Dominate the Country

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Zheng Jigang had just celebrated his thirtieth birthday. Although he is a 'reduced general', he is a has-been. But because he has the title of "Tong Anbo" on his head, just like the Zheng Lianfu brothers, no one dares to offend him when he goes to sea to do business. Although he is a grandson in the city of Nanjing, in Fujian he is still considered a master. But to say that Zheng Ji lived a happy and comfortable life like this is a matter of opinion.

According to Zheng Ji's own feelings, of course he was making money, but he was very unhappy and worried. Because he can't see the future of his family! ! !

How long can this Piaget brand support the family? One generation, two generations?

Compared with brothers Zheng Lianchang and Zheng Lianfu, their family was inherently restricted and people had to avoid taboos. However, there was a daughter from the same family in the emperor's harem, and Zheng Jihe did not have the ability. Now that the new dynasty is established and the country is prosperous, no one in the Zheng family can stand out. This is too dangerous. It is very, very possible that their family will become merchants in the future. Zheng Ji was very worried about this matter.

Today's China is indeed different from before. The status of merchants has improved a lot, but the inherent imprint of thousands of years still makes Zheng Ji very determined to regard 'merchants' as a shame. Their family is a noble family. No matter how worthless a noble is, he is still a noble, right? If Zheng Ji falls into the merchant class after two generations, he will die and will not be able to see his ancestors.

Zheng Ji's family was well off, and some of the properties they acquired in Quanzhou were not confiscated by the Fuhan Army that subsequently entered. Now a farm company has been established on the acres of land under the family's name, and they have turned to the cultivation of cash crops. But according to Zheng Ji's vision and concept, no matter how rich the Zheng family is and how big their industry is, if no one has a firm foothold in the officialdom, it will be a disaster. The Zheng family also fell from the lintel.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me a chance. The Emperor's kindness is so great that I am so frightened that I will go to pieces to repay the Emperor's kindness!"

When he heard his appointment from Chen Cong, a huge surprise merged into a torrent, which directly hit Zheng Ji's brain. His whole body froze, and his excitement and excitement were like a flood that burst the embankment. A mighty, roaring sound poured out of his mind. He just wanted to yell at the blue sky and run, run, run without any emotion! The excitement and joy in his heart can no longer be expressed in superficial words. Every hair on Zheng Ji's body is beating happily at this moment!

Zheng Ji knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times to the east, tears streaming down his face. This may be a bit pretentious, but Zheng Ji definitely felt a big stone fall in his heart. He was reactivated. The worries of the past two years disappeared in an instant. What does three rings mean? Thirty was not enough to express his excitement. This is a new life.

Their Tiandi Hui in central and southern Fujian was "liberated"! As long as the performance in Nanming Prefecture is not bad, Chen Han's officialdom and army will open a gap for people like them.

In the past two years, the pressure that was as heavy as a mountain disappeared in an instant. When he stood up, Zheng Ji burst into tears.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty. This humble position will ensure that Nanming Prefecture is impregnable." Zheng Ji was in high spirits and was in much better condition than when he arrived.

Chen Cong understood Zheng Ji's state very well and moved his hand to the seat next to him. "Come, let's sit down and talk."

"You are the first governor of Nanming Prefecture, in charge of all local military and political powers. The first batch of immigrants from the imperial court numbered about two thousand people. Plus the battalion under your command and the Japanese security team of 200 people, the total number No more than 3,000 people. You must build a formalized port town in Mohu as quickly as possible. "

Mohu is a place suitable for human habitation found by the Third Overseas Exploration Bureau at the southern end of the west coast of Nanmingzhou. With thousands of miles of coastline, this is considered the most suitable place. When the exploration ship came here, it discovered a river mouth. As the ship went up the river, without going too far inland, it discovered that there were many black swans on the river that had not been seen elsewhere. There are many swans in China, but I have never seen a black swan.

So the Third Bureau named this place Mohu, because swans were called swans, Hongshu and Honghu in ancient China. The river was named Mohu River and a boundary monument was erected.

"This place is the opposite of the Central Plains. It's hot in summer in Nanjing, but it's cold winter there."

"You will set off at the end of August, and it will probably take a month or two to get there. It's late spring."

Chen Cong introduced the local climate and temperament of Mohu to Zheng Ji. He was very surprised. As expected, there are all kinds of strange things under the sky. The climate there is exactly the opposite of that of the Central Plains. The summer in the Central Plains is like the winter there; the winter in the Central Plains is like the summer there. Moreover, the local temperature is not very cold. Even in winter, the temperature is only relatively low in the morning. By noon, it is like late spring and Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is mainly because Chen Cong’s boss, Chen Ming, did not learn geography well in his previous life. If Chen Ming’s geography knowledge was good, he would be able to explain the northern and southern spheres and the northern hemisphere to Chen Cong, and he would also be able to know what the so-called black swan is. What is the position? There is the location of Australia's fourth largest city, Perth, in another time and space.

