178.Chapter 178: We're Poor Too
The carriage drove on the concrete road, and the sound of horses' hooves hitting the road made a crisp series of clattering sounds.
The family divided into two carriages and sat down, and the fat men ran along the side.
The children were taken away by Ruan Bai, and there were only two people in the carriage, King Pingxi and his wife.
The princess sighed: "I used to always say that I was tired of traveling, but now it's completely different when I go out." "The concrete road is very flat, and the wheels of the carriage are wrapped in a layer of gelatinous stuff, even if you walk on the stone road and the official road, it is not very bumpy.
King Pingxi took his wife into his arms, carefully covered a woollen blanket, and said, "It's all money." Don't look at the price of building roads with cement is much cheaper than digging rocks, but such a long one is also an astronomical amount. The two carriages we are sitting in now are wrapped in ox tendons, and many parts under the wheels are made of iron. "It seems to be a little different from ordinary iron. He couldn't say it, but from the gut feeling of the Grandmaster, it felt like it was a good thing. The stinky boy must be secretly rubbing something again, even if he hides it from others, he still hides it from him, who is a father, it is simply unreasonable!
Princess Pingxi saw at a glance what her husband was thinking, and stretched out her hand to pat: "If you have any questions, won't you go directly to Erlang?" Will he still hide it from you? "Their family Erlang is really shrewd in some places, but he is simply a lack of heart for his family. There are a lot of things they don't ask, he doesn't think it's necessary, and he doesn't realize that he wants to tell his parents.
"It's me who wants to fork in." King Pingxi admitted his mistake, so when he stopped to rest, he asked Ruan Bai about his plan......
Nguyen Bai's plan is that there is no plan.
After Chu Hao threw all the housework to Ruan Bai, he put aside his hands and didn't care about it at all, and when he heard him say this this time, he couldn't help but wipe his face: "What order are you?" ”
"According to the convenient plan." Ruan Bai looked at the three people puzzled, pointed to the simple map drawn on the ground, and poked the branch in his hand, "The road from Xijing to Shunyang is necessary, so that we can go home." The section from Shunyang to the capital is a face-saving project for the old Zhou family; In the middle, it can also turn a corner to connect to the West Plains, which is convenient for transporting coal. Then there is the road from Xijing to the hot spring Zhuangzi, which is convenient for us to go to the hot springs usually, and it is also convenient for the vegetables on the Zhuangzi to be shipped out. ”
It sounds so reasonable, but I can't argue with it at all.
Wrong! The order of this road repair is completely according to its own use!
"Huh? That's not right! Ruan Bai suddenly clapped his hands, "I've already resigned, why do I still build roads in the east?" Finishing the road in Lingnan is enough to give them face! ”
"The emperor didn't agree to your resignation, so the road still has to be repaired." King Pingxi extinguished his lazy thoughts with a word, "Where did you get so much money to build roads?" ”
"The post office earned it." If the post office can't make money, why does he bother to get it out, is he really a living Lei Feng?
Pingxi Wang Yi frowned: "How much money can the post office make?" ”
Princess Pingxi also agreed: "That's it." The few courier fees you charge are almost the same as just supporting those hired workers. ”
"Wow!" Ruan Bai glared, "Who said that express delivery is not profitable?" "If express delivery is not profitable, how can there be so many express companies and logistics companies?
"Didn't you give your employees clothes for the four seasons, festivals, arrange for doctors to see doctors, and reimburse medical fees?" Most of the relevant personnel of the express delivery are retired soldiers, and out of concern for the old subordinates, King Pingxi also made some understanding. The treatment given by his junior second child is really speechless, he always thought that the younger junior was doing this thing with money.
"I know a lot of businessmen, and it's not difficult to get a wholesale price for large quantities. Doctor...... Well, I've got some doctors. He didn't do it on purpose. Originally, he considered that it was normal for retired soldiers to have some old injuries, so he discussed with the nearest medical center at the post office about doing an employee physical examination once a year or something, and in addition, employees would be given a discount when they went to the designated medical center to seek medical treatment and medicine.
But later, after the stall was spread out bigger, there were more people under him, and there were more things encountered. At first, he only met a doctor in difficulty and rescued people, but the doctor had nowhere to sit in the court, and after the people under his hands asked him, he simply opened a medical hall to make it more convenient for his family to see a doctor. Later, it was found that the effect was good, so his subordinates began to take the initiative to search for medical talents.
"You won't lose money by opening a medical clinic anyway." Ruan Bai concluded. To be honest, his current development model is not advisable, it looks like a big family, and he participates in any industry. However, in reality, there are too many employees and the corporate structure is too bloated...... But there is no way, who let most of his original intention go to do good deeds, there is no way to maximize benefits at all, it would be good to be able to keep the capital, and now he can make some money, and build a road or something by the way.
