The appointment and dismissal of officials in the Annan Prefecture Prefecture was too late to pass the imperial court, so Xia Jing selected candidates in Lingnan, and Li Jingfu issued an order to give officials, first let these officials take up their posts first, and then send a letter to Beijing to report to the emperor.

Although Dayu's national strength is steadily improving, the country is engaged in large-scale infrastructure construction, like many places are building cement roads and railways, as well as setting up factories, and the daily money is spent like flowing water.

In particular, this year, it is necessary to open up the grasslands and build the Hetao Plain area into a major city in the north, which will consume a huge amount of money.

For example, if you want to restore production in Annam, you need officials at all levels to cooperate in governing this area, and then pay taxes and minerals to the imperial court to achieve results.

Now there is probably only one problem that plagues Emperor Dayu and his courtiers, which can be summed up in one word: money!

Li Jingfu handed over the burden on his shoulders to Li Chengmu, and it can be said that he was light to relieve the heavy responsibility, but he did not forget to help the new emperor reduce the burden as much as possible.

The former gentleman is now unconsciously aware of the heavy responsibility of the world.

"Hehe, the Queen Mother, we have also been in the palace for a few days, it's time to slow down, it's okay today, let's go to the factories in Lingnan, let me see what your Nissan Doujin factory looks like?"

On this day, Li Jingfu, who was bored in the Lingnan Palace, made a suggestion to Xia Jing.

Speaking of factories in Lingnan, there are not many to say, there are a lot to say less, since Xia Jing set up a factory in Lingnan, whether it is a merchant in Lingnan or a foreign merchant, it is used to running a factory to produce anything.

Whether it is public or private, there are dozens of large and small in Lingnan.

At present, the army raised by Dayu belongs to the navy and costs the most money, and most of the navy's current military salary is borne by Xia Jing, so Li Jingfu came back from going to sea this time and sincerely wanted to visit her factory.

After getting up early and eating breakfast, sitting in the gazebo, drowsy by the south wind, listening to Li Jingfu's words, Xia Jing's eyes were stimulated by the light, and she could only open a slit.

She glanced at him, "Why did you think of going to the factory today?" Isn't there anything in the backyard of this palace that can make you happy? ”

Li Jingfu shook the fan in his hand, a little embarrassed, but his words were quite sincere: "Hey! This is not this time to go to sea, I have seen the strength of our Dayu Navy, thinking about the resources consumed to form a navy, I want to go around your factory to see what kind of factory can support such a huge naval army. ”

Such words surprised Xia Jing, she sat up slowly, and looked at him in surprise: "Tsk, others should be impressed by Shibei for three days, and our Emperor Taishang should be impressed for half a day, and you will also care about the national policy and people's livelihood at this time?" ”

Li Jingfu looked away, and then thought that it was wrong, and glared back at her, his face was embarrassed, "How did you talk as a woman?" When did I stop caring about national policy and people's livelihood? You say this as if you were sitting on the throne a few years ago! ”

Xia Jing saw that he was annoyed, and responded cheerfully: "Okay, then let's go out for a walk!" ”

As he spoke, he instructed Ye Fei to arrange a trip.

"Don't" Li Jingfu stretched out his hand to stop Ye Fei, who turned around, and turned back to Xia Jing and proposed: "Don't work hard to move the crowd, we will pay a private visit and go out for a walk casually." ”

"A private interview with Weifu?"

"Yes, our Queen Mother of Dayu, you have to be low-key!"

The weather in Lingnan is very sunny in summer, so most of the buildings on both sides of Lingnan streets are with corridors, except for horse-drawn carriages and livestock, people generally take corridors to go shopping.

And these corridors also show their practicality in this hot summer.

The carriage of King Qian's Mansion this trip has no signs, it is a very ordinary carriage, Li Jingfu noticed the crowded crowd in the corridor, and sighed: "Today's Lingnan is more prosperous than Lingnan a few years ago." ”

There were many smiles on the faces of the people, but they rarely saw sad faces.

"Which factory do you want to go to first?" Xia Jing turned around and asked him.

Li Jingfu thought for a while, "Lingnan is the first state capital of Dayu to run trains, so let's go to the former iron workshop first." ”

The single blacksmith who was the main beam in the workshop has been promoted to the military bureau in the capital, but the ironworks in Lingnan have not been abandoned because of this.

As a result, it has expanded and become a manufacturer of internal combustion engines, which can now produce internal combustion engines for trains and agricultural internal combustion engines.

As soon as the group turned to the street of the internal combustion engine factory, they heard the roar of machines in the distance.

"Is this a test machine in the factory?" Li Jingfu raised the curtain.

