Four hundred and fortieth chapters strong foundation
In the thirteenth year since the founding of the Emperor, all outsiders who have been to the Marquis of Wu are amazed by the bustling and bustling scene.
Suzhou, Jiaxing, Hucheng, Qiantang and other cities are all prosperous, with a constant stream of business travelers and passers-by. It is doubtful that Jiankang, which was the capital of Chen in the past, is even more prosperous and noisy than the original Jiankang.
These places are connected by spacious and solid official roads. The villages and towns along the way are all neat and clean. The residents live a prosperous life and have a high-spirited spirit. People who see it can't help but be infected.
Looking around, the water network is densely covered with fine paddy fields, and the spring breeze brings warmth like pieces of jasper. I can't help but feel happy when I see it.
The entire Wuhou territory was full of vitality.
What surprises outsiders the most is the population in the territory. The towns seen along the way range from a hundred thousand to tens of thousands of people.
The villages along the stagnant official road have hundreds or even thousands of people in the big ones, just like a small market town; there are hundreds of people in the small ones. Even if they are old and decrepit, they all walk like flying, have strong bodies and strong bones, and are strong enough to do farm work.
He's not much worse than he was in his prime.
How strange!
Anyone who knows something about the South knows that the population of the entire Yangtze River was less than five million in the Chen Dynasty, and most of them were concentrated in towns along the Yangtze River.
Later, the Sui army defeated Chen and went through several twists and turns and wars. The population in the south became even more sparse. It is hard to say whether there were four million people.
With a population of four million scattered across the vast south, it is impossible to make any waves.
That is to say, Wu Hou Leihu acted decisively and took control of the Taihu area immediately after withdrawing from Jiankang. Coupled with the call of Prince Nanchen, a total of almost 500,000 people gathered in the Taihu area.
When the Marquis of Wu accepted the canonization of the Sui Emperor and officially took over the military and political power of the territory, the population of the entire territory was only a little over half a million, which was really pitifully small.
However, after Wu Hou vigorously developed the territory, and when there was no shortage of money and food, he vigorously encouraged the people to have children under his rule, and even provided additional rewards for couples who gave birth to children. As a result, the birth rate of newborn children in the territory increased sharply. In a few years, it had already increased
Forty to fifty thousand newborns.
Such a small population is not a problem at all for the Marquis of Wu, who has a vast territory and sparse soil. Among them, there are even nearly 10,000 abandoned baby girls who are directly raised by the Marquis, so they do not feel much pressure at all.
Later, taking advantage of the rebellion in the south, the Marquis of Wu absorbed tens of thousands more refugees. At the same time, he also opened the door for local nobles to absorb refugees and recruit slaves, adding tens of thousands of people in one breath.
Altogether, there is a population of about 650,000, which is definitely a huge number in the south, but it is still too small for the Marquis of Wu, which has a vast territory and is sparsely populated.
In order to increase the population, Wu Hou Leihu also tried his best to come up with many tricks. He even exchanged money and food for prisoners, and in one fell swoop, he obtained nearly 100,000 rebel prisoners and their families from Shi Wansui's prisoner camp.
In this way, the population of the entire Wuhou Territory barely reached 750,000!
In order to increase the population under his rule, including criminals in prison and erring nobles who were forced to be sent to labor camps, Wu Hou Leihu was reluctant to go on a killing spree, and even gave them a good living treatment, allowing them to undergo labor camps while still being able to
A steady stream of new babies are born, increasing the population of the territory.
This was the noisy scene that seemed to outsiders to be quite surprising.
Due to the lack of population, many of Wu Hou Leihu's development plans had to be temporarily abandoned, waiting for the population to increase in the future to add fuel to the development of the territory.
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On this day, Wu Hou led someone from Qiantang County into the backyard of a mansion for the third time. As a crisp baby cried, the senior officials of the Yinkui Sect who gathered outside the door breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhu Yuyan, the leader of the Yinkui sect, successfully gave birth to a daughter after ten months of pregnancy.
No matter what the senior officials of the Yinkui Sect thought, all of them were smiling at this time, congratulating the sect leader on the birth of a daughter, and the successor of the Yinkui Sect.
With Zhu Yuyan's profound cultivation of the Seventeenth Level of Heavenly Demon and Dharma, even after giving birth to a daughter, he could get up immediately to receive the distinguished guests who came to celebrate, but his face was a little pale.
"Congratulations to the sect master on your daughter's fortune!"
Lei Hu walked into the festively decorated main hall and said with a smile.
"Thank you to Marquis Wu for your help!"
Zhu Yuyan smiled and said: "Otherwise, it would not be easy to have such a stable pregnancy for ten months!"
This is not a polite word, but a fact.
If Jianghu Zhengdao knew that Zhu Yuyan was pregnant, some people with evil intentions would probably carry out sneak attacks and plots. Never doubt the ruthlessness of people in Jianghu.
If that really happened, Zhu Yuyan's situation would be more embarrassing, and it might even affect the child in her belly. This was something she would absolutely not tolerate.
Even within the Holy Sect, there are many people who want to wish Yuyan bad luck.
Her talent in martial arts is so high that she reached the level of Heavenly Demon and the Seventeenth Level of Dharma at a young age. Even if she was plotted by Shi Zhixuan and stopped, she is still a feared top master in the world.
