The sea breeze mixed with a moist and fishy smell blew tightly and slowly towards Chishan Port.

In the summer of the third year of Xianqing, a fleet was entering the port.

On the pier, countless people were looking forward to it and lined up to welcome him.

"Here's here, the blue nine-headed dragon flag is here!"

The governor of Dengzhou, led a group of officials of all sizes, including Chishan County Magistrate, as well as the shopkeepers of the Thirteen ranks of Chishan Port, all stood up.

Together with the loading and unloading cargo on the dock, the captains and sailors on the boat in the harbor, they all stopped their hands and welcomed the ship slowly entering the port dock.

The blue nine-headed dragon flag represents a person.

That is Lanxi Lixi. He also has a name along this coast. Everyone calls him King Anton and the Sea King in private.

This man came here from Chang'an and had a flagpole in this desolate little seaport. Three years later, it has become the most emerging and lively harbor in the Tang Dynasty.

Countless merchant ships gathered, taking over almost the entire Haidong and the Tang Dynasty, the slaves of Goguryeo, the maids of Silla, the food of Baekje, as well as the silver, copper, fur from Japan, etc.

The auction hall of the port is arranged every day. The transaction volume of slaves in this port city is about 100,000 in a year. Now, not only the Goguryeo slaves, Miche slaves, Baekje slaves, Silla slaves, Japanese slaves, Hokkien slaves, and even the northern barbarians in the Ligui Kingdom in the farthest northeast also appear on the exchange.

There are also many slaves from the South China Sea. Many merchant ships arrived from the South China Sea, loaded with all kinds of dark slaves, including barbarians from Jiaozhou, Linyi and other places, as well as barbarians from the islands of the South China Sea. Anyway, no matter where they are, they are valuable in the eyes of slave hunters and slave traders.

Chishan Port has now become the largest slave port in the Tang Dynasty.

A hundred thousand slaves are bought and sold here every year. Some of these slaves are transported to Chang'an, some are sold to mining and farming in various ways. Many are demoted to various places to reclaim wasteland and farm in the border areas, and some are even transported to Andongdao, the former Baekje and Silla, to plant, mining and work.

Huge trade has driven this port, and the rapid development of Haidong Andong Road in recent years has led to the rapid development of this Anton-China-Turkey Transport Port under the guidance of Li Xiao.

The rise of Chishan Port is also inseparable from the support of many Chang'an nobles and nobles. In fact, Chishan Port has long become the interests of various powerful people.

There are thirteen guilds in Chishan, not ordinary guilds, but commercial banks. There are thirteen super huge guilds. Behind each commerce bank, there are several or even dozens of powerful, noble, noble, noble, and noble family members.

Basically, all industries in Chishan Port are now monopolized in the hands of these thirteen businesses.

Chishan Port originated from Li Xiao and formed in Thirteen Lines.

The Thirteenth Bank pays more than 100,000 yuan in commercial taxes to the court every year, and each business pays tens of thousands of yuan in a year. This is just commercial tax. Every year, the Thirteenth Bank pays more than 10,000 yuan in commercial taxes. Every year, the Thirteenth Bank pays tribute to the court in various names and pays tribute to the emperor, which is even more important.

Over the past three years, the Thirteen Leagues donated a total of millions of taels of silver to the court and the royal family in the name of the Emperor Wansaint, the Empress's Birth, the Crown Prince's Birth, the Western Turks, the ZhenAndong, and the Anti-Tuyuhun.

This is a donation of silver, not a donation of money.

Chishan Port is mainly traded and has a large transaction volume, so it is mainly silver transactions. They use silver dollars minted by Anton Money House. One silver dollar is one tael, which actually contains eight coins and eight silver. This silver dollar is minted. This silver dollar minting standard is not easy to forge. It can be traded directly according to the denomination without weighing. It is convenient to use. It also has silver notes from Anton Money House as an auxiliary, so it is even more convenient to use. This has led to the fact that only silver dollars and silver notes are traded in Chishan Port, and there are no money and silk transactions in the Central Plains. Only when trading in small amounts of transactions are used.

A silver dollar is worth one or two taels, but because of its good quality, standard casting, and high credit, it can still be exchanged for five silos of copper coins.

