The meeting time is always hurried and short, and in the end, I got some reassurance and expectations from Mrs. Chen, and by the way, pointed out a specific direction in the short term.

And the commitment to invest resources such as personal connections, although they are all hidden or intangible things, and I have to pay money or other costs, but being able to find the right way in the huge bureaucratic system of courtiers, coupled with the right guide or introducer, can undoubtedly make people more effective with half the effort.

However, after I came out, Jia Yejun, as the host, pulled me to set down the tea party and sat with me for a while, expressing his gratitude for the local products and gifts I gave.

Speaking of her and the mysterious creature, a few business transactions and projects, let me bring a few letters that are said to be the private self of my daughter's family, and then left slowly.

"I want to know what you guys think about this......"

Jia Yejun, who went and returned, suddenly walked to a curtain and opened his voice

"It's a shame......"

The voice came from behind the curtain, sighing softly

"It's obviously a good investment......"

"It's not because you're hesitating,"

Jia Yejun sneered.

"In the end, it was Miss Yuwen who got the first ......"

"Isn't there still that Cui Nuzheng......"

A voice behind the scenes responded

"If you talk about influence and role, concubines are always inferior to the status of the wife......"

Another voice continued to sigh

"If it's just this level, why bother so much......"

"We've been ...... all these years What a ......?"

"But anyway......"

Jia Yejun interrupted

"He's on his toes now...... The attitude and way of dealing with it will also change......"

"After all, a person who is good at operating and buying real estate inside, and can govern the army and win the war when he is released"

"Don't say it's those mediocre feudal families, even in the land of Guangfu, which is the land of Kinai, it can be regarded as a rare choice of talents in these years......"

"If this continues, even the adults in the Shoushan Palace or the Upper City will hear his name sooner or later

"It's even more rare that his background is still shallow, and he is on the side of us, if you don't step up a little bit...... The other side is not without other options"

"Then I can only try my best to support and win over that Miss Yuwen......"

"Anyway, she's a new member of us, not a ......"

"How about giving more goodwill and further friendship......"

Mrs. Chen, who had been watching from the wall without saying a word, sighed deeply, as a group of women with status and power, their power and influence can only play a role behind the scenes after all.

It is also subject to the constraints of their own limitations and the control of their vision, whether they want to or not, what can stand on the table is always the rules of the game that belong to men.

After setting the direction and basic plan, I quickly came out of the fatigue of post-war rest and began to enter a state of workaholicism, frequently receiving reports from various subordinates day and night, dealing with some accumulated problems, and giving forward-looking instructions on the problems and directions encountered in production and management.

The three main businesses that are fundamental to my fortune: Tiangonghao, Lanlufang and Yayun Club have fully resumed operation and production, and after an initial low ebb, they have re-entered a certain explosive upward momentum because of the many official orders.

therefore

Now there are nearly 10,000 people of all kinds who directly live in my family's name or rely on it to make a living, and other peripheral or related downline businesses, and all kinds of people who are directly or indirectly related to each other, are several times this.

Even the local area of Guangfu, where wealthy businessmen gathered, can be called a representative and large-scale large factory owner and manor owner of this era.

As a result, I found that if I was not careful, I had become a representative of the evil exploiting class in the ideological and moral education curriculum of later generations, who should be beaten to the point that they could not turn over.

Although I have some means of favor, such as bereavement benefits and above-average treatment, which are of great favor to the hearts of the people, this does not change my nature as a rentier who exploits surplus value.

It's just that the means of acting are more gentle and tactful than others, and there is no short-sightedness that disregards the appearance of eating, and in the eyes of modern people, more attention is paid to research and development and the value-added extension of products to increase revenue and profit margins

Instead of trying to squeeze the last bit of blood and sweat of the hired workers and slaves through the harsh and harsh management methods of the majority of the workshop owners of this era, so as to realize the so-called primitive accumulation of thrifty housekeeping in the mouth of the descendants of some landlords and capitalists in later generations, it casually became a model of conscience and morality passed down by the mouth of the people below.

Then I found out that the main problem now is the contradictions and disputes accumulated in the Borneo clan.

When I went out to fight, something happened in the Borneo Guild, because some of the merchants who were quite powerful formed a merchant fleet to go to the front of the army under the call of their own family.

Therefore, in the main hall of Guangfu, there was inevitably a little emptiness, so the group of people from East Borneo seemed to see some kind of opportunity, and with the support of several local feudal clans, they took the opportunity to rise up, wanting to control and grasp the dominance of the so-called Borneo Guild Hall, and as a result, they were very much in a fight with the merchants of West Borneo who consciously joined together, and fought openly and secretly for a while.

To say that the regional differences between East and West Borneo have a long history,

East Borneo was the earliest civilized among the Tokaido domains, and before the Liang Dynasty opened the South China Sea, there were already Chinese people gathered there, so it has been familiar with each other for generations, and the degree of development is very high, and it is also a humanities victory, with the highest university in the entire Borneo and three-quarters of the official and private schools.

