Michael Harris has been doing business in Nanyang for several years, and the number of times he has been to Daming is not something that can be counted on one hand.

However, whether he was associating with officials of the Ming Dynasty or with ordinary businessmen, he had hardly ever heard his full name called.

There are those who call him Harry, those who call him Mike, and those who mix his first and last names and call him Meha or Mehas.

Today, he was pulled by the officials of Songjiang City to make up the number and give them an empty city to support the façade, but he never thought that His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun of the Ming Dynasty would be able to call out his full name in one mouth, and his name was in front of his surname, and his pronunciation was also very standard.

This made him feel greatly respected, and even a little bit of the kindness of the country accent at first glance.

Although this local voice is 108,000 miles away, and it still carries the stiffness and tongue-twisting of Da Ming's words, it still moved him to tears, and he can't wait to kiss the other party's toes to express his inner excitement.

Zhu Yunxi stepped forward to help Michael Harris up, and casually said a few words that mixed up this English word.

Although the current Britain is far less majestic than the future empire on which the sun never sets, the basic English grammar is still formed, and even if Zhu Yunxi speaks it in a non-standard manner, it can be understood by Michael Harris.

"Your king of England is Charles II, right?"

"Are you done with France?"

Zhu Yunxi's forced force was directly pretended to Michael Harris, Michael Harris never thought that in the distant Ming Empire, someone could know about a small country like their England!

He has been doing business in the south and north all these years, not to mention the South Seas near the Ming Empire, which is the Mediterranean coast, and there are still many people who have never heard of England and don't know that there is such a country in the world.

"His Royal Highness the Wise and Wise Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty, your wisdom and insight really make the foreign envoy feel admired!"

"The British envoy, Michael Harris, is completely impressed by your wisdom!"

"You're right, Charles II had been king for twelve years when the envoy left his homeland. As for the present, it is not clear who the foreign envoy's hometown is king."

"However, when the foreign envoy left his homeland, it was already rumored that the Plantagenet dynasty was coming to an end, and neither the foreign envoy nor the people of England were optimistic about King Charles, and felt that he was not worthy to be the subject of LinkedIn Glen......

"As for our war with the French......

Michael Harris said this, a hint of heaviness on his face.

"I'm afraid that the foreign envoy will not hear the news of the victory of the mother country in his lifetime......

Michael Harris has always emphasized that his status as a foreign envoy was actually a popular means of trade at the time.

Because in principle, the Ming Dynasty is not allowed to trade with overseas merchants, and there is only one way to trade, that is, tribute.

However, in order to qualify as a tributary, one must have the status of an envoy.

Therefore, they collectively made a decision against their ancestors, that is, to pretend to be envoys of overseas vassal states.

Some kind-hearted businessmen also know how to go to the Nanyang island country to catch a few savages and pretend to be there, and some skinless and faceless people can just make up an identity and come to trade. ….

Anyway, no one can falsify them these years, and if you want to distinguish their authenticity from the fake, it will take a year or two just to go back and forth to the country they have choreographed.

Michael Harris has always called himself an envoy to England, but he came to Daming too late, just in time for Zhu Yuanzhang to dismiss Quanzhou, Ningbo and other cities, and completely prohibit overseas vassal states from paying tribute (cheating money) and other behaviors.

Fortunately, smuggling has become common among the people of the Ming Dynasty, and he has made a lot of money over the years.

If he hadn't encountered a typhoon this time and was hung up at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Songjiang Prefecture, he really didn't want to go to the city to ask for trouble.

Zhu Yunxi saw Michael Harris's melancholy, patted his arm and encouraged.

"Then pray to God a lot and let God bless your country, hahaha."

Michael Harris saw that the imperial grandson of Daming still knew God, and he knew how to joke with God, and he also followed Haha

Laugh.

"God is very busy, and he is too busy selling indulgences, I'm afraid he can't take care of us in England, hahaha......

While joking with Michael Harris, Zhu Yunxi walked into the city office surrounded by a large number of officials.

Zhou Zhiqing, the official in charge of the construction of the city's shipping department, tried his best to introduce Zhu Yunxi.

"His Royal Highness, the main body of the city has basically been completed, some of the buildings have been used, and the remaining phases of the second and third phases are expected to be completed by the end of this year."

