Chapter 45: Seeking Change (6)
The end of the first general meeting of the Guangdong Business Alliance in Hong Kong was only the beginning for these people, and after returning to their hometowns, the figures of the members running around and the fields in the summer and autumn were also shining.
In the middle of summer, Guangdong is often sticky and slimy when it is motionless, and it is not refreshing. This is especially true for those who are busy for the present and the future. Fortunately, those members can also be called the lucky ones of this great era, and they have a smooth road in front of them, just step on it and run wildly.
In the summer, in addition to the rush of the members on the Guangzhou City side, it was the governor's wife who was born in the Dingguo Mansion and brought Chen Kai's children to Guangzhou City to reunite with her husband and father.
The earlier craze for incense and blessings reached a climax when Zheng Xiyuan arrived, and local Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, nunnery and mosques all held more solemn religious activities, and even the Catholic Church in Macao sent priests to participate in this "big competition" in the religious circles.
Compared with the arms fights of the heroes, these monks, veterans, masters, imams, and priests naturally do not carry any fireworks, but the competition between them still exists. After all, this has become a great opportunity for them to expand their influence in front of the people of Guangzhou for the gods they believe in their own gods, and it is natural that they should show their best form to win more attention.
The wife of the governor, who was originally a governor, came from Chaozhou, and was catalyzed by the gratitude of the local people, and was exaggerated by the comparison between those religious people, but it turned into a draft contest with their feet. However, the Chinese people have always been the smartest, and it is the royal way to worship here and incense on that place, and not to offend any god.
Of course, there are also a few more intelligent ones, cross-legged, eyes closed, hands together, mouth shaking, chanting words, vaguely seems to be the exorcism of "Taishang Laojun is as anxious as the law". In the next scene, King Kong is angry, his left hand is holding a flower, and his right hand tremblingly draws a cross on his chest, and his face is full of compassion, and he immediately shouts loudly: "Kafil is going to hell, O window." The mouth full of wine smoked the surroundings into clouds and mountains, and passers-by saw it and praised it: "This is miscellaneous." ”
The grand ceremony did not exist, Zheng Xiyuan's mother and son, under the protection of a group of accompanying family members, got off the boat on an uneventful afternoon, boarded the carriage that had been prepared, and drove straight into the yamen of the governor of Guangdong.
The governor of the Qing court, Yamen, was located in the new city in the south of the city, because the old city had long been occupied by the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan, and the government offices and the people were all bombed to the south of the city. Nowadays, the people have returned, and the south of the city is even more lively, but fortunately, the old city is not deserted, but there are fewer of them.
Chen Kai's governor's yamen chose a house in the old city to rebuild. As for the two largest buildings in the city, Pingnan Wangfu and Jingnan Wangfu, when Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi were there, the three of them refused to move in together, and they were put there to attract dust in vain. As for the reason, in the final analysis, it was the word overstepping, so that after seeing the two building complexes, they immediately set these two places as the purpose of the Yongli Emperor when he came to Guangzhou City in the future, and they refused to live in them by themselves to attract taboos.
Sun Kewang's Guiyang Qin Wangfu is the most obvious example, with such a negative example, the three giants of the Battle of Guangzhou are naturally tacit.
The yamen is rebuilt, and now there are many things to be done, some places inside are new, and some places are old, but the inside is as busy as Chen Kai's government office in Chaozhou. If anything, it's that this place is busier than that one.
Zheng Xiyuan's mother and son entered the house from the back ya, the front yamen office, and the back yamen for the chief official to live, from the palace below, most of the ancient Chinese yamen are such a pattern.
Whether there is a theoretical basis for "self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world", Chen Kai does not know, and he is not interested in understanding this. In the meantime, he put down the official business in his hand, and Yu Houya has been waiting for it for a long time.
When he returned to Chaozhou from Fujian last year, it was already September, and Chen Kai personally led the army to Guangzhou in early October. Calculate it, this farewell has been more than half a year, in fact, Chaozhou and Guangzhou are a province, Chen Kai has been going back and forth I don't know how many times, but the war is uncertain, the coast is not quiet, plus Zheng Xiyuan has just given birth, a pair of dragon and phoenix tires have consumed too much vitality, and they always have to recover some body before they can set off to reunite with their husbands.
"Lady has worked hard."
