Qinghekou Port is becoming more and more prosperous, after the bathing water leading to Jixian County is dug deep and widened, the big ship of 2,000 stones can sail in the river, the status of the transit port of Qinghekou Port is becoming more and more important, even several counties in Jizhou are now considering whether to learn from Liu Yu, and the river channel that passes through their own territory will be renovated, maybe, the tax in the city will increase a lot.

The more prosperous Qinghekou Port is, the more reluctant the Yuan family is to hand it over to Fang Zhiwen, although most of the goods in Qinghekou Port are actually from the Zhen family and the Jiangdong Zhu family, and the Yuan family wants to insert it, it is not so easy, the key is that the waterway on the sea is now controlled by Fang Zhiwen, and the Yuan family does not dare to come hard.

Therefore, everyone understands how far-sighted Fang Zhiwen's move to occupy Lelang and seize Qindao to sweep the Bohai Bay is, Fang Zhiwen did not arrange a single soldier in Qinghekou Port, but no one dared to easily move the Zhen's family on Qinghekou Port, this is the deterrent force of the navy.

A meeting between Fang Zhiwen and Yuan Shao, on the one hand, had a preliminary understanding of the Yuan family's arrangement in Jizhou, and on the other hand, a direct contact channel was established with the Yuan family.

Fang Zhiwen thought about it carefully, and set the location of the meeting on the Zhen family's territory in Qinghekou Port, this location. In fact, it is to convey a message to the Yuan family, that is, cooperation in Jizhou. It is not that Fang Zhiwen is begging the Yuan family, but that the Yuan family needs Fang Zhiwen, and the initiative is in Fang Zhiwen's hands, not the other way around.

Throwing down the Taiping Dao soldiers who were cutting down trees, attacking the city, and defending them, Fang Zhiwen took Zhao Yun and asked Zhou Tai to send his own to Qinghekou, but this time Fang Zhiwen did not bring his own troops, and the security was completely handed over to Zhou Tai.

After more than a year of operation, Qinghekou Port has now initially shown the appearance of a northern super port, and the closer the ships get to Qinghekou Port, the more boats will be on the sea. Most of them are large offshore vessels of more than 2,000 koku. Small boats account for less than 30 percent of this.

According to Zhou Tai, most of these big ships are long-distance ships from the south, the nearest ones are also from Xuzhou, and the distant ones are even from Wu County, as for those small boats. It runs the Qingzhou and Lenan routes.

The development of commerce and trade will inevitably allow the pirate industry to develop, but Bohai Bay is too small, and the small one can no longer fit Zhou Tai's 8,000 navy, not to mention, there is Duan Zhiran's 4,000 escort fleet, plus the gate of Bohai Bay has been locked by Zhou Tai, so it is almost difficult to see pirates in Bohai Bay, and occasionally encounter a refreshed wild monster, but the strength is far behind.

Today's pirates are more active in the Yellow and East China Seas. Zhou Tai's main target at present is the Yellow Sea, so the pirates in the East China Sea are the most active and active, followed by the North Sea, these two places, Zhou Tai can't take care of them at all now, and other forces. For example, the fleets of the Jiangdong forces are too busy in the southern part of the East China Sea, so with the opening and prosperity of the East China Sea route, the pirates in the northern part of the East China Sea and the North Sea are rapidly developing and growing.

Fang Zhiwen has been to Palembang in Jianye, so it is not unusual to see the continuous port of Qinghekou Port, unlike the inland port of Jianye, Qinghekou Port is a seaport, so it is impossible to include the entire port in the city, but Qinghekou Port also extends the city wall to the seaside, and the port wharf is tightly connected together, from this direction of the sea, the defense of Qinghekou Port is relatively weak, which is also a matter of no way.

However, the Qinghe estuary has two layers of walls, and there is also an inner city, so when it is attacked on the sea, the population of the harbor can be taken back to the inner city for defense, which is also a way.

The meeting place is not far from the harbor belonging to the Zhen family, which is a five-storey hotel for business travelers and rests, and is considered one of the tallest buildings in Qinghekou Harbor, except for the lighthouse and the arrow tower on the city wall.

Fang Zhiwen came, of course the Zhen family's shop was fully prepared, and the surrounding area was also guarded by Zhou Tai's fleet, and the business travelers that originally entered and exited the port were also temporarily relocated to other hotels, and now this hotel has been cleared. ~

In fact, if it was just Fang Zhiwen who came here by himself, there would be no need to make such a big scene, after all, this is a safe area belonging to the city, but because Yuan Shao's identity needs to be kept secret, the meeting between Yuan Shao and Fang Zhiwen needs to be kept secret, so he made such a show, but this kind of thing made the players who came to Zhenjia Port to load and unload the goods feel strange, and they all guessed who came to the port.

In fact, everyone knows the ships guarding inside and outside the port, it is Fang Zhiwen's fleet, so the one who came to Qinghekou Port is likely to be Fang Zhiwen, and it is impossible to guess what is the purpose of Fang Zhiwen's visit to Qinghekou Port.

"Haha, Lord Fang, we meet again, Lord Fang's demeanor is still the same1

"I'm polite at the beginning, please sit, far, Yuantu, it's always good! The two generals, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, seem to be refining again1

This time, Yuan Shao was regarded as a light car, the strategists only took Xu You and Xiao Ji, and the generals only Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

Fang Zhiwen greeted Yuan Shao and his subordinates kindly, looking very easy-going, and everyone politely returned the courtesy, and after a greeting, everyone sat down as guests.

