The Changwen Hou’s Mansion has become very chaotic recently.

The courtyard of the entire outer house is full of farm tools, and a large number of craftsmen are also coming and going.

Although Chen Wenjun's identity can go out, she should not show up frequently. After more people outside, she rarely goes out and only wanders around the inner house.

However, a group of women, especially those of sisters-in-law, often make fun of this. After all, these things are all sent to Dongfan Island. Changwen Hou Mansion and Nan'an Hou Mansion jointly developed the Dongfan. Both families purchased a large number of agricultural tools, including a large number of horses and plowing oxen. Changwen Hou Mansion is in Fuzhou City, and it is more convenient to hire various professionals.

Agriculture master who is proficient in cotton seeds, a large number of medical practitioners, prepare a large amount of medicinal materials, and prepare to deal with the powerful plagues on the island.

There are also many talents in various wood, iron craftsmen, clay, pottery, etc.

Before this, I heard that I was going to the Dongfan, even if I had a lot of money to ask for a visit, there were many people who refused. After the court placed the 6,000 official burgers in the Nan'an Marquis Mansion in the Dongfan, the number of people willing to apply for the job suddenly increased.

The number of places for official households is quite rare, especially the official households who have registered and reported to the Ministry of Revenue, which is extremely rare.

Even the most harsh head of the family has a certain bottom line for exploiting their own government and villages. However, when the imperial court exploited them, it became more and more cruel and more difficult for the people to accept.

It depends on the person who can become an official household in the Marquis’ Mansion. Some Marquis’ Mansions may reduce the amount of money to be transferred, and the official household will be reduced. After several times of reduction, they will be removed from the royal family and will lose all the number of official households.

Of course, the manors you bought can be inherited from generation to generation, but they do not accept imperial grain and are only privately owned by the royal family, but they cannot be inherited from time to time.

Unless it is the hereditary prince’s mansion, there is a good thing that officials and households have inherited each other for generations.

Xu Zixian's Nan'an Marquis Mansion was different. First of all, Xu Zixian was very young. Secondly, the Dongfan was considered to be the first to open up the Nan'an Marquis Mansion. In the following decades, Xu Zixian, a marquis with real duties, could get the grace of two or three generations of more titles even after overwork. This is the rule. Even if the emperor does not like Nan'an Marquis, such things must be handled according to the rules.

In this way, it means that people do not have to worry about identity change in the next few decades or even a hundred years. People who are willing to become officials of the Nan'an Hou Mansion and those who are willing to go to the Dongfan will increase almost exponentially every day.

Because the court relaxed the official households of the Dongfan, a large number of masters, craftsmen, doctors, and ordinary people flocked to it, and the Changwen Hou Mansion was as lively as a market every day.

Chen Wenjun didn't like the excitement, but forced herself to go out several times to greet those who were sure to become the official household of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion. Chen Wenjun dressed in a simple and unpretentious manner, with a generous manner, a noble mansion for generations, and a Confucian style with a scholarly family. His temperament and connotation were fully displayed in conversation, which made many people praise him.

Although Chen Wenjun has not passed the door, he has already assumed the responsibility of his mistress.

"There are 1,700 cattle in total. It is impossible to buy cattle in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou, and Zhangzhou in the near future." Chen Zhengzhi frowned and said to Chen Dujing, "Mingda said he would have to drive hundreds of thousands of acres in front and back, so the number of cattle must not be enough."

"How many did you buy a horse?"

Chen Zhengzhi thought for a while and said, "I sent someone to buy it everywhere, but even the southwest of the mixed horses are not many in Fujian. I have to buy it in Yunnan, but it is too far away and it takes too long. I don't know how much I will die along the way. So I still buy horses on Fujian Road. The total number is about 3,000 horses. I paid in batches and transported it to the Dongfan. The first batch is about 300, half of the male and female. Mingda said that the Dongfan ranch was demarcated, and everything is being created. The horses may suffer losses. Putting some mixed horses in it is also considered an "experiment".

Chen Dujing smiled and looked at his third daughter who came back from the outside house and sat quietly in the corner to watch the flowers. He smiled and said, "Mingda is the kind of bold and meticulous person. You see, he does everything he does, but in fact he is delicate and rarely makes mistakes..."

Chen Zhengzhi smiled and said, "Father is really the feeling of praise for his son-in-law, but Mingda is indeed outstanding, well, much better than me."

"You have extraordinary things in your own home. You will understand it yourself in the future, or others will tell you." Chen Dujing glanced at the eldest son and said with a gentle smile: "At present, all the things you have done are very good, and I am very pleased with my father."

"So, when will the first fleet leave?" Chen Zhengzhi estimated that his father and several uncles were very anxious. The recent investment of Changwen Hou Mansion was quite huge. This was not Chen Dujing's personal money, but only money could be used after everyone agreed to the public.

A cow can cost at least three stakes, and a bull in the middle age is as high as a dozen stakes per head, and a cow is even more expensive. A thousand seven hundred cows cost tens of thousands of stakes, and a few thousand horses have to be bought. Mixed horses are cheaper, and a mixed horse can cost about four stakes. If a young and middle-aged man has a good appearance, five to six stakes are the normal price.

