Looking at the large and small sea boats anchored on the river, Li Guodong asked: "Mr. Chen, why didn't the Donglin Party simply let the gate port open and let the Thai Red Maowi Yi ships enter the gate port directly? Then you can charge a fee from their ships so that they can collect money on the ground. Wouldn't it be a huge profit?"

Chen Yujie smiled and said, "Brother, if you do this, let alone whether the court can allow it, let alone the Red-Furious Yi ship enters the gate port, so many small sea merchants can't survive? What's more, letting the Red-Furious Yi ship enters the gate port will offend Zheng Zhilong from Fujian. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing his parents. If Zheng Zhilong is annoyed, he will be able to go back to be a pirate, so no one of our ships can go out to sea, and the Red-Furious Yi ship can't enter the gate port at all."

"If it is released directly, what if the Zheng family merchant fleet enters the gate port?"

"Then no small sea merchants in the Donglin Party will live." Chen Yujie said with a smile.

After entering the intersection of the two rivers, the ship turned right into Huangputang, sailed south for a short distance, and arrived at the riverside of Shanghai County.

Li Guodong came to Xu Guangqi's ancestral house. When the servant at the door saw Chen Yujie, he greeted him with a flattering smile and bowed deeply: "Master Chen, our master is at home, please come in quickly."

The servant saw Li Guodong beside Chen Yujie and saw that this person has a good temperament, so he asked again: "Who is this distinguished guest?"

"It's Wu Weibo."

"So it's uncle! Please come in and ask!"

Li Guodong followed Chen Yujie and walked into Xu Guangqi's mansion. Someone had already reported to the mansion. He heard that his cousin was visiting with a uncle, so Xu Ji hurriedly came out.

"Brother, cousin!" Xu Ji walked out and bowed.

"Mr. Xu!" Li Guodong returned the greeting.

"Brother, Wu Weibo came to visit. He is my uncle's old acquaintance." Chen Yujie introduced.

"I know, when my father was alive, he mentioned my uncle many times, please come in and invite me." Xu Ji greeted the two enthusiastically.

When I walked into Xu Guangqi's yard, I found that this mansion, who was once the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion and the second assistant to the cabinet, was not as luxurious as I thought. There were still many vegetables planted in the yard, some of which were common in later generations, but this era had just appeared and I didn't even know what it was for. Li Guodong also saw tomatoes.

"This is a good thing." Li Guodong walked forward and stroked the tomato fruit.

"This thing was also from the Thais. It was given by a missionary. They said it was called Wolf Fruit. It is said to be poisonous and can only be watched." Xu Ji introduced.

"This is obviously edible, but those Thais don't understand it." Li Guodong picked the tomatoes, broke them apart, and put them in his mouth.

Xu Ji and Chen Yujie stared at Li Guodong ate a tomato. After a while, they picked a tomato and took a bite, and said in unison: "It tastes good."

"This thing can be stir-frying, soup, and squeezing sauce. For example, when making sweet and sour fish, it will taste much better." Li Guodong introduced.

In China, tomatoes are officially planted as fruits and vegetables, and it will be until the 20th century. What I have seen before are planted as ornamental plants. In fact, even Europeans in this era do not know how tomatoes can be eaten. They think that this thing is poisonous and are called wolf fruits. Because there is a monster on the branches and leaves of tomatoes that smell very bad, only wolves dare to eat it. This is because of this smell, so people mistakenly think that they are poisonous.

In the Xu family’s mansion, there are all peanuts and potatoes.

"This is a peanut. The flowers are blooming on the ground, but when they bear fruit, the fruit drilled into the ground." Xu Ji introduced.

Then Xu Ji brought a plate of cooked peanuts, which were cooked in water and dried. Li Guodong peeled a piece and put it in his mouth. The people in Xu Mansion made it good. When cooking the peanuts, they added some salt and pepper. After drying, the taste was particularly delicious.

