Chapter 52 Expansion of the Chamber of Commerce
The yamen was wide open, and the county magistrate stood at the door and looked, 'Yo! Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info these bastards, who loved to ignore the county at the beginning, often do things that violate the yang and yin, and really want to give each of them twenty boards to beat half to death and then speak. The county commander greeted everyone politely: "Squires, this time is the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, and the non-Chamber of Commerce squires, please go back." ”
The members of the Chamber of Commerce smirked, and the non-members of the Chamber of Commerce immediately shouted: "I am here to join the Chamber of Commerce!"
The county magistrate secretly scolded the treacherous man, but said politely: "If you are sincere to join the Sands Chamber of Commerce, you can go in and talk!"
Outside said in unison: "We are all sincere!"
Immediately, a house slave sent a gift slip, and the county magistrate arranged for the servants to receive the items in front of everyone. All the squires thought that this county order was too bold. Unexpectedly, the county order said: "Thank you squires for your love for the poor people of this county, these things will be transferred from the yamen to the poor people in this county, and they will be recorded." Come in, everybody, come in and talk. "At the beginning of the gift-giving, I thought I was blind and was calculated by the county order. But with the prefectural order beckoning everyone to come in and talk, there is hope now.
The squires followed the county order in, and there were two large cauldrons in the yard, which was the corn porridge that the county ordered to make people boil with bud rice seeds, which was very thin, only twenty catties of bud rice were used, and the soup was very thick, and now it was still bubbling with a slight fire and heat preservation.
After everyone arrived in the lobby, the county order called all the officials to look at the seats. Some are satisfied, some are dissatisfied, but they dare not say much. Looking at the seeds scattered on the ground, whoever upsets this county magistrate at this time is an idiot. The squires are certainly not idiots, and the idiots have long been squeezed to death by them. After taking his seat, the prefectural order did not mention anything about the seeds, but asked the official to invite Mr. Aoshi.
Everyone said that there was no nutrition, and they waited for half an hour for Qingshi to arrive, and the county order arranged for him to sit beside him. Then he said: "This is Mr. Qingshi, the third boss of Xincheng, and the big boss of the Chamber of Commerce." Let everyone come today, it is naturally a matter of seeds, and the seeds are also provided by Mr. Qingshi's family. All the squires stood up and shouted: "Hello big boss!" Qingshi stood up and responded with a smile: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, everyone is a friend!" The county magistrate sat down and said: "Brother Qingshi doesn't need to get up to answer them, with the financial resources of your new city, the financial resources of the entire Great Qin are unsurpassed!" The squires were surprised, and they dared to say this?
The prefectural magistrate continued: "Everyone knows where I came from. I was recommended by the Li family, and I entered the official career at the age of forty-three, what about the other families? I don't know, but I still know about the affairs of the Li family. There are many fields and vast land, officials are like forests, ten county towns, and one big city. But I still have to say that Xincheng is about to surpass the four major families. The next thing, those who are unwilling to participate get out, and those who are willing to tie up their lives to stay. The magistrate enjoyed the conversation with himself sitting and the squire standing, and did not call them to sit down and talk back.
The original chamber of commerce was completely unmoved, they knew that the county magistrate was bluffing, and the newcomers were still unwilling to quit after some inner struggles. Some are thinking in their hearts, in case they want to rebel, the uncle will go to Fengxian County to denounce you.
The county magistrate glanced at it before saying, "Sit down! In the future, it will all be from the Chamber of Commerce, don't get tired of playing with this county." Brother Qingshi, divide the seventy percent of your family's shares!" The new squire was stunned again, he really didn't know that Xincheng was seventy percent of the shares. Qingshi didn't agree to anything, just said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, everyone is friends!" took the letter handed to him by the county order and opened the pages of the book in front of the squires and slowly flipped over. The county order even sent the family to Xincheng quietly, and even the squires of Jinsha County didn't know that it was quietly taken away by the convoy of Shigang Village.
Qingshi slowly flipped through the pages of the book, and asked the county order for the words he didn't know, and he didn't dare to speak out when he was half dead when he wanted to join the Chamber of Commerce. The original chamber of commerce secretly laughed, this Mr. Qingshi is really good at drinking wine and eating meat, speaking of literacy, is learning now. But it is true that he is righteous, every time he treats a guest, he is drunk and eats casually, and I don't know if the stupid bird on the opposite side has eaten it! The Chamber of Commerce is thriving with the slaughterhouse and bacon factory, and Xincheng has promised to give a new way of making money, and if the stupid bird on the other side is not sensible, he will die sooner or later. The sale of bacon was not implemented in Fengxian County, they were all sold to other counties remotely, and Xincheng did not take advantage of the money and posted a little, and the people of the Chamber of Commerce had long since stopped taking other squires seriously.
