Chapter 116 The Prince’s Sorrow
The prince thought for a while and said, "Huang Zicheng is a little less qualified. He is not thirty years old this year, right?"
He Xi said: "There are still a few years to go. My eldest brother will transfer him back to the capital to participate in the Young Mansion, and I am naturally willing. But I am afraid it will not work for him to take charge of the daily affairs of the Young Mansion.".z.br>
The prince said, "Then who do you think can do it?"
He Xi said: "Zhang Du is okay."
The prince said: "Zhang Du from Taiping Iron Works?"
He Xi said: "Exactly."
He Xi did not recommend Zhang Du casually. Although He Xi is far away in Liaodong, he is actually very familiar with Taiping Iron Works. Without him, everyone in the iron smelting technology field of the Ming Dynasty was He Xi's disciples and grandsons. This group of people headed by Ge Tiangong didn't look very good. But it is the core support of He Xi's faction.
It's simple. He Xi is the only one in the world who can treat them equally. These students can read, learn calligraphy, and be proficient in mathematics. But in the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats, he was not considered a scholar. If these people are just illiterate craftsmen. The scholar-bureaucrats did not care.
But these people can still study and become officials. Most scholar-bureaucrats find these people extremely annoying.
Because it touches their interests.
Even if they use people from the Institute of Technology, they are only used as tools. The lowest level of technocrats. And treat them as craftsmen and servants. From this perspective, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty paid more attention to craftsmen than the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty.
Even the people under He Xi and those who came out of the Imperial College may not have this kind of attitude. Fortunately, these people still know some of He Xi's theory. It's not a big problem if He Xi is here.
In other places, it's different.
Anyone who came out of the Institute of Technology, as long as they were still hanging out in the officialdom or in government camps, were all He Xi's followers. Of course, it was because He Xi was kind to him and was their natural backer. Another reason was that they had no Site selection.
With these people here, He Xi couldn't fully understand the situation of the Taiping Iron Works, but it was almost there.
Zhang Du was born as a small official and is really a capable official. It's hard to say otherwise. However, Zhang Du has figured out the factory management system in the past few years at Taiping Iron Works. Even if Zhang Du travels to modern times, he can be a factory director in a township or a larger manufacturing enterprise.
If He Xi remembered correctly, the Shaofu already had one. It's just an empty shell. No substantial progress was made. Now the first thing the Shaofu has to do is to transform Nanjing's handicraft industry into industry. The talents needed here are, first of all, familiar with the differences between factory manufacturing and handicraft manufacturing. The second is to be familiar with the methods of subordinate officials.
Even the latter is more important than the former.
Nothing else, because these so-called factories are actually managed by subordinate staff. Gein, Ming officials didn't care much about specific production. They are all hard-working people, and they don’t want to be that kind of hard-working people.
Zhang Du's background is very important. As an official who has been promoted from the subordinate staff, he is very familiar with the methods of these subordinate staff, and it can even be said that he is in this aspect. Zhang Ducai is the founder.
Taking charge of this aspect is simply getting twice the result with half the effort.
The prince said: "Yes, it's him. Here in Liaodong, you work hard and wait a few years before returning to the capital. I'm looking forward to it in Nanjing." What else the prince wanted to say when he saw He Xi. The prince waved his hand, interrupted He Xi and said, "Don't say anything else. You can't live without Liaodong for the rest of your life. What will that look like? I know the importance of Liaodong. I'll give you time. The next time I invite you, I hope you won’t refuse.”
Although the prince's tone was gentle, there was a strength that could not be refused.
This is also a matter of course.
The prince is a prince after all, and he will not be pleasant to others.
He Xi could only say: "Yes."
The prince said: "Don't leave Peiping. I will stay in Peiping for a while, at least this year, at most next year, before returning to Nanjing. During this period of time, I want to go to Liaodong. What I hear is false, and what I see is false. Really, I want to see it alone
Take a look and see for yourself. "
He Xi said: "My dear brother, I'll be waiting for you at any time."
