When the news of the establishment of the Patent Division reached Deqing, the officials of Deqing were not surprised, Chen Zhifu should be deeply trusted by the emperor, everyone knew that Chen Zhifu's sister was the emperor's wife, and Chen Zhifu was the majestic uncle in the play, so naturally the emperor listened to him. How did these people in Jiangnan know that the struggle in the capital was fierce, and the nobles and ministers were still divided into so many factions. In their eyes, the Chen family is already high, let alone royal.

However, the Chen family itself understands what this means, so from the five members of the Chen family to the people brought by the Chen family from the capital, they are very excited, and they all have a dream, that is, one day they can return to the Chen family in a beautiful way. Now it seems that this wish is easy to achieve, and in the future, they will not only make the entire Chen Mansion envious, but also the entire capital envious, which is actually something that the old lady of the Chen family has not done.

After the excitement, life still has to pass. Spring has begun, and all affairs are very busy, some are in charge of spring ploughing, some are in charge of business, and some are in charge of yamen affairs.

There is another thing that the Chen family is very busy during this period of time, that is, as the weather gradually warms up, people who have not come to Deqing to buy technology from afar have also rushed over to buy technology. The number of people is growing.

Of course, these wealthy businessmen also gave Deqing's economy a lot of blood. And this time, the people of Deqing have long known that there will be a lot of wealthy businessmen from other places, so everyone has made a lot of efforts and figured out how to sell more things and how to make money from outsiders. For example, in the restaurant, in addition to Qinghelou, other restaurants have also prepared a lot of food, after all, it is impossible for a Qinghelou to entertain so many merchants, most of the merchants still eat in other restaurants, and there are snack shops, which also share the profits, because these rich businessmen have subordinates, and it is impossible for them to go to the restaurant to eat. It is generally solved in the snack shop.

There are also more inns, in addition to the original ones, there are nimble minds. If you have a spare house at home, clean it up early. After all, some wealthy merchants live in large inns, and some are ordinary families, or the subordinates of merchants want to live, so cheap houses have become their best choice.

There are also a variety of local specialties of Deqing, and some are specialties around Deqing. For example, silk, tea, raw silk, silver jewelry. Intricate furniture, beautiful knives, bamboo, wood, and even rouge gouache. The daily consumables such as pen, ink, paper and inkstone are doing very well, and the merchants who have flexible minds close to Deqing Mansion Muyang Mansion and Yishui Mansion will also bring local specialties to Deqing and sell them to these foreign merchants.

In fact, except for the things that Deqing sells to foreign merchants, foreign merchants are not stupid, they come to buy technology. In addition to bringing a silver ticket to buy technology, he also brought local specialties to Deqing to sell, so that he could make a lot of money and subsidize the money to buy technology. In this way, there is everything in the market of Deqing, furs and medicinal materials in the north, gems in the west, medicinal materials in the south, pearls, and seafood in the east, all of which are in the world can be seen in Deqing, so that the people of Deqing can of course buy all the things in the world, but only a small half of these goods are sold to Deqing people, and many are also sold to outsiders.

There was a Western businessman with gems, as well as snow lotus, sold out, after buying technology, and bought Deqing specialties, but also fell in love with the seafood by the sea in the East, but they did not have it there, so they bought a large number of some, and the southern merchants brought the unique kapok in the south, Tian Qi, etc., but did not see the ginseng in the north, so naturally this time also bought some.

Of course, these merchants traded in a chaotic manner, because no one knew who had brought what, so they had to try their luck and buy whatever they saw.

This phenomenon was discovered by Chen Yuanheng and his subordinates, and the smart Chen Yuanheng immediately built a trading market and asked these people to go to the trading market, so that the trading market was actually built in imitation of Ancheng.

Of course, the clever Bai bought a large number of houses and shops around the trading market, vacant land, and bought all the 20,000 taels left by the Hu family before leaving, anyway, it will be several years before Mingzhu gets married, and now he doesn't need this money.

After the establishment of the market, it was different from that of Anseong. The one in Ancheng is a slow-burning market, the transaction volume was not large at the beginning, this market is a good market, the daily trading volume is very large, the market in Ancheng is specialized in selling livestock and poultry, the silver money accounted for is small, and the natural tax is less, this Deqing market is different, every day is the transaction of valuables, so there are a lot of taxes, all of a sudden the Deqing government made a fortune, Chen Yuanheng is very happy. You must know that the first thing he did when he became the prefect of Deqing was to appease the victims and take out a loan to build roads, but he borrowed a large amount of money from the bank, and he has not repaid it yet. This sudden extra tax made Chen Yuanheng see the hope of repaying the loan early. But when the form was good, Chen Yuanheng was a little worried.

