The time has entered late autumn, and the temperature has dropped a lot, and today when Chen Ming got up early to exercise, he found that the flowers and plants in the imperial garden had a thick layer of frost. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Nanjing's climate is a little cold.

But today the climate in the palace is very lively. Because the empress's elder brother, the emperor's brother-in-law, Li Kun, who had gone through hardships to pick up a life from Yogyakarta, finally arrived in Nanjing.

After this uncle was rescued, he did not return to China as soon as possible, but was re-broken with an arm and a leg, and stayed in Bantul for half a month before returning to Surabaya on a transport ship.

Then he saw Hamengu Buwono II come to the coffins of Li Kun's entourage and bodyguards who were stoned to death, apologized fully, and then raised them with peace of mind for a while, until the bones healed, and then took the ship back to Nanjing.

Li Kun's right arm was still hanging in bandages, and he entered the palace in a soft sedan chair, and changed into a wheelchair to meet the emperor and empress.

Not to mention how sincere Li Xiaomei's cry was at that moment.

"Don't cry, can I still owe my brother-in-law?" Chen Ming took a handkerchief to wipe Li Xiaomei's tears, today he said that he would not cry when he saw this person. But Li Xiaomei still didn't endure it.

She cried with true affection, but she didn't see that her brother couldn't hold it anymore. For Li Kun, the interval of so many years is impossible to be a cloud of smoke after all. Li Xiaomei's identity is not ordinary, and Chen Ming's identity is also different, this family affection is as heavy as a mountain.

Li Kun, who was carefully moved to the chair by the little eunuch, was busy refusing, but what Chen Ming said was very big.

"We are all our own families, and we don't come to vain." To be precise, Chen Ming now dislikes to play with fake things more and more. Because his power has made it so that he doesn't need to play any intrigues. He likes to tell the truth.

"It's really not easy for you to survive in a prison in Yogyakarta. I can't even think of it, it shows that you have strength in your bones. Chen Ming feels that every successful person in this world is indispensable to this ruthlessness towards himself.

"And in the past few years, you have been able to make a fortune step by step, expanding Lao Taishan's little family capital to the scale of millions of capital today, which in itself proves that you have a flexible brain."

"If you are really able-bodied, I will definitely pull you into the officialdom."

"Being an official is not the same as doing business. Being mixed like a fish in water in officialdom may not be able to set off storms in the business world, and the tide makers who dominate the business sea may not be able to be happy in the officialdom. But this at least proves that you have the qualifications to step into the officialdom and reach the top. ”

"To be honest, the queen's family is not strong, and I have deliberately pressed them in the past few years, in the end, no one in the Li family can stand up in the official face, which is a bit bad."

The eunuchs and palace maids in the main hall have gone down a lot, and there are only a few people left, and there are a few imperial guards, who are looking at their noses and mouths, standing like wooden people, and they don't dare to breathe once.

What is the Emperor going to say? Can they disappear invisible?

"Ding'er will be older in a few years, and this kid has a very good heart and wisdom, so ah, you must stand up as an uncle."

Chen Ming really regrets Li Kun, this kind of person has brains, ruthlessness, and Chen Ming's support, he only needs to be tempered in officialdom for a few years, and Chen Ming can't come out of a person if he doesn't believe it.

After all these years, Li Kun has been much more productive than when he was in Lushan, too much.

It's a pity, his legs and feet are really bad. After recovering from the injury, although he will not be in a wheelchair every day, Tie Guan Li is decided.

Li Xiaomei stopped crying, her sons have grown so big, and this is the first time that Chen Ming officially thinks that Chen Ding is good. The eldest son of the emperor and the eldest son of the emperor are very noble, but it is also Alexander.

The expression on Li Kunze's face froze, and a burden heavier than a mountain fell on his shoulders without warning, and it was difficult for him to breathe at this moment.

"But this officialdom has done nothing, and the mall can continue to make waves."

"When I am old, the influence of the rich businessmen in this world may not be worse than that of the big officials. If you can have tens of millions of people under your hands to eat with you, radiating tens of millions of families, they are all gathered together; If you hold the big players in the stock market and stomp your feet, the stock market will shake. Shouldn't the cabinet minister also call Mr. Li when he sees you? Although Chen Ming is not sure how far China's business class will develop by the time of his death. He is completely cheering up Li Kun. With Li Kun's return, many of the queen's distant relatives can no longer be pressed. The backbone of the genuine brand is already there, and the time will come out of the province.

