"Gao Yu in Guanzhong and Wang Xingkong in Wuguan have already sent back the news. There are also many privately submitted large purchase orders, involving 11 families from Guanzhong to Henan. Eight of them are old customers, and three are asked to turn over. ”

"The various items of procurement include ordnance, utensils, bedding and canned food, dry food, and even rice, flour, cotton cloth, wine, sauce, salt and vinegar, pots and pans, shovels, shovels, pickaxes, and hoes; But as long as it is produced in Liangling and Jinghu, theoretically speaking, almost everything has someone to want. ”

"Well, as long as you can get the corresponding wealth and goods, you can do this business; If it's those old relationships.,It's okay to use the head even if it's a head.。。 ”

Zhou Huai'an lightly stroked the small pendant that was seriously doing shorthand, and said the slippery texture under the collarbone.

"In addition, Zhao (Zhang) also wanted to purchase some special siege equipment and heavy weapons,。。 The genus of crossbows, stone cannons, and hair rods made by the Governor's Office has been listed. It also hinted that someone wanted to buy firearms used in the army, claiming that the price was negotiable. ”

"It's also sold, why not sell it, it can not only strengthen the strength of the rebel army in Guanzhong, but also weaken the resistance of the imperial court. It can also return funds and reduce production costs for the army, why not do this much-winning thing. ”

Zhou Huai'an continued to nod.

"Of course, although those old-fashioned instruments are sold according to inventory, the fire and thunder bullets and large and small guns series are resolutely not sold; First of all, the early models of fire oil bombs and poisonous smoke balls that are to be phased out are sold in the past. . . It's the kind of direct open flame that is lit by hand,"

"Where has the situation on the Xiajiang River been, and what is Counselor Yang's new takeover,。。

Zhou Huai'an looked at Xiao Qidao who was present again.

Now after the Taiping army cleared the surrounding area, it opened up the Shangzhou Wuguan, which was connected with the Guannei Righteous Army. Therefore, in addition to some subsequent internal repression and purge of piecemeal troops, there is only one southwest-oriented demand left.

Since Yang Shigu began to enter the working state, the workload and efficiency of various types of staff groups have also changed significantly.

"After Wang (Chongba) Youlang's waterway men broke through the dangerous obstacles in Kuizhou, the Governor's Office has obtained most of the territory under the jurisdiction of Wanzhou, Kaizhou and other places, and is arranging garrisons, cantonments, and engineering regiments to suppress and clean up the local rebellion one after another, and establish grain stations and signal towers on land and water."

Xiao Qi said with a glance.

"At present, the vanguard fleet has entered the Fuzhou waterway, but because of the insufficient arrangement of the Governor's Mansion in Jianchuan, there is no more new news about the upstream Shuzhong; Wang Youlang also advocated that it should be prudent first, and that the coastal cleanup should be completed before marching. ”

"In addition, Counselor Yang has not yet officially taken over the planning and judgment of the Jianchuan War, and now he is staying in the staff hall all day to observe the corresponding operation."

Zhou Huai'an nodded slightly.

Looking more and thinking more, he is not in a hurry to meddle and perform, Yang Shigu's work attitude makes him more satisfied, and he is worthy of being a military and division-level figure who has been trained with Huang Chao for many years.

At this time, the rattle outside the door rang softly, reminding him that it was time for him to eat the extra food routine every day. In order to quickly process a large number of official tasks in a short period of time for high efficiency, the energy consumption generated by the corresponding auxiliary calculation and recording capabilities also accumulates.

Subsequently, a bowl of three-flavor red porridge made of shrimp, crab paste, saury belly white and blood glutinous, as well as two cold side dishes such as chopped Jingzhou sugar crab and boneless goose paw were also presented;

"The Grand Governor."

At this time, Mi Bao continued to remind:

"According to the next schedule, whether to let the big businessman Wang Po in the customs take the time to meet one or two."

"Call him in."

Zhou Huai'an, who was enjoying feeding the small pendant, responded indistinctly.

Zhou Huai'an decided to see him, the reason was very simple, not for anything else, the word "balance" was not the word. Just for those large and small maritime merchant forces with the rise of the Taiping Army and the prevailing Guangfu and Chaoxun as the core, it is time to introduce an opponent to compete with them.

Among other things, any commercial activity that is too monopolistic and concentrated will naturally breed the ambition and greed of the corresponding capital, as well as the degenerate tendency to be complacent and unwilling to make progress under the condition that one party dominates.

Therefore, it is obviously much more costly to introduce and maintain multifaceted channels of competition and new blood than to blindly use the power of the regime to coerce and restrain them. After all, with the growth of the Taiping Army's strength and territory, these capitals from outside the mountains naturally followed the instinct of profit-seeking and followed up in all aspects.

even privately cultivated grassroots personnel with the Taiping Army, and carried out a certain sense of co-optation and combination by means of marriage and relatives; Therefore, although the maritime merchants outside the mountains are the objects that can be won and cooperated with in the Taiping Army's planning, they must also be restrained and beaten from time to time.

