A good sea breeze was blowing, and at the Thanh Hoa Fu wharf, Zheng Sen greeted the Northern Zheng delegation returning from Nanjing with a smile.

Since losing half of the rivers and mountains, Zheng Sen's good days have finally come. Northern Zheng He seized the remnants of the Qing army in Hanoi and negotiated peace, and both sides knew that their mortal enemies were not each other, but the behemoth further north.

Therefore, Zheng Sen, who heard the news of defeat again and again, finally got out of the sea of suffering.

Although half of the territory in his hand is missing, Zheng Sen hates it every time he thinks about it. The one in Nanjing City doesn't know how many times he has been secretly cursed in his heart, but the situation is stronger than people. If you are under the eaves, you will bow your head, and if you are not convinced, you can only die a worse death.

After experiencing the nightmare period of Zheng Jun's successive defeats, such a stable life has made Zheng Sen satisfied and reluctant to destroy.

Therefore, he can happily come to greet the Beizheng delegation who have returned from Nanjing, and he is even more anxious that the emperor can give him some good things.

Beizheng's new deal has been going on for half a year. The new deal is expensive, even if Beizheng's new deal only moves its own army now. Renbei Zheng is martial first and then political. Zheng Sen's food and clothing have been reduced again and again, and his life is very hard.

Of course, the Beizheng Mission's second trip to Nanjing also undertook other tasks, and Nanjing's Guozijian University will open next year, and Zheng Sen hopes to send his eldest son, Zheng Brown, to Nanjing to study.

This move can contain Zheng Sen's thoughts, and wrap him with a piece of hard work.

Zheng Sen doesn't like his son, that is, his eldest son Zheng Brown. He prefers his second son, Zheng Wei.

The second generation of the Northern Zheng royal family is not prosperous, Zheng Sen actually only has two sons, one is the eldest son Zheng Brown of the concubine, and the other is the second son of the concubine Zheng Wei. Zheng Brown likes martial arts and is not good at writing, not Xiao Father, Zheng Sen hates him very much, and Zheng Sen in history abolished Zheng Palm's position as the son of the family this year and renamed Zheng Wei as the son. Concubine Ruan persuaded Zheng Sen to wait until Zheng Brown became an adult to see his performance in abolishing the establishment, but Zheng Sen did not listen, claiming that he would rather pass on the Zheng family's foundation to his nephew Zheng Yan and return the country to the descendants of his uncle Zheng Gang, rather than establish a "bad son" like Zheng Palm.

In this era, the situation is changing, and in order to stabilize the dynasty, Zheng Sen cannot easily abolish the prince. But once this person is eccentric, it will often be biased.

Zheng Sen is trapped in the current situation of Beizheng, and he can't abolish the position of Zheng Palm, the son of the unscrupulous son, and he is even more desperate and aggrieved in his heart.

So he came up with a wonderful method, he sent Zheng Brown out, whether it was Guozijian University or the Central Military Academy, that would be fine, as long as Zheng Brown was sent out, he could push Zheng Yan to the position of the son of the world. Although these things need to be done step by step.

Zheng Brown is good at martial arts, and his impression in the minds of General Zheng Yigan in the North is quite good. Moreover, North Zheng learned from China, and also made a boy scout, and the royal family came forward to collect orphans whose parents died or were separated in the war, forming a scout, Zheng Brown went inside from time to time, and had a high prestige in the eyes of a scout soldier.

These are all things that Zheng Sen is unwilling to watch continue to develop. Otherwise, wait for the next two or three years, Zheng Brown will continue to develop like this, and at that time, Zheng Sen will not be able to do it if he wants to abolish the world.

Zheng Sen in this life is not the king who destroyed the country to destroy Nanruan, but an incompetent person who was beaten and lost his land, and his dominance over the Northern Zheng Dynasty is definitely not comparable to his own in the same period in the previous plane of time and space. Therefore, he must send his son to Nanjing.

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Unlike the boy boy camp in China, the boy camp in Beizheng is entirely boys.

There are not only boys but also girls in China's child camps. The girls are educated in the camps and grow up to work in a variety of professions. Now they have appeared in some positions in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Logistics Department.

There is also the military doctor. Female doctors and nurses are not only limited to the military, but also more and more female doctors and nurses in civilian public hospitals. Of course, they can also be teachers.

In short, in the area of girls, China's boy boy camp is also very popular.

This is not the case with the North Zhengs, whose Boy Scouts only take in boys and have a single-minded purpose, which is to raise an army that is absolutely loyal to the royal family.

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One by one, the large boxes were carried to the dock, and Zheng Sen was already smiling at the moment and took over the books, which were all the things that the emperor had given to Bei Zheng. He has already gotten what he wants, and Zheng Brown can go to Nanjing to attend preparatory classes after the New Year.