There were only a few pages of letters, and Qingshi was stunned for half an hour, and he thought while reading, how to do it well, how to make money that everyone has. After making up his mind, Qingshi said: "I can only take out one and a half shares, please ask the squire who wants to join the Chamber of Commerce to report the conditions for joining and exiting the club and the amount of shares you want to share." ”
The squires handed over the letters, basically asking for the purchase of fertilizer and these fine seeds from the slaughterhouse, and the matter of shares could account for one percentage point, and the membership fee should be set out by Xincheng at a specific price. The main thing is to make his land produce more, Qingshi reads while watching. The original members of the Chamber of Commerce listened and laughed, these stupid birds were still trying to make that little profit, and they didn't know how powerful the Chamber of Commerce was, soap, everyone had seen it, paper had also seen it, as well as the wheelbarrow in Shigang Village, and the difference in the price of grain. The members of the Chamber of Commerce sold all their own production, and went to distant places to buy and sell it to Xincheng. The immortal drunk brought out by Xincheng is exported to the surrounding counties, and does not take the road of the county seat at all, and the Chamber of Commerce also covets these wines, but Xincheng said that the wine can only be made for Niu Nan. Just waiting for Xincheng's hand to loosen, paper and soap can make a lot of money, and still worry about fertilizer?
After reading it, Qingshi took another half an hour, nodded and said: "There are eight new members, let's give less, and share the five hundred gold entrance fees for one percent each." Qingshi continued: "The members of the chamber of commerce can buy special fertilizer for Xincheng, increase the grain output by three percent, shorten the planting time by three and a half months, and try to plant these excellent seeds for free, and join the upcoming transportation company and milk company, and the members of the chamber of commerce can get a small amount of immortal drunk at the lowest price for their own family to drink, and there are materials that can be sold in Jinsha County in the future and let the chamber of commerce act as an agent." ”
At this time, everyone was stunned, and even the original members of the Chamber of Commerce didn't understand. The transportation company, the milk company, the agent, and Qingshi asked the county magistrate to explain these things concisely and concisely. After the prefectural order was finished, everyone understood a lot. There were so many cows in the new city that every household in Sands City could get one, and they were more powerful and stronger than the current cows. With the increase in the flow of materials in Xincheng, the transportation company is to earn Xincheng's money, and can also earn other people's money, but Xincheng does not have manpower, is not allowed to abuse cattle, is not allowed to eat these cattle, and has to be returned to Xincheng after they are old. After abusing the cattle, Xincheng cut off contact with him, and those who killed the cattle were punished by the county government. These rules are weird, but they are enough to be called, and they are very human, and they are still acceptable. The dairy company is even more unavoidable, and will purchase fresh milk at Xincheng's expense for the school that Xincheng will set up in Sands City. All the children who come to study can eat milk without money, and Xincheng will also use milk to make milk powder to make toffee. Moreover, it is pointed out that milk powder, toffee will be sold at the high-end in exquisite packaging, and the new city will produce technology and cost. No management, no manpower, but the price offered is amazing, higher than the price of salt. Who is this going to buy for? Can anyone afford to pay that much?
With the discussion below, the county magistrate shouted: "Everyone, you haven't used breakfast, right? You know everything cooked in the big pot outside? Ten catties of corn porridge boiled from corn seeds." Then he said to the servant, "Bring it and bring it to the bowl, one for each person." He didn't care whether these squires ate bud rice or not, and let the servants carry up a bowl of each person and start dividing it. The squires were really hungry, a few of them. I didn't have time to eat anything overnight, it was almost noon, and I was really hungry, and I didn't care about any polenta, this was a new seed boiled just in time to taste. The corn porridge was not served with pickles or anything, it was just a bowl of corn porridge, and the county magistrate didn't add a grain of salt to the door. But it's really delicious, this bud rice grain is so big, it's not much smaller than quail eggs, the skin is thin, the meat is thick, sweet and glutinous, and the soup is thick and fragrant. "Is this really a bud?" someone shouted, and the squires all stopped to eat and looked at Qingshi. Qingshi said with certainty: "Yes, it is bud rice, our family has spent a hundred years to cultivate special bud rice, the yield is extremely high, but it needs enough fertility." The letter said that the white sugar that had been studied for a long time was also made, and these white sugars were the raw materials for making milk candy, and the county magistrate brought them for everyone to taste. ”
The prefectural magistrate himself got up, opened the lid of a jar, held the jar with a small spoon, and walked over to scoop a small spoonful of snow-white, salt-like things into each squire's bowl. After finishing it, I added a small spoonful to Qingshi and myself, sat down and stirred it slowly with chopsticks, as if adding salt. Feeling that there were no hard particles at the bottom of the bowl, the county order picked it up and continued to eat the polenta. I was shocked when I took a bite, and then drank several sips in a row, and shouted: "Taste it, white sugar is not arsenic, this thing is amazing!" After speaking, he lowered his head and ate the polenta.
