Some of what Chen Kai said, Zheng Xiyuan can understand it, some of it, especially some new words such as employment rate, always need a little thought before she can understand the meaning, and some of them are vague and she can't fully understand. However, she doesn't plan to delve into this, since Chen Kai has said it, she will definitely do it. And she, just wait and see.

The night talk between husband and wife is between the obsession of reunion after a long absence, you talk to me, talk about each other's experiences for most of the past six months, share joy, pour out lovesickness, and gradually, after the "dry weather, be careful of the candle" I don't know how many times have passed, and return to calm. All that's left is a gentle breath and a closer hug, nothing else.

On weekdays, when he had already started to wash, hugging the person next to the pillow, Chen Kai was still asleep, very sweet. Outside the door, Zheng Xiyuan's dowry maid was guarding there, a pair of eyes vigilantly watching every corner of the small courtyard, but whenever someone approached, what noise might be made, she immediately made a silent gesture. Among them, the most are the little maids who are responsible for serving the washing, holding the washing water at just the right temperature, and she has been waved back several times.

This scene soon reached the ears of the butler. However, since then, no one has been disturbed for a long time, and the bridal maid's energy has been more focused on listening to the movements in the house.

After a long time, there was a sound of getting up in the house, and she hurriedly ran out, and called the servants and maids who were waiting outside the courtyard to prepare to wash up at once, and she ran back in three steps and two steps. Pushing the door in, what he saw was that the old man was helpless and let the lady who was just hastily clothed in clothes serve and dress, that expression, where had anyone seen Chen Kai so helpless.

"You've come just in time to serve Madame."

"Whoa."

A greeting, the response is soft and comfortable. For more than half a year, especially when you are in the army, where will you let people wait to wear clothes, and the arrogance and lasciviousness that you have just developed since you got married have long been left behind. Chen Kai, who was very unaccustomed to getting rid of his wife's obligations, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but he saw Zheng Xiyuan as a small mouth at first, and then sneered again, and I don't know what funny things she remembered.

"You go down first, it's enough for me to serve here."

The status of the dowry maid in the house is very high, and it can even be said that she is very detached, and in an understatement, the maidservants who sent toiletries withdrew. Only one person was left busy waiting for Chen Kai and Zheng Xiyuan to wash.

After washing, breakfast has already been prepared, just waiting for the lord and the lady. The bridal maid helped Zheng Xiyuan comb the green silk like a waterfall and complete it into a dignified bun, the kung fu in her hands was skillful and gentle, and the strength was just right, so that the conversation between Chen Kai and Zheng Xiyuan was not interrupted even for a moment.

"You just came over, so I won't go to the top duty, so I have to make those officials and staff laugh."

"Cut, I didn't say that last night, and I said that I would accompany my concubine today, and it turned out that I had to be worth it. Co-authored, I was playing with concubines last night. ”

"Hey, didn't I remember the days off wrong? Tomorrow, tomorrow I will take my wife and those two little guys to visit this Guangzhou City, and I should make amends. ”

"That's pretty much it."

"Actually, if you think about it, I'm pretty good as a governor. You don't have to rush to the court in the middle of the night, and you don't have to listen to the noise of the crows in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. But the emperor, if he doesn't go to the court for a day, he ridicules the spring night and the short day, and from then on, the joke that the king is not in the early court will fly all over the sky. ”

"Husband, you're talking nonsense again." Wan Er smiled, Zheng Xiyuan immediately asked: "Doesn't the official position of the husband also have the title of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, if there is really that time, I am afraid that the most sour thing thing is the husband, and the other imperial histories will have to retreat." ”

The ability to complain, after all, has more than a few hundred years of precipitation, Chen Kai still has some skills, and he may not necessarily lose to those imperial historians. However, you have to be humble, Chen Kai still didn't dare to take it one by one, and then said another more ridiculous sentence.