Open the book, silk and satin, treasure toys are listed one by one, these will not be said. Beizheng belonged to China's vassal state, and the important clothes and crowns of the royal family were given by China. Now these missions have all been brought back to Zheng Sen:

A pair of crown clothes for nine chapters:

Nine soap wrinkles yarn flat crown one (jade heng, 旒bead, gold event full)

A set of nine chapters of silk ground gauze (seven pieces, strips, and pairs):

A deep makeup flower gown

A single piece of leukin

A piece of makeup before and after

A piece of colored makeup to cover the knees (jade hook whole)

A brocade ribbon with colored makeup

Wear a pair of colored makeup flowers (gold hook, jade Ding Xuanquan)

A large red and white pigment band

Yugui Ichizhi (帒全)

A pair of red silk silk (socks)

Big red flat Luo pin Jin Yun Dragon clip three baggage

A vermilion lacquer dress box (full of protective boxes and other pieces)

A horse of red flowers of silk alum is a horse of green flowers, a horse of black and green flowers, a horse of indigo flowers, a horse of Russell peach, a horse of cypress branch green, a horse of plain black and green, and a horse of plain indigo

Ten pieces of white muslin.

For the Princess:

Zhucui Seven Zhai crown (golden hairpin, Jin Zhai, Baodian flower knot, etc.)

A gold pendant

One pair of clothes (two sets in total, seven pieces in total)

One set (four pieces, sub-branches):

A red silk jacket

A silk embroidery circle of Jin Zhai chicken clip skirt

A pair of thread Luo color embroidery circle Jin Zhai chicken xia veil

A sprig of ivory women's wat

One red flower, one green flower, one black and green flower, one squirt flower, one Russell peach, one cypress green, one black and green, and one squire

Ten pieces of white muslin

In addition, there are hundreds of various kinds of silk and satin.

Don't think that the investment is big, as long as Beizheng can't hold on, take the initiative to surrender, this investment and income ratio is drizzle.

And in addition to these unimportant things, there are also a group of really good guys in the rewards that Chen Ming gave to Beizheng.

1,000 flintlock guns, 10 2-pound cannons, 5 3-pound cannons, and 5 5-catty cannons.

Zheng Sen can use it to arm two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion.

These are the real reliance on Zheng Sen's status. Zheng Sen, who got these treasures for nothing, didn't care whether these things were replaced by the Chinese National Defense Force, and happily returned to the simple palace in Thanh Hoa Mansion Zheng Sen calculated which one he should give one or two points to strengthen.

Thanh Hoa Province is located on the southern edge of the Red River Delta, more than 200 miles from Hanoi, and has many mountains and rivers.

This is the hometown of Li Li, the founder of the Li Dynasty, and it is also one of the few large cities in Beizheng after the founding capital. Zheng Sen, who was expelled from Hanoi, chose Thanh Hoa as the capital, but in a short time, Thanh Hoa, an already prosperous city, became even more prosperous.

The Beizheng New Deal has been reformed for more than half a year, and the biggest change in the whole country is not the government, the immortal army, or the economy. But what? Dock.

In addition to the changes in the army, the biggest and most significant change in the new policy of Bei Zheng is that the Thanh Hoa Wharf has been qualitatively improved in the past six months, from berths to supporting warehouses and transportation, which are all striding forward. This is China's 'aid construction'!

This has also stimulated the development of the local economy.

No, to be precise, the arrival of the entire Beizheng court and the army that followed it greatly stimulated the development of the local economy. Thanh Hoa is now a deformed and distorted prosperity. Just like Chongqing and Shanghai during the Anti-Japanese War.

This kind of prosperity consumes Beizheng's vitality, and it is completely sad for Beizheng.

It's just that few people in the entire Beizheng have realized this.

Vietnam's water and sea transportation are quite developed, and this era has received the influence of Chen Han over the years, and the sea transportation in the whole of East Asia has increased by two points. Gathering the strength of the whole country to support one place, it is talking about Thanh Hoa House.

Can this not be prosperous?

But compared with the remnants of the Qing army in the north, or the Nanruan who also stabilized the front, Beizheng was the one who made the smallest move in the past six months.

The remnants of the Qing army were about to complete the nationalization of the entire territory under their control, and Nam Nguyen also carried out a comprehensive reform of the army with great fanfare, and at the same time built a new type of military factory, and at the same time played the cabinet system in the center of the government. Only Bei Zheng has the smallest movements.

But Bei Zheng played with paper money.