He Xi also knew that at this point, the conversation was over.
He Xi rushed here from Tianjin and talked for such a long time. Competition is his biggest competitor, and even in his opinion, it is simply difficult to defeat. As long as the prince can survive until Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the choice of Emperor Ming will be certain.
He Xi didn't know where to start.
He Xi, who was lying on the bed, suddenly sat up and thought to himself: "He Xi, He Xi, you can't be so immoral that you want to assassinate me. If you do this, even if you succeed, how will you face yourself? His wife and children? Could it be that I still want to kill my wife and children?"
Wearing moon-white underwear, He Xi unconsciously stared at the candle beside the bed, thinking to herself: "The road goes straight, and any conspiracy of mine cannot fight back in the face of the power of decision. The power of the Ming Emperor comes from more than a thousand counties." , hundreds of prefectures, more than 300 guard posts, and millions of troops. As long as I have more power than these, the others will be useful. Development cannot solve all problems, but it can solve many problems. Liaodong's Steel Not enough, not enough cannons, not enough muskets, not enough warships."
"Don't think about those evil things. Go to sleep."
He Xi then lay heavily on the bed and seemed to have figured it out. Maybe He Xi was too tired, so He Xi quickly fell asleep.
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He Xi fell asleep so dark that he couldn't even tell the difference between day and night.
While He Xi was sleeping, the prince summoned King Jin.
The prince was very dissatisfied with King Jin's performance at the meeting. The prince wanted to have a good talk with this younger brother.
The prince and Prince Jin exchanged a few reserved words. The prince himself poured a cup of tea for Prince Jin and said, "Third brother, there are no outsiders here. Let me talk to you. What do you think?"
King Jin pretended to be dumbfounded and said, "What, what do you think?"
The prince said: "The idea of confessing the country. This time I came north for this matter. Before I came, you all knew the imperial edict of my father. The following brothers have already been settled. Father. The emperor’s adult princes, that is, the second, third, fourth, sixth, etc. There are several of them. My father asked me to come here just to have a good communication with you.”
King Jin said: "Brother, I really said it."
The prince said, "Speak."
The King of Jin said: "Since I am the King of Jin, can you grant me the land of Jin? I don't want it, I just want a palace in Taiyuan Prefecture. As long as the eldest brother agrees, I will do whatever you ask me to do."
When the prince heard this, his expression suddenly changed slightly. Said: "Lao San, I'm not kidding you."
King Jin frowned and said, "I don't dare to joke with my eldest brother."
The prince said: "Sealing the country outside the territory is a national policy set by the emperor. Do you want to disobey it?"
"My father has set too many national policies, and this is not the one that cannot be implemented. I think this is the villain He Xi, who instigates the royal family and creates a big fight. This is not right." King Jin sneered and said, "Besides, maybe you exiled all your brothers because you thought they were an eyesore."
After hearing this, the prince didn't know whether to be angry or not for a moment. He seemed to have lost his sense of emotions. It took a while to recover, and then a deep sadness rose in my heart.
He never took less care of King Jin. No matter when he was a child or when he grew up, whenever King Jin got into trouble, he always wiped his butt. Forget it when I was a kid. After the feudal dynasty, many things were difficult to deal with. But the prince didn't complain.
But he never expected that after he had done so much, he would be looked at by King Jin like this.
Yes. The prince wants to drive all these feudal kings out of the Central Plains. But is this because the prince dislikes his younger brothers? no. It is more out of the overall interests of the country and the stability of the court. The prince has selfish motives, that is, his lineage can be the emperor for generations to come.
But as the prince and Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son, isn't this a matter of course?
Even today, although the prince knows that King Jin is dissatisfied, he has
Prepare to bleed a lot, as long as King Jin agrees to make it up to his brother. The prince thought silently: "So this is how they see me."
