Zhang Guanghua had a black line on his face, and finally found time to chat with you, and before you could talk about work, you talked about work again.

At this time, the village chief continued: "The National Code, the Chamber of Commerce Law and the Property Rights Law that you proposed have been implemented since September, but apart from several congresses, they have not achieved any other results. The operation of our entire county government actually follows the old rules of the "Yuan Dian Zhang". ”

"That means there hasn't been a single shop registered with the Chamber of Commerce, and no one has applied for property rights?" Zhang Guanghua asked.

"That's right." The village chief replied helplessly.

"This is a good opportunity, as long as the operation is done properly, the influence of the Zhenhua Chamber of Commerce will reach a new level, so that Li Xinlan's matter can also be solved." Thinking of this, Zhang Guanghua slowly had a bottom in his heart.

"It's okay! It's on me! But I'll have to borrow someone from you. Zhang Guanghua patted his chest at the village chief.

With Li Xinlan, Zhang Guanghua returned to the Chamber of Commerce, he picked a façade on the first floor, and found someone to make a plaque and hang it. I saw nine big characters on the book, "Four Counties United Government Patent Office".

"Xinlan, you go and prepare a set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." Sitting behind the newly placed desk, Zhang Guanghua was full of pride and commanded Li Xinlan in high spirits.

"Humph!" Although reluctant, Li Xinlan still flicked her ponytail, turned around and walked out.

"Hey, a little bit of a temper. Look at me if I don't heal you well in the future. Looking at Li Xinlan's swaying waist from side to side, Zhang Guanghua thought viciously.

When the paper was brought over, Zhang Guanghua took out the 2B charcoal pen produced by "China Charcoal Factory" from his arms, first drew a table, and then recalled the products that could be realized at this stage.

"Well, start with buttons, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, quills, Rubik's cubes, mercury thermometers, and then subcontract the production of some semi-finished products, arquebuses, gunpowder, cement, steel, water pipes, screws, gears, pulleys, springs, ball bearings, and mechanical parts, and the machinery factory and the weapons factory only assemble them. Finally, we will leave the toilets, mirrors, glasses, binoculars, microscopes, clocks, bicycles, sewing machines, and horse-drawn carriages to others. This time, I came to a 'first-class enterprise to do the standard', and I sat at home to collect the patent fee, and let them buy it out and collect it once, and then collect it again when it was shipped. Haha......"

Seeing Zhang Guanghua looking at the air, holding saliva, and looking demented, Li Xinlan was extremely disgusted. "This big brother Zhang is usually quite handsome, why is he stupid today, I still have to stay away from him as soon as possible."

After Zhang Guanghua made a plan, he took the information and took Li Xinlan to the R&D department to find the shopkeeper Shen.

"Shopkeeper Shen, two things, one happy and one troublesome, which one do you listen to first?"

Shen Li's face instantly stiffened.

"If you don't choose it, then I'll tell you in advance." Zhang Guanghua took out a document and said: "You see, this is the drawing and recipe of my newly designed 'printing machine', the whole machine is composed of steel plate, needle pen, wax paper, ink roller, mimeograph rack, and ink. You organize the people to develop the finished product first, and then set up a printing factory, and I promise to make you a lot of money. ”

"What's that trouble?" After getting the information from Zhang Guanghua, Shen Li began to be happy again, so he asked. In the past few months, the military advisor has not assigned him any research and development tasks, and he has nothing else to do except go to the factory every day for a symbolic inspection, but he is really idle and panicked.

"Another thing is that you organize those experienced craftsmen to compile a 'patent application' for all the products in the factory, including every part, and submit it to the patent office downstairs. I'm going to hand over the parts manufacturing from the factory to the chamber of commerce in the county. ”

"How can this work? Didn't we spit out the fat in our mouths again? Shen Li was very excited after hearing this, if the Chamber of Commerce was his, he would probably blast Zhang Guanghua out. Besides, we handed over all the design materials to the county government, what should we do if others take them? ”

"No, no, no, it's not design data. You keep the design information, all I need is a 'patent application' describing the product. Just stop grinding and do what I say! Looking at Shen Li, he almost had a handful of snot and tears. Zhang Guanghua made a decisive decision, threw down the information and left.

Back at the patent office, Zhang Guanghua immediately closed the door, took out his notebook, and began to transcribe the design materials. Li Xinlan was responsible for reorganizing the materials written by Zhang Guanghua with charcoal, retranslating those uncomplicated and unsimple "vernacular texts", and then hiring craftsmen from the Chamber of Commerce to design samples in the name of "Belle Laboratory".

