The sky is blue and the autumn air is cool.
On the morning of August 15th, ten people led by Zhuo Donglai from Wu Dynasty also arrived in Wofeng City.
These ten people are all graduates of Lishan Academy this year and are among the top ten Jinshi in the spring examination!
They were sent to Wofeng Road by an imperial decree from Emperor Wu, to be sent to Fu Xiaoguan to learn the ways of being an official from His Highness.
They all attended the literary gathering last year, so they naturally knew Fu Xiaoguan, but to say that they were familiar with him... that was a bit of a stretch. Even for Zhuo Donglai, the conversation between him and Fu Xiaoguan was limited to the warning Fu Xiaoguan gave him when he first arrived in Guanyun City.
As for the rest, it was after coming to the Yu Dynasty that I heard a lot about Fu Xiaoguan's deeds.
But Zhuo Donglai clearly remembered what his grandfather had said to him before he left: "Your Highness has done things that are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Grandpa knows you're proud, but such pride in front of His Highness... Putting aside your status, aside from your martial arts prowess, everything else, absolutely everything! You're far inferior to Fu Xiaoguan!"
"His Majesty has sent you to Wofeng Road with profound implications. Grandfather is worried about your pride. If you can't let go of that self-righteous pride, I'm afraid... I'm afraid this trip will not only be meaningless, but will also bring unnecessary trouble to you and our Zhuo family."
"So, have you thought it over? If you don't want to go, Grandpa will go and tell His Majesty tomorrow. If you absolutely must go... then you must put aside your pride and bow your head."
Zhuo Yixing's face darkened, and he said with great seriousness, "You must remember to listen more, observe more, ask more questions, and be humble as dust!"
Zhuo Donglai came naturally.
Comes with his pride!
Unexpectedly, since entering the Yu Dynasty, even in the remote countryside, if people asked about Ding'an Bo Fu, the small official, they would actually worship him as a god from heaven... At first, Zhuo and his party thought that the people were ignorant, but then they entered the town and listened to the big merchants talking about it. They also praised Ding'an Bo very much, and they all admired him very much!
What the hell!
As Zhuo Donglai went on, as he heard more about Fu Xiaoguan's deeds, and as too many people from Yu praised him, he suddenly found that the pride deep in his heart had disappeared!
That guy really did a lot of great things!
Not to mention anything else, Zhuo Donglai has already read all the business laws promoted by the Ministry of Commerce he founded. He has even read them several times and memorized them in his mind. He has to admire Fu Xiaoguan.
"What do you think of His Highness's abilities?"
“…There’s nothing like it in the world!”
"Who could have imagined that commerce could be so regulated? Who could have imagined that taxes could be defined in this way? Brother Donglai, when we arrive in Wofeng City, I will follow His Highness closely and listen to his teachings!"
The young man who said this was named Zhang Mengze, and he was the runner-up in the imperial examination of the Wu Dynasty this spring!
"Brother Donglai, do you remember the poem 'No Desire' that His Highness wrote last year?" Zhang Mengze shook his head and chuckled to himself, "Your Highness wasn't writing about no desire, but about the loneliness of being at the top! You, me, and all of us, can't even begin to compare to him!"
The other eight students agreed with this. The living facts were right in front of them. This was not flattery, but admiration from the heart.
I still remember when I passed through Xiushui County, I heard that the rice in the rice fields could produce 600 to 700 kilograms per mu!
This was already enough to shock them, but then they heard that the rice seeds were cultivated by His Highness... This His Highness was good at both business and agriculture, he was not only good at business, but also at agriculture!
Wofeng Road was newly established and a lot of work needed to be done. Zhuo Donglai originally thought that Fu Xiaoguan would not be able to see any results in managing Wofeng Road until the end of next year. However, he did not expect that as soon as he entered Wofeng Road, he would see many things happening that he could not believe.
Construction is underway in many places, some of them are new industrial zones, and many people are migrating, some of them are responding to the call of Earl Ding'an - it seems that all the merchants in the entire Yu Dynasty are dancing with him, and many Yu people are singing with him!
He is like a chess master, where no dust is left between his moves, yet his moves create a force as powerful as wind, clouds and thunder!
"I, Zhuo Donglai... am truly a frog in a well!"
Standing on the streets of Wofeng City and looking at the bustling crowd, Zhuo Donglai felt what nervousness was for the first time - in front of such an omnipotent prince, he really should be humble as dust!
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It has been almost a month since Fu Xiaoguan arrived in Wofeng City on July 18th.
In just this short month, more than a thousand merchants rushed to Wofeng City from the Yu Dynasty.
The number of people pouring into Wofeng City has reached more than 300,000!
At the instruction of Fu Xiaoguan, these people temporarily lived in the vacant houses in Wofeng City. Of course, the location was on the outskirts of Wofeng City, concentrated in the northwest area.
Those houses are not free to live in, you have to buy them!
Fu Xiaoguan did not set a high price for the houses, and even issued a notice allowing them to borrow money from the Sitong Money House - the price of the houses was 200 taels of silver per courtyard - the so-called courtyard was a yard.
The measurement of the house will be done by people sent by the Wozhou provincial government. If you cannot come up with that much silver, you can sign a loan agreement with the Sitong Money House.
The maximum amount you can borrow is half of the house price, secured by the property deed.
This made many people very happy. Most of them were artisans, or handicraftsmen. Wofeng City was now thriving, so it was relatively easy to earn the money to repay the loan.
So the current Wofeng City is much more prosperous than when Fu Xiaoguan first came here.
The more than a thousand merchants who came here, in addition to applying for listing in Sitong Money House, mostly came for the courtyards or shops in Wofeng City.
This will be the future focus of their family. After all, their family workshops will be located in a county in Wofeng Road.
Once the goods are produced, they must be sold. They can be exported to all parts of the Yu Dynasty, so naturally they have to occupy the market of the nearby Wofeng City.
Young Master Chang Kuan, who came from Hangzhou in the east of Jiangnan, arrived in Wofeng City two days ago for this purpose.
The Chang family in Hangzhou City, whose current head is Chang Yongle, is the prefect of Hangzhou. His family runs a large-scale weaving business in Jiangnan, and they were also royal merchants of the Yu Dynasty.
In Hangzhou, if the Chang family is said to be the second family, no one dares to claim to be the first.
This year, Earl Ding'an took over Wofeng Road. Chang Yongle had already realized the huge business opportunities. Of course, what he valued more was the ability to have a relationship with Earl Ding'an.
So he sent six core members of the family to Wofeng Road. Five of them were inspecting various places with their respective shopkeepers, while the eldest son Chang Kuan came to Wofeng City with more than ten servants and four other children of merchant families in Hangzhou City.
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