The donation activities carried out by the local yamen of the Tang Empire were often organized by the government, or even by local officials, to raise funds to build roads and bridges, or to relieve disaster victims, or to use them for other livelihood projects, which were not only related to the development of a place, but also related to the performance of officials.

It's okay not to donate, but you don't make the local officials happy, they can make you happy?

Wear your little shoes in minutes!

Good temper is just today there are patrol police to check the Jiangyang thief, tomorrow to check the fire, the day after tomorrow to check the health, this kind of is pretty good, if you meet a small heart, all kinds of means can directly toss your store away.

Therefore, even in order not to offend the parents and officials on the top of their heads, the gentry and businessmen will donate a part of the money.

Not to mention, if you give your parents official face today, people will also give you face, this donation is a favor, and a favor can be big or small.

As for donating more or less, it depends!

This time, the situation is similar, and it is a more serious flood, which is the time when the government, large households, and ordinary people need to cooperate with each other to tide over the difficulties.

If the money they donate can't meet Xiao Baoguan's psychological expectations, then don't expect to mix in Henan in the future!

So he sat down and said to a group of gentry and big families: "Now tens of thousands of people and military soldiers are fighting the flood on the front line, and you all have families and businesses in Kaifeng and other places, and this flood fighting is the industry of all of you here!" ”

Xiao Baoguan didn't talk too much nonsense with them, if it was just an ordinary prefect and county order, I am afraid there would be some scruples, but Xiao Baoguan is the governor of Henan and a feudal official, so he is not in the mood to talk nonsense with them.

So at the beginning, he said directly: "The flood is at the head, and this is the time when we need to work together to tide over the difficulties!" ”

Although it has not been explicitly said to donate money, the people present are not stupid people, and they already know why they came before they came, and everyone is mentally prepared.

Immediately, an old man about sixty years old said: "In times of crisis, our Tang family will naturally not be indifferent, although our Tang family is weak, but we are also willing to donate 10,000 taels of silver, 5,000 sets of clothes, 1,000 tents, and there will be food and medicine worth 3,000 taels of silver for flood relief!" ”

Hearing this, Xiao Baoguan nodded slightly, this old man Tang, since he dared to be the first to start, he was naturally a person with a head and a face, and his family's wealth was among the best in Henan Province.

Although the cash he donated was only 10,000 taels of silver, there were 5,000 sets of clothes and 500 tents, and this 5,000 sets of clothes were worth thousands of taels of silver, and the tents were almost a few thousand taels of silver.

All things considered, the total value of the cash and materials donated by the Tang family has exceeded 20,000 taels of silver.

This number is not small, although the Tang family has a big business, but taking out such a sum of money can be regarded as doing their best.

The Tang family has many industries, has a lot of land and shops, and is also the same as the vast majority of the gentry families in China, these years gradually involved in industry and commerce, especially industry, the gentry family to open factories has become a trend, the Tang family is no exception, in the early years is to invest in the establishment of 'Jifeng Textile Company.

However, their company bears the name of a textile company, but in fact it is not engaged in the upstream industries of the textile industry, such as silk reeling, spinning, weaving, etc., but is engaged in the downstream industry, that is, the direct production of various finished products directly facing consumers, such as clothing, quilts, etc.

They buy raw materials such as fabrics and woolen fabrics directly from the large textile companies, and then employ a large number of workers to cut and sew all kinds of garments and other textile products.

In addition to high-quality and low-cost clothing, its products also produce other types of textile products, such as quilt covers, bed nets, tents, etc.

Don't underestimate these textile products of their family, in fact, their strength is quite good, their clothing is all over several northern provinces, although the clothing is affected by the traditional small peasant economy of domestic men and women, so it is the same as cloth, it is difficult to open the market in the countryside, but there is still a certain market in the city.

In addition to clothing, the other products produced by the Tang family's Jifeng Textile Company are also good, especially their tents!

At the beginning, the tent they produced was actually just an additional product, because this thing was originally a niche product, and the market demand was very small, but its quality was good, and the cost control was also very good.

The sum of various industries can be regarded as making the Tang family a lot of money in the past few years, the old man Tang said that he has no money, just modest, in fact, among the people present, he is the richest.

