Chapter 4: A Letter from Home Announcing Safety

After Zifeng landed on the shore, he went directly to Xiangyuan to report his safety to the princess and the eldest princess.

Although Wang Bi and Qing'er were disappointed, they were a little relieved.

"Is it okay for Your Majesty to be over there?" Qing'er asked.

"Well, except for the darker, everything else is fine, including Commander Liu. ”

Zifeng saw that the eldest princess was beside her, and she looked like she wanted to speak and stopped, so he answered together.

"Did Your Majesty say when you will be back?"

Qing'er hugged the half-year-old Princess Jing with a look of anticipation.

"The minister doesn't know, but His Majesty is worried about auspiciousness, so he asked the minister to hand over a few letters, including one from you, Concubine Shu. ”

As he spoke, Zifeng took out an oilcloth package, in which were several letters lying down.

He carefully took out the above two letters, one for Qing'er and one for Wang Bi.

"In addition, Your Majesty has a new arrangement for the content of the trade between the two sides, and ordered the minister to hand over the letter to the Government Council for review, I wonder what the princess can order?"

"It's still this character, since it's said that the Government Council is responsible, why bother asking me about it. ”

Qing'er said and smiled at Wang Bi, feeling a little sweet in her heart.

Subsequently, at the request of the second daughter, Zifeng told some of the customs of the Southern Subcontinent, which attracted the surprise of the two daughters.

"Sister, isn't there a market for the stove?"

Wang Bi smiled: "When I go back, take a look, if I can, I can really bring some over to test the water." ”

The briquette stove mainly focuses on itinerant vendors, but now the auspicious urban planning is becoming more and more formal, and the small stall vendors can only occupy the road for a fixed period of time, so the sales of coal stoves have reached a bottleneck, and now they are supported by the briquette business.

If there is demand in the Southern Subcontinent, it can be a way to make money.

The two brothers of the big tiger and the little tiger are still behind when they spend money, and if they don't save more money, Wang Bi has no bottom in his heart.

As for Liu Liu, he is just a tendon, count on him, the daylily is cold.

Just when the headquarters of the Business Alliance was still boiling over, Zifeng had arrived at the Government Affairs Yuan and began to convey Wang Xuan and Wang Zhi's next plan.

"Prime Minister, although these two documents are from His Majesty and Member Wang, His Majesty has explained that they can be taken into account. ”

Zhang Yun wore reading glasses, carefully compared the two documents, and was also carefully grasping Wang Xuan's intentions.

Wang Zhi asked Jixiang to speed up the construction of new factories, including a match factory, a high-end lighter factory, a toothbrush and toothpaste factory, a scissors factory (razor factory), and a tableware factory.

Wang Xuan demanded that the match factory and the high-end lighter factory be funded by Xiangyuan.

Clearly, Wang Xuan wanted to privatize the two factories.

Zhang Yun was clear about the reasons for this.

Originally, the military expenses were borne by the royal family alone, and the Government Council would also fight the autumn breeze from time to time, and the inner treasury was already unable to make ends meet.

Now that maritime trade has been opened, a large number of warships, merchant ships, supply ships and their ancillary products have to be produced, and the investment is not half a star.

To put it simply, His Majesty's inner treasury is afraid that it is empty.

After coming to this conclusion, Zhang Yun readily expressed his agreement, which surprised Zifeng.

After thinking about it, it came down to the performance of the monarch and the minister.

That's right, Zhao Sheng knows Wang Xuan the most, so the two cooperate seamlessly.

Later, Zhang Yun ascended to the throne, and although he was somewhat isolated from Wang Xuan, he could also hear the strings and know the elegance.

There was no time to rest, Zifeng immediately went to the military headquarters, Wang Yu received him personally, and several other ministers accompanied him.

"Your Majesty's game of chess is stable. ”

After listening to Zifeng's introduction, Wang Yu unconsciously said this sentence.

Wang Xuan's requirements for the military are threefold.

The first is the development and production of muskets, even if they cannot be mass-produced, it is necessary to process a few barrels that meet the performance standards.

The second is recruitment.

Wang Xuanxin made it clear that at present, the three parties are safe, but sooner or later there will be a day when they will tear their faces and swords to each other, and he hopes that the military will increase the weight of the future war as much as possible.

Wang Yu knows this that the gun team of the research institute has been publicizing this project, and it is not difficult to produce only a few usable muskets.

The last is to speed up the production of hot air balloons.

Since the last time a ration navy was produced, the response has been good.