Speaking of "Belle Labs", there is also a rather interesting story. Because the chamber of commerce has become independent, Zhang Guanghua's newly designed things can no longer be listed under the name of the chamber of commerce, so he has no choice but to decide to set up a laboratory specifically to sell patents. But then it was difficult for him to choose a name.

Li Xinlan couldn't make a decision after seeing where Zhang Guanghua was grinding for a long time, and she couldn't stand it anymore, so she said: "You see that you used your big name to make the name of the Chamber of Commerce, and this name simply used your nickname." ”

When Zhang Guanghua heard this, he thought, yes, why didn't I think of it, so he asked Li Xinlan: "What did your grandfather call you when you were a child?" ”

"Call me Belle, what's wrong?"

So the name of "Belle Labs" was determined.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month in 1354, it was a sunny day, when the people in Anxi City got up and came to the street one after another, ready to buy some New Year's goods to go home, they found that today was a little different from the past.

I saw many children coming and going on the road, shouting: "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!" "Anxi Daily"! The patent office opened, purchased patents, made guns and cannons, and from then on made you the chief treasurer, the chairman, won the rich girl, and walked to the pinnacle of life......"

"4 cents a copy, 4 cents a copy! 4. You can't buy money, you can't buy it, you can't be fooled. "Zhenhua Industrial Printing Factory" is honorably produced, quality assurance, and Tong Suo is not bullied. ”

Beishi Street, Anxi County, is lined with shops on both sides of the road, all brick and wooden buildings, and occasionally sandwiched by several newly built two-story small western-style buildings. In the middle, a new five-story building is particularly eye-catching, and the whole building is made of fine tiles produced by Hitachi Sanitary Ware Factory, which is a bright and blind snow white under the sunlight.

At this time, a middle-aged man who was a little chubby and dressed in silk was sitting in front of the door of the new building basking in the sun.

"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, good news, look." At this time, Xiao Er ran over out of breath and handed the newspaper he had just bought to the shopkeeper.

"This newspaper: "Zhenhua Chamber of Commerce" and "Belle Laboratory" jointly came to sell ancestral secret recipes...... Mirrors, clocks, bicycles, ......" Seeing this, the shopkeeper's heart throbbed, wasn't "Zhenhua Chamber of Commerce" created by Zhang Guanghua, and then continued to look down, sure enough, the signature was Zhang Guanghua. Flipping back further, the back is full of anecdotes and anecdotes about the county.

Putting down the newspaper, the shopkeeper's mind couldn't help but fly to half a year ago. That summer, he was counting the profits of his shop, and at that time, his jewelry store was already struggling to make ends meet. And just then, a handsome young man walked in and sold him a string of jewels that he had never seen before, and made him a fortune from the Mongols.

Later, after he and the Red Turban Army captured Anxi, they deliberately found himself and asked him to sell his cement, steel bars, tiles, glass and weapons as an agent, which made him rich in just a few months.

Because he can get the goods directly from the manufacturer, and he can also advance funds from the manufacturer in advance, the shopkeeper directly used the building materials resources in his hand to build a building covering an area of three facades. The shops in the middle are still in their old business: jewelry, while the shops on the left sell building materials and the shops on the right sell weapons.

If the sales of building materials are the most profitable shops, then the weapons shops are the most lively places, where not only can you buy all the standard weapons of the Yuan army, but even the arquebuses that were eliminated in Li Lu's army. Firearms, bows and arrows, crossbow machines, swords, guns, swords, halberds, as long as you have a household registration certificate issued by the Anxi County Ya, you can buy them.

"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, what are you thinking? Do you think we need to check it out? ”

"Look, why not! Go now! As Xiao Er pulled his thoughts to reality, the shopkeeper immediately decided to go to the "Patent Office". Although it is possible to make money by opening a shop, where is there a factory that makes more money! The shopkeeper thought to himself.

Came to the Chamber of Commerce, the shopkeeper saw rows of samples, and was instantly attracted by a mirror, when Zhang Guanghua bought him a treasure, he had a profound impact, the treasure is so brilliant, and the figure reflected is no different from reality.

"Hey, shopkeeper, you're here to join in the fun."

