"I'm afraid that the world is turbulent, and everyone who cares knows who Yu Jimin is going to take."

"Yu Guozhen threw this matter out at this time, it was really unwise!"

"Not necessarily, maybe he meant it."

Xinxiang spring came much earlier than the Central Plains, in the fragrance of birds and flowers, Chen Zilong, Fang Youzhi, Fang Qiyi and a few familiar friends sat together, everyone in front of the tea, wine beside them, a plate of peanuts, a bunch of corn, plus potato chips, sunflower seeds and frozen rice sugar, in the sound of Bi Bi peeling, this year's New Year's flavor is stronger.

This is the tradition of the Chinese nation, when the New Year is treated, there is always a fear that the fruit plate will not be filled enough, and the guests will be neglected.

Everyone gathered in Fang Yizhi's house, Mrs. Fang's Zhang smiled and poured tea and wine for them, she is no longer a housewife who only guards the house, and now she also runs a bookstore, although she does not show her face, she just guides the shopkeeper behind the curtain, but when familiar friends come to the house, she will also come out to entertain.

This is the case with almost all families in Xinxiang, some of which still pay for the high labor costs and hire people who are good at serving others, but it is more respectful if they are entertaining close relatives or respected friends, or the hostess. As women played an increasingly important role in Xinxiang's industrial production, their incomes continued to increase, and so did their social status.

"No matter what Yu Guozhen means, it is not the right time to lift this lid now, he should wait until the unification of the world, with supreme prestige, to do this." Chen Zilong sighed: "He shook out this matter at this time, one is his own inside. There will inevitably be turmoil between the two Guangzhous and Shandong, second, the voices of opposition will rise in the small court of Jinling, and third, the gentry, who were originally not opposed to reunification, will now inevitably stand on the side of opposition of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee. It's unwise, it's unwise......"

"On poetry, lyrics and articles, ten Yu Jimin may not be our opponents. But when it comes to governing the world, a few of us tied together may not be able to withstand Yu Jimin. Fang Yizhi shook his head with a smile: "We don't mean anything when we talk about this." Just wait and see, I believe that Yu Jimin will not do such meaningless things...... Straight. How has your recent research progressed? ”

Fang Qiyi has been engaged in the research of electricity since he came to Xinxiang, and the research has been carried out for twelve years from the thirteenth year of Chongzhen to the present. In this aspect of research, Yu Guozhen gave some pointers, mainly directional. For example, the use of sulfuric acid and copper rods to make voltaic batteries, for example, the principle of electromagnetic induction conjecture. Each of the "conjectures" put forward by Yu Guozhen must be verified through a large number of experiments, and then the truth contained in them can be summarized from the results of various experiments.

"It's going well, and the results of the recent experiments have been pretty good. I think it won't be long before we have some electrified gadgets. Fang Qiyi smiled: "But now it must be kept secret, and Jimin's brother-in-law has repeatedly explained." ”

"You, listen to the people now, I'm afraid even the words of the boss. You can't even listen to it. ”

"Brother said this to me, aren't you yourself, the boss's original intention was to let you enter the ranks, but you went to trace the origin of Taoism, and wanted to combine practical learning and Confucianism. Isn't that what Jimin's brother-in-law meant? ”

"What you said is not accurate, the meaning of Jimin is not just Confucianism. In Jimin's view, Confucianism is only one of my Huaxia Taoist systems, and Dong Zhongshu, a speculative generation, has changed his face to meet the thoughts of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, so he has to prosper. Moreover, Dong Zhongshu has the eagerness and paranoia of a master, but he does not have the tolerance of a saint......"

Speaking of his current research, Fang Yizhi shook his head, and the whole person gushed endlessly.

Chen Zilong couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart, he knew that Fang Yizhi was indeed doing a very remarkable thing, if it was done, his role in Confucianism and Taoism in history would definitely not be under Dong Zhongshu.

Dong Zhongshu catered to the thoughts of Liu Che, the powerful Emperor of the Han Dynasty at that time, and was able to "depose a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism", and established the exclusive status of Confucianism for 1,800 years. Now, what Fang Yizhi wants to do is to combine Confucianism with practical learning to meet the needs of Yu Guozhen's future rule.

With Chen Zilong's understanding of this, if he can succeed, he will have a bright future.

But he suddenly thought of Yu Guozhen's firing against the gentry, and what Yu Guozhen wanted to do was to do the same cause as the Qin Emperor and Han Wu at the beginning, and this kind of cause will always be consciously or unconsciously obstructed. Originally, the Qin Emperor used book burning to deal with the old nobles who tried to get him to return to the feudal system, but his career was not really established until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who finally stabilized the centralized power by deposing the hundred schools. So, isn't the real purpose of Yu Guozhen's declaration of war on the gentry...... Out with the old, in with the new?

This thought made Chen Zilong tremble, and immediately understood the true meaning of Yu Guozhen's mobilization at this time: At this time, Yu Guozhen had not yet completed the real unification of the whole country, and most of those who opposed him were "outside" of his power.

