"Well, it's not a big problem." Zhao Kehu didn't know how to phrase it, "But it always doesn't feel good, if only it could be like the goods shown to us before, it would be good." ”

A group of directors nodded in response.

There were more than 200 shareholders present, and everyone said that they should be like the previous goods, and they all faintly blamed Wei Bao's goods for the quality of their goods, and felt that Wei Bao was slightly suspected of fraud, although they were 'insiders', and they were not listed, and sold the goods to outsiders, but they still felt uncomfortable.

The biggest feature of Tiandi is that there are a large number of shareholders.

Originally, the board of directors was elected, and the shareholders did not have to bow down to everything, and they did not have to come, but these rich people in the township have invested a lot of money, and in the slack season, now there is no land at hand and no main business, so they follow and watch, and they are all staring very closely.

"Wei Gongzi, what the hell is going on? The soap you showed us earlier wasn't like that, right? It feels comfortable, and it's slippery. Where is it like the soap now, it is pimple to the touch, and it is not good-looking, and it is not as good as the previous one. And this kerosene lamp, wasn't it round before? The light emitted is all translucent and translucent, where it is like this, square, the light emitted is also blurred, and the color of this glass is not as good as the original one. And this match, we tried it just now, and several people almost burned their faces. Houmafang Lizheng Li Li complained to Wei Bao cracklingly: "Is it that the people who do things are not careful?" ”

"Yes, if it was the quality of those goods, there would definitely be nothing to say, like now, it's hard to say." Dongbai Talili is Bai Pengfu echoed.

"It's not that people who do things don't care." Wei Bao explained with a smile: "The previous samples were obtained by me with great effort, and now they are all imitations, and the process level needs to be improved, and there must be a process." ”

A group of shareholders looked at each other, Wei Bao didn't say that he got it from the outside, he said that he made it himself? Is this Wei Bao still telling the truth?

Wei Bao saw everyone's doubts, but still remained patient, and further explained: "It's not that I want to lie to everyone before, you just say, even if this batch of goods is not as good as the sample, compared to soaphorns, fire folds and oil lamps, how about it?" Is it competitive at the same price? Can't all the good things in the world be accounted for? It's cheap and good, that's right, it's definitely the direction we are working towards. But you can't be ambitious, you can't just think about it overnight. Let's do it little by little. I assure you that within a year, we will be able to make a product that is more refined than the sample, and that the purchase price will not change. ”

Everyone heard Wei Bao say this, they all had a helpless expression, although this batch of goods is not as good as the sample, but it can also be reluctantly taken out *** soap horn, fire fold and commonly used oil lamp is good, that's for sure.

"Let's do it first." Zhao Kehu came out to play a round, "It's not a big problem, if it can really be like Wei Gongzi said, the quality will get better and better in the future, then as long as we start today, the business will get better and better." ”

When everyone heard Zhao Kehu say this, they didn't say anything anymore, and began to talk about the new product launch celebration in the evening.

"There will definitely be no fewer people coming today, more than 200 of us, plus everyone's relatives and friends, at least one person can call twenty or thirty people." Zhao Kehu said to Wei Bao.

Bai Pengfu also nodded and said: "Two or three thousand people are the minimum, I'm afraid that there won't be a few people in the officialdom, haven't you heard that Wei Gongzi knows a lot of high-ranking officials and nobles?" When we do business, we must have official figures to support us. ”

"Yes, Wei Gongzi, think about it, I heard that when the Tiandi firm opened last time, Lord Wu Xiang and Lord Yang Qi were all gone? Did the post go out? ”

Wei Bao's face was a little darker, the opening situation was different from now, at the beginning, there were thousands of households in Jinyi Wei Luo Yang who followed, most of them were stained with Luo Yang's light, otherwise he was a young man in the township, even if he earned a little silver, but the people in the officialdom, who knew who he was?

Now that there is no Luo Yang, and the launch of new products is not as important as the opening of the store, and then let Wei Bao spend money to invite the Yang family, he is a little reluctant, to invite Wu Xiang, and he can't wipe his face, and he feels that the Wu family will definitely not take care of him.

"The post was sent out, but I can't guarantee that a few people will come." Wei Bao said honestly: "Last time, a few friends from the official face in the capital happened to follow, and a group of officialdom figures in Shanhaiguan mostly gave them face, and they had nothing to do with me. ”

Bai Pengfu and Hou Lixing, as well as a few shareholders who were close, heard Wei Bao say this, and their faces darkened.