The shopkeeper followed the voice, isn't this Zhang Junshi! He hurriedly replied, "Didn't I see that you had another way to make a fortune here, so I rushed over immediately." ”

"By the way, is it difficult for you to make this 'crystal mirror'?"

"Haha, the raw materials are cheap, it's just that the manufacturing method is a bit complicated, but it's not difficult. If you really decide to buy this patent, I'll go into the room and talk to you slowly. When business came, Zhang Guanghua naturally said happily.

"Buy! Of course buy! ”

Zhang Guanghua brought the big customer of the shopkeeper to the reception room, poured two cups of tea, closed the door, and began to talk.

"The raw materials of this crystal mirror are very simple, there are only three types: glass, tin and mercury."

"Tin you know, it's an important part of bronze, and it was used to make weapons during the Warring States period. It is said that Wuxi was rich in tin during the Warring States period, and when the tin ore was exhausted, it got a place name of Wuxi. Mercury is even simpler, using cinnabar (mercury sulfide) through fire alchemy, mercury is obtained. ”

"Okay! I bought this, how much do you say. ”

……

A few families are happy and a few are sad.

Just when Anxi County was thriving, Gaoyou, which is not far from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, was facing a disaster. So will this great change affect the unsuspecting people in Anxi County?

"Henan Jiangbei Province" Gaoyou Prefecture Yamen.

"Smack!" Another teacup was smashed to the ground by Zhang Shicheng. He glared at the visitor and asked, "What about the person who went out to answer it?" ”

"King Huicheng, the dead have been wiped out, and the grain and grass that were collected with great difficulty have also been burned." The person who came replied respectfully.

"That's too deceitful!" Zhang Shicheng scolded, and then fell silent.

Thinking that he contacted the Yanmin uprising in the first month of last year, the people of Jiangsu, Zhejiang Province and Henan Jiangbei Province responded one after another, and established the "Great Zhou State" in Gaoyou only one year later, with hundreds of thousands of mercenaries, almost one side.

But only two months later, the Yuan court appointed Huguang Province Pingzhang political affairs "Gou Er" to lead troops to attack Gaoyou, after he was defeated, and in June sent "Da Zhi Mu Er" to help the war, and then ordered Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province to participate in the political affairs "Buddha Jialu" to assist Da Zhi Mu Er.

No matter how powerful the Yuan army was, but he couldn't help it, he took the initiative to attack several times to repel the Yuan army, and then he was still able to collect grain and grass in the surrounding area. But shamelessly, in September, Emperor Yuan actually ordered the right prime minister to take off and personally take command of the expedition. After receiving the appointment of Emperor Yuan Hui, Tokhtar gathered the main forces of all provinces across the country, and transferred a large number of troops from the Western Regions, totaling 400,000 horses, known as "million" soldiers.

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1. Gaoyou, in present-day Jiangsu Province.

Second, Emperor Yuan Hui, after his death, was posthumously named Emperor Yuan Shun by Zhu Yuanzhang, indicating that he conformed to the irresistible trend of the Ming Dynasty.

25. Chapter 25 1355 New Year

Chapter 25 New Year 1355

His several attempts to block all failed, so he had to retreat to Gaoyou City, and the Yuan army took the opportunity to surround Gaoyou. At this point, he suddenly fell into a situation of fighting alone. Outside the city, Tokhtar commanded the army to attack Gaoyou day and night, and he could only resist desperately and defend passively. And now, months have passed since the siege, and the food and grass in the city have been exhausted, and it is only enough to last for a month.

There are only more than ten days left before the Chinese New Year, but the people in the city can't even eat, let alone kill chickens and sheep. Zhang Shicheng couldn't help but sigh again.

……

In the New Year of 1355, Anxi County was peaceful and peaceful, "Zhenhua Craftsman College" had all been closed, "Belle Laboratory" also stopped all research activities, and "Zhenhua Chamber of Commerce" subordinate factories were each craftsman received a 500 yuan voucher printed by "Anxi Commercial Bank", which is equivalent to a whole tael of silver.

Carpenter Liu looked at the five red sheets of paper in his hand, printed with 100 yuan, and the head of General Li, and couldn't help but wonder a little, just a few pieces of broken paper, can you really buy something?

With questions, Carpenter Liu came to Beishi Street with his family.

"Wow! It's so lively! Carpenter Liu's youngest daughter just went in and pulled him around, Carpenter Liu looked around, it was really like this, this year there are more shops than before, and he has never even seen many commodities outside, and the people around him are also shoulder to shoulder, which is several times more lively than the market.

