The moon disappeared into the clouds for a long time and did not want to come out, the graceful figure in the dark night was like a statue of Venus, Chen Yuanyuan took a corner of the clothes folded and folded, folded and folded, and was snatched and snatched by men all his life, occupied and occupied, and wanted to spend the rest of his life plain and quietly, and he couldn't, a period of misery! A lament! Two tears smashed on his hands, woke up suddenly, and left lonely.

"Madam......" Qi Liangqing said urgently, and felt that he was too cruel to keep his mouth shut, looking at the blurred black shadow with pity.

In the next ten days, after the site was selected in the north of the city, the construction of the glass mirror factory, the cosmetics factory and the cigarette factory was in full swing, but the silver also flowed out like pond water. Liu Xuanchu was sad when he took the document handed in by the Ministry of Economic Affairs urging him to ask for silver, this was the third time that the Ministry of Economic Affairs had asked for a capital increase in the past ten days, and Tianshuo Mansion only had so much money, and they couldn't squeeze out any more money after discussing it with Ma Gensheng, the financial director, so they had to go to Qi Liang.

The generalissimo battalion of Yuezhou has come over, and the prince Wu Yingxiong has replaced the prince Wu Shifan in charge of the country, and also agreed that Liu Xuanchu will be the governor of Tianshuo Mansion, and Gui Ming and Chen Zheng will become the commanders of Tianshuo Mansion! Although Qi Liang is a prisoner of the country, he is very idle, in order to avoid Wu Sangui's suspicion, Kunming's political and military affairs were still what they used to be, and he is only responsible for covering the jade seal.

In the study, Qi Liang is designing the production processes of several factories, and now he has roughly designed the manufacturing process of cigarettes. Very simply, it is the soil cigarette method of poor families in China in the sixties and seventies, a ladder-like wooden cigarette tool with a roll strip, coated with paste on white paper and then put on the tobacco, three cigarettes can be rolled at a time. What he needs to do now is to design several main processes such as tobacco roasting, shredding, forming, and packaging as assembly line operations to increase work efficiency.

When Liu Xuanchu and Ma Gensheng came in, Qi Liang was buried in a pile of drawings. "Shizi ......" Liu Xuanchu called softly, Ma Gensheng stood on his side respectfully, and now Liu Xuanchu was his top boss.

Qi Liang raised his eyes and motioned for them to sit down and wait for a while, and then buried their heads in hard work. Liu Xuanchu glanced at the table, it was full of some line patterns that he couldn't recognize, I don't know what Qi Liang was doing, why was he so serious? didn't dare to disturb, and looked at each other with Ma Gensheng and stayed honestly by the side.

Xiao Liuzi served tea for the two of them, Liu Xuanchu curled his tongue and tasted the best Pu'er tea, and when the cup of tea was almost over, Qi Liang raised his head and rubbed his hands and smiled happily: "What do the two gentlemen have to teach together?" "The sketch of the cigarette process is finally complete.

Liu Xuanchu stood up and saluted: "Shizi! The Ministry of Economic Affairs has run out of funds to build factories again, and it has requested Tianshuo Finance to allocate incremental funds! ”

Qi Liang's smile suddenly froze, and he asked in a deep voice, "What's going on with Zhang Mingzhou?" "One is the head of Tianshuo Mansion, the other is the financial director of Tianshuo Mansion, the two of them entered the door Qi Liang has guessed that it must be related to money, forced to calm down and buried his head in that pile of drawings and didn't want to come out, but he never expected that it was still related to the new Minister of Economic Affairs Zhang Mingzhou, this is the third time he asked for money, so he can't help but be popular!

Liu Xuanchu had already been mentally prepared to be scolded, but he was still startled by Qi Liang's gloomy face, organized his language, and said in his throat: "No one understands glass mirrors, so there is a deviation in the budget, and when they need to increase capital, they only ask for a small amount every time out of consideration for saving money for Tianshuo Mansion, so that there is a situation where the capital is increased repeatedly now!" ”

Qi Liang raised his head and roared: "Is this just a small request?" Each time fifty taels of gold increases, how many fifty taels of gold does Tianshuo Mansion have? He has seen that Zhang Mingzhou, who is dignified, shrewd and capable, and a trustworthy person, but he doesn't want to be a "debt collector"!

