Chapter 37: The First Meeting of the West Mountain
On the fifth day of the seventh month of the eighth year of the Xuanli calendar, it was sunny
There were more than 30 people sitting in the inner courtyard of the Xishan Annex.
Among them are Yi Yu, the foreign affairs housekeeper from Linjiang Fufu, and Zhang Ce, the housekeeper of Xishan Courtyard. Then there is Master Liu, who is in charge of winemaking, Feng Laosi, who is in charge of mining limestone, and Wang Er, Wang Qiang, who is in charge of finding a loser, and so on.
A simple platform was set up under the shade of the tree, and at this moment Fu Xiaoguan was standing on the platform, with Yi Yu and Zhang Ce sitting on both sides of him, and there was a small table in front of the two, and on the table was pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.
The atmosphere was a little solemn, because the people sitting below were all craftsmen and peasants, who had never seen such a scene, and they didn't know what the young owner was trying to do with this battle.
Fu Xiaoguan took two steps on the stage and said: "Please come here today because this is the first extremely important meeting of our Xishan Courtyard, everyone should listen carefully, Steward Yi and Steward Zhang will write down the key points I said, and they will send it to everyone after the meeting, if anyone is illiterate, the two of them are responsible for explaining to you until you are completely clear." ”
Meeting?
Is it like government conscription?
Don't say that the following people, even Yi Yu Zhang Ce, have not experienced this. So everyone felt very fresh and stressed, because Young Master Fu's expression was very serious when he spoke.
The audience was very quiet, and everyone really listened attentively.
Su Mo stood on the second floor, he also listened carefully, not knowing what tricks Fu Xiaoguan would play.
"The large area outside the courtyard, everyone has seen, it is now just leveled, and there is nothing on it. But then, you will see the earth-shaking changes that are taking place on that earth. ”
"I will set up an R&D center there, and there will be a lot of professionals working on the most cutting-edge technology in it. I'm also going to build a couple of big factories there where beautiful things are made. ”
"I want to tell you one thing, the Fu Mansion has been incorporated into the Imperial Merchants, and the things produced by our Fu family are for His Majesty the Emperor and those nobles. Here, I would like to praise Master Liu, who made wine, the purchase of the royal family of Xishan Qiong Jelly has come down, and you have contributed a lot. The workers in the wine shop will be paid 300 wen each, 3,000 wen for Master Liu, and 1,500 wen for the rest of the masters! ”
Rumble......
The crowd exploded.
No one understood what Fu Xiaoguan said about other things, but they understood money.
Everyone looked at Master Liu, Master Liu didn't know before, he was confused at the moment, is this the young master who wants to reward me?
But that wine was obviously invented by the young master?
That's not going to work!
Master Liu stood up, the crowd was quiet, and Fu Xiaoguan looked at him with a smile.
"The villain deserves it, this wine was invented by the young master, and the villain will never dare to rob this credit."
"No, this wine is right that I proposed it, but the person who carried it out is you, and you also came up with many improvement methods in the back, this is the credit, follow me, and you will be rewarded for your merit." But I will put aside my words here, and if I have done so, I will be punished. If anyone dares to divulge the secrets of my West Mountain......"
The smile on Fu Xiaoguan's face flickered, and a murderous aura suddenly erupted, and even Su Mo frowned suddenly.
The people on the field were suddenly shocked, but they felt a deep chill in this July day.
"I'm really going to kill someone!"
The murderous aura was reined in, and a smile appeared on Fu Xiaoguan's face again, like a spring breeze, and the moment just now seemed like a dream.
He really killed people! Su Mo made a judgment.
"Master Liu, please take a seat, and the other reward is Feng Laosi, who found the gray stone for me, and is now mining. This matter is extremely important, so I want to reward Feng Lao with four or five thousand words! The two stewards wrote it down, and when the meeting was dismissed, they handed out the money. ”
The crowd was in a commotion again, doing things for the young owner, it turned out that it could be like this!
Five thousand wen, five taels of silver!
The eyes of everyone looking at Fu Xiaoguan became warm, and Fu Xiaoguan at this moment was silver glittering money in their eyes!
"I have a couple of tasks on my agenda, first, I need to find a kind of clay, which is red or brown, usually by the river, but maybe somewhere else."
"Second, I need a lot of bricks and tiles, I remember that Master Tang is a bricklayer, and I will leave this matter to you."
"Third, if you have a woman in your family, plant flowers in your yard or on the hillside, I need a lot of flowers, and when they bloom, they will be picked and sent to other courtyards, and a pound of flowers will be worth 100 yuan."
There was another sensation below, which is much more cost-effective than growing grain, not occupying the field, you only need to wait for a while to make money, of course everyone is willing.
"If you are willing to plant it, stay and go to Zhang Guan's house to get the seeds, and when you go back, the township will also inform you that I hope we will go to the village and be full of flowers."
"Fourth, I need to build a bigger waterwheel, at least five times bigger than it is now. Leave this matter to Zhou Zheng, you are a good carpenter. ”
"Fifth, Feng Laosi, I want to give you another task, I need iron ore, you have to help me find iron ore."
"The Sixth ......"
“……”
No one knows what Fu Xiaoguan's long list of needs is for.
But everyone knows that as long as they do what Young Master Fu said and do it well, they will make money, or a lot of money!
Everyone followed Yi Yu and Zhang Ce to the outer courtyard, and they were responsible for explaining that this was not a good job, these mud-legged poles had hardly read books, and they couldn't understand a lot of things, so the two of them divided into two groups and had a second meeting to explain.
The arrangement of everything is also very sad, and he is finally quiet at the moment, and he thinks about it carefully, there are still many missing places, let's make up for it later.
He was lying on a chair drinking chilled bayberry soup, and Su Mo came over.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"Let them have a better life."
"That's the purpose of building a school?"
"Of course, it's always good to have more literate people."
This was the first time Su Mo took the initiative to talk to Fu Xiaoguan, and he asked again: "You are looking for saltpeter and refining sulfur for them to live better?" ”
Fu Xiaoguan paused for a moment and said with a smile: "This thing is very useful, for example, if you want to open a mountain, if you dig it manually, it will be very troublesome, if there is a bomb. The medicine will be very simple. ”
Su Mo frowned, "What about the iron ore?" Iron ore is something controlled by the imperial court, do you dare to get it? ”
Fu Xiaoguan really didn't realize this problem, the fact is that he didn't know that this thing was controlled, but he had to get iron ore, what should I do?
"So how can you mine it?"
"You have to have the government's approval."
After thinking about it, he said to Chunxiu: "Xiu'er, grind the ink." ”
Fu Xiaoguan wrote a letter to his father, Fu Daguan, and threw the matter of this batch of documents to Fu Daguan.
If Fu Daguan couldn't figure it out, he decided to try it with Dong Shulan, of course, it was best to solve this matter in Linjiang.