Daming 1805

Chapter 307
The New Year's Eve of the second year of Ankang finally arrived.

Families from all over the world gather together to eat the last meal of the year, review the events of this year, and discuss various possibilities for the next year.

Zhu Jingyuan took his two concubines to dinner with his grandparents, and decided on the last question by the way.

"If I'm in charge of the entire Yinzhou affairs, shouldn't my base be in Cuba or Panama?"

Zhu Zhongliang immediately glared at Zhu Jingyuan:
"Those places are not safe yet, you don't want to put yourself in danger, so just follow me to Xintianfu City."

Zhu Jingyuan tried to present the facts and persuade his grandfather with reason:
"According to the original plan, in order to allow me to accumulate experience at the grassroots level, during the administrative training, although I will be in charge of military and political affairs in a region, my job is still a grassroots official in a certain place.

"During the first stage, I was supposed to be an official at the township level. When I was in Liusha City in the Great Food Kingdom, I was actually the chief official of Liusha Town. Liusha City was called a county in name, but the scale at that time was actually a town.

"In the next stage, I should serve as a county-level official, and Xintianfu City is at least at the prefectural level, and can even be regarded as an accompanying capital."

Zhu Zhongliang said of course:

"Then you can go to be the county magistrate of Fuguo County under Xintianfu City.

"There are ready-made imperial palaces and palaces in New Tianfu City, which can be used directly.

"When you go to places like Cuba and Panama, you can only live in the castle left by Xiyi."

Zhu Jingyuan suddenly thought of a sentence:

"The county magistrate of Fuguo County, as the saying goes, if three lives are unlucky, the magistrate will be attached to Guo; if three lives are evil, he will be attached to Guo's provincial capital; if evil is full, he will be attached to Guojing City..."

Zhu Zhongliang couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this:
"What kind of stupid talk are you talking about? Ordinary officials dislike being attached to the county magistrate of Guo County, that's because he doesn't like having someone older than him oppressing him at any time.

"When you were in charge of Fuguo County in Xintianfu, you were also the governor of the entire Xintianfu, who can suppress you?
"Actually, your position is reversed. You are the governor of Yinzhou and concurrently the county magistrate of Xintianfu Fuguo County."

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:

"It seems... that's the truth, but someone is really suppressing me... You are it!"

Zhu Zhongliang immediately said angrily:

"That is, who told me to be your grandfather, I can suppress you wherever you go!"

The capital of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Jianyan, was chatting with his empress and imperial concubine before the royal family banquet started.

Zhu Jianyan said with emotion and helplessness:

"Father isn't coming back today, and we're going to celebrate the New Year in Meng County with Jingyuan."

The queen sighed and said:
"Maybe I won't be back next year, and I'm going to go directly to Xintianfu for the elderly."

Zhu Jianyan followed with admiration and said:
"Xintianfu is really suitable for retirement. I will also go to Xintianfu when I retire."

Imperial Concubine Liang Yunying said with a smile:
"Your Majesty, you have only been on the throne for two years, why do you want to retire..."

Zhu Jianyan immediately said:

"That boy Jingyuan is only 17 years old, and now he is planning a place for retirement..."

Liang Yunying froze for a moment, then suddenly remembered that her son had indeed planned a retirement home.

Hao Zhongyi, director of the knitting workshop of Mengxian Textile Factory, brought a large family together to discuss the next thing.

Hao Zhongyi's wife Wang Shi was quite puzzled and said:
"Boss, do we really want to go to Xintianfu with Shopkeeper Lin after the new year?"

Hao Zhongyi took a sip of wine and said quite complacently:

"I have already agreed to Shopkeeper Lin, and he has raised my wages again, so it is impossible not to go."

Hao Zhongyi's cousin was a little worried:

"Brother Zhongyi, you went to Xintianfu, what will we brothers do?"

Hao Zhongyi smiled and said comfortingly:
"I went to Xintianfu to get promoted, it's not that I quit, and I didn't say I won't come back, everyone will bully you.

"Besides, as long as you work honestly and don't pick things up, what is there to worry about?
"Even if I'm here, if you commit a crime yourself, you will be punished for that.

"So you don't have to think about it, just do what you should do after the new year."

Then my younger brother Hao Jizhi couldn't help but say:
"Second brother, I also want to go to Xintianfu!"

Hao Zhongyi immediately waved his hands and said:

"Don't think about it. I went to build a new factory for the king. What are you going to do? Make trouble? Honestly work here and save money. When the factory over there is up, I'll see if I come back here , or find a way to take you there.”