"I must have made a decision on my suggestion last time?"

Fang Zhiwen still went straight to the point, basically no nonsense, and went straight to the point.

Yuan Shao sat very upright, this may be the so-called aristocratic spirit that he had trained since he was a child, looking at Fang Zhiwen's kind smiling face, Yuan Shao's face smiled more and more sincerely, but he was slandering in his heart.

Fang Zhiwen's private actions with Taiping Dao, others may not know, but how can the Yuan family, who has dealt with Taiping Dao for many years, not know, or say. Everyone who should know knows, including the one in the capital. Although everyone hated Fang Zhiwen's strong intervention in the situation in Jizhou, there was no way to do it.

There is nothing to blame for this matter on the surface, Fang Zhiwen recruits and trains, this has nothing to do with others, no one dares to jump out and say publicly, Fang Zhiwen is helping Taiping Dao to train troops, if there is, it must be a brainless guy.

Therefore, I want to deal with Fang Zhiwen's ruthless move. The Yuan family also thought about it for a long time. It's not that the Yuan family didn't think of forcing Fang Zhiwen to retreat by putting pressure on Miyun City and Fengning County, but needless to say, Miyun City has been run by Fang Zhiwen more than an iron bucket, and as for Fengning County, there is actually only one Fengning City in Fang Zhiwen's hands. How do you get it? Even if the Yuan family wants to infiltrate, the cities around Fengning County are all alien cities, so people don't buy the Yuan family's accounts.

Lelang, Lenan, and Qindao are also isolated cities, and it is not difficult to send some spies in, but if you want to do something, you can't send a large number of people at all, and now the Yuan family doesn't dare to tear your face with Fang Zhiwen for the time being.

Presumably, the other forces should be the same as Fang Zhiwen now. This is the original intention of Fang Zhiwen to shrink the development strength of the territory.

"What Lord Fang said is correct, the suggestion made by Lord Fang last time, we discussed it carefully after we went back, Lord Fang's request is not too much at all, but after all, Qinghekou Port is a city under the rule of Bohai. Moreover, the family of Jizhou and our Yuan family have a large number of industries in Qinghekou Port, and have also made indelible contributions to the development of Qinghekou Port, so I personally think that it can be governed together? ”

Fang Zhiwen rolled his eyes, what do you think personally? Didn't the Yuan family discuss this matter, and now they are still asking for a lot of money to pay back, wasting time?

"Originally, did you think that the official was stupid? Co-governance? Am I alone with a group of people? Let's talk about the decision of the Yuan family, or the decision of the Jizhou family headed by the Yuan family. ”

Lord Fang, this is not the same as this.1 Xu Yu shook his head unhurriedly and said: "Lord Fang, what Shicai said at the beginning must not be able to deny that Qinghekou Port is not just the Zhen family, or not just the Qinghekou Port of adults, this is also an indisputable fact, so, for the sake of protecting their own interests, like Lord Fang, everyone does not want their interests to be damaged, which is understandable." Now that Lord Fang is about to take it to Qinghekou Port, how should he protect the interests of the Jizhou clan? Maybe the Yuan family can let this face out of friendship with adults, but how can the Yuan family explain to the Jizhou family? ”

Fang Zhiwen nodded, Fang Zhiwen recognized Xu You's argument, as for the friendship of the Yuan family, it was pure nonsense, but there are interests of the Jizhou family in Qinghekou Port, which cannot be denied.

"This is very simple, this official is only to manage and protect Qinghekou Port, not to swallow Qinghekou Port, there is no need to worry about it, I am an official not a robber, your interests in Qinghekou Port are protected by this official, including the Yuan family, all of them are treated equally."

Xu You's heart sank, and finally understood Fang Zhiwen's purpose of taking Qinghekou Port, the key is that he treats everyone equally, Fang Zhiwen wants to use the dominant position of Qinghekou Port, use non-war means to affect the situation in Jizhou, master the method of balancing the forces in Jizhou, and even affect the course of the war that may occur in Jizhou in the future, the ultimate goal is to make a lot of war money!

Xu You glanced at Yuan Shao, and Xiao Ji on the other side, Yuan Shao still had a bright and sunny smile on his face, and he couldn't see any attitude, but judging from his slightly relaxed posture, it seemed that he still agreed with Fang Zhiwen's statement, as for Xiao Ji, he was still frowning and thinking, obviously not having the same deep meaning in Fang Zhiwen's words.

"Lord Fang, how should we understand what adults say about equal treatment? Could it be that even the enemies of the Yuan family, in the adult's place, no, it should be in the Qinghekou Port under the adult's rule, will enjoy the protection of the adult? ”

"That's right, Yuan is right, hostility is hostility, business is business, Qinghekou Port is a commercial port, not a military port, so it doesn't matter who is hostile to me, even our Zhiwen's enemy, as long as he is in Qinghekou Port and abides by the rules of Qinghekou Port, then I will protect him equally1

Fang Zhiwen's gaze lightly swept over Yuan Shao and his subordinates, and his clear eyes were full of strong confidence and unwavering determination, which made Yuan Shao slightly uneasy. To be continued