More than a month later, production is gradually on the right track. Du Niang and I also have to go back to the base to see, everything is normal, except for the satellite or no signal, hehe. I played hide and seek with the leopard sisters at the base, it seems that although it is a leopard with the size of a kitten, it is not something that I can compare with a normal human, and I have been passively exercising for an hour, and finally took a bath and fell asleep on the bed, and when I was dying, I still remember that the leopard sister reluctantly licked * my face, probably thinking that I am more to their taste than their electronic mice, at least I am something they can catch.

As soon as he returned to the factory with Du Niang in a mule cart, he saw Lao Wu sending the official away, listening to the clanging sound in the sleeves of several people, and the plan to go to the sauce and meat shop together at night. Well, it should be a good harvest.

"Host, Miss, you two are back"

"Ah, it's back, how is business in the factory?"

"Okay, the workers are all skilled, and there are a lot of finished products stored in the warehouse in the past few days, so please ask the owner to look at the accounts later."

"Let's talk about it in a moment, by the way, are those officials here to collect money?"

"Someone made a bad deal, sued the official and said that we secretly hid a fire * gun, beating people's lives, thanks to the factory at the beginning of the double filial piety, to the master of the knife and pen gave a dispute to fight each other, the earthen gun went off and injured people, and sentenced us to pay for a soup and medicine, but the officials and messengers each had ten taels of silver for running errands, and the master's tea money also had to be about thirty taels." Lao Wu didn't dare to complain that I, the owner, lost 200 taels before and after two shots, but in fact, I was really a little wrong with Du Niang, a half-ocean and half-earth mother-in-law from overseas.

Du Niang will not worry about Lao Wu, and has already changed her tooling to go to the workshop to command.

"It seems that this surnamed Chen still wants to find the government to get our maggots." I sneered, "Is Second Brother Miao here?" ”

"It should be there, and the shopkeeper Miao is usually in the factory before noon."

I sneaked to the Juheng Flour Mill next door, and as soon as I entered the office, I saw a few acquaintances. It was Alfred in a robe and a horse coat and Elizabeth in a big tuft, and of course the old butler was also standing behind him. The second brother and the fourth brother of Miao are here, and there is a short, stout and old man, but his face is similar to the two eight points of the Miao family, needless to say, it must be Miao Shihou (Deqing), the boss of the Miao family.

Second Brother Miao saw me come in, hurriedly gave up his seat, and sat down, Second Brother Miao was just about to introduce, and I waved my hand.

"Acquaintances, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred, Mr. Butler, I am glad to meet you."

"It's a pleasure to meet you so soon, Mr. Sean." Alfred and his wife Elizabeth met one after the other.

"This is Mr. Miao Deqing, look up for a long time."

"Hey, the family doesn't talk to each other. You and the second brother and the fourth brother are all brothers, if you can afford it, call me big brother."

"Big brother, you call me Chenxuan"

"Okay, Brother Chen Xuanxian, this Mr. Alfred just told you about your affairs in Qingdao, and the fourth brother just now can't understand, what kind of fairy treasure is your treasure box, which can really live the dead and have white bones?"

"How can it be so magical, if you want such a treasure, then what kind of factory do I bother to open in Baal, don't you have to sell treasures. This medicine is good, but it also has to be symptomatic, and there is just one medicine that is the special medicine for Mrs. Alfred's illness, so I am fortunate to live up to my mission. ”

"Yes, by the way, this time I came back from Qingdao, so I came with Mr. Alfred and his wife, he sent the samples you sent to the foreign company in Shanghai for inspection, it is indeed high quality, good quality, Shanghai Chinese businessmen are also interested, recently came to Jinan to order, just now I and the second and fourth they discussed, is it to take advantage of the hot sales of the product to hold an opening celebration, by the way, to make a big noise, but also to make a wide range of merchants, expand sales."

