Datang: at the Beginning, Eat Fruit

　　"There is a brother-in-law Lao." Li Chongyi accepted the fruit gratefully.Four.

Chapter 131

　　The food that Lu Zhuang collected took five days to be sold by Lu Xiu, and he received [-] tons.

　　The thousands of acres of farmland vacated, because it was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, could not continue to grow crops, unless Lu Xiu used his luxuriant ability to give birth to it so that it could be harvested at the end of autumn, or built a greenhouse.But if there is a shortage of food, in fact, Lu Xiu will save a lot of troublesome steps by directly using the fruit to change it rather than using the lush fruit.

　　But how could Lu Xiu do this too much? The reason why he planted the four crops was largely to provide "welfare" to the people, lest people have to ask him for help every time in the event of a disaster in the future.If you don't save them, your conscience will be troubled. Save them, you will be overworked and troubled.

　　For a long time, coming up with four high-yielding crops can indirectly save him a lot of trouble.It can save the Chinese people from starvation, so why not do it.

　　"Cotton is enough for the time being this year, but all the land vacated next year can be planted."

　　Cotton was not food, so Lu Xiu couldn't use the fruit either.In addition to making quilts and pillows out of cotton, Lu Xiu cultivated a large amount of cotton to make cloth and clothes.

　　"Little friend Lu, have you set the date for our trip to Yangzhou?" Li Yuan asked, seeing that Lu Xiu had arranged a series of events in Luzhuang.

　　In the past, Li Yuan took a boat from the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River, and the scenery was very beautiful.

　　Li Yuan couldn't wait to see the scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River from a height of several hundred meters.

　　As early as a few days ago, Lu Xiu had asked Cheng Chumo and Wu He to bring their luggage and gold worth more than [-] yuan.

　　They want to turn into eagles and fly down Yangzhou along the Yangtze River. Naturally, they can't bring too much luggage, and at most they can bring a few sets of clothes.

　　"Five days later. At that time, Chu Mo and the others should also settle down." Lu Xiu thought about it and gave a specific time.

　　Chang'an is more than [-] miles away from Yangzhou. At the speed of a falcon, it should be able to fly as fast as possible in a day.However, Lu Xiu mainly traveled in the mountains and water, so it would probably take two or three days.

　　"Little friend Lu, they started their journey four days ago. Because they are going down the Yangtze River by boat, I don't know how fast. The old man thinks that they should have arrived in Yangzhou." Li Yuan said.

　　"Don't worry, it will take a few days for them to settle down. What's more, they are arranged not only to buy houses, but the main task for them is to help recruit a group of sailors who know water, or who will drive the boat. If they can If I call the Tang Navy for help, I can do it a few days earlier." Lu Xiu replied.

　　"Da Tang's navy?" Li Yuan said with a pity when he heard Lu Xiu talk about it, "There is no formal navy in the Tang Dynasty."

　　Although Datang inherited several shipbuilding workshops from the Sui Dynasty, it has been through ups and downs since it overthrew the Sui Dynasty and was established.

　　As for when he would consider forming a navy team, Li Yuan felt that it was impossible in a short period of time.There are powerful enemies outside the Tang Dynasty, Turks, Goguryeo, and Tubo, and there are natural disasters and aristocratic families within.

　　"There is no navy in the Tang Dynasty, who will maintain order?" Lu Xiu said in surprise...  

　　"Well. In the Jiangdong area, several aristocratic families are very powerful. If you can have a good relationship with them, it will be much easier to do things." Li Yuan pondered.

　　In the early Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic family had a great influence not only in the court, but also in the market.As for the order on the water that Lu Xiu mentioned, most of them are controlled by several major families in Jiangdong, among which the Zheng family is the most powerful.

　　If you don't take care of it and go to sea rashly, you will even be looted by pirates soon.Although they are pirates, many boatmen who rely on the sea for food think that they have nothing to do with them.

　　"Old man Li, aren't you too emperor, who would dare not give you a little face." Lu Xiu teased.

