Li Yuanyin is extremely cautious in what he says and does, but as long as it is a decision he makes, there is absolutely no time to regret it. Therefore, Ji Qingwen, who was familiar with Li Yuanyin's nature, listened to his statement, and his heart was naturally very porcelain, and he hurriedly said a few words of thanks and encouragement.

But after speaking, Ji Qingwen felt a little uneasy, with a rare fierce look in his eyes, after glancing at the people present on both sides, he said coldly: "Everyone, you are all my Ji Qingwen's confidants, it stands to reason that some words are superfluous." But there is a saying that 'ugly words are said in the front,' and these words must not be said, lest in case you turn your face in the future, and you will be punished for saying that I do not teach. ”

When everyone heard that Ji Qingwen's attitude suddenly changed, they suddenly became nervous, put down the cups, chopsticks, and spoons in their hands, and didn't even have time to swallow half of the meal.

I only heard Ji Qingwen say in a tone that was so cold that it was almost frozen: "General Yuan, Brother Li Yan, and Li Yuanyin commanded, in front of everyone, and said a few words that were heartfelt, this is because they look up to me Ji Qingwen." There were several people here, although they did not speak, but they must have meant the same thing. All of you give me face, of course I also want to give you face, in the future we will be grasshoppers on a rope, we must share blessings and difficulties. ”

Ji Qingwen paused, and then said: "Of course, follow me Ji Qingwen, I naturally want to bring everyone to enjoy happiness - as long as I Ji Qingwen has a bite to eat, I will never let everyone drink porridge." But I have something to say first, if anyone eats in the bowl and looks at the pot, give me a steak to eat, hehe, then don't blame me Ji Qingwen is welcome. If you think I'm a good talker and won't be ruthless, you can naturally come and try it! ”

The people present have always felt that Ji Qingwen values love and righteousness and neglects money, and they have never heard him say such serious things, and they are all shocked, and they can't help but say: "Don't dare." Can't. Can't. ”

Ji Qingwen knows that his current subordinates are all a group of talented people, and anyone who is released is a hero, or a great talent in his own right, so today's words can be regarded as a shocking tiger.

But what he didn't expect was that at the critical time, it was the most inconspicuous person among them who betrayed Ji Qingwen and made Ji Qingwen waste a lot of effort to minimize the loss.

However, Ji Qingwen is just an "ordinary" traverser, not yet a fairy god who can gain insight into the future, he only feels that he is now gracious and powerful, and has created a stable and harmonious team, and is about to show his strength, where would he think of the future?

So Ji Qingwen arched his hand to everyone and said: "With your words, I, Ji Qingwen, am relieved." Come, everyone drink this cup together, and from now on they will be their own family. ”

With that, he raised the glass in front of him and drank the wine from the glass.

When they saw this, they also raised their glasses and drank the wine from the glass.

At this point, the atmosphere of today's night banquet was finally set off, and Li Yan, who was slightly drunk, stood up, tilted his body, shook his folding fan, and improvised a poem to commemorate today's meeting.

And Liu Ru is also full of interest, deliberately took his commonly used pipa, and sang on the music card, everyone looked at Liu Ru is decisive appearance of the leader of the flower country, and listened to the beautiful singing voice of the three days around the beam, and couldn't help but be stupid.

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Because it was a reunion after a long absence, Ji Qingwen and Liu Ru naturally had a little more lingering, and under the warm backdrop, Ji Qingwen didn't get up lazily until noon the next day.

After getting up, there is a lot of business waiting for Ji Qingwen to deal with - originally, Ji Qingwen is now the weaving governor of Suzhou, and he is the hand-picked Fulu Marquis, which can be described as a high-powered, rich world, and it is appropriate to have more things.

Not to mention anything else, just hearing that Ji Qingwen returned to Suzhou, all kinds of businessmen and officials who came to visit came one after another, which was annoying.

For these people, Ji Qingwen has always been indifferent, except for a few important people such as Kou Shen, the prefect of Suzhou, Ji Qingwen let Li Yan block the car, casually invited them to have a few sips of tea, and promised to go back to visit them another day and send them away - as for which day this "another day" is changed, it is another matter.

The time saved by the guest was perfunctory, and Ji Qingwen wanted to use it to inspect the operation of the industry under his name after he left Jiangnan.

Before going to Beijing, Ji Qingwen let Liu Ru temporarily manage all the industries, the reason for this is not that Liu Ru has anything powerful in management, but because she is Ji Qingwen's eldest wife, whether it is personal or interests, she is tightly tied to Ji Qingwen, and she is an absolutely trustworthy person.

Therefore, the general ledger of income and expenditure of all industries is managed by Liu Rushi.

Liu Ru only helped the old bustard Ma Xianglan manage the accounts of the Qinglou brothel before, and the business philosophy and business pattern were very limited, but fortunately, she was careful, and a running account at least recorded the revenue of Ji Qingwen's industry during this period of time.

The first is Songjiang Dianshan Port Wharf. For the time being, the pier was managed by missionary John Tong. Because John Tong is quite famous among Westerners, the number of merchants who come to buy and sell is increasing day by day, and the port throughput is gradually expanding. Therefore, the terminal is thriving, and the income is also rising, so that at the beginning, the wharf that thought it was building a large scale was already crowded, and when it was busy, ships outside the port often had to wait in line before they could enter the port for trading.