Perth has a typical Mediterranean climate, with humid winters and long, hot summers. The heat in summer is caused by the heat wave blown by the eastern desert wind, but within a few hours of the heat, the cool sea breeze blows in from the southwest. This place has hot winds in the morning and cool winds in the afternoon. This phenomenon also makes Perth the windiest city in Australia.

The local area is rich in mineral resources, and there is a large gold mine not far away. However, Chen Ming has no knowledge of this location. Perth is the largest city on the west coast of Australia. So speaking of this place, the Third Overseas Exploration Bureau has really found the right location.

"Don't treat your battalion as a real army. They are not even as good as militiamen. The biggest task is still labor. You can select a few captains and battalion commanders from the Fourth Construction Corps, or you can hire veterans from outside. Serve as an officer. But the army will not assign cadres to you." What Chen Cong said was very transparent. Zheng Ji could select a considerable number of officers from the captains and battalion commanders of the labor camps, and he could also select some people from his old troops who retired. As for whether to use his old troops or people from the Fourth Construction Corps, how many people there are in each, this is Zheng Ji's own problem. "The imperial court doesn't give you much time. You have to complete the establishment and reorganization of this battalion within a month. It must be set off before September."

"I'll tell you something ugly first. After arriving in Nanmingzhou, this army cannot be in chaos. If there is chaos, even if you can escape alive, I will be the first to want your head." The so-called 'chaos' here, It's rebellion.

"Nan Mingzhou is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. There is no guarantee that there will be some kind of natural disaster. We made it clear when recruiting troops. If you don't want to, don't recruit them. When the time comes, you will be the first to be stabbed. It’s you. Don’t let a speck of mouse excrement ruin the soup.” This was Chen Han’s first time opening up land thousands of miles overseas, far beyond the reach of the Nanyang Fleet.

The two talked in detail for an hour, and Zheng Ji left gratefully. Chen Cong suddenly smiled after Zheng Ji retreated. Judging from Zheng Ji's performance today, it doesn't matter whether he is really so grateful to the court, but at least he is a smart man. That's enough!

In Nanmingzhou, the only competitor China faces now is the British. But even if the British want to invest in New South Wales at this time, they are still far behind China. The governor of Nanming Prefecture does not face much external competition pressure. What really needs to be tested is his business methods.

It's just that God really favors these foreigners. The east coast of Nanmingzhou has a much better environment than the west coast. Especially the land that was added to New South Wales by the British.

Chen Cong knew what Chen Ming was thinking, so buying New South Wales might not be a bad choice.

Although many places in southern Mingzhou are deserts and arid, the south is still ok. Once cultivated, the acres of land can be compared to other provinces in China. Chen Cong, who underestimated Australia, had no idea the value of the land known as the driest continent in the world.

It is the largest island on Earth, as well as the smallest and flattest landmass. Taking agriculture as an example, although 1/3 of the area is not suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and the other 1/3 is only suitable for the development of animal husbandry, the area of ​​agricultural land is still considerable. There are vast plains and rainforests in the north, deserts in the center, and fertile farmland in the east, southeast, and southwest. The cultivated land area reaches 50 million hectares, which is more than 700 million acres of land.

This is not one province, but the cultivated land area of ​​several provinces.

What's more, Australia still has so many minerals, not just iron ore, but gold mines are also eye-catching.

But what impressed Chen Ming most about Australia in his previous life was the iron ore there, as well as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, two companies he didn't know if they were Australian companies. As for Australia's gold mines, his only impression was of Melbourne, because it was the new gold mine, just opposite San Francisco in the United States.

In addition, there are the gold mines in South Africa and the Yukon Territory in Canada. Needless to say the former, the Rand Gold Mine shocked the world, and he knew that the Yukon Territory is close to Alaska. That's why Chen Ming asked the Overseas Exploration Bureau, which landed in Alaska, to enter the Yukon as soon as possible after laying down the foundation. At this time, perhaps not even a single British person had set foot there. Except for a few indigenous people, it was a world of animals.

As for whether we can find a gold mine, it's a matter of whether we have dates or not. Now it is not considered the territory of the British. The dividing line between Alaska and Canada was drawn after the British, Americans and Canadians sat together after the United States bought Alaska from Lao Maozi. How straight. A line!

Zheng Ji, who left the Cabinet Office and boarded a carriage outside, quickly put away the gratitude on his face. But as soon as he thought of the content of the holy edict, his face immediately burst into laughter again. Although there are less than 3,000 people in Nanming Prefecture now, and it is better to say that he is a governor than a village chief, the development future of Nanming Prefecture is just around the corner. The depression accumulated between his brows had completely dissipated unconsciously.

