More than ten days have passed since the formation of the team, and everyone has slowly become accustomed to the training rules formulated by Zhu Hao, and the voices of complaining have become less and less, and everyone's physical fitness and endurance have gradually strengthened.

Zhu Hao also asked his father to vacate a manor under the name of the Zhu family outside the city as a new base for military training in the future. This manor is backed by Shugang, covers an area of hundreds of acres, the environment is secluded, very suitable for military training, Zhu Hao is also very satisfied with this place, and selected some of the tenants of the Zhu family, expand the team, and make up the number of thousands of people.

These days, Zhu Hao has been busy training recruits, and there is less time to get together with his family, Zhang Jinyu looked at his son's tanned face and was very distressed, so he said that he and Zhu Hao took a day to attend the family banquet at home. Zhu Hao wanted to resign, but seeing that his mother was worried, he couldn't bear it, and saw that the team's training was basically on the right track, so he took leave and went home with everyone.

When I arrived at home, I found that the third sister Zhu Ying and brother-in-law Zhang Chang, who had been taking care of business in Suzhou and Hangzhou, were also back, and they were very happy. Zhu Ying and Zhu Hao are siblings of the same mother, with a personality of Zhang Jinyu, some feminine, and Zhang Changcheng have been married for eight years, with talent, the husband and wife will take care of the family's business in an orderly manner.

Brother-in-law Zhang Chang is an orphan, he has been an apprentice in the Zhu family's shop since he was a child, and he grew up with Zhu Ying, and the two have a good relationship, which is equal to half of the Zhu family's son-in-law. Zhu Shouyi was kind-hearted, and after the Zhang family was broken, he accepted Zhang Chang as his righteous son, and promised that the children of the two would inherit the Zhang family's incense, so Zhang Chang is Zhu Shouyi's son and son-in-law, and the relationship is naturally needless to say.

Zhang Changneng stood out from the hundreds of apprentices of the Zhu family and was recognized by the Zhu family.

When the sister and brother meet, they have to say hello, and the family banquet begins. The Zhu family is a big family, the rules are strict, Zhu Shouyi's two concubines are not qualified to sit on the table, and the other children who are married as officials outside are not around, only Zhang Jinyu, Zhu Ying and his wife, Zhu Hao and Zhang Jinyu's youngest daughter Zhu Qiang, that is, Zhu Hao's little sister, is only fifteen years old and has not yet left the cabinet.

Chatting and chatting about business, Zhu Hao listened carefully to what his father and sister and brother-in-law said about doing business abroad, and couldn't help but say: "Dad, what kind of business is our family doing now, is it very profitable?" Zhu Shouyi snorted and said: "I usually teach you to care more about family affairs, you are twenty years old and you don't even know what business your family has, you really don't know what to do all day long, let your sister say it." ”

Zhu Hao pursed his lips, quite disapproving. Zhu Ying said with a smile: "Dad, don't worry about it, I heard that the younger brother has changed a lot recently, and he is also sensible, and he is still training recruits, it seems that he will be a person who will do great things in the future, and my family may have a big general." ”

"Yes, yes, sister, you have a vision." It was the first time someone said that he was a person who did great things, and Zhu Hao couldn't help but feel a little proud.

"Brother, sister just said that, you can't be proud."

"How can you, sister, tell me about business."

"Well, it's time to tell you some things, our family now has a total of 1,000 hectares of fertile land, six money villages, five mansions, ten cloth villages, one iron mine, three warehouses, more than 80 private craftsmen, more than 600 small workers, more than 1,000 tenants, not counting the land, the annual profit can reach at least 2 million taels of silver, and the grain production is 200,000 stones."

"Hiss" Zhu Hao couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, originally he thought that the society was dark in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the ancient heavy agriculture and suppression of business, even if the Zhu family did business, there would not be much profit, but now after listening to it, it is no wonder that the Zhu family can raise thousands of families, so it sees, it seems that although the court is corrupt, the wealth of the people should not be underestimated.

"Oh, by the way, what is the situation of my future father-in-law, the Chen family?" Zhu Hao suddenly remembered and asked.

