Feng Dabao had just been out for less than ten days, and he actually came back.

Feng Laiwang originally thought that he had committed something outside, and he wanted to give him a beating and let him do things at home honestly, but he didn't expect that his son would climb the high branches of the Yang Mansion.

The Yang family of the East China Sea is the pride of everyone in Ji'an Mansion.

Counting from Yang Shiqi's area, he once served as an official to the country to supervise the sacrificial wine. Although it is not noble, it is absolutely noble.

In Yang Dao's generation, the official became the Duke of the East China Sea and the Governor of the Dongzhou Navy. This is the Duke of the Ming Dynasty who has real power, commanding the navy of the entire Eastern Continent.

It is also because of Yang Dao, Jiangxi people immigrate, the favorite is Dongzhou, they have no regrets when they come to Dongzhou, the fertile land here, whether it is farming or grazing, is more income than in Jiangxi's hometown.

And Yang Zhihe, the third generation of the Yang family, not only married a princess, but now he is also the governor of Gibraltar in Europa, and the three generations of his ancestors and grandchildren are all favored by His Majesty.

To the fourth generation of the Yang family, it is His Majesty's own grandson, as long as you don't make mistakes, this generation of the Yang family is noble, and you can't run!

Their Feng family is a small family, that is, Feng Laiwang's generation can be regarded as a little rich and peaceful, where did they think that they could be relatives with His Majesty the Emperor's family.

Although Yang Zhixun, who is married, is just a sideline, for his Feng family, it is also an absolute high climb.

So after getting the news, Feng Laiwang didn't react for a long time, until he was laughed at by the head of the Jiang family, then he reacted, and immediately killed chickens and sheep to celebrate.

On the second day, he took his passbook to the town's commercial bank to open a silver ticket, and if he was able to marry the Yang family, even if the family was bankrupt, he would have to handle the marriage lively.

The father and son went out again this time, and it took a day and a half to come to Texas Mansion again.

This time, the head of the Yang family also spoke openly and honestly about the Yang family's daughter in front of Feng Laiwang. "Our sixteen mothers in Xiyang, in terms of character and knowledge, they are all counted in Dongzhou. It's just a bad fate, two marriages failed, and a bad reputation was made. Our Yang family is sincerely married to your Feng family, not a feud, so I will make it clear to you. If you are willing, sign the marriage certificate, and we will go to the Texas Mansion to enter the file, if you don't want to, just treat it as if it didn't happen. ”

Feng Laiwang knew that there was such a relationship behind it, but if it wasn't for that, how could their Feng family marry such a young lady.

Feng Laiwang looked at Feng Dabao, Feng Dabao thought about the sixteen niangs he saw that day, and his heart melted when he smiled. He hurriedly said firmly: "Dad, the child wants to marry Sixteen Niang." ”

As an ordinary person, he was able to make a big family business in the distant Dongzhou after leaving his hometown.

Although Feng Laiwang is not at a high level, he knows the wisdom of survival of little people.

So at this time, he didn't hesitate at all, and said to Director Yang: "Being able to marry the Yang family is the blessing of our Feng family. We are a small family, and we don't understand many rules, and we also ask Director Yang for advice, and we have nothing to follow. ”

Director Yang showed a sincere smile at this time, and instructed a native waitress next to him: "Go and invite the Fourteenth Lady to come over." ”

Both parties are willing to do so, and Mrs. Yang wants to settle things as soon as possible. Therefore, after some deliberation, the three procedures of Nacai, Najib, and Najib were passed at one time, and the application period was directly determined, and the levy was ......

Ask for the deadline, accept the levy, this can only be done by going to the Yang family on Hengduan Island, the Yang family is a big family, no matter how shameless it is, you can't marry your daughter out so-so.

Feng Dabao just came to the German Mansion from his hometown, and now he has just joined the company.

Although the Yang Mansion has a big face, it is not cost-effective to use the Yang family's face for a trivial matter.

