When he set off, Xiang Zhen was still full of ambition and high spirits.

In the eyes of the Lingnan Xiang Group, the current Li Ze's life is actually not easy, the Northeast is not peaceful, although Zhang Zhongwu is temporarily a minister, but such an unruly guy, you expect him to lie in wait for a lifetime, but I am afraid it is impossible. Zhang Zhongwu is like an acne, although it is not fatal now, but as time goes by, no one knows what this acne will look like and how harmful it will be?

Therefore, Li Ze had to still have a heavy army stationed in the northeast, and his own uncle Li Anmin was even the assassin in Mozhou, and it was clear who he was guarding against.

And in the northwest, I just fought a big battle with Tocharo, although I won, but it was not so easy, Hedong chaos, Ansui chaos, these two major areas, the vitality is greatly damaged, and if you want to recover, it is not something that can be done in a short time.

On the other hand, Chang'an Daliang, sitting in the Central Plains and Guanzhong, these two places are the foundation of the emperor, and most of the people who have always mastered these two places have finally achieved a great cause. When Li Ze and Zhang Zhongwu and Tocharo were fighting, Zhu Wen was silently digesting the land of Guanzhong, and strengthening his rule in the Central Plains.

It is no exaggeration to say that the whole South is now terrified. The remarks of giving in to Zhu Wen were very loud.

At this time, Lingnan Jiedu, which was very powerful in the southeast, showed goodwill to the Zhenzhou court, was willing to surrender, and was willing to support the Zhenzhou Son of Heaven, which was the greatest help to Li Ze.

Of course, it cannot be denied that Xiang Shi also has his own political considerations in doing this. But then again, if you don't have your own ideas, why would Xiang be like this?

In the current situation, if the Xiang clan is willing to be a vassal to Zhu Wen, I am afraid that Zhu Wen will ask Zhu Wen to be the king of the Xiang clan side by side, and Zhu Wen will also agree.

Along the way, Xiang Zhen was very happy.

As long as Li Ze nods, his daughter will become the queen, which is a big leap forward for the Xiang clan in terms of political status, and the Xiang clan will also enter the ruling core of the Tang Dynasty, and will no longer be a local overlord in a remote corner.

With this name, Xiang has a further stage.

The name of this thing is also strange to say. Sometimes, he is not worth a penny, and he is not worth anything, but sometimes, he is worth a lot of money, and he can't buy it with money.

It seems that Li Ze used to be just like the Xiang family, but he was just a candidate in the north, but since he got the Son of Heaven to Zhenzhou, he has changed his body and issued orders to the candidates in the world in a grand manner.

It's one thing to listen or not to listen, but it's another thing to have the qualifications.

As long as you have this qualification, you only need to have the time to do it, and everything will fall into place.

Without this qualification, even if you have this opportunity, everyone will take your words as a joke.

Is the current emperor a puppet? It doesn't matter, as long as he becomes Xiang's son-in-law, then he will have the capital to negotiate with Li Ze, not to mention, in the Zhenzhou court, the little emperor is not alone, whether it is Xue Ping, Han Qi, Tian Lingzi, they are all the emperor's henchmen and natural allies of the Xiang family.

There are ministers in the court, and there are soldiers and horses in the locality, who dares to say that the emperor is a puppet?

The Xiang clan is not like Han Qi and others in the past, who were involved by Li Ze in everything, and in the end, Li Ze secretly calculated and buried the good strength in his hand. The Xiang family was far away in the southeast, and Li Ze wanted to stretch out his hand, but he couldn't.

On the contrary, Li Ze needs to rely on the Xiang clan for the situation in the south!

But when Xiang Zhen arrived in Haixing, he was beaten on the head.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, when Xiang Zhen's remaining merchant ships were preparing to enter the port, the Tang Army's sailors also returned from offshore training, and the merchant ships were naturally not qualified to argue with the sailors, so they obediently got out of the way and waited for the sailors to enter the port first.

When he saw the huge Sea Falcon-class naval division battleship slowly sailing into the harbor from the side of the merchant ship in shame, the huge sense of unavoidable depression made Xiang Zhen's face a little pale.

The most important place under the command of Lingnan Jiedu is Guangzhou, the foreign port of Quanzhou, which is the largest source of wealth for Xiang's family, so Xiang's also has a sailor.

However, the sailors of the Xiang clan have never owned a sea falcon-class sailor warship, and such a level of naval warship only stays in history books or legends. Now, it won't be built at all.

Xiang Zhen didn't expect that when he had just arrived on Li Ze's territory, he would see such a majestic warship, compared with the Sea Falcon-class warship, the merchant ship he was on was like a child's toy, even if the battleship had slowed down when it entered the port, but with the weight of his own big man, the waves discharging the water made the merchant ship under his feet fluctuate.