　　"Don't say it's an old man, the family doesn't even care about the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. According to what you said, the sea is extremely wide, how can it be controlled by the Tang Dynasty for no reason." Li Yuan shook his head.

　　"Well, I hope this trip goes smoothly." Lu Xiu said lightly.If troubles continue, the fruit of the operation he has can actually control a person's ability well in many ways.

　　Simple, such as digging out the heart to control, if it is complex, simply change their heads to replace their consciousness.

　　As for pirates, Lu Xiu wasn't very worried.With the current capabilities of pirates, the weapons on board are at most bows and arrows with a range of one or two hundred meters, and crossbows.

　　And the domain ability range of his surgical fruit is more than [-] meters.He can directly dismember a ship five hundred meters away with the fruit of surgery.

　　Before going to sea, the system should produce new Devil Fruits.

　　If you can draw the fruits of the natural system, it can be said that the safety is greatly guaranteed. .

Chapter 132

　　Without the ability of the Falcon Fruit, Lu Xiu would not even consider leaving Chang'an City.

　　There were two main types of transportation in ancient times. One was waterway. Because the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was dug in the Sui Dynasty, it was possible to take a boat directly from the Grand Canal to the Yangtze River and then down the river.

　　The second is the land route. There are official roads built in the past dynasties, which can be used by horses or carriages.

　　Land and water are more stable than land roads. Because there is no shock absorption device on the carriage, and there is no modern flat cement road or asphalt road, the road section of more than [-] kilometers will definitely be bumpy and unbearable.Secondly, even a journey of one or two thousand miles on horseback would take ten days and a half months.Then there is a lot of dust and dust along the way, and you may even have to sleep outside at any time.

　　Of course, the boat will shake a lot, and many northerners will even experience seasickness.Because of the ancient northerners, they rarely had the experience of sailing.

　　Therefore, Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms thought of using iron chains to connect the ships together to stabilize the swaying ships.

　　No matter what the 25, the land and water is much more comfortable than the land road. From Chang'an to Yangzhou, it is downstream, and you can enjoy the scenery on both sides of the strait when you ride on the boat.

　　But it is good to go with water and land, but it is impossible to go upstream.If you go back to Chang'an from Yangzhou, you can only choose the land route.

　　Fortunately, with the ability of the Falcon Fruit, Lu Xiu has the option of air travel, and travel is much more convenient.

　　After five days, everything was ready.Lu Xiu entrusted Li Ergou with full authority over matters concerning Lu Zhuang.

　　Li Er, who learned the date, brought the queen to practice it for them.

　　"Lizhi, why don't you go, the mother is really worried. There is no palace maid by your side, how can you take care of yourself." Seeing her daughter leaving her for several months at a young age, how could Empress Zhangsun be willing.

　　"Brother Lu will take good care of Lizhi, right?" Lizhi hugged Lu Xiu's arm, her eyes full of dependence.

　　"Don't worry, mother-in-law, I will take good care of Lizhi. She should be back before the end of the year, you don't have to worry about us." Lu Xiu smiled.

　　"Haha, if there is a next time, I also want to go to sea with my son-in-law to see and see. Now I can only be in Chang'an, wishing my son-in-law a smooth journey and having fun." Li Er said with a smile.If you go out to sea, you should be able to see a lot of different things. Li Erduo wants to see what the sea looks like.It's a pity that he doesn't know when he will go out next time. Occasionally, he really wants to go out to relax, but unfortunately a country cannot live without a ruler for a day.

　　After they were ready, Lu Xiu and the others spread their wings and leaped, and they quickly disappeared into the sky under the gaze of Li Er and the others.They don't need to know where to go, just follow the river, all the way down the water.

　　"It seems that I won't be able to eat Luzhuang's food for a few months." Li Er said.

　　"Your Majesty only cares about himself." Empress Zhangsun complained.

　　"Haha, Li Zhi has her son-in-law and the others, so it's nothing. With that girl Qinghe, she should be able to serve Li Zhi very well." Li Er smiled.

　　In terms of food and lodging, both Lu Xiu and the Emperor Taishang enjoyed it so much, how could they possibly suffer.Going out for a few months, being able to travel the north and south of the river, can broaden my knowledge.

