The new council hall passed the acceptance of the public high school, and the old faces of several craftsmen in charge bloomed: now there is no need to worry about Li Fuzi, who slammed the door, deducting the reward......

The craftsmen and young men who participated in the construction of the new council hall are very happy, and now they don't have to worry about their own miserable New Year, so they can only watch other families eat meat. The new workshop owner who provides bricks, wood, tables and chairs is even happier, the owner is really a kind person, helping his own workshop, to work hard, and strive to get the supply qualification of Mingyue Castle!

The charcoal stove in the house was burning, and the slices of meat on the iron plate were sizzling.

Li Mengkong sandwiched a piece of each for Zhao Bo and Zhang Wanli, and then ate by himself, "The owner of the village is not only a scholar of heaven and man, but also a very particular way of eating here." ”

Uncle Zhao lost half of his arm, but he still ate quickly, and said, "No, sigh~ It's so hot!" ”

"When the owner of the farm was first rescued by the eldest lady, he looked down on the food in the mountains." Uncle Zhao finished eliminating a piece of meat, wiped his mouth, and urged the guy next to him to cut it quickly, "The eldest lady is not convinced, so the owner will take the most common wild vegetable coarse grains and make fragrant wild vegetable porridge, and many old guys will go over to see it." ”

Zhang Wanli eats more elegantly, biting a green vegetable, but what he thinks in his heart is: The two guys who only know how to eat meat, the vegetables in winter are the most precious!

Snow began to fall outside.

In today's season, how can the martyr's widow's conservatory grow fresh vegetables? There must be the help of the owner, this kind of trick is the best at it, Zhang Wanli thought.

Li Mengkong took a sip of strong tea to relieve his greasyness, and sighed with satisfaction, "The owner of the village never does things just for the sake of appetite. The Mingyue Restaurant in the Mingyue Collection, in which there are a variety of stir-fried dishes, most of them are from the hands of the owner. ”

"Restaurants, restaurants and hotels are one of them, and growing vegetables in a greenhouse is the second, relying on these two items, as well as a few trades given up by the people in the village, the bereaved families of the martyrs have caught up with the lives of other families. The owner of the village has an ancient style! However, the wealthy merchants of Mingyueji are so powerful, in order to eat fresh vegetables in winter, they do not hesitate to spend a hundred times. ”

Zhao Bo and Zhang Wanli nodded again and again.

In Mingyue Village, there are more than a dozen families who can afford to wrap their waists, but few people are really working hard to enjoy it. At most, they converted their homes into small brick and stone buildings, and they saw meat every day.

Where did the money go from the upper class to open workshops and run caravans? The commission of the public high school is very heavy, and most of the workshop owners dare not spend money, which is the most important reason.

First of all, the public middle school of Mingyuezhuang manages more things than the Great Zhou government, and the services provided to the villagers are of course better, which requires a lot of money and food.

The commission of the public middle school is very high, which is also the most criticized point of the Liu family and the Lizhuang family, and the commission accounts for an average of 30% of the income of the workshop. Want to keep your profits? Come on, brother.

Secondly, the public middle school has all kinds of assistance for the people of Xinzhuang, women and children, and also provides subsidies for certain departments.

The bereaved families of the martyrs need to be taken care of, pregnant women need to be taken care of, orphans must be properly arranged, and the elder battalions, garrisons, and medical and health offices must invest a lot of money and food. Li Xiang also put a lot of money and food in, otherwise the pressure on the public middle school would be even greater.

Thirdly, the construction of Mingyue Fort, the attack on the Qinling Mountains, and the maintenance of trade routes also required a lot of resources.

Finally, it is necessary to collect intelligence on hostile forces, maintain relations between the government and the army, and pay a large sum of money.

The public commission is very heavy, and most of the workshop owners have restrained their thoughts of enjoyment. China has always had a tradition of not revealing its wealth, and when it comes to seeing other families living tightly, how can they be embarrassed to be extravagant?

Li Xiang's demonstration is also very important.

The Liu family has always wanted to know that Li Xiang accounted for a few percent of Mingyuezhuang's profits. In addition to Li Xiang himself, only Li Mengkong and Zhao Bo know this answer, two into three!

In the past three months, Li Xiang alone has accounted for 30% of Mingyuezhuang's profits. But Li Xianghua has very few flowers on himself. The core of the high-level executives, and the Zhuang people who know some of the truth, understand Li Xiang's fanaticism very well.

