Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 393 Opportunity
The reason why His Royal Highness the King of Chu has the confidence to solve the "Great Depression" in Suzhou by printing food stamps is that the most fundamental premise is the good foundation laid by his third brother.

There is no third brother who wiped out the gangsters in Suzhou City, and no third brother who frightened all the wealthy families in Suzhou City.If these people can act like monsters, they can mess things up for him in minutes.

But now, the gangsters have lost their minds, the rich are still locked in cages, and the unstable factors have been minimized, so that he can safely and boldly implement his Suzhou revitalization plan.

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Without further ado, after the local officials were dealt with, King Chu immediately received a group of locals from Fengyang...

They were Jiangnan immigrants who were moved to Fengyang by his father in the third year of Hongwu.

That year, Boss Zhu moved a total of 14 households in Jiangnan to Fengyang.All the wealthy people in the south of the Yangtze River were relocated to Fengyang, and they were not allowed to go back privately.

However, from the year before last, Zhu Yuanzhang allowed them to go back to their hometown every Qingming to visit the grave.

These people came back to Suzhou from Fengyang on the pretext of sweeping the tomb.

It was Shen Rong and Gu Yuanchen who brought them in.

These two were recruited by Zhu Zhen last year as shipping committee members of the Shipping Department, but they didn't go to the shipping department's office all day.After the Laba banquet in Zhenjiang, he was sent back to Fengyang by him. It took several months to conduct a thorough investigation of the big Jiangnan households who moved to Fengyang.

The people who came today were carefully selected by Zhu Zhen from the rosters presented by the two of them.

They all suffered great crimes in Fengyang, and they also knew that Shen and Gu had climbed to the high branch of the King of Chu and escaped from the sea of ​​suffering.Therefore, after meeting the King of Chu, they kowtowed like pounding garlic, showing the utmost humility.There are completely two styles of painting with those big families in the south of the Yangtze River who appear to be submissive but are not inferior at the Laba Banquet.

"Let's get back together, everyone." His Royal Highness King Chu smiled sweetly, with two thick eyebrows like crescent moons. "Don't be nervous, the king invites you to have a cup of tea, let's chat casually, and sit down."

Everyone thanked them for getting up, and then followed Shen Rong and Gu Yuanchen to sit down on the two rows of armchairs in the lower hall.Each of them put only a small piece of buttocks on the chair, their waists were straightened, their eyes were not squinted, and they were not panting.

Seeing that they were still very nervous, Zhu Zhen chatted with them first, asking where they lived before, how many generations they had been in Suzhou, and what kind of industries are there now?
His Royal Highness King Chu's questions were more heart-rending, and everyone who asked them was saddened, and many of them even shed tears of sadness.

They told Zhu Zhen that they had lived in Suzhou for generations. Before Hongwu three years ago, they never thought that they would leave here in this life.

As for the property in Suzhou... Even big bosses like Shen Rong and Gu Yuanchen couldn't keep it, let alone them.

And to usurp their property... oh no, it should be said that the ones who took over their property at a 'favorable' price are naturally their old best friends, those big families who stayed in Suzhou.

"Right now, we don't have much contact with Gusu City, except for the ancestral grave." A guest named Xu Ben said:

"I heard that those people were all locked up in prison. I have to thank the two Highnesses for letting us poor people out."

"It's just a matter of raising your hands." Zhu Zhen waved his hands and said with a smile, "Then what are your plans for the next step?"

"Of course I'm going back to Fengyang." Everyone said sadly: "If you don't return at the end of the month, you will have to be called."

"If there is a chance to stay, would you consider it?" Zhu Zhen asked casually, leaning on the armrest.

"Yes, of course!" When the guests heard this, their eyes lit up and they nodded repeatedly. They were looking forward to this sentence day and night.

"As long as His Highness allows us to return the fallen leaves to our roots, we can let the grassroots do whatever we want." They expressed their opinions one after another as if grasping at straws.

"Yes, we are willing to pour Yexiang to His Highness!"

