Opening a few dyeing houses and hiring a few people to do the work will bud capitalism, which is too child's play. If capitalism wants to arise, there must be that soil, a culture of respect for businessmen and respect for wealth. Without the concept of the state and the nation, there is no idea of defending the country and defending national independence. In the eyes of the common people, it is just a group of people fighting another group of people, whoever wins, who can give a way to live, and who has less taxes, will help whom.

Wu Xiang was secretly speculating about Wei Bao's words, he didn't think that Wei Bao's words were anything rebellious, and he himself often talked about the governance of the Ming Dynasty. Wei Bao was able to talk to him about these thoughts, but it made Wu Xiang feel that this was Wei Bao showing favor to himself.

Before Wei Bao agreed to the garrison of Weijiazhuang on the spot, it made Wu Xiang feel that Wei Bao was not completely 'incurable', completely unable to win over, unable to 'transform', and waiting for Weijiazhuang to develop for a while, recognizing Weijiazhuang's status in western Liaoning, it is a rising force, and it has no big impact on the overall situation in Liaoxi and Liaodong, as long as Wei Bao can take his Wu family as the head of the horse and surrender to the ancestral Wu family, everything can be discussed.

Besides, among the people present, there was a genuine brocade guard, Li Chengnei, who grabbed someone's words and held on, it was useless.

The main Wu Xiang also recognized Wei Bao's words, and the Ming Dynasty began to decline from the late Wanli Dynasty.

Wei Bao dared to talk to Wu Xiang like this, because he wanted to see what stage the idea of a person like Wu Xiang could break through?

Wei Bao is not afraid that someone will enter Weijiazhuang to check, in fact, the things that cannot be seen are hidden in the warship bay, and the rest of Weijiazhuang is no different from the manor of the big landlord in this era.

Because of the emperor's seal, no one is allowed to enter the place where Emperor Qin enters the sea to seek immortals, so there is no need to worry about Wu Xiang daring to ask someone to go straight to Warship Bay.

Weijiazhuang is just developing fast, spreading out a large stall, all the construction is in full swing, tense but orderly, but there is no violation of the Ming law.

If it's a bit foul, it's just that it absorbs too many people who are not locals.

At this point, Wei Bao is not worried, which landlord's family does not have a few 'black workers'? This kind of thing is not easy to check. As long as you can raise it, you can get as many people as you like to work, and you can get as many people as you like.

"Wei Gongzi has a lot of ideas, you are still a showman, and you are already thinking about things for the prefect of Yongping Mansion. Hahaha. Wu Xiang smiled: "I don't know what capitalism Wei Gongzi is talking about, I only know that the regulations that have been passed down from generation to generation are very good." The people of the Ming Dynasty live and work in peace and contentment. ”

Wei Bao listened to Wu Xiang's official words, and smiled without refuting.

Wu Xiang looked at Wei Bao's high-spirited appearance, and a rare smile appeared on his face.

Wu Xiang already admired Wei Bao very much, otherwise, he would not have vaguely tempted Wei Bao at the beginning, and wanted to accept him as a son-in-law.

Wu Xuexia has been silently observing her father and Wei Bao, although she couldn't quite understand what Wei Bao said just now, but seeing her father's calm face, it didn't seem like he was angry with Wei Bao, and she was secretly happy in her heart. This time, I insisted on coming to Weijiazhuang, mainly because I was afraid that Wei Bao and his father would clash again.

"Dad, just let people garrison the harbor, right? I'm going to have them build a barracks now? Wu Sanfeng said at this time.

Everyone frowned when they heard this, especially the people on Wei Bao's side, Wu Xiang wanted to garrison troops in Weijiazhuang, which was already very disgusting to them, knowing that although Gongzi agreed happily, he must be very aggrieved in his heart.

Now that they have promised to let you garrison the troops, what are you still saying about it at this festive moment when the ribbon is about to be cut? Rock the boat?

Wu Sanfeng is deliberately stirring up trouble, I wish my father and Wei Bao choked, according to Wu Sanfeng's meaning, this time my father should not come, order him a team, let him bring Weijiazhuang to play prestige, if the people of Weijiazhuang dare to do it, they will destroy Weijiazhuang!

Wu Sanfeng didn't consider that Weijiazhuang was no longer what it used to be, and still didn't take Wei Bao and Weijiazhuang in his eyes, thinking that with one or two thousand officers and soldiers, killing Weijiazhuang was like trampling a dog to death.

