"Young Master Yu, this condition ...... It's too generous. After thinking for a long time, Xu Lin's throat moved, and he was not ready to guess anymore: "Forgive the contemptible people, it is too generous, so that the contemptible people really dare not agree." ”

"Quite simply, I don't have enough energy to spread the stall too big. Moreover, although the cotton textile industry is very profitable, it also has a lot of manpower investment, so I actually took advantage of it when I handed it over to Brother Xu. Yu Guozhen said this and smiled: "Brother Xu, do you remember that Huang Shun?" ”

"Naturally, I remember that he was introduced to Yu Gongzi by contemptible, and I heard my family's shopkeeper in Guangzhou's state say that this person also became rich and had a fortune of Wanguan, and at that time the contemptible people knew that it must be Yu Gongzi's guidance."

"He's honest and does his best for me, so I mentored him." Yu Guozhen said: "The money in the world is inexhaustible, I instructed him, he set up a coal mine and a limestone mine, sell these two to me, and I will use them to burn cement." In the future, I will entrust such an industry to reliable people, everyone who has money to earn, and everyone who has wealth to make money, this is the most reasonable way of business. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xu Lin was in awe.

He knew what Yu Guozhen meant, and he also believed that Yu Guozhen was sincere in what he said. Therefore, he nodded: "That is the case, Yu Gongzi's kindness is contemptible!" ”

"Naturally, I also have something to ask Brother Xu for help." Yu Guozhen smiled slightly: "I ask Brother Xu to hire more female workers in this textile workshop." ”

"Huh?"

"I did the math, this time I went south, the number of men and women was about ten to one." Yu Guozhen said: "And most of the men are young and strong, and within three or five years, their family will be laid out." If a man has a family and a wife, his heart will be calm, and he will be able to stay in Qin'zhou for a long time. ”

Xu Lin suddenly realized and nodded again and again.

Yu Guozhen has a point, if they have a family, these people can stay in Qin'zhou with peace of mind. On the contrary, if they do not have a family and earn enough money, they will want to go back to their hometown to marry a wife and have children.

In fact, this is not all the reason why Yu Guozhen transferred the textile workshop to Xu Lin.

In Yu Guozhen's view, the only thing he must firmly grasp is the future heavy industry, because heavy industry is the foundation of the rest of the industry, and the level of heavy industry almost determines the level of the entire industry.

Those who think that they can abandon heavy industry and rely solely on light industries such as textiles and toys to industrialize a country with a large population in Europe are definitely pawns used by advanced industrial countries to restrain the industrialization of late-developing countries.

For example, if Yu Guozhen wants to build a textile workshop that earns more than 10,000 taels of silver a year, the investment may only need more than 1,000 taels or even a few hundred taels, but if he wants to build a metallurgical workshop that earns more than 10,000 taels of silver a year, the investment cannot be less than a few thousand taels. And if he wants to make some technical changes to it, the investment will have to be even greater.

Ordinary businessmen, who is willing to spend so much effort and money? If you make money, buy land and buy a house, or buy some antique calligraphy and paintings!

"Since this is the case, I will go back and move south." Xu Lin pondered for a while, and finally made up his mind completely: "Farewell." ”

Yu Guozhen was busy arranging people to leave Nanzhili, and Shi Kefa was also busy over there.

Busy raising money. Even with the appropriation from the imperial court, even with the support promised by Zhang Guowei, and the money that Zheng Zhilong spent to buy people, Shi Kefa still felt that he was stretched.

The plague of the rogues is now under his jurisdiction, and only the prefectures and counties that have been completely captured by the rogues include Chao' County, Lu' Prefecture, Lu' River, and Huo Mountain, and those that were once disturbed by thieves are all in almost all states and counties. Among them, Lu Prefecture was even swept over two provinces, one Liukou, and one under the jurisdiction of Zhu Dadian, who later recovered Lu Prefecture. Therefore, the number of people who need to be appeased is almost a million!

"Master, the emergency documents from the counties have arrived again." Zhang Chi presented several papers on his desk.

"What's it?" Shi Kefa didn't bother to look through it.

"It is said that there is no money and grain in the county treasury, and the reserve warehouse is also empty."

Needless to say, the breached cities were accustomed to scourges, and they took away everything they could eat and take, but what they could not bring with them was a fire, so that the ruined cities had almost no grain of grain in store. In the rest of the prefectures and counties, although there is still some grain in stock, the governors and counties all know in their hearts, and they don't know how long it will take to take out all the grain in stock, let alone take it to help refugees from other states and counties.

At this time, if you say that you still have food in stock, not only will you not be able to show your skills, but you will become the target of public criticism. It's better to cry to the boss, and cry a little bit.

Therefore, almost every day, Shi Kefa's staff would receive official letters for him crying for help.

