“Very good. I will stay in Luzon for a few days. You will accompany my men to Mindanao Island to establish a camp.”
"As Your Highness commands!"
Taman was taken away by Liu Renguang's men, and his personal freedom was very limited until he produced any results.
"Your Highness, is this old fellow trustworthy? He's not on our side."
Liu Renguang was very dissatisfied with Taman's defection, as he had always wanted to take the old man's head to gain merit! He was only temporarily in charge of all matters on Luzon Island, not yet the governor of the entire island, and he desperately needed achievements and credit.
"Just killing two birds with one stone, nothing more. I came here on another matter. How's the task I asked you to do going?"
"Your Highness, please rest assured, I'm keeping a close eye on things! It's both discreet and safe. Ever since you sent your student here, I've practically been living on the construction site with him."
"Take me to see it tomorrow. We'll be at the key part of the workshops after a few minutes. I can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver every minute, so I can't afford to waste any time."
"Your Highness, rest assured, we have plenty of manpower. We can build workshops of any size."
Liu Renguang confidently assured Qin Mo, almost swearing an oath, that he owned shares in the workshop and would certainly not neglect it.
Before dawn, Shi Jing was already waiting in the reception room of the governor's mansion. His father was a retainer of the prince, and he was the prince's student. Naturally, he had to come and pay his respects as soon as the prince arrived.
Qin Mo didn't have time to provide high-ranking officials with nine years of compulsory education, at least not yet. He was currently adopting a crash course model of apprenticeship plus short training programs, and Shi Jing was one of the best among them. This time, Qin Mo sent him to Luzon to build a new workshop with a group of veteran craftsmen.
"Shi Jing is here! Come and eat with us!"
Qin Mo got up to eat breakfast and invited Shi Jing to join her. Although Shi Jing didn't stand on ceremony, he didn't dare sit at the same table as the prince. The maid set up a separate table for him and Liu Renguang to eat. The prince was giving you face because he thought highly of you; if you didn't know your place, you were just being disrespectful.
"Shi Jing, how is the project progressing? Is there anything left to be done?"
"Teacher, we've finished the basics. Only the blast furnace and the large crusher haven't arrived yet. I've used a small amount of ore concentrate to conduct experiments and proved that copper mines on Luzon Island can be smelted using pyrometallurgy."
After Qin Mo finished eating, she started asking questions, and Shi Jing answered them accordingly. The conversation between the two gradually became incomprehensible to Liu Renguang.
Governor Liu sat upright, seemingly listening intently, but in reality, he had already muttered the words countless times in his mind.
"Ugh! Why the hell do I not like reading?"
I got back very late last night because of something, and the second chapter wasn't finished. I'll fix it a little later, and if all goes well, you should all be able to see it while having breakfast. If not... it might be around noon. Sorry everyone!
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