Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 734: Chapter 96, Yōu qīng! Finally Waited for You_2

Wang Shouzhe certainly did not hold back from Wei Wenxun.

When he was helping to plan for the Qingluo Guard City, he had already achieved a comprehensive understanding of the water patterns around the Reef Island. After some simple deliberation, he demarcated a piece of land near the port.

To avoid making it difficult for Wei Wenxun, the area he chose was not large.

In the end, it was Wei Wenxun who couldn’t bear to see it and generously doubled the size of the land Wang had demarcated, effectively incorporating nearly one-third of the sea territory belonging to the Qingluo Guard City.

Being fellow bureaucrats, Wei Wenxun had a far more accurate understanding of Taishi Ankang’s mindset than Wang Shouzhe did.

To be honest, the Qingluo Guard City was secured thanks to Wang Shouzhe’s efforts, a feat comparable to pioneering a frontier. If not for the prestige of the court being at stake, and the need for the Prefecture Mansion to take the lead, even if the entire Qingluo Guard City was given to the Wang family based on the standards of opening up a frontier, Taishi Ankang wouldn’t have much objection.

Now that only a parcel of land is being allocated, Taishi Ankang would naturally have no objections. Considering Wang Shouzhe’s abilities in money-making and governing, the future tax revenue from Qingluo Guard City will only increase rather than decrease.

Afterwards, Wang Shouzhe and Wei Wenxun followed the procedures, making records in all departments of the Prefecture Mansion. Finally, they affixed Wang Shouzhe’s name on the empty land deed issued by the Prefecture Mansion. The official seal given to nobility by the government was stamped on it, officially registering the maritime territory under the name of the Wang Family.

After putting down his pen, Wang Shouzhe casually put the land deed into his storage ring, “I will have the personnel from the Keep Achieving Commercial Firm come over for a site survey to check the situation in the airspace. If the windy currents are manageable and the conditions allow, I would let Keep Achieving Commercial Firm set up a base within the city. In the future, the seafood farmed would be shipped out directly from Qingluo Guard City to various places.”

“That sounds great,” Wei Wenxun had been waiting for this sentence and couldn’t help but laugh, “Prominent Families within the Qing’an Prefecture seldom eat seafood, hence the seafood farmed is sure to sell well. I wish Family Head Shouzhe a source of abundance and an early ascension to Rank Six Prominent Family.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Zong’an, who had been silent all this while, twitched the corner of his mouth.

The Wang family currently already has three individuals in the Heavenly Human Realm, and there will be even more in the future. As long as his father is willing, the family could ascend to Rank Six at any time.

He wondered what Wei Wenxun’s expression would be if he knew this.

“Cough, cough~Many thanks for the auspicious words, Commandant Wei.”

Wang Shouzhe coughed once, and then as if nothing happened, continued inspecting the ongoing construction of Qingluo Guard City with Wei Wenxun.

The current situation in Qingluo Guard City can be said to be masterminded by him, and he is very satisfied with the current situation.

Actually, right from the beginning, when he knew about the situation of Qingluo Sea, he already had his eyes on this maritime territory, but simply did not have an opportunity to act upon it.

Even though the Qingluo Sea was rife with pirates, the pirates, numerous as they might be, were all acting on their own, like scattered sand, and their collective strength was not particularly great.

Among the piracy gangs, the strongest boss was only in the mid-stage of Heavenly Human Realm. Longzuo County had dispatched three individuals in the early stage of Heavenly Human Realm and wiped out that piracy gang.

In terms of real strength, the Jiaolong Gang was much more difficult to deal with.

The Qingluo Sea had not been governed all this time ultimately because of the issue of benefits.

Before the appearance of aerial cold chain transportation, the preservation and transportation of marine products was a significant issue. Natural marine catches already exceeded demand, so naturally there was no incentive for anyone to engage in aquaculture.

The benefits of the sea mainly came from fishing and maritime trade.

However, with fierce beasts rampant in the deep sea and Hurricane Ocean standoff, even fishing and maritime trade could only be conducted along the coast. As such, the benefits that can be generated were very limited.

Wang Shouzhe had conducted a special investigation and found that when Qingluo Sea was first developed, there were quite a few small and medium-sized nobilities engaged in maritime fishing and trade. But as piracy became more rampant, the ships of the small and medium-sized nobilities were often robbed and could no longer profit from fishing and maritime trade. Gradually, they gave up on these benefits and turned to other areas of development.

Over time, increasingly only powerful and well-protected fleets like that of the Cao family, were able to sail safely across the sea and seize the benefits of fishing and maritime trade.

In this context, if it were said that piracy was rampant without the indulgence or even the instigation of the Cao family and other maritime trade nobilities, Wang Shouzhe wouldn’t believe it.

But now, with the development of aerial cold chain transportation, the preservation and transportation of marine products are no longer a problem. Aquaculture will sooner or later become a pillar industry in coastal areas, just like agriculture.

What the Wang family must do is to build the industrial chain for aquaculture before anyone else, become the leading player in this industry, take advantage of this favorable situation to seize pricing and speaking rights, and become the party that sets the rules.

Meanwhile.

Not far from the port.

In a small and narrow natural bay, the sea water was as clear as ice. One could still make out the white and glossy sand and rocks through the depth of a yard.

Sundry beautiful small fishes were swimming briskly, from time to time foraging among the sands. Not far away, a palm-sized juvenile roe crab was patiently lying in ambush in the cracks of an antiquated underwater log, waiting for an incautious little fish to approach the crack, so it could pounce on it and feast.

Gradually, the group of small fish began to approach the ambush site of the crab.