Chapter 153: Kiln Gang Inventory

Seeing Xiao Hongyu turn around, Zhang Zhimu said sincerely, "Good, beautiful, fit." We kiln artists should dress nicely. You are the pride of our kiln. ”

All the artists present were very moved when they heard Zhang Zhimu say this. These people, who were previously known as operas, enjoyed a high status in the kiln gang due to Zhang Zhimu's attention. Regardless of food, housing and life, they have been treated very well. It was this warm and spacious rehearsal hall that they had never dared to think of before. These people have seen too many rich people, and those people rely on their own money, and they never regard them as human beings, and they always shout and drink. But if you talk about money, it is estimated that few people can compare to this Mr. Zhang, but I have never seen Mr. Zhang lose his temper with anyone casually, and he is polite to everyone. Such people are so rare. No wonder this little Hongyu said to his friends that Zhang Zhimu would not marry in this life and this life.

Zhang Zhimu said: "You are from the south, and there must be a lot of discomfort in your life. We ....."

Before Zhang Zhimu finished speaking, Xiao Hongyu interjected: "Everything here is better than what we used to be, but we can't go shopping and buy things." Hehe! ”

Zhang Zhimu also smiled and said: "We now have tens of thousands of people in the kiln. At the beginning of spring next year, the transport company from here to Zhangjiakou will soon be opened, and there will soon be many shops around. In particular, Mr. Lu Bingyi was discussing with Mr. Lu Chengxiang about the passage of the river from here to the Fen River, and at that time, if the boat was opened, this place would be a wharf again. Guests from the north and south will come here, and the crowds don't bother you to death at that time. ”

These people have all seen the world, and as soon as they heard Zhang Zhimu say this, they all knew that the kiln was about to undergo earth-shaking changes.

An actress asked, "If there is a boat here, will I be able to take a boat back to my hometown in the south?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Of course. We are now experimenting with the steam engine, and then we can take a steamboat back to the south, and then we will be able to sail in the day, no matter what kind of wind blows. At that time, the speed of the ship was several times or even more than ten times that of now, and it would not take you a few days to go home. In the future, we will give everyone a holiday during the Spring Festival, and those who are willing to go home for the New Year will go home, and those who are not willing to go home can also walk around and have fun everywhere. Come back to work after the holidays. We've also been able to do that. Everyone said it was good or not. ”

Everyone said "yes" in unison. But the actress said: "When will what Mr. Zhang said come true?" I felt like I was talking about something in a dream. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Good question, this matter requires all of us to work together." I guess if everything goes well, it should happen next year. ”

Everyone let out an "ah" in surprise. Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't be surprised. It has only been a long time since we returned to the kiln, and there has been such a big change. We've got another year, and that's going to be a year, think about it. ”

These people began to talk about each other. The change of the kiln is too fast, so fast that they can see the change every day.

Zhang Zhimu said: "I came today to see you, and I also want to discuss it with you. Let's see if we can rehearse some shows and perform during the Spring Festival in the month or so before the Spring Festival. I told Liu Bensheng that the Cultural Palace would be opened during the Spring Festival. Liu team also said that your "Tang Guifei" has been almost rehearsed. But I don't think it's enough, we still have to prepare some variety shows. For example, vaudeville folk songs, choruses, soloists, male and female duets and other songs. There are also solo ensembles of instrumental music, etc., everyone has to use their brains, in short, they have to prepare a program for about an hour. ”

Liu Banzhu asked: "Zhang always wants to do a program that is a hodgepodge of all kinds of programs." Our troupe has never performed like this. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It doesn't have to be your troupe to act by yourself." You can also invite some folk artists and let them participate as well. Besides, we also have people who can sing mountain songs in our kiln gang, and I have heard people singing mountain songs. They can be organized as well. ”

Liu team said: "It's better to do two scenes, the first half will do these miscellaneous scenes, and the second half will play "Tang Guifei". ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Good idea. I have asked Li Yunhe and them to make a spotlight, and as soon as the spotlight hits the stage, the effect of the stage will be very good. ”

