The branch of the Huang family in Fuzhou still did not open after all, Huang Lingjiu contracted the business to Lin Ji, and since then Lin Ji has also been engaged in the wholesale of high-grade timber, which of course depends on Chunbao's face, and the payment of 3,600 oceans advanced by Zhiqiu was also under the initiative of Boss Lin, from borrowing to shares, and it is also considered to be managed under the name of Chunbao.

Lin Ji's total capital is only 40,000 oceans, Chunbao's shares account for 10% of the proportion, and the identity of the shopkeeper, he can finally implement Lin Ji's "revolution" according to his own ideas, the word revolution he still learned in the first year of his apprenticeship, in April of that year, there were heads hanging on the telephone poles on the streets of Zhabei and Nanshi, it is said that those people were cut off because of the revolution, so Chunbao understood one thing, the revolution is to offend people, and the revolution is to die. But if Lin Kee wanted to expand production, he had to make a revolution.

Lin Ji is the life of the production method, Lin Ji makes the abacus with ancestral craftsmanship, wood slicing, punching, beads, grinding and polishing, all by hand, although the production is excellent, but the output is low, the craftsmanship of the craftsman is very high. There are many options that can replace manpower, first of all, animal power, Chunbao saw the flour mill in Xuzhou when he was a child using donkey grinding, but the output of animal power is uneven and stable, this one was given up first, and then the diesel engine, some factories purchased their own diesel engine as the power source of the machine, this thing is to drink oil, the strength is greater than that of cattle and horses, and the output is also uniform and stable, the disadvantage is that the noise is too loud, and the disturbance of the neighbors outweighs the loss, so there is only one option left.

Shanghai Tang has been using electricity for a long time, in the eighth year of Guangxu, that is, a full 50 years ago, the British Concession replaced the gas lamp with electric lamps, and in the 24th year of Guangxu, Huajie also opened a government-run Nanshi Electric Light Factory, and now it has been 11 years of the Republic of China, Lin Ji has long used electric lighting, but the electricity is still blank for production. Chunbao told Boss Lin about this idea, and Boss Lin said that it was not that he hadn't thought about it, but how could he do it without a machine that made electricity.

The equipment in the workshop is old goods, from the father of Boss Lin began to contribute, there is no place to connect the motor, this is difficult Chunbao, in the big factory as a worker operating the machine is his dream of youth, Chunbao ran all over the concession and Huajie factory, consulted many technicians, and finally developed a suitable machine.

One day, several crates were sent into the workshop, and the craftsmen of Lin Ji quietly watched the workers brought by Chunbao under the leadership of Boss Lin unpacking and assembling and debugging, and the workers wore blue canvas bib pants and large leather shoes with rubber soles from Jiangnan Shipyard.

Chun Bao personally used a crowbar to open the crate, commanded the men to lift out an extremely heavy cylindrical iron guy, fixed it on the floor, and unpacked and assembled the machine, this is a group of small machines composed of gears and belts, used to turn abacus beads and punch knives and drill bits are brand new, Chun Bao introduced that this is made of the best gun steel in the arsenal to make Krupp cannons, the tensile strength is more than hundreds of times higher than the steel beaten by the blacksmith shop, a wire is connected to the iron guy, Chun Bao personally tested the machine, He first used a cloth to wipe off the butter on the fine turning knife, the blade revealed the true face of the blue and shiny, after the power on, the machine buzzed, the turning knife rotated at a uniform speed, Chun Bao picked up a piece of iron quinoa wood and approached the turning knife, the hard wood was as easy and smooth as cutting tofu under the harder high-carbon steel blade, and in an instant an abacus blank was formed, if the rickshaw knife was used, I am afraid it would take more than ten times more time. Everyone was dumbfounded, and Boss Lin asked with awe what this thing was called.

Chun Bao noticed the concerned gaze on the second floor, and he cleared his throat and said, "This is called Motor." ”

The machine was successfully commissioned, Lin Ji abacus factory entered the era of electrification, several senior old mages were dissatisfied, they worked in Lin Ji for a lifetime, the unique job is to have a measured hand, when the car beads are less waste, save wood, but the emergence of the electric machine makes them proud of the craft in a blink of an eye has become a useless thing, any apprentice who is not stupid or stupid, as long as he learns for two days, he can use the machine to produce bead blanks that meet the requirements, so the old mages are afraid that the rice bowl will be smashed, and they can not live in fear. But the shopkeeper did not dismiss them, nor did he cut their wages, but patiently taught them to use the machine, Chun Bao said: "The treasure knife is matched with the hero, and the masters use the Motor, which is a top two." So everyone put their hearts back into their bellies and praised Chunbao for their benevolence and righteousness.

Chunbao and Boss Lin discussed the purchase of land in Huxi, buy a house in the concession, his reason is that it is necessary to expand the scale of production, the workshops in the south city are no longer enough, although Huxi is regarded as the Chinese boundary, but over the years the concession Ministry of Industry Bureau has been quietly crossing the border to build roads, forming the actual jurisdiction, so the land price in Huxi will rise, and buying a house in the concession is for security reasons, sooner or later there will be a war between China and Japan, the war is together, Nanshi is likely to become a battlefield, not only hundreds of thousands of people in the Chinese world, Even the wealthy families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had to flee to the concession to settle down, and it would be too late to do it again. Boss Lin thought so, and the two hit it off and decided to immediately raise funds to buy land and houses.

