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Chapter 908: Nowhere to Run

Now the people from Jianghai have surfaced.

As long as you confirm that this person is Yang Taigong's confidant, more things will be clear at a glance.

Chen Kaizhi immediately said, "Where is this person from? Do you have any details?"

Yang Biao said: "I found out that I am from Guanzhong. However, most of the past things are unknown. I only know that he went to Suhang, Yue Kingdom, and has made a fortune since then. He has done many business. Now, he is stationed in Jibei, and many industries have also moved from Suhang to Jibei."

Yang Biao said this and couldn't help but smile smugly: "In fact, there are many people like this. Jibei has attracted too many merchants, especially those big merchants. If you want to do big business, you have to focus on Jibei. Some people, even their families, come here, and some, even if the people are still elsewhere, many transactions have to be done in Jibei. This Jibei is like a piece of stone sucking, making merchants have to come."

Chen Kaizhi also smiled: "Now, Jiang Hai is still staring at me?"

"The Jinyiwei did not follow him, and even the people around him dared not inquire easily, for fear of alarming the enemy. All investigations were carried out in secret, and there was no involvement in Jianghai and nearby people."

"Yes, if this person is really Yang Taigong's person, then he will definitely be very alert and it is right not to alert the enemy. In Suhang, let's talk about it once there is a certain evidence. Why, is Mr. Fang still in the future?"

"I have been invited."

Yang Biao was obviously one of the people who knew Fang Wucai's inside story. When he learned that Fang Wucai was Chen Kaizhi's uncle, he was really shocked. In his opinion, this was really an unreasonable thing.

So when talking about this "Mr. Fang", Yang Biao was both speechless and admired.

Sure enough, at this moment, someone smiled and said, "I have dismissed my official position and title, and I am already a commoner. I must be lazy. Your Majesty summoned me and came later. I would like to forgive you."

Fang Wucai came, and he looked aggrieved.

Although Chen Kaizhi and him had a double act, Chen Kaizhi removed his title in the name of Fang Wucai colluding with the Empress Dowager, naturally, people inside and outside the capital understood that Mr. Fang was completely kicked away by His Majesty because of the remnants of the Empress Dowager.

Not only that, even Mr. Fang's Shanzhuang was banned by Jingzhao Prefecture. Suddenly, the hot Mr. Fang fell into the abyss.

Naturally, Mr. Fang soon faded out of everyone's vision. But who would have thought that Mr. Fang would appear here?

Everyone here is Chen Kaizhi's confidant, so there is no need to avoid it. Chen Kaizhi smiled and said, "Uncle Master, please sit down."

Fang Wucai was very generous and knelt down and said, "I didn't expect that Your Majesty would come to Jibei in person this time. Why? Is Your Majesty going to personally wipe out Yang Taigong?"

Chen Kaizhi nodded: "Uncle Master is willing to take risks, how can I be in the palace? Uncle Master, are you ready?"

Fang Wucai smiled and said, "Everything is ready. Your Majesty, don't worry, as long as you have a mouth, you can be free of worries."

Chen Kaizhi still looked at Fang Wucai nervously, then nodded: "Then, everything depends on the methods of uncle."

The two exchanged a few greetings, and it seemed that Chen Kaizhi did not mention the plan about Fang Wucai. In Chen Kaizhi's heart, since Uncle Fang planned to hook up with Yang Taigong, he would naturally have his own way.

Fang Wu had just said a few gossips and stood up, as if he suddenly remembered something: "I heard that your Majesty plans to join the countries of the Jibei Alliance for the sake of the Daliang?"

Chen Kaizhi nodded: "That's right."

Fang Wu yawned, looking leisurely: "I can help Your Majesty with all my strength, and I can write a letter and invite Beiyan and the Emperor of Yue to come in person."

Chen Kai was stunned.

In this alliance, Chen Kaizhi naturally wanted to invite important figures from various countries, and even princes from various countries might come, but the emperors of various countries personally drove the emperors, which Chen Kaizhi could not imagine.

In fact, back then, the emperors of various countries had not had alliances. Decades ago, the Northern Yan invaded Da Chen in the south, triggering a tragic war. In the end, it was the mediation of various countries that finally came to peace. The Emperor of the Great Chen and the Emperor of the Northern Yan at that time met with each other on the border, and since then, they barely turned the war into jade.

Nowadays, countries are relatively stable and are tying up to the emperors of various countries, which is almost the target of public criticism. If you invite emperors of various countries to come to Jibei, there is no security concern. However... Chen Kaizhi is a little suspicious. The emperors of Beiyan and Nanyue are really willing to sell their uncle's face?

