Under the hazy sky, thick clouds rolled like waves, moving slowly towards the east.

Grey clouds open and close in the sky overhead, low enough for you to reach.

The pine trees on the ridge stick out of the clouds and let the drizzle wash away the dust for it. The rain is very light, and it can dance freely in the mountains and forests with the mountain wind, and it is not easy to throw itself into the arms of Mother Earth.

It's late autumn, and the northern prairie is already full of snowflakes, and the earth is covered in white; In the north, the leaves of the trees are withered and withered, and they are bleak; But at the foot of the mountain in front of me, there is still a patch of green.

Tonglu is really a good place, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, located in the middle reaches of the Qiantang River, and the Fuchun River runs through the county. The geographical location is very good, east of Zhuji, south of Pujiang, Jiande, west of Chun'an, northeast of Fuyang, northwest of Lin'an.

In later generations, Tonglu was the strongest county in western Zhejiang. But in today's era, this is just one of the many wealthy cities and villages in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the land of fish and rice.

It's just that there is a bit of a commotion in Tonglu today, because the Li Group is going to hold a conference in Tonglu, and the heads of its subordinate branches, large and medium-sized companies, and groups are all gathered here.

In front of the private manor at the foot of Daqing Mountain, hundreds of well-dressed security guards and high-level corporate figures are waiting in front of the manor, and the gongs and drums in the distance are all dressed in red and hung, waiting all the time.

The high-level cadres who stood at the front were all looking forward to it.

With the arrival of the eldest prince in the Americas, the Li Group has not only not been quiet in the past two years, but has become more powerful in its external performance.

It's not that Li Kun is dizzy, it's that he's opening his eyes for his nephew.

Chen Ding left the mainland, whether there was a change in his title or not, he left.

Chen Ding who left and Chen Ding who is here are two concepts, many things that could not be done before, and now Chen Yu and others can do it.

The same thing that Chen Ding did when he was in Nanjing, it was a formal war, and it was tearing his face; But Chen Ding is gone, so it belongs to the competition for the tacit approval of the rules.

As an elderly prince, Chen Ding's little brothers under him entered the society before they reached adulthood. A few years of leading the way has really created a lot of favorable conditions for him, and now is the time for Chen Yu and them to regain these conveniences.

After the initial shock, after the shock of the title, more and more people in the Chen Han government and opposition politics began to regard Chen Ming's assignment of Chen Ding to the Americas as a strategy to 'balance his son'.

You Chen Ding has time to lead, so let's go and 'waste' two years, and then talk about it, the younger sons at the bottom lack time, alas, now Dad will give you this opportunity to catch up.

As for changing the two-character title to a one-word king, it is just a compensation, and going to the Americas for two years can indeed train people.

In this case, Li Kun must support the posture of the eldest prince for the nephew who left.

It was like a watchdog whose owner had left, wary of anyone who came close, baring its teeth and barking loudly, intimidating and intimidating everyone and being faithful to their duty.

Now that Chen Ding is about to return to the mainland, Li Kun summoned all the leaders of the current 'Li Group', that is, to wave the flag and cheer for His Royal Highness King Yu, who is about to return.

The Li Group is also an important force in the Great Prince's lineage, more precisely, the money bag of the Great Prince's line. Even if you don't win over the army, don't corrupt officials, and run a faction, you will inevitably be inseparable from wealth.

A very simple example, how do officials go up?

It depends on whether there is political performance, and how can you do it if you want to make political achievements without money?

Officials with money bags are much easier to walk than officials without money bags.

After the former arrives, he can immediately perform the 'Great Summoning Technique', and then invest in the areas under his jurisdiction one by one, such as water and land transportation, such as local native product processing, such as the construction of labor-intensive industries such as textile mills, spinning mills and food processing factories, which can greatly boost the local economic development.

In addition, there are a series of charitable funds, such as student funds, such as medical funds, and donations to raise orphans and the elderly......

As long as they are willing to invest money, the local government will soon be able to make corresponding political achievements.

Therefore, the support of this wealth, no matter what era it is, has a huge effect.

What's more, Li Kun is still the uncle of the eldest prince, and in the two years that Chen Ding was absent, he was the representative of the eldest prince's lineage.

Now Chen Ding's two-year 'exile' career has finally come to an end.

But his opponents were also stronger. Li Kun had two contacts with Chen Ding, and then the meeting was held. Chen Ding, who has been away from Chen Han's political core for two years, needs a huge 'shock' to show his return.

Li Kun arrived in Hangzhou yesterday and traveled by boat, and was able to arrive here at noon today. But time is running out right now.

"Mr. Fan, how much time does the head of the meeting have to come over? Doesn't that mean it's only three hours to travel? Why hasn't it arrived yet? Deheng Dang, the shopkeeper of a chain pawnshop, quietly took out his pocket watch, looked at the time and asked. He came from Ningbo after a day's journey yesterday, and just arrived in Tonglu early this morning, he followed Fan Zhen and others to the private villa outside the city to greet Li Kun's arrival, and he didn't sleep all night and stood down for a few hours, the big shopkeeper felt back pain, his limbs were numb, and he was a little unstable on his feet.

