"Well, Jingzhong, this word is still good."

As night fell, the stars floated, and the lights were lit in the study. When Boss Wu heard about the words given to Wu Lao Er in the summer, he nodded with satisfaction.

Wu Lao Er pouted and said, "Good or bad, I don't care." Just have one that works. By the way, let my father and mother spend the New Year with you, my side is strangely deserted, and I may be a little busy in the near future. ”

Boss Wu nodded and said, "That's what I mean, the second one, you have been out of the palace for less than a year, and you may not have sorted things out." Go back and be careful, don't take the court's money in vain. ”

Wu Lao Er said impatiently: "I know, you stay, I'll go talk to my father." ”

Wu Lao Er didn't want his father and mother to go to him because the Jinyi guards from all over the country were going to meet at his house, and Liu Jin would be in charge in person, so there would be no inconvenience, so he simply let his father and mother spend the New Year here with Wu Boss. I don't necessarily have to come back when I come back from this mission, anyway, it was enough to choke a year ago.

Lying on the bed, Wu Lao Er thought back to the good times he had with Xia Keke during the day, and he was shamefully hard. Thinking about the task that is about to be carried out, my heart is confused again. He is not a person with a strong personality, although his heart is not bad, but he has to think about it whenever he encounters something, and his heart is easy to mess up when he thinks about it. Wu Lao Er knew that he was wrong, so he decided to go back to Daye City early tomorrow morning. Putting herself in the middle of official business and anesthetizing herself with busy work is the choice of every lovelorn woman, and Wu Lao Er has no choice but to treat herself as a woman temporarily

"Father-in-law An, in the future, you will do this kind of thing as closing the accounts of Sihai Restaurant, there are a lot of things, but this kind of thing is not easy to hand over to others casually. What you should pay attention to is that in addition to looking at the right and wrong accounts, you should also set up another account, which must be clear. Then hand over this account to Zhao Gonggong. ”

An Dehai nodded and said, "It's Gonggong Gui, don't worry!" ”

Wu Lao Er took a sip of the teacup and said with a smile: "Of course don't worry, what is the relationship between us, that is really when I wore open crotch pants." Brother, I'm going to shift my focus to Jinyiwei recently, and the affairs of the palace will all depend on Gonggong An and Gonggong Zhao. ”

An Dehai and Zhao Zhong nodded hurriedly. Wu Lao Er continued: "Gonggong Zhao's side, pay attention to the income and expenditure of the palace, don't have too many discrepancies." We are all newcomers, and the palace has only been open for about half a year, so it is normal for the expenses to be larger and the income to be less, but the daily expenses of the palace and the prince's use must be guaranteed. After this year, it will slowly get better next year. By the way, there is also the reward at the end of the year, I will give a detailed report to His Highness in a while, but the money has to be prepared, and this cannot be forgotten. ”

Zhao Zhong nodded hurriedly and said, "Father-in-law Gui, please rest assured, the little one will take care of it, and he can't lose the face of my palace." ”

"Uh-huh. By the way, there is a letter about the medicinal materials business, which was sent to the front line, and after the New Year, the medicinal materials allocated by the imperial court to the front line were transferred from the shop in our palace, and the money was in the city lord's mansion. After a while, Gonggong An sent someone to the logistics officer of the Left Guard Army in front and asked Zhou Ji to send a few people to escort him. After speaking, Wu Lao Er picked up a letter and handed it to Zhao Zhong and said: "This letter is a receipt, you will send someone to send it to the city lord Zhao in a while, and the business of medicinal materials in our palace will be completed." In the future, Gonggong Zhao of the medicinal materials business, you will find a few people who understand to take over, you must be honest and reliable, and you will go to the south to collect medicinal materials in the future, or even let others send them to us, you can resist these things. After you get familiar with it, you can let it go. ”

Seeing that both of them were holding the letter, they nodded to show that they understood, and Wu Lao Er waved his hand to signal that the two of them could go. When the two of them were about to walk out of the door, Wu Lao Er remembered something, stopped An Dehai and said: "Father-in-law An, let Zhou Ji come over by the way, I still have some things to explain to him." ”

Stretching his waist and looking at the gloomy sky outside the window, Wu Lao Er sighed. This is the third day since he returned, and he has been unable to take a break from various official duties. Although I also want to anesthetize myself with official duties, I just think about it if I have nothing to do, but I am so busy that my feet don't touch the ground, which I didn't expect.

