Facing the world map spread out on the desk, Chen Xu carefully watched and planned carefully.

Everything is simple to say, once it enters the substantive implementation stage, it will be found that there are many difficulties, this is not a mouthpiece, not to mention the entrepreneurship of those who have made money to do PPT in later generations, but it is a development pattern related to the next ten years, twenty years or even a hundred years in China, and he can't help but think carefully and repeatedly.

The functions of the Customs Department and the division of subordinate yamen, including work systems and daily norms.

The recruitment and training subjects of the Maritime Academy, especially the management and instructors of the Academy, require special consideration.

The location and size of the new shipyard.

Preparation and staffing of ship leasing companies.

How to rely on the Liaohe River, Haihe River, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River, Zhejiang, Pearl River and other large water systems along the coast to build ports, wharves, warehouses, etc. to form a complete set of water transportation hubs, to provide convenient logistics and transportation conditions for water and land transportation.

In this era when there are no highways extending in all directions and roads all over the countryside, relying on the continuous expansion and restoration of the county road and water transportation network, building a logistics transportation network and a well-distributed logistics center in Daqin is the best means to revitalize the development of Daqin's economy in the next few decades.

If river transportation, sea transportation and chitao transportation can be integrated as a whole, so that Daqin's logistics will become a criss-crossing huge transportation network, and drive the Central Plains, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Bashu, Lingnan and other places to be more closely linked, so that the future development of Daqin will be sustainable for a long time.

Infrastructure is the key to the rise of China in just 40 years.

Only by smashing huge investments on this wild land, taking advantage of the growing population, taking advantage of the ever-improving level of science and technology, constantly stimulating the development of private industry and commerce, and constantly stimulating explorers to expand overseas and plunder resources, Daqin will soon embark on the explosive development stage after the Age of Discovery.

But the key to building a naval division, building muskets and artillery, building warships, preparing for the construction of docks and ports, and integrating the network of water and land transportation is ...... Money.

Daqin is now stable enough, and the fiscal revenue has doubled for several consecutive years, but all kinds of expenses are also rising, just to renovate and expand the country's cement road and river bridge wharf, it will consume one-third of the local tax revenue every year, which is necessary in Chen Xu's view, so for the counties and counties across the country to send a request to expand and renovate the road almost uniformly, it doesn't matter if the wave is not wasted, the important thing is that these investments must be in place, and the road infrastructure must be completed as soon as possible.

Now a few years have passed, this bottomless pit of general investment has been immediate, with the gradual completion of several cement roads, the country's land transportation situation has been greatly improved, and even after the autumn of last year, Chen Xu has written to the emperor, asking the Ministry of Industry to summon craftsmen and slaves to start repairing several plank roads leading to Bashu with reinforced concrete.

With such a large range of infrastructure investment, Daqin is currently short of money everywhere, so if you want to start this round of huge maritime expansion, the money is ...... It's the big problem.

Money, money, where are you?

With you, I am not afraid of heaven and earth......

Chen Xu sat at the desk and sighed, Chunxiang and Qiuxiang, the two big maids who are now twenty years old, lay down beside them to help gently beat their legs and backs, looking at Hou Ye frowning from time to time in a daze, humming a strange ballad in his mouth, and the two of them listened carefully and lost their minds at the same time.

From the time when the emperor rewarded Chen Xu, the two were only thirteen years old, and Chen Xu was only fifteen years old at that time, although the original Hou Ye was magically intelligent and omnipotent, but he was still childish and amiable, and now seven years have passed in a blink of an eye, the Hou Ye is not only the official and the majesty is rising, but also married three ladies and two concubines in a row, and the daughters have given birth to four, and a group of maids who accompany and serve day and night have also grown into slim girls. It is really a beautiful flower that is ready to bloom, just waiting for the Hou Ye to pick it and get close.

But what makes them depressed is that Hou Ye doesn't seem to have the intention of spoiling them at all, and has never been disrespectful with his hands and feet, but they are increasingly unable to hold back this desire, talking and laughing softly in front of people, and hearing the sound of Chen Xu and several wives and concubines talking happily in the dead of night, they can only hide in their respective quilts and cry.

As a group of personal maids who first followed Chen Xu, they were not as good as Fan Caiying's two foreign attendants, Xiao Yun and Xiao Hong were both favored by Chen Xu, although they had no heirs, but in the minds of their subordinates, their status seemed to be higher than them.

"Why is Master Hou distressed, but the slave is not doing well?" Haruka stopped thumping her legs and asked softly.

"Alas, it has nothing to do with you, Master Hou, I'm in trouble!" Chen Xu leaned on the back of the chair and waved his hand, "You don't need to serve, the weather is warm today, you can also go to the exhibition to see the excitement, remember to ask the steward to arrange a few guards......"

"Master Hou don't want to drive the slaves away, we only like to serve Lord Hou, this is also our duty......" Chunxiang and Qiuxiang knelt on the ground and kowtowed together, and when they looked up, their eyes were already a little red.

Chen Xu was a little distracted in an instant.

It seems that these two beautiful women who get along day and night are a little strange, but they are indeed two familiar and delicate faces, but they are no longer the petite and delicate appearance of the past, but two big beauties with long skirts and bewitching postures.

He is not a blind man or a saint who sits still, and he is not without ideas about this beauty, but he feels that he has enough wives, so much that he is almost unable to be satisfied.

