Closing the door, Justin returned to the bed and continued to hug Vivien. He persuaded, "Okay, don't be angry. Qing Jiuling's temper is really not small, I will teach her a good lesson another day. ”

Vivian blushed and lifted the quilt covering her head and said, "Forget it, Sister Jiuling is straightforward." She loves you very much, too. ”

Justin said softly, "Let's not talk about her." I really don't know when I fell asleep with you in my arms?"

Vivian lowered her head and said, "Just now I came in and called you to eat, pushed the door in to see that you didn't cover the quilt, so I helped you cover the quilt, you held me and didn't let go, I will lie next to you." ”

Justin thought about it and felt that there was an impression in the dream, but it also felt plausible. He said, "It may be too tiring to practice magic in retreat! Every time I came back before, I would leave again on the same day, and I hadn't touched the bed for a year, so it was so comfortable to sleep in bed at this time." Looking down at Vivien beside him, he added, "Especially Vivien, who was holding me. ”

Vivien blushed and said, "Why didn't you ...... just now?"

Justin teased, "Why didn't I eat you?"

Vivien bowed her head and said nothing.

Justin thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, maybe it's not the right time! Anyway, you were stamped by me, and no one can snatch it away!"

Vivien said ashamedly, "Who was stamped by you?"

Justin said, "If you don't admit it, then I'll have to stamp it again!" After speaking, Justin kissed Vivien's lips and sucked for a moment. Then he said, "Do you deny it now?"

Vivien said wistfully: "But I am so much older than you, and my strength is so poor, I am afraid that I will age soon!"

Justin looked at Vivien's somewhat sad face and said firmly, "I won't let you age!"

Vivien listened to Justin's confident words, smiled happily, and said, "I'm very happy if you have this heart! It's just that the Dingyan Fruit is only available in the Yin Spirit Empire of the Extremely Cold Domain, and there are very few of them, how can we get it?"

Justin jotted down the name of Dingyanguo and said, "Alright, let's go to dinner!" With that, he touched Vivien's upright buttocks with his big hand and jumped out of bed.

Vivien chirped, "You are not ashamed, you are touching everywhere!"

Justin quickly got dressed, and then helped Vivien get dressed, and the process was so beautiful that she wore a dress for twenty minutes.

After getting dressed, Vivien straightened her messy hair, took a picture of the bronze mirror and found nothing wrong, and then took Justin's arm and walked out of the room.

Only Jia Ling was still waiting for Justin in the restaurant, and Qing Jiuling was angry at that fork of potatoes.

Jia Ling said hello to Justin, and then greeted the meal. Qing Jiuling, on the other hand, snorted lightly and didn't speak.

This meal Justin ate very fragrantly, especially the dishes made by Qing Jiuling, who simply praised Qing Jiuling as the first chef in the Cangmang Continent, and he could prolong his life for ten years by eating one bite.

Qing Jiuling was a little happy at this time, and tasted the dishes he made, well, the taste was a little light, and some of them were not fried, anyway, they were not particularly unpalatable. She glared at Justin, knowing that Justin was comforting her, and watching Justin munch on the tasteless and uncooked dishes he had made, her heart could be regarded as a hint of sweetness.

After dinner, Justin chatted with the girls, and then stood at the top of the castle and looked at the four directions, and said with emotion: "If my strength is among the top of the Cang Mang Continent one day, what a pleasant scene it would be to stand high and look out with you at that time!"

Qing Jiuling said angrily: "I can't wait in this life. ”

Justin glared at Qing Jiuling, but didn't hear it. Vivien and Jia Ling chuckled.

After watching it for a while, Justin felt bored, so he went back to his bedroom and continued to meditate.

The next day, Justin's second government meeting officially opened, and it was still Kellens who presided over the meeting.

At the meeting, Justin asked, "This time I went back to the Thorn Collar and saw that the road surface has been widened, the streets have been repaired a lot, and it is bustling with people, I don't know what happened?"

Karlens said with a happy face: "During the year of the lord's retreat, although you also listened to the report, there are only some things that you have left to me to deal with, so I haven't had a chance to report this matter to you, so I take this opportunity to report it to you." ”

After receiving a nod from Justin, Karlens said: "Since the purchase of a large number of slaves in our territory, although most of them have been distributed to the townships, but in the past year or so, 50% of the first batch of slaves purchased have left the slave status, some of them have stayed in the original villages and towns, and some of the skilled ones hope to move to the Thorn Territory. With the consent of our government department, we will allow those who have skills to support their families. In addition, the presence of freedmen from other cities or territories to do business or settle in the area was the main reason for the population boom. ”

Justin asked, "Now there are freedmen from other cities who have settled in the Thorn Territory?"

