In the end, even the Wuhu Medicinal Materials Industry Guild was directly restructured into Wuhu Medicinal Materials Company and merged into Jiangnan Medical Group......

Zhao Gongzi's trip to Wuhu can be described as full of harvest and all in one go.

Even he himself was quite surprised by the enthusiasm of Wuhu industrialists and businessmen to join the Jiangnan Group.

In fact, he healed the scar and forgot the pain, and it was only a year or two of hard work, so he didn't remember why he had to die and beg Bai Lai to hug the eldest princess's thigh.

Without the protection of his godmother, he dares to do a coal lotus business? Dare to buy hundreds of coal kilns in Xishan? Dare to issue shares of Xishan Company and make crazy money? I have long been killed a hundred times by those powerful people who eat people and don't spit out bones, a hundred times!

In a society governed by people like the Ming Dynasty, where the status of businessmen is generally not high and the legal system is extremely unsound, there is a large amount of wealth but there is not enough strength to protect itself, and wealth will only lead to the disaster of extinction.

Therefore, the desire of businessmen for a sense of security has reached the level of perversion. Therefore, they want to kneel and lick the officials, so they want to hold together, so they generously help students and order their children to study hard. Everything is for the sake of self-insurance.

Now, Zhao Hao has established such an unprecedented community of interests, although its top level is still composed of powerful families, but in essence it is still a group of businessmen, which is naturally affinity and attraction to businessmen.

And Gangnam Group has proven itself strong enough to provide all members with the security they need most.

In comparison, what development prospects are second. What's more, the prospect of joining Jiangnan Group is already very bright.

This is why the enthusiasm of businessmen for Jiangnan Group far exceeds Zhao Hao's enthusiasm for them. They desperately want to be part of the group and be protected by it. Of course, the sooner you join, the better you will be able to occupy a good position, and this simple truth is that all businessmen will not be confused.

Therefore, before Zhao Gongzi left Wuhu, Ruan Bi and Wang Yu had already held a guild meeting to determine the general policy of collective restructuring and merging into the Jiangnan Group, which is understandable.

Since you want to join, of course, you should be happy and positive. Twisting and pinching, looking forward and looking backwards, he was despised by Zhao Gongzi, but the gains outweighed the losses.

When Zhao Gongzi came, he welcomed him, and when he left, everyone sent him off, and the Hui merchants sent him into the Yangtze River for twenty miles by boat, so he was reluctant to say goodbye with tears.

is so Wuhu, how can Zhao Gongzi not love it. After this trip, the status of the city in his heart has quietly risen to a new level.

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The Science was smooth sailing, riding the wind and waves, speeding on the Yangtze River, and in less than half an hour, it entered the territory of Dangtu County.

Looking at the Tianmen Mountain on the riverside, where two tigers are dominant, Zhao Gongzi couldn't help but think of the situation two years ago, when he and Tang Fatzi came to the countryside to collect silk.

At that time, his own capital was deceived by letting Zhao Erye go to Deheng to perform in his true colors. When the silk was collected, Tang Fatzi even used unscrupulous means to reduce the price, and collected a full 10,000 catties of silk with 5,000 taels of silver!

A pound of raw silk is worth five dollars of silver.

And just one or two months later, the price of raw silk skyrocketed to two taels and one catty. Zhao Hao heard that in the summer of that year, there were often countrymen with accents who went to Tang Ji South Goods Store to make trouble, asking him to make up some more money, and almost beat Tang Fatzi.

Fortunately, the price of silk fell back to one or two later, so no one troubled Tang Youde anymore.

Although those Tu people didn't know that Zhao Hao was the initiator, they didn't go to Wei Jixian to make trouble. But Zhao Gongzi is still a little bit of a thief, and he feels shameless to face Tu's father. He ordered a quick departure from the west bank of Jiangxinzhou to Dangtu.

As a result, the golden color of Dangtu Zhixian, who was waiting for Zhao Gongzi on the east bank, was empty. Fortunately, this very domineering Huang Zhixian is also a jinshi in the second year of Longqing, and he was sent to Taiping Mansion together with Shuai Ji, everyone is their own people, and they don't think much about it.

The Science went straight down the river, and arrived at Jinling City before dusk, and the misty spring rain fell in the sky, so that the Jinling City in the distance was shrouded in smoke and rain.

Seeing that the weather is not good, Zhao Hao plans to enter the city tonight, go to the mid-mountain villa for a night, and go to Longjiang Shipyard tomorrow morning to inspect.

But after disembarking at the Jiangdongmen Wharf, Xu Bangrui, who came to greet him, told him a major news - the peach blossom flood broke out at the same time in the Yellow River and the Huai River, which broke a large section of the embankment in the lower reaches of the Huanghuai River.

Due to the water coming out of the river, the water level in the entire Peixian Xuzhou Suqian Huai'an area dropped, resulting in the silting up of more than 600 miles of the river, and more than 2,000 boats of Caoyun Yamen were blocked in Xiapi and could not move forward!

Zhao Hao was not surprised by this, because nearly 400 years ago, the Yellow River seized the Huai River into the sea, causing serious disorder in the original Huai River water system, and the ecological environment of the entire Jianghuai region was also fatally damaged, and countless rivers and lakes sometimes dried up and sometimes flooded, bringing endless suffering to the people of Jianghuai.

The three-year flood in Longqing was just the beginning, and the Yellow River would flood year after year until the man surnamed Pan stood up and fought it to the death......

Zhao Hao has been waiting for this news for a long time, but when he really waited, he was not happy at all. Although the harm of the peach blossom flood is not as serious as that of the summer flood, at least the people have enough time to escape. But he is well aware that in the next few years, large areas of the lower reaches of the Huanghuai River will appear uninhabitable and uncultivated, bringing heavy suffering to the millions of people living there.

However, Hai Rui, the governor of Yingtian, could not manage the north of the Yangtze River, and private disaster relief was a taboo in the imperial court, so Zhao Hao could not directly lend a hand, and had to think of a proper way to avoid suspicion.

And the most important thing is to take advantage of the opportunity brought by the blockade of water transportation to open up the checkpoint of shipping!

Zhao Hao's efforts all along are preparing for this moment.

"Don't go to the city, go directly to the Longjiang factory." Zhao Gongzi ordered categorically.

"In such a hurry?" Xu Bangrui also participated in the group conference, and naturally knows that the top priority of the First Five-Year Plan is to strive for the shipping of grain and take the opportunity to open up sea trade!

But he never expected that the opportunity would come in a blink of an eye, and it felt very sudden.

"The whole group, the whole Jiangnan, is looking forward to opening the sea." I only heard Zhao Hao's tone unprecedentedly firm: "If you strive for it one day earlier, you can achieve it one day earlier, and let Jiangnan rejuvenate one day earlier!" ”

"Childe is really heartbroken for the people of Jiangnan." Xu Bangrui couldn't help but sigh: "Fortunately, God helped this time, it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

"It's not that easy." On the bumpy carriage, amid the sound of heavier and heavier rain, Zhao Hao said slowly: "Now that I hear that the luck has been cut off, the princes of the court and the central government must be in a panic, worried that the Beijing division is trapped. But after all, Taicang's grain storage can last for two years, and they will soon start their own small abacus again, and they have hard bones to gnaw. ”

Saying that, he smiled and said: "So it's better to finish the affairs of Jiangnan as soon as possible and go to Beijing as soon as possible to lobby." ”

ps. The third update, write another one.