Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 505
On the night of Chen Yunfu's arrival in Guangzhou, a grand dinner was held at Wanguo Restaurant.

Before that, the news of Fang Jian's death had spread throughout the city of Guangzhou.

This also made the banquet that night less lively and more frightening.

Of course, Jiang Zhengxun was definitely not among the frightened people.

The new prefect of Guangzhou is immersed in the joy of promotion at the moment.

From the chairman of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce at the fourth rank, to the prefect of Guangzhou at the second rank, this speed of promotion has never been seen since the Yongle Dynasty.

Let's just say that Yang Shiqi is a big official, and that is a promotion by one level, even if the speed is faster, two levels a year.

But this kind of promotion to three levels in one breath can be called a promotion like crossing a chasm. It seems that Jiang Zhengxun is the only one!

"Ming Song, I plan to transfer you to the prefect's yamen."

During the dinner, Jiang Zhengxun found a free time to share his joy with Chen Jinghe, and expressed his intention to transfer the latter to the magistrate's office.

This is also normal. After all, when a new official takes office, he must have a few handy subordinates at hand.

After Jiang Zhengxun thought about it, there was no one more suitable than Chen Jinghe.

Not only does he have a background, but after several years of training, his abilities have gradually emerged, which is worthy of use.

Facing Jiang Zhengxun's intentional support, Chen Jinghe nodded with a smile, but his eyes were still on Chen Yunfu.

At this time, Chen Jinghe was thinking about what to say when he met Chen Yunfu in private later.

No matter how you say it is a real father, it is impossible to come here and not even give father and son a chance to meet alone.

That is of course impossible.

After the dinner, Chen Yunfu summoned Chen Jinghe at his place of residence.

"My son kowtowed to my father, Wanfu."

"In two and a half years, my son has grown into a young man."

Chen Yunfu's eyes were full of relief, he beckoned and said, "Come and sit near me, let Dad take a good look."

"Yes."

Chen Jinghe moved a small stool and sat in front of Chen Yunfu. Chen Yunfu was very satisfied with the way he was sitting upright.

"My son has matured a lot. In the past two years, how is your work and life?"

Facing Chen Yunfu's concern, Chen Jinghe's nose trembled slightly, and then he replied calmly.

"Everything is going well at work, and Shu'er has also had a happy event recently."

"what?"

"Shu'er is happy."

Chen Yunfu immediately showed great joy, then frowned, and said sullenly: "Why don't you tell Gu about such a big matter."

"My son knows that my father is in charge of everything every day, so I don't dare to disturb her. I want to report the good news to my father after Shu'er is born."

"You seem to be angry with loneliness?"

"I don't dare." Chen Jinghe bowed his head and said, "Father's virtue is everywhere, and my son only has a heart of gratitude, how dare he have him."

Chen Yunfu said: "Your city is still a little short of fire, and it's not good enough to lie."

"You and I, father and son, there is nothing that cannot be said. If there is a grievance, just say it. There are no monarchs and ministers here today."

Chen Jinghe raised his head immediately, and spoke after a while.

"Since that's the case, the minister there is bold."

"I want to ask my father, why did you let me come to Guangdong?"

This is a straightforward way of talking. Chen Yunfu thought that Chen Jinghe would question the Dongguan hibiscus flower case and the gold smuggling case as soon as he came up, but he was wrong.

"Exercise." Chen Yunfu used an ambiguous word. As for what kind of exercise and how to exercise, you need to experience it yourself.

Chen Jinghe had obviously guessed that Chen Yunfu would answer in this way, and he answered the words well prepared.

"In the land of Guangdong, the government and businessmen colluded to put the law into nothing, and the sons and ministers reported to the Yamen, but nothing came of it. Why did the father not respond to the letter written to the father, and the sons and ministers were unable or even incapable of doing everything in Guangdong. Exercise Where do you start talking about it?"

Chen Yunfu frowned and asked, "Have you written to Gu?"

"Father doesn't know?" Chen Jinghe was very surprised, and then he didn't care whether Chen Yunfu lied to him, so he said clearly: "The case of selling hibiscus flowers in Dongguan, my minister reported to the Yamen of the prefect of Guangzhou, and the Yamen not only I didn't care, but was dissuaded by Chen Jiading.

Afterwards, Erchen wrote to his father and king, but there has been no response so far. Not long after, Erchen was transferred to the Canton Stock Exchange as the bookkeeper, and has since left Dongguan County. "

Having said that, Chen Jinghe looked at Chen Yunfu and asked his first question.

"Therefore, I would like to ask my father for instructions. Does my father know about the sale of hibiscus flowers in Dongguan?"

"Gu, I know."

Although in the past two years, Chen Jinghe had believed what Chen Jiading said in his heart and was fully prepared mentally, but now he heard Chen Yunfu admit it himself, he was still a little disappointed for a while.

"So, father is also for money, right?"

"Money?" Chen Yunfu smiled disdainfully: "I don't care about this little money."

Chen Jinghe asked: "Since the father doesn't like it, why didn't he order a thorough investigation."

"Check who?"

There were only father and son in the room without attendants, so Chen Yunfu poured tea by himself and offered Chen Jinghe a cup of "to sober up."

"People in Dongguan County privately grow hibiscus flowers, and the yamen acts as a middleman to contact them, and then sell them to Nanyang people and Arabs at the country's ports. Arab businessmen take these hibiscus flower raw materials to India for processing, and finally export them to many places. .

In this process, the common people participated, businessmen participated, officials also participated, and even the army also participated, and they all benefited from it. If you let the solitary investigate, who will the solitary investigate? "

"How could the military be involved?"

