The days of depravity did not last long, and the luxurious life of warm and soft jade fragrance was not long.

By the end of October, in the early winter, Qi Fang returned from the south, and the fleet brought a large number of military uniforms and delivered the tent to the new army.

Yan Kun also returned from the north and a large amount of copper, iron ore was transported to the royal palace.

Immediately under his organization, the royal palace held a formal roundtable meeting, with two major decisions.

First, Guan Zhong will be mainly responsible for the shipyard of the royal palace and will start to take orders outside the royal palace. The reason for this is that there are eighteen large ships in the royal palace, and two will be launched in mid-November, and there will be no additional additional ships according to the plan.

In this way, the shipyard in the royal palace can be idle, and so many workers have to eat and invest in many wasteful money to build the shipyard, which cannot be idle.

Fortunately, the ship of the royal palace is famous, crossing the East China Sea and defeating the Liao Kingdom. In addition, it often travels to and from the north and south waterways. Everyone sees the superior performance. Some merchants have paid a lot of money to imitate it, but naturally they have lost their wife and soldiers because.

A merchant had long asked the royal family to buy a ship, especially those in Mingzhou that often trade from the sea.

However, at that time, the production capacity of the Wangfu shipyard could only meet the needs of the Wangfu.

But now it’s different. The ship of the royal mansion is enough to start letting the royal mansion take orders from other merchants. Of course, these orders are also considered before and after.

The first thing is to receive orders from shipping merchants. For example, merchants in Mingzhou have mostly traded across seas, mainly with Japan, Jiaozhi and other places. From maritime trade, he even heard that some far-reaching ones can go along the sea to the Indian Peninsula in the more southern and even to the Persian Gulf.

Moreover, maritime trade routes are still regular. Some businesses do business with countries around the Persian Gulf, which is also called the Maritime Silk Road.

They really need ships like the Dingnan-class ship of the royal mansion to deal with the turbulent seas. Moreover, because it is very difficult to travel back and forth, it takes a long time and high cost. The more goods you carry at one time, the more profits you will earn. They also urgently need large ships like the royal mansion.

Li Xingzhou was not stingy and was preparing to provide them with it. As long as they gave them money, the shipyard in the royal palace could build it for them.

This is the first big decision.

The second decision was to transfer Yan Kun back to be responsible for the restaurant business of the royal mansion and collect information, so that Fang Xin could replace Yan Kun, lead the fleet to the north, and be responsible for the business in the north.

Because Yan Kun is older, Yan Bian's death reminds Li Xingzhou that Yan Kun is older and can no longer run around, otherwise his body will not be able to withstand it.

But what's subtle is that everyone agreed during the vote, but only Fang Xin himself opposed it.

Everyone looked at him with confusion, and he raised his hand helplessly and expressed his agreement.

.........

After the meeting ended, Li Xingzhou met Fang Xin as soon as he left the lobby.

The air was chilling in the early winter, and Fang Xin wanted to speak but stopped when he saw him.

Li Xingzhou didn't say it, but he also guessed a general idea in his heart. Fang Xin was "picked" by Yan Kun. Although he didn't know his origin, he was beyond his expectations and had the ability and brain. I have to say that Yan Kun really has a good idea of ​​people.

"Tell me as you walk." Li Xingzhou said, walking towards the courtyard, Fang Xin followed, "I wonder why I value a stranger like you."

Fang Xin was stunned for a moment. He probably didn't expect that he would speak out so bluntly and speak so publicly. This was an embarrassing thing after all.

"No," he responded honestly.

Li Xingzhou smiled, "This is not the first time you have such doubts."

"Yes, in the next generation of grass-roots people, no one knows, and the prince has entrusted important tasks for his unscrupulous people..."

Li Xingzhou glanced at him and smiled casually, "I don't know anything about you either."

"The prince... knows that he is here to go." Fang Xin was surprised, and Li Xingzhou saw the worry in his eyes.

"You were the prince's person before."

Fang Xin was stunned, "Prince, do you know everything?"

"Haha, it's not as magnificent as you thought. However, when the prince passed away, he rebelled because of his rebellion. No one from the royal family, court officials, or even the people worshiped him. But I saw an altar in the backyard of Tingyulou. Of course, it was only you, the supervisor."

"Please forgive me..."

"Forgive me for any sin, the prince is also a pitiful person. He is so glorious before him. As a result, the tea is cold and there is no incense. You think of the old kindness and sacrifice to him is right."

Fang Xin was a little incredible, "But the prince is the prince..."

"It's my political enemy, not bad." Li Xingzhou sighed: "It's me who killed him. He may not have to die. I will force him to death." He patted Fang Xin on the shoulder, "I have to do this, do you understand?"

"Understand, if the prince did not do this, no one in the mansion and the confidants in the army would be able to escape unscathed." Fang Xin said.

"It's good that you understand. It's comfortable to talk to a smart person like you, and it's understandable at a glance. So I don't blame you for sacrificing the prince, or you don't care about where you came from before. What I'm talking about is now." Li Xingzhou said seriously: "Mr. Fang, what you did for my palace is enough to make me not ask about your origin. The saying that heroes don't ask about the origin is false. It's true that the palace cannot do without you. Do you feel safe by saying that?"

Fang Xin stopped and stared at him blankly. After a long time, he sighed, "The prince, I am claiming to be extremely smart and have no choice but to know anyone, but the prince, I really don't understand."

Li Xingzhou smiled heroically, "Don't worry about whether you understand or not, tell me whether you want to stay in the palace or not. If you stay, you will take over Yan Kun. I will give you all the business and fleet in the north. If you don't want to stay, you can leave. I will give you money and ensure you are safe from the capital.

But there is one thing you have to remember, life is so far, there is not much time, you are a Confucian scholar, and Confucian scholars say they are in the world, so don’t want to waste their time.”

Fang Xin was silent, with a look of reluctance in his eyes, and finally bowed: "Stay behind."

"That's good."

.........

After saying that, Fang Xin left in a hurry. Li Xingzhou didn't ask much. Fang Xin should be the former prince's planner or a person like a disciple. He was later swept out and was rescued by Yan Kun when he was in a downturn.

As he said, he did not care about Fang Xin's past, it was entirely because of his ability and wisdom.

As for the future, Li Xingzhou was completely relieved. Fang Xin was the kind of person who was confident in his own abilities and was very arrogant. Because of this, only he agreed to stay. Whether he wanted to or not, he would do his best to do his job well.

After talking, he finally felt much more relieved. He was afraid that he would not be able to keep Fang Xin. After returning to the courtyard, Shiyu looked at him in a bad way, as if he had done something bad.

He walked over with a look of injustice and smiled, "Hehe, what's wrong? What's wrong with me? Why am I doing to make my wife unhappy? Should I make good compensation for her at night?"

Shiyu's face turned slightly red, she pushed him away gently, and said in a angrily manner, "Go away... Yes, it's Qifang. She said she wanted to find you and let you go to Tingyulou to attend the banquet at night."
Chapter completed!