"Sister Long!" A crisp cry woke Lin Long from contemplation and confusion. Looking back, Li Ming and Zhang Yao stood behind her forehandedly and looked at her with concern.

Lin Long, who was frustrated last night, did not return to Yongyue Villa, but found an excuse to support Lin Lingfeng away. Then she walked aimlessly in the vast old forest on Biquan Peak. Unconsciously, she actually walked to the edge of Biquan Pool. The tall and dense forests covered the moonlight in the sky so that the gurgling springs were particularly crisp and pleasant on this quiet night, which made her extremely depressed and she couldn't help but feel excited. She walked into the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

Lin Long had been to the lake center pavilion in the center of Biquan Pool many times before, but she never felt refreshed like today. She was blowing the cool breeze that blew into her face, listening to the sound of Ding Ding Dongdong's spring, and mixed with the sound of pine waves in the dense forest, which made him forget the troubles he had just now. In this way, she sat in the dark lake center pavilion for one night, and she didn't notice it the next day at dawn. At this time, she thought nothing in her heart, and her heart was empty and blank, as if she suddenly fell into a state of enlightenment, until the arrival of Lin Ming and Zhang Yao woke her up.

Looking at Lin Long's haggard face because he didn't sleep all night, Li Ming felt a sense of distress and uneasiness. Yesterday, he only had to talk to Zhang Yao, but forgot about Lin Long's feelings. As a proud and arrogant person, this must have been a big blow. So, after learning that Lin Long had not returned to the villa early in the morning, Li Ming hurriedly searched everywhere. Fortunately, Wang Sheng passed by here on the way to the tea factory and saw Lin Long, which made him find the place smoothly. However, Li Ming really felt confused in his heart. In his own world, it was often monogamous and the relationship between husband and wife.

A third party is absolutely not allowed to intervene, but here, the status of women is still very low, so it is very common for Li Ming to be very unaccustomed to this. Just like yesterday, he was indeed the only one in his heart, and Lin Long's position had been squeezed aside by him. Could it be that one person's feelings can't be distributed to two people? If he treats Zhang Yao wholeheartedly, what should Lin Long do? Besides, when he got up in bed in the morning, he actually remembered Lin Long again. Can it be called emotionally dedicated? Li Ming, who is used to the modern concept of love, really can't find the answer.

After a forced smile, Lin Long tried his best to hide the feeling of loss when he saw the two of them together, and said before the two: "Why don't you sleep a little longer? You got up so early? My elder brother just returned to the island and should have a more gathering with Sister Yao."

Zhang Yao rushed up suddenly and hugged Lin Long tightly. At the same time, tears couldn't help but flow down, and she said thrustly: "Sister Long, I haven't seen you for a long time. Yao'er really misses you very much. Last night, Yao'er was too selfish and took away her husband alone. I'm so sorry, sister won't blame me, right?"

Lin Long felt an indescribable feeling in her heart, which made her feel as if a sharp needle was piercing her heart, making her feel sore and painful. She couldn't help but let tears fall down her cheeks. She hurriedly hugged Zhang Yao tightly and said with a choking voice: "Sister Yao, don't do this. I'm not the kind of petty person. Why do you blame you for this? Besides, my elder brother and I have met in the imperial city for a long time. Unlike you and him who met again after a long time, can I not even understand this? Okay, don't cry early in the morning, so embarrassed to let those servants see it." Speaking of this, she said to Li Mingchen again: "What are you doing when you stand there? You're not here to persuade me? It's all because of you, otherwise you won't be like this."

Not only did Li Ming feel a little aggrieved, but he didn't dare to say anything in front of him. He could only walk up as Lin Long's instructions, gently hugged the two of them and whispered to comfort Lin Long by the way.

Finally, Zhang Yao burst into tears and laughed with the two of them. During this smile, the grudge that happened between the three people last night seemed to have disappeared. Li Ming pulled one with one hand and walked towards the top of the mountain talking and laughing. However, at this moment, Li Ming had some bad premonitions about the prospects between them. Zhang Yao was a little easier. He belonged to the traditional woman of this era, and there was nothing to worry about in concepts, but Li Ming and Lin Long were both people who were not bound by the secular concepts of this era. If two people were together, and Zhang Yao was added in the middle, could they spend so peacefully in the future? Li Ming really had no idea.

