Chapter 512 Zhu Biao Shouts Out the Voice of War!

Lan Yu traveled thousands of miles from the northern border area, exhausted and hard-working.

He went to the Eastern Palace as soon as possible.

He didn't even see the Crown Prince Zhu Biao, and went straight to the Imperial Prison.

After coming out of the Imperial Prison, he actually hid in the mansion and stayed indoors?

Everyone was confused by Lan Yu's actions.

...

Zhu Zi Lane.

Hu Weiyong and Lu Ben rode in a shiny new Yanhua carriage, coming back from outside the city and driving into Zhu Zi Lane.

Inside the carriage.

Gu Xuewen, the son-in-law of the Shen family, sat obediently in the corner with his hands on his knees.

In front of Lu Ben and Hu Weiyong, he didn't dare to breathe.

At the beginning, when Yan Wang Zhu Di took office as the magistrate of Jian'an County in Fujian, he and his nephew Shen Zhi accompanied him.

At that time, seeing that Zhu Di was ignored by the military and political parties in Fujian.

And there was also the invasion of the Japanese.

He determined that Yan Wang Zhu Di would not be able to do anything in Fujian.

Zhu Di was also very disgusted with the so-called two concepts and two propositions they described.

So on the second day after arriving in Jian'an, he quietly left and went north to Jinling.

At the beginning, he didn't make much of a name in Jinling.

The identity of Shen's son-in-law had a great influence in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, the south and other regions.

But in a place like Jinling.

Shen's son-in-law is nothing!

The seventh-rank officials in Jinling didn't take him seriously.

After a few years of hardship, he found an opportunity to hook up with the playboys Hu Dahu and Lu Zhao, and gradually entered the eyes of Hu Weiyong and Lu Ben.

At the beginning, he helped Hu Weiyong manage Hu's business.

Although he was a scholar.

But as Shen's son-in-law for so many years, he also learned a lot of business skills.

Therefore, after working in Hu's business for a period of time, he performed well and soon won Hu Weiyong's favor.

His status gradually increased.

Hu Weiyong was a former prime minister after all.

Even though he was driven out of the court by Zhu Silang more than ten years ago.

But the network of contacts is still there.

Because he was appreciated by Hu Weiyong, he finally had some status in Jinling City.

In the 27th year of Hongwu.

He was assigned by Hu Weiyong to secretly go to Fujian to encourage some like-minded colleagues in Fujian who were suppressed and unable to speak out to start a business.

He was ready to bring down Zhu Silang's Fujian model.

Originally he vowed.

He believed that it would succeed.

But in the end, the people who instigated were collectively boycotted by Fujian officials, businessmen, workers, farmers, and scholars.

In the end, he fled back to Jinling in embarrassment.

Originally thought that if he failed to complete the task, he would be ignored by Prime Minister Hu.

Unexpectedly, Prime Minister Hu was magnanimous and still valued him.

As Yanhua's technology was stolen and misappropriated.

Prime Minister Hu and Lord Lu also wanted to use Yanhua's technology to open a factory.

But they didn't want to show up in person.

They needed a white glove role.

So, they chose him.

Now, he is already a very famous factory owner in Zhili!

He has ten factories under his name, including a hand-cranked sewing machine factory built with cheap iron from the Jinling Industrial Zone, the first generation animal-powered combine harvester factory in Yanhua, a bamboo strip weaving factory for sea trade, a sack weaving factory, and so on.

A total of 2,700 employees!

The largest factory owner in Jinling!

Because of the scale, he was summoned by the prince.

...

He admitted that he had misjudged it at the beginning.

Compared with the factory of his nephew Shen Zhi, the third branch of the Shen family, in Yanjing, his current scale is nothing.

According to the news from Zhouzhuang's father-in-law's house.

Under Shen Zhi's command, there are 1,500 people in a watch factory alone!

Moreover, he can't compare with them in terms of technical content.

At the same time, he is a white glove. Eighty percent of the shares of the ten factories on the surface belong to the Hu and Lu families.

The remaining 8% of the shares will be distributed to some powerful figures in Jinling City according to the arrangement of the Hu and Lu families.

And he, the largest factory owner in Zhili on the surface.

In fact, he only has 12% of the shares.

But so what!

Is Shen Zhi as rich as him?

In the business model of hiring workers and stock shares, Shen Zhi has to distribute a large part of the profits to the humble workers.

And he cannot exploit those humble workers.

I am afraid that the profits that finally fall into Shen Zhi's hands are not as much as his, right?

If there is anything that Shen Zhi can make him envious of, there is only one thing.

Shen Zhi and Zhu Silang have a very good relationship.

