The July sun was very poisonous, and it would make people sweat all over their bodies after a while, but none of the nearly 10,000 people who surrounded the internal guard station on the street left. They stood there straight, not one of them wriggling or showing a dissatisfied look, even though their clothes were already soaked with sweat.

In a tall room, Yang Gongchun sat on a wooden chair with his eyes squinted slightly, his thin face was not much blood, like a tuberculosis ghost who had not woken up, and behind him stood a row of internal guard eunuchs, standing there expressionless like lifeless pillars. There were more than 20 middle-aged people dressed as Confucian scholars sitting on both sides of the room, they looked at the sky outside the door, and then looked at Yang Gongchun, who seemed to be recuperating, and they were a little incomprehensible and overwhelmed.

One of the people dressed as a Confucian said softly: "Gonggong Yang, you always expose them outside like this, aren't you afraid of damaging them?" ”

Yang Gongchun opened his eyes and looked at the sky outside, and then said unhurriedly: "The sun is not bad, if you are really so squeamish, you should be tired and die in the West Campus, our family just wants to see their hearts, and you don't have to go with you to be disobedient, right?" After speaking, he waved his hand to the eunuch beside him and said: "Bring people, if there are any people who can't stand the suffering, and see if there are any people who are impatient, if there are such people, they will all be picked out, and when they come back, bring back the leader." ”

After a while, the eunuchs came back and said: "Back to Gonggong Yang, everyone is normal, and no one dares to be impatient, the little one has already brought back the leaders, is it in the courtyard to pass them in?" ”

Looking at the few little eunuchs who had sweat stains on their chests and backs after going out, Yang Gongchun nodded and said, "You have worked hard, call the leader in, and by the way, let everyone standing outside go into the house to rest and change clothes." ”

After a while, about seven or eight people who were wet came in, they were the newly recruited eunuch leaders, and after they had saluted, Yang Gongchun said, "Do you know what the people sitting on both sides are doing?" ”

Seeing Yang Gongchun's question, everyone looked left and right at the more than 20 people dressed as Confucian scholars who were sitting, and one of them said: "Back to Yang Gonggong's words, these people are the gentlemen invited by the Great Iron Company, and they are responsible for all the business of the Great Iron Company in various places, and we are all cooperating with them." ”

Yang Gongchun shook his head and said, "I said this before, so that you should be prepared to endure hardships, so that you don't disturb the place like those predecessors a few years ago. Now you will go with them to the provinces to do things, and we will make it clear to you, lest you not know your true duty. The big iron company now has a total of three businesses, namely, opening a bank, building roads, selling the license to open a mine and start a factory, they find someone to open the bank, there are special people to repair the road, and they also find someone to sell the license to sell, your duty is to protect them and monitor them, understand? ”

Seven or eight people heard this and said in unison: "My subordinates understand!" ”

Yang Gongchun nodded and said, "You also go to change your clothes and rest, and by the way, tell your subordinates to prepare things and go on the road in the afternoon, and you must not harass the place along the way." ”

After the leaders of the eunuchs left, Yang Gongchun said to the people sitting on both sides: "You are all recommended by the major shareholders, what do we have to say, you don't have to deal with the locals directly after you go to the provinces this time, and the cash for selling projects must go through the local government" In a few months, each province has stationed one or two hundred internal guards and one thousand brocade guards, and they command the guards to guard the grain depots and fan warehouses of the provinces, and you hang up the sign of the big iron company next to their station, all of which are doing things for the emperor and taking care of each other. ”

Seeing that everyone nodded yes, Yang Gongchun said: "No matter who wants to put the money bank, factory, mining and other businesses in the name of the big iron company, you must let them pay a certain deposit, at the beginning you must send people to check whether these people are qualified, and in the middle you must also send people to supervise whether they have violated the rules, and all your actions must be ventilated to the local government, which is the emperor's intention." ”

Hearing what the emperor meant, everyone nodded yes, and one of them asked: "May I ask Gonggong Yang, if someone doesn't want to open a mine, start a factory, and run a money bank in the name of the big iron company?" Did they pay a deposit and not sell them the license? ”

Yang Gongchun said with a smile: "The emperor said that the current money bank, mines, factories, etc. are all related to the lifeblood of the country, and they must be grasped in the institutions that the emperor can control. However, we can't do too much, lest we be said to be bullying, they want to buy and sell to them, and someone makes them unable to open, it is said that Wei Zhongxian Wei Gonggong's East Factory has long been gearing up. After saying this, Yang Gongchun's thin face also showed rare smile lines.