Innate late-stage strength is no joke. Even if he is not as good as the masters, he is still at the top of the Jianghu pyramid and can easily overwhelm the leaders of the sects of the Holy Sect.
Also, if Shi Zhixuanzhi hears the news, he may not let Zhu Yuyan go.
He may not take Zhu Yuyan's life, but he will definitely use all means to make Zhu Yuyan fall into ruin, and the Yinkui Sect will completely lose the opportunity to unify the Holy Sect.
There is also Cihang Jingzhai, who has been entangled with the Yinkui sect for hundreds of years. They may not take direct action due to their status as the leader of the righteous path, but doing some tricks will definitely make it difficult for Zhu Yuyan to raise the child with peace of mind.
In short, Zhu Yuyan, the leader of the Yinkui Sect, is pregnant. There are too many people who want to make decisions. It is very dangerous to not have a safe environment for raising a baby. This is no joke.
In Qiantang, this is the core area of Wu Hou Leihu's power, and the control is strict and water cannot penetrate.
With top experts like Wu Hou Leihu in charge, even the two holy monks from the Southern Buddhism did not dare to enter the city easily, which shows how safe Qiantang City is.
The fact is exactly the same. Zhu Yuyan stayed in Qiantang City for more than eight months, but did not encounter any harassment from the world, and gave birth to the child safely.
"You are welcome!"
Lei Hu waved his hand and said indifferently: "Zhu Zongzhu also helped me a lot. Those one hundred female gentlemen alone are enough to solve a lot of troubles. Otherwise, I don't know how much it would cost if I had to find and train them myself."
The cost and trouble?”
Zhu Yuyan chuckled softly, and as expected he did not continue to say polite words.
After staying in Qiantang City for so long, she finally figured out that Wu Hou Leihu was definitely a capable person, not only a great master in martial arts, but also a master in local governance.
She stayed in Qiantang City to raise her child for nearly a year, and witnessed with her own eyes the earth-shaking changes in Qiantang City, especially the fact that every citizen in the city could live a prosperous and happy life. This alone was remarkable.
Not to mention, Wu Hou Leihu's concern for the people under his rule is really beyond words.
She has never seen any powerful man go out of his way to create a Boy Scout and a Youth Corps in order to enable the children under his rule to read and write, and even spend a lot of materials to raise the Boy Scouts and Youth Corps for free.
Tens of thousands of children and teenagers.
For the nearly 10,000 abandoned girls, hundreds of female teachers were obtained from the Yinkui sect, as well as other supporting facilities and personnel, and a huge cost was spent to allow these abandoned girls to live the best life possible.
He also spent a lot of effort to come up with dozens of sets of very effective exercise methods.
All the people in Wuhou's territory are strong and healthy. Even the elderly people who have learned the exercise method have strong bones and are immune to all diseases, but they rarely get sick.
Those exercise methods were very sophisticated. Zhu Yuyan studied them carefully when he had nothing to do. He was so impressed by Wu Hou Leihu's ability that he casually came up with dozens of exercises that he could incorporate into his daily life.
It can be said that the training method developed by Wu Hou is no worse than the martial arts foundation-building method that is widely circulated in the world, and may even be more effective in some aspects.
It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Wuhou territory has a large number of martial arts training seeds. As long as the basic martial arts mentality is passed down, there may be an astonishing scene where all the people practice martial arts and become low-level or even top-level masters.
Just think about it, considering Zhu Yuyan's temperament, he couldn't help but feel excited, and at the same time he also felt frightened, and he knew how powerful Wu Hou Leihu's methods were.
While helping the people in the territory to keep fit and have a good body, it also laid a strong foundation for the Wuhou Territory. Once it completely breaks out, it will probably cause earth-shaking changes.
Zhu Yuyan couldn't even imagine it anymore. After seeing this clearly, she also regarded Wuhou Ling as the most important talent training base. The children here all have a solid foundation. Once they practice profound internal skills and mental methods, they will definitely be able to achieve what they have acquired.
Top-level or even innate-level masters cannot escape even those with at least third-rate strength.
This is very scary!
What Zhu Yuyan values more is the nearly 10,000 abandoned girls, as well as the tens of thousands of girls who have joined the Boy Scouts. Many of them are geniuses with good qualifications. Once they practice such peerless magic skills as the Demon King and the Dharma, their future future and strength will be absolutely guaranteed.
inestimable.
Just for the future development of the Yin Kui Sect, Zhu Yuyan had to establish a good relationship with Wu Hou Leihu, not to mention the protection and kindness mixed in. The relationship in the past year has been going well, and there is no sense of unfamiliarity in talking and laughing.
This is what Zhu Yuyan and Yin Kui Sect need, and it is also a good thing Lei Hu wants to see.
I wish Yuyan’s daughter’s birth party a happy one for all the guests and guests. No unpleasant things happened during the banquet, and no stupid and righteous knight suddenly appeared to disrupt the situation. In short, the atmosphere was harmonious and joyful.
Although I don’t understand why Zhu Yuyan named his daughter Shan Meiru, Lei Hu deserves a lot of congratulations.
Looking at the swaddled little girl with rosy cheeks and yet to bloom, I just hope that she will not suffer the tragedy in the Tang Dynasty Double Dragon plot and can grow up happily.