"Proprietor, hurry up." Only Yang Qiu said: "Let's get out of the fort today, and then I will put the news over there in the name of Liu Dequan, if it is a few days later, those dead ghosts will float up, and people will know that the inside line is exposed, and our method will not be good." ”

"Okay." Zhang Han stood up and said to Wang Changfu: "Mobilize people, Yang Qiu will let go now, I said I want to go to Zhangjiakou, let's leave in the afternoon, and the momentum will be louder when we leave the fort." ”

"Medium!"

"The proprietor can rest assured that the quasi-guarantee is properly handled."

Everyone got up, Zhou Fengji and Liang Hong pulled Zhang Han and told him for a long time, it was nothing for the bandits to let go, even if they gave up the business to Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu, it didn't matter, the important thing was that Zhang Han must protect himself, in case Zhang Han made a mistake, how many lines to Xuanfu could not make up for it.

Now He Yusheng, no one can replace Zhang Han, and Zhang Han has no brothers and nephews, plus he is still young, he has not yet married, and he does not even have an heir.

Zhou Fengji looked at Zhang Han and said: "The proprietor is back, hurry up and start a family, give birth to a little proprietor, and train well, and he will be a good helper in the future." ”

Zhang Han smiled and responded, Zhou Fengji and Liang Hong just left, and Yusheng is now a big business, these two shopkeepers are also very busy, the shopkeepers of the branches around the country are mostly the big guys they brought out, every time there is something will send someone to ask for instructions, every day there are detailed accounts, goods adjustment, pricing, warehousing, current accounts, personnel deployment, all kinds of things, not the accumulation of years of the shopkeeper may not be able to cook open, take Liang Hong as an example, not only to take care of the main store, but also the mule and horse shop, as well as the factory composed of craftsmen here, the materials required, The deployment of the carriage and the management of the mule and horse shop are all related to him, and Liang Hong is busy every day.

This situation is estimated to take another year or two, and the shopkeeper of the branch has also been experienced, and he can be transferred to be the deputy of the two shopkeepers.

Everyone else went to work, no one was idle, even Zhang Chun went to prepare guns and ammunition, Zhang Han looked at the account books and reports in the house for a while...... The report was taught by him to the branch managers and bookkeepers in various places, and the branches had reports every day, and the nearest ones were delivered every day, and those far away were sent every few days.

In fact, the main purpose of this thing is very simple, that is, a variety of formats and dynamic data, not detailed accounts, is to report the details of each branch in the form of reports, including the daily customer list, according to the size of the customer arranged clearly, it is best to note the customer's back, scene and simple information, as well as their requirements, and then the product list, which one consumes fast, which one requires more, the list of items, the order form, the delivery order, the storage order and so on.

These things, after the junior high school education in the later generations can be done in a few days, but for the branch shopkeepers around the world, this thing is very difficult, Zhang Han noticed that the report format is very good, the font is clear, the report is concise and rich in content There are few, he noticed that Li Dongxue of the East Second Store and Mo Zongtong of Tianchengwei The two branch shopkeepers are good, this day is still the same, the reports of the rest of the branches are more or less faulty, if it is usually Zhang Han will write for them to modify, today he is a little upset, After picking up the pen and changing a few copies, he sighed, put down the rest of the mess, and planned to catch Liang Hong's errand when he came back, and asked him to take the people in the literacy class to learn and change at the same time, and he was only guiding on the side.

Putting down the report, Zhang Han went out and looked at the sky.

The sun gradually moved to the position of about ten o'clock, the specific time has to go to the intersection of North Street and South Street to see the bell and drum tower, Xinpingbao here is not as good as the south, I heard that Suzhou and Yangzhou have a lot of Westerners to sell the bell from the bell, there are big and small, the pocket watch seems to be introduced after a few years, in fact, it is essentially the same as the clock, it is nothing more than to make the clock smaller.

Zhang Han really wants to buy a clock, but he also has to send someone to Jingshi, and he may not be able to buy it, people in the south can buy it if they have silver, and there are rare things like Jingshi, and there are not enough of those powerful and rich people on the market, and a foreign businessman like himself has no reputation, no connections, and people who have silver may not sell it to you.

There are some Japanese goods here in Xinpingbao, folding fans and Japanese knives, the number is very small, only a very small number of Mongolian nobles will buy these rare things to play, Datong here in the Ming Dynasty can also sell some, Taiyuan and several large mansions also have people to buy, Xinpingbao such a border everywhere, no one will buy these flashy things.

The mule and horse shop was divided into three parts, the outermost hundred and ten rooms were the stables and the men's dwellings, and the middle west was separated from the silver storehouse by the grain depot and the general storehouse, which were separated by a wall, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter.

Further inside is the factory area, where the craftsmen create goods and live areas, and the place is larger and more empty.

Dozens of freshly built cars are lined up in neat rows, and several painters are painting the carriages, and when the varnish is dry, the cars will be ready for use.

Zhang Han walked closer and looked at the wheels in the front and rear rows, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

These four ** cars are built according to Zhang Han's ideas through trial and error, compared to the old carriage with wheels on the left and right sides of the body, the wheels of the new carriage are under the body, the delicate components made of fine iron are axles and wheels, and the connecting part of the front car and the horse is the steering axle made of fine iron, the body is simple and generous.

