The Legend of the Farm Girl

The surrender of the three major families in the three counties was smoother than Yunfang and Li Muwen had imagined. After the autumn harvest, they returned the land to their tenants according to the original contract.

The people who originally wanted to come to Liangzhou City to find a way to make a living were surprised at the actions of the three major families, but they all stopped and stayed in their hometowns.

Because winter was approaching, it was no longer easy to grow alfalfa or raise sheep. Their behavior pleased Li Muwen, so Li Muwen sent people to guide them in pickling sauerkraut this winter.

At the same time, people were sent to guide them to establish their own caravan.

Yunfang almost single-handedly changed the situation in Liangzhou. Now no one can say that Liangzhou is a bitter and cold place.

The people of Liangzhou became richer, and more and more people flocked to Liangzhou. In addition to the two border counties where the troops were stationed, the capital of Liangzhou and the other three counties developed at a very fast speed.

The army was certainly eyeing the caravan in Yun Fang's hands, but they had used their military merits to exchange for Li Muwen's grain tax in Liangzhou, and they could not take away the profits from the caravan again.

Fortunately, the three major families were no longer exempt from grain tax because they gave all their land to tenants, so the grain tax they paid increased.

The army never troubled Yunfang's caravan again.

Two years later, Yunfang had saved enough money to build several merchant ships.

Li Weiheng is also three years old. In the past few years, the Yun family business has accumulated a lot of wealth for Yun Fang. At the same time, Yun Fang gave half of the money to Li Muwen and asked him to develop Liangzhou.

With Li Muwen's all-out development, the entire Liangzhou has been rejuvenated with a different kind of vitality.

Yunfang has also made sufficient preparations for her overseas expansion plan in the past few years. In addition to accumulating funds, her primary task is to refine steel of sufficient strength.

She had sufficient theoretical knowledge, but it would take time to accumulate the knowledge on how to apply it, so she set up a blacksmith shop in Liangzhou Prefecture.

Those who did not meet her requirements were made into armor to arm the border guards.

Even if it did not meet his requirements, the steel produced was the most advanced in the world, and the soldiers who received her armor would never cause any trouble to the Yun Company again.

Even when the Yun Company's caravan passed through the two border counties, they would provide all possible help.

In the blacksmith shop in Liangzhou Prefecture, Yun Fang has had the blacksmiths forge enough steel for his ship. Over the years, she has also ordered a lot of large logs. If she gives an order, the caravans of the Yun Company, which are scattered in all directions at any time, can transport the wood and everything she needs back to Yiqing County.

There, she had already sent back enough money and blueprints to Yunying, asking Yunying to find her a piece of land for building the ship.

As everything was ready, she had to tell Li Muwen that she was going back to Yiqing County to build a ship.

When Li Muwen arrived in Liangzhou and served as the prefect for three years, the Ministry of Personnel sent someone to assess Li Muwen's performance.

As expected, Li Muwen received an excellent evaluation.

However, Li Muwen was not transferred from Liangzhou. The prefect could be re-elected for six years. After six years, he would be transferred to a lower position, demoted, or promoted based on his evaluation.

If nothing unexpected happens in the next three years, Li Muwen should be able to get an excellent grade, and then he will be promoted, at least to a fifth-rank position.

But all these were inseparable from Yunfang's help, so when Yunfang found him tonight and said that she wanted to go back to Yiqing County to build a ship and go out to sea, he was very angry.

Li Muwen was like a trapped beast. She said to Yunfang angrily, "You are the wife of an official. You should leave things to your subordinates. Why do you have to show up in public to build a ship and go out to sea?"

It was the first time that Yunfang saw Li Muwen so angry. She guessed that Li Muwen might not be able to accept her going back to Yiqing County, but she didn't expect him to react so strongly.

If possible, Yunfang also wanted to let others do the shipbuilding, but the knowledge was too advanced. If she tried to teach others bit by bit, it would take a long time.

And she had no way to explain how she got the knowledge she had learned.

So she had to go to the shipyard in person and guide the shipbuilders step by step to build the ship she wanted.

Yun Fang had always been very patient with Li Muwen, and this time was no exception. She patiently explained, "You should know, husband, there are some things that only I can do, and no one else can do!"

This was almost enough to make it clear to Li Muwen that Yun Fang had special abilities.

Yun Fang had already said this, so Li Muwen had to ask what he wanted to ask: "Madam, how on earth do you know these things that ordinary people don't know?"

Yunfang smiled but said nothing.

The two were silent for a while, and Yunfang continued, "Besides, Weiheng has been born for three years, and he has not yet met his grandparents. In the past few years, his grandparents have sent letters saying that their health is not as good as before. If Weiheng is not allowed to meet them, I am afraid he will regret it for the rest of his life."

Li Muwen couldn't help but be moved when he heard this. Since he went to Beijing to take the exam that year, he really hadn't seen his parents and grandparents again.

In the past few years, we have only communicated through letters. When Yunfang gave birth three years ago, it was only her mother-in-law who came all the way to take care of her. My parents did not come because there were elderly people at home and my mother was busy at the clothing store.

So they have never seen their son until now.

It would be great if I could take advantage of Yunfang's return to Yiqing County to let my son accompany my elders for a few years instead of me.

But then he thought that the current development of Liangzhou was inseparable from Yunfang's Yun's Trading Company.

He said, "If you leave, what are you going to do with Yun's Company?"

Yun Fang also knew what Li Muwen was thinking, and said with a smile: "The Yun's Business can only develop in Liangzhou. It has long been suppressed by local tyrants in other places. Moreover, the core of the operation of the Yun's Business now is the pasture and sheep in Liangzhou. As long as there are these two things, the Yun's Business can still operate normally even if I leave."

Yun Fang added, "I will not take any of the people from Yun's Company with me. If there is something that really needs my decision, someone will naturally come to Yiqing County to find me. I will still have time to send my opinions back as soon as possible."

Since Yunfang spoke so clearly, Li Muwen knew that she had already considered it and made clear her determination to leave Liangzhou.

Feeling a little aggrieved, Li Muwen said, "You have arranged all these, but what about me? If you go back to Yiqing County for a long time, I will be so lonely and sleepless here!"

Yun Fang found Li Muwen's expression very interesting. She smiled and said, "I'm not leaving forever. I'll come back to spend some time with you every two or three months. Besides, Wei Heng will definitely miss you!"