Even the current generation is quite honest and obedient, basically just hating to serve without a way; However, after seeing the appearance and behavior of the highly developed private merchants and primitive capital in the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, it is natural that they will not expect their conscience to find out, or where to restrain themselves and morality.

It's just that compared to them, it seems that because of the war-torn involvement, whether it is Jinghu or Shannan, or the merchant groups in Jiangxi, there is nothing successful or comparable to them. At this time, there was a businessman named Wang Poxian, and it was commendable to take the initiative to send it to the door.

Moreover, through the intelligence system of the Taiping Army, he took the initiative to provide a lot of information related to the customs and even the capital; As a prerequisite and foundation for winning the trust of people. He also expressed his willingness to provide corresponding cover for the Taiping Army's activities in the north as an affiliated business, just to hand over a few words and a proposal.

This is also a suggestion and condition that the Taiping Army, whose intelligence work is relatively weak in the north at present, cannot directly refuse for the time being. And the advice he came up from time to time also made Zhou Huai'an a little interested.

Because in this ancient period, when consultation and transportation were severely limited, it is not surprising that someone can have a unique vision of the convenience and development momentum brought by the transportation system established by the Taiping Army; There is even a precedent.

Just like those merchants of Liangling, especially the merchants of Guangfu, while actively undertaking and competing for the Taiping Army, providing transportation quotas and indicators for the Taiping Army, they are also in order to be able to use this system to bring their own trade products, and give priority to seizing the market gap under the new rule of the Taiping Army.

However, it is rare to be able to perceive the transformative opportunities brought about by traditional commodity trading and money circulation after the completion of the siding signal tower system, and to put forward corresponding operational suggestions.

In this proposal, the other party was willing to join forces with many fugitive merchants from the Northland, and offered about five or six hundred thousand yuan of goods as security and pledge in order to obtain the qualification to use the existing network of siding signal towers to transmit messages on a limited basis.

Not long after, a middle-aged man who was over the age of confusion and had a rough appearance, a deep concave face, a slightly curled beard, and a bit of foreign blood, and his skin was tanned but very capable and tenacious.

"I see the governor of the capital, and I am overwhelmed by the listening."

"Do you just want a passing message? And not something else. ”

Zhou Huai'an is straight to the point.

"Most of the governors are aware of everything, and they dare not hide it, and they originally thought that it was to take advantage of the convenience of rural geography to take advantage of the mutual exchange between the north and the south; In addition, it is to make money and silk come and go from all over the world, and no longer work with the road. ”

Wang Po paused first, and said more respectfully without hesitation.

"Isn't that just wanting to get involved in the business of flying money, relying on your conditions is far from enough, and why should I believe you."

Zhou Huai'an said disapprovingly.

"By the will of the governor of the capital to benefit the whole world; Jia Jia also has a small amount of capital, a little reason, can work hard for the great cause, thinking that the world will be the first; It is also a glimmer of opportunity for the family to be preserved and revived. ”

Wang Po first said categorically without raising her head.

"If you want to be a golden bone in the eyes of the world, it also depends on whether you have enough qualifications."

Zhou Huai'an smiled slightly.

"Perhaps the world is qualified to serve the forerunners of the capital, such as the carp crossing the river; However, there are not many people who are willing to go through the strategy and camp for the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and drill the Northland. I don't want to be the first at the right time,"

Wang Po first resolutely threw out the final conditions and hole cards.

"To accept the money bills belonging to Guanzhong and Henan."

"That's kind of interesting. You can talk about the operation and regulations first. ”

Zhou Huai'an nodded.

Then follow the other party's explanation and elaboration; The northern merchant group led by Wang Poxian was willing to accept all the bills and money bills issued by the Taiping army at the cost of their properties in the north; Reciprocity in exchange for the general conditions for carrying out corresponding business in the territory controlled by the Taiping Army afterwards and obtaining the agency right of sales channels in the north.

As the Taiping Military Governorate, which controls the main resources, in the early stage of the whole process, except for a confirmed name, it hardly has to bear any investment risks and unexpected losses; It is only after they have done their business and channels in the Northland that they will provide corresponding expediency and follow-up resources as compensation

Just this courage and adventurous spirit of pre-investment reminded Zhou Huai'an of some well-known re-entrepreneurship and inspirational stories in later generations. Maybe my subordinates can concoct one of this as some kind of example and demonstration.

"Let the planning department come up with a plan rehearsal."

Zhou Huai'an turned around and instructed again, of course he would not act according to the other party's plan as it was; Instead, it is necessary to find a solution that is the most cost-effective between the long-term and the short-term.

Today, there is a department/section composed of dozens of people under the name of the Governor's Office, which has recruited the best and most experienced veterans in numeracy to be responsible for the most nerve-wracking planning work in various fields under the overall layout.

