In a restaurant in Xia's restaurant in Guangzhou City, at the window position on the second floor, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin each held a cup of good tea, drinking tea and chatting at the same time.

Almost since April last year, the chambers of commerce of the Jiang family, the Xia family, and the Liang family have entered the four provinces of Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang in a big way, making the business of the three families bigger and bigger, and there are even occasional rumors that the Jiang, Xia, and Liang families are rich and rival the country.

Before the People's Army, the business of the Jiang family, the Xia family, and the Liang family was mainly in Guangdong, and there was more or less business outside Guangdong.

With the occupation of Guangdong by the People's Army, the Jiang, Xia, and Liang families survived by "cutting meat", and their business was confined to Guangdong, and even because of the war, the business of the three families was greatly reduced, but because a large number of other businessmen were raided by the People's Army, the market was vacant, and the business of the three families recovered rapidly, even larger than the previous business scale.

In particular, the glass business allowed the three families to earn a lot of money.

Now the glass business of Jiang's, Xia's and Liang's is gone, but the newly added four major markets in Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces, the original businessmen either fled or were raided by the People's Army, and the Jiang's, Xia's, and Liang's three families were able to rapidly expand their business scale.

Originally, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin were still nostalgic for the life of superior people in the past, at that time, the people at the bottom did not dare to stare at them, and the maids and servants at home could beat and scold at will, but as the business of the three families became bigger and bigger, the three of them gradually felt that the current environment was also good.

In particular, the People's Army governed the "country" according to law, making it easy for Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin to do business, and they only needed to sit in Guangzhou.

Recalling that when the Ming court ruled Guangdong, the business of the three families was already quite large, but there was not much possibility of improvement in the future, the main reason was that the market outside the country was already occupied by traditional forces, and outsiders would only be boycotted, unless Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin had greater backers, it was possible to continue to expand the scale of business.

Once the three of them lose the protection of the big man, the next moment the business of the three families will be divided by others.

If you think about it carefully, doing business under the rule of the Ming court is really dangerous, and if you are not careful, the whole family will be ruined.

And doing business under the rule of the People's Army, as long as you abide by the laws of the People's Army, you don't need to think about other things, you can do business with peace of mind, so that in the case of the rapid expansion of the three businesses, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin can still be relatively relaxed, and they can often sit together and drink tea and chat.

However, there seem to be more and more voices of "rich and rival country", which makes the three of them have a headache, "rich and rival country" is not a good thing, Shen Wansan is an example, although the People's Army governs the "country" according to law, but who knows if the People's Army will attack the Jiang, Xia, and Liang clans who are rich and rival the country, even if they do not break the law, there are ways to clean up the three families.

"Brother Xia, Brother Liang, this matter is a little difficult to do." Jiang Ci said with a sigh.

Liang Xin nodded and said: "It's indeed a little difficult to do, the three of us have a big business, it's normal to be hated by other families, use 'rich and rival countries' to make the People's Army pay attention to the three of us, we are businessmen, the People's Army is an official, we have the power of life and death, we can only be slaughtered." ”

"I have a plan to get the three of us out of this situation."

As soon as Xia Jingshan's words fell, Jiang Ci and Liang Xin both stared at Xia Jingshan, and their eyes seemed to say, "If you have any plans, just say it quickly." ”

Xia Jingshan picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea and said: "My strategy is very simple, it is to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster. ”

Hearing the words "break the fortune and eliminate the disaster", the other two nodded, and some thoughts came to their minds.

"The three of us used to buy and sell land when we made money, but now the People's Army does not allow us to buy and sell land, and the silver we earn can only be kept at home, and the speed at which we spend silver is far less than the speed at which we make money, and there are more and more houses with silver at home.

Since we can't spend this money ourselves, it is better to use it to do good deeds, spend money to buy a good reputation, and if we have a reputation, the People's Army must think carefully if it wants to do something to us.

Doesn't the KPA like to build roads? Let's also build roads, the People's Army builds big roads, let's go to build small roads, build bridges, and the common people will definitely remember our good when they walk on the roads and bridges we build.

I think the People's Army must be willing to see us businessmen spend money to do good deeds, and the three of us will make a good start, and the People's Army will not attack other businessmen and will not attack us. ”

"Build roads and bridges? You can do it. Liang Xin echoed.

In fact, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin can do very few good deeds, and the easiest way to do good deeds in the past is to give porridge, but all the ordinary people in the People's Army-ruled areas have their own fields and can eat enough, and they don't need to come to the soup soup at all, and the People's Army-ruled areas can't even find beggars, and when beggars appear, the People's Army will take the first step to settle them.

If you think about it carefully, the good deeds that can be done are mainly to repair roads and bridges, and the People's Army has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build cement roads and railway tracks, so that everyone can see and understand the People's Army's dedication to road construction, and road construction does bring convenience to the people to travel, and also makes it convenient for businessmen to do business.

After all, the People's Army has limited manpower, and it can build the main road between the cities, and it is not able to repair the roads from the city to the town and village for the time being, so it can only come step by step, and this is the opportunity for the merchants.

"By the way, we have to put the name of the People's Army on the road and bridge construction, let's just say that we make money thanks to the People's Army, the People's Army allows the people to live a good life, and we also build roads and bridges to facilitate the people to travel."

"Yes, the People's Army should be put at the forefront."

After some discussion, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin all made a decision, and then arranged for people to go to the villages and towns to see where the roads were dilapidated, and to see where the common people could spend money to repair roads and bridges because of the inconvenience of traveling by the river, and the roads repaired were directly on the cement roads, and they could afford to pay for them.

However, the people who build the road have a little trouble, the People's Army uses coolies to build roads, and the businessmen can not mobilize coolies, they can only spend money to hire locals to build roads, even if the money hired is less, it is expected that the locals are willing to accept it, after all, building roads and bridges is convenient for local people to travel, which is a good thing, and the locals are definitely willing to support.

For merchants, it is natural to want to earn more silver, even if the silver cannot be used to buy fields or anything, it is also a pleasant thing to put it at home and watch more and more houses where silver is placed.

However, the name of "rich rivals the country" made Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin have to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster, and if they don't cut their meat, I am afraid that they will face the People's Army attacking the three families.