"Madame, do you remember, the husband said that the eunuchs in the palace have always been masters of martial arts. Think about those crows, with an iron mouth and steel teeth breaking into the world, even peerless masters like Gonggong Wei and Gonggong Cao are not afraid, obviously they all have extremely deep internal force to protect their bodies. People, it is a duel between top masters, and it is also a rare event to look at martial arts, how can it be a decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City or something. I was afraid of heights for my husband, so I didn't go up. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, the husband doesn't go up, just watch their jokes below."

“……”

In front of the bridal maid, the husband and wife don't have much to taboo, and even Zheng Xiyuan rarely put away the majesty of the housewife that she maintained on weekdays, and quarreled with Chen Kai.

In the words of Chen Kai's mother-in-law, this little girl will have to accept the house sooner or later, and she will also be Zheng Xiyuan's right-hand man in the house in the future. Originally, Zheng Xiyuan already had such a plan when she was pregnant, but Chen Kai was too busy at that time to have any jokes about taking concubines, let alone such a plan. When the army goes out, it is the time to march hand in hand with Li Dingguo, which is really the case, but it is easier to give people an image of being obsessed with women and not wanting to make progress, which is always inconvenient for major events.

Here, the husband and wife were teasing, and some were laughing. The bridal maid waited there silently, without saying a word, but as far as she was concerned, except for the couple who stood at the top of the power of Guangzhou City, everyone else had already been shielded by her, which was enough, and the rest was nothing more than waiting.

After breakfast, the nursing mother of Chen Kai's pair of children before he went to duty brought the child over. Compared with yesterday, it seems that the birth is not so serious, and it is estimated that yesterday's nursing mothers were no less preachy. Seeing this, Zheng Xiyuan immediately stepped forward to introduce the two children, and at the same time comforted their emotions, and finally there was no such moth as yesterday.

However, the state of recognition still exists, and Chen Kai didn't really go forward to touch the child, just stood there and watched for a while, and then reluctantly left the back office and went to the front office to go to duty.

The house is in one of the company's buildings, but it turned out to be late, and the current situation will probably be like this in the future generations. However, now Chen Kai is the boss, the deputy director of the group, plus the boss of the branch, especially the identity of the latter is the same in the Yongli Imperial Court and the Zheng Group, where do the workers below dare to question the leadership.

What's more, the humanized thinking of feudal society. The reason why Xiao Biesheng is newlywed is understood by the housekeepers, servants and maids in the palace, and even the officials and staff of the governor's yamen can also understand it. Here, as in normal days, those who should come to ask for instructions come to ask for instructions, and those who should come to report come to report, as if they had passed the gate of the front and rear ya, and they had traveled back to an hour ago, what a miracle.

In this season, the most important thing in the local area is the summer harvest and summer planting, which are all major matters related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and they must not be neglected. This year, all counties in Guangzhou Prefecture are reducing taxes to varying degrees, and the summer tax in the ninth year of Yongli is basically exempted on the boundaries of Guangzhou Prefecture, and even several counties in Huizhou Prefecture are also the same. Officials don't need to go to the countryside to urge the department, but they also save some thought and fatigue, but it is inevitable that there will be a lot of less input, and even the traditional skills of drenching and kicking are abandoned, which can be regarded as gains and losses.

However, that doesn't mean they'll be idle. In today's Guangdong, Chen Kai, who has the final say in the five prefectures of Guangzhou, Huizhou, Chaozhou, Qiongzhou and Shaozhou. Fortunately, Chaozhou and Qiongzhou are both in business for many years, and it is enough for normal operation administratively. In the other three prefectures, although taxes have been reduced or exempted to varying degrees, Chen Kai attaches great importance to the recovery of people's livelihood in each prefecture and county, and the officials below will inevitably go down to the countryside to break their legs. If you dare to lie high in the county government like this, and ignore the situation of the recovery of people's livelihood, I am afraid that the reprimand or even the impeachment will fall on your head.

Taxes are reduced and reduced, but the army still has to eat, the officials still have to pay for it, and Chen Kai still has to continue to toss, and even toss bigger things. These, saying a thousand things and ten thousand are all to eat the old book, there is no other way.