"Daddy, Daddy, I'm going to eat this, and this." Pulled by the youngest daughter to a stall, Carpenter Liu saw that the youngest daughter was pointing to a pile of candy wrapped in white paper and said to him.

"What is this?" Carpenter Liu asked the boss.

"This is toffee, and the name is 'White Rabbit'." The boss replied with a smile on his face.

"White Rabbit?" Carpenter Liu picked up a piece of candy, and sure enough, the words "White Rabbit" were written on it, and a cute little rabbit was also printed.

"How expensive is candy wrapped in white paper?" Carpenter Liu was apprehensive. But seeing that his little daughter was cheering, and the other children were also drooling, he was ruthless, and a little embarrassed took out a hundred-yuan bill, and said resignedly: "This, do you accept this voucher?" ”

"Huh? You've got a voucher! Take, of course! You are a craftsman of Zhenhua, I really envy you. You don't know, this voucher is now in demand, you can use it to give priority to purchasing from the "Zhenhua Chamber of Commerce", and you can go directly to the bank to redeem more than 3 yuan in cash, but now no merchant takes it to redeem. By the way, these 'White Rabbit' toffees of mine are all purchased from the "Zhenhua Chamber of Commerce". ”

"Moreover, this milk candy only costs 16 yuan a catty, that is, 8 yuan a catty, the same price as maltose, you want a few catties, I will weigh you."

The same scene began to be staged in various stores in Anxi. In addition, in order to increase the popularity of several large shops, several mirrors, monoculars and clock samples were also bought at high prices. Because these goods have no purchase channels, one is sold, but one is missing.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, Gaoyou. From the beginning of the Chinese New Year to the present, the soldiers have never eaten enough, let alone seen a little meat, and their morale has fallen to the extreme in the case of living an extraordinarily hard life. Zhang Shicheng, the king of Cheng, slaughtered the last pig, and then personally delivered the boiled broth to the soldiers of each battalion.

Although there were not a few pieces of pork in the broth distributed to each soldier, and a few lonely vegetable leaves floated on it, the soldiers still ate with tears in their eyes and were extremely happy.

"Soldiers! Bear with me, believe me, soon we will repel the Yuan army and regain the lost territory. When the time comes, I will let everyone eat enough every day, and have meat to eat every month. ”

"King Makoto! King Makoto! King Makoto! The soldiers received encouragement, their blood boiled, and they were eager to defeat the Yuan army now.

"Hey." Zhang Shicheng sighed in his heart, in fact, he knew that the situation was very grim now, and this person was very good at leading the army to fight, and he was extremely patient. With his advantage, there is almost no chance of a comeback, in fact, he already wants to give up. "Hey! Hold on for another half a month. Half a month later, instead of starving the sergeants to death, it is better to open the city and surrender. ”

"King Cheng, the Yuan army has retreated!" At this time, the soldiers guarding the city gate ran over panting to report.

"Really!" Zhang Shicheng almost couldn't believe his ears, and hurried to the city wall to take a look, and sure enough, the Yuan army had slowly retreated, but did not retreat, but re-encamped ten miles away.

"It's a big deal!" Zhang Shicheng said heartbrokenly.

"Why is King Cheng bad, didn't they retreat?" The general beside him asked suspiciously.

"The retreat leaves an open space for the cavalry to charge, which is a harbinger of the beginning of a large-scale attack! It's just that I retreated so far that I couldn't understand it. Zhang Shicheng did not blame his subordinates for being unreasonable, but patiently explained.

"Report ...... King Cheng, the secret agent of the Yuan army, the flying pigeon passed the book. Another soldier rushed up to the wall and knelt down to pray.

"Bring it in."

Zhang Shicheng unfolded the note and looked at it: "Tokhoff was impeached, and he has been stripped of his military power and returned to Dadu, and now the new Henan Provincial Zuo Prime Minister 'Tai Buhua', Zhongshu Pingzhang Political Affairs 'Yue Kuo Cha'er' and Zhi Privy Council Affairs 'Xue Xue' are the front-line commands, and they will attack the city one day." But each will be at odds, or it may be a surprise attack. ”

"God help me! Except for detachment, my King Cheng has nothing to fear! Discuss the affairs of the military camp of the soldiers. After reading the great joy, Zhang Shicheng already had a countermeasure in his heart, so he immediately began to order.

