Chen Ming lost a lot of weight. The flesh on his cheeks has been thinned.

First rushed to the northwest of China, stayed in Ili for so long, and then finally rushed to Guannei, and because of the old lady's business, I had to rush to Nanjing in the winter, but I ran all the way for thousands of miles.

Then there was the period of filial piety, which was his 'in-law' grandmother, and this time, the traditional funeral ceremony in ancient China and a large number of subsequent rules came crackling.

Drinking, meat, singing and dancing entertainment are all stopped, and even clothes cannot be worn in bright colors.

The meat on Chen Ming's body was not raised.

And this has just taken off the heat and filial piety, but it is not good to greet the big fish and meat immediately, and the weather is also hot, and Chen Ming can't eat too much meat.

What he was holding in his hand now was the 'construction plan' handed over by his little brothers, along with a list of ministers and resumes. The latter has already been acquiesced by Chen Ming, and the problem lies in the former.

Chen Ming told them in Xi'an last year that he wanted them to draw it up first and show it to Chen Ming. It's spring!

As a result, the old lady died of illness.

This made Chen Ming's little brothers delay a lot of time.

But in February, they still presented the fold. For the list of ministers and the resumes of these people, Chen Ming only needs to make a general understanding and establish a file.

In other words, from this, Chen Ming can also see some of the mountains and political tendencies of these little brothers.

Chen Ming mainly audited their construction plans, and these things had to be communicated with the Ministry of Finance, because the power to allocate funds for the construction of the vassal state belonged to the Ministry of Finance, and the share was limited.

China's fiscal revenue is now increasing, but China's spending stall is getting bigger and bigger, and the support for the vassal states can only take a small share of the finance.

If the construction plan of these guys is finalized, Chen Ming will of course go to the cabinet and talk to the Ministry of Finance.

Do you want to get the most appropriate distribution plan and construction plan?

February was the first time, and all these 'plans' were beaten back by Chen Ming.

March was the second time, and only the excerpt of Juwang Chen was recognized by Chen Ming. It is reported that Yoshiji Tanuma from Shimono, Japan, is now in the curtain of Chen condolences.

Tanuma Yoshiji had already passed on his position as lord of the Sagara domain to his eldest son, Tanuma Yoshimitsu.

Although Tanuma Yoshiji cannot be regarded as Chen Wei's subordinate, there is no name of Tanuma Yoshiji in the list of ministers on his table. The latter was the equivalent of a pure staff member to him.

Yoshiji Tanuma, who has been in power in Japan for more than a decade, is undoubtedly a political creature, but there is no place for him in Japan.

Then, Tanuma Yiji, who was not yet seventy years old, was unwilling to sit at home and wait for death, so after being ruled by the Tokugawa family, he came to the palace of King Ju in Nanjing. Chen Wei is Tokugawa Ieji's official son-in-law, and he is also Tokugawa Ieji's biggest Austrian aid in China.

He also hoped that his son-in-law's Ju country would grow stronger and stronger, and then stand by Japan across the Pacific Ocean.

And what is the political level of Tanuma Yoshiji, who has been in charge of Japan for more than ten years, and has been in politics for 30 years before, he started from being a small surname, and has been rolling in Japanese officialdom for more than 50 years, and he thinks about it quite well. The mercantilism he advocated was also quite appetizing to Chen Ming.

In the decade leading up to the catastrophe, Japan's development was not bad. Although Tanuma Yoshiji and his political ideas had shortcomings in one way or another, such as corruption, and stubborn personalities, even stubbornness, and inflexibility, they did promote the development of Japan.

It's just that little Japan's birth defects and unlucky encounters a disaster-prone period, which makes his proposition finally bankrupt.

But such a character is still very helpful to Chen Wei.

Chen Wei's 'assessment' passed, but the 'assessment' of others continued. Now it's the third time they've handed it in.

"Encourage agriculture, commerce and industry, attach importance to education, strictly manage household registration, and open up the way to ......"

In addition to the different footholds in their respective economic fields, the 'thousand words' on these excerpts are much the same.

In contrast, the performance of Chen Condolence, in which Yoshiji Aridanuma participated, really had more appetite for him.

Chen Wei didn't dare to let go of his steps and move forward, but at least he put forward a concept of 'chamber of commerce' in the business field.

-- It is not a regional chamber of commerce initiated by private wealthy businessmen, as it is now, but a chamber of commerce with the active participation of the public. This is a modified version of the 'specialty firm' that Tanuma Yoshiji played in Japan.

Tanuma Yoshiji ruled Japan for more than 10 years, and successively established a monopoly business association for iron, copper, lime, sulfur, ginseng and other goods. After Tanuma Yoshiji stepped down, these chambers of commerce were abolished.

But here in Chen Mei, he found a new breakthrough.

The Raw Silk Chamber of Commerce, the Cotton Chamber of Commerce, the Raw Rubber Chamber of Commerce, the Timber Chamber of Commerce, the Fur Chamber of Commerce, and the American Ginseng Chamber of Commerce not only control exports, but are also responsible for promoting the development of these industries. The focus is on raw silk, cotton, fur and wood.

Because raw silk, cotton, fur and timber are the necessities of the life of immigrants, and they are also good raw materials, which are urgently needed by the mainland.

