This is what Gui Yuxia didn't expect, as soon as Chen Cai's family said this, Gui Yuxia hurriedly said: "It's still the housekeeper's lady who is thoughtful, anyway, tomorrow the house will go to the carriage to pick up the apprentices I recruited, so I will bring a letter to my second brother and ask him to come over and take care of Brother Da Niu for half a month." I still have to thank the housekeeper for taking in Brother Da Niu, and thank the county lord for treating Brother Da Niu, not only sending doctors, but also giving medicinal materials. Otherwise, we don't have any silver for these medicinal materials, or if we have silver, there is no place to buy them. ”

Chen Caijia said with a smile: "Go back, you are settled, go to the girl to kowtow and thank you in person." By the way, you're done with everything, and you still have to take care of the embroidery girls you brought out of the palace. They live in the capital, and they all came back yesterday, and you are the first to come back if you are far away, but you will come soon. You're going to have to settle down and talk to the girl. ”

Gui Yuxia hurriedly agreed, and sent it to Chen Cai's family, so she hurriedly took the big cow to live in the small courtyard first, and then asked the horseman in the house to bring a letter to her younger brother, so that she could come over tomorrow and serve the big cow. By the time Gui Yuxia came back after a busy circle, Sanniu'er had already quickly cleaned up the small yard and settled the big cow.

Gui Yuxia was also very relieved to see her sister so capable. Busy letting Da Niu rest at home alone, he hurriedly took Sanniuer to the account room to find the housekeeper to sign the contract. After a busy circle, I personally sent my sister to the apprentices ++ novels. The courtyard where he stayed was originally connected to his own courtyard, so that it would be convenient for teaching and taking care of him in the future.

Arranged for her sister to obey the rules and stay well, Gui Yuxia stopped and went to her yard. Take a look. Sure enough, several of the sisters who lived in the city returned. The other two outside the city also came back after a while. Gui Yuxia hurriedly asked about their own situation, everyone talked about it, Gui Yuxia wrote it down carefully, arranged for everyone to stay, and then busily sorted out her makeup and went to Chen Wenhui's yard.

When I arrived at Chen Wenhui, Chen Wenhui had just come back from outside.

Chen Wenhui has just returned from the black family's shop. For another 60,000 taels of silver were brought out from the shop. Come to think of it, during this period of time, she has to settle these high-level technicians who she got from the palace, and she also has to settle the poor people, craftsmen and the like who the emperor changed for her. That's a big head, it is said that there are 200,000 people, and eating and drinking Lazar for these 200,000 people is not a trivial matter. The Chen family's fleet may not be enough. Chen Wenhui discussed with Tang Guanghui and hired part of the black family's fleet, which was not enough, and also hired a lot from the fleet of those Shanghai City runners. In this way, it should barely be enough.

Just right. Yesterday, Chen Wenlin also returned to the house. Chen Wenlin went to recruit craftsmen, this time he worked hard to recruit more than 10,000 craftsmen, and he already felt very accomplished, but when he returned to the house, he heard that his sister had exchanged with the emperor. The younger sister also gave the emperor a hundred percent of the benefits of Shanghai City, and the emperor gave her 200,000 people. Chen Wenlin was not calm at this time, and said to his sister: "Sister, you can't have 200,000 people in a city, and you don't have the income of Shanghai City now, you must be short of funds, how can you support 200,000 people?" Why don't you give me some, our city doesn't have enough manpower. Isn't your city, and the city of our house, all one family? ”

Bai Shi smiled and said: "Yes, Hui'er, what your second brother said is that you can't use so much at once, and besides, your money has been tight recently, so I will withdraw the money from our house and share the expenses of 100,000 people for you, so that you can also relax, and there will be people in our city to work." ”

Chen Wenhui smiled and said, "Mother, why do you still divide yours, mine?" Aren't we a family? However, these 200,000 people cannot give you 100,000 at once. I calculated that in the early days, we needed a lot of people to build city walls, repair roads, and reclaim wasteland, but it was still a bit of a waste to use 100,000 people for a city at once, so it would be better to distribute my 200,000 people to 50,000 people in each city. Because, today I went to the black family, and the black family also asked me for people. I originally thought that the Hei family had been operating there for many years, and there was a stronghold there, so there must be no shortage of manpower, but Tang Guanghui said that what they lacked was people, or they would not have only one stronghold in the port, and they would have occupied Luzon Island a long time ago, so where else would we have our share. Having said that, I think it makes sense, after all, before, they only relied on the people of Yizhou Island, so how much can they have? It can't be compared to Da Chu. In this way, I thought that the cities built by the noble families should also need manpower, so I might as well divide the 200,000 people equally, but the three of you must give me money. Although I didn't have any income from Shanghai, I didn't worry about money. Don't forget it, I have a bank in my hand, and I can mobilize tens of millions of taels of silver at any time if I need it. It's just a matter of paying some interest. However, since you want to employ people, I also want the four cities to develop together, so that it is better to resist the natives and wild beasts, so it is better for you all to pay me, and I will save some interest. With this money, I can feed my 50,000 people, build cities, reclaim wasteland, and develop the economy. ”