"The raw materials go to India from Guangzhou Port, and the Guangzhou Navy is responsible for the escort missions along the way. They may not know what they are escorting, but they can get money from merchants in the name of donations every time. Is this counted?" Profit?

Hibiscus flowers are processed in India, and the South India Company is one of the processing manufacturers. The security of the South India Company in India is now protected by the troops stationed in India. Every year, the South India Company bears the military and logistical expenses of the troops stationed in India for the imperial court .

India's post-war recovery and development required a lot of money, but the imperial court had no money to help, but a fast-recovering India was very important to the imperial court. Therefore, Yang Shiqi needed an open source method to take over a poor and empty India. This way, Yang Shiqi needs it. "

Chen Jinghe understood what Chen Yunfu meant.

My own father is too utilitarian now!

"The hibiscus flower is a disaster for the country and the people. Although we can control this poison from appearing in our country now, the Arab businessmen will bring this thing in sooner or later. They are businessmen, and they only have money in their eyes. My Ming has a population of hundreds of millions and infinite wealth. Endless, whenever hibiscus flowers cannot be sold abroad, they will definitely be sold to the people of Daming."

Chen Jinghe said urgently: "If you don't cut off from the source, after a long time, you will suffer backlash."

"Well, what you said makes sense." Chen Yunfu nodded and said, "When Gu Teng makes a move, he will deal with it, but now Gu Teng has no time, and many officials and businessmen in Guangdong are involved in the case. Killing them all will have too much impact. Big, Guangdong needs stability, and the imperial court also needs stability.”

Chen Jinghe almost laughed angrily.

"Father, do you still have illusions about the officials and businessmen in Guangdong? They are not the heroes of the country's development, but the cancer of the country and moths!
If they are allowed to grow endlessly, they will suck the country dry and drag it down. This currency reform is the best example. "

The conversation went around a long way, and finally came to the matter of currency reform, and Chen Jinghe's ultimate goal was to discuss this matter with Chen Yunfu.

"Father, the currency reform is a good thing, but the timing is not right now. It has only been four months since the currency reform, and prices have skyrocketed by [-]% to [-]%.

But now, the imperial court is full of places where money is spent everywhere, such as the railway track project, the Southwest Campaign, what should the imperial court do if it has no money, continue to print?If prices continue to rise, the hard-earned money of the common people will be squeezed dry by local businessmen. "

Seeing that Chen Yunfu remained unmoved while drinking tea in silence, Chen Jinghe stood up and said anxiously.

"Fishing in a dry marsh, drinking poison to quench thirst is absolutely unacceptable, Father."

"Drinking poison to quench thirst? Hehe." Chen Yunfu laughed twice, his face gradually turned serious: "So, in your eyes, what Gu is doing now is asking for his own death?"

Chen Jinghe knelt down and stared straight at Chen Yunfu with his head held high: "Father, our Daming has never had a moment of rest in the past few years. It is true that our Daming has become richer and richer because of the unfavorable foreign wars and plunder. But the money can't stand such a spend.

Whether it's railroad projects or endless wars, it's time to stop, free up your hands, and rectify the domestic government and business governance. Don't you think that in the past few years, while the country has developed rapidly, the development of capital has also become more and more serious? Is it getting more and more terrifying? They are growing crazily by relying on the slave trade, loose control environment, overheated stock market and entangled cooperation with the imperial court.

Over the past two years in Guangzhou, Erchen has personally witnessed the opening of Arab firms from 51 to [-] now, and from only one Guangdong bank to [-] banks now.

I watched as a little-known Medici Bank grew from a capital of one million taels of silver to nearly 3000 million taels.

Now, Pu Xiangdong has even taken away the 30-year income right of the Guangdong Railway. As far as Ju Erchen knows, Pu Xiangdong plans to build a special firm to manage and continue to invest in the railway project.

This time, the investment will no longer be limited to the province of Guangdong, but will focus on Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and other provinces. It can be expected that once the imperial court does not come forward to control, Pu Xiangdong will gradually control the southeast coast of our Daming. All tracks in the province.

The business houses opened by his domestic slaves will also follow his railroad tracks and spread throughout every province and even every prefecture in our Ming Dynasty. Countless hard-earned money earned by our people in Daming will just go into his Pu Xiangdong. In the pocket, what's even more ridiculous is that the people of my Daming work in his shop and factory in Pu Xiangdong.

Now that prices in various provinces are soaring, a large number of small workshops will inevitably go bankrupt in the future, and even the self-operated industries of the common people will also go bankrupt, such as restaurants and restaurants. Will he be dominated by his Pu Xiangdong property for the rest of his life? "

Chen Yunfu's face sank like water, and he said in a low voice: "Then what do you mean?"

"Kill him!"

Chen Jinghe said without the slightest hesitation: "As long as you kill him, all problems will be solved."

"It's a good idea." Chen Yunfu sneered: "Nationalizing all Arab firms and wealth will solve all the problems, right?"

"Is not it?"

"With Gu's support for so many years, Pu Xiangdong has already gained a lot of power in Africa, Arabia, and even Europe. The power is beyond your imagination. There are many slaves, countless wealth, Gu's hegemony in Kyushu, Still use him."

Chen Jinghe understood.

In the eyes of my father, there is only the so-called Kyushu now, and only the achievements that have made great achievements through the ages.

Everything else is not important!

Even if he knows that he is raising a fierce tiger that chooses to eat!
With this in mind, Chen Jinghe stopped persuading him, got up and left, and only when he reached the threshold did he hang his feet and tilt his head to speak.

"Father, his current strength is already much stronger than An Lushan, you, think twice."

(End of this chapter)