Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 521 Exotic Style Pavilion!
Facing Lao Zhu's complaint, Zhu Yunxi replied with a smile.

"Grandfather, if your grandson is hungry, no one can starve you!"

"However, the conditions of this place are limited, so you can feel wronged and have some food with the workers here."

"It's so brave!"

"We really want to taste the meals of the workers here!"

Zhu Yunxi took Lao Zhu to the factory cafeteria. The officials in charge had already been waiting at the door, and even Jin Yiwei had already entered the kitchen ahead of time, watching every move in the back kitchen.

After the simple etiquette, Lao Zhu walked into the spacious and bright cafeteria, and looked through the windows one by one, appraising the dishes inside.

"Yo!"

"There's a lot of meat, is it specially prepared?"

The chef who was ordering vegetables at the window replied with a smile when he heard this.

"I really let the emperor talk, we were busy slaughtering pigs and sheep early this morning, just to entertain the emperor and the emperor's grandson..."

Old Zhu laughed loudly when he heard the words, and slapped Zhu Yunxi on the head.

"You rebellious grandson, you don't learn well every day, and you are like those corrupt officials, and you have fooled us!"

Seeing that the old emperor was angry with the grandson of the emperor, the chef hurriedly explained.

"My lord, don't blame the grandson of the emperor. Although what we usually eat is not as good as this, it's not bad!"

"Breakfast is simple, but it is guaranteed to be full. There must be meat for lunch, either a big fat pig, or fat chicken, fat duck, or sea fish!"

"Today, the factory leader made a special extra meal, saying that the emperor should not be treated poorly, let alone the envoys from foreign vassal states laugh at him!"

When Lao Zhu heard the chef say that, his face looked better.

"Look at us and order some food for us!"

After saying this, Lao Zhu went to look for a seat with his hands behind his back.

Not long after, Zhu Yunxi came over with two big plates of food, one for Lao Zhu and one for himself, and then he ate together with Lao Zhu.

When the two of them had already started eating, Ming officials and overseas envoys came in. While ordering food for themselves, the well-informed Ming officials taught the overseas envoys the rules and told them the benefits of this meal sharing system.

There is a bachelor who is erudite and knowledgeable, and he does not forget to mention a period of Spring and Autumn and Warring States history to prove the long history of the meal sharing system in the Ming Dynasty.

When everyone was eating together, the front-line workers carefully selected by the factory walked into the cafeteria and lined up in a neat line to cook.

Even though the cafeteria was full of blond and blue-eyed crooked people in strange clothes, none of the workers who had been ordered to peek at them, let alone whisper to each other.

Even if they glanced at some crooked people occasionally, their eyes would only show a look of indifference.

The attitude of the workers not only surprised those who came from afar, but even Zhu Yunxi was inconceivable.

Is the craftsman quality of my Ming Dynasty so high?

Even if it is hundreds of years later, if you suddenly see a few blond and blue-eyed crooked people among a group of black-haired and black-eyed people, the common people will not be able to help but look at them a few more times, right?
Thinking of this, Zhu Yunxi immediately called a person in charge over.

"Did you greet the workers?"

The person in charge smiled awkwardly upon hearing this.

"It is true that officials from the Ministry of Etiquette came to say hello, so let's not act too surprised."

"However, the reason why we workers are like this may have something to do with the fan hall in the alley."

"Fan Ren Hall?"

"That's what Fanrenkan does..."

"There are many overseas fan merchants who suspect that the purchase of goods from Shibosi is too slow, so they directly touch our side. As more and more people come, they bring some bad things..."

The more Zhu Yunxi listened, the more curious he became.

"What's so bad about it?"

The person in charge said in embarrassment.

"When His Highness finishes eating, I will take you there to take a look..."

Zhu Yunxi took a few bites casually, then took the towel handed over by Wang De and wiped his mouth, then impatiently followed the person in charge to some alley to check.

When Lao Zhu saw the hurried backs of the two, a sneer of disdain appeared on his face.

