From a purely commercial point of view, the current state of Guangdong, if it is restored in a normal way, then the government encourages private agricultural production, while the businessmen are fighting their own battles, investing in workshops and shops, and at the same time stimulating the cultivation of cash crops in small amounts, which is probably what it looks like. It is even more common to be conservative and bury silver in a cellar in order to ensure the stability of funds.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the country pursued the rule of inaction, and after a few generations, the people were rich and the country was strong. The difference is nothing more than the difference in technique and name, but the connotation will not change much.

Most of the habits of the feudal bureaucrats are like this, such as Lianchengbi in Zhaoqing Mansion and Zhang Xiaoqi in Gaozhou Mansion, most of them do this, even including Lu Ruoteng in Fuzhou Prefecture, whose methods are influenced by the Zheng group, but the actual essence is still like this.

Chen Kai never thought he was a normal civil official, let alone that he should be a normal civil official. Since it is abnormal, then it is even more necessary to do something abnormal, so as to live up to the name.

"Taking Shunde as an example, the businessmen of the Guangdong Business Alliance raised funds to participate in the shares and raised a lot of funds. Of course, this also includes our Chen family. Relying on a large amount of funds invested in the sericulture and silk industry in Shunde County, using the existing mulberry forests, employing people to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, silk has raw materials, and at the same time build a large spinning wheel to replace labor with hydraulic machinery to speed up production efficiency. With silk, it can not only be sold, but also consider the increase in product value such as printing and dyeing, embroidery, etc., and the profit is absolutely guaranteed. ”

"In this, the funds are raised by the Guangdong Business Alliance, and the mulberry forests and land are local to Shunde. In terms of manpower, there are locals in Shunde, as well as people who fled from neighboring prefectures and counties. People work to eat, and Shunde wants to try its best to grow mulberry and silkworms, so the grain needs to be transported from other prefectures and counties, which can drive the grain production of other prefectures and counties, and the local only need to plant some vegetables and vegetables. In this way, with the sericulture and silk industry, the economy of the entire Shunde County and the surrounding areas can be revitalized. ”

In front of Zheng Xiyuan, Chen Kai unreservedly told the layout of the Guangdong Business Alliance in Shunde County. The former, after hearing it, also suddenly realized.

"So, it's the same thing in Foshan, right?"

"Yes." Nodding, Chen Kai affirmed Zheng Xiyuan's thoughts, and then continued to explain: "Foshan's positioning has always been crude iron finishing. The local population is declining, the grain production is low, and it can be transported from other places, and the hydraulic machinery can replace a lot of manpower, which is obvious for the improvement of production efficiency, which is why I acquiesced to Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi to take a large number of Foshan blacksmiths. ”

"In terms of crude iron, through the profit sharing, we can buy a large amount from Luoding Prefecture and Shaozhou Prefecture, Shaozhou Mansion does not mention, Luoding Prefecture is now facing a two-way shortage of population and food, as long as we transport the grain over, they do not need to produce food. Over time, they will become dependent on us and become our economic colony. ”

Chen Kai's thinking is a bit cross-era, Zheng Xiyuan doesn't understand it very well, especially the words of that colony, and it takes more time to think about it in order to roughly understand the meaning.

"What does the husband mean is that we want to use commercial means to control the financial lifelines of Chen Qice, Li Changrong, Wei Yingdeng, Ye Biao and Wang Han?"

"It's understandable. But not necessarily, it was never that simple. ”

Pure exploitation, Chen Kai did not intend to use it on his allies. Economically, whether it is to join the Guangdong Business Alliance or sign a contract, it is necessary to share profits and give sufficient benefits to allies. These profits are not given to these people by Chen Kaiping, and their investment will create more profits in the process of production and sales.

"So, ...... with Brother Sen"

After all, the Guangdong Business Alliance is a commercial organization, which inevitably has exchanges, overlaps, and even conflicts with the Zheng Group. How the relationship between the two parties is determined will affect Chen Kai's position in the Zheng Group and the future development of both parties. In this regard, lying sideways in Chen Kai's arms, a pair of big eyes flickered, full of questions and worries.

