The people in Keelung Port received the news that Li * was coming a few days ago, so as soon as the fleet entered the port, Lu Qing had already led a group of people to greet him on the dock. The person on the left is dressed casually, most of them are dressed in short clothes, and some even show their chests. Most of the people on the right are wearing strict official uniforms, although they are sweating profusely from the heat, but their words and deeds are very graceful, and they know at a glance that they are from a big family.

Li * saw the group of officials behind Lu Qing, he was a little confused at first, and couldn't figure out where these people came from, but after a while, he suddenly remembered that when the family suppressed industry and commerce, many officials from the family were also involved, and later Li Shimin was angry, and arrested a group of people with the highest position and the most influence, and then wanted to kill the chickens and monkeys, but was persuaded by Li *, and asked these officials to go over, and then sent them all to Liuqiu Island to help Lu Qing develop Liuqiu, presumably these people should be those family officials.

"Subordinate Lu Qing, see Your Highnesses!" As soon as Li Xi and the others came ashore, Lu Qing immediately stepped forward to salute, and the two groups of people behind him also followed, but although the civil officials on the right were skillful, when they looked at Li *'s gaze, most of them were a little unkind, as for the men in short clothes, they were a little chaotic, and some people even boldly looked Li Xi and the others up and down.

Li * has long been accustomed to this kind of high-profile life, so he smiled very naturally: "You don't need to be polite, this king and a few brothers are very hard to take a boat, let's find a place to have a cup of tea and talk!" Seeing that Li 1* was so casual and kind, Lu Qing also breathed a sigh of relief, he was originally worried that the two groups of people behind him would make Li 1* and Li Ke unhappy, but now it seems that he is too careful. Lu Qing thought in his heart, and hurriedly invited Li Xi, Li Ke and others to get into the carriage, and then the group rushed to Keelung City not far away.

The so-called Keelung City is actually the original Lu Qing's pirate den.

Speaking of Lu Qing is really a talent, Keelung Port is surrounded by mountains on three sides on land, the terrain is very dangerous, and Keelung Port is also divided into inner harbor and outer harbor, the inner harbor is generally elongated, and on the west coast of this elongated strip, there is suddenly a small port recessed, this small port is called Niu Chou Port.

At the junction of Niu Chou Port and the Inner Harbor, there is just a sharp corner protruding, blocking the exit of Niu Chou Port in a small half, Lu Qing's pirate nest is built on the sharp corner behind this sharp corner There is a water village to close the entire Niu Chou Port, and some important ships are moored in Niu Chou Port, so that not only can the safety of the ship be guaranteed to the greatest extent, but also the people on land can also get support from the sea at any time, if ordinary people want to attack Lu Qing, it is definitely not an easy task.

Counting that Lu Qing has returned to Liuqiu for a long time, the construction of Keelung Port is also in full swing, and Niuchou Port, as the core area of the entire port, is naturally the first batch of reconstructed areas, such as the wharf where Li 1 has landed, all of which have been made of concrete, and the direction of the wharf to Keelung City has also built a straight cement avenue, and the carriage does not feel bumpy when walking on it.

As the carriage moved forward, Li 1 Jiu and Li Ke, Li Yun, and Li Zhen took the same car, and they all came to Liuqiu for the first time, so they naturally felt very novel, so they opened all the windows of the carriage, and while blowing the sea breeze, they looked at the situation on both sides of the road.

At the beginning, there were not many buildings on both sides, most of them were barracks for some armies, because there were warships or other important ships parked in Niuchou Harbor, which could be regarded as a military base in Keelung Port, so it was not allowed to be inhabited here, and even entered.

It wasn't until after passing a few heavily guarded checkpoints that Li Xi's carriage left Niuchou Port and began to enter the urban area of Keelung City, and the civil buildings on both sides gradually increased, at first there were scattered small factories, taverns and the like, and some private houses slowly appeared, until they crossed a wall that was being demolished, and the front suddenly became lively.

I saw that on both sides of the cement avenue that had just been built, there were countless shops, and people in different clothes were crowding around on the street, and from time to time someone went into the shop next to them to buy a few things, and the carts pulling people or goods were also piercing the crowd, but compared with the horse-drawn carriages in the north, the most used here was the ox cart, although the speed was a little slower, but the load was far more than the horse-drawn carriage.

Just when Li 1 was also shaking his eyes by the prosperity of Keelung, suddenly Li Zhen pointed not far away, slapped Li 1 with an excited face, and said secretly: "Sixth brother! Look at it! There are so many Kunlun slaves over there! Li 1 looked at Li Zhen's fingers, but found that not far in front of them, there was a burly man holding a long rope, but there was a string of Kunlun slaves tied to the long rope. In fact, the so-called Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty, only a small part of the black people in Africa, most of them are natives from Southeast Asia, these natives are cowardly, very easy to adjust, and very obedient to use, so they are very popular with the nobles of the Tang Dynasty. For example, the slaves in front of Li 1* were obviously led by only one slave trader in front of them, but none of them dared to escape.

