Guangzhou Huangpu Wharf, this is a super large wharf built in the past ten years, with a total cost of 15 million Chinese dollars. Located on the north bank of the Pearl River estuary, it has become the largest coastal and ocean-going transportation hub in the Lingnan region since the day it was completed and put into use.

At this moment, the Whampoa Wharf is full of welcoming teams.

A treasure ship, accompanied by an escort fleet, was slowly docking towards the dock.

This is not Emperor Chen's car, nor is it Emperor Taishang's imperial boat, but Chen Ming's son, Chen Zhan, the ninth son of the King of Jieyang, who has just been named the king of Jieyang, on his way to the United Kingdom, passing by Guangzhou, the first city in the southern sky.

Although he is only a prince, it also inspires the endless enthusiasm of Guangzhou people.

The city of Guangzhou has always occupied an important position on the political map of Chen Han, and the Lingnan garrison was located here before it was abolished, and at that time, it was not only the garrison of the Nanyang Naval Division, but also a large number of army troops stationed all year round.

However, with the passage of the tense era in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially the entire Nanyang was pocketed by Chen Han, the economy of Guangzhou Prefecture became more and more prosperous, and the status of the military and political center was indeed the No.1 of Lingnan, which was one acre and three points of land, but its weight in the national political echelon was constantly declining.

The previous Guangzhou was the second in the world, second only to Nanjing. And now Yanjing has unmistakably surpassed it.

Economically, Yanjing is inferior to Guangzhou, but in terms of political status and military status, Yanjing is the absolute core of the Northland, and it not only involves land routes, but also sea routes.

The Bohai Fleet, which belongs to the Beiyang Naval Division, is a second-class fleet in the Chinese naval division system, and it is of the same level as the North American Fleet, the Singapore Fleet, and the Nanmingzhou Fleet.

Guangzhou was very aggrieved, but it couldn't say anything. The whole of Nanyang is China's inner lake, and it would be nonsense to say how important Guangzhou's strategic location is, isn't it?

Then Singapore's strategic position is what really matters.

Besides, in terms of political status, Yanjing itself is the capital of accompaniment, which is the natural number two.

But now Shanghai is also chasing after the buttocks, and Wuhan is also eyeing the tiger, which makes the people of Guangzhou extremely uncomfortable.

Every spring, the cabinet releases a summary of the economic volume of the country's major cities for the past year, and Guangzhou's leading position in the country is being severely challenged. Moreover, the emperor has never been to Guangzhou on several tours, and Taishang has hardly been to Guangzhou, but more and more big businessmen in Guangzhou have transferred their industries to Nanjing.

Even if it's not all, it can't be all, just a headquarters, and that can also contribute to Nanjing's economic prosperity. At the same time, this is also digging into the corners of Guangzhou Mansion itself.

However, this is something that cannot be stopped.

Guangzhou's local business groups need to go to the whole country and go out. No matter how powerful Guangzhou is, it can't compare with Nanjing's natural advantages.

Therefore, the people of Guangzhou are very welcome and welcome members of the royal family to come here in this situation, although the king of Jieyang has not settled in Guangzhou for a long time, but is just passing by. Chen Zhan's mission is to study in the UK, and at the same time to experience the atmosphere of Europe and the changes in France up close.

Although Chen Zhan himself has no interest in Western philosophy and economics.

Of course, the people of Guangzhou also read Chen Han's good. Although Chen Ming has not been to Guangzhou once, his influence and control over Guangzhou are no less than those of Nanjing and Shanghai, or even better.

Because the city is too dependent on foreign trade.

Guangzhou's own handicraft and manufacturing industries are really much worse than the extremely prosperous trade here. Taking the shipbuilding industry as an example, as soon as the Tiannan Shipyard was put into use, it immediately occupied the first position in local shipbuilding.

Guangzhou's own shipyards, because there is no shortage of business -- Guangdong and Guangxi are foreign trade is in vogue, and there are more and more ocean-going fishing boat gangs, and they have a lot of profits to make, so they lie on the 'merit book' of the past to eat and store grain, and after experiencing the initial period of 'indignation and hard work', they immediately become a little unenterprising.

Chengtian's fifteen-year shipbuilding skills are not much different from Chengtian's five-year shipbuilding skills.

This is also the public disease of shipyards mainly privately-owned, short-sighted, without the spur of the top, it is easy to fall to the point of not wanting to forge ahead.

And although it is no longer the home port of the Nanyang Naval Division, it is also an important military port, the Navy established the Guangzhou Naval Division College here in the seventh year of Chengtian, and the Army has also established the Artillery Academy and the Army Command College, plus the police, taxation and normal, comprehensive universities, Guangzhou can also be said to be an important place of education in the Lingnan region.