"Wait a little longer, it should be there soon. Or do you go down and take a break first? Fan Zhen also said a little tiredly.

He's been a little busy these days. As the big steward of the Li Group, Fan Zhen eats the affairs of the monarch and the loyal monarch, on the one hand, he is making preparations in advance for the king of Yu, preparing everything for the convening of this meeting, and on the other hand, he has to record the events, actions and personnel changes in the entire interest group.

The eldest prince is coming back, and the 'loyal ministers' whose interests have been damaged in the past two years in a system need condolences, and the officials and businessmen who have recently planned to defect need to be 'received', plus the quarrels between various small hills within them for their own interests, which makes Fan Zhen and Li Kun have a headache. And so many things were pressed on Fan Xin's shoulders before they were pressed into Li Kun's hands, so that he now didn't even have time to sleep for five hours a day, and he could only sneak up and close his eyes and take a nap during the day.

But Fan Zhen will not be lazy and slack.

He is a former Qing Jinshi - Qianlong 36 years Xin Mao Enke, or a first-class third place - Tanhua, if it weren't for Li Kun pulling him, the family is still worried about their livelihood.

Therefore, his loyalty to Li Kun is extremely high.

Even Chen Ding, the big boss of the Li family, is not his first allegiance.

Although Fan Zhen had only been away from Li Kun's side for only five days, he came to Tonglu first, that is, to take care of the manor here first, and prepare everything for reception. Now he's going to have to deal with his boss!

Fan Zhen, who was forced to endure sleepiness, reluctantly opened his bloodshot eyes and looked at the north, and habitually touched his pocket, only to find that the pocket was empty. Seeing that the shopkeeper of Deheng was also standing beside him with a sleepy face, Fan Zhen asked in a low voice: "Shopkeeper Wang, do you have any cigarettes on you?" Give me one. ”

Fan Zhen is an old smoker, and he likes to smoke dry cigarettes, but his identity is different now, except for holding a cigarette bag and pot in his own house, all other places are cigarettes, and they are high-end cigarettes with filters.

The latter is a new technology that has just been promoted by the China Tobacco Bureau, with cotton as the main race, although it needs to be manually manipulated and the production efficiency is low, but this is also just the application of the rare and expensive.

The main reason was that the emperor first began to smoke filter cigarettes, and then this invention spread throughout the country in an instant. In the past few years, the Tobacco Bureau has made a lot of money just by granting patents, and it has opened more than bread.

The shopkeeper carried cigarettes with him, and they were also filters, the latter of which had become a status symbol in China, and the 'Panda brand' cigarettes for the royal family were not available to the elite and the high-level.

"Alas, Mr. Fan, I think you should go down and rest and rest, how can you just smoke and refresh yourself? It's better to smoke less cigarettes, the emperor has said that smoking too much of this thing hurts the body! ”

Chen Ming gave Chinese society a good start, although he didn't smoke at first, but when there was trouble in the war, he inevitably had to put one in his mouth. Many mid-level officers who don't often see him will think that their leader is a big smoker who smokes all day long. This also caused smoking to become common in the Wehrmacht, and then this phenomenon was passed on to the government. In today's Chinese society, everyone with a bit of status has a cigarette in their mouth. As for whether Chen Ming, the initiator, is really a big smoker who keeps his eyes on his mouth every day, it is not so important.

Many Europeans who are active in China can't stand this 'custom', and the feeling of the miasma is really bad. Fan Zhen is quite restrained, there are so many people in the group behind him that they can smoke two or three packs a day, and they really can't wait to get into the cigarettes and not get out.

"It's okay, it's just that I smoked two more cigarettes, what's the big deal."

Although Chen Ming's prestige in China is high, few people believe him when he says that smoking is harmful to health. At least Fan Zhen is one of them.

"By the way, shopkeeper Wang, you just came from Ningbo, what is the evaluation of our rubber plantation in Ningbo business district? Is anyone willing to shell out to buy stocks? ”

After one or two decades of development, the cultivation of rubber in Nanyang has achieved preliminary results.

The raincoat is a very practical product, and the future of rubber is full of brightness.

Although Chen Ming provided 'vulcanization', the key to open the door to the treasure of natural rubber, Chen Han's efforts over the years have only peeled off the first veil on the surface of natural rubber.

The raincoat was available, but the rubber shoes and rubber soles never succeeded, not to mention the self-made inner tube and take-out he wanted to go to. This also shows that there is still a long way to go before natural rubber is truly put into practice.

However, with the invention of the raincoat, natural rubber is not worried.

"There are a few people who are optimistic about the prospects of this rubber plantation...... "The shopkeeper Wang opened the conversation.