Fortunately, Chen Kai has accumulated many years, and the strength of Zheng's Group has long been incomparable. Especially in the economic war in the first two years, the corrupt officials and corrupt officials made a lot of money, and the Zheng Group was also well-fed and almost broke its belly. Even if it has cost a lot to restore the livelihood of Fujian recently, the foundation is still there, and for a while, it will not be like Kuang Lu in the past.

It's just that no matter when, there will always be a day when the old capital will be finished, especially now that the two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong basically only have the taxes of Chaozhou, Qiongzhou, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou, and the taxes are still collected normally, the figure of the fiscal deficit is even more worrying.

However, saving money has never been Chen Kai's style, the more ugly the financial statements, the more he has to continue to toss, not only under his nose, but also those who can't be covered by his sight are also not spared.

"How is the renovation of the official roads in Guangzhou and Huizhou going?"

"After receiving the government order, all counties are investigating the situation of the official roads under the jurisdiction of the county. According to the people below, the situation is mostly not very good. There are quite a few of them being repaired now, and the speed is relatively fast. However, the counties continued to report more disrepairs, and the progress has not been improved. ”

The official roads in Chaozhou and Qiongzhou, these two places have been repaired early, and they are continuously maintained according to the level of Chengping. The government and county yamen of the two places have long formed a habit, and the Shaozhou Mansion, at this stage, is mainly the transportation of military materials and personnel, the Ming army relies on the convenience of the Beijiang waterway, and the Qing army in order to ensure the traffic between the Southern Jiangxi and the Qing army, the government is relatively more important, and there is no need to rush to Chen Kai here.

The official roads of Huizhou and Guangzhou have fallen into disrepair, which has undoubtedly affected the land transportation between the two prefectures. Maritime and river transportation, which is the mainstream of Guangdong, but land transportation is also indispensable, especially in such a large area, it is more necessary for materials to be able to flow, so as to accelerate economic prosperity.

"Anyway, the black cauldron is carried by the officials of the captive court, so I think they shouldn't hide anything. At one time, the official roads have been repaired, and in the future, it will be maintained from time to time, just like Chaozhou and Qiongzhou. ”

The official road is like this, and the post stations along the way also have to be re-controlled. There is a saying that the size of a country's territory, especially the size of the territory under its direct control, has always been affected by transportation - the speed at which government decrees are transmitted, the speed at which troops are mobilized, and so on. The official road and the post station are extremely important to the government, and Chen Kai has always attached great importance to it, because he has personally seen the results of the collapse of the grassroots rule of the Chaozhou government, and it took a lot of time to finally re-knead the government into one, where will it be restored to a fragmented state.

Recalling the Chaozhou of the year, the piles are as if they were yesterday, vividly. The local tyrants seized one side, not only could the government decree not leave the gate of the county, but the circulation of materials was also subject to endless interference. The city of Guangjiqiao above the Han River is in stark contrast to today's dilapidation and prosperity. Even, even when Chen Kai set up a bureau to outwit Chaozhou, it was on the pretext that the local tyrants would threaten the transportation of grain to Fujian that he obtained the opportunity to enter the Chaozhou General Town Government, and then kill the car in one fell swoop.

"At this stage, Guangzhou's silk and fragrant wood, Chaozhou's Chaoyan, tinware, Chaolan cloth, Chaozhou's porcelain, sugar products, grain, Qiongzhou's spices, giant wood, cotton, coconut, betel nut, and local specialties can eat a lot with the Zheng Group's maritime trade ability, in addition to other maritime merchants, the provinces of the province and other provinces can also digest a lot. These are all wealth only when you move. Otherwise, if you can't eat a single prefecture or county, it will only lead to a shrinkage of the scale of production. ”

His fingers tapped rhythmically on the table, as if he was calculating how many places he needed to think of and put into practice. After a long time, Chen Kai turned over the notebook and thought about it one by one, and his expression changed instantly. It wasn't until I saw a note that read "Foshan Machinery Manufacturing Branch of Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau" that I finally made a decision.

"There are no iron mines, and there are no coal mines. However, Chaozhou and Qiongzhou are too far away after all, and it is inconvenient to transship. Moreover, it is time for hydraulic machinery to expand to the Guangzhou area. ”