Coupled with Wang Xuan's idea of zero casualties, hot air balloons have become the best choice.

Think of what it's like to have a hot air balloon flying in the sky and then dropping bombs that blow up your enemies.

This request made Han Zhigang, who was shrinking in the corner, immediately straighten his chest and began to look around......

"Did Your Majesty tell me when you will be back?"

"This, not for the time being, but Your Majesty is still concerned about auspiciousness. ”

This is Zifeng's family's words, which can be regarded as a cover for Wang Xuan.

After finishing all this, Zifeng dragged his tired body and went home.

The wife was overjoyed to see that it was the man who came home.

After some washing and serving, the two sat on the edge of the bed and talked carefully.

"You're dark, but you're much stronger than before. The woman looked at her husband's smooth chest and spoke bluntly.

"It's hotter than auspicious, and in order to broaden the horizon, the trees around the station have been cleared, and the training and reconnaissance tasks are heavy, so it's not dark either. ”

After a pause, he said, "Your Majesty is darker than me!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, knowing that it was disrespectful, and it stopped for a moment.

"How nice are the people there?" the woman asked again.

"Except for the language barrier, the others are not much different, they are all yellow-skinned and black-eyed, but they are ......"

"But what?"

The woman began to make the bed and asked along the way.

"The invaders there are strong. ”

The originally skillful movements suddenly froze, "Is it dangerous?"

"Yes, yes, but Your Majesty already has a strategy. ”

When the woman heard this, her brows stretched slightly, "You just have to do your thing, I can't do anything else, but at least I don't need you at home." ”

Zifeng looked at the mediocre daughter-in-law in front of him, and was a little happy.

The so-called marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, which life he has cultivated in this life, as a new mascot, married an old mascot as a wife, and never abandoned along the way. not only served the life of his old parents, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, but also conceived a son and a daughter for him.

Housework, farmland, everything, can go to the kitchen, can go out of the hall, which of these brothers in the army is not envious?

"What a blessing to have you in this life!"

Not to mention the return to the auspicious people, at least they are all big heroes in the hearts of everyone.

The next day, several major newspapers and periodicals published almost all the information on the Southern Subcontinent on their entire pages.

"Auspicious Current Affairs", "Auspicious Times", "Auspicious Weekly", "Xingyaohu Daily", "Xingyaohe Daily", "Time Magazine", "Art Life", "Playboy", "Pretty Woman" and other magazines, I don't know what means they used to introduce all aspects of the Southern Continent.

Admittedly, some people took advantage of this meeting to make a fortune.

But the content is real, which can be referred to "Auspicious Times".

Most of the newspapers reported information on the geographical environment, cultural customs, general maps, and specialties of the Southern Subcontinent, and also reported that Jixiang had purchased the ownership of dozens of surrounding islands.

The most important thing is that Jixiang bought 10,000 acres of land on the mainland of the island and began to build a new city.

Those who are familiar with Jixiang know that Jixiang City was not built in a day.

During that time, several construction giants, countless construction technicians, and ant-like suppliers were born, feeding thousands of ordinary people and making Jixiang develop rapidly.

Those who can only eat vegetables on weekdays have been upgraded to those who eat meat, and those who can only slap horses on weekdays have now become the envy of others.

This is the case for enterprises such as Liu's Construction, Jiangnan Construction, and Convenience Construction, not to mention the first and second bureaus of Jijian.

Now that the construction of the second auspicious city is imminent, how many oligopolies will be created?

One thing is clear to everyone that a considerable part of the materials cannot be transported from the distant auspicious to the southern continent, so there is only local production.

What does this mean?

The newspapers and periodicals were published in the morning, and by noon, the Government Council was already surrounded by people, except for merchants and merchants.

They are all people who have an industry in Jixiang, and since the opening of Jixiang, housing prices have begun to soar, and they have recently reached a crazy point.

Taking Jixiang City as an example, the original residence of 500 to 600 gold coins has now soared directly to 1,000 gold coins.

Huang Pengxing and Wu Qi are the best examples of businessmen, because they resolutely joined the auspicious nationality at the beginning, they also have the qualifications for sea trade, and bring goods to many former friends.

It stands to reason that the strength of the two of them is in Great Xia, and the top two hundred are all burning incense, but now they have become a member of the lucky ones of the hundred families, tsk, even if the royal family ranked first in Great Xia?

If you don't accept it, you can't do it.

The announcement of these news has added wings to the already hot auspicious economy, so the construction of two new towns in Hedong and Hexi has been officially put on the agenda.

