Dominate the Country

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live..."

On the Hangzhou Canal Pier, a crowd of Jiangsu and Zhejiang officials, wealthy businessmen, and ordinary people knelt on the ground. Except for a small number of police and soldiers who were directly responsible for security duties, all military personnel also knelt down.

Several blond and blue-eyed Europeans were among the crowd. After hesitating a little, they knelt down in submission.

"Ping Shen..." Zhang Dayong shook the dust in his arms and shouted in a high voice.

Chen Ming's face was serious without any smile.

From getting off the dragon boat to landing, from the pier to the palace by the West Lake, and even to the officials and industrial and commercial representatives who were soon summoned, as well as the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Industry and Commerce Conference that was held later, and at the banquet held at the palace, Chen Ming behaved like this from beginning to end. A face.

The palace by the West Lake is the place that attracts the most attention in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Hangzhou people even want to put their eyes on the outer wall of the palace. Any disturbance could spread throughout the city instantly.

"Is the Emperor unhappy? All walks of life in Hangzhou welcome him so respectfully, and the welcome ceremony is so grand?" Why do you keep a straight face?

Cubie shouted loudly, expressing his dissatisfaction.

The people of Hangzhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang welcomed the arrival of the Chinese Emperor with the utmost respect and grandeur, but the Chinese Emperor always kept a straight face. Is this expressing dissatisfaction with the people of Hangzhou and Jiangsu and Zhejiang?

"This is really too much." As a disciple of Montesquieu, Coupier was very dissatisfied with this kind of 'tyranny' of rights.

Shanghai's colleges and universities are already on holiday. This summer, the four families of Coubier, Georg, Ekdal and Ekdal's younger brother Lundberg did not stay in Shanghai to relax, but chose to go out for fun. . There are so many places to play in China.

What's more, the incomes of the four families are very good. Even the 'watchmaker' Lundberg, who has the lowest social status, can be regarded as a highly skilled talent and can earn more than 200 yuan a month. Nowadays, there are more and more clocks in China, but the industry of watchmakers who repair clocks has not prospered along with it.

The other three earn even more. Take Dakdar as an example. His initial salary reached 150 yuan, which was pure salary income, not counting various subsidies and material benefits. And now Dakdal's pure salary income has exceeded three hundred yuan. Because not only did he pass the Chinese Language Special Examination, but his salary will continue to increase with teaching years. This is really an angelic and beautiful rule. For Dakdar, now his family has no need to worry about survival.

The latter's children have all entered school.

"Of course the Great Emperor of China will be unhappy. Don't just look at the surface in front of you, Coupie, you have to think about why His Majesty the Emperor of China came to Hangzhou?" Georg did not agree with Coupie's view. The Great Emperor of China The reason why the emperor came to Hangzhou has long been insinuated by newspapers. Many people knew that the purpose of the Chinese emperor's visit was to comfort businessmen in Ningbo and even China.

At the just-held Industrial and Commercial Development Conference, His Majesty the Emperor personally stated that the formulation and implementation of industrial and commercial laws will be strengthened to protect the development of legitimate economic order. Although what he said seemed to be related to what happened in Ningbo, anyone who understood what was going on knew that the emperor was protecting the industrial and commercial entities.

"Any person with power will not have a smile on his face when he is being forced." In Georg's eyes, Chen Ming came to Hangzhou because he was being forced. But this pressure is not significant, and the emperor of China does not need to care about it at all.

Georg agreed with what some newspapers said. His views are very different from those of Coubier, almost opposite.

"I'm very surprised. Why does His Majesty the Emperor of China, who has so much power, bow to businessmen? China is not Europe. The emperor is in charge of everything here. He doesn't need to do this at all." The emperor of China only needs to give an order and everything will be over. It became a rule that he did not have to come to Hangzhou in person. Like Georg, Lundberg was also very puzzled.

As a watchmaker, Lundberg was well aware of the power and majesty of power when he was still a small person in Stockholm. When he arrived in China after all the hardships by boat, he was led by his brother E. Kedar helped settle down the family. At that time, Kedar, who already knew a lot about China, gave his younger brother a thorough explanation of Chinese rules. In the following life, although Lundberg did not suffer the bullying and blows of the powerful, it also gave him a deeper understanding of Darkdar's words. Therefore, he could feel the supremacy of the Chinese imperial power. Then he was very puzzled, why did His Majesty the Emperor, who held the supreme power, 'bow' to a group of businessmen?

Bow, yes, bow. In the eyes of many people, Chen Ming went south to Hangzhou specifically to appease a group of businessmen, which meant that he was bowing his head to Ningbo businessmen and the world's industry and commerce.