Alfred took the opportunity to say, "Mr. Miao has discussed with me, and I also very much agree with this plan, I will ask the counsellor to come forward from the British legation, and at that time, HSBC, Jardine Matheson, Taishen, and Dachang will also have business dealings with our family, and they will also send personnel to come to support us." ”

I was thinking of taking the opportunity to stand up, so I agreed to Miao Deqing and Alfred's suggestion.

"By the way, Brother Xian, have you provoked those sitting tigers in Jinan Mansion" Miao Deqing asked, "Although I am in the business world, I still have some relatives and friends in the official mansion, do you need me to find some connections to dredge up." ”

"Thank you, big brother, I think it's okay for the time being, let's take care of it after the opening ceremony."

"Brother Chenxuan, it's not that the second brother is afraid of things, but our businessmen can't afford to be angry, these tricks are a bit of a bit of a river, if you really encounter some indiscriminate things, it's not disgusting enough, good shoes don't step on stinky shit, you also persuade the little sister of the Du family, don't raise a gun and move a gun at every turn."

"What the second brother said is that the younger brother will handle it himself, and the opening ceremony has to use manpower, I don't know if the second brother can help find more than a dozen nursing homes, it is best to find a master who is literate and hyphenated, and Lao Wu alone can't be busy."

"Well, I'm looking, the fourth child has been wandering around all day, and the ground is more familiar than me. Fourth, don't just look at foreigners and be stupid, you can the matter of finding people. ”

"Don't worry, second brother, the manpower that Brother Chenxuan needs, I will recruit him as soon as possible, a sturdy guy who brushes together, goes out with an iron ruler and a steel knife, that is very face-saving."

"I'm looking for a nursing home, not an old boy. Fourth brother, you have a long heart, right? "I covered my forehead, this fourth master is relatively unreliable, don't give me a whole Hongxing or something like that.

"Crazy boys, who bewitched them? Don't worry, Brother Chenxuan, those who have made trouble and believed in the White Lotus will not accept them, so they will find a farmer with an innocent family background, and no one will bewitch them. "Fourth Brother Miao is crooked.

After about half a month, the product hairspray line went to Qingdao Port, and Alfred first ordered 50 gramophones, 50 bicycles, 100 sewing machines and 100 watches. However, the gramophone and bicycle used by him and his wife in Jinan in the past few days are not counted, and I am not so stingy, and I also gave them a high-quality imitation Rolex watch for each of them, and Elizabeth is a Tissot Kun watch given by Du Niang. Happy that these three foreigners are like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, full of little stars. Especially Elizabeth actually wrapped up the cold-faced Du Niang, the anthropomorphic lady's costume I configured for Du Niang, Elizabeth actually fell in love with it, and the dead face asked Du Niang to give her the same set, fortunately, there was a sewing machine. So the old housekeeper and Miao Boss began to frequently go back and forth between the commercial port and Luokou, buying all kinds of fabrics, Du Niang's cutting was superb, and she didn't even use a ruler (of course not, her eyes were laser ranging, and the error was calculated with one ten-thousandth of a filament), in order to avoid suspicion, she didn't show the amazing kung fu of tearing the fabric, the flywheel of the sewing machine caught up with the propeller, and the fabric under her hand appeared ghosting, in the worship of the three foreign grandmothers, Elizabeth had her own leisure suit, professional suit, evening suit, and beach suit. So Alfred's praise and Elizabeth's change of clothes were repeated for nearly a day, and finally the old butler couldn't stand it anymore, and collapsed on the sofa in my office, of course, I think he couldn't accept the sexiness of the beach suit and fell unconscious, may God forgive him this old unscrupulous butler, Amen!

