Mu Li Gongzi and Lang Xue swim in the wind and sunshine of southern Xinjiang. At this time, the Northwest Tiebi Pass was a snowstorm, and Chen Wenhui and Zhao Chongyi were very interested in accompanying their naughty son to play in the glass corridor.

Zhao Honglie, who is more than a week old, is very solid and can already run around, but Chen Wenhui is afraid that he will be frozen, so he still doesn't want him to play in the snow outside the glass corridor.

For this, Zhao Honglie has had a lot of trouble with Chen Wenhui. Chen Wenhui was troubled by him and had no choice but to build a huge glass flower house in the mansion, which was planted with many plants, flowers and plants, and better yet, it did not organize sunlight to spill in, but also isolated from cold wind and cold air. The floor heating is burned in the glass flower room, which is still very comfortable.

Zhao Honglie is in the glass flower room, you can wear less, and you can play everywhere. How happy she was.

Chen Wenhui and Zhao Chongyi played with Zhao Honglie for a while, Chen Wenhui was a little tired, and sat in a pavilion to drink tea and rest under the waiter of the maid.

Zhao Chongyi played with his son for a while before coming over to accompany his beloved wife.

The two of them were drinking tea and chatting while watching their son play with his friends.

Chen Wenhui was afraid that his son would not be interesting alone, so he deliberately chose a five-year-old from Yan Shupeng's son and took Zhao Honglie to play. In addition to Zhao Honglie, there are several children of the Wen family, the Zeng family, the Xi family, and the Ma family, all of whom are about four years old, two years old, and three years old, with a total of seven or eight children, and they are very happy to play together.

At this moment, several children were making trouble in the heavenly palace in the flower room, and Chen Wenhui just looked at it with a smile.

Zhao Chongyi said: "You really know how to play." What do you think? Designed so many toys for your son? ”

Chen Wenhui designed a stroller with safety wheels for her son, and this stroller is close to the stroller ridden by those children in Chen Wenhui's previous life. Because of rubber tires.

Chen Wenhui didn't just give it to her sons, but also to those children. The smart black family saw a business opportunity again, and took the opportunity to buy a patent like Chen Wenhui, but Chen Wenhui did not agree, but just wanted to partner with the black family to do this business, and Chen Wenhui shared.

Now it's not just Chen Wenhui's son who can have this kind of stroller, it's the capital, the South Seas, and the Northwest. All over Dachu. The children of the aristocratic family all have this kind of stroller to play, of course, this made Chen Wenhui a lot of money.

Chen Wenhui said: "There are still a lot of fun things, and I will slowly design them for children to play with in the future." It is mainly made of rubber. You can make a lot of things. The only bad thing is that the cost is too high. It cannot be generalized to the common people, but can only be used in aristocratic circles. ”

Zhao Chongyi nodded and said, "This is not in a hurry." It's good now. All five of our cities in the northwest have already been built. In three of the new cities, although some people began to move in. However, it is not fully built. I estimate that it will not be completed until next year at the earliest. ”

Chen Wenhui nodded and said, "This is true." In fact, the construction period has been faster than we imagined, thanks to the water lotus they came up with a bidding method, and many projects were contracted to countless engineering teams to do, which was naturally much faster. ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "This not only does the construction period speed up a lot, but also the engineering teams in the city have also learned a lot from the engineering teams in Nanyang, and now, these engineering teams in the city have also grown up." It's all made money. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "If these engineering teams have money, they will be able to hire more people and buy more advanced tools, which will also be beneficial to the development of the black family's industry, mining and metallurgy." The more people work, the more money we earn than farming, the more we spend, and our business prospers. It's approaching the Chinese New Year. I've looked at the accounts of several cities. Among them, we will be able to balance nearly two million taels of silver this year. However, our roads are not yet built. And continue to use money. Therefore, this money cannot be fully subsidized for the construction of the new city or escorted to the imperial court. “

Zhao Chongyi said with a smile: "This year, although we can't balance two million taels of silver, there is no problem with the balance of five million taels of silver. In addition, Shanhai City does not need silver to build, and there is still a surplus of seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver. There is no need to build the central city, and there is still a surplus of more than 100,000 taels of silver. The construction of our three cities will cost money, and Shuilian said that another 10 million taels of silver will be invested. Wouldn't that make the emperor add another five million taels of silver? ”

"I mean, can we put all the savings from the existing three cities into the construction of new cities? In this way, although it is not much, but the emperor does not have to spend an extra five million taels of silver, just spend an extra three or four million taels of silver, and the emperor does not have so much pressure, don't you say? ”

Chen Wenhui looked at Zhao Chongyi with a smile and said, "Your elbow is turned outward, right?" The emperor has no silver, can't he borrow it like our Dachu Bank? Da Chu Bank made money, but it wasn't money for our family? Do you think our family has too much money? ”

Zhao Chongyi smiled, not daring to answer this question.

