Sending away the depressed outsiders, when Dong Ce returned to the conference room to tell Zhen Wan a few words, picked up his teacup and was about to leave, he heard Zhen Wan ask: "Why is the owner so troublesome?" The maid thinks that even if you don't have to hire someone to sell the goods, in order to divide the stalls, this profit will not be able to run away. ”

Dong Ce paused, waved his hand and said while walking, and after the two of them went out, Dong Ce spoke: "How many times have I told you, I don't have a servant here, only employees, do you think that if a businessman wants to be strong, what does he need most?" ”

"Money." Zhen Wan didn't want to think.

Dong Ce smiled and denied: "Wrong, it should be talents, not only businessmen, but no one can lack talents, but talents are rare and everyone knows, so they can only cultivate themselves, but your owner and I are poor, and we can't afford to raise so many talents, so we can only let people share it!" ”

Zhen Wan smiled bitterly when he heard this, shook his head and sighed: "The owner doesn't need to spend money, he can cultivate a group of sales talents, so it's difficult for Wan'er not to admire!" ”

Zhen Wan has never thought about the concept of sales talents, but he has been in the art garden for a long time, and now he knows the importance of these talents when he hears it, after all, new goods also have a day when they become old, and the inventory is the most test of the stall owner's ability, such as Mei Niangzi's Lan Fan Fang, her goods are now produced in the footsteps of the art garden drama, after each play is stopped, there will be a dilemma that the inventory is difficult to eliminate, and Ming Jianxuan is even more so, his things are expensive, and the sales volume is very poor without bothering, and he urgently needs sales talents who can speak well.

And these people, most of whom are shopkeepers, naturally it is impossible for them to go to a place like Yiyuan, so Dong Ce can only cultivate by himself.

When Dong Ce returned to the attic, he had just asked Zhen Wan to take out yesterday's account book, when suddenly, Liu Fu came up and said that the government officials had come, and said that the master of the government had invited him to the yamen.

Dong Ce was puzzled when he heard this, he didn't understand what Qin Qi was looking for him for? But he couldn't help but go, so he told Zhen Wan to postpone today's interview to the afternoon, and then he hurriedly went to the yamen with the messenger.

When he arrived at the mansion, many errand officers and catchers along the road greeted Dong Ce, and they seemed to be very familiar, but to be honest, Dong Ce basically didn't know much.

All the way to the back hall, I immediately saw Qin Qi who was sitting on a wooden couch reading a book, Dong Ce bowed his hand and asked: "I've seen the old man of the government order, but I don't know what the master of the house order called me?" ”

Qin Qi let out a faint "um" when he heard this, and after closing the book in his hand, he looked at Dong Ce with a smile and said, "What do you think of Dong Gongzi's construction of Jinling?" ”

"Huh?" Dong Ce was stunned, then thought for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Qin Qi and said, "I don't know what the master of the palace is talking about?" ”

"You kid is a good hand in business, asking business is definitely not difficult for you, now Jiangnan is deeply disturbed by floods, but people can't leave the water, so I want to ask, what do you think about water conservancy?"

Dong Ce couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and said: "The villain of dam construction doesn't know anything, and the villain of fish farming and fishing is not an expert. ”

Qin Qi smiled: "You also don't know how to have a moment!" ”

"The lord of the government said that the villain doesn't understand a lot, but when it comes to water conservancy, there is a way to use water conservancy for the people, the villain is trying, this method is to make a water wheel, a circle of bamboo tubes is fixed on the wheel, and the water wheel is pushed by flowing water, and the bamboo tube is automatically loaded with water and rotated to the top and into the wooden trough, and then flows through the wooden trough to the place where water is needed, such as rice field irrigation, without manpower with this method."

"Oh!" Qin Qi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he was surprised: "Can you make this water wheel?" ”

Dong Ce arched his hand and said: "The back of the villain art garden has been made, but because a large number of craftsmen went to Gusu, only three people were left to make it, so the project is slow, but the three-wheeled waterwheel has also been made. ”

"Okay, get ready now." Qin Qi commanded to the servants on the side.

Soon, with Qin Qi's permission, Dong Ce went to the art garden in the same car with the old man, which made Lu Dongzhi, who came with the guards when he learned the situation, envious, he had been a mansion by Qin Qi's side for seven years, and he had never sat in the same car with Qin Qi.

When the group came to the art garden, because Qin Qi was a micro-service, and he didn't want to make a noise, so Dong Ce didn't introduce it, and took them directly around the back door to go out, which was a small ferry in front of him, and a small boat was parked next to it, and on the left hand side of the ferry was the open space used by Yang Ji Cloth Village to get water and dye cloth, but now a very magnificent huge wooden wheel has been built, and there is a canal built of stone under the wooden wheel.

The water of the canal naturally comes from the Qinhuai River, flows quickly on the stone waterway of Zhangkuan, the water quality is extremely clear, and the sound of the water is also very pleasant, and the huge wooden wheel pushed by the flowing water rotates slowly at this moment, and as Dong Ce said, a circle of bamboo tubes is fixed on it, and with the rotation of the wooden wheels, the bamboo tubes flow into the wooden trough in the air with the water to a high place, and go straight to the art garden.

Dong Ce explained: "This is a cylinder car, it does not need manpower, it can make my art garden easy to use water, of course, if it is built next to the field waterway, it can naturally be irrigated without manpower and animal power, but this is only a point, in the future, we will build two water wheels on this canal, and the water taken can play a great role, such as a hydrodynamic mill." ”

"Hydrodynamic mills? Isn't this also a matter of human and animal power? Qin Qi was surprised.

"Of course." Dong Ce nodded.

Qin Qi couldn't help but be amazed, he didn't care about the splashes scattered on the cylinder car at all, he walked closer and looked up at the huge cylinder car that was two feet high, and looked at the water tank in the air, and couldn't help but have some more thoughts in his heart!

On the side, Lu Dongzhi looked down at the flowing river of the canal, and couldn't help but wonder: "Why does this river flow so fast?" ”

"Oh, it's because the canal is slightly sloping, and in addition, in the upper reaches we have built a pool, with the water that has been hoarded, with a few water cards, some filtered, some to control the flow of water, the water level of the pond is high, as long as it is released a little, it will naturally flow faster."

"I see!" Lu Dongzhi touched his beard, looked at Qin Qi and said, "What does the eldest master think?" ”

"Yes, that's good!" Qin Qi approved, suddenly looked at Dong Ce, and said with a smile: "In fact, the reason why I asked Dong Gongzi about water conservancy this time is also to test what Dong Gongzi is proficient in addition to business. ”

Only then did Dong Ce understand why Qin Qi was looking for him, at first he thought that he would give him a reward, but he didn't expect to arrange this thankless errand!

But it is undeniable that if the merchants of the Ning Dynasty want to gain a foothold and expand their foundation, they must become the government council, because they can get a lot of convenience, and they don't have to worry about being pitted by the scholars, other businessmen can't ask for it, but for Dong Ce, it is thankless, but there is no way, if he doesn't agree, Qin Qi will give him a little stumbling, and it will be enough for him to drink a pot!