This grandson has little knowledge, he didn't understand what people said all the time?
Lao Zhu finished his meal slowly and gave Erhu a wink, Erhu then grabbed a person in charge of a factory and asked him to lead the way.

The other officials and overseas envoys who were eating, saw that the emperor and the grandson of the emperor had left, and thought that the two of them had gone to see some secrets, so they eagerly followed.

However, when they came to an alley and looked at the exotic beauties in all kinds of light and cool clothes, they were all dumbfounded for a moment.

There are not only blonde Persian girls, but also beauties from Japan, Siam and other countries.

Many of them were slaves bought by overseas fan merchants from various countries. After they were transported to Daming, they wanted to donate them to the emperor's grandson and seek some convenience for their business.

But after being rejected by the emperor's grandson, they were unwilling to transport the people back, so they directly opened a street entertainment venue in the industrial park.

While using waste, inquire about the information of the goods, which is convenient for future purchases.

Zhu Yunxi was also dumbfounded. He never expected that the exchanges between Daming and overseas feudal states had gone so far!

Zhu Yunxi called the person in charge with a gloomy face.

"When did this start, why has Gu never heard of it?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, it has been more than a year..."

"In the beginning, it was just for the self-entertainment of overseas fan merchants, but as our park expanded, more and more bachelors were recruited, so..."

"So you came up with such a style street?"

"Your Highness, forgive me..."

When Zhu Yunxi severely criticized the person in charge of the park, Lao Zhu, accompanied by Erhu, commented on beauties from all over the world.

"The one standing in the window on the second floor is not bad. It should have the blood of Dashi and the blood of Beiyuan. It should be a combination of the two places..."

"There's also that woman in Japanese clothes, who looks pleasing to the eye with her lowered eyebrows..."

"Hey!"

"This is good!"

Lao Zhu raised his finger and pointed at a foreign woman who was a few feet away from him, and said excitedly.

"This should be from Tianzhu!"

"When we defeated Zhang Shicheng, we captured one like this from Suzhou!"

The two tigers echoed from the side.

"The emperor said yes!"

"This woman looks like she is from that place by her attire. If the emperor wants to, she will be humble..."

Hearing this, Old Zhu gave Erhu a hard look.

"Who do you think we are, how can we be brothers-in-law with those fan merchants?"

"Speak to that rebellious navy tomorrow and ask them to pick some clean ones from Tianzhu!"

"promise!"

While Erhu agreed, he secretly sighed in his heart.

The emperor is still the same emperor, and his hobbies are as broad as ever.

No one cares about this episode, not Lao Zhu, officials of Ming Dynasty, and even overseas fan merchants.

Only Zhu Yunxi cared, and felt that the existence of these people had accelerated national integration and disrupted some of his plans.

"There is a deadline of ten days, and these people must be moved out of here!"

"At the same time, a general supervisor will be established to be responsible for matchmaking and marriage negotiations for the workers in the park, and to engage in social activities with the female workers in the textile factory. Before the end of the year, we must let all the bachelors marry us wives, and marry our Daming wives!"

The person in charge of the park showed embarrassment when he heard the words.

"Your Highness, there are thousands of people here, I'm afraid within ten days..."

"And some people have already married us Daming people. Such a rough treatment will inevitably make people dissatisfied..."

Zhu Yunxi was furious on the spot when he heard this.

"Are you married?"

The person in charge of the factory said with a strange expression.

"Some even gave birth to babies..."

"Uh uh..."

The more Zhu Yunxi listened, the more his head became bigger. Since ancient times, such foreign-related marriages have been troublesome, whether it is from the perspective of the court or from the perspective of the people.

"You should register these people first. Those who have married and had children with Daming people will be recorded separately. Those who are not married will be sent to the Songjiang City Shipping Department for unified placement."

"After I return to Beijing, I will discuss with other officials how to deal with those who marry Fanren privately!"

