Ye Qing only gave some instructions, whether they understood it or not: "You don't need to understand it, just follow it and establish it."

This group of people were all ordered by Ye Qing to set up an exchange office. Halfway through, Liniang finally gained some knowledge and woke up and warned them: "The affairs of this exchange office are very important, so do them well."

"Yes, real person, it is an honor for us to participate in such a grand event, and we have to work hard."

"This is not just a grand event..." Liniang paused, sighed, and said no more.

The location of the exchange office is in the warehouse area. When everyone came here, they found that this was not so much an exchange office, but a square. There were several temporary buildings in the square to protect from wind and snow. There were fire pits inside for heating and rows of chairs.

The square is used for visitors to rest. There are not many people now, and it will be further expanded in the future. The strong and well-organized warehouse area around the square is the focus of guard protection.

The roofs of the long warehouses around the square were all white and covered with snow. Occasionally, the snow slid down the slope under its own weight, covering the guards below with white snow, and they jumped and shook the snow.

"The snow is not too heavy, and it is within the carrying capacity of the wooden house." Port officer Yang Danchen said with a smile to Liniang. After all, the construction and maintenance of this building was under his jurisdiction. Thinking that there was a suspicion of shirking responsibility, he quickly added: "But

All the snow on the road was shoveled away by hand."

Liniang nodded after hearing this. She lowered her head and looked at the drawings. It was obvious that the entire warehouse area was built around it. However, this was a hindsight judgment. No one had noticed it in the first place, so the supporting facilities of the warehouse, who

Thinking about it is the core of the design.

At this time, she led everyone around the square for inspection and observation. She pointed to the warehouse very close to the river that ran through the city and said: "The warehouse on the river needs to continue to be expanded to accept the logs floating down from the upper reaches of the river. This is specially used for

Come and store logs nearby, don’t begrudge the wood.”

The port officer agreed, used an abacus to calculate the labor and material costs, and said, "It will be very cheap if we can attract people to exchange the logs."

This fussy and fussy look was taken for granted by the surrounding stewards, who nodded: "Lord, this is a good deal. We don't even have to pay for the freight, we just need to wait for the wood to be collected..."

Liniang looked at it and sighed in her heart. In fact, there are still many virgin forests in the hills around Hope Port, and the three oldest virgin forests among them are not touched at all, namely dragon-grained sandalwood, ancient ginkgo, and East China Sea mulberry. But

She knew that these very spiritual woods were reserved forests and could not be cut down. If they were cut down, the spiritual energy of the wood veins in this area would be cut off.

The development habits of the Five Meridians each have their own characteristics. Under the rule of the Donghai Qingmeng, they generally attach great importance to protecting the ecology. This is because many kinds of ancient trees have spiritual energy and are very beneficial to the foundation of the Qingmai.

What is good above and what is effective below is no one dares to illegally cut down trees. Fast-growing species of wood are selected for logging. How many old trees are cut down and how many seedlings are planted back - otherwise, it is not possible. Soon, the seeds of Qingmai Cultivation will be born in the entire territory.

The chances are getting smaller and smaller, practice is getting more and more difficult, and there is no strength to defend the empty territory. Sooner or later, it will be taken over by other families, and the white, red, and yellow veins will laugh out loud.

In fact, it was really laughed at in history... Later, the method invented by the white, red, and yellow veins to expel the green veins' forces was to cut down trees. Needless to say, the golden veins were good at it. The red veins were even so bad that they set fire to the mountains and burned them.

white ground

Later, the five emperors and the three monarchs stopped fighting and concluded a treaty to establish the Heavenly Court. The law of heaven clearly stated that such evil behavior should be stopped. Violators would be directly punished by heaven. This would be a destructive act to the world.

But one thing must be admitted - concerns about environmental protection make Qingmai development much more expensive.

This is currently the case around Port of Hope. Except for the three small pieces of reserved forest, the fast-growing forests nearby have been cut down to the safety line. Among the sparse and large trees, many replanted saplings have not yet grown. The farther away the roads are, the worse they are. In winter,

There is even no road, and it is difficult to be troubled by the miasma, which invisibly adds to the cost of green vein development.

It was better in the winter after the snow had fallen. There was no need for people or vehicles to cut down the trees, and there was water transportation around so that people could go down the river. This was also the reason why the stewards felt so happy about the lord's good governance. They often looked shabby and had no choice but to do so.

"Don't just ignore the logs. We can only use these for our own use. People outside will not recognize them. If we want to use them to exchange refugees with the coastal states of the mainland, we have to collect more furs - it is winter now, and they need this."

The stewards wrote it down one after another: "Yes, Zhenren, is there no limit on the amount of purchases?"

"Really... The lord didn't say anything, so we kept collecting. What's missing now is the population. We can exchange as many as we can..." Liniang paused for a moment, remembered something, and asked the person in charge: "You can copy it.

Post a notice on the wall and ask residents to come and watch. Some people are illiterate and ask two stewards to take turns reading out the rules of the exchange house.

"clear."

