Since the other party came specifically at him, He Kun felt that pretending to be stupid was obviously the next policy, and it was important to save his life at the moment, so it was better to be sincere, as for the battle in the shopping mall, it had little to do with his own family, and he didn't care about the livelihood of a weaver for a long time, and he didn't live by weaving.

"Smart people, that's easy." The 'family ding' next to Hu Barong opened his mouth first, and this person was Ma Qianhu.

"The villain is very stupid, I really can't afford the praise of this lord, but I am a weaver, where to offend your name, I hope you will mention a little bit."

"Sit." Hu Barong was still expressionless.

"Thank you, Master." He Kun sat down in a frustrated manner, it seemed that his life was safe for the time being, but when he turned his head slightly, he saw that the two big men were still guarding the door, and he couldn't help but complain secretly, but on the surface, he still had to pretend to be waiting for the fate of an honest appearance.

This time it was Ma Qianhu who opened his mouth, "Today I specially invited you to speak, for the cloth shop and our universal affairs, the meaning of the proprietor, we open the door to do business, originally with you weavers have nothing to do, I advise you not to listen to people's instigation, do things that are out of place, and hurt the harmony in vain." ”

Listening to this person's northern official accent, He Kun was suddenly surprised, but immediately put away his mind and dealt seriously, "How dare the villain, our weaving line and merchants have always been bridges to bridges, roads to roads, and the machine owners have placed orders, and the workers have done so, and there is no meaning to block the old man's financial road." ”

He Kun trembled and rubbed half of his body, and said in fear.

This time, Hu Barong sang with a red face, and he soothed: "I know the hardships of your mechanics, so I met like this today, otherwise if it was like Yang Yuanxi's splash, I would never be so polite." ”

Seeing that Hu Barong said Yang Yuanxi's name, He Kun knew that the other party was prepared, and he was afraid that he should have inquired clearly. He said this to distinguish himself from Yang Yuanxi, at least for now, Yang Yuanxi is more likely to become the 'chicken' in the trick of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys.

He Kun pondered the meaning of his words, and thought that he still had hundreds of workers in his hands, so he was suddenly surprised. It seems that this Wan Tong has always had scruples about those single weavers, and he was still frightened by those big men at the beginning, but he still sold miserably, "Master Mingjian, those who have portals don't say, we do do work alone to eat a day, and the water can't flood the feet to make a living, and most of them are still tired." It is also a last resort to collect the money of the cloth shop, but it is a difficult livelihood, and it is not intended to go against your account, and these days it is just a noise outside, and there is no real thing that is not good for your number......"

Perhaps this miserable sale did play a role, and the atmosphere in the room eased a lot.

"That's why I'm polite to discuss with you." Hu Barong paused, "The weavers are like this now, and it's not what we want to see, and Wan Tong has some responsibility." Therefore, what I want to say today is that we are willing to accept workers to work in Hailan Hall, but anyone who can do things, whether men, women, young or old, I will be the master of developing a piece of money and food. As for you, since Master He is a leader, he naturally has a reward, what do you think?

Hu Barong's words were straightforward, and He Kun quickly understood Wan Tong's intentions, and on the premise of not fighting, bringing these weavers under his command was indeed a means to turn enemies into friends quickly, and I heard that the newly established Hailan Hall opposite was also a weaving factory, and it seemed that Wan Tong was indeed planning to be a big machine in the local area. Willing to let unemployed textile workers work in their factories is definitely a good thing for the weavers, the livelihood of hundreds of people can be guaranteed, and they have an account for everyone.

However, it's not that simple.

It's good for the weavers, but not for themselves.

Once the weavers have entered the weaving mill of Wantong, then he, the nominal foreman, has no support, and naturally all the benefits have no reason. What's more, he was going to lead people to make trouble before, so as to get a lot of money from Guo Zengfu before and after, but the promised things have not been done for a long time, and now Guo Dongzhu has just assigned a new errand, so he will take people to Wantong, isn't he going to be hated, he can't afford to provoke both sides.

As a result, he hesitated a little, and did not dare to answer Hu Barong's words.

"What? Does Master He still have any concerns? Liu Fengchun has been watching the mirror from the sidelines, but he doesn't say anything, and he does his best to help.

"It's a good thing, of course, it's just ...... These days, it has been Guo Xingshou who has been helping us and other expenses, if I go back at this time to talk to everyone, I am afraid that the workers may not be willing to ......"

"It's just some old porridge and rotten rice, which is also considered help?" Liu Fengchun said angrily when he heard this.