"It's just that at this stage, there are very few officials in the city, and there are less than a dozen rooms at full capacity. There are already more than 100 vacant buildings in the entire city, and if they are rebuilt, they will only have to be vacant ......

Songjiang City's Bo Si is extremely large, and it is several times larger than the Songjiang Prefecture Yamen.

At that time, many people had dissuaded him, telling him to build a few houses at will, and there was no need to make it so big.

It's just that Zhu Yunxi firmly believes that Songjiang will become the largest trading place in the Ming Dynasty and even the world, and will become the most prosperous place in the world, so he has built a super-large city division against public opinion.

After Zhu Yunxi replaced Chang Sheng in Zhou Zhiqing, he sent him to Songjiang Mansion to serve as the promotion of the city shipping department, and let him be fully responsible for the construction of the city shipping department.

Now hearing Zhou Zhiqing's complaints, how can I not know what this guy means.

This is complaining to himself that his official position is low, he dislikes that the city has no future, and he wants to be promoted!

"You don't care if there is anyone in the city, you just have to put up the shelf for Lone!"

"In addition, from today onwards, you will also be in charge of the position of prefect of Songjiang Prefecture."

When Zhou Zhiqing heard this, his face flushed with excitement, and he knelt down for Zhu Yunxi with a plop.

"Wechen Zhou Zhiqing Xie Taisun trusts, Wechen goes to the soup to fight the fire, and he has to repay His Highness's kindness!"

Zhu Yunxi smiled slightly when he heard this.

"Actually, Lone has long been interested in you and wants you to be the prefect of Songjiang Mansion."

"The reason why I didn't let you take on the job before, I was just afraid that you would be distracted and delay the important matter of building a city in Guxing."

"Now that the city division is almost built, Lone will naturally promote your official!"

"Your next work will still be based on the city department, and the affairs over there in Songjiang Mansion will be fine."

When Zhou Zhiqing heard this, the joy on his face was swept away, and it was replaced by an extremely dull and depressed color. ….

"Your Royal Highness, the city has been built for a while, but no maritime merchants are willing to come over at all!"

"And the court does not equip the ministers with officials, everything depends on the micro-ministers Zhang Luo, and the micro-ministers ......."

To tell the truth, Zhou Zhiqing was reluctant to do the promotion of the city.

What is the situation on the south coast of the Ming River, he has already known in his heart.

Smuggling became a common practice among Daming maritime merchants, and rashly letting them come to the city to pay taxes was like killing their parents.

Once you are in a hurry, it is possible for someone to "commit suicide" inexplicably.

But these words are inconvenient to say to the imperial grandson.

It's not that Zhou Zhiqing wants to hide it with the imperial grandson, but he is afraid that if he says these things, it will harm the imperial grandson.

Zhu Yunxi heard Zhou Zhiqing's complaints, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

"Although you have done it with your heart, the affairs of the officials will help you find a way!"

"Your Highness...... Shengming?"

Zhou Zhiqing patted a sycophant with a questioning tone.

Although the imperial grandson was very sure, he didn't have much confidence.

Because the old emperor didn't have any idea of delegating power at this stage, the imperial grandson only occupied the position of righteousness, and actually did not have the authority to appoint and dismiss officials at will.

Not to mention equipping the city with officials, I'm afraid that my position as the prefect of Songjiang Mansion will have to be exchanged for a board by the emperor's grandson.

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The city is set to be the Taisun Palace.

Every day, he either met with the officials of Songjiang Province or led Michael Harris on tours, and never mentioned anything about trade and trade.

When did Michael Harris receive such respect, and he offered to trade with Daming in gratitude, and became the first registered merchant in Songjiang City.

Zhu Yunxi only smiled when he heard this, and he was not too enthusiastic, which made Michael Harris beat a drum in his heart, and he couldn't figure out the mind of the grandson of the Ming Emperor for a while.

According to his guess, the Songjiang City Bosi was built by His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun of the Ming Dynasty, and he should be very concerned about the business of the Bosi City, why is he so cold after listening to his own investment?

In fact, the main reason why Zhu Yunxi is cold is that Michael Harris's business is too small.

