Originally, for safety reasons, Li Xiu did not intend to see Li Chengdao, but at the last moment he suddenly changed his mind because he suddenly thought that since Li Chengdao had mastered the route to America, and now that he dared to come for the first time, there will be a second, third time in the future...

As Li Chengdao comes to the Tang Dynasty more times, the greater the risk of being discovered by Li Shimin. If he is really caught by Li Shimin one day, he may never be able to save his life. At that time, he is powerless as a gentleman, and may even be implicated by Li Chengdao. After all, he promised Li Shimin that Li Chengdao and others would never come back after going to America.

It was precisely because of the above that Li Xiu decided to meet Li Chengdao, first, to ask clearly the reason for coming to the Tang Dynasty, and second, to remind him of the dangers of coming to the Tang Dynasty. In fact, Li Xiu was a little confused at this time because he felt that with Li Chengdao's intelligence, he should understand the dangers more than anyone else, but he came in person, which made Li Xiu want to see him and ask him clearly.

However, Li Xiu did not tell anyone about going to see Li Chengdao. Even Princess Pingyang was hidden by him because one more person would have to take the risk of leaking it, so only he and Zhang Shiyi knew about this.

Originally, Zhang Shiyi wanted to persuade Li Xiu to give up his idea of ​​seeing Li Chengdao, but Li Xiu had made a decision and no one could change it. In the end, he had to agree to arrange for Li Xiu to meet Li Chengdao. In order to prevent the news from being revealed, he decided to go to Quanzhou in person and left Suzhou the next day.

"Mr. Prince Concubine, Hen'er and I are going back to Haiyan today. After all, there are many affairs in the county, and I have already discussed the fishing boats with Brother Zhang. When the workshop sends the fishing boats over, the county government can rent these fishing boats to the fishermen to go out to sea to catch fish!" Just as Zhang Shiyi left, Shangguan Yi also came to say goodbye with Hen'er.

"Okay, Haiyan is indeed inseparable from you. Maybe I will go to Haiyan in a few days to see how the people under your rule live?" Li Xiu also smiled at this time.

"Okay, then Hen'er and I are waiting for the prince-consort in Haiyan!" Shangguan Yi also smiled and said, although the industrial and commercial situation in Haiyan County has not improved for the time being, under his governance, the public security in Haiyan County has improved much better. In addition, he also vigorously promoted high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, which is estimated that this year the people under his control can solve the most basic problem of food and clothing.

At that moment, Li Xiu took his family to send Shangguan Yi and Hen'er out of Suzhou City. Haiyan was originally a county under Suzhou. It was not far away and there were official roads connected to each other. Speaking of which, this official road was built to facilitate the transportation of salt at the beginning, so it was very wide and flat. The carriage was about to reach Haiyan in at most half a day.

In the next few days, Li Xiu took his family to continue visiting Suzhou, and tasted the delicious food from all over the country. Although Zhang Shiyi was not there, Qu Yi and his daughter were there. They have been living in Suzhou for a while and are very familiar with the surroundings, so they can also act as guides.

However, although the scenery in Suzhou is beautiful, it doesn’t feel fresh after seeing it too much. Especially Qi Niang is thinking about her shipbuilding workshop, and she is not very interested in visiting the scenery. In addition, Yuechan’s pregnancy month is getting bigger and bigger, and her body is a little inconvenient, so Li Xiu stopped going out and stayed in Suzhou City with peace of mind. In fact, this is not bad. You can calm down and experience the life in Suzhou City. Compared to the busyness of Chang'an, although the business in Suzhou is also very prosperous, life is much more leisurely than Chang'an, and it seems to be more suitable for retirement. This also made Li Xiu more determined that he must move to Suzhou and Hangzhou to bring about life when he gets older in the future.

Sometimes when Li was bored, he would follow Qi Niang to her shipbuilding workshop to take a look. When he encountered some improvements, he would give some advice. However, Qi Niang was his best student and had applied what he learned from him to shipbuilding, such as standard and accurate weights and measures, assembly line division of labor, etc., so Li Xiu could give advice. After all, he did not have much research on shipbuilding.

Compared to Li Xiu, Princess Pingyang and the others lived a fulfilling life, because after seeing Qu Yi, the four women just formed a table of mahjong. As a result, Li Xiu could hear the "crackling" mahjong sounds every day at home. Even Li Xiu didn't have time to pay attention to it. He also felt a little regretful, worried that Yuechan would cause the child in her belly to be damaged by playing mahjong like this?

Li Xiu was really bored that day, and finally thought about the fact that he had to go to Haiyan before, so he immediately asked someone to prepare the horse, and then took a team of guards out of Suzhou City. By noon, they finally arrived at Haiyan County.

Haiyan County was once a prosperous county, but after the war, Haiyan County was under war and the city walls were demolished. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the county had no money to repair it.

So when Li Xiu came to Haiyan County, he found that the entire county wall was still very broken, but some of the more severely broken places had obviously been repaired, and he could barely block people outside the city, making it necessary to pass the city gate when entering and leaving the county town, and the repaired places were very new. It seemed that Shangguan Yi had someone repaired it after taking office, but most of the city walls were still broken, as if they could collapse at any time.

After entering the county town, there were a lot of pedestrians on the street, but most of them were worn out, and almost everyone was wearing patches. The houses and shops on both sides of the street were almost the same as the city walls outside. They either looked crooked and looked about to collapse, or they had collapsed, and simple houses were built on the original foundation. At a glance, the main roads of the county town were full of such dangerous houses or building houses, which were worse than the shanty towns in later generations.

However, although the buildings in the county town are simple and the people are dressed very badly, the streets are clean, and there are yamen runners patrolling at every intersection. Once there is any thief, these yamen runners will immediately pounce on them like hungry wolves, punching and kicking them. Not only will the people around them not stop them, but some people cheered loudly, and it seems that they are very supportive of the yamen runners.

Li Xiu was not disgusted with this situation. After all, the Tang Dynasty did not talk about human rights, and he used heavy sanctions in troubled times. In poor and chaotic places like Haiyan, this method must be used to restore public security as soon as possible, and public security is the basis for the prosperity of industry and commerce.
Chapter completed!