The four counties of Dongdao Mountain, Dongxing, Tingli, and Xian'an are close to Thang Long in Annam, and the mountains rise, except for Xian'an by the sea, other places are actually no different from Lang Mountain.

However, it is precisely because of the mountains that the resources are abundant, and there are large areas of mountain forests, which are full of fragrant wood and mahogany, and minerals are also inexhaustible.

Xian'an is a sea city, but there is only a small fishing port here.

Because the fields are scarce and most of them are barren mountain fields, although it is close to Thang Long, it has always been a relatively barren part of Annam.

And now, it has all become the fiefdom of the Hao family.

The population of the four counties is not much, only 20,000 households, but as a long history, Wu Xiong is already busy at the moment.

A large number of rebels were sent to Lang Son in a steady stream, and now it is overcrowded, outside Lang Son County, there is no end in sight to the camp that stretches for ten miles, and these coolies have registered more than 70,000 people alone, and since then, there is a steady stream of people to send them, in order to settle down and buy these coolies, the money confiscated by Lang Son has long been squandered, but fortunately, at present, Lang Son has the ability to make a profit, and a large number of furniture and ironware, Lang Son cloth have been sold in exchange for a lot of silver.

Therefore, the current income and expenditure can still be balanced, and what we need to do now is to distribute these coolies.

For this reason, Wu Xiong thought of many methods, he organized these people into coolie camps, and then selected some discerning people among the coolies, and used these dogs to supervise the work. On the other hand, there is a division of labor, which is actually very simple, which workshop is missing people. So the craftsmen themselves were asked to pick as many people as they wanted, and those who remained were organized into civil engineering and quarrying teams. Let the foremen lead them to work every day.

The official road had to be paved with gravel, mud had to be smeared, some minerals needed to be mined, and a large amount of material had to be carried, all of which were naturally what coolie camps should do.

Although things have not been settled in order, there is generally nothing going wrong, and now. The land of these four counties belongs to the Hou Mansion of Luzhou, and the most important thing at the moment is to build the official roads of these four counties first, in addition to post stations, ports and the like. These are all things that Lord Hao told in his letters, but where does Wu Xiong dare to neglect everything Hao Fenglou commands? Personally took the coolies of the four battalions and set off mightily. More than 30,000 people. An endless stream of them appeared in the four counties of the host province.

The population of the four counties in the host province is not large, and the sudden influx of so many outsiders can't help but be nervous, the local officials are just ordered to wait for the delivery, and the Annan side let them wait for delivery, if the Ming side does not send officials to receive it, they can continue to work, in short. Everything depends on the meaning of Hao Fenglou.

In other respects, the small court of Annam can be regarded as giving enough face. Most of the Annan officers and troops have already withdrawn, but they have left some help to maintain the situation temporarily.

In this way, what is in front of the Hao family is how to fill this power vacuum.

But...... In the past two years of operation, the Hao family is not a single one who can fill the vacancy, there are many scribes in the entourage, most of these scribes have some ink in their stomachs, although they have no fame, but they are responsible for handling official documents over the years, in addition to teaching people to read, and they also have some experience in history, so these people naturally took office to replace those officials in Annan.

As for the officers and soldiers, it was roughly the same, and the musket and grenadier teams went directly to the labor camp to select people, selected a thousand able-bodied and young people, and immediately began to exercise.

After these more than 1,000 people have been trained, not to mention the combat strength, it is obviously enough to maintain the place.

Wu Xiong has been staying in the county government of Xian'an County now, every day can be described as anxious, now is a hundred wastes to be lifted, there are too many facts that need to be done, the people under the head, everything needs him to take ideas, some, he can make decisions with experience, but some have to use letters to ask Hao Fenglou, so it is a lot of time.

Xian'an is a small city near the sea, the population of the county is only 1,000 people, usually very desolate, and now the influx of a large number of people, so that the local people are quite uneasy, fortunately, Wu Xiong came on the first day to make people list, nothing more than to tell everyone, don't worry about Yunyun, everyone is business as usual. The two local gentry also invited to speak, Wu Xiong on behalf of Lord Hao to appease them, these two gentry, one is surnamed Chen, the other is surnamed Ruan, at first it was indeed a little uneasy, at this time to see Wu Xiong like this, the people brought are their own camps, the autumn has not been offended, and even many people have arrived, countless mouths, the food on the side of Langshan may not be able to be delivered in time, so it is necessary to buy grain on the spot, and for the big households, food has always been not lacking, there is money on the one hand, there is grain on the other, each takes what he needs, they are also very satisfied with this, After all, if their own food is sent to other places to be sold, not to mention the consumption on the road, most of this price is earned by second-hand dealers.

