The two exchanged a few words, and Li Dongsheng asked: "I just arrived in Guangzhou, and you have also arrived, it seems that your whereabouts are clear to you, what is the matter with me?" ”

Xiao Li's face was also a little embarrassed: "It's not my family's attention, it's that the entire Jiangnan merchants are paying attention to you, Your Majesty's edict, you are a rare hot figure in the world, the entire overseas trade of the Tang Dynasty is in your hands, and how many people will be inexhaustible if they flow out of their fingers, I don't know how many people want to have a relationship with you." ”

"I know all of that." Li Dongsheng said lightly: "I just want to know what your Xiao family is going to do?" ”

"County Prince, our Xiao family has always followed Your Majesty, and last time we said that we wanted to measure the land, our Xiao family took the lead. Now His Majesty said that he wants to build a city, and our Xiao family also supports it. On behalf of the Xiao family, I am willing to dedicate a piece of land to the city for the use of the port. ”

"Oh, you're willing to spend such a big buck? The courage is not small, aren't you afraid that my city division will not be able to do it? I've heard that the Jiangnan Shi clan is very resistant to this, and someone has come to kill me. ”

Xiao Lian was impassioned: "Those scholars are all fools with rat eyes and lust for profit, and my Xiao family is not a person from them." County Princess, as long as the city is established in the future, all the sea trade of our Xiao family must be registered everywhere, and the taxes that should be paid are not a lot. ”

"Then I'll thank you in advance, we'll talk about this later, but I feel the attitude of the Xiao family." Li Dongsheng is still quite satisfied with this kind of surrender, after all, this is a good start, as for what he said about dedicating a piece of land to make a dock for the city, Li Dongsheng still doesn't want it, and the Xiao family didn't say that Li Dongsheng also knew that it must be a relatively remote place.

"Young master, someone from outside is visiting again, saying that it is from the Yue Guo Mansion." Daniel Zhang came in to report.

Xiao Li was about to leave, but when he heard that the people from the Feng family had arrived, he immediately stayed cheekily to hear what the people of the Feng family had planned.

The person who came was Feng Zhiyu, after being taught a lesson by his father that day, he changed from his original opposition to the establishment of the City Ship Division to his approval, why? Of course, because of the huge benefits, as long as Li Dongsheng takes over their family's land, the land next to it will immediately appreciate, and the house built and the warehouse will be profitable, and this is a way to make money for generations. So he also rushed over as soon as Li Dongsheng arrived at the inn.

However, I didn't think that Mo Daojun would go early, and there were even more early pedestrians. was preempted by the people of the Xiao family. Looking at Xiao Li, who was sitting and laughing in the hall, Feng Zhiyu was as disgusted as eating a fly.

The Xiao family is an old Jiangnan scholar, and there are even emperors in the family before, although the Feng family has unlimited scenery in Lingnan and is known as the king of Lingnan, but no matter the fame and influence, it cannot be compared with the Xiao family.

When Feng Zhiyu said that his family also wanted to donate land, he was immediately ridiculed by Xiao Li: "I'm sorry, I have already told the county prince about your idea just now, you better go back and think of other ways." Ha ha. "This time I stole the limelight from the Feng family, and I was very happy.

Feng Zhiyu only felt a crackling sound on his face, and in his heart he felt that his family was really giving Li Dongsheng face by doing this, that family was so arrogant as his own family, sticking to the house to support your office. I didn't expect that before I came, someone had already told me the idea.

However, Li Dongsheng still did not accept their contributions, and said ambiguously: "This official has just arrived in Guangzhou, and the situation is not familiar, so it is better to wait a few days, and I will observe and observe." ”

When the Sui Dynasty attacked Goguryeo in the last years, hundreds of thousands of Han men were killed and wounded on land, but in fact, a large number of naval troops were defeated in Goguryeo, and many people did not want to go back, for fear of being arrested again and then sent to Goguryeo to fight. Many people are stranded on small islands overseas, so many of them have to eat, drink and enjoy, and there is no output on the island, so they can only come out to rob passing ships, and slowly they also taste the sweetness, do not do anything, nothing is nothing, as long as the boat goes around the sea, then all kinds of supplies are complete.

Because at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the army was fighting on land, and no one cared about what the situation was on the sea, and the Sui army and the Tang army all focused on the land, and after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, they also focused on preventing the grassland peoples on the land, and the navy did not develop at all.

So these decades can be said to be the happiest era for pirates, they gallop in the waters around Datang, as long as it is a passing merchant ship, the pirates will charge tolls if they are in a good mood, and a ship of goods will be collected fifty percent, and if they are in a bad mood, then even if the merchant ships are unlucky, all the goods will be taken away, and sometimes you will have to die.

These pirates often carry out fire and merge for goods when they go to sea, and several large pirate gangs have been born over the years, the largest group is the "mountain fire", he is also from the Sui Dynasty naval army, defeated and retreated in the battle of Goguryeo, and slowly developed today's scale with dozens of brothers.

At this time, he was heading straight for Guangzhou with a large fleet, and this operation he accepted the arrangement of the Jiangnan Shi clan to do a big thing, and by the way, he could do a vote in the port of Guangzhou, which they had been coveting for a long time.

"Can you be sure that when we arrive, the Guangzhou Navy Division will not be dispatched, and we will not chase them until we withdraw them?" The mountain fire has turned white, but his face is ruddy, and his voice is loud, and he has a childish appearance.

"Of course, I wouldn't have dared to be a hostage with you." Gu Zhang shook his fan and smiled: "Don't worry, Li Dongsheng is bad for you and me." We don't have any money to make, you must be the target of his attack, why don't we work together to destroy him when he first arrives, everyone is relaxed. ”

"People say that you scholars don't have a good thing, and it's true. We are all thieves, and we should do bad things. You people shout benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and wisdom on your lips, but in private you are black, I also want to guard against you, if you are sold, maybe I will help you count the money. ”

Gu Zhang's face was hot when he was said by the mountain fire, but he thought that Li Dongsheng was about to be destroyed, and these pirates, as murderers, would definitely not be able to escape the encirclement and suppression of the Tang Dynasty sailors, so he calmed down, what did he care about with a person who was going to die. He laughed: "Those are all false, only money is real." Aren't you licking blood at sea just for money? I'm here to give you a word, as long as today's things are done, you can enter and exit the port of Guangzhou in the future, look at this is the hydrographic map of the port, which is enough to represent my sincerity! ”