As the New Year approached, there was a heavy snowfall in Xijing, the land became covered in snow, the streets were deserted, most of the people hid in their houses for fear of the cold, and only some children were left to play happily in the snow.

In the main hall of the Thirteen Princes' Mansion, it was extremely warm at this time, because today Yang Yun would have a banquet for these people he trusted the most. Get together happily to summarize the harvest of the past year and look forward to the upcoming new year.

The leaders of the three divisions talked happily about the year's harvest. For them, the past year has been their happiest year, the same people have done the same thing, but the harvest is several times that of previous years, which is something they never dared to think of in the past! Yao Xia's words completely represent everyone's voice: In the past, they all lived to dogs.

Of course, all these changes came from the boy who sat at the top of the house, who was not yet fifteen years old. During this time, the leaders of the three departments admired Yang Yun so much that they couldn't understand how this young master could have so many whimsical ideas in his head.

"The income in the second half of this year is higher than the total income after the previous three years, so this year I have also paid more to my brothers. A few days ago, I heard from a few brothers that a few of the War Tiger Department and their best friends were very envious! Tie Feng said with a smile.

"Hehe, I have a kid under my command, who likes a girl from the War Tiger Department, and comes to the door to propose, the girl's family thinks the young man is poor, and says that the brewing is not very promising, so he didn't agree. As a result, seeing that our cheetah department's business is booming this year, we are now asking a matchmaker to agree. At the beginning of spring, they are about to get married, and the young man is very grateful to His Highness. When he said this, Yao Xia had a feeling of raising his eyebrows.

Speaking of the War Tiger Department, Yan Feifei sighed and said softly: "In the past, Brother Wen Rui was in charge of the War Tiger Department, and the brothers under him were very united, and everyone was very motivated. But since the accident of Brother Wen Rui, Zhong Wentao took over the position of leader, cronyism, and squandered a lot of money from the farm, which made many brothers feel cold. ”

"Wen Tao's kid has been a little yin and a little stingy since he was a child, not as open-minded as Wen Rui. Wen Rui's kid, I've liked him since I was a child, what a good person, how could he make a mistake? Iron Mountain said.

The words of several people aroused Yang Yun's interest, so he asked: "What mistake did Zhong Wenrui make, how could he even deprive him of the position of leader?" ”

In the conversation between everyone and me, Yang Yun finally figured out the ins and outs of this matter.

It turned out that Zhong Mian, the old captain of the War Tiger Department, was old and had limited energy, so he handed over the War Tiger Department to his eldest son Zhong Wenrui. Zhong Wenrui is indeed very capable, dismissed some people who were monks for a day and hit the clock for a day, and absorbed a group of self-motivated young people, which greatly stimulated the self-motivation of the brothers of the War Tiger Department, so that the War Tiger Department developed very quickly, and faintly became the head of the four departments of the Shadowless Guard.

However, just when the brothers of the War Tiger Department were screaming and wanted to make a big move. Something happened to their leader.

On that day, the old lieutenant Zhong Mian's seventieth birthday, everyone was happy, and they all let go of drinking, and Zhong Wenrui, as the leader, became an important object of the brothers' toast, and drank unconscious. When he woke up, he found that he was lying on the couch of his younger brother's daughter-in-law Su Ziyao, who had not passed the door, and Su Ziyao had hanged herself in the room.

His most trusted son actually did such an immoral thing. The old lieutenant Zhong Mian was furious and dismissed Zhong Wenrui from his position as leader on the spot, and Zhong Wentao took over. Next, the old lieutenant was angry and anxious, had a serious illness, and died within a few days.

Since then, Zhong Wenrui's temperament has changed greatly, relying on alcohol to anesthetize himself all day long, and he is a little sober, either staying in the wine shop or mixing in the Qinglou. At first, the brothers tried to help him get rid of this self-blame, but the methods were exhausted to no avail, and over time, he had to be left alone.

After listening to everyone's narrative, Yang Yun sighed, such a good leader was buried in a drunken state.

"Then what are Zhong Wentao's preferences now, and is there any way for us to make him take the brothers of the War Tiger Department and return to my shadowless guard team." Yang Yun has always felt extremely regretful that the War Tiger Department did not return to his subordinates.

"Young master, Wen Tao, this kid hasn't been very obedient since he was a child, and Old Lieutenant Zhong can't restrain him, and later I heard that he has a relationship with a senior member of the court, and I'm afraid it's difficult to make him loyal!" Old Lieutenant Yao looked at Yang Yun and said slowly.

"Then ignore this Zhong Wentao for now, let's develop the existing three first. In the first few months, all the departments have developed well, and in the next year, our main task is to work the development of the three departments. I'm looking for a material right now, with which the hardness and toughness of iron will be stronger! ”

"It's okay, Tie Feng jumped up all of a sudden, interrupting Yang Yun's words." In recent months, the iron made with bellows is very useful, so the sales are very good. However, the bellows system is not too difficult, and some blacksmith shops have begun to follow suit, and Tie Feng is in distress.

"Hehe, take your time! You have to explore how to maximize the role of the bellows. After Yang Yun finished speaking, he turned his head again and looked at Yan Feifei.

"Your pigeons still need to be trained, I know that some pigeon masters can make pigeons fly 600 to 1,000 miles to deliver letters, but your trained pigeons can only be accurately delivered within 200 miles. In addition, I have heard that it is possible to use paper kites, Kong Ming lanterns, and even porcelain bottles to convey messages. Yang Yun said slowly, Yan Feifei's eyes widened, and the young master's words gave her a great surprise.

Under Yan Feifei's repeated requests, Yang Yun briefly introduced various methods of transmitting messages, and talked about the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, and asked Yan Feifei and others to study them themselves.

"Young master, can you not favor one over the other, the wine of our cheetah department, you also have to tell us that we can't lose to the lion and the flying eagle." Yao Xia followed behind Yang Yun and said with a shy smile.

"I know that people from the Outlands have wheat beer, which is especially cool in the summer; There is also wine made from foreign grapes, which is very delicious and can make people sleep more soundly, let me tell you about it......"

Listening to Yang Yun's words, Yao Xia's eyes immediately lit up, and he tried according to what the young master said, if it succeeded, the Cheetah Wine Workshop would become the largest wine shop in the entire Xijing City and even in the entire Dafu Empire. He seemed to see that a large amount of silver was pouring towards him, and at this moment, he felt that the wisest thing he had done in his life was to return to the young master with the cheetah department.

Yang Yun saw that everyone was in deep thought, and gave everyone time to calm down and digest, and when everyone came back to their senses, Yang Yun began to talk about his plan again.

"In the new year, in addition to improving the method, we also have to make the business bigger, so that we can accumulate more money, and also let all the brothers have more money in their pockets, so we have to open many chain stores?"

"What's a chain store?" For the new words that kept coming up to this young master, Yan Feifei felt that his head was dizzy, and he was about to be unable to keep up with the rhythm of the young master.

"Hehe, it's just a lot of semicolons!" Yang Yun rubbed his head awkwardly, and accidentally said a new term.

"Let's start with a few larger cities near Xijing, send trustworthy people from various ministries to the major cities to serve as leaders, and make our business bigger and bigger like a snowball."

This year-end banquet played a great role, making Tie Feng, Yan Feifei and Yao Xia excited, one by one, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and immediately began to arrange various affairs after they went back, lest they fall behind the other two.