It was no one else who came to the Li family, it was Wang Mai's eldest disciple Wang February, after Li Chunfeng entered the military camp, Wang February's was also idle, and as soon as he went back to meet Wang Mai, he was sent here to discuss the specific matters of cooperation with the Li family. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Looking at the two big car gifts brought by Wang February, the Li family finally believed that this was not a dream, and that a great good thing really fell on their heads.

"What is this official called?" Taking advantage of the opportunity to carry the gift from the car, Li Chun's son Li Liang asked cautiously.

Wang February, looking at the middle-aged man in front of him who was the same age as his father, smiled innocently: "My name is Wang February, and Mr. My family is the prince of Jeju County. ”

After getting to know each other, Wang Er took off a blank piece of paper from the frame and said: "Mr. I told me about our cooperation, your family life is not easy, I heard that there are still some craftsmen who eat with you, how many people can work, what they are good at, and they must be registered one by one." ”

Li Chun nodded when he heard this, and introduced his situation to Wang Eryue one by one, and only after half an hour did he finish registering.

"I am the treasurer of this trading house for the time being, and now there is a big job, King Qin wants to build an observatory in the North Imperial Garden next to the palace......" and he explained the matter of building the observatory in detail.

I didn't expect business to come to the door so soon, although I was working for my own family, but being able to return to my old job, no matter what, this is a thing worth celebrating.

"Since he is serving His Royal Highness the King of Qin, the old man is naturally doing his best......"

"Wait!" Wang Er shook his head dissatisfiedly, "Mr. said, although this observatory is regarded as working for himself, he must also distinguish between inside and outside." This is the first business of our firm, and it depends on us how much we can earn. ”

"Huh?" Everyone looked dazed, listening to the meaning of this king February, it seems that he wants us to earn the money of King Qin, isn't this the left sleeve out and the right sleeve in? Why bother?

"This is not an extra move," Wang Eryue said, shaking his head, "Although everyone is doing things for King Qin, it is better to divide or score clearly." You don't have to care about the King of Qin or not, you can do what you want, the money earned by our firm at the end of the year will be reported to the palace at that time, how much money should be paid, and how much should be paid, in addition, this is normal business transactions, understand? ”

The crowd shook their heads like rattles.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you will understand after a long time, the top priority now is to immediately calculate the amount of work, make a rough budget, tomorrow I will bring the design drawings of the Taishi Bureau of Astronomy stored by the Ministry of Industry, Li Chunfeng still has some other requirements, and the design drawings still need to be changed in a few places......"

Don't say that these craftsmen don't understand Wang Mai's intentions, even Li Er can't figure it out, the money is going around outside, isn't it going to fall into his pocket sooner or later? Why do you have to do this? Fang Xuanling thought about it for a long time, but decided to ask Wang Mai in person.

"Lao Fang, you're here just in time, come and taste the beer I just brewed." As soon as Wang Mai got home, he was busy taking people to pour out the fermented beer, smelling the familiar malt aroma, and a sense of accomplishment suddenly appeared.

Fang Xuanling had to suppress the doubts in his heart and took the porcelain cup, looking at the layer of foam on the cup that had not yet faded, Fang Xuanling took a small sip of it, and felt that his tongue seemed to be pricked by a needle, and he almost spit it out, but seeing Wang Mai enjoying this cold beer with an intoxicated face, he had to try to swallow it slowly. After taking a small sip, there seemed to be nothing wrong, there was still a trace of malt lingering between the lips and teeth, and I tried to take a big sip, but because I swallowed too quickly, I only felt that there was a breath in my stomach coming up, and I hiccuped comfortably.

"How? Not bad, right? Wang Mai asked proudly holding his glass.

Fang Xuanling breathed a long sigh of relief: "The taste of this wine is very different from other wines, giving people a refreshing feeling. ”

Being able to get Fang Xuanling's approval made Wang Mai very happy: "If you like the old house, if you like it, you can ask someone to send a few liters to your house when you go back, it's not that I'm stingy, this thing is easy to break if it's not sealed well, just say hello to me when you want to drink." ”

Fang Xuanling nodded: "Then it's disrespectful." After speaking, while sipping the beer, he expressed his intention.

Wang Mai put down the cup: "Let's put it this way, I don't want power and business to be linked, do you understand?" Looking at Fang Xuanling's puzzled eyes, after a little thought, he continued to explain, "Let me tell you a story, once upon a time there was a winery in our village, which was opened by the village chief's family, and the business of the winery was very good, but after the village elder became the village chief, no one cared about the winery's business, why do you say this?" ”

"Before, it must have been the village farmers who bought the village's wine in order to curry favor with the village chief." Fang Xuanling said without thinking.

"That's right!" Wang Mai nodded, "Later, the village chief's son also understood this truth, and painstakingly studied the recipe of winemaking, and it didn't take long for their family's wine to become the best sold in the village again, but this time it was because of the wine itself, not anything else." ”

Fang Xuanling laughed when he heard this: "Wang Tejin is really far-sighted!" ”

"It's easy to tell the truth from the fake, so the best thing to do is to strip the business out of it, so that the business can be done for a long time, otherwise you will only raise a group of stupid pigs with eyes on their foreheads and no desire to make progress!" Wang Mai thought of those state-owned enterprises in later generations, and said with feelings.

"Well said!" Fang Xuanling couldn't help but nodded, "The desire for power is easy to blind people's eyes, and I have been taught today." This principle is also suitable for officialdom, throughout the ages, how many corpses and vegetarian people have stolen high positions, officials just want to be innocent, muddy and nightmarish, even in the Qin Palace, there are not a few such people, Fang Xuanling has always felt that these people have moral problems, but now a conversation with Wang Mai has given him a new understanding.

"Old house, you can compare the docks on Weishui, as long as it is a dock operated by the government, unless a death order is issued from above, their unloading speed is far inferior to those small docks? Therefore, it is basically foreseeable that the business that the government wants to get involved in is basically self-defeating in the end. I have been reading the Tao Te Ching recently, and I feel more and more that Lao Tzu is a very powerful character, I do nothing, and the people are self-reliant; I am so quiet, and the people are upright; I have nothing to do, and the people are rich; I have no desire, but the people are simple. The highest level of governance of government affairs is probably to rule by inaction. ”

Fang Xuanling repeated these words, only to feel that the mood that had been extremely confused when reading it before suddenly became clear.