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Liaoyuan County, Seafood House.

"Seaweiju" is a thousand-year-old restaurant and the most luxurious and top-end restaurant in Liaoyuan County. Its main products are various seafood delicacies.

Its history can almost be traced back to the time when Liaoyuan County was just renovated.

The reason why it can stand for so many years is that the boss behind it is the Cao family in Liaoyuan, a fifth-rank purple mansion family.

This day.

The top floor of the Sea Weed House, with the best scenery and the most luxurious decoration, welcomed two distinguished guests.

One of the middle-aged people wearing gorgeous clothes and elegant temperament is Cao Bangning, the owner of this "Sea Weed House", the head of the Cao family in Liaoyuan.

Another person with a sharp-mouthed cheek, a smart temperament and a small beard on his chin was Liu Tianming, the head of the Liu family of the sixth-rank family in Qing'an County.

The two sat down between the table one after another.

The shopkeeper of Haiweiju brought all the dishes with his friends and poured wine carefully. After seeing the ceremony, he respectfully stepped out and told the waiter outside the door to guard the door and strictly prohibited anyone from getting close to the private room.

The waiter naturally did not dare to neglect and would not mention it for now.

At the same time, in the private room, Cao Bangning, the head of the Cao family in Liaoyuan, began to enthusiastically pour wine, add vegetables, and warmly greet him to eat and drink.

"Come on~Here~Here you come here twice a year, so we rarely get together. Today, brothers are here, you can eat and drink openly. Brothers are good food and good wine are enough..."

"Head of Tianming, try this. This is the best fourth-level dragon clove that I just sent from the sea today. I specially asked the restaurant chef to cook it with a secret method. It is fresh, fragrant, smooth and tender, without any fishy smell. This is considered a special dish of Haiweiju, and it can't be eaten elsewhere..."

"And this is the Haitu Lingyu, one of the three treasures of the deep sea. It only has this season every year..."

Cao Bangning can be said to have invested a lot of money for this table of dishes. The money is secondarily. The key is that there are several dishes in it, which are tributes with very little output. He usually doesn't want to eat too much, but now he is all used to entertain Liu Tianming.

The kitchen of Haiweiju has been busy since the night before, and has been busy until now, and has developed such a banquet that is full of colors, fragrance and flavor.

And Liu Tianming did live up to expectations and had a great time eating and drinking.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of dishes.

Liu Tianming had almost finished eating, so he put down the wine cup and looked at Cao Bangning: "Bangning's head, you really cost you today~ Don't worry, I will give you the best price for this year's grain price. I would rather make less money than let you suffer."

Liaoyuan County has a large population and a small land area, and a considerable amount of the grain consumed every year needs to be purchased from other counties. Among them, it is known as the "granary" of Daqian and is located in Qing'an County next to Liaoyuan County, so it naturally became the main source of grain for Liaoyuan County.

Liu Tianming travels between the east and west on weekdays, and does a grain sales business.

As one of the largest families in Liaoyuanwei, the Cao family of Zifu purchased from him every year was naturally not a small amount of food.

However, when Cao Bangning heard this, he was confused and couldn't help but curse "Old Fox".

What happened to Cao recently? He didn't believe that Liu Tianming would be unclear. Now that he said this, it was obvious that he was thinking of understanding as a fool, waiting for him to ask him in person~

But even though he knew this, he had no other choice but to put on a shameful expression, stand up and show his gesture to bow deeply to him: "The head of Tianming, I will not hide it from it. Lao Cao, I invite you today, but I actually have something to ask for. In view of the fact that our two families have maintained a direct marriage for many years, I would like to ask you to help me."

"Oh~ Brother Cao, you're out of here. They're all family members, why do you want to ask for anything?" Liu Tianming quickly supported him, "Get up quickly. How can I help if you want brother? You said, brother, I will definitely help you."

He was very enthusiastic on his face, but he felt very proud in his heart.

This old guy Cao Bangning relies on his own as the head of a fifth-rank family, and his aunt is also the core disciple of the Holy Land. He often uses his nostrils to look at people. Now that something has happened, don’t you still have to ask him for it?

