Heavy snow has covered the country's three thousand miles of mountains and rivers in North Korea. However, after the snow stopped, the outside of Seoul was covered with snow, but inside the city there was no hint of the cold winter, and there were lively scenes everywhere.
Jiang Wan was right. Seoul, as Jiang Wan's royal capital, is indeed the most prosperous place in the country of Korea. Of course, this prosperity is only for the country of Korea. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, it is incomparable.
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At least, Jiang Yanran didn't take it seriously when the Shen family members were so proud of themselves.
This time, she was originally going to take the fleet directly to Xiaoshan City. Yes, Xiaosan Village was now the size of a town due to the existence of the port, the concentration of a large population and the need for cargo transportation. And the Shen family
The Li family and the Li family spared no effort to build a city here, with the intention of turning this place into their jointly owned territory.
The Civil Affairs Office not only acquiesced to the actions of the Shen family and the Li family, but even provided a lot of faint support, which made the Shen family and the Li family even more motivated.
The Overseas Zhenfu Division does not have many territorial claims on North Korea. As the Shen family and the Li family, who are close to the Overseas Zhenfu Division, built a city here. Unless the royal court directly sends troops, otherwise, this city will be the king of heaven.
, also belongs to their Shen family and Li family.
With such a port, the profits that can be brought are so great that the owners of these two families will wake up laughing when they sleep. Of course, even now most of the profits are from the Overseas Town and Fu Division.
However, just what leaked from the fingers of the Overseas Press Secretary was enough for the two families' background to grow rapidly.
The Sihai Fleet comes in and out of this place as the main port. The two of them even follow the Sihai Fleet to do some small business around North Korea. This is not a problem, right? The Sihai Fleet brings many dazzling things to the Ming Dynasty and overseas.
For products, not to mention monopoly, the two of them at least have the benefit of priority in purchasing.
There are so many benefits like this, they are countless.
More importantly, both the Shen family and the Li family know that the Ming people will always leave, and once the Ming people leave, this place will belong to their two families. Maybe it will be ten to eight years, maybe twenty or thirty years.
, even thirty or fifty years later, but they can afford to wait, they have been surviving and reproducing on this land for generations, and they are the masters of this land that the Ming people look down upon.
Jiang Yanran went to Busan this time and heard that she was going to return to Zhenjiang Fort. The Shen family and the Li family, who had been waiting for this opportunity, jointly sent an invitation to him, asking her to come to Seoul for a visit.
Of course, the main reason is that the Shen family and the Li family, the two main backers in the North Korean royal court, really want to get in touch with Jiang Yanran.
The bloody battle between Jiang Wan and Hou Jin was huge. Even if the two main backers of the Shen family and the Li family wanted to get close to Jiang Wan, they couldn't get along, let alone there was a person between them and Jiang Wan.
Park Renyong of the Park family in Pyongyang, and Park Zhijie, a Confucian scholar who was highly regarded by His Royal Highness in the royal court, would not watch these two families take away the hope of the Park family's rise.
By the way, the two main backers of the Shen family and the Li family in the North Korean royal court are both members of the same family. One is the governor-general Shen Quanyi, and the other is Li Qianye who discusses politics. One is engaged in literary affairs, and the other is practicing martial arts, although it is not considered
The group of people closest to King Li Zhu can only stand in the second echelon.
In other words, if they work hard, they may really have a chance to make the Shen family and the Li family become one of the top families in North Korea, instead of just having power in a certain house and a certain road, but unable to enter the capital.
Now the person Jiang Yanran is going to visit is Shen Quanyi of the Shen family, and the person sent to greet her is Shen Junsong, the youngest son of Shen Quanquan, a young man who looks very energetic and handsome, but he just likes to show off in front of Jiang Yanran.
It was as if everything in Seoul was excellent in his eyes. Although Miss Jiang Er was from the Ming Dynasty, she had never seen such a prosperous scene.
Jiang Yanran dealt with each other very perfunctorily. Although the two were about the same age, Miss Jiang's vision was not comparable to that of Shen Junsong, the frog in the well. And the Shen family sent this young man to greet her. Although they didn't say it explicitly, they probably had it.
Let's see if there's any possibility that sparks will fly between the two of them.
Entering the gate of Shen's house, Shen Quanyi was already waiting for Jiang Yanran under the eaves of the middle hall. It must be said that the other party's attitude was very correct. He did not go out to greet Jiang Yanran to avoid unnecessary criticism and attract attention. But under the eaves of the middle hall, Jiang Yanran
Waiting means treating the other person as a distinguished guest equal to yourself.
Even if the other person looks like just a teenage girl.
The status of North Korean women in the eyes of men has always been very humble.
"Miss Jiang, you have worked hard all the way. How about it? The scenery in Seoul is quite worthy of Miss Jiang's eyes. Now the weather is very cold and the road remains unchanged. If Miss Jiang has no urgent matters to deal with, it is okay to stay here until the beginning of spring!"
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Shen Quanyi does not look like a military commander at all, but rather has a refined air, and his speech is fair and calm, a bit like Jiang Wan's speech.
"How can I stay for so long? You said you wanted me to open a branch of Sihai Trading Company in Seoul. I happened to come over to take a look when I had time!"
Jiang Yanran answered with a smile, and took a bite of a snack or something in front of her. It tasted pretty good.
"Come and try it too!" She greeted Li Huamei behind her. Now Li Huamei has become one of the best confidants around her and stays with her wherever she goes.
"Don't you love sweets? You must have never eaten this!" Jiang Yanran said with a smile.
Shen Junsong, who was next to Shen Quanyi, had a slightly displeased look on his face. On this occasion, inviting his subordinates to come to eat would be extremely disrespectful of the master's family, and even meant to insult the master's family.
Shen Quanyi glared at his son fiercely, but said nothing. Instead, he said with a smile: "If Miss Jiang and your family are used to eating, when I leave, I will let Miss Jiang cook the sweets as well."
Take it away so that Miss Jiang can eat it whenever she wants!"
"Then it doesn't have to be so troublesome!" Jiang Yanran waved her hand: "Just give me some sweets later, and forget about the cook!"
Li Huamei took the snacks and left. Jiang Yanran glanced at Shen Junsong: "Shen Juncen is Mr. Shen's nephew, right?"
"Not bad!" Shen Quanyi said proudly: "My Shen family is a very good rising star!"
"Then your son is far behind others!" Jiang Yanran shook her head slightly: "This subordinate of mine commands a powerful fleet with hundreds of cannons and thousands of elite soldiers.
Wherever I go, even the King of Ryukyu treats me as a distinguished guest. The Queen of Ryukyu is not even worthy of her sisters. Just her, eating something from you is to give you face, in front of the Shen family!"