In the private room on the second floor of an inconspicuous mid-range restaurant in Suzhou, the eldest lord and Lin Ruhai are receiving visitors from the capital, and the confidants and staff of Prince Zhongshun's side.

Naturally, it was Prince Zhongshun who was going to expand his territory, and the eldest lord mentioned several famous big island countries in later generations, but he didn't expect the prince to come and make even more excessive requests.

"Want my help?"

The eldest man looked funny, but he didn't have a good temperament; "Isn't it funny that I'm an envoy of the Soviet Province and an official in charge of criminal prisons help?"

What is the intention of Prince Zhongshun's move, the three people present all know it, but they just want to pull the eldest master into the water, or tie the eldest master to the warship.

It's not that Prince Zhongshun has any conspiracy, he just wants to pull the eldest lord into the chariot of expanding the territory, after all, this matter was proposed by the eldest lord, at least it can be trusted.

Although it is not difficult to go to sea and occupy the island, the trouble is the immigrants behind, and a stable rear base is needed, which is suitable for many port cities in the south, but Prince Zhongshun is not at ease with the local officials.

Who knows if there are any henchmen here, if they come at a critical moment, there will be no place to cry when the time comes.

It is impossible for Prince Zhongshun to come with great fanfare, even if he wants to mobilize his henchmen to serve as the local chief, it will not be possible for a while, and besides, not all the henchmen are willing to serve in the local area, and the position of the local magistrate here in Jiangnan is not easy to get.

Besides, those so-called henchmen are not terrible, and it is estimated that even Prince Zhongshun himself is not sure.

It just so happened that the eldest lord was an envoy in Su Province, and he came up with the idea of going to the open sea to seal the country and build a country, and the eldest lord would never put cold arrows behind his back, so he would simply let the eldest lord be in charge of the rear base.

"When Lord Jia has you to play, the prince has secretly helped you get the position of political envoy of Su Province, and when the time comes, Lord Jia should not turn his face and deny people!"

Prince Zhongshun's confidant said with a smile, but there was indescribable envy and jealousy in the depths of his eyes.

Nima, Jia Enhou's official luck is too good, how long has it been since he entered the officialdom, and he is about to become a second-class member?

Even Lin Ruhai, who had not spoken beside him, was taken aback, and looked sideways at his eldest brother's official fortunes.

The officialdom class is also a pyramid shape, the more you go to the upper level, the less there is, a radish and a pit, and every high-ranking official above the third grade is an existence that should not be underestimated.

Not only the power in their hands, but also the interest groups centered on them, the power of several of them is quite amazing, which means that once the official achieves more than three grades, it is basically a complete foothold, even if the emperor has no excuse, it is difficult to easily take it.

It is quite difficult to upgrade from the third grade to the second grade, and the same chance and luck are indispensable, and more importantly, the forces behind it are strong enough to push the leader up, and they have to be willing to let go of their eloquence today.

In the case of the eldest lord, if you follow the normal procedure, you don't expect to have a chance to rise within ten years, but I didn't expect Prince Zhongshun to be so willing to sacrifice his blood in order to pull the eldest lord into the water.

If you take such an opportunity to win over local officials, you may be able to attract one or even several officials with great potential to join your command.

The transfer of senior officials is not just a matter of position, and no one can say how many positions may be vacated under the linkage.

The old man is there, but the old god is there, and he said leisurely, "Then that's it!" ”

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In the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, Lin Ruhai was transferred to Taichang Siqing, and after saying goodbye to the eldest master, he took his family to the capital to take up his post.

Among them, the eldest lord helped thread the needle, and Prince Zhongshun secretly pushed it, so he took such an idle position.

This is quite satisfactory for Lin Ruhai.

At the end of the year, the eldest lord also successfully took over the post of political envoy of Su Province and became the chief civil affairs officer of Su Province.

In the following three years, the entire province of Sioux underwent earth-shaking changes.

The economy is taking off!

People's livelihood is rich!

If there are modern people in Su Province, they will definitely have such an evaluation of the three years when the eldest master was in charge of Su Province.

The already rich Su Province became the richest place in the south of the Yangtze River for a while, and the rest of the regions under the south of the Yangtze River, such as Zhejiang Province and Jiangxi Province, were put aside, and the total economic volume and activity, as well as the wealth of the people, the two provinces together could not compare with the Su Province.

All this is due to the vigorous development of Songjiang Prefecture, as well as the sharp increase in the volume of trade with overseas, a steady stream of overseas silver poured into the province, and the special goods of the province were sold to the world by sea, and the benefits of it can be imagined.

With the giant beam of silver from the open sea as capital, the economy of the entire Soviet province took off with great ease.

The government had money in its hands, and under the strong control of the eldest lord, it started large-scale infrastructure construction, built roads and bridges, and built complete farmland and water conservancy facilities, and after spending a lot of money and employing hundreds of thousands of people to work, the traffic situation in the entire Soviet Province was greatly improved.

