In particular, in addition to the autonomous region, Chen Tianhua has suddenly expanded outward in the past two years, including mining in southern and western Jiangxi, acquiring Hanyang Steel Plant, arsenals, etc., and he also sent troops to station in Jiangxi.

The troops sent out were renamed as the Mining Area Security Force, but they were actually the New Army. Their equipment was better than that of the New Army of Zhejiang Province. In addition to the army, there was also a powerful navy, which was euphemistically called escort.

The army under Chen Tianhua's jurisdiction now belongs to the New Province New Army Third Association in name only. His establishment is only 5,000 people. In fact, his regular force has exceeded 10,000 people. This does not include the armed horsemen in various horse ranches.

There are tens of thousands of militias in various mining areas.

All of his expansion of the army is for the protection of Fengzhong Enterprise Group, and has been reported. It sounds like there is nothing wrong with it, but if you think about it carefully, the consequences are very terrible, that is, losing control.

It wasn't Chen Tianhua who lost control, but Li Cunzhi who lost control of him.

Years ago, Li Cunzhi told him that Li Pinzhang wanted to develop in Shanghai and asked him what he thought. Chen Tianhua just replied lightly: My son-in-law has no idea, everything is arranged by his father-in-law.

Listen, these words made Li Cunzhi lose his temper at all.

Therefore, when he asked Li Pinzhang to acquire Huasheng Textile Factory, he killed two birds with one stone. The drunkard's intention was not to drink.

Now I have started to be wary of Chen Tianhua, but deep down in my heart I actually hope that things will be calm, that this beloved son-in-law still has the same heart as me, and that my original intention has not changed at all.

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On the seventh day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the Governor's Yamen of the administrative center of the Meiguang Autonomous Region.

Just two days after Qingming Festival, Chen Tianhua hurried back from Shuangqi Town, Shanyin County, Shaoxing.

This time he made a special trip back to his hometown with his wife and children, firstly to sweep the tombs of his ancestors and secondly to set up an altar to worship at the newly built Chen Ancestral Hall.

The Chen family has lived in Shuangqi Town, Shanyin County for generations, and has never been considered a big household. Even the landlords in the village are somewhat reluctant, and rich farmers are more suitable.

For hundreds of years, none of the descendants of the Chen family have achieved anything, let alone the honorable ancestors. Therefore, for hundreds of years, no one in the family has thought about building a Chen family ancestral hall or setting up a family tree.

But things are different now. From here, a third-rank official of the Qing Dynasty came out. He was powerful and could definitely be called the Guangzong Yaozu.

In this way, the clan members became busy, and each family donated money or efforts to build the Chen family ancestral hall.

On the day when the altar was set up for worship, there was a sea of ​​people in front of the ancestral hall. The Shaoxing prefecture government office, Shanyin county government office, etc. all sent officials there. The family of Fan Chenggui, the richest man in Shuangqi Town, etc., all paid tribute.

After finishing these family matters, Chen Tianhua hurried back to the autonomous region, where there were many things waiting for him to make decisions.

As soon as he sat down at the large desk, secretary Sha Ling placed a copy of the "Daye Iron Mine Expansion Outline" in front of him.

Sha Ling, who is slim and lithe, has her hair tied up in a Japanese bun. She got married to Qiu Heng, a young medical officer, in the first month of this year.

Sha Ling has been secretly in love with Chen Tianhua for six years. She first visited Chen Tianhua's commander's residence at night and wanted him to kill her adoptive father Shaler, causing many ridiculous things.

Later, she became Chen Tianhua's most trusted confidential secretary. It should be said that she had many opportunities to get close to each other. She also expressed her love shyly many times, but he pretended to be deaf and dumb and was never moved. She silently endured the pain of longing for countless times.

Year.

Chen Tianhua is a hero who puts his career first and his country before his beauty. In addition to his wife Li Shuzhen, he also has the charming Hu Yaoxiang and the stunningly beautiful Xu Yunyuan in his life. He thinks that is enough.

To be honest, he was still in the entrepreneurial stage and he really didn't have that much energy and time to care about his children.

He has strong self-control and is not the kind of lecherous person who is reckless and unable to control his belt. He was tempted by the young and beautiful Sha Ling's love, but finally gave up.

He regarded her as his younger sister, and besides sometimes hinting at her, he also let Xu Yunyuan make insinuations about her.

Although Sha Ling was in love with Chen Tianhua, she was not obsessed with him. She was very conscientious and good at observing colors. Over the years, she finally understood the ambition of this man. He was a man of the times who had the world in mind, and beauties were also his accessories.

Let's not talk about it far away, let's talk about Xu Yunyuan. In Sha Ling's view, she has always lived in his shadow and had to endure hardships.

Later, Sha Ling slowly let go, and finally gave up this unrequited love with her mother's persuasion.

Coincidentally, the medical officer Qiu Heng returned from studying abroad and is still unmarried, while his adoptive father Xiang Dong is with Sha Ling's mother, Shaler's widow, a still charming beauty. Because of the relationship between the doctor and the patient, the two of them fell in love.

People are getting better.

As a result, the two elders tried their best to promote the union, so that Qiu Heng and Sha Ling could be united, and it was a matter of course.

Of course, Chen Tianhua was very happy about the marriage of Sha Ling and Qiu Heng. During the wedding, he made a special trip from Hangzhou back to Meishan Town to attend as the officiant and gave him a generous gift.

"Major General, you are back!"

At this time, Li Xinghong walked in with a serious expression, as if he had been looking forward to it.

"Brother Xinghong, please take a seat. I have been out here for the past six months, either on official business or on private matters. The headquarters of the autonomous region is entirely controlled by my brother. Thank you for your hard work." Chen Tianhua nodded in greeting.

He was telling the truth. Starting from the second half of last year, he and Ji Chunsheng went to Jiangxi and returned to the autonomous region several times on the way, but each time they were in a hurry, just like a drop of water.

He first went to southern Jiangxi, and then went to Beijing to deal with the acquisition of Hanyeping Company, or a heavy stake in Hanyang Arsenal. He started tossing around Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake in early winter, and finally settled everything.

Strictly speaking, among the three places of Han, Ye and Ping, currently only Daye Iron Mine needs rectification to expand production scale.

"Major General, I heard that you are going to renovate Daye soon, dig new mines, and send troops there for security?"

Li Xinghong spoke first before he could sit firmly on his butt. He came here specially to talk to Chen Tianhua about this.

"Of course, copper and iron are the roots of the great prosperity of the Qing Dynasty. Railways, ships, ordnance and guns, cables and wires, etc. are all inseparable from copper and iron. Now the main work is to excavate the open-pit iron mines in Daye Tieshan.

There are many mines in the surrounding area, and we have railway transportation lines. It is imperative to expand the capacity. This is the planning outline that was drawn up half a year ago. Take a look." Chen Tianhua talked eloquently, picked up the outline on the table and handed it to

Li Xinghong.

Li Xinghong stood up and took the outline, pretending to flip through the first few pages.

In fact, he already had a first draft copy of the Daye Iron Mine Expansion Outline and had read it several times.

Li Xinghong never cared about the economy of the autonomous region before. He was a garrison general and was only responsible for military construction and affairs.

But since Li Cunzhi communicated with him alone, he began to care about economic investment, because now the economic development of the autonomous region has become more closely related to military deployment, and military affairs are all set around economic construction.

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Chapter completed!