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Ten days later.

In the twenty-fifth year of Tiansheng, October 28th is a good day for marriage and auspicious days.

Tianjiazhuang Wubao held a grand and grand wedding.

A large banquet was held for seven days and seven nights, with delicacies from the mountains and seas, and all kinds of food. Any guest could sit down and enjoy it as long as he said a word of cheer.

A large stage was also set up in front of Wubao. The performance groups of the Deyun Society of Yugang Village were invited by a lot of money to perform for seven days and seven nights for the guests and friends attending the wedding. At one time, most of the people in Haiping County gathered in Tianjia Village, eating and drinking, it’s so lively.

…

The wedding hall was crowded with people.

"Worship heaven and earth."

"Two bows to Gaotang."

"Couple greetings!"

"Send it to the bridal chamber!"

"Woooooo~!"

Amidst a burst of laughter, the bridesmaids threw peanuts and red dates from the dustpan on the heads of the bride and groom. Tian Feng and Cui's couple, who drank the scented tea presented by the bride, were even more rosy, smiling from ear to ear.

…

night.

After entertaining his relatives and friends, Zhou Ming, who was slightly drunk, walked into the new house with the help of two maidservants, which was brightly lit with red candles and with 囍 characters on the windows.

"Have a baby soon, bring me the red envelope!"

"Red envelope red envelope!"

"Cousin Zihua, I want a red envelope!"

In the new house, more than a dozen Zongjiao children who were waiting for the red envelopes to be sent around were making noise around Zhou Ming, so he had to take out a stack of red envelopes from his pocket, distribute them, and dismiss the group of children.

He also sent out the two reluctant maids, leaving only himself and the bride sitting beside the bed in the room.

Zhou Ming took out a handful of jade ruyis in the dustpan, and walked gently to the phoenix crown and Xia Pei, holding his hands on his lap, his body trembling slightly, as if in front of his agitated wife, he used the jade ruyi, which symbolizes "satisfaction", and picked it away. He picked up the red hijab on her head and was stunned: "Rou'er, why are you crying?"

"Woo~ Brother Zihua, am I not dreaming? Am I really your wife?"

The woman raised her face that was stained by crying, and cried even harder when she saw the man standing in front of her.

Zhou Ming stepped forward to hug her, wiped her tears with his sleeves, and said softly: "Silly girl, today is our big day, a day worth being happy, you should stop crying and laugh more. "

"No, I want to cry! I just want to cry happily!"

After finishing speaking delicately, the woman climbed onto her lap, buried her head in her chest, tightly wrapped her hands around her waist, and said leisurely: "Cousin Zihua, do you still remember when I was eight years old? Did I tell you something? I tell you: When I grow up, I must marry brother Zihua and become your wife... I have been waiting for this day for ten years. Do you think I can stop crying? ?My husband?"

Eight years old?

ten years?

Zhou Ming sweated. When did his charm become so great? As an eight-year-old girl, he thought it was just a childish joke at the time and didn't take it to heart. Unexpectedly, she had really been waiting for ten years for this moment, and her original intention has never changed.

There was a warm and moist feeling on his lips. When he was dazed for a moment, his wife Cui Rou had wrapped her arms around his neck. Her breath was slightly messy. Her red lips couldn't help but kiss him, and she used her little fragrant tongue like no other teacher. .

"Wait a minute, I haven't had a drink yet. We'll do this later." Zhou Ming gently pushed the woman away and said.

"No! I want to give birth to a child for my husband first!"

The woman pressed her body down and hurriedly took off her clothes. Zhou Ming, who was lying on the bed, soon felt the sensation. He blew out the lamp and pulled out the wax, turned over and pressed the woman under him.

One spring night, the red waves were turned over, like glue and paint, we went to the bliss together.

Tian Feng and Cui, who were squatting at the door and eavesdropping, looked at each other and laughed. They will definitely be able to hold their grandson next year!

…

Shortly after marrying his cousin Cui Rou, in order to add more people to the relatively sparse Tian family, Zhou Ming sought Cui Rou's consent. Under the auspices of his parents and wife, Zhou Ming also took in several concubines.

There are five concubines in total, including the two maids Xiaoyan Xiaocui who came with his wife Cui Rou, the bed-warming maid Xiaocai Xiaohe who had been serving him, and Zhou Ming, who arrived at Tianjiazhuang a few days ago. The heroine Chu Jingling was brought all the way from Shengzhou and accompanied him throughout most of the world.