Because it is a rich and mature land with early civilization, the number and area of the prefectures, counties and counties directly led by the state dynasty in the so-called East Borneo Road are also larger than the local feuds, so the few local feudal clans can be divided, and the ancestors are all old nobles with great power and influence in the country, but the local atmosphere is also more moderate or somewhat weak

In contrast, West Borneo was more civilized, and gradually seized the land from the local Turkish states, so the prefectures and counties directly under the direct control of the state were far fewer than the settled feudal families, who were smaller but more numerous, but also more fierce, because they had to maintain a certain amount of force to fight against the savage barbarians who were still active in the depths of the mountain barbarian forests.

Therefore, when there was the Borneo Association, an important agency that had initially been officially recognized, those Turkish forces in East Borneo naturally participated in the name of their fellow villagers in order to seek some convenience and security.

After all, compared to the benefits of having a collective as a backing and negotiation partner, a little money and resources is really nothing. It's just that where there are people, there must be interests and contradictions, so there are also people who lack people's hearts.

After a long time, some people think that East Borneo is far superior to West Borneo in terms of resources and products, population and trade scale, but why should Guangfu be subject to the group of West Borneo, and the mud legs have not yet been washed under the pure soil turtles.

As a result, all kinds of strange rumors and rumors spread around, and with the secret support of several local feudal families, they began to connect and gather, demanding more speech power and dominance shares, and the conflict on the surface evolved into a small action in private.

Intercepting goods, smashing warehouses, maliciously creating rumors, stealing beams and replacing pillars with shoddy products to ruin reputation, all kinds of means are continuous. But the enigmatic creatures that sit in my house are not fuel-efficient lamps.

She just took my hand sticker and asked the official Murong Wu to come forward, and someone from the defense army came over to maintain order for a few days, so that the other party understood that the local forces they relied on were beyond the reach of Guangfu here, and it was difficult to make the upper force, and these people stopped in awe.

But with her identity, she can only do this, and if she goes down, she will be a little overstepping.

Now when I come back, I have to do a good job of calculating the old and new accounts, such as causing a few fires at the docks, or creating a few sea hazards, or something, so that the people standing behind them have to show up directly and give me an explanation and explanation.

Otherwise, although I can't go to East Borneo to find trouble with the other party, they are in Canton, and they don't want to do business properly, or they can only pray that they will not have the opportunity to come to Canton for the rest of their lives.

As for the pressure and influence that may be caused to the Luo clan in West Borneo, then I don't care about my, I don't care about the gains and losses there.

During this period, Shen Yue, a former master craftsman who had been silent for a long time, handed me the first sample.

You must know that for more than a year, he has been buried in the workshop, almost eating, drinking, and lazing in front of the workbench and machinery, except for the improvement of the hydraulic forging hammer and the standardized production system of the assembly line under my prompting, there is no more achievement.

"That's the only thing you've achieved for most of the year......"

I hold a slender steel bar in my hand, although the gray and black are inconspicuous, it is no different from the material used in ordinary iron shops to increase the strength of ironware, 300 wen a catty, but it is another new product of my workshop, a spring steel concocted by a new method.

That's right, it's spring steel, a spring strip that can be restored no matter how it is twisted and bent.

Although there is already a prototype of spring steel in this era, in terms of process principle, it is actually just a product of raw steel and wrought iron, which is built together by the steel clamping method, although it also has elasticity, endurance and strength, which are not satisfactory and can only be used as larger hooks.

At first, my craftsmen came up with a workaround, which was to forge long sheets of commercially bought spring iron, cut the filaments one by one, and then heat them while further drawing them with stone die holes to obtain some elastic wires.

However, there is still a considerable gap between the elastic iron wire and the qualified spring steel wire.

However, after the previous steps and the accumulation of experience, I can start to try to prepare for the production of carbon steel springs, compared to the tall alloy steel springs or special steel springs in later generations, the threshold of carbon spring steel is the lowest.

The key is to use the lead solution to temper the repeated process of quenching with grease, the mastery and actual recording of various fire conditions and scales, and finally the use of warm sand to remove the stress generated during the metal processing process.

Even if there is sufficient theoretical guidance and forward-looking application, this process is a level and bottleneck that cannot be omitted and leaped forward.

Don't look at this inconspicuous spring, but it is an important part that is widely used in the development system of the modern industrial revolution.

For example, the movement of control machinery, such as valve springs in steam engines, control springs in gear machinery, etc. Another example is to absorb vibration and impact energy, as a buffer spring for vehicles, vibration absorption springs in couplings, etc

It can also store and output energy as power, such as clock springs, springs in firearms, etc. It can even be used as a force measuring element, such as a force tester, a spring in a spring scale, etc. The ratio of the load to the deformation of the spring is called the spring rate, and the greater the stiffness, the stiffer the spring.

As long as there are springs of sufficient strength, the bottleneck in the mass production of firing rearloading guns will be greatly relieved.