After the girl's confinement, the mother-in-law returned to Anping's hometown. Seeing the maid carrying Zheng Xiyuan into the house, Chen Kai hurriedly stepped forward, took the pair of soft wattles, and looked at them.
"Husband......
After a farewell for more than half a year, Zheng Xiyuan looked at Chen Kai and vaguely felt that he had lost weight. For a while, the concern for her husband and the patience for the pain of lovesickness merged into a torrent, and tear ducts gushed out in an instant.
However, the scene where the pear blossom brought the rain did not happen, and feeling tears welling up in his eyes, Zheng Xiyuan hurriedly withdrew his hand from Chen Kai, wanting to return to the usual posture of the deputy mother. It's a pity that this majesty hasn't come back yet, Chen Kai has already stretched out his hand and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
The moment the tears fell to his fingertips, the tears that had been forcibly suppressed could no longer be contained. Seeing this, Chen Kai took the opportunity to embrace Zheng Xiyuan into his arms, gently kissed the tears gushing out of his eyes, tasted the bitterness, and felt the same way. At this time, the accompanying family members and the servants and maids of the governor's yamen lowered their heads one after another, but they didn't know what they were thinking about.
After a while, the surging feelings began to ease, Zheng Xiyuan knew that he was still outside the door of the back office, and hurriedly got out of Chen Kai's arms, quickly tidied up his clothes with the help of his personal maid, and then led Chen Kai to the pair of children held by the nursing mother.
Carved in pink and jade, like a porcelain doll-like existence, in the warm embrace of their respective nursing mothers, two pairs of ink-like little eyeballs looked at the scene that happened not far away at their mother's place. Immediately after, the strange man strode towards them under the guidance of his mother, this pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses probably had a heart, no need for words, no need to look at each other, but as the bad guy who seemed to be excited approached, they immediately gave a dismount to see!
"Wow!"
The two children came out bitterly with a wow, which frightened Chen Kai, and when he wanted to reach out to comfort him, he only heard the tone of the daughter's crying and immediately jumped more than an octave, and the sound wave pierced Chen Kai's hand back like a thorn.
"Forgive me, master, the son and the young lady are still young, and they recognize their lives."
The nurse coaxed the child lovingly, bent her knees and said a blessing to Chen Kai, and gave an explanation. However, hearing this, Zheng Xiyuan's personal maid's face immediately changed, and she hurriedly glanced at the mouthy nurse, who also knew that her words seemed to accuse Chen Kai a little, and quickly apologized.
"It's true that I'm a father who scares the child, let's go to the house first, and there will be time to get familiar with it in the future."
Speaking of which, except for a few days when the child was born, Chen Kai got along with them for a few days, and he was always busy in Guangzhou for more than half a year, where to see each other again. For these children, he, as a father, is already a stranger, being scared and crying is inevitable, and Chen Kai is also full of helplessness.
However, the state affairs are like this, the nation is in danger, and if you can take care of your family, you often can't take care of the country, there are too many people in this era who only think about one family and one surname, which accelerates the demise of the country and the sinking of the nation, Chen Kai believes that God can't see such a tragedy happen, so he was sent to this era to rewrite the fate of the nation. The sense of mission is always in his heart, prompting him to work harder to do everything well. It's just that in this way, for this family, for Zheng Xiyuan, and for this pair of children, he has very little to think about.
When Chen Kai said this, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty on his face. At this time, a pair of jade arms gently wrapped his arms in the arms that became more and more warm after breastfeeding, the small head rested on his shoulders, and the waterfall-like hair gently rubbed on his clothes. Chen Kai turned his head and looked at Zheng Xiyuan with a slight smile.
When I returned to the mansion, all the people who came were the old people who were the governors of the four prefectures of Zhangquan and Chaohui, but there were some new servants and maids in the yamen of the governors of Guangdong. I saw the housewife, the housekeeper and the big maid who accompanied the marriage to distribute the work of the servants and maids, in an orderly manner. And a pair of children have their own nursing mothers to take care of, Zheng Xiyuan washed the boat and car, and after dinner, he was a little better than the newlywed.
Under the light brocade, the jade body is intertwined. There was sweat on the forehead and body, but this pair of beautiful people didn't care, hugging each other and lying on the stepping bed, breathing each other's breath, relaxed and comfortable.
"Recently, is the Fu army going to go on an expedition?"
