Chapter 62: The Matter of Beiping
"Hey, if the materials can be deducted for the Fourth Highness, maybe you can make a little more." The prefect of Beiping touched the beard on his chin, his eyes flashed with fine light, and he wanted to get more oil and water from Zhu Di's body, but unfortunately when he thought of Ma Sanbao, who looked quite professional next to Zhu Di, his thoughts suddenly came to naught.
"Lord Prefect, the goods are all prepared for you, they are all in the carriage, and the strong man has also been arranged, and the Fourth Highness said that he will see the goods tomorrow, and the remaining silver taels should be returned to the Fourth Highness?" In the middle of the night, the attendant respectfully spoke to the prefect of Beiping, he weighed the heavy box, and the silver taels looked more shining in the moonlight.
"Do you remember the old rules? The brothers have made a lot of money from me, and now they have to return it to the Fourth Highness, so what do you earn? What do I earn? Take ten taels of silver yourself and go! The prefect of Beiping widened his eyes and blew his beard to look at the attendant dissatisfied, so frightened that the attendant hurriedly took out a silver dollar from the box and slipped away, not even daring to say it.
Seeing the attendant flee with the silver dollar, the prefect of Beiping City was satisfied with receiving a large box of silver taels into the room, which was enough for him to live a comfortable life for the rest of his life.
"Come on, go to the suburbs to help me buy a courtyard, preferably with a stream, after a while, I will follow the boss to quit my job and enjoy Qingfu!" The prefect of Beiping was triumphant and earned a lot of silver taels from the hands of Zhu Di, the fourth highness, and the prefect of Beiping was also satisfied.
The light snow slowly fell on the whole Beiping City, accompanied by warm wine, the prefect of Beiping leaned on the recliner with great interest, and made money, and his whole spirit was more than ten years younger.
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In the mansion of Zhu Di, the fourth highness, Zhu Di and Ma Sanbao enjoyed the dinner prepared by the chef of the imperial dining room of the Nanjing City Palace, while preparing how to continue to set the prefect of Beiping City, the current business is done in Beiping City, I believe that the prefect of Beiping City will continue to collect wool, they have done a good job of collecting evidence, and they sent the lamb to the door by themselves.
"If this is reported to us, maybe Your Majesty will give us more conditions as soon as he is happy, and his property will be confiscated, which will also be an income for the treasury!" Ma Sanbao said with emotion, the office of the Beiping prefect is extremely luxurious, not to mention his private mansion, and now he must have taken a lot of silver taels from Zhu Di's body, and the Beiping prefect is now making a lot of money.
Ma Sanbao's words Zhu Di naturally will not refute, he is also waiting for an opportunity to report the prefect of Beiping, but this wicked man can't let him do it, it must be done by Ma Sanbao, after all, he just received a large piece of land from others, and he took other people's land and reported others, it is completely an act of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, and he Zhu Di is not the kind of person who likes to cross the river and demolish the bridge.
"Well, I'm like-minded in this area!" Ma Sanbao clinked glasses to Zhu Di, he understood what Zhu Di meant, although Zhu Di did not express his position, but he had already acquiesced to Ma Sanbao's behavior in his heart, he Ma Sanbao had followed Zhu Di for so many days, and he had already figured out Zhu Di's character, besides, he had absolute trust in Zhu Di, he understood that although Zhu Di himself was good to his subordinates, if outsiders did not give him much benefit, they would occupy more of his benefits, and he Zhu Di would not agree.
Following.
Outside Beiping City, in the suburbs, on a piece of land sent to Zhu Di by the prefect of Beiping, the weeds disappeared overnight, and all of them were eradicated, and even the materials and strong men were gathered in this open space, and on this open land, there were many strong men who began to build the industrial park according to the will of the workers arranged by Ma Sanbao before.
The completion of the industrial park is not simple, among these strong men there are carpenters and blacksmiths, there are also a lot of idle workers, there are drawings and guidance, their work efficiency is much faster than the industrial park in the original Nanjing City period, the construction of the industrial park in Nanjing City is like a headless fly without experience, the drawings are drawn step by step slowly, and the industrial park of Beiping City has made a prototype in just half a day under the guidance of the drawings.
Under Ma Sanbao's strong request, Zhu Di reluctantly followed Ma Sanbao to the outside of the industrial park, seeing the initial prototype of the industrial park, Zhu Di couldn't help but be a little surprised, he never expected the craftsmen in Beiping City to be so efficient, but he thought about it, there are drawings, and it is not the progress of the blind man before, and there are naturally a lot of changes in speed.
"I originally thought that there would be a 20-day construction period, but now I think it will only take 10 days to complete production." Ma Sanbao said beside Zhu Di, he was also surprised by the speed of the construction of the industrial park, although his industrial park does not need to prepare the foundation, does not need to cumbersome construction process, but this speed is also beyond his imagination, even the fans that need to be made in the industrial park are ready, waiting for future installation.
The progress of the industrial park is beyond the imagination of Zhu Di and Ma Sanbao, and now as long as the industrial park can be completed, it is believed that it will be put into production in a short time, and their business in Beiping will soon be launched.
