Chapter 50: Old Man Xu
What Su Zedong said was not unreasonable, and a few of the big men who recommended him didn't have much to say, so they had to put down the responsible candidates for the time being, and wait until the evening, when the nineteen selected new management personnel were due, they would discuss it again, and now discuss the specific time of action and the specific measures and response plans during the action. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Su Zedong originally planned to wait for the selection of people to take out these things and discuss them, but now the time is urgent, in addition to arranging people to spread rumors in and around the capital, he also wants to listen to the work feedback and experience exchange of the twenty ghost squad leaders, and after the meeting, he will also leave Liu Zhenming and Su Ersan alone and ask them if they have any matters related to the production of firearms.
Liu and Su have already roughly understood and gone through the production process, methods, and methods of the three-eyed firecracker, but before today's meeting began, Liu Zhenming told Su Zedong that there was a fatal flaw in the drawings designed some time ago - they were too modern, and the materials and craftsmen they had at hand could not reach it at all.
Su Zedong just nodded at that time, and did not give clear instructions, because the people at this meeting were basically gathered, and the main purpose of this meeting was to discuss the selection of personnel to go to Dadu to do business and the discussion of specific methods, as for the problems encountered in the development of firearms, they belonged to the internal development of Dongzhen Company, and it was not suitable to be put on the table.
Moreover, the research and development of technology should be handed over to the people in the technical department to do, Su Zedong, the general manager, in addition to making preparations for funds, materials and personnel, but also to do a good job of confidentiality, although it is now at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is a big step ahead of the people of the end of the Yuan Dynasty in terms of technology and ideology, and it is difficult to mention that there will be competitors who will manufacture it in advance.
But the heart of defense is indispensable, can't you make yourself unproductive if others can't make it? In particular, others may not be people outside the company, and it may also be that their own people can't see it or are afraid of being robbed of credit and miss a big event.
Although Dongzhen Company is still in the development stage, the cause is in the stage of prosperity, everyone, including the management of the people look like they are motivated and aggressive, but people's hearts are compartmentalized skin, it is difficult to guess.
However, Liu Zhenming also said that the three-eyed firearm is not an automatic weapon after all, and now the level of materials and craftsmen cannot be reached because he wants to add some innovation and his own unique things on the basis of the original three-eyed firearm in history.
Liu Zhenming's words became Su Zedong's reassurance, and he asked Liu Zhenming to organize people to get these three-eyed fire guns because they were too famous in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
All those who study the history of the Ming Dynasty or even have a little hobby of history, or have just seen this weapon in the "Hundred Schools of Thought" on TV, and after associating it with the prestigious Guanning Iron Cavalry, the blood in their hearts will arise spontaneously.
Su Zedong is half a "Ming fan", he likes the research and development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty and the maritime culture in the early Ming Dynasty, but he is obsessed with dark politics, which is from love to hate, and he has to come to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, intending to win the Ming Dynasty to seek light for the people, with the light of later generations and cross-era significance......
When discussing the details of going to Dadu, Song Jiwen, who managed the trade between the north and the south, can be said to be the person with the most right to speak, under his management, whether it is Juyitang located in the northern capital, or Dongzhen Company, which is now located in Gaoyou City in the south, there are basically no major problems in the transportation industries such as salt, grain, and arms transportation in the north and south.
In Song Jiwen's view, there are many people in transportation, there is a management method when there are many people, and there is also a method of overall management when there are few people, and since he founded the ghost soldier team and Dongzhen Company with Su Zedong, he has also made great progress in gaining the hearts of the people, gaining the trust of his subordinates and establishing good cooperative relations and even friendship with them.
Therefore, in terms of transportation between the north and the south, in terms of its ways and means, or the transfer of personnel, Song Jiwen is very handy, and he proposed that this time he sent people to Dadu, and he still took the north-south trade route that had been opened up, and in order to hide people's eyes, he must set off within five days, otherwise it will be October after five days, and the investigation will be much stricter at that time.
Because whenever there is a major war, the imperial court will ask officials at all levels in various places to make relevant preparations, including welcoming the army, preparing sufficient military rations, and even ensuring the logistics of the army's rear with the strength of one or more roads in a province (a city or town in later generations), and all provinces and roads along the way must do a good job of investigation;
In order to prevent spies from making obstructions, or some people taking the opportunity to spread rumors and cause trouble, so as to disturb the morale of the army, etc.