It is said that the eldest son of Shen Zhi's family was also arranged to serve in the Yanhua Army. Not long ago, the eldest and second uncles wrote to mention it.

This kid, in the attack on the Chen Dynasty, made brave military exploits and has been promoted to the lowest level of deputy shed officer in the Yanhua Army.

Shen Zhi obviously wants his eldest son to develop in the Yanhua military.

But according to the regulations of Yanhua.

If the sons of merchants enter the military and political circles, the soldiers must separate from their families after being promoted to team officers.

The children of the military and political circles must also separate from their families if they engage in business.

Moreover, they must be registered and filed with the newly established Discipline Inspection Department of Yanhua.

This newly established Discipline Inspection Department will always pay close attention to the behavior of these people.

It can be said that even if the eldest son of the Shen Zhi family is excellent, his military career is more difficult than that of the descendants of soldiers in Yanhua, let alone those of ordinary people.

Every promotion.

Must be subject to the discipline inspection department, which will use a magnifying glass to inspect and review.

The division of the family is even more ruthless.

The division of the family in Yanhua is not like those of the aristocratic families in the Central Plains.

Divided into the first house, the second house, the third house...

When the family is divided, there will also be a master-servant relationship.

Yanhua's division is a real division!

Just like the eldest son of Shen Zhi's family.

If he is promoted to the level of captain in the future and wants to continue in the army, he must divide the family.

In addition, Yanhua's Discipline Inspection Office will intervene in supervision.

After the division, the ancestral temple must be established separately.

The ancestral temple established by the eldest son of Shen Zhi's family is equal to the lineage of Shen Zhi left in the folk.

The ancestral temple of a large family is the most important bond to maintain family affection.

But the eldest son of the Shen family does not need to, and cannot return to the family to worship the ancestral temple after Shen Zhi's death.

In short, the Discipline Inspection Office uses a magnifying glass to supervise and divide the family.

In conjunction with the supervision of those civilians who have obtained political and economic power in Yanhua.

Even if the eldest son of Shen Zhi's family makes a name for himself in the military in the future, he will not be able to provide any help to other descendants of Shen Zhi.

Of course, even so.

He is also envious.

He thought that just like Yanhua allowed the children of business owners to enter the military and political circles.

The court should follow suit!

When dealing with Yanhua, we should get rid of its dross and take its essence!

However, he was not qualified to discuss such things. Now he was overwhelmed and had no energy to promote it.

A year ago, after Emperor Zhu returned to the court for a short time.

An order was issued.

Fujian merchants, with strong capital, technology, and perfect industrial management technology taught by Professor Yanhua, rushed out of Fujian like a group of wolves with red eyes.

They took the lead in taking root in the territory ruled by the reformists.

They opened factories with hired workers.

All kinds of cheap and high-quality products soon caused a severe impact on these private factory owners.

Earlier, when Emperor Zhu issued this imperial order, to be honest, they didn't care at all.

They and Fujian merchants used the same generation of technology.

That is, the first generation of Yanhua, backward technology!

Through a lot of analysis and judgment, they found that under the same technology, Fujian merchants had higher labor costs than them in factories with hired workers.

After all, they have to pay the workers.

They also have to share profits.

The production cost must be high.

The selling price of the goods is high.

Even if the quality is good, it is impossible to compete with them for the market.

If sales do not increase, profits will not increase, and they cannot be used to expand production.

But they never expected that the facts were completely opposite to their judgment.

The workers in these hired-worker shareholding factories have very high production efficiency.

To weave a sack, using the same tools, the workers in the hired-worker shareholding factory can weave five a day.

In their factory, one worker can only weave two a day!

The workers in the hired-worker shareholding factory have a high enthusiasm for production, and they are also very enthusiastic about actively learning skills and improving their own skills.

This leads to.

The production efficiency and quality of these Fujian merchants' factories are high.

Efficiency reduces costs!

Moreover, these bastards have no martial ethics!

After a year of training and developing a group of so-called technical models, they actually supported these technical models and opened small factories with smaller scales, five or six workers, and no more than twenty workers at most.

They also adopted the employee-share system.

Fujian merchants invested in it and took up a part of the shares.

At the same time, they were responsible for the sales of the products produced by these sparrow-type small factories.

These small employee-shareholding factories with low backgrounds, no connections, and no knowledge of business only needed to be responsible for the careful production of goods.

In just one year.

As long as these unethical guys in Fujian established themselves in a region governed by the reformists, they would use this model, just like wild boars giving birth to litters after litters.

Soon, a model was formed with the central factory as the main one and countless sparrow factories blooming around it.

They produced countless goods.

They constantly attacked and swallowed up their traditional markets.