Everyone is willing to follow Wei Bao to do, on the one hand, Wei Bao's eloquence is good, the means are high, and the product is good, so that they have confidence, on the other hand, a very important reason, is that Wei Bao's previous Tiandi firm store opened, the momentum is too big, Yongping Mansion and Shanhaiguan officialdom of the top figures, middle and low-level figures, almost all of them are present, so that they feel that Wei Bao is very covered!

Otherwise, Wei Bao took away their land again, and bought the arrears from them at a low price, can they not tear their faces with Wei Bao? Can you still do business with Wei Bao so happily? Can you still take the silver out and buy shares?

Now listening to Wei Bao's confession, I am even more discouraged, and at the same time, I feel 'cheated'.

Wei Bao saw that everyone's faces were dark, and he was not very happy, he never said how many officialdom figures he knew from beginning to end, but it was inconvenient to justify, because everyone did not directly scold him.

What I am most afraid of is this state of silent silence, many people join forces, the most likely problem is this kind of cold confrontation, this is the first day, everyone's hearts will leave, and most of them will be cold.

Wei Bao suddenly wanted to sing a cool song to them at this time.

"If there is no official, there is no official." Zhao Kehu said roundly: "When Wei Gongzi opened, such a big momentum, it's only been a few days, can't there be something in the world firm, just invite a bunch of officials to come?" ”

"But you can't just come without one, right? At least, the Yang family and the Wu family have to have one, right? Hou Lixing said: "If not a single member of the Commander of the Guard Department comes, what will the other merchants think?" What will the people of Shanhaiguan think? It's a shame. ”

"There's nothing to be ashamed of, as long as our goods are good, genuine, good and cheap, and we can get the business up, and the business is not good." Zhao Kehu said: 'Even if a group of officials come, but no one comes to buy goods, then there is no shame? ’

"That's not what I said, today we have so many people, so many relatives and friends have called, it is impossible that no one will come to buy things, the key is to show that we have a table, and we will not be bullied in the future! Vice Chairman Zhao, why are you raising the bar with others today? Bai Pengfu also unceremoniously scolded back.

"How did I raise the bar with someone? You're raising the bars! You are so capable, you go and ask the official to go. Zhao Kehu said angrily.

"I'm not the chairman, nor am I the vice chairman, where can I invite someone?" Bai Pengfu snorted.

"You...... Find someone to quarrel with, right? Zhao Kehu was angry and pointed at Bai Pengfu.

Bai Pengfu didn't want to let go, "What's the matter?" Still want to hit me? ”

Wei Bao is not embarrassed, Zhao Kehu quarreled with others in order to help him, but everyone is a shareholder, if the quarrel continues, the business will be yellow before it opens, this is not the result he wants, so he had to separate the two people and stand between them: "The two elders are all extinguished, I know that everyone is for our business." ”

Other shareholders also persuaded each other, everyone really wants to make money, after all, they are all real money invested in shares, and no one wants the business to be yellow before it starts.

The Tiandi firm is the Tiandi firm, and the business they are investing in now is the rented store under the Tiandi firm, called the sales joint-stock company under the Tiandi firm, which is not the ontology of the Tiandi firm, and Wei Bao is a technical cadre stock, in fact, the pressure on Wei Bao is not as big as these people.

Wei Bao saw that everyone was a little calmer, and then said, "It's good that the Yang family and the Wu family can come. But I have something to say in my head, the things on the official side, everyone should be very clear, if you want to invite the true god, you have to spend incense money. ”

Wei Bao said with a gesture asking for money.

Hearing Wei Bao say this, Bai Pengfu and Hou Lixing, who like to raise objections, stopped talking.

Wei Bao was secretly amused, secretly thinking that he was stupid, he should have used this killer feature a long time ago! Businessmen do business, and they invite officials at the level of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to come out at every turn, without spending money? When the members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee are all slaves of your family? A look like a dog came over?

"If you think it's necessary, let's please! Of these two, one must prepare at least a thousand taels of silver. Wei Bao smiled: "How many goods do we have to sell to earn back?" I don't care. I can't give this money, right? Since we are a joint-stock company, and everyone is so neatly here, if they all think that this money should be spent, I will go and invite it now, find a few directors, and everyone will invite it together. ”

When the crowd heard this, they became even more silent.

Some people began to whisper: "If there is no official coming, there will be no one, as long as our goods are good, we do business seriously, and we don't violate any of the Ming Dynasty's royal laws, don't pay attention to so much." ”

"There are so many of us in partnership, who dares to bully us?"

