In the past few months, Tang Yi has a lot of development in his hands, first of all, mahogany furniture has been a great success, in addition to Taicang, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places have established a semicolon, high-quality and inexpensive mahogany furniture quickly occupied the market, just a month before the year, the profit was as high as more than 5,000 taels, and the order was scheduled after the year.

The same is true of the winery, with Jinyiwei as a backer, plus fragrant and mellow, as well as Lei Qi's contacts for many years, the monthly output exceeds 100,000 catties, of which 80,000 catties are transported to Shandong and Beizhili, even so, it is still in short supply, and a jar of high-grade soju has been fried to five taels of silver, if it were not for the support of Jinyiwei, it would have been swallowed alive by people with red eyes.

For wine, Tang Yi can get 8,000 taels of silver.

The most failed is the Changwen paper shop, which has a lot of members and a wide range of contacts, but it is not useful at all. Wu Tiancheng was angry and annoyed, "These people have no conscience, Master, or I will go to them, whoever learns the iron and does not pull out a hair, we will fire him, let everyone in the world know, and make him ruined." ”

"Don't mess with me." Tang Yi sighed, "The business of the paper shop is to take care of the interests of all parties, so it will prosper, if you force people to pay, won't you become a bandit who occupies the mountain?" ”

"Master, if they don't pay for it, and the court doesn't give food, just relying on us, if they want to save so many people outside the city, I don't think it's a show." Wu Tiancheng simply lowered his head and said nothing.

Lei Qi and Uncle Zhu looked at each other and shook their heads. Lei Qi said: "Xiao Xianggong, if you want to let the people eat enough, let alone a hundred stone of grain every day, the court will pay fifty stones, and we will also pay fifty stones, and now the price of grain is the most expensive, almost more than a hundred taels of silver, and a place to live, clothes, medicine, and firewood for heating, all of which will cost six or seven thousand taels a month, and our family will soon burn down." ”

"More than that." Uncle Zhu shook his head, his brows were deep, and when he heard the refugees, he recalled the past, and said with a wry smile: "Seventh Master, speaking of which, more than 20 years ago, I fled from the north, and the old nose man died along the way. I heard that there is no food, like a wolf pounced up, if you know that you can eat outside the city, how far away, you will rush over, now more than 10,000, then more than 20,000 or 30,000. ”

Suck!

The faces of the three people all changed, there were 10,000 people who were boundless, so many people gathered, if one was not good, something big would happen, and when the time came, the family would be bankrupt and the property would be small, and even the head would be confused.

No matter what you say now, everyone is a little bit of a human being, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, so why bother wading into troubled waters?

Seeing that everyone was embarrassed, Tang Yi sighed.

"Why, you don't want to?"

"How can it? Heaven and earth are like teachers and apprentices, and masters and apprentices are like father and son! Wu Tiancheng slapped the table first and shouted: "Master, as long as you make up your mind, the apprentice will sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman." ”

Lei Qi snorted angrily, glared at the triumphant Wu Tiancheng, and said angrily: "It shows that you are not, Xiao Xianggong is my Lei Qi's savior, and it is also appropriate to compensate him with this life." ”

Everyone's eyes fell on Uncle Zhu, his face turned red, and he said in a low voice: "It's a big deal, I'll go back and open a noodle restaurant." ”

……

In the end, it is his own people who are intimate, no matter how difficult it is, he will follow it firmly, and Tang Yi's heart is also warm.

"Actually, I'm not just thinking about doing good deeds, there are amazing benefits in this." Tang Yi said mysteriously.

Wu Tiancheng didn't believe it, shook his head, and asked, "Master, the refugees have nothing, how come I can't see what to make money." ”

"It's because you have nothing that it's profitable!" Tang Yi showed his usual self-confidence, and said with a calm smile: "You have also been in business for so long, tell me what you have learned, what is the most lacking?" ”

"What?" Wu Tiancheng didn't react, but Lei Qi said first: "Little Xianggong, in addition to having money and relationships, the most important thing is to have someone, a reliable person!" I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know anyone before, and I almost lost my life. ”

Tang Yi smiled and said: "That's right, there are a lot of idlers in the Ming Dynasty, but most of them are idle lazy people, they are cunning, they are full of tricks, and they are unreliable in their work. And what we need is honest and willing to work, not afraid of hardship and tiredness, and farming at home, never leaving the village for the rest of our lives. Now it is a godsend, drive them out of their homeland, as long as these people are settled, we have thousands of laborers, business can be expanded exponentially, and these people have received our great favor, absolutely loyal and reliable, with them, even if we take root in Taicang, even if the court does not want to touch us at all! ”

Why do those big families stand tall, isn't it just that there are many people, if there are tens of thousands of people in the workshop, and they are also strong, the imperial court really doesn't have the courage to bucket a hornet's nest.

