Traveling back to the Northern Song Dynasty: Picking up a princess as my wife

Since there were no relatives from the woman's side, and Li Zhen's maternal grandparents' family hadn't been notified, only about five or six tables were set up.

The wedding banquet was held at the best restaurant in town, and all the wedding details were handled by a wedding planning company. The event was very lively.

The marriage certificate was obtained by Cao Hua with Li Zhen's help. Although there were no major issues with Zhao Yingluo's identity, they still asked an acquaintance for help in order to save time.

At the wedding, Li Zhen whispered to Zhao Yingluo, "Look how wonderful this is! We held it once in the Song Dynasty and now we're doing it again in modern times. I guess only the two of us would do something like this."

The entire process, from preparation to completion, took only three days. Li Zhen told his parents that he had other things to do back home, left them 500,000 yuan in cash, and drove back to the county town.

Later, after hearing about Li Zhen's marriage, his uncles and aunts came to his house and made a scene, saying that Li Zhen's mother was heartless. They didn't know where they heard that the Li family was rich, but they directly asked for 200,000 yuan, saying that this was for the hard work of raising Li Zhen's mother. In the end, Li Zhen's father called the police, and the police detained Li Zhen's uncles for disturbing the peace.

Fang Zhen had already prepared all kinds of supplies, including several hundred tons of cement, and countless bricks, steel bars, and other building materials. In addition, rice, flour, and cooking oil were transported directly from the factory to the warehouse, and due to the huge quantity, the price was reduced by one-third.

After Li Zhen put all the supplies into his spatial storage, he came to Fang Zhen's side.

"Old classmate, I have to go north now. You have to keep an eye on the company while I'm gone. I see there's a vacant lot to the west. If you're not sure, you can build a few more warehouses there. That way, the supplies that are delivered will have a place to be stored."

Once everything was ready, Li Zhen and Zhao Yingluo changed into Song Dynasty clothes, and then it was a familiar rhythm and a familiar scene.

In fact, Li Zhen was quite averse to this method of time travel. His hands had never been healed; they would just start to scab over before he had to be cut again. To this end, Li Zhen had even tried to collect his own blood in advance using a syringe, but for some reason, that method didn't work at all.

After the white light passed, the two returned to their house in Li Family Village during the Song Dynasty. It was daytime there, and judging from the position of the sun, it should be close to noon.

After Li Zhen opened the door, he saw Wang Changdao not far away and went up to him to ask, "How long has it been since I left last time?"

Wang Changdao replied with a puzzled look, "It's only been a day, Chief, how come you're back so quickly this time?"

Li Zhen patted him on the shoulder: "Gather the leaders in the stronghold, I'll give you new equipment."

Wang Changdao: "New equipment? Great, we have new equipment again."

Since Yue Ying and Qian Dazhuang were in Tangyin City, the remaining people arrived here, and even Doctor Guo was summoned.

Li Zhen picked up the semi-automatic rifle on the table and said, "These are weapons from the celestial realm, divine artifacts left to us by our founder of the Three Pure Ones Sect. Today I am going to distribute these weapons to you few. You must take good care of them and never let any villains steal them."

"Next, I will demonstrate how to use it."

He then loaded the bullets into the magazine, put the magazine in place, pulled the bolt, and fired several shots at a tree fifty meters away.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!"

Wang Changdao ran quickly to the tree and found that much of the bark had been blown off, and bullets were embedded in the trunk.

This semi-automatic rifle is much more powerful and has a much longer range than a double-barreled shotgun, after all, one is for civilian use and the other is for military use.

Wang Changdao and Yue Peng each received a semi-automatic rifle, plus two hundred rounds of ammunition each, which should be enough for them to squander unless something unexpected happens. As for Doctor Guo, he was given a pistol, and Li Zhen personally taught the old man how to use it. Unexpectedly, in less than half a day, Old Guo had figured out how to use a pistol, skillfully loading the bullet, pulling the bolt, and firing with one hand. Several birds in the village were unlucky enough to be shot down by Old Guo.

Those double-barreled shotguns were also distributed to the other minor leaders. Even Fang Bucun, the leader of the Zoroastrian sect, was given one, which made him feel that Li Zhen valued him. Immediately, he blurted out a string of words of gratitude.

Li Zhen didn't want to use the remaining weapons for the time being. After all, these weapons were too advanced, and if the Jin or Song dynasties found out, they would come to seize them, which would be troublesome. Although Li Zhen wasn't afraid, it was better to avoid trouble, especially since he had invested so much effort in the basic construction of Li Family Village.

The exploitable wasteland around Lijiazhai has been almost completely exploited. This time, Li Zhen also brought ten tractors and a lot of supporting farm tools, which will be ready for the autumn harvest.

After the corn harvest, the next crops were sweet potatoes and potatoes. Then, wheat seeds brought by Li Zhen from the future were planted. Although wheat existed in this era, the modern wheat seeds from the future were superior, high-yield varieties carefully cultivated by experts from agricultural research institutes, which were incomparable to other wheat seeds of this era.

Rice was grown in the south, while wheat was grown in the north. This resulted in northerners primarily eating wheat-based foods, and rice was not widely adopted in the north until the 1960s and 70s, when dryland rice varieties had already been developed.

Watching the tractors plowing back and forth in the vast farmland, Li Zhen suddenly felt like a big landowner.

The restaurants and COFCO Oil businesses in Tangyin City were booming. Thanks to Manager Sun's hard work and planning, COFCO Oil firmly held the top spot on Damingfu Road, which made the Cui family, whose main business was grain, resentful.

In order to compete with COFCO Oils & Fats, Cui Dake personally went to the south of the Yangtze River to find sources of goods. He not only wanted low-priced rice and grains, but also a long-term and large-scale supply of goods.

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Inside the Zhennan Prince's Mansion in Zhongdu, Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Ping respectfully reported to Prince Wanyan Liang about his recent incognito tour.

“Father, after my inspection this time, I found that the entire Daming Prefecture Road has been completely destroyed by those refugees. Countless county and prefectural officials were either killed by the refugees or abandoned the city and fled. Some of them are still missing.”

Wanyan Liang was furious: "These good-for-nothings! They all have troops, yet those refugees have repeatedly breached our cities. If it weren't for the fact that our Jin Kingdom has no one else to rely on, we wouldn't have let those incompetent officials become our leaders."

Wanyan Ping continued, "However, Tangyin County was an exception in this search. Although Magistrate Zhang Cheng's city was also breached by the refugee army, he later organized local armed forces and recaptured it. Not only that, according to my investigation, the local armed forces led by Zhang Cheng killed more than 10,000 of the refugee army's soldiers in the battle, and they were the elite of the refugee army. After the war, Tangyin City was also the first county in Daming Prefecture to return to normal. The price of grain there was almost the same as before, and the local people lived very well. There wasn't even a beggar to be seen on the streets."

Hearing this, Wanyan Liang finally smiled: "Hahaha... I didn't expect there to be one who gets things done. Issue the order to commend Zhang Cheng, the magistrate of Tangyin County, and promote him one rank to become the prefect of Anyang."