After returning to the backyard, I saw Lin Yun, although Chen Jingyun didn't come back last night, but Lin Yun thought that Chen Jingyun was resting in Luo Li's room, so she didn't ask Chen Jingyun where he went last night.

At noon, the next person came to report that An Hualin had arrived, and that Hong Zitai had also come over.

Although he had some doubts about why Hong Zitai came with An Hualin, now was not the time to wonder, so he immediately got up and went to these two people.

As soon as they saw Chen Jingyun coming in, An Hualin and Hong Zitai hurriedly got up, and then said in unison: "I've seen the governor!" ”

Chen Jingyun walked in and said, "Wait a long time! ”

Anwarin said: "We have just arrived! After saying that, he glanced at Hong Zitai and said: "When I came, I happened to see Mr. Hong saying that he was going to ask to see the governor, so I came with him!" ”

Hong Zitai on the side also picked up the conversation and said: "I originally planned to go to the secretariat to say it first, but since I met Mr. An when I came, I thought I would take this opportunity to come here, and I ask the governor to forgive me!" ”

Chen Jingyun smiled and said: "What's polite, anyway, inviting one person to dinner is also please, inviting two people is also please, the left and right are just adding a pair of dishes and chopsticks!" ”

Although the words were polite, they were only polite, at least Chen Jingyun had served as the governor of Fujian for so long, and he had not had lunch with Hong Zitai once. Occasionally invite people to dinner together to contact Chen Jingyun is also mostly called Anwarin or Gao Zeyan, or Feng Qin and other senior generals of the National Army, while other people who obviously do not belong to the same faction Zheng Zuyin and Lin Wenying rarely interact, this is mainly to avoid too much contradiction between the three factions, after all, if Chen Jingyun invites Hong Zitai and others to dinner with great fanfare, I am afraid that Zheng Zuyin and those people will have to consider the meaning behind Chen Jingyun, whether they want to dig the foot of the wall and then publicly turn against each other.

From the moment when the Nationalist Army completely took control of Zhejiang, Chen Jingyun was no longer a simple governor of Fujian, if Zheng Zuyin could still be said to have protested separately with Chen Jingyun in government affairs, now Zheng Zuyin is no longer a heavyweight with Chen Jingyun, at best he is only a provincial civil affairs official under Chen Jingyun's control.

Now Chen Jingyun feels that Zheng Zuyin and others no longer pose a threat to their status, so it is better to have more than one thing, anyway, now the Fujian military and political axe is running well, and in the past half a year, a stable triangular system has slowly formed between the three factions in Fujian's military and political axe, and Chen Jingyun will not be guilty of wasting his time and energy to break such a stable situation.

In a certain respect, Chen Jingyun relied on various departments under the National Army Headquarters to control Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, which can be seen from Chen Jingyun's blatant establishment of a salary raising office under the headquarters.

When an army controls its finances, it is no longer a mere army, but more like a violent ruling body.

After the three of them sat down together, the wine and food were delivered for a long time, and the wine was sent from Liuhe Lane, and the rice wine dishes brewed under their own farms were also ordinary home-cooked dishes, but the chefs in the governor's mansion were extraordinary, and a few simple dishes were delicious.

After a glass of rice wine was eaten, the surname Xi, who was talking about things at the wine table of the Chinese people, came up, and Hong Zitai spoke first: "When the Governor waved the army to the north some time ago, I knew that a big victory was imminent, and even prepared a batch of silver money with a few gentry in the guild hall, ready to go to Zhejiang to open a factory at that time!" ”

"Oh, that's a good thing!" Behind the National Army, to put it bluntly, the gentry and merchants of Fujian, after the National Army controlled the whole of Fujian, it controlled the southern part of Zhejiang, but the Fujian businessmen who followed the National Army made a few big fortunes, and even many Fujian businessmen invested in Ningbo, Shaoxing and other places to build factories.

For example, the Chen family's Fule Electric Light Factory was stationed in major cities in southern Zhejiang before, through a variety of legal and illegal means to acquire a number of local electric lamp factories in Zhejiang, and finally controlled the electric light industry in major cities in southern Zhejiang, the capital has been as high as more than 3 million yuan, becoming a veritable electric light predator, this time after the national army marched into Hangzhou and completely controlled the northern part of Zhejiang, Fule Electric Light Factory followed closely behind, acquired two electric lamp factories and controlled the electric light industry in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in one fell swoop, and began to establish a power grid. In addition to supplying electricity to residents, it has also begun to supply electricity to industrial and mining enterprises. The final purpose is naturally to completely monopolize all the power supply industries in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.

