The smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River are drunk and fragrant.

Chen Fei has always had a high opinion of the enviable Jiangnan in his previous life. I still remember that there was a set of data in my previous life that he still remembers vividly. The GDP of the three northeastern provinces is more than 5.5 trillion yuan, while a small Shanghai province, a small place with an area of less than one-thirtieth of the northeast, has actually reached a perverted GDP of more than 3 trillion yuan!

Chen Fei didn't mean to smear it, he just felt that the prosperous place in Jiangnan was perverted. And it's not just Shanghai, but also Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei and so on.

However, he ignored a very important thing, the historical time when Jiangnan really flourished began from the southward migration of the Song Dynasty, and before that, Jiangnan was a backward area relative to Guanzhong. Even in the eyes of many Guanzhong people, most of them are still uncivilized barbarians.

Although since the Tang Dynasty, the Jiangnan region has seen a significant increase in both population and economy compared with previous dynasties, it is still prosperous...... Apparently not yet.

Yan Yun'er had been to Jiangnan, so she ruthlessly exposed Chen Fei. and told Linchuan the real situation in Jiangnan.

The economic metropolis that Chen Fei once longed for...... I'm sorry, I'm afraid it's still just a small fishing village, don't talk about the economy, I'm afraid there are still some problems with having enough to eat.

However, Chen Fei was not depressed, but was full of fighting spirit in an instant. Jiangnan's economy has not developed? Never mind! Because he believes that as long as the Maritime Silk Road is opened up and several large ports are built, the economy of Jiangnan will inevitably rise! This is the inevitable law of history!

Chen Fei suddenly felt that the advantage of the traverser was here, and he could know the general historical direction in advance. What if after a few big ships are built, you will invest in some shops in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places in your previous life to specialize in import and export business? Will it make a small fortune?

Although Chen Fei is very rich now. The silver heaped in the treasury of his home was nothing more than a pile of meaningless stones to him, but ...... Who is afraid of money? Chen Fei grinned and smirked......

"Xianggong? Messire? Linchuan gently shook Chen Fei and woke him up from his dream. Xianggong, what are you laughing at? I'm almost laughing out of my mouth. ”

"Humph! Probably not a good thing. Yan Yun'er glared at Chen Fei and pinched his waist by the way.

Chen Fei touched his nose and smiled bitterly, "Madam misunderstood, just now I was just thinking about how to do business in Jiangnan, so I couldn't help it." ”

"Gangnam? Isn't there a shop in every city in Gangnam? Yan Yun'er frowned. She still knows her own business very well.

Chen Fei laughed and took Yan Yun'er into his arms. "No, no, although those shops bear the banner of our Chen Ji, they don't really belong to us. It's just that we buy goods from us. When the fleet is built in the future and maritime trade is opened, I will set up a shop here, specializing in import and export business, introduce overseas treasures, and sell them to China at a high price. ”

Lin Chuan and Yan Yun'er glanced at each other, and reached out to pinch Chen Fei's weakness very tacitly. "Money, money, money! Just know the money! It's all in the eyes of money! Hum! ”

Chen Fei corrected Yan Yun'er's words very seriously: "Madam, this is your mistake, although money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must save more money, even if they are allowed to squander it in the future, they must be able to squander it for a few lifetimes, right?" ”

"And!" Chen Fei's words made the two girls roll their eyes widely, obviously, the two girls are not so easy to fool.

The road from Guanzhong to Jiangnan is very long, even if you rush every day, I am afraid it will take more than two months in the past, obviously, with Chen Fei's temperament, he can't stand to rush every day, not to mention his wife and children who are accompanying him, so he almost walked to a big city to rest for a few days, and by the way, he saw the scenery of the city.

Moreover, Li Zhi did not impose a stipulation on when he would arrive in Jiangnan, and arranged all the time by himself.

Although Chen Fei has been in this world for so long and has been to many places, he has almost always gone because of the war before, and he has come and gone in a hurry, and he has no time to take a good look at the outside world.

This trip to Jiangnan just allowed him to see the scenery and humanity on the way from Guanzhong to Jiangnan.

Along the way, Chen Fei found that what Yan Yun'er said was indeed right, the further south he went, the more sparse the population became, and the economy was not necessarily very developed, but there were more cultivated fields in the south than in Guanzhong, and as far as the eye could see, almost all of them were large rice fields. Chen Fei also saw several rice harvesters placed next to the fields. It was the "human rice cutter" that he and Li Zhuo made up twelve years ago, but I didn't expect that someone was really using it. But it's planting season, so no one is really driving the machine.

Soon he learned that rice harvesters were still very popular in the south, and there were basically large families here.

Because of the large cultivated area in the south, harvesting by humans is far less efficient than harvesting by machines, so rice harvesters are still very popular here, even if the machine needs to be driven by people.

After crossing the Yangtze River, Chen Fei generally felt that the economy here was mainly based on agriculture. Commodity trade is rare in the city. Chen Kee's shop is considered a good business, and other shops can't even see customers. The city was also slightly dilapidated, and somewhat shabby compared to the strong walls of the north and Guanzhong, but this did not affect the economic level of the southerners thousands of years later.

Moreover, Chen Fei found a problem, there are many fertile fields in the south, and the rice is harvested twice a year or even three times a year in places a little further south. In this way, the South has become the breadbasket of the whole country. In a place, as long as there is enough food, then production will inevitably develop. He had always wanted to catalyze the capital economy in Guanzhong, but the effect was not very good.

A large part of the reason is that there are not many fertile fields in Guanzhong, and in order to eat, the workers in the factory also need to take care of the fields at home, so the development speed of the workshop has not been as fast as he wanted.

But in the South, he seemed to see a feasible way - what if he opened factories in the South? There is plenty of food here, and the surplus labor can be put into the factory. And he suddenly remembered that the earliest development of China's capital economy was also in the south! He had walked into a dead end before, and now he felt suddenly enlightened!

Not to mention anything else, this discovery alone made him feel that this trip to the south was worth it!

Open a factory, run a chamber of commerce! He wants to build Jiangnan into a golden region that is so rich that it flows into oil!

(End of chapter)