The squires felt like they were taking small bites, and a few of them almost spilled the polenta in their bowls. This is just a small spoonful of something, so sweet? What are the people of Xincheng doing? Then there was no more doubt, only the sound of snoring and eating porridge. After eating, the squires really licked the bowl regardless of their image, and the one who licked the bowl was a fat man, who licked it twice and said, "It's sweeter than honey!" The county magistrate smiled: "Yo! I didn't expect you to be a wonderful person, have you eaten honey?"
The fat man said: "I have eaten, my mother is the daughter of the concubine of the Li family, my mother's surname is Li, and my uncle does not dislike my mother for being born to a concubine, nor does he dislike me for being born to my mother." When we went to my uncle's house to pay our respects, my uncle gave us food. ”
The squires all stood up and said, "Disrespectful, disrespectful! Lord Lingtang turned out to be a person surnamed Li of the four major families!"
The fat man said: "It's not a big deal, we think we have more or less the shadow of the Li family, right? When you are a relative, you can still give some pastries and candy or something." If it's not a clan, who can care about your life, old age, sickness and death? The Li family doesn't have sugar!"
In one sentence, everyone said that they wanted to cry, and sure enough, it was all related to the Li family. "Mr. Qingshi, let's just decide! Sugar business, we don't dare to be delusional. We can't afford to pay so much for the entrance fee, so let's put it on paper! The dairy company must have us. "The county order just said that toffee is very expensive, and the minimum is one or two gold and a pound of sugar, but it didn't say how much it is high. The squires all thought that they would slaughter the Li family first, and slaughter less good things. Then go to other counties and cities to slaughter the three major families, and attack fiercely. Their young master's son must have to eat white sugar, and if he hasn't eaten this milk candy, he knows that it is something more advanced than white sugar. The sharp weapon that specializes in dominating the four major family clans, none of them here can have anything to do with the clan, and they are sorry for their old mothers or grandmothers and aunts if they don't kill them. It's all to blame for the fat man's words, it's not the clan who cares if you live or die! Before there was a shadow of this toffee, they were thinking about quickly forming a transportation company. The squires also made suggestions, kept each other secret, and even their families were not allowed to tell them, and the profits of the toffee matter were as high as ninety percent, and whoever leaked the news would kill him together.
The county decree told them to leave a note, and divided the seeds evenly among the twenty squires in small scales, and told them to hurry home with the seeds and replant them in the best fields, and the relevant fertilizer new city would allocate it immediately. The squires immediately rushed home as soon as they had divided the seeds, and the replanting was very good, but there was nothing empty in the field, so they had to pull out the new seeds. Even if they don't have the fertilizer from Xincheng, they will use the best fertilizer they can come up with. As long as these seeds can be planted, there will be seeds in the future. What they don't know is that without the rain of the seven colors and the fertilizer of the new city, these seeds will slowly degrade. The squires left with their hungry slaves and men, and the county order greeted them, and the officials gathered around the cauldron to eat polenta. Qingshi shouted: "Wait, add sugar." The county magistrate laughed, poured the whole jar of sugar into the two cauldrons separately, and said, "You still don't thank the big boss?
Smelling the sweet aroma of corn porridge, he swallowed his saliva, and the county order asked them to open the two cloth bags left by the convoy, which were full of pork stuffed buns, and they were a little out of place on this hot day. The officials almost didn't grab the fight, and if it weren't for the county magistrate, maybe they would really have to fight their fists. A servant who eats very quickly eats two buns, and after a small bite of polenta, he stops eating. The county magistrate asked him: "What's the matter?" On weekdays, you eat the fastest, but you can't eat such a good thing today, and you are sick?" The official said, "My lord, let me take it home!" My wife has never eaten anything good, let me take it home to honor my mother!"
The county magistrate looked at Qingshi, and Qingshi said: "Good boy, there are delicious things and I will think about the old lady, you are on duty for thirty, there are more than sixty bowls in this pot, this bun is two hundred, each of you eat six buns and a bowl of polenta, this bun is a little out of taste, the polenta can be put for more time, and the rest of the polenta will be divided and brought home! There will be food in the future, and half a catty of sugar will be given to you at the end of the year." You are not allowed to sell it, but you can only eat it for your own family. After thanking Qingshi, the officials continued to eat, Qingshi and the county order ate four buns each, and the extra twelve buns were packed home by the county order. There are two maids and a lady at home! These buns are not as big as those made in the mountains, and they don't have so much pork, and they are very expensive, and they have never been seen before. Qingshi didn't have anything to do to accompany the county order home, and naturally had to drink a little more for dinner, and the county order is now not what it used to be, and the pork is eaten casually, and chicken soup is often boiled.