In addition to this news, His Majesty the auspicious king, who has not been seen for a long time, is actually in the Southern Subcontinent.

That's a big deal.

Everyone knows that without Wang Xuan, there would be no auspicious today, and it can even be said that there would be no auspicious land.

He didn't even come back with the warship this time, was he happy?

How attractive is it there?

No matter what the reason is, Wang Xuan is still in the Southern Continent now, and that is enough.

The newspaper flipped to the second side, which published the profit details of various maritime trade commodities, because of the trade secrets involved, so the article made it clear that Jixiang would stop such reports after the official collection of export tariffs.

Hu Yue's horn comb costs five copper coins, the export price is two gold coins, and the net profit is one gold, nine silver and five copper coins.

Although the number of pine wood products in the Western Zhou Dynasty is small, only furniture, handicrafts, ornaments, etc., it is extremely popular in the southern continent.

A scratching claw costs three copper plates, but the export price is close to one gold coin.

In addition, the cost price of auspicious liquor is one gold and one altar of dream auspiciousness (the actual cost is several copper plates), and the export price soars directly to thirty gold and one altar.

There are many of them listed in the newspapers.

However, more partial products were not recorded, and then the customs sent the transaction list of each product by mail.

Of course, postage is deducted in advance.

The superficial impact of these phenomena is that the auspicious rent has risen again, and the house that originally rented one gold a month yesterday has risen directly to two gold this afternoon.

It's not that the auspicious government wants to rise, but the result of bidding by outsiders.

Below this price, even the tenant is embarrassed to open his mouth.

The net profit of a product of oneself is several times or dozens of times, and if you rent a house and then ink it, your peers will look down on it.

Having said that, this rent is not enough for people to tip the porters.

The economic zone near Lianghe Avenue was invested and built by Wang Xuan and Shangmeng, and now it is a daily income, and the market is priceless.

Not to mention, Zhao Huan, the actual head of the customs today, relied on the relationship of his father-in-law to get a house in the east of Laifu Town, facing the river, which was originally valued at fifty gold, and it was a two-entry yard, which was transparent before and after.

According to the design, the front and back yards can be converted into shops, whether they are operated by themselves or rented, and a few gold coins are indispensable every month.

Now it has risen directly to 500 gold.

Sister-in-law Huan even planned to sell the house.

Fortunately, Zhao Huan has been polishing in the system for more than half a year, and knows the essence of the transaction, and the house can be regarded as preserved.

According to the speculation of later generations, Zhao Huan should have received an official warning, otherwise how could he not sell it at ten times the price?

This wronged Zhao Huan, he was just wise and foolish, but he knew the essence of housing prices, so he persevered. This insistence is not exchanged for the amount of money, but the favor of fate, which is a later story, so don't mention it.

With the passage of time, the bits and pieces of the Southern Subcontinent have spread widely in auspiciousness, from the south to the north, all the way to rage.

The newly built Jixiang Foreign Chinese College is even hotter.

What, it doesn't look good? Next time.

You don't have a criminal record?

Isn't it a mascot?

......

The Zifeng fleet, which was originally intended to stay for only ten days, was forced to stop for fifteen days.

No way, a lot of new products are still on the way.

The changes brought about by the first trade were not only that, but the auspicious military took this opportunity to raise the alert level, and the Dongshan Pass and the lake embankment were all strengthened inspections, preferring to kill a thousand by mistake rather than let one go.

The auspicious law and order has become worse and worse, and there have been vicious cases of robbery and murder.

Everyone knows that if Wang Xuan is still auspicious, some people's hats will not be so stable.

Cai Gang is now anxious, in addition to asking for help from the Government Council, he also asked for support from Concubine Shu and the eldest princess.

Qing'er has also been in a struggle these days, Cai Gang is a candidate supported by her husband, and now she is in a dilemma when she asks for help.

It happened that Wang Bi came over with two naughty children, so the two discussed it.

"Although this matter is under the dual jurisdiction of the Government Council and the military, in general, it is still dominated by the Government Council, and we should not interfere. ”

Although Qing'er's heart is on men and children, she is not stupid, so she naturally knows what the eldest princess means.

"I listen to my sister, let the Government Council deal with it. ”

As a result, a new round of strikes has appeared in Jixiang.

As the staunchest supporters and supporters of the royal family, the Jixiang military has strengthened the protection of Xiangyuan and its people, both openly and secretly.

According to Wang Yu's words, if you keep them, you will keep the auspicious today, and at the same time, you will also protect the auspicious and beautiful tomorrow to the greatest extent.