I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 126 Meet again

During this period, Qizhou's industrial capacity has been further developed, and various forces have offered their new prices. Zhu Houxuan has been engaged in fierce bargaining with all parties.

For example, the Chen family in Fujian has cooperated very closely with the Prince of Jing's Palace over the past three years, helping Zhu Houxuan sell Qizhou's industrial products to Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asian countries.

The Liu Liu and Liu Qi Rebellion lasted for three years, and countless refugees poured in from the north. Although Zhu Houxuan's factories expanded vigorously, they still could not absorb so many refugees. It was the Chen family who used ships to help secretly transport more than 10,000 refugees and sent them to Taiwan Island to establish a stronghold.

This is a life-and-death friendship; smuggling civilians out to sea is a serious crime.

But even with such a good relationship, conflicts still arose when it came to interests.

The initial conflict was that Zhu Houxuan asked the Chen family to build more sea-going ships. After building a few sea-going ships, the Chen family stopped building them, citing insufficient financial resources as the reason. This reason was ridiculous. Zhu Houxuan could still guess the profit of the Chen family from selling Qizhou goods.

Finally, under Zhu Houxuan's questioning, Mrs. Chen told the truth. The court officials behind the Chen family believed that although the maritime ban had been lifted, the debate about the maritime ban in the court was still very fierce, and the policy on the maritime ban would likely be repeated in the future.

If there is another maritime ban, it is hard to say whether the newly built ships can cover the cost. Moreover, it would be too conspicuous for the Chen family to own so many ships. The tallest tree in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. Moreover, the industrial production capacity of Qizhou at that time could not fully utilize the carrying capacity of the Chen family's ships, so the Chen family was very hesitant about building new ships.

Having said that, Zhu Houxuan could only express his understanding. To be honest, in his plan, the Chen family's transportation capacity multiplied by 100 would not be enough for his future use. However, it was impossible for him to make it so clear. Even if he did, the Chen family would not believe it.

So he directly started to plan the construction of Qizhou Shipyard, build his own ships, and form his own fleet.

Of course, he also cordially invited the Chen family to invest, with very favorable conditions. As long as the Chen family supported some skilled shipbuilding craftsmen, they could get 5% of the shares. If they invested money, they could get up to % of the shares.

After some hesitation, the Chen family finally invested in the company and acquired 5% of the shares of Qizhou Shipyard.

In order to repair the somewhat broken relationship between the two parties, Mrs. Chen took the initiative to propose that her younger brother, the only male in the Chen family's eldest branch, become Zhu Houxuan's disciple. This was a manifestation of trust in Zhu Houxuan as well as an investment.

However, this matter has been delayed for a long time with no follow-up. As a result, now there are rumors that the Chen family is somewhat dissatisfied with the increasing number of ships owned by the Jingwang Mansion. This has crossed the line, but the Jingwang Mansion's fleet has not yet reached a certain scale, and the sailors' experience is not rich enough. He cannot break up with the Chen family now, and can only think of ways to fight for it again.

In addition to the major forces, various small forces also caused Zhu Houxuan a lot of trouble.

For example, ordinary families whose interests were damaged by the Qizhou Textile Factory gradually realized that it was the high productivity of the textile factory's machines that caused them to lose interests, so they planned to attack the factory and burn the machines. Fortunately, they were a group of scattered people, and Zhu Houxuan had always paid attention to the direction of public opinion. The art propaganda team was also good at guiding public opinion, and had already resolved the signs of three similar incidents by guiding public opinion.

What bothered Zhu Houxuan the most was the clan power of the Ming Dynasty. As a time traveler, Zhu Houxuan had never expected that the clan power of the Ming Dynasty was so strong, which brought him a series of troubles.

In short, Zhu Houxuan had vaguely felt that Qizhou's development had reached a bottleneck. Without breaking through this bottleneck, Qizhou's industry would hardly develop at such a rapid speed. He knew that to break through this bottleneck he had to rely on external forces.

When he began to think about how to bring in this external force, a letter arrived at him 800 miles away, telling him that this external force had already come to Qizhou.
This was beyond his expectations and made him feel that this was a rare opportunity.

He calculated the time in his mind, but he couldn't be sure whether Zhu Houzhao had already arrived in Qizhou or was on his way to Qizhou.

So he ordered the various departments of the Jingwang Mansion to start paying attention to and looking for various information about Zhu Houzhao in Qizhou. Zhu Houzhao's various characteristics were quite obvious, of course he did not reveal Zhu Houzhao's identity. Soon, the various departments of the Jingwang Mansion started to operate, extending to all parts of Qizhou City like tentacles, and more and more intelligence was gathered in Zhu Houxuan's hands.
Zhu Houzhao and Jiang Bin have been in Qizhou for five days.

What surprised Jiang Bin was that Zhu Houzhao, who had been very anxious all the way, was not anxious at all after arriving in Qizhou City. He did not mention going to find his uncle, the Prince of Jing, but instead took him wandering around Qizhou City.

These days, Zhu Houzhao went to listen to "Robinson Crusoe" every day, or went to Qizhou Library to read a book. Qizhou Library was a good place they had just discovered.

I would also go to the canteens of various factories around Qizhou City to eat the special foods.

The canteens of each factory have a collection of special foods from many places, because in recent years the factories have received many refugees who fled from the north to Qizhou. These refugees brought a lot of food with them, so each canteen has its own special foods.

Jiang Bin and Zhu Houzhao had already sneaked into many factory canteens.

Today, after eating the special roast chicken in the glass factory canteen, they ran to the gate of the Textile Factory to watch the female workers get off work.

This was not the first time they had done this. Jiang Bin thought it was boring at first, but when he really did it, he found it very interesting. It was also the first time he had seen so many women gathered together.

Moreover, the healthy skin color and figure of the textile workers, as well as their youthfulness, confidence and vitality, gave him a very different feeling.

Zhu Houzhao also enjoyed it.
Jiang Bin's eyes casually swept through the crowd, and suddenly his eyes froze. He quickly pulled Zhu Houzhao and said, "Sir, do you think that person opposite is Mr. Cui?"

Zhu Houzhao turned around and saw that Cui Laozhang, who had tricked them into riding the manure cart, was standing in the distance, watching the female workers leaving get off work.
"Kill him! Don't let him run away!" Zhu Houzhao's eyes fixed, old hatred surged in his heart, he shouted, and then took the lead to chase the old man Cui.

Jiang Bin and three or four guards in the crowd quickly followed.
Mr. Cui also recognized them at a glance and wanted to explain, but seeing how aggressive they were, he didn't dare to explain and turned around and ran away!

Zhu Houzhao led his men to continue chasing, but he accidentally fell. Jiang Bin and the guards hurried to help him.

"I'm fine. Go chase that old man Cui first! We must catch him today! Go quickly!" Zhu Houzhao ordered.

Jiang Bin and the guards subconsciously followed Zhu Houzhao's order and went after Mr. Cui, because not far behind them there were a dozen guards who had also noticed the situation and were rushing over.

Zhu Houzhao didn't fall hard, but his clothes were covered with dust. He didn't care, but lay on the ground and cursed: "You tricked me into riding a manure cart! Today I will teach you a lesson!"

Then he was about to stand up, but he found that a pair of exquisite boots had appeared in front of him without him noticing.

A hand was also stretched out in front of him.

He subconsciously held the hand, and then heard a voice in his ear: "Why did you trick me into riding a dung cart?"

Zhu Houzhao's body froze for a moment, because he was very familiar with this voice.
(End of this chapter)