."
Su Yonglin laughed and said, "It's like this. I was a little uncomfortable at first, but as time went by, I felt that I wasn't used to being without a woman around. I felt empty in my heart, as if something was missing. After a while, when I have a child, I will be unaccustomed." Even happier.”
"Actually... already have."
Zhao Yucheng chuckled and said, "It was found out a month ago, and it's been almost three months now."
Su Yonglin was greatly surprised.
"Hey! This is a big happy event. Don't forget to tell me when the time comes. Even if you can't make it, it's still good to give me a gift."
"I'll definitely tell you."
Zhao Yucheng burst into laughter, obviously very happy.
To be honest, what happened between Zhao Yucheng and his wife is really a bit legendary.
After the two countries were basically pacified, Zhao Yucheng led his troops to garrison in Guangdong, helping the people in Guangdong to reclaim wasteland, build houses and water conservancy, and also took on the task of killing and driving away wild animals and exterminating bandits and bandits, creating a safe place for local people to live and produce. environment.
Although the Ming army stationed in Guangdong and Guangxi greatly expanded the scope of activities of the local Han people, this scope was still relatively small compared to the entire Guangdong and Guangxi areas.
Most of the mountains, forests and wilderness areas are not within the scope of activities of the Han people. They belong to either ferocious beasts or foreigners. The scope of activities of the Han people is limited to some areas around the city, and the ruled areas are basically point-to-point rule.
And this also brought a certain degree of danger to the local Han people and the government.
The foreign tribes in Lingnan have a long history, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. At that time, the ancestors of the Huaxia tribe were full of martial virtues. It was not enough to just expand the territory in the Yellow River Basin, but also to expand the territory east and south.
Both the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty expanded their territory from the center of the Yellow River Basin to the east and south, and admitted the conquered local ethnic groups into the Huaxia tribe. However, the local aboriginal people who were defeated but unwilling to be conquered continued to flee southward, and finally fled. He settled in Lingnan.
In different eras, the foreign residents in these places had different names. Titles such as Mitsukoshi and Sanmiao were all collective names for the ethnic groups that were defeated and then moved southward during the thousands of years of Chinese territory expansion history.
In fact, not to mention that the Han people in the Central Plains Dynasty couldn't figure out what ethnic group these people were, they themselves might not even know their origins.
Because of the lack of written records and the limit of oral transmission, plus the fact that they have been in love and killing each other for thousands of years, they have conquered and intermarried with each other. It has long been a state where you are among me and you are among me. In the end, they were collectively called "Southern Barbarians" "Nanyi" and the like.
From the time when the Chinese ancestors settled in the Lingnan area during the Qin Dynasty, to when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed South Vietnam and formally established prefectures and counties to manage it, there has been a history of activities there for thousands of years.
However, because the central dynasty paid little attention to these marginal territories for most of the time, was unwilling to invest a lot of resources in developing them, and indeed lacked the technical means to develop the local areas, the development of the local Han people was always limited.
Due to limited military and financial investment, the scope of activities of the local Han people could only radiate outward from the center of the city, and the radiation distance was quite limited.
Moreover, due to the limitations of the landlord class, the emperor wantonly seized the reclaimed land and was unwilling to take the initiative to reclaim wasteland, which greatly hindered the process of the Han people's spontaneous development of wilderness lands.
By the time the Ming army entered Guangdong and Guangxi, the scope of activities of the Han people only accounted for about 20 to 30% of the entire Lingnan area. Although they lived in areas with relatively fertile land, most of the areas were not under the control of the government. middle.
It means that the Ming Dynasty's resource utilization rate in Guangdong and Guangxi was actually relatively low, and this situation was also quite dangerous.
Foreign tribes and ferocious beasts threaten the Han people engaged in agricultural production at all times. The relationship between the three aspects is quite subtle.