The major banks will not forget this treasure land, even if the local banks have been open for many years, it is impossible for the Guangzhou business group to resist the entry of other business groups. The companies and merchant gangs supported by the banks not only brought about the transfer of rolling financial resources, but also the infiltration of the local merchant class in Guangzhou and the firmness of government rule.

At present, the royal consortium controlled by Chen Ming, the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, has firmly controlled many business companies in Guangzhou on a small scale. The education group under the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has set up a private school with high specifications, high standards and high requirements in Guangzhou, and has accepted a large number of children from the upper class of Guangzhou. Today, it's like a web that is slowly weaving and developing.

Chen Mingzheng completely grasped Guangzhou in his hands little by little.

Chen Ming is also paving the way for his children and grandchildren. Of course, he hopes to develop the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce under his command bigger and bigger, and it also occupies an increasingly important position in more and more important cities.

Just like Singapore, more than 70% of the residents directly or indirectly depend on the properties affiliated with the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce. More than 50% of the financial revenue of the Singapore city government is also related to the business operation of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce. Large tracts of land worthy of development have fallen into the hands of a company affiliated with the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce. In the future, after Singapore prosperes and develops, how much benefit can it bring to the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce?

Of course, the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has injected a lot of money, which has also accelerated the development of Singapore's urban economy. For a newly built city, any injection of capital is a shot in the arm, and now the market in Singapore is thriving. Whether it is a port area or an urban area, there are many foreign banks and high-rise buildings, which already has a lot of modern city flavor.

Chen Zhan is the first member of the royal family to come to Guangzhou in recent years, and he is called 'Jieyang', which is a city in Guangdong, which makes Guangzhou people feel more close.

When the treasure ship appeared at the Huangpu Wharf in Guangzhou with colorful flags, the decks of all the warships and civilian ships in the Pearl River estuary were full of cheering sailors and passengers. Foreign merchant ships, including foreign merchants, fired salutes to salute His Royal Highness the Prince of China. So when Chen Zhan and the princess stood side by side on the foredeck, he felt that his adrenal glands were constantly rising. The cheers of the crowd on the pier made people feel it.

On the wharf, there were also many Chinese businessmen who came and went to Guangzhou from all over Nanyang to trade. and overseas Chinese living in Siam, Phnom Penh and other places. There are even quite a few Europeans.

The British, in particular, behaved very enthusiastically. Because His Royal Highness the Prince of China's final destination is Cambridge, the University of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire. It is said that on the question of choosing Cambridge or Oxford, the only British university, His Royal Highness chose Cambridge directly, and disliked the ugly name of Oxford University.

[The decrees of Henry III and his heirs ensured the monopoly of the two universities.] Until the beginning of the 19th century, Oxford and Cambridge were the only universities in Britain for 600 years. Nowhere else in Europe does this have such a monopoly. 】

As Chinese living abroad, they can deeply feel the changes and improvement of their social status more deeply than the people in the interior of Chen Han, and this change and improvement has prompted these overseas Chinese to change their behavior and behavior in those countries.

Although the Chen Han Empire did not show its fangs and claws in front of these 'friends', everyone knew that the Chen Han Empire was an irresistible behemoth.

If there is a conflict between their people and the local Chinese and overseas Chinese, the local government will 100% protect the Chinese, and will not look at who is reasonable and who is not, and the fist is the biggest reason!

For example, in Siam, the Chinese are known as the 'royal family' in the local area. Originally, this title was an allusion to the Chinese blood of Zheng Xin, but now that the Chinese in Bangkok are in Siam, it is really a hot special power class.

It's just that the thousands of years of tradition of the Chinese will not be completely reversed for a while, and the biggest change on the outside is that there are more and more pure Chinese-style buildings. Together, many indigenous buildings have been driven.

Many Europeans who have been to Siam and Phnom Penh are amazed. In their eyes, Siam, Phnom Penh, and Japan in the east, these are the spheres of influence of the Chinese, and may not be said to be colonies, but the Chinese enjoy an absolutely superior status locally.

When Europeans themselves ran their colonies, the difference in identity between European immigrants and local natives was huge and unbridgeable.

But the Chinese are different here.

In some seaport emerging cities, the status and wealth of the Chinese do not need to be mentioned, and they can even occupy seventy or eighty percent of the city's commercial share, which is definitely the leading force in the local commercial prosperity.

However, there is no such resistance or even hostility between the Chinese and the aborigines.

The latter can still be perceived from time to time in the territory left by the Dutch and Spaniards, but in the territory fought by the Chinese themselves, it is difficult to feel the antagonism and sharp contradictions between ethnic groups.

