Chapter 358: Emphasizing Agriculture and Suppressing Business?
Although I don’t know whether what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said in his writing is accurate or not.
But Wu Hong can clearly feel the advanced nature of these writings.
It was that sense of far-sightedness that made Wu Zong feel a little emotional.
Wu Yan has been exposed to muskets, flintlock muskets, and movable artillery. He has also seen them. Although those things are indeed very heavy.
There are also limited places where you can fire cannons, but it can indeed be moved.
The artillery can be moved with relative ease.
In fact, Wu Di has no feelings about these things.
However, His Highness the Crown Prince's ability to discover patterns and summarize patterns from some battle cases... made Wu Zong sigh with emotion.
"Okay! That's it! Regarding the matter at the ore factory, you continue to keep an eye on it. The miners' wages must be paid! Pay them normally! Then, regarding the sales of steel, contact Zheng Zhilong and Jiangnan.
With our current production capacity, this iron ore factory has very extraordinary significance to us.
If possible, we can develop some iron farm tools, kitchen utensils, and other items! Right now, we still need a lot of money!"
Zhu Cixiang said to Wu Yan in front of him.
With Wu Zong's ability, he can naturally handle these things.
"Well! It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
In the past few years, apart from helping Cheng Hao handle some government affairs, Wu Yan also helped Zhu Cihong find money!
There is no way, Zhu Cixiang spends money too fast. After promulgating many policies, the most lacking thing is money, but fortunately, Zhu Cixiang also has a lot of ideas.
Others may not have this receptive ability or executive ability, but Wu Zong is different. His receptive ability and executive ability are both very strong.
So, gradually, he became the executor of some of Zhu Cixiang's money-making ideas!
"Okay! Go down!"
Zhu Cixiang smiled slightly and said to Wu Yan in front of him.
As he spoke, Wu Yan paused slightly, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes, and looked at Zhu Cixiang in front of him and said: "Your Highness, I heard that some time ago, you appointed Hou Fangyu as the prefect of Hejian Prefecture?
?”
"What?? Is there any problem??"
Zhu Cixiang looked at Wu Yan in front of him.
"No, no!"
Wu Yan quickly waved his hand towards Zhu Cixiang in front of him.
"It's just that Hou Fangyu is the son of our old friend Hou Xun. Hou Xun and I also met in prison..."
"Oh? Then you also want to plead for Hou Xun??"
Zhu Cixiang's eyes flashed with light as he looked at Wu Zong in front of him.
"No……"
As he spoke, Wu Yan sighed slightly and looked at Zhu Cihong in front of him with a wry smile.
"To be honest, Hou Xun did commit some crimes and was imprisoned. His Majesty did the right thing. Moreover, His Majesty had no intention of killing Hou Xun. I am even more embarrassed to plead for mercy! After all...he committed a crime.
If you are wrong, you will eventually be punished.
Moreover, my reputation in front of Your Majesty is not very good, so I am embarrassed to work for you!"
Wu Di said to Zhu Cihong.
Zhu Cixiang smiled slightly, looked at Wu Zong in front of him and said with a smile: "Then do you want me to intercede for Hou Xun? Now that it has been mentioned!"
After hearing Zhu Cihong's words, Wu Di was silent for a while.
"How did you tell Hou Fangyu?"
Wu Yan looked at Zhu Cihong in front of him.
"My explanation to him is that if he can take root as the governor of Hejian Prefecture and make achievements, I can help him intercede!"
"Then let him do it himself!"
Wu Yan sighed slightly, looked at Zhu Cihong in front of him and said.
"If I interfere, it will be against the rules!"
"Hahaha! Okay!"
Zhu Cixi nodded.
After saying that, Wu Zong bowed respectfully to Zhu Cihong in front of him, and then slowly withdrew.
Looking at Wu Zong's back, Zhu Cixiang smiled slightly.
He shook his head, continued to look at the documents on his desk, and began to deal with government affairs.
For him, the handling of these government affairs is very important.
At this time, Hejian Prefecture, Nanpi County, and County Government.
Hou Fangyu frowned and looked at the official documents in front of him.
Although he did bring up a good idea to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before and implemented it, which can be regarded as a meritorious service, but now, when facing these government affairs of Hejian Mansion.
Hou Fangyu is in big trouble!
He is a person who can easily write splendid articles if he is asked to criticize current ills, but if he is asked to handle some specific government affairs, he will be blinded in an instant.
Faced with some problems, he was a little confused, and when it came to dealing with them, he always looked at his head rather than his body.
There were so many problems that he faced, even if there were no Manchu soldiers looting the countryside, he would still encounter many problems.
Because now, the Manchu soldiers have learned their lesson after suffering a lot of losses. It has been a long time since we heard about the invasion of Manchu soldiers.
But as the border calmed down, there was only one remaining question.
That is people's livelihood.
Hou Fangyu can be regarded as having some credit for calming down border troubles, but when faced with people's livelihood issues, Hou Fangyu behaves surprisingly naively.
Many questions were taken for granted. He had pointed out the current shortcomings before, but now when he actually went to do it himself, Hou Fangyu was really dumbfounded.
There are a thousand words in the writing, but there is really no plan in mind!
"Sir, the order regarding merchants a few days ago..."
Just when Hou Fangyu's eyes were a little dazed, a master next to him hesitated for a moment and said to Hou Fangyu in front of him.
"Oh! To the merchant!"
At this time, Hou Fangyu's eyes regained light, and he hesitated for a moment: "Merchant is not involved in agriculture. Our most important thing right now is the restoration of agriculture. Hejian Mansion was destroyed so much by the Manchus. What we need is
Recuperate and recuperate!
But His Highness the Crown Prince pays more attention to merchants... so be it!"
After thinking for a moment, Hou Fangyu said to the master on the side: "Don't restrict the development of merchants too much, but impose heavy taxes on these merchants! In this way, we will have money for construction, and we can also restrict the development of merchants a little!"
Hearing Hou Fangyu's words, the master had a wry smile on his face. He smiled wryly and said to Hou Fangyu in front of him: "Sir, are we still going to impose heavy taxes on merchants? Isn't that still restricting merchants?
If this is the case, then all the merchants will withdraw from Hejian Mansion, how will we develop?"
“How is that possible??”
Hou Fangyu said nonchalantly to the master in front of him: "Without Butcher Zhang, wouldn't there be Butcher Li?? Someone will definitely come! Farming is the most important thing for us right now! Farming time!"