Chapter 223 Chinese New Year
After fooling Feng Ziyong, Zhu Hongsan took his family and started the journey back.
Seeing the Guangzhou Tianzi Pier getting farther and farther away, Feng Ziyong and others on the pier became unable to see clearly. Zhu Hongsan sighed in his heart. It would be difficult to start a business without a powerful family force. It would be as good as Ying Zheng and Li Shimin in history. There would be a bunch of talents waiting for you to choose from when you were born. But he didn't have that luck, and there was nothing else except the title of an unlucky royal family. However, he was still much stronger than Liu Bei. The identity of this royal family was real, and Liu Bei's uncle Liu Huang was too watery.
It was the 28th day of the 12th lunar month when we returned to Dongguan, and the whole family began to prepare for the New Year. There are more than 500 people in the whole mansion, all of whom are crowded in this small palace covering only more than ten acres of land. Princess Ma Xiaofang had already told Zhu Hongsan how many times it had expanded the Chu Palace, but now every inch of land is valuable around the palace. It is really a big expense to expand the area of the palace. Zhu Hongsan is now so poor that he can't lick his fingers after he finishes shit, so he is not willing to spend so much money to build a house.
So when Zhu Hongsan told Ma Xiaofang that he had chosen a place to build a new palace in Baiyun Mountain, she was very happy at first, but then she began to feel sad.
"Your Majesty, there is really no money in the mansion now. The working capital that can be used now is only more than 20,000 taels, which is only enough for daily use."
Now Zhu Hongsan can be said to be rich enough to rival a country. The 200,000 mu of land around Dongguan, plus the 100,000 mu of newly occupied land in Guangzhou, hundreds of thousands of mu of newly opened land in Zhaoqing Prefecture, hundreds of factories, the iron ore in Qiongzhou, and the coal mine in Hongji in Vietnam, are all nominal assets of Zhu Hongsan.
But Zhu Hongsan knew that these were impossible to move. Now that his industrial plan was developing to a critical moment, he would never withdraw a large amount of cash, as this would cause the capital chain to be broken.
So Zhu Hongsan is also worried now when he sits at home. Twenty thousand taels of silver sounds like a lot, but the hundreds of people in the mansion need a lot of money for the New Year.
Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said to Ma Xiaofang, who was worried around him, "Madam, let it go. After the Chinese New Year, you should buy this place in our palace so that interested merchants can come and bargain."
Ma Xiaofang nodded helplessly. It was estimated that there were only one miserable vassal kings like Zhu Hongsan who could only buy a new house by selling old houses.
Ma Xiaofang said carefully from the side: "Prince, why don't you let your second brother spend some money on the public account?"
Zhu Hongsan's head was shaking like a rattle and said, "Absolutely not possible. You need to distinguish between public and private. In addition, the industry is now in the stage of hard work, so it is not enough to lose a penny."
When Ma Xiaofang heard Zhu Hongsan say this, she had to give up and stand up and prepare for the New Year's things.
Now there is probably only Zhu Hongsan in the whole mansion who is mourning, and everyone else is immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the New Year.
Seeing that his wife and children were happily preparing for the New Year, Zhu Hongsan was not willing to be rigid and had to force himself to laugh and prepare for the New Year.
This is the second year in Guangdong. During the 17th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Hongsan's power developed rapidly and had become the largest force in comparable government officials in Guangdong. This is the local emperor of Guangdong, Zhu Hongsan's uncle and father-in-law. Otherwise, he would soon welcome the imperial court's army to suppress the rebellion.
However, Zhu Hongsan's strength is now stronger than the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty. If he really wants to fight, he may not necessarily win. However, the court has a great reputation after all, so don't turn against each other when things cannot be done.
However, in the Guangzhou officialdom, some people still realized Zhu Hongsan's unjust intentions. Zhu Hongsan had ordered Qian Lide to monitor such people and try to win over and induce them as much as possible. However, people are different from others. If they eat this, there are some who don't eat this. In November and December, a county magistrate and county magistrate under the rule of Guangzhou Prefecture had no choice but to eat it, and secretly wrote a letter to the Southern Ming court to expose the unjust intentions of the King of Chu.
Qian Lide meant to humanely destroy these two guys. Zhu Hongsan also wanted to do this, but Zhang Jiayu raised objections. Now Zhu Hongsan lacks the help of literati. He is killing these two very capable officials, which has a great impact on the fame of the King of Chu.
Zhang Jiayu's suggestion was exile. The Changhua Iron Mine was developing very quickly. Now the population of the mining area is tens of thousands. It is better to send this county magistrate to Changhua and that county magistrate to Hongji, Vietnam.
Zhu Hongsanyi heard this suggestion very well. Hongguang Dynasty was about to be finished in half a year. At that time, these stinky old men would change their minds. It happened that the two places were really short of people, so Zhu Hongsan wrote that one of the two unlucky officials went to Changhua and the other went to Hongji.
On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, two days before the Spring Festival, the Dongguan Wharf was crowded with people. People who went out to do business began to go home. The merchant ships heading to Yong'an Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture, were the last train today. The next train will be waiting until the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Zhu Luo was seeing Zhao Hu off on the dock. Originally, Zhu Luo meant to ask Zhu Hongsan to report after the New Year, but he didn't know that Zhu Hongsan responded with a sentence of "Military Orders are like a mountain".
There are family members who come to see off at the dock. This time there were 1,000 people assigned to Yong'an Prefecture, most of them were recruits. However, the family members were all parents who came to see off at the fare, and she was the only one like Zhu Luo who came to see off her lover.
People on the dock looked at Zhu Luo with strange eyes. After all, there were very few girls who showed up like this in this era. Some people who recognized Zhu Luo knew that this girl was the eldest daughter of the King of Chu. When she was a child, she was no longer surprised to do anything in fighting.
Zhu Luo looked at Zhao Hu and whispered: "Brother Zhao Hu, I heard that Annan is full of uncivilized natives, so you must pay attention to safety."
"Sister, don't worry, you don't know my skills."
"Also, the conditions over there are not good, so you must pay attention to your health."
"Okay, I'll listen to my sister."
While the two of them were having sex, a few guys on the boat shouted: "Zhao Hu, why don't you come up yet? Be careful that the sir, please keep you from confinement."
"Don't worry, sister Luo'er, we will show you Zhao Hu, and we will definitely not let him find Annan's wild woman, haha!!"
Zhu Luo glanced at the four guys on the boat and cursed: "You guys must take good care of Zhao Hu. When he comes back, he will lose a hair. I won't let you go."
The four people on the boat were all the boy camps that grew up with Zhu Luo, Zhao Hu, Zhu Bao and others back then. This time, Zhao Hu went to Yong'an Prefecture to serve in the army, and Ma Chunhua forced Zhu Hongyi to find these four helpers for Zhao Hu and headed south with him.
Seeing that the time was almost over, Zhao Hu said, "Girl, come back, it's only three years. I'll come back in three years to marry you."
Chapter completed!