These people don't know what the spotlight is, Zhang Zhimu patiently explained: "It is that we concentrate the light of the brightest biogas lamp together, shine on the stage, highlight the stage and the actors, and increase the performance effect." Think about it, if it was dark all around, only the stage would be bright. When the lights are ready, everyone will know when they see it. ”

Everyone talked for a while, and the head of the Liu class said: "I want to perform "Tang Guifei" from beginning to end, so that Mr. Zhang can see if there is anything to be modified, and when Mr. Zhang has time for us to prepare." ”

Zhang Zhimu saw that Liu wanted to play officially, and said: "You are ready, just perform in this hall, I will invite the leaders at home to come together, so that everyone can also see the results of your efforts during this time, how about it?" ”

Liu said: "That's great. We'll get ready and tell you when we're done. ”

When she returned to the office, Yang Yulin said, "Sister-in-law and Mr. Lu are waiting for you in the house." ”

Zhang Zhimu entered the house and saw that Huang Yukun and Mr. Lu were sitting there waiting for him. Zhang Zhimu said: "Ouch, why do you two have time to come to see me today?" ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "I have finished the accounts with Mr. Huang. Now there are some things that I have to discuss with you. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "As for the accounts, you and Yukun can finish it." ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Yes, you don't want to listen to the details, so I have to deal with Mr. Huang." But the seized crates must be opened only in your presence. ”

Zhang Zhimu asked, "Why haven't you opened the box yet?" ”

Huang Yukun said: "How can you be the owner." I don't look at the accounts, and I don't count the money when it comes back. ”

Zhang Zhimu smiled at Huang Yukun and said, "I have such a good housekeeper and virtuous helper, why do you care so much?" ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Mr. Zhang still went to see it in person, we counted, you just watched." It's good for all of us, and that's the rule of doing this. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, I'll also see what kind of silver we have seized." ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "In this way, let Li Jing also participate, and I will bring two more people to help, and it will be enough for us people." ”

The current basement has been remodeled and a section has been specially reinforced to house gold and silver valuables. The door of this silver vault was in a separate room on the first floor of Zhang Zhimu's small building, and the door of this hut was also made of iron, which could not be opened without Huang Kun's key. Li Yunhe also specially made a special switch to open the door. I don't know the trick of this switch, and I can't open it even if I have a key. After Huang Yukun went over alone and opened the door, Zhang Zhimu and the others followed into the underground silver vault. In this underground silver storehouse, there are more than a dozen rooms, all of which used to be built with blue bricks, but now Li Yunhe has helped to reinforce a layer with reinforced concrete. For the time being, this bank is relatively strong. The gold and silver that were counted clearly were locked in different rooms, and the rooms were numbered A, B, C, and D. The newly pulled and uncounted boxes were piled up in the hall and in the hallway, piled up in a big pile. As soon as he entered the silver vault, Zhang Zhimu was worried, and said: "Oh my God, there are so many boxes, what time and month are they going to be." ”

Lu Chengxiang smiled, "I haven't heard anyone say that if you are worried when you see more silver boxes, you are the only one in the world." ”

Huang Yukun also said: "Look at you, it's not for you to count in person." Besides, these silver boxes don't need to be opened at every point. The silver boxes that came back from Zhangjiakou were all sealed, and the boxes were sealed, and the silver boxes of other people were also counted. Let's just open a few boxes and check them, the boxes in the Manchu Qing Dynasty are a bit messy, and we don't know the words on them. Open it up a little bit more. ”

The first batch of inventory was the silver box of the four merchants in Zhangjiakou, and before starting to count, Zhang Zhimu pretended to be mysterious and said: "There are more than five million taels of gold and silver together." These don't need to be pointed. ”

Lu Chengxiang and Huang Yukun looked at Zhang Zhimu and chattered, and they were also suspicious.

There are two types of these boxes: large and small. The large silver box needs four people to be lifted, and the small silver box can be lifted by two people, and the silver box has handles on it, so it is easy to lift.