Cheap is cheap, but you have to buy a lot!

Thousands of miscellaneous horses, tens of thousands of dollars have been out.

In addition to customized plows and other iron and agricultural tools, I bought some cows and horses from the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and also brought chickens, pigs, ducks and sheep to the Dongfan, medical staff, medicinal materials, iron tools, and some of them.

However, the Nan'an Hou Mansion can use manual labor and labor force to reduce part of the investment. After all, Nan'an needs to repair ships, train troops, build ships, buy ships, so the expenses are huge, and the investment in the Dongfan cannot be as much as that in the Changwen Hou Mansion.

Changwen Hou Mansion has used tens of thousands of guan, but it is conceivable that it will take at least tens of thousands of guan to make a look. It has to wait for the cotton fields to be opened, planted into the ground, and wait for the harvest. The investment is at least about 200,000 guan.

Because Xu Zixian had a large plan and high specifications, he almost went on the road of real development for Dongfan.

What Chen Duguang and others want is a base for reliance on cotton planting and harvesting, and can help the Chen family get tens of thousands of more cloth a year, which is a very good achievement.

Xu Zi first wanted to develop the Dongfan, but Chen Duguang and others were not interested, nor could they be interested.

Chen Dujing said: "Fortunately, I've done it almost now, so I can move people to open up the land. Seeing the cotton planted into the ground, the second, the third, and the others may calm down, and they will feel at ease."

Chen Zhengzhi was inconvenient to express any opinions to his elders, so he nodded slightly, but laughed in his heart. Those uncles were really too petty!

The Nan'an Marquis' Mansion wanted to run the Dongfan, and the Changwen Marquis' Mansion had an overseas foundation. Over the past few decades, hundreds of official households, the land, garrisons, and officials were all from the two Marquis' Mansions. It was equivalent to the imperial court who divided this large island to two families. What else could there be extravagant?

Of course, most of the things on the island are mainly based on the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, but as long as Chen Dujing and Chen Zhengzhi are in charge of the Changwen Marquis Mansion, the cooperation between the two families will not be broken. After all, as long as the younger sister gets married, the relationship between the two families will be unbreakable...

Chen Zhengzhi looked at his younger sister, but he felt a little nervous. Xu Zixian knew that the concubine named Xiuniang was not pregnant yet. In a noble family, the eldest son could only be born by his legitimate mother. Within one or two years, the legitimate wife would not get pregnant, or she would give birth to a daughter. At that time, there was a possibility that the concubine would get pregnant.

This is something that a noble family can do. With a legitimate son and an eldest son, the family can be safe and sound.

"I'm just strange..." Chen Dujing said slowly, with a puzzled look on his face: "Mingda's plan is to truly develop Dongfan Island. Hundreds of thousands of coins are not worth anything. At least one million coins will be invested in a year. Otherwise, it would be like pushing a stone mill uphill and losing strength halfway through pushing it. Instead, it would be better not to do this stupid thing at the beginning. Either do it to the end or not. I'm just strange. He wants to build a water camp, recruit soldiers, build ships, and prepare to fight with Chen Yutai for the past six months. Where can he get the money to develop on Dongfan Island?"

Chen Zhengzhi thought for a while and said, "A while ago, the prince of Lan Fang, Luo Fangbo, went to Nan'an to meet Mingda?"

"Impossible..." Chen Du said with a smile: "I know that the people of the Luo family are all from businessmen, smart and cautious, and do not show off their eagles without seeing a rabbit... Mingda has the confidence and development possibility. The Luo family may meet him and make some bets, but it will not be a heavy bet, because it is just a step of leisure. If you want Luo Fangbo to take out more than one million or even several million to develop the Eastern Bible for Mingda, this is absolutely impossible!"

Dongfan Island requires a large number of commercial banks, port terminals, storage areas, trade areas, and market towns formed by living areas, and a large number of auxiliary facilities, such as blacksmith shops, porcelain kilns, brick and tile kilns, iron smelting plants, large amounts of coal storage, granaries, and large amounts of grain storage can stabilize people's hearts.

There should be pastoral areas where horses are grazing, cow pens, pigpens, shepherds who shed sheep, chicken coops, duck leaders, vegetable fields, and grain fields, all of which must be opened up.

The original living conditions of immigrants were very simple. Xu Zixian hoped to build stable houses for the 6,000 Nan'an official households from scratch. This was not useless. It could calm people's hearts in the shortest time and not make people's hearts fluctuate.

You should know that houses and land are the most stable conditions for the farming nation. As long as these two things are present, no matter how difficult the environment is, people will see hope and no one will leave easily.

The conditions in the Dongfan were still very simple. More than 10,000 people lived along several streams that opened the sea outlet. Large areas of lush primeval forests were still there, with many poisonous mosquitoes and ants. Plagues broke out from time to time, and various wild animals. There were some dangers hidden in the large wasteland. It was not easy to clear the land, and it was not just plowed out to be considered to be successful in the land.

Trade, life, and industry are actually the first, second and third industries, from scratch, this is the best result that requires heavy investment to achieve success.
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