Therefore, it was decided that Feng Dabao would continue to perform his duties and put the levy on three months later, when Feng Dabao took some leave of absence and went to Hengduan Island to complete the preliminary preparations for the wedding and greet him in person.

With the help of Steward Yang, Feng Laiwang bought forty acres of land by the Buffalo River in Dezhou City for one hundred and twenty silver dollars, and planned to use another hundred silver dollars to build a mansion.

can get in touch with the Yang family, Feng Laiwang is not stingy with money at all, if his son gets the support of the Yang family, their Feng family will soar, just around the corner.

After the Spring Festival, the atmosphere in Texas is getting more and more tense. The day of the arrival of Taisun and the inspection team is getting closer and closer, and the government is ready to do its best in all aspects.

However, all this did not seem to have anything to do with Feng Dabao, at this time, he had already entered the guard camp of the Dewang Mansion and began a month-long military training.

Yuan stayed in Dezhou City, accompanied Mrs. Yang and Sixteen Niang back to Hengduan Island, and then hurriedly returned to Qingyang Town to take care of the family ranch.

In order to welcome the arrival of the inspection team, the Texas government purchased more than 20 buses that can carry 35 people from Zhongzhou this year, and opened up public transportation between several large cities in the state capital.

In this way, when you go out in the future, you don't have to travel on horseback, and it is also convenient for women like Yuan to go out.

But Feng Laiwang can't go back, and has been supervising the construction of a new house and preparing for the wedding in Dezhou City.

In today's Texas Mansion, weddings between civilians are popular with three major items: bicycles, sewing machines, and self-striking bells.

And among the noble class, there are also three major items: cars, ranches, and yachts.

Located by the sea, Dezhou City is the trade hub of the northern continent of Dongzhou, and there are many big merchants in the city.

These merchant families had houses in the city, but they had to build a pasture in the countryside, not to raise cattle and sheep, but to go hunting in the countryside when they were resting.

As for cars and yachts, they are tools for display, and in the past, cars were not sold and only the aristocracy could buy them.

Merchants like to buy yachts, which are not only for display, but also a convenient tool for traveling back and forth between the Hengduan Sea.

Nowadays, Daming has more and more car production and sales control, and these businessmen do not seem to be able to realize their identity if they do not buy a car.

Feng Laiwang has a ranch at home, although it is not the kind of ranch for vacation, but it is also a ranch.

The conditions of the Yang family are not high, they only require to build a courtyard and buy a car, while the Yang family will marry a small yacht to facilitate the small couple to return to Hengduan Island in the future.

A car now costs more than 800 silver dollars, which can buy several houses. But Feng Laiwang gritted his teeth and could buy it.

This time, for the wedding of his eldest son, he also almost dug out the family, but he still couldn't keep his mouth shut happily every day.

Because after the marriage between Dabao and the Yang family came out, the Dewangfu looked at Dabao differently.

After a month of training, Dabao was arranged by the Dewang Mansion to be the prince of Dewang as a personal guard. When His Royal Highness Taisun came to Texas, Feng Laiwang was also watching the excitement at the dock.

When he saw King De's father and son greet him at the dock, and his own son followed behind the prince, standing majestically with those court officials, he burst into tears of excitement.

In fact, the Feng family's luck is not an exception. Across the Eastern Continent, such cross-class marriages were rare in the past. But nowadays, it's quite common.

First of all, the rapid expansion of the Ming Dynasty has shaken the level of the entire society. Especially in Dongzhou, because the number of nobles is too small, in order to catch up with the dividends of expansion, these nobles quickly expand the population base of their families and attract more commoners.

Not to mention the nobles, even in the prince's mansion, there are also many princes who have married commoner women, many county lords, and wealthy merchant families.

Although these are not lineage, it cannot be denied that this kind of marriage also gave many commoner families a step up when the influence of the noble class was rapidly expanded.

This upward channel was opened, and many commoners were more closely connected with the notification class, and they were more stable in maintaining the imperial court.

Secondly, there is another exploited class in Dongzhou, that is, a large number of indigenous people.

