Fall In Love with the Technology Tree

    A Sheng wanted to take a closer look at Cousin Ding, but unexpectedly Ding Yi had already jumped down from the position of driving the bullock cart and circled the twins in his arms, with a mourning voice: "Geely! , Ruyi, did you miss your second uncle? Did the Cao family treat you badly?"

    If the hug ceremony in the West was spread all over the world, then Uncle Ding could be called very enthusiastic, but this is definitely not in line with the etiquette culture of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

    Cao Song stood aside and coughed hard, as if to cough out his lungs.

    Cousin Ding said with her immature face: "Father, it's time to greet Cao's uncle and two cousins."

    Ding Yi was educated by the eldest daughter, so he let go of his precious nephew embarrassedly, and greeted him with a standard greeting: "Ju Gao, long time no see, stay safe?"

    "Everything is fine at home. It's been a long journey from Tai'an to Jiaozhou. It's been hard work all the way." Cao Song returned the gift with satisfaction. This is the correct way to meet. It was so creepy just now.

    After the ceremony of the adults, it was the children's turn.

      A sister, Ding's eldest sister, or call me Cheng Ji." Girls can be called by their characters, but their names cannot be spoken out.

    A Sheng's eyes widened: "A sister has words, she is an adult."

      Is there an amazing word? "I'm Cao Cao, and I'm the eldest son of my father. You can call me Cao Cao. This is my second brother, Cao Sheng. You can call her Ah Sheng or Ruyi."

      Ah Sheng said quickly, "Sister, you'd better call me Erlang. Otherwise...or I'll cry for you."

    The future sister-in-law, Miss Chengji, took a lot of effort to put down the corners of her mouth that were raised upwards: "Then let me call you Dalang and Erlang, how?"

    The twins looked at each other, and sparks flashed for a while: "Deal."

    The chat at the door of the house ended here, Cao Song took Uncle Ding to the main hall. The three little ones followed. The souvenirs from Jiaozhou are delivered to the warehouse by their own servants.

    Cousin Ding explained to the twins as she walked: "It was supposed to be my aunt who brought me to visit, but unfortunately my aunt had a bad wind the day before, so I had to rest at home today. My two daughters and The younger brother is still young, so he stayed at home just in case."

    I have to say that this sister is very considerate. According to her story, Ah Sheng slowly understood the current situation of the Ding family.

    Uncle Ding, Ding Gong, was the governor of Jiaozhou. Because Jiaozhou was poor, his wife Xiahou stayed at home to raise a few children. This is the aunt in the mouth of Ding. Uncle Ding's family has no shortage of children, and the eldest is about to be crowned. When it comes to the twins' peers, there is only the youngest son, Ding Chong.

    "A Chong, I know." Cao Cao said, "I have played with us a few times. But he doesn't like riding and shooting swords, and he is better at studying."

    "Don't say it, Dalang, every time A Chong comes home with a bruised face, the boy guard at the gate will say: 'Xiaolangjun is playing with the Xiaolangjun of the Cao family and Xiahou's family again? ?' He couldn't win, and he was stupid enough to go out to play, alas, he refused to listen to what my aunt said several times."

    Cao Cao touched his nose embarrassedly. Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan became smarter and smarter as they learned. Recently, they practiced their peers following his example. It became more and more difficult to win against them, and they had to keep developing new routines. The main branch of the Liu family was in Xiaoxian County. Liu Wei was afraid of being beaten by Cao Cao and ran back to Xiaoxian County. The rest of the big clan's children, only an honest man Ding Chong can let him bully.

    "I really like A Chong."

    A Sheng covered his chest. Every time her brother said the word "like", her conscience would ache.

    Fortunately, cousin Ding didn't mean to blame further, and immediately brought the topic back. After talking about Uncle Ding, it's time to talk about Uncle Ding, who is funny.

    Ding Yi's first wife only gave birth to two daughters and passed away, that is, cousin Ding and cousin Ding. Ding Yi did not continue after the death of his first wife, but only adopted a two-year-old boy from the family as his heir. Without a mistress, Uncle Ding didn't look very good, so the three children had to rely on Mrs. Xiahou in the big room. Because of this, Cousin Ding knew the truth of the elder sister being a mother at a young age, and became half of her father's family.

    The same is the child of the dead mother. This is something she resonates with the twins.

    "Does my sister also run a business?" Ah Sheng asked, "Like fat powder, spices, and cloth?"

    "Erlang also wants to use powder to cover his face?" Ding Chengji gave her a strange look, "Yes, but I will give you some later. There are not many people in Qiao County who use makeup powder and red makeup. , the big heads are cloth and pottery. By the way, my family also makes Cai Hou paper."

    A Sheng blinked and said nothing. For cloth, she has a loom; for pottery, she has white porcelain and celadon; for paper, she has a more mature papermaking method than Cai Lun. Emmmm, fortunately, she did not mass-produce these things and sell them on a large scale, otherwise the first unlucky person would be the Ding family in the same county.

    This is really a flood that washed the Dragon King Temple.

    In this way, if these things are to be sold in the future, it is best to share the profits with the Ding family. Otherwise, no matter how many generations marry, they will become enemies.

    She pondered that she was not so stingy as to not give the Ding family the priority agency right in a region. Besides, if she really wanted these things to occupy the national market, she had to have distributors from all over the country. Thinking of this, she calmed down. Looking up, the main hall has also arrived.

    Second Uncle Ding beckoned to her, and clicked the position to start: "Ruyi come and sit next to Uncle Second." That should have been the seat of cousin Ding.

    Asheng is almost helpless to this uncle.

