Cao Yue's mother, Wu, is actually quite capable.

A few years ago, Cao Wenzhao was fighting outside, and she ran the family in Datong. The Cao family is a big family, and Cao Wenzhao is the most high-status and highest-ranking person in this big family. The status of the Wu family has also risen with Cao Wenzhao's promotion, and her ability is very good, so she has faintly become the eldest lady of the Cao family. After Cao Wenzhao's death, the imperial court gave a high-standard posthumous title, and the Wu family also received the imperial court's title.

In this way, her status did not decline because of her husband's death in battle, but further strengthened her prestige in the family.

Now he borrowed Cao Yue to be reused by the imperial court, served as the chief soldier of Datong, and was also given the sword that could be cut first and then played by Shang Fang, as the mother, the Wu family was more and more impressed by the people in the family. Many factors have made her a veritable "head of the family" in the family.

After Cao Yue took up his post in Datong, the mother and son had an exchange, so that Wu decided to follow Cao Yue's suggestion and transfer an industry to the south, and she herself was ready to go to Nanjing with Cao Chao after the New Year.

Although many people in the family did not understand and felt that after Cao Yue took up his post in Datong, he should use his skills in Datong instead of moving to other places, but they finally succumbed to the Wu family's decision, and the Wu family persuaded them.

Before the Chinese New Year, the Wu family had already sent some people to Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou to buy family businesses, and some industries in Datong were also transferred there. After the New Year, the speed of transfer will be further accelerated, but there will still be some industries left in Datong, after all, this is where their foundation lies.

A few days before the Chinese New Year, the Cao family is preparing for the New Year. This year is a festive year for the Cao family, mainly because the two brothers, Cao Bianjiao and Cao Yue, have made meritorious contributions and received special rewards from the imperial court. Of course, we should celebrate every happy event, and the New Year should also be lively.

Cao Yue put down his affairs and returned to the mansion, it was already the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and the atmosphere of the New Year was even stronger. In the past few months in Datong, Cao Yue actually rarely went home, mainly because he was too busy, he was busy with military training day and night, and he had to be busy with the management, training, and logistics of tens of thousands of horses.

This made her mother Wu complain from time to time, but she also knew that Cao Yue was also involuntarily.

When Jiannu attacked, the Cao family was in fear, and they were afraid that Cao Yue would lose the battle. Cao Yue lost the battle, and Datong was about to be captured by Jiannu, and the Cao family was the first to be liquidated by Jiannu. Moreover, Cao Yue lost the battle, and even if he could barely keep Datong, he would be condemned by the imperial court, and his family would also suffer. During the period when Jiannu attacked, the main figures of the Cao family, including the Wu family, also understood Cao Yue's intention to ask them to move their industries to the south, and Datong was too close to the Great Wall and too unsafe.

Cao Yue won the battle, of course they were happy, but they no longer objected to the transfer of the family business to the south, and they also praised it again and again, Cao Yue's vision was farther than theirs, and many people felt that the hope of the Cao family might fall on Cao Yue.

Cao Yue returned empty for the New Year, and all the people with heads and faces of the Cao family personally greeted him at the gate of the mansion, which made Cao Yue a little flattered.

Cao Yue also took this opportunity to explain some things to them.

After hearing that the emperor planned to marry the eldest princess, let Cao Yue be a concubine, and allow him to continue to lead the army, and would see Cao Yue's military exploits to continue to improve his position in the future, everyone in the Cao family was extremely shocked. This emperor has given Cao Yue more and more special treatment.

Everyone understands that the emperor's favor for Cao Yue is not comparable to ordinary people, and Cao Yue's status in their minds has also risen again, even higher than Cao Bianjiao, who is now higher than Cao Bianjiao.

When Wu heard Cao Yue say that the emperor planned to marry his daughter, he was happy and worried. Cao Yue was particularly favored by Emperor Chongzhen, and of course he was happy to be a mother; But her daughter-in-law made a princess, and she was a little panicked. In front of her daughter-in-law who is a princess, she, who is a mother-in-law, naturally can't play any mother-in-law's prestige, and she has to see her subordinate's body, which makes her not very calm.

But the emperor has decided to do this, then she can only accept it, and she is also happy that her son is getting better and better.

Chatting and chatting, it also came to the matter of transferring industries to the south, Cao Yue once again reiterated his point of view, that is, the north is too chaotic and unstable, and it is too risky to put all industries in Datong and Beijing. He still advised his mother and other elders to change their minds and try to make money in the rich south.

Grain, silk, munitions, and the "erotic industry" that can be openly opened today are the most lucrative industries for a period of time to come, especially the food, arms, and "erotic industry" or entertainment industry.

Cao Yue hoped that after the family went to the south, they would be able to devote their energy to this aspect.

In particular, the "color * love industry", Jiangnan has not been affected by the war now, Qinglou Courtyard is everywhere, especially in Nanjing, the Qinhuai River is singing every night, and the annual income of the Qinglou Courtyard, which is a little famous, is very considerable.

As long as you can recruit famous people and have local forces to rely on, it can be said that you will have a lot of money.

The war will continue, and the demand for food, munitions, and other military supplies will definitely be great, and if we can get involved in these industries, then the Cao family's industry will become bigger and bigger. Of course, it takes a strong backstage to get involved in these industries, and without that, there is no way to get involved.

Cao Yue felt that although he couldn't reach the sky with his hands and eyes now, as long as he held the military power, and then Emperor Chongzhen looked at him differently, with the name of a Datong general soldier and a horse captain, not many people in Daming would dare to provoke.

Cao Yue's opinion, most people naturally agree.

In the evening, when Cao Yue had a private chat with his mother and second brother Cao Chao, he said this again.

The imperial court has ordered Cao Chao to go to Nanjing to take up a post, and several friends of Cao Yue, Chang Yanling and others, went to Nanjing Jinyi Weizhong on errands, Cao Yue felt that he could take advantage of this opportunity to run a business in Nanjing, and the grain, munitions, silk, and Qinglou industries were all involved, especially the Qinglou industry.

Cao Yue also honestly said the real reason why he wants to work hard to make money, that is, he wants to control a powerful army, and it takes a lot of money to raise such an army. Relying on the current strength of the Cao family, there is no way to raise an army of tens of thousands of people and train them into elites.

"Brother Yue, my mother listens to you, and my mother also supports your ideas!" Wu was quickly persuaded by Cao Yue.

"Third brother, second brother also thinks what you said is reasonable and supports you!" Cao Chao also admired Cao Yue more and more, and fully supported Cao Yue's decision.