Among the five concubines, there is only Chu Jingling. Zhou Ming has deep feelings for her. After being included in the concubine, he will spend two days with her every seven days. The other four concubines will randomly select one or two days a week to spend time with her. .

His wife Cui Rou spends more than three nights a week sleeping in her room.

Zhou Ming suddenly had so many concubines. Cui Rou, who was born in a wealthy family, accepted the reality of so many women sharing the same man with her very calmly, because her father, in addition to his first wife, also took in seven or eight concubines. Concubines, maids and maids, I don’t know how much they have had their hands on. With such an excellent husband, it is impossible to have only one woman, and having three wives and four concubines is unavoidable.

She was just a little jealous. The woman named Chu Jingling had accompanied her husband through thick and thin, traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, and experienced countless things that made her envious. She and her husband had countless things that she had never known. The wonderful memories she had experienced... If it weren't for her pitiable lonely life experience, she would never have been willing to allow this woman to enter the Tian family.

Fortunately, after many lifetimes of experience accumulated, Zhou Ming also has his own way of taking care of a harem. He has long invented family tabletop games such as Mahjong, Poker, Three Kingdoms, Monopoly, and Brave Adventure, especially It's mahjong. Women who like to play this game can be so addicted to playing it day and night that they don't have any extra energy to calculate this and that, and study how to win favor all day long.

Therefore, after teaching Chu Jingling step by step how to play mahjong, within a few days, Cui Rou and she became like sisters. Win back all the money you lost.

In particular, Zhou Ming called all his wives and concubines together and played the extremely ridiculous "sleeping under the quilt" several times. Although he felt a little sore in his waist after each time, looking at the harmonious harem, no matter how painful it was, No matter how tired you are, it's still worth it.

This kind of comfortable and comfortable life with a group of wives and concubines is what Zhou Ming has always dreamed of. If he didn't consider the system in his mind and the level of clearance he wanted to achieve, he would have turned into a stallion and spent his days in wine ponds, meat forests, and excessive debauchery. pass.

but……

This is impossible, at least in this round, he must get an evaluation of A level or above.

Therefore, these days, Zhou Ming also found his father Tian Feng and asked him in detail about the development of the family's various industries during his two and a half years of traveling around the world.

His father, Tian Feng, has mediocre talents but is an excellent plan executor. Zhou Ming formulated the "Steel Plant Plan". His father Tian Feng meticulously followed the steps in the plan step by step. Of course, there were also incidents in the middle. There were all kinds of problems, and his father Tian Feng never adjusted the plan and commanded indiscriminately based on his own subjective conjectures.

Therefore, less than two years after Tianjia Iron and Steel Works was completed and put into operation, the monthly output of steel reached 500 tons.

This output completely met Zhou Ming's expectation.

Secondly, there is the development of ocean fishing companies.

The Ocean Fishing Company was the fastest-growing industry of the family during Zhou Ming's travels around the world. Within two and a half years, the scale of the Tianjia Shipyard increased fourfold, and the number of shipbuilders increased sixfold. Now Ocean Fishing companies have a total of 149 large ships with more than 1,000 materials, and the new entry rate is increasing at a rate of 5 ships per month.

These new manned ships are basically "Sea Catch II" and "Sea Transport II" large ships with a displacement of more than 2,000 materials.

There are also Tianjia Shipyard. In two large shipyards, the two new large ships being built are called "Haiqu Type III" and "Battleship Type I". The materials for the two new types of ships are more than 3,000 yuan. Inside the ship, a large number of iron castings produced by Tianjia Iron and Steel Works are used, and the strength of the hull structure is greatly increased... It is expected that two new types of ships will be launched one after another in a month.

With so many large and new ships, it goes without saying that Tianjia’s fishing and whaling industry has developed rapidly, with the catch almost doubling every year. Nowadays, the ocean fishing industry alone accounts for The net profit brought by the Tian family is more than twice that of the salt drying industry, not to mention the whaling industry whose income is more than ten times that of the fishing industry.

There are two main reasons why Tian family's fishing and whaling industry develops so fast and earns so much.

