Xu Xian looked at the mother and son in astonishment, then looked at Qingying who was a little embarrassed, and asked seriously: "Are the Taijun and the King joking with Xu?"

"I am joking, Mr. Xu, please answer me immediately." Wu seemed aggressive and even a little rude.

Qian Chu also said: "Xu Xian, I have brought you a lot of money. Why do you want to seduce Qingying? You should give me an explanation!"

Xu Xian bowed and just when Qian Chu and his son thought he was going to answer, Xu Xian took a few steps back, twisted around and ran away.

He walked very quickly and rushed out of the palace gate through the hall in the blink of an eye. He followed the path he came from and ran to the side hall where he had been eating.

Old Mu Tou, who had just put down his bowl and chopsticks, looked at the panting Xu Xian and joked: "Does the old lady in Wu Yue look like a ghost?"

Xu Xian did not answer and ordered everyone: "Pack your things and follow me back to Henghai now!"

Dakui said: "Why are you leaving in such a hurry? Shao Jixian said he would take us to play in the city!"

"This is a military order. Anyone who doesn't want to leave can just stay. Anyway, I'm leaving today!" Xu Xian ordered everyone to gather. He hurriedly left the palace gate and went straight to the dock outside the city, and boarded the Tang ship he captured when he came.

When Qian Wanwan in the cabin saw Xu Xian, he immediately said: "The manager has met you. You don't know how much income the villain has made in the past few months. It is more than what he made in a year on the grassland. This is

Let me show you the account book..."

Xu Xian knocked down the account book and ordered: "Set the ship immediately!"

Qian Wanwan asked in confusion: "Why did the manager leave so quickly? I still have some trivial business matters to deal with."

Xu Xian held the handle of the knife and said fiercely: "Stop talking nonsense! I will chop anyone who talks nonsense again!"

The moment the ship's sails were inflated and it slowly sailed away from the pier, Xu Xian let out a sigh of relief. It was really terrifying. Wu Taijun's request was the most terrifying proposal Xu Xian had ever heard in his life.

Xu Xian knew Zhao Ningxiu, the woman he shared the same bed with, very well. If she could turn a blind eye and allow Xu Xian to have an affair, that woman could only be Fu Liying.

Suddenly, another woman appeared and wanted to take Zhao Ningxiu's position. Zhao Ningxiu would definitely chop her with a knife and get rid of Xu Xian's troubles. This was definitely not a joke. If he followed the words of that Wu Taijun, Xu Xian would

There is a great chance that Xian will become colleagues with Li Tingfang.

Wuyue is really a place of right and wrong. It's better to leave early. The ships sailed down the river and entered the sea in only one day. However, the fleet did not go north back to Henghai, but went south with the wind.

Qian Wanwan couldn't help complaining, "The manager left Hangzhou in a hurry but did not return to Henghai. Wandering around at sea is risky and wastes time. I don't know how much I will lose in one day."

Old Mutou was extremely dissatisfied with Qian Wanwan, a merchant from the Liao Kingdom, "Xu Xian is the leader of my Dayizhou Town. You, a lowly merchant, can't say what he wants to do. If you talk too much, I will throw you into the sea."

Fish, get out of here!"

Qian Wanwan was really afraid of Old Mu Tou, and he was about to leave as soon as he shrank his neck. Xu Xian held him back, "Afraid of what he will do, don't you want to make money?"

As soon as he heard about making money, Qian Wanwan's eyes immediately lit up. Even if there were dangers ahead, he dared to break through. His Adam's apple began to roll up and down as he swallowed, "What big deal does the manager have?"

"This deal is indeed big. Do you think the private salt trade in Liao State is quite profitable?"

"Hehe... there is no reason why the private salt business is not lucrative, especially since our salt is fine, white and cheap. Neither the official salt nor the private salt of the Liao Kingdom can compare."

Xu Xian circled the map with his finger, "If we include the private salt trade of Tang, Wuyue and Han (Southern Han Dynasty), how much would it be?"

Qian Wanwan rubbed his hands and said: "In such a large area, the population is probably ten times denser than that of the Liao Kingdom!"

Xu Xian smiled and said: "Businessmen are really greedy. I don't expect ten times. If I can get five times, I will be satisfied."

"There is no reason to make too much money. However, the villains have heard that five times is five times. But these countries have high mountains and long roads and many obstacles. It is not easy to transport salt here."

"Isn't it possible to walk on the sea?"

Qian Wanwan waved his hand and said: "The manager is joking. I once heard a sailor say that there are hurricanes in the southeastern sea every summer, and ships are often destroyed and people are killed. The risk is too high. Moreover, the journey is too long, and it may take a long time to go back and forth.

