Jia Xu waited for Wang Hou to walk to the gate of the Governor's Mansion in the Island City before coming out to greet him.

It’s not that this old guy has been in charge of his own for half a year. He thinks that he is the eldest and he is the second. He is really a good mayor. It’s not easy, especially in this newly built port city, where the family of Qingzhou and the external imported refugees meet. This guy is really busy.

Economically, when Wang Hou left, he told him to attract investment. Old Jia Xu contacted the Jingzhou gentry and built a dye factory in Qingdao to dye Rizhao cotton fabrics into colors and sell them at a high price.

Culturally, when Wang Hou left, he told him to build a university, and the old man Jia Xu chose a site at the bottom of Laoshan, which was a full construction project of the engineering team. I heard that it could be put into use.

In terms of public security, there are many people and one mess. The thieves of the Taishan heroes were unstoppable, and fighting and robbery became children's children. Now the crimes are becoming more and more organized! The most common one is the smuggling of tax evasion. You should know that Wang Hou is not a philanthropist. He also needs to make money when building this port city. On the one hand, it is the sugar factory shop he runs himself, and on the other hand, it is the tax revenue of this port. Every merchant ship that drives in will need to pay Wang Hou a tariff of one-tenth of the value of the goods.

This is a lot of money, so some people naturally save as much as they can. During this time, a black port emerged from Xiangfu Island, not far from Qingdao City. Many illegal merchants from Dongwu traded supplies here and directly ignored Wang Hou's part.

Then there is a gang problem! Although the Renxia style is not as strong as Emperor Wu of Han at that time, there are still many big brothers like the Guo Jie and Zhu family during the Emperor Wu period. Like Guo Jia, who had worked as a raider before his debut, another famous raider during the Three Kingdoms was Xu Shu. When this old boy was a raider, he helped his friends to revenge and killed people. He was painted by the government and threw them into the market to kill him. Several friends saved him in the evening. After that, Xu Shu was beaten to understand and studied hard, first with Liu Bei and then with Cao Cao. He had no great achievements, and he also made a small career.

Nowadays, the number of people moving out of the slaves in Qingdao City is as high as 200,000. It is really not new to have two or three gangs. However, extorting sugar farmers and levying protection fees in stores will also damage the commercial interests of Qingzhou, which is something that Jia Xu can't bear!

When Wang Hou came back, the old guy was having a meeting and was about to set up a special task force to put the black port in. The gangsters were cut off. The meeting was halfway through. When the chicken head was tilted, he welcomed Wang Hou back to war. The old guy didn't have a good face. He grinned when he met with his fists.

"My subordinate Jia Xu, please welcome the governor of the state to return to his residence!"

"Hey! Thank you Mr. Jia for your hard work! Please get up quickly!"

A capable person can tolerate no matter how tough he is! This old man has no good face, but Wang Hou has a slutty smile. He smiled and quickly turned over and got off the horse, supported Jia Xu's arm with both hands, and helped him up.

Following Wang Hou, he dismounted and looked at Jia Xu's gloomy face that owed him 100,000 taels of silver and half of the gloomy face, Cao Zhang was happy. This guy named Wang was indeed annoyed by everyone! My master was right!

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Although he had just returned from a business trip, he was the major shareholder of Qingzhou after all, and he had to serve his job well! Although he really wanted to go back to the house to meet Lu Ji and experience the warmth of his family, Wang Hou consciously returned to the government office to work and wait for Jia Xu, the second-in-commander in Qingzhou, to report on his work.

Not to mention, a lot of things have really happened in the past six months after he left!

The business was indeed prosperous. The Dalianjiao Bridgehead Plan formulated by Wang Hou was implemented. The Qi family and the Taishan heroes bought boats to go out to sea one after another. For one month, the Japanese slave trade was indeed particularly prosperous, but there were too many competitive families. The Japanese slave trade was not as profitable as expected. Some people started to retreat. In this kung fu, a merchant ship drifted to the Korean Peninsula traded with the local tribe of the three Korean tribes, and brought back half of the ship's mink and ginseng, which really made a small fortune.

So, everyone followed the trend again, and this led to the scene when Wang Hou came back and Liao goods were prevalent.

Fortunately, Liao goods trade is not as narrow as before. Pearls are luxury goods, and there is too much competition in slave trade. According to the scale of the Qingzhou market, it is far from developing to saturation.

However, the group of Zihai merchants in Qingzhou are not legal merchants! Just like early Western colonists, they are just doing business without money under the name of a merchant. They can buy it with a knife, but they don’t need copper to buy it. They snatch it and burn it. Their troubles have caused the second major event, diplomatic matter!

The prefect of Liaodong, and later the Gongsun family of Yan State in Liaodong, sent a letter with an extremely strong wording to the Qingzhou Mufu, strongly condemning these robbers in Qingzhou, and said that if Wang Hou did not restrain himself, he would personally raise troops to attack Linzi City, Qi State!

"What? Gongsun Kang wants to declare war on me?"

Listening to Jia Xu's report, Wang Hou's pupils were bright like a light bulb of more than 20 watts, and he jumped up from the large desk, which made the old guy Jia Xu stunned. After a while, he curled his lips.

"The barbarian star country is just a firefly! Why should the state master care about it?"

This guy just brags! Jia Xu was not at all relieved. He even received Gongsun Kang's "School of China" and the weather was too cold. He yawned halfway through and threw the "School of China" into a brazier to keep warm. Three months passed, but he didn't see the ambitious "Liaodong Lord" coming to sea to call him.

Jia Xu didn't know that his master was thinking about the other person's land! He was worried that there was no reason to start a war! Hearing that Jia Xu disagreed, Wang Hou immediately "indigned" and knocked on the table in anger and shouted.

"Even this firefly firefly dares to compete with my bright moon! It's so unbearable! Uncle can tolerate it and aunt can't bear it! Mr. Wenhe, this time I brought back 40,000 refugees in Jizhou, and the Taishan Army under General Zhang Yan's command was also 30,000. Using these people, I decided to open another port, open Weihai City north of Wendeng, build a hundred ships, and attack this staff!"

"Kang..., Jian..., Jiangang? The Black Mountain bandits also came to Qingzhou?"

Jia Xu was so crazy that he said this. His eyes were staring at Wang Hou like a dinosaur. He glared at him without saying a word for a few seconds. Just when Wang Hou was furious and thought that this old guy was going to hit someone suddenly, Jia Xu actually took off the crown on his head and threw it on Wang Hou's table...

"The talent of the lower officials is not good at learning, but he really cannot assist the great talent of the state. Please resign and return to the world!"

"Mr. Wenhe!!!"
Chapter completed!