He contributed one million taels of silver to the court in three years, but in fact he paid tribute to five million stagnants.

The huge amount of money is even more than the combination of the four traditional ports of the imperial court. Dengzhou Port, Yangzhou Port, Mingzhou Port and Guangzhou Port pay far less than Chishan Port every year. Even the taxes of the emerging Hangzhou Port and Quanzhou Port in recent years are even less popular.

It is precisely because of this huge contribution that the court favored Chishan Port and supported it with all its strength.

Each of Chishan thirteen ranks occupies a block, so Chishan Port now has thirteen streets. Behind each steward, there are thirteen streets, but even these thirteen ranks thirteen ranks, shopkeepers from all walks of life have personally come to the dock to greet Li Xiao.

The shopkeepers of Thirteen Front and the Chang'an powerful people behind them all knew that Chishan Port could have today's prosperity and Thirteen Front could have today's huge profits, which are all inseparable from Li Xiao.

Li Xiao is the founder of Chishan Port. In the past three years, Chishan's development has been entirely driven by Li Xiao, the guide.

What's more, Li Xiao himself is the boss behind Thirteen dynasties. Chishan Port has a lot of profitable transactions, and there are part of the Lanxi Li family behind it.

The boat enters the harbor and stops at the dock.

"The Grand Marshal, the Governor of Dengzhou and the Thirteen-Strait Shopkeeper of Chishan have all come to the dock to welcome him."

Li Xiao stood on the deck and looked at Chishan Port carefully. He had known that Chishan was developing well, but he had been in Anton for several years and had no time to come back. This was the first time he had seen Chishan Port again in three years. When he left, it was just a plan, but now it is really prosperous.

The huge pier, tall city walls, hundreds of ships moored in the port, and countless ants-like force workers on the pier, all fully demonstrate the great vitality of this port.

And all this, Li Xiao is the one who started making the figurine.

"I have officially stepped down as the governor of Andong Road, so don't call me a general." Li Xiao was holding a scroll in his hand.

"The Jinzi Guanglu Dafu, Shangzhuguo, the prince's young tutor, the prince's secretary, secretary-general, and Duke of Zhou."

This is Li Xiao’s latest official position now. The news came from Chang'an that the emperor wanted Li Xiao to return to Beijing to become the Minister of War, and even rumored that he would be the minister of the government affairs hall.

But the official edict given to him in the end was the secretary-general and crown prince Zhan Shi, two third-rank positions, but it was still far inferior to the Minister of War and the Prime Minister.

Li Xiao had long known that he could not worship the minister.

But in the end, he was not even awarded the title of Minister of War, which was a bit surprising. He originally wanted to wait until the emperor gave him the title of Minister of War and he refused, but now it was a waste of time.

The Secretary-General and the Prince Zhan Shi were not really important positions, but they were relatively expensive. The Secretary-General was a servant who praised the emperor, and the Prince Zhan Shi was an official of the Eastern Palace. It was obvious that the court had to worry about arranging his return to Beijing. He was not willing to step into the core center in this way, and it was difficult to get a job that was too casual. In the end, two third-rank positions that were both expensive and clean were arranged.

Perhaps I felt that I was a little in debt, so the originally established Wensan rank of Yinqing Guanglu Dafu was changed to Jinzi Guanglu Dafu. This is the fourth level of Wensan rank and the third level.

As for the Shangzhu Kingdom, it was a meritorious official, similar to a military medal, and it was his meritorious service to guard Andong.

In addition, his title was promoted to the Duke of Lelang County, but this time he was directly promoted to the Duke of the State.

The fief was added to 300, and now there are 1,300 households with real food. It is not uncommon for the Dukes of the Tang Dynasty. There are no 1,800 Dukes in the court, but there are still 100. If there are 1,800 Dukes in the county and county dukes, there are really 1,800.

However, there are few real Dukes, and there are very few real Dukes who can have more than a thousand households. Even the few prime ministers in the court now have few real Dukes, namely Li Ji. Li Daozong, the two Dukes of the same country, have higher fiefs than Li Xiao, and the rest, such as Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong, are even more immeasurable Dukes.
Chapter completed!