Liang Pi and the convoy left from the north gate of Sands Cotai when they were about to be ugly, and ran wildly all the way. When he arrived at the west gate of Fengxian County, he threw five bags of buns to the soldiers guarding the gate and said: "Yikang let me bring it, you can give a share of what you can't eat, so that those who don't come to duty can have some, hurry up, the weather is about to go bad." The soldiers shouted and cheered. Liangpi shouted, "Remember to give me the bag when we come back." Waiting for the convoy to leave, the soldiers opened the cloth bags and ate wildly, and finally no one could walk, so they brought a letter to call the brothers of the soldiers and horses to come and get the buns. These few stubborn ones were scolded by the soldiers and horses: "I got the buns and patronized them and ate them myself, and I didn't know how to honor Lord Ben, and I couldn't walk before I let people bring letters." Hurt Lord Ben,I can only eat a little bad buns.,Anyway, you're full.,It's estimated that you won't be hungry if you don't eat tomorrow.,It's still you on duty tonight.。 ”
After the convoy entered the city from the west gate, Liangpi opened the road and continued to trot. Finally, he arrived at the county office before noon, pulled a bag of buns from the car and handed it to the official first, saying, "This is brought by Yikang Rang, and the food is about to go bad!" "A servant grabbed a few buns and ran while eating, and went in to spread the word. When he was young, the county guard came out in person, and he didn't stop watching the officials eat steamed buns while they were on duty. First point to the bun and say, "Carry me a bag in." Liangpi immediately handed over a few large boxes and said, "My lord, this is Yikang who asked us to bring pastries to honor you, and there is a little sugar here." All I know is brown sugar, granulated sugar, white sugar, and rock sugar. This bag contains a little bit of bacon that the Jinsha County Linghe General cleaned up. "The county keeper is in a good mood, and the cultural people are polite and eat and drink. Qingsong found so much "trouble" for himself, and it was also a good idea to give some pastries in the name of Yikang, but he didn't expect Liangpi to say: "There are some rare things here, my uncle and they let them bring them to adults to taste, he said that he can not be without politeness to adults and friends, a little mountain goods are not respectful, there is a kind of red mushroom in it, and my uncle named it a mushroom." It is non-toxic, and it is said that the taste is very wonderful, and only an elegant person like an adult can taste the taste. The county guard hurriedly asked Liangpi to open a bag of mushrooms, took out one and smelled it, touched it and touched it, and bit it with his teeth, chewed it a little bit, and said a good word in the middle of a loud sound.
Then he asked, "It's so urgent, but what's the urgency?" Liangpi stepped forward and whispered, "The car is loaded with seeds, and my uncle's letter says that the adults will know it when they see it." The county guard opened a bag with his own hands, and as soon as he saw it, he immediately tightened his command again: "Come, hurry up and carry me to the lobby, no one can read the contents of it! ”
The county keeper grabbed the letter and ran inside, and Liangpi said goodbye loudly outside. Turn around and come to the street corner and continue to trot in the direction of the camp with another team.
At noon, Liangpi arrived at the camp, the soldiers ran to report, and the general personally brought the bull to greet him, but the bull could not come out at the critical time of the last time he was practicing. Liangpi handed over the letter, and after reading it, the general immediately asked people to receive the supplies and send them to the school grounds. Liangpi and all the people who drove the car had lunch in the camp, and after lunch, they took the convoy back to the city and began to return after merging with the convoy left in Fengxian City.
In the camp, the general immediately arranged for people to transfer chariots and horses to bring all the supplies to his home. These 20,000 catties of seeds can make half of the Bai family's land harvest next year.
Fengxian County is not so fast, the county guard only knew that the three thousand catties of seeds were planted for his own family after reading Qingsong's letter, and he was not at ease with others. The county guard thought about it and used it at home first, and wrote a letter asking the family to pull out the crops in the best fields and quickly replant these giant seeds. Before that, a convoy pulled supplies to Li's house in Fengxian County. The county keeper was secretly happy to eat the pastries sent by Aomatsu Tuo Yikang, and Aomatsu cared about the people of the world and sent the seeds developed by the family for a hundred years so that the whole world could grow such food. Not to mention the merit in the community, this is to benefit the world and all generations. This friend deserves fellowship, and such a person is worthy of being worthy of his friend. All the grain produced by this batch of seeds will be used to make seeds and distribute them to the big households in Fengxian County.
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