After sailing for a few days, the ship arrived in Shanghai City, Bai stayed for two days to rest, the sea voyage was still hard, Bai was thinking about rushing to the capital, but Chen Wenhui looked at her mother's pale face, or strongly asked her mother to stay and rest for two days. Anyway, they have their own houses in Shanghai.

Bai Shi rested for two days, and then couldn't wait to get on the road, Wen Hui didn't rush to leave, and found Wan Shuhui to take a closer look at the operation of Shanghai City Bank, and also went to Ma Mingsong, and looked at the account books of Shanghai City, after all, there is still a tenth of her shares here. Finally, I came to the City Lord's Mansion and met with the City Lord Xu Wenchang. Princess Lichuan is still in the capital, after all, the capital is turbulent, how can Princess Lichuan have the time and energy to come to Shanghai City at this time.

Xu Wenchang became a first-class member, but he didn't have a frame at all, and still called Wen Hui affectionately: "Hui'er, it's good for you to come back, can you stay for a few more days to help me?" Now your eldest brother is taking care of the affairs of Xinguang City, where do you have the heart to manage these things, the dockyard is better to say, shipbuilding and ship sales are all managed by the Chen family, but the shipping route sales, taxes, and the free hospitals and free schools you asked to run are all short of manpower to manage. It's too hard for Big Brother Ma to manage alone. ”

Wen Hui felt a little better, this emperor was not too much, he didn't take it all at once, and said with a smile: "I'm not free either, my mother asked me to follow her into Beijing quickly." Where to put me alone outside, in fact, I want to stay, either to help my brother in Xinguang City, or to ask you for an errand in Shanghai City, it is better than embroidering and drinking tea at home. Ay. ”

Looking at Wen Hui's wrinkled little face, Xu Wenchang laughed: "Hey, girls just suffer, you are so capable, you are better than your brothers, when the time comes, you still have to go back to hide in the embroidery room to embroider, what a waste of your talents." ”

Wen Hui smiled helplessly and said, "But." City Lord, don't worry too much, the big framework of this Shanghai City has been pulled out, and there is not much need to build, and the rest is to do things according to the rules. It stands to reason. The court should soon send a subordinate to help you. However, I just have some worries, I don't know who will be sent, if the people sent are still in accordance with the management law in other places, to manage the city of Shanghai, our city will not have any development, there may be regression, if my own people are okay, it is a big deal to follow the rules, it is easy to do. ”

Xu Wenchang said: "This point is when we set off from the capital. I told the emperor that this city of Shanghai is different from all the cities of Dachu, the medical care of our residents here is free, the children go to school for free, and the business here is prosperous. But there is no agriculture, so the bureaucratic system of Da Chu will not work here, the emperor Shengming, knowing that the construction of this city is not easy, now that it has been built, so profitable, he is not willing to become an ordinary city. Therefore I have been given full power to choose the officials, to be appointed by myself, and I am about to consult with you about this matter. I am going to appoint a treasurer to manage the finances of the city of Shanghai, and then a maritime officer. Specializing in the management of the maritime trade of Shanghai City. I've thought of both of these two candidates. The treasurer is the treasurer of your bank, Wan Shuhui. The official of the third grade. The maritime officer is served by Brother Ma, who is also the official of the third grade. ”

Chen Wenhui was taken aback and said, "How can this be? Wan Shuhui is a woman, a person who has been a concubine and later sold into slavery. How can you be an official? ”

Xu Wenchang said: "It's not for nothing that this woman is an official, in the previous dynasty, especially when Emperor Guanglie was in power, there were many women as officials. It's just that I haven't yet. I originally wanted you to take the post, but I thought that you hadn't married yet, and I was afraid that your marriage would be delayed because of this, so it was better to let Wan Shuhui take the role. I told the emperor about this candidate, and the emperor agreed. The appointment will probably be a month away. You talk to Wan Shuhui first, so that she can be prepared. ”

Chen Wenhui nodded, thinking to herself, it seems that her mind is still not emancipated by the ancients.

However, after thinking about it, such an appointment may not be exactly what Xu Wenchang meant, maybe it is the result of the game between the Chen family and the emperor. The emperor wanted to swallow the city of Shanghai in one bite, but the Chen family was bound to be unwilling, after all, if there was no Chen family's shipbuilding technology, where would the sea trade come from. And at the beginning, the Chen family not only invested in technology, but also invested a lot of money. Several of the main people who built Shanghai City, their three brothers and sisters are all members of the Chen family, and in the end, the Chen family paid the most, but the emperor just set aside a piece of wasteland, but what about the income, the emperor himself accounted for 30%, his daughter accounted for 20%, and his son accounted for 10%. Here in the Chen family, Chen Wenhui is one percent, Chen Yuanheng is one percent, and the Chen family is two percent. Of course, the emperor's Yicheng was given to the Ma family at the beginning. But after counting the big head, the emperor still got the most. Now that the emperor wants to include Xinguang City and Shanghai City on Yizhou Island, how can the Chen family agree.

