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After taking Zhao Yu to see the warship, Lu Ren instructed to go down and ask the craftsman leader to give priority to ensuring the operation of the dock in terms of manpower, and then asked about the approximate completion and launch time of the three warships, and then left satisfied.

It then turns to the commercial dockyard, where six new vessels are already about to be completed and launched. The six new ships are slightly larger than the previous ones. However, this is secondary, the real main thing is that the six new ships are officially equipped with steam engine drive systems, which use steam power to drive the propeller propulsion.

In fact, Lu Ren's steam engine has been working on it for a while, and the initial trial model was equipped in Gan Ning's fleet and completed the test, and the test results also made Lu Ren and Shirley very satisfied. Subsequently, Lu Ren and Shirley asked Zhen Mi to officially put a batch into production, but due to resource and other constraints, the number of this batch is still small, and there are only twenty in total. Six of them were assembled on these six new ships, and the remaining fourteen Lu Ren and Shirley were also used for other purposes.

In addition, there is a small but very exquisite and chic pleasure boat, but Lu Ren himself made a fool of himself so that the boat ruthlessly transferred a small number of people to make it specially made, the original intention was to take the family to board this pleasure boat in the future to play in the offshore, who made himself a poor ghost in modern times? And owning a cruise ship of his own is believed to be a dream that every ordinary person has had, and Lu Ren is now fulfilling his dream a little.

Of course, the money and food needed for this cruise ship were all provided by Lu Ren himself, and at the same time, he also instructed the dock to transfer the craftsmen who made this boat to other uses if necessary, so this boat has been on for half a year but has not yet been completed. However, Lu Ren also considered whether the dock would build a few more such ships and transport them back to the Central Plains if they had spare resources in the future, and sell them to those dignitaries or something, maybe it would be a lot of income. As far as Lu Ren knows, there will be no shortage of such people in the Central Plains.

After all, there are many people who like this kind of thing, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, and there are many people who like this tune, and even more so for local tyrants and heroes. Such a person's money is not earned in vain......

Since you're here, hop on a cruise ship and have a look. Because of the sudden increase in population in Yizhou before, the dock has long been no longer short of manpower, and this cruise ship has recently restarted. Without disturbing the busy craftsmen, Lu Ren sat down quietly at the bow of the boat, but suddenly the scene of himself taking his family to play on the sea after the cruise ship was completed and launched suddenly came to mind. Especially when he thought of the evil word "ship shock", Lu Ren's face couldn't help but show a slightly evil smile.

In fact, Lu Ren has run the boat many times, and he has played the incident of ship earthquake many times. It's just that playing on a passenger merchant ship is not the same as playing on your own cruise ship, right?

Suddenly, a craftsman timidly walked up to the front with a small cloth bag and said: "Sect Master Lu, this is the small folding fan that Miss Lan accidentally dropped when she came here to play last time. It just so happens that Sect Master Lu is here today, so please ask Sect Master Lu to hand it over to Miss Lan. ”

Lu Ren was happy, took the folding fan and said, "This Lan girl." Sometimes it's a little bit embarrassing, but fortunately, she's still very careful when she's doing things. ”

Zhao Yu also took two turns around the cruise ship with great interest, and just returned to Lu Ren's side at this time, and happened to hear Lu Ren mention Lu Lan. He hesitated slightly. Zhao Yu came to Lu Ren's side after the craftsman left and whispered, "Sir, the matter of the Zhang family ......"

Lu Ren made a silent gesture, and then looked at no one around, and then asked Zhao Yu, "Xiaoyu, what do you want to say?" ”

In fact, yesterday when the three little girls Lan, Yu, and Ling ran to Lu Ren. Naturally, I mentioned that I met Zhang's in a street wine shop. It's just that Lu Lan and Lu Lingqi arrived, but the delicate Zhao Yu found out something, and Zhang Chunhua's main object of clichés at that time was also Zhao Yu. So Zhao Yu paid more attention, and guided Lu Lan and Lu Lingqi to just take it over with a few words, and Lu Ren nodded approvingly to Zhao Yu at that time. Now that there is no one else here, of course Lu Ren and Zhao Yu want to continue the previous words.

Look at Zhao Yudao again: "Actually, when I met the Zhang family yesterday, I noticed that the Zhang family had a lot of temptations for me in his words. It's just that Xiaolan is in a pure mood, Lingqi is too straightforward, and the Zhang family doesn't necessarily have any malicious intentions here, if this kind of thing is found out by them, I'm afraid it will cause some unnecessary trouble. So until now, I'm going to ask you what you think. ”

Lu Ren sighed softly: "So there is something wrong, I will send you out one after another among the people around me, with the delicacy of your thoughts, you can reassure me a lot." It's really not appropriate for someone else to do this kind of thing. But Zhang Chunhua's matter here, Xiaoyu, you don't have to worry about anything, I've been thinking about her intention these days, plus the Xuzhou caravan came back two days ago, and brought me the corresponding news from Xuzhou, and I have figured out some things. The people who still ignore her in the past few days are just to see if she is anxious. ”

Zhao Yu became curious: "Can Mr. tell me?" ”

Lu Ren nodded: "It's okay to tell you, it will save you from worrying about this girl, and it will affect your actions this time." In fact, Zhang Chunhua came to me this time and said that he wanted to cooperate with me in business...... If what I expected, Sima Yi's move is nothing more than to earn political achievements for himself. ”

"Earn political achievements?"