There are millions of bison in the Americas, and the land and climate are suitable for the growth of cotton. Silkworm seeds, on the other hand, are not tea seeds, and can be experimentally cultivated in the Americas, and if they can be successful, they must be a big gold mine. There is also a large amount of oak here, and after the oak resources in Europe were cut down, the wild oak of the Americas was the main source of oak wood for the British and French naval fleets.

The main way to promote the development of these four industries is to establish relevant joint farms/farms.

In the early days of the feudal state, in order to better develop the agricultural economy, it was necessary to organically integrate the immigrants. All agricultural development must be carried out under the unified guidance of the government. At the same time, it is necessary to guide traders engaged in the export of commodities to allocate part of the private funds flowing by the latter to industrial development. Industries that are necessary and advanced should be protected and rewarded, such as reducing taxes and ensuring that they are well funded—that is, that they can all survive.

The words that expound these ideas are much more than empty truths and Chen Ming's appetite.

Chen Wei and Chen Zhe, the two youngest brothers of the current emperor, got into a carriage at the gate of the palace and went home. The palace of the two is separated by an alley, not only are they brothers who are close to each other in rank, but their residences are also close neighbors.

It's just that in the fiefdom of the feudal state, the two of them can no longer be neighbors. Chen Wei's feudal kingdom was in Yatu, that is, Seattle in later generations. Chen Zhe's fiefdom is in the Gulf of Mexico, that is, in New Orleans.

Seattle is located in the middle of the North American coastline, on the Pacific coast, between Puget Sound and Lake Washington in the future lighthouse country, with the Olympic Mountains to the west and Lake Washington to the east. It is suitable for the growth of crops, but also for the development of animal husbandry, and because of the tides, the fishery is also extremely developed.

It can be said that the development potential of this site is much greater than that of the Jiazhou Peninsula in Xiaxia.

New Orleans is also a treasure trove, the only highland in the Mississippi estuary, with a humid subtropical climate rich in sulfur, salt mines, timber and cotton, sugar cane and rice.

One of these two locations is in the northwest corner of the Lighthouse Country, and the other is due south of the Lighthouse Country.

Between Yatu and Hanjin, between Hanjin and Tokyo, Chen Ming can still stuff at least two sons. Therefore, in the future, Chen Wei and Chen Zhe's territory will really not match.

But this does not prevent the two from becoming friends.

This time when they entered the palace, in addition to walking in front of the emperor once, the two of them soaked in the Yanshou Palace. When he left the palace, the emperor's reward arrived. Things are not valuable, but at this time they are still relatively rare, lychees.

The early-maturing high-quality lychees in Lingnan were picked off by the Ministry of Internal Affairs with flying clippers to Nanjing, and the wind blew up in the summer, which was faster than the fast horse that brought lychees to Yang Guifei.

Along the way, ice cubes were used, and when I entered the palace, the leaves were still green and shining with water droplets.

Chen Wei likes to eat lychees, and his genuine wife Tokugawa also likes to eat them, but Chen Wei still said to Chen Zhe very generously: "Two baskets for a family, just divided." ”

Chen Zhe subconsciously excused himself and said, "No, sixth brother, this is what the imperial brother rewarded you." ”

"How much appetite do you have when your sixth brother? Can you eat such four baskets of lychees? Besides, it's not a rare thing in the sky that isn't on earth. Let's take a 'first bite' now. "Wait for half a month, when the good and medium-ripe lychees are ripe, this thing will be rotten in Nanjing.

Now it is only for the palace to eat, not because of how good its value is, a flying clipper ship + a belly of ice, what's so rare? What is really lacking is the early-maturing and high-quality lychee products.

The lychee that tastes bad, and it's the first bite of the year, it doesn't mean anything to hand it over and eat, right?

If you want to eat, wait for ten days and a half months, after the medium-ripe varieties of Lingnan are on the market, those with a little energy in Nanjing can eat fresh lychees.

This is going to become synonymous with the luxury of the Chinese elite in Europe, and the actual cost is really not big. In the summer wind, the clipper boat is so fast that it makes people stare away.

Back at the house, Chen asked someone to unload the lychees to check if they were too bad or small. After picking it up again, he asked the eunuchs who served around him when he was a child: "Which families have been rewarded in this Nanjing city?" "As long as fresh things enter the palace, the emperor does not have the habit of eating alone. Even if there is little, it will be given in one bite.

The eunuch had already inquired about this.

There are a few people who have been rewarded in Nanjing, such as the bigwigs of the cabinet, those who have withdrawn from the cabinet, and those who have withdrawn from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the cronies around the emperor, such as Liu Wu, Chen Dawei, Shi Meng and others, have all been rewarded.

But among the next few brothers, he was the only one who got it. The emperor's princesses were not pulled down, but the princes only got a basket of Luoyang.

Hearing this, although Chen Wei knew in his heart that this was not the emperor's method, it was still unusually comfortable. It can be seen that this identity is important.

The royal clan and the clan ministers outside the palace cannot be compared. The emperor sitting in the palace at the moment is very, very interesting to the ministers of the clan, and he is also quite pampered to his daughter, but he is a little harsh on his son and brother.

Of course, no one will say that this is the emperor's mistreatment of his son and brother. will only say that the emperor is 'sharpening' his son and brother.

"Send someone to Yanshou Palace to deliver three copies." The empress, the queen mother, and Chen Wei's mother will all be sent. Even if they have it there, he should be filial to his son.

He kept the rest for himself, and then gave it all to the Tokugawa clan.

No matter how much lychee there is in a basket, it can't stand such a division. But it's a must.