The weather in the fourth month of the lunar calendar is already a little hot. Just after noon, there was no one in the airtight room, and the men working under the sun were also naked, and the tendons and flesh of their bodies were shining in the sun, and the sound of trumpets came and went, and they were in full swing.

Nanjing's horse-drawn carriages are a thing of the past, and the city train will be completely replaced. Now, it is a parking lot, which is being renovated and expanded in a hurry. The stop of the city train is much larger than that of the horse-drawn carriage, and although there is no longer a need for piles of hay and fine materials for the storehouse, such as black beans and bean cakes, the train needs coal and a larger depot.

Not to mention the area of the latter, only the former coal storage and transportation yard has a lot of exquisiteness.

There are open-air and closed.

The outstanding feature of the closed yard is that the pollution of the surrounding environment is small, and the disadvantages are the high cost of the project, the poor working environment in the yard and the complex operating environment. The outstanding characteristics of the open-air storage yard are low project cost, high utilization rate of the storage yard, flexible operation and wide use, but its main disadvantage is that the dust has a large impact on the environment.

Nanjing was the imperial capital of Chen Han, and Chen Ming didn't want to see a gray Jinling, a capital like London, the fog capital of the original time and space.

Moreover, Nanjing is a big furnace, and the coal yard can spontaneously combust under the scorching sun, so it will be a big trouble. Besides, if someone deliberately makes trouble and deliberately sets fires? The open-air storage yard has great safety risks.

And how to prevent coal piles from spontaneously combusting in hot weather? In addition to limiting the tonnage, stretching the distance, watering the coal pile regularly, and strictly regulating fire management, Chen Ming couldn't think of anything.

The roar of the machines is intertwined with the sound of the workers' horns as they work, and the occasional whistle from the construction site adds to the industrial atmosphere of the place.

The station still needs to be built, but the railway has been paved, and a large number of raw materials can be quickly delivered to the construction site by small trains.

A train of trucks had just come from Xiaguan Wharf, and after entering the station, it only stopped for half an hour, and then hurriedly set off and rushed to Xuanwu Lake Station, which was farther away. The entire railway network of Nanjing has been paved, and the material can be transported to the train from the Xiaguan wharf, and the whole city of Nanjing can be 'visited' in a circle.

In this short half hour, several passengers got out of the first carriage of the truck, led by Chen Jiqing and Chen Jigong, the bigwigs of Chen Han's financial circles, and the others were also staff members of the Ministry of Finance. In two months, Chen Jigong and Chen Jiqing will go to the Americas together with Huang Song, the Gao brothers and others.

Some time ago, the 100-acre farm plan proposed by Chen Jian, the king of the Chen Han Dynasty, was disturbed, but the brothers Chen Jigong and Chen Jiqing were ordered to go to Japan and Siam. When the two of them returned to Nanjing, the previous disputes were even more intense, and the emergence of Li Kun and Li Hao and his son turned the entire city of Nanjing into a pot of boiling water.

But Chen Jigong and Chen Jiqing didn't have time to pay attention to this, the specific content of the Huaxia Alliance proposed by Chen Ming before, whether it was Siam or Japan, needed a lot of work to do. The two brothers were so busy that they didn't touch the ground, and they didn't have time to take care of that matter.

During their trip to Japan and Siam, a considerable number of Chinese public officials accompanied them to Japan and Siam to assist in the rectification and reorganization of the financial systems of the two countries. At present, the financial institutions of Japan and Siam are basically busy reorganizing, and the Chinese representatives are directly stationed in those financial institutions in the two countries, especially since they have the financial supervision power of the national banks of the two countries.

Now that the brothers had completed those tasks, they hurried back to Nanjing, one to return to the center, and the other to rush back to see the last big investment their family made in Chen Han - Nanjing's small train renovation project.

Among the two city choices of Nanjing and Shanghai, they chose Nanjing.

The brothers invested a total of 25 million yuan in the Nanjing Urban Rail Transit Company, accounting for 10% of the company's shares.

This is a very 'lucrative' investment project, together with their real estate in Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places, and more than a dozen large and small stock shares of group companies, these are the cornerstones of their son's foothold in Chen Han's homeland.

Chen Cong has only two sons, Chen Jiqing and Chen Jigong, but not each of these two has only one son, although their sons are not as numerous as Chen Ming, they can also reach double digits when added together. And their throne can only be inherited by two sons, so what will happen to the remaining children?

No one will completely abandon their roots in the homeland.

Although the main force has been withdrawn from the Americas, the power structure has changed a lot, just like after the official Zhishi, the family business is more dependent on affection. But Chen Cong's lineage, the foundation laid when the Chen family raised the army, the father and son of the two generations are all high-level members of the imperial court, and the influence of such a family is beyond doubt in the local area.

Even if the two pillars are removed at once, and they fall down one level from the position of Chen Han's top wealthy family, they can definitely be ranked among the first-class powers.

Local and overseas complement each other, this is the development route of these wealthy nobles. Although after their main forces withdrew from the mainland, the vacated position must be filled by newcomers, but this is a matter of 'lost east corner and harvested mulberry'.

Chen Jigong was not very interested in trains, and his attention was more focused on ships in his spare time from work. Chen Jiqing, on the other hand, was involved in transportation at an early age, because the construction of the latter required high costs, and the financial market is often the best place to raise funds for these roads.

