Dominate the Country

Seventy miles west of Xiaonangou, this village named Qingfeng Village is the fourth village established by the Chen family in Funiu Mountain. This is the last escape route that the Chen family has prepared for themselves. Since the Xiangxian den has expanded, the net profit of nearly ten thousand taels of silver in a month has not only boosted the spirits of the entire Chen family, but also made them worried.

Without him, the profit would be too great. It's beyond the scope of the Chen family's luxury.

Ten thousand taels of silver, in just one month, is equivalent to less than half of Chen's total assets. The Chen family has a family fortune that has been accumulated over decades and hundreds of years of hard work. It is actually incomparable to the current three-month profit.

Before doing anything, Chen Ming also looked into the future for everyone in the Chen family, and also talked about the benefits of more than 100,000 taels a year. But at that time, these words all had the attribute of "flowers in the mirror, moon in the water", but now they are like white money in the palm of the hand, which can be seen and touched. For people, these are two completely different concepts.

Think about the wasted profit of more than 100,000 taels a year. If this news leaks out and is known to others, will the Chen family still be able to survive?

As a wealthy family, the Chen family has seen too many dark and messy things, but this is reality, and this is how the world is.

After their fiery hearts were cooled by the cold money, the Chen family calmed down and began to consider their options. Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. The Chen family must prepare a reliable escape route for themselves, so as to save hundreds of people from the whole family from being slaughtered without any help.

Therefore, it became necessary to build a stronghold in the mountains and stock up on food and other supplies. When things get too late, the Chen family can retreat to the Funiu Mountains as a last resort, and then split up and escape. Anyway, the Chen family had money in their hands, so they could escape and remain anonymous, and they could still live a wealthy life.

Chen Ming vigorously contributed to this proposal, and also proposed to go to Guangzhou and other southern ministers to purchase real estate and shops. Reality is not like an eight o'clock TV show. Anyone can run around with a banknote. Although the banknote can be unnamed, as long as the amount is larger, it must be registered + token.

When the Chen family reaches the final step, they will definitely become wanted criminals, and no matter how much money they throw into the bank account, it will be in vain. And if a person runs away, he can't carry anything too heavy. One or two hundred taels of silver is enough to carry with him. What's the use of that much silver?

Chen Ming could think of problems that the elders of the Chen family could not imagine. But this can't be done in the blink of an eye. The Chen family still needs to change their vests, which will take a long time.

Chen Ming happily watched the Chen family build a stronghold deep in Funiu Mountain. With the knife above his head, it made sense for him to make iron cannons and muskets and hoard gunpowder. Chen Ming would not mention rebellion. Looking at the appearance of the Chen family, who would have the heart to rebel? Everyone wants to be rich and glorious. It would be unwise to make your plans clear at this time. He just needs to see that what he hopes to accomplish is accomplished little by little with the strength of his family.

In addition to Qingfeng Village, the Chen family has three other villages in the vast Funiu Mountains. One is between the coal mine and the iron mine. It was originally the place where the Chen family's private mine was dispatched and turned around. Now it is the Chen family's second village after Xiaonangou. Located at the iron smelting base. The coal mined from the mountains is directly smelted into coke here and then transported back to Xiaonangou. The iron ore mined from the mountains must also be crushed and preliminarily smelted here before being sent to Xiaonangou. This step does not directly reduce the risk of contact between the mine and Xiaonangou. The transportation burden between Xiaonangou is doubled, but the economic benefits are doubled.

And the most important thing is that the Chen family bought a lot of 25-year-old girls from brothels all over the country and sent them to this place for the miners to relieve their anger.

This sentence is very vulgar, but it is what they use.

Because the Chen family is very good about absenteeism. They eat well, sleep well and warmly, and can rest for one day every ten days. Although they cannot go out of the mountains, they can go to the Tiezhai to eat, drink and have fun. The Chen family gave them money. With the money, Tiezhai would be a paradise.

In Tiezhai, there are storytellers, opera singers, jugglers, gamblers, and flesh sellers.

In order for hundreds of single men to work hard honestly, there is only one carrot hanging in front of them - five years. The contract they signed with the Chen family is for five years. After five years, you can just pat your butt and leave. They also need to have fun to let them vent, and women are indispensable.

As for the income of these women, the Chen family only takes 20%, and the remaining money is paid for rent. After excluding food and clothing expenses, they themselves can save at least half. This ratio is much better than when they were in the brothel. It's just that the time it took to sign was a little longer, five years, which is as long as those men who do the work. Five years later, they will be thirty years old.

But this is their trouble. The Chen family is not a charity organization and has prepared everything for them. In this way, the Chen family has done its utmost to be kind and righteous to this group of older women. You know, these ladies themselves were bought by the Chen family.

This is because the Chen family is not short of money, otherwise they would not have such superior conditions.

Chen Ming doesn't know what the Chen family will be like in five years. Five years is a long time, so for the time being, he doesn't need to worry about the troubles in five years. Anyway, he only knew one thing - news about the Chen family must not be leaked.

These days, the Chen family is mobilizing all their strength to investigate the affairs of Ruzhou, and even investigate He Huazhang's family in Lushan County. But no trace was found at all. He Huazhang's family background was mediocre. From his childhood education to his enrollment in Qintai Academy, his life trajectory for more than ten years was clearly visible, and it was as tight as usual. He had never heard of any relationship between this person and that big shot.

Chen Ming couldn't really help with this matter, so he returned to Xiaonangou. He planned to make glass. Instead of a large flat mirror, he first made a few pieces of pure glass, which would make it much easier to make a telescope.

Chen Ming got a few pieces of fine crystal during the Chinese New Year, and he thought of using crystal to grind lenses to make monocular telescopes. This thing is very useful in war, especially in the mountains. Because Chen Ming mentioned that this is good for "secrecy", the Chen family was very concerned and specially found a lens grinding expert from Nanyang Prefecture.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, although glasses were still rare, they had already appeared in various places. Nanyang Prefecture is a big prefecture, and the Nanyang Basin is not a barren place. There are people who buy glasses. The lenses are all pure natural crystal.

As a result, the masters found by the Chen family had good skills in grinding lenses, but the center of the circle was not found correctly, and most of the materials were wasted. After several months of hard work, they made three monocular telescopes, and the cheap dad took one and played with it for a long time.

After hearing that the cannon was successfully cast, Chen Ming rushed to Qingfeng Village in the deepest part of the mountain. The incident in Ruzhou made him feel a sense of crisis again. It was this sense of crisis that made Chen Ming's guilt when facing the long-term people in Tiezhai and the private mine disappear a lot.

It seemed that there was a will of heaven telling him that the Chen family could not last for five years!