So a few days later, the families surnamed Chen and Ruan prepared water and wine, and invited Wu Xiong to the banquet as a gift, which was regarded as a welcome to these outsiders by the local wealthy family.

Stabilize the place, the next thing is to do things, the reason why Wu Xiong stayed in Xian'an, is because it is close to the sea, according to the meaning of Lord Hao, is to build a port in Xian'an, the address of the port has been selected, it is a bay, the draft is quite deep, as for the required stones and timber can also be directly collected, so under the supervision of the foremen, thousands of laborers went up the mountain, in order to transport these materials, there is no need to pave the road, it is winter now, although it is Annan, the weather is also a little cold, but the clothes of many strong men are thin, Wu Xiong couldn't help but start to have a headache again.

However, at this time, news suddenly came, saying that Lord Hao had come from Shenglong and entered the territory of Xian'an.

As soon as he heard the news, Wu Xiong suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly led people to greet him.

Hao Fenglou has indeed arrived, and Shenglong is not far from here, in fact, if he goes directly to Langshan, he should not take here, but he still came. The reason for this is because he wants to see this small coastal town.

Annam is a lot of wood, and a lot of wood is ready-made, and if you can hire a few shipwrights, you may be able to build a ship in Xian'an.

About shipbuilding, Hao Fenglou doesn't know much, just has some superficial understanding, but the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty is developed, although Emperor Taizu is forbidden by sea, but before that there are many experienced shipwrights, and now the imperial court will occasionally supervise the construction of some ships, as long as you are willing to spend effort, it is not difficult.

"My lord, I am far away from ......"

Hao Feng downstairs got off the horse, looked at Wu Xiong, who was leading the crowd, and said with a smile: "No need to be polite, the current affairs are complicated, but it is hard for you, I heard that you are doing your best here, the night before yesterday, you fell asleep directly on the table when you were having dinner?" Pay more attention to your body, you see, you have lost a lot of weight than before. ”

Wu Xiong was made to stand up by such a sentence.

It seems that this is an emotion, and there is a lot of sympathy in the words, if you don't think deeply, it's nothing. But after thinking about it, Wu Xiong felt a little terrifying, the night before yesterday, he did eat alone in the hall, because he was too tired, he took a nap, for nearly two hours, but at that time, he clearly remembered that there were no outsiders present, since there were no outsiders present, how did Lord Hao know?

The only possibility is that here and everywhere else are the eyes and ears of adults, not only are these people pervasive, but what is even more terrifying is that they convey the message very quickly, and what happened two days ago can be quickly transmitted, as you can imagine.

Wu Xiong couldn't help but be a little afraid at this time, if he had a little bit of unruliness, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to hide it from this Lord Hao. If you think about it differently, if it weren't for your dedication and duty, I'm afraid that with your own background, Lord Hao may not be willing to value herself, and even he used to be guilty.

Wu Xiong immediately laughed and said busily: "If the villain is not supported by adults, how can there be today, the villain knows that he is stupid, so he has to be diligent to make up for his clumsiness, so he dare not slack off." ”

Immediately, everyone went to the county seat together, and when they arrived at the county office, Hao Fenglou naturally sat in the main seat, glanced at Wu Xiong, and said: "If there is any difficulty at the moment, while I am here today, I might as well speak freely." ”

Wu Xiong didn't hide it, in fact, he now realizes that even if he wants to hide many things from this Lord Hao, he may not be able to hide it, and people may not know it for a long time, it is nothing more than a casual question, so for Wu Xiong, how to answer it now is a matter of attitude, and it must not be perfunctory.

He first talked about Langshan, the momentum of Langshan is good, everything is on the right track, and then the conversation turned to the four counties of the host road, and said a lot of difficulties, such as the mountains here, the roads are not good, but it is not easy to build roads, and there is also the problem of winter clothing, nearly 100,000 coolies have no winter clothes, the weather in Annam, the winter is not cold, but a thin autumn coat, the day may be able to survive, but the night is unbearable. If you buy it for them, it will cost a lot, and the cloth used will be amazing, which is really a bit expensive.

Hao Fenglou listened carefully while eating tea, but he was not used to eating tea here, so his brows shrank slightly, Wu Xiong thought that Lord Hao was dissatisfied, so he felt a little up and down in his heart, and his speech gradually became a little less neat.

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The tiger is really tired these days, although the two watches are not very many, but the tiger has not broken the book for so many years, let's let the tiger take a break, and the plot has encountered difficulties recently, the tiger really needs to think about it! Thank you for your understanding! (To be continued......)