"Fourth Highness, do you remember me? I am a subordinate of Boss Qian, and Boss Qian asked us to set up a winery in your Beiping City Industrial Park as well, and His Royal Highness will agree, right? In the industrial courtyard, a thin man found Zhu Di, he took the drawings and said to Zhu Di.
Zhu Di thought about it for a long time, but there was this person in his impression, as for this person's surname and name, Zhu Di didn't know anything, after all, the person who connected with Zhu Di before was Qian Youdao, the owner of Zuixianlou, not this person, but he and Qian Youdao said that they would establish a distillery in Beiping City, which is not impossible, after all, Zuixianlou is still the taste of Nanjing City, which is in line with Zhu Di's taste buds, and the Zuixianlou in Beiping City has just improved, but it is not as mellow as Nanjing City.
Waiting for Zhu Di to agree, the employee from Zuixianlou hurriedly smiled, he didn't know that if someone else wanted to occupy an acre and three points of land in Zhu Di's industrial park, Zhu Di would not agree, and Qian Youdao was different, Qian Youdao was one of his Zhu Di's investors, and Zhu Di also had a share of the wine in Zuixianlou before, so Zhu Di would be so polite, if it was other industries, don't even think about it, unless he can share it with him Zhu Di.
After seeing more money, although Zhu Di said that the money is not so heavy, but he has been somewhat edified in the mind of doing business, and Zhu Di at this time does not look like a prince baptized in the feudal era in business, but like a capitalist businessman who only cares about interests.
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In Nanjing City, in the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the eunuch's report.
"Your Majesty, the Fourth Highness Zhu Di and Ma Wenhe have arrived in Beiping safely, but the road to Beiping encountered a bit of bumps, and the road met bandits, but Your Majesty can rest assured that the bandits have been exterminated by the ministers, and there are dozens of bandits, and it is still very easy to exterminate." The prince opened his mouth beside Zhu Yuanzhang, and there was a dossier in his hand, which was responsible for the record of the trip to Beiping, Zhu Di never expected that there would be a spy left by his father by his side.
"Your Majesty, this thief seems to have a little intersection with His Royal Highness, and the minister doesn't dare to say anything, but there is a speculation, I don't know if I should talk about it or not?" Wang Gonggong suddenly lowered his head, did not dare to say much, the dossier was clearly written, he was afraid of provoking Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Gonggong, who had been by Zhu Yuanzhang's side for many years, knew Zhu Yuanzhang's character very well.
"Speak! Rest assured! I won't be angry with you! Zhu Yuanzhang accentuated his tone, and the feeling of not being angry and arrogant made Wang Gonggong feel cold sweat, and Wang Gonggong carefully turned to the next volume of the dossier.
"Your Majesty, this bandit was cultivated by the Third Highness, and this time the Fourth Highness was attacked, I am afraid it was the handiwork of the Third Highness, after all, the Fourth Highness had exposed his identity in front of the bandits, but if the bandit king turned a blind eye, he did not put the identity of the Fourth Highness in his eyes at all, and the bandit actually had a firecracker!" Wang Gonggong said, sweat beads oozed from his forehead every time he said a word, for fear of causing Zhu Yuanzhang's displeasure.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his brows tightened, and he smashed the teacup in his hand on the ground, the broken teacup and the tea spilled on the ground showed Zhu Yuanzhang's anger, he paced back and forth, his angry hands were trembling, and Long Yan showed displeasure, "Zhu Li, Zhu Li, actually smuggling arms!" Someone, call Zhu Li to me in front of me, and I want to question him face to face! ”
"Your Majesty, the Third Highness left the capital last night and is on the way to his domain, do you want to send someone to chase after the Third Highness?" The prince was in a cold sweat, he was afraid that he would say something wrong and cause him to lose his life, at this time, the angry Zhu Yuanzhang and his prince could not be more clear, although it was not as tyrannical as Qin Wang Yingzheng, but this Zhu Yuanzhang was definitely not a good-tempered emperor.
"I didn't expect San'er to go so far! That's his own brother! It's not that I don't allow the princes to compete for favor, it's not that the princes are not allowed to grab merit, but I have never allowed the royal family to kill each other! I am very disappointed in Zhu Li, come to pass on my will, from now on, Zhu Li will guard the domain for ten years, and he will not be able to set foot in Nanjing City for half a step in ten years! Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless! Zhu Yuanzhang said hysterically, so frightened that the prince didn't dare to say more, his hands were trembling, and he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang nervously.
"Your Majesty, the minister still has a report, His Royal Highness and the prefect of Beiping have negotiated a piece of land, which will be used to open their industrial park, but the prefect of Beiping seems to have collected a lot of silver taels from His Royal Highness, except for the purchase of materials and personnel costs, at least 20,000 silver taels have been collected, which is not strictly investigated?" The prince cautiously probed.
"I already know this matter, so I will hand it over to Di'er and them to do it themselves, this little thing, I don't need to take action personally, I am curious, what kind of method will they use to arrest the prefect of Beiping!" Zhu Yuanzhang put Zhu Li's matter aside, and looked at the prince with interest, "If it's a year, then I look down on those two too much." ”