After fooling Feng for his own use, Zhu Hongsan took the family and started the return journey.

Seeing that the Tianzi Pier in Guangzhou was getting farther and farther away, and Feng Ziyong and the others on the dock became unable to see clearly, Zhu Hongsan sighed secretly in his heart, it is really difficult to start a business without a strong family force. If you are as good as Yingzheng and Li Shimin in history, there will be a bunch of talents waiting for you to choose as soon as you are born. And he didn't have that luck, except for the name of an unlucky sect on his body. However, it is still much stronger than Liu Bei, the identity of this clan is real, and Liu Bei's Uncle Liu Huang is too much.

It has been the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month when I returned to Dongguan, and the whole family began to prepare for the New Year. Now there are more than 500 people in the whole mansion, all of whom are crowded into this small palace that covers an area of only more than 10 acres. Princess Ma Xiaofang has already told Zhu Hongsan how many times to expand the Chu Palace, but now every inch of land around the palace is expensive. Wanting to expand the area of the palace is really a big expense, Zhu Hongsan is now poor and can't wait to lick his fingers after, how can he be willing to spend so much money to build a house.

So when Zhu Hongsan told Ma Xiaofang the news of the construction of a new palace in Baiyun Mountain, she was very happy at first, but then she began to frown.

"Lord Wang, there is really no money in the house now. Now the liquidity that can be taken out is only more than 20,000 taels, which is only enough for daily use. ”

Now Zhu Hongsan can be said to be as rich as the country, and the 200,000 mu of land around Dongguan, plus the 100,000 mu of land newly occupied in Guangzhou, the hundreds of thousands of mu of newly opened land in Zhaoqing Prefecture, and hundreds of factories, iron ore mines in Qiongzhou, and coal mines in Hongji in Vietnam are all Zhu Hongsan's nominal assets.

But Zhu Hongsan knows that these are untouchable, and now that his industrial plan is developing to a critical moment, he must not withdraw a large amount of cash, which will cause the capital chain to be broken.

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan is also sitting at home and worrying, 20,000 taels of silver sounds like a lot, but these hundreds of people in the mansion need a lot of money for the New Year.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, and said to Ma Xiaofang, who was also worried on the side: "Madam, so be it." After the Chinese New Year, you let it go, we want to buy this place in the palace, so that interested merchants can come to bargain. ”

Ma Xiaofang also nodded helplessly, it is estimated that the Ming Dynasty is like Zhu Hongsan, who is a hard-working vassal king who can only buy a new house by selling his old house.

Ma Xiaofang said cautiously on the side: "Lord Wang, do you want the second brother to spend some money from the public account?" ”

Zhu Hongsan's head shook like a rattle, and said: "Absolutely not, it is necessary to distinguish between public and private, and now that the industry is in the stage of strength, it is not possible to lose a penny of silver." ”

Ma Xiaofang had no choice but to give up when she heard Zhu Hongsan say this, stood up and went down to prepare for the New Year.

Now only Zhu Hongsan is crying and mourning in the whole house, and everyone else is immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the New Year.

Seeing that his wife and children were happily preparing for the New Year, Zhu Hongsan was not good at being rigid, so he had to laugh and prepare for the New Year.

This was the second year of his arrival in Guangdong, and in the entire seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Hongsan's power developed rapidly, and he had become the largest force in Guangdong. This is the native emperor of Guangdong is Zhu Hongsan's uncle, or according to Zhu Hongsan's unscrupulous development, he will soon usher in the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court.

However, now Zhu Hongsan's strength is already stronger than that of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it is not necessarily who loses and who wins if he really wants to fight. But after all, the imperial court occupies the name of righteousness, so don't turn your face whenever you can't do anything.

However, there are still people in the Guangzhou officialdom who are aware of Zhu Hongsan's disobedience, and Zhu Hongsan has ordered Qian Lide to monitor such a person and try to win over and lure him as much as possible. But people are different, and if you eat this, you won't eat this. In November and December, there was already a county order under the rule of the Guangzhou Prefecture and the county Cheng did not eat soft and hard, and secretly sent a letter to the Southern Ming court, exposing the disobedience of the king of Chu.

Qian Lide meant to destroy these two guys humanely, and Zhu Hongsan also wanted to do so, but Zhang Jiayu raised objections. Now Zhu Hongsan is very lacking in the help of literati, and killing these two very capable officials will have too much impact on the reputation of the King of Chu.

Zhang Jiayu's suggestion was to exile, it happened that the Changhua iron mine was developing rapidly, and now the population of the mining area has reached tens of thousands, so it is better to send this county order to Changhua, and that county to go to Hongji in Vietnam.

Zhu Hongsan listened to this suggestion very well, there is still half a year before the Hongguang Dynasty is about to end, and then these stinky old nine will change their minds, it just so happens that there is a shortage of people in those two places, so Zhu Hongsan waved his three pens, and one of these two unlucky officials went to Changhua and the other went to Hongji.

On the 29th of the lunar month, two days before the Spring Festival, the Dongguan wharf was crowded. People who went out to do business began to return home, and the merchant ship bound for Yong'an, the capital of Lianzhou, was the last one today. The next flight will not be until the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Zhu Luo was seeing Zhao Hu off on the dock. Originally, Zhu Luo meant to ask Zhu Hongsan if he could go to Yong'an Prefecture to report after the New Year, but he knew that Zhu Hongsan was stunned by the sentence "The military order is like a mountain".

The wharf was full of family members who came to see them off, and there were 1,000 people assigned to Yong'an Prefecture this time, most of whom were recruits. But the family members are all parents to see them off, and she is the only one like Zhu Luo who comes to see off her lover.

The people on the dock looked at Zhu Luo with strange eyes, after all, there are really few girls who show up like this in this era. There are those who recognize Zhu Luo, and they know that this girl is the eldest daughter of the King of Chu, and she did everything when she was a child, so it is not surprising.

Zhu Luo looked at Zhao Hu and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhao Hu, I heard that Annan is full of uncivilized natives, you must pay attention to safety." ”

"Sister, don't worry, you don't know my skills."

"Also, the conditions over there are not good, so you must pay attention to your body."

"Okay, listen to my sister."

When the two of them were talking to each other, a few guys on the boat shouted: "Zhao Hu, don't come up yet?" Beware of the sir's confinement of you. ”

"Sister Luo'er, don't worry, we will show you Zhao Hu, and we will definitely not let him find the wild woman of Annan, haha!!"

Zhu Luo glanced at the four guys on the boat and scolded: "You guys must take care of Zhao Hu, I won't let you go if he comes back with one less hair." ”

The four people on the boat were all in the boy boy camp where they grew up with Zhu Luo, Zhao Hu, and Zhu Bao. This time Zhao Hu went to Yong'an Prefecture to be a soldier, and Ma Chunhua forced Zhu Hongyi to find these four helpers for Zhao Hu at home and go south with him.

Zhao Hu saw that the time was almost up, and said: "Sister, go back, it's only three years, and I'll come back to marry you in three years." ”

Zhu Luo almost didn't cry when Zhao Hu said this, Zhu Luo gritted his teeth and said: "I'll find my father when I go home, and I will let you come back as soon as possible." ”