The high-profile opening of the company in early July not only allowed officials from the DPRK and China to eat and drink for a day at the company's headquarters, but also ordinary people who passed by could eat the pastries and snacks distributed for free, of course, only for children and women. The first part is to encourage everyone to work and save money, and the back is the introduction of the food in the imperial store, and the women and children are drooling when they go home and ask the men to work. At the same time, the company also recruits people who are more proficient in the business of money farming, mining and beneficiation, and the establishment of factories through recommendations and open recruitment.

In order to show its support for the Apocalypse, the Metropolitan Procuratorate recruited dozens of people from the interested Hanlin Academy to learn relevant knowledge in the Bo Academy, and said that as long as they passed the study, they would be promoted to the provinces as instructors and imperial historians, and specially taught the actions of the provinces. In fact, everyone just listens to half a day of classes every day, and the other time is choosing books and copying books, because time does not wait for people to pass first, pick a place first, anyway, it is not that there are not so many taboos to be an official, and everyone chooses a place close to home.

In this way, it has been busy for nearly a month, and it seems that the big iron company has done nothing serious because of the thunder and ♀ rain, but at the beginning of August, nearly 2,000 people have been stationed in the internal security stations of all provinces and cities across the country. A series of measures, such as cooperating with resettlement, returning land, and forcing large households to sell grain, have also yielded results.

In order to avoid the robbery and theft of grain and silver, and also to facilitate the nearby use, the Apocalypse asked all localities to set aside a part of the guards to form a treasury army, and each province sent an additional 1,000 Jinyi guards to monitor the treasury guards, and at the same time, each province also sent 200 internal guards to supervise ♀ the Jinyi guards, which can not only ensure the safety of food and silver, but also detect the unstable factors in various places in advance, so as to facilitate the timely response of the imperial court.

During the month of July, Apocalypse sent 2,000 eunuchs to the provinces in the name of the Great Iron Company, whose purpose was to monitor and protect the accompanying recruiters ♀, who were tasked with setting up local branches of the Great Iron Company, recruiting local personnel, and selling the permission to open mines and start construction with the cooperation of the government. The residence of the branch is next to the grain depot, which is convenient to contact the local garrison and Jinyiwei.

At the beginning of August, when more than 20,000 eunuchs who had undergone physical training and obedience training were assigned to the two capitals and thirteen provinces to stand by, dozens of Hanlin officials trained by the Bo College were also sent to the provinces one after another through the examination. Knowing that they were sent by the Apocalypse to teach the imperial history, the governors and governors of the provinces met with them one after another, and immediately notified the people of the whole province to report to the provincial capital, and strive to pass the study and assessment as soon as possible to serve as adjutant officials in the prefectures and counties. Of course, this not only depends on whether the lifters are interested, but also conducts at least half a year's training for the lifters, because in the provincial training, not only the students do not know much about what they have learned, but the teachers also know what they are taught.

The southern provinces moved first because they had money, and President Cao was the president of the Huguang Chamber of Commerce, so naturally he couldn't just lie at home and drink tea. President Cao's family has tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and has been in business for generations, although it is not said to be one of the richest in the southern provinces, but because of his bold and helpful people, he was elected as the president of the Chamber of Commerce. Huguang Province is strategically located, north of Henan, west of Sichuan, east of Nanzhijiang, south of Jiangxi and south of Guangzhou, a Yangtze River traversing the east and west, the most suitable for land and water trade, plus Huguang itself is the main grain production place of the Ming Dynasty, there is a saying that "Huguang is ripe, the world is full", so the Huguang Chamber of Commerce is not many people have objections to the representatives of major households in the south.

In fact, in Nanzhili, east of Huguang, there are not a few people who are richer and more powerful than President Cao, for example, the Feng family, represented by Feng Siqin's brother Feng Xianglong, has 80,000 acres of fertile land at home, and there are several streets of shops in the city. There are many people who have more money than the Feng family in Nanjing, but they are not willing to be the first birds, because the legend of Shen Wansan has been used by their ancestors as a negative teaching material to educate them.

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang had no money to repair the city wall of Nanjing, so he raised donations from the surrounding large households, and a rich man named Shen Wansan agreed to contract a small half as soon as he was excited, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very moved◎ When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the emperor praised himself a few words, he kept throwing money for a while, and the result was that the city wall he repaired was better than the imperial court and built faster, which made Zhu Yuanzhang realize that the common people obeyed not only power but also money. So his old man was very jealous, and then he was very resentful, and then he found a way to exile Shen Wansan to a remote place in Yunnan.

This legend is really not dare to assert, but the wealth is not in vain in the heads of the rich in Nanjing, and now there is the Huguang Chamber of Commerce to do things for them, and they can't be moved if they have benefits, and everyone has no heart to compete with President Cao for status.