"The old lady and the young lady can rest assured, all the soldiers of the Long Xiang Division will be loyal to the second brother and have no two hearts." , Yu Yongkai took the lead in standing up and said.

Zhou Liangcai and the others had also discussed it before, and now he also stood up and said with a smile:

"The destiny of heaven is impermanent, and there are virtuous people living in the world, and now that there are immortals, how dare we not follow the power of dogs and horses."

"I'm willing to listen to the second young master's dispatch, and I have no two hearts."

These two people took the lead in expressing their positions, and the other house directors followed suit, beating their chests one by one, as if they were not allowed to be loyal to them, as if they were going to die.

Liu Chen and Xie Chunxi glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of smiles.

Liu Chen also stood up and nodded to everyone, "My Liu family has been able to get to this point today, it is because everyone works together to help each other, and we naturally trust everyone very much, please rest assured of this." ”

"That's right", Xie Chunxi followed and said: "The concubine and husband also said in the letter, thank you for your support, my Liu family will never treat those who follow all the way." ”

"Now the concubine will announce several affairs arranged by the concubine's husband, the first of which is to improve the welfare of the whole family."

"The minimum salary of the Longxiang Division, the Tiger Brigade, and the police room personnel has been adjusted from one tael to two taels, and the monthly salary of the brigade commander is eight taels, and the rest of the personnel have been promoted in turn."

"The management personnel of each house refer to the army to increase their salaries and benefits, and the deacons of each house are paid eight taels a month, the assistant is six taels, the assistant is four taels, and the rest of the ordinary workers are paid a minimum of one or five cents a month."

Liu Ximing's salary standard for the Liu family made everyone in the room suddenly cheer, compared to other promises, this is a benefit that can be seen right now.

You must know that before this, even a deacon like Chen Yiding had a monthly income of just over three taels.

What is the standard of this income at the moment, referring to the salary of the Dutch East India Company, the senior merchant is 90 guilders per month, which is equivalent to 18 taels of silver, the intermediate merchant is 50 guilders, which is equivalent to 10 taels of silver, and the junior merchant is 20 guilders, which is equivalent to 4 taels of silver.

Even the highest-ranking staff member of the East India Company in Southeast Asia, the member of the East India Committee, had a monthly salary of only 250 guilders, or 50 taels of silver.

The Liu family practices Datongism, so naturally there is no income gap as large as the Dutch, and in view of the fact that the Dutch have crossed the ocean to make money, the salary level of the Liu family is already extremely high.

In this way, how could everyone in Liujia Village not cheer.

Yu Yongkai laughed and said: "The second brother offers such a salary, our village will only be more united, and please don't worry about the godmother and young lady." ”

"You're happy, but our family's financial expenses have shrunk again."

Yu Qiaoman complained when she heard Yu Yongkai's words, and she dared to say this.

Xie Chunxi immediately smiled and said: "Husband said, if you make money, you have to spend it, our family has a lot of expenses now, but don't you make more money." ”

"Hahaha", there was a big laugh in the study.

Xie Chunxi looked at Yu Qiaoman with a smile, and looked at everyone again:

"After talking about welfare, let's talk about other things, in order to expand production and increase income, and at the same time, in order to facilitate the transportation of personnel to Luzon, our family will expand the shops to major cities in the south, especially Huguang, Guangxi, Guangdong and other places, even if the dragon division is sent to guard, we must seize the market."

"The third thing is the personnel arrangement, in order to ensure the operation of the Luzon General's Mansion, the concubine husband officially appointed Mr. Su Jinsu as the prime minister of the Luzon General's Mansion, and his uncle Chen Yi designated Master Chen as the imperial history of the general capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

Liu Ximing's main concern was naturally the issue of personnel appointments in the Luzon General's Palace, and since he could not sit in charge in person, he could only send the two people he trusted the most to Luzon.

For this reason, he also wrote two letters by hand, which were forwarded to Su Jin and Chen Yiding respectively.

With Xu Wei serving as the magistrate of Xuguo County, Su Jin no longer has to keep an eye on Guanzhong, and he can free up his hands to prepare for Luzon's government affairs.

As for Chen Yiding, as Liu Ximing's maternal uncle, although Liu Ximing felt that his thoughts were still a little unable to keep up, but in this clan society, apart from him, who could take on the heavy responsibility of supervising Su Jin.