"promise……"

After Zhu Yunxi dealt with the problem of the exotic street, he was not interested in the next itinerary. He asked the person in charge of the park to take the foreign envoys for a tour, and he ordered people to drive out of the park in a carriage. Visited nearby villages and towns.

Since these exotic species are mixed in in the park, there must be other places in Daming.

Sure enough, not long after he left the park, he saw a few black, bald men working in the fields wearing shackles.

When Zhu Yunxi came to the field, he was just about to ask someone, when he saw a wealthy landowner walking over with a banana fan in his hand.

"Old and child, I have seen this noble man!"

Although Zhu Yunxi didn't bring too many guards, he was still well dressed, making him look like an ordinary person.

"Dare to ask this old man, these people who are farming in the fields are..."

"Oh, you are asking Kunlun slave!"

"These Kunlun slaves were bought by the old and the young at Shibosi, and each of them cost thirty old men's money!"

"There are a lot of Kunlun slaves over there?"

"Not much, not much!"

"Every time the boat lands, there are only a few hundred people, and Mao can't grab them if they go too late!"

Zhu Yunxi looked curiously at the Kunlun slaves working in the field.

"Do these people know how to farm?"

The rich man shook his head disdainfully.

"What a fart!"

"If it weren't for the old children to teach them, they wouldn't even know how to do it!"

"However, these people are strong. As long as they are taught and fed, they can work quickly."

"It's all the emperor's grandson's fault. If he hadn't recruited strong laborers into the workshop, the old and the young wouldn't have spent a lot of money to buy this stuff!"

"You don't know, these Kunlun slaves may eat them, and they always make mistakes in their work, causing trouble at every turn!"

The more Zhu Yunxi listened to it, the more headache he felt. Originally, today he was leading a group of envoys from overseas countries to see the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, but he wanted to let himself see a lot of feathers.

Before he knew it, Daming had embarked on the route of Kunlun slave trade, but he, the grandson of the emperor, didn't even know it!
"Do you have many Kunlun slaves here?"

"not much……"

"However, it is said that coastal areas use it a lot, especially in Fujian..."

Zhu Yunxi bid farewell to the rich man, went to several villages and towns, and saw dozens of Kunlun slaves working in the fields, his face became more and more gloomy.

It is true that there are policies above and countermeasures below.

The reason why he wanted to recruit idle laborers in rural areas was just to force the landlords to improve the welfare of the tenant farmers, or to facilitate the imperial court to acquire land at a low price.

Who would have imagined that his side hadn't improved much yet, and the powerful Ming landlord class had found cheaper and more affordable labor.

If this trend is allowed to continue, the Ming Dynasty will be renamed the United States of Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Yunxi finished his rural inspection and returned to the industrial park, he suddenly heard a burst of crying.

"what happened?"

Chang Jizu looked at the direction of the crying and said.

"Your Highness, the crying seems to be coming from the alley."

Zhu Yunxi walked towards the alley without saying a word, Chang Jizu hurriedly beckoned the guards to follow.

In the alley of the factory area, there were bursts of crying in the family style pavilion.

In a Tianzhu style pavilion, Amanda was crying bitterly with several girls in her arms.

"why!"

"Why did we finally escape from the clutches of the devil and find a place where we can shelter, but we are going to be expelled, huh..."

"I don't want to leave, I want to marry my dear Liu Erzhu, er..."

A few officials in yamen uniforms walked into Amanda's style pavilion and said to a few crying women.

"Hurry up and pack your things. This is an order from my great-grandson of the Ming Dynasty. He will re-arrange your residence near Shibosi!"

Amanda heard the words like a wounded lioness, staring at several people with angry eyes.

"No!"

"I do not go!"

"Liu Erzhu has promised to redeem me, I want to marry him, I want to marry him!"

While several people were arguing, a young man in worker's clothes walked in.

Amanda, who was crying, jumped forward in surprise when she saw the person coming.

"Two pillars!"

"You finally came to save me, woo woo woo..."

Liu Erzhu was not at all afraid when he saw the officials, and he said to the servants while comforting the crying woman.