"The official ordered them to think of more ways, how did they come up with a way to cry to the official one by one?" Shi Kefa was irritated for a while: "Xiuzhi, you will deal with it for the official, just say that if they can't do it, they can ask the court to resign and replace it with a capable person!" ”

This is said harshly, which is completely different from the current officialdom, but it has a bit of Yu Guozhen's momentum of flipping the table without saying a word. Zhang Chi glanced at Shi Kefa in a daze, and while he was surprised in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Yu Guozhen, who unknowingly had a great influence on Shi Kefa, you must know that Shi Kefa is extremely stubborn, and he has never had much good impression of Yu Guozhen. Thinking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but sigh again, if he hadn't turned against Yu Guozhen, and tens of thousands of people were handed over to Yu Guozhen to deal with, how much would the difficulties of the imperial court be reduced!

"Master, acting like this is unreasonable, I'm afraid it's counterproductive." Feeling emotional, Zhang Chi had to remind Shi Kefa: "After all, we are officials of the imperial court." ”

Shi Kefa just said angry words, he closed his eyes, only felt a pain in his temple, after a while, he sighed: "That...... Has Zheng Zhifeng ever come? ”

"Not yet here."

Shi Kefa is now very much looking forward to Zheng Zhifeng's coming to Lu'zhou earlier, if he comes to receive this group of people, it can not only reduce Shi Kefa's consumption of 70,000 or 80,000 people, but also bring nearly 200,000 taels of silver. Therefore, when he heard that Zheng Zhifeng had not yet come, Shi Kefa's forehead was beating even harder.

Bewildered.

With his talent, at most, he is an official for a certain chief official, responsible for drafting some official documents and the like, and the response is random, which is not his forte at all.

"What about that Xu Lin Xu Zhongyuan, didn't I invite him to the Lu' State Mansion?"

In order to raise money, Shi Kefa can be said to have tried his best, and he also fought the idea of Hui merchants. But Hui merchants all have their own backstage, and he can only find those who have a good relationship with him, including Xu Lin.

"This ...... I heard that this Xu Zhongyuan has a very good relationship with Yu Guozhen, and he is still doing nothing a few days ago......."

Zhang Chi's words were very tactful, Shi Kefa suddenly sat up straight, Shi Kefa is now short of money and food to the extreme, so it is one hundred stone rice and two hundred taels of silver, and he will not hesitate to reach out and ask for it. Xu Lin sponsored him 20,000 taels of silver last year, in his opinion, he is a rich man, and he intends to befriend him, at this time, of course, he must reach out to him. But the meaning of Zhang Chi's words, Shi Kefa still heard it.

"You mean...... Will he move for Yu Guozhen and stop supporting me? Shi Kefa pondered for a moment, and then smiled dumbly: "That's not it, most of his sons and nephews in his family have served under my account, and they are quite loyal." Although Yu Guozhen is eloquent, he can't say that he can't move such a character. ”

Zhang Chi didn't respond yet, and then he heard another staff member walk in outside, looking quite angry: "Master, Xu Lin is so rude!" ”

"Huh?" Shi Kefa was stunned for a moment.

"How to be rude?" Zhang Chi asked.

"This letter will be recalled by all the children of the Xu family under the master's account, and the student will also be asked to hand over a letter to the master." This staff member went to invite Xu Lin, originally he thought it was a fat poor, and he had to be filial when he arrived at the Xu family, but this trip not only ran away in vain, but also received a lot of cold words in the Xu family.

Shi Kefa took the letter, a bad premonition made him hesitate for a moment, and then handed the letter to Zhang Chi: "Xiuzhi, you can read it for me." ”

Zhang Chi opened the letter, looked at it a few times, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Master, this Xu Zhongyuan is ...... over there"

"What's wrong?"

"Many of his children are under the master's account, and the result is in Lu'zhou, he ...... in his heart Well, I didn't like it, so I called the rest of the children back. ”

"Being able to sacrifice his life for the country was originally a matter of his Xu family's glorious lintel, and besides, didn't I ask for credit for it?" Shi Ke [***] was stunned: "What does he mean, you can say it directly." ”

"He is going to move south, saying yes, saying that he is really not at ease that the lord can keep the peace, so he moved away to avoid the disaster of war."

Shi Kefa stood up, his face twitched, and after a while, he sat down.

He didn't want to read that letter, he now understood why many rich and noble families who had been on good terms with him had obviously become perfunctory in their attitude towards him, he originally thought they were just stingy, but now it seemed that they were not only reluctant to pay for food, but also lacked trust in him Shi Kefa, and did not believe that he could make a career in the governor of An'lu.

However, Shi Kefa still has merit at least in terms of the fortitude of the surname, and after only a moment of depression, he sat up straight again, his eyes shining.

"I personally went to visit from house to house, I don't believe it, without him Yu Guozhen, I can't handle the resettlement of the victims!" He glanced at his staff: "Help me!" ”

"I am willing to serve the old man!" And all the people stood up and bowed their hands, and their mouths answered.

However, there was a tragedy flowing in this governor's yamen, and Zhang Chi's mouth moved, but in the end it turned into a sigh.

What's the use of only being miserable, so far, Shi Kefa has not proposed any way to deal with the current crisis, and some can only beg for help, from this point of view, he is no different from those governors and counties.

Could it be that this Shi Gong's talent is at most a magistrate of the state and county?

Putting this thought aside, Zhang Chi was about to make some suggestions to Shi Kefa, but at this moment, he heard someone report: "Senator Shi, a person who claims to be Zheng Zhifeng asks to see him."

(To be continued)