But there is also a big premise, that is, Li Kun can stand up.

How easy is it for the essence of Chinese society to change in a short period of time?

Li Kun's title in the future will be an earl, but if he wants to suppress a large wave of bureaucrats as a businessman, even if he has the support of the queen behind him, it does not mean that the achievement can be achieved. Li Kun still needs his own struggle, at least he needs to integrate the industrial and commercial ownership within the Li family first.

Of course, today is the opinion of relatives and friends, Chen Ming's words are just to reassure Li Kun, and today he still focuses on describing relatives.

At noon, Chen Ding, who was specially arranged by Chen Ming to take back to the palace from the engineering school, as well as Li Kun's son and daughter, these two children immediately became a part of Chengjun Public School after the Li family entered Nanjing. Li Kun also has a little daughter, but she is just two years old and is held in her arms by Xiao Li.

At noon, Chen Ming held a family banquet, except for the queen's children, the concubines with foreign surnames, and their children did not let anyone attend.

Chen Ding obviously feels good about his own uncle, Li Kun's children are much more comfortable than when they first met Chen Ming, this person who is two or three years older than Chen Ding, is now in the same grade as Chen Ding. When I was in Qiongzhou before, I also had enrollment. But time is clearly being dragged on.

The child's performance in cultural classes is not bad, but it is much worse in sports and literature and art. Especially in horse running and polo, compared with people like Chen Ding, who practice horse riding, it is not a little bit worse.

The bustle in the Qianqing Palace, who in the entire palace doesn't know?

Liu Bangyun gently patted his two-year-old son, leisurely peeling and eating the fresh longan purchased by the Internal Affairs Department, and did not envy the liveliness of the Qianqing Palace at the moment.

She doesn't want to make up for the excitement of Qianqing Palace? What's good and what's up for it?

The emperor was not yet thirty years old, in good health, and in the prime of spring and autumn, and it was too early to plot the chair under his buttocks. And the baby son she has been waiting for for many years to finally give birth to is only two years old, ten years later than that Chen Ding, what is there to fight for now?

Let's raise the child first, otherwise, it's all in vain to fight for anything.

"Concubine Niangniang, the eldest princess ordered someone to bring a letter back, saying that she would eat chocolate cream cake when she returned to the palace tomorrow."

Sungkyun Public School now has not only boys, but also girls. It is divided into a boys' school and a girls' school. The number of the latter was far from being comparable to the former at the beginning, that is, in recent years, there have been many royal princesses and county lords of age entering the school, which led to the relaxation of restrictions by the noble ministers. However, in the folk tongue, there is still a great deal of disapproval for the establishment of girls' schools.

The idea of the inferiority of men and women in China has also been unchangeable for a long time.

Liu Bangyun has always been the first person under the queen, the first prince Liangdi, and the first concubine. The eldest princess who gave birth was also very favored by the emperor, and it was effortless to send a message back to the palace through the stall where Chen Ming sent someone to pick up people from the school.

Liu Bangyun's pair of curved eyebrows wrinkled together, "It's chocolate cream again!" ”

In recent years, China has added a lot of new gadgets, such as coffee, cocoa, chocolate, cakes, egg tarts, etc., as well as Western-style dim sum, which is not only popular in the court, but also slowly popular among the people.

Some things taste really good, not only children love to eat them, but Liu Bangyun himself also likes to eat them.

It's just that adults have restraint, but children can't wait to eat every day. Sungkyun Public School does not serve Western-style sweets.

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Just when the palace was very lively, Liu Zhixie, who was already the number one person in the military industrial system, looked at his good friend Zhou Tiancai with a sad face. The two became acquainted because of the mobilization of the ships needed by Chen Han to move the capital, and the friendship deepened in the following years, and because the official careers of the two were also smooth, no one was willing to lose a help. In the case of mutual affection, the friendship is irreversible.

After Liu Zhixie showed his strong coordination and overall planning ability, he was recruited by the military industrial system, and now he is the big steward of the military industrial system.