For example, how much food and how much meat and eggs need to be consumed in a city, how much transportation capacity needs to be allocated in order to ensure supply, and then how to distribute these daily necessities when they are transported over; How many grain stamps, cloth stamps and other vouchers should be distributed in each industrial and mining area and Tunzhuang, and then linked to the output and inventory of the current year.

The overall planned economy, in the eyes of some pretentious people who think they can be leaders, is a matter of waving a pen, stamping a seal, and then letting his subordinates deal with it. However, most people in society are not involved in this work, and do not understand that there is a lot of computation involved.

Once the accumulated deviations are so large that they can be played with, it is like the consequence of the collapse of the gears of a high-speed mechanical force. A dynamic system of government is like a high-speed machine that works in all walks of life, and if you miss anything in the supply of goods, it will cause a chain reaction of social capacity collapse.

Peasants who cannot sell their grain and agricultural products are left to let the harvest rot in the ground and fall into the dilemma of lack of means of production; Then they had to choose to flee the famine or eat big households under the debt and losses.

The residents of the cities and the miners of the factories and miners who could not buy enough food made mistakes in their work, and the efficiency of the factories decreased, affecting the output; However, it affects a series of downstream chains, and eventually affects and feeds back to agricultural reproduction, forming a vicious circle.

Of course, compared to the magical department that claimed to be able to use the law of cause and effect to fight planes in later generations, this department is really in vain; At most, it is equivalent to the level of a regional office at the time of liberation, but it is quite comparable in this world.

Moreover, the daily responsibility is also to list the corresponding business plan or the plan to continuously complete and update according to the information and information collected from all sides; and provide efficient computing templates for the appropriate departments.

In another place, after Wang Po first came out and got into the carriage for the return journey, she felt that her back had been soaked with cold sweat, and she no longer sat on the floor without any grace.

He has dealt with a lot of powerful people in his life, and even the prime minister's family has not been able to pay homage. But I have never been so tired and battered by self-doubt as I am today.

Just now, he experienced a series of ups and downs from basic awe and caution in the face of a position of power, to surprise at his professional knowledge and experience, and then from the shock of his familiar field to his final breathtaking convincing.

Because this Metropolitan Governor seems to be an all-round talent, he also shows a certain talent and aptitude beyond the imagination of the world in the business and career that he is good at and immerses, but he disdains to study and drill camps.

Speaking of the general situation, there is no need for superfluous explanations and explanations, and it is easy to perceive and grasp the general ideas and rehearsals proposed by Wang Poxian; He can even point out a few of the risks and weaknesses or unexpected benefits in his planning direction.

Under this obvious wisdom and insight, the selfishness and backhand that he mixed in for the sake of thoroughness are particularly ridiculous and difficult to get on the stage. So at this moment, he just wanted to go home immediately and offer his "gift" so as to consolidate and strengthen this determination.

- I'm the dividing line -

Outside the eastern capital of Luoyang, a group of men and horses is heading south. Zhu Laosan, who had just returned from Chang'an to meet the Emperor of Daqi and was ordered to embark on the journey, was walking under the banner of the vanguard with a majestic appearance.

Although the land of Kwantung, especially in Henan, is claimed to be owned by the rebel army, there are still many large and small ambiguous or wavering local regiments, town army strongholds, and isolated islands that are generally held by the official army/feudal towns. Since the Great Qi Imperial Court was established, it was only necessary to give priority to sweeping away these remnant nails in the hinterland of Dugi.

And he was newly appointed to camp Duyu Hou in the southeast, to command and coordinate several rebel armies left in the south of Dugi Province, and to lead troops to attack the land of Chenzhou that was still held under the leadership of the three brothers who were still in the former loyal army, Ma Bu Duyu Marquis and Assassin Shi Zhao Li, Zhao Chang, the commander of the defense and containment capital, and Zhao Jue, the commander of the Duzhi soldiers and horses.

It was only not long ago that Li Huanran, the rebel army responsible for besieging and attacking Chenzhou, attacked the city at night for the state unity army led by Zhao Li, claiming that tens of thousands of horses were almost scattered. Therefore, Zhu Laosan did not mean to be in danger this time.

And the general Su La, who was full of regrets, was also among them, he originally wanted to catch up with his old acquaintance, Brother Zhao; Then he took the opportunity to jump around General Zhu San, who was newly in the limelight, and asked him to come over and fight side by side under his command.

It's a pity that the other party obviously only wants to stay in Chang'an City and enjoy happiness; After that incident, he couldn't find anyone, so his hospitality was difficult to refuse, but it was finally in vain.

However, before fighting Chenzhou, they had to go to Dengzhou first to receive a batch of equipment specially used to attack fortifications, which was also from the intention of General Zhu San, who was serving in the south.

(End of chapter)