It is really not cost-effective to waste all your time on the road for several months, and this business cannot be done."

"So we must establish a foothold near these three countries!"

Old Mutou took a sip and said, "Bah! I think you are crazy about money. If you want to do serious business and pay taxes honestly, others will ask you to establish a foothold. It's strange that they will ask you to establish a foothold if you want to sell illegal salt.

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You were able to sell smuggled salt in Dazhou because you were powerful. When you go to other countries, you will be regarded as a green onion. Do you think the empty titles given to you by Qian Chu are really useful!"

"Who said I have no place to stand? There is an unclaimed land here." Xu Xian said, reaching out and tapping the island in the southeast.

The waves kept coming and gently licked the coastline. Knee-high weeds undulated in the wind and stretched as far as the eye could see from the seaside. More than a dozen soldiers moved forward step by step in the grass.

Although they were dressed as soldiers, they were all haggard, their clothes were in tatters, their armors were rusty, and some of them didn't even have their hair tied up in buns, leaving them messy in the sea breeze.

The leader was a thirty-year-old man, his clothes and armor were neater, and his gun tip was polished to a shiny shine. When he saw that the young men behind him had fallen out of line, he turned and said: "Hurry up, the patrol will be over soon!"

After hearing this, the teenagers immediately quickened their pace to follow. One boy sighed and said: "Uncle Wang, who would come to this place where birds don't shit? Why do we need to patrol like crazy?"

Another slightly older boy said: "Didn't I say before that we were guarding against the Tang army? If they occupy Fuzhou, there's no guarantee they won't chase them to this deserted island with all their might. Uncle Wang, don't you think so?"

But the man smiled and said: "I don't know, your grandfather told me this when he was still alive. It has been more than ten years now. I guess people in the Tang Dynasty have forgotten us. It's just better to be prepared and be careful."

The young man asked: "I heard that Uncle Wang is a member of the royal family, is it true?"

The man sneered and said: "You have seen a royal nobleman like me, but he is just a sidekick. Even if the dragon chair turns eight times, it won't be my turn. Otherwise, he would have been killed long ago."

"Uncle Wang lived in Fuzhou when he was young. Is it prosperous there?"

Looking at the yearning look on the young man's face, the man nodded heavily and said: "I have lived there. It is indeed prosperous. In fact, you also lived there when you were a child, but you just don't remember it! I will take you to Quanzhou during the Lantern Festival shopping to see how it compares to Fuzhou.

not bad."

Another young man said: "Can you capture a girl to be my mother-in-law? I really don't like the savages that my grandfather captured from the mountains. They can't even speak!"

The man laughed heartily and said, "That's not possible. If you want to marry a Quanzhou woman, you need three matchmakers and six betrothals. In short, it's very troublesome and costs a lot of money."

The young man tilted his head and said, "Do you want Fuzhou too?"

"Fuzhou wants it too, so don't despise the woman on the mountain. We are almost like savages. Let's go, I'm already starving."

Suddenly a young man pointed a broken gun at the sea and said: "A ship is coming!"

The man was excited and looked at the sea along the young man's gun barrel. Sure enough, he saw ships approaching on the vast sea, and they were all large ships, and there was more than one.

Usually, there are ships leaving Quanzhou that accidentally sail nearby, but turn around and leave if they are far away. At this moment, the big ship coming with full sails was so close to the shore and still had no intention of turning.

The teenagers have been living on a deserted island for a long time, and they can't help but see Hunter jumping with his feet and shouting, "Big ship! Big ship! We are here!"

The man quickly pinned the young man down in the grass, "What a bunch of brats who don't know how to die. Tang Jun is here to arrest us, and they still dare to shout!"

A group of people were lying in the grass, daring to look at the fleet approaching from the sea. The closer the ships got, the deeper the fear in the men's eyes.

Those ships were not only merchant ships but also warships. Although they did not carry the flag of the Tang Dynasty, they were in the shape of the Tang Dynasty ships. He had seen them in Quanzhou Port.

The man turned to the young man next to him and said: "You all go back to the village now. Tell everyone that the Tang army is coming to kill you. Tell everyone to hide in the mountains immediately. Don't stand up and walk with your back!"

A young man patted the man on the shoulder and said, "Uncle Wang, aren't you leaving?"

"If I don't leave, I want to see how many people they have here."

The young man lay down next to the man, "I'll stay with you!"

"Aren't you afraid of death?"

The young man patted his skinny chest and said, "I lost my head and got a big scar, but eighteen years later I am a good man again. What are you afraid of what they will do!"