Liu Xuanchu muttered: "It's normal to need to increase funds to build three factories at the same time, and people are already very saving!" Every time he increased the funds, he would personally go to the construction site in the north of the city to investigate, and the first time Qi Liang himself also went, and both of them thought that the situation was true.

Qi Liang glanced at the dissatisfied Liu Xuanchu, who might feel that his tone was too heavy, and said in a slightly slower tone: "How much does he want?" "If you lose your temper, you still have to solve the problem.

"Fifty taels of gold!"

Another fifty taels of gold, Qi Liang's suppressed anger rose, and he waved his hand: "No!" Absolutely nothing, let him figure it out on his own! ”

Ma Gensheng, the financial director who was worried on the side, cautiously suggested: "Shizi! Can you squeeze some funds out of other places, or embezzle them first! ”

Qi Liang categorically denied: "No! ”

All the funds in Tianshuo Mansion have been budgeted, crowded out or misappropriated, and other aspects of construction can only be abandoned or stopped.

Liu Xuanchu and Ma Gensheng glanced at each other and focused their eyes on Qi Liang, they had no choice.

Qi Liang pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the monthly expenses of the palace?" ”

Ma Gensheng replied: "10,000 taels of silver a month!" ”

Qi Liang instructed: "Except for the use of the princesses of the new mansion, the expenses of other aspects of the palace are reduced by half!" ”

Ma Gensheng hesitated, and Liu Xuanchu had already opened his mouth to ask worriedly: "Will this cause King Zhou's suspicion?" ”

Qi Liang said confidently: "No! As long as the princesses don't sue, it's useless for others to sue! ”

Ma Gensheng shook his head and said: "The palace is full of troubles, and it may be difficult to reduce half of the expenses!" ”

Qi Liang disagreed: "If you cut half of the people, the expenses of all parties will naturally be less!" ”

Ma Gensheng shook his head faster: "Yu Shizi! Severance costs more! Moreover, many of the palaces are maidservants and eunuchs, and placement is also a problem! ”

Qi Liang smiled: "Who said that they were going to be dismissed, didn't the Chengbei Factory recruit people?" Let them all go there and do things! ”

Liu Xuanchu smiled and said: "When King Zhou returns to the palace, these people can all return to the palace!" ”

Qi Liang fought this idea, and he will pass this difficulty first!

"Who else is idle in Tianshuo Mansion?" Qi Liang asked again.

Liu Xuanchu said: "There are many people in the Medical Officials Academy and Liuying Academy at present, they have nothing to do all day long, and the salary is high, which is a waste of silver!" After taking over Tianshuo Mansion in an all-round way, Liu Xuanchu was surprised by the existence of the Nighthawk Group, the Flying Leopard Group and the special training class, thinking that Tianshuo Mansion was strong and the prince was ready to do great things; I also don't understand the existence of the Medical Academy, the Manufacturing Institute and the Liuying Academy, and thinks that there are too many idlers in it, which is a pure waste. At this time, only the manufacturing institute has moved into Panlong Valley to guide the construction of the construction site.

Qi Liang thought about it and said: "Don't worry about Liuying Academy, the doctors and gentlemen of the Medical Officials Academy can rent a piece of land to build a hospital, so that the doctors can treat the people and take medicine, which can not only generate income for Tianshuo Mansion but also solve the problem of difficult treatment for the people." He was excited about his plan, and regretted why he hadn't thought of it sooner. The hospital of the future is a place where people eat people and don't spit out bones!

Liu Xuanchu praised: "The son of the world is very wonderful! ”

But the fundamental solution to the problem is that the factories built should quickly produce benefits, Qi Liang was worried about another problem and asked: "Sir! Can raw materials be supplied after the construction of the tobacco factory? ”

Liu Xuanchu replied without hesitation: "It's completely possible!" ”

Qi Liang asked: "What if the production capacity is doubled in the future?" ”

Liu Xuanchu was stunned, and now he didn't even have a shadow of production, so he thought of the expansion problem later?