Zhang Han is also designing a light carriage, with one or two horses in front, the coachman sits in front, and the back is an open-top body, which can seat two people, the rear wheels are tall and the front wheels are short, the body components are few, and the manned travel maintains a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and if you can change horses all the way, you can walk at least 200 kilometers a day...... Of course, this is the theoretical speed, unless it is running on the most important large official roads in the north of the Ming Dynasty, barely able to guarantee the speed, if you want to go to the Acropolis of Tiancheng or the Acropolis of Zhenyu in Xinpingbao, or further south, to the west, in addition to the official road to Datong is not bad, the rest of the official roads are high-lying and uneven, three feet of soil on sunny days, three feet of mud on rainy days, broken bridges lead to broken roads from time to time, sunny days are good, rainy days for an hour do not say twenty kilometers, twenty miles can not go, an hour can also go ten miles, this is still the function of the carriage against the skyIf the ordinary cart is still loaded, you can walk slowly in the mud, and it would be good to be able to walk one or two miles in an hour.

"The proprietor is here?"

"The villain has seen the proprietor."

At the intersection of the factory area, opposite the newly made carriages, there was a row of stoves, where the iron horseshoe was made, and there were also the firecrackers, knives and guns.

Lao Cai and others are checking the newly beaten horseshoe here, a few people are holding the horse on the side, there are new horseshoes, and there are also those who check the old horseshoe, Lao Cai is lying on the ground and looking very carefully, and he does not dare to let go of any doubts.

It wasn't until Zhang Han approached that these people saw the proprietor coming, Lao Cai hurriedly got up to salute, and the rest of them also bowed, their faces full of respect.

Zhang Han waved his hand and said with a smile: "Everyone continue to do their own thing, don't take care of me." ”

Everyone knew his temper at this time, he was not the kind of proprietor who was high up and liked to put on a show, and he didn't like everyone gossiping and mistaking what was in hand, so he confessed his guilt and continued to be busy.

The horseshoe is also very important, and Yusheng now has more than 1,000 horses, the average price is less than six taels, if it is a war horse, the inferior third-class war horse is also more than seven taels, and in the future, because of the war, the price of the war horse will only get higher and higher.

In the past few decades, the Ming Dynasty has used the relationship of the horse market, in addition to having a small amount of horse breeding land, is to buy a large number of Mongolian war horses, Xuanda Shanxi Jizhen each town every time the official market, the purchase of horses in silver are more than 100,000, the number of horses in one or two thousand, the number of horses in the border towns add up to hundreds of thousands, these war horses effectively ensure the combat effectiveness of the border generals, used to deal with the poor organizational structure, combat effectiveness and equipment are not difficult to deal with the north, to deal with the southwest Yi is not a problem, there are small groups of rogues, As soon as the elite officers and soldiers came out, they were immediately flattened, but when they encountered Nuerhachi, who was out of Li Chengliang, the Ming army could not please them.

Of course, Zhang Han will not buy war horses, except for the dozens of war horses used by the dart master, all the rest are bought horses, as well as a large number of mules and donkeys, adding up to more than 2,000, but of course these mules and horses will not all be in Xinpingbao, most of them are scattered in branches everywhere.

With the opening of more and more branches in the future, there must be more and more mules and horses, now Lao Cai takes people to the horseshoe every day, feeds the horses, washes, takes care of the sick horses, and the apprentices with them also slowly learn a lot of things, there are many veterinarians in the fort, and they are hired by Zhang Han to come back a few times, anyway, they can't make a living elsewhere, Xinping Fort originally had more than ten or twenty mules and horses, how many car owners, and now all of them are closed down, and the porter is either making a living here in Zhang Han, or he is scattered, and the new porter is doing some miscellaneous things in front of Lao Cai, Learn to take care of mules and horses, after a long time, loyalty will come up, will pick some strong and courageous porters to make up for the dart master, at present, the whole and Yusheng is like a precision machine, every subtlety is working well.

"The proprietor," Yang Hegao walked over at this time, and said with a somewhat nervous expression: "We are still trying the wire drawing method that the proprietor said, and the wire that comes out now is either thick or thin, and it is difficult to form......

"There's no hurry." Zhang Han patted Yang Hegao on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You haven't done this thing before, so it's not surprising that you won't be able to come out for a while." ”

Zhang Han is to ask Yang Hegao to pull out the rough spring, used to absorb shock, can make the carriage structure more solid, but this thing does not say the craftsmen of Xinpingbao, it is estimated that there are few people in the capital can do a good job, before the Ming Dynasty, China did not have chain mail, let alone drawing technology, the Yuan Dynasty introduced chain mail, and later the Ming Dynasty began to imitate, earlier when the national strength was strong, the national strength was weakened in these years, the chain mail was made less, and the protection was also average, the general border army was still more expensive with iron scale armor, chain mail and leather armor were secondary, Generally, generals and family members are used to set double armor, and elite archers will also wear chain mail, and the number is very small.

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