Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 266 Mr. Zhu is my father
This was a wedding of the century.

It is not only large in scale, but also a political marriage throughout history.

This is because it signifies a full-scale collaboration between the ancient and modern worlds, establishing a foundation of mutual trust.

Therefore, under the influence of this trend, Zhu Yunfeng's wedding was unprecedentedly grand.

Starting from the morning of May 12th, the Wu King's Palace was a hundred times more bustling than before.

The palace servants coming and going decorated the entire mansion in a festive style.

The decorations were actually done yesterday, but today we still need to clean and purify the house, and put out all kinds of fruits and offerings.

The wedding was quite elaborate, and at the end, one had to go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to pray to the ancestors of the Zhu family.

Around eight o'clock in the morning, at the construction site located in the south of Nanjing, near the inner Qinhuai River, which is roughly the north side of the Confucius Temple in later generations, the workers who had eaten breakfast began to walk out of the construction site in twos and threes.

They were all dressed in modern clothes, some casual and some formal, without safety helmets, and they all left the construction site in an orderly fashion and boarded the bus to the palace.

If you stand on high ground and look down, you will see that the area is surrounded by construction sites, leveled land, and high-rise buildings.

There have been significant collaborations in various fields throughout history, including shipyards, machinery plants, steel mills, chemical plants, manufacturing plants, and many other projects, totaling more than two hundred national key projects.

The largest of these is urban construction.

As the capital of the Ming Dynasty and a prosperous city in Jiangnan, Nanjing not only needed to build the Three Gorges Dam upstream to alleviate flooding in the middle and lower reaches, but also needed to plan its buildings and streets as soon as possible to give the city its initial shape.

With such a concentration of commerce in the Jiangnan region, and as people's popularity and business continued to flourish, expansion to the south bank of the Qinhuai River would allow for the completion of economic integration and development in a very short time.

Therefore, the city directly began to follow the template of Nanjing in later generations, and even corrected many of the drawbacks that appeared in the development process of Nanjing in later generations. It carried out large-scale construction and completed the first modern urban transformation of the Ming Dynasty.

This has led to the arrival of over 100,000 skilled workers from modern times, most of whom are civil engineers, who are now working diligently to build roads, bridges, and houses in the city.

For these technical talents, the main job is actually planning, directing, and training, without needing to get involved personally.

Moreover, the salary is high, and both the office and dormitory have air conditioning, so life isn't too hard.

Most importantly, they've all gotten used to it.

After all, even top-tier civil engineering graduates from ordinary 985 and 211 universities are not qualified to apply; at the very least, they need a master's degree and at least ten years of work experience.

Most of them are people who have come from the "three general managers and five project managers" level. Many of them are high-ranking chief engineers or project managers in state-owned enterprises, aged 30 to 40, and their annual salary is in the hundreds of thousands.

Comparing people is a recipe for disaster, and comparing goods is a recipe for disaster.

Compared to Zhu Yunfeng, who has accumulated a net worth of hundreds of billions in just a few years and is now becoming a bridge between the past and present, it is naturally far inferior.

As a result, resentment arose.

Inside Yunfeng Group, their chairman and his associates make up the majority of the staff.

Zhu Yunfeng treated his employees well, but he was incredibly elusive, rarely appearing at the company headquarters. As a result, aside from his photo and biography, over 90% of the company's staff had never even seen him in person.

In addition, his experiences were so infuriating that his own employees on the internal forums talked about him countless times, and even made up many jokes about him.

However, crickets are crickets, but they don't go so far as to curse. At most, they might say a few nasty things.

After all, the salary is too high, how could I possibly complain?
All the construction sites stopped work yesterday, so everyone finally got a day off and is now taking buses to go out today.

"Oh dear, Diao Mao is getting married."

"Are you out of your mind? You can make a joke in private at the construction site. Everyone talks about their boss behind their back. Don't talk nonsense offline."

"The people on the bus are all our own people. Haven't you guys been cursing each other online?"

"Be careful someone reports you."

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A moment of silence fell over the car.

Everyone is probably jealous of Zhu Yunfeng, but while he can make a big splash online, in real life, people still have to bow and scrape and call him Chairman.

These days, jobs are hard to find, especially such good ones.

Project manager Lao Yu crossed his legs and said to his brothers, "If you ask me, the chairman really treats us well. High salaries, good benefits, excellent treatment, and he even gives us two days off for our wedding. You guys, stop complaining online."

"But he married eight wives, eight."

One of the brothers exaggeratedly remarked.

"Eight is fine, all those rich bosses have plenty of mistresses."

"That's true."

"And with our salaries and benefits, how dare you criticize the boss?"