This is the right!

Before Li Shimin died, he demoted Li Ji to the position of governor of Diezhou and left it to his son to benevolent. How could Li Ji not understand such a trick? But Li Ji didn't use it before he tried it. In the month after Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, he was summoned to the imperial court to pay homage to the governor of Luozhou. Then he was granted the title of Kaifu Yitong Third Division, and was appointed as a subordinate of Tong Zhongshu to participate in the management of confidential affairs. In the same year, he was also worshiped as Shangshu Zuopushe. Even Li Ji himself was afraid of this promotion. He petitioned to be relieved of his post as a servant, but Li Zhi still ordered him to continue to be in charge of political affairs with the position of Kaifu Yi and the Third Division.

The friendship between the monarch and his subjects became stronger when they wrote this letter asking for forgiveness.

Compared with Li Ji in history, Zheng Ji certainly does not have Li Ji's ability, merit and qualifications, but he was suppressed by Chen Ming for two years, leaving only a short-term count. Now that he is released, he feels very sad in his heart. I knew that all my previous worries and panic were caused by Chen Ming, the emperor, but I was more grateful to Chen Ming. It's a bit like Stockholm syndrome.

As for whether Zheng Ji has ulterior motives and secretly hates Chen Ming, as long as Zheng Ji is not a pig-brained person, he will never have such thoughts in the face of irreversible trends.

People feel refreshed when happy events occur. At this moment, Zheng Ji felt that his whole body was light and airy. If there was a gust of wind, he could fly into the sky. The power of the spirit is so great!

Although the holy edict only opened a small crack in official circles for them, especially in the army. But Qianli Zhiti was defeated in an ant nest. Zheng Ji never thought that the generals of the dynasty were more capable than himself. He was unable to resist the firepower of the Fuhan Army. He sat beside Chen Erbao, Chen Qi and the others. The position will not be worse than them. These people are destined to be lucky!

"Then it depends on whether our own people can live up to expectations!"

Zheng Ji leaned against the back wall of the carriage, having forgotten all the worries and a ray of sorrow in the past. His brain quickly started thinking about how many people he could place under his command. How many people can the Zheng family bring in, and how many positions can be divided between the Zhang family and the Li family... How can we divide it so that we can take care of our own people and at the same time let the passion of those in the Construction Corps burst out.

For a time, hundreds of thousands of thoughts flashed through Zheng Ji's mind, causing the corners of his mouth to curl up.

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Zeng Mu Da Dao.

Huang Dingyou, who had a bitter look on his face, lamented, "What on earth did I get that made me so dizzy that I had such a fever that I traveled so far away and suffered such a terrible crime?" This place is much hotter than Jiangnan. Wearing a layer of single clothes It was so hot that I was sweating profusely, and there were lots of mosquitoes and ants. Huang Dingyou would really rather go to Lake Baikal again in the winter than stay here any longer.

So starting from the second month after he came here, he kept sending letters to the newspaper headquarters, asking for a change of position. He, Huang Dingyou, was a hero in the newspaper. When he was a war reporter, he submitted many articles to the newspaper.

Huang Dingyou likes novelty by nature. Hearing that the newspaper was planning to send a reporter to Zeng Mu Da Dao, he signed up without much thought. He knew that the weather here was very hot, but Huang Dingyou never expected that the weather here would be really hot.

Fortunately, his transfer request was approved by the newspaper, because he was directly fired by the newspaper. Huang Dingyou, who was in a bad mood and "crazy" wrote to the newspaper that he would resign unless he was transferred. Then he didn't even have to resign, and he could get three more months of salary compensation from the newspaper.

From the subsequent private messages from friends in the newspaper, he learned that Huang Dingyou's "resignation" just made room for the nephew of a new vice president in the newspaper. Huang Dingyou felt like ‘fuck me’ in his heart!

"Nanjing Daily" is the largest newspaper office and occupies the capital's advantage. In addition to being unable to compete with some national-character newspapers, its circulation is no worse than that of some provincial newspapers, and its circulation is wider.

As I said before, the current Chen Han newspaper industry is developing rapidly. If you can find an editor position in a newspaper, it is a decent job. Huang Dingyou had been busy for several months in order to become a full-time employee from a small job, and then he became a war reporter and officially became a member of the "Nanjing Daily". But now because of this matter, he can no longer be said to be a 'journalist' Got it!

Huang Dingyou is now experiencing both setbacks in his life and career. He feels like he has been abandoned by the world?

Although he was free to leave Zeng Mu Da Dao, he felt that he really couldn't go back to Nanjing.