The Sea Falcon-class battleship was followed by several warships that looked normal, but Xiang Zhen was an expert, and at a glance, he could see that these warships were very different from the Lingnan Navy warships.

Although there are a lot of warships in the Lingnan Naval Division, they are basically rebuilt with merchant ships. There is still a huge difference with a real battleship.

Merchant ships, no matter how they are modified, are still very far behind the warships that were designed to be used for combat at the beginning.

The port of Haixing, it seems that it has never been built, it has been constantly expanding, and at this moment, the port is already full of merchant ships from all over the world, even on the sea outside the port, like the merchant ships that Xiang Zhen boarded, there are still many merchant ships moored on the sea waiting to enter the port.

Xiang Zhen even saw the flags of some sea merchants that he was once familiar with.

This made him feel a burst of pain in his heart.

The rise of Haixing is a loss of real money for Lingnan. Originally, these merchant ships that came overseas, whether local or foreign, could dock and trade, that is, Guangzhou and Quanzhou in Lingnan, but now, they have one more choice.

The most annoying thing is that in order to compete for these people, Haixing gave them huge preferential treatment on top of taxes, and built a large number of supporting facilities for them in Haixing.

Like the large warehouses that are used to turn over these merchants at low prices, there is absolutely no one in Lingnan.

More and more maritime merchants are choosing Haixing. This can be seen from the income of Lingnan's City Park Division in the past two years, which has declined too much.

All the way from Cangzhou, Xiang Zhen became more and more silent.

Cangzhou and other places are prosperous, and he still has some psychological preparations, but after arriving in Texas, he was shocked.

Texas, because of Li Ze's fire and forced relocation, almost turned this area into a dead land, only four or five years of hard work, and it has regained the prosperity of the past. And Gao Xiangsheng acted as a qualified tour guide, introducing him to the current situation in Texas all the way.

Texas, on the whole, is a huge workshop area, on top of each river, there are huge machinery using water power, and with these, there are large areas of factories, these factories in Texas, have completely abandoned the miniaturization and decentralization of the past, but all the manpower and material resources are concentrated together.

In Texas, these people who work in factories are called workers.

From Gao Xiangsheng's mouth, Xiang Zhen knew for the first time what is called large-scale operation and what is called assembly line operation, and after induction, it is one thing, reduce costs and maximize efficiency.

They even gathered together to do such things as raising chickens, ducks, and pigs. It's hard to imagine the magnificence of a farm with thousands of pigs.

"When the business is over, when we are waiting for the return trip, we can have a good visit to our Texas." Gao Xiangsheng said with great interest: "Just like farming, I didn't know that there were so many doorways in the past, and so many industrial categories could be derived. Eggs and chicken can be sold for money, chicken feathers can be sold for money, and even chicken manure can be sold for money. ”

"Manure can also be sold for money?"

"Of course." Gao Xiangsheng said with a smile: "The farmers who farm the land are rushing to get it!" ”

Xiang Zhen was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know how much these workers pay in January?" ”

"It's a long list." Gao Xiangsheng shook his head and said, "I don't know too well, but all in all, the higher the technical content, the higher the salary." In addition to salary, there are also a variable number of bonuses each year. ”

"Bounty?"

"In Texas, it's called a bonus." Gao Xiangsheng said: "Sometimes, the amount of bonuses is even much higher than one's own salary. For example, in the workshop specializing in the production of crossbow machines, because the workshop has completed the standardized production process of all parts, so that all the parts on the crossbow machines of our army have reached an agreement on the standards, and the most ordinary workers in this workshop have received a bonus of 100 yuan. ”

"So much?"

"Li Xiang said that compared to the value they create, this money is nothing at all."

"And how many workers in Texas get the least money each month?"

"It should be no less than two dollars a month, right?" High elephant ascension. "Generally speaking, there are at least two laborers in a family, and even if they get the lowest salary, they have an income of four yuan, which is not less."

It's not too little, it's just too much. Xiang Zhen knows very well that in Lingnan, ordinary people, in a year, can have an income of more than ten yuan, it is very good. And this is a far cry from even the lowest-income people in Texas.

"Du Yuhou, to tell you the truth, such a concentration of all people together for large-scale production, in addition to reducing costs and improving efficiency, also has another very important role. Du Yuhou is not an outsider, so it doesn't matter if he listens to you. "The high elephant ascended.

"I want to hear about it!"

"It's much easier to organise these workers than it is to organize the peasants." Gao Xiangsheng said: "All the workshops in Texas will have one to three days of military training every month, of course, it is rotation training, without affecting the production, the workers here have the most basic military quality, the whole Texas, it seems that there is no garrison, but as long as an order, in an instant, can arm an army of tens of thousands of people." ”