Shareholders Jiang Xueying and Hua Bozhen were very excited after finally seeing the grand blueprint of Jiangnan Company.

The two of them spent the entire afternoon discussing with Zhao Hao how to implement these plans. Even after dinner, they were still not satisfied and wanted to have a candlelight chat with Master Zhao all night long.

Zhao Hao hadn't taken a nap for three days in a row and was extremely sleepy.

"There's a lot of time to go by, there's no need to finish talking in one day." Young Master Zhao yawned and said, "It's getting dark, time to go to bed."

"Let's chat for a while, what's the point of sleeping?" Hua Bozhen's mind was full of Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III projects. They were all major projects that would benefit the present and future generations!

His eyes were glowing green with excitement, how could he feel sleepy at all?

Zhao Hao said sternly: "Brother, it doesn't matter if you are over 40. My sister Xueying and I still have a lot to grow up."

"Uh..." Hua Bozhen couldn't help but laugh: "Hey, I forgot you are still children."

Jiang Xueying covered her mouth and laughed, then stood up, bowed to Zhao Hao and said good night.

Zhao Hao sent the two of them out of the courtyard, washed up quickly and was about to go to bed, but he heard the guard come in to report.

"Sir, Liu Zhengqi wants to see you."

"Oh? Why is he here at this hour?" Mr. Zhao suddenly felt less sleepy. "Let him in."

After a while, Mr. Liu, wearing coarse cloth clothes and a large bamboo hat, walked in with his head lowered, following Gao Wu.

After Liu Zhengqi entered the room, he took off his bamboo hat, knelt down in front of the bed, and said in a crying voice: "Master, I have caused you trouble."

"What's the trouble?" Zhao Hao asked slowly, sitting cross-legged on the broken wooden table.

"Xu Kun suddenly came back from Songjiang yesterday at noon..." Liu Zhengqi, with dark circles under his eyes, told Zhao Hao what happened yesterday.

"Interesting." Zhao Hao smiled instead of getting angry. "I heard that the trouble in Kunshan was instigated by the Xu family. I haven't had time to settle accounts with them yet, but they came to my door."

When Liu Zhengqi saw Zhao Hao's reaction, he thought to himself, as expected, this young man would not be scared by the Xu family's reputation.

"But Mr. Liu, why are you telling us about what happened yesterday only today?" Zhao Hao didn't take the Xu family's affairs to heart at all and was in the mood to tease Mr. Liu.

"This, this..." Liu Zhengqi wiped his sweat and said in a trembling voice: "Sir, the Xu family is too powerful. I thought about it all night and finally made a great decision to do it."

"Hahaha, you're not that stupid!" Young Master Zhao put his hand on Liu Zhengqi's head and stood up and said, "But words are useless. We have to see how you perform."

Liu Zhengqi immediately handed over a thick oil-paper bag with both hands. "All the land deeds of the 137 households on Xishan Island have been bought out and changed to your name."

He smiled awkwardly and said, "It is because I want to fulfill my mission that I have delayed coming until now."

"Oh?" Zhao Hao took the oil-paper bag and looked inside. Inside was a thick stack of land deeds. He randomly pulled out a few and saw that he was the landlord.

What? Why not register it under the name of Jiangnan Company? Jiangnan Company has not been established yet.

Strictly speaking, it was only the second day, and Mr. Liu had completed Zhao Hao's task half a day earlier than the deadline.

I didn't expect this guy to be so capable. It seems that he must be quite capable to be the vice president.

"Get up." Young Master Zhao's demeanor became much kinder. He then instructed Gao Wu, "Give Young Master Liu a new single room, so he won't be crowded with those prisoners."

"Hey, thank you very much, sir." Liu Zhengqi stood up quickly as if he had been pardoned, but still bowed his waist to show his humility.

"I promise you that no one from Xishan will show up the day after tomorrow, and I guarantee that we won't give Xu any chance to take advantage of us."

"How can that be possible?" Zhao Hao shook his head and said, "How can we let people come here with high hopes and leave with low hopes? That would make us, the people of Xishan, seem inhospitable."

When Mr. Liu heard this, he was so angry that he screamed in his heart, "It's endless! Can't we solve them one by one peacefully? Where is the kindness and tolerance?"

"Well, the young master is the master of Xishan Island. If you make a big fuss here, it won't be good for you..."

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." Zhao Hao beckoned Liu Zhengqi to come closer to his ear and whispered instructions to him.

After hearing this, Mr. Liu's face changed several times, and he secretly said, "Is this called being sensible? If he was not sensible, he would have launched Mr. Xu to the moon, right?"

"Of course I am willing to serve you, sir. But if I do this, the Xu family will never let me go." He looked at Zhao Hao pitifully, begging him to let him go.

"Don't worry, after we finish this matter, not only will our past grudges be wiped out, but you will be under my protection from now on." Zhao Hao patted Mr. Liu on the shoulder and took the responsibility.

"This..." Mr. Liu took a look at the deed on the ground and knew that he could not turn back. He could only grit his teeth and nod:

"From now on, I will rely on your protection."

"Well, go ahead." Zhao Hao nodded and smiled at Liu Zhengqi, "You will be glad for your decision today in the future."

The next day at noon, five hundred strong slaves gathered at Xujia Wharf next to the Humble Administrator's Garden.

The Xu family is now the undisputed number one family in the southeast. The size of their family business is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Although Suzhou was not their base, it had many industries, including more than 100,000 acres of land, more than 10,000 weavers, and thousands of slaves. It was easy for them to gather this number of people.

At the hour of Mao, the Xu brothers led the five hundred strong slaves, divided them into ten two-masted sand ships, and sailed out of the Xu River to Dongshan Island.

Liu Zhengqi and his men had been waiting on the northern lake of Dongshan Island.

"Look, let me tell you, this old guy dares not to come?" Xu Kun bowed and nodded to Liu Zhengqi, waved his hand, and said proudly: "In Suzhou and Songshan, the one who dares to disobey my Xu family has not been born yet."

Xu Fan stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the spectacular scene on the lake where the two fleets merged and headed towards Xishan Island. He felt that the depression that had accumulated for several months was slightly relieved.

It seems that resigning from office and returning home to become a local emperor in Jiangnan is not a bad choice.

He glanced at his pale-faced son standing beside him and said, "This is the family business built by your grandfather. We can't let it fail in your generation's hands."

"Ugh..." Xu Yuanchun turned around and leaned over the railing, vomiting loudly.

"You useless thing! People from Jiangnan get seasick." Xu Fan covered his nose and turned away in disgust.

In just a cup of tea, the fleet entered Dasheng Bay.

At the dock, people who were building the pier stood up and looked at these uninvited guests in confusion.

Soon, large and small ships docked and came ashore, filling the pier with water.

Strong slaves holding wooden sticks and iron bars swarmed off the boat.

Seeing that the visitor had bad intentions, the people on the dock quickly dropped their work and ran back to the camp.

Fortunately, the troops that came were not well-trained troops, and they did not chase us closely. They just gathered in a mess at the dock, waiting for orders from their superiors.

After nearly a thousand people from both sides had disembarked, Liu Zhengqi came to the Xu brothers' luxurious ship and respectfully invited the eldest and second uncles to disembark.

"Let's go, brother?" Xu Kun invited Xu Fan to go first.

Xu Fan shook his head and said calmly: "Just go, I'll watch the show on the boat."

He is a retired senior official of the third rank. If Zhao Hao hadn't been on the island, Xu Fan would not have come.

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