He thinks that he can have a bowl of water and maintain the same love and care for his wife and concubines, instead of being like other princes and princesses, who want to take possession of a woman with good looks when they meet her, and then get bored and abandon it after buying it back and playing with it for a few days, and be like a slave to a cow and a horse.

Seriously, he can't do it, and he feels that he can't do it in his life, there are hundreds of maids and concubines in the house, and their posture is not bad, as long as he is willing to be pampered at any time, and even after being pampered, he does not have to be responsible for his own fending, but it is a responsibility for him, once he has a skin-to-skin relationship, he can't do it like an iron abandonment, so he can only use this cold treatment to cut off the minds of these maids.

He had already discussed it with Shui Qing, Ying Shiyan and Meng Wan.

Recently, the housekeepers who have followed them for six or seven years have been on the older side of the house to get married, and there is a golden sign of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, just like the first emperor dismissed the harem, these women will definitely be able to find a good husband after they go out, after all, the young students of the five major colleges who have not started a family do not know how many, every maid Chen Xu can find the best home for them, and they may even become noble ladies in the future, so as to change their fate as lowly concubines.

Follow Chen Xu, even if he has children and daughters in the future, his status will not be too high according to the ancient tradition, Chen Xu can change himself, but he can't change this deep-rooted tradition, he can treat his wives and concubines and children equally, but in the eyes of outsiders, it must be different, this is the huge gap and gap between ideals and reality.

"Don't cry, don't cry, get up and speak!" Chen Xu helplessly stretched out his hand to support Chunxiang and Qiuxiang's two maids.

"Master Hou, the slave is unwilling to leave you, nor is he willing to leave the Hou Mansion, please have mercy on us, the slave is willing to be by your side for the rest of his life, and he is willing to ...... as a cow or a horse."

Chunxiang Qiuxiang knelt on the ground and cried, her delicate body trembling and tears pouring down.

Chen Xu was instantly sad.

When he first came to Xianyang, the emperor was the Marquis of Qinghe, and he rewarded this group of palace maids as maids, their identities Chen Xu never asked carefully, but they were certainly not the daughters of ordinary commoners, the biggest possibility was the daughter of the Great Qin criminal official and the six kings and the nobles, at that time, the housekeeper Zhao Lun selected four of the most handsome and intelligent girls from a group of palace maids, that is, four maids in spring, summer, autumn and winter, serving Chen Xu to wash and live every day, and later Chen Xu in order to facilitate the name, so he borrowed a well-known name of spring, summer, autumn and winter, It's not just fun, it's also a tribute to the era that I've gone.

So far, there are four personal little maids to take care of, but the age is younger than Chen Xu himself, most of the time Chen Xu is taking care of these four little girls, delicious, fun, storytelling, singing and dancing, flying kites, gnawing pig's trotters, in this kind of fighting, time is fleeting, the master and servant have all grown up, and now Chen Xu has already started a family and is in the position of the left minister of Daqin, plus the honor of the master, and the four little girls have also been slim and slim.

Of course, it's not just the age that changes, it's the mind.

The four little maids also went from being ignorant and ignorant to now obsessed with their hearts, and they were no longer willing to leave Chen Xu for half a step.

Now, this is their last chance.

If Chen Xu is still unwilling to accept them, they will be driven out of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, and they will never have a chance to become the women of the Hou Ye who belong to them in this life.

"Hou Ye, you pity the slave maid, we are born as Hou Ye's people, death is Hou Ye's ghost, this life is only willing to serve Hou Ye, if Hou Ye is not happy, let him be beaten and scolded, the slave and maid are also happy in their hearts......"

Looking at the delicate faces of these two pear blossoms crying and pleading with rain, Chen Xu sat on the big chair and was silent for a long time, and finally felt sad and unbearable, reached out and hugged the two former little girls in his arms, and said with a long sigh: "Okay, if it is not that Benhou is hard-hearted, I am really worried that I will not be able to take care of you in the future and snub you, since you are so persistent, then stay!" ”

"Woo, the slave has thanked Master Hou......" Chunxiang Qiuxiang fell on Chen Xu's lap left and right, crying.

"Look, I promised you, and you're crying so much, do you want Ben Hou to help you beat your legs and back?" Chen Xu smiled and said with a smile as he helped the two maids wipe the tears that kept flowing.

"The slave doesn't dare, I'm so happy, we won't cry......" Chunxiang Qiuxiang hurriedly knelt up in fright, and kept wiping her tears and crying with joy.

"You go wash up first, and when the ladies come back in the evening, I will naturally tell them to let you two stay!" Chen Xu and Yan Yue helped the two maids up.

"Master Hou, that ...... What about Xiaoxia and Xiaodong? Haruka cried and cried and was reluctant to leave.

"Well, stay too!" Chen Xu smiled helplessly.

The four little girls are together every day, and they also have their own division of labor to serve Chen Xu, they know each other's cold and warmth and are sisters, since they leave two, the other two can only stay together, this is like a big health care, since it has been decided that it must be a full set to be considered thorough.

Chunxiang and Qiuxiang's two maids really turned their worries into joy, and after saluting, they withdrew, looking at the pretty figures of the two joyful and joyful holding hands and jumping away, Chen Xu suddenly felt that his mood calmed down.

Only then did he realize that he had actually been reluctant to let them go.