It was almost noon when we returned to the villa. We ignored the strange gazes of the people watching him. The three of us paid homage to the elders who should have been to pay homage to each other. Since Zhang Meng, Lin Lingfeng and Yuchi Xiong all lived in the villa, the three of us could no longer be as unrestrained and lawless as before.

As Zhang Meng, He Lin Lingfeng and the two old father-in-laws, the intimacy and affection of the three of them makes them feel very gratified. After all, no one wants to let their daughter suffer any grievances. It is already amazing that Li Ming can basically do the same thing in the front of him. After all, they all have three wives and four concubines, and they understand that things in the backyard are not so easy to settle.

At noon, only such a family was really sitting together for a reunion dinner. Li Ming and the other two sat down at the bottom and respectfully accompanied Zhang Meng and Lin Lingfeng to have a meal. Although it seemed very harmonious, it was the first time after all, so the three of them seemed a little restrained.

After filling a glass of white wine brewed on the island, Lin Lingfeng smacked his lips with satisfaction, looked at Zhang Meng as if he had discussed it, and said, "Today, all except Long'er and his mother were here at the dinner table. I also discussed it with Brother Zhang in the morning. We think we should decide on your matters. In order to deal with King Kang's entanglement, Li Ming had married Yao'er. Now, there is only Long'er left. Li Ming, do you think you shouldn't pull her down? So, we decided to hold a wedding for you and Long'er in the near future to fulfill our wish, so that the three of you can be together well."

"That's great! Sister Long, you can't leave Mr. easily in the future." Unexpectedly, it was Zhang Yao so happy that she could be Zhang Yao. She saw her shaking Lin Long's arm and smiling with her eyes on her face, which was definitely not like she was pretending.

Li Ming doesn't care. Since he is in love with Lin Long and this society allows polygamy, it will be a matter of time before the two people can unite. However, unexpectedly, Lin Long, who spoke out against him, would be one of the parties involved: "I don't agree, I object to this matter!"

He glanced proudly at the stunned people on the table. Lin Long smiled as if he was very satisfied with the effect in front of him, and then said, "First of all, I declare that I am not Li Ming and I will not marry. Don't worry about this. However, I have said before that I want to marry Li Ming, who is a successful career, and now he cannot meet my conditions. In addition, now I have not married, so I am still free and do whatever I want. But once I marry him, I will be left by his side and follow him everywhere. I don't want to lose my freedom so early, so now I don't want to give it to him. As for when I'm tired and want to find a home."

"Nonsense!" Lin Lingfeng was furious and slapped the dining table to pieces, then pointed at Lin Long and shouted angrily: "When will you still be nonsense? What do you say? It's like a girl? It's so shameful! Humph, when will you change your temper like your own will? Tell you, I will never agree to you in this matter today!"

Lin Long also raised his eyebrows and was about to argue with Lin Lingfeng. Li Ming hurriedly stopped her and turned to Lin Lingfeng and said, "Master, don't be angry about this matter. Yao'er, let someone come in and clean up. Actually, I think what Longer said makes sense. I think my concept has many similarities with her, so I can understand her. She has her own independent life, so we should not force her, but let her do it according to her own wishes. Longer, when will you get tired? What does it mean to run away? If you want to marry me, just say to me, I will marry you the next day. What do you think?"

Lin Long ignored the stunned expressions in the room, jumped up happily and hugged Li Ming's neck, and said happily: "That's great, this is my ideal husband. Now you are qualified, you remember it, this is what you promised me, but don't urge me to marry you again at that time. In addition, I have another request."

A very familiar feeling arose in Li Ming's heart. This is what he knew, heard and witnessed, and had subconsciously formed an idea. Lin Long in front of him seemed to be no different from the beautiful girls of his era. This made him feel familiar and intimate. So, after hearing Lin Long said that there were still requirements, she held her hair in both hands and smiled dotingly: "You said, as long as I can do it, I will do my best to you."

"You've agreed!" Lin Long suddenly became lively: "I want you to hand over the two thousand troops I trained in Zezhou to my command, and you are not allowed to ask what I'm doing unless I'm willing to say, what's going on?"

Li Ming smiled slightly, pinched her nose and said, "No problem. I believe you won't take this army to deal with me. Okay, I'll leave it all to you from now on. In fact, I have never really commanded them, so you didn't have to tell me."