Just by lifting the curtain, he knew that he was wrong, and the roar was not from the internal combustion engine factory, but from another street behind him.

Anu, who was driving the car outside, replied: "Back to the master, it's an agricultural machine, not from the internal combustion engine factory." ”

"Farm machines?" Li Jingfu asked the carriage to be parked on the side of the road.

It didn't take long for a farm truck driven by a young man to slowly drive by, and the body behind his car was filled with watermelons.

Li Jingfu pointed to the agricultural vehicle that drove over, was shocked, and turned back to Xia Jing and asked: "This car is produced by the Lingnan Internal Combustion Engine Factory?" ”

Xia Jing leaned against the wall of the car and nodded with a smile: "Yes, the one that passed just now is a farming machine, which can be used to plow the land when the farm is busy, and can be loaded on the body to transport goods or modern walking tools when the farm is not working." ”

"Hey!" Li Jingfu looked at the farm vehicles that were far away but could still hear the roar, and was dumbfounded for a while: "."

After a long time, until he could no longer hear the roar, he lowered the curtain and asked, "Since there is such a useful agricultural vehicle, why don't you get one for yourself, so that I can run without livestock?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at him and gave him two words: "It's too noisy!" ”

"Noisy?"

Li Jingfu pricked up his ears and listened again, the farm truck had already gone away, and it seemed that they could still hear the roar in the same place, which was indeed quite noisy.

Ye Fei, who was riding a horse and following the carriage, listened to the conversation between the two and explained: "Lingnan was the first to apply the internal combustion engine to farming, and agricultural vehicles are very popular in Lingnan.

These rich people, I don't know if they think that cattle and horses are too troublesome to raise or what, they actually abandon cattle and horse carts and directly spend money to buy agricultural vehicles as a means of transportation. ”

When Li Jingfu heard his words this time, he was shocked, and directly opened the curtain of the car to fix it, and asked: "The people of Lingnan are already rich enough to afford agricultural vehicles?" ”

Agricultural vehicles may be affordable for people who work a little harder in later generations, but in this era when the industrial revolution was just beginning, a farm vehicle was really expensive.

Even though the imperial court has reduced the price to the minimum, it is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Ye Fei chuckled: "Those who can afford agricultural vehicles are not necessarily ordinary people, and even the powerful and wealthy businessmen in Lingnan today like to buy a farm vehicle as a scooter." ”

Li Jingfu: "."

He looked back at Xia Jing: "Aren't farm vehicles used to cultivate land?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at him: "You think too much, do you know how much it costs to build a farm machine at present?" Even according to the factory price, it is not something that ordinary people can afford to buy without making a penny. ”

"And what did you ask the workshop to make farm machines for?" Since it can't be used for farming and can't help the people, the value of the creation is greatly reduced.

Xia Jing squinted slightly and asked, "Do you know what the Industrial Revolution represents?" If Dayu wants to become a strong country and stand on top of the world, it must develop industry, and industrial development is not achieved overnight, it must slowly become mature and strong through the reform of countless people. ”

"We can't stop producing because its price is not close to the people, as the industry matures, the cost will naturally come down slowly, and maybe the people can afford it."

As the words fell, there was another roar in the distance, and without asking, there was another agricultural vehicle.

Xia Jing knocked on the wall of the carriage, and the carriage moved again.

In fact, the carriage was bumpy, and the agricultural vehicle was also bumpy, speaking of which, Xia Jing was most satisfied with the car of later generations.

And there is it in her space, and it is also a means of transportation for her later generations, but it is too advanced to take out something that is not appropriate, so she can only urge these people in this era to make their own inventions.

Li Jingfu sneered, "Most of the military salaries you pay for cultivating the navy come from here?" ”

"Part of it."

When they arrived at the internal combustion engine factory, the director of the factory greeted them: "The little one has seen the emperor and the master." ”

"Flat!" Li Jingfu raised his hand, but his eyes were looking around.

The predecessor of the internal combustion engine factory was the iron workshop, and in the first two years, it manufactured bearings and assembled many foot-operated threshing machines.

Today's Lingnan people farming and threshing no longer need to be threshed by hand, but use a foot-operated threshing machine, which is both labor-saving and fast, and is simply not too perfect for the ancient times when the productivity was backward.

The bearings of threshing machines are sold all over the country, and now this performance is also another major income for internal combustion engine factories.

Li Jingfu has never seen the production process of the internal combustion engine, in short, as far as the eye can see, although he can't understand it, he is shocked.

