Volume 2 Prosperous Bianjing Chapter 1 People hate dogs
What should I do to make myself a hateful dog?
On the edge of the Han River where Li Xiang rushed to, the Liu family, especially the seven Liu families represented by Liu Xiadu, were conducting a perfect demonstration.
The Liu family, who wanted to seize power, saw that other people's workshops began to develop again, and the whole ship was shipped every day, and their eyes were red. Why? Mingyuezhuang should belong to the Liu family, a bunch of untouchables, how can they be worthy of owning a workshop?
Evading commissions, reselling secrets, and transferring workshops to outside the village brought a lot of benefits to the seven Liu families.
The Liu family was far from satisfied.
His son took a young lady from a scholarly family, and the dowry that people wanted was too high, and his own workshop couldn't catch up with other families, so the money and food were not enough.
Lao Tzu bought a yard in Mingyueji, and he had to redeem a few geisha, and the copper money was tight. The backer should also be well connected, so that he can take the whole family to run away at any time, alas, it is not easy to run away from home.
The family has a secret workshop in Xiangyang, so you don't have to hand over the damn public high school commission. But to expand the scale and befriend the officials and families, you also need funds, what should you do?
What to do? Our surname Liu is short of money, and those sluts have!
Carpenter Cao was originally a homeless person in the Jianghan Plain, who was taken up the mountain by Liu Chengliang, and now has three workshops, and he is also a member of the weapon workshop, so he is naturally fat in the eyes of some people. Zhen is honest, Wu Xiaoling, who is an orphan and widow, is even more miserable, and some people want to take her as a prisoner.
In the Qinling village under the control of Mingyuezhuang, the upper-class families of the upper class successively built workshops on the edge of the Han River with the help of Gongzhong. Jing Xinyi, who was promoted by Liu Decheng and Ding Shihang to become the ruler of a large village, opened a workshop by the Han River together with Hu Jixiang, a representative of the aborigines. The workshop is mainly engaged in refining copper and iron ore, and the work supplied to the core workshop of Mingyuezhuang is profitable, and the Liu family is very angry.
Da Shenger and Da Niu have not passed the pinyin exam for a long time, and now one is the head of the brand, and the other is the chief, which cannot be compared with the three men who were promoted to the commander of the Great Zhou Battalion. The three men were very righteous, and still cooperated with the two of them to run the lime factory and the masonry factory according to the conditions of the past. The Liu family's relatives fell in love with the shares of Da Shenger and Da Niu, after all, the three sons had a bit of status, and the Liu family had no choice but to leave half of the family property for the three sons.
Tang Guohao was obtained after the major restructuring and became the representative of the new villagers. He embodied his value in the making of armor and charcoal stoves, and built his own workshop. Tang Guohao followed Li Xiang's ideas and boldly adopted new management and new assembly lines, and Sancheng New Kettle in Bianjing City came from their house. Liu Xia was very far-sighted, and decided to accept Tang Guohao's workshop, and then reward Tang Guohao with a bite to eat, and let him be in charge for the rest of his life.
It's better to act.
The Liu family, especially the seven families represented by Liu Xiadu, attacked decisively under the signal of their respective backers.
The secrets of Mingyue Zhuang Gongzhong were constantly stolen, the "advanced" workshops of Carpenter and Tang Guohao were forcibly visited, the market share of the three sons was forcibly taken away by Liu Xiadu, the weapons workshop and laboratory were probed, and Wang Xiaochen and Yu Wenwen were harassed many times......
Finally arrived at Wu Xiaoling, and her workshop had been surrounded.
Wu Xiaoling's workshop produced three kinds of shoes and four kinds of skirts, and the matching shawl socks were handed over to Qinling villages and homeless workshops for production, and she only retained a small share.
Some big investors want to know, how is Wu Xiaoling's workshop managed, why is there such high efficiency and low cost? So, the Liu family came.
Several aunts of the Liu family in seven households, with idle men, shouted outside the courtyard, and the content was unbearable.