Although Tang Yi is committed to his career, he has achieved the ultimate simply by relying on the power of officialdom, and he is just another Zhang Juzheng. I once remembered Zhang Juzheng's arrogant declaration: I am not a phase, but a photographer.

is this guy who claims to be the regent, and in the end, he is not a dead person, and his family is ruined. In the face of thousands of years of tradition, if you want to make a difference, you must not only have power in the court and influence in Shilin, but also hold financial power and military power in your hands, and have a large number of businessmen and workers to support you, and put your tentacles deep into every corner of the Ming Dynasty, so as to survive the wind and rain without falling.

In the past few days of foot injury, Tang Yi has been thinking about it non-stop, and has planned most of the future path, although he is not sure where he can go, at least he already has a goal, these refugees are grass mustard in the eyes of others, but in Tang Yi's eyes, they are potential stocks, and they can rely on strength in the future.

Whether it is out of morality or selfishness, Tang Yi will not let go of the opportunity, although it will be difficult, but he has no hesitation!

"Seventh Master, immediately mobilize your workers, carry the wood outside the city, and first build a shed for the refugees to block the wind. Tiancheng, you go to buy food, the more the better, and then go to each household and buy old clothes. As for Uncle Zhu, you will help make porridge and cook. ”

"Hehe, my old job, I promise to do a good job."

……

At dusk, the carriage ran over the bluestone streets, making a hurried sound, and the neatly dressed young men drove the carriage and came quickly out of the city.

The sound alarmed the trembling refugees in the field, and two meals of crystal clear gruel in the morning and evening were empty in the stomach, and even so, not everyone could eat it. They were looking around, fish in waterholes, voles in the ground, and even weed seeds, all of which were their food.

After rounds of sweeping, the only thing that can be eaten is the Guanyin soil on the ground, and in the past two days, some people have swallowed the Guanyin soil one after another, and their stomachs have swelled, lying on the ground and screaming in pain, and some people don't even have the strength to call.

The people who heard the sound of horses' hooves reluctantly raised their heads and looked at them weakly, not knowing where the official was going to send the grain, and it had nothing to do with them anyway.

At the end of the crowd, a few young men hid behind a few bamboos, discussing something.

"Third Brother Tian, are you hungry?"

The young man who was a little older and wore a torn leather jacket snorted: "If you want to waste your mother, you have drunk a bowl of porridge from yesterday to now, can you not be hungry?" ”

Sixteen or seventeen years old, the thin young man threw the straw stick in his mouth aside and scolded: "Third brother, those bitches in the court just want to starve us to death!" ”

"Yes, first the old sick, then the, sooner or later it will be our turn!" Third Brother Tian sneered: "Which disaster is not like this, accept your fate." The officials in Taicang are not coarse, they have a bite to eat, and other places are not as good as pigs and dogs! ”

The thin young man looked around, suddenly lowered his voice, and said, "Third brother, I have an idea, do you think it can be done?" ”

"If there's a fart, let it go!"

"Hey, I thought, a few of us are strong and water-based, it's a big deal to go to the Japanese Kou, the big scale is divided into gold, the small scale is divided into silver, the big bowl of wine and the big piece of meat, even if the head falls off, it's refreshing, isn't it?"

Take refuge in the Wokos!

Frightened, several other people changed their faces and colors, and one of them said honestly: "I don't dare, my mother said, I can't enter the ancestral grave if I die as a thief, I, I'm afraid!" ”

Several other people also showed fear on their faces, and the thin young man stomped his feet angrily and said angrily: "Fuck it, how can you still enter the ancestral grave now?" ”

Brother Tian Sange frowned, thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "Didn't Mr. Storyteller say that the officials forced the people to rebel, and they had to rebel!" Let's wait two more days, if it doesn't work, we won't be to blame! ”

While he was talking, suddenly a shout was heard in the distance.

"What's going on?" Third Brother Tian jumped up in fright.

The honest young man tilted his ears sideways, listened, and suddenly shouted happily: "It's time to eat, there's something to eat!" A gust of wind sent a rich aroma, and several people ran over with their legs, and all the thoughts they had just had just been thrown out of the clouds.