The land along the Huxi Highway has risen, but the land price is still cheaper than the prosperous area of the concession, Lin Ji spent 10,000 oceans to buy a piece of land, pulled the courtyard wall, built a workshop, specially stored wood, and produced and marketed the 13th to 19th ordinary abacus for the national market. At the insistence of Chunbao, Lin Ji gave up the low-end market of bamboo and wood abacus, specializing in the high-end market, Lin Ji's abacus is willing to use good materials, beams, according to and files are made of mahogany, and the metal parts are also made of the best brass, which is durable and has a good reputation, north to Pingjin, south to Fujian and Guangdong, west to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and can be seen on the counter of the local shop inn restaurant with the Abacus inlaid with Lin Kee's copper nameplate.

Chun Bao lives in Huxi to run the factory, and the stores and workshops in Nanshi continue to operate, but no longer make currency abacus, but mainly high-end customization, such as the kind of giant abacus embedded in the counter, the miniature abacus that can be placed in the jewelry box, and the various appreciative abacus made of gold, silver, pearls and jade, as long as the customer can think of it, Lin Ji can make it. As long as he is free, Chun Bao will go around looking for the acquisition of old abacus, he thinks that the abacus shop also has to pay attention to pomp, with antique abacus from various dynasties to decorate the façade is the best advertisement, so the samples in the glass case are replaced by all kinds of antique abacus. Chun Bao also changed from an abacus practitioner to an abacus collector, once someone once took an antique abacus to test him, Chun Bao took a look at it, and said: "This four seasons fortune should be in the Wanli period." "The five-body body that people admire is thrown to the ground. Afterwards, Boss Lin asked him about the mystery, Chunbao said: "Actually, there is nothing difficult, you will naturally understand when you see more, this abacus on both sides of the frame is stretched out of a tenon, this is called the early four, also called the four seasons of fortune, is for the chair handle and the sedan chair for use, this is a popular style in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and it is no longer used in the Qing Dynasty, at least I have not seen the real thing." Boss Lin asked him again: "Then how do you know that it is an old product of Wanli Nian?" Chun Bao smiled: "Wanli Ye has reigned for forty-eight years, the longest time, and the probability of making a mistake during the Wanli period is small." Boss Lin didn't know what a foreign word "probability" was, he only knew that he hadn't picked the wrong son-in-law.

But Baozhu is not willing to marry Chunbao, she graduated from Minli Girls' High School at the age of eighteen, she quietly went to apply for a salesperson in Sincere Company, and was found by Boss Lin afterwards, locked in the house and not allowed to go out, closed for half a month and finally stopped, and then made a fuss, saying that she was determined to go to St. John's University, and her family would commit suicide by hunger strike if she objected to her. Boss Lin was helpless and asked for the opinion of his prospective son-in-law, Chunbao's attitude was very clear, and he resolutely supported Baozhu's entrance to university.

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Zhiqiu decided to fulfill his father's second wish and build the house. It doesn't cost too much money to build a house, a thousand oceans are enough, I didn't have the energy to manage it before, but now that the marriage is over, Jiahui's belly is bulging day by day, and Zhiqiu plans to take advantage of the birth of his first child to complete the construction and have a double happiness.

Everything is in accordance with the original construction seven years ago, but the materials are more solid, the girder is Chun Bao from Shanghai chartered wagon transport, the carpenters were stunned after seeing it, said that it is amazing, this is the Nanmu used to build the Jinluan Palace!

After reading the wood, he said: "There is a book called "Naturalist Essentials" during the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, which says that Nanmu produces Yuzhang and Huguangyungui counties, and it is as large as dozens of people, and it is very fragrant to saw. Nanmu is also divided into three kinds, one is called Jinsi Nan, one is said to be Xiangnan, one is said to be Shuinan, water can not be soaked, ants can not burrow, Jinluan Hall is the thickest of the golden silk Nanmu, to Kangxi can not find such a big material, these should be Xiangnan, although not as valuable as Jinsi Nan, it is also considered to be a good wood. ”

The rebuilding of Liu's Mansion is the Nanmu girder spread all over Xuzhou Mansion, and it has earned a lot of glory for the autumn face, and relatives and friends also know that Chunbao is really good in Shanghai, and the Nanmu girder is proof.

A few days before the completion of the project, the child in Jiahui's belly was born, it was a pair of twin baby girls, Zhiqiu was ecstatic, but Liu Shao, who did not hold his grandson, was a little unhappy, but he didn't hang it on his face, just put away the prepared Hetian Yupei, and asked Dafeng to go to Lao Tianbao on Datong Street to buy two golden locks for his granddaughters as a gift.

Zhiqiu was preparing for the full moon wine, and suddenly received a letter from Shanghai, Chun Bao said in the letter that he and Baozhu were married, and planned to take his new wife back to his hometown next month.