After conquering the Southern Han Dynasty, looking at the entire Southeast, there was no force that could compete with the Great Zhou Dynasty. The rest was how to clean up the mess.

Both Ye Hua and Chai Rong knew this.

First, Duke Zhu Lingyun and Ren Tianxing advanced together with water and land, and expanded their territory in Annan. The original Wu Dynasty of Annan was destroyed. They focused on attacking the Annan family and powerful factions, and seized the most fertile plains.

After land is established, large-scale immigration is achieved.

From Nanhan and other places, he immigrated 200,000 people and entered Annan. Then Chai Rong moved 500,000 people from Jiangnan to fill Lingnan... This is the second time since Qin Shihuang, he has developed Lingnan in large quantities. In addition to immigrating, he has also arrested more than 100,000 slaves from Annan and other places to fill the gap in labor.

The next thing is much simpler, reclaiming wasteland, building farms, building roads, and developing mountains and forests... Lingnan has abundant resources, and the most popular ones are two things, one is rice, which can reach an amazing three-ripening year, and the other is sugarcane. After moving from poverty to well-off, the consumption increase is the most obvious, either other things or sugar!

In Kaifeng, a tuft of sugar can be sold at a sky-high price of 100%. In three years, Lingnan has built a large area of ​​sugar cane fields, with as many as 200 workshops producing sugar alone.

In three years, the price of sugar in Beijing has dropped by more than five times, and sugar has become a delicacy that many ordinary people can enjoy.

Ye Hua once thought about whether he could make money with sugar. If anything else was not good, he at least knew how to filter and produce white sugar.

He told Fu San very seriously. Fu San touched her husband's forehead and said to him seriously: "You don't have a fever, how can you talk nonsense? The filtering method is not something you wrote into the textbook yourself. It is well-known to everyone, and can you still make money?"

After coming out of his wife, Ye Hua lamented that this is called the church apprentice starving the master to death!

Fortunately, with his salary, he would not starve to death. Ye Hua simply did not want to make a fortune. He was careful to promote the development of Jiangnan. Before that, there was the Battle to Destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty and later, the Manichaeism Rebellion. The war destroyed Jiangnan and gave Jiangnan the opportunity to develop freely.

Ye Hua formulated a complete set of business norms, and based on Suzhou Bank, he planned to build Jiangnan Bank, which specifically provided loans to workshops and workshops to support industrial development.

Over the past three years, the production of silk in the southeast has increased by five times.

In addition, the cotton planting area has reached three million mu, and cotton textile has begun to take shape... In short, the southeast is prosperous, not only coming out of the war, but also shining far ahead of the past.

Jiangnan alone contributed 20 million yuan of tax revenue to the Great Zhou, becoming the Great Zhou's money bag.

If Ye Hua has been practicing internal skills and sorting out various contradictions in the past three years, then Chai Rong is practicing external skills, paying attention to being fierce and arrogant, and looking down on everything he wants!

After dealing with the Southern Han Dynasty, the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce took the initiative to surrender, and the entire territory of Wu and Yue was included in the territory of the Great Zhou. Zhou Xingfeng also handed over the land of Jinghu, surrendered the land, and honestly became a minister of the Great Zhou.

Looking at the world, except for Shu Kingdom that had not surrendered, the Great Zhou had basically unified the world.

Obviously, Chai Rong was still not satisfied. His second year in Lingnan was also the fourth year of the establishment of Jiaozhou Shipyard. A large number of sea ships were launched, and the entire Royal Navy of Great Zhou changed its cannons, which is different now.

Chai Rong did not say a word, and led 20,000 troops to attack Annan and seize 500 miles of land. As his troops pointed, he even wanted to pass Annan and attack Dali.

Hearing this news, Ye Hua was frightened. According to time, the emperor of Dali is either Duan Siping's son or his grandson. Even if they have not mastered the Six-Meridian Divine Sword, the One-Yang Finger is still very good. Wan Yitian Long Temple is angry that Chai Rong destroyed the Buddha, dispatched a master to assassinate His Majesty the Emperor?

Just when Ye Hua was anxious, news came that Dali took the initiative to pay tribute and gave Chai Rong a generous gift.

Dali said that they believed in Buddhism and were completely different from the cruel Nanzhao.

