After finalizing the concession contract with Xin'an County, Wang Xiang and Zhao Shijie shook hands and said goodbye to each other, and finally watched Zhao Shijie and others leave in Wang Xiang's eyes that he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

This kind of treaty, which is comparable to the sale of the country, was thus formally signed with Australia through the local government of the Ming court, although the legality of this treaty seems to be zero in a legal sense, but these are not important.

Australia has reason to believe that as long as the future rulers of the Ming Dynasty are not stupid, they will recognize his legitimacy, and even in order to curry favor with Australia, it is likely that Wang Xianling will be found out and praised a lot, but these are all later words, and it is a good thing for Australia that the negotiations are over now and finally not obtained Hong Kong by force.

Although Daming is already on the verge of dying, as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that this is a country with a population of hundreds of millions.

At the end of the negotiations, Zhao Shijie and his entourage will leave for Guangzhou to meet with the local gentry and some handicraft owners.

After the Australian cloth entered Guangzhou, the local local cloth market environment was completely disrupted, and many handicraft workshop owners had to change their careers or change their careers to start a business selling Australian cloth.

This situation is also expected by everyone, although Australia can continue to rely on domestic low-cost cloth overwhelmingly from Guangzhou as a bridgehead to continue to swallow the cloth market of Guangzhou, but this will inevitably cause a backlash from the local gentry.

This kind of backlash may appear in various ways, openly by the local government to carry out protective market restrictions, or covert sabotage, in line with the principle that everyone has money to earn together, the Ministry of Foreign Trade decided to discuss with the domestic Yang Wenwen clothing company, and the Ming Dynasty cloth producers and gentry to conduct an open cooperation talks.

According to the discussion with Yang Wenwen, the production of cloth in Australia will mainly be focused on the production of fine products and floral cloth in the future, firstly, to take into account the local population limitations, and secondly, to save costs.

If the textile factory is put in Hong Kong, not only can the local economy develop rapidly, but also effectively save a labor cost, the most important thing in the Ming Dynasty is the population, as long as the conditions for three meals a day, it is estimated that there will be a lot of displaced people scrambling to come in to work.

To develop Hong Kong, it is obviously not enough to rely entirely on the financial support of Australia, so the Ministry of Foreign Trade will decide to bring in the wealthy businessmen and gentry of the generation of Daming Guangzhou Mansion to participate together, only these local people are involved, and Australia's interests in Daming will be more solid in the future.

Compared with Australia's initiative to send an invitation, these local wealthy businessmen are also very interested, there has been no way to contact Australia before, now since the other party has taken the initiative to send an invitation, it is a big opportunity for them, from the Guangzhou Zhao family can see that the relationship between Australians will definitely not be wrong.

The exclusive agency of Australian goods alone has allowed the Zhao family to enter the ranks of the wealthy in Guangzhou in just one or two years, which is not popular with anyone, including many gentry who are more powerful and stronger than Zhao Jiashi.

If Zhao De hadn't taken the initiative to give a piece of the pie to these gentry and wealthy families, I am afraid that he would not have been able to gain a foothold in this Guangzhou City for a long time.

Before convening a meeting of gentry and wealthy businessmen from all over Guangzhou, the person in charge of the Guangzhou Office greeted Zhao De and had a detailed conversation with him, after all, once Australia opens up to cooperate with more local businessmen of the Ming Dynasty, he will inevitably be affected to a certain extent.

However, Zhao De suddenly realized after some conversation, after all, he can have today completely depends on the Australians, if he wants to object, the Australians can directly find a new agent, for them they have no advantage at all.

So after talking with the Guangzhou Office, Zhao De took the initiative to send a post to the wealthy businessmen in various places, since it is irrevocable, it is better to be generous, and it can also make Australians have a higher evaluation of themselves.

Moreover, the meeting was held to discuss the establishment of a factory in Daming, and the Australians were preparing to initially plan to place some cloth production in a place called Hong Kong in Xin'an County, which is said to have been approved by the prefect of Guangzhou.

Although the person in charge of the Guangzhou Office did not clearly inform Zhao De of what compensation he would give him, he also clearly told him that the benefits would never be less than those of those wealthy businessmen, after all, the friendship between the two sides is not comparable to ordinary people.

In an antique mansion in the city of Guangzhou, at this time, representatives of the gentry and wealthy businessmen from all over the Guangzhou Prefecture were gathered, and Zhao De, as an agent of the Australians, has been smiling at the door to greet every guest.

looked at the guy in charge of receiving the post, "The invited wealthy businessmen from all over the world have all arrived." ”

This little guy was also temporarily transferred from the Zhao family's mansion, so he replied respectfully: Master, all the people who have been invited after verification have arrived.

Zhao De bowed slightly, indicating that he knew, and then walked towards the inner hall with small steps, at this time the inner hall was already full of wealthy businessmen from all over the world, looking at Zhao De coming, some acquaintances stood up and greeted him with a smile.

"Brother Zhao De, what is the so-called reason why the Australians invited me to wait here this time," one of them, an older wealthy businessman who was familiar with Zhao De, asked with a smile.

In fact, before coming, everyone knew more or less about it, but they haven't seen Australians yet, so everyone is more curious.

Zhao De smiled and said: Brother Chengtai, don't worry, wait a while, the distinguished guests will arrive soon, Zhao De comforted him, and saw a few people coming from the front hall of the gate at this time, and these people were Zhao Shijie and others.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to formally introduce to you that this is the Minister of Foreign Trade of the Republic of Australia from the country established by the descendants of the former Song Yashan overseas, Mr. Zhao Shijie, this time it is Minister Zhao who invited you to come here to discuss matters, and you can ask Minister Zhao if you have any questions."

As Zhao De's words grew, everyone's eyes focused on Zhao Shijie, and from Zhao De's words just now, it could be heard that this Minister Zhao should be one of the key figures in this discussion.

Being in charge of such an important matter at such a young age, I am afraid that the forces behind it must be extraordinary, and the posture and actions from Zhao De who stepped forward to greet him all reflected the importance he attached to this Minister Zhao.

"Thanks to your love, we are here to gather, there is no Minister Zhao here today, only Zhao Shijie, let's talk as friends, what do you think."

Zhao Shijie handed over to everyone's luggage, and said with a smile, he didn't put it on his face at all, and instantly won the favor of everyone, and secretly thought in his heart, I am afraid that this trip to Guangzhou will definitely gain a lot.