When he set off, Xiang Zhen was still full of confidence and full of energy.

In the eyes of the Xiang Group in Lingnan, Li Ze is not having a good life now. The Northeast has not yet settled. Although Zhang Zhongwu has temporarily surrendered, it is probably impossible for you to expect him to be a rebellious guy for the rest of his life. Zhang Zhongwu is like an acne. Although it is not fatal now, over time, no one knows what this acne will look like and how harmful it will be?

So Li Ze had to still have a heavy army stationed in the northeast direction. His own uncle Li Anmin served as the governor of Mozhou. It was clear at a glance who he was guarding against.

In the northwest, a big battle with Tocharo had just been fought. Although it won, it was not so easy. Hedong Miyun and Ansui Miyun, these two major areas were seriously damaged and it was not something that could be done in a short time.

On the other hand, Chang'an Daliang, which is located in the Central Plains and Guanzhong, these two places are the foundation of the emperor. Most of the people who have always mastered these two places have achieved great achievements in the end. While Li Ze and Zhang Zhongwu and Tochar are fighting for endlessly, Zhu Wen was silently digesting the Guanzhong area and strengthening his rule in the Central Plains. Now, the army is heading south. In less than two months, Zhu Youyu and Zhu Yougui captured the east and west roads of Shannan. The forces are aggressive, and the south is in panic.

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire south is now frightened and the remarks of surrendering to Zhu Wen are rampant.

At this time, the Lingnan Jiedu, who was extremely powerful in the southeast, showed goodwill to the Zhenzhou court, willing to surrender and support the emperor of Zhenzhou, which was the greatest help to Li Ze.

Of course, it is not to be denied that Xiang's actions have his own political considerations. But then again, if it weren't for his own ideas, why would Xiang's do this?

In the current situation, if Xiang is willing to submit to Zhu Wen, he is afraid that Zhu Wen will agree to the king if he asks Zhu Wen to be the king of Xiang, and Zhu Wen will agree.

Xiang Zhen was very happy along the way.

As long as Li Ze nodded, his daughter would become the queen. This was a big leap for Xiang's political status, and Xiang's family would enter the core of the ruling of the Tang Dynasty, and would no longer be a local overlord living in a corner.

With this name, Xiang has a further stage.

The name of this thing is strange. Sometimes, he is worth nothing and doesn't care about anything, but sometimes, he is priceless and can't buy anything that can't be bought with money.

It seemed like Li Ze was just like Xiang before, but he was just a prince from the north. However, since he brought the emperor to Zhenzhou, he changed his mind and issued orders to the princes in the world in a noble manner.

Listening or not listening is the same thing, but having this qualification is another matter.

As long as you have this qualification, everything will come naturally as soon as the time comes.

If you don’t have this qualification, even if you have this opportunity, everyone will treat your words as a joke.

The emperor is a puppet now? It doesn’t matter. As long as he becomes Xiang’s son-in-law, he will have the capital to negotiate with Li Ze. What’s more, in the Zhenzhou court, the little emperor is not isolated and helpless. Whether it is Xue Ping, Han Qi, Tian Lingzi, they are all the emperor’s confidants and natural ally of Xiang’s family.

There are ministers in the court and soldiers in the place, who dares to say that the emperor is a puppet?

Xiang's family is not like Han Qi and others in the past. Everything is involved by Li Ze, and Li Ze finally plots against him, destroying his outstanding strength. Xiang's family is far southeast, and Li Ze wants to reach out, but he can't.

On the contrary, Li Ze had many places to rely on Xiang's situation in the south!

But when Xiang Zhen arrived at Haixing, he was hit by a blow.

Whether it was intentional or unintentional, when Xiang Zhen was preparing to enter the port, the Tang army naval army also returned from training outside the sea. The merchant ship was naturally not qualified to challenge the navy and obediently made way for the navy to move out of the waterway and waited for the navy to enter the port first.

When seeing the huge sea falcon-level naval warship slowly sailing into the harbor from the side of the merchant ship, the huge unavoidable feeling of depression made Xiang Zhen look a little pale.

The most important place under the command of the Lingnan Jiedu is Guangzhou and Quanzhou's external port, which is the largest source of wealth for the Xiang family, so the Xiang family also has a navy.

But Xiang's navy never owned a naval warship of the Sea Falcon level. Such a maritime warship only stayed above history books or legends. Now, it will not be built at all.

