Peach Blossom Island

"Three hundred years ago, there was no Huaping Lake in Guangling City."

"According to the records of Guangling Mansion, this place used to be a piece of fertile fields."

"Later, in order to build the Yuguangda Canal, soil was taken from here to build an embankment, and a pit with a radius of tens of miles was dug."

"The largest wharf in the Guangling section of the Yuguangda Canal is located in the north of Huaping, which is the current Linfengdu outside the north gate."

Sitting in the carriage driven by Wu Xichen, Su Muxin began to explain science to Li Chenan.

He found a problem.

This Li Chen'an obviously has profound knowledge, but he doesn't know much about Guangling City where he has lived for seventeen years!

I don't even know much about Ningguo.

He has never even heard of the famous merchants in Ningguo!

It is really an outlier.

"Then why don't you take a boat from Guangling City to Yujing City?"

"There is a reason for this... The Yuguang Canal is more than a thousand miles long. Although there is only one dry river channel, it has many branches."

"The most famous one is the Shuangjiao Lake section."

"Shuangjiao Lake is a group of lakes, there are countless islands in it, and there is also a Shuangjiao Mountain that stretches for thousands of miles."

"There is a group of powerful water bandits in that place. It has been two hundred years since the construction of the Yuguangda Canal. The government has sent sailors to suppress the bandits many times. Of course, the results were very good at first, and the shipping was very busy at that time. ."

"But later, after the death of Prime Minister Shang, our country of Ning went into decline... In recent years, those water bandits have revived again."

Su Mu sighed leisurely, and said

"Now our Ningguo navy is on the decline, and we can no longer suppress the bandits. Therefore, the water bandits in Shuangjiao Lake are getting bigger and more rampant, and they often attack ships during the day."

"This has caused this supposedly busy waterway to become a place where there are few boats, let alone passenger ships. No one wants to meet water bandits. If they are robbed, their lives will be gone. "

Only then did Li Chen'an understand, from this point of view, this Ning country, which is quite prosperous on the surface, is probably at the end of its life.

Liu Zhuo told him roughly before, but now he just has a clearer understanding.

But I'm just doing some liquor business in Guangling City, as for what will happen to this country...even if it's in chaos, as long as I have the foundation to settle down, I'm not afraid.

It's just a pity for such a nice canal.

It is connected with the Yangtze River, from Kyoto to Jiangnan and Jiangbei directly.

Materials from south to south and north to south can also be transported to various places along the canal.

Waterway transportation is not only faster than land transportation, but its cost is also much lower.

If it is unimpeded, it will definitely become a vital economic artery of Ningguo.

I don't know what the rulers think.

The two were chatting in the carriage, and before they knew it, the carriage arrived at the ferry of a family by the lake.

Wu Xichen parked the carriage, and the three boarded the ferry.

At this moment, the day is three poles, and there is no one else in the same boat.

Negotiate the price with the boatman, and the ferry pulls anchor and sets sail.

Sitting on the boat, Li Chen'an really saw the vastness of the Huaping Lake.

The ferry boat is running on Huaping Lake, with the breeze blowing, egrets dancing, and occasionally fish jumping out of the water. The blue sky and white clouds are reflected in Huaping Lake, and the scenery is the same for a while.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Li Chenan looked at the beautiful picture scroll of the lake, and felt that the businessman was the one who knew how to enjoy life.

"look..."

Su Mu pointed to the distance, "That's Peach Blossom Island on Huaping Lake."

Li Chen'an was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had seen this name in a book of martial arts when he was young, isn't it the island where Yaoshi Dongxie Huang lived?

"Peach Blossom Island, Peach Blossom Mountain, Peach Blossom Villa."

"Guangling City used to not have so many peach trees, but since Mrs. Fan Taohua from Zhongli Mansion married into Zhongli Mansion, there have been many more peach trees in Guangling City, and so many places named after peach blossoms. "

Li Chenan was startled, "You mean...these place names have some relationship with Zhongli Ruoshui's grandma?"

"I also heard from the teacher. He said that Fan Taohua was only fifteen years old when she came down from the Songshan Sword Academy. During the two years she traveled in the rivers and lakes, she was attracted by her heroism and of course her beauty and charm. Many good boys from that time."

"Among them are knights in the rivers and lakes, and the one who is the most infatuated with Fan Taohua is Yu Jian Chengfeng and Wu Xichen."

"The peach trees on Peach Blossom Mountain were planted by this Wu Xichen, because Peach Blossom Villa was built by Fan Taohua."

"The villa is at the foot of the mountain. When the peach blossoms at the foot of the mountain are in full bloom, the peach blossoms on the mountain are also in full bloom. This is silent watching."

Li Chenan turned his head to look, Wu Xichen looked ahead, his eyes and nose were watching his heart, and he never showed any strange expression.

He never expected that his master had had an affair with Zhongli Ruoshui's grandma!

Obviously this master was eliminated, but because of his love for Fan Taohua, he never got married all his life. He not only planted a mountain of peach trees, but also became a coachman in Zhongli Ruoshui today.

It's a seed of infatuation.

"The other is the talented scholars and literati at that time, and the merchants and merchants were one of them."

"He was the number one scholar in Jingtai's early years! He is not only proficient in temperament, he is proficient in everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he was also a beautiful man with a jade face who was famous in Kyoto at that time."

"Later, Fan Taohua was of course married to Zhong Lipo, a talented young man from Zhongli Mansion. That Wu Xichen was nowhere to be found, and the merchants and merchants lived in seclusion on this island in the middle of the lake, and named it Taohua Island."

Another seed of infatuation.

It can make two great geniuses, civil and military, fall in love... What kind of appearance and temperament should this old Mrs. Fan have?

"Later, Fan Taohua went to the capital with her husband, and the teacher said that she would come back to Guangling City from time to time to have a look."

"If she returns to Guangling, it will be in February and March, when the peach blossoms are just in season. She will go to Peach Blossom Mountain and Peach Blossom Island to visit. It's just that she hasn't come back in the past two or three years. The teacher said that it is estimated It has something to do with the situation in Kyoto."

Su Muxin turned to look at Li Chen'an, "Ms. Zhongli was brought up by Mrs. Fan, she is her most beloved granddaughter! If your kid bullies Zhongli Ruoshui... Mrs. Fan is one of the two great masters of Ningguo The peerless master!"

Li Chenan grinned.

Getting along with Zhongli Ruoshui these days, of course he already knew the situation of the personnel in Zhongli Mansion.

It's just that Zhongli Ruoshui's gossip about Su Muxin at this moment is not easy to tell him.

Although he has never seen that old woman, he can still imagine that she must have an all-powerful face when she was young.

"How could I bully Ruoshui."

"Who is our Ning country's other great master?"

"Yan Jidao of Duke Yan's Mansion."

These people are too tall. For Li Chenan, he believed that he would never have any interaction with such a person in his life, so he just asked and didn't get to know the details.

It took half an hour for the ferry to arrive at Peach Blossom Island.

This is quite a big island.

What surprised Li Chenan even more was the buildings on this island!

He thought it would be desolate here, and estimated that there were only a few thatched huts on it, or at most a few scattered small yards.

But when he landed on the island, he realized that was not the case.

There are many peach trees on the island.

There is a wide bluestone road among the peach forests.

In the distance... in the shade of the peach forest, there is actually a large expanse of red brick and green tile Xuanxie buildings scattered!