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

Chapter 195 Business Development

Zhu Houzhao looked at himself in the mirror. Medals of fine workmanship and exquisite design were hung on his chest, emitting bright light. He did not feel the weight of these medals at all. Thinking of the honors these medals represented, he felt even happier.

He just felt that he was a general who had fought in many battles, and every medal on his chest was a piece of armor that recorded his glorious achievements.

"Cough cough!"

Zhu Houzhao was suddenly awakened by the cough. He quickly turned to look at Zhu Houxun and found that Zhu Houxun was tilting his head and looking at him with strange eyes.

"Brother, your design of the honor medal system is really great, and your explanation is also very good. It makes my blood boil!" Zhu Houzhao said quickly in a somewhat flattering tone.

"Of course. Take off all the medals. They are weighing your clothes down and deforming them." Zhu Houxuan reminded expressionlessly.

Zhu Houzhao looked down and found that it was true. The clothes he was wearing today were a silk shirt, and with so many heavy medals hanging on it, his clothes had been weighed down to pieces.

"It's okay, it's fine to hang it like this," Zhu Houzhao continued to say stubbornly.

"I know you want to take away all these medals of honor." Zhu Houxuan bluntly pointed out Zhu Houzhao's little thoughts.

"Yes! Yes! I'll take it and keep it." Zhu Houzhao said quickly.

"It's okay for you to take them all, but I want to remind you that these medals of honor are just trial versions. They still need to go through some adjustments before they can become the final version." Zhu Houxuan looked at Zhu Houzhao with a playful look.

"Ah?" Zhu Houzhao just remembered this and looked at the medals of honor on his chest. Although they were still so shiny and beautiful, without the honor they represented, the medals of honor instantly lost their magic and turned into ordinary gold and silver medals.
Zhu Houzhao suddenly felt that the food was tasteless and took off the medals of honor from his chest one by one in a fit of anger.

After picking them, he was still a little unwilling, and said, "Brother, after your medal of honor is finalized, please give me a few. I don't want many, just the three medals of the Red Dragon, Red Flag, and Red Star will do."

"Puff..." Zhu Houxuan almost spit out his anger again. He glared at Zhu Houzhao and said, "You are yawning like a toad - you are so arrogant! You don't want too much. You have taken all the three highest medals. Isn't that too much?"

Zhu Houzhao was not angry at being called a toad. Instead, he enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere of the conversation and retorted: "Don't talk nonsense. Just tell me whether you can give it to me or not! I am your brother!"

"I can't give it to you! Even if you are my brother, no one in the Ming Royal Group has received the medal yet. You take away three of them at once, making it like a child's play. The honor medal system that I worked so hard to create will lose its credibility," Zhu Houxuan refused without hesitation.

"Is there really no room for maneuver? Even just giving me one will do." Seeing Zhu Houxuan's expression, Zhu Houzhao could only settle for the next best thing.

"If it's a private transfer, there will be no room for maneuver, but the conditions for obtaining the medal are clearly written. You can get one through hard work and in an honest way!" Zhu Houxuan reminded with a smile.

"Yes!" Zhu Houzhao immediately became excited. "What are the conditions for obtaining it? Make outstanding contributions to the group? What is an outstanding contribution? What should I do to make an outstanding contribution?"

This question stumped Zhu Houxuan. He pinched his chin and analyzed, "You are now the major shareholder of the group. What kind of contribution can you make to be considered outstanding? Let me think about it." "I got it!" Zhu Houxuan quickly thought of it. He clapped his hands and looked at Zhu Houzhao with a smile, "Brother is the major shareholder of the group, and his status is special. Brother can attract more business for the group. The more business he attracts, the better the development of the group will be, which means he has made an outstanding contribution."

"That makes sense," Zhu Houzhao also said, pinching his chin. He was not angry at all for being treated as a business developer. Instead, he said with a distressed look: "Then how should I attract business and orders? What kind of business and orders should I attract?"

"Think for yourself!" Zhu Houxuan said unhappily, "You can't let me think of everything for you. If I had thought of it, I would have developed related business myself."

Zhu Houzhao was speechless for a moment, but when he rolled his eyes, he actually came up with an idea.

"I've thought of a business! I wonder if you, the second largest shareholder, would take it?" Zhu Houzhao said proudly.

"What business?" Now it was Zhu Houxuan's turn to be surprised.

"I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, have decided to entrust the design and manufacturing of the Ming Army's honor medals to the Ming Royal Group." Zhu Houzhao said seriously.

"Uh" Zhu Houxuan didn't expect it to be this business. He looked at Zhu Houzhao speechlessly. This was such a trivial business!
"What's wrong? You don't want to answer it?" Zhu Houzhao looked at Zhu Houxun with a smug look on his face.

"Yes! Why not?" Zhu Houxuan replied immediately. Even a mosquito has flesh on its legs. "Pay the design and trial production fee - 10,000 taels of silver tomorrow, and then we will start the design and trial production work. The subsequent large-scale production costs will be paid later."

Zhu Houzhao stared blankly at Zhu Houzhao's serious expression, and was a little unable to accept his words for a moment, "I still have to pay money? I am the major shareholder of the group!"

"You still know that you are the major shareholder? You want the group's employees to work for the Ming army for free without paying any money. Are you contributing to the group or poaching its employees?" Zhu Houxuan said without showing any weakness.

Zhu Houzhao was speechless.

"Is it difficult to pay a deposit of 10,000 taels first? Can't you just go through the Ministry of War's account?" Zhu Houxuan instigated.

Zhu Houzhao had also thought so, but subconsciously he did not want to go through the Ministry of War’s account. If the Ministry of War paid, wouldn’t the medal of honor be awarded in the name of the Ministry of War?
He just wanted to bypass the Ministry of War to establish a medal of honor system for the Ming army, and medals of honor could only be awarded to Ming army soldiers in his name.

There is a big difference between granting it in the name of the Ming Emperor and granting it in the name of the Ming Ministry of War.
In fact, Zhu Houzhao could also come up with 10,000 taels of silver, as he could still take out this money from his treasury, but when he saw Zhu Houxuan's official manner, he felt a little itchy.

His eyes rolled and he thought of another idea. "As a major shareholder of the group, don't I get dividends every year? I'll put this expense in my account first! When there is a dividend at the end of the year, I'll deduct it from the dividend."

Zhu Houxuan looked at Zhu Houzhao helplessly and said bitterly: "Didn't the major shareholder discuss this with the second largest shareholder before? There will be no dividends this year, but starting next year."

Zhu Houzhao was even happier to see Zhu Houxun being humiliated, and said proudly: "Then put it in the account and deduct it from next year's dividends."

(End of this chapter)