People always have a characteristic, their hearts and mouths are different, and they shout what they lack. Moral people will not shout morality, and loyal people will not talk about loyalty all day long. Xu Bangrui, these noble relatives, say that they are resting with the country all day long, and they are iron-blooded and loyal, but in fact, which one is not playing their own little calculations?

In the past two hundred years, various systems and unspoken rules have become ironclad camps, just loading people into them. The lords and relatives have mastered the Beijing camp and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the civilian officials are absolutely not qualified to get involved. And they also did not develop into the court, otherwise the civil and military family, even the emperor would not be able to sleep.

Xu Yuanzuo knew that there were also factions among the relatives, and there were kinship, marriage and evil. The fate of a group of soldiers who followed Taizu was not very good, and the relatives who followed Chengzu to Fengtian are still the mainstream. Later, Emperor Yingzong also cultivated a group of upstarts until Emperor Jiajing's upstarts were replaced, and these people became old families.

In contrast, Xu Da, as the god of the Ming Dynasty, has also enjoyed a transcendent status and has always stood tall, and even managed Nanjing as his own back garden. There are really not many such relatives, you can count them on one hand, if Xu Yuanzuo wants to cooperate, he naturally has to find such a family.

Xu Bangrui is also very clear about his own background, and knows that Xu Yuanzuo's so-called finding other companies is just a weight, and he didn't tear his face in the end, who is willing to hand over such a big deal to others to do, and he is only a small shareholder? He is not reluctant to pay so many tens of thousands of taels of silver, anyway, he picks out some everywhere, and he always picks them out, the key is that this steamed bun is too big, and it will be troublesome if he dies.

Will it hold up to death?

Absolutely.

There is a saying since ancient times, the prince will have a kind of Xiangning? The strong soldiers and strong horses do it. Later, a great man translated this into the vernacular: "Power comes out of the barrel of a gun." So going back a little further, what is the basis of a strong soldier and a gun? It's money! It's grain and grass! It's the land and the population!

Xu Bangrui only wants to occupy more silver, control more land and population, and make his life better, and does not want to play the game of being strong. Although his ancestors were the god of war. But he hadn't even touched a sword since he was a child, well, it seemed that he hadn't touched it since his grandfather's generation.

But he wasn't sure if Xu Yuanzuo was the same as he thought, if he was implicated, it would really be a loss of two hundred years of family business.

Xu Yuanzuo also knew the concerns of the powerful family, and even knew that this kind of thing was easy to be seized by the official. Or attract the emperor's covetousness. The best way, of course, is to bring all the officials and the emperor into the group, and everyone will get rich together, find a broader world together, and obtain greater benefits. Maybe he will become a national hero!

However, the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. More people are not willing to pay money, only willing to share the money, what can you do with them? Do you have a beating? You may not be able to beat it. So Xu Yuanzuo could only settle for the next best thing, looking for some people who were willing to pay for the sake of money, and passed the investigation of Liu Feng, the former Jinyi guard. The Wei Guogong's investment in business is the first in Nanzhi, which shows that they are willing to pay for dividends.

Of course, the return on trade profits of the Wei State is shyly low, and the main reason is in the employment of people. Most of the business plans were left to relatives and slaves, because outsiders could not be trusted. It turned out that relatives and slaves were no lighter than outsiders, and would slaughter them hard. Those who have a conscience will also hand over some profits, and those who have no conscience will directly "lose".

Xu Yuanzuo waited for Xu Bangrui to think about it for a few days. brew your emotions for a while, and then send the secrets of these "thieves" to the new grandfather. I think it will be able to receive a good response.

Now there are some bold people in Songjiang Mansion who want to ask Yunjian Group to manage the business, but Xu Yuanzuo is not as active as he was back then. Because the current Yunjian Group covers too wide a wide area, if it takes other people's trust funds, it can only be used to invest in the Yunjian Group, otherwise it is easy to cause competition -- of course, he cannot use other people's money to compete with himself.

Just wait for the bank to be established, and let these people deposit in the bank to eat interest. Or buy stocks sold by banks, or other fabricated wealth management products, which is much more convenient. At present, there is a big hole in the machinery factory, a bottomless hole that needs to be filled with silver.