Wu Xiang glared at Wu Sanfeng: "There are no rules, when I speak, it's your turn to rub your mouth?" ”

Wu Sanfeng smiled and hurriedly closed his mouth, knowing that his father was unhappy, otherwise his father would rarely teach him a lesson in front of outsiders.

Wu Xuexia, Wu Sanfu and Wu Sangui all sighed secretly, even Wu Sangui, who was two years younger than Wei Bao, knew that the eldest brother interjected when his father was talking, which was a very uneducated thing.

Wu Sangui is a dragon outside, but in front of Wu Xiang, he is a respectful and well-behaved and obedient child.

Wu Sanfeng was angry in his heart, on the one hand, he interjected to provoke trouble, on the other hand, because what kind of generation Wei Bao is, he is the same generation as him, what qualifications does he have as a junior to talk with his father on an equal footing?

"These big ships are not simple, Wei Gongzi has a capable person to build a ship?" Wu Xiang pointed to the dozen or so large treasure ships neatly docked on the edge of the harbor and diverted the topic. He knows that shipbuilding is not a simple process. Craftsmen who can build ships can take on almost any job.

"There are a couple of shipbuilders." Wei Bao replied indifferently.

Wu Xiang nodded: "This is a very rare craft in Liaoxi. ”

"If I can, I hope to do some business at sea, why is Bohai Bay controlled by the Dongjiang Army? There should have been a share of our Liaoxi people," Wei Bao took the opportunity to instigate.

Wu Xiang looked at Wei Bao and immediately understood Wei Bao's intentions: "If Wei Gongzi has the ability to open a business in the Bohai Sea, I believe that all the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong are willing to see it, and most of them are still willing to cooperate with Wei Gongzi." ”

After cutting the ribbon, Wu Xiang proposed to look around.

Wei Bao nodded: "Okay, it's still early, but Lord Wu had better go back in time for dinner, don't go hungry." ”

"In fact, I have seen a lot of scenery along the way, the farmland of Weijiazhuang, the opening of wasteland, the construction of roads, the repair of river embankments and seawalls, I have seen them, it is really good. Let's go see Wei Gongzi's workshop? I've heard that you've set up a bunch of workshops. Wu Xiang proposed.

Wei Bao didn't understand what Wu Xiang meant, what was he doing in his factory area? But he readily agreed. Except for Warship Bay, there is nothing that he can't be seen, there are no metal mines, everything is within the scope of the Da Ming Law.

"It's all a small workshop, if the adults are interested, I'll accompany the adults to have a look now." Wei Bao Road.

Wu Xiang made a gesture of please, and Wei Bao hurriedly returned the salute. The two men fellowship with the rites of a literati.

This trip to Wu Xianglai used the attack method of the literati, so Wei Bao also needed to use the defense method of the literati.

When the two sides are not capable of using force, the literati's attack and defense methods are even more powerful than swords and swords.

This is a game without gunpowder.

The people got back on their horses and got into the wagons.

Wu Xuexia was secretly happy to see Wei Bao talking to her father, it was rare to see her father talking so much to others, not to mention a 14-year-old young man like Wei Bao, Wei Bao was one year younger than herself.

Wu Sanfu saw Wu Xuexia's thoughts, and after sitting in the carriage, he said softly to Wu Xuexia: "How is it?" Are you happy to see your father appreciating Wei Bao? ”

"Brother, what are you talking about? What am I happy about? Wu Xuexia's face instantly turned red with shame, and she went to see Wu Xiang's face.

Wu Xiang heard the two of them talking, but pretended not to hear, and admired the scenery of Weijiazhuang from the gap between the curtain curtains of the carriage window.

"Dad, do you want to reconcile with Wei Bao? Actually, Wei Bao is really good, I have never met such a smart person as Wei Bao. Wu Sanfu took the opportunity to help Wei Bao say good things: "If he is on his own ground, let's not send people to Weijiazhuang, right?" What is the use of a garrison? The sea is controlled by the Mao family, and this is not a market town, there are no merchants to do business, and there is no benefit. ”

"Sanfu, what are you talking about? Let's send a team of people here, and they're not comfortable! How can we say that it is useless to have information about anything, we can also get the news immediately? Wu Sanfeng immediately refuted.

"Big brother is right, you can't make Wei Bao feel better! Dad, my injury is almost healed, wait for you to mention it to Wei Bao, I want to compete with Wei Bao again, this time I will never lose! Wu Sangui said. Losing to Wei Bao last time, Wu Sangui was angry, and all he was thinking about these days was to compete with Wei Bao again.

