Chapter 40: The Grand Blueprint (I)
"That's all, you don't think I'm taking too much, do you?" Ma Sanbao held five books in his arms, including poems, military books, the history of navigation that he fancied, and a book about the production of munitions.
"No, it won't." Shang Wei smiled, the five books were completely a drop in the bucket for his library, looking at Ma Sanbao's excited appearance, these five books were more important than five hundred taels of silver in Shang Hui's eyes, and the five books were just something that he could make up with a single order, but he didn't know that if it weren't for the Great Yuan Maritime History, the other books would not be very attractive to Ma Sanbao.
What puzzled Ma Sanbao the most was the beautiful child hiding next to the bookshelf, and he was a little curious about whether the child that Shang Wei was going to marry before would be as delicate as this child.
"Prime Minister, we had a good conversation today, I'm leaving." With five books in hand, Ma Sanbao did not have the idea of continuing to stay in Shang Hui's mansion, Ma Sanbao couldn't wait to open the most tempting maritime history among the five books, this anonymous record of the book evoked the memories in his heart, if there was no strange virus, he would not have returned to the Ming Dynasty, but should have commanded the fleet on the deck to win glory for the country.
"If you have time, you can go and check." Shang Wei smiled and watched Ma Sanbao leave, not long after he left the study with his front foot, a little girl sneaked out of his back foot.
"It turns out that that guy is the reincarnation Zhuge who resounded throughout Nanjing City, why did even his father show favor to him?" The little girl blinked her eyes that sparkled like black ink, and under her long, slightly curled eyelashes, her big eyes were full of curiosity.
"You're running away from the smuggler school again!" Just as the little girl got out of the study and was about to run out of the mansion, a stern voice sounded behind her, which frightened the little girl to stop her steps and slowly turn around to face Shang Wei.
"Forget it, I won't blame you this time, you also saw Ma Wenhe, what do you think?" Shang Wei put away his previous serious expression and stared at the little girl with a kind expression.
Shang Hui's change made the little girl a little uncomfortable, "It's good to read and read papers, it's okay, and it's quite obedient, I didn't let him speak out, he really didn't make a sound." ”
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"Your Royal Highness, I always think that Your Majesty is suspicious, this Shang Wei is quite upright, even the mansion is simple and unpretentious, the only thing that has more is his collection of books, so a good official who is sympathetic and loves the people is really a person from Hu Weiyong's faction?" Back at Zhu Di's mansion, Ma Sanbao threw his inner doubts to Zhu Di, and after just one contact, he felt the difference between Shang Wei and Hu Weiyong.
"Did you really go to Shang Hui's mansion? I thought you wouldn't go, didn't you say before that you felt that Shang Wei's eyes were strange, don't you like that feeling? Zhu Di looked at Ma Sanbao, just went to Shang Wei's mansion for an hour, Ma Sanbao seemed to be a different person, he had persuaded Ma Sanbao to go to Shang Hui's mansion to complete the task assigned by his father, and after he came back, Ma Sanbao began to say good things for Shang Wei.
"There are some things, after experiencing it yourself, you will find that you are wrong, people can't look good, and the sea can't fight! I don't think Shang Wei is going to be in the same league as Hu Weiyong. Your Highness, today I visited Shang Hui's mansion, and Shang Wei wanted to introduce his daughter to me, but I refused. Ma Sanbao said that after he came to Daming, he messed with Zhu Di all day long, and Zhu Di didn't put the prince in front of him, and the two became friends who talked about everything.
Hearing that Ma Sanbao rejected Shang Wei's daughter, Zhu Di's eyes widened, "You kid is a little ignorant, even if Shang Wei is not the prime minister, he is also a second-grade official, you don't want to think about whether you and his daughter are not in the right household?" Look at yourself, you are usually extremely smart, how did you become a different person at this juncture? We are good friends with Shang Hui, and we are very good on both sides, I heard that Shang Hui's eldest daughter is sinking fish and geese and closing the moon and flowers, but she is quite old, but unfortunately she has already become a wife. And the youngest daughter likes to read poetry books, and she is good at reciting poetry, although I haven't met, but I think I'm quite a match for you! ”
"Your Royal Highness, feelings, it is about the mutual affection of the two, the twisted melon is not sweet, I found the daughter of a waiter in the study of Lord Shang, she looks very smart, and she is very good-looking, and I don't know if Lord Shang's daughter can compare to her." Ma Sanbao opened his mouth and said, as soon as Shang Wei's daughter was mentioned, he couldn't help but think of the little girl he met not long ago, not that he had any evil thoughts, but that this girl looked innocent, and he inevitably felt love and pity in his heart.
