That night, Master Zhao finally got the chance to spend time together with his sisters under the pretext of enjoying the air conditioning together.
Unfortunately, the guard outside was pulling the fan cord, and his two sisters were determined not to let him do anything.
Mr. Zhao wanted to ask the guards to stop fanning, but after using the air conditioner, he could no longer tolerate the heat. After hesitating for a while, he finally chose Cool Music...
Although I ended up messing around in the end, it was like stealing, and it was really... too exciting.
Well, in the end, I still have to install an air conditioner in the future.
Mr. Zhao was very happy because he could finally see the faces of the Four Heavenly Kings without opening his eyes. He had a good sleep.
This way, when I got up in the morning and was full of energy, I finally didn't get scared and collapse...
So the next morning, he asked Zhao Hao to make some more cool music players, install them in the main activity areas of the house, and give a few to important people.
Then he asked someone to carefully bundle up the one he had used last night and personally delivered it to the governor's office to present the treasure.
He even insisted on asking Zhao Hao to come to his house to install it.
Mr. Zhao is so depressed. It's so hot, but he doesn't let me stay at home to use the air conditioner. He wants me to go out and install air conditioners for others. Is this father a real one?
Is it true that the main theme between father and son is always to hurt each other?
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Helpless, Master Zhao dragged him to the governor's office, so Mr. Zhao had to reluctantly put on a straw hat and sunglasses, shorts and wooden clogs, and followed him to the governor's office.
With his appearance, if it weren't for Sima Zhao leading the way, the gate wouldn't let him in.
Lin Run got up early and had been busy for a while. When he heard that Zhao Shouzheng was coming, he hurried out to greet him.
It is said that ever since the conversation that day, Lin Zhongcheng has been extremely respectful to Mr. Zhao Erye, completely disregarding the superior-subordinate relationship and treating him as a teacher and friend.
According to the plan today, they were going to conduct an on-site inspection of the Hanjiang water conservancy plan. However, because Lin Run had official business to deal with and there was a backlog of official business in the mansion, the two of them agreed to finish their official business before going out.
"Didn't we say we would set out later today? Why is Mr. Zhao here so early?" Lin Run walked quickly to the door of the hanging flower gate, but saw Zhao Hao and his son carrying a large wooden box in.
The smile on his face froze, and he forced a smile and asked, "What is this for?"
"Don't worry, Zhongcheng. This is not a valuable thing. It is a small invention of my son." Zhao Shouzheng explained hurriedly. He knew that Lin Run was a rare honest official, and his integrity index was only slightly lower than Hai Rui.
Hai Rui was poor but not greedy, and Lin Run disdained greed... because his family was the richest in Putian County. But he didn't run a hospital or sell shoes.
"Oh?" Lin Run was immediately interested when he heard that. He pointed at the big box and asked Zhao Hao, "Are there any new scientific inventions?"
"It's so hot that I can't stand it. I had no choice but to make this little thing. It's not presentable." Zhao Hao took off his bamboo hat, fanned himself and said with a smile: "But it has a good cooling effect. Let's try it?"
"Let's give it a try." Lin Run was very interested. He had a strong interest in science, otherwise he would not have thought of promoting scientific education in Guangdong's official schools.
Zhao Hao walked around the signing room and selected a location. Then Lao Mu and a few carpenters started working.
Now Lin Run was unable to work, so he asked his servant to prepare tea on the stone table under the shade of the tree outside the door, and chat with him and his son in the cool air.
Seeing Lin Run sitting on the stone bench with his back straight, but doing chest expansion exercises with his arms, Zhao Hao knew that this was the sequelae of the burn, and he had to move to relieve the pain caused by skin contraction.
But even so, Lin Run continued to work day and night at a high intensity without stopping for a moment.
"Zhongcheng, please make sure to get some rest. Your body can't stay up late." Zhao Hao said with some concern.
"Alas, there is nothing I can do. The atmosphere in the Guangdong officialdom is too bad. From top to bottom, they only care about having fun and making money. As the governor, I don't have to worry about anything, but they are ready to make trouble for me." Lin Run smiled bitterly and said to the father and son:
"Fortunately, now that you and your son are in Chaozhou, I can rest assured. This has lightened a huge burden."
This is not just a compliment. Although Guangdong Province has 10 prefectures and one state, 77 counties and 8 scattered states, in fact, most prefectures have a very low sense of existence. Most affairs revolve around Guangzhou, Leizhou, Huizhou, Chaozhou, and several coastal states and counties.
Chaozhou is bordered by Fujian in the north and Jiangxi in the west, and is the most troublesome and troublesome prefecture. It is even more troublesome than Guangzhou.
Lin Zhongcheng was in a very good mood whenever he thought that he would no longer have to worry about Chaozhou.
He was so confident. Especially after talking with Mr. Zhao the day before, he wanted to let him take over the post of governor...
Zhao Shouzheng quickly made some polite remarks, saying that he could not do without the support of the province, and even more so without the command of the Zhongcheng.
Lin Run waved his hand and apologized to Zhao Shouzheng, "To be honest, Mr. Zhao, the province has no money. The year before last, in order to support Guangxi in suppressing the rebellion, the Guangdong provincial treasury was emptied. As a result, Lan Yiqing and Lai Yuanjue rebelled again. Now we have no idea where to get the military funds to suppress the rebellion. Therefore, you have to raise funds for the construction of the Hanjiang Water Conservancy Project and the Miancheng Canal. I can only give you the power to act at your convenience, just like I did in Yingtian."
"I understand." Zhao Shouzheng nodded, showing no disappointment at all.