"The entire Shanhaiguan Customs, the entire Yongping Mansion, the Wu family has the most business, how can they come to support us in the scene? It's normal if you don't come, this silver is not worth spending. ”

Soon, there were more voices supporting Wei Bao.

Wei Bao's heart has calmed down a lot, what he wants is this situation, the biggest disadvantage of having a lot of people is gossiping, individuals have personal ideas, and it is easy to mess into a pot of porridge and become a leaderless situation.

But Wei Bao believed that as long as he slowly established his authority and twisted everyone into a rope, the energy emitted would definitely be much greater than if he were fighting alone.

Wei Bao smiled and said to Zhao Kehu: "Uncle Zhao, since everyone has reached a consensus, you can continue to prepare for the launch of new products." ”

Zhao Kehu agreed, satisfied with Wei Bao's performance, originally his biggest worry was Wei Bao, such a big business, and so many people partnered together, the most feared thing was that the 'boss' couldn't suppress the formation.

Now it seems that Wei Bao is still weaker in momentum, after all, he is only a 14-year-old boy, younger than the grandchildren of most shareholders, this is no way to do it, fortunately, Wei Bao's brain is alive enough, his temper is very good, he will not be angry casually, and when he is reasonable, he has the ability to lead other people's ideas, which makes up for the lack of age.

Zhao Kehu felt that Wei Bao was even an elven character born in Shanhaiguan, a place where outstanding people were born for thousands of years.

Wei Bao didn't take this episode to heart, and returned to the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, his own exclusive floor, which was very luxuriously furnished, although it was not to the point of luxury, but the decoration cost thousands of taels of silver, which was dozens of times larger than the upper room of Shanhailou, and the degree of luxury was comparable.

There is a special maid here who is responsible for cleaning.

Seeing that Wei Gongzi was coming, he was blessed, and said sweetly: "I'm waiting at the door, Gongzi has something to do, you can call me at any time." ”

Wei Bao nodded indifferently.

Xu Rui said: "Got it, you go out." ”

Wang Qiuya loves to be clean, and after the maid went out, she carefully checked everywhere, and felt a little dusty, and had to wipe it again.

"Is Childe a little upset because of what happened just now?" Xu Rui asked.

"No, it's nothing, there are many people and many ideas." Wei Bao smiled: "It's a good thing that everyone can speak freely." ”

Xu Rui hummed softly, and happily felt that the most outstanding thing about Wei Gongzi was that he had a lot of energy. Young people are very generous.

Wei Bao stood at the window, quietly enjoying the scenery of Shanhaiguan, and his mood was much soothed.

Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui saw their son looking at the scenery, and they also retreated silently. They have been following Wei Bao for a long time, and they are very familiar with his living habits.

Chinese civilization has lasted for thousands of years, and to a certain extent, it has been sheltered by the mountains that stretch across the north.

The Yinshan Mountain Range, which stretches for more than 1,000 kilometers, and the mountainous Korean Peninsula to the east are a complete barrier.

Although the routes of the Great Wall vary from dynasty to dynasty, they were basically built to occupy the dangerous points of these mountain ranges.

It was difficult for the nomadic peoples of the north to cross these geographical barriers and enter the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Of course, things are not so simple, there is a flat strip between the mountains and the Bohai Sea, known as the Liaoxi Corridor, which is a very suitable passage for cavalry and mechanized troops, all the way to the majestic Shanhaiguan.

If the enemy enters the Liaoning West Corridor, it will not only cut off the connection between Northeast China and North China at once; It is not difficult to continue south along this corridor into North China.

It is precisely because of the lack of dangerous geographical advantages that the city wall of Shanhaiguan is built exceptionally tall.

Because, behind the heavy city wall of the first pass in the world, there is actually the North China Plain that has no danger to defend.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the war in Liaodong seriously consumed the national strength, and the annual military salary was several million taels, and the Ming army won few victories and lost many in Liaodong, and a peasant uprising broke out in Guannei.

But Wei Bao feels that the best thing about Daming is that he has never given up on Liaodong!

What is the meaning of guarding Liaodong? Why don't you choose to give up outside the border and stick to the Great Wall?

Wei Bao likes Daming for this.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the defense of Liaodong and Liaoxi, even if it was not a whole, was only a small part, but also showed a strategy and attitude.