"This Wu Xiaoling, our Liu family took pity on her and let her stay. She asked Lao Wang to borrow the child she gave birth to, and she lost her family! ”
"It's not, she killed her husband and lover, and seduced men everywhere, otherwise where would she get so much money and food to build such a big workshop."
"That's it, after all, she has two dolls, and it's not easy. But this woman is a white-eyed wolf, now that she is developed, our Liu family will not let you go in to see the workshop, and I don't know what to do inside, tsk ...... tsk" As soon as she finished speaking, the solid wood door of the workshop "creaked".
The door opened, and Wu Xiaoling appeared in a luxurious skirt.
Wu Xiaoling was originally very fat, but after giving birth to a child, she carefully recuperated and worked all day long, and now she is similar to Li Xiangyuan's Europa beauty.
Wu Xiaoling stepped forward to greet them enthusiastically, and while several Liu family shrews were stunned, she directly pulled them into the door. Following the Liu family, the steward who was responsible for exploring Wu Xiaoling's workshop hurriedly followed.
The idler and the ruffian wanted to sneak in and fish in troubled waters, but they were stopped by the guards recruited by Wu Xiaoling, and one of the ruffians wanted to make a noise and was directly thrown into the Han River by two fierce middle-aged people.
Wu Xiaoling's guards were all selected from the homeless people, and most of them got yellow household registrations. Wu Xiaoling saved the whole family of these guards, for more than a dozen guards, Wu Xiaoling is their housemother, if they are presumptuous in front of outsiders, they don't have to live.
Several shrews of the Liu family were wandering around in Wu Xiaoling's workshop.
The steward they brought in was shocked by the precautions on the wall, the schedule of time tasks on the table, and the delicate assembly line in the workshop, while shorthand everything they saw. It's all materials for spies, how can you do it without some professional skills. There are many procedures in Wu Xiaoling's workshop, Da Zhou is not absent, but few make full use of them, let alone carefully integrate them to improve efficiency.
Li Xiang was in the distance, watching this side.
Seeing Wu Xiaoling pulling away a few shrews with a "smile on her face", it was like welcoming an old friend who she hadn't seen for a long time, Li Xiangle.
Seeing the constipated expressions on several shrews when they were pulled away by Wu Xiaoling, Cheng Jianghai finally couldn't control it and laughed loudly: "Aha, hahaha...... Ahem, don't blame the lord, this Wu Xiaoling is really powerful, and her means are outstanding. The lord's vision is even more powerful, if there is no help from the lord, how can she be a widow ......"
Li Xiang pressed his palm, "It's almost enough, basically nothing to do with me." ”
"At that time, I felt that this eldest sister was very strong, and I happened to have some ideas, so I helped her and lent her hundreds of yuan of food. I didn't expect this eldest sister to be so powerful, Sichuan Shu, Jiang Han and Nanyang already have a script about her. ”
Cheng Jianghai followed the praise of the festival, and then his tone changed, and he said solemnly: "Lord, my subordinates have a sentence, I don't know, should I say it?" ”
"Love to talk or not!"
Cheng Jianghai choked.
With courage, Cheng Jianghai solemnly advised Li Xiang not to call himself "me" in the future. That is not in line with etiquette, and it is easy for some people to despise the position of the owner, and even have different hearts.
Li Xiang thought to himself: After all, the Great Zhou Dynasty is not the new century of the original time and space, and the superiority and humility of the upper and lower levels should be talked about. Cheng Jianghai said it well, you have to pay attention in the future and be arrogant in front of people......
Cheng Jianghai saw that the owner of the village did not blame, and his mood was excited, and he questioned Wu Xiaoling's approach, "Why did the lord let the Liu family's relatives check Wu Xiaoling's workshop, and the ability was learned by others, wouldn't Mingyuezhuang's workshop suffer a loss?" ”
Li Xiang shook his head, "See the waterwheel on the side of the Han River?" ”
"See." Cheng Jianghai looked left and right, and as far as the eye could see, there were nine waterwheels in operation, and only two of them belonged to Mingyuezhuang.