Lin Run couldn't help but secretly praise Mr. Zhao for his calmness, saying that he was truly a man who could accomplish great things.
In fact, Mr. Zhao had never forgotten it. Money was nothing, he was worried about his son.
Uh, that seems a bit ambiguous. Let's change it to, my son is the one who is worried... Yeah, that's much better.
But the more generous he was, the more embarrassed Lin Run felt. He poured a cup of Wuyi tea for Zhao Shouzheng and said seriously, "Besides money, if you have any other difficulties, I will try my best to help you solve them."
"Don't worry, Zhongcheng, we can handle it ourselves..." Zhao Shouzheng was about to say "we can handle it ourselves" when he suddenly felt a murderous aura.
He glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw that it was Zhao Hao who glared at him. Master Zhao quickly changed his words and said, "If we can't solve it ourselves, we will definitely not be polite to you."
"That's right." The father and son's little movements naturally did not escape Lin Run's eyes, so he smiled at Zhao Hao and said, "It seems that you have something to say."
"Haha, since the Minister said so, I won't be polite." Zhao Hao smiled and clasped his fists, then sighed and said, "There is indeed a difficult matter that I need to ask the Minister for help."
"Go ahead." Lin Run nodded.
"My father's plan is to develop key industries and key areas with all our strength to revitalize Chaozhou." Zhao Hao said with a fake smile, "I can't help with anything else, but I am still good at running industries."
"If you're barely competent, then everyone in the world is an amateur." Lin Run laughed and scolded, "Don't be so ridiculous, get to the point."
"Well, as you command." Zhao Hao smiled, coughed lightly, and said in a serious tone: "I asked someone to do some research and found that Chaozhou was a world-famous porcelain capital in the early years. The area under Bijia Mountain was known as the Hundred Kiln Village, which accounted for half of Guangdong's exported porcelain."
"Yeah, I've heard of it." Lin Run nodded and said, "I still have some blue-and-white glazed porcelain produced in Chaozhou in the early years. It's a pity that the Chaozhou porcelain industry declined during the Qing Dynasty, otherwise life would have been much better in recent years."
Those porcelains are from the Tang Dynasty, and are now very expensive. But he didn't mean to show off his wealth, so it can't be considered Versailles.
"So we decided to revive Chaozhou's porcelain industry, quickly open up the international market with export porcelain, and build a porcelain industry chain for Chaozhou in the shortest possible time!" Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "Zhongcheng may know how large the annual overseas trade volume is! But you certainly don't know that the overseas demand will soon double! If we don't meet it, others will. If no one can meet it, this demand will disappear!"
What Zhao Hao was referring to was the famous "Galloon Trade" - the Spaniards will open a regular route from Mexico to Manila this year, using galleons to transport shiploads of South American silver and frantically purchase all kinds of goods from Asian countries.
This is also one of the reasons why Master Zhao did not attack Manila for the time being. The wars in the Age of Discovery were for trade, and wars that damaged trade were harmful.
Although the most sought-after goods in the galleon trade were definitely Ming goods, it did not mean that Ming was the only seller. For example, spices from Southeast Asia were even more important to Europe than silk and porcelain.
Moreover, silk and porcelain were not unique to the Ming Dynasty. Annan and Siam both produced silk. Annan could even produce blue-and-white porcelain... It was the Southern Song survivors who fled the Yuan Dynasty and brought this valuable technology to Vietnam.
During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Chinese porcelain was sold overseas in large quantities and widely supplied to various countries in Asia and Europe. In the Ming dynasty, although the strict maritime ban policy was full of loopholes, the amount of porcelain exported still dropped sharply, resulting in a huge gap in the market.
At this time, Annan blue and white porcelain took advantage of the situation and quickly filled part of the market demand. The entire 15th and 16th centuries were the golden age of Vietnam's overseas trade, which was also an important reason why Jiaozhi's governorship sought independence. After becoming a province of the Ming Dynasty, the government strictly enforced the maritime ban. How could the Vietnamese tycoons who made a lot of money in overseas trade accept this?
Of course I have to rebel against him.
After regaining independence, the Annan regime, the Later Le Dynasty, was able to grow bigger and stronger under the constant pressure of the Ming Dynasty, and even began to expand its territory to the south, basically swallowing up the once powerful Champa. This was all thanks to the continuous income from the porcelain and silk trade over the past two hundred years.
Among them, porcelain accounts for more than 70% of the trade volume...
But then again, after the opening of the border in the Longqing reign, the overseas trade volume in the middle and late Ming Dynasty increased dramatically, and Chinese blue and white porcelain once again went abroad in large quantities. Especially during the Wanli reign, coastal cities in Guangdong and Fujian were not satisfied with being just middlemen, and began to hire people from Jingdezhen with huge sums of money to directly build kilns and factories to produce porcelain for export.
Moreover, Guangdong people are smart and can provide customers with Dongguan-style services... oh no, customized services. Whatever pattern or style the customer wants, just tell them. If I can't make it, I lose!
How can the competitors withstand this?
Jingdezhen porcelain could still rely on its top quality and remain unaffected. But the Annan people were upset. Soon, Vietnamese blue and white porcelain lost its competitiveness, lost a large number of orders, and gradually disappeared.
What Mr. Zhao wants to do now is to let Guangdong people produce export porcelain a dozen or twenty years earlier. The right time, right place and right people are all there, he is just speeding it up.
How could it not succeed?
ps. The third update, no more today, I won’t post in the middle of the night anymore, it will disturb everyone’s rest. Happy holidays to everyone!
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