On this day, Yuan Fang was lying in the shade of the trees in the courtyard of the villa, wearing a big vest and a pair of knee-length trousers, lying on the recliner while holding a fan and complaining: "This ghost weather is too hot." ”

Yu Jingqiu, who was sitting on the side, echoed and said, "It's just that the house is almost in the steam room, and there is no one to stay at all." ”

Under the pergola not far away, Hongyi said weakly: "It's all Brother Yuan's fault, he used to always say that the villa was designed by him, how good it is, it's okay in winter, but it's over in summer, and there is no one in the bedroom at all, I have been sleeping in the house with sundries in the north for the past few days." ”

Ye Qingru looked at the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the villa, then looked at the dazzling sun in the sky, and said with a smile: "The lighting is definitely enough, it's because it's so hot in this room, brother-in-law, you have no other way?" ”

Yuan Fang rolled his eyes: "If I have a way, will I stay here?" Red, if you little girl complain again, I'll send you back to the palace, it's hotter there, I'll see what you do. ”

The red cloth pouted and said: "If you don't threaten me, I'm not afraid, hmph, I heard Sister Xiaomei say that there is a big ice cellar in the palace, and it's a big deal that I can't hide in it and come out." ”

Guan Xiaoyun said listlessly: "Brother-in-law, why don't we go to the Emerald Island, at least we can go for a swim in the sea when we have nothing to do over there, it's better than drying salted fish here." ”

Ouyang Xianxue's eyes lit up: "Yes, there are delicious seafood to eat." ”

Yuan Fang pointed to the two goats that had slipped to his side and said dissatisfiedly: "Xiaoyun, hurry up and get these two things away, you see that this lawn is gnawed by them like Reilly's head, if you don't believe it or not, I will let them have dinner for dinner." Guan Xiaoyun smiled and whistled, and the two lambs that had grown up obediently ran to the sheepfold in the backyard.

Da Mei came in from outside at this time, saw this scene and said with a smile: "Xiaoyun, your sheep is more obedient than a dog." ”

Yuan Fang sat up and beckoned, "Da Mei come, sit here." ”

Da Mei looked at the empty recliner beside Yuan Fang, walked straight over and sat on it, and said to Yuan Fang: "Brother, we are so busy every day that we don't even have time to eat, you can be good and stay at home all day to enjoy your happiness." ”

Yuan Fang grinned: "I'm not lazy, I'm not thinking about things, Damei, you have always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, let's say, what's the matter with coming this time?" ”

Da Mei sighed and said: "It's really something, brother, I let our people in the Wen'an Empire pull business from our empire according to your wishes, just now I received news that the Wen'an Empire has seized several of our stores, in the name of competing with bad means, destroying the business environment of the Wen'an Empire, and detaining several of our people, brother, what do you think about this?" ”

Yuan Fang snorted and said: "Prime Minister Liu Cheng here is really not a loser, Damei, don't worry, I have dealt with this matter, he didn't want to do some benefits, otherwise he wouldn't let us take advantage of his land." ”

Just like Yuan Fang said, Prime Minister Liu Cheng and Yuan Fang can be said to have a very tacit understanding, whether it is sending an airship to assist the Wen'an Empire before, or the Plum Blossom Chamber of Commerce to live in Wen'an, behind the agreement between the two sides, it is also a competition.

Da Mei didn't know why: "What do you mean?" ”

Yuan Fang explained: "Last time they stole our fog stones, we knocked them hard, and now they obviously didn't get any benefits when they came to do this, and they planned to make some money back." ”

Da Mei didn't care about that, and asked, "What are you going to do?" When will the detainees be released? ”

Yuan Fang thought for a while and said, "It's hard to say, but don't worry, they won't embarrass our people." ”

Da Mei nodded: "Oh, then do we want to continue?" Continue to pull business in our empire? ”

Yuan Fang nodded as a matter of course and said: "Of course, that is necessary, and as soon as possible, there are not many foreigners who come to our side to do business now, and the Wen'an Empire doesn't take it very seriously, if there are too many of them, it will inevitably affect the taxes of the Wen'an Empire, and it will not be easy to do these things when the time comes, so we must create a momentum before they react and attract more foreign businessmen to do business with us." By the way, Damei, what do those foreign businessmen dare to be interested in? ”

Da Mei thought for a while and said: "Most foreign merchants basically value silk, although the texture of the silk produced in Xizhou of our empire is good, but it is not only us, for example, the silk output of the Wuxing Empire is much larger than ours, and the texture is not bad, and the goods of our empire can mainly attract foreign businessmen, such as medical appliances and medicines, mainly penicillin-based, and some new technologies, such as moisturizing lights, searchlights and other lamps, and some welding pipelines or something. ”

Yuan Fang nodded, these things are the first and only industries in the Dongsheng Empire, and it is not possible for other countries to make pirated copies if they want to copycat.

Yuan Fang has a bit of a headache, if the empire wants to develop the economy, there must be one or two or even more pillar industries, such as farming, such as industry, such as animal husbandry and animal husbandry, etc., but if you want to develop these, you must have enough land and resources, but the Dongsheng Empire has so much land, and the population is even more insufficient, so it will affect the progress of development, Yuan Fang pondered for a moment, squinted his eyes slightly and said: "It seems that it is time to fight another battle." ”

Yuan Fang then said to Damei: "After you go back, let the people on the Wen'an Empire increase their publicity and preferential policies, and all those who come to our side to do business will be exempted from a part of their taxes, and a certain amount of free air transportation services will be provided." ”

Da Mei interrupted and said, "Wait, what is free air freight?" ”

Yuan Fang explained: "Those who come to us to do business, whether they buy or sell, we use transport airships to help them transport goods for free, of course, this is also limited by number and weight." For example, if the merchants of the Wanliu Empire take a boat to Kihara Port, and the ship carries the goods they want to sell to Beizhou, we will use the airship to deliver the goods to Beizhou for free, or they plan to go to Xizhou to buy goods, and after they finish purchasing the goods, we can also use the airship to send these goods to the port, which is probably what it means. ”

Da Mei frowned and said: "In business, transportation is an important link, and the cost is generally very high, if we are free, will it have a bad impact, and the cost of doing so is too high, right?" I'm afraid it will outweigh the losses. ”

Yuan Fang waved his hand and said: "It's okay, we haven't been free, we will make less money at the beginning, as long as we attract businessmen here, our goal will be achieved." In the future, they can use airships to transport goods if they want, but they will have to pay a fee. ”