Xu Yue walked helplessly into the room and actually took out a watermelon from the research room.
After eating and drinking, Gongsun Hao rubbed his hands with satisfaction, "Then I won't be polite to you!"
Lifting up her robe, she took two bites of watermelon first, then a steamed bun in one hand and chopsticks in the other. The look of her immersed in the delicious food made Xu Yue hungry.
Gongsun Hao ate two big meat buns before remembering his purpose and took out a thick stack of letters from the bag on his waist.
"This is the diary written for you by the students from Jiaozhou and Gaodao." Gongsun Hao took a bite of the big watermelon and burped comfortably, feeling like he was alive again.
After entering Shanggu County, the sea route was blocked, and all letters sent from Jiaozhou were transferred to Yuyang. Therefore, Xu Yue had not read the diaries sent by the students for almost half a year.
And what Gongsun Hao brought here should be what the students asked him to bring when he left Jiaozhou.
Xu Yue opened the letters and read them one by one. When she learned that the students were all well and that the manor was running smoothly, a smile gradually appeared on her lips.
Looking down, Deqian, Xu Nai and others have successfully established long-term cooperative relationships with most of the Jiaozhou aborigines.
Not only that, they also sent people to Nanyue County and made contact with several vassal countries on the border of South Vietnam. The two sides are preparing to learn from the successful cases of Shanggu County and carry out trade cooperation.
However, such a big movement will inevitably attract the attention of the three adjacent prefectures and counties of Yizhou, Jingzhou and Yangzhou.
Fortunately, there is a mountain miasma between Sanzhou and Jiaozhou as a natural chasm. In addition, the situation in the Central Plains is currently chaotic. These local warlords live in a corner and act as emperors, and their fighting consciousness is relatively weak.
Xu Nai said in the letter that within three to five years, diplomatic means could still be used to confuse these local warlords, so that Xu Yue and others should not worry and act boldly.
Because only if the Xu Jiajun wins can they in Jiaozhou have the confidence to continue developing.
Today's Jiaozhou is no longer its original, undeveloped appearance.
Because of the arrival of Xu Nai and others, several new towns were built along the coast.
Xu Jiajun's shipbuilding technology has once again exploded into a new round of advancement in the coastal areas. The Xu Jiajun fleet currently anchored on the coast has a total of eighteen large and small ships.
Ships travel between Gaodao and Nandao, completely opening Gaodao, which was originally closed, and establishing a close connection with Jiaozhou.
As a result, this vast area of the South China Sea will be under the jurisdiction of the Xu Jiajun.
The navigation technology at this time was not developed, which allowed Xu Jiajun to become a local overlord at sea.
The surrounding small dependent countries lived on water. When they saw the ships of the Xu Jiajun, the keen natives of the South Vietnamese vassal country prepared spices and prepared to learn shipbuilding techniques from the Xu Jiajun.
In the letter, Xu Nai left two inquiries.
One is to ask Xu Yue if he can sell Xu Jiajun's outdated shipbuilding blueprints to neighboring countries in South Vietnam.
The other one is...
"Marriage application?" Xu Yue looked at the marriage application form included in the letter again in surprise. This was completely beyond her expectation.
But it seems to be reasonable.
If you think about it carefully, the first batch of students who went south should be adults between eighteen and twenty-one or two years old now.
Gongsun Hao gnawed on the watermelon, glanced at Xu Yue jokingly, and smiled without saying a word.
Xu Yue looked at the marriage applications in her hand and said with a smile: "It was my negligence. I was so busy that I forgot such an important thing."
Looking through the application list in her hand, Xu Yue was surprised again.
The light of gossip shines in the black eyes, "Xu Nai and Xu Qian, are they two? Real or fake? Siblings?"
So exciting!
Gongsun Hao rolled his eyes helplessly, "How come you, the leader, are like the old lady on the roadside? Men love women and men love each other. It's human nature. What's wrong with two people being happy?"
"I didn't say no, I was just a little surprised. In my impression, Xu Nai is only this young."
Xu Yue gestured with her hands, and Gongsun Hao looked amused.
I am only 15 years old, so I feel embarrassed to say that others are young!
Most of the students who are over 18 years old have applied for marriage, and 80% of them are partners with the same students.
The remaining 20% are male students who married local women.
Gongsun Hao said that there is also a school in the manor, and young men and women from the local tribes attend classes in the school. Under the influence of the Xu family school, the thinking of these local people has also undergone earth-shaking changes.
The reason why the male students in Xujiazhuang chose these local women was because the ideas of these women were similar to those of the women in Xujiazhuang.
Since both parties can chat well and meet the conditions for marriage, Xu Yue has no reason not to approve everyone's marriage application.
Xu Yue took out her pen, signed and agreed to all twenty-five marriage applications, and then took out a separate piece of letter paper to reply to the students in the manor.
First, there is no need to send the marriage report to her in the future. The students can elect a local notary and build a marriage certificate office to be responsible for marriage issues in the manor.
Second, students can use obsolete old ships and old technologies for external exchanges, and accept spices or other local specialties in exchange.
Third, after approval, those who meet the conditions can recruit local young men and women to build an acropolis and reinforce the military construction of the manor, just in case.
Xu Yue thought about the specific details and wrote them all in the letter.
When she was concentrating on her work, she was unaware of anything outside. After Xu Yue checked the letter, sealed it with beeswax and encrypted it, she looked up again and saw that Gongsun Hao had fallen asleep leaning against the pillar.
I looked up at the sky outside. The sun was already in the center, and the whole morning passed by unconsciously.
Gongsun Hao didn't sleep deeply. He noticed the movement around him and stopped. He slowly opened his eyes and yawned, "Have you finished writing?"
Xu Yue nodded and handed him the reply letter.
Gongsun Hao took it, weighed the heavy letter, and then carefully put it into his baggage with a smile.
After the business was done, the two of them got up and were about to go out together when Aunt Xing's voice came over.
"Master An is here!" Aunt Xing was holding the twins at the door and basking in the sun. When she saw the person coming, she subconsciously stood up.
An Ming, who was covered in travel dust, waved his hand and said, "You take your seat and I'll look for the leader. Is the leader at home?"
Faced with the sudden courtesy from her old employer, Aunt Xing was still a little uncomfortable, but the two fat babies in her arms were really heavy, so she took advantage of the situation and sat back.
"Here we are, the leader and Mr. Gongsun are in the house."
As soon as Aunt Xing finished speaking, Xu Yue and Gongsun Hao had already walked out.
An Mi and Gongsun Hao were both from old aristocrats in Youzhou, and they knew each other. He first met Gongsun Hao and bowed, then turned to Xu Yue and said excitedly:
"Chief, it's approved! The buses and carriages in Juyong County have been completed. Now everyone is gathered at the city gate, waiting for you, Chief, to ring the first gong!"
Xu Yue was overjoyed and looked at Gongsun Hao. Before she could ask, Gongsun Hao said first, "Let's go and have a look!"