Moreover, Dali is willing to make friends with the Great Zhou, and is willing to be a subordinate of the Great Zhou, and never rebel!

Chai Rong even hoped that Dali would be tougher, so he would take the opportunity to attack Dali, surround Shu from the south, and then unify the world in one fell swoop. Dali was so honest that it was hard to bear to start, so Chai Rong had to go to the fore. He left 10,000 troops in Annan, built a wharf, and built a city as a stronghold to continue to move south in the future.

Chai Rong returned to the court with the power of great victory.

This time, the Great Zhou Dynasty was full of talents. The original Wang Pu, Fan Zhi, Xue Juzheng, Li Gu, Zhao Pu, Lu Duoxun and others were not mentioned, Han Xizai, Xu Xuan, Pan Chengyou, Chen Qiao, Li Yu from Jiangnan, and Wang Pu from Hedong was also invited back to the court.

It was very lively for a while. Every yamen was filled with famous officials, a group of long-bearded people, like children, with blushing faces and thick necks all day long. Not to mention how lively it was, it was even more than Chen Shi's wife in the thirty room!

Since Ye Hua returned to Beijing, he has rarely gone to Huagai Palace. Usually, either Chai Rong issued an order to ask him to come over or Chai Rong came to the Ye family to visit him and talk about official business.

Ye Hua's status in the capital is much more transcendent than before.

He has gradually changed from a general to a master of the country to a teacher and a child. He likes a new life very much. Even the worst child is, he is still a dusty pearl. As long as he wipes patiently, it will shine.

For example, these two little guys in front of you!

I don’t know when they met Aunt Ye and found that Aunt Ye was not with her and was very lonely. They ran over to greet him almost every day.

At first I sent some dessert fruits, but later I simply had a meal with Aunt Ye.

Two beautiful jade carved out of ordinary children is so healing.

Aunt Ye became crazy after losing her child and attacking her in every way.

Now that she has children with her, her spirit is getting better and better day by day. There are no differences between ordinary people. For Ye Hua, there are really not many relatives.

Although my aunt has many problems, she has suffered enough!

"Liu Chuang is a good man, very responsible. Aunt, you have a good vision!" Ye Hua smiled and affirmed.

Aunt Ye was stunned for a long time, and finally digested Ye Hua's words and suddenly became at a loss.

"He, is he good?"

"It's not good, nor bad!" Ye Hua said: "In order to avenge, it took him three years to go to heaven and earth to capture Shangshu Ling... But the enemy was caught, and he had no pursuit anymore. I was worried that this person would collapse."

"Hey, you're right! He's just a stubborn person, just a stubborn person." Aunt Ye complained a few times and begged: "Marty, go and persuade him, a man is a real man and has ambitions in the world. He is different now than before. If you can be a dignified person, just live a good life, don't, don't think too much."

Speaking of this, Aunt Ye lowered her head, "I, him and I have already cut off one knife and two pieces!"

"Can you break it?" Ye Hua asked.

Aunt Ye couldn't stop crying and kept flowing.

"So what can I do if I keep it? I am not a human being, no ghost. If someone knows that the old things have started, I will shame the Ye family!"

Aunt Ye was still in a bad mood. She was emotionally excited and could no longer control herself. She raised her hand, kept slapping her cheeks, and even grabbed her hair with both hands, as if she was crazy!

"Grandma, grandma!"

The two little things called for pain, tears rolled back and forth in their eyes. When they heard the child's call, Aunt Ye finally calmed down a little. She slowly lowered her hands, and she felt like she was being sucked. She was dejected, slowly lowered her head and walked towards the room silently.

"stop!"

Suddenly, a loud voice came, and Old Mrs. Ye walked in quickly with a cane.

She quickly walked to her daughter, said nothing, and slapped Aunt Ye a few mouths. She slapped her very suddenly and couldn't even persuade her.

After the fight, the old lady burst into tears again and hugged her daughter.

"Silly girl, I don't let you disturb you. I want you to figure out why the big boss is still stubborn and can't get along with me!"

The old lady snorted angrily: "You are from the Ye family. The past things have passed. It is his blessing that Liu Chuang can marry you. He dares to be picky and sell his legs if he is old!"

Aunt Ye was completely stunned when she heard the old lady's words.
Chapter completed!