He Kun's face was red, Guo Zengfu didn't have such small eyes, the silver was indeed enough, but more than half of it fell into his pocket, naturally those weavers couldn't eat rice and white noodles, and they didn't starve to death. As soon as Liu Fengchun's words came out, he immediately understood that as long as he went back and said it, naturally no one would be unwilling to join the Wantong Gate, so that he could have a stable livelihood, but for him, it was a real threat, and he could not be perfunctory.

But if he really did what Hu Barong asked, he would be the first to be unwilling, just Guo Zengfu asked him to hand over the silver, and he couldn't bear it, not to mention that Deyuntang might not be as simple as recovering the silver at that time.

Ma Qianhu looked at He Kun with amusement and took out a box.

The lid of the box was opened, He Kun's eyes lit up, the box was neatly stacked with a little yellowed paper tube, from the center of the paper tube he could see the white flowers leaking out of the silver ocean, it is estimated that this paper tube is about forty or fifty foreign coins, this money in more than a year he has seen some one after another, it is the silver money of the Australians, which is much more delicate than the eagle of the Franco.

"This is the Australian color of the silver coin, a silver coin is worth seven silver cents, if in the South Seas or Luzon, this silver coin can be the value of one or two silver ingots."

It doesn't even take Ma Qianhu to say, just by looking at the exquisiteness of this silver coin, He Kun can understand its value.

Hu Barong took out two pieces in his hand and said to He Kun, "This one is fifty pieces, and there are twelve pieces in this box, a total of six hundred, even if you count it in silver, there are more than four hundred taels." Ten of them are for the weavers, and the remaining two are your reward for doing so. ”

Different from verbal promises, seeing the real cash, He Kun's attitude became a little ambiguous.

He pondered his words, and said with the idea of flattering both ends: "Please also ask Hu Dongzhu to forgive me, since I will give the workers the head, I should find a good way out for them, if they are willing to come to Wantong to do things, it would be good, but ......"

"It's just that you, the person in the middle, have some difficulties?" Hu Barong said that he was careful to think.

"Exactly, Guo Xingshou still needs a proper explanation, otherwise if he blames him, I can't afford to bear it."

"Tell me, what did that guy from Deyuntang explain to you?"

He Kun chuckled again in his heart, it seemed that he had already been targeted.

"It was Master Guo who asked me to take the weavers to the Xianmian Temple in Wunijing to burn incense and swear."

"What swear?"

"This ...... It's just a scene, the current fight between the two families is not explained, and the villain thinks that Guo Xingshou's side must always prevaricate, which can be regarded as a foreshadowing for the workers to come over. ”

He Kun's words sounded good at first glance, but Hu Barong couldn't hear that this was the idea of stepping on two boats with his feet.

And in fact, it is true, on the one hand, He Kun really wants to use the crowd to burn incense to prevaricate Guo Zengfu, but at the same time, he also wants to accept the recruitment silver of Wantong, as for whether to recruit the inside story of the cloth shop to ask for a good price is another thought, anyway, he has already made up his mind, this silver is the more the merrier, the most unfortunate money to escape, this Ming is not only Songjiang Mansion such a place.

"You don't have to think about it." Hu Barong said very simply, if the weavers really burned incense and clearly opposed Wantong, then these hundreds of laborers would not be easy to win over, and no matter what they did, they would be left behind.

"If you can't be perfunctory, then the villain may not be able to cover up the past, and then do this recruitment, I'm afraid that I can't explain it, and I hope that Master Hu will understand the villain and give him a way out."

Hu Barong glanced at Ma Qianhu, his eyes were firm and firm, "I advise Master He to think clearly, our name is for the poor sake of the weavers, so I will give you a way to live, if you don't want to, you can take them to burn the incense that has no origin, and Wan Tong will never stop you." ”

He Kun was in a hurry when he heard this, and the previous temptation disappeared immediately, "This matter can be postponed......"

"It's all up to you to do it, I don't have to worry about you, but you have to move when you go back to recruit workers, I will see someone within three days, just ask you, okay, or no?" After saying this, Hu Barong didn't forget to give him a little thought, "You also know that the business of Australians is very large, as long as this matter is done, no matter how Luzon Nanyang will be in the future, where will there be no way for you to live?" ”

was forced to be anxious, and when he saw Yinzi and this again, He Kun simply let it go, "I will definitely come up with a way to do this." ”

"You don't have to think about it, you have to leave the thing you showed Guo Zengfu at the beginning, and you have to have a certificate to send the resettlement to the workers, this kind of thing Master He must have carried it personally."