Of course, there is also the need to stabilize people's livelihood and ensure that prices do not soar, after all, in troubled times, businessmen who are suppressed by the feudal hierarchy also have opportunities to flourish.
People with little capital, lack of experience, and a small circle can get some fast capital flow and fast returns, and then go to the transportation industry, smuggling industry, etc., anyway, some inconspicuous but lack of people to do the industry, although the income is small, but as long as you are willing to work, you can survive, and you have a little savings if you are lucky, and the successful example of this is Zhang Shicheng......
But Zhang Shicheng is in a good location, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and is engaged in a "family business", just pour private salt to make money, but doing these is quite restricted, so "nine times out of ten lose", if you want to support yourself is not a problem, want to make a lot of money, want to get rich in the world or rely on luck and the accumulation of heritage.
People with a lot of money, rich experience, and a large enough circle can engage in the most profitable shipping in ancient times, no matter in which dynasty, as long as the businessmen who have the ability and the road to "go out" will definitely be rich, and they are still very rich, and the wealth is comparable to the country.
The most typical example at the end of the Yuan Dynasty is Shen Wansan, it is estimated that his family's cornucopia is the road to the sea, as long as he does not encounter strong winds and waves, he will make a steady profit and not lose money.
And these two people can be regarded as "self-reliant" and rely on hard work.
As soon as they heard that they were going to fight, they began to hoard grain, salt, and other bulk products, and when the war came, the people's demand for these products, especially grain, increased, and those businessmen went bad and privately raised the prices of grain, salt, and other bulk products, causing prices to rise and the people to make a living.
Of course, in the end, the rulers of the dynasty will be to blame, if they had not caused wars and the supervision system to be weakened, or even if such things had happened, they would not have caused prices to soar, and the streets were full of people begging, fainting, and starving.
There is no hatred for no reason in this world, there is no love for no reason, behind every ordinary event, there are internal factors and secrets, the feudal rulers hate the merchants to the core, ruthlessly suppress in addition to the people, farmers in addition to the land, there is also a unified price of this reason, the root is to maintain the rule of the ruler.
In addition to clearly proposing that the departure time should be within five days, Song also pointed out that this operation should ensure the safe delivery of personnel, so in the selection of this business route, we must go the most hidden, and at the same time, we must ensure that there are few thieves and bandits, after all, safety is first, so his opinion is to take the stroke, and the most experienced old man Xu will lead the way.
Song Jiwen's opinion was agreed by everyone in the conference hall, and everyone agreed that the veteran Xu would definitely be able to deliver the rumor-spreading team members safely.
As for the selection of the composition of the personnel to go to the north, Su Xuedong still arranged it until the evening, and when the twenty squad leaders of the ghost army arrived, he would have a concentrated discussion on the general division of the functions of the selected personnel, wages, etc., and now let's talk about the work selected by the way of going to the north.
Song's proposal to walk as usual aroused less suspicion; And Su Zedong hopes to be able to get to Dadu sooner, after all, time is money and life in a person's life, and it is the key to victory on the battlefield! Walking like this, even if all the people arrived safely, the war had already begun.
You know, the people who think of going to Dadu to spread rumors and make trouble are not only Dongzhen Company!
Although Zhang Shicheng verbally asked people to do business, he scolded all the businessmen in Gaoyou City except for Dong Zhenguan, saying how they were not good, and how he was sad and helpless, these are all inspiring old tricks, in order to drum up your motivation to do things, and after he has done his part, he will ask you to do it with him.
Therefore, it does not mean that Dongzhen Company is dominant, and others will send people to talk nonsense; But if it is not outrageous and consistent, then it is not a big problem, but if you go there without any preparation, and even the liars don't believe it, and they don't have the confidence to say it, then it is a complete mistake!
When no one will believe what they say, all the rumors and rumors will no longer be believed by anyone......
Su Zedong couldn't be sure that when that time came, in the capital city full of all kinds of rumors, who would care which sentence was true and which was false.
The problems pointed out by Su Zedong are not unreasonable, but Song said in this article that Timur has always been a thorn in the side of many people in the court because of his own reasons, so the more rumors, the more conditions and excuses for the powerful in the DPRK and China to suppress Tokhtar, coupled with the failure of the currency and numismatic reform implemented by Tokhtar, the so-called rumors have naturally become crimes.