Lu Ren nodded again. However, if this matter is to be explained to Zhao Yuyuan in its original form, it will be more troublesome, and you have to start from the beginning from somewhere else.

The first is the big moment. At the beginning, Sima Yi was reluctant to go out to Cao Cao, and there were many factors in this, so I won't explain much. But there is one thing, that is, people like Sima Yi must be very vicious in their overall situation and vision. And Sima Yi was initially unwilling to go out to Cao Cao, maybe there was only six years of Jian'an at that time, although Yuan Shao was defeated in Guandu, but the situation between Cao and Yuan was still not very clear, that is to say, Sima Yi at that time was unwilling to make the relationship with Yuan too dead. I didn't want to tie myself to Cao Cao's chariot.

After all, Yuan Shao only lost the battle of Guandu at that time, but Yuan Shao's territory in the four states was still there. If Yuan Shao could learn from the pain in time, change the strategic offensive to strategic defense, strengthen his own economic construction in order to recuperate, and then use his unusually thick family background to deal with Cao Cao again, Cao Cao may not be able to drag Yuan Shao to win. Yuan Shao was the family of four states at that time, but how much money did Cao Cao have at that time? And Cao Cao is surrounded by enemies, but Yuan Shao has no such concerns, in general, Yuan Shao still has a certain advantage. So to say that Sima Yi didn't care about this, Lu Ren didn't believe it.

Of course, there is not much to say about how uncompetitive Yuan Shao is in the back. This also means that the situation in Hebei is very clear. If Sima Yi doesn't come out in time in this situation, then it won't be Sima Yi. If he continues to pretend, one will provoke Cao Cao's anger, and the other will miss his family's precious development time. It happened that Cao Cao sent someone to ask Sima Yi to come out at this time, and Sima Yi mostly agreed half-pushed.

So what should Sima Yi do next? Lu Ren is a person with information, and came to the conclusion that Sima Yi must be a very ambitious person, Lao Cao also said that Sima Yi "has heroic ambitions", and said that Sima Yi has a "wolf appearance", is it very taboo for Sima Yi? So since Sima Yi has become an official, he must do a good job. Earn enough political capital for yourself and earn back the greater good for your family.

Sima Yi was originally going to hide until the thirteenth year of Jian'an before being forced out by Cao Cao, and at the beginning he was just an ordinary civil official, but now he is out in advance. even asked Cao Cao to be the assassin of Xuzhou. Based on Lu Ren's experience over the years, as well as Zhang Chunhua's previous theft of a lot of documents from himself, I feel that Sima Yi has realized that he can gain too many benefits if he trades with him. And because of Zhang Chunhua, Sima Yi and Lu Ren can be said to have the basic conditions for joining forces to make profits. That's why Zhang Chunhua was sent over before he officially took office.

Let's put it this way, from a business point of view, if Sima Yi changes some of the restrictions imposed on Lu Ren by the local wealthy families in Xuzhou. I may not dare to say that it is big, but the tax revenue in Xuzhou will definitely be much more, which is a real achievement for Sima Yi;

From a private point of view, the Sima clan was originally a big clan in the Hanoi area and belonged to an inland wealthy family, while Lu Ren was engaged in the shipping business, and there was a lack of a springboard for cooperation between the two. Now that Sima Yi has snatched the position of Xuzhou Thorn History, he can naturally use the springboard of Xuzhou coastal area to trade and cooperate with Lu Ren in inter-clan transactions, so how much benefit will Sima get in this way? It's just not good to be able to calculate at all, right?

In addition, there is another factor that is favorable to Sima Yi, that is, the transaction volume between Lu Ren and Xuzhou has not been very large, because the main people in charge of Xuzhou's commerce and trade are the Mi clan. And the Mi clan was originally squeezed out of Xuzhou by the local wealthy clans in Xuzhou, and now the Mi clan is retreating to the second, just doing business with the land in Xuzhou, not competing with the local wealthy clans in Xuzhou for territory, but the local wealthy clans in Xuzhou will not prevent the Mi clan from turning over and resurrecting in the Xuzhou area, and then grabbing land and people with them? On the other hand, how could the Mi clan on the other side of Yizhou not have the slightest desire to return to their hometown in Xuzhou to revive the clan? At least Lu Ren knew that Mi Zhen didn't want Xuzhou...... There is no more to say about the local consciousness in the humanistic concept of that era.

And the two of them are so together, which naturally causes Xuzhou to restrict Yizhou's trade. But isn't this kind of thing just an opportunity for Sima Yi to take advantage of? Moreover, if Sima Yi really provokes some dissatisfaction from the Xuzhou side, one is that Sima Yi has the Hanoi Sima clan behind him, and the other is that as long as Sima Yi opens up the relationship with Lu Ren, then what does it matter if he loses the official position of Xuzhou Assassin at some point?

In short, the last sentence is a sentence: the word is the first, and the word is the first......

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )

PS: Nanchang is thunderstorming again, it's really annoying for my sister......