It was the steam engine project.

The prototype of the steam engine dates back to the first century A.D., and there is nothing unusual about it. As long as you boil water in a pot, you can see the power generated by the steam escaping. It's just that it's not powerful enough to get people noticed. Who can believe that a small pot of steam can produce a power comparable to that of a cow or a horse.

Xu Yuanzuo has known the world for 500 years, and of course he knows the role of steam in this era. Although he also succeeded in inserting gold and silver nails into potatoes to prove the existence of electric currents, he was still a short distance away from a large-scale electrical revolution - about the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

As a liberal arts student, I take it for granted that this thing is not difficult, it is nothing more than a stove to boil water, and water vapor does the work...... And that's it! But the truth slapped Xu Yuanzuo loudly. He spent money to gather the best carpenters and blacksmiths in Jiangnan, and there was enough leather for conveyor belts, but the development of the steam engine was very slow, and the existing results were not satisfactory - the cost-effectiveness ratio was too low, and it was better to recruit a few more workers.

Xu Yuanzuo's biggest demand for steam engines is gravel. His mines in Liaodong and cement factories in Jiangnan both need a more powerful and cheaper power to increase production and reduce costs. Once a mature stone crusher is born, cement production will be skewered upward, and roads and buildings will develop in a blowout.

Xu Yuanzuo didn't even expect the steam engine to be used as a power source for transportation, anyway, even if there were no tanks or ships, he could build a bunker from cement and push it all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Of course, if there are tanks, ships, trains...... Then the world would be more perfect.

"Judging from the current progress, there are still two major obstacles for the first machine." Yan Yu was wearing a decent robe, and stood in front of Xu Yuanzuo respectfully: "Wrought iron can't withstand the pressure, and if the iron wall is thickened, it will be difficult to transport." The second is the efficiency that Zuo Ge'er said, which has been studied in the factory for a long time, and the best result is probably equivalent to three cow power. ”

Xu Yuanzuo nodded his chin quietly. The strength of three cows is not small, and it is not an exaggeration that a ploughing ox in the prime can top ten strong men. However, with so much iron input, why not just use three oxen to make a machine with only three oxen power!

"Have you studied the calculus I gave you?" Xu Yuanzuo was a little weak after asking. As a liberal arts student, his memory of calculus was incomplete, and sadly, his own math skills were limited to solving problems—multiple-choice questions had a one-in-four success rate, and large problems were largely abandoned. Although he knew that this thing had a direct impact on industrial development, he didn't know how to apply it in practice!

So it was left to the great working people to see if they could work miracles by their industrious ingenuity - it seems that all the other traversers had done so, and with good results.

"That...... No one can figure it out yet. Yan Yu's voice was much lower.

Xu Yuanzuo said secretly: It's normal, I basically haven't understood the high math class.

"Study carefully, and help me a little." Xu Yuanzuo took a deep breath and said: "After you go back, the assets and personnel in the factory must be checked out as soon as possible, and the system may be restructured at the end of the year." ”

"Restructuring?" Yan Yu vaguely felt that this must be a big deal.

Xu Yuanzuo nodded: "The machinery factory will be spun off from the group and become a public company." Ahem, you may not understand, it means that there was originally only one owner of the group, and now we have to find more people to be the owners. ”

Yan Yu's heart darkened, and he forced a smile: "Brother Zuo'er is afraid that this steam engine will eat too much?" ”

"It's not just that, but if it succeeds, we need more people to protect it." Xu Yuanzuo said: "I'll give you a reassurance first: the new owner is not only those wealthy families in Songjiang, every employee must give employees shares, as long as they work in the factory for one day, they will be given a day's dividends." If you don't want to do it, we redeem it at the market price. Engineers and above, including management like you and property, give the original shares, which are prohibited from selling for three years, and have priority to repurchase after three years. Then it is necessary to involve the people of Songjiang, so that there are many people and power, and they will not pose a threat to the group. ”

Yan Yu was still the youngest son of a carpenter two years ago, and when he heard it, he blinked ignorantly: "That's good, but if Brother Fan thinks about it, there will never be a mistake." ”

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*(To be continued.) )