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The tea bowl in his hand fell to the ground, the pure white bone china tea set shattered on the floor tiles, and the hot tea and tea splashed the corner of Chen Cong's pants. But these did not make Chen Cong's shocked expression shift in the slightest. Now he is just like Chen Jiqing before, and the whole person was stunned by the sudden huge surprise.

"Is that really what Your Majesty said? Closure of the country? Chen Cong, who had calmed down for a long time, had a red face like bloodshot, especially his ears, which looked like a piece of crystal clear blood jade under the light.

God, just now he was still under the Nine Abyss, and now he has risen to heaven? You must know that before Chen Jiqing came back, he had just carefully read the booklet given by the emperor, and he was killed.

Chen Jiqing nodded heavily, "Dad." How could I lie about this? Your Majesty did say that the country was closed, and there are still two of us in our family. In addition to beating the Song Kingdom that you handed down, the second brother can also get a Hou Kingdom. ”

Chen Ming made it very clear to Chen Jiqing that there are five levels of feudal states in the Americas, the first is the kingdom, the second is the principality, the third is the Hou state, the fourth is the earl country, and finally the territory. Except for the latter two, which are a little smaller in area, there is no very clear dividing line between the other third classes.

"This place is the edict that His Majesty wants to give to the second brother." Chen Jiqing ordered someone to take out a map of the Americas, and then he pointed to the island of Haiti in the West Indies, and his finger swiped westward. I wrapped the Puerto Rican Islands on the side.

Almost the entire West Indies except Cuba.

"What about Song Guo?" Although the excitement surging in his heart almost knocked Chen Cong unconscious, he was not sure where Song Guo was, and Chen Cong was unwilling even if he fainted.

"Cuba. Your Majesty will let your son decide for himself and consult with you. ”

"All of North America is a fiefdom of royalty." The dividing line between North and South America in Chen Jiqing's eyes is not the location of the Panama Canal in later generations, but the entire Panama belongs to North America.

"My son tentatively said that he wanted Cuba, but His Majesty had no objection." Chen Jiqing's face was also as red as bloodshot, there was no way, as long as he thought that Cuba would become his fiefdom, he couldn't suppress his excitement.

That's Cuba! Notoriously fertile land, notoriously good place. The location is also critical, as the Spaniards traded most of Florida for Cuba in the Paris Treaty at the end of the Seven Years' War fifteen years ago.

There are large tracts of fertile land, tobacco and animal husbandry, and more recently, a thriving sugar industry. Although the area is not very large, it is comparable to a Zhejiang Province.

If the island of Haiti on the other side became Chen Jigong's fiefdom, and the brothers joined forces, it would be almost the entire West Indies.

This is a matter related to the century-old foundation of Chen Cong's family, but Chen Cong has already made a decision in this moment. That's it!

"Oh, Daddy, Daddy, what's wrong with you......"

After stepping back excitedly, Chen Cong suddenly saw a flower in front of him, and he stumbled and sat back on the chair. Chen Jiqing was startled, stepped forward in two steps, and looked at his father nervously.

"It's fine. It's just that the blood is rushing, and the head is a little dizzy. ”

Chen Cong spoke with a smile on his face. At this moment, to be honest, he was content to die. Chen Ming has lived up to his ironclad loyalty and dedication over the years, and Chen Ming's return to his two sons has made all his life's wishes clear.

The vertigo quickly dissipated.

Chen Jiqing beckoned the servant to clean up the debris of tea on the ground, and naturally there was tea to be brought back again.

Chen Cong leaned in the chair, his whole body was refreshing and comfortable, he looked at the beams painted with Fushoulu lacquer gold patterns stupidly, and his body was lazy and unwilling to move.

