The Zizhu Garden in Jinling City is now one of the world's most famous Jinling attractions, this 14-acre beautiful place, not only has a highly skilled and famous Taoist Shangqing School Medical Center, but also a huge shoe-making workshop that is famous all over the world.

However, the most famous and world-renowned newspaper is not the medical hall and the shoe-making workshop, but the Jiangnan Times newspaper office located in the picturesque and heavily guarded Xikuan Courtyard.

A few months ago, Ruan Dayue, a scum who was despised by the world, is now the president and editor-in-chief of the famous and transcendent "Jiangnan Times", with the enterprising spirit of daring to be the first in the world, he has created a far-reaching and shocking "Jiangnan Times", which has reversed his negative impact for many years and won more and more praise. He has become the first talent in the south of the Yangtze River in the minds of countless fair ladies and ladies in the north and south of the Yangtze River.

Just after noon, Ruan Dayue, who had hurriedly returned from Ziyang Temple, entered the West Wing with excitement on his face and loudly announced to the more than 50 editors who stood up one after another:

"Dear friends, first put tomorrow's page away, concentrate on arranging a special issue, the front page headline is personally written, and the rest of the articles please work together to write immediately, the central topic is two: first, the emperor's commander of Baoshanwei, the general of Zhaoyi, Lord Zhu Daolin, in order to relieve the suffering of all the people, transported back 5,000 tons of corn and flour from overseas, and from tomorrow, at the Shangyuan Wharf and the three-way intersection department store south of Ziyangguan, to all the people who are hungry and cold because of the soaring food prices, Corn sells for only 8 cents per 100 catties of silver......"

Before the words fell, the whole hall exclaimed, followed by a round of applause and praise.

Ruan Dayue clapped his hands again and pleaded for silence: "Listen to me and then discuss!" The second central issue is that the Franc machine trading fleet twice sent more than 200 urgently needed artillery pieces to our Ming Dynasty. Support our Ming army to fight against the puppet Qing Dynasty, quell civil strife, and bring back various goods worth 3 million taels of silver. ”

"According to the national policy of 30 taxes and 1, the Tiangong Bank of Hushan Manor took the initiative to pay 100,000 taels of silver to the emperor. The tax silver paid to the inner treasury every year is only 50,000 taels of silver, and the inner treasury is shocking! ”

"Okay, on these two topics, let everyone write, deliver the manuscript before dark, all staff will work overtime tonight, print 25,000 copies, and it will be published early tomorrow morning, and the overtime pay will be 1 tael of silver per person!"

The whole house applauded. Most of the editors immediately rushed to the desk, and several middle-aged backbones with rich experience stepped forward with a smile, surrounded Ruan Dayue, who had a dry mouth but a spring breeze on his face, helped him sit down with seven hands and eight feet, handed him tea and water, and asked in a low voice, discussing the long-standing problems of maritime trade, and discussing the depth and breadth of revealing the truth.

"Sir, how many stones is 5,000 tons?" A young editor in the back row asked loudly.

The middle-aged editor sitting in front of him hurriedly said, "Didn't you see the conversion table posted on the blackboard in front?" Calculated according to the metric system. 1 ton is 1,000 kilograms, which is equal to 2,000 catties. It is about 16 stones, and 5,000 tons is 5,000 16 stones, a total of about 80,000 stones. It's not much more expensive than the rice bran that is rising again and again, and the savings are enough for 800,000 people in the city to eat for half a month. ”

The young editor's eyes were wide: "That's it." Shouldn't the price of rice in the market, which is 4 taels and 8 pieces of silver per stone, fall? ”

The middle-aged editor smiled: "That's for sure, those unscrupulous businessmen and the Jiangnan family behind them think they have a plan, I'm afraid they will break their muscles and bones this time, they are crazy hoarding food." Raising the price of grain, only outside the city of Jinling, at least one million stone of grain has been hoarded for half a month, but not only did they not reduce the price of grain, but they rose steadily, the last time General Zhu beat them hard, forcibly requisitioned grain to help the victims, not long after they immediately made a comeback, gathered thousands of families to escort, and pulled nearly 100 Confucian celebrities who resigned and returned to seclusion on the ship, and asked the senior officials of the Ministry of Troops, the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Rites to escort them, thinking that General Zhu could no longer take them, where did he expect that General Zhu, who was dedicated to the people's might and wisdom, stepped forward again, Started a business war with them openly, now it's okay, see how those Donglin Party people who can only scratch and make noise deal with it? Haha, happy! ”

On the cigarette-filled platform outside the Pharmacist Hall in the back hall of Ziyang Temple, Zhu Daolin accompanied his master Xuanqing and his second master Bo Xuanji to walk side by side, telling in detail about the topography of Taiwan's freshwater, river vegetation, mineral resources, rare tree species, four seasons climate and immigration situation, and reported the details of Moon Mountain, Nanshan, Taipei County, Luzhou Town, Hot Spring Town, and Tamsui Town that he had named one by one, and Xuanqing and Xuanji were very relieved to hear it.

"Can you build a Taoist temple in the small river bay between Tamsui Town and Taipei County you mentioned, preferably on the Qingtan and hill directly north of Taipei." Xuan Qing asked with a smile.

