Such philosophical words, no one can understand them, they can only understand it as a special thought of Hong Tao for Luo Youde. As everyone knows, Hong Tao is telling the truth this time, these two pieces of goods are thousands of miles away at this time, one is the biggest god stick, and the other is the biggest thug.

Another funeral was organized by the Luo family in Qiongzhou, due to the sudden rise of Luo Youde in recent years, the Luo family in Qiongzhou turned upside down and stained the light of their son, not only in terms of money, but also the two sons took over Lao Tzu's class, and also served as an official and a half-post in Qiongzhou. As soon as Luo Youde died, they no longer raised the question of whether they were concubines or concubines, and hurriedly gave him a grand funeral. Luo Youde is very popular in Guangzhou and has a wide range of contacts, they just don't want to do it, they have to do it, and they can't let others point to their backs and scold them for having no conscience.

With the help of Luo Youde's friends, coupled with Luo Dacai's staring, no one dares to worry about his family's wealth, and there is no shortage of shares in the Strait Company, Zhenzhou Shipyard and Huanqiu Company. Huanqiu Company was taken over by Luo Youde's eldest son, and Luo Dacai was responsible for specific business; The chairman of the Strait Company ran to Cixi, and now he also has an official name in the Great Song Dynasty, which is more conducive to him to use the connections of the Strait Company to engage in those small actions in the dark.

Hong Tao directly took Luo Youde's family to Jinhe City, and at the same time announced that Luo Meimei was his adopted son. This time Luo Dacai did not object again, without Luo Youde, the Luo family would definitely be unreliable, Luo Youde's eldest son was not a very capable person, he alone could not protect orphans and widows, and being sheltered by Hong Tao became the best choice.

"I have already sent someone to send those people to Mingzhou, and Wennan will arrange for them to go to Lin'an. After His Majesty left this time, Da Song's side was a little lively. Wen Hao's kid went to Quanzhou. I'm going to get another newspaper over there. I think Your Majesty is underestimating his energy a little. As far as I know, this kid often went in and out of the yamen in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and also held various literary and word meetings, and the people who came and went were not limited to the local wealthy merchants and literati, but also added many court officials. After arranging the Luo family, Hong Tao started the most annoying work again, sitting in the office and listening to the work reports of various departments, the first one was Cixi. He is the eyes and ears of the empire, and what he reports is the most important.

"Where does he get the money for these activities?" Hong Tao did not express his opinion on Wen Hao's actions, but asked in depth.

"Most of them were donated by merchants, and there were also maritime merchants in the Straits Company who were involved with him. Without your orders, I have not taken any action or made any comments for the time being. "Cixi's investigation is very detailed, as long as Hong Tao cares, he will usually investigate to death.

"What about the reaction of the Great Song Imperial Court?" Hong Tao asked another question.

"No response...... There was no response, the sales of the bosom friend newspaper were very good, and every ten days there were ships to buy newspapers and bring them to Mingzhou and Lin'an. However, there are some literati with backgrounds who often quarrel with Wen Hao in the newspaper. There are also people who made a special trip to Guangzhou to debate with Wen Hao, but there is no one who can win. This kid is much sharper than Wen Nan's mouth. Every time there is such a debate, hundreds of people will watch it, and the atmosphere is very lively. Cixi has been doing intelligence work for so many years, and she already knows everything about the Song court, so she is even more disdainful. In his opinion, there are no secrets in this court, many things do not need to be deliberately investigated, just pay a little attention to it, and it is not difficult to deliberately inquire about it, the officials of the Song Dynasty are all colanders.

"We don't care, let Wen Hao toss. You said that the Great Song Dynasty was lively, just because of Wen Hao? Hong Tao doesn't know how to face careerists or politicians like Wen Hao, they have obviously begun to pursue, but it remains to be seen how far they can go.

