Chapter 123: Luo Jinan is ignored and Xu Nian finds out the problem
After Xu Yaozu had a nervous dinner, he said goodbye to Lieutenant General Zhang, who was already a little tipsy.
Xu Yaozu had just been waiting outside the palace for a while when he saw the prince coming out with his daughter.
"Your Highness, please attend the meeting."
"No courtesy"
Luo Jinan turned to Xu Nian and said, "Then I will pick you up at the sugar mill at noon tomorrow. Go back and have a good rest tonight."
Xu Nian responded, then got on the carriage and returned to the post station with Xu Yaozu.
Xu Yaozu originally wanted to tell Xu Nian about the prince's attitude towards him today, but seeing that it was getting late and his daughter was a little sleepy, he didn't say anything more.
After a night's rest, Xu Nian regained his spirit. At the agreed time, Luo Jinan came to the post station to pick up Xu Nian.
Xu Yaozu watched the two of them walk away, and looking at the polite Luo Jinan, he couldn't help but wonder if he was being too suspicious.
Luo Jinan rode his horse and guarded the carriage until they left the royal city. Then Luo Jinan stopped the carriage and slipped into it.
Xu Nian looked at the person who came in with a smile and felt helpless, "Your Majesty, the prince of a bright and noble family, could you please stop doing such sneaky things..."
Luo Jinan, who was scolded, didn't care and moved forward in a flattering manner.
"Yesterday, my mother and my sister-in-law were talking to you so much that I didn't get to talk to you properly. It's been a long time since I last saw you."
Xu Nian's mouth twitched. "Has it been a long time?" Not long either.
Yanxiu was sitting next to Xu Nian. She clearly saw Luo Jinan's gaze, but she pretended not to see it.
Luo Jin'an had no choice but to say, "Switch seats with me."
Yanxiu lowered her head and continued to be an ostrich. Luo Jinan couldn't help but let out a hiss. Who would have thought that the maid would look at Xu Nian with red eyes and said in a pitiful tone, "Miss, Xiu'er is scared."
Xu Nian patted Xiu'er. Although he knew that the girl did it on purpose, he still glared at Luo Jin'an and said angrily, "Xiu'er is timid. Don't be so mean to her."
The corners of Luo Jinan's mouth froze. He, Luo Jinan, was actually tricked by a little maid.
Xu Nian looked at Luo Jinan's angry look and felt that he was becoming more and more childish. He was even angry with Xiu'er.
However, he didn't know that at this time Luo Jinan was thinking about all the candidates for bodyguards in his mind. He felt that the little girl should be married off as soon as possible to avoid being prevented from getting close to Nian Nian.
The sugar factory was quite a distance away from the royal city, and it took the group almost half an hour to walk this distance.
Xu Nian helped Luo Jin'an get off the carriage and first looked around the sugar factory. He saw that the factory not only occupied a large area, but was also surrounded by blue brick walls. There were even guards patrolling around it from time to time.
Xu Nian was very surprised. This was the advantage of holding power. If Xu Nian were in charge of this matter, he would not have been able to build such a huge sugar factory in such a short time.
The group entered the sugar factory and Luo Jinan gave Xu Nian a detailed introduction.
"The workers here are all farmers from the villages below. Because it's far away, I built a workhouse in this area to the west to save them from traveling back and forth for several hours to work."
Xu Nian looked at the rows of stone houses and exclaimed in his heart, this must be the prototype of a modern factory dormitory.
Luo Jinan took Xu Nian to visit various parts of the sugar factory and finally came to the finished product warehouse. Xu Nian looked at the finished sugar and touched his chin.
"I don't know the reason at the moment. Why don't we check each process to see if there is a problem with the operation method?"
Luo Jinan nodded in agreement, and the group walked past the first sugar-making room one by one, starting from the first one.
Everyone in the sugar factory knew Luo Jin'an, but they didn't know the identity of Xu Nian. Although they thought Xu Nian was beautiful, they all lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at her casually.
Xu Nian looked at it for a long time, and finally stopped at the syrup step. Looking at the scum on the syrup, she asked in confusion: "Why don't you take out this scum?"
The people in charge of this process all turned pale, wondering if the problem was theirs.
One of the men said in a trembling voice: "We are all from a poor family. We grew up without knowing what sugar tastes like. The manager said that this thing can be made into sugar, so we couldn't bear to throw it away."
Luo Jinan's face turned cold when he heard this, because this sugar factory would lose so much sugar. The key point was not that he was worried about the sugar, but that all the sugar was used to exchange for war horses.
Luo Jinan waved his hand and was about to deal with the farmhand, but Xu Nian reached out and stopped Luo Jinan.
She did not explain to Luo Jin'an, but said to the general manager who was following her: "Our sugar factory is a sugar factory. How can a sugar factory not know the taste of sugar? It would be a joke if people told others about it. I saw that there is still a lot of sugar in the warehouse. Although there are some impurities, it does not affect the taste. Take it out and share some with the people in the sugar factory. Let's give two kilograms to each person."
The general manager was shocked when he heard this. There were hundreds of long-term workers in this sugar factory, not to mention the managers, guards and other miscellaneous people, at least a thousand people.
The general manager looked at Luo Jin'an uncertainly, and Luo Jin'an said coldly: "Miss Xu holds 40% of this sugar factory, don't you even have the right to control a few thousand kilograms of sugar?"
The manager was shocked when he heard this, he had always thought that this sugar factory belonged to the Zhenbei Palace. He glanced at Xu Nian standing aside and sighed in his heart, thinking, whoever marries this Miss Xu in the future will be marrying a mountain of gold.
The general manager went to handle what Xu Nian had asked him to do. Although Xu Nian was confused, he still waited until the group left the sugar factory before asking.
"When did I own 40% of this sugar factory?"
Last time, because the sugar mill had not been built, Xu Nian did not discuss the distribution of the sugar mill with the Zhenbei Prince. Although she was the one who came up with the recipe, she never expected that she would get a share of the profits. The profits of the sugar mill were too great for her to enjoy.
Luo Jinan took out two documents and handed them to Xu Nian. Xu Nian opened them and saw that the documents were stamped with the official seal of the King of Zhenbei. If it was the private seal of the King of Zhenbei, Xu Nian would still consider it, but because it was an official seal, it meant that this was not a private transaction.
Xu Nian started looking at the documents again and saw that one of the documents stated that because the recipe came from the Xu family, the Xu family could get 10% of the profits of the sugar factory for a period of ten years.
The content of another document was that Prince Chang Luo Jin'an transferred 40% of the sugar factory to Xu Nian, a daughter of the Xu family.
Xu Nian was extremely excited as he looked at the two documents, and his eyes slowly turned red as he looked at Luo Jinan in front of him.
Before, she complained that Luo Jinan was becoming more and more childish, but in fact, he was more thoughtful than anyone else.
If he really gave the Xu family 10% of the profits from the sugar factory, Xu Nian would definitely be unable to sleep or eat, but Luo Jinan set a ten-year deadline. The money the Xu family earned in these ten years would be enough for several generations to live a worry-free life, and would not arouse the jealousy of those in power due to excessive financial resources.
"Thank you, Luo Jinan!"