Moreover, how many ships of goods can he transport away by himself?

He is now focusing on Michael Harris, mainly to use this as a breakthrough to let him introduce more maritime merchants to the Ming Dynasty.

Since Michael Harris doesn't realize this now, it proves that he is not mature enough and needs to be ravaged slowly.

When Zhu Yunxi was traveling in the mountains and rivers, Zhou Zhiqing was like an ant on a hot pot, worrying about the officials and scribes of the city department all day long.

He wanted to urge several times, but he didn't dare to offend the imperial grandson, for fear of causing the imperial grandson to be bored.

But after waiting for three days, Zhou Zhiqing still couldn't help but mention it euphemistically when he met the emperor's grandson.

"Your Royal Highness, what you said earlier about the issue of the officials of the city......

"Oh......"

Zhu Yunxi showed an expression of sudden realization, and then picked up a fold from the table. ….

"Look at this, and if you think it's okay, follow the method above!"

Zhou Zhiqing opened the letter suspiciously, and was stunned when he saw the plan given by the emperor's grandson.

"Your Highness, in this way, you have a great deal to do!"

"If it is not handled well, it will cause impeachment and even criticism from the Manchu civil and military!"

Zhu Yunxi smiled wickedly when he heard this.

"Don't worry!"

"They can't take care of Lone now, Lone put them together before leaving Beijing, they don't have time to deal with their own rebels and grandsons now, how can they take care of us!"

"Let's take advantage of their hurry to finalize this matter, and the framework of the City Division will be completely built!"

When Zhou Zhiqing saw the emperor's grandson say this, he immediately remembered what his colleagues in the capital mentioned in the letter, and he couldn't help but show a wicked smile on his face.

The emperor's grandson is indeed too yin, but he just casually sealed out a batch of unqualified and non-grade positions, and he stirred up the chickens and dogs in the capital.

It is said that now Yan Shenggong is so angry that he falls ill, and scolds his rebel grandson at home every day.

Chen Zongli, the secretary of the household department, was scolded as a waste by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the officials of the household department, and he couldn't even control his own son, and lost the right to mint money and issue Daming treasure banknotes in vain.

"Zhiqing, your official career over the years has not been easy."

"If you can't do well here, then you won't have a place to stay."

As soon as Zhou Zhiqing heard this, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhu Yunxi.

"His Royal Highness's kindness to Weichen is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea, even if Weichen is smeared with liver and brain, he must follow His Highness to the death, and never disappoint His Highness's expectations for Weichen!"

Zhu Yunxi just wanted to knock him and let him see the situation in front of him.

Now that he knew who he was to be loyal to, he no longer bothered with him.

"Let's get busy!"

"In the name of Guhe Matsue Prefecture, the notice will be posted. For prestigious families, it is even more important to order someone to deliver the news in person!"

"The imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty is in the autumn, and the imperial examination of the lonely is set in the summer!"

"No!"

Zhou Zhiqing agreed, and quickly retreated, summoned a secretary of Songjiang Mansion to write notices, and posted them in the streets and alleys of Songjiang Mansion.

Zhu Yunxi's arrival in Songjiang Mansion not only affected the imperial court, but also affected the nerves of the Ming maritime merchants.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Yunxi's front foot arrived, they rushed over by boat or car on their own hind foot.

Not for anything else, just to see the means of the grandson of the Ming Emperor for the first time, and see how he breaks the game!

For the grandson of Emperor Daming, if you want to make the city division, there are a total of four problems at the moment.

The first problem is that there is no one!

Neither the court nor the local government will cooperate with him and equip him with enough manpower.

The second conundrum is untrustworthiness.

The court has been okay with the people over the years, and there is no credibility to treat businessmen and the like, the more wealthy businessmen and tycoons are, the more afraid they are of being targeted by the court, how can they throw themselves into the net and take the initiative to report to the city?

The third conundrum is non-quotient.

Overseas merchants have long been monopolized by the nine families in Jiangnan, Quanzhou, Fujian and other places, and local maritime merchant families monopolize transactions with Siam, Vietnam and other places. ….

Even if the imperial grandson had the means to reach the sky, he could not contact the Shanghai merchants, and he could only watch the unsalable goods of the city.

