The Changwen Marquis Mansion has become very chaotic recently.

The courtyard of the entire outer house is full of farm tools, and there are a large number of craftsmen coming in and out.

Although Chen Wenjun's identity can go out, it is not appropriate to show her head often, and she rarely goes out after there are more people outside, and only wanders around the inner house.

However, a group of women, especially sisters-in-law, often make fun of this, after all, these things are to be sent to the Eastern Domain, and the Changwen Marquis Mansion and the Nan'an Marquis Mansion jointly developed the Eastern Domain, both of which purchased a large number of farm tools, including a large number of horses and ploughing cattle, and the Changwen Marquis Mansion is in Fuzhou Prefecture, so it is more convenient to hire various professionals.

A master of agronomy who is proficient in the value of cotton seeds, a large number of healers, and a large number of medicinal herbs, ready to deal with the terrible plague spread on the island.

There are also all kinds of carpentry, blacksmiths, claywork, pottery, and other talents are hired.

Prior to this, when I heard that I was going to the Eastern Domain, even if it was a large amount of money to ask for a visit, there were many people who refused, but after the imperial court placed the number of 6,000 official households in the Nan'an Marquis Mansion in the Eastern Domain, the number of people willing to hire suddenly increased.

The number of official households is quite rare, especially the official official households that have made a register and reported the case in the household department, and their status is extremely rare.

Even the harsh head of the family has a certain bottom line for the exploitation of his own official village, and the exploitation of the imperial court is really getting more and more cruel and unacceptable to the people.

It is also a matter of people to be able to become the official household of the Hou Mansion, and some of the Hou Mansion are likely to be demoted, and the official household will be reduced, and after a number of demotion times, they will be removed from the clan and will lose all the number of official households.

Of course, the manor bought by one's own family can be inherited from generation to generation, but it does not accept imperial grain, and it is only a private official household of the clan, but it cannot be hereditary forever.

Unless it is the prince's mansion of the hereditary network, there is a good thing that the official family has passed on from generation to generation.

Xu Zixian's Nan'an Hou Mansion is different, first of all, Xu Zixian is very young, and secondly, the Eastern Domain is the Nan'an Hou Mansion opened up by one hand, and in the following decades, Xu Zixian is a real prince, and he can also get the grace of two or three generations of more lords after hard work, this is the rule, that is, the Son of Heaven does not like Nan'an Hou, and these things must be done according to the rules.

In this way, it means that in the following decades or even a hundred years, everyone does not have to worry about the problem of identity change, and the number of people who are willing to become the official household of the Nan'an Hou Mansion and the number of people who are willing to go to the Eastern Domain is almost doubling every day.

Due to the opening of the official households of the Eastern Domain, a large number of master craftsmen, doctors, and ordinary people flocked to the palace, and the Changwen Marquis Mansion was lively like a market every day.

Chen Wenjun doesn't like to be lively, but he forced himself to go out several times, and greeted those who were determined to become the official households of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, Chen Wenjun was dressed plainly and unpretentiously, but he was luxurious, and his demeanor was down-to-earth and generous.

Although Chen Wenjun did not pass the door, she had already taken on the responsibility of the housemother.

"There are 1,700 cattle in total, and it is impossible to buy more cattle in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou in the near future." In the study, Chen Zhengzhi frowned and said to Chen Dujing: "Mingda said that hundreds of thousands of acres will be opened before and after, and the number of cattle will definitely not be enough." ”

"How much did you buy for a horse?"

Chen Zhengzhi thought for a while and said, "I will send people to buy them everywhere as much as possible, but even if it is a miscellaneous horse in the southwest, we don't have many in Fujian." I want to go to Yunnan to buy it, but it is too far, it takes too long, and I don't know how many people I will die along the way. So I still bought horses on Fujian Road, the total number was about 3,000 horses, paid in batches, transported to the Eastern Domain in batches, the first batch was about 300, half of the male and female, Mingda said that the Eastern Domain pasture was demarcated, everything was created in the grass, and suddenly put in the war horse breed, the horse was afraid of loss, and put some miscellaneous horses into it, which was also a test. ”

Chen Dujing showed a smile on his face, glanced at the third daughter who came back from the outer house and sat quietly in the corner looking at the flowers, and said with a smile: "Mingda is the kind of person who is bold and careful, you see that he does everything with great moves, but in fact, he is delicate, and rarely makes mistakes......"

Chen Zhengzhi laughed and said: "Father is really the feeling of Lao Taishan praising his son-in-law, but Mingda is indeed outstanding, well, much better than me." ”

"You have something good about yourself, and you will understand it yourself in the future, or others will tell you." Chen Dujing glanced at his eldest son, and said with a gentle smile: "Right now, these things you have done are very good, and I am very pleased for my father." ”

"So, when will the first flotilla go?" Chen Zhengzhi estimated that his father and several uncles were in a hurry, and the recent investment in the Changwen Marquis Mansion was quite huge, and this was not Chen Dujing's private money, but a money that could only be used after the public agreed to it.

A cow is at least three times, a bull in the prime of life is as high as a dozen times a dollar, and a cow is more expensive. Tens of thousands of dollars were used for 1,700 head of cattle, plus thousands of horses had to be bought, miscellaneous horses were cheaper, and a miscellaneous horse would cost about four yuan.

Cheap is cheap, but there are many to buy!