This time they went out of the city to gather all the local merchants and factory owners in Jinling to discuss how to deal with this situation.

After discussing it over and over again.

Finally, they decided to learn the model of some Fujian factory owners.

For example, piecework!

In the future, the workers in their factories will not have a fixed salary. They will be paid by piece for each finished product.

The more you do, the more you earn.

As for whether the workers in his own factory will cause trouble if he does not copy the stock and basic salary model of the Fujian factory?

There is no need to worry about this.

These workers signed a personal contract with his factory!

It is similar to the personal contract of tenant farmers in gentry's houses.

They are not free, even if they want to switch jobs to factories run by Fujian people, they cannot!

As long as someone dares to run away, he can file a complaint and use the power of the Ming government to catch these lowly workers back, beat them half to death, and continue to work for him!

In addition.

It is to expand the scale of production.

By constantly burning money and expanding the scale, he will fight a price war with Fujian merchants and eventually bring down Fujian merchants.

However, he is very worried.

Will this plan of burning money to expand the scale and fight a price war succeed?

These Fujian bumpkins have accumulated a lot of wealth by working closely with Yanhua over the years.

Most importantly, behind this group of bumpkins, there is the support of the entire Yanhua business community.

In the price war of burning money, once the Yanhua business community joins, can these people defeat the Fujian bumpkins?

Who has more financial resources?

If the money is burned out and the Fujian bumpkins are not defeated.

Then they will really go bankrupt!

Unexpectedly, the first battle between Yanhua and Ming Dynasty took place in the military and political circles, but it took place first in the business world.

…

The carriage drove past Lan Mansion.

Gu Xuewen looked at the closed door of Lan Mansion.

An idea flashed in his mind, he came back to his senses, and hurriedly asked: "Xiang Hu, Mr. Lu, what do you mean by this Liang Guogong? He came all the way back, why did he suddenly stay behind closed doors? Are you just watching with cold eyes?"

"If Zhu Silang takes revenge, will it trigger a political and military confrontation between Ming and Yanhua?"

If a military-political confrontation occurs.

At this time, if you engage in a price war, you can get official favoritism, which is a different kind of local protection.

In this way, he is 100% sure of winning this battle.

Hu Weiyong and Lu Ben were silent.

In fact, I am also thinking that Lan Yu's behavior is really too abnormal.

Hu Weiyong saw through Gu Xuewen's thoughts at a glance and shook his head: "This possibility is almost impossible. The prince spent two years to get rid of local protection. This kind of alternative local protection will definitely form a new one while defeating Fujian businessmen." Vested interest groups. In the future, after Fujian businessmen retreat to Fujian, these vested interest groups will continue to insist on this kind of alternative local protection. This is something the prince will never allow. Therefore, this money-burning business war can only be limited to the business community. Any behavior that crosses the red line will arouse the prince's resentment and even attack him!"

The prince just didn't have the courage to do what Zhu Laosi did.

It doesn't mean that the prince is stupid!

The prince will never be lenient when it comes to safeguarding his own interests.

Just look at how the prince treats his biological brother Zhu Silang.

Gu Xuewen sighed in disappointment.

Lu Ben did not pay attention to business wars. He believed that it was impossible to lose.

On the contrary, he was more concerned about Lan Yu's abnormal behavior, "Hu Xiang, what on earth do you think this Lan Yu is doing? It's too strange..."

…

"Your great-uncle still stays behind closed doors and doesn't see any guests?"

East Palace.

In Zhu Biao's study, Zhu Biao asked while giving instructions on the memorial.

Zhu Yunwen stood in front of the desk and hummed, "Except for the day before yesterday, when Zuo Xiang went to visit and was received by my uncle, my uncle and I didn't see any other guests."

Zhu Biao's writing movement paused slightly.

He lowered his head, shook his head, and said calmly: "Forget it, it'll be fine if he doesn't make a fuss."

"Father..." Zhu Yunwen's lips moved, but he wanted to stop talking.

Zhu Biao raised his head and asked with a smile: "What do you want to say?"

Zhu Yunwen hesitated for a moment and whispered: "Should I meet my uncle and punish Lu Zhongheng a little harder? I feel that my uncle seems to have expected that my fourth uncle will not let it go. My uncle seems to want my father to suffer..." "

"So far, so far, the imperial grandfather has no attitude. It is very similar to my great-uncle's attitude..."

My father didn't know.

In fact, the shelling of Tuqiao Village this time was a premeditated incident.

Grandpa, Hu Xiang and others were the chief envoys.

Lan Yu, the cheap great-uncle, and the attitude of the imperial grandfather.

These days, he felt frightened.