Since Chen Cong was born, his whole person has been crushed by his eldest brother Chen Hui. His wisdom and scheming are not inferior to Chen Hui, but he is a concubine. His mother is a very responsible person, and since he began to remember, he has instilled in him the distinction between the young and the young, and the difference between the eldest and the youngest, and Chen Cong never thought of gaining fame and getting ahead. For decades, he has always carefully tried his best to take care of the Chen family's property at home, and he also served his mother-in-law obediently, and married a wife of the Huang family according to his mother's arrangement.

And the eldest brother, who is very domineering in the way of the Yamen, is very generous in terms of money, and Chen Cong, as Chen Hui's spokesperson in the Chen family, is far more than ordinary concubines in terms of rights, treatment, and actual income. It is foreseeable that when the next generation of the Chen family takes power, Chen Cong's branch will also be able to have a good family business. If you manage it carefully, you can also be like branches like the Seventh Duke and the Ninth Prince, and in another hundred years, you will also share weal and woe with the main family.

But Chen Cong's children and grandchildren will always be low to the head of the family.

No one knew that Chen Cong's biggest and deepest desire was to split up, not branch. The perennial 'taming' made the rebellion in the dark of his heart accumulate more and more, and sometimes burst out, making him feel that instead of living in the rules and regulations of the master's family, it is better to let the two sons move to hundreds of miles away desperately to start over.

He hopes that one day his son will become the head of the family. Even if it's a very weak and weak home!

And the sobriety after each emotional outburst made him feel that his head was caught by the door. How easy is it to gain a foothold in other places in this era? In Lushan, it is the wisest choice to enjoy the shade under the big tree.

Of course, his wish has become meaningless with the establishment of the Chen family. Chen Cong was ready to keep his plan in his heart until the day he lay in the coffin.

But even though Chen Cong had expected that his youngest son would have a knighthood on his head one day, he didn't expect that Chen Ming's report would also seal the country. A feudal country tens of thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, isn't that your own territory free and easy?

Although this feudal state is not aimed at them alone, but the entire royal family and nobles. And depending on Chen Ming's meaning, the fiefdom of his precious sons will be much, much larger than that of the West Indies. But what's the point?

Isn't that a matter of course? He's the emperor.

Chen Cong: He only needs to care about his own part! The two pieces of territory occupy almost the entire West Indies, which is enough for the territory of Zhejiang Province, which is enough for Chen Cong to be grateful to Dade and his liver and brains. Can the world's largest and largest landlord compare with him?

"Dad, you said that Your Majesty first asked me not to speak lightly to outsiders, and then asked me to discuss things with you, what does this mean?"

The father and son, who had calmed down, finally began to break up the whole process and crumple it, chewing and tasting it over and over again, Chen Jiqing soon discovered that Chen Ming's words were wrong.

These words go out of my mouth and into your ears. Don't pass it on lightly......"

"After you go back, you can discuss it with Uncle Wang."

Is there an obvious inconsistency in this statement? And the first sentence of the product can't be easily passed on, is it okay to spread it easily?

Chen Cong had a smile on his face. He felt that he had grasped Chen Ming's true meaning, and he also understood the black cauldron on that booklet.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid you want our father and son to do a tandem."

"North America is divided into royalty, and South America is divided into honors."

"If this news spreads in the noble circle, how many people dare to do things without care?"

It's not a hundred years ago, in the past few years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the 'Age of Discovery' opened by Europeans is a very important propaganda point for the Chinese government, and even many ordinary people know about the Americas, Africa, India, and the heavenly world, and know how much gold and silver the Westerners have brought back from the Americas, and know the wealth of the Americas.

Sending people to the Americas to build a feudal state is by no means distributing people from afar. It's the real foundation!

Even if some stupid people with their brains in the water don't want their precious sons to go to the Americas, then there are always concubines, right? There's always a nephew, right? If you want to think clearly, the name of this country is an internal domain, not an internal domain, but an external domain, and it is almost a country that stands on its own overseas. It has a lot of independence and autonomy, and it is really its own territory. If you pass by yourself, you will be the king, the king who will decide the life and death of a man in one word!

