Section 151: A Trip to Foshan (17)

"Business, in fact, can't be done, it's just whether you want to do it or not." Liu San finished the acquisition, and was in a good mood, "Don't say it, just the industries under our executive committee, how much medicine-?" Without waiting for him to answer, he said to himself, "Now there are more than 1,000 people in the security corps alone, and there are many long-term workers, and there are always tens of thousands of people. These people are not allowed to see a doctor and take medicine -? ”

"It's all up to the virtuous brother."

"I'm half an owner, how can I not do my best?" Liu San smiled, "Don't worry, everything on the Australian's side will be arranged by me." ”

Liu San continued: "The second way depends on your cousin. Do you know what Qiongzhou is rich in medicine? ”

"Naturally, it's betel nut and nootropics." Yang Shixiang is very familiar with the local medicinal materials.

"For the right time, these two kinds of medicine-substances, betel nut will not be left aside for the time being. There are big households in Qiongzhou that specialize in acquisitions, and we can't afford to grab this deal with them for the time being, and we are bad with each other. Liu San said, "But no one has asked about the puzzle at the moment, there are wild ones in Lingao and Danzhou, we can still grow some by ourselves, and sell them after concocting them ourselves--your eldest brother also does the wholesale of medicine-materials, right?" ”

"Do." Yang Shixiang said, "He will go to the medicine market in Qizhou in two or three years, and he will sell and buy." ”

"That's it, and our puzzles will be sold by him. That's another piece of income. ”

"And then there's the tonic." Liu San said, "I saw Yang Run's medicine, it seems that he is good at tonic medicine, right?" ”

"Speaking of which, my ancestors made a fortune with all kinds of tonics and medicines." Yang Shixiang said, "It's a pity that in my father's generation, I couldn't show my hands and feet in Lingao, and they were all deserted." ”

"Since Fang Zi is still there, it's not easy to recover? Although there are not many people who take tonic medicine in Lingao, there are many in Guangdong. ”

"Then you can't let Yang Run open a hall to sell on behalf of the company - there is a conflict. I have these recipes, and he has them. ”

"We don't need to ask him to sell on behalf of others, we can find someone else in Guangzhou to sell on behalf of us, or we can simply open a branch in Guangzhou - but that's a story for later."

Yang Shixiang hesitated for a moment: "Virtuous brother! I have a sentence that I don't know when to say or not? ”

"What's the matter?"

"Brother Xian doesn't think that in the past few years, the world of the Ming Dynasty has been chaotic...... his voice is very low, so low that it is almost like a mosquito calling, "Tonic - medicine - this thing, but it is ...... to eat in the peaceful and prosperous world"

Liu San thought to himself, I already knew: from this year onwards, the Ming court fell into the alternating cycle-chaos-cycle between the peasant army and the Houjin, and state affairs were becoming more and more erosive day by day. Thus began the road of destruction. But this Yang Shixiang is not a traverser, and it is impossible for him to grasp the overall situation in this small place of Lingao.

"How so?"

Yang Shixiang sighed: "In the past few days, I have visited guests everywhere, and I have seen many relatives, peers and fathers, and when I talk about the situation in various places, everyone is shaking their heads: floods, droughts and famines are continuous, and I heard that there is a great famine in Shaanxi this spring, and they are all eating people!" The hungry people made a lot of trouble, besieged the state and attacked the county everywhere, the officials and soldiers suffered a big defeat, and a military general surnamed Gao died...... Someone has already called himself a puppet king......"

"Shaanxi is far from here—"

"That being said, it's not peaceful anywhere else." Yang Shixiang said, "I also heard that there are soldiers in the Beijing division who are making trouble, and they actually cut down trees and set up a village at the gate of the Beijing division city, and they want to ask for the full salary-this is worth it?" I've been on high ground, and I'm still a little unaware. Along the way, although Guangdong is still peaceful, this place full of displaced people is really unprecedented......"

Liu San smiled secretly in his heart, Yang Shixiang was actually right. But think about it. Their group of "thieves" from the sea built a city and built a fortress in Lingao, and requisitioned grain and soldiers, and the local government could not help it, isn't it also a big "chaos"? It's just that Yang Shixiang was in it, and he even felt that Lingao had a peaceful appearance, so he didn't realize it. It can be seen that the rule of the crossing group in Lingao has been initially recognized.

"It doesn't matter," Liu San comforted, "at least looking at the situation in Guangdong, it won't be so erosive." Moreover, even if there is a chaotic world, there is a chaotic world to do. ”

"How?" Yang Shixiang said.

Liu San said: "Don't worry about business, as long as the government is still there, the situation can be stabilized." As soon as the situation is settled, there is something to be done to deal with the aftermath. The so-called soldiers-chaos-there will be a great epidemic after the chaos, and those who flee will have hunger in the morning and cold at night, and they will not adapt to the water and soil, and they must buy medicine when they are sick. If it really gets out of control, we will withdraw to Lingao. ”

"Yes, yes, Lingao can always keep one side safe." Yang Shixiang seems to have regarded Lingao County, which is under the rule of the Crossing Group, as a happy land.