It's approaching the end of the year, and it's not like it's cold this day, and it hasn't snowed this year, looking at the current weather, it's estimated that there will be a heavy snow in the next two days. Looking at the stove in the house, Wu Lao Er missed the heating and geothermal heat very much. After collecting his mood, he picked up a pen and paper and began to write and draw. There are still a lot of things that have not been arranged, such as the Four Seas Gang and the brewing of liquor. It's been a few days since I came back, and I haven't been able to see the people of the Four Seas Gang, how can I say that they also helped so much at the beginning, and I must express my gratitude. The help that Wu Lao Er said was not an assassin's business, it had been so long since that incident, and the thanks were over. Wu Lao Er was talking about the dowry, removing so many rare treasures, Wu Lao Er also took out more than 20,000 gold coins, just for the sign of 'one in ten thousand'. He didn't have that much money, so he borrowed it from Qian Ningwang, and said that he would deduct it from his dividends this year. Wu Lao Er has no profit in the Four Seas Restaurant, and the profit belongs to the palace. But at the beginning, Qian Ningwang and the other three insisted on giving the income of the Four Seas Gang to Wu Lao Er and the third floor, and the income of this gang did not include the Four Seas Restaurant. At first, Wu Lao Er didn't want it, and when his liquor business opened, it was really not bad for that money. But Qian Ningwang didn't do it, and Wu Lao Er had no choice but to accept it when it came to interests and relationships. Fortunately, there is this money, otherwise Wu Lao Er would not only not have paid off the arrears, but also would not even have the monthly rules and rewards for the craftsmen and subordinates who developed the liquor.

Just thinking about it, Zhou Ji strode in. As soon as he entered the door, he 'hissed' as if he was cold. Wu Lao Er glared at him, personally poured a cup of hot tea for Zhou Ji, saw Zhou Ji have a big mouth, and drank it without being too hot, and gave him another full cup, and then said: "Old Zhou, you don't have to patrol outside, and there are subordinates on duty, is it necessary to act like this?" ”

Zhou Ji said with a grin: "Tell me what is going on, my boss, I will have to pick up money on the street in a while." ”

Wu Lao Er wondered, "What's wrong?" It's not snowing in the sky, it's getting money? Can you pick it up on the street? ”

"No, I don't have a lot of money recently, I have a brother who wants to get married, I can't even afford to pay for it, and I'm embarrassed to borrow it from other brothers, so I can only go to the street to see if I have lost any money and pick it up."

"Hahaha" Wu Lao Er laughed and said: "Don't beat me, I'm poorer than you, I'm about to urinate blood." Lao Zhou, I know that you are dissatisfied, I promised to find you and your brothers some money to make a living, but I have never fulfilled what I said. ”

Zhou Ji snorted dissatisfiedly and said: "It's good that your chief manager knows, it's the New Year just now, it's not good, my brothers and I have to drink the northwest wind." ”

"Go, go, go, and talk nonsense. Didn't I come to tell you to come? Wu Lao Er paused, and when he saw Zhou Ji making a gesture of respect, he said: "In this way, you people who eat military salaries should know a lot of retired people, right?" ”

"What? After retiring, people can get a lot of supplementary salaries, and it is not a big problem to go home and become a rich landowner. What are you going to do to beat them? ”

Faced with Zhou Ji's doubts, Wu Lao Er said indifferently: "It's not their idea, it's that we don't have enough manpower." Even if it's not them, as long as there is a group of retired veterans, it is okay if they are injured or disabled. This business is a bit big, maybe a little dangerous, and I have a little bottom in my heart with such a group of people who have come down from the military formation. ”

Zhou Ji opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "What kind of business, our two hundred people are not enough?" You still want the army to come down, don't you want them to occupy the mountain and be king, do you? ”

"Hehe, it's not going to be the king of the mountain, it's right to fight the king of the mountain." Looking at Zhou Ji's puzzled eyes, Wu Lao Er explained: "Look at Ha Lao Zhou, now the merchants have large quantities of goods to be transported, and they are all temporarily hired green forest people or their own family members, but they are very unsafe, and many of them have been robbed by mountain bandits and road tyrants. What I mean by this is that let's set up a dart shop to do darts for these businessmen or people in need. To put it bluntly, they pay to hire us, and we will provide people to ensure that the goods are not robbed. A business takes money according to the value of their goods, and we won't take it if it's less than how much, understand? ”

Zhou Ji blinked, his small eyes and shook his head.

"You don't say you're a soldier, but aren't you a fool? Didn't you understand this? ”

Zhou Ji said unconvinced: "What do you think you are talking about?" Why do people hire us? Why do you have to pump so much money? Because of something, why don't I think it's reliable? It's not the same for other businesses to spend some money to hire people, and they save more money than using us. If you want to find something that can play and spend more money, it won't make you so exploitative, right? ”

Wu Lao Er pointed Zhou Ji with his finger, "If you don't say that you are a poor ghost, how dare you say that you are not stupid with a head like you?" Let me ask you, we don't care how much money the merchant spends on hiring people, let's just say what they will do if they are robbed? ”

"What, what? If you rob it, you will rob it, and they dare to take care of other people's homes? ”

"Hah!" Wu Lao Er said funny: "They don't dare, so they lost so many goods in vain." But we're different."