'Roster? ’

He Kun's heart tightened, this list was his personal capital, or the list of weavers that Mr. Shuqi included one by one when he took the lead in the lawsuit, which not only recorded the name, address, and hometown of each weaver he led, but also listed the type of work in detail, and used handprints. Guo Zengfu only felt that He Kun was a usable person after reading this roster, otherwise where would he give him a lot of silver.

Now the other party even told this kind of secret thing, obviously to pinch a little handle, think about it, no one is stupid, should have thought of such a section.

After figuring it out, he didn't dare to hide it.

"There is indeed one roster villain, but this is the base book and there is no subbook."

"It's easy to do, we'll just copy it."

He Kun thought about it, nodded in agreement, and took out a book cover wrapped in layers of oiled paper from his arms, and when he opened it, there was indeed a booklet full of stains, and a few ink words such as 'Yixin' and 'Tongde' could be vaguely seen on the cover.

Liu Fengchun took a cursory look, "There are four hundred and fifty-seven people here, all of whom are at your command?" ”

"Brother Liu Mingjian, this weaving line comes and goes quickly, in fact, only half of the people can listen to the teaching, but they also have to make a strong noise."

He didn't know what Wan Tong's idea was, so he left room for speech, but thinking about the secret buckle that placed the silver, he still overreported it by 20%, but in fact, there are only about 200 people who eat under his hands now, and many of them are still old and weak.

Liu Fengchun seemed to agree with He Kun's statement and nodded to Hu Barong.

Ma Qianhu picked up the roster and got up and went to the back, He Kun thought that the transcription would be a long thing, and he wanted to deal with Hu Barong's interrogation and get back the original book, but he didn't expect that after only half a pillar of Xiangma Qianhu returned to the house, and there was an extra booklet in his hand that looked exactly the same as the roster.

He Kun took his roster and looked through it carefully before finally making sure that there was nothing wrong with the bottom book, but he still looked at the book that Ma Qianhu handed to Hu Barong in disbelief, and even the oil stains on the cover were the same as his own. Naturally, he didn't know that in order to facilitate the forgery of the Kanhe seal letter just in case, Ma Qianhu also brought a portable fast 3D printer this time, but he didn't expect it to be the first to open here.

Hu Barong took out a paper tube from the silver box, which represented fifty Australian Song silver coins, and handed it directly to He Kun, "Our rules never treat people who do things badly, you take these first." However, after you go back, you have to do one thing first, you have to recruit fifty workers within two days, I am waiting here to employ people, if there is anything, I will find Hu Hai, he can call the shots. ”

"Well said, well said." Seeing that he was able to get out of the house, and there was silver. He Kun was immediately grateful, and when he saw that the big man at the door had withdrawn, he hurriedly collected the money and hurried downstairs.

"Brother Liu, please help us send off guests."

Liu Fengchun understood and followed.

At this moment, the dart masters had gone downstairs to avoid it, and in an instant, only Ma Qianhu and a few naturalized people who knew the roots were left in the room.

"Chief, with all due respect, I'm afraid this person can't be trusted." Hu Barong was a little worried, Ma Qianhu may not know the situation better than him when he first came here, and acting so easily would inevitably make him worried.

Ma Qianhu said: "People are naturally unreliable, but what they want is also unreliable, if he is really honest, I have to think about how to make the cloth people take the bait." ”

Hu Barong was puzzled, "The chief wants to deal with those bandits, why does he have to make such a big detour?" ”

Ma Qianhu laughed, "Originally, if there was enough time, you could plan slowly, but I just received the news that the Annan Ruan clan raised tens of thousands of troops to the south, and the king of Champa surrendered again." Matalan's army is now approaching Coconut City, and the Hongyi on the sea are not restless, so our side needs to fight quickly. ”

"What? Tens of thousands of troops? Hu Barong was shocked when he heard this, this news was too shocking for him, the battle he knew in the past was only a thousand people, although he knew that the chief's army was quite powerful, but he couldn't help but show worry.

Ma Qianhu was quite satisfied with the emotional expression of the naturalized people and the Senate, but he said with a straight face: "What are you panicking, you didn't say that you can't hold it, the affairs in the south have your own Privy Council to worry about, and now you have to deal with those bandits first, 'eliminate the evil' but you told me." In addition, the next handling and loading does require manpower, and it is impossible to find some available talents in the middle. ”

Hu Barong felt relieved when he heard this, at least in the chief's opinion.

Although he never figured out the logic of fishing, he finally remembered Chief Ma's words, "That person named Liu Fengchun performed well, you can find out the bottom, if there is no problem, you can fight for it for my use." ”

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