In the back hall of the New Roman Tea Shop in Mengxian County, Xianglan's family gathered here for a reunion dinner. After all, this place is much more spacious than the dormitory.

However, Xianglan was still a little nervous, staring at her eldest daughter Aoxue from time to time and asking this and that:
"Aoxue, how did you get the house deed and the authorization letter?"

Aoxue casually lied and said:

"I helped the old lady to cross the road, but the old lady is a rich woman who happened to be going back to her hometown in Persia, so she left the shop to me."

Sister Ling Shuang couldn't help being curious:

"Sister, is it okay for our whole family to live here like this? When do you think Aunt An will come back?"

Aoxue frowned and asked back:
"Did we ask you to come and live here? Didn't you think about the probability yourself? The old Persian mother surnamed Ann...whether the old lady comes back and doesn't care about your business?"

Aoxue almost said the old bitch, but forcibly changed her words to become an old lady.

Xianglan hesitated for a few seconds, and asked the same question again:

"Aoxue, how are you thinking, will you let someone match you?

"After the new year, you will be 21. If you don't marry again, you will really be old!"

Aoxue said a little annoyed loudly:

"I'll say it one last time! Don't tell me about getting married again, I won't marry!"

Xianglan's father couldn't help scolding:
"Hey... you are a 20-year-old girl, and you still dress so sloppily all day long. Even if you ask someone to introduce you, no one may fall in love with you. You are not married yet, who are you marrying?"

Aoxue put down the bowl and chopsticks and got up to leave:

"Eat yourselves, I'm going back to my room..."

Back in his room, he took off his shoes and sat on the bed, curled up, with his arms around his legs in a daze.

Aoxue didn't want to quarrel with her family, so she didn't say anything to drive them away.

After all, I am their daughter, and a child can't quarrel with his parents.

The point is that they can't understand, they can't understand themselves at all.

It is impossible to tell anyone about working for the king.

That old bitch, I was looking forward to her coming.

If she came, he would have an excuse to report to the Prince's Mansion.

Maybe there is no chance to meet the king, but the distance can be a little closer after all...

On the western continent, in London, England, the brothers of the Rothschild family also gathered to discuss the present and the future.

Nathan Rothschild looked at his younger brother James Mayer Rothschild and said:
"According to the information I have inquired, the price of the [-]% stretch yarn at Dashi Clothing Company will not go up."

Meyer exclaimed directly:
"How is this possible! Are they going to give up the price of one hundred silver bills?
They could have continued to sell at this price!It can even be sold at a higher price!

"If it were me, I would sell it for at least 160 silver notes, or even two hundred silver notes!"

Nathan recalls the message he received:
"It is said that they will launch a new product, a product with a higher proportion of elastic yarn, to replace the price range of the [-] silver note."

Meyer was taken aback:
"This... If they really do this, then the goods I brought back will be completely smashed..."

Nathan immediately said:
"So you sell it quickly, even if you lose money, you have to sell it, the longer you put it, the more you lose.

"In case they continue to produce products with a higher proportion of elastic yarn, and continue to reduce the price of products with [-]% elastic yarn..."

Meyer feels like the whole world is turning against her:
"Why do they do this, obviously the effect of [-]% elastic silk is already excellent.

"I think even if we continue to increase the ratio, it won't have a good effect..."

Nathan warned very seriously:

"In order to make this wave of smugglers including you lose everything!
"Anyway, the cost of this kind of thing must not exceed three silver bills, even if the ratio of elastic silk is increased to [-]%, the cost price will not exceed four silver bills.

"But it can make your goods fall into your hands.

"So just give up and start the Tianzhu slave trade honestly. Although it's troublesome, you can make money steadily and continuously."

Meyer said loudly:
"No, I can't give up, Emperor Renwu of Ming Dynasty said, get up wherever you fall.

"They updated the product formula, and I could keep smuggling new ones.

"I have found a safe way to hide the goods, and I will go there again after the new year!"

Nathan was a little desperate:
"You... why are you so stubborn, kid! You will definitely lose everything!"

West Xianbei Principality, Xianbei Duke Luo Yashan's family also gathered together.

Luo Yashan poured himself a glass of wine, looked around with emotion and said:
"The Lucia elements have finally been sent away, the domestic situation has finally stabilized, and development is on the right track.

"From next year, in our Xianbei Principality, we will finally be able to live a stable life."