Karlens nodded: "The lord doesn't know, many of the settled people are mostly merchants, and they come to the Thorn Territory to do all kinds of wholesale business, and transport them to the original city of residence to sell, but they are also very profitable. ”

Justin nodded and said, "People come with Eli, and they also come with Eli." We should come up with more preferential policies to attract all kinds of small businesses to do business. After all, department stores can only meet part of the needs of a city, and many consumers still need these small businesses to get through. ”

Karlens exclaimed, "The lord is wise. Since we have preferential policies to benefit small merchants, small merchants use the original shops, expand the consumer group, driven by the business of the department store have risen sharply, at first we thought that competition with each other will lead to a decline in the business of the department store, but I did not expect the lord to be so wise, at a glance to see the important role of small merchants to open up the market. ”

Justin shook his head and smiled without saying a word. Although the subordinates are very comfortable patting on the back, you can accept it with clarity in your heart, but you can't think that you are so powerful, self-knowledge is the most important!

Kellens continued, "The lord has said before that the buildings in the realm are dirty and messy, and they don't reflect the development of the Thorn Lord. Therefore, the government affairs department concentrated on the demolition and relocation of the original slave residents, and gave the generous evaluation standards and corresponding living conditions of points, and the relocation went very smoothly. We have widened the streets and established a comprehensive commodity market, and merchants in many cities have settled in, not only to ship goods to the Thorn Collar, but also to the Thorn Collar from other places. The trade routes flourished. ”

"How's the demographic?" Justin said.

Karlens thought for a moment and said, "There are often scuffles between the Demon Cloud Empire and the respective principalities and kingdoms attached to the other empires, but it is more that the other two empires work together to infest the Demon Cloud Empire. Therefore, the number of prisoners caused by the war continued to increase, and because the Thorn Collar was a well-known slave-eater, the slave markets in various places wanted to establish slave markets with us. It's just that the lord once ordered that the existence of the slave trading market was not allowed in the territory, so most of us just bought slaves and refused the request to establish a slave market, but many people behind the slave market were very angry, and I was afraid that it would lead to targeting. ”

Justin said: "Our Thorn Territory will become the most prosperous commercial territory in the Cangman Continent in the future, but any commodity can be bought and sold, except for the slave market. This is against our law of free, equal and fair trade. Even if there is any conspiracy, we will be able to catch it. ”

Karlens reluctantly said, "In fact, it is most cost-effective to establish a slave market based on the need for slaves in the Thorn Lord." ”

Seeing Justin's serious face, Karlens knew that Justin would not agree, so he continued: "Now the population of our Thorn Realm has reached four million, which can be said to be far more than the population of a principality, and even the population of a small kingdom is not necessarily as large as our territory. ”

Justin nodded, feeling that such a pace of development was still acceptable. He said: "In the future development, the thorn leader will try its best to support the people in five industries: that is, to support the people with work, to support the people with business, to support the people with agriculture, to support the people with herdsmen, and to feed the people with fishery. ”

Karlens replied, "Rest assured, lord, you have already said this idea, we have established various workshops, recruited a large number of craftsmen, and greatly increased the yield of goods and the efficiency of work. At the same time, according to your idea of establishing a food research institute, absorbing skilled craftsmen to establish various research departments, so that the research and development of new products has a blowout, so that many city merchants to the thorn to lead the purchase. ”

Justin praised: "It is important to pay attention to people's technical ability and thinking ability. Back then, I cultivated magic and perception spells without any cultivation resources, all by the end of my specialization, as long as I gave full play to the research interests of craftsmen, our Thorn Leader would always be in an advanced position in the future commercial market. ”

Karlens praised, "The lord is very clever in being able to reach others with himself. The minister has said that the situation of population growth has been said. ”

Justin couldn't help but complain in his heart: "Did this old man do something wrong, why did he praise me today!" He didn't think much about it, and said to Vivian: "Vivian, how has your business department been doing this year?"

Vivien said: "In the past year, although I have traveled to a few cities, the results have been very poor, and even if I have been able to build a department store, the progress is too slow. Since the small merchants in various cities settled in the thorn collar, the development model of goods first and department stores followed closely by them has been realized, providing preferential wholesale to merchants who have opened up the market first, and opening department stores to operate normally on the other hand. Using our own shipping channels to reduce the transportation costs of other small merchants, our sales of goods have increased significantly. In particular, Baiwei Zhai's franchise stores have spread all over the empire, and we have signed nearly 700 powerful nobles or merchants from all over the country according to the conditions of the franchise, which has greatly promoted the sales of seafood and agricultural and animal husbandry products in the territory. ”