Chapter 160 The Mountain Is Not High
And how important Yanyun County is, and how awesome I am, you, Li Shi, should know it too, right?
As long as you let me rely on, let me rely on, then maybe I can give you back a piece of green in the future...and make you beautiful.
As the saying goes, if the mountain is not high, there will be a name if there are immortals; if the water is not deep, there will be dragons, then there will be spirits. After Xiao Chen, I will dive into the dragons in the abyss and cultivate immortals in this mountain of yours. Is it quite beneficial?
Of course, there is a premise here, that is, my young master, I have to be alive...
Just now, my lord, I have learned from others a long time ago, so it is useless. If you want to win over my utter loyalty, you have to be honest.
"I can't help you with food and grass, but I can lend you some money. I lent you personally... Don't thank me in a hurry, I will charge interest! It's fine if you are dead, but As long as you don't die, you have to pay me back!" Li Shi started venture capital.
"That must be!" Xiao Chen promised with all his mouth.
"Go back and find Ma Wuming. He has a factory outside Fengyang City. There are many skilled craftsmen who have just been recruited from all over the place. There are also all kinds of wood and iron materials. Go and have a look. Just use what you need. That's it." Li Shi's investment is not just money.
"Oh, my lord, your reward is really too heavy, my slave..." Xiao Chen was overjoyed, as if he was about to kneel down and thank him.
"Don't do this with me, you boy! Also, Xiao Chen, you are a hero, but you are not a slave, and this king has never regarded you as a slave." Li Shixian snorted, and then his expression became serious, and his words grew serious.
"Chen, thank you, my lord." Xiao Chen expressed that he was very moved, but he was happy at the moment, otherwise it would be even better if he squeezed out two tears.
"Xiao Chen, I want to ask you something." Li Shi's voice was almost inaudible.
"My lord, please tell me." Xiao Chen knew what he wanted to ask.
"The prince was assassinated..." I don't know if it was an illusion, but Li Shi's voice seemed to be trembling.
"The prince's assassination is God's will." Xiao Chen hesitated for a long time before saying this sentence softly, and the amount of information is quite large.
"Oh...it's God's will." Li Shi took a long breath.
Although Xiao Chen didn't say it clearly, who else is the God of God except Li Wanjiang?
Li Shi was very generous, and directly gave Xiao Chen a silver note of five hundred thousand taels, claiming that it was his own property, whether Xiao Chen believed it or not.
So you better be careful when you go here! It doesn't matter if you die, my five hundred thousand silver can't be wasted!
I'm still waiting to receive interest.
Farewell to Li Shi, Xiao Chen rushed to the Ministry of Industry without stopping, and at the door, he met Li Hong, a big fat man who had just got off the sedan chair. When Li Hong saw him, he turned around and ran away as if he saw a ghost, but he was fat, and he only took two steps. Panting, Xiao Chen caught up and grabbed him.
"Oh, brother Xiao, isn't that right? I don't have good eyesight, so I didn't see it, so what, I'm still busy talking to Ma Shangshu, so I won't accompany you for now..." Li Hong's eyes wandered , Look at him from left to right.
"Li Shilang, it's not interesting enough! Why are you so affectionate when you are called brothers and sisters? Now that my brother and I are in trouble, why are we just passers-by?" Xiao Chen said angrily.
"What trouble? You are the general who conquered the north personally appointed by the emperor. You have the flag of the king's order, the seal of the marshal, and the sword of Shangfang... that is a great development. Brother, I will never be able to climb high, so see You will stay away." Li Hong didn't blush at all when he said this.
"How hot and cold are the human feelings, and the world is hot and cold!" Xiao Chen complained loudly.
There were people coming and going at the entrance of the engineering department, and when they saw Mr. Xiao and Mr. Zuo Shilang openly quarreling, they all cast surprised glances.
"It just so happens that I'm going to see Ma Shangshu, let's go in together." Xiao Chen pulled him and rushed in, but was stopped by the guard at the door.
"What the hell are you doing? I don't know who I am!" Xiao Chen has become angry now, and he is completely different from the humble and polite in the past.
"Master Xiao, can we brothers not recognize you, old man? But this Ma Shangshu has an order...ah no, Ma Shangshu has something to do, he is not here." An officer hurried forward to apologize.
"Fart, he is not in the Ministry of Industry, can he still be in the Ministry of Households? I am also in the Ministry of Households, why is the threshold of your Ministry of Industry higher than that of the Ministry of Households?" Xiao Chen didn't listen at all, and raised his head With his chest up, he strode in. The guards wanted to stop him, but he was pushed away aggressively by the brothers from Xichang who followed him. Who dares to stop him when the factory owner is doing business?
No one dares.
All the way straight into the back hall, when there was no one in front of him, Li Hong wiped the sweat from his forehead and complained, "Why are you talking to me in front of so many people? Can't you just pretend you didn't see it?"
"Your brother has such a stalwart body, it's hard not to see it, and besides, who doesn't know our brother is good, and pretends not to know each other, isn't that trying to cover up? Why don't you fight and show them." Xiao Chen said with a smile.
The relationship between the two of them has always been very good in private. As soon as the matter of Xiao Chen being sent to Northern Xinjiang came out, Li Hong went to him quietly and advised him to run away quickly...
This guy is absolutely worth it.
The quarrel at the door just now was actually a deception.
Ma Wuming ordered the concierge not to allow Xiao Chen to come in, in fact it was to deceive others, when he heard that Xiao Chen had come, he immediately put down what he was doing and waited for him at the door of the study.
I knew he dared to break in.
Invite Xiao Chen into the study and let Li Hong wait outside, because what the two of them want to talk about is not suitable for outsiders to know, and neither can Li Hong.
The two talked for an entire hour, and they didn't know what they were talking about?
But according to what Li Hong said later, the two had been arguing all the time, and the noise was so loud that it almost overturned the entire Ministry of Industry!
Why? There are many reasons. It seems that Ma Shangshu owed money to the household department. Master Xiao came to ask for it in order to raise military expenses, but Ma Shangshu refused to give it. Master Xiao was furious, and he mentioned the matter of the heating factory, so the quarrel became even more severe. the...
Oh, so that is the case, but it is also reasonable.
Because the Ministry of Industry forcibly annexed Mr. Xiao's heating factory, all civil and military officials knew about it, and everyone knew about it...
It's really deceiving people too much.
After leaving the Ministry of Industry, he went straight outside the city and found Ma Wuming's unfinished wood processing factory.
It is said to be a wood processing factory, but in fact it can process anything... including military industry.
All kinds of the latest equipment and tools in the world today, refined steel ingots and iron blocks, rolls of lead sheets, piles of copper and aluminum, treated bamboo boards, and piles of various materials such as paint, gunpowder, cotton thread, etc. It is full of ten large warehouses.
And they are all brand new, Xiao Chen patrolled around, he was so happy that he couldn't walk steadily.
What a Jiangdong king, what a f***ing fun!
What made Xiao Chen most happy was not only these supplies, but hundreds of skilled craftsmen summoned from all over the place!
There are carpenters, blacksmiths, silversmiths, bricklayers, shipbuilders... and some painters that Xiao Chen has never heard of?
This is really a baby!
Because talent is the most important no matter which dynasty it is in.