Perhaps, in Zheng Sen's eyes, this method of issuing banknotes is the most powerful way to expand one's own strength in the short term, right? Beizheng established a central bank and a foreign trade bank, but the leadership of the two banks has not yet been formally established, and the banknotes have not been officially issued, but a general expectation is that it will be in March next year.

But in any case, the current Thanh Hoa province is stable and peaceful. Zheng Sen's peaceful life was comfortable.

And Chen Ming, who also finished the Empress Dowager's happy birthday, was also very happy because of his flat grip during the whole festival.

What makes him happiest is that this year has entered winter, and there has been no drought and flood, and the same northern Xinjiang has also reported, and the temperature is as usual. This world is peaceful, it can be said that the wind and rain are smooth, and that is the best news for the emperor.

Of course, what made Chen Ming happiest the most was the eruption of the Sakurajima volcano in Japan. According to his memory, Sakurajima, located on the edge of Kagoshima, the base camp of the Satsuma Domain, should have erupted last year.

When he was looking for information about the Satsuma Domain, he stumbled upon the information about the Sakurajima volcano. Standing tall above the sea and just a stone's throw from Kagoshima City, this beautiful mountain is a very active volcano. Small eruptions occur almost every day!

But what made Chen Ming very strange was that the Sakurajima volcano did not erupt last year. Chen Ming didn't think that beating the Satsuma Domain could affect the eruption of an active volcano. But that's just the way it is.

Then not long ago, Chen Ming got the news that the Sakurajima volcano had finally erupted. It is reported that a large amount of volcanic ash has fallen in Edo, thousands of miles away from Kagoshima, and a large amount of volcanic magma has been flowing out one after another, spreading into the sea, and when it cools, it is connected to the Osumi Peninsula on the Kyushu mainland.

The Satsuma Domain, which was originally a poor rural area in Japan, has now lost the Ryukyus, and has been heavily devastated by Chen Han, and the situation has been more peaceful in the past two years, and it has just improved a little, and then it has suffered a volcanic eruption. The lava devoured more than 200 Japanese farmers who had not escaped in time, as well as a large number of fertile fields carved out on Sakurajima. In fact, the impact on the Satsuma clan was not great, but it was a major destruction of the confidence of the Satsuma people.

When Chen Ming heard the news of the eruption of the Sakurajima volcano, he had an idea in his mind, if a super disaster like the Great Kanto Earthquake occurred on the territory of the little devil at this time, Chen Ming felt that the little devil might vomit even the last bit of unconvincing, and obediently kowtow to China and shout Dad.

Little devil, this is not at the end of the road.

The rest of the six years of Chengtian passed little by little, the price of cloth no longer fell, and the price of domestic grain continued to decrease, whether it was fine grain and coarse grain, whether it was rice flour or sweet potatoes.

More than one newspaper is already shouting that the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants.

In terms of agricultural statistics, in the case of Central Plains Province, for example, the amount of land planted with soybeans, peanuts and cotton is increasing rapidly.

As a traditional agricultural province, the output of summer and autumn grains in Central Plains Province is of great significance to the entire north, but no one can recover the momentum of continuous reduction in the planting area of grain crops.

Even if Chen Ming set a minimum price for grain, the price of grain in many areas of the market is infinitely close to the minimum protective price.

This is a very typical technical term in classical Chinese economy. Chen Ming is very troubled now, do you care about it or not?

The opinion of the Cabinet is, of course, to manage.

Food is the most basic means of subsistence, and China has always attached great importance to its own food production, and the harm caused by famine is familiar to every Chinese minister.

In Chen Ming's last life, some countries adopted various policies to support agriculture by intervening in the grain market in order to ensure food security and protect the interests of peasants.

But overall, the results are not ideal. First, the cost is very high, and in order to maintain grain prices, the government has to purchase grain that cannot be sold in the market at a protective price, and for this reason taxpayers have to pay a considerable amount of grain inventory costs. Second, because subsidies to peasants are based on output, large farmers receive the most subsidies, but they are not poor in the countryside, while small farmers who really need subsidies receive less subsidies because of their low yields. The most serious thing is that it has slowed down the adjustment of agricultural production, which has had an effect on the market economy and interfered with the self-adjustment of the market economy, so that the labor force and other factors of production invested in agriculture have not been transferred to other industries in a timely manner according to the price signal.

This is the reason why Chen Ming only made a minimum protective price for grain, but did not sweep the grain market or engage in any agricultural subsidies in a big way.

And Chen Han's important ministers of the court did not have such advanced ideas, who planted wheat and rice, and the state also subsidized the landlords, they couldn't even think of this. Now these people are instigating the cabinet to put forward a proposal to impose taxes.

Levy a tax on those foreign grains.

In China's customs import and export trade in the past, grain was not subject to customs duties.