"Hehe, you haven't married anyone before you get married, so you started the idea of your father-in-law." Zhu Ying laughed at him. "The Chen family has a lot of business dealings with my family, but his family's focus is not on the ground, but on the sea, and the Chen family has more than 300 cargo ships to go to sea to do business."

It turned out that Chen Zhaowen was Zhu Hao's father-in-law and ancestor was a fisherman in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, during the Jiajing period, the coastal Japanese were in turmoil, Chen Zhaowen's grandfather was taken captive to Japan, seeing that the Japanese people had strong purchasing power but lacked materials, and then found an opportunity to escape back, seeing that Zhejiang was destroyed in the war, he settled in Songjiang and bought a boat to start trading with Japan. He was already a person who had died once, so he was bold, and he ran all the routes that others did not dare to do, and with his extraordinary courage, he slowly expanded the business, and later developed to the Nanyang region.

Zhu Hao was thrilled when he heard it, overseas trade is a huge profit, and he can also build a navy, it seems that this family business has really found the right person, even if the future daughter-in-law is as fat as a sow, she will marry her!

Suddenly remembered something, so he asked: "Sister, are the things that our family produces now funded by the machine owner?" ”

"What kind of machine owner pays for the mechanic?" Zhu Ying was puzzled.

"Oh, what, I'm asking if our products are produced or purchased?" Zhu Hao knew that he had missed his mouth, so he hurriedly said.

"Only a small part of the cloth and ironware are produced by hired laborers, and most of them are purchased finished products, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just have an idea, since our family has surplus land, why not produce agricultural products in large quantities and hire workers to produce?"

"But in that case, shall we not pay the workers?" Zhu Ying asked.

"We can hire those bankrupt farmers or homeless refugees, so that there will be a lot of cheap labor, we produce our own agricultural products, and then we can not buy a large number of them, so that we can save the cost of secondary acquisition, and large-scale production can also shorten the construction period, so that our products can be listed in advance, I don't know if Suzhou and Hangzhou have done this." Zhu Hao explained that this is the earliest capitalist production relationship, and it must be advanced.

"Yes, there are many merchants in Suzhou and Hangzhou who are now employing workers to produce, but I only have business contact with them, and I have not delved into them." Zhu Ying replied truthfully.

"That's it, if we continue to treat business as a business and fail to form a production and marketing road, then our supply may be artificially cut off, too easy to rely on others, easy to be controlled by others."

"It makes sense, I also think that my brother's statement is right, our business is indeed too dependent on others, and we should be independent." Zhang Chang, who had never spoken, couldn't help but agree.

"Dad, what do you say?" Zhu Ying looked at Zhu Shouyi, and her father had to make the decision on major matters.

"Hao'er is right, let's do it, you and Zhang Chang discuss specific matters, and build our own industry as soon as possible." After being silent for a while, Zhu Shouyi made up his mind.

"I didn't expect my little brother to have such vision, my sister still underestimated you." Zhu Ying said with a smile.

"Sister, you have won the award, I just have a few small ideas, in terms of real level, it is far from you and your brother-in-law. By the way, sister, have you ever seen a Western clock? Zhu Hao asked.

"Western clocks? I've seen it, your brother-in-law has a pocket watch here, which was given by a Western priest. ”

"Western priests? Where is he? Zhu Hao's heart trembled, this missionary is a baby, he can't let them slip away.

"The priest Han who gave me the pocket watch is named Li De, and he is now in Nanjing. Why do you need a clock, I still have one there, so I'll give it to you. "Zhang Chang is refreshing.

"Okay, thank you, brother-in-law." Zhu Hao was overjoyed, and accepted it without shirking, he is now missing a watch, always relying on the hour timing is not used to and is not accurate, it would be good to have a clock, and then go to Nanjing to find the foreigner, see if you can dig it up. Zhu Hao secretly calculated.

"By the way, Hao'er, you are not young, the young lady of the Chen family has also reached the age of marriage, find a time to get married." Zhang Jinyu has always been concerned about his son's marriage.

"I know Mother, let's wait until this time is over." Zhu Hao was a little helpless, he also wanted to meet this fiancée, but he was frightened by the dignity of his future father-in-law before, and then he thought about it, his parents tried their best to promote this marriage, and he couldn't make sure that Miss Chen was ugly, so he should go first.