Chen Jiqing frowned, "Is that what Your Majesty intended?" "If it's just like that, the task of the Chen family's father and son will be too easy.

Don't forget his father's current identity, not only the number one in the political arena, but also the number one among the nobles, it is too convenient and easy to announce the news and make a small series between the nobles and nobles. And the latter is also very promising to gain territory.

"Humph......"

Chen Cong laughed twice, stood up and walked into the back room, and then walked out with a booklet. "See for yourself."

Chen Cong came out of the palace with his front foot, and his eldest son was recruited into the palace by the emperor with his back foot, and threw out such a big piece of bait, for what? Chen Cong now thinks very clearly.

Chen Cong sat in the chair and thought about his 'falling into the abyss' before, but now he has become a little ant that is not worth mentioning, and he directly crushed it to death. As far as the emperor's favor to his family is concerned, those demands and those costs, he Chen Cong can pay completely, and it is worth paying.

The funny thing is that before, before Chen Jiqing came back, Chen Cong still wondered if this was the emperor's way to 'fix' him. After he successively said all the ideas in the booklet, it was almost self-isolation from industry and commerce, and self-isolation from courtiers.

The emperor can not only use this mouth of his own to destroy himself, but also try to see the reaction of the government and the opposition inside and outside, and prepare for the implementation of this policy. And he was an all-round shield, blocking the first and most violent counterattack for the emperor.

Can you see it now? What is the price? Even if it makes people hate dogs, it's completely worth it.

In other words, that policy and the current plan to close the country are compatible with each other.

Although the former cut the flesh of many people, it was able to greatly enrich the treasury and accumulate the capital for the country to fight wars. The emperor wants to seal the Americas, and this battle will be indispensable in the future, and the silver in the treasury is not for the country, for the emperor, for the royal family, but also for the Manchu Dynasty and the noble ministers themselves!

Their territory is South America.

Whether it is geography or political structure, in order to clear the Spaniards from the Americas and South America, fighting a war is an indispensable part.

At this moment, Chen Cong was even curious, what kind of expressions would they have when he put these two choices in front of the eyes of countless nobles? What kind of dog is in your heart?

Chen Jiqing finished reading the book here, and he didn't know when there was an extra layer of sweat on his forehead.

"Individual Income Tax Law??"

Chen Jiqing really felt like he was being by a dog, and his eyes widened. "Dad, is there still such a tax law in the world?" Is there still such a tax in the world? I make more money, why should I pay taxes to the state?

It is said that the Qing Dynasty had 10,000 taxes, and it was doubled in Qianlong. But haven't you heard of such a strange tax as 'personal income tax'? Isn't this a clear way to cut the flesh of the rich to eat?

Chen Cong let out a sigh of relief. He has no opinion on the whistleblowing reward system in that booklet, although it feels a little inconsistent with social concepts, but compared to the 'personal income tax', it is really invincible.

The emperor's hand is really powerful, and it is also good to rob the rich and help the poor. But he can use the future 'fiefdom' as bait to lure the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty to open their mouths. It can be called the biggest and biggest thief in the world. If this policy can become a common practice, combined with the 'whistleblowing reward system', Chen Jiqing feels that China's finances are worry-free, and the Chen family's country seems to be worry-free.

"If there is no 'feudal country', when my father proposes 'personal income tax' in the court, it will be when I am ruined." Chen Cong thought that he would be a pawn used by Chen Ming, more to test the reaction of the government and the opposition. Where did you think that the emperor prepared a 'feudal country'!

At that moment, how much 'helplessness and sadness' he had in his heart before, and how grateful he was to Chen Ming now.

Now he can really breathe a sigh of relief.

Chen Jiqing nodded in agreement, there is no great surprise of 'sealing the country', if the 'personal income tax' is proposed, not only Chen Cong will be ruined, but even their brothers will be affected, and their future and career will be ruined.