They didn't stay long in the internal combustion engine factory, they went to the textile factory, where Li Jingfu was even more shocked, all the workshops and countless textile machines were working, and all the operators were women, girls, daughters-in-law, old mothers, but anyone who was healthy and could weave could come here to work and make money to supplement the family.

There were many men in his party, and when the women saw them coming, they only glanced at them, and then turned back to spinning and weaving in earnest.

There was no look of coarseness on their faces.

Li Jingfu is worthy of being the Ninth Five-Year Honor, how shocked he is in his heart, he doesn't show it on his face, others don't ask, he also holds it in his heart and doesn't ask, and follows behind to visit as usual.

Looking at Xia Jing in front of him who asked about the management of the factory, it seemed that he understood a little bit why these women were not strange to them.

The textile factory is the one with the largest number of women, and then there are too many to visit the sugar factory, the porcelain factory, the garment factory, the handicraft factory, the furniture factory, and so on.

The cement factory is outside the city, and this time they did not go outside the city again, and some of the factories they visited are under Xia Jing's name, and most of them are the factories of Lingnan merchants' own family workshops, which have been restructured and expanded.

It wasn't until the sun set that the group drove the carriage slowly on the streets of Fucheng.

"How about the cement factory, the shipyard and the salt pans tomorrow?" Li Jingfu seems to vow to visit the entire Lingnan large and small factories.

Xia Jing thumped her old waist and shook her head: "One day of shopping is enough, we have been back for so many days, and the matter is almost dealt with, it is time to go back to Xia Mansion tomorrow to see my parents and family." ”

Li Jingfu was slightly stunned, a look of shame flashed in his eyes, he had been back for a few days, and he almost forgot that the Xia family was still in Lingnan.

After Xia Jing was named the queen, the Xia family entered the public eye, and Xia's father Xia Dunhou was named the Marquis of Mingyue, and since then, the Xia family has become a noble family of Dayu.

From the title, it can be seen that the Xia family does not have the ambition to take advantage of Xia Jing's power and tilt the government and the opposition.

Today's Mingyue Hou Mansion is naturally not the original Xia family's three courtyards, after the original will came down, Xia Jing persuaded them to enter the capital to develop, but the Xia family had no intention of leaving Lingnan for the time being, so Xia Jing paid to help the Xia family build a Hou Mansion.

Li Jingfu paid attention to Xia Jing's face, and when he saw that there was no look of concern on her face, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He opened his mouth and asked, "It's time to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law, I asked Anu to prepare gifts, apart from some standing gifts, what else do you have to explain?" ”

Xia Jing was quite surprised when she heard his words, and looked at him deliberately: "I'll write a gift list in the evening, and let Anu prepare it according to the gift list tomorrow." ”

Zhen Cuisine House opened today, and the evening was almost to dinner, and the restaurant was already full of guests in front of the restaurant.

The first floor of the Treasure House is the lobby, the second, third and fourth floors are private rooms, and the fifth floor is closed to the public.

At this time, there was a handsome man in brocade clothes standing in front of the window on the fifth floor, he stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looked down at the guests at the door of the restaurant, and entered the restaurant in groups, and the smile on his face did not fall.

Looking in the distance, there were still a number of carriages coming this way, but when his gaze swept over a man on horseback, a smile froze, and a look of shock appeared on his face, but it quickly turned to surprise.

Lian Gui, the little guy next to him, noticed the master's expression and asked, "Master, what's wrong?" Who's coming downstairs? ”

Lian Gui walked over quickly, ready to stretch his neck to look downstairs, but before his neck could be stretched out, the master beside him had already rushed into the room like a whirlwind.

"Oh, Lord, Master."

Before he could finish speaking, there was no master at the door, so Lian Gui stomped his foot helplessly and followed.

"I've seen General Ye, long time no see!"

Just now, the black shadow rushed up, Ye Fei almost stabbed instinctively without drawing his sword, and at this time, he saw the person clearly, and said with a dark face: "I used to look quite a stable person, why is I so reckless now?" ”

If he hadn't stopped in time, the person in front of him would have been strung together by him at this moment!

"I was reckless and frightened General Ye!"

Hearing this, Ye Fei's face turned even darker, what did he say was frightened! He seems to be a weak woman.

"Is there a mother in the carriage?"

Ye Fei turned his face to the other side with a dark face, but he didn't answer his question.

Tong Song: "."

He was just too excited, he didn't control his speed for a while, how could a big man be so stingy?

Just when the two were at a stalemate, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, Xia Jing looked at Tong Song who stopped in front of the carriage, the person was still as pleasing to the eye as before, but the beads of sweat on his forehead proved how fast he ran just now.

"The Tong family is young."

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