That guy, Fourth Uncle, dares to do anything!

Chang Mao is amazing!

My mother-in-law’s brother!

The uncle of the eldest brother Zhu Xiongying!

Otherwise, he will die in an unknown manner!

Seeing the uneasiness in Zhu Yunwen's eyes, Zhu Biao frowned slightly, lowered his head, and while continuing to give instructions on the memorial, said: "Your fourth uncle does not and does not dare to be arrogant in Jinling City. If so, he is too unruly!"

"Where's Brother You? What are you doing these days?"

…

One month later.

Yanjing.

Zhu Di's study.

The doors and windows were closed.

Mao Xiang stood in front of the desk with a gloomy face, and reported with suppressed anger: "Master, the brothers from the Military Intelligence Department who were just sent to Jinling brought back news that after the grandson returned, he had a dispute with the prince and failed to convince the prince. After Liang Guogong returned to the court, , it is said that he went to the East Palace first, and before seeing the prince, he went straight to the imperial prison. After coming out of the imperial prison, he stayed behind closed doors and did not see any guests..."

Zhu Di leaned back in the armchair.

Hidden in the shadows cast by the walls, I listened silently.

The light was dim, and Mao Xiang couldn't see Zhu Di's face clearly.

At a certain moment, Zhu Di asked calmly: "Where is your father?"

Mao Xiang shook his head, "Your Majesty has been in Fengyang and has not shown any attitude."

Zhu Di put it on the desk, paused with his fingers tapping on the desk, curled his fingers, and slowly clenched them: "No need to wait, just follow your plan and execute it. My attitude is that since Lu Zhongheng is hiding in the imperial edict and cannot come out, then Just destroy the Lu family and tell the brothers that safety comes first."

Mao Xiang nodded heavily, turned around and left without saying anything.

He has already prepared the personnel.

They are all the top elites of the Military Intelligence Department!

Squeak!

The door opened and Mao Xiang walked out. He looked up and looked at the sun in the blue sky. His face felt as if it was frozen, and even the blazing sunshine in Yanjing could not melt it.

He shook his head and said to himself: 'Soon, the day will be overcast with clouds. Prince, you are really wrong this time! ’

After Mao Xiang left.

The light from outside is projected into the study from the door.

But behind Zhu Di's writing desk, the shadow cast by the wall retreated to the vicinity of the writing desk in the light, and then stubbornly 'stopped'.

Formed an anxious confrontation with the light.

Sitting behind the desk, Zhu Di remained silent, always shrouded in shadow...

…

Another month later.

A team of ten 'merchants' disembarked at Jinling Pier on a merchant ship and entered Jinling City with their goods.

Five days later.

"Oh no!"

"It's bad! The whole family of Marquis Ji'an has been destroyed!"

…

Fourth watch.

Zhuzi Lane suddenly sounded an extremely shrill roar.

In Zhuzi Lane.

The powerful officials who were about to go to court were instantly alerted.

…

After a while.

Lan Yu, Fang Xiaoru, Hu Weiyong, Lu Ben, and Geng Bingwen, a group of masters in the noble alley, walked into the quiet Lu Mansion filled with the smell of blood with serious expressions.

No one spoke.

All the way to the back house of Lu Mansion.

The Imperial Guard's curfew patrol team, which was the first to sense it, has arrived.

One after another, the necks were cut, and the bodies of men, women, old and young were carried out by the soldiers of the city patrol.

Qianhu, who was in charge, saw so many big shots coming.

With a pale face, he walked over quickly and said, "Prime Minister Zuo, gentlemen, in the Lu Mansion, except for the servants, all the people named Lu, including the three-year-old son of Marquis Ji'an, were all killed. The murderer's technique was very clean and neat. Sealing one's throat with a knife must be a very professional assassin to do this..."

Hu Weiyong, Lu Ben and other conservatives looked at the corpses on the ground.

It was like falling into an ice cave, and my whole body was cold.

So cruel!

Too vicious!

How dare!

Don’t the people who do it have any compassion for others?

"It's Zhu Silang. This is Zhu Silang's revenge! How dare he! How dare he! He is too vicious! How can he be so cruel and without any compassion..."

A fifth-grade official couldn't bear it and suddenly went crazy and roared.

"Shut up!"

Lan Yu turned around angrily, rushed away from the crowd, and quickly walked up to the fifth-grade official.

Snapped!

A slap on the face of the fifth-rank official.

"What evidence do you have to prove that this is what King Yan did!"

These idiots!

Can this kind of thing be publicized?

Now that Zhu Laosi has taken action, do you really think he dare not expand it?

Still think the matter is not big enough or serious enough!