Qi Liang was full of confidence: "Mr. Li Ling asked Bachelor Li Ling to inform Yunnan Mansion, Lin'an Mansion, and Jingdong Hall (the triangle formed by the three mansions is now the Yuxi area, the most famous cigarette production base in China in later generations. Three local yamen, let them use the name of the government as a guarantee to let the people plant tobacco, and the harvest season Tianshuo Mansion will buy it together! ”

Liu Xuanchu was shocked: "The son! Is this a bit risky? ”

Qi Liang was not allowed to resist and said: "Mr. just do it!" Although Liu Xuanchu had doubts, he could only follow the order.

After Liu Xuanchu and Ma Gensheng left, Qi Liang thought that he would not be able to solve the financial dilemma in the short term without taking some special measures, so he went out of the study to Liuying Academy to summon Chen Zhengcheng and ordered: "Zhengcheng arranges, I want to see Zhang Jingshan!" ”

Liuying Academy was established on the basis of more than 200 scholars recruited by Chen Zhengcheng in Yuezhou, and currently has 320 students. According to Qi Liang, these people will be his future local administrators, and he has a large and insidious plan to quietly replace all the local government officials below the county level in the Yunnan group.

Chen Zhengcheng has been freed from the complicated civil affairs and is now concentrating on military work, and his position is equivalent to that of Qi Liang's chief of staff, but he is still in charge of the relevant personnel work for the time being.

"Jingshan has left Kunming, and it may not be back until two days later!" Chen Zhengcheng replied.

Qi Liang said: "Notify me when you come back!" ”

On the third day, Zhang Jingshan returned to Kunming and immediately came to see Qi Liang: "Shizi! The latest battle report on the Xiangxi front! ”

Qi Liang took the scroll but didn't look at it, and asked, "What's the situation?" Say! Zhang Jingshan's face was not happy, he already felt bad.

Zhang Jingshan reported: "General Liu Zhifu of the pioneer battalion led the boat division to attack Yiling, and established five battalions in the river, and the commander of the Qing army, Esitai, led the two armies to attack together, and was defeated. ”

Qi Liang was very concerned about the situation of the pioneer battalion, after all, he was the commander in the past, and sighed lightly: "I said not to invade the Hubei border and didn't listen, Hu Guozhu took his parting advice as the wind in his ears!" "Xuan thought about it again, it shouldn't be like this, Wu Yinglin is the coach, and Hu Guozhu should be helpless.

"What about the war elsewhere?"

Zhang Jingshan replied: "There is no major event in other places, only the war in Sichuan is tight, but our army has the advantage at present. ”

Qi Liang is out of reach of the war ahead, just understand, at present, he is eager to solve the current financial dilemma, and asked: "Jingshan!" What happened to the Nighthawk Economic Division that you set up? ”

Zhang Jingshan said: "The economic department has been set up, and Wang Yixiang is in charge, and Wang was a good shopkeeper when he was in Beijing. ”

Can you be a shopkeeper and manage the economic department? Qi Liang shook his head secretly, he had to arrange for someone who knew how to take charge of the economic department of the Nighthawk Group, and glanced at Zhang Jingshan: "What economic activities has Wang Yixiang carried out?" ”

Zhang Jingshan said: "He still does his dry goods business!" ”

Qi Liang was so angry that he only did some dry goods business with more than 500,000 taels of silver tickets? Zhang Jingshan has a set of military intelligence, but he is no longer good at the economy, and he does not understand his own meaning at all, Chen Zhengcheng and Gui Ming are better than him in this regard.

"Jingshan! At present, Tianshuo Mansion is in financial difficulties and urgently needs a sum of money, so you can find a way to smuggle a batch of illicit salt! Qi Liang stared at Zhang Jingshan and directly made his words clear.

Zhang Jingshan was surprised, and Qi Liang said again: "Whether it is in the Qingtong area or in the area controlled by our army, as long as it can be successful, of course, it is best to be in the Qingtong area!" ”

Zhang Jingshan was still digesting Qi Liang's words, and Qi Liang continued: "You can stop what you are doing, escort it with arms, and make every effort to ensure the success of this illicit salt trafficking!" ”