"Eighth brother, what's so beautiful about Kunlun Nu, look at there are a lot of monsters there!" Before Li Xi could speak, Li Yun, who had always been silent, seemed to be infected by Li Zhen's excitement, pointing out another window and shouting loudly.

As a result, as soon as Li Zhen heard that there was a monster, she immediately threw away the Kunlun slave and went to Li Yun to look out of the window, and even looked at the strange screams of excitement. When Li Xi leaned over to take a look, he found that it was a group of strangely dressed natives, swaggering through the market with a group of tropical animals, and I don't know where they came to Liuqiu by boat? Li 1 secretly recognized the elephants, lizards, new fish and other animals in them, and there were many unnamed ones, with strange shapes and shapes, could it be that Li Yun called them monsters.

Although Keelung City is very prosperous and full of exotic customs, the Li Xi brothers are feasting their eyes. However, Li 1 also saw some problems from the street, such as Keelung City just... Soon after it opened to the public, the popularity was not particularly high, and the buildings on both sides of the street were very casual, and some shops even took up part of the road. In addition, there are some places that are under intense construction, and as a result, the streets are dusty, and even because of the lack of management on the streets, many people may do it because of verbal discord, and not only no one cares about it, but also many people onlookers applaud.

All these phenomena show that Keelung Port is still in the initial stage of dirty and messy.

Li 1* There were more people coming this time, so Lu Qing prepared dozens of carriages, plus the guards brought by Li Xi and others, this group of thousands of people passed by the street, and immediately scared the pedestrians to dodge, and at the same time, the discussion was loud, all discussing which big man came to Keelung?

The carriage traveled along the avenue in the middle of Keelung City, and soon arrived at the city center, which was originally the meeting hall when Lu Qing and the others were pirates, and now it has been expanded into the administrative center of Keelung, where officials from various yamen work. At the same time, directly behind the council hall, a huge mansion was newly built as Li Xi's residence.

After arriving here, Lu Qing sent someone to arrange some unrelated people, and Li Xi placed Wu Meiniang and Cui Louxue in the inner house, but it is worth mentioning that although Wu Meiniang didn't like Cui Mengxue very much in her heart, but there were two of them on the boat at that time, so it was inevitable that they would meet together, and Wu Meiniang didn't know what An's heart was, and she got along with Cui Mengxue very well on the surface.

Cui Mengxue has a simple temperament, although she knows that Wu Meiniang is the woman next to Li *, but in the Tang Dynasty, with the identity of Li 1 Jiu, it is normal to bring one or two beautiful women with her when she goes out, such as Li Ke and Li Yun have women around them, and even Li Zhen, a guy who is not yet thirteen years old, is no exception.

It is precisely because of this that Meng Xue has no hostility towards Wu Meiniang, and Wu Meiniang is a master of grasping people's hearts, so it didn't take a few days to coax Meng Xue to really intersect, even closer than her own sisters. When arranging the yard just now, Meng Xue also asked to live in the courtyard adjacent to Wu Meiniang, so that it would be convenient for them to come and go. This made Li Yimu very worried, for fear that Wu Meiniang, a little fox in human skin, would abduct Mengxue and sell it.

After arranging the accommodation, Li 1 secretly went out to meet with Lu Qing and the others, but this time he only saw Lu Qing and those men in short clothes, as for those officials, they all left for the reason that they were busy with business.

Li 1 secretly didn't mind this, he just needed those family officials to help him, and he didn't need their loyalty, as for what they wanted to do, it was even more of a joke, begging that this was his territory, and he was alone overseas, and he said unceremoniously that their lives were all in Li Xi's hands, and no one dared to have other thoughts by borrowing a few of them.

After Lu Qing's introduction, Li 1 finally figured out the origin of the remaining short-clothed men, it turned out that they were all people who had surrendered recently, and they were also the leaders of various forces on the island before, and now they are all Li 1 Dark's subordinates, and today they specially came to see Li Xi, His Royal Highness the King of Qi.

For these people, Li 1 did not blindly appease, but first showed their authority, warning them that they must obey the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and absolutely not to act according to the previous rules on the island, otherwise if they commit a crime, then don't blame him, the king of Qi, for turning his face and not recognizing people!

Although there are some good family forces who only seek self-protection among these people who surrender, most of them are unruly pirates, and they don't even blink their eyes when they kill people, and if Lu Qing's forces are stronger than them, I'm afraid they won't surrender, so Li Xi will give them a dismount first.

However, after listening to Li 1's dark admonition, although most of them showed a submissive look, there were also a few people who had a look of disbelief on their faces. Seeing these people, Li Xi suddenly smiled coldly and commanded sharply: "Someone! Push these people out and cut them off" (to be continued)

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