Because this is subtropical, the plants grow quickly, there are a lot of flowers, Chen Wenhui invited Chen Wenjun to design, and built a very beautiful house for his home, the house has the beauty of the garden of Suzhou City and Yangzhou City, there are also many fragrant flowers, big trees grow in it, and the elegant garden has some tropical rich atmosphere, which looks beautiful and is very comfortable to live in.

After the house was built, the shop had already been built. Wen Hui first built the Qinghe Building here. Because the commercial activities of Shin Kong City are increasing day by day, the number of merchants is also increasing, and the business of the restaurant is getting better and better.

In addition to Qinghe Building, Wen Hui also built her own treasure mirror workshop, and also bought a lot of land to build a lot of shops, keeping them for rent, this is a profitable thing, anyway, now there is more money in hand, so naturally build more.

Futai Bank is also opened here, and the business is not very good, after all, there are still fewer local merchants, there are more merchants in the past, and there are a lot of business in the exchange of silver bills, however, Wen Hui believes that over time, this Futai Bank will definitely grow.

In addition to building houses, shops, and starting businesses, Chen Wenhui also took the opportunity to go south, bought a large amount of land in the central and southern plains of Yizhou Island, and built many manors. At this time, it was winter, Da Chu had already begun to snow, and Ziyu and his wife were also busy, so they came to Yizhou Island at the call of Chen Wenhui, and at the same time brought a large number of long-term workers from Jiangnan to start building the manor. These estates are said to be manors, the place is very large, the land is very fertile, but the weeds and bushes are overgrown on it, and the main energy of the long-term workers is to clear the land and tidy up the land.

With the help of Ziyu and his wife, Chen Wenhui was much more relaxed, and began to associate with the four major families on Yizhou Island with his sister-in-law.

The one who has the most contact with him is the Gu family who runs the sugar industry. The Gu family has developed on Yizhou Island for hundreds of years, and there is unimaginable land, except for a small part of the growing grain, which is used to grow sugarcane and boil sugar. In the ancient house, the ancestral hall of Emperor Guanglie is enshrined. The Gu family, the Huang family, and the Liang family were all servants of Emperor Guanglie, and they were sent by Emperor Guanglie to manage Yizhou Island. And give them some technology. The Gu family obtained sugar making, the Huang family used salt making, and the Liang family cultivated and brewed wine. In fact, after hundreds of years of development, these three families have grown food, which is basically enough for their own use. But if you want to buy sugar, salt, and wine, you have to trade with each other. The Hei family is not surnamed Hei, the Hei family is a general term, they have any surname, and there are a large number of people, which is about the sum of the three families. The main thing is that the forging skills are very good, and they can mine mines, refine ores, and cast tools. So, the four rely on each other. The people of the Hei family want to buy the salt of the Huang family, the sugar of the Gu family, and the grain and wine of the Liang family, and the three families need the tools of the Hei family, and for hundreds of years, the four families have also struggled. They also intermarried with each other and persevered.

Now that the sea trade has developed, the Gu family is the first to develop, because the Gu family's sugar is now sought after by Da Chu, and the demand is very large, and every transaction has brought a lot of wealth to the Gu family. This made the power of the Gu family swell dramatically.

Chen Wenhui and the others also have the most frequent interactions with the Gu family. Because the Chen family's fleet also needed a lot of sugar, they also purchased a large number of sugarcane seedlings from the Gu family for planting, and Ziyu also learned the method of planting sugarcane like the Gu family.

The Gu family did not cherish the broom, because there were many people who bought sugarcane seedlings and planting techniques from the Gu family, and the development of sea trade. Many merchants from Dachu came to Yizhou, and found that the land here was so cheap that they could basically plant it after opening up the wasteland, so they bought a lot of land here and began to grow sugarcane.

The idea of the Gu family is very simple, the sugar making technology is very complicated, it is not enough to have sugarcane, they wait for these people's sugarcane to be planted, so they can only sell it to the Gu family, and the Gu family can harvest a large amount of sugarcane without planting it themselves, use it to make sugar, and then sell it. But what they don't know is that Chen Wenhui also has the technology of making sugar in his hands.

On this day, Chen Wenhui and Wan Meizhen were invited by the wife of the head of the Gu family to come to the Gu family for tea. Chen Wenhui has been to the Gu family many times. The Gu family is an independent city, more than thirty miles north of Xinguang City, where the Gu family lives. The center of the city is the house where the head of the ancient family lives, this house is different from the simple bamboo building where the ancient family lives in general, this house is built by the head of the ancient family invited the people of the black family, it is beautiful, the design of the garden is also very special, the pavilions and pavilions are built along the terrain, it is very harmonious with nature, and the garden in the south of the Yangtze River is compared, and there is another style.