Bai Shi smiled and said: "You little head melon seeds, you turn fast, no one should think about making money from you." You say, you won't sell these people to us so lightly, you must have something else to ask for besides silver. ”

Chen Wenhui laughed and said, "Mother, you are really amazing, why did you guess my idea all of a sudden?" Okay, let's say, just now, I talked to Tang Guanghui of the Black Family. For a few months, I didn't go to his shop for the dividend, and this time I just took it to feed these people. Second, by the way, I talked to him about the conditions. I asked that in addition to the silver, the black family should also provide me with enough farm tools for 50,000 people, as well as weapons that the emperor gave me for the guards. Originally, I could buy these weapons like Da Chu, after all, I was given by the emperor. However, I think it's still the black family's weapons that are more sophisticated. Of course, I don't give money for these farm tools and weapons. I'm going to give me the first priority. As for the money, I don't have to pay cash to the black family. Don't forget jì, isn't our family still able to share the mines we mined in the South Seas with the Hei family? It just so happened that I hadn't settled accounts with the black family for most of the past six months, and I just took this opportunity to use the dividends I should have received to pay for my farm tools and weapons. ”

Chen Wenlin sighed and said: "I was actually preempted by you again, it seems that our Chen family is waiting for the Hei family to produce farm tools and weapons for us." Fortunately, we still have some of them in Xinguang City that can be used first. Hey, why am I not as fast as you? Chen Wenhui raised her eyebrows and said: "My subordinates are talented, and they have already calculated these little things for me." ”

Bai asked: "Oh, what did they help you think, hurry up and tell your brother to let your brother learn too." ”

Chen Wenhui said: "If we want to build a city, the most important thing is the people, so many people, we need to prepare food rations for them for about a year. Why prepare for a year? Because we set out from Dachu, we have to walk for more than a month just by sea. That's the speed at which we can make a fast boat, and if there are a lot of people and a big boat, it may take more than two months. This is not counting the distance they have traveled from their hometown to Shanghai City to prepare for this section of the land, if they walk with their feet, it will save money, but the time is relatively long, and the long journey, there will definitely be some loss of some old and weak women and children on the road, I cherish everyone's, therefore, I think to give them a unified car, this car dealership is still in contact. But it takes about a month, that is, three or four months at sea. When we arrive in Nanyang, we have to open up the wasteland first, even if we work non-stop, and when the first crop is ripe, it will take about five or six months to be self-sufficient, so I am not wrong to calculate a year's food, right? I can only give these people the worst food, so as to save some money, but this will make these people's physical quality zhì very poor, there will be a loss, this is something I don't want to see, therefore, I want to give them the best food, meat and vegetarian combinations, to provide high-calorie meat, this I contacted some of the big poultry merchants I met in Anseong, should be able to supply in sufficient quantities. In addition to these, I have prepared a large number of medicinal herbs, pills, hehe, the fertilizer and water do not flow into the field of outsiders, this is an order from me and Sister Mingzhu's pharmaceutical workshop. In this way, I can not only buy the best and best pills, but also make some money for the pharmaceutical workshop, so that I can invest more in the Yangshan Hall here in Dachu. Why herbs, pills? Because there are so many people on the road, there will definitely be people who are tired of traveling and driving, who are not accustomed to water and soil, and who are cold and cold, so they need to take medicine and see a doctor. For this, I hired a lot of doctors from the Black Family's Alchemy Hall and Sister Mingzhu's hospital to accompany me. I paid a lot of wages for these doctors, and of course I negotiated this with the Hei family and Sister Mingzhu's hospital. Moreover, you have negotiated with your brother, you just have to go back and pay. I'm also included in the cost of food. In this way, each person's food for a year alone will cost almost six taels of silver. ”

Bai Shi was stunned: "So much, the food you gave is really good." You must know that now the people of Dachu can eat six taels of silver for a year. However, this meal is because it is good, and it also includes medical expenses, so it should be more expensive. In this way, we should also do the same, so that we can lose less people and accumulate virtue and do good. (To be continued......)