His wife Zhao Xinlian said with lingering fear:
"Those guys are lunatics, they don't care about other people's feelings at all, and think that everyone who wears Da Ming's clothes is guilty.

"There is still agitation for you to rebel, what is the difference between courting death..."

Luo Yashan drank the wine in his glass in one gulp:

"Hey...it's all for the sake of fighting against Ming Dynasty, so that the common people feel that they are the masters of the country.

"I want to fight for my country, but it's just being cannon fodder by my father...

"As a result, the father abandoned them, and they collapsed and went crazy..."

Zhao Xinlian is not very interested in this kind of topic:
"I don't know how Fiya has been in the past two years..."

Luo Yashan laughed immediately:

"It must be better than ours, His Royal Highness Prince Dashi is the second richest in the world.

"At the beginning, we all missed it, the place in Quicksand City is really floating on the Golden Sea.

"It's not just the oil itself that can make money, the clothes made of the refined elastic silk are really more expensive than gold.

"The key point is that all aspects of information show that this His Highness treats his subordinates the most affectionately.

"In the photo Fei Ya sent last time, she was still wearing clothes designed by His Highness herself."

Zhao Xinlian knew what her husband said:
"Why do Tessi men like to wear tight pants and tight stockings so much? Don't you think it's awkward?"

Luo Yashan froze for a moment, then smiled and asked:
"Actually, you can think about it the other way around, why do people in Daming like togata and big sleeves so much? Don't you find it awkward?

"It's just a difference in traditional customs.

"However, there is a deficiency in this habit of the Taixi people, which was made up for by His Royal Highness Prince Dashi.

"So they all willingly sent money to the Hall of Prince Dashi.

"Including my stupid brothers... and maybe my sisters..."

Lucia's capital Moscow, the Kremlin, and Emperor Lucia's family banquet are also going on.

The overlord Paul, who had abdicated, sat at the top with the new emperor Nicholas I.

Nicholas I, the original Prince Nicholas, had been stationed in the New Lucia colony in the middle of Mexico for a year, and he just returned to Moscow this year to succeed his father and become Emperor Lucia.

Because of his infinite longing for the coast under the sun, he often runs around in the wild and on the beach, and his face turns red from the sun.

Nicholas is now wearing a new Ming-style formal attire suitable for northern regions, including a slim-fit shirt, a long cashmere trench coat, a cashmere pleated skirt, high-heeled leather boots, and tights.

Nicholas looked at the burning fireplace not far away, the heating pipes and radiators surrounding the entire palace, felt the surrounding temperature of less than [-] degrees, and couldn't help but recall the life in Mozhou:
"We might as well move the capital to New Lucia. We have officially named it the capital of St. Petersburg. There are warm sunny beaches and a summer-like climate all year round. That is the promised land of our Lucia!"

Nicholas' wife, brothers, sons, and nephews were a little moved when they heard these words.

The warm coastline and the sandy beaches under the sun are fatally attractive to Lucians.

Overlord Paul immediately coughed heavily twice:
"Don't mess around! Moscow is the heart of Lucia, and always will be, and St. Petersburg can serve as the deputy capital."

Nicholas said at once:

"Father is right, then determine St. Petersburg as the accompanying capital of the Lucia Empire! As Emperor Lucia, I should be stationed in the accompanying capital for six months every year!"

Paul felt cheated:
"you--"

Nicholas said at once:

"Father can go together to the warm Mozhou for retirement."

Paul couldn't help sighing:
"Ok."

Northern Yinzhou, Dongyi Kingdom, Wei County.

Erica, a Thai-Western girl from Dongyi Kingdom, after a year of unremitting efforts, finally hooked Li Qingsong, the head of the banner, into bed.

The two of them were at Erica's house, on a bed in her own room, getting carried away.

After the clouds harvested and the rain was over, Li Qingsong stopped Erica's waist and reprimanded her rather annoyedly:

"You Xiyi woman is really too coquettish, after all, I made a big mistake..."

Erica was extremely satisfied physically and mentally, and completely took Sao's description as a compliment:

"And then? What do you want to do with me now?"

Li Qingsong sighed leisurely:

"Although you are a good family and a young girl, I already have a wife.

"If you are willing to be my concubine, after the county government's holiday is over, go and register the marriage certificate.

"Then ask for leave to see my wife, she should be able to accept you, after all you gave me your body..."

Erica hugged Li Qingsong's waist tightly, raised her head and kissed him on the face:
"Of course I would, I knew that you would not be irresponsible, that's why...hehe..."

Li Qingsong sighed helplessly again.

(End of this chapter)