The four counties of Dongdao Mountain, Dongxing and Pavilion are located in Shenglong, near Annan, and the mountains are rising. Except for Xian'an, the sea, other places are actually no different from Lang Son.

However, it is precisely because of the mountains and abundant resources. Large areas of forests are filled with fragrant wood and mahogany, and minerals are inexhaustible.

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

Because the fields are sparse and mostly barren mountain fields, although it is close to Shenglong, it has always been a relatively barren place in Annan.

Now, all of this place has become the capital of the Hao family.

The population of the four counties is not large, only 20,000 households. However, as the chief minister, the chief minister Wu Xiong is already busy at this moment.

A large number of rebels were sent to Lang Son continuously. Now it was crowded. Outside Lang Son's county, there was no end to the camps that stretched for ten miles. More than 70,000 of these coolies were registered and built. Since then, there have been a steady stream of people who have sent them. In order to settle and buy these coolies, the money they seized from Lang Son has been squandered. Fortunately, Lang Son has the ability to make profits now. A large amount of furniture and ironware have been sold out, and a lot of silver was exchanged for.

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

For this reason, Wu Xiong thought of many ways. On the one hand, he formed these people into coolies camps, and then selected some people with a glimpse among the coolies, using these little legs to supervise the work. On the other hand, he divided the labor. The division of labor was actually very simple. If there was a lack of people in the workshop, he asked the craftsmen to choose people themselves, and they would need as much as they wanted. What stayed was to build them into civil engineering, quarry and other teams. He asked the foreman to lead them to work every day.

The official roads need to be covered with gravel and mud. Some minerals also need to be mined, and a large amount of materials need to be transported. These are naturally what the coolie camp should do.

Although the matter has not been placed in order, there are basically no chaos. Now, the four counties belong to the Luzhou Marquis Mansion. The most important thing at the moment is to build the official roads of these four counties first, in addition to stations, ports, etc. These are all things that Lord Hao told him in his letter. How dare Wu Xiong be negligent whenever Hao Fenglou ordered? He personally led the coolies of the Fourth Battalion and set out in a vast and powerful manner. More than 30,000 people appeared in the four counties of the host province in a steady stream.

The population of the four counties in the host country is not large, and it is inevitable that such outsiders suddenly come. The local officials are just ordered to wait for orders on the spot, and Annan asks them to wait for the delivery. If the Ming Dynasty does not send officials to accept them, they can continue to work. In short, everything depends on what Hao Fenglou means.

In other aspects, the Annan court also gave enough face. If you can give it convenience, you should try your best to make it convenient. Most of the Annan official troops have already withdrawn, but they still left some help to maintain the situation temporarily.

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

However... in the past two years of operation, the Hao family has not been able to fill the gap. There are many clerks among the people who accompany them. Most of these clerks have some ink in their stomachs. Although they have no fame, they are responsible for handling official documents over the years, and in addition to teaching people to study, they have some experience in experience. Therefore, these people naturally took office and replaced the officials in Annan.

As for the official army, the same is true. The musket team and the grenade team went directly to the labor camp to pick people, and selected thousands of strong and young people, and then began to practice.

After the training of these more than a thousand people, not to mention the combat power, the maintenance of the place is obviously enough.

Wu Xiong has been staying in Xian'an County now, and he is in a mess every day. He is now in trouble. There are too many facts to do. The people below need to make decisions in everything. Some of them can make decisions based on their experience, but some have to ask Hao Fenglou for letters. This has delayed a lot of time.

Xian'an is a small town near the sea. The population of the county is only a thousand people. It is usually very desolate. Nowadays, the influx of a large number of people has made the local people quite uneasy. Fortunately, on the first day of Wu Xiong's arrival, I asked someone to post a list, just to tell everyone that there is no need to worry, everyone will be as usual. Two local gentry also invited to talk, and Wu Xiong comforted them on behalf of Lord Hao. These two gentry, one with the surname Chen and the other with the surname Ruan, were indeed a little uneasy at first.

Seeing Wu Xiong like this, the people brought each camped without any harm. Even with many people coming, countless mouths, the food on Lang Son may not be transported in time, so it is necessary to buy grain on the spot. For the big households, there is always no shortage of food. They are very satisfied with it. After all, if the food in their own home is sent to other places for sale, not to mention the consumption on the road, most of the price is earned by second-hand dealers.

