"Your name is ...... Joanna? ”

"Yes, yes, His Highness Joseph."

Joanna was still a little nervous, she never treated Joseph as a child, and from the first day she came to the palace, the people here instilled in her all that was the humility and some of Joseph's deeds. In particular, I happened to see Joseph angry twice, and Joanna was deeply impressed by the hideousness on his immature little face.

"You seem to be afraid of me?"

"No, no."

Laughing lightly, Joseph didn't tell her lies, picked up the coffee that Joanna brought over, and Joseph couldn't help admiring the figure of the little girl Miaoman.

Joanna is Polish, half German in her blood, tall and tall, she has dark blue eyes and a slender leg, she looks very seductive under the maid outfit, especially the small face with a big palm with a delicate face, basically she is qualified to become a beauty pageant model.

Joseph's gaze made Joanna a little uncomfortable, although she knew that the other party was just an eight-year-old boy and could not do anything to her, but there were some things that she could not control at all, and her legs were weak and she almost fell to the ground.

Huh......

Joanna's face was a little red, and she didn't know why she let out such a of shame, could it be because of Her Highness's gaze that she felt the thrill of standing naked in front of him?

"You're fourteen years old!"

A sentence instantly woke up Joanna, who was fantasizing about something bad, and her beautiful eyes flashed a trace of dazedness, but soon disappeared in a daze, and she nodded her little head and said, "I'm just fourteen years old this year." ”

"Your father was an engineer in a shipyard, and your mother is now a teacher at Nord Middle School?"

"Well" Joanna didn't understand what Joseph meant, but she still honestly affirmed.

"It's okay, go down! By the way, I'm not as terrible as you think, and I won't eat you. ”

waved her hand to let Joanna leave, but when she walked to the door with confusion, Joseph's words also came, the speaker was unintentional but the listener was intentional, Joseph was just a little teasing, but the sentence that ate you obviously made Joanna misunderstand something, which caused Joanna to avoid Joseph for the next period of time.

I thought that today was a rare and idle day, and Joseph was in the mood to tease his little maid, but who thought that James would come in a hurry not long after Joanna left.

"Your Highness, Minister Herman has returned, it is going well, Minister Herman has signed more than 30 million pounds of processing projects, most of which are light industry, Your Highness, you see ......"

During this period of time, the mysterious James of Joseph became more and more clear to these relatives, especially the workshops and shops built by Joseph, which were very different from those opened by Nord citizens privately, and the workshops needless to say were more than twice as fast as ordinary workshops.

There are also restaurants, where the same chef makes exquisite dishes in the restaurant for sale in Joseph, but in other restaurants it is much more ordinary, and of course things like this are blocked by James.

James and other officials didn't think much of it, they all thought that Joseph had some mysterious technology in his hands, such as workshops, such as restaurants, which could actually be attributed to the utensils and machinery, and in fact the workers and the chefs themselves said that even the same thing in other places would feel like something was missing.

This time James arrived to ask Joseph to build a few more textile and food processing workshops, and with the United States trade orders also coming, the Nord Principality wants to complete the order within the agreed time, so it is necessary to add a few more workshops, and these workshops will also be rented to Nord citizens at a relatively low price.

It is worth mentioning that the tax statistics for July have already been calculated, and the GDP of that month has reached almost four million dollars, which is of course due to the arrival of a large number of media, but Joseph cannot be dissatisfied with such data.

As the loan was slowly repaid, a tenth of the $600,000 or so that had been loaned out had already been repaid, a small amount but a good start, and it is conceivable that Nord's finances would have gradually turned positive a year later, even without the Marshall Plan.

"Let Andy come over for a moment."

Beckoning the guard to call Andy, James looked at Joseph with some confusion, not understanding what his son had to do with what he was talking about.

"Prime Minister James, maybe there is one thing that you don't know very well, Andy helped me contact the Chinese ambassador to France some time ago, and we will talk about some things."

"Huaxia?"

James became more and more puzzled, and he was naturally clear about Huaxia James, and he respected Joseph's mother from Huaxia very much, but he didn't understand what to discuss with Joseph and the Huaxia government. That country is backward and poor, and the Duchy of Nord has no roots, what is there to talk about in two poor countries?

"Your Highness, are you looking for me?"

Joseph did not solve James's confusion, and it was not until Andy arrived that Andy told him in detail, and when he learned the content of Joseph's negotiation with Huaxia, James was directly frozen in place.

"Your Highness, you, you are, you are ......"

James was so excited that he couldn't finish his words, Andy was only a recent college graduate after all, and he didn't think deeply about it, he only felt that doing so was likely to anger the United States, and he couldn't imagine what this incident would bring to the Nord Principality after that.

"Needless to say, this matter is right or wrong, as long as it is not discovered by the United States during transportation, I have my own way to solve the rest, and I guarantee that the United States will not suspect us, but there is one thing I need you to do, ask about the specific equipment that Huaxia needs and set the price of the equipment."

Joseph actually didn't value the benefits of this time, even if an increase of fifty percent according to the price set before would make Joseph earn close to $300 million, but what was this compared to the friendship of China?

It is estimated that no one would have thought that Huaxia would be called the world's factory in more than ten years, let alone that most people in the world would be engraved with the label of Huaxia manufacturing.

After the shock just now, James has begun to calm down at this time. Indeed, as Joseph said, as long as there are no problems with transportation, then other things are not much of a concern, Nord is in dire need of a lot of money, and if the benefits really reach fifty percent, this matter is still worth doing.

"I will arrange for someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to go to France for this matter, Your Highness, is there anything else?"

Small matters can be solved by the cook in the palace, but such a decisive matter still needs to go to France to discuss with Ambassador Zhang Jianjun in person, which is why Joseph told James. Andy? The first time Andy could go, but this time it was better to go professionally.

"There is still a shortage of workers in NORD, and although hundreds of German workers come to NORD every month, it is still not enough, far from enough. You go and test Ambassador Zhang Jianjun's intentions, and if it is feasible, sign a labor contract for 10,000 people. ”

The Central District is under construction, and Joseph intends to upgrade the low-rent apartments in the North City to ordinary apartments and build a few more, so that the population of the North City District will be at least tripled, and the South City alone will be able to accommodate six or seven thousand people, and the Central District will be much larger than the North City, and once completed, the population will be at least 50,000.

Of course, this is not the reason why Joseph wants a large number of people, the real reason is that there is still a large shortage of workers in various workshops, whether it is an Audi assembly workshop, a textile workshop, a port, or a shipyard, and 10,000 people are just the basis for not meeting the needs of the workers in the Nord Principality at this time.

In particular, Joseph has just built an agricultural laboratory, and the activation of genetically modified small farms and efficient pastures will inevitably require large-scale reclamation at that time, and the demand for workers will continue to increase......

Once this was done, the Nord Principality was stabilized, everyone had housing, food, work, and living in a garden city, and there was no shortage of food, shelter and transportation, and there was no dependence on foreign countries, and the Nord Principality was a truly independent country.