Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 517 Export to Domestic Sales
When it was still daylight, Chen Jinghe, who had been tossing and turning all night without sleep, changed his official robes early, and rushed to the chief envoy's yamen with Yu Qian.

If it was placed more than ten years ago, the residences of officials were all in the yamen, just like watching the county government in TV dramas, the front is the court, and the back is the residence of the county magistrate.

But that was the old calendar from more than ten years ago. In today's Daming officialdom, the yamen is the yamen, and the residence is the residence.

Chen Jinghe's residence in Guangdong was arranged in a calligraphy and painting courtyard not far from the chief envoy of Guangdong.

More than a dozen families lived here, including the deputy envoy of the Guangdong government, the prefect of Guangzhou and many other high-ranking local officials in Guangdong. Therefore, this place is also jokingly called the provincial government house by the people.

Chen Jinghe came earlier, and besides the soldiers guarding the yamen, there were only a few officials on duty from the company in Guangdong. Naturally, these people didn't know Chen Jinghe, so they stopped and asked.

"This is our new chief envoy from Guangdong, Chief Envoy Chen."

Yu Qian kindly helped to introduce it, and several young civil servants almost went limp in shock.

This is the prince!
When he was at a loss and didn't know how to greet and greet, Chen Jinghe had already opened his mouth in a pleasant manner.

"You don't need to be too polite. You have worked hard all night on duty. You haven't eaten yet. I happened to bring some food. Let's eat together."

Beckoning, Yu Qian put the two lunch boxes in his hand on the table, opened them and took them out one by one.

These were prepared by Li Shu, the daughter-in-law of the family, for the two of them earlier. In addition to the delicious porridge, there were also a few stacks of snacks.

A group of young civil servants were all flattered, who dared to do something, but didn't dare to refuse Chen Jinghe's order, so they could only hold it up with both hands, but didn't dare to put it in their mouths, and only thanked them repeatedly.

Chen Jinghe stopped persuading him, pulled out a chair and sat down on his own, just in time to see a large stack of official document playbooks on the table, so he took one casually.

"These are all official documents copied from provincial bureaus and local prefectures and counties."

"If you go back to Tai and Fantai, yes."

"So many?" Chen Jinghe just looked around, and found that the dozen or so desks in the company's classroom were all piled up with unprocessed official documents.

After all, I worked in the company for five years before I came here, and the processed official documents would never be piled up here. They would either be sealed and stored, or approved and issued. It was impossible to leave dust on this desk.

Those who can be here are basically the new official documents that have just been copied within the limit of twelve hours.

Guangdong, can there be so many things in one day now?
It won't be redundant.

"They were all brought in from yesterday to today."

A courageous public official bit the bullet and replied: "There have been a lot of things recently, so there are more."

"Which divisions and bureaus have more affairs."

After flipping through the official documents of Guangzhou Port in his hand, Chen Jinghe put them back carefully, and continued to ask questions.

The official replied: "There are many things about Guangzhou Port and the Judiciary, and the other thing is the upgrading of Dongguan County to Dongguan Prefecture."

"Shengfu, Dongguan County?" Chen Jinghe said in surprise, "Sit down and talk about it in detail."

The civil servant thanked him and introduced to Chen Jinghe after he took a cramped seat: "Four years ago, the Guangzhou Port Authority planned to open a new port in Dongguan County and named it Mingzhu Port. After the opening of Mingzhu Port, Dongguan County It also benefited a lot from this. Therefore, the former Fantai planned to upgrade Dongguan from a county to a prefecture.

The corresponding official documents and instructions have also been implemented, and then, then."

Although the official's words were not finished, Chen Jinghe still understood.

Wu Shigao fell from his horse.

"Everyone in Dongguan is in a hurry, so I send letters every day to ask and urge. This time, when I heard that you are coming, Li Yanzong, the county magistrate of Dongguan, specially asked for instructions and would like to invite you to come to Dongguan for inspection."

"Oh." Chen Jinghe responded, and then said casually: "Now Dongguan, do you still plant hibiscus flowers?"

The words were casual, but the officials in front of them jumped up in fright.

Chen Jinghe glanced at him amusedly, and stretched out his hands to press.

"Don't be nervous, this station is just asking, if you know it, just tell it, if you don't know it, don't answer it."

Seeing the sweat on his forehead, the civil servant didn't dare to wipe it off. After swallowing a few mouthfuls of saliva, he bit the bullet and replied in a low voice, "It's still planted."

"How can you be so sure?"

"I, I am from Dongguan."

Chen Jinghe rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Really, sit, sit, sit, what's your name?"