Zhu Daolin also smiled: "It seems that my medical divination sect is indeed in the same lineage!" Senior Brother Yuying also took a fancy to that place, there are five hundred-year-old camphor trees on and down the mountain, standing majestically and lush like a canopy, the civil and military officials of Tamsui also like that place, listening to Senior Brother Yuying's request to build a Taoist temple and a medical hall, without saying a word, they all agreed, it is estimated that after the arrival of 100,000 immigrants in the spring of next year, construction can begin, if the upper courtyard on the mountain and the lower courtyard under the hill are built according to the terrain, the scale is not smaller than the Ziyang Temple, and then I will find the Shangqing Taoist friends of the Tianshu Pavilion, Ask for a few large statues and send them over. ”

Xuan Qing and Xuan Ji were very happy, Xuan Qing Jia encouraged his disciple Zhu Daolin to say a few words, and then talked about the Ziyang Pharmaceutical Factory and Ziyang Medical College under construction:

"The construction progress of the pharmaceutical factory and the academy is satisfactory, it is estimated that all of them can be completed before the end of the year, due to the addition of a drug extraction workshop with 24 pillars poured with reinforced concrete, the construction period of the pharmaceutical factory is estimated to be slower than the academy by the Qinglong Pond, your cement factory of the big housekeeper Gu has not been put into operation, it all depends on the original two small earthen kilns, the output is really limited, and the major workshops are waiting in line, and the martial arts hall has to build residential buildings and libraries in a hurry, and it is not good to rely on the old and sell the old as a teacher."

Zhu Daolin calculated the cement needs of Tamsui Port and Baoshan Port, and finally told the master: "At the end of next month, 1,000 tons of cement should be about the same, right?" ”

Xuan Qing smiled: "Enough, enough!" If not enough. It is estimated that by then, your cement factory with the big butler Gu will also be completed and put into operation, haha! ”

Xuanji immediately informed Zhu Daolin of the situation in the martial arts hall, and finally smiled very happily: "The children are very sensible and hardworking, and they have also made a lot of achievements in the study of chemistry and natural sciences in the teaching of liberal arts. These two subjects are now in operation, and several teachers are very diligent in their lectures and research, and it is worth paying them 20 taels of silver a month. ”

"Half a month ago, Gonggong Wu sent 9 eunuchs who were kind and well-read, the oldest was over 50 years old, and the youngest was only 26 years old. You can rest assured that you are busy outside, and it will get better and better. ”

"Thank you for your hard work! If I didn't have you in charge, I really wouldn't be at ease. Zhu Daolin said what was in his heart, in exchange for a proud chuckle from the two seniors.

Xuan Qing thought for a while and asked, "If all the 4,600 tons of corn and flour you got back this time are sold, although you can ruthlessly calculate those unscrupulous merchants and suppress the frighteningly high price of grain, Longtan and Baoshanwei will be nervous." ”

Zhu Daolin replied easily: "With the 50,000 stone grain sent by the Yan family, Longtan can still last for half a month." There is no need to worry about Baoshanwei, yesterday Wei Guogong and Longping Hou sent 30,000 stone by the family sailor transport ship. It can still support about 20 days, which is enough time for me to turn around. ”

"I want to put 3,000 tons of fine new rice, 1,000 tons of flour and 500 tons of high-quality sea salt that arrive in ten days into it and put them into our newly built department stores in Shangyuan Port and Sanchakou for public sale, and the Yan family will give them the most profitable flour to operate if they want."

"This time, the Yan family is very righteous and has completely offended the Jiangnan family. Isolated by most businessmen, he couldn't even take care of the construction of the grain processing factory in Yifengmen, so he had to give the Yan family more benefits, set up a model, and let all the businessmen in Jiangnan see it. Follow us and never lose. ”

"Yes, the old man Yan came to chat with me the day before yesterday in the name of Shangxiang and asked for your news, I said that you were picking up goods outside, and I would come back in a few days, he was very relieved to hear it, and went back with a smile on his face, a very shrewd old man with a good eye." Xuan Qing supported Zhu Daolin's approach and supported it in all aspects.

Xuanji is a scheming and delicate person, and has been calculating the possible results after 4,000 tons of high-quality rice, flour and 500 tons of high-quality sea salt are put on sale, seeing Zhu Daolin looking over with concern, he smiled slightly and asked in a low voice: "After the arrival of the 4,000 tons of high-quality grain you said, what price do you plan to sell at what price?" ”

Zhu Daolin had already decided: "50 kilograms of high-quality rice are sold for 1 tael and 5 yuan of silver, and the flour is priced by the Yan family themselves, and I only need the capital of 40 taels of silver per ton." ”

Xuanji waved the dust lightly: "In this way, it is estimated that a large number of unscrupulous profiteers will lose all their money, most of them do not have anything to do with the Jiangnan family gate valves, those family gate valves have always looked down on them, and they will not accept them, they are just too greedy, so they follow the big business houses of several major families in Jiangnan to raise the price together, but when they hoard a lot of grain, the price has risen to 3 taels of silver and 1 stone, and you are now ready to sell a large amount of high-quality rice at a price of less than 2 taels of silver, It will not take a few days to cause their panic, the small cost of grain merchants to reduce the price to avoid the risk, as long as there are so many price cuts, there will be more small and medium-sized grain merchants to follow, high food prices will soon fall rapidly, as for the extent of the drop, I can't calculate, but it will definitely be less than 3 taels of silver a stone. ”

Zhu Daolin praised from the bottom of his heart: "Uncle Shi is far-sighted! Enough to be an economist. ”

"Economists? Is economics also a discipline for everyone? "Xuanji thinks it's quite fresh.

Zhu Daolin nodded: "Not only is it a science, but it is also a very profound knowledge, if you can subvert a country's regime, there are many famous economists in the Tianshu Pavilion, and the senators with the highest power will listen to them." ”

"Flickering? How do you interpret this word? "Xuanji is really studious and tireless.

Zhu Daolin couldn't help laughing: "It's similar to persuasion and guidance, hehe......" (to be continued......)