"He's not that powerful, what's lively is that the imperial court's fleet and the maritime merchants of Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou are already about to fight. As soon as you left last year, the imperial court sent a fleet of ships to follow the merchant fleet to the port of Malacca, and did not dare to go further west. But when they returned, they sold all the goods to the ports of Canton and Quanzhou, and when the fleets of the maritime merchants came back, many things were reduced in price. It is said that this year, the imperial court's fleet has added several large ships, and the maritime merchants are anxious and do not plan to let the imperial court's fleet follow them. They also jointly sent a letter to the city shipping company, asking these ships to return to Wenzhou, Mingzhou, and Lin'an to unload their goods, and not to stir up the market here, so that no one can make money. When Cixi talked about the second thing, her eyebrows fluttered much more excitedly than Wen Hao, and from his appearance, you could also see how lively the docks in Guangzhou and Quanzhou were at that time.

"The city boss doesn't dare to take care of this, right?" Hong Tao also wanted to see what kind of expressions these maritime merchants were at that time, they were used to eating alone, and suddenly someone came to grab meat, can these merchants be happy? If the merchants on the land may be easy to do, endure it, who would dare to go against the court, at most write some poems or something to scold the street.

But the group of maritime merchants is not a good people, they are merchants when they wear clothes, and they are pirates when they cover their heads, you want to say that the maritime merchants have never seen blood and have never killed anyone, Hong Tao will not believe it. In the face of this group, the city division itself can't deal with it. But on the other side, it's even more difficult to mess with, it's the official's fleet, to put it bluntly, it's the imperial court fleet in the name of the emperor, maybe the city has to cooperate with others, who cares whom?

"That's why it's lively, this time it's not only the maritime merchants of the Strait Company who are not working, but other scattered maritime merchants are even more anxious. They couldn't fight the fleet of the Strait Company, so they could only make some unpopular goods, and now there was another one to grab meat to eat, and their appetite was still so good, as long as they made money, they would sell everything, and they would lose the most. However, there is also the shadow of Wen Hao in this matter, and he is secretly inciting the maritime merchants to strike the market. wanted to use the method of not leaving the port for a year to fight against the imperial court, and let the imperial court get the fleet back to the north to sell goods, and said that this was called ...... It is called competing with the people for profit, which is a move to destroy the country, this kid really dares to say it. Talking about maritime affairs, Wen Hao jumped out again.

"Strike! Damn, he understands this thing? Jinnyima is a talent...... Are you sure these were all Wen Hao's ideas? Does he usually have secret contact with anyone? This time, Hong Tao was no longer so calm, his little eyes were the size of a bun, and he blinked his eyelids vigorously. He didn't believe his ears a little, someone actually started a strike in the thirteenth century, and this Nima was not taught by himself, could it be that there is also a traverser behind Wen Hao?

"Definitely not, I sent someone to keep an eye on him for a long time, and even my people went to listen to the wall root when he slept at night. Usually he speaks to others and listens, and he doesn't find that anyone is directing him behind his back. Cixi shook her head affirmatively, denying Hong Tao's suspicions.

"You secretly asked the maritime merchants in the company to help him and cooperate with him to make this matter bigger, if they really have the determination to strike the market, don't want some maritime merchants in a city to toss by themselves, but also pull more people in, not only maritime merchants, but other merchants can also. The larger the scale, the better the effect, and in addition, it is much better for the maritime merchants to spontaneously organize a management organization to manage the problems of the strikers, such as how many losses and what difficulties there are, and everyone can get together to solve them, which is much better than fighting separately. I'd like to see what the Great Song court will do. When necessary, the strait company can respond to his call, but must remind them to pay attention to their own safety, and it is best to withdraw their families and soft to other ports before the announcement, so that if they lose, they will not go bankrupt, and they will be pulled back if they win. ”

Hong Tao felt that it was time to see his subtle achievements over the years, whether these Great Song Dynasty merchants had the courage and boldness, and whether they could unite together to claim their due rights from the imperial court. I don't expect them to succeed at one time, the main thing is to see the reaction of the Great Song court, and then I can have a rough judgment here. Whether to continue to transfuse the Great Song and let it slowly transform internally, or take tougher measures to force it to change from the outside.

"I understand, I'm afraid there's another thing that is a little troublesome, the Great Song Navy Division began to build new warships in Mingzhou, what do you guess their warships look like?" This time, Cixi didn't say it directly, but sold a pass.

(To be continued.) )