"Are you still thinking about jousting? Wei Bao can't compete with you anymore. Wu Sanfu said: "If he competes with you again, who else will make a one-sided bet?" If the bets on both sides are similar, you can't make money, what is it better than? ”

"I don't want to beat him and kill him for the money." Wu Sangui said tyrannically. Although he has been holding back his anger since coming to Weijiazhuang, he is now a family member, and there are no outsiders, so he naturally does not have to endure it.

"What problems can be solved? Is the Wu family's family business based on fighting? Wu Xuexia said coldly: "Isn't it so that you can learn Daddy's way of doing things?"

"Xuexia, Sanfu, I have to talk about you, you don't understand the sinister hearts of people, then Wei Bao just promised the Weijiazhuang garrison, but he was obedient on the surface, and he didn't dare to provoke our Wu family. And my father is the official of the command of the Shanhai Guard, he is the people under our rule, if he is not allowed, it is a loss, do you really think he is willing to bow to the Wu family? If you are willing to bow your head, let him return the gold! I will take the 120,000 taels of gold from our Wu family and return it. Wu Sanfeng said.

Wu Sanfeng's words strongly aroused Wu Xiang's anger, because Wu Sanfeng knew his father's temperament very well, and his father regarded silver as bigger than anything else, not to mention 120,000 taels of gold, which is equivalent to a huge wealth of more than three million taels of silver!

Wu Xiang quietly listened to a few people talking, jolting in the slightly shaking carriage, slightly closing his eyes to recuperate, and still not speaking.

A few people talked for a while, but when they saw that their father refused to speak, they stopped talking. Divided into two factions to chat, Wu Sanfeng and Wu Sangui faction, Wu Xuexia and Wu Sanfu faction.

When he arrived in the industrial zone, Wei Bao personally accompanied, like a modern township boss accompanying the provincial leaders to visit, Wei Bao explained each workshop in detail.

Wu Xiang saw Wei Bao's winery and spoke highly of the four special wines made by Weibao winery, especially the wine bottles that were bottled.

Weibao's winery wine packaging is divided into bottled and bulk, the best grade is bottled packaging, taking the high-end route, and the second-class wine is also the same as the wine of this era, using wine jars.

"I heard that this time the siege of the Jinzhou Peninsula was lifted, and it was the Liaoxi people who brought bombs made of this kind of glass bottle to help the defenders of Jinzhou City, so they repelled Jiannu, are they the people on Wei Gongzi Zhuangzi?" Wu Xiang asked.

Wei Bao smiled, secretly thinking that your old boy's news is really well-informed, someone from the capital sent me a plaque, you know so quickly, we have just returned from the Jinzhou Peninsula, and you know that we sent people to Liaodong to fight, and used a wine bottle bomb: "I don't know about this, our land is vast and sparsely populated, and I don't know many people." ”

Wu Xiang smiled, and when he saw that Wei Bao refused to admit it, he said: "It's a pity that Wei Gongzi has such a good wine, there is no way to sell Wei Jiazhuang, it's a pity." ”

In fact, Wu Xiang is not keen on restricting Wei Bao's business, the Wu family's business is mainly the same as that of the Jin merchants, relying on business with Jiannu and the Mongols to make money, and domestic trade actually can't make a few silver.

In this era when almost everything can be produced and consumed by themselves, the biggest business of the common people is food and clothing, and the villagers have grain, they will not buy it, and when there is no food, it is generally the current food shortage, and they can't get the silver if they want to buy, and the big families are all landlords, and there is a lot of grain at home, so naturally they don't need to buy it.

Therefore, the grain business that ranks first, even if it monopolizes the entire Liaodong market in western Liaoning, with a population of more than one million, and the annual turnover is only four or five million taels of silver.

The grain business is still like this, and the second-level cloth business is not much profitable.

Therefore, the Wu family earns more than one million taels of silver in the local market in western Liaoning every year! Even if Wei Bao is allowed to go out of Weijiazhuang to do business freely, it will at most share one or two percent of the Wu family's profits, after all, with the Wu family operating for many years, and the advantages of a big family and a good relationship with a large number of big families, Wei Bao will not be able to shake the status of the Wu family in the short term.

Therefore, Wu Xiang came this time, and there is another meaning, that is, if Wei Bao's 'attitude' is good, he is willing to bow his head, and he is willing to take out his family's gold that he put in his pocket last time, he can consider letting Wei Bao go, so that Wei Bao has the right to do business in western Liaoning.

Wei Bao looked at Wu Xiang, blinked his eyes, and then looked at Wu Xuexia behind Wu Xiang, only to see Wu Xuexia looking at himself expectantly, Wei Bao immediately understood, and Wu Xiang made a move to himself again, this is to alleviate the contradiction?