Mingyuezhuang is on the rise, and after making money, many people choose to reinvest, which is also an important reason.

Therefore, when the owner of Mingyuezhuang made money, the first thing he thought about was how much was left after handing in the commission. How much money is left, excluding costs and expenses?

Some people look at it, and there are still a lot left! That can't be messed around.

The workshop should be expanded, more people should be recruited, and a few more guards should be recruited. At most, fix the house, make some clothes, and buy more meat. What the? Want to wear silk and drink pear blossom white? Come on, the life of the owner is not much better, and he can't be too arrogant.

The upper-class people of Mingyuezhuang, the more they understand things and have more foresight, the more they respect a simple life. For the people of Da Zhou, who have lived a hard life for many years, the lifestyle advocated by the owner is very reassuring to them. They learned from the owner Li Xiang that if they had money, they would eat more meat, open more workshops, and buy more weapons.

That's right, the upper-class people in Mingyuezhuang also have comparisons, comparing whose workshop is bigger, whose family employs more people, whose children have good grades in Mengxue, and whose guards are powerful. At most, add whose brick house is strong, whose charcoal stove is bigger, and whose family buys more weapons.

In short, Mingyuezhuang is very "hard", and the people are getting wilder and wilder.

The man in the middle school put away the iron plate dishes and chopsticks, and Zhang Wanli closed the door.

Zhao Bo put the kettle on top of the charcoal stove with one arm, and Li Mengkong began to pretend to perform the tea ceremony. Ahem, every Da Zhou child yearns for the lifestyle of a scholar, and Li Mengkong actually learned the art of tea.

Zhang Wanli has seen the world, and he watched Li Mengkong install forks there with all kinds of mistakes, and he didn't break it. Uncle Zhao picked up the small teacup, "Tsk, this is not enough for a mouthful, what is it enough for?" ”

Li Mengkong was very embarrassed, and Zhang Wanli hurriedly glanced at Uncle Zhao: Although you don't know what he's doing, can't you give some face? What should I do if Old Man Li is annoyed?

Zhao Bo didn't seem to see Zhang Wanli's signal, "No wonder, no wonder the imperial court has more than one million soldiers, and there are so many stone cannons, divine arm bows and iron armor, but they can't defeat Western Xia and Liao." Just making tea, it wastes three sticks of incense, I really don't know what those big men are doing on weekdays? It's strange if you can beat it! ”

Zhang Wanli was shocked and looked at Uncle Zhao, who was illiterate.

Li Mengkong was also stunned after being embarrassed, and it took a long time before he let out a long sigh, put away the tea set he bought at a high price, and got up to salute Uncle Zhao, "The old man is a little carried away, and he actually tinkered with these useless things, thank you." ”

Uncle Zhao waved his hand, "I also found out some news." Do you know the origin of the person who gave you the tea set? ”

Li Mengkong knew that something was wrong and asked Uncle Zhao for details. It turned out that the person who had been friends with Li Mengkong for more than half a year was actually a friend of Liu Xiadu's future father-in-law.

Li Mengkong understood that this was someone taking advantage of his psychology of not going well in the imperial examination, looking for a "highly educated" talent, and playing a "broken knot". Now it's a tea set, then it's poetry, and then it's a rebellion, right?!

Li Meng broke out in a cold sweat and decided to put the tea set in his bedroom and spur himself on every day. It's too dangerous, and the people outside the mountain really do everything they can to infiltrate Mingyuezhuang and rebel against the high-level of Mingyuezhuang.

Zhang Wanli secretly screamed badly.

My stupid son, who is in his early thirties, has been going home drunk lately, and his daughter-in-law is still complaining in front of his old wife, can't he be dragged into the water? Is it Huang Liren, or Liu Xiadu? When I go back, I have to check it carefully, so as not to let someone drag down the whole family and affect my grandson Zhang Yongnian......

After a long silence, the three decided to monitor each other and remind each other. It's terrible, some people are everywhere, the owner of the village secretly rushed back, and he really had a vision!

Li Mengkong continued the topic before the three of them had dinner, which was also a problem for the main school entrance examination in Zhuang, and it was also a difficult problem for Wang San to think about: Mingyueji, why in the end, can it have today's prosperity?

The influence of Mingyuezhuang is definitely an important reason, but it is not the main reason. Whether it is technology or craftsmen, the workshops of many gentry and big families are not inferior to Mingyuezhuang, or even better.