Li Xiang said with emotion: "Many workshops in Mingyuezhuang are no different from the workshops of the great gentry, but the efficiency has increased several times. ”
"The waterwheel is not important, the delicate assembly line is not important, the form regulations are not important, and the technical method is not important. Mingyuezhuang's ability, if it is really in this kind of detail, has long been obscured by everyone, where will it attract some big people to peep. ”
Cheng Jianghai seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but he didn't ask more.
There are some things that Cheng Jianghai doesn't know much about, so he can only go to Mingyuezhuang to slowly experience them.
He was very strange, some workshops in Mingyuezhuang were obviously not as good as the workshops of large gentry, and they were not comparable in terms of skilled craftsmen, but why did they advance by leaps and bounds? First ironware, then charcoal furnace, what is the most precious thing in Mingyuezhuang?
After seeing Wu Xiaoling on the side of the Han River, Li Xiang secretly rushed back to Mingyuezhuang. This guy is going to take a look at Qingfeng Village on the mountain road east of Mingyuezhuang, and then go to the north of Mingyuezhuang, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and then check the Sanwang Village on the west side of Mingyuezhuang.
After completing this round of inspection, Li Xiang will go straight to the secret place in the mountain behind Mingyuezhuang to check the progress of the work, and then pay homage to the Martyrs' Shrine. Finally, follow the mountain path back to Mingyuezhuang.
Wu Xiaoling's process of dealing with the Liu family's relatives was learned by the caring people waiting in the Mingyue Collection.
Most people will only admire Wu Xiaoling's methods, express their sympathy for Wu Xiaoling, and then find a way to inquire about the mystery of Wu Xiaoling's workshop. Most of the shopkeepers thought: The workshop is running so well, the seven Liu families and the big gentry will not let Wu Xiaoling go, and some people are already secretly thinking that Wu Xiaoling will eventually fall into whose prison.
Wang San, the manager of Mingyueji and the winner of life in the eyes of merchants, doesn't think so.
In Wang San's opinion, some people were happy too soon. Li Xiang's foundation was not damaged, but he made a look of retreating and protecting himself, there was obviously a conspiracy!
After Wang San squeezed Zhang Wanli away, he further strengthened his control over Mingyueji. Mingyueji is becoming more and more prosperous, and Wang San, a big man in the eyes of the small people, should be high-spirited, but only Wang San knows how hard he is.
The interests of Wang San are mainly three major blocks.
The merchant's management fee and transaction commission are the first block. Many wealthy gentry of the big clans relied on their deep backgrounds and ignored the rules of Mingyueji, and Wang San was helpless.
The various services provided by Mingyueji to merchants are the second block and the most stable income. Sewers, public toilets, road cleaning, and short-distance transportation all need to be done by people, and few merchants are in arrears for this hard-earned money. Wang San learned from Mingyuezhuang and set up more than a dozen small guilds to control these activities.
The third block is more special, but it is Wang San's biggest reliance to support hundreds of clerks and maintain the escort team. To put it simply, it's real estate.
Real estate is nothing new in the Great Zhou, or even in the former dynasty.
With the advent of prosperity and the rise of merchants, land prices in the capital and the big cities in the south of the Yangtze River will inevitably rise.
When the wealthy families saw that they had money to make, of course they had to dig up the gold, silver and copper coins in their cellars and build a large number of houses and buildings to make money. The money earned is buried back in the cellar, or goes to buy land. In addition to buying land, they will also set up workshops, open mines and run boats, and buy backers.
The building near the water is the first to get the month.
Although Wang San can't eat the fattest bite of meat, it is still possible to take the inferior lot and build some storehouse wooden buildings. Leasing and selling, Wang San relied on this income to secure his position.
Wang Da raised more than a dozen good hands to protect the safety of his younger brother Wang San. Wang Er pulled up a patrol team of about 100 people, holding knives, forks and sticks every day to maintain order, and could also protect the Wang family in critical moments.
Wealth, force, prestige, Wang San has it. single-handedly built Mingyueji into a prosperous place, even in the eyes of some famous families, Wang San is also the number one person.
Spirited, Wang San did have. But now, all he was left with was resentment and powerlessness.