More than 20 million indigenous people have provided sufficient manpower for the development of the Ming people in Dongzhou. The advanced civilization of the Ming Dynasty has a core competitiveness far beyond that of the barbaric Europeans in history.

The Ming Dynasty was attractive enough for the indigenous people to get closer to the Ming people, and those natives not only worshipped the Ming Dynasty, were willing to follow the Ming people to live a good life, but were more willing to integrate into the cultural circle of Confucian culture.

Not to mention this era, that is, in Southeast Asia in history, those natives are also actively gathered under the name of the Han people, willing to serve the Chinese, and intermarry.

In the 21st century, after the Han people were harvested like leeks and stubble, the natives still took pride in serving the Chinese.

This cultural centripetal force is far from being comparable to that of Europeans.

For Feng Laiwang, the marriage between the Feng family and the Yang family, who were small families, allowed him to see the future development direction.

For Zhu Jianshen, who came to Dongzhou this time, through his familiarity with the social form and structure of the entire Dongzhou, he saw the management direction of the Ming Dynasty between class theory and real existence.

The class theory needs to be maintained, but it must be unobstructed, only in this way can the Ming Dynasty maintain the centripetal force, and the rule can be stable.

After half a month in Dezhou, Zhu Jianshen had a deep understanding of the details of Dezhou, the richest area in Dongzhou, and began to march upstream from the Tongtian River to the heart of the northern continent of Dongzhou.

Tongtian River is the Mississippi River in later generations, which is the economic lifeline of the North Continent of Dongzhou, relying on the water transportation of the Tongtian River, the products of the North Continent of Dongzhou can be transported smoothly and reduce consumption.

Because of the population, many areas of the northern continent of Dongzhou are still undeveloped, and many fertile lands are still barren, full of dense forests and herds of wild animals.

However, there is already a vibrant area here, cotton in the south, wheat in the north, and the annual grain output of the Dongzhou continent has been able to meet the needs of the Dongzhou people for two years.

Therefore, the price of grain here is low, and the sake industry is very developed.

Because of the vast and sparsely populated area, the demand for bicycles here is far less than that of Zhongzhou, and most families have horses, and if you go far away, you can also take public transportation buses.

Because of the needs of transportation, all the royal governments in Dongzhou are now actively publicizing the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, hoping to build automobile factories in Dongzhou.

When many Uncle Wang saw Zhu Jianshen, he always put the construction of automobile manufacturers at the forefront, and Zhu Jianshen also felt that Dongzhou's demand for automobiles far exceeded that of Zhongzhou.

However, he wisely did not make any promises, only understood, not promised.

When summer came, he arrived in the Great Lakes region in the heart of Dongzhou.

The Great Lakes region was historically the first region of the United States, and the surrounding area is rich in coal, iron ore, and other metal mines.

The ease of water transport also makes it easy to communicate with each other, and it is a real fertile land with a large number of animals.

Grain, furs, minerals, and a relatively large population base have allowed the development to develop more rapidly than in other regions.

In the six state capitals of Gyeongju City, Anju City, Xuzhou City, Hanju City, Yuanzhou City, and Xuezhou City near the Great Lakes, the six princes have automatically formed an alliance and developed together.

The tractor factory built in Gyeongju City has surpassed the local manufacturers in Daming, with an annual output of 150,000 tractors, but it can no longer meet the needs of the market.

Not counting anything else, the scale of industrial development driven by this tractor factory alone can feed more than 500,000 people.

Seeing the endless fertile fields on both sides after walking for half a month, and then seeing the prosperous scene of industry, Zhu Jianshen was a little worried.

At this rate of development, will Dongzhou one day surpass Zhongzhou?

If the development here is better than that of Middle-earth, at that time, will these princes have the heart to stand on their own?

However, he didn't dare to tell anyone about this matter, but just vaguely listened to Peng Shi.

Peng Shi is much more knowledgeable than Zhu Jianshen, and he knows the meaning of elegance when he hears the string song, so he directly puts out a few data to put Zhu Jianshen at ease.