That night, Zhang Shicheng broke the cauldron and sank the boat, the whole army dispatched, taking advantage of the fact that the Yuan army did not set up a military camp and attacked overnight, the surrounding people should be together inside and outside, and they were interjected everywhere, instantly disintegrating the battle line of the Yuan army, demolishing three towers in a row, and destroying the crystal of the Yuan army like a bamboo.

Under Zhang Shicheng's outflanking, the Yun army suffered numerous losses, while the remaining Yuan army fled in the sea of people's war. Subsequently, Zhang Shicheng took advantage of the situation to attack from all sides, not only recovering the lost territory, but also occupying a large area of land in the south of the Yangtze River.

If history has not changed, then the Yuan army at this time should go back to their own homes and find their own mothers. But Zhang Guanghua's appearance seems to have flapped a little butterfly wings.

On the thirtieth day of the first month of 1355, Zhejiang Province, Qingliu County, now the junction of Fujian and Jiangxi. The governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, "Fojialu", and the Zhongshu Pingzhang political affairs "Yue Kuo Cha'er" led the remaining more than 200,000 yuan troops to flee here, and they gathered the remnants of the soldiers while planning the next plan.

"What should we do now, I just went back, it is estimated that before we arrived in Dadu, we suffered a big defeat, and even Zhang Shicheng was driven from Henan Jiangbei Province to Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, and even lost most of the army." In the hall of the county government, the Buddha family was restless and said to Yue Kuocha'er.

"I used to gloat about Totoku, but now I start to envy him, although he may sit on the cold bench for a while when he goes back, he doesn't have to bear the responsibility at all. If we go back this time, we'll all lose our heads. But if we don't go back, the family will be in trouble! I see that we have gathered almost all the soldiers, and we are about to set off at once. Yue Kuo Cha'er also looked sad and said in a very low voice.

"Two political affairs, in fact, we still have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions!" Suddenly, Yin Chen Youding, a county member of Qingliu County, who had been sitting on the side and had not spoken, spoke.

Yue Kuo Cha'er was slightly angry when she heard that an unruly petty official beside her dared to interrupt their conversation. But the Buddha was a little interested and motioned for him to continue. As the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Fojialu still knows the story of the county Yin under his jurisdiction.

Chen Youding's parents died when he was a child, and after joining the army, he was resourceful, and slowly became a post officer in Mingxi County. In the twelfth year of Zhizheng, he was promoted to the military card, coinciding with the Tingzhou Mansion to sentence Cai An to recruit soldiers, Chen Youding was awarded the post of Loess Village Inspector by Cai An because of his wisdom and bravery, and participated in the suppression of the popular rebellion in the Shaowu area with Marshal Tongdu. After winning the battle in the rebellion, he was promoted to the chief secretary of Qingliu County, the county lieutenant and finally the county Yin, and during this time, he also pacified the nearby bandits, so that Qingliu and the surrounding counties were peaceful.

"The two political affairs only know that Gaoyou has a mercenary Zhang Shicheng with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but it is estimated that it is not clear, when you attacked Gaoyou, there was also a large bandit rebellion in our Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, led by Li Da of Anxi County and Lu Guangfu of Tong'an County, just when you were fighting, they gathered the displaced people and entrenched near Anxi County, cutting off the waterway of Quanzhou, our most important treaty port, which affected our Dayuan very large economy. If we can take advantage of the situation to remove this nail, it will be a great achievement. Chen Youding hurriedly said respectfully.

"Really? So how many troops do they have? When Yuekuo Cha'er heard this, she was also interested, and felt that this was also an opportunity.

"They don't have many troops, only 20,000 people in the full battle, and they are still divided into four counties, we can completely defeat them individually." Chen Youding was also happy to talk in his heart, and answered honestly. He is not only good at leading the army to fight, but also very good at seizing every fleeting opportunity, he can imagine that when this meritorious service is reported to Dadu, his status may be able to rise one step further. After thinking about it, as a Han man, he slowly took charge of the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, ah, drunk, thinking of this, he felt a little enthusiastic.

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In the morning, Anxi County, the army barracks.

"Report ...... Report to the two marshals, it's not good! "A little soldier ran through the door in a hurry." The three counties of Xianyou, Dehua and Yongchun were suddenly breached! ”

"What! No way! The Yuan army in Quanzhou is surrounded by us, so how can we send troops. Lee was taken aback.

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1. Chen Youding, the real ruler of Fujian at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, also known as Chen Youding.