"Did we just leave like this?"

Hankou Town is a new important town. It is located in the mouth of the Hanjiang River. There was no Hankou town ten years ago. There is Jiangxia to the south and Hanyang to the west, facing each other across the river.

But now, in just ten years, a new town stands on the northern bank of the Han River entering the Yangtze River estuary, between Jiangxia and Hanyang, and is emerging but prosperous.

The bustling is even greater than the first two old cities.

Hankou is now known as the Four Mises of the Central Plains, along with Jingdezhen, Foshan Town, and Qiu Town.

The bustling Hankou Wharf, the nine-story Hankou Customs Building, is standing tall. As the port close to the capital and an important position between the intersection of Jiang and Han, has long been designated as an external trade port.

Like many trade ports, Hankou's import and export trade was very prosperous, which led to the nearby Hanyang and Jiangxia forming a huge handicraft area. Various workshops are everywhere and a large number of workers are gathered. The three adjacent towns can be said to be alongside Yangzhou, east of the Yangtze River.

Changsun Wuji stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the bustling business port, sighing.

The rise of such a prosperous town also contained a part of the Changsun family. In the past, among the many families in the three towns of Hankou, the Changsun family also occupied a significant force in it, including docks, commercial streets, handicraft areas, and their industries were everywhere.

Although he is not as good as Zhang Jiaqiang on the Bashang, he is also extraordinary.

That's how much effort it took.

But now, all the industries of the Changsun family in Hankou Town, including land, real estate, shops, workshops, etc., have been forced to be sold.

There is no place for their home here.

The Changsun family not only withdrew from Hankou, but also in the emerging cities such as Luoyang, Hanjing, Dengzhou, and Chang'an, the western capital, Taiyuan, Guangzhou, and Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, and Hangzhou. All the industries that the Changsun family worked hard to manage and arrange were withdrawn.

There were dozens of fiefdoms including Yili's fiefdom, and the Changsun clan also withdrew.

Actually, I don’t want to leave, I really want to stay.

But this is the last bottom line that Zhang Chao gave him. Now that he can still take the complete Changshi grandson and a lot of property, but he has made a comeback from overseas development.

If they refuse to leave, the Changsun family will inevitably be destroyed.

"Those damn vampires, wolves!"

Changsun Chong cursed hatefully, the time was too short, and the Changsun family sold their own industries from all over the place, selling them like jumping off a building. As a result, the wealthy and nobles and damn capitalists still robbed and bitten them in various ways.

All industries were not sold at half the actual price.

"Don't keep thinking about what you have lost. If you lose, you will lose. We have to look forward."

Changsun Wuji turned around and looked at the other ships being prepared.

This is a large fleet of hundreds of ships of all sizes. The ship is full of Changsun clan members and all kinds of things they need after arriving at Xinliuqiu.

This is only a small part of their fleet, including Yangzhou, Jiangzhou, Jiankang, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Qinzhou, and Jiaozhou.

The entire Changsun clan of Luoyang was relocated, which was a great migration.

In order to gain a foothold there, Changsun bought many ships and slaves at a high price for the money sold to the industry. He bought all kinds of supplies. Anyway, money was difficult to use when it was left with the Central Plains, but coins were prohibited from being carried out.

Then you can only purchase it here at one time, and you can take away as much as you can.

The combined fleets of the Changsun family will have a population of more than 20,000, and there will be various livestock.

"I'm really unwilling to give up." Changsun Chong said.

"What's wrong with the winner being the king and the loser being the enemy? We are defeated now, so we leave, but we will not forget this day. Chong'er, remember this moment, in the Hanjing city, Zhang Chao and other traitors were caring, but we could only leave sadly."

"But one day, we will come back."

"When will that day be?"

Changsun Chong was confused and pessimistic about the future. They were driven away from the Central Plains, and they were only driven to the distant Xinliu Que. When will they develop?

Ten years and twenty years, or fifty years and one hundred years?

Zhang Chao has already dominated the world, and the population of the new dynasty has been said to have exceeded 90 million.

Twenty thousand vs. Ninety million, and the 20 thousand of them are even within Zhang Chao's Ninety million. How to fight?

"Whether it is fifty or a hundred years, as long as we keep this day in mind and the goal of coming back in the future, we will come back sooner or later. Or if a hundred years are not enough, then two hundred years will be the day when the Changsun family will eventually return to the Central Plains."

"How to do it?" Changsun Chong asked.

Changsun Wuji looked back at the people who were still moving things on the boat.

The 20,000 people he took away were mainly slaves, with fewer Han people. There were even fewer Han women, but there was no way. There were not many people willing to go to Africa with them, and thousands of nobles were exiled at once and hundreds of families were exiled, and they were all in a hurry to recruit people.

No matter how high the conditions offered, it is difficult to recruit people.