Hugging each other speechlessly, for a long time, tremblingly asked this sentence, Zheng Xiyuan peeked at Chen Kai, longing and worrying coexisted.
Hearing this, Chen Kai hugged the person in his arms a little tighter, and bluntly said that in the near future, he would still focus on economic construction, and he would not go to Yunyun again until he had accumulated more strength. Hearing this, Zheng Xiyuan first breathed a sigh of relief, and soon inevitably revealed a little melancholy.
"When the world is peaceful, we will be together every day."
"I'm afraid that the husband will be annoyed by the concubine at that time."
Pouting, the oil lamp was not hung, but it was thrown into Chen Kai's arms. After a while, Zheng Xiyuan seemed to have decided something, rested on Chen Kai's arm again, leaned sideways and asked the people around him: "The year before and the year last year, the method of destroying the foundation of Tartar rule in Fujian can be said to have taken people's hearts to the extreme. This time, what new methods does the husband have, can you talk to the concubine? ”
A pair of big eyes full of curiosity flickered, fanning Chen Kai's heartstrings and trembling, and there was only one heroism in his chest.
The economic war from the second half of the seventh year of Yongli to the first half of the eighth year of Yongli was actually based on the reason of the Qing Zheng Peace, and the establishment of a bureau gave the corrupt officials in Fujian a reason to expropriate and extort money. The rest is all up to those who are thousands of miles away as officials just for money to play freely, what Chen Kai has to do is to take the lead, try to protect, and finally cooperate with Zheng Chenggong to stage the closing drama.
This is something that can be encountered but not sought, and Chen Kai has no intention of having the opportunity to replicate it again, which is not realistic. After all, if a dog is beaten with a stick, the dog should remember it again. And I, in the Qing Dynasty, have always been fancy when it comes to ruling methods, so how can I be so memorable.
Chen Kai had earlier handed over the dividends belonging to the Zheng Group and the Guangdong Trading Company under his personal name to Zheng Xiyuan for disposal, which was the income he used as the head of the family to support his family. As for what is the money, the small meaning of a few dozen taels of silver is completely negligible. This is very similar to the vast majority of officials in the Ming Dynasty, the only difference is that in terms of gray income, they obtained it by exploiting the people, while Chen Kai achieved it through normal trade and the Zheng group's own system, which is not the same.
Some of the silver Zheng Xiyuan used to buy land, some to expand maritime trade, and even purchased a lucky ship for this purpose. As for anything that is easy to ruin her reputation such as lending, Zheng Xiyuan will never do it, no matter how lucrative it is, because she knows very well that her husband needs a good reputation. For this reason, the establishment of schools, the relief of the people, the construction of Yizhuang, and the donation of medicine have not been done.
Before getting married, she came to see Zheng Chenggong with her father, and went to visit her father on the order of her mother, and she was not out of the boudoir. After getting married, you have to control your family, and in addition to interacting with the families of other generals and officials, you don't have much idle time at home on weekdays. A virtuous helper is what her father and mother expect from her, and it is also her benchmark for herself.
"Husband, is it that simple to encourage those businessmen to come out and do more?"
She is the daughter of a maritime family, and no matter how little she is involved in business and trade, she is at least a familiar one, so she will not understand the deep meaning of this. Here, he just pretended not to understand, and continued to scratch Chen Kai's itch with a posture of curiosity and admiration.
Her mother taught her a lot of tips for getting along with husband and wife, and she is also applying what she has learned. Here, the jade man in his arms is like this, and Chen Kai is also unsparing and tells his thoughts.
"The Guangdong Business Alliance, in the final analysis, is a business organization. Using my influence in Guangdong is very beneficial to stimulate their own desires and to ensure the rights and interests of their business practices. Stimulating trade can also stimulate the expansion of production in related industries, and expanding production can not only solve the employment rate, thereby reducing instability, but more importantly, when the people have money in their hands, they will consume, so as to further stimulate production and business behavior, just like a snowball. ”
"This undoubtedly requires a benign order and environment, and the existence of the Guangdong Business Alliance is to use the status of officials and businessmen to reduce exploitation and stimulate business behavior. Of course, that's not enough. The initial operation, the restoration and expansion of the local fist industry in each country, can provide them with a foundation. Psychologically, as well as financially and powerfully. ”
"Naturally, there is the next thing to do. Once this road starts walking, it can't stop at all. Because Tai Shi Gong said that the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit! ”