Lin Long wrinkled his nose and smiled and said, "That's two different things. Okay, Dad, brother has agreed. Don't be angry, right? You are so old and still so angry. If you continue to stay, you may not be enough for you to take a photo of the table in Yongyue Villa. After dinner, I'm very hungry."

Lin Lingfeng was immediately amazed and laughed, but what could he do? His lawless daughter, who had been spoiled since childhood, has always been his nemesis. He had no choice but to sit down and sulk at this time.

The lunch passed in this small storm. In the afternoon, Li Ming summoned the main leaders of the island such as the Saint Hand King gathered at Zhulin Pavilion to start his first meeting after returning to the island. Since Zhang Yao was always in charge of the decision-making on the island, she and Lin Long were also present.

Due to the rapid development of all walks of life on the island, many new faces have appeared in front of Li Ming. Many of them were promoted from those who joined before. Some of them were even scholars who were forcibly arrested by Li Ming to teach. So it took a lot of time to introduce them at the beginning. Among them, there was the Zhuangya that the Saint King mentioned many times.

Seeing that the master mentioned by the Saint Hand King also came to the island to help him, Li Ming felt even happier, so he pulled Zhuang Ya to talk for a long time. If the Saint Hand King didn't interrupt it in time, this meeting might have been ruined.

After finally letting the excited Li Ming sit down, the Saint Hand King hurriedly said, "This time the island owner left for half a year, so we are assisting his wife during this period. Now that you are back, I can relax. Xiao Cui, please report the account first."

Xiao Cui, the little girl of Zhang Yao back then, is now the head of the financial department of Biquan Island. When she heard the Holy Hand King ask, she replied calmly: "Back to the master, money issues are the biggest secret on the island. Please ask irrelevant personnel to avoid it before I report it."

Li Ming was stunned and suddenly felt something was wrong. Just as he was about to object to Xiao Cui's opinion, he saw everyone present, including the Saint Hand King, respectfully bowing to him and retreating.

It was not until the Saint King closed the door that Xiao Cui whispered: "The island's income in the past six months is all based on tea. Other projects have not been actually sold out at present. So, so far, our total income is 135 million taels of silver and the total expenditure is 8 million taels, which means that the current profit is 127 million taels. Since we don't believe in the outside silver, the current silver is stored in a natural cave thirty miles away. The owner can check it at any time." Speaking of this, she added: "As far as I know, the total income of the Tang Dynasty in the current year is 500 million taels of silver, which means that our annual income is equivalent to half of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Ming was stunned. Not only him, but Lin Long next to him was also shocked. Zhang Yao didn't think anything, because she had known this number for a long time, but Li Ming and Lin Long were different. They never expected that tea alone would make Li Ming the richest person in the world. It was only half a year. If this continued, the emperor would probably have to borrow money from Li Ming, but this was impossible. If the emperor knew that he was so rich, he would have made excuses to wipe him out. It seemed that Xiao Cui was becoming more and more intelligent.

After a long time, Li Ming woke up from the shock, and was also worried about his huge wealth. The first time he had so much money, how could he spend it was a problem. If you don’t buy anything, you will put it there and put it on a pile of metal, which has no value, so the next time is the time to spend money on it.

At this time, Xiao Cui had already put everyone in. After taking the seat again, Li Ming said, "We have been wasting a lot of time just now, so I will tell you a long story short. On the way back, I had considered our further development plan, but I had too many clues and I couldn't find the direction for a while, so I could only set a general goal for the time being."

"First of all, the most important thing at the moment is the issue of immigration. Maybe you don't know yet. This time, the emperor specially issued an imperial edict to me, asking me to summon refugees from the victims of Jiang, Lake and Ze to immigrate to the island. It is considered as the people of my fiefdom. This is a great fortune for us. Seeing that winter is coming, we must hurry up. Long'er, I don't care what the use of you are going to leave for the two thousand soldiers in Zezhou, but before you let them perform the mission, you must first get this done. Considering that you have lived in the disaster area of ​​Zezhou for half a year.

, and you still have 20,000 or 30,000 victims in your hands, so you are responsible for the recruitment work. You decide how to do it yourself, ask someone to ask your brother for money and goods to find Xiao Cui. No matter how much money, how many people, or how much price, you must complete the task of collecting at least 200,000 immigrants within a month, otherwise, you will be the first person on Biquan Island to be punished. I am not kidding you about this matter. I don’t need to say more about the importance of immigration work. You should understand what I mean. This matter is not for you to play with, you understand?"