The two of them tug-of-warming for a long time, and showed their "deep friendship" with their "true feelings". Then they finally stopped and began to talk about serious matters.

"Brother Tianming, hasn't your youngest daughter married into Zuoqiu? I heard that she is still a legitimate lineage." Cao Bangning poured a glass of wine for Liu Tianming and said, "Look, can you give me a message and ask your girl to help me talk to you."

"this……"

When he heard this, Liu Tianming, who was very generous just now, looked embarrassed.

Joke~ He finally married his daughter to the Zuoqiu family's legitimate lineage. It was because of this that the Zuoqiu family was willing to divide a portion of the high-quality grain and hand it over to him for sale.

He would not consume the connections that his family had finally saved for the sake of Cao's trouble.

Of course, he would not say that on the surface, but said tactfully: "Brother Cao, you know that Zuoqiu is different from our aristocratic families. The head of the family is at least in the realm of heaven and man, and a head of the family has been for one or two hundred years, resulting in a large number of descendants. Although my youngest daughter married a legitimate lineage, she was just a legitimate grandson, not a legitimate grandson..."

Cao Bangning knew that he would not agree so easily, so he took out a gold ticket from the storage ring and stuffed it into his hand, and said sincerely: "Brother Tianming, you must help me! You are the only one I can count on now! I don't ask for anything else. Just ask your daughter to tell me about my love. Please ask the ancestor of the Zifu family, the Zuoqiu family, to agree to meet with my ancestor and talk. That's enough."

"Oh, why are you so embarrassed?"

Liu Tianming stroked the texture of the gold ticket and found that it was a purple gold ticket. The smile on his face suddenly became much more sincere. He heard that Cao Bangning just wanted to talk to Zuoqiu, and his heart was settled.

He immediately put away the Zijin ticket and made a promise: "Brother Cao, don't worry, I will ask my daughter to help you when I go back. However, I can't guarantee whether it will be a good thing or not. I have to explain this to you in advance."

"Of course. Brother Tianming is willing to agree to me, but I am already helping me. Whether this matter is successful or not, I will not blame Brother Tianming for it."

Cao Bangning naturally nodded repeatedly without saying a word.

The two of them talked a few more times, and the meal was almost done. Soon, Liu Tianming left the Sea Weed House.

After he left, the smile that Cao Bangning pretended to be unable to hold on to him and disappeared in an instant.

"Oh~"

He sighed heavily, unable to help but feel worried.

This time, my aunt rashly took action to kill the Zuoqiu genius, which was a serious offense to the Zuoqiu family.

Although it means that the family members joining the holy land or the academy, they are considered people from the holy land, and the family can be free from being implicated. However, the Zuoqiu family lost a genius and was exposed to such a big scandal, which suddenly became a laughing stock in the eyes of many aristocratic families. How could they give up?

They can't do anything to the holy land, and they will definitely vent their anger on Cao's family. Even if they don't take action on the surface, they will definitely sanction Cao's family in secret.

Compared with Zuoqiu, who dominated Qing'an County and had four or five Zifu ancestors on the bright side of the clan, the Cao family is just an ordinary fifth-grade family. Not to mention the only one Zifu ancestor in the family, the foundation and industry they possess were completely crushed by Zuoqiu family.

If the Zuoqiu clan really took action to sanction the Cao clan, the Cao clan would not be able to withstand it at all.

Now, the safest way he could think of was to ask his ancestor to come forward and talk to the ancestor of the Purple Mansion above Qingyun Zuoqiu. If the negotiations could be reached, although the Cao family would inevitably have to pay some price, it would have passed this disaster. If the negotiations could not be reached...

Alas ~

Cao Bangning couldn't help but sigh again.

This Liu Tianming acts quickly and is not necessarily reliable. He cannot bet on Liu Tianming, so it is better to prepare for both.

He paced with his hands behind his back, thinking about countermeasures in his mind, and slowly walked out of the seaweed house.

"Give me a greeting to the head of the family."