　　It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.

　　If it wasn't for his few emperors who didn't have the ability to have the eagle fruit, Li Er even considered asking Lu Xiu to bring some of them.

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　　Maintaining a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, Lu Xiu and the others galloped in the sky.For long flights, it is the best speed, and can fly for four hours.

　　Everyone looked down at the scenery below them, and everything was in full view.

　　Although it was late summer and early autumn, the mountains were still full of green.

　　But most of the farmland can be seen, and it starts to take on a golden color.A month later, the autumn harvest should be ready.

　　It's a pity that they are already very familiar with the scenery hundreds of miles around Chang'an, so Lu Xiu and the others don't have any more nostalgia.

　　It was not until two hours later that the turbulent Yangtze River finally appeared in front of them.

　　Seen from the sky, the crystal clear Yangtze River is interspersed among the emerald green mountains, like an endless dragon.

　　In order to facilitate the viewing, Lu Xiu and the others deliberately slowed down and descended from a height of more than [-] meters to a height of more than [-] meters.

　　The five eagles spread their wings and hovered at a low altitude, traversing back and forth among the various mountains.

　　"Looking down on both sides of the Yangtze River from a high place, the beautiful scenery is like a moving picture scroll." Li Yuan couldn't help shouting loudly.

　　The sharp eagle cry echoed in the mountains in an instant.

　　"Woooo."

　　It seemed that in response to Li Yuan's cry, there were bursts of strange cries from the mountains.

　　"Hee hee, Grandpa Huang, they are talking to you." Li Lizhi giggled.

　　Listening carefully, it turned out to be the monkeys on the mountain.

　　The monkeys on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had passed ten thousand mountains. .

Chapter 133

　　What they just saw was in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which was not really spectacular.

　　Lu Xiu knew that in areas such as Baidicheng and the Three Gorges area, the scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River would be very magnificent.

　　Countless poets climbed high to appreciate the beauty of the Yangtze River, leaving behind many ancient quatrains.

　　The continuous flow of the Yangtze River has expanded tenfold from the [-] meters wide upstream Lu Xiu and the others were looking at.

　　The white water waves slapped the reefs on both sides, stirring up waves more than [-] meters high.

　　A group of egrets boldly played beside Lu Xiu and the others, bringing Xiao Xiao's fallen leaves.

　　On the spacious river, hundreds of boats compete to flow, although they are going down the river, but in their eyes, they are crawling forward like a snail.

　　The sound of water waves, the sound of birds, and the chirping of apes form a music of nature, played in the sunset glow.

　　The lone geese and the sunset are flying together.

　　Their vision changed from narrow to wide, like a flat feng shui oil painting slowly spreading out in front of them.

　　Picturesque and beautiful.

　　In the twilight of the sunset, the lone geese and the sunset clouds fly together, and the autumn waters are the same color for a long time!

　　Until the last night, when he couldn't see clearly, Lu Xiu found a house in the county town along the river to temporarily settle down for the night.

　　…………

　　In the afternoon of the next day, they landed on the outskirts of Yangzhou City smoothly.

　　Without relying on any tools, they flew more than [-] miles from Chang'an to Yangzhou, not to mention that no one would believe them, they themselves were full of a sense of accomplishment.

　　"Although it is not as good as Chang'an City, Yangzhou looks very prosperous" ~.

　　They could see the porters on the dock carrying boxes of goods from the boat in an endless stream, and the hawkers coming and going, carrying the goods and shouting on the crowded streets.

　　But the majestic Chang'an City, Suzaku Street alone is dozens of meters wide.Comparing the two, Yangzhou City naturally appears as narrow as a county seat.

　　"Because Yangzhou City was built along the Yangtze River and backed by the sea, water transportation is extremely developed. The drought and locust plagues that occurred in Chang'an did not affect the southern region of the Yangtze River." Without wars and disasters, how could it not be prosperous.

　　The tax collected from the Jiangnan region alone accounts for more than 60% of the national treasury.