Zhang Zhimu said to Lu Chengxiang: "In the future, we will also make some such silver boxes." It is convenient to use such a silver box to hold silver, and it is easy to count. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "All money shops use such silver boxes. The size is all the same. The gold was kept in small boxes, and there were smaller boxes. We have it in Curry too. ”

The seals on these boxes are very complete, and the silver boxes of Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, and Zhai Tang all have their own marks. The chests also had the amount of gold and silver written in them.

After spot-checking several silver boxes, Huang Yukun said: "There is no need to open the boxes again. I'll just write down the numbers written on the box. The numbers in it are all right. "It seems that the silver of these four families was counted by many people before they set off, and the seals on each box were pressed with the handprints of several people.

Zhang Zhimu was thinking there, these big merchants, who have been in business for generations, just for these cold gold and silver, how much silver do they have to let go and no longer work hard for the silver. I'm afraid these people themselves won't know that they won't stop until their homes are broken and they can no longer earn money.

Huang Yukun's final statistics showed that the gold was calculated at ten taels of silver per tael, and the silver of these four families totaled 5.35 million taels. After talking about the numbers, Huang Yukun looked at Zhang Zhimu. Ask: "Tell me, how did you figure it out?" She was puzzled by Zhang Zhimu's approximate numbers in advance.

Zhang Zhimu deliberately did not say that it was counted after the prince tried the four families.

The value of the jade jewelry and antique calligraphy and paintings of these four families, according to Lu Chengxiang, if they are all realized, there are more than one million taels. However, this number is very elastic, and if it is sold slowly one by one, two million taels is also it.

The second count is the silver collected by the Manchu cavalry stationed in Fan Yongdou's silver box who greeted them. There were not many of these Manchu cavalrymen, but they robbed a lot of things. Due to the suddenness of their appearance and the lack of preparedness for them, they were asked to seize two towns and several caravans in a row. What they robbed, Li Wei used 200 horses to carry back. Of course, there is not so much gold or silver. But not all of the gold and silver jewels were silver chests, but most of the looted goods were made of leather cloth and tied together in packs of horses.

It's a bit of a struggle to count in this way.

Li Jing personally took Lu Chengxiang's two assistants to count, Huang Yukun and Lu Chengxiang counted separately, and then the two counted together. The final count resulted in 53,000 taels of silver, and 60,000 taels of copper coins. In addition, there is a large number of other jewelry, etc.

The most troublesome thing to clean up was the boxes and various packaging materials that were looted from the baggage of the Qing army. They didn't know Zhang Zhimu in those Manchu texts pasted, Lu Chengxiang said: "I'll go find a few Qing army prisoners and let them recognize them." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "No need. The Manchus were different from us, and the things that their soldiers had robbed and the slaves they had robbed belonged to them, so they were highly motivated to fight. Therefore, everything they loot makes their own mark, and these may be their marks. ”

Huang Yukun said: "Then open it one by one and look at it." But I don't think I'll be able to finish it today. Let's get it again tomorrow. ”

In fact, not only did I not finish it today, but it took three days to get these things before I finished a thorough inventory.

After everything was cleaned up, Huang Yukun and Lu Chengxiang completely reported a big account to Zhang Zhimu.

As soon as Lu Chengxiang opened the account book, he immediately entered a very sacred state. He reported several large numbers:

1. After returning from the south, I bought some goods in Yaogang, plus the ones brought back from the south, which I originally had at home, and there was gold and silver here in Yaogang before I went north, and the number of synthetic silver was 650,000 taels;

2. After selling the goods in Killhukou, he got 650,000 taels of silver, and after deducting the expenses for buying goods and buying real estate, opening a store, and the liquid silver left for the Killhukou branch, he brought back 150,000 taels;

3. The gold and silver seized from the Mongol cavalry, a total of 180,000 taels of silver, and 50,000 copper coins;

4. The Manchu envoy captured by Zhangjiakou got more than 10,000 taels of yellow, more than 30,000 taels of silver, and 130,000 taels of silver;

