Flocks of white seagulls are foraging in the harbor, and the gentle sea breeze brings the rhythmic sound of waves.

Park Sung-sung held up his wine glass and heard Zhao Hao say casually, "I have a few things to trouble Right Envoy Park."

"I dare not, I dare not. Sir, just give your orders and I will do my best to accomplish them. No, no, I will definitely do it." Park Chengxing bent his body and gritted his teeth to drink the wine in the glass.

"Very good." Zhao Hao waved his hand, and the guards removed the dishes and tablecloth on the table, and then spread out a map of Jeju Island.

"As I told you before, my fleet will come here frequently in the future. Gapo Island is too small, and we need a bigger harbor as a transit point."

"Yes, yes." Park Sung-sung nodded and said, "I strongly recommended Jeju Port at that time."

"I have considered this for the past two days. I appreciate your kindness." Young Master Zhao said with a look of concern for him, "Jizhou City is the seat of the Jizhou Governor's Office after all. Your officials' post boats come and go frequently. It's too much of a waste."

"Don't be afraid." Park Chengxing said hurriedly, "Even if they saw something they shouldn't have seen, do they dare to report it to the Imperial Court? As for our court, there is even less need to worry. With the young master here, even the king wouldn't dare to touch me."

"We still have to avoid suspicion. I can't bring discredit to the Ming Dynasty, right?" Zhao Hao thought that this was too harsh. He had to change his words and said, "Besides, although Jeju Port is good, it is not on the shipping route of our dynasty. Let's change to a more convenient place."

Following the direction he pointed, Park Sung-seong saw the three words "Dajing County".

It was a natural thing for Mr. Zhao to be chosen as the governor of Dajing County. The governor of Jeju had many advantages, but he was too conspicuous. The ministers of the two classes dared not do anything to the emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty, and they would definitely make a lot of money from him.

Moreover, the boss of Jeju is Li Mushi, who only controls the port and cannot intervene in local affairs. Naturally, he is less useful to Mr. Zhao than Li Mushi. Mr. Li is also very good at scheming, and it is inevitable that he will be overshadowed by him over time.

For him, Dajing County was still better. The Joseon Dynasty inherited the Ming system. In order to avoid suspicion, the governors would not easily go to the county. The governors and counties only communicated with each other through official documents. On the contrary, the military officer system did not have such strict rules. The centurion of the Ilripu Water Battle Station in Dajing County was Gao Xuezhi's brother Gao Xuetang. The two brothers were both Park Seong-sung's confidants.

"If you think Dajing County is better, then there is no problem." Pu Chengxing said hurriedly, "A small county supervisor would never dare to disobey me."

"No need to bother the county." Zhao Hao shook his head and smiled. He had not yet taken a fancy to the small county town. He drew his finger south along the coastline and stopped two or three miles away from the county dock at Rilipu. He said, "We will build a new dock here."

"You are so particular, young master." Park Chengxing was full of emotion. The Chinese people are very polite. "There is really no need to be so polite."

"Wait until I finish." Zhao Hao used a lead pick to draw a horizontal line around the port he designated, as if cutting off a corner of the southernmost tip of Jeonra Island, and said, "I want everything below this line."

"Uh..." Park Sung-sung was stunned. As a defender, he knew that Master Zhao's horizontal sword was ten miles long and six miles wide from north to south. He cut off twelve thousand acres of land, including Songyue Mountain.

"Why, is it difficult?" Young Master Zhao glanced at him.

"Well, well..." Park Chengxing wiped his sweat and shook his head, "This area is just a wasteland anyway. There is only one sentry post on Songyue Mountain. I will find a reason to ask them to move away, and then you can do whatever you want. I will take care of the rest."

"Don't worry, I won't make it difficult for you." Zhao Hao said with a smile, "This piece of land, in addition to building a port, is just for building some supporting facilities such as warehouses, warehouses, and hostels. And the land is still yours, so I won't use it for free. I'll rent it to you. I'll pay you rent every year, and I don't care whether you give it to the court or divide it among yourselves."

Zhao Hao didn't mention any lease period at all, let alone signing a contract.

Because he knew that the people of the Li Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty had the same way of thinking. Many things they did could not be discussed, let alone put on the table and put in black and white. Officials are afraid of taking this responsibility!

The Portuguese understood this point, and through various exchanges of interests with officials in Macau and Guangzhou, they gradually gained what they wanted, but never put it down in written documents. As a result, everything remained stable and they did not cause any displeasure to the imperial court.

Hundreds of years later, the Great Ying didn't understand, or they were too disdainful to understand, and they insisted on implementing in the treaty things that the local officials could acquiesce to, which made the rulers and ministers of the Qing Dynasty very angry, and ended up with a fight between the two sides... or at least they didn't fight, otherwise the Great Ying wouldn't have gotten involved.

Zhao Hao knew very well that a contract without the backing of strength could be torn up at any time. As long as his Gapa Island Marine Police Station did not withdraw, no one would dare to chase him away without signing the contract.

"Okay, okay, don't worry about the rent, I'll take care of it myself." Park Chengxing gritted his teeth and said. Although his 300,000 taels were all used as redemption silver, he still had some assets. The key was that as long as he could please Zhao Hao, he would definitely earn back double the money he paid.