In the past two days, Alfred and Elizabeth have a new entertainment project, pulling me and Du Niang, four bicycles around Jinan Mansion, Thousand Buddha Mountain, Daming Lake, Baotu Spring have been visited, Alfred is called to test the reliability of the product, in fact, it is not Elizabeth's temperament. So the old and young masters of Jinan Mansion can be regarded as having opened their eyes, four Chinese men and women wearing jeans and Western-style shirts, one person is a two-wheeled vehicle, eight wheels are spinning rapidly, and the pure copper bell is crisp and pleasant, running on the narrow bluestone road. The most peculiar thing is the three sturdy bodyguards who are riding mules and a hunting suit, wearing knight's helmets and white gloves, wiping sweat while competing with the big green mule under the crotch of the foreign old man, these two groups of four people are called an eye-catcher, less than half a day Jinan Mansion is a sensation, don't look at the no urban new female newspaper, the news of Jinan Mansion spread as fast as ever, look at the lively than usual red people are neat, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law don't care about throwing their faces and squeezing to the side of the street, The old man and the old lady sat on the bench and fanned the fan, drinking tea and watching the Western scenery, and some idlers directly chartered the second floor of the teahouse, while eating melon seeds while talking about the mountains, just waiting to see the strangeness, and even the smoking gun can't take care of it. Elizabeth was still shopping on Clothes Lane and Furong Street, and the back seat of Alfred's car and I was full of large and small packages, and we almost didn't fill the car.

Returning to the factory in a stinky sweat, Lao Wu greeted him and said with a smile: "Boss, wipe the sweat quickly." You don't know, Master Xu came to our factory today, and put fifty taels of silver on the cabinet when he entered the door. ”

"What is this fussing, isn't someone threatening him, or"

"No, it's you and Miss Du who have been accompanying Alfred and his wife around for the past few days, and these officials have long been eyeing them. They heard that the British Legation had sent a note to our Governor's Yamen, asking for the Governor's protection, saying that he was the lord of the British Empire. Master, they came to invite the old man to drink, and at the banquet, I mentioned by the way that the factory is the technology and capital you brought from abroad, and said that the grandfather is your best friend. I don't want the master to return the silver to me today, I guess I'm scared. Hahaha. ”

"Okay, Lao Wu, don't you see, are you quite skilled at pulling the tiger skin with your hands. However, you can't be a man without talking about faithfulness, Master Xu is afraid that things are not a bad thing, and he will double the silver and send it back, just say that it is my meaning, and the monthly money will be a lot of him in the future, but when he asks him to say something in advance, it is worthy of his friend. The other yacha gave a lot of silver, and when you look up and don't look down, who doesn't have a horse stirrup when it's short. ”

Lao Wu gave a thumbs up, "The owner is benevolent and righteous, don't worry, the old man will do it properly, don't let Master Xu have the slightest pimple, and designate an iron heart to do things for our factory in the future." ”

Lao Wu went to do something, and the officials who knew about it admired the proprietor of this factory, who was not bullying, who was authentic and righteous, and was a man worthy of friendship. Since then, the patrol managers in this area have taken the initiative to say hello to the door if they have nothing to do, and there are unsightly thieves who come to step on the point, and they are pulled into the vegetable field by the patrol film and almost turned into fertilizer, which is a wake-up call to the gentleman of Jinan Mansion that this land cannot be touched.

It is said that Master Chen heard about the chapter of the British Empire's lord visiting his brother in Jinan Mansion, although he insisted on not coming to apologize, but he also closed his business for more than half a month, saying that the owner was not happy, but he was actually scared. But there is that discordant half-green, I was busy with the production of the new record, and as soon as I sipped tea, Lao Wu came in with a red piece.

"Boss, the tax collector is here."

"Isn't our business still open, and besides, the government's business tax has also been paid, and the rest is not until the end of the autumn, what kind of tax is this?"

"Land tax."

"Poof" a sip of sunshine green tea all used as a fountain and took a bath at the desk. "Damn, the land tax is still chasing here?"

"The peace tax collected by the knife handle gang is a gang of ruffians, so the traders in Jinan call this land tax, which means that those who open a business on this land have to pay." Lao Wu hurriedly cleaned up the table and gave me a lesson at the same time.