Xiao Baoguan is still quite satisfied with his donation, which can be regarded as a good start!

Immediately, other gentry also spoke one after another, here, most of them are the local gentry in Kaifeng, some have a rich family background, some have a weak family background, some have turned to industry and commerce on a large scale, and some are also desperately relying on the output of the land, and individuals have donated more or less cash and materials according to their own strength, in addition to the special situation of the whole.

Most of the materials can be directly used for disaster relief, mainly food, medicine, clothing, tools, etc., as for other things that are not used, no one dares to take them out stupidly to donate.

For example, the Xu family, who is engaged in the porcelain industry, is very wise not to donate even a single piece of porcelain, but directly donated 5,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the local gentry, there are also several people who are the management of several large domestic enterprises stationed in Kaifeng.

Although Henan is not a good place for industrial development, it is also the hinterland of the Central Plains, and it is also a traditional grain production area, and Kaifeng is also a provincial capital, so there are still many enterprises that have opened branches or branches here.

However, the authority of these management personnel is limited, so it is naturally impossible to donate too much, only one or two thousand taels of silver.

This is not to say that the companies they belong to are stingy, in fact, these large companies are not stingy, even for the sake of the reputation of the enterprise, when they encounter such a catastrophe, they will donate a large amount of money.

Zhejiang North United Textile Company, a private textile company jointly established by many traditional businessmen in the silk industry in Zhejiang, is engaged in the business of a series of raw silk products such as silkworm cocoons, raw silk and silk.

When some prefectures and counties in northern Zhejiang were flooded, they donated 200,000 taels of cash and disaster relief materials at one time.

This is also the largest amount of donations donated by many private enterprises since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

For this reason, the Tang Dynasty newspaper is unprecedented to give them a key report, of course, the main body is not them, the main body is the sense of social responsibility of contemporary social enterprises, United Textile Company is just used as a typical example.

The focus of this report, but also the reputation of Zhejiang North United Textile Company instantly spread all over the country, this donation not only reflects the company's sense of social responsibility, but also highlights their company's financial resources.

What do you think, the total assets of ordinary companies are not 200,000 taels of silver, but people donate 200,000 taels of silver at one time, what does this mean?

It shows that they are not bad for money!

When the business selects the object of cooperation, it always likes to cooperate with the enterprise that is not bad for money, so as to be able to cooperate smoothly and avoid all kinds of troubles.

Naturally, those silkworm farmers prefer to sign cocoon purchase contracts with such raw silk companies, and those traders also like to cooperate with such companies to purchase and sell their raw silk and finished silk products

The donation of 200,000 taels of silver has doubled the company's business growth, and it is still growing rapidly.

The 200,000 taels of silver, in fact, are not donations, but advertising expenses, facing the whole country, and the results are good.

However, such a donation must require the consent of the corporate headquarters and even the board of directors, ordinary managers do not have such a large authority, and several managers present only donate a certain amount on behalf of the branch.

After everyone reported the donation figures one after another, Xiao Baoguan showed a satisfied look!

These people are still very good, and the seventeen people here, on behalf of seventeen families or businesses, have donated a total of 110,000 taels of silver in cash or disaster relief materials that can be used, which is not a small amount.

With such a sum of money, plus the money from the local finance, at least in the short term, there is no need to worry about the cost of flood control, and as for the follow-up disaster relief costs, there is also a part, but it is certainly not enough, and then it is necessary to mobilize the strength of the whole province and even the whole country.

However, that is no longer a problem that Xiao Baoguan needs to consider now.

Now, his focus is on ensuring that the Yellow River does not break its banks and does not cause large-scale floods.

Otherwise, we don't know how many people will be affected and how many will starve to death this year.

When Xiao Baoguan worked hard to take the officials, military and civilians to fight the flood, he ran all the way from Jinling City, and there was almost no rest on the road for even a day, and the Henan Flood Control and Flood Control Supervision Group finally arrived in Kaifeng!

Their arrival also made Xiao Baoguan breathe a sigh of relief, because in this supervision group, in addition to the inspector's imperial history, there are also several professional talents, all of whom are officials selected by the cabinet with rich experience in flood fighting and disaster relief, and these people have much more experience in flood fighting and disaster relief than ordinary officials.

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