Thousands of miscellaneous horses, and tens of thousands of them went out.

In addition to custom-made ploughs and other iron farm tools, Nan'an Hou Mansion bought some cattle, horses, chickens, pigs, ducks and sheep and other Upper Eastern Domain, doctors, medicinal materials, iron tools, and also brought a part.

However, the Nan'an Hou Mansion can use labor and forced labor to offset part of the investment, after all, Nan'an has to repair ships, train troops, build ships and buy ships, so the cost is huge, and the investment in the Eastern Domain cannot be as much as the Changwen Hou Mansion.

The Changwen Marquis Mansion has used tens of thousands of guan, but it is conceivable that it will take at least tens of thousands of guan to make a look, and it is necessary to wait for the cotton fields to bloom, the cotton is planted in the ground, and the harvest is waiting, and the investment is at least about 200,000 guan.

Because Xu Zixian's plan is large and the specifications are high, the Eastern Domain is almost on the road to real development.

And Chen Duguang and others want a reliable base for cotton planting and harvesting, and they can help the Chen family get tens of thousands of more pieces of cloth a year, which is quite a good achievement.

Xu Zi first wanted to develop the Eastern Domain, and Chen Duguang and others were not interested, and could not be interested.

Chen Dujing said: "Fortunately, it's almost done now, you can move people to open up the wasteland, watching the cotton planting in the ground, the second and third children may stop a little, and their hearts will settle down." ”

Chen Zhengzhi was inconvenient to express any opinions on the elders, so he only nodded slightly, but he snickered in his heart, those uncles are really too young!

The Nan'an Hou Mansion wants to run the Eastern Domain, and the Changwen Hou Mansion is equivalent to having an overseas foundation, hundreds of official households for decades, reclaimed acres, garrisons, and officials, all of which are from the two Hou Mansions, which means that the imperial court has divided this big island into two families, what else can you ask for?

Of course, most of the things on the island are dominated by the Nan'an Hou Mansion, but as long as the Changwen Hou Mansion is Chen Dujing and Chen Zhengzhi at the helm, the cooperation between the two families will not be broken, after all, as long as the little sister marries, the relationship between the two families is unbreakable......

Chen Zhengzhi glanced at his little sister, but he was a little nervous in his heart, Xu Zixian still knew in his heart, the concubine named Xiuniang was not pregnant until now, the eldest son of the noble family could only be born by the mother-in-law, within one or two years, Mrs. Chang was not pregnant, or gave birth to a daughter, and it was possible for the concubine to be pregnant at that time.

This is what the exquisite family will do, with a son-in-law and the eldest son, the family can be kept safe.

"I'm just a strange ......" Chen Dujing had a puzzled look on his face, and said slowly: "Mingda's plan is to really develop the Eastern Domain, hundreds of thousands of yuan is not worth anything, at least one million yuan must be invested in a year, otherwise it is like pushing a stone mill uphill, and there is no strength in pushing it halfway, but it is better not to do this stupid thing in the first place." Either do it in one go, or don't do it at all, I'm just strange, he wants to build a water camp, recruit troops, build a ship, and prepare to fight Chen Yutai for half a year and a year, where did he get the money to develop on Eastern Domain? ”

Chen Zhengzhi thought for a while and said, "A while ago, Luo Fangbo, the son of Lan Fang, went to Nan'an to meet Mingda?" ”

"It's unlikely ......" Chen Dujing said with a smile: "I know the people of the Luo family, they are all businessmen, shrewd and cautious, and they don't scatter eagles if they don't see rabbits...... Mingda has confidence and the possibility of development, and the people of the Luo family may meet with him and make some bets, but it will not be a heavy bet, because it is just an idle move. If you want Luo Fangbo to spend more than one million, or even several million, to develop the Eastern Domain for Mingda, this is absolutely impossible! ”

The island of Eastern Domain needs a large number of trading houses, port terminals, storage areas, trading areas, market towns formed by living quarters, a large number of auxiliary facilities, such as blacksmith shops, porcelain kilns, brick kilns, ironworks, large coal storage, granaries, and a large amount of grain storage to stabilize people's hearts.

There should be pastoral areas for grazing horses, cattle pens for raising cattle, pigsties, sheep herders, chicken coops, duck herders, vegetable fields, and grain fields.

The original living conditions of immigrants were very simple, Xu Zixian hoped to build stable houses for 6,000 Nan'an official households from scratch, which was not a useless thing, and could stabilize people's hearts in the shortest possible time and not make people's hearts fluctuate.

You must know that the house and land are the most stable conditions for the farming people, as long as there are these two things, no matter how difficult the environment is, people will see hope, and no one will leave easily.

The conditions of the Eastern Domain are still very simple, more than 10,000 people live along several streams that have opened up the sea outlet, large areas of dense primeval forests are still there, there are many poisonous mosquitoes, insects and ants, plagues break out from time to time, and all kinds of wild beasts, I don't know what danger is hidden in the large wasteland, it is not so easy to open up the wasteland, and it is not just to plow the land out even if the land is successful.

Trade, life, and industry are actually primary, secondary and tertiary industries, starting from scratch, which is the best result that requires heavy investment to be possible.

"Others don't dare, we dare." Chen Zhengzhi said: "Father, I dare to bet that Mingda will succeed...... After all this time, I am confident that I will not be wrong. ”