Wu Lao Er was interrupted by Zhou Ji as soon as he said this: "How are we different?" Let's dare to take care of others? ”

"Listen to me first, Mr. Stupid, before receiving the dart, we will sign a contract with the merchant to ensure the safety of the goods, and if the goods are robbed, we will be responsible for compensating for all losses. If you say something like this, will there be business coming to you? ”

Zhou Ji nodded ignorantly and said, "Maybe, the key is that we really lose money?" If this misses once, it's really enough for us to choke! I still don't think it's reliable. ”

Wu Lao Er said helplessly: "If you don't lose money, who will rush to use you, and it's so expensive." Besides, you don't let the bandits and the like rob the goods, or why should I ask you to find more veterans? After doing this a few times, our reputation will be out, and ordinary bandits and mountain bandits will no longer think carefully when they see the banner of our dart. After we grow larger, we can open semicolons in major commercial and trade towns, and then we can also open shops, and our dart team can also be responsible for transporting goods to shops and the like. Moreover, the children of some big families have offended people, and if they want to travel, they can also hire our people as bodyguards, and slowly there will be more business. ”

Zhou Ji looked at Wu Laoer's head, shook his head and said, "Why do you have such a long head?" Why is it all a whimsical idea? As far as you said about that liquor, you said that you gave us two layers of dry stocks, so far I haven't even seen a single hair, and today it's such an unreliable thing, Mr. Wu, is your old man eating too much wood? What's the matter? ”

Zhou Ji talked to Wu Lao Er like this, it was not big or small. Generally speaking, in the status of the palace, Wu Lao Er must be higher than Zhou Ji, that is, An Dehai and Zhao Zhong are higher than Zhou Ji. But Zhou Ji came down from the captain of the Yulin Army, and now although he is the guard of Zhao Wangfu, he has no subordinate relationship with Wu Lao Er in terms of military position, so he and Wu Lao Er are usually at the same level. Wu Lao Er had to rely on him for many things, so he had to let him ridicule.

"You're the only one who eats wood, your whole family eats wood! Do you know how big an industry our business will be if it is done? If nothing else, let's just say that we have a white jade country, how many merchants are there? If one can't afford to hire us, won't several companies hire us together? It's better than the goods being robbed by thieves! Hiring us to dart, although it costs a little more money, but it is guaranteed, and there will be no return. If you don't say that you are short-sighted, so let's do it, you are responsible for finding a helper, I will come up with the idea or something, and I will take the investment in the early stage, and I will ask the prince to come forward for the approval of the government, do you think it will work? ”

Having said that, of course Zhou Ji could only agree, but just asked: "You don't need to ask Your Highness for the approval of the government, wouldn't it be good for you or me to go?" ”

Wu Lao Er scolded: "You are stupid, you always disagree, this industry has never been in this industry since ancient times, I have to set the rules and everything, and I have to report to the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce in the capital, do you think you can do it?" ”

Zhou Ji shook his head like a rattle like a child who had done something wrong, "The old man in charge of you said that I was stupid, I would be stupid, it is true that the brothers are not spacious, otherwise I can't be so anxious." How many people do you think are appropriate? ”

Wu Lao Er silently calculated and said: "Our two hundred brothers all have jobs, even if they can go out to walk darts, they can't go too far, and they will run around our Baiyu country in the sky." There are many merchants who sell goods to other countries, and this has to rely on others. In this way, you first find dozens of trustworthy ones, and when our business is opened, we can find more, and go to other countries' darts to be safe. In addition, it is better to have a trustworthy account office or something, you are not good at co-ordination, I may not have much time to manage the affairs of the dart industry in the future, can you find a few clerks in the army who used to manage logistics and baggage? ”

Zhou Ji nodded and said: "It's all here, our brother has been paid for so many years, and I still know a lot of people in this area." It's just, how do you calculate this money? ”

"Ask them if they want wages or dividends, business will definitely not be too good at the beginning, but as long as you go a few times, your reputation will be good."

Zhou Ji said excitedly: "Okay, your old man is busy first, and the little one will go out and get ready." ”

"Wait a minute, take this plan. I sent my brother to me to get the funds in advance, and I rented a house to be the façade of our dart shop, and arranged for my brothers to do some preliminary preparations, etc., all of which were in this plan. If things are to be settled, it will have to be the New Year, and there is no need to rush for a while. ”

"Can you not be in a hurry, your manager Wu is about to get married, and the money has not yet been settled! I'll go first, talk to my brothers. ”

Wu Lao Er waved his hand, "Get out, it's annoying to look at you!" ”