The first time she heard Li Ming talking to her so seriously, Lin Long felt very nervous and excited. She jumped up quickly and clasped her fists to Li Ming and replied aloud: "Lin Long understands that he is willing to be punished if he fails to complete the task at the expiration date."

Li Ming nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Gao Wei, who was sitting next to the Saint Hand King: "Gao Wei, among so many of us, you are the only one who is good at personnel arrangements, so I decided to establish the Prime Minister's Office of Biquan Island. By the way, you used to be the Minister of Personnel, how did the court make the appointment of such officials?"

Gao Wei stood up and replied, "Return to the lord. Although Biquan Island is the lord's fief, due to immigration, it is necessary to set up an official office according to the convention. Generally, the choice of officials is determined by you. You can select the appropriate candidates from the existing scattered officials in the court and submit them to the Ministry of Personnel for filing. The appointment and removal of officials in the lord's fief are generally decided by the lord. Therefore, if you want to select officials, you must also choose from the scattered officials. According to the scale of the island, because the official office should be set up according to the county, the county magistrate of the county must have a scattered rank of sixth rank. I am now a commoner, which is not suitable at all."

Li Ming laughed and said, "That's not simple. I'll send someone to the imperial city to meet Prince Kang, or I can go directly to the Ministry of Personnel and spend money to buy you a rank of sixth rank. What's the difficulty? Well, you will be the county magistrate. In the future, all the people's livelihood and plans on the island will be under your control. The officials under your underground, such as county magistrates, chief clerks, county magistrates, etc., will you order the candidates as soon as possible in the past two days, and I will buy your rank together. Also, for the outside world, your yamen can be called the county yamen, but within our Biquan Island, you are called the Prime Minister's Office, and you become my Prime Minister, which means all the big and small things on the Prime Minister's Island. Since Brother Wang is not good at these, he will give you all these things. You are directly under the jurisdiction of now.

My leader, at the same time, the Prime Minister's Office and Biquan Island Industrial have the same status and are two independent institutions. The Prime Minister's Office is responsible for the administrative management and agricultural taxation of the island's residents, and is responsible for the security work on the island. You can do the specifics yourself; while Biquan Island Industrial is responsible for the industrial development of the island, as well as the island's foreign trade, transportation and defense work on the island. Gao Wei, this time I have put the burden on you. I will give you all the burden. Xiao Cui, first allocate one million taels of silver for him to build and use in advance, and if not enough, you should take as long as you want. In addition, you should pay attention that if nothing unexpected happens, the three million dans of grain allocated by the emperor will be transported to the island. In the past few days, you'd better find a place where you can store so much food."

Seeing Li Ming's resolute look, Gao Wei no longer refused. He just bowed to Li Ming, then walked back to his seat and sat down without even mentioning difficulties.

Li Ming nodded with satisfaction, then turned his head to the Saint Hand King and asked in a low voice: "Brother, how is our Medical God Cult now developing? Are these people here all our members?"

The Holy Hand King smiled and said, "People please rest assured. The primary condition for promoting the heads of various departments is that he must be a member of the Medical God Cult. Our leadership core must have centripetal force. This sentence is what you said, and I still remember it freshly, so don't worry. At present, our members have developed rapidly and have reached millions of people. This is still my repeated emphasis on paying attention to the loyalty and quality of the joiners. Otherwise, there may be four or five million now. However, the regional distribution is still not balanced. In the past two years, the places that have suffered severe disasters, such as Jiang, Hu, and Ze, the three continents, the number of people who joined accounted for five of the total number of people.

In addition, our trade and sales network has basically taken shape and has begun to play its role, so the intelligence agency you are talking about has begun to play, and not only those sales network personnel are exploring intelligence, but all the church members are exploring intelligence by colleagues. In this way, our intelligence sources are too wide. Recently, based on the numerous news sent back by our church members, we have discovered the biggest change, which is what happened in Pingzhou."

When he heard that it was Pingzhou's incident, it immediately attracted Li Ming's attention, because Pingzhou was the fief of the third prince, and the central city of Pingzhou Qianye City is the location of Prince Cheng's Mansion. Since Pingzhou has changed, it is very likely that the third prince has taken some action. Therefore, he couldn't help but sit up straight, wanting to hear what the Saint Hand King said.
Chapter completed!