For this matter, Liu Chen and Xie Chunxi also talked to Chen Yiding once, and talked about their relatives as soon as they sued, so that they could move him.

Xie Chunxi's crisp and clean voice continued to sound in the study:

"In addition, in order to ensure the external development of the Luzon General's Mansion, two battalions of 4,000 troops will be transferred from home to Luzon, and at the same time, elite backbones will be drawn from each room to fill the Yamen at all levels of the General's Mansion."

Xie Chunxi said here, put down the documents in his hand, and looked at everyone with a smile:

"The concubine husband said that this time the priority officials who went to the Luzon General's Mansion first, among which the prime minister of the Government Council and the imperial history of the general capital are all positive three grades, and the rest of the official positions are reduced in turn."

"Of course, those who failed to arrive in Luzon this time don't have to worry, there will be many positions in my Liu family in the future, and everyone can be awarded an official after all."

"Wow"

"Long live the second young master!" There was a cheer in the study.

This is an award!

Whether it is after several years of Datong education, the Liu family's desire for official positions is like all Chinese in this era, a deep pursuit in the bones.

Xie Chunxi pursed his lips and smiled, and continued to read:

"The fourth thing is the shipyard, after the construction of this batch of warships was completed, the construction of which was stopped, and the construction of inland merchant ships such as sand boats was turned to expand the Yangtze River fleet, and at the same time the shipyard personnel were transferred to Luzon in batches."

Luzon originally had shipyards built by the Spaniards, and most of its craftsmen were recruited Chinese craftsmen, and the famous Manila galleons were built directly in Luzon.

Liu Ximing naturally did this to continue to expand the level of shipbuilding in Qianzhou, and in order to open up the Japanese and Korean markets, the struggle between the Liu family and the Zheng family was inevitable.

In order to ensure the maintenance and expansion of the fleet of the Fubo Division, the shipyard had to be relocated.

Xie Chunxi took Liu Ximing's letter and continued to read: "The last thing is the transportation of personnel, in order to enrich the population of Luzon, on the one hand, we must expand the inland river fleet, and on the other hand, we must vigorously recruit refugees from Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places to transport Luzon, and strive to transport 500,000 people within ten years. ”

"This, this is unlikely......", the managers at all levels in the study looked at each other.

Transporting so many people across the sea thousands of miles is difficult for even the Liu family to do.

Xie Chunxi looked solemn, "The concubine also knows the difficulty of this matter, but for the development of my Liu family, even if it is difficult, I have to do it." ”

"My husband said in the letter that this matter is the time to exercise my Liu family's organizational ability, and anyone who performs well in this middle will be given priority in the future."

"I'll do as I was told!"

Everyone in the study was suddenly aroused.

Liu Ximing's paper document was like a war drum, which ignited the passion of all the middle and high-level people in Liujia Village at once.

With the convening of the meeting, the people in Liujia Village suddenly found that the house supervisors had been fighting like chicken blood recently, and they were doing things vigorously.

Before everyone could figure it out, notices about the salary adjustment of all the staff of the Liu family had been posted at the door of the government office and major workshops.

This is terrible, the mood of the whole village was ignited all of a sudden, what is the sudden explosion of income, this is the situation.

For a while, everyone sang praises to Liu Ximing, and the prestige of the Liu family once again hit a new peak.

However, with this notice, there is another notice, each room will send some personnel to Luzon under the escort of Long Xiangshi, and at the same time, in order to increase the attractiveness, the southbound subsidy of five dollars per month will be increased for the southbound personnel.

The people of the village had more content to discuss after dinner, and whether you go to Luzon or not became the first greeting when people met.

By the end of July, the mobilization of the Liu family for the southward movement had been completed, and the Longxiang Division and the Huben Brigade not only had to send two battalions to the south, but also sent two additional battalions of soldiers to escort the merchant houses to open merchant houses in Huguang, Guangxi, and other provinces.

In August, Chongqing, Yueyang, Changsha, Wuchang, Hengzhou, Guilin and other prefectures appeared in several shops with the signs of Han Yuan and Hengshun.

These shops not only have unique store decorations, but also have bright and clean windows, excellent goods, not only rare Nanyang spices, gems and other goods, but also all kinds of high-quality and low-price cotton, silk and other goods, as soon as they came out, they were welcomed by the people in these places.

However, the expansion of the Liu family has already seized the business of other large local families, although there is Liu Ximing, the new Amber brand, but the local wealthy family who are anxious will naturally not give up.