Chen Jingyun personally ordered the divestment of his own industry and the transfer of restaurants to concentrate funds, most of which were invested in Fuzhou Arsenal, and other related light industries, such as increasing the capital of Fuding Textile Factory, such as the acquisition of Fule Electric Light Factory, such as the establishment of the Hademen Tobacco Company. Among them, Fuding Textile Factory has been in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province through the acquisition of a silk reeling factory, in turn as the basis of the establishment of a branch, Zhejiang is the main production area of domestic raw silk Fuding Textile Factory must also go to a piece of the pie. Fuding Textile Factory has abundant capital, for this branch factory smashed down more than 300,000 at once, although it is not as good as the scale of several local silk reeling factories in Zhejiang 670,000 or even millions, but if you add up the Fuzhou side, I am afraid that the Fuding Textile Factory in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces can also rank in the top three.

The tobacco company was originally founded only for the purpose of supplying cigarettes for the military, but later after expanding its production, it came up with a Hardmen brand of cigarettes, which not only sold well in Fujian, but also sold to Zhejiang and even Shanghai, and expanded more than ten times in half a year, and is still expanding.

It has to be said that the tobacco industry is more profitable than other light industries, and the profit ratio is second only to the opium industry. The reason why cigarettes began to become popular on a large scale in these years is that on the one hand, the invention of the cigarette machine has greatly increased the production of cigarettes, and on the other hand, people have used cigarettes as a substitute for opium, especially in China. Fujian's military and political axes even took the initiative to promote cigarettes, persuading people not to smoke opium but to smoke cigarettes instead.

Although cigarettes are still harmful, they are much better than the destruction of homes caused by opium.

Because of the huge profits of cigarettes, An Hualin was not polite, and set up a high tax ratio with a wave of his hand.

After these industries add up, the assets almost occupy eighty percent of the assets under Chen Jingyun's name, and then there are some small industries in fragments, such as the Sanshi Match Factory, which was originally the Chen family's big house, that is, the industry under the name of Uncle Chen Jingyun, but because the business was bleak and could not continue, Chen Yu's spirit of doing good deeds, so he took over this match factory and let the uncle take the money and switch to other businesses. The Tower Cement Factory, which was originally a subordinate department of the Fuzhou Arsenal, was later stripped out of the power supply department and the cement department in order to concentrate funds and strength to develop the military industry, and was naturally taken over by the Chen family. The scale is not large, the price of cement is still very high, the main business is to supply industrial cement to some factories and enterprises in Fujian, as for the civil construction of very little, if there is any, it is estimated that the Governor's Mansion has purchased a number of fortifications to strengthen the Governor's Mansion's defense force.

The scale of these industries is not large, and most of them are less than 100,000.

If you count the shares in the Fuzhou Arsenal, the physical assets under Chen Jingyun's name are close to 10 million yuan.

When Chen Jingyun's industry was expanding rapidly, other businessmen in Fuzhou were not willing to be left behind, although the speed of expansion was not as terrifying as Chen Jingyun's industry, but it was definitely not slow. For example, Hong Zitai, Zheng Zuyin and other military and political axes, while they are officials, their industries are also expanding rapidly, and Hong Zitai, who is the richest man in Fujian, is rumored to have assets of more than 10 million, and the others are basically worth millions, anyway, there is no poor person.

They are unlikely to come up with tens of millions of funds, but tens of thousands of yuan of capital can also be taken out, and then invest in various light industries, such as textile and silk reeling, and even many people have followed those big businessmen to set up factories in several coastal cities in Zhejiang, trying to use Zhejiang's transportation and geographical advantages to integrate products into the Yangtze River shipping system.

However, after the Nationalist Army completely took control of Zhejiang, it announced the unification of the centijin in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, which means that after the goods are taxed in Fujian, they will not be charged additional taxes when they are sold to Zhejiang. If the products of other provinces want to enter Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, they still have to pay additional cents.

This is actually the trade protection system. Although Chen Jingyun can't control the customs, he can control the domestic gold.

In this way, the products produced in Fujian can not only be sold in Fujian Province, but also do not have to bear a higher tax amount when they are transported to Zhejiang for sale.

However, this has also brought a very serious problem, that is, although Zhejiang's market is open to Fujian, Fujian's market is also open to Zhejiang businessmen. When Fujian's business community flocked to Zhejiang to seek opportunities to make a fortune, Zhejiang's capital and commodities also flocked to Fuzhou in large numbers. When the capital began to circulate, there was competition, and the domestic businessmen in this year still have a strong sense of region, often together, before the Fujian business community and the southern Zhejiang business community has broken out many times of business conflicts, but the impact was not big at that time, on the whole it was flat.

However, when the Nationalist Army marched into northern Zhejiang, as soon as the business circles in southern and northern Zhejiang united, the business circles in Fujian could not withstand it. When the Chen family and the various industries of the major chaebols entered Zhejiang in a big way, the small and medium-sized industrialists in the Fujian business circles were complaining bitterly, and within a few days of hard work, Zhejiang capital had broken out into several business wars, among which for a batch of military shoes of the national army, a local shoe factory in Fuzhou and a shoe factory in Zhejiang launched a fierce competition, and finally the local shoe factory in Fuzhou won this batch of orders, but after the price reduction has little profit left.

This is not a special case, but a common example, and the commercial competition between Fujian and Zhejiang provinces has slowly become fierce.