The man smiled and pushed the young man to the ground again. He stretched out his hands to push aside the weeds and looked at the sea. He saw that the fleet had stopped and small boats were lowered one after another from the warships. Then the soldiers were tied with ropes and put on the small boats.

The soldiers seemed to be strong and well-equipped, and they should all be elites, but when they got to the boat, they huddled together in fear, and some covered their faces in fear and cried for their fathers and mothers.

The man was puzzled when he saw this. How could the navy be afraid of the sea?

Fortunately, the sailors were fine and had already rowed the boat towards the shore. Among them, there was a young general standing on the bow of the boat with his head held high. He was very eye-catching among the cowering soldiers, and he could not hide the aura of a superior.

The boat rushed to the beach. The young general jumped down and rushed up in one breath. He looked at the vast grass and said to himself: "Is this Ryukyu?"

The foothold Xu Xian mentioned was Ryukyu. This Ryukyu did not refer to the Ryukyu Islands but to the place that later generations called Taiwan.

In the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, not to mention the Central Plains regime, even the nearby Wuyue, Southern Tang, Southern Han, and even the destroyed Min Kingdom never paid attention to this island not far from the mainland.

At this time, Ryukyu was not occupied by any princes on the mainland, and there was no political power on the island. It also lacked the most beautiful scenery and a strong sense of human nature. It could be said to be a truly unclaimed land.

It's not that Wu Yue, the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Southern Han Dynasty didn't know about the existence of Ryukyu but didn't care about it. Xu Xian asked Shao Kequian about it in Taihu Lake. Shao Kiqian said that the island was remote, except for some savages, and there were only some Han people who were hiding from the troubled times.

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Most of them came from the country of Fujian. Because the civil strife in Fujian continued, the rulers were harsh on the people. Many people could not stand the exploitation and fled by boat to Ryukyu to fish and farm on the west coast.

Because there are few people here and it is remote, it does not bring much benefit to the various political powers. It would be a waste of money and resources to rule it, so this huge island is left hanging offshore.

But it was different for Xu Xian. Although he could be said to be the best in Henghai, after all, he was under the rule of the emperor and had some scruples. There were no restrictions to allow him to do whatever he wanted.

The desert island in the eyes of others is his treasure island. Although it is not rich in resources, it has an excellent geographical location. From the west coast, it can radiate to almost the entire southeast. Whether it is the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wuyue, or the Southern Han Dynasty, it is here in the morning and evening.

It can be used not only as a commercial port but also as a military base.

"Hehe... If you don't care about this island, then it will be an advantage for me!"

Old Mutou suddenly poked his head over, "What are you talking about? Do you want to be the grass-headed king here?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I am a minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I am opening up territory for the Great Zhou Dynasty. I heard that there are many refugees here who need to be educated in the royal way. This will show your majesty's benevolence!"

"Damn it, you've only been an official for a few years and you're already talking nonsense. It's even better than what those sarcastic scholars say. Even the small country of Wu and Yue looks down on it, and His Majesty won't take it seriously. If you like this, you can't do it.

It's a shitty place, if you ask His Majesty for it, it may not be given to you!"

As soon as Old Mutou finished speaking, he saw a man suddenly burst out of the grass not far ahead, charging towards Xu Xian with a gun in his hand, "Tang Gou, don't even think about occupying our territory!"

Before the man could get close, the Muggle took a few steps forward, grabbed the gun handle, kicked the man over, and shouted: "Off with your head!"

Muggle quickly slashed the man's neck with a knife, and someone in the grass shouted: "Stop!" Then a spear was shot at Muggle, who quickly took two steps back, and the spear was inserted in front of him.

far away.

Upon seeing this, Dakui immediately led people to surround the two people who suddenly came out. Xu Xian quickly stopped him, "Dakui, don't hurt anyone!" He stepped forward and looked at the two people in the circle, "Hey

, I still thought they were savages on the island.”

Seeing this, the man bowed his hands and saluted, "We are Han people who came to the island to take refuge. The young and ignorant people thought that the Tang army had impulsively attacked the general. I hope you will be tolerant."

Dakui shouted: "If you blind your dog eyes, how can the Tang army be as majestic as us!"

"Yes, yes! The Tang Army is indeed not as powerful as you guys!" The man nodded repeatedly and said in his heart: "The Tang Army can't get on the boat, so they huddled up and squealed like chickens."

The man asked again: "May I ask if you are soldiers of the Zhou Kingdom? How did you come to this deserted island?"

Dakui replied: "Hey... we are indeed Zhou soldiers. What we do here is beyond your control!"
Chapter completed!