The fourth problem is that there is no stock.

The silk and tea in the south of the Yangtze River are almost all in the hands of the nine masters. Even the silk collected by the imperial court was finally bought back by them and woven into all kinds of silk in textile workshops in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places.

It can be said that the imperial court has produced thousands of looms under the management of the Weaving House, and there is no other source of goods in hand.

However, how many of these thousands of looms can be woven even if they are woven day and night?

I'm afraid that after a busy year, it will not be enough to fill ten cargo ships.

Lu Shiyuan led his beloved daughter and strolled through the streets of Songjiang Mansion, casually looking at the goods sold in the stalls on both sides of the street.

"Daddy, Songjiang Mansion is so poor, it's a lot worse than our Zhenjiang, not to mention Suzhou and Hangzhou."

"I really don't know if the imperial grandson is really stupid or fake stupid, he chose such a broken place to be the director of the city, no wonder no one wants to come, forget about him, hehe......

When Lu Shiyuan heard this, he knocked his daughter on the head with a folding fan.

"Silly girl, from this point alone, you and the imperial grandson's vision is more than a little bit different!"

"It's a shame that you often boast of Tao Zhugong, and think that you are a business wizard, but you can't see that Songjiang Mansion is the best natural harbor in the Ming Dynasty?"

"Relying on the Yangtze River water transportation, this place occupies the advantage of going to sea. The terrain is flat and very suitable for farming, which can provide a steady supply of vegetables and other supplies for the docks."

Lu Hongfu said unconvinced when he heard this.

"Then why didn't all dynasties build a city here, and we never built it here before the Ming Dynasty?"

"Could it be that the old emperor is not as smart as the imperial grandson?"

Lu Shiyuan shook his head and smiled bitterly when he heard this.

"His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a genius, even among the emperors of all dynasties, he can at least rank in the top five."

"How can his old man not see the advantages of Matsue Mansion?"

"It's just that his old man's perspective on problems is different from that of the imperial grandson, who likes the way of businessmen and is willing to use the means of businessmen to solve problems. His Majesty the Old Emperor is more concerned with military and security issues."

"Although Songjiang Mansion has all kinds of conveniences, there is one flaw that can never be remedied, that is, it is too close to the capital of the Ming Dynasty!"

"As long as you go against the current, you can reach the city of Nanjing in less than two days, which is an unbearable danger for the emperor."

"Therefore, when you take care of the family business in the future, you should also try to think about things in the way of the emperor and the imperial court."

"Only in this way can our Lu family seize the opportunity and be invincible!"

Lu Hongfu listened to his father's analysis and said convincingly.

"What the father taught is that the daughter must take it to heart!"

"It's just a pity that my father has the talent to go through the heavens and the earth, but he can only condescend to Zhenjiang and do the things that my father doesn't like......

Lu Shi originally heard

Yan also sighed.

"Alas!"

"Time is also fate!"

"I'm also too greedy, I was born with the shadow of my ancestors, and I have a net worth of tens of millions. But they are greedy for fame and fame, and they want to become noble on the basis of wealth......

While the two were talking, they suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums beating in front of them.

"Daddy, look, it looks like the government is putting up a notice!"

Lu Hongfu couldn't help but say anything, and ran over impatiently taking his father's hand.

Lu Shiyuan was dragged forward by his daughter, and a wry smile appeared on his face again.

It's too good to be a wild girl in your own house, what's so nice about a notice from an official government?

However, when Lu Shiyuan was pulled in front of the notice and saw the content on the notice, he was stunned.

"Recruitment notice for the city!"

"According to the edict of the emperor's grandson, the city is now recruiting officials and subordinates for the Ming Dynasty."

"Now we are recruiting and promoting one person, and we will be treated from five grades. The deputy promoted two people, from the six grades of treatment. Twenty governors, from the seven grades of treatment. Forty people, from the ninth grade."

"There is no fixed number of scribes and subordinates, and it is now planned to recruit three hundred."

"In terms of treatment, with reference to the Ming official system, after serving for three years, you will automatically obtain the qualification of a student, and you can obtain an official position in the municipal bureau system through internal recruitment, and you can also be selected to enter the official ...... through the imperial imperial examination."

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