One, after Zhou Ming put forward the plan to "jointly develop and plan Penglai", he quickly received the response of many aristocratic families in Qingzhou, including the "Beihai Lu Family", the "Donglai Tang Family", and the "Scholarly Yao Family" Twenty-seven families, these families, seeing that ocean fishing is profitable and that Penglai Island is indeed a real thing, have invested money and shares... Resources from all aspects have been concentrated, and the speed of development has naturally accelerated. Many times.

Second, unlike the salt industry, the marine fishing industry is a new industry that has not yet received great attention from the imperial court. In other words, the marine fishing industry is not like the salt and iron industry, which is a key industry that the imperial court must control. Qingzhou Officials at all levels did not pay special attention to it, and even did not send special personnel to collect the fish tax. They could send these officials away by giving them a few thousand guan as a filial piety and a few hundred dried stone fish and fish oil every year.

Of course, there are also some officials who cannot get rid of this small profit. For example, there are several officials who want to take a big piece of fat from the Hai Pingtian family; others, seeing the huge profits from the marine fishing industry, want to conduct an in-depth on-the-spot investigation. ...These officials were quickly dealt with.

After all, behind the Tianjia Ocean Fishing Company, there are not only the Haiping Tian family, but also the twenty-seven aristocratic families in Qingzhou. The combined energy of these families, not to mention a small county governor, is The governor of Qingzhou wanted to trouble the ocean fishing company, so he had to be careful to lose his black hat and be picked off his horse.

Various industries are developing smoothly, but what Zhou Ming is most concerned about is the "Ocean Expedition Team" organized by the Tian family. In the past two years, the colonization activities of Penglai Immortal Island have been carried out to what extent.

Father Tian Fengdao: "Our Tian family, together with more than 20 other families, have sent three groups of expeditions to build a small settlement and a small port on Ryukyu Island, which is closest to the land. Currently, there are about 800 people. Many people live on this island under very difficult conditions, and a batch of supplies must be transported every four months. It will take at least two or three years before the island residents can initially achieve self-sufficiency."

Father Tian Feng also mentioned a big difficulty, that is, Haiping County is still too far away from Penglai Xiandao. The shortest sailing distance is more than 2,000 miles. The supply ships depart from the fishing port village and arrive at the island where the colonization activities are carried out. , it takes at least two months to sail back and forth, which is very risky, and there are not many supplies to be transported, which is very troublesome.

To the east of Haiping County, more than a thousand miles away, there is an island named "Qizhou Island", which is owned by Gaoji State. The development will definitely be much more convenient.

However, Qizhou Island, which is shaped like a jujube and has an area of ​​more than 100,000 square kilometers, is not only home to more than 300,000 Gaoji citizens, but also has thousands of Gaoji garrisons. They want to "lease" a piece of land on this exotic island. Land, building a transit port, must encounter certain resistance.

"Father, how many soldiers are there in our Tian family? Do they all use flintlock muskets?" Zhou Ming asked.

"There are more than 1,800 people, and they all know how to use flintlock muskets."

Over the years, according to Zhou Ming's plan to strengthen the army, the expansion of the Tian family's soldiers has never stopped. Because of the high welfare benefits and advanced weapons, teachers are also specially arranged to impart cultural knowledge. Tian's family soldiers, it can be said, It is a powerful military force with the highest degree of professionalization, the most advanced weapons and equipment, the highest average education level, and unquestionable loyalty to the family in this era.

"It's still too small. At least it needs to be expanded to more than 10,000 people to ensure the absolute safety of the Tian family... However, with these 1,800 clan soldiers as the base, it will be easy to expand later. How about this father, from these clan soldiers , Draw out 800 people, go to Qizhou Island to garrison, ensure the construction of the transit port, and rotate regularly, don't care about Gao Jiguo's reaction, if he refuses to accept, we will do actual combat training."

Father Tian Feng nodded, and rebelliously said: "That's right, with the strength of my Tian family, even if the court raises the flag to rebel, the court will not be able to resist it. That small country with high economic benefits is nothing."

At the same time, Tian Feng was also quite puzzled. According to the fortune teller, his son, who had the appearance of "the son of the real dragon", had never expressed the idea of ​​rebellion. Instead, he was very interested in founding a country overseas. You know, this The road is full of difficulties and requires countless investments, but it is much more difficult than direct rebellion.

However, no matter what the son wants to do in the future, as a father, he just needs to give his full support. Everything in the Tian family is brought by this son. He only needs to complete the tasks assigned to him by his son.