"This is my woman!"

"I've negotiated a price with her boss, and I can buy it right away. You can't drive her away!"

Several yamen servants were a little unconvinced on the spot when they saw that the visitor was so aggressive.

"Oh, you craftsman is quite arrogant, who gave you the courage to act wild in front of us!"

"Brothers, take the guy and lock it, and then let their factory manager come to our yamen to redeem people!"

Hearing this, Liu Erzhu calmly took out a small blue notebook from his pocket and handed it over. Seeing this, several yamen servants took it and opened it in a daze, and immediately looked at the young man with a changed expression.

"Are you an eighth-level worker?"

"How old are you? Isn't your certificate fake?"

Ordinary craftsmen and yamen servants are naturally not afraid, but there is a special kind of craftsman, let alone the yamen servants who dare not mess with them, even the county magistrate of Shangyuan County dare not mess with them.

Even if this kind of person commits a crime, he has to go through the yamen of the Ministry of Industry to arrest him. Under normal circumstances, he cannot even arrest him.

Because craftsmen of this level are very rare, there are a total of hundreds of thousands of workers in the Shangyuan County Industrial Park, but only a few hundred craftsmen who can reach the eighth level.

It can be said that every eighth-level craftsman is the treasure of the factory, and his salary is higher than that of the factory manager. The factory manager has to smile when he sees it.

Liu Erzhu snorted coldly when he heard the words.

"My lord, I was born with a pair of skillful hands, and I can open all the locks in the world at the age of seven. If I didn't want to be a good citizen, I would have become a famous thief all over the world!"

"Now the young master belongs to the military industry bureau directly managed by the emperor's grandson, and specializes in building..."

"Oh, I almost forgot, what we are doing is keeping secrets, and we are only responsible to the emperor's grandson, you are not qualified to listen!"

Several yamen servants were not annoyed when they heard this, but showed respect.

"Since she is Brother Liu's woman, then brothers, just turn a blind eye and close one eye..."

"However, brothers, I have to remind Brother Liu that the emperor's grandson has just personally ordered that all foreign women who are not married to the Ming people will be relocated to Songjiang City's shipping department for unified resettlement."

"Besides, according to our boss, the grandson of the emperor seems to be very dissatisfied with those who married foreign women privately, and said that he would go back and discuss with the officials how to deal with it..."

"That's all for now, Brother Liu, please do it yourself!"

Liu Erzhu came from a family of thieves. He grew up among all kinds of weird locks since he was a child. Only then did he develop a pair of dexterous hands, and he passed the assessment set by the Ministry of Industry and became a glorious eighth-level craftsman.

Because he became famous at a young age, coupled with a good income, he developed a problem of not being able to get high or low.

Originally, with his income, it was more than enough to marry a daughter-in-law from a small family, but he insisted on marrying a young lady from a well-educated and well-educated family.

But how could the wealthy family think highly of him? After spending a lot of wedding money but never marrying a lady from a wealthy family, he poured his blood into the exotic style pavilion, and forged a deep friendship with the oiran inside. friendship.

Originally, he thought he had found the love of his life, but when he heard the last sentence of advice from the yamen servant, he suddenly hesitated.

The reason why he can achieve what he is today, even the officials and yamen servants have to call "brother" when they see him, is all due to the appreciation of the emperor's grandson.

If the emperor's grandson was hated because of a foreign woman, then he would be at a great loss.

When he was hesitating, Amanda saw that the official had left because of a few words from his lover Liu Erzhu, so she threw herself on Liu Erzhu enthusiastically, and kissed him fiercely in the face.

How could Liu Erzhu bear this, he fell under Amanda's passionate offensive on the spot.

At this moment, he has only one thought, as long as the emperor's grandson does not arrest him and make him a eunuch in the palace, he will never give up his beloved Amanda.

Although the father would never let such a daughter-in-law pass through the family, can he still let her be a concubine? Wouldn't it be enough to marry another Daming woman as his regular wife?

(End of this chapter)