Zhou Tiancai entered the Ministry of Finance, and his official position was much weaker than Liu Zhixie, and he was just promoted from the fourth rank two months ago. But Liu Zhixie didn't dare to underestimate Zhou Tiancai from the fourth grade, who was the second-in-command in the budget department of the Ministry of Finance, but he was a typical lowly and powerful position!

Between friends, Zhou Tiancai has always been more direct, and today he is indeed very direct.

The military industrial system continues to have a large amount of copper material, and if it is allowed to be swallowed, it is estimated that the entire copper output of China will be filled in. China's current copper production is limited, and military copper has largely squeezed the share of the private sector. In recent years, the price of copper has become more and more expensive.

But copper is not something you can buy if you have the money and want to buy it.

The development of copper mines in China has always been a top priority, and now Luzon is about to fall into the hands of China, which has been mentioned more than once in secret materials as having a large amount of copper deposits.

This time, the military industrial system and the Bureau of Minerals jointly planned to launch a large-scale investigation of Luzon's geology in the near future, finalize the location of the copper mine, and the population invested a huge amount of money to fully develop Luzon's copper resources.

The military industry system and the Bureau of Minerals can still afford the initial investment in this project, but the large-scale development in the future must come to the Ministry of Finance to cry poverty.

The development and utilization of copper ore resources is a very troublesome matter and a very cost-consuming matter, so the military industry system hopes to grasp the specific situation, and Liu Zhixie's friendship with Zhou Tiancai is not a secret. Chen Jia hopes that Liu Zhixie can find out the bottom of the Ministry of Finance and see how much balance will be left after next year's budget......

However, after listening to Liu Zhixie's intentions, Zhou Tiancai gave him the accounts of the Ministry of Finance very directly. And Liu Zhixie, who was both a little excited and a little apprehensive in his heart, suddenly turned bitter after reading the accounts.

The accounts of the Ministry of Finance have reached the point where they are overwhelmed, and there is a huge disparity between the state revenue and fiscal expenditure. No matter how he thinks about it, he thinks that the Ministry of Finance will not have the money to spare next year to develop the copper mines in Luzon.

"Is that so......" smiled bitterly, and Liu Zhixie's whole person became depressed. It seems that the mine is still going to be sold...... "The state has no money, but the private capital is a lot of money, if the location of the copper mine is determined, as long as the reserves and copper content are above the level, some people wave banknotes to buy." As he spoke, Liu Zhixie got up from his chair and planned to leave Zhou Tiancai's office.

He was in no mood to eat together at noon.

But just as he was about to leave, Zhou Tiancai showed a smile on his face, "Don't worry, Lao Liu." It's all time for dinner, can I let you go? Why do we have two drinks? ”

"Besides, we really don't have any extra funds in the Ministry of Finance, but there are ...... somewhere else."

"Somewhere else?" Hearing Zhou Tiancai say this, Liu Zhixie looked a little puzzled. The Ministry of Finance is the household department in the past, the money bag of the whole world, and it is the richest department in the imperial court system, if even the Ministry of Finance can't take out this money, then it is really hard for him to imagine who else can come up with such a large amount of money.

"Please." Zhou Tiancai smiled helplessly, "Lao Liu, you really haven't heard of the word loan mortgage, right?" ”

"Of course I do."

"But what does that have to do with the matter at the moment?" Liu Zhixie's face was full of inexplicability.

"Why doesn't it matter? Aren't you short of money? Aren't you looking for minerals? As long as you can work with the Minerals Bureau to get the development permit for those minerals from the Cabinet, you can take the license to the central bank and get a loan. ”

"The Ministry of Finance has no money, and it has long been poor. But the central bank has money. People are the ones who print money. As long as the court does not lose the hearts of the people, paper tickets can be used as money. ”

"If you really want to develop copper mines, I can show you a line. The head of the Statistics Department of the Central Bank was my classmate when I was training at the Central School of Political Science. Take a time to sit together and get together, and if you have any doubts that you don't understand, you can ask him face to face. ”

The circle is expanding little by little, and the network of relationships is woven little by little. For people at Chen Jia's level, many questions may be a matter of letting people pass on a letter, but for the officials below, they need to pull a relationship.

Because in this way, they can make a perfect 'homework', so that the boss above can be seen at a glance, and they will be happy to see it, so as to recognize your ability to work. At least not angry, aren't you? (To be continued.) )