So a few days later, the families of Chen and Ruan prepared water and wine, and invited Wu Xiong to the banquet as a gift. The local wealthy family expressed their welcome to these outsiders.

After stabilizing the place, the next thing is to do. The reason why Wu Xiong stayed in Xian'an was because he was near the sea. According to Lord Hao's intention, he wanted to build a port here. The address of the port had been selected, it was a bay, and the water was quite deep. As for the required stones and wood, they could also be collected directly. Therefore, under the supervision of the foreman, thousands of laborers went up the mountain. In order to transport these materials, they had to pave the road. It was winter now. Although it was Annan, the weather was a little cold, but the clothes of many strong men were thin, and 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 Xian'an territory.

Upon hearing this news, Wu Xiong suddenly felt energetic and hurriedly brought people to greet him.

Hao Fenglou has indeed arrived, and Shenglong is not far from here. In fact, if he went directly to Lang San, he should not have taken the passage here, but he still came. The reason for this is that he wanted to see this small coastal town.

Annan has many woods, many of them are ready-made. If you can hire a few boatmen, you might be able to build a ship first.

Hao Fenglou knew little about shipbuilding, but he had some superficial understanding. However, the shipbuilding industry in the Ming Dynasty was developed. Although Emperor Taizu banned the sea, there were many experienced shipmakers before this. Now the court occasionally supervised the construction of some ships. As long as he was willing to spend time, it would not be difficult.

"Sir, I'm not welcome..."

Hao Feng went downstairs and looked at Wu Xiong who was bowing, leading the crowd to come, and smiled and said, "No need to be too polite. Now the matter is complicated, thank you for your hard work. I heard that you are doing your best here. The night before yesterday, you fell asleep on the table while having supper? Pay more attention to your body. Look at you, you are much thinner than before."

Wu Xiong was so angry that his hair stood up after such a sentence.

It seemed like this was a feeling, and the words were full of compassion. If you didn't think deeply, it would be nothing. But after thinking about it carefully, Wu Xiong felt a little scary. The night before yesterday, he did eat alone in the hall. Because he was too tired, he took a nap. It took nearly two hours. But at that time, he clearly remembered that there was no outsider present. Since there was no outsider present, how did Lord Hao know?

The only possibility is that there are adults everywhere in Lang Son and even other places. These people are not only pervasive, but what is more terrifying is that they convey messages very quickly and can be quickly transmitted two days ago. It is conceivable.

Wu Xiong couldn't help but feel a little scared at this moment. If he had any irregularities, he would probably not be able to hide it from this Lord Hao. If he had thought about it differently, if he had not done his best and had done his best, he would have probably been willing to value him with his own background, and he had even been guilty.

Wu Xiong immediately smiled and said hurriedly: "If the villain had not been supported by the adults, how could he have today? The villain knew that he was stupid and had to make up for his shortcomings with diligence, so he did not dare to slack off at all."

Immediately, everyone headed to the county town and arrived at the county government office. Hao Fenglou naturally sat in the main seat, looked at Wu Xiong, and said, "Why do you have any difficulties now? I'm here today, so I might as well speak freely."

Wu Xiong did not hide it. In fact, he now realized that even if he wanted to hide many things from this Lord Hao, he might not be able to hide them. People might have known them well, but they just asked casually. Therefore, for Wu Xiong, how to answer now is a question of attitude and must not be perfunctory.

He first talked about Lang Son. Lang Son's momentum was good, everything was on the right track. Then he changed the subject and turned to the four counties on the host country, and said many difficulties, such as the mountainous here and the roads were not good, but it was not easy to build roads. There were also problems with winter clothing. Nearly 100,000 coolies did not have winter clothing. The weather in Annan was not much colder in winter, but a thin autumn clothes might be able to survive during the day, but it would be unbearable at night. If they bought them, the cost would be a lot, and the cloth they used was amazing, which was really a bit expensive.

Hao Fenglou listened carefully while eating tea, but he couldn't get used to the tea here, so his brows shrank slightly. Wu Xiong thought that Lord Hao felt dissatisfied, so he felt a little up and down, and his words gradually became a little uneasy.

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