The second is the weaving mill business of the weaving yamen. According to the accounts, the weaving mill is operating normally, and the cotton cloth and silk produced still occupy a near-monopoly market position in Suzhou and Jiangnan. However, because Ji Qingwen was not in Jiangnan during this time, he took away almost all the colored brocade in stock in the name of tribute, so he operated in a step-by-step manner and was slightly conservative. You must know that on the shopping mall, not advancing but retreating, its intensity is no less than the battlefield, and the temporary negligence in operation will be seized by competitors to fight back. Not to mention anything else, it is the events of Ji Qingwen's departure from Jiangnan, the weaving workshop of Shen Shenbi's family, which was already dying, followed the example of the Suzhou Weaving Yamen Weaving Workshop to carry out reforms, also improved production efficiency and production quality, and began to gradually expand market share, which needs to be vigilant.

Then there are other branch businesses, such as pottery factories, porcelain kilns, printing workshops, etc. These are all set up by Ji Qingwen in order to enrich the types of business, as long as they can be responsible for their own profits and losses, to achieve a balance of income and expenditure, or a slight loss is acceptable. In the next step, the printing workshop will start printing the silver tickets issued by Ji's money bank, which involves a series of secrecy technologies, and needs to be discussed with several technical talents such as Tang Ruowang and Song Yingxing.

Finally, there is the technical department in charge of Song Yingxing. This is a money-burning department, mainly for the purpose of improving and improving the existing means of production, means of transport, and even weapons and equipment. During this period of time, Song Yingxing spent a lot of money, and the results he could achieve were also outstanding, not only further improving the textile machine, but also making a significant breakthrough in the manufacture of ships and muskets and artillery.

According to Ji Qingwen's own ideas, the musket artillery, Shandong Governor Sun Yuanhua has been gradually improving the manufacturing, with his friendship with Sun Yuanhua, once Sun Yuanhua researches any new weapons, he can immediately use them. So he wasn't particularly interested in that.

On the contrary, in terms of shipbuilding, Ji Qingwen is very attentive. It's just that his current sea power mainly relies on Zheng Zhilong's fleet, and Zheng Zhilong's guy is a scheming and anti-backbone guy in history, and if he turns against the water, it will cause irreparable losses. Therefore, Ji Qingwen does not trust Zheng Zhilong very much, in addition to temporarily giving some benefits to envelop him, he wants to establish his own sea power, so as not to fall into passivity at the opportunity.

Therefore, after Ji Qingwen heard that Song Yingxing had made a breakthrough in shipbuilding technology, he immediately agreed with him to try to build one, and with a stroke of his pen, he granted him 10,000 taels of silver, and asked him to build a seagoing ship at the dock of Dianshan Port - shipbuilding materials, which can be purchased from overseas nearby; Shipbuilders are also ready-made, just use those dock workers brought by Ji Qingwen from Shaanxi, originally, they deal with ships in the port all day long, they have never eaten pork, and they have never seen pigs run!

After a little review of the business status of the industry under his name, Ji Qingwen cast his eyes on the training of the Ming Wu Army under his command.

The Ming Wu army had fought a series of bloody battles before, and it was also quite a loss. However, fortunately, Ji Qingwen traveled from south to north, and on the road, he selected the best of the best, and recruited a new batch of sergeants, in addition to making up for the previous posts, but also expanded the establishment of the Ming Wu Army to a full 2,000 people.

In addition to the first time, Ji Qingwen also entrusted Wu Sangui's way and purchased 500 war horses on credit, most of which were good horses purchased from Liaodong, Mongolia, and even the Western Regions, which played a huge role in improving the diversity and mobility of the Ming Wu army.

What's more, this time Ji Qingwen recruited hundreds of sergeants in Shandong. Since ancient times, Shandong is the place where the Central Plains Dynasty raised horses, and there are many people who can ride horses among the children of Shandong, so that every time there is troubled times, the name of Shandong Xiangma will spread all over the world.

However, according to Qi Jiguang's military law, these recruits could not directly become the backbone of the cavalry. So, Ji Qingwen asked Yang Zhan to lead these soldiers to start from the most basic rules, queues, and martial arts, and first become a qualified soldier of the Ming Wu Army.

However, Ji Qingwen himself thinks long-term, but these soldiers from the north can't understand his hard work.

Just because these sergeants recruited from Shandong, as soon as they saw that the Ming Wu Army was established with Jiangnan people, especially Yiwu people, as the main body and backbone, they suddenly felt contemptuous in their hearts - after all, the height and strength of Jiangnan people are not as good as those of northerners, and at first glance it seems that their combat effectiveness is much weaker.

Yang Zhan, who led the army, was an old military officer, and when he was still a serious military general of the imperial court, he brought many soldiers from the south to the north, and he could see the thoughts of these Shandong people at a glance, and let them learn one-on-one with the veterans without saying a word.

To the surprise of these Shandong people, although those Jiangnan veterans are not tall, their strength and tricks far exceed their own.

After comparing one-on-one punches and kicks, and then comparing three-to-five group fights.

This project has an even greater advantage for the Ming Wu Army, which has trained Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation well, and only used three teams of about 30 people to beat hundreds of recruits who are still rabble to the point that they have no temper.

As for other military projects, such as firing artillery, firing guns, changing formations, etc., they were even played by the Ming Wu Army, which made those recruits stunned, as if they had seen the heavenly soldiers and generals who had descended to earth.