“We didn’t curse, we were just joking with the boss. People from other departments on the intranet were saying really nasty things.”

“Those people went too far. If I ran into them, I would definitely say a few words to them.”

"Hey, what do you guys think of the bride's looks?"

"She must be very beautiful. She was selected from tens of thousands of people in Nanjing through a talent show."

"That old lecher."

“I need to clarify for our chairman that he is not old, he is only 32 years old.”

"Ha ha ha ha."

The atmosphere in the car immediately became lively.

Although some young people were initially too inexperienced to leave the resentful environment of the construction site.

When everyone on the construction site is like this, they can all gang up on the boss and no one will bother them. But once they leave the construction site and see Zhu Yunfeng, what should they call him?
Therefore, the habit of teasing Zhu Yunfeng about crickets at the construction site was quickly changed.

of course.

This change is definitely temporary; once they return to the construction site, things will revert to the old ways.

However, once they leave the construction site, they certainly wouldn't dare to do things like visiting the cricket shop owner offline anymore, but they not only have the guts to gossip about the owner's private life, they have a great deal of guts.

In just a short while, their conversation shifted from whether Zhu Yunfeng's wife was pretty or not to teasing him about being a lecherous old man, and by the time they were almost at their destination, they were talking about his kidneys.

At this moment, in May, the sky outside Daming Gate is clear and the sun shines brightly, casting a warm glow on the glazed tiles of the gate tower.

Buses parked in the square and entered the venue in a very orderly manner.

The venue was open-air, with each construction unit having its own designated area. The banquet started at noon, followed by a short exchange session.

The Ming Dynasty will display many rare antiques, and a museum has been built inside the Daming Gate. Before the banquet begins, everyone can go in to visit the exhibition.

There will also be a large number of Ming Dynasty officials present to give them explanations, which will enrich their cultural knowledge and allow for exchanges between the two sides.

The surrounding area was heavily guarded by elite soldiers of the Hongwu Army, who were under the command of Xu Da and Commander Wang. There were even command vehicles and a large number of drones hovering overhead to ensure order at the venue.

As people continued to enter the venue.

The Wu Prince's Mansion, on Zhu Yunfeng's side, finally began to take action. Early in the morning, Zhu Yunfeng boarded a huge carriage, with Zhu Di and Ji He personally driving a luxurious SUV to clear the way.

They originally planned to find out about all the high-end sports cars, but the roads in the city are not yet repaired, and there are no roads in the northwest of the city; they are still just rammed earth roads.

Therefore, horse-drawn carriages can still barely maintain a dominant position.

In a while, I reckon opening a driving school will be the most profitable business in the city. Countless new energy vehicle companies and traditional automakers will flock there; it's practically a blue ocean market.

Zhu Yunfeng lifted the carriage curtain and went out of the Wu Prince's Mansion. Construction sites could be seen everywhere, and construction fences were erected around them.

Now that the construction site has stopped, the Ming Dynasty civilians who were hired have all gone home for the holidays.

The construction site is quiet at this moment.

Some buildings have also been preserved in the surrounding area, such as some representative mansions and estates, and some beautiful temple cultural heritage sites.

It is foreseeable that Nanjing will become a city with a rich cultural heritage.

A large number of classical buildings have been preserved, surrounded by high-rise buildings that combine classical and modern architecture. The area is shaded by trees and lawns, and the landscaping is maximized, creating a space that is both culturally rich and technologically advanced.

After passing the original eighteen western guards, and then the Imperial College and Yinglingfang, lies the Drum Tower area, west of Hongwu Street, where the people of the Ming Dynasty currently reside.

A large number of temporary prefabricated houses have been set up here.

Because Nanjing is currently a city with a large land area but a small population, the interior space of these makeshift houses is quite large. It is common for a family of five to live in a house of about 100 square meters. The streets are also clean and tidy, and there is a large flow of people.

Zhu Biao also made plans with the Ministry of Revenue regarding future housing allocation, providing housing subsidies to those who originally had Nanjing household registration and owned property.

While unaccompanied tenants do not receive housing subsidies, they do receive a small amount of monetary compensation and preferential treatment when purchasing a home.

In particular, the preferential treatment for migrant workers who have participated in urban construction is still quite substantial.

The main reason for such a large discount is that productivity has increased dramatically.

It is estimated that in the next few years, hundreds of residential communities in Nanjing will be delivered, with each community having several thousand houses, which will soon amount to several million houses.

Currently, Nanjing's total population is only over three million. Assuming an average household size of five, six or seven hundred thousand housing units would be sufficient to meet the demand.

However, the construction industry in my country in later generations became too abnormal, resulting in supply far exceeding demand. As a result, housing prices could not be driven up, so they could only be calculated based on the previous market prices in Nanjing, or even lower.