In some prosperous prefectures and counties, the construction of roads and bridges has even benefited every village, which has dramatically accelerated the logistics speed and traffic speed in the entire Soviet Province, and has made it more firewood for the economic take-off.

The economic center of Jiangnan quickly moved from Jinling and Yangzhou to Songjiang Prefecture, with a large amount of capital and manpower investment, and Songjiang New Town has stood at the mouth of the Yangtze River in just three years.

The newly built wharves were full of ships from the South Seas and even the Western Oceans, and merchants of all colors were in an endless stream.

Workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and as long as the people who have lost their fields are willing to work hard, it is not a problem to have a better life.

The boom in maritime trade led to the prosperity of shipbuilding and overseas trade, and a large number of people in Suzhou Province had other means of living.

In short, the three years that the eldest lord was in charge of the Soviet Province was the best and most violent period for the development of the Soviet Province, and the richness of the entire Soviet Province almost attracted the court bigwigs and various forces to step in and want to get a piece of the pie.

The eldest lord did not refuse at all, but there was only one requirement, and that was to abide by the rules he set!

In the meantime, the Jinling Zhen family relied on the identity of the noble concubine and the prince's foreign family to occupy the cake with the largest economic take-off in Suzhou Province, but they were made miserable by the eldest master.

Not to mention the biggest benefits, even the Jiangnan weaving of the basic plate has been lost, which can be described as a heavy loss of vitality.

What about the support of the noble concubine in the capital and the prince who is not yet an adult, the eldest lord does not give any face, and the Zhen family can only watch with their eyes?

With the precedent of the Zhen family, the rest of the forces naturally knew about convergence, which saved the eldest master a lot of energy.

Of course, there are few of them who have to be helped by Prince Zhongshun and King Yizhong.

In three years, the economy of Suzhou Province took off, and the trade in the open sea was booming, and Prince Zhongshun's fleet was not conspicuous at all, and a large number of capable people went to the South China Sea Islands, and with the secret help of the great lord, they had successfully set up a stable transit station on Liuqiu Island, and at the same time established a firm foothold in Luzon, selling a large piece of land with strong force and financial resources, and establishing several large plantations and farms.

With obvious results, Prince Zhongshun's enthusiasm is even higher, and he has quietly arranged half of his strength to several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and only waited for the follow-up manpower to gather and send people to Luzon to grab territory.

At this time, a certain country in the West was also fighting the idea of the Luzon Islands, relying on the ship's strong firearms to press the native kingdom on the island to beat hard, and the people and horses of Prince Zhongshun were all good hands, and they were also very familiar with military affairs, but they only helped the trust of the indigenous kingdom who had returned to the island a few times.

After that, it is to increase the number of people and slowly improve the strength of the prince's attachment, and wait until the strength is accumulated to a certain extent, and then take the indigenous kingdom on the island in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the hope of fiefdom and statehood has greatly increased, as long as the entire Luzon region is taken, and enough people from the Central Plains will immigrate over, Prince Zhongshun even revealed that when he will go directly to the sea to establish a state, he will lose interest in the disputes in Daqi.

Not only does he have such thoughts, but even his henchmen are also very active.

Especially in the Luzon area to find a large number of open-pit copper mines, coupled with the warm climate there three crops a year, it is simply a natural treasure land, as long as the management is not as prosperous as the south of the Yangtze River, at least it will not be worse than those poor provinces in the north, right?

Once the feudal domain is successful, whether it is Prince Zhongshun or his henchmen, he will get huge power that he can't think of in the territory of Daqi, so he is full of motivation and has little interest in the internal affairs of Daqi.

The change in the attitude of Prince Zhongshun naturally attracts the attention of today's and other royal tycoons.

I don't know what to do today, but I'm also quite happy about this situation, without Prince Zhongshun doing things in secret, how much less trouble will I have today?

Therefore, for Prince Zhongshun, who suddenly fell in love with business, he is very generous and gives great convenience today, and even intends to guide him to never look back on the road of business.

A prince who loves business, no matter how much money he has in his hand, what if he is rich enough to rival the country?

The Shiren Group would not have supported such an existence to sit on the throne at all, and now they can rest assured that they no longer need to regard Prince Zhongshun as a competitor.

Now I don't understand why Prince Zhongshun suddenly changed his character, but King Yizhong knows it.

At the beginning, the eldest lord also mentioned to him the matter of establishing a feudal domain in the open sea, but he was ambitious at that time and didn't think much about it at all, of course, in order to leave a way back, he still helped the eldest lord a few times, intentionally or unintentionally.

Now that he suddenly saw that Prince Zhongshun had changed his temperament, King Yizhong immediately reacted, and Zhongshun had made progress in the matter of building a feudal domain in the open sea, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible for this prince to suddenly seem to have changed his temperament, and he was not even interested in participating in the affairs within the court.

So, King Yizhong also found the eldest master through secret channels and wanted to get involved.

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