"Hahaha." Zhu Zhen couldn't help laughing and said, "The ones who pour Yexiang to this king are all beauties. If you want to pour Yexiang, you don't have the qualifications."

"Yes..." Everyone nodded with a sneer and said, "In short, we will do whatever Your Highness tells us to do, and we will never frown!"

"Don't worry, I didn't ask you to commit crimes." Zhu Zhen smiled lightly, pointed to Shen Rong and said: "I have read the materials compiled by the two of them, and know that your family used to have a silk weaving factory, and they all personally Managed."

"Yes..." everyone said in a daze.Generally speaking, it is not very honorable to manage the factory yourself.Because this either means that their family business is not big enough to dare to hand over the management of the factory to the people below; or it means that their status in the family is not high enough and they can only be sent to manage the factory...

In short, they can only be regarded as marginal figures among the big households.

"That's why this king asked you to come here." Zhu Zhen no longer kept his promises, and simply talked about the current predicament in Suzhou.Then said:

"Because the weaving households couldn't start work, many Suzhou citizens had no cooking at home, and the king was more or less responsible. So he thought of a way of 'relief with work', and planned to have a batch of silk produced by the Suzhou Weaving and Dyeing Bureau. If the citizens have work to do, they will naturally have food to eat.”

Everyone was too busy to praise His Highness for his benevolence, for being the savior of the people of Suzhou.

"It's too early for you to boast." Zhu Zhen smiled at the crowd, "As soon as I found out, the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau only has [-] looms in total, which is of no use at all. So I asked them to invite you to ask, if you are interested Place this order to produce these silks for the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau?"

"Yes, of course." Everyone nodded hurriedly and said, "This kind of great thing that benefits the country and the people, we are definitely willing to do it without money!"

"It's just..." But Xu Ben smiled wryly and said, "We don't have a workshop now, not even a loom, how can we share the worries for His Highness?"

"Hahaha, this is simple." Zhu Zhen waved his hand, and Luo Guanzhong presented a stack of deeds with big red seals.

"This is your original factory. Of course, it has been transferred to someone else's house now. My king ordered people to find out all the bottoms left in the yamen."

When everyone heard this, their eyes turned red.Staring straight at the stack of deeds, it was their property that was robbed by the Ming Dynasty!

"Mr. Luo has seen it for me, it's really unfair." Zhu Zhen glanced at Luo Guanzhong and said, "Isn't it?"

"Yes." Luo Guanzhong nodded expressionlessly. He thought that the king of Chu invited him to be a military adviser, but he didn't expect that the sixth son only used him as a tool for handling documents.

"The money paid by those buyers is basically only [-] to [-]% of the market price, and the least is even [-]%. It is really unfair."

"That's when they took advantage of the fire to rob!" Everyone shouted angrily: "After the imperial court issued an order, in order to prevent us from escaping, we were only given three days before we had to set off on the road. There was no time to deal with the property, so we could only entrust us to stay Some people sold it on behalf of others—I didn’t expect them to be so shameless that they sold it to themselves at a very low price!”

"That bastard Zhu He, you haven't paid me yet! Last year, when I went back to my hometown to sweep the tomb, I was beaten out when I came to ask for money..." a rich man named Zhu Ping complained through gritted teeth.

No wonder they were so happy to hear that the big ones left behind went to prison.

"That's good, my king will help you get your property back!" Zhu Zhen said proudly as soon as he slapped the deeds.

"I'll thank Your Highness for the grace of rebuilding." With tears in their eyes, everyone kowtowed and said, "This life, no, life after life, I will swear allegiance to Your Highness to the death!"

ps. I'm sorry, I'm all blaming me today.When I was sitting in front of the computer and preparing to code words, I was suddenly stunned by what happened in the neighboring country.I never expected that ancient history was repeating itself abroad.And I deeply realized that Boss Zhu is really not worrying for nothing... So I just brushed and brushed, but I have only finished writing a chapter until now.I was wrong……

(End of this chapter)