Su Ziheng took advantage of the rare opportunity of the Spring Festival to rest at home for a few days, and he told his sister-in-law Zhang Wanqing the news that he met his eldest brother Su Jian in Dadu.

Zhang Wanqing was very silent about this, she told Su Ziheng that she had forgotten about Su Jian, and the reason why she was still in the Su family was entirely because of Su Ziheng, not Su Jian.

Su Ziheng actually saw Zhang Wanqing's intentions a long time ago, but it turned out that he was holding the eldest brother in the middle, and Zhang Wanqing was his sister-in-law, even if he had any ideas, it was not easy to say it to Zhang Wanqing casually.

But after seeing his eldest brother Su Jian, he knew that his eldest brother and Zhang Wanqing had no relationship in the early morning, and Su Ziheng naturally would not turn a blind eye to Zhang Wanqing. It's just that he hasn't figured out how to arrange her for a while, after all, he hasn't married Zhong Qinghan yet, but now he has brought back a Bo Yalun, and he still buys one and gets one free.

Now in the Su family, Su Can has become everyone's heart, after all, this is Su Ziheng's eldest son. In terms of identity, he is not low, no matter what, his mother is also the princess of the Mengyuan Empire, and this identity is more noble than the identity of all the women around Su Ziheng.

It's just that for Su Ziheng, he doesn't have any concept of identity, as long as he is his own woman, he will treat everyone equally, and there will be no one who is more noble than whom.

But really speaking, there are a lot of women around Su Ziheng now, but there are not many people who live in Sujiazhuang at that time.

First of all, Zhong Qinghan will only go over and stay occasionally at most, and most of the time she will still be in her Donghai County Princess Mansion.

Zhao Wan'er is also about the same, now that the Zhao Mansion has been built, Zhao Chengwen is just this one daughter, and the Zhao Mansion will naturally be inherited by Zhao Wan'er in the future.

Su Ziheng also promised Zhao Wan'er that in the future, the son they gave birth to would choose one with her surname Zhao and inherit the incense of the Zhao family.

As long as the child is his own, he doesn't care if he has his own surname or his mother's surname, Su Ziheng doesn't care at all.

The rest are Bo Yalun and Zhang Wanqing, although both of them will live in Sujiazhuang, but Su Ziheng estimates that he wants Zhang Wanqing to marry him, which is quite difficult.

But he doesn't care about these for the time being, who makes him young, he has a lot of time, maybe when Zhang Wanqing figures it out, they will naturally be together.

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After the Lantern Festival, Donghai Mansion entered the vigorous construction again.

At present, several major functional areas of Donghai Province have been fully planned, and the infrastructure construction has also been carried out impressively, among which the main road sections have all been built into cement roads. All means of transport can be walked unimpeded, especially horse-drawn carriages and steam railcars.

Among them, the steam rail car is the main four main routes of east, west, north and south, and to the north is the mine and quarry leading to the Donghai Mountains, which is convenient for the transportation of various construction materials.

To the east is the Donghai Wharf, to the south is to the Dajiang Wharf, and to the west is to the Jiangning Pass.

In this way, no matter where you lead, you can quickly reach it within half an hour from the station in Tokaifu Castle.

The steam engine rail transit train departs once an hour, and the routes traveled throughout the main locations of Donghai Province, and the carriages on the steam engine train do not carry many passengers, most of them are still transporting goods.

Whether it is a variety of raw materials that are transported from all over the outside or a variety of goods that have been processed and shipped out of Tokai Prefecture, they can be quickly transported to their respective terminals.

If it weren't for Su Ziheng's discovery of a coal mine on Zhenbao Island, even if he took out a steam train, he might not be able to use it.

After more than half a year of research, although the craftsmen in the workshop have not yet figured out the principle of these steam engines, there is still no problem in imitating ordinary steam engines.

It is precisely because of their continuous imitation of the steam engine that many handicraft workshops in the industrial area have begun to use this machine operation method on a large scale, and the output has increased dozens of times.

With the widespread use of these steam engines, the number of workers in the workshop was not reduced, but the number of workers was increased.

One of the main reasons for this is that as the production of the major workshops increases, the owners in charge make a lot of profits, and they continue to invest in the expansion of the scale, and the number of workers to be recruited naturally increases.

Under the auspices of Zhao Wan'er and Zhong Qinghan, Donghai Province launched a series of measures to stimulate commercial and industrial development, the most important of which was to speed up the circulation of money in Donghai Province and withdraw many measures to stimulate consumption.

Because Su Ziheng told them that if the coins are minted and not circulated, they will have no value at all.

If the money-making businessmen hide all the money they earn and don't go out, it will be difficult for the economy in the market to improve, and the common people will only get poorer and poorer.

Only when people are willing to spend their earned money will the goods produced will not be hoarded. Only when goods are sold quickly can those merchants make money, can they pay wages to workers, and only when workers have money are willing to buy things. It's a virtuous circle thing.

At present, Tokai Province mainly relies on commercial taxes and renting out land and houses to make money, and anyone who can make money in Tokai Province has to pay taxes. But in order to stimulate business development, the government stipulates that tax deductions can be used, that is, how much money you spend can be used to deduct taxes.

At the same time, in order to encourage merchants to set up more workshops, the banks in Tokai Province have lowered the interest rate on loans to make it easier for merchants to borrow.

At present, various types of technical lectures are held in Tokai Prefecture from time to time, and the government will teach some of the techniques developed by the workshop to merchants for free, so that they can better solve the problems encountered in the production of the workshop.

Some goods are not easy to sell when they are produced, and the government will also take the initiative to help find a way to sell them, in short, the status of merchants in Tokai Province is not as low as outsiders think.

Artisans and workers are also not considered lowly, as the area of land available for cultivation in Tohae Province is very small, and most of it is still in the hands of the government to be used as tuntian. That is to say, among the four layers of agriculture and industry, there is no peasant class, and the status of the scholars is not as high as imagined.

The main reason for this is that Donghai Mansion is Zhong Qinghan's private fiefdom, and almost everything in the fief is Zhong Qinghan's final say, and now the so-called officials are all promoted by Zhong Qinghan, as long as Zhong Qinghan treats people from all walks of life in Donghai Mansion equally, there will be no too serious class division.

After the workers and merchants were valued by Zhong Qinghan, in order to ensure their current quality of life, they naturally defended Zhong Qinghan's orders and devoted themselves to the development of commerce and industry.