In the end, Li Zhongxian still bought two leaky hoes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He didn't choose to borrow money to pay in installments, and he paid honestly, and he always felt that he didn't feel at ease when he owed money to others.

Moreover, it is not so convenient to pay in installments, and it is necessary to have a credit person to guarantee or simply have valuable property as collateral.

What's more, after his son Li Long registered his family information, he Li Zhongxian became a member customer of "Nanji Hardware Shop", and he only spent 540 copper coins for two leaky hoes that were originally going to sell for 600 copper coins, and there were still 12 copper coins left.

With the comparison of the blacksmith shop in the city, Li Zhongxian is very satisfied with this "Nanji hardware shop".

On the way back, Li Zhongxian was still thinking about what ironware he would buy next time, but also coming to this Nanji, returning to the village, and talking to everyone, so that everyone could come to this hardware store to patronize the business.

Sending his eldest son Li Long home to fetch the remaining hoe, Li Zhongxian and Li Hai carried a new type of leaky hoe on their backs and went straight to the field.

Swing the leaky hoe, dig the ground, pull it with your hand, and sure enough, very easily, the semi-dry dry soil is loosened, and the pulled loose soil leaks out of the empty gap. The land is no longer compacted, fluffy, and largely untouched. It's really a good hoe, and it's the best way to loosen the soil!

Li Hu was tired of walking, lazy, sitting in the ground and touching the matchbox and smelling the "incense". After all, he is only thirteen years old, Li Zhongxian doesn't urge him, let's do it first, and when the eldest son Dalong comes, the three of them will work together, and when it gets dark, they should be able to hoe more than an acre of land.

Li Zhongxian continued to wield his hoe and worked hard. The newly bought leaky hoe is very labor-saving, and he can't deliberately reduce it by a few points with the strength of the hoe he usually wields, so as not to dig too deep.

I was busy for more than half an hour, and I wasn't tired at all.

At this time, his son Li Long also came to the field with the family's hoe.

"Wow! Dad, Huzi, why are you hoeing the ground so fast? It's almost half an acre of land! Li Long, who had just gotten off the ground, exclaimed.

Li Hu, who put away the matches and went to the ground with a leaky hoe, also exclaimed: "Ah, I really hoeed a lot of land." Brother, my father hoeed it alone just now, and I haven't gotten to the ground yet. ”

"Huh? Dad hoeed alone, how did he do it? Li Long was even more surprised.

Li Zhongxian heard the exclamation of his eldest son, stopped the leaky hoe in his hand, and also looked at the land he had just hoeed: "Wow! Really! It's only been a while, and it's about four points away? Could this be something that hasn't been hoeed? ”

Li Zhongxian took a closer look at the dry land that he had hoeed, and it was very even, and the dense soil creases were all hoeed. So, after working hard for a while, did you really hoe four points of the ground?

Li Zhongxian suspected that it was the surprise brought by this new type of leaky hoe. Because of the labor-saving, you don't need to lift it high every time you swing, you can dig and pull it gently.

To do this, he asked his two sons to stand in a corner and began to hoe and loosen the soil.

Neither of them was lazy.

A quarter of an hour later, sixteen-year-old Li Long, wielding a big iron hoe, panting and pouting, his face flushed, his forehead was full of sweat droplets, and every time he dug a hoe, it was all his strength.

Li Zhongxian looked at the ground he had dug, it was about less than 3 centimeters of land, and the land was potholed and uneven, and even some of the soil was still compacted and not loosened in place.

And the thirteen-year-old Li Hu here is only sweaty on his forehead, slightly panting, his face is normal, and he continues to hoe the ground slowly and methodically, looking very relaxed.

But what surprised Li Zhongxian was that Li Hu, who was young and had little strength, actually hoeed 5 centimeters of ground, more than Li Long, and the ground was smoother, and the creases of the loose soil were denser and more uniform.

Needless to say, 100% because of this leaky hoe in your hand. Li Zhongxian is very sure.

It seems that I really bought a baby.

I don't want to think about it anymore, I just want to finish hoeing as soon as possible, and tell Li Liu and other relatives and neighbors about this baby leaky hoe and the "Nanji hardware store"!

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Early the next morning, as soon as the south gate of Qizhou City opened, a group of villagers with dirt and dust poured in and came straight to the "Nanji Hardware Store".

"Little Er, open the door! Come buy your hoes and matches! ”

"Shopkeeper, open the door early, my family is married to a daughter, and I am in a hurry to buy two enamel iron basins from you!"

……

The villagers were babbling to open the shop, and some even knocked on the door.

With the urging of everyone, the door of the shop opened, and several Xiao Er came out to maintain order, and put in a hundred people, and there were more than 200 people standing in a line outside the door, and at the city gate, there were villagers with rolled trousers and covered in mud coming in.

Soon, these villagers were carrying all kinds of farm tools and daily iron products on their backs, and even carrying all kinds of iron products, and they left the city with smiles on their faces.

On the third and fourth days, the same was true, and the number of villagers who came to the "Nanji Hardware Shop" increased unabated.