Then Wei Bao smiled at Wu Xiang and said, "Listening to the meaning of the adults, can you agree that our Tiandi firm is operating in Liaoxi?" Don't you want people to mess around in our shop anymore? ”

Wu Xiang sneered, and was not disgusted by what Wei Bao said, and let people go to Wei Bao's store to make trouble, naturally he sent someone to do it, "You can not mention the past disputes." As long as Wei Gongzi returns all the gold and silver won in the last ring competition, I can guarantee that Wei Gongzi will do business in Liaoxi in the future, and no one will make any irresponsible remarks. However, I have one condition, in the future, you have to provide me with this kind of wine bottle directly, and you can only sell it to me. Our family's winery also wanted to use this kind of bottle. Moreover, after the wine is drunk, it is best to make this bottle into a bomb, and when Jiannu attacks the city, we will have one more weapon to defend the city! This is a great thing to contribute to the court and the people. ”

Wei Bao smiled, and immediately understood Wu Xiang's intention for this trip, mainly to get back the gold, and to help a group of big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong to get back the gambling silver, the secondary purpose, this is to value my brother's 'arms', even if you don't provide fire, you can provide wine bottles and detonators, it is equivalent to selling arms, how much profit there is, Wei Bao knows very well.

Wei Bao didn't think about it, and directly saw the move: "Lord Wu, I can return all your gold!" But I will return a small half of the other people's silver, two million taels at most! Moreover, these gold and silver cannot be returned all at once, I will return them after three years! Otherwise, there is no such reason in the world, and the gold and silver that have been won openly and honestly will not make sense where to put it if it is returned. As for Lord Wu wanting to buy my wine bottle, it's not impossible, but not only do we have a high level of technology for the wine bottle, but if we want to use it to make a bomb, we have to pretend to have a detonating device and a safety device inside the lid of the wine bottle, which are all very high-tech! I had proposed cooperation to Mr. Wu before, but Mr. Wu insisted that I transfer technology. It's still Lord Wu on the road. ”

Wu Xiang glanced at Wu Sanfeng, secretly blaming such a big thing, why didn't Wu Sanfeng talk about it to himself?

Wu Sanfeng blushed and hurriedly bowed his head, in fact, the last time Wu Sanfeng came to Weijiazhuang, Wei Bao did propose to him about cooperation, wanted to promote glass as soon as possible, and wanted the Wu family to become a big distributor of the Wei family, but was rejected by Wu Sanfeng, Wu Sanfeng wanted to directly get Wei Bao's glass manufacturing technology.

Wu Xiang thought for a while: "Three years later, Wei Gongzi returned the 120,000 taels of gold to our Wu family? Return 2 million taels of silver won last time? And sell me this glass bottle that can make bombs? ”

Wei Bao nodded: "Yes, however, there is another condition, I hope that Lord Wu will help me invite all the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong to Weijiazhuang, and I will reconcile with everyone in person." I, Wei Bao, have always been a mouthful of spit and a nail when I speak, since I can do what I say, I can make a note! In addition, everyone should jointly raise the East White Tower, and merge Houmafangli, Xinqueli, and Jinshanli to form Weijiazhuang, and ask the imperial court to ask His Majesty to give me a plaque of Weijiazhuang. That way, I can have peace of mind. ”

Wu Xiang put forward his request, and Wei Bao also put forward his own conditions.

For a moment, Wu Xiang and Wei Bao were silent.

What kind of character Wu Xiang is, he naturally knows that Wei Bao can get a sign of Weijiazhuang Port, and he must have spent a lot of money and gone through a lot of relationships to get it.

Most of them just walked through the door of the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and others did not have such great power.

But Wei Zhongxian also has to take care of the Liaoxi and Liaodong families! Therefore, I didn't dare to draw the four miles of Weijiazhuang casually and authorize Wei Bao separately, for fear that the generals of the family in Liaoxi and Liaodong would oppose it and cause a big dispute.

But if it is lifted from the bottom to the top, and the big families in Liaodong and Liaodong in Liaoxi raise Weijiazhuang by themselves, and ask the emperor to give a plaque, the nature is different, Wei Bao has opened up the joint, and this matter will come naturally!

Wu Xiang knows very well that just there is the brand of Weijiazhuang Port, but there is no brand of Weijiazhuang, this Weijiazhuang is not in Wei Bao's hands, including these four, even if Wei Bao owns all the land, it is still not in Wei Bao's hands, because Wei Commander can make the division at any time, just like he is now, if he wants to send troops to station, he can send troops to station, and if he wants to send officials to verify, he can send officials to verify.