On this day, Chen Yuanheng saw that a family of five happened to be there, so he said the hidden worries in his heart: "We are now doing a prosperous business in Deqing Market, the tax revenue has increased, and the surrounding shops are driving high rents. ”

Speaking of this, Bai and Chen Wenhui smiled, they invested money in that.

Chen Yuanheng said: "But such a good situation can last for another three months at most, and after three months, the number of foreign merchants will gradually decrease, and Deqing's tax revenue will not be reduced again, but I am afraid that the newly built market will also be idle." ”

Speaking of which, Bai and Chen Wenhui are also worried, this is not good, they have to think of a way to let the market continue to prosper, so that their real estate can appreciate.

Chen Yuanheng asked: "All of you help think about it, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Everyone remembered, and for a moment the room was silent. Chen Wenhui suddenly thought of something and said, "Actually, my father can hold a trade fair." ”

Chen Yuanhengqi said: "What is a trade fair? ”

Chen Wenhui said: "My father can take advantage of the fact that the foreign merchants are still in Deqing, and invite them to participate in the annual trade fair in Deqing. At the fair, you can buy everything from all over the world, you can print exquisite invitations, you can also give some tax incentives, and so on to stimulate them, so that they can come to Deqing again when the time comes. If such a fair is successful, it will be held once a year. ”

Chen Yuanheng immediately became happy. Chen Wenhui said: "This time we mainly took advantage of the sale of technology, it just so happened that people from all over the world came to Deqing, if it was done elsewhere, it would not be possible to just tell the world." But that's not enough, we need three more things. ”

Chen Yuanheng asked: "What are the three things?" ”

Chen Wenhui said: "First, it is necessary to have convenient transportation. Because we built a few main roads to help the victims last time, this is not enough, we also have to dredge the river, so that the river transportation is the most economical, the most goods, and the father had better build a few more roads, such as the road to Muyang Mansion, the road to Yishui Mansion, so that the transportation is convenient, and the merchants are convenient to come and go, so everyone is willing to come again. Second, it must have its own industry. Well, it is necessary to have its own specialties, such as silk, tea, quilts, cotton textiles, as well as perfumes, wine, woodware, and other things, so that foreign merchants want to buy things in Deqing. Third, we must have good public order. Merchants attach great importance to safety, because most of them carry a large amount of goods and silver, and safety is too important, even if there is an unsafe incident, such as the murder of goods, most merchants will be too scared to come. ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded: "Hui'er is very thoughtful." ”

Chen Wenjun smiled and said, "Sister, why do you have a good idea in your head every time." ”

Chen Wenlin hurriedly said: "Big brother, my sister is already smarter than us." ”

Chen Wenjun looked at his younger brother who loved his sister and was honest-eyed and smiled: "I just want to say it because I know that my sister is a smart person, since my sister is so smart and has a good idea every time, why do you have to wait for my father to ask, why didn't I tell my father earlier?" ”

Chen Wenhui immediately pouted when she heard the words and said, "Hmph, people are so busy every day, where do they have time to think about these things, I didn't expect it for a while." ”

Chen Yuanheng hurriedly said: "Yes, Hui'er is a girl's family, where can I think about these foreign affairs every day." You run outside every day, don't you have any good ideas? ”

Chen Wenjun had no choice but to remain silent. Bai Shi understood what the eldest son meant, and asked: "Hui'er, in fact, you have already thought of an idea, if your father doesn't ask, you won't say, right?" ”

Everyone looked at Chen Wenhui. Chen Wenhui smiled embarrassedly and said, "Hehe, this is sometimes there, am I a lady after all?" You have to have the demeanor of a big girl, where can you specialize in these mundane things every day? ”

This was met with unanimous glances from everyone.

Chen Wenhui had no choice but to say in a muffled voice: "If you don't believe it, forget it." Anyway, I am determined to be a beautiful and moving, extraordinary temperament, and a beautiful woman with a lot of money, of course, I can't be too tired, I can't worry too much, and I can't be too vulgar. ”

Now it was met with everyone's unanimous eyes.

Bai Shi was not shirked by his daughter's words, and asked, "Hui'er, in fact, you have a better idea for our family's business, don't you?" Can you say it right now? ”

Chen Wenhui was also embarrassed when she saw through it, and said: "There are a few ideas, but they haven't thought about it yet, didn't my father say that he should think twice?" I still want to think about it again, and it's better to think more comprehensively, and then talk to my mother. ”

Bai Shi was not so easy to fool, and looked at Wen Hui with blazing eyes, Wen Hui had no choice but to laugh dryly and say, "Okay, I've said it all." ”

Bai nodded with satisfaction, and waited for his daughter to speak.

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