Once the emperors of Northern Yan and Nanyue set out here, it would be difficult for other countries to send only envoys in terms of etiquette. Then... this means that it is very likely that the situation of the Five Emperors' Alliance will eventually lead to the situation.

Chen Kaizhi said: "If they can come, I will wait for the position."

Fang Wucai said: "I do my best." Although I said this, I seemed confident.

Chen Kaizhi settled down in Jibei and gradually began to appreciate the style of Jibei.

For Chen Kaizhi, instead of just looking around and looking around, it is better to directly call on various data surveys from Jibei Prefecture. For example, the population of Jibei now exceeds 300,000 households.

Three hundred thousand households are by no means a small number. Based on one household and three, this is a population of one million. This number is extremely scary. Of course, this is not the number on the list, half of which are not the permanent population.

In addition, the annual taxes here are almost increasing year by year. Here, all taxes are silver taxes and are not levied in kind, because there are countless commercial and commodity trades involved. The silver tax alone has exceeded tens of millions of taels of silver. If Chen Kaizhi's own money house, salt factory, steel and cloth workshop, then the profit and tax will be added, and in a year, the silver can exceed 40 million taels of silver.

This is almost an astronomical figure.

However, this number is still growing like a crazy snowball. For example, although steel workshops are expanding production every year, they are recruiting apprentices and craftsmen. One by one, the workshops are rising one after another. The steel production last year was 300,000 tons, but the supply was in short supply, because this kind of steel is far beyond the previous pig iron, and almost all countries are rushing to buy it. Even the Beiyan people's manufacturing bureaus directly purchase large quantities of goods to build weapons. In addition, there is also a large demand for agricultural tools and daily necessities. In addition, Jibei itself, due to the crazy increase in population and the construction of a large number of workshops, the production tools of workshops have also begun to be gradually replaced by steel. The demand for these 300,000 tons has been sold out before the workshop has been released.

In this way, we have to continue to expand the scale. There are tens of thousands of new steel craftsmen and apprentices every year. In order to increase production, many production processes are constantly improving, and new workshops are also emerging one after another.

This year's production will probably exceed 500,000 tons.

But Chen Kaizhi knew that whether it was 300,000 tons or 500,000 tons, compared with the output of later generations, it was just a drop in the bucket, but in this era, they were all the same.

Stronger steel has also driven the development of many industries. Higher quality steel means that production tools have been greatly improved, and almost all industries are eliminating the original production tools.

With a large amount of profits and taxes, in addition to part of the payment of the imperial court, more money was poured into Jibei at the same time. However, the wealth of the whole country was invested in a mansion, and began to build roads, open up canals, build ports, and even began to get involved in shipbuilding.

The wealth of the world has come so much that even the original workshops, such as silk and porcelain, began to gather in Jibei crazily.

Jibei has better craftsmen and a broader market. Building workshops here means that as long as the goods are out of the workshop, there are roads and bridges in front of the door, then they can be transported and exported through these roads. Not only that, a large number of merchants are gathered here, so that the workshop owners do not have to try their best to find a source of goods. Naturally, Jibei's friendship with merchants has also caused many merchants to flock in. Here, everyone is a foreigner, so naturally they are not worried about being bullied and exploited.

Chen Kaizhi roughly read the data. Yang Biao has already started to be able to do it. He has already had many unique insights into business. At the same time, he has experienced the experience of politics in that year. Jibei is in order. Not only that, a group of young officials also took this opportunity to train and grow up here slowly.

Originally, there were not many officials in the government, but with the increase in population in Jibei and the division of labor began to become more and more refined, this led to the fact that the government could no longer effectively manage the six houses such as the original etiquette, labour, official, and household, so various institutions had to be added.

Naturally, there are still many problems in Jibei. Various new concepts and new modes of production emerge, as well as the huge population, and new problems continue to emerge, but they also add many new difficulties.

But just as Chen Kaizhi was observing the military and political affairs of Jibei, the Jinyiwei from Suzhou and Hangzhou finally got news.

The person who came to report in person was Zhang Huang, a thousand households of Jinyiwei in Jibei.

Zhang Huang looked extremely excited when he met the saint for the first time. He excitedly gave a big gift. Seeing that Chen Kaizhi was only wearing a regular dress, he looked kind and not as handsome as he imagined, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty, the news has been investigated in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Although there are many transactions and industries in Suzhou and Hangzhou, most of them are just a cover. Not only that, the Jinyiwei also found out that his family members in Suzhou and Hangzhou seem to have different things."
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