Lan Yu's hands trembled slightly.

He expected that Miaoyun girl almost had trouble, and Zhu Laosi was very angry.

Even in front of Lu Zhongheng, in order to deliberately scare Lu Zhongheng, he also mentioned that the Lu family was in danger.

But he didn't expect that Zhu Laosi would be so angry this time.

I thought that just killing one or two Lu family members would be enough.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Laosi came and wiped out the whole family!

It can be seen that Zhu Laosi is already on the verge of madness.

Are you still on fire now?

These ignorant things!

Lan Yu's movements were quick and sharp, waking up the official at the same time.

He also woke up others.

Everyone's face was pale, their bodies were shaking violently, but their lips were tightly pursed.

Don't dare to mention Zhu Di again.

Hu Weiyong seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly asked, "Are everyone else in the Lu family here?"

Qianhu shook his head, "According to the surviving housekeeper, the eldest son of the Lu family went to drink wine last night, and the second son of the Lu family and his family were at his hometown..."

Lu Ben urged frantically: "Quick! Quick! Send someone to protect the rest of the Lu family!"

Lu Zhongheng is a member of the anti-Yan alliance.

It was also at their instigation that they bombarded Tuqiao Village.

If they couldn't even save Lu Zhongheng's remaining bloodline.

It will be a huge blow to the Yan Alliance.

…

It's bright.

Since Zhu Biao took charge of the country, it was a rare first time that there was no morning court.

study.

Zhu Biao's face turned dark for a while, and then sat blankly behind his desk.

Xiongying sat in the first place on the left, with a calm face, drinking tea from a teacup.

Lan Yu, Fang Xiaoru, Hu Weiyong, Lu Ben and others were either standing or sitting on both sides.

Outside the study, officials who were not qualified to enter stood densely packed in a large area.

Everyone was silent.

Ta-ta-ta...

The sound of rapid footsteps came.

Thousands of households patrolling the city hurriedly trotted in. Facing Zhu Biao, hundreds of pairs of eyes stared at each other, and said in a panic and trembling: "Prince, I found... I found the eldest son of the Marquis of Ji'an. He died in Guiyuefang!"

Snapped!

Zhu Biao's face suddenly turned pale. The next second, he suddenly slapped the case and shouted, "How dare he! How dare he!"

Lu Zhongheng’s eldest son also died.

This clearly means that it is a carefully planned assassination!

He even suspected that Lu Zhongheng’s second son’s family in his hometown might also have been killed last night.

It was so unexpected.

How dare he, the Fourth!

This is Jinling!

Lu Zhongheng was just shelling Tuqiao Village. Even if Miaoyun was stimulated by this, he would be fine in the end.

How could he be so vicious and kill Lu Zhongheng's whole family?

Let Lu Zhongheng cut off his descendants!

…

Zhu Biao suddenly turned his head and looked at Zhu Xiongying.

Seeing the old god Zhu Xiongying, he was holding the teacup and looking down at the teacup, as if there was some beautiful scenery in the teacup.

He immediately became even more angry, "Look, this is your fourth uncle! Go! Go! Send an order to Gu and tell him to come back immediately and accept the court's trial. Otherwise, Ming and Yanhua can only use war to solve the problem! The dignity of Ming, There is no room for provocation, not by anyone!”

Only then did everyone notice the hero's movements and demeanor.

Xiongying held the tea cup and slowly raised his head, looking at Zhu Biao who was furious and completely lost his temper. "Father, is there any evidence that your fourth uncle did it?"

"For example, there is no evidence to prove that Lu Zhongheng's bombardment of Tuqiao Village was planned. Now there is evidence to prove that the entire Lu family was wiped out. Was it the fourth uncle's doing?"

"Okay, okay! Until now, you are still speaking for your crazy fourth uncle! Where is your compassion! Where is your compassion!"

Zhu Biao suddenly became even more angry, questioning Xiong Ying at the same time.

He grabbed the teacup and smashed it hard at Xiong Ying.

This time, he didn't smash it at his feet.

Instead, he smashed it directly at Xiong Ying's face.

Lan Yu stood in front of Xiong Ying and blocked the teacup with his chest.

Xiong Ying stood up calmly, turned around and walked out under the gaze of everyone.

"Gu Kan, you are the same as your crazy fourth uncle! You shouldn't have been allowed to learn from him back then..."

Xiong Ying listened to Zhu Biao's irrational voice behind him.

He raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky.

It was a bit dazzling.

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

Until now, my father has not realized the bottom line of his fourth uncle...

...

On this day, the out-of-control Zhu Biao shouted to use war to maintain the dignity of the Ming Dynasty!

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