Chapter 21: Progressing Smoothly

When the Wang family arrived, Wang Tao was not received alone, he pulled Zhang Quan and Wang Tiqian up. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Although Wang Tao is not a person who understands politics, he also knows that the Wang family will not make such a big bet based on business alone. In addition to making money, what they value more is probably the power of these two eunuchs.

A group of six people talked about cooperation in the backyard of Wanbao Pavilion, and Wang Tiqian and Zhang Quan were also quite satisfied with the fact that a province's production and sales rights could be sold for one million taels. After all, carriages and clocks make money, and they are prepared in their hearts.

But now that the business has just begun, they can earn 1 million, and they are also very happy, after all, the tens of millions they said before are just estimates, not to mention that they know that those tens of millions are long-term business. Although I have made less money now, all I get is cash. 、

The three brothers of the Wang family were also very happy to see the two big eunuchs, these two are not cats and dogs, there are thousands of Taitai plus you in the Forbidden City, they can all be regarded as the top 20 people, especially Wang Tiqian, who is the nominally largest eunuch.

Over the years, they have been operating in the capital, and they have spent a lot of money, but the relationship has not been dealt with, after all, they don't look down on the little eunuchs, and the big eunuchs don't look down on them. This is the same as the older young people in later generations looking for a partner, high can't be, low can't be.

Both parties were very satisfied, and the business was naturally very smooth. Especially when Wang Zhengyun took out a silver ticket of one million taels, the eyes of the two well-informed eunuchs were red. Fortunately, they know how to maintain their image in front of the Wang brothers, if they are alone, it is estimated that they will have the mind to pick up the silver ticket and kiss wildly.

Coming out of Wanbao Pavilion, the Wang brothers couldn't suppress the joy in their hearts when they sat in the carriage. Let's not talk about how much money is made, and the business will not lose money if you take the line of Zhang Quan and Wang Tiqian. What's more, behind the Wanbao Pavilion there are also nobles, brocade guards, and various other forces.

Wang Tao's business is getting better and better, and Wei Zhongxian is indeed becoming more and more unhappy.

Of course he knew about the opening of Wanbao Pavilion, and he also knew that the emperor also went to Wanbao Pavilion that day, as the governor of Dongchang and the eunuch of Bingbi, there were not many things that happened inside and outside the capital that could escape his ears and eyes.

The more this is the case, the more afraid he becomes, he can gain the trust of the emperor because the emperor misses the old love, and he accompanies the emperor from childhood to adulthood. But the emperor is the emperor after all, and the current emperor is only in his twenties, and once his mind matures and knows the importance of imperial power, his good life will come to an end.

Over the years, he has constantly warned himself not to be too rampant and to leave a glimmer of leeway in doing things. But the struggle for power is bloody. Don't say that you are a eunuch, the struggle between Wenchen over the years has also been life-and-death. What's more, although the retirement of time, Wei Zhongxian, who has been in a high position for many years, has gradually lost himself, although he is still respectful in front of the emperor, but he is no longer the Wei Zhongxian who was happy for a long time when he replaced the emperor at the beginning.

thought that with the emperor's body and favor in him, it would not be a problem to stay in power for another few decades. But he never wanted to drop an uninvited guest from the sky, and quickly won the emperor's trust.

This time, Wang Tiqian, Zhang Quan and the newcomer Wang Tao joined forces with a group of people to open the Ge Wanbao Pavilion, and the list of shareholders behind it made Wei Zhongxian, the person who held the power of life and death, feel afraid. The vassal kings, the military, the nobles, the Jinyi guards and even the Wenchen from all over the country have also joined, and I am afraid that there are few such forces that the Ming Dynasty can oppose.

I really don't know if this is just an accident or Wang Tao's plan, if it is the latter, then this Wang Tao is too terrible. The most lacking thing in the current Ming Dynasty is money, not to mention the military, the rights of the nobles have been greatly weakened by tying the emperor, and the only thing that can impress them is money, and the same is true for the vassal kings everywhere. As for Wenchen, these open-mouthed gentlemen and closed-mouthed saints are even more greedy for money, and there is a folk proverb that you can be an official for thousands of miles just for money.

Using money to bring these people together is not a clever means. What's even more terrifying is that the emperor didn't know what evil he had fallen into, and when he came back from Wanbao Pavilion, he shouted that he wanted to build a ship.

The task given to Wei Zhongxian was to find the craftsmen who built the big ship, especially the descendants of the craftsmen who helped the Three Treasure Eunuchs build the big fortune boat. Of course, those craftsmen are gone, but there will definitely be something left in this era of craftsmanship.

Of course, Wei Zhongxian is not a vegetarian, he will not disobey the emperor's will, on the contrary, he will complete the emperor's task without discount.

Wasn't the Ming Dynasty short of money? Then let the emperor work hard to build ships and give all the money to the emperor to build ships, I don't believe those Donglin Party people don't care. SX disaster victims need disaster relief, and the war in Liaodong needs money, are these things important? Of course it is important, but from this moment on, none of this is important, the most important thing is to build a ship for the emperor.

That's right, Wei Zhongxian fought with the idea of borrowing a knife to kill people.

Of course, Wang Tao didn't know about these, and he was now busy recruiting workers every day.

Craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were not everyone who could be craftsmen, they were craftsmen who relied on their crafts to eat. However, Wang Tao took the assembly line work commonly used in later generations, and you don't need to know how to make a complete clock, you just need to be able to use molds to make parts.

Simple assembly is not a problem for ordinary people who have no technical foundation, and they can also complete the grinding of ordinary parts.

Wang Tao broke down the skills that originally required craftsmen to accumulate over time into a job that ordinary people could complete. This not only greatly increases the number of workers, but also indirectly achieves technical secrecy. After all, these workers are only engaged in simple mechanical labor, and many people do not know what these parts are used for.

They only know how to make parts one by one with molds, and the following processes are naturally completed.

At first, some people were a little unaccustomed to these jobs, but soon their proficiency quickly improved. This has also led to a significant increase in production speed.

This made many craftsmen a headache for how to turn the craftsmanship of such people into supervising their production of qualified parts.

The Wang family did not delay for a moment when they got the right to production, and quickly organized a group of craftsmen to come to BJ to learn technology. In addition to recruiting a large number of workers, the Royal Workshop is also under construction.

The Wang Gong factory has become a large construction site, and BJ's idle labor force has not only been absorbed, but many HNSX people have nothing to do and come to BJ to work.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Tao also lost no time in getting people to promote sweet potatoes and corn bought from overseas. The most direct way is to make food for them to eat, boiled sweet potatoes, fragrant wowotou, not only to fill the stomachs of these people, but also to let them know that there is this kind of food in the world.

Many shrewd people began to inquire where to buy seeds for these things, and when the time came, Wang Tao asked these people to teach them how to grow these two high-yielding crops.

In the blink of an eye, it was time for the Chinese New Year, and Wang Tao had been in Daming for nearly half a year, and the royal workshop had not yet been completed. However, batches of clocks and watches had been taken away by agents from all over the country, and the silver in exchange was also used by him to buy food. The workers and coolies who came to work in BJ, in addition to earning some silver, also returned home with a lot of seeds.

Promoting new crops was not an easy task, but Wang Tao did not make much effort to achieve some results.

The weather in Layue is cold and freezing, and the construction site has been suspended. Wang Tao, who was idle, was called to the palace by Zhu Youxiao to see the big ship he took two months to build.