In the end, the "Nanji Hardware Store" had to arrange for the shopkeeper to set up dozens of benches outside the shop for the villagers to wait, and the "Nanji Hardware Store" was also anxious to urge the head office in Huangzhou Mansion "Mubei Ding No. 1 Store" to urge the goods, but unexpectedly, the No. 1 store in Mubei replied that they themselves had a lot of goods out of stock for a long time, and they were in a hurry to send people to Wuchang to urge the main store in Mubei called "Mubei Jiayi Store".

Helplessly, the head office sent instructions: if there is no goods, you can let the customer register and make a reservation first, and the head office will send the news to the company, urging the production factory to hurry up the delivery.

The shopkeeper of "Nanji Hardware Store" is very busy, but he is happy. However, there are people who are happier, but it is the guards of the city gate, and in just a few days, the income of the city gate has skyrocketed, and they can collect one or two thousand copper coins a day, which has never been done before.

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At this time, Guiyang City is and the hardware factory next to the steel factory, has been a year ago, very different, in the factory, I don't know when, more than 20 machines, driven by a few white smoke steam engines, roaring roaring, a busy scene.

Probably because the sound of the machine was too noisy, Song Jinsheng, the director of the hardware factory standing next to the machine, shouted to a worker who ran in: "Dog, what do you say about the steel factory?" ”

"The director of the plant, the deputy director of the steel plant, said that there was no more iron and steel in stock. It's all given to our hardware factory. ”

"What! Running out? So how do our hardware factories deal with the urging of those hardware stores? Find a way to mobilize steel raw materials. Song Jinsheng roared.

"Factory director, that can only be transferred from the newly built No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant. However, I heard that it has just started production there, so I guess there is not much steel, right? ”

"That's not so much! Hardware products are so popular, how much silver can you make? At this time, can it not be produced because of the lack of steel raw materials, so how can I, Song Jinsheng, explain to the Holy King? Song Jinsheng screamed a little hoarse in his throat, but he continued to roar: "I will send someone to report to the Holy King now, and at the same time contact the Liangguang Ocean Company to prepare a ship to transport steel, fortunately, the journey from Shaozhou to Guiyang is not very far." ”

"However, now the hardware sales in Siqi, Anman, Shaanxi, Jiangnan and other provinces will soon be rolled out, originally thought to expand the scale of the hardware factory, the entire Zhenghe steel produced by the steel, except for a few stainless steel used to make weapons, the rest are all used to produce hardware, I didn't expect to be able to meet the supply of these hardware stores." Song Jinsheng said to himself: "Long-term transportation of steel is not a way, and besides, this Zhenghe town is still too small, surrounded by mountains, and there is no large river, so the hardware factory has no way to expand." I still suggested to the Ministry of Public Works of the palace as soon as possible to find a new place to open a larger hardware factory. ”

"Well, I'm going to write a letter." Song Jinsheng hurriedly ran towards the outside of the factory.

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Guangzhou two days later.

Zeng Yuheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Works, received an urgent letter from the hardware factory in Guiyang, suggesting that a new hardware factory should be opened as soon as possible on the edge of Wushi Town of the First Iron and Steel Plant to cope with the shortage of hardware sales.

After receiving the letter, Zeng Yuheng did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly took the letter and rushed to the Holy King's Mansion to report.

At the same time, Wu Chongyao, general manager of the Nanyang Company, also received a notice from He Jianji, the general manager of the "Nanyang Hardware Shop," who was actually the deputy minister of police in charge of the business director of the enemy-occupied area of the Nanyang Company, that the head offices of the "Nanyang Hardware Shop" in various provinces were running out of stock to a certain extent, and after a while, they were afraid that they would run out of stock.

He saw that the machine was in Shudi, entrusted Wu Chongyao to feed back the information of the hardware shop shortage to the Ministry of Industry and Shengwang on his behalf, and he would temporarily let the "Nanji Hardware Store" slow down sales, but hoped that Wu Chongyao would help solve the problem of insufficient production of hardware products as soon as possible, which not only affected the making of Nanyang Company, but more importantly, he was afraid of causing dissatisfaction among the local people and attracting the attention of the Manchu government.

You must know that He Jianji was originally the deputy minister of the Ministry of Police, and after the Holy King was in charge of collecting civilian intelligence from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he offered to the Holy King Feng Yunshan to be the general person in charge of the "Nanyang Hardware Store".

But this is only to facilitate the completion of the task of gathering intelligence assigned by the Holy King, and it is a temporary part-time job. But unexpectedly, Shengwang actually agreed very much, and told him some ideas, let him hang up the position of business director in the enemy-occupied area in Nanyang Company, so that Nanyang Company strongly supported his hardware shop, and quickly spread the hardware store business in various places, and the business started.

Originally, according to He Jianji's idea, it was to open a hardware shop in various places, do some business without hesitation, and take advantage of this pretense to take root in the local area, and then bring it from Guangzhou to slowly develop and lead the local fine work, and collect all kinds of information.

He was also prepared to bear the losses of the hardware store.

Unexpectedly, the intelligence collection of the main business has not been properly implemented, but the hardware store business of the side business is unusually hot! Even, let the Holy King Feng Yunshan feel the urge to transfer him from the Ministry of Police to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so that he could concentrate on business and make money.

He Jianji was speechless for a while, and he took the opportunity of Shudi's new hardware store business to run over there, far away from Guangzhou. He didn't want to be transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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