After some games, the emperor made some concessions in Shanghai, and the city lord was Xu Wenchang, and the city lord was also under the jurisdiction of the emperor, and it was a first-class official position. But this financial officer is to be given to the people of the Chen family, and as for maritime affairs, of course, it is in the hands of the emperor.

Thinking of this, Chen Wenhui asked: "I have been sailing at sea for so many days, and I don't know, how can the city lord of Xinguang City say about my brother?" ”

Xu Wenchang's face was a little strange and said: "Your brother is still an official of the emperor, and he is also a Zhengyipin, but it is not because he is the city lord who is the Zhengyipin, and the position of the city lord is for your brother for the time being, and the Chen family and the emperor are strict, your branch has made enough contributions and become independent from the Chen family." The emperor and the patriarch of the Chen family reached an agreement, and the position of the city lord of Xinguang City will be hereditary by you, the little Chen family. ”

Chen Wenhui was really surprised this time: "Hereditary? How can it be? ”

Xu Wenchang sighed and said, "Sister Wenhui, you are still young, this time it will be exposed, your family is planning to leave the clan and set up another door." ”

Chen Wenhui remembered it at this time, smiled embarrassedly and said: "There is nothing like this kind of thing, everyone has to be selfish and think about themselves." If our family hadn't made a plan earlier, when my grandfather returned to the West in the future, would we have good fruit to eat? I'm afraid that every day will be in vain. Even if my father is a great official, what about it? Can the emperor approve my father not to honor his mother? ”

Xu Wenchang nodded and said: "We all know this, so I can't say anything, but after all, my princess is also connected to you by blood, and your grandmother is my princess's grandmother." ”

Chen Wenhui was silent for a moment.

Xu Wenchang sighed and said: "It's no wonder to others, but your little Chen family is a member of the family, but it is still a subsidiary family of the Chen family, in fact, there are many such things, this is almost a thousand years, and the affiliated families of the Chen family do not have a thousand, but also eight hundred, and many of them are still developing very well." Every big family has a lot of such subsidiary families. Therefore, you are still members of the Chen family, but you are separated from your grandfather's house in the capital. ”

Wen Hui said: "Actually, our news is lagging behind, and my mother was still worried about going back to the house in the capital. ”

Xu Wenchang smiled and said, "Sister Wenhui, you are really confessing." Well, I'm your brother-in-law, and I'm not an outsider, so you can say it. ”

Chen Wenhui snorted out laughing and said, "Hey, in this way, our family is also a small family, and we have our own territory, which is Xinguang City." But I understand, should Xinguang City give each family a share or is it the same? ”

Xu Wenchang smiled: "Sister Wenhui, you are really direct, yes, that's what it means, don't think that Xinguang City is your family's own, we have all invested money, and we will share it as usual in the future, and also, if the court fights in the future, there will be disasters, and you will still provide food like now." Provide a resource that can be provided. The emperor is actually ruthless, and it is not that he can't go back to Xinguang City on Yizhou Island. However, the territory of Great Chu is already very large, and it is not such a small place, if you want to come down and send an official to manage it, you may not be able to send so much silver, money, food, and materials to Great Chu now. Giving it to you is equivalent to having a cornucopia, so I gave in. ”

Chen Wenhui understands that this is not to kill chickens for eggs, his little Chen family can survive, and he can get a piece of his own territory, in the final analysis, because his family still has use value, and he is a chicken that can lay eggs.

Chen Wenhui said with a smile: "Our family didn't think so much, my father is still an official in the court, we have the blood of the Chen family in our bodies, and we are still members of the Chen family after we set up our own doors, our brothers and sisters all grew up in Dachu, and naturally we are the people of Dachu, and we will be all our lives." ”

Xu Wenchang's eyes flashed, this Wen Hui is too smart, is this using his own mouth to express his determination like the emperor? However, these words, he will be like the emperor to relay. In fact, the emperor did not suspect the Xiao Chen family, but admired it very much, and he knew that Chen Yuanheng had jumped to the rank and promoted again. In fact, the emperor relied on Chen Yuanheng very much, and he also admired the talents of the Chen family brothers and sisters. I believe that one day in the future, the Xiao Chen family may be able to become an important family in the DPRK. It is even possible to surpass their Xu family. The little Chen family has many talents, he is envious, Chen Yuanheng is calm and smart, he is a prime minister, the three brothers and sisters of the Chen family work together with him to build Shanghai City, he knows their ability, especially the smart little girl in front of him, which has amazing talent. These people, one of them appeared in a family, they can make the family revitalize, and now they actually appear in the same family, can this family not take off?

It's just that this qiē has nothing to do with the Chen Mansion in the capital.