"Zhongzhou now has a population of 20,000, while Dongzhou and the northern continent have less than 30 million. There are nearly 100 universities in the Middle Continent, while there are less than 20 in the Eastern Continent. What's more, Dongzhou has the headquarters of Shinrikyo and has the largest number of industry experts in the world, and its scientific and technological research is decades ahead of Dongzhou.

As long as we firmly control the Shinrikyo and the research projects of the major research institutes, so that Zhongzhou will always be in the lead, no one can become a threat to Zhongzhou. ”

During this inspection, Zhu Jian deeply realized the impact of scientific and technological leadership on the political situation, which should be his biggest gain.

In the past, he may have simply thought that by controlling the army and the various ministries of the imperial court, the situation could be stabilized, but now, he fully realized the advantages of leading science and technology, and also deeply realized the benefits of using the internal affairs office to control trade and minerals for the stability of the imperial court.

can have this harvest, Zhu Jianshen really understands the role of these two aspects, and Zhu Zhanji's purpose of letting Zhu Jianshen come out on this trip has been achieved.

When the time came to April, Feng Dabao took a two-month leave from the Dewang Mansion to prepare for his wedding.

Their newly built house is now finished, and it is just waiting to be renovated.

For the new house, Feng Dabao is very satisfied. The low price of Texas City is not high, the place is very large, the scenery is very good, and the house built for two hundred silver dollars is also good in Texas City.

On April 26, Feng Dabao and his parents, accompanied by Director Yang, boarded a cargo ship from Texas City to Hengduan Island.

Three days later, the merchant ship, laden with buffalo cubs, docked at the port of Yaozhou City, the state city of Hengduan Island.

Hengduan Island is on the imperial court's roster, and its actual name is Yaozhou Mansion. However, because it is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, it is just separated between the north and south continents of Dongzhou, so it was named Hengduan Island at the beginning.

This is also the Cuba of later generations, and the Caribbean Sea of later generations, in this time and space, it has also become the Hengduan Sea.

The local climate is warm, suitable for the growth of rice, coffee, and sugar cane, and it is considered a rich land.

Concubine Lan is highly respected in Damingde, but she acts in a low-key manner.

For the first time, when the kings were divided, for the first time, she asked for the North and South Islands (New Zealand) as the eldest son's fief.

The second time, he asked for Hengduan Island as his fief for his second son, King Yao.

This is different from other princes who want a fief on the mainland, and they are unwilling to have any disputes with any prince.

In the twenty-fourth year of orthodoxy, King Yao was divided into Hengduan Island when he became an adult, and at this time, the Yang family had already been divided into this island.

With the early development of the Yang family, when Yaowang was divided into the local area, the infrastructure here was much better than that in other areas.

But King Yao did not sit back and enjoy the success, with the support of Lan Guifei, he brought many craftsmen, vigorously developed coffee and sugar cane cultivation on the island, and also built many factories.

Over the years, Yaowang and the Yang family have cooperated tacitly, and with joint efforts, Hengduan Island has developed into a rich land between the north and south continents of Dongzhou.

The cane sugar and coffee produced here are very popular commodities in Daming Zhongzhou.

Landing from Yaozhou City, he didn't stay here for a long time, Feng Dabao drove Feng Laiwang's newly bought Earl car and drove all the way east.

The Yang family's fief was in a harbor in the southeast of the island, and was named Donghai City by the Yang family, which was based on the family title.

Donghai City and Yaozhou City are one east and one west, which has driven the economic development of the island, because the distance is far enough, and Yaowang pays tribute to the development of industry, and there is no direct contradiction with the Yang family, who has been engaged in agriculture, and the two sides cooperate very tacitly.

After arriving in Donghai City, Feng Dabao's family first found a hostel to live in, and began to buy a dowry.

Before that, they had already purchased all kinds of gold and silver jewelry in Dezhou City, although it was not a shame for a large family, but it was already the Feng family's best efforts.

Yang Zhixun is a side of the Yang family, and has been serving as the steward of the Yang family's planting for many years.