The character of the Chinese means that they will not turn their eyes to the sky as soon as they gain power, and even if they are superficial, they are mostly gentle and polite, at least they will not be as discriminatory as the white race.

The Confucian golden mean, as well as the traditional concept of 'being kind to others and making money in harmony', Chinese people who go out must have a certain degree of consciousness.

In the past, they would lean themselves on the 'outsider' of the indigenous or ruling class, for example by changing their nests to have local characteristics, which is a kind of protection and better integration. Maybe they still have pride in their hearts and look down on the natives from the bottom of their bones, but the Chinese who have traveled thousands of miles to Nanyang are all extremely poor, and poverty has consumed too much of their pride.

Being able to buy a piece of industry and survive is the most important thing for them.

Is it useful to make your own house and nest so Chinese characteristics? That would only remind the natives all the time that you are an outsider. The result is likely to be gradual isolation, apathy, and eventual ......

Under the background of the original era, the power of the Chinese could not change the social situation in Nanyang, so they could only take the initiative to adapt to this social situation. But now it's different.

The influence of Chinese has been transmitted to the hearts of every native, and the power of the Chinese has been able to change the social situation of the entire Nanyang.

As a result, in Siam, Japan, Phnom Penh, and Vientiane, in these countries, those high-level aristocrats are still learning the way of life and style of life of the Chinese, and the fact has become that the local ruling forces have taken the initiative to move closer to the Chinese, and the brains of overseas Chinese have entered the water, and they will change their living habits and traditions again.

In fact,This is also a kind of sinicization.。

Missionaries who returned to Europe, as well as businessmen from various countries, told us that the relationship between the Chinese and the natives was indeed relatively friendly, and the contradictions between them were far less than the eternal sharp antagonism between the natives and the Caucasians in the European colonies. The reason why the Chinese are rich is not because they are the rulers of the regime, but because they are diligent and hardworking. For many ordinary people, the opportunities between the two are almost equal.

Even in Siam and other countries, some nimble indigenous aristocrats and bosses will hire Chinese to 'participate in shares', saying that they are shareholders, but in fact they are white gloves. In turn, they can use their Chinese faces and Chinese diaspora to expand their farms and plantations.

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"Zhu Shihai, I often read your editorials. The point of view is very sharp. ”

Zhu Shihai was a barrister who was hired by SF Express, and was assigned to North Korea as a judicial officer. After the 'service period' passed, Zhu Shihai resigned from public office again and returned to Nanjing.

His lawyer's qualification was cancelled, and if he went to take the lawyer exam again, SF Express would not let him get his wish. Zhu Shihai switched to the newspaper, and his fame still has some weight in China's legal circles. And what happened at the beginning was right and wrong. Zhu Shihai started from "Jinling News", and now he is not only a special reporter of "Law Daily", but also a visiting professor at Law University, and can publish articles in "Zhongyuan Daily" from time to time.

"It seems that you are right not to be an official. If I had given you a royal history, or made you a justice, would you have been able to write so many deafening articles? ”

Chen Ming's summoning of Zhu Shihai was a whim, and an idea suddenly popped into his mind - he wanted to organize a group of scholars to go to Europe for exchange visits.

It does not involve construction machinery, but only education, economics, philosophy, literature, law, music.

Who is the legal expert who impresses Chen Ming the most by Chen Han today? It has to be Zhu Shihai. Because in the draft laws revised by the Supreme Court in recent years, Zhu Shihai is the one who has proposed the largest number of supplementary provisions.

Chen Ming summoned him this time to present him with a medal, which was Emperor Chen's commendation for him.

As for what Chen Ming said before, 'often read his articles', it was just a polite remark.

But the polite words that came out of the mouth of Emperor Lao Tzu were extraordinary.

Just when Zhu Shihai was sighing, Emperor Chen began to speak again, "Zhu Shihai, why don't you go out for a walk with my Nine Emperor Princes." You are studying law, you must broaden your horizons, not only look at China, but also go to Europe to have a look at European laws and regulations. Western civilization has also existed for thousands of years, and the law has a long history, so if you go back and pack your clothes as soon as possible, I will send someone to send you to Guangzhou. ”

"The emperor wants to accompany the Nine Emperors to go abroad together?" The expression on Zhu Shihai's face suddenly became wonderful, which really surprised him, but it was undeniable that this was a good opportunity.

"Yes, it's not just you, education, economy, philosophy, literature, music, these are all aspects that will send people to follow my Nine Emperor Princes to go abroad!"

"Do you want to see what the country of foreigners is like? You can't just listen to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and businessmen. ”