5. Zhangjiakou got 750,000 taels of silver from selling goods, and 235,000 taels were left after deducting expenses, which were left in Zhangjiakou;

6. The gold, silver and silver of the four merchants of Zhangjiakou were five million three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver;

7. The Manchu cavalry had 53,000 taels of gold and silver, and 60,000 taels of copper;

8. The Manchu Dynasty baggage of gold and silver combined with 1,130,000 taels of silver, and 300,000 copper coins;

9. Li Mao in Yangzhou has 200,000 taels of silver.

Then the great sum of our total is eight hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver. This is not counting the goods we bought back and those that were left in Zhangjiakou and Kill Hukou and unsold. It's real money that can be spent right away.

"This does not include the income of the smelter, they have a lot of expenses this year, many places are spending money, Lingshui Wharf also spent a lot of silver, and earning some freight is not enough for them." Lu Chengxiang said.

Zhang Zhimu said: "In the future, we will build inventory accounts, so that we can know how much money is occupied by goods in various places." ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "It's no problem, all the accounts are sent to this record, but I haven't had time to make the final statistics." ”

Huang Yukun said: "If it is convenient in the future, let each branch report the accounts every month." ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Okay. Then I'm going to tell you about our animals. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay. I was just trying to hear about it. ”

Lu Chengxiang flipped through a few pages of the ledger and reported the account of the livestock again:

1. In killing Hukou, buy 4,000 horses, 1,500 cattle, 10,000 sheep, and leave 1,000 for Niutou Mountain;

2. Captured 12,000 Mongolian cavalry horses, more than 1,500 carriages, 3,000 horses, and more than 1,000 camels;

3. 4,000 horses were purchased in Zhangjiakou, 2,600 Manchu cavalry horses were captured, 215 carriages were loaded in silver boxes, and 645 horses were pulled;

4. The Qing army carried more than 3,000 carriages, more than 6,000 horses, more than 1,000 mules and horses, 1,500 camels, 200 cattle, and 2,200 sheep;

5. Mr. Zhang brought back more than 3,000 carriages, more than 6,000 horses, more than 2,000 mules and horses, and more than 1,000 camels.

So we have four thousand new horses, eighteen thousand six hundred war horses, fifteen,six hundred horses, three thousand camels, one thousand two hundred oxen, and eleven two hundred sheep.

Zhang Zhimu said: "I see that the cattle pen is well tied along the Xiaoling River, which is sheltered from the wind in the river and convenient to transport forage along the frozen river. ”

Huang Yukun said a little angrily: "There is no place in the river and no other place, the simple houses where tens of thousands of people live are all connected into camps, and there is no end in sight, and hundreds of people need to cook every day." ”

Lu Chengxiang also said: "This is still a large room for 30 people, otherwise more simple houses will be built." ”

Huang Yukun said: "There is no way, now they have begun to limit the number of times they can take a bath, otherwise the workers will not be able to wash." These people hate to be in the bathhouse every day. ”

Zhang Zhimu smiled and said: "They are all young adults, there is nothing to do, is there any other place to go, this winter, it is good to be in the bathhouse." I'm willing to soak in it if it's okay. In this way, in the future, we will issue a bath ticket to everyone, and everyone will take a bath with the ticket. You can't take a bath without a bath ticket, so they don't always take a bath. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "This method is good, all people are like this, they will arrange their own bath time." If you wash it all at once, you won't be able to wash it later. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "If you send a different color every month, it will be invalid when it expires." Also, what exactly is the total number of new arrivals we have? ”

Lu Chengxiang flipped through the account book again and said:

"We rescued 5,000 men and 3,000 women and children from the Mongols. 12,000 men and 5,000 women returned with the Qing army's baggage team; Mr. Zhang brought back more than 1,000 men and more than 200 women. A total of 18,000 men and 8,200 women returned. And that's not even counting the people who joined our ranks directly. ”