But this means that the emperor signaled, and there is no room for Chen Cong to shirk, otherwise the emperor will think badly in his heart. Chen Jiqing can imagine how desolate his father was at that time. Although he didn't know it at all, Chen Ming didn't mention 'personal income tax' at all when he summoned him to play the duet. Chen Cong only found out when he took out his notebook on the way home to read it carefully. That's even more aggrieved! At that time, don't mention what Chen Cong's heart was like.

There is a feeling of looking at the wrong person.

My years of loyalty, hard work and resentment have ended up like this?

Chen Jiqing didn't know that his Lao Tzu thought of the Hongwu Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, who is firmly seated in the country, has no hot hand in all dynasties to eradicate the heroes, compared to Zhu Hongwulai, Chen Ming's method is quite mild. Chen Cong was so self-lamenting and self-pitying at that time.

The back of his black pot is really called a sturdy. Fortunately, when his eldest son came home, he immediately gave him a perfect tonic pill, which made him resurrect with full blood in an instant.

"With this feudal country, you can make all the nobles in the court twist into a rope." The power of the nobles is very great, Chen Han has just established the country, and this is the time when a generation of nobles is drunk with power.

This is a force that can definitely crush Wenchen. Moreover, in the emperor's feudal system, in addition to kingdoms, principalities, marquis and ear states, there are also territories, which releases a signal to many civil ministers, a signal that makes them ecstatic.

Chen Cong is now back from hell to heaven. The emperor played a very slippery trick, but in the end it was interesting and conscientious, and he didn't tear down his old bones and sell them.

"Go, bring Chen Erbao and Chen Gang, and you go and invite your uncle." Huang Song's son is still enjoying happiness in Nanjing City, and Chen Jiqing's mother is from the Huang family. But Gao Pengqi followed the emperor to Fujian.

This year, the emperor suddenly turned several tea trees in the Jiulong Cave of Wuyi Mountain into royal property, set up soldiers to guard, set up a special tea farmer, and sent all the tea produced every year to the palace.

Gao Pengqi was very curious when he heard it, he was not going to go to Fujian, but he also followed the Emperor Taishang to Fujian. But it's okay, the Gao family still has a Gao Qiao person in Nanjing.

……

West Borneo, a migrant village outside Pontianak.

A touch of morning sun shines through the gap between the coconut trees in a small courtyard, and the dew drops on the flowers and plants in the yard look so crystal clear in the sunlight. A few hens cooed and walked around, and from time to time pecked at a grain of old rice on the ground.

Yoshida Masahi sat on the wooden pier at the door, looking out of the door. His wife is busy in the kitchen, preparing breakfast for the family. The aroma of rice porridge and the strong smell of fried eggs and grilled sea fish waft out of the kitchen.

Compared to the life in Japan two years ago, compared to the family at that time, a plate of natto in the morning and a bowl of multigrain porridge for each person, the life of the Yoshida family is simply heaven.

Also on the plate that has been placed on the table are the cut salted duck eggs, the golden brown of the duck egg yolk marinated with a tempting layer of oil, and the refreshing and delicious pickles and a plate of cut bacon.

Ever since the Yoshida family migrated from Japan to West Borneo last year, the Yoshida family has been deliberately abandoning Japanese customs. Not only in terms of clothing, but also in the daily conversations and diet of the family, they are also trying their best to get closer to China.

It's a beautiful life, it's like a dream.

However, the ultimate idea of the Yoshida family is not to stay in West Borneo and get a land of their own, their purpose is to go to China and become a real Chinese in terms of household registration! They want to leave Japan and enter China, and their surnames are Ji, Ji, or Ji, not Jiping.

But it's a little too difficult to rely on Yoshida's efforts alone.

The most hateful thing about Yoshida Shohei now is not that his work has increased his salary, but that he can receive letters from the security team...... (To be continued.) )