    Her hesitation was seen by Ding Yi. "Hey, you look so good-looking, why are you as boring as Cheng Ji? Come, Geely sits next to the second uncle." This is to follow the rules to the end.

    Cousin Asheng Lala's soft little hands: "They are all relatives, and today we will not be polite. Brother sits with uncle, sister will sit with me and father."

    Cousin Ding nodded, but she seemed to give Ding Yi a look after nodding.

    The host and guests were all seated, and Mr. Hu personally brought people to make tea, and the atmosphere was pleasant. Hu's compliment to Cousin Ding was inevitable, which made Ah Sheng a little embarrassed. Although Cousin Ding is much whiter than their biological mother, Ding, but the genes are placed there, the facial features are still somewhat similar, with small eyes and a low bridge of the nose, which is a relatively dull appearance. However, when it came to Hu's mouth, it was as if Cousin Ding had become a fairy and descended into the world, which is... a bit too much.

    A Sheng can understand that it is inconvenient to say that the stepson's fiancee is not good from Hu's standpoint, but she is sour. In order to escape from his parents' shortcomings, Ah Sheng turned to Ding's second uncle to talk to Dachu: "Uncle, is there a wealthy family in Jiaozhou? Uncle is an official in Jiaozhou, but was he excluded by the local wealthy family and couldn't perform?"

      What's wrong with that?"

    "As the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The farther away you are from Sili, the more rebellious the local forces are. Am I wrong?"

    Ding Yi pondered for a while, and seemed to recall carefully: "Barbarians are naturally rebellious, but to say that the real famous family is still humble and learning. I am in Jiaozhou. I met Shi Xie’s talents, Shi Xie and Shi Yi, and they treated people with kindness, and even asked me about Spring and Autumn.”

    A Sheng frowned: "Uncle, tell me about the Shi family in detail."

    With Ding Yi's story, Ah Sheng's heart sank little by little. If you are not afraid of local snakes, you are afraid that local snakes have culture. The scholar family has been proliferating in Lingnan for many years, with luxuriant branches and leaves, plus the children are eager to learn, a proper rising family.

    Can't wait any longer, she sees Jiaozhou not only because of species and good port, but also because Jiaozhou is the back of Dongwu and Xishu. Since knowing that her brother is Cao Cao, Ah Sheng has been thinking about what she can do to not only lose Cao Cao's advantages, but also help him unify ahead of time.

    She is already doing technology development and talent reserve, but what about geographical advantages? She still has a vague impression of the territory of the Three Kingdoms in the high school textbooks. Cao Cao is in the north, the south is divided into two, the west is Liu Bei and the east is Sun Wu. The exact line of demarcation is unknown, but Ah Sheng chose her target based on known information.

    The extreme south and extreme north of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

    The Hainan Island and the three northeastern provinces in later generations should still be out of sight, and neither of these places lacks minerals, so they are the best two options for secretly developing industries. And from the perspective of war, if you can occupy Liaodong, you can protect Cao Cao's back; if you can occupy Lingnan, you can attack Shu and Wu in the south. Dalian and Haikou are good ports, and the transportation is very convenient after lighting up the navigation technology.

    In short, in Ah Sheng's plan, there must be at least one in Hainan and Northeast China.

    She wants both if possible.

    It's easy to make a good dream, but you will encounter various difficulties in implementation. Before she set off, she heard about the stumbling block of the Lingnan Shijia. But the Ding family was very impressed with them.

    Impressions...good. Ok...?

    A Sheng unknowingly finished his cup of tea. Because she hadn't spoken for a long time, Cao Song and Ding Yi had already talked about what they thought was a major event in the imperial court. There were news from all over the place that the family of the five princes was doing something wrong, but the emperor didn't seem to have any intention of taking care of it.

    "The eunuchs are messing with the government." Cao Song said on his own initiative.

    Ding Yi also sighed: "We have no one in Luoyang, what can we do? Even if you return to Luoyang, do you dare to resist the five princes in person?"

    Cao Song sighed one after another. He didn't dare to rebel against Liang Ji at first, and he doesn't dare to rebel against the five princes now. "It's hard to get into an official position, and you can only go up and down with the world."

    "Uncle," A Sheng said suddenly, "there is a big island in the south of Jiaozhou, does uncle know?"

    "The Big Island?"

    "It is a very large island, one-third, no, one-quarter of Yuzhou, maybe half of Yuzhou."

    Ting Yi was amused: "How old is it?"

    A Sheng is a little blind. She has never seen a map of this era, so she can't tell. She can only infer that Hainan is a relatively small province: "It's smaller than the state, bigger than the county, or as big as the county."

    She is good-looking, and her frown is distressing. Ding Yi said quickly: "I know what you said, it's the big island where Zhuya County and Dan'er County are located. The Luoyue people on that island are stubborn and violent. Zhuya County was established twice and then again. It was abandoned twice. Not even the county governor dared to go to the island."

     Said a lot, all of which are names that Ah Sheng can't understand. "If you don't understand, leave it alone. It's just uncle, are you sending someone to Lingnan this year? Can you put a few servants from my family in the team?"

    "What? Are you not satisfied with the local products I brought?"

    "I am naturally satisfied with what my uncle brought me. It's just that I admire the scenery of Lingnan in my uncle's mouth. I want to go to play in person when I grow up. Give me a head start. If you can buy a house for me in a beautiful place first, it will be even better. I just don’t know if the price of land in Lingnan is expensive.”

    "Hahaha." Ding Yi pointed at her and said, "Ruyi has a strange ambition! Don't worry, I will send a letter to your uncle to help you, and I will choose a feng shui treasure for you."