"We must first form an army." Changsun Wuji said.

"Select young slaves from slaves first and train them strictly."

"But we have too few people. Can it be reliable to use slave soldiers?"

Changsun Wuji had no other choice. If he had enough manpower, he would not have armed a group of slaves. But now, no one else could use it except slaves.

He could not even mix slaves and free people, and could only place the important task of defense on these slaves.

He bought many slaves from Turks, Goguryeo, Tuyuhun, Gaochang, Tiel, Linyi, etc.

"As long as these slave soldiers are loyal and brave, they can receive rewards or even freedom after making meritorious services."

Changsun Chong was even more pessimistic, and he built his hope for the future on a group of Huyi barbarian slaves, which was pessimistic when he thought about it.

"When we arrive at Xinliuqiu, we have the opportunity, we can buy some slaves and children there, and train them by ourselves, so that they will be more loyal to us." Changsun Wuji said to his son, "I heard Zhang Chao say that in the Roman and Persian courts, there were some brave guard cavalry, and these guard cavalry were all slaves. They bought them when they were very young and castrated them. After a long period of rigorous training, they became a loyal and brave guard cavalry."

"Ephesian Cavalry?" Changsun Chong was very surprised when he heard this.

"Everyone of the children of the Zhang family in Bashang can get 100 partners of the same age when they were young. They have eaten, lived, trained and studied together since childhood, and started to cultivate feelings, making them the closest partners."

"Zhang Jing now has five hundred such companion knights, and each of the Zhang family's children, such as Zhang Hui and Zhang Cong, has at least one hundred such companion knights. When these partners grow up, they become knight attendants and knights, and then become their personal guard officers, and even their fiefs in the future, becoming their most trusted people."

Changsun Wuji sighed, "We Changsun Chong should have followed the examples at the beginning. The people we trained by ourselves must be more reliable. Especially the partners Zhang Chao selected for his son were not the children of the honorary families like the guards in the palace. On the contrary, these partners were all selected from nanny halls, orphanages, etc., or were orphanages of soldiers. Once they were selected, they became members of the Zhang family and became brothers of his son."

Now that the Changsun family has gone to Xinliuqiu, the conditions will be more difficult and fewer people can use it.

Changsun Wuji planned to follow Zhang Chao in the future, and they went to buy some slaves and children. In order to ensure their loyalty and credibility, they castrated themselves and then trained.

Establish a legion of eunuchs who are completely loyal to the Changsun family.

Eunuchs will not have families, but will not have offspring, so there is no need to worry that the Changsun family, which is a small population, will be given power to usurp the throne by these mercenaries overseas.

This is a development method obtained by Changsun Wuji after learning from his mistakes and thinking hard during this period.

Staying away from the Central Plains, the Changsun family's future life will be a hundred times more difficult.

When the Zhang family got Liuqiu, it was indeed a deserted island. But not only did the Zhang family have money to develop Liuqiu, but the most important thing was that they could immigrate continuously in the early stage. They were relying on the Central Plains and did not have to worry about being overwhelmed by the mountain barbarians at all.

But they are different, only 20,000 people. Even if they buy slaves in the future, they will not be the same as the Chinese clan.

The formation of a slave mercenary and even training a more elite eunuch slave guards became the ultimate solution for Changsun Wuji.

When I arrived at Liuqiu Island, I could only practice slavery, build slaves and hire mercenaries, but conquered the indigenous people and expanded the territory. I used slaves to explore, farm, seize slaves and sell them, and then traded with Han merchants in Djibouti, Xindu Port, etc. in exchange for the needs.

In this regard, Changsun also thanked Zhang Chao for letting them go to Africa. If Zhang Chao exiled them to the Americas or Australia, it would be rare to meet the original merchant ship once a year.

Without the various supplies from the Central Plains, they would have been much more difficult to start from scratch.

"Dad, do you think Zhang Chao will really let us leave like this?" Changsun Chong asked again.

No matter how you look at it, it feels like you are returning to the mountain.

"Zhang Chao is good at reputation. For his name and for his overall stability, he cannot attack us at this time. Otherwise, why bother to do such a troublesome parliamentary vote, etc., and directly attack us, and it will be over."

Changsun Wuji was not afraid of his son's concern.

Zhang Chao would not do this, and he would not dare to do this.

He can do this, but he doesn't.

The captain was shouting to raise the anchor, and the sailors began to twist the ropes and lift the anchor.

Other sailors began to lower their sails.

Goodbye, Hankou, goodbye, Central Plains.

Changsun Wuji sighed.

The fleet slowly started, and countless people on the shore watched this scene, including ordinary people and reporters from several major newspapers.

Changsun Wuji believed that among those people, there must be a lot of Zhang Chao's ears watching.

Several warships also lowered their anchors and sailed down, following them to leave Hankou.
Chapter completed!