Does His Majesty, the Emperor of China, want to risk his own dignity and the foundation of his imperial power being eroded to further elevate the status of industry and commerce?

All Europeans in China can feel the disdain for ‘business’ in traditional Chinese culture.

They couldn't understand this, but they remembered it firmly.

But now the supreme emperor has bowed his head to business. How amazing is this?

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"Every emperor has his own way of governing the country."

"Your Majesty was born in a commoner family. When he was young, he fought for the world. He raised his army for ten years, stabilized the country, restored the mountains and rivers, and revived the Han Dynasty. In five years, the world was in great order. He led the world to a land of benevolence, longevity and prosperity. He also used the talents of the world to serve the world. The Qin Emperor and Han Wudi could not compare with him in military achievements, and the Tang Emperor and Song Emperor could not compare with him in civil governance. Such a wise and wise ruler has the laws and regulations of the world in his heart." Wang Xichen leaned against the head of the bed and sighed to the lady beside him.

He was a landlord in Hangzhou. He had been in the palace these days. Facing an emperor with a serious face and no smile, Wang Xichen was overwhelmed.

"You mean the emperor has his own ideas in his heart..., that's still exaggerating the businessmen?" Wang Shi was not a woman who didn't know shit. Her husband had become the prefect of the provincial capital. How could she not know anything about political affairs?

Wang Xichen did not answer his wife's words immediately, but looked at the top of the tent, and sighed for a while: "People say that Li Shimin is open to advice, broad-minded, and magnanimous. He is a rare person in a thousand years. Your Majesty is not inferior to him in magnanimity."

"Your Majesty has been in Hangzhou for several days, and your intention is self-evident."

"But no matter how angry Your Majesty is, you can still hold it back, instead of brandishing swords and guns against Ningbo and the world's industry and commerce. How magnanimous is he?"

In Wang Xichen's eyes, this is the sacrifice Chen Ming made for the "way of governing the country" in his heart.

In his eyes, the "way of governing the country" in Chen Ming's mind must have a place for industry and commerce, so the emperor repeatedly raised the status of the industrial and commercial class, and in this matter he would rather lose face and lose his dignity than suppress the "offense" of the industrial and commercial class, but continued to make a show of it.

Such a mind and persistence can really be said to be admirable. Don't worry about whether Wang Xichen agrees with Chen Ming's "way of governing the country".

This view must be not only held by Wang Xichen. So there are really many sayings in the 21st century, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Your three views, your vision, and your social status will lead to different results and conclusions when looking at the same problem.

Chen Ming himself never thought that his behavior of purely comforting the business community in Ningbo, Jiangsu and Zhejiang would be interpreted as it is now by the ministers below.

In the eyes of many people, he "bowed" to industry and commerce, but God saw pity, Chen Ming himself really didn't have that idea. He even regarded them as fat sheep and took up the knife himself...

This can only be said that even though Chen Ming has traveled through more than ten years, his thoughts are still very different from those of people in this era. In Chen Ming's eyes, this is just a kind release, involving an active and passive relationship, which is far from being a humiliation of dignity.

At the beginning, his plan was to smile and go through the entire "journey" with a gentle breeze. If it weren't for the fact that the ministers submitted memorials one after another later, which made Chen Ming realize the difference, Wang Xichen would have a different feeling now.

Chen Ming stayed in Xin'anjiang for a month and a half before returning home. It was already July.

Taksin of Siam submitted a memorial that the rainy season in Myanmar was about to end and the war would start again. He needed all the support of arms, materials and money.

The three families in Annan also sent memorials that the progress was going well. Taking the Nguyen in the south as an example, they have finalized the agreements of a military factory, a steel plant, a spinning mill and a weaving mill in the past few months. They also used loans to purchase a batch of arms and hired a Chinese instructor group, which made them lively for a while.

But in Chen Ming's eyes, Annan was just a pile of rotten meat. Over time, they would only get more and more smelly.

North Korea was still buzzing. The construction of the immigration points in Nanmingzhou, Malay and Luzon was going smoothly. It was still winter in Nanmingzhou. New situations have emerged in North America. The Spanish in Mexico are indeed gathering land forces, but the entire expeditionary force is full of confidence and fearless.

Today, Chinese immigrants in North America have established dozens of large and small settlements along the long coastline of the west coast of North America, just like a thin pearl chain, embellishing the barren wilderness of the west coast of North America.