The patriarch's wife was an old woman in her fifties, and she was dressed beautifully, but her skin was darker. Several daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters of the patriarch also accompanied them to drink tea, one of them was the patriarch's granddaughter's name Gu Na's long big eyes, Qiong nose, in addition to black, she was still a beauty, she said to Wan Meizhen: "Grandma, you have come to our house many times, each time you wear different clothes, it is really beautiful, you look at this embroidery, it looks much better than our here." I don't know if someone from the house did it? Or did you buy it outside? ”

Wan Meizhen smiled and said, "These clothes are all made in our shop. Our Cuijin Building is very famous in Dachu, and many wealthy merchants, princes and nobles wear the clothes made by our Cuijin Building. Even the royal families of the Wa Kingdom, Silla, and Goguryeo also wore the clothes of the Green Pavilion. Soon we will open a branch in Shin Kong City. At that time, you can also buy it at the branch in Xinguang City. ”

Gu Na was very happy to hear and was about to speak, but the old lady spoke: "Alas, since your fleet came to our Yizhou Island, we have changed a lot here. With beautiful silk, with beautiful clothes, with delicate jewelry, with mirrors, with glass, there were so many things. There are many flavors of this tea, including white tea, black tea, and green tea, which is really different from before. Our four major families on Yizhou Island have been separated from the mainland for too long, and they should have returned to their own continent a long time ago. ”

Wan Meizhen said with a smile: "Yes, the day after tomorrow, the Gu family, the Huang family, and the Liang family will send their children to follow our Chen family's fleet to Shanghai City, and from now on, the Gu family will also have a foothold in Shanghai City." ”

Chen Wenhui smiled and said, "Old lady, you are going to buy a shop in Shanghai this time, right?" With the economic strength of the ancient family, I am afraid that it is not just to buy a house and shop in Shanghai, right? ”

The old lady said: "We who go to the mainland this time have to buy houses and shops in Shanghai, Beijing and Suzhou. In fact, before our ancient family came to Yizhou Island, there were houses in Shanghai and Suzhou City, and the capital had houses and shops, and later Emperor Guanglie asked us to come to Yizhou Island to sell all those family properties, and the whole family moved here. I didn't expect that hundreds of years later, we would have to spend money to buy it again. Hehehe. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "This is the impermanence of the world, the Gu family and other four families are fortunately on Yizhou Island, so they can be preserved, if they stay on the mainland all the time, I don't know what to do?" I read the historical records, that is, the people of our five major families were preserved, and the rest of the families who followed Emperor Guanglie, Zhang Liang, Han Xin and other families were already wiped out in the subsequent court battles. ”

The old lady sighed: "The classics of the family all say that our family was just the slaves of Emperor Guanglie, compared with those Zhang Liang family, Han Xin's family, and Xiao He's family who made great achievements for Emperor Guanglie, it was a heaven and an earth." Today, our family is prosperous, the population has reached more than 30,000 people, and there are small families attached to us, and there are 40,000 or 50,000 Tu people, and now there are nearly 10,000 people in this ancient city, and there are several cities in the south. It's really impressive. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Yes, the fields of the Gu family are connected and the population is flourishing, and the other Huang family and Liang family are like this, but Zhang Liang and other meritorious families have long been wiped out. By the way, I've been to this Ancient Wind City, I've been to Citrine City, and I've been to Golden Grain City, but I've never been to Black Iron City, and I haven't been in contact with the people of Black Iron City. ”

Guna quickly said, "Oh, Black Iron City is fun, let's go together someday." I like to go there the most. The current lady of the city lord of Black Iron City is our Gu family, and she is my aunt. ”

This Chen Wenhui didn't know, and hurriedly looked at the old lady. The ancient lady said, "Yes, Miss Chen, the current lady of the city lord of Black Iron City is my third daughter. If you want to play, I can send a mother-in-law to follow you, and with her leading the way, you will definitely be able to pass unimpeded in Black Iron City. ”

Chen Wenhui hurriedly thanked and said, "Thank you, old lady, I have a question." Since we started sea trade and built a city in Xinguang City, it has been a few months, why did the Gu family, the Huang family, and the Liang family all send people to trade with us, and there are shops in our Xinguang City, why didn't the people from Black Iron City come? ”

The old lady said with a strange face: "Alas, Black Iron City is not like our three families, they all have the same surname, and they all obey the orders of the patriarch. There are many families in Black Iron City, all surnames, but the population is not much, our families, together with the families and the dependent native tribes, have a population of nearly 100,000. However, the population of Black Iron City has always been only one or two hundred thousand. Among them, most of them are captive natives, who are specially mined for them, and the real Black Iron City people are only about four or five thousand. And it's all weirdos. ”

Chen Wenhui was a little strange: "What's a strange method?" ”

The old lady said: "The original inhabitants of the Black Iron City are all talented people, and they all have a skill, either good at forging, or good at mining, or good at medicine, or good at architecture, or good at astrology, water conservancy, and so on. Some of these people have families, and some simply never marry, but they will accept apprentices. After they came to Yizhou, some of them accepted suitable apprentices among the natives, and some of them accepted them in our three families, which slowly developed. Now they have an apprenticeship ceremony every year, which is a big event on our Yizhou Island, and all the school-age children of our three families go there to try their luck. ”

Chen Wenhui is a little strange, this Black Iron City is really special, it is actually maintained by accepting apprentices, this is the first one I encountered when I came to this world.

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