"Heap there, heap there, quick, quick......"

"Damn, you'd wipe less! You smeared ten pounds of cement on this pound of bricks...... Have you really lost your conscience? ”

"You want here? Not here, at the behest of His Royal Highness, in the center of this bazaar, there is a drum tower to be built...... Or do you look there? It is expected that three shops will be built there. Look at this area, tsk tsk, sit north and face south, and it will be called a prosperity in the future! If you are in love, go to the government office and register! In the future, if the bidding is successful, this is the shop of your clan. ”

“…… What? You don't know what a bidding is? So you countrymen......"

The east of Lianzhou City is now a lively and extraordinary scene. Under the construction of the past few days, the eastern city wall has been extended for more than ten miles, and the land enclosed in has been planned as a place for the sea trade of Lianzhou Mansion. Today, it is full of artisans and merchants, who are in full swing to build shops, houses, ports, docks, etc. The rude city walls can be built by recruiting rough men in the army, but most of the facilities such as houses and ports involve a wide range of people, and they still have to be built by professional craftsmen.

However, this is not a big problem, after Lord Wang of Zhizhou went to His Royal Highness King Zhou to sit in the palace, he immediately had a way to get the best of both worlds. Lianzhou Mansion attracted investment from the land in the east of the city, which immediately attracted a large number of Nanyang businessmen. You must know that many of the facilities in the Nanyang Concession were subcontracted by the imperial court to these merchants. Under Zhu Su's deliberate guidance, these businessmen have long understood how much profit is to be made in contracting government projects, and now that the Lianzhou government is openly attracting investment from these businessmen, how can they not flock to it?

With a wave of his hand, Wang Futai contracted out all the construction work in Dongcheng at the cost of a decades-long lease of the port, dock, shops and other facilities. Even the roads around Lianzhou Mansion have been renovated by businessmen.

Before the field opened, the capital city of Lianzhou was already thriving.

"Your Highness, there have been seven toasts one after another, and they are willing to settle in Lianzhou Rongchang and accept my Ming survey." Xie Jin is now a guest clerk in the East City, patrolling and registering in this construction site every day, and he is very busy. Seeing that the field was about to open on the next day, he found a vacancy today and came here to look for Zhu Su.

Zhu Su had already lived in the barracks in the north of the city, which was also Li Wenzhong's Chinese army tent. Although the price of houses in Lianzhou Mansion is cheap, and Li Wenzhong has also purchased an industry here, he is a general after all, and it is not decent to live in a house every day. Since he returned to the barracks, Zhu Su went with him. However, in order to welcome Zhu Su, the prince, Li Wenzhong cleaned up the barracks with wealth and brightness, which was not much better than the houses in the city.

Zhu Suyuan was reading a book of words from the previous Yuan Dynasty, and when he saw Jin enter, he put down the book. After listening to Xie Jin's report, he leaned back in the chair slightly: "There are only seven toasts?" ”

"Hmm...... Less. But it's enough, the business of this Lianzhou Rongchang is not all for their local toast, the fleets of the merchants of the Nanyang Seas, the chambers of commerce of the merchants in the city, and the merchants who have contracted the project, how to let them get a piece of the business of this new Rongchang. ”

"Well, in this way, seven families are enough...... As long as these seven toasts first become rich because of this field, and there is this example in front of them, and when other toasts see it, they will naturally look greedy and want to get a piece of the pie. ”

"When the time comes, it will naturally be easier to pinch them." Zhu Su said.

"That's what Your Highness said." Xie Jin bowed slightly, "But Your Highness, these seven toasts are all Easterners, and there are no slang people." ”

"The students are worried, this slang is a family, and they are more closed and self-dictated, in case they still go their own way, then we will wait ......"

The so-called Dongren are Tusi villages composed of Han immigrants and criminals in Lianzhou, such as Ye Shangren's village and so on. Because these people were born in the Han family, they had a certain affinity for the Han regime itself, and they were more open than other local villages, so they were naturally more receptive to Zhu Su's proposal to open a field.

The slang people and Xu households, in general, are the Tujia aliens who have lived in Lianzhou for a long time, these people are trapped in the villages, like a country, and their interest in the outside world is far less than that of the Dongren villages. They are the main target of Zhu Su's experiment in Lianzhou to subdue the toasts, if this method has no effect on these toasts, then Zhu Su's trip can also be said to be a failure.

"Hmm...... For the sake of their own power, it is very likely that each Tusi will not accept the imperial court and put an extra layer of shackles on their necks...... But they also have people under their command, and what if their people are desperate for them to join the market? Zhu Su said.

"Even if Tusi is a man of his word among their respective clans, it is difficult to think of such a turbulent public opinion...... Especially for the Xu households who make a living from pearl diving, if no one cares about the southern pearls they pick, then how can they make a living? ”

"When the time comes, even if you don't join me, you won't be able to join my Lianzhou field."

"Your Highness, does it have to forbid merchants to go to various places to collect pearls without permission?" Xie Jin said in surprise. "Your Highness, with all due respect...... Merchants have always been where the benefits lie, and they go everywhere. Even if His Royal Highness asks the emperor to order a strict ban, the merchants will try their best to secretly collect the pearls. What's more, if this is the case, doesn't it bring to the fore the persecution of these slang people? ”

"I am a great Ming dynasty, if I do this, I am afraid that it will be unreasonable and moral. What's more, if this is the case, wouldn't it teach those toasts to be even more detached from our court and government? ”

"Well, that's right." Zhu Su nodded. "Naturally, this king will not use such an overt prohibition method."

"That's ......," Xie Jin was confused. Then Your Highness, how to prohibit merchants from acquiring Xuhu Nanzhu? ”

"You need to know that Hepu Nanzhu, what is produced by those Tu Xu households, is the big head. The middle-class people of the Dongren Tusi clan are only a small amount. ”

"If we want to bid for suppression, it is very difficult for us to be the opponent of these toast households...... How can businessmen give up more and ask for less? ”

"Gentleman...... When it comes to economic history and government affairs, you are quite popular. However, when it comes to business, you still have a long way to go. Zhu Su said with a smile, his face was relaxed, and he had re-picked up the book of words from the former Yuan Shi on the table. This Nanzhu is not a necessary thing such as rice, flour, grain and oil, who said that it is better than less? ”

"This king has his own way, so that even one of the beads in the hands of those Xu Hu cannot be sold...... Don't worry, just look at the king's methods. Zhu Su was full of confidence.

(End of chapter)