Sales of the cars were excellent—far better than expected.
Peng Joe was already starving people to death, yet more than twenty thousand orders had been sent to the company from all over the country in the very first week.
This made every employee at Lin Wo Car genuinely happy. They had even begun discussing plans for expansion.
The workers who had originally been somewhat uncertain about the future were now grinning from ear to ear.
They looked forward to Lin Wo Car having a bright future more than anyone else. Only then could they survive, and only then could their families survive!
The moment the governor heard the news, he called Lin Qi and first congratulated him on his business's tremendous success.
Then he changed the subject and asked whether Lin Qi had any similar businesses that were willing to accept investment. The governor stated bluntly that he wanted to make money too.
Lin Qi naturally had no objection to the request. A governor wielded far more power than a state governor.
A state governor could control the government of, at most, one state, while military authority was still controlled by the Central Government.
But in Peng Joe, the governor held both civil and military power. He managed the government of the entire province while firmly controlling its military forces as well.
Moreover, many of those troops had people loyal to the governor embedded within them. Even if the governor were dismissed one day, he would not be completely incapable of resisting.
Historically, there had been governors who were dismissed and then immediately declared independence and gone to war with the imperial family. Although they had ultimately been crushed in their own territories, they had still left later generations with a wealth of experience.
The two governors rarely met under