And how important Yanyun County is and how awesome I am, you Li Shi should also know that, right?
As long as you let me rely on you, let me rely on you, then maybe I can still give you some greenery in the future... and make your mountains and rivers beautiful.
As the saying goes, if the mountain is not high, there will be immortals. If the water is not deep, there will be dragons. From now on, I, Xiao Chen, will hide in the abyss and cultivate immortality in your mountain. Once I achieve the true fruition, the dragon will fly to the nine heavens. Isn't that right for you?
Quite beneficial?
Of course, there is a premise here, that is, I have to stay alive...
The advice you just gave me, Your Majesty, I have already received from others, so it is of no use. If you want to win over my fierce loyalty, you must be more practical.
"I can't help you with food and grass, but I can lend you some money. This is lent to you personally... Don't be in a hurry to thank me, I have to charge interest! Even if you die, you will be charged, but
As long as you don't die, you have to pay me back!" Li Shi started venture capital.
"That's necessary!" Xiao Chen promised.
"Go back and find Ma Wuming. He has a factory outside Fengyang City. There are many skilled craftsmen who have just been recruited from all over the country. There are also all kinds of wood and iron materials. Go over and take a look. Just use what is needed.
That’s it.” Li Shi’s investment was more than just money.
"Oh, Your Majesty, your reward is really too heavy. I, my slave..." Xiao Chen was overjoyed and made a show of kneeling down to thank him.
"You kid, don't do this to me! Also, Xiao Chen, you are a hero, but you are not a slave. I have never regarded you as a slave." Li Shi sighed first, and then his expression became solemn and his words became more serious.
"My lord, thank you, Your Majesty." Xiao Chen expressed that he was very touched, but he felt happy at the moment, otherwise it would have been better if he had squeezed out a few tears.
"Xiao Chen, I want to ask you something." Li Shi's voice was almost inaudible.
"Your Majesty, please speak." Xiao Chen knew what he wanted to ask.
"The prince was assassinated..." I don't know if it was an illusion, but Li Shi's voice sounded a little trembling.
"The prince's assassination was God's will." Xiao Chen hesitated for a long time before speaking softly. The amount of information was quite large.
"Oh...it's God's will." Li Shi let out a long breath.
Although Xiao Chen didn't say it explicitly, who else could there be besides Li Wanjiang?
Li Shi was so generous that he directly gave Xiao Chen a banknote of 500,000 taels, claiming that it was all his property, whether Xiao Chen believed it or not.
So you better be careful when you go here! It doesn’t matter if you die, my five hundred thousand silver cannot be wasted!
I'm still waiting to receive interest.
After bidding farewell to Li Shi, Xiao Chen rushed to the Ministry of Industry without stopping. At the door, he met Li Hong, a fat man who had just got off the sedan. As soon as Li Hong saw him, he looked like he had seen a ghost. He turned around and ran away. However, he was fat and could only run two steps.
Out of breath, Xiao Chen caught up and caught him.
"Oh, brother Xiao, isn't that right? I don't have a good look, so I didn't even see it. So what? I'm still busy talking to Ma Shangshu about something, so I won't accompany you for now..." Li Hong's eyes wandered.
, consider him right and left.
"Li Shilang, you are not very proud! Why are you so affectionate when you are a brother and a brother? Now that my brother is in trouble, I am just a passerby?" Xiao Chen said angrily.
"What kind of trouble? You are the General of the Northern Expedition who was personally appointed by the Emperor. You also have the King's flag, the Marshal's seal, and the sword of Shangfang... That's a great development. Brother, I will never be able to climb higher. So you can see
I just backed away because of you." Li Hong said this without blushing at all.
"It's so cruel that human relationships are cold and warm, and the world is cold and cold!" Xiao Chen complained loudly.
People were coming and going at the entrance to the industrial department, and everyone looked at them in surprise when they saw Mr. Xiao and Mr. Zuo Shilang openly quarreling.
"I happen to be going to see Ma Shangshu, let's go in together." Xiao Chen pulled him and rushed in, but was stopped by the guard at the door.
"What the hell are you doing? You don't know who I am!" Xiao Chen has a bad temper now. He is completely different from the humble and polite person he used to be.
"Master Xiao, can we brothers not recognize you? But this Minister Ma has an order... No, Master Ma has something to do and he is not here." An officer hurriedly stepped forward to apologize.
"Fart, the minister of the Ministry of Industry is not in the Ministry of Industry, how can he still be in the Ministry of Household Affairs? I am also in the Ministry of Household Affairs, so why is the threshold of your Ministry of Works higher than that of the Ministry of Household Affairs?" Xiao Chen didn't listen at all and raised his head.
He held his chest high and strode in. The guard wanted to stop him, but was pushed away by the brothers from the West Factory who were following him. The factory manager was doing something, who dared to stop him?
Really no one dares.
All the way into the back hall, when there was no one in front of him, Li Hong wiped the sweat from his forehead and complained, "Why are you paying attention to me in front of so many people? Can't you pretend you didn't see me?"
"It's hard not to see such a majestic body like yours. Besides, who doesn't know how good we two are? If you pretend not to know each other, isn't that just trying to cover up your appearance? Why don't you have a fight and show it to them?" Xiao Chen said with a smile.
The two of them have always had a good relationship in private. As soon as the news about Xiao Chen being sent to Northern Xinjiang came out, Li Hong quietly went to find him and persuaded him to run away quickly...
This guy is absolutely trustworthy.
The quarrel at the door just now was actually a cover-up.
Ma Wuming ordered the concierge not to allow Xiao Chen to come in. In fact, it was to cover up others' deception. When he heard that Xiao Chen was coming, he immediately put down what he was doing and waited for him at the door of the study.
I knew he dared to break in.
Xiao Chen was invited into the study and Li Hong was asked to wait outside, because what the two of them wanted to say was not suitable for outsiders to know, and neither could Li Hong.
The two talked for a whole hour, but they didn't know what they talked about?
But according to what Li Hong later said, the two had been quarreling so loudly that they almost overturned the entire Ministry of Works!
Why? There are many reasons. It seems that Master Ma owed money to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Mr. Xiao came to ask for it in order to raise military expenses. Mr. Ma refused to give it, and Mr. Xiao was very angry, so he mentioned the heating processing plant again, so there was a quarrel.
It's even more powerful...
Oh, I see, it makes sense.
Because the Ministry of Industry forcibly annexed Mr. Xiao’s heating processing factory, everyone in the civil and military officials knew about it...
It's really too much of a lie.
After leaving the Ministry of Industry, we went straight outside the city and found Ma Wuming's wood processing factory that had not yet been completed.
It is said to be a wood processing factory, but in fact it can process anything...including military industry.
All kinds of the latest instruments and tools in the world, refined steel ingots and iron blocks, rolls of lead sheets, piles of copper and aluminum, treated bamboo boards, as well as piles of paint, gunpowder, cotton thread and other materials
Ten large warehouses were filled.
And they were all brand new. Xiao Chen looked around and was so happy that he couldn't even walk unsteadily.
What a King of Jiangdong, so damn proud!
What makes Xiao Chen most happy is not only these materials, but also the hundreds of skilled craftsmen summoned from all over the country!
There are carpenters, blacksmiths, silversmiths, bricklayers, shipbuilders... and some kind of painter that Xiao Chen has never heard of?
This is really a treasure!
Because talent is the most important no matter which dynasty you are in.