"I'm next to Du Qitai."

"Naqitai, this station asked you, do you grow hibiscus in your house?"

Du Qitai's face turned pale with fright, and he waved his hands quickly and said: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no one who despises the laws of the country will be killed in the next family."

"That's right." Chen Jinghe nodded in satisfaction: "Planting hibiscus flowers requires decapitation. Since you know, why don't you persuade your parents and fellow villagers?"

Du Qitai lowered his head and said in shame: "My family is poor, and now I can be admitted to the civil service because of the help and funding of my clan folks."

"Since they help you, why do you report them?"

Chen Jinghe looked at Du Qitai with a half-smile and said, "You don't have to answer the question just now from this station."

"The hibiscus flower harms the country and the people, and it is really hard to live with one's conscience."

Du Qitai lowered his head and said awkwardly: "Dongguan has been planting hibiscus for many years. In the early years, it was fine. The raw materials were purchased by Arab chambers of commerce and shipped overseas. In recent years, there have been many arrests and private sales of hibiscus and hibiscus in Guangdong. Powdered criminals.

According to a report from the procuratorate last year, more than a dozen underground tobacco stalls were destroyed in Guangzhou alone, and more than 600 people who smoked hibiscus were seized.I have a classmate who works as a procuratorate in Guangzhou. I heard from him that the opium made of hibiscus flowers can make people hallucinogenic and addictive after smoking.

Because of this hibiscus flower, many people went bankrupt and their families were ruined. Cases of robbery and theft in order to raise drug funds occurred frequently. This was very rare in Guangzhou in the previous ten years.

In the past, Guangzhou was relatively wealthy compared to other provinces in the province, including the inland provinces, so there were very few cases of robbery, but now it has multiplied frequently. Everyone knows that this thing harms people and misleads the country. "

After all, it is still exported to domestic sales.

It is inevitable to think about it. Even if Pu Xiangdong sells these things overseas, how many people can there be in Europa or Nanyang, including Japan?
How many rich petty bourgeois families can have.

To put it bluntly, compared with Zhongzhou, which relies on sucking the blood of the whole of Asia and even half of the world, it is too poor.

Zhongzhou has a population of over [-] million and millions of low-income families. What a potential drug dumping market.

As for the profits of drugs, there is no need to say much.

The capitalists only have profit and rate of return in their eyes.

law and ethics?
What is that.

"Does anyone smoke opium in your hometown?"

".Yes." Du Qitai raised his head to look at Chen Jinghe, and immediately lowered his head in pain: "I planted this thing when I was young, and he sucked it himself."

"Planting will be decapitated, and you will report it when you are young?"

"He is dead."

Du Qitai's voice became much lower and sad: "Last year, he died of overdose in a cigarette stall."

Chen Jinghe's face twitched slightly, and he sighed.

"Since you even know about running a company, then the chief officials in the chief minister's yamen must already know about it."

"Why no one ordered Dongguan to stop planting."

Du Qitai didn't answer this question for the first time, in fact, he didn't need to answer it.

When it comes to the opening of Mingzhu Port, everything is very clear.

Chen Jinghe didn't say much, got up and left the company's office with Yu Qian, went out to his office, and said something to Yu Qian on the way.

"This Pearl Harbor, I think it can be renamed Drug Harbor."

In order to import and export a large number of drugs and avoid the inspection of the Guangzhou Port Authority Customs, a new port was opened. Is this generous enough?
Even without going to the scene, Chen Jinghe can guess with his eyes closed, how many things that can kill people are loaded on the sea ships that come and go to Pearl Harbor every day.

The hibiscus flowers grown in Dongguan were exported to Guangzhou Port, and the ships went to India for a round of processing. Half of them were sold overseas, and half of them went to Mingzhu Port to enter Daming.

Or, more than half.

Yu Qian nodded and said in a low voice.

"Your Highness, it seems that our first breakthrough can be placed on this Pearl Harbor."

"Wait a minute."

"Wait?"

"I wrote a recommendation letter for Jiang Zhengxun last night."

Chen Jinghe strode into the room, sat down and grinned at Yu Qian.

"I recommend him to serve as the deputy chief minister of Guangdong and the prefect of Guangzhou. Let's wait for the reply from Nanjing."

"A good man must have three helpers."

Yu Qian nodded, and then asked: "Jiang Zhifu and you are old friends, he can indeed be counted as one, and the other two?"

"There is still Chen Jiading from the Chen family in Guangdong." Chen Jinghe raised a hand and pointed at Yu Qian: "It's you, Yu Tingyi!"

(End of this chapter)