At the door of the Sea Weed House, the shopkeeper and a group of friends stood in a row respectfully. He waited until he saw Cao Bangning enter the carriage, and he breathed a sigh of relief. In a trance, he seemed to have survived a disaster.

...

The "grudgement" between the Zuoqiu clan of Qing'an and the Cao clan of Liaoyuan led to a change in the situation, which has nothing to do with Wang Shouzhe.

As Wang Shouzhe became a great genius and returned to his family after resolving the troubles, he devoted himself to the intense work.

The Wang family of Changning, who had accumulated more than 20 years of strength, finally started a new round of expansion.

For Wang, this is an imperative pioneering.

Although Wang's annual income reaches millions of dry gold, he can save two millions of dry gold in addition to the massive expenses. It seems that the amount is quite large, but as the geniuses at home and the great geniuses gradually reach the realm of heaven and man, this little money will be short of money.

What's more, the new generation of young people in the Wang family are constantly being born. Under the concept of Wang family's multi-birth and excellent parenting, the unpaid expenses will become increasingly large.

In addition, the total population of Ping'an Town has exceeded 150,000 today, which is slightly crowded, and internal land reclamation and development have also encountered bottlenecks.

Only by inheriting the wishes of the ancestor Zhouxuan back then and opening up wastelands is the fundamental way to develop.

Zhouxuan Pass!

It is a level built by the ancestor Zhouxuan who spent a lot of money and countless efforts to build it. It protects generations of Wang's disciples and tens of thousands of people in Ping'an Town.

After leaving Zhouxuan Pass, it is a narrow cliff corridor, which is a must-pass place leading to Ping'an Town.

All along, wandering cultivators and children of aristocratic families have gone out of the territory to explore and take risks. If you are not lucky, you will throw away your corpses in the wilderness. If you are lucky, you will gain a lot of money.

Nowadays, a gray concrete road more than four meters wide is paved in this corridor. (In Dagan Country, the word "Western" has no positive or negative meaning, but only means that it is a commodity from overseas.)

The construction of the gray road requires first ramming the earth road with a stone mill, then applying a thick gravel cushion layer, then ramming the gravel layer with a stone mill, then pouring the concrete layer with a gray, and treating the concrete surface smoothly.

The process is simple and simple, and the core material is gray.

Nowadays, the price of ash sold by the United Industry to the outside world is as high as two large copper fifty cents per fulcrum, which is only half the price of ordinary grain.

It can be seen that the ash is a luxury-grade construction material. Therefore, not every aristocratic family has the capital to build the ash road.

In Wang Shouzhe's plan.

This high-quality gray road called "Shouzhe Road" is more than four meters wide and can accommodate five carriages in parallel, and the length is 80 miles! If it were on the earth, a widening cement road of only 80 miles is not a major project.

But for Wang, the internal cost budget of this road reached 216,000 yuan, and 3,000 civilians would be used in advance and the construction period would be six months.

The construction period of the "Shouzhe Road" project is very compact and needs to be completed before the next rainy season. Otherwise, once it is delayed until March next year, the construction difficulty will increase sharply.

It will shuttle through the land outside the territory. At the end of eighty miles away is an open canyon, which is the terrain of the corridor passing by two mountains in parallel.

Whenever you open up wasteland outside the region, you must first choose a natural barrier to build a pass. Otherwise, no matter how well this land is developed, it will be irresistible once the beast tide comes, and the heavy losses will be immeasurable.

To be honest, the "Shouzhe Pass" construction point is not ideal today.

However, after surveillance of the terrain within a radius of two or three hundred miles, the construction point of Shouzhe Pass was considered to be as inferior as possible. The rest of the terrain was far inferior to the construction point of Shouzhe Pass.

The reason why the "Shouzhe Pass" construction point is called undesirable is that the canyon corridor is too wide. The relatively narrowest and optimal construction point must also be built into ten miles wide!

A pass that is ten miles wide! It is rare to see the whole big fight.

The "Zhouxuan Pass" that Wang had always been proud of before was only more than one hundred feet wide, which was far less than one mile wide.
To be continued...