Liaodong was a battlefield behind enemy lines that harassed and pinned down the Later Jin, rather than a Ming defense line against the Manchu invasion.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the battle of Liaoshen, after Jinlianke, Shenyang, Liaoyang, and the Ming Dynasty's big stronghold outside the Guan, only Guangning remained.

In the battle of Guangning in the second year of the Apocalypse, Wang Huazhen's newly recruited 60,000 Guangning troops collapsed without a fight, Xiong Tingbi was unwilling to wipe Wang Huazhen's ass, gave up all the strongholds in the corridor of western Liaoning, and led the defeated refugees to withdraw into Shanhaiguan, and the Ming Dynasty was completely lost.

However, at this time, Houjin also needed to consolidate the rule of the newly occupied areas, and had no intention of directly entering the Shanhaiguan, so Nurhachi demolished the fortress abandoned by the Ming army in the Liaoxi Corridor, and moved all the people who did not have time to evacuate, and the Liaoxi Corridor temporarily became a vacuum.

Although after the Battle of Quang Ninh, Mao Wenlong's troops carried out a series of operations behind enemy lines and established several strongholds at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, this direction could not defend Gyeonggi, and the defense of Liaoxi was still the top priority.

As for the direction of Jizhen, because there are Mongols as a barrier, for the time being, there is no need to worry about how to strengthen the defense in the western direction of Liao, the DPRK and China mainly have two plans represented by Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin, the former advocates strengthening the defense in depth, rebuilding a series of fortresses in the western corridor of Liaoning, and pushing the defense line a little farther, and the latter advocates shrinking the defense and building a heavy city outside the Shanhaiguan Pass to consolidate the Shanhaiguan.

If there is a war, Shanhaiguan will not be switched.

Why did Sun Chengzong's plan win?

First, the reconquest of the lost land has a righteous name, which in today's parlance is political correctness; Second, the farther the defense line is pushed, the more psychologically the government and the opposition feel safer, and Wang Zaijin's plan can't give everyone this sense of security; Third, the Later Jin did not take advantage of the victory to occupy the western Liaoning corridor, which made it difficult for the government and the opposition to resist the temptation to regain the lost territory.

Sun Chengzong's plan is more in line with the interests of the government and the opposition, so it is inevitable that he will win.

Even after the Battle of Ding Mao in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Mongolia, Mao Wenlong, and Korea were all defeated by Huang Taiji, the Houjin achieved complete strategic freedom, and could rest assured that they could carry out a long-term siege and reinforcement of the strongholds in the western Liaoxi Corridor without worrying about the back road, and these strongholds had become a bleeding wound for the Ming army.

At the same time, due to the wide opening of the outer gateway of Jizhen, Houjin can enter the customs and plunder from this direction again and again, and the in-depth defense outside the Shanhai Pass is of no practical significance.

But as long as these strongholds exist, the Manchu Dynasty, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, including the emperor, everyone will always feel psychologically safer, and at the same time, the Ming Dynasty has invested so much manpower, material and financial resources in the western Liao, once it is given up, it will become a loss, and it is not so easy to make the decision to give up.

Before the Battle of Ding Mao in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there was no problem in strengthening the strategy of Liaoxi's defense, and it was debatable how to strengthen it, but under the circumstances at that time, Sun Chengzong's plan would inevitably win.

After the Battle of Ding Mao in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the in-depth defense of Liaoxi was meaningless, but the psychological security it provided was better than nothing, and the huge investment in the early stage also made it difficult for the Ming Dynasty to make the decision to give up.

Many people think that it is time to give up, but after Wei Bao came to this time and space, he imagined it many times and felt that it should not be.

This is not a practical or impractical problem, it is a problem of heart, Daming has no lack of potential, it is withered, and it is still a tree with deep roots, and the most afraid is that there is no heart from top to bottom.

And Wei Bao didn't think that guarding Liaodong was just a simple loss of money.

On the one hand, Liaodong can increase the depth of defense and improve the flexibility of defense, and on the other hand, it can also be used as a starting position for attack.

Since the formation of the Liaoning West Corridor, it has been the easiest and safest passage from the northeast to the Central Plains, and if you want to stop the armed forces of the northeast, you must stick to this place.

The most important pass guarding this choke point is Shanhaiguan, so Shanhaiguan has the reputation of "the first pass in the world".

It is also possible to take a detour to Mongolia, but it is necessary to go far and cross the Yanshan Mountains, which is difficult to walk, and the pressure on logistics and supply will be very great.