Huang Yukun interjected: "Oh, I've calculated, not counting the Lingshui Wharf and the smelting factory, there are nearly 30,000 men, women and children in our kiln gang combined. Thanks to Mr. Lu for buying so much land, otherwise there really would be no way to arrange it. The food that was eaten every day had to be pulled by horse-drawn carts. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "These are all young men and young women who come back, this is the biggest wealth of our kiln, and we strive to keep everyone." Also, how many captives did we bring back this time? ”

Lu Chengxiang didn't turn over the account book this time and said: "Mongolian prisoners, more than 1,000 people; The Manchu cavalry was more than sixty at that time; Mr. Zhang brought back more than 1,000 people this time. They were all sent to the smelter. This time, Li Dongle was broken, with more than 2,000 strong laborers, and he didn't have to pay his salary. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Now we are a little nervous, but we are not afraid of food. When the weather is warm, I will build a house. And I want to discuss it with Mr. Lu Bingyi and make an overall plan for the kiln, which is no longer good for what I have done before, so I need to plan it well. By the way, how much food do we have now? ”

Lu Chengxiang opened the account book again and said: "We sold a total of 210,000 stone of grain in the south, 50,000 stone in Kaifeng, 10,000 stone each in Fenzhou and Jinyang, and 10,000 stone in Xiurong. We put a total of 30,000 stones in the Shanxi market, and this time we went north to Zhangjiakou to bring 10,000 stones, and sold and sent 20,000 stones to Datong. Lingshui Wharf, Smelter, Niutou Mountain, and ourselves all shared 20,000 stones. In these two cases, you have brought back more than 50,000 stones of grain. Now there is still 100,000 stone of food. In addition, there are 3,000 stones of corn and 1,000 stones of soybeans that Xuzhou helped buy. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It's okay to eat, but as long as the weather is better, we must send some food to Kill Hukou, and don't let the food of Kill Hukou Branch be cut off, so that they will soon gain a firm foothold." What I am not afraid of now is that there are more than 20,000 stones of grain in Niutou Mountain. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "If you send food to Kill Hukou, you can send it from Niutoushan first, and then you can give it back to them, and you can change it for them if you have new food." Otherwise, they will have to eat the old grain all the time. ”

Huang Yukun said: "When you are not busy, go and see the brick kiln factory and quarry we bought. ”

After Zhang Zhimu and the others left, Liu Bensheng had been building a house and needed to buy a lot of bricks and stones. In the process of buying materials, he found that this brick and tile kiln was half-dead, so he came back to discuss it with Huang Yukun and said: "The amount of bricks and tiles we use is too large, so it is better to buy this brick and tile factory." ”

As soon as Huang Yukun heard that it made sense, he discussed with Li Yunhe and bought the brick factory for five hundred taels of silver. The owner of the brick and tile factory couldn't open it and wanted to turn it off, so he sold so much silver at once, and happily gave it to Huang Yukun.

This quarry was bought in the same way, and it cost two hundred taels of silver.

Zhang Zhimu said: "I'll go and see it when I arrange it, but I think our lime kiln must be expanded, and it is better to build a few more of them, they not only burn lime and cement, but also produce carbon dioxide." The coking plant of the smelter should also be expanded, so that all the iron-making furnaces can use coke, and ammonia gas can be produced. Ammonia and carbon dioxide are used to make alkali, and they can only expand the scale of alkali production. Gas welding can be used more widely. These must be well planned and produced. ”

Huang Yukun also said: "It's time to plan well, build a house there next year, build a factory there, and think about it comprehensively." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Let's sit down and discuss it together." However, the general principle is to separate the living area from the industrial area, and the problem of pollution in production must be solved. ”

Zhang Zhimu remembered the pollution in his previous life, and now the kiln gang is already facing this problem. We have to do something now, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with the pollution when it is over.

After everything was said, Zhang Zhimu stood up and looked at the rows of simple houses outside the window, he was thinking, how much manpower and material resources would it take to build these simple houses into dormitory houses, fortunately he came to this world, the first thing is to do business and make money, otherwise no matter how many ideas there are, it will be nothing.

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