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Chapter 772 Crazy Population Transfer

Chapter 772 Crazy Population Transfer

Elsa immediately changed her face and said with a smile: "Commander, please tell me first what Princess Changle likes, and I will be well prepared to please her."

Su Chen: "Just be honest and stop being a monster!"

"I wrote to tell Changle about you. Changle is kind-hearted by nature and will not treat you harshly."

Elsa pouted: "If your princess wife can't tolerate my concubine, don't forget your promise, Commander."

Elsa said, pointing to a boat in the distance: "I think that boat is good!"

"Pack a boat full of spices and go back. I won't have to worry about food and drink for the rest of my life."

Su Chen glanced at the direction of Elsa's finger: "Good vision, the latest clipper ship, the fastest ship currently."

"Since you want it, the ship is yours,"

"Whether Changle wants you to stay or not, that ship is yours."

Elsa was stunned for a moment, then jumped up: "Ah! Marshal, are you serious?"

"I just pointed it out casually, it's really your boat."

"Is that ship really mine?"

She just saw that the ship was very special, with a long and slender hull and very beautiful appearance.

Su Chen: "When did I lie to you?"

"After all, you are also the princess of Canni Kingdom. How can a ship bring you such success?"

Elsa: "I, the princess of a small country, am nothing to your princess."

"Besides, the commander-in-chief knows better than anyone what the situation is in the Canni Kingdom, so it's okay not to mention it."

"Commander, what else do you want to explain?"

"I am anxious to see my treasure ship!"

“It’s so beautiful, the slender hull looks like it’s brand new!”

Lao Liao and Wang Qian stood aside with strange faces, not daring to speak and making eye contact with each other:

"This is just our young master. If it were any other consort, how would he dare to do this?"

"Well! His Royal Highness seems to be with the young master. The young master brought the person back to the Tang Dynasty in front of his highness!"

"Okay, in the future there will be more princesses from other countries in the family. I hope there won't be any trouble."

"Probably not, our princess is virtuous! And this foreign princess doesn't seem to have high requirements. She can do this with just one ship!"

"Yeah! Indeed!"



The next morning, Su Chen sent Elsa off to the beach to take a clipper boat to the north.

Along with Lao Liao, there were two other gentlemen, Yuan Jie and Song Ying, as well as dozens of their students.

These two people were not originally from the Navy. This time they went to the feast and it was Su Chen who asked them to help.

Now that we are done, of course we have to go home early.

They were among the first batch of gentlemen to study mathematics and physics with Su Chen. They lived in Sujiazhuang and happened to go back together this time.

After sending Elsa and others away, Su Chen was going to see if Fang Xuanling was free.

A lot of things happened in the Tang Dynasty this year. Lao Liao and the others were just the stewards of the family and didn't know much.

If you think too much about important matters in the court, you have to find Fang Xuanling.

In addition, Su Chen was also very curious, what did Fang Xuanling do to make Li Er lose his temper and drive him to Guangzhou?

And where did Xie Shufang, the original governor of Guangzhou, go?

When he met Fang Xuanling, he basically handed over the official affairs in Guangzhou.

Su Chen ignored Li Chengqian's eyes and asked Fang Xuanling many questions.

Fang Xuanling was famous for her good temper, and she answered them all cheerfully.

It turns out that Fang Xuanling was driven to Guangzhou by Li Er because of the remnants of the family.

Last spring, several of Fang Xuanling's students who were local officials tipped him off: they discovered that aristocratic families and local powerful men were transferring family members and wealth overseas.

There was nothing Fang Xuanling could do about this matter. If he wanted to leave, the court couldn't stop him, right?

However, Fang Xuanling also received a secret report that when those people were transferring their own population and wealth overseas, they were also secretly transferring the people of the Tang Dynasty overseas.

Fang Xuanling immediately understood that these remnants of the clan had serious plans, and immediately wanted to report it to Li Er.

However, the remnants of the wealthy families who initially moved out were all unnamed households without imperial household registration, which made Fang Xuanling hesitate.

For thousands of years, everyone has been aware of the fact that aristocratic families and local powerful people are hiding their population, but there is nothing they can do about it.

Those remnants of the powerful family moved their hidden people overseas, which made it difficult for Fang Xuanling to capture actual evidence.

In addition, in the summer, the activities of those powerful people suddenly stopped.

Fang Xuanling was very puzzled, so she continued to wait to see what was going on.

In fact, it was Su Chen who was leading the fleet south at this time. Those remnants of the clan were afraid that Su Chen would discover their ships transporting people and supplies, so they deliberately stopped them.

After Su Chen left Guangzhou, the remnants of the family continued their actions, but at that time the court was in a mess about building railways and expanding the navy.

After the autumn harvest, food prices plummeted, and Fang Yiai returned early with three warships. Rumors spread in Chang'an.

Fang Xuanling was so busy at that time that she thought about putting off the matter of the remnants of the family for a while. At that time, Fang Xuanling thought that the remnants of the family would not cause any harm for a while.

But Fang Xuanling greatly underestimated the madness of the remnants of the powerful families.

After the naval fleet left, coastal ports throughout Datang began to transfer people overseas day and night.

Although Li Er has eliminated the control of the aristocratic families over the court, at the local level, the influence of the aristocratic families and the local powerful are still intertwined.

Especially under the deliberate cover of some local officials, the remnants of the powerful families are brazenly and frantically transferring people overseas.

The black households that were hidden at the beginning soon became registered local people.

Those hidden gangsters are easy to control. They can do whatever the master says and go wherever they are told.

But the local people where they are registered are not willing to leave their homes.

Those remnants of the clan also knew that their actions would be discovered soon, so they wanted to get the largest number of people in the shortest time, so they took risks and pretended to be bandits to rob the population along the coast!

Moreover, the noble families have already made arrangements, and the local officials of many port cities along the coast are their manpower.

The most typical example is Xiao Rui, the consort of Princess Xiangcheng. He served as the governor of Yuezhou and joined forces with Lu Xuan, the governor of Hangzhou, to plunder people wildly in the densely populated states and counties around Hangzhou Bay.

Due to the lag in traffic information and the obstruction at all levels by the complex and intricate forces of the noble family, Fang Xuanling didn't even know in the capital that the plundering of the local population had gone through the roof!

By the time Fang Xuanling made up his mind to report it to Li Er, the matter was already out of control, and Li Er already knew about it.

The population plundering along the coast was so powerful that Baiqisi, who Li Er sent to the coast to secretly detect the abnormal number of ships, did not figure out why the number of ships was wrong, so he first reported the robbery to Li Er.

As soon as Li Er received the secret report from Baiqisi, he was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, so Fang Xuanling ran to report to him.

Li Er turned over the table on the spot: "Did you know this a long time ago?"


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