Chen Wenhui said: "I'm not actually trying to earn this interest from the emperor. We really need money too. If our cities want to develop well, what is the use of just building a city? There should also be supporting facilities, for example, the most important thing is the road. Only a good road can speed up the delivery of goods and stimulate the development of business. ”

"What are we doing with the nearly two million taels of silver in Tiebi Pass, don't you know? Isn't it building a road to the three internal provinces? After the roads in these three provinces are built smoothly, Tiebi Pass, even the entire grassland, will have a steady supply of food, and it will be able to develop faster. ”

"It is also more convenient for goods from other provinces to be transported. Also, now because of the relationship we have established with our three new towns, we have begun to make contact with and trade with the Caucasian people in the far north. also traded with those Hu people in the extreme west, which was the most profitable to trade with foreign peoples. I want to create a super long trade route that can transport the goods of the South Seas from the land all the way to Tiebi Pass, and then, from Tiebi Pass to the grassland, and then to the Caucasian and Hu people. ”

"This trade route runs through the north and south, and runs through the east and west, which is the real road to wealth. So you say, can we save all this money for building roads? ”

Zhao Chongyi was shocked by such a great idea, and said half-loudly: "God, what a long trade route this is? How many places to contact, how many people to contact, and how many goods to use? ”

Chen Wenhui said: "This is the overland Silk Road. Now that I have rubber, I am getting the Black family to research more advanced steam engine ships, and I have been initially successful. However, it is not yet possible to sail long-distance. However, even this is much faster than a manpower sailboat. In the future, when we return to the South Seas from the northwest, it is estimated that by that time, the steam engine ship has already been studied. We can also harvest large areas of rubber forests in the South Seas, and as the supply of rubber increases, we will be able to make more things. ”

"Our ships are going farther and farther, and we may be able to reach the far west from the sea. In this way, we can reach the northwest Antarctic on the sea and the northwest land, which is the combination of the real land Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road, and the beginning of our Great Chu civilization to spread to the world. ”

Zhao Chongyi has been shocked by the world described by Chen Wenhui.

Chen Wenhui looked at Zhao Honglie, who was playing, and said: "We have laid a foundation, and in the future, this world will be Honglie." I hope to see them carry forward our Zhao family and Xiao Chen family. ”

Zhao Chongyi was silent for a long time.

Chen Wenhui waited for a while, gently shook Zhao Chongyi's arm and said: "We have always been living for the emperor, doing things for the emperor, and accomplishing his achievements. ”

Zhao Chongyi nodded slowly, and his heart was full of pride.

Chen Wenhui smiled slightly and said: "So, now, you still have to play with the emperor, and let him allocate 10 million taels of silver this year, of course, if he can only get 5 million taels of silver, our Dachu Bank can lend him it." As long as he still uses the taxes of Shanghai City as a guarantee and pays interest every year, we can also let him repay this capital in five years, as he did last year, and the pressure of one million taels of silver a year will be no problem for him. ”

Zhao Chongyi suddenly returned to reality, smiled bitterly and said: "One million taels of silver a year is nothing, and the emperor can pay it, plus the interest is also one million taels of silver, a total of two million taels of silver, and it can be paid." However, if he borrows another five million taels of silver this year, then next year, the emperor's two interest rates will be two million taels of silver, plus the capital will be two million taels of silver, a total of four million taels of silver, can he be willing? This burden is too great. ”

Chen Wenhui covered her mouth, laughed and said, "What are you afraid of?" Do you think that the construction of our northwest has not brought benefits to the interior of Dachu? Because the demand for commodities is more and the circulation is faster, the construction of the northwest has affected the entire Dachu, so to speak, this dividend has been shared by the entire Dachu. Da Chu This year, as far as I know, the finances of the entire country have increased a lot. There is no problem in paying off the additional four million taels of silver. ”

Zhao Chongyi thought about it. The increase in the trading volume in the northwest has made the silk porcelain, tea and other items in the south of the Yangtze River sell a lot, and naturally make a lot of money. As a result, more consumption is generated, such as engineering, such as diet, such as grain, such as edible oil, etc.

Come to think of it, the emperor can also support it. However, thinking that although the emperor made money this year, he still couldn't live well, and he still had to supply the northwest, Zhao Chongyi silently lit a candle for the emperor.

Zhao Chongyi said silently in his heart, Your Majesty, it's not that I don't help you, it's just that my wife is too powerful, and she is everywhere for your Dachu hegemony, and there is no way but to sacrifice your silver. (To be continued......)