Xiang Zhen did not expect that when he had just arrived on Li Ze's territory, he saw such a majestic warship. Compared with the Haixia warship, the merchant ship he was riding on was like a toy for a child. Even though the warship had slowed down when it entered the port, the self-weight he had with his own big guy and the waves that had been lined up made the merchant ship under his feet fluctuate.

After the Haixia-class warship, there were several warships that looked very normal, but Xiang Zhen was an expert, and he glanced at it and could see that these warships were very different from the Lingnan Navy warships.

Although the Lingnan Navy has a large number of warships, it is basically transformed with merchant ships. There is still a huge difference from real warships.

No matter how the merchant ship is transformed, there is still a huge gap between it and the warships that were specially used for combat at the beginning of design.

Haixing's port seems to have never been built and has been expanding continuously. At this moment, the port is full of merchant ships from all over the world. Even on the sea outside the port, like the merchant ships Xiang Zhen is riding, there are still many merchant ships moored on the sea and waiting to enter the port.

Xiang Zhen even saw the flags of some of the sea merchants he was once very familiar with.

This made him feel ache in his heart.

The rise of Haixing is a loss of real money for Lingnan. Originally, these merchant ships who came to travel overseas, whether local or foreign, could be parked and traded, namely Guangzhou and Quanzhou in Lingnan, but now, they have one more choice.

What was most annoying was that in order to compete for these people, Haixing gave them huge discounts on taxes and built a large number of supporting facilities in Haixing.

There are absolutely no large warehouses like those cheap and used to make these merchants turn over in Lingnan.

More and more maritime merchants are choosing Haixing. This can be seen from the revenue of Lingnan City Bosi in the past two years, and the decline is too severe.

As we walked from Cangzhou, Xiang Zhen became more and more silent.

He was still mentally prepared for the prosperity of Cangzhou and other places, but after arriving in Texas, he was extremely shocked.

In Dezhou, due to Li Ze's fire and forced migration, this area almost turned into a dead land. In just four or five years, the prosperity of the past has been reappeared and even surpassed. Gao Xiangsheng acted as a qualified tour guide, introducing him to the current situation in Texas.

Texas, in general, is a huge workshop area. On each river, huge machinery that utilizes hydraulic power is built, and the matching areas are large areas of factory buildings. These factories in Texas have completely abandoned the miniaturization and decentralization of the past, but have concentrated all manpower and material resources together.

In Texas, these people who work in factories are called workers.

From Gao Xiangsheng's mouth, Xiang Zhen first learned what large-scale operation is and what assembly line operation is. After summary, it is one thing, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency.

They even gathered together to raise chickens, ducks and pigs. It was hard for Xiang Zhen to imagine the magnificent scene of raising thousands of pigs in a pig farm.

"When the main business is over, I hope to visit our Texas when I return." Gao Xiangsheng said enthusiastically: "Just like breeding, I didn't know that there were so many tricks in the past that could lead to so many industries. Eggs and chicken meat can be sold for money, chicken feathers can be sold for money, and even chicken manure can be sold for money. All of these are difficult to count."

"Can feces be sold for money?"

"Of course." Gao Xiangsheng smiled and said, "The farmers who farmed are rushing to ask for it!"

Xiang Zhen was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know how much money these workers pay for a month?"

"This is all in one go." Gao Xiangsheng shook his head and said, "I don't understand it very clearly, but in short, the higher the technical content, the higher the salary income. In addition to salary, there are also an uncertain amount of bonuses every year."

"tips?"

"In Texas, this is called a bonus." Gao Xiangsheng said: "Sometimes, the amount of bonus is even far higher than his own salary. For example, in a workshop specializing in making crossbow machines, because the workshop completed the standardized production process of all parts, all the parts on the crossbow machines in our army reached a standard agreement. The most ordinary workers in this workshop received a bonus of 100 stag."

"so much?"

"Li Xiang said that compared to the value they created, this little money is nothing at all."

"How many workers in Texas have the least money per month?"

"The monthly salary should be no less than two guan, right?" Gao Xiangsheng said. "Generally speaking, a family has at least two laborers, and even with the lowest salary, they still have a four-guan income, which is not a small amount."

Not only is it less, it’s just too much. Xiang Zhen knows very well that in Lingnan, an ordinary family can earn more than ten cents of money in a year. And this is a far cry from even the lowest income of Texas.

"Du Yuhou, I'm going to say that in addition to reducing costs and improving efficiency, it also has another very important role in bringing everyone together to produce large-scale production like this. Du Yuhou is not an outsider, so it's okay to say it to you." Gao Xiangsheng said.

"I hope to hear it carefully!"
Chapter completed!