"I didn't expect that Mr. Xu has many novelties." Li Guodong said with a smile.

Xu Guangqi has indeed left a lot of things, and he is also very knowledgeable about agriculture.

"I heard that Wu Weibo also likes farming?" Xu Ji asked.

"Agriculture is the foundation of the country. When the people are about to starve to death, they will rebel. If everyone has a bite of food, who would be willing to rebel at the risk of killing the nine clans in the wind?"

"What Wu Wei Bo said is so yes! When my father was alive, he also vigorously promoted these crops brought by the Thai Red Maple Yi, but unfortunately he couldn't promote them. I heard that you have grown a lot of sweet potatoes and corn, right?"

"That's nature. Without these items, how can the barren land in the north support so many people?"

Xu Ji invited the two to have a meal in the mansion. When he was having dinner, Li Guodong mentioned something: "Mr. Xu, in fact, I came here, and another thing is that I think the conditions of the Shanghai port are convenient, and this place will inevitably become a prosperous city in the future. In a few years, Li will invest a lot of money here to build towns and ports, and move some workshops here."

"Shanghai port is convenient and it does have a future of development." Xu Ji was naturally very happy to hear Li Guodong praise his hometown.

The next day, Li Guodong followed Xu Ji, Chen Yujie and Zhang Huangyan to visit Shanghai County Government to visit Shanghai County Magistrate Wang Chenjin.

Wang Chenjin learned in advance that Wu Weibo was coming to visit, and before Li Guodong arrived, he was waiting at the county government office. When Li Guodong and his group appeared at the county government office, he brought a group of people to greet him: "I am very honored that I can visit my small county in person!"

After entering the county yamen, the group sat down and heard that Li Guodong was going to develop Shanghai, Wang Chenjin was surprised and happy: "My uncle is interested in this small county town of Xiaguan? Do you want to invest in and develop this county?"

"Wangxian Zun, you don't know that Shanghai is a treasure land! Now the world has entered the era of great navigation. The ships of the Thai Red and Mass Yi have traveled all over the world. Although the Ming Dynasty is large, it is only a corner of the world. This Shanghai is the intersection of water transportation. You can enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. You can cross the ocean to the east, go north to Japan to the south, and reach the South Ocean to the south. And there is the advantage of the Wusong River here, which can reach all parts of Nanzhili. The Thai Red and Mass Yi loves our silk, cotton cloth, and ceramics very much."

"I wonder how much money my uncle is going to invest in Shanghai?" Wang Chenjin was naturally very happy when a God of Wealth came to visit.

"Plan first, and you will earn back the money you invested in the future. As long as you do well, Shanghai County will replace Songjiang Prefecture."

"I wonder if you have discussed this with Qian Fuzun?"

"Li will inspect Shanghai in the past two days, and in two days, he will naturally visit Songjiang Prefecture to visit Prime Minister Qian."

Speaking of Songjiang Prefect Qian Sule, he was a family of four loyal wise men. After Qian Sule and his three younger brothers attacked Jiangnan, all four brothers died heroically. Li Guodong would naturally visit Songjiang Prefect in two days.

County magistrate Wang Chenjin accompanied Li Guodong and others to walk by the river, on the Huangputang River south of the Wusong River, which is later on the Bund River. At this time, the Bund was just a beach by the river. When the tide receded, the river surface became narrow, and the river water gathered in the center of the riverbed, revealing a large area of ​​beach. When the tide was high, the river water did not cross the river beach again.

Looking at this desolate beach, no one could have thought that this will be the most prosperous street in China in the future. On the other side of the desolate side, there will also be skyscrapers in the future. At this time, Shanghai was just a small county town. However, this small county town had already shown signs of prosperity. After crossing the Wusong River, at Zhagang, the lower reaches of the Wusong River, which was later the lower reaches of the Huangpu River, countless ships were moored on the river.
Chapter completed!