But if Weijiazhuang really has the brand of the imperial gift, it is justifiably integrated, and only obeys Wei Bao, this is very different, and it is equivalent to drawing out of Liaoxi alone! Wei Bao will suddenly become a first-class family in Liaoxi and Liaodong, and he can sit on an equal footing with the ancestral family and his Wu family.

In this situation, Wei Bao is still only a rich family in the township, if Wei Bao gets an official position in the future, obtains real power, and accumulates a certain amount of qualifications and contacts in the court, Wei Jiazhuang and Wei Bao will be extraordinary, and the Wu family and the ancestral family can master it!

Wei Bao's thoughts, Wu Xiang can figure it out, but Wei Bao offered to return his 120,000 taels of silver, this condition is really tempting!

Moreover, if the Wu family can get the right to sell this kind of wine bottle made by Wei Bao, then how much silver will he have to make when he secretly sells it to Jiannu and Mo Nan?

Wu Xiang hesitated for a moment.

"Daddy." Wu Sanfeng saw that his father was really in thought, and he was anxious at that time, for fear that his father would fall into Wei Bao's plan with a bad stomach!

Wu Xiang raised his hand, interrupted Wu Sanfeng, and didn't let him speak, so he said to Wei Bao: "Master Wei, this matter has a lot to do with it, and I can't answer it alone, let me think about it." Let's go to another workshop, shall we? Such a large area, such a dense bunch of workshops, not to mention the north of the Ming Dynasty, I think, even the rich places in Jinling, Susong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are not necessarily them. ”

Wei Bao smiled and said, "Lord Wu has won the prize, please." ”

Wu Xiang was not in a hurry, and Wei Bao was even less anxious.

In fact, Wei Bao is far more anxious than Wu Xiang!

Wu Xiang came today to attack and show off his power to Wei Bao! Whether it succeeds or not, he will not suffer.

If Wei Bao wants to immediately expand his business rights to western Liaoning and expand his business rights outside the Guan, he must first gain a firm foothold in the local area, and he must have a good relationship with a big family like the Wu family's ancestral family, not to mention how good the relationship is, at least to restore the relationship form below the hostile relationship.

Accompanied by Wei Bao, Wu Xiang went to see various workshops again, and was amazed by these workshops in Weijiazhuang, because all of them were techniques he had never seen!

Moreover, Wu Xiang saw how Weijiazhuang used the kind of boiling water and then drove the rotating machine up close, and he was even more surprised, with this kind of machine, how much manpower will be saved? One person can do the work of hundreds or thousands of people, if the restrictions on Weijiazhuang are really lifted, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty will be able to compete with Wei Bao in business.

Everywhere Wu Xiang went, he praised Wei Bao, and after knowing that all the inventions came from Wei Bao, he even admired Wei Bao's astonishment, which made Wu Sanfeng and Wu Sangui jealous, and Wu Sanfu and Wu Xuexia were very happy.

Most of the people behind Wei Bao were happy, and everyone was willing to listen to good words, especially to hear people praise Gongzi, who was happier than praising them.

There is only one person who is very worried, and that is Zhao Kehu.

Zhao Kehu just listened to Wu Xiang and Wei Bao's respective requests, and admired Wei Bao for having a corresponding strategy so quickly, if Wu Xiang could really agree to Wei Bao's conditions, in the future, the Tiandi firm would be able to do business in Liaoxi in a proper manner, and it was only a matter of time before it developed and expanded.

Moreover, if the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong can really join forces to raise Weijiazhuang and ask the imperial court to ask the emperor to give Weijiazhuang a plaque, then Weijiazhuang and Weibao will no longer have to worry about being attacked by force locally.

How good is that?

It's just that Wu Xiang visited every workshop of Wei Bao in a strange and serious way, and praised it on the other hand, which made Zhao Kehu worried, Zhao Kehu knew that the more praise Wu Xiang had, the more worried Wei Bao would be! Because not to mention that Wei Bao has so many industries and so many technologies, just one or two such workshops can make Weijiazhuang a peak in the West Liaoning shopping mall.

When Wu Xiang visited the textile factory and the dyeing factory, this sentiment reached a peak.

Wu Xiang was shocked by the picture of hundreds of people weaving cloth with machines!

Not only Wu Xiang, but everyone present was shocked.

Except for a few of Wei Bao's chief stewards who have had the opportunity to follow Wei Bao into textile factories and dyeing factories, including Zhao Kehu, Hou Lixing, Bai Pengfu and others, none of them have come here yet.