But Chen Jigong will not send a message to the construction of the railway, and when he arrives in the Caribbean, he will vigorously develop his country's transportation industry, from shipping on the sea to roads and railways on land.

"There is still a lot of money to be made by building small urban railways, especially in cities with huge influence." This kind of enterprise company that is related to the daily life of ordinary people is very helpful to maintain the style of the Chen family. Moreover, this kind of enterprise with a certain public welfare nature has a lot of land attached to its name, whether it is a parking station, a repair shop or a coal storage site, it is a large piece of land.

Now the Cabinet government does not allow these plots of land to be used for commercial development, but in twenty or thirty years, what does the hell know what will become of it?

Look at present-day Nanjing, with a population of at least 2 million. And how many people were there in Nanjing thirty years ago?

At the beginning, the city of Nanjing, which was wrapped by the outline of the huge city wall, was very ruins and uninhabited streets, but now? It's already stuffed with people. Someone on the Advisory Board has already proposed to demolish the city wall and expand the urban area of Nanjing.

With the increasing improvement of steam water station technology, the floors of the new residential communities in Nanjing are no longer three or four, five or six floors, but at least eight or even ten floors.

Times have changed too much.

When the railroad track was built in Nanjing, the demolition cost almost no compensation, but now the urban track reconstruction has cost more than 20 million yuan in compensation for demolition. This was absolutely unthinkable at the time.

"This will also be the largest investment for our family in the next 20 years......

In addition to the construction of the city's small trains, China's transportation department also has a 'well' plan, which is an extension of the original 'Grand Cross' plan. But this threshold is too high, and the main financial resources of the Chen family have already been invested in the Americas, and they are not qualified to mix in it at all.

Compared with the big plan of the entire imperial court, the small train traffic in a city in Nanjing is called Firefly and Haoyue, which is incomparable.

Now they are spending a little money to do big things, as long as they can still stand up in Nanjing, it will be very good.

Many of the 1,200 powerful families who are going to the Americas have invested a sum of money in Chen Han's infrastructure construction and urban public welfare and livelihood enterprises, and they are also following the same path.

Leaving the construction site of the railway station, the Chen brothers put away their inner feelings. They weren't in the mood to walk around the small train stations in Nanjing.

It's enough to take a look at your own 'industry' and show how much you value it.

When the government affairs are completed, they will have to hand over the work, but this does not mean that they will have time for the next month or so. They will be busier then than they are now, and they will do their best 1,000 percent.

Both of them have to carefully prepare for their future 'own business'.

Chen Jiqing rushed directly to the office of Wang Qi, the first assistant to the cabinet, and submitted the proposal for Japan's financial consolidation.

"Please take a look at it, this is the opinion on Japan's financial consolidation drafted by the lower officials. In a hurry, the handwriting is sloppy, the idea is vulgar, and if there is something inconsiderate, I hope that the first assistant Haihan. Chen Jiqing was very humble, said a few words, put the financial sorting proposal on Wang Qi's desk, and then stood with his hands down, waiting for Wang Qi's orders.

Wang Qi did not delay, he directly picked up the document and flipped through it, of course, he did not express his opinion immediately, but asked a question that seemed to have nothing to do with finance.

"Lord Chen, now that our consultations with various countries on various issues concerning the alliance are nearing completion, Siam and Japan will soon be disarmed." The construction of the entire master-slave system is not only related to financial banks. "Feedback from Japan and Siam shows that the process is going well, but the worst is the Sikh Kingdom." The situation changed suddenly, and the large and small countries of Gurkha, Mysore, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh in India were all stable, except for the Sikh Kingdom. The Sikh king Ranjit Singh did not leave his own capital, and he was one of the few monarchs who did not have a personal presence in Nanjing, but you also have to be considerate of others, the Sikh Kingdom is in turmoil, and Singh, as the god of the sea, obviously cannot leave Sikh at this time.

At the time of the Nanking Alliance, the Marathas also launched a counterattack against the Sikhs during this period.

Many hostile countries around the Marathas, such as Mysore, Gurkha, Bhutan, etc., the kings left their countries and rushed to Nanjing for a conference, which naturally made it inconvenient for war. This is a golden opportunity for them to launch a manganese counterattack against Sikh.

And the Sikh king did not leave his capital, does that also mean that the relationship between Sikh and Chen Han is actually not so close?

It wasn't until the alliance was over and the news reached India that the Marathas were terrified to find themselves provoking a behemoth - the relationship between the Sikh Kingdom and Chen Han was not only very close, but it was clearly put on the scene, but they were not good at stopping the war immediately, which would have a great impact on their prestige. Moreover, they are willing to do so, but not the Sikh kingdom?

Ranjit Singh hopes to take this opportunity to push back into the Indian Ocean and open the Haiyang outlet to the south. The original territory of the Sikhs was in the northern part of the later Pakistan Railway, and now it has only expanded to the central part, and they still need to take the central and southern regions. But in this way, it is impossible for the Sikh Kingdom to maintain the original planned amount of troops, and the military expenditure has increased dramatically, so it is reaching out to Chen Han for support.

"What do you mean by that?"