"No need. I would never ask for a horse to run fast and not eat grass at the same time." Zhao Hao waved his hand and continued, "Besides, I also want to rent this place to dry wood."

"Here, drying wood?" Park Chengxing was stunned.

"That's right." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "I believe that the timber business will be very profitable in the future. Would you like to make a fortune with us, Mr. Park?"

"That's great!" Hearing that Master Zhao was going to help him make a fortune, Pu Chengxing immediately smiled and didn't even ask where they were going to cut wood or why they were drying wood here, and he agreed immediately. "I'll do whatever Master tells me to do!"

Then he asked, "I wonder which piece of land you have taken a fancy to, I will help you get it."

Jin Ke, who was standing behind Zhao Hao, suddenly looked up at the sky. He felt a little embarrassed because the young master had such a big appetite.

Zhao Hao remained calm, pointing at the map with a chisel for a long time, then drew a big circle on the east side of Jeju Island.

"Puff..." Park Sung-seong nearly spit out water on the table, his eyes almost popped out. "This, this, is this big?"

The circle drawn by Zhao Hao was bounded by the two main rivers east of Jeonra Island, the east-west Sehwa Stream and the north-south Cheonwei Stream.

Two vertically intersecting rivers cut a fan-shaped area with a radius of 30 miles in the east of the island. This area is as large as 170 to 180 square kilometers!

Although Park Sung-sung couldn't calculate how big the land was, he knew it was very, very big, and it looked like it took up one-tenth of the entire island. Considering the huge Halla Mountains in the center of the island, it probably took up one-eighth of the habitable area on the island.

Who can endure this?

Park Sung-sung was trembling and sweating profusely. No matter how brave he was, he didn't dare to take on this responsibility...

"Why, are you scared?" Young Master Zhao looked at his useless appearance and said with a smile, "By the way, I want Niu Island too."

“No, no, how could that be.” Park Sung-sung wiped his sweat with his sleeves and hiccupped in fear, “Hiccup, if you want the moon in the sky, I will have to pick it down, hiccup…”

"Of course, I won't let you work in vain." Zhao Hao then began to give you a sweet treat: "In addition to the rent, I will allow you to set up a chamber of commerce and monopolize the route from Tamra to Japan. We will split the profits 190% and 100%."

Zhao Hao was afraid that he would miss Taozi, so he paused and said, "Of course it's nine for me and one for you."

Park Chengxing didn't mind at all, his eyes lit up immediately. He never expected that the young master would give him a share of the core interests.

He was not stupid at all. He had long realized that Mr. Zhao was going to such great lengths just to target the lucrative Sino-Japanese trade business.

Although the Ming Dynasty had lifted the ban on sea trade, Japan was an exception. The Celestial Empire still did not allow trade with Japan, otherwise it would be considered as collusion with Japan.

But it just so happens that the richest customers in Asia are the Japanese tycoons who own mines.

It is understandable that a man of Mr. Zhao's status would not want to be accused of collaborating with the Japanese. But a living person cannot be suffocated to death, so Mr. Zhao must have thought of a roundabout way to save the country - he could first sell the goods to Jeju Island, and then have local merchants resell them to the Japanese.

Jiangnan Group has no control over who the merchants of the Li Dynasty sell their goods to.

However, Park Chengxing thought that a person like him who had committed a crime would not be favored by Master Zhao. Zhao Hao could just find any random person as a cover, so how could he have a share?

Unexpectedly, the old man would let go of the past grudges, let me be the front, and give me such a high profit.

Park Sung-sung shed tears of happiness... Although the money was not for him alone, but for him to share the spoils and win over a group of officials and businessmen from the Joseon Dynasty who were loyal to the Gangnam Group, it was enough for him to have the right to distribute it in his own hands!

It's such a blessing to be Mr. Zhao's dog! Woof woof!

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It is normal for Park Sung-seong to lose his composure because the profits here are so high.

Selling goods from Ming to Japan usually makes five or six times the profit. To put it simply, the cost of purchasing a shipload of goods from Jiangnan is 10,000 taels, and it can be sold for 30,000 taels when shipped to Jeonra Island. Of course, Zhao Hao will not share this profit with Park Sung-sung.

However, if the goods were shipped from Tamra to Japan, the price of a shipload of 30,000 taels could be doubled to 60,000 taels! The Lee Dynasty merchant group in Tamra took 10% of the profit of 30,000 taels, which was 3,000 taels!

One ship costs 3,000 taels, ten ships costs 30,000 taels! One hundred ships costs 300,000 taels! Mr. Zhao has a monopoly on the shipping route, and he has the final say on how many ships he wants to send. The only thing to consider is the market capacity of Japan.

But Japan is also a big country, and it is so poor that it only has money left. It can't sustain itself if it consumes thousands of ships of goods a year. Otherwise, how did the nine big families make tens of millions of taels a year?

And will the fleet return empty? How much money do you think it can make?

Park Chengxing was salivating when he thought about it. He could earn back his three hundred thousand taels in less than two years! And he could spend it openly!

Now even if Zhao Hao asked Park Sung-seong to rebel, attack Seoul, and chop off their king's head, he wouldn't even frown!

Don't say that Zhao Hao only wants one corner of Jeju Island, oh no, two corners. Even if the young master wants it all, he will offer it with both hands!

ps. There are only two chapters today, and I will try to finish three chapters tomorrow.