But now that he has provoked this contradiction in advance, those who oppose his interference in the decision-making power of the powerful gentry in the countryside will oppose him to complete the unification, and in this way, they will be the separatist forces that obstruct the unification of China. In the unification regulations signed by Yu Guozhen with the small court of Jinling, it was clearly stated that anyone who obstructed the reunification of China would be a sinner of the nation and should be punished without forgiveness!

Chen Zilong only felt that he was dripping with cold sweat.

His hometown was in Huating, Songjiang, which is now known as Shanghai County and is under the direct rule of Yu Guozhen. But around, there are his relatives and friends, many of whom are country gentry!

"No, I'm going back!" He suddenly stood up: "I want to go back to Songjiang Huating!" ”

"What are you going back to do?" Fang Yizhi and Fang Qiyi were discussing enthusiastically, he suddenly jumped up and shouted this voice, Fang Yizhi glanced at him and asked.

"Ah...... I haven't been back for many years, I'm going to visit relatives and friends, ha, ha! ”

While breaking out in a cold sweat, Chen Zilong snorted.

He is dead to the Ming court, although he is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but even Emperor Chongzhen was rescued by Yu Guozhen, and the small court of Jinling has nothing to do except fight for power and profit, in this case, Yu Guozhen, who treats ordinary people very lenient and benevolent, to win the world, is really a natural thing.

Therefore, Chen Zilong decided that this time, Yu Guozhen would still win.

If Yu Guozhen wins, the fate of those gentry and powerful people who are branded by him as "separatists who oppose reunification" is almost conceivable.

Others Chen Zilong can't control it, but his relatives and friends are old, and he still wants to persuade as much as possible and explain the stakes so that they will not stand in the wrong line in the upcoming storms.

Moreover, this kind of thing is by no means clear in letters, and they may not be able to believe letters in the past, only when they say it to their faces, it is useful!

Thinking of this, Chen Zilong couldn't sit still any longer, confessed his guilt, and hurried to Laojunguan, found Guiquanzi and asked for two months of family leave, and then hurried to the dock and bought a ticket back to Shanghai.

Even so, by the time he arrived in Shanghai, it was already the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, which made Chen Zilong very eager to build a railway network connecting China's economic center and strategic places in the next 50 years, as proposed by Yu Guozhen. If you can take the train directly from Xinxiang to Shanghai, you can get there in five days at most.

The port of Shanghai was handed over to Yu Guozhen five years ago, when Shi Kefa's assassination and the fallacy of Nandu over the weekend allowed Yu Guozhen to find an opportunity to put pressure on Qian Qianyi and take control of Shanghai. And this city at the mouth of the Yangtze River, in the hands of Yu Guozhen, also released her terrible potential, in just five years, her prosperity is not inferior to Xinxiang, but far more than Jinling.

This is already a big city with a population of 200,000, and last year, the city's financial revenue was as high as 150,000 gold yuan, and such a huge amount of financial revenue has all been turned into the city's infrastructure: from running water to roads, from urban greening to dock expansion, from hospitals to schools.

Here, even a second university park in the Chinese system was built.

The university park also means that there are a large number of researchers who are regarded as treasures by Yu Guozhen, when Yu Guozhen made this decision, many people in Xinxiang did not understand, and now Chen Zilong has some understanding in his heart.

Xinxiang's role in the Chinese system is too great, so big that it has threatened Yu Guozhen's own position, and Xinxiang has now formed interest groups, and they also have their own interests, although they are consistent with Yu Guozhen on the whole, but in some details, they may not be consistent with Yu Guozhen.

For example, the businessmen of Xinxiang complained about the large amount of money used in Shandong, Liaodong, Liangguang, Hebei, Henan, and Jingshi from Xinxiang's financial revenue every year, and always felt that this was a cheap foreigner with money in their pockets. But when Shanghai was also built, and the annual financial revenue also increased, the businessmen of Xinxiang suddenly shut up.

Everyone knows that they are not willing to pay money, but the businessmen in Shanghai are willing, very, very willing. In the past few years, Yu Guozhen has not personally dealt with industrial and commercial affairs, but there are examples of Xu Zhongyuan and others, and everyone understands that Yu Guozhen really has a bit of a trick to turn stone into gold!

You don't see, the eunuch Fan Xianfan, who was sent to Shanghai by Yu Guozhen, is now the richest man on the edge of Shanghai's Shili River Beach, and his family wealth is enough to be proud of those salt merchants who have been in business for several generations!

Chen Zilong returned to Shanghai for the first time after more than ten years, and when he got off the boat, he didn't recognize it at all, he wanted to find someone to ask for directions, but the pedestrians on the road hurried by with their heads down and their faces down, looking a little worried, which made him feel very strange.

Then, he heard the newspaper seller shouting: "Longhua will cause trouble in Jiaxing, the Municipal Affairs Bureau has ordered a ban, the trade route is cut off, many people have been attacked, how the Military Strategy Committee will deal with it, the people of the world will wait and see!" ”

Chen Zilong heard his shout, and his heart suddenly sank: Sure enough, it happened! (To be continued)