Caressing the hair of the person next to the pillow, Chen Kai then revealed a rather weird smile: "Yuanyuan, do you know? Every time you call Brother Oki Sakumori, I always feel weird. ”

"Brother Sen is the elder brother who grew up watching the concubine, and the husband is the lover who has been with the concubine for life. It doesn't make sense for the husband to eat this vinegar well. ”

Rou Yi caressed Chen Kai's face, and wandered in the pool with a hint of pride in the veins. Immediately, the green onion was retracted, the fingertips touched lightly, turned the palm into a fist, the thumb and index finger were lightly pinched, and the mischievous smile was playful. Just before Chen Kai could react, the soft female voice sounded with a slight pleading: "Husband is going to do bad things again." However, you can't bully Brother Sen, okay? ”

In his expression, he was slightly hurt, thinking that it was the old incident that shot Zheng Zhiguan back then. It was a pimple between the two, and they almost parted ways because of that incident. Thinking back to that moment, Chen Kai asked himself if there was nothing wrong with it, in that kind of situation, only by categorically executing the guards who took the lead in escaping could they deter the morale of the army, so as to hold the city of Zhongzuo. It's just that for Zheng Xiyuan, whether Zheng Zhiguan is the head of the garrison who has made a military order has nothing to do with her, for her, it is just an uncle and elder who has treated her very well since she was a child, and she is a real relative.

How is Zheng Zhiguan, Chen Kai has never been half moved, even if the two sides once had a very happy relationship, but from the moment Zheng Zhiguan fled, for the sake of the country, he was the enemy. But the sentimentality revealed by the person in front of him was empathetic in Chen Kai's eyes, but he knew very well who he was hurting for.

"If it weren't for Damu, I would have died in Chaozhou eight years ago; If it weren't for the big tree, the child would not be the same, how could I have the honor I have today; If it weren't for Damu, such a good couple, it would be difficult to have this fate. With Oki, I never thought of hurting him. Speaking of this, Chen Kai looked at the person next to the pillow with a solemn expression: "I, I can swear." ”

As soon as the words came out, he was immediately blocked by the little hand. As far as the eye could see, Zheng Xiyuan shook his head anxiously, and his pleading expression was much better than when he asked Chen Kai not to hurt Zheng Chenggong just now.

On the night of Xiaobie's newlywed, the husband and wife talked too much, and Zheng Xiyuan couldn't absorb a lot of things for a while, and Chen Kai didn't plan to cramm too many things into it that she couldn't understand at all. There are a lot of picks and choices, and the rest needs to be understood by herself.

The memory was awakened by the voice of a bold person in the audience. In an instant, Chen Kai had already come to his senses, and as he explained to Zheng Xiyuan at that time, he explained to the members present very clearly the relationship between the Guangdong Business Alliance and the Zheng Group.

"The trade there is mainly in charge of the Marquis of Jianping, and the official has a tacit understanding with the surname of the country. The Guangdong-Haihai business alliance is mainly responsible for the trade and industrial expansion of Guangdong Province, and in terms of foreign trade, it will resell goods to Jianpinghou, who is responsible for selling overseas and Fujian, Zhejiang, Nanzhili and other places, and the goods needed by the province are also purchased by Jianpinghou. ”

"Lord Fujun, but what if the Marquis of Jianping deliberately lowers the price or raises the price?"

In this way, the Guangdong Business Alliance is more like an industrial alliance in Guangdong Province, and the most profitable marine trade is entrusted to the Zheng Group. This is also the concern of other members. On top of that, they have a lot of worries that they just haven't had time to say.

"In terms of price, we have our own officials and Jianping Hou to protect the interests of the members of the organization. In addition, not all trade with other provinces or overseas was handed over to the Marquis of Jianping. For inland provinces, such as Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, etc., we can also do it ourselves. Besides, as long as we increase the output, we can't transport it at all with the little ship of Jianpinghou. In the final analysis, we can still organize our own fleet for maritime trade. ”

Zheng Group has a lot of maritime trade vessels, but there are never fewer areas that need to be involved, and there are very few assigned to Guangdong. Therefore, there was a Guangdong trading company as a supplement to local trade.