It's safe to say that buying a house in Nanjing after working for a few years is not a dream; in fact, you can afford it after working for two or three years.

This can be seen as a product of the violent impact of modern abundant productivity on ancient backward productivity, similar to the low-price dumping of goods by advanced industrial countries on backward agricultural countries.

However, this was not a bad thing for the Zhu family. The slump in my country's real estate market in later generations was due to the involvement of too many factors, and the real estate market was becoming saturated.

However, the Ming Dynasty was still a blue ocean market, with the real estate market just starting out. Low housing prices were a good thing for everyone.

Therefore, this is a situation where everyone is happy.

By this time, the streets were already packed with people, and the crowds of onlookers stretched as far as the eye could see. The army had no choice but to block the road to allow the convoy to pass through.

To prevent stampedes, the original plan was to scatter copper coins, but now it has been changed to distributing money. Every household in Yingtian Prefecture is given 100 copper coins to celebrate this joyous occasion.

As the carriage approached, the people cheered and shouted, "Long live Your Highness! Long live Your Highness!"

This is also thanks to Zhu Yunfeng's good relationships with others, which he had cultivated over eight or nine years as a swindler.

He was also known as the commoner prince.

Zhu Yunfeng lifted the carriage curtain and waved to the people with a smile.

The convoy behind kept scattering flowers around them.

His entourage alone numbered over two thousand, making it quite impressive.

Many streets stretched out in a row, and red cloths were hung all over them.

Soon the carriage arrived at the princess's house.

The princess chosen by Zhu Yunfeng was that stunningly beautiful girl with long legs, standing at 1.78 meters tall. She came from a family of officials of the fourth rank, and her father was Wang Hui, the Left Councilor of Southern Zhili.

After all, resources were not abundant more than ten years ago during the Hongwu era, and many families suffered from malnutrition among their daughters. It was not easy to raise such a tall woman, and only official families could afford to do so.

However, they were treated equally when it came to housing allocation. This was mainly because Wang Hui had only been transferred to the capital last year. As an official on temporary assignment, he couldn't possibly buy a house wherever he went. Many officials rented houses, and even if they bought a house, they would still have to live here if their homes were demolished.

Therefore, it is now difficult for officials to commute to and from get off work. They have to live seven or eight kilometers away from their offices and have to ride bicycles to work every day.

The area outside the Wang family's gate was already bustling with the sounds of gongs and drums.

Friends and relatives from all walks of life came to celebrate, and countless neighbors were very envious that the Wang family had produced such a noble daughter.

Zhu Yunfeng's father-in-law, Wang Hui, had a smile on his face that looked like a chrysanthemum.

He was just a scholar who passed the county-level imperial examination in the second year of the Hongwu reign. Although there were very few scholars in the early Hongwu period, even those who passed the county-level imperial examination or the provincial-level imperial examination could become officials, and even those without official titles could be recommended.

However, by the twentieth year of the Hongwu reign, the number of scholars had increased significantly, and the examination and assessment system for officials had become more and more sophisticated. As a result, it became increasingly difficult for officials with lower initial degrees to get promoted.

Now that I have Zhu Yunfeng as a powerful patron, my future career prospects are probably not too bad.

After completing the wedding ceremony, Zhu Yunfeng picked up the bride and got into the car, and then they headed to the next house.

It wasn't until noon that the process was finally completed; it had taken four or five hours just to pick up the eight wives.

At this moment, the square outside the Daming Gate was packed with people.

The large square, spanning several square kilometers, was filled with tables and chairs, and teeming with people—the crowds stretched as far as the eye could see.

Various noises continued.

As the car entered, the host immediately shouted, "Let us warmly welcome Zhu Yunfeng, Chairman of Yunfeng Group and Prince Wu of the Ming Dynasty, into the venue!"

Thunderous applause erupted immediately.

But applause is applause, and crickets are crickets.

Below, countless people whispered and discussed among themselves, saying, "Damn it's here."

"Damn it, the thought of him having eight wives makes me furious."

"I heard that banning brothels was his idea."

"Damn, I'm even angrier now."

The crowds surged, and the resentment only intensified.

The host exclaimed, "Chairman Zhu, as a direct descendant of the Zhu family, discovered the existence of the spatial rift, allowing us to travel to ancient times through the spatial node. His contribution is truly remarkable. Furthermore, he has specially prepared a large red envelope for everyone present, ten thousand yuan per person!"

"Holy crap, Mr. Zhu is my dad!"

All of a sudden.

A hundred times more enthusiastic applause erupted, instantly dispelling the lingering resentment in the room.

(End of this chapter)