There are also economic development in various parts of the country, tax revenue, the education work of the Ministry of Culture and Education, the development progress of poor and difficult mountainous areas, the construction of national highways and railways in various places, and the breeding of military horses and long-haired sheep on the prairie...

And so on and so forth. There are good and bad, and there are more joys than sorrows.

Finally, this year's foreign trade.

There is no French merchant ship, and the number of merchant ships from Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Portugal has greatly decreased. For example, Sweden has only received two ships so far this year, which has fallen to the level when the Qing Dynasty was still there.

Therefore, although the number of British merchant ships has not decreased, and even increased compared with last year, the overall trade enthusiasm between the East and the West has declined.

Of course, this does not mean that China's foreign trade volume in the first half of this year has decreased.

Although trade between the East and the West has decreased, China's trade volume with surrounding areas is increasing rapidly.

All countries in the Indochina Peninsula, except Siam and Annan, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Luang Prabang and several other small countries can also contribute. At the same time, the sales of various Chinese goods and products in Luzon and Malaysia have also increased rapidly, just like the rapid growth of British and French foreign goods in China after the Second Crow. In the weak "autonomy", it is also a solid shell. Now Malaysia and Luzon have lost this shell, and they have been quickly conquered by Chinese goods.

Not to mention Japan and Korea. One dared not resist, and the other was swallowed up directly.

The fate of Korea can at least make the Japanese behave for a while. If China can swallow Korea, in Japan's imagination, it can also swallow Japan. The Chinese already have immigrants and military bases in Ezo, and warships are stationed in Ryukyu in the south...

When a country's "autonomy" fades, the door to that country's economic market is completely opened. And how miserable will the Eastern countries, which have opened their doors, be facing the current China. That is a no-brainer, just like a naked beauty falling into the bed of a pervert.

What's more, China now has India as a trading partner. Mysore fought with the British, but India is not just one Mysore Kingdom, there are also countless indigenous princes, big and small, all of whom are China's trading partners, especially those near the sea.

Finally, there is the Arabian world. Except for Persia, which China does not pay much attention to, other Arabian countries, alliances, and tribes have already traded with China, although some of them are very small. For example, North Africa, the area west of Egypt.

But the combined trade volume of these is far greater than the share of the reduction in Western trade.

So the thing that Chen Ming was most worried about did not happen. Although the war that broke out in the West affected China's economy and trade, he had been working on the economic and trade development of other regions, and successfully took over Malay and Luzon, annexed North Korea, and established connections with the Arabian world and India. The combined trade volume completely made up for the shortfall in East-West trade.

And if the overseas economic and trade volume, which has a very important impact on China's economic circulation and development, does not decline, in Chen Ming's mind, China's economic development base can be maintained.

This should be the influence of his old ideas in his previous life, so he formed such a rather strange concept.

It seems that if overseas trade declines, domestic economic development will be in chaos. And how is this possible!

This era is completely different from the economic development model of the 21st century in Chen Ming's previous time and space. For any country, when the industrial revolution has not yet been completed, domestic self-needs and consumption are their largest market.

In the past 100 years, China's overseas trade volume seems to be quite high, with millions of taels of silver flowing out every year, but these economic amounts are really compared with China's own economic total, which is a piece of cake.

This is still the impact of China's export economy in developing foreign trade in his previous life. In this time and space, he naturally included it in his own way of governing the country.

When the emperor was about to leave Hangzhou, Wang Zhenyi, who was unhappy, suddenly had a smile on her face. Wang Xichen was promoted and entered the Nanjing Cabinet Secretariat. This was not the most important thing for her. The most important thing was that her parents were going to Nanjing.

Wang Zhenyi didn't have to separate from her parents. She went to school alone in Nanjing and could only see her parents once a semester.

It was just that Wang Xichen left Hangzhou earlier than his family, and he didn't even have time to say goodbye to his relatives and friends in Hangzhou. When Chen Ming left Hangzhou, he was packed up and taken back to Nanjing.

Wang Xichen didn't know that he had suddenly become lucky, but it was because of his daughter.

Chen Ming also accidentally got Wang Xichen's family file and saw that his daughter's name was Wang Zhenyi. It suddenly occurred to him that the prefect of Hangzhou in front of him was the father of Wang Zhenyi, a famous female mathematician and astronomer in history?

Of course, this does not rule out the reason of the same name. But this is also worth Chen Ming's move. Moreover, according to investigations, Wang Xichen's father, who had served as an official for decades in the Qing Dynasty, did not hold a high position, but he was indeed well-educated and loved to collect books. Wang Xichen himself was also a superb doctor...

This also fits the impression in Chen Ming's memory.