"I really don't know what to say about you, no matter how good-looking the squire's daughter is, she can't compare to Lord Shang! Hey, don't mention it, don't mention it, you elm head, don't open your mind! Zhu Di sighed, thinking that at the age of Ma Sanbao, but at the age of arguing with many maids and maids and young ladies from famous families, if he was fortunate enough to be arranged by Shang Wei to marry, he would not refuse.
Zhu Di's heart has countless words that can refute and reprimand Ma Sanbao, and in the end he still chose to swallow the words that came to his mouth, as the concealment said, feelings need to be happy with each other, although Zhu Di said that there are groups of wives and concubines, but there are not many people who can really be lucky, you say he is happy, right? In fact, it is not the case, after all, he does not have much time to be by his wife and concubine's side, and even some of the concubines don't even have feelings, Zhu Di has also felt happiness, but those happiness are very short-lived.
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Two days later.
Zhu Di and Ma Sanbao's industrial park, because Ma Sanbao opened with the concept of modernization, today's industrial park shipment speed is much faster than Zhu Di's similar, the assembly line of the general production speed allows the industrial park to perfectly connect the supply and demand of the market, but their industries, in Nanjing is enough, in the whole country still seems a little unsatisfactory, has been plaguing Zhu Di The problem is land.
The whole world is the imperial land, and the Hu Weiyong faction that previously managed the land was dealt with by Ma Sanbao before, and now the land is fully owned by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is even more difficult to get land from Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, and now the audit has become more cumbersome, and Ma Sanbao and Zhu Di, who want to expand their business, are at a loss.
Since bringing five books from Shang Hui's house, Ma Sanbao often runs back and forth between the industrial park and Zhu Di's mansion, he does not have his own mansion, and the place where he can live is nothing more than the industrial park and Zhu Di's mansion.
On the map, the most dissatisfied with Ma Sanbao is the definition of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, he was born and raised in Fujian Province in his previous life, in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, although Fujian has the reputation of "Maritime Silk Road", the business is not very developed, Ma Sanbao's industry is far away in Jiangsu, he would like to transform Fujian into the same prosperity as Jiangsu, although Yunnan is his second hometown in this life, but he does not have many feelings for Yunnan.
"Your Highness, if we don't send more goods to Fujian, maybe we can get more business in the West and the East." Ma Sanbao said to Zhu Di, however, Zhu Di frowned and did not agree immediately.
Fujian is like a barbarian land in Zhu Di's eyes, he never thought that although Ma Sanbao was from Yunnan in this life, his soul came from Fujian.
"Fujian? It's been harassed by Oriental pirates all year round, so I'm afraid it's not good to do business, right? Zhu Di is a little helpless, he doesn't know much about Fujian, only heard that the coastal cities of Fujian often encounter the Oriental Japanese Invaders, the Oriental Wolves, the Ming Dynasty is hated to the bone, the coastal cities of the Ming government are often harassed by the Wolves, Zhu Di is not worried about whether the business can be expanded to Fujian.
"Believe me, it will be successful, and Your Highness, we can raise troops in Fujian to fight against the Japanese invaders, given time, maybe we can also start from Fujian, go to the West, and help the Ming Dynasty to play a larger territory, the Ming Dynasty has not always coveted the territory of the Yuan Dynasty? This is an opportunity, we put a long line to catch a big fish, maybe ah, our Ming Dynasty is not the center of the world, but the whole world. Ma Sanbao bewitched Zhu Di, he didn't have so many ambitions, but Zhu Di had it, and Ma Sanbao constantly instigated Zhu Di in order to stimulate Zhu Di to build a special economic zone in Fujian.
As a war lover, Zhu Di is quite excited, Ma Sanbao drew a grand blueprint for him, that is Ma Sanbao has never told the grand goal in front of Zhu Yuanzhang before, he Zhu Di is naturally very excited, compared to the love of children and business, Zhu Di is more yearning for the southern and northern wars to open up the territory, he has always been eager to have enough military exploits so that he also has the power to compete with his eldest brother Zhu Biao for the crown prince, at the moment, Ma Sanbao's words make him excited.
"Your Royal Highness, we first open up the sales channels in Fujian, lay the foundation in Fujian, and then attack the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty can learn from the experience of wartime for us, as far as I know, at present, whether it is the West or the East, in terms of national strength can not compare with our Ming Dynasty, Your Highness, to lay the Eastern and Western military exploits, that is not a lot, when the Ming Dynasty territory will be His Royal Highness to help expand, Your Majesty will be happy." Ma Sanbao continued to bewitch Zhu Di, just like he had just met Zhu Di, since the Hu Weiyong incident came to an end, in addition to supervising Shang Wei, he Ma Sanbao read the books he got from Shang Wei, and thought that the development of his former hometown in the Ming Dynasty was not particularly prosperous, and he hurriedly thought of a way to stimulate Zhu Di to help build his hometown together.