Even though this little girl is a good little girl in front of Ye Zhenjun, in front of everyone, she can be called an experienced cultivator. Everything is ordered and assigned in an orderly manner, and everyone present is convinced.

Port officer Yang Danchen looked at it with some emotion - as an old man here, he can be said to have watched this little girl grow up, and it is inevitable that a new generation will replace the old one.

When all the stewards went down to do their work and no one was around, Liniang looked back and asked with a smile, "Why does Uncle Yang look at me like this?"

"I think of your master." Yang Danchen said. He was about forty years old, and the wind and frost had already stained his temples. This was the result of many years of hard work in sailing. Physically speaking, he was already aging, but his eyes were bright and sharp.

, as capable as when he was young.

In the land where memories are hidden in snow, there are always a few rays of sunshine.

"When your master brought her to Port of Hope, she was still a young girl and didn't make much of an impression. However, your master made a lasting impression..."

I remember that it was the first clearing of the winter snow. On a narrow street selling groceries in Minato City, that stunningly cool woman in white held the little girl’s hand. In front of a candy store, she knelt down and asked the little girl what she wanted to eat. The woman looked deserted.

The face seems to rarely smile, not natural, but for a moment it is soft and beautiful...

In his vague memory, it seemed to be the smile of his mother when he was young, but maybe it wasn't, and mortals couldn't tell clearly.

Liniang blinked and asked with some interest: "What did the master look like at that time? Uncle Yang, you should be of the same generation as her, maybe even a few years younger than her, but I remember she always looked very young..."

"I can't remember clearly..."

The middle-aged port officer said with regret that he had long forgotten her specific appearance. He only remembered that she was beautiful and her smile was even more beautiful: "I was still a young captain at the time... I almost had the urge to say hello to her, but I quickly suppressed my beating heart.

, I am a descendant of a declining immortal cultivating family along the coast. Although there is no hope for cultivation, I am not without knowledge... Just look at the magic sword she is equipped with and the three green wood marks on her sleeves. Women like that are here to protect this hope.

Born in hot soil, she does not belong to me."

Liniang nodded slightly. She agreed with this. Even though the Qingmu Sect was in charge, the disciples had to be on the front line at critical moments. The pressure to survive was still very high. Most of the senior sisters did not have time to manage their relationships. In many cases, instead of their relationships breaking up, it would be better to

If you don't invest, you can at least live longer by spending more time on cultivation and exercise.

"...After that, my career at sea came and went in a hurry, and I never had the chance to see him again. Until the Winter Defense Campaign four or five years ago, I was already the leader of more than a dozen transport fleets, transporting many reinforcements to participate in the battle. Your master came from Nhazhou Island.

We came here to really get to know each other. At that time, I impulsively held her hand and talked about my impressions of meeting her several times and some feelings in my heart..."

"She was surprised, but not angry. She just pulled away her hand and joked - you are still the first man who dares to hold my hand, but I only like people who are stronger than me, and you are not good enough."

"In an instant, I felt a little regretful that my strength was weak, but I was inexplicably happy because she then laughed at herself and said, There are not many men in the world who are stronger than me. No wonder I can't get married... Uh, I'm talking about your master.

, not talking about Liniang."

"You know... you know, that year when I was about to break through, I didn't participate in the battle, and then?" Liniang pressed. She hadn't heard about her master's story from others for a long time. The master's uncle and the elders were afraid that she would be sad, so they stopped telling them.

A story about going on adventures together when you were young.

"I have chatted with her several times, and I heard her say that there was something special about the interior of Dongzhou that year, and there seemed to be some changes." The middle-aged port officer sighed and murmured: "That year was really not a good year.

, many things are like this..."

"There is nothing else to say in my memory. When we parted, I asked her if we could meet again. Your master smiled and said, when she comes back, we will see you again. It will be at this port where we will disembark and embark on the Eastern Expedition, with the sword light disappearing into the jungle.

Deep down, there is no coming back..."

Hearing this, Liniang's face darkened, and the middle-aged port officer fell silent and stopped talking.

I remember that I was so drunk that I was in the tavern the night I heard the news. The next day, I sold the fleet to the Aoki Sect at a very cheap price, and in exchange I got the position of in charge of the port management.

In fact, there is not much oil and water, which is not worth the price of selling the fleet, but he just gives up the wandering heart of a captain and is willing to stay here, and is willing to leave a place for future generations.

Time passed in the blink of an eye, and now the high-spirited young people have turned into busy middle-aged people, starting a family and starting a business, working hard for the construction of this port, and even the little girl is already a real Yangshen, and she is also working for this land

And struggle.

Many people gather in this land full of hope and danger. There is no clear direction and a lot of friction with each other. They still try to get together and fight for survival. This is a feeling that is not available in the mainland. He chose to be here.

It's not the reason for returning to the mainland.

"Hope Harbor is a good name. Your master told me this. She likes it here very much... Liniang will have to work harder and take care of herself in the future under the True Lord."

"Yes, I will."

The two of them did not talk anymore. The golden winter sun shone quietly on the square, and the dust of the past generation was immersed in the light and disappeared into the snow.
Chapter completed!