In the final analysis, the Guangdong Business Alliance is still a nascent business organization, and Chen Kai's positioning is more based on industry than pure trade like the Zheng Group. This is not only due to the prevention of too much competition between the two sides, but more importantly, Chen Kai came from hundreds of years later, and his knowledge reserves told him that this is the right thing to do.

"The sea coachman will eventually give way to England and France, and the historical Zheng group was also strangled to death in Taiwan by the Manchu Qing Dynasty by single-handedly moving the border and banning the sea. I'm in Guangdong, so I'm going to do it here. Come to think of it, Zheng Chenggong must be able to understand the truth of this, but there is no such opportunity in history. ”

Thinking about it, everyone recalled the positioning problem he had just explained, and they probably felt that this was probably a strengthened version of the Guangdong Trading Company in which they were a shareholder. The difference is nothing more than that the Guangdong trading company is essentially a supplement to the Zheng Group in the Guangdong region, while the Guangdong business alliance is based on the industrial construction, upgrading and expansion of the province.

As Chen Kai said at the beginning, after years of war, Guangdong Province can be said to be in ruins. Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong worked together to recover Chaozhou, and the people's livelihood in Chaozhou, which was originally shattered by the loss of control at the grassroots level, has been quickly restored, and now I am afraid that even Guangzhou cannot be compared with it.

This is the result of the trade-off, but according to the current momentum, such as Shunde County, with the sericulture and silk industry as the leader, the livelihood of the whole county has been quickly recovered under the influx of a large amount of funds, the huge dividends of the silk industry, and the beautiful vision of the future. When he returned to Chengping, it was only a matter of time before the officials, gentry, merchants, and common people in Shunde were concerned.

There is no doubt that the Shunde model is worth advocating and emulating. In the same way, Foshan's steel base should also be developed in a similar way, and the early technology accumulation, Chen Kai's manufacturing bureau in Chaozhou has been completed. At this point, it is nothing more than to get the raw materials and build a hydraulic workshop, and you can directly harvest steel products.

In Guangzhou, Chen Kai also plans to let the members of Chaozhou Mansion and Qiongzhou Mansion come to learn the advanced model, and at the same time drive the industrial upgrading of the two places.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this official still says the same thing, the purpose of our here is to make money. However, all of you here are good businessmen, not profiteers who accumulate wealth by exploiting the people, evading taxes, and harming the public and private interests. We pay taxes normally, support regional development, benefit people's livelihood, and thus harvest wealth, all just like the teachings of the sages. ”

"What the old man of the Fu army said is reasonable!"

"That's it, the old man of Fujun really said it to our hearts!"

The venue was once again filled with applause, and the businessmen present had spent the first half of their lives, even their fathers and grandparents, in discrimination. Now, Chen Kai has given them a reasonable and legal way to make a fortune quickly, and has provided them with the theory of Guan Zhong, which is most respected by Master Confucius. In the words of later generations, it was tall at that time.

The members cheerfully cheered the birth of the theoretical foundation, and at the same time rejoiced in their bright future prospects. Only Chen Kai, in addition to joy, secretly laughed, will there be another organization in the future, will there be another organization of Guan Zhong, will he be ridiculed by those guys who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, and they can kowtow together with prostitution brothels.

"Guan Zhong, those who can work harder. The police and the underworld all want to worship the second master, didn't they say anything? ”

At the new conference, the trading companies formed by Chen Qice and Li Changrong respectively became members of the Guangdong Business Alliance. This is absolutely beneficial at present, because it can not only expand the influence of the Guangdong Business Alliance, but also bundle interests, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, Chen Kai also has to consider the feelings of the generals under his command - if he can pull allies into the gang, his own people naturally have to be taken care of, otherwise he will lose the hearts of the people.

Specific things, Chen Kai is still operating. It's just that before he could finalize the matter, Cao Conglong, the Guangdong envoy mentioned by Zheng Chenggong before, took the lead in rushing to Guangzhou City by boat to take up his post. According to the Yamen of the Procuratorial Envoy Division, he is responsible for the justice of the province, and like the Yamen of the Political Envoy Department in charge of Wang Jiang, Chen Kai needs to control it. In this way, this person, he must try to pull it over.