At the moment, Yang Shixiang went to visit his cousin to discuss specific consignment matters. Since Lin Ming's banquet, Yang Shiyi's attitude towards this cousin has changed greatly. Seeing him coming, he greeted him warmly, and was very attentive. The matter of consignment sales was quickly finalized: the batch and zero price were designated by Runshitang, and Yang Runkaitang was responsible for wholesale and zero sales, and the "no two prices" system was implemented, that is, no pricing, no discount, no price increase. Yang Run Kaitang takes a fixed commission from each dose of sales as the "handling money" for consignment sales, and Runshitang pays a separate amount of money to the sales partner to encourage him to sell more. The sales revenue shall be settled in three sections, and no account shall be lost. Runshitang set up an office in Foshan and sent people to be responsible for this sales and purchase matters. Expenses are borne by Runshitang. The two sides also agreed on three separate chapters of the law, which prohibits personnel from meeting in private, asking each other for meals and entertainment, and not borrowing money from each other. Traditional commercial enterprises maintain a high level of vigilance against the corruption of shopkeepers.

Because of Lin Ming's face, Yang Shiyi's sales commission was extremely self-denying, and he did not open his mouth as Yang Shixiang expected. Although Yang Shiyi felt a little unwilling, he saw that the fifth brother had ordered a large number of medicinal materials from him in cash, and felt that he had made up for it somewhat, and the two sides talked very happily. Including the fact that Runshitang entrusted them to sell puzzles in the future, they were also discussed. Yang Shiyi secretly wondered - he couldn't imagine that this fifth brother, who had been doing nothing, would become so capable! It seems that this famous doctor "Liu San" is not an ordinary person.

Liu San asked people to lead the way, and walked around the pharmacy stores in Foshan, everywhere he went, but whenever there was a plaster pill for sale, whether he had heard of it or not, he would buy a few doses. I am ready to take it back and use it as a human shiyan. In the name of expanding production, he also recruited a number of unemployed pharmacy guys who were willing to go to Lingao through Yang Shiyi's introduction, and purchased a lot of Chinese medicine-equipment: slicing knives, various pots and kettles for concocting medicines, etc.

Huang Tianyu's campaign to recruit workers has also made progress. He took his brother Gao and Chen Tong to several teahouses where the potter Hou Huo recruited a few people, and then went around looking for unemployed potters through these people. Because there have been a lot of unemployed people at the kiln recently, the recruitment work has been very smooth, and as many as 50 or 60 kiln workers of various types of work who are willing to work in Lingao have been recruited soon. Huang Tianyu did not refuse to come, even some old kiln workers who did not want to go to the kiln - these people are experienced, and they are actually only 50 years old. It's just that long-term malnutrition, overwork damages health, and a little more nutrition to them at Lingao is the top jishu worker.

Foundry workers are not so easy to recruit. Now there is a lot of work here, and the workers who have jishu are reluctant to go to Lingao, which sounds very unfamiliar. Although Huang An is very hardworking, most of the people he recruited are ordinary craftsmen. That's it, and I don't want to go. After a few days of running, only about a dozen people were recruited. Huang Tianyu was a little disappointed, it was raining this day, so he simply drank tea in the teahouse, Huang An ignored the rain, and went out to look for someone again.

This teahouse is extremely simple, it is said to be a teahouse, but it is actually a hut, with a large bamboo shed and a mud floor. The teas sold are all coarse tea and lower-grade stem tea powder. The advantage is that the price is very cheap, and it is not difficult to make a pot of tea here with the income of the peddler's pawn and spend half a day. Consumption was low, and the teahouse was well-informed, and it became a meeting place for unemployed workers to wait for work.

Huang Tianyu was bored drinking tea, so he had to follow the example of others and buy a bag of betel nuts. A small bag wrapped in leaves, black inside. Throwing it into his mouth and chewing it, a momentum went straight to his head, his head was dizzy all of a sudden, and he felt a little drunk, and it took a while to settle down.

"What's so good about this thing." Huang Tianyu muttered.

"It's to eliminate food and water." The senior brother was talking on the side, his mouth was red, and he was munching betel nut.

Huang Tianyu was about to say something, when he suddenly saw Huang An walk in. Taking off his drenched robe, "Master—" He bowed respectfully.

"Talk at the table."

"Yes." Huang An leaned his umbrella against the table and sat down, "Xiao I went to a teahouse just now, but I didn't find a suitable casting master, but I found something else, I just don't know if the master needs it?" ”

"What craftsman?"

"A craftsman who makes wheels......"

"What?!" Huang Tianyu unconsciously cried out, causing the people around him to look forward to it. He quickly lowered his voice:

"Wheels?"

"Yes," Huang An didn't know he was so excited, "Exactly." ”

Of course, Huang Tianyu was excited. Because the wheel problem has always been a problem for the Labor and Energy Commission. In addition to rail cars, ordinary wheels, horse-drawn carriages, and other vehicles made by the traversers have not been able to solve the problem very well. Making wheels is a specialized craft.,There are a lot of strong people in the labor committee.,It's barely done.,It's just that the efficiency is very poor.,And it occupies jishu personnel.。 So I had to build a vehicle out of the various rubber wheels I had brought.

Seeing that the spare wheels were being used less and less, but the demand for cars was increasing, and it was hoped that rubber would not be produced within ten years, so we would find a wheel maker as soon as possible and make qualified wooden wheels on the agenda.

Unfortunately, in the south, boats were the main ones to carry burdens, and few vehicles were used, and the wheelmakers were almost unprecedented. Assignments were never found.