And he also has postal savings! Can a bank opened with an official background still lose money?
"That's why you just went around the bend before and made the post office financially independent." King Pingxi wiped his face, feeling that he was old and could no longer keep up with the young man's train of thought. If you let the people in the household know that those few courier fees can earn a few ways in such a little time, I don't know if you will regret it so much that your intestines are green? At the beginning, the household department tried its best to deliver this "money-losing goods" to Ruan Bai.
The king and his wife of Pingxi were impressed by the two dogs. So in the next trip, the whole family gathered around to listen to Ergouzi's financial lecture.
Ruan Ergouzi is relying on his own vision to be more advanced. He has a good level of professional training in finance, and the direction is how to identify false accounts and so on...... Anyway, he feels that he is a professional, and he is even more famous when it comes to various accounts and statements.
Most of the bookkeeping in this year is a running account. The financial statements made the two couples learn in a fog, and only Chu Hao listened to it.
When the family returned to the palace, Ruan Ergouzi sorted out the lesson plans along the way, which can be regarded as a primary textbook for financial personnel. Well, it's fine just for insiders.
In fact, after knowing the snow disaster, the king and his wife in Pingxi were also uneasy to vacation in the south, even if all kinds of news were not broken, they were still a little restless in the end, and they came back early. When they came back, they had only one thing to do.
"This king knows, you did a good job this time."
Yes, you just need to praise a subordinate.
Anyway, there was nothing to do, and the two of them went back to Shunyang. As for the chaos in the capital, what does it have to do with them?
On the carriage, Chu Hao touched the fat ball that pretended not to run and came up to dodge, and said, "Why don't you send some supplies over?" ”
Ruan Bai raised the fat ball's dog paw and slapped Chu Hao's thigh: "We have no money, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no land and no food." With so many granaries in the east, do you still need us to send things? Besides, there are many more disaster-stricken areas in the west than in the east. ”
"Yes." Chu Hao agreed with Ruan Bai's suggestion, "The money we give to the people to build houses is not enough." We've collapsed so many houses. ”
Chu Hao hurriedly repaired a letter and united with his father and mother, with the theme that the western region had suffered a lot of losses this time, and strongly asked the imperial court to provide money for disaster relief.
Disaster relief!
Tobe's beautiful hair Shangshu has completely become a beard, his hair is crooked, and his clothes are the same as dried pickles. In this way, he is still the best one in the entire household image!
"Chu! Old! Dog! ”
When he heard the recital handed by King Pingxi, he almost vomited blood, and his sleeves were lifted to make a posture of pressing the knife, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't carry weapons in the imperial study now, he was afraid that he would not pose a pose, but directly pull out the knife and cut it.
The rest of the people moved slightly to the side, widening the distance between them and Li Dabeard. Ao's red-eyed Li is bearded, and now he is not much different from a mad dog. The culprits aren't here, they're just passers-by who are easily injured by mistake.
Lao Li, who was born in the scholar family, not only scored full marks in cultural classes, but also scored low scores in physical education classes. The prince has been on the front line of rescue and disaster relief everywhere these days, and he has been absent for a long time; Today, the emperor didn't use Lao Cai to serve, the imperial study room is so big, what if Lao Li goes crazy and accidentally injures these innocent people?
As for Chu Laogou or something, in fact, they really want to scold.
Shao Yushi thought about it, stood up and said a fair word: "Calculate the expenses of the Pingxi Palace, the staff of the post office is well arranged, and now the military households in various places have responded well, and the cost of medicine is a lot of money." They did a great job. Needless to say, building roads, such a large amount of expenditure, who would believe that Pingxi Wangfu did not put money into it? Today, those factories are being opened one by one, but it is still very early to recoup the cost. The area of the disaster area in the west is much larger than that in the east, according to Weichen...... There is no money in Pingxi Palace, it is real. ”
Li Dabeard snorted coldly: "Lord Shao has forgotten their family's concubine?" ”
"Of course I didn't. It's just that no matter how much Lord Ruan can make money, it's only been two or three years, how much can he earn? Not to mention, Lord Ruan has already been squeezed out of the east by you, and he must have lost a lot of money. "Shao Yushi has long seen this gratifying and unpleasant, and when he sees the benefits, he will fish, and when he encounters something, he will hide. Sure enough, the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty has rotten, and all these rotten branches must be cut down to cure it.
Shao Yushi didn't name names, but the people who did the next thing knew it in their hearts. There are more than a dozen people in this imperial study, and almost everyone has a share. It's a pity that he found it late, and then something like this happened immediately, otherwise he would have taken them down one by one. The youngest is fifty people, and they also join forces to bully a child in their teens and twenties, which is really shameless!
Zhou Laomao glanced at the important ministers who were suddenly silent, and sneered in his heart, it was time to rectify and rectify! He can't be inferior to Old Dog Chu in everything!