Wang San's talent is also a reason, but after all, Wang San is working for merchants, and he is a better manager at most.

Running workshops and engaging in trade, the conditions of Mingyueji are more than one step worse than those of Nanyang and Xiangyang.

The transportation is unsatisfactory, the food is all dependent on foreign transportation, and the raw materials are in short supply, why does such a bright moon set become a prosperous place? The gentry of Nanyang and Xiangyang have made a few bazaars, but they are half dead, why?

The three of them communicated for a while, and felt that the main reason was the rules.

From the very beginning, Li Xiang planned Mingyueji as the external window and buffer place of Mingyuezhuang.

After all, Li Xiang is in his early twenties and can't think too deeply. But when he planned the Bright Moon Set, he inevitably added some thoughts in his heart and relevant knowledge of the original time and space. This also made Wang Sanfu stand at the highest point as soon as he took office.

The gentry, who occupied a dominant position in the Great Zhou, quickly squeezed out Zhang Wanli, the representative of the Xiang Army, out of habit in their bones. Some merchants were elated and thought they could soar to the top, but what happened next left them dumbfounded.

The workshop of the Xiang army did not collapse, nor did it throw itself into the arms of the righteous gentlemen, but took refuge in Mingyuezhuang. Those merchants blocked the waterway and stumbled Mingyuezhuang everywhere, but they had little effect, at most affecting Mingyuezhuang's profits.

Merchants who want to monopolize business and squeeze greater profits are gone.

They found the government and asked the government to support the saints' children. However, almost all the prefects and counties were foreign officials, and the interests of the officials under the economic system were bound to all the workshops on the Hanjiang River under Li Xiang's operation, and both were lost.

The economic officials did not make great efforts, and the gentry found the Xu Officials' Tooth Shop and the old brokerage firm. Mingyueji has both workshops, traveling merchants, and trade fairs, without the interests of these middlemen.

The efforts of the old men and brokers have indeed achieved certain results. The righteous men and gentlemen monopolized the market, raised prices rapidly, and killed Wang San, completely ate small and medium-sized merchants, and set up cards to collect taxes. As for the displaced mountain people who are struggling to survive, they don't care, at most they open a porridge shack to send people away.

The gentry explained what it means to be self-inflicted with their own experiences.

Xu officials and other strata were originally products shrouded in privilege, and soon made Mingyueji into a miasma. Most of the small and medium-sized merchants and itinerant merchants ran away, and the interests of the gentry and large households were harmed, and the infighting intensified with the intensification.

The interests of economic officials such as the magistrate of Zhizhou were damaged, and they were very speechless to the local scholar class. Greedy to do bad things, get into trouble, when are you going to make trouble!

Mingyuezhuang, Xiangjun, Qinling villages, and homeless people, the workshops of these forces can pay a lot of price and go through secret channels. After jumping out of the circle of the gentry, the forces that were friendly with Mingyuezhuang could actually survive, which aroused the vigilance of the righteous gentlemen.

The disadvantages of Mingyueji are revealed, there is no reason to exist, and there is no industry that is too dominant, and it can't bear the food of too many people. In other words, Mingyueji is congenitally insufficient, and the workshops on the banks of the Han River have limited profits and cannot bear more interest classes.

At this point, the outline of Mingyueji's interests emerged.

The merchants of the wealthy gentry of the great clans purchased a large number of ironware, medicinal materials, tung oil, clothes, hats, shoes and socks from Mingyueji, and then transported them to the Danjiang Estuary, and then transported them to the eastern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty through the water network. Big businesses have the right to lower prices and shipping channels, and they can't give Mingyueji more things.

There is a big difference between small and medium-sized businesses and traveling merchants.

Merchants with small profits can only cooperate deeply with the workshops on the banks of the Han River, carefully considering the profits and losses of each iron tool, farm tool and clothing. Only by transporting kitchen knives, iron forks, hoes, ploughs and kettles from the Hanjiang workshops and passing them through layers of obstacles and handing them over to the people can they make a profit. There are a large number of them, and many of them are resident in Mingyueji, which has brought a lot of employment opportunities to Mingyueji, and is the main service object of Mingyueji.

The large number of small and medium-sized merchants and traveling merchants who came from all over the world and had no privileges promoted the prosperity of Mingyueji, which is the truth of Mingyueji.

If Mingyueji wants to survive, it must eliminate things that hinder free trade, such as the Ya Xingxu officials, brokerage elders, and black and white forces.