Because his daughter's marriage failed, for him, he doesn't care how much money the other party has, as long as the other party is practical and capable, he will support him, and his life will naturally not be bad.

He is also very satisfied with this son-in-law, because the other party's family background is thin and has no background, although his daughter said that he had kissed twice before, he did not succeed. If you marry in the past, you will not be disliked by your husband's family.

Everything went very smoothly, and the dowry that the Yang family did their best to procure, although it was not luxurious, it was not ashamed, and for Sixteen Niang, face had been earned.

Especially Feng Dabao, who was originally just a stupid boy who had just come to the city from the countryside, but after being a personal guard in the Dewang Mansion for three months, his vision and temperament have changed greatly.

This time I came to Hengduan Island, and the calmness and generosity he showed, plus he was already very good, no one could find the slightest dissatisfaction.

After accepting the levy, I was waiting to be welcomed.

Yang Zhixun had already regarded Feng Dabao as his son-in-law, so before welcoming him, he specially called Feng Dabao, and Weng and his son-in-law communicated with each other.

The Yang family has a large area of plantation on Hengduan Island, where there is little flat land, which is difficult to mechanize and develop, and calves are in great demand.

Therefore, by marrying the Feng family, he wanted to expand the scope of the pasture and then provide calves for the Yang family.

After Feng Dabao entered the Dewang Mansion, his horizons widened a lot, and he looked down on the family's ranch more and more.

After listening to his father-in-law's arrangement, he was not moved, but asked his father to discuss with his father-in-law, obviously not wanting to interfere.

This made Yang Zhixun a little disappointed, he originally wanted to support his son-in-law, but he didn't expect that his son-in-law didn't appreciate it.

Although this matter was discussed with Feng Laiwang very smoothly, Feng Laiwang also decided to change to raise buffalo in the future to supply the Yang family, which still made Yang Zhixun a little uneasy.

"You can't be an errand boy in the Dewang Mansion for a lifetime. I don't expect you to soar, but I can't let Sixteen Niang live a hard life with you. ”

"My father-in-law didn't know that I had been on an errand for two months in front of the prince of Dewang, who was now looking for an oil field in the family territory, and promised that in the future, I would be in charge of liaising with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The son-in-law wants to take this opportunity to familiarize himself with the situation and develop well in this area in the future. ”

Yang Zhixun's heart moved, and he asked, "Oilfield?" Is it reliable? ”

Nowadays, there are more and more tractors and automobiles, and oil has become an important resource demand. No matter where you find an oil field, it is equivalent to a mountain of gold, which is more expensive than raising and grazing. ”

"What does my father-in-law know is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has now discovered several oil fields, and the ranches in Texas are no longer allowed to be traded privately. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has sealed the ownership of unclaimed land with the Royal Palace, and at most only leases are allowed. ”

Yang Zhixun asked: "Then you can only contact one or two at most, but you can't participate." ”

Feng Dabao said arrogantly: "The son-in-law is still young, he has worked in the Dewang Mansion for a few years, and he is familiar with the door of oil exploitation, so he will know how to participate in it in the future." Oil will become an important resource in the future, and it is already a great opportunity for my son-in-law to have the opportunity to get started at this time. ”

Yang Zhixun is no better than Feng Dabao, now he only sees personal opportunities, he is more concerned about the fact that Texas can really discover oil, and the impact on the local area after Texas has oil.

Feng Dabao is now a personal guard of the Dewang Mansion, and he can have the opportunity to participate in this matter. He didn't expect that his wife and daughter would choose a son-in-law at random, originally thought that his daughter would marry later, but now he found that this son-in-law has a great future.

After he negotiated with Feng Laiwang about the ranch cooperation, he began to learn more about the oil exploration of the Dewang Mansion and the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Knowing that they had indeed discovered several oil wells in Texas, he couldn't sit still and called Feng Dabao over again.

"Dabao, Texas was able to discover oil wells, and now you, as the guard of the German Prince's Mansion, have the opportunity to participate in the development of oil wells. In the future, if you can bring the Yang family in to get a piece of the pie, the entire Yang family will strongly support you......"