Yanshan only has a few narrow mountain roads such as Gubeikou and Xifengkou, as long as you hold these passes, you can't pass.

Even if it forcibly breaks through into the Central Plains, the rear of the army is also facing a huge risk of being cut off.

What's more, if you choose to detour, the first line of the Liaoning West Corridor will bring a greater threat.

Therefore, the detour to Mongolia can only plunder, not live for a long time, if you really want to chase the Central Plains, you also need to control the western Liaoning corridor.

Therefore, as a defensive side, in order to prevent the military forces of Northeast China from entering the Central Plains, it is necessary to firmly control the Western Liaoning Corridor in their own hands; As the attacking side, the Liaoning West Corridor is also bound to win.

Historically, not only the Ming and Qing wars, but also all the wars related to the Northeast since then revolved around the Liaoxi Corridor.

In the Second Zhifeng War, Wu Peifu's direct army and Zhang Zuolin's Fengjun fought bloody and tragic battles around Shanhaiguan and Jiumenmen, and finally the Feng army Guo Songling's department made a breakthrough, and the direct army Feng Yuxiang's department immediately mutinied in Beijing, and the direct army was defeated and collapsed.

Zhang Zuolin led the Feng army to enter the customs in a big way, and was promoted from the king of the northeast to the head of state.

In the War of Liberation, the first target of the Liaoshen Campaign launched by the Northeast People's Liberation Army to liberate the entire territory of Northeast China was Jinzhou, the northern node of the Liaoning West Corridor.

The capture of Jinzhou means that hundreds of thousands of troops in the northeast will be blocked in the northeast and cannot be withdrawn into the pass, which will reduce the pressure that the North China People's Liberation Army may face in the future.

In the future, when the Northeast People's Liberation Army entered the customs, except for a few vanguard troops to avoid prematurely exposing their intentions to detour through Inner Mongolia, the rest of the main forces entered the customs through the western Liaoning corridor.

In view of the importance of the Liaoxi Corridor, the Ming Dynasty had to defend Shanhaiguan from a defensive point of view, and it was not enough to just defend Shanhaiguan, and it was necessary to establish a stronghold north of Shanhaiguan to increase the depth and resilience of the defense.

Abandoning these strongholds is tantamount to exposing Shanhaiguan directly to the threat of the Qing army, and as long as the Qing army breaks through Shanhaiguan, then the Ming Dynasty will no longer be in danger to defend, and the Liaoxi Corridor will immediately become a "broad road" for the Qing army to enter the customs.

With these strongholds, the Qing army had to gnaw them one by one.

The problem is that it is not easy to gnaw, it was not until 1641 that Jinzhou was gnawed, and it was not until March 1644 that Ningyuan was gnawed - this was given up by Wu Sangui after receiving the order of King Chongzhenqin.

As for Shanhaiguan, until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army did not touch the walls of Shanhaiguan.

If the war between the Ming and Qing dynasties is compared to a table of cards, then Shanhaiguan is the hole card of the Ming Dynasty, and no one will show the hole cards as soon as they are on the table.

Standing on the high place of such a majestic pass, how could Wei Bao be unwavering?

Looking back on history, every time this Xiongguan opened its door to the north, it triggered a violent turmoil in the fate of the Chinese nation.

This kind of thing was done once by Shi Jingtang during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period when he ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and Wu Sangui, the first traitor at the end of the Ming Dynasty, also did it once.

Wei Bao didn't know what Wu Sangui was doing, and what Wei Bao and Wu Xuexia learned from contact was that Wu Sangui was still very young, two years younger than him, and now he was only 12 years old.

In addition, Wu Sangui loves to practice martial arts, and he is still a marginal figure in the Wu family.

In the middle of the afternoon, the sales of Wei Bao's Tiandi Firm's sales joint-stock company was extremely hot.

The small turmoil that began to invite uninvited officials to cheer on the scene did not seem to affect the mood of shareholders.

More than 200 shareholders united as one, and found relatives and friends who could be contacted.

Soap, sold out.

Kerosene lamps, sold out.

Matches, even sold out.

These news, like the shock wave of an explosion, spread rapidly, blowing up the entire Shanhaiguan Pass thoroughly.

Wu Sangui practices martial arts in the backyard every day, and when he practices martial arts, he naturally has to make a plosive sound like hahaha in his mouth.

Usually Wu Xiang doesn't sound very annoying, but today, Wu Xiang was particularly irritable after hearing that Wei Bao's Tiandi business name had achieved great success!