Chapter 46: A New Layout
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In fact, more than ten days ago, Xinhua was rumored that Mao Geng was captured by Qu Jiatong's son-in-law, and it is said that the owner of Qu Jiatong took a fancy to Mao Geng as a rare talent, and had the heart to marry his beloved daughter to Mao Geng, but everyone knew that Mao Geng liked Su Zhiyan of the Su family, so the master of Qu Tong had to make a dangerous move, and simply sacrificed his hand, and he didn't know what to do, so he robbed Mao Geng by night.
It is said that the Great Song Dynasty has always had the tradition of "catching sons-in-law under the list", and the so-called "catching sons-in-law under the list" means that on the day of the list, the rich gentry from all over the country set out their families to make their own strange moves, and the goal was to get a new and first scholar to be a son-in-law. Of course, it is not a big road goods, but a very rare and rare variety, and this time there are more monks and less porridge, and the supply exceeds demand, and the final recruitment action can only be described by the word "robbery", and it is vividly called "catching a son-in-law". Some wealthy families even spared no expense to recruit new science and technology scholars as their sons-in-law, so the market of the Golden Turtle Son-in-law of the Great Song Dynasty soared all the way, and even hit new highs until it set a record of more than 1,000 times. This is a large-scale recruitment of sons-in-law, and there are also official eunuchs who know how to use both grace and power, and rely on official authority to suppress the new science and technology jinshi to obey. Of course, the "arrest of son-in-law" in the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty is a "literary catch" that shows its own magical powers, although there are also some foul tactics of "rushing and encircling", but it is rare to stage a full martial arts after all.
Since the Song Dynasty "catch the son-in-law" style has been around for a long time, for the talented Lang Jun, even the dignified emperor is popular with a "catch" word, Qu Jiatong as Meishanman, according to local conditions, do not do two endlessly, simply call the truth, show the genuine "catch" method, will be called a talented Mao Geng to catch the general, in the mountain to worship the hall to marry, directly cook the raw rice into rice, this gossip can also be called a good story that can be spread for a while, since then, Meishanman's robbery and arrest of son-in-law is only afraid that the world will be well-known, and there are some down-and-out scholars that Qingqiu dream, I only hope that when I wake up, I can see the glamorous and enchanting Yao girl autumn waves, and after the candles in the cave room, I am happy to be the good son-in-law of the lord of Nayu.
Of course, Mao Geng didn't expect that his reputation would suddenly become so big in the local area, let alone that there would be people who envied his affair. However, after this legend spread, Su, Fu, and Dun all felt that this matter was very tricky, and the three families finally pried open the mouth of Qu Jiatong's minions from the "Huaxi Contractor Team", and the news obtained was similar, and it was also said that Mao Geng married the beloved daughter of the lord of the mountain, and was mixing oil in honey, but after a while, he still had to go down the mountain. This time, even the government felt that this matter was just a comedy of "catching a son-in-law" that had gone too far, and naturally would not go to Qu Jiatong to break people's good deeds.
Now that Mao Geng really brought a woman like a flower and jade back to Baixi, although everyone was full of questions, they had no choice but to suppress their curiosity, and naturally they would not chase and beat like the paparazzi in later generations. But let go of the gossip, as well as the matter of the bricks and the "Huaxi Contractor Team" is also a hot spot here, everyone will ask Mao Geng about the bricks and the building of the house, Qu Jiatong suddenly did these two kinds of business, the discerning person is Mao Geng's credit, Mao Geng also admitted it at the moment, Mao Geng thinks, in the future, there is no need to be as low-key as before, but there is no need to deliberately hype, just go with the flow.
Mao Geng was also curious about the livelihood of the three families during this time, and when he asked, he realized that they were all happy.
Wax paper engraving equipment materials, in the past three months, under the continuous orders from all over the country, the order suddenly reached more than 2,600 sets, Mao Geng calculated, even if he entered two sets of accounts, he would be worth 5,000 yuan soon.
Since the use of coke and hydraulic centrifugal blowers, the quality and output of iron have been greatly improved, and the price has risen, not only turning losses into profits, but also earning a lot, and now it is expanding production. I also have a share in the ironmaking, which is really icing on the cake. Although Mao Geng is not a money worshipper, he has never been too much money.
After Mao Geng left, Su Zhidao invited Tan Xiaochun and Huang Wangcai to Youxi in order to produce cement, where they started to build water mills and ball mills.
However, the monthly output of the Su family is only 300,000 catties, and the monthly output is converted into tons, only 18o tons. This poor production capacity, compared to the huge market of the Great Song Dynasty, can be described as a drop in the bucket, and now the cement has been booked for three months, and the demand for Lin'an alone has reached 500,000 catties. Therefore, the Su family is busy expanding production capacity, and by mid-November, the production capacity will be doubled to 20,000 catties per day, but it is estimated that it is still a drop in the bucket to cope with the surging orders. Cement is in a period of profiteering, in addition to a percent of the tax, it is not a problem to make a profit of 80 per day, a little calculation, it is known that the Su family has made a lot of profits in these two months, which is much better than Qu Jiatong firing bricks.
As for the Don family, the tea oil has long been sold out, and the income of the tea oil can be called a windfall, which makes the Don family appreciate Wen Yuan's son-in-law a lot. Although the Dun family is not as good as the Su family and the Fu family in terms of ink profits, it is also very considerable, and it should not be a problem to make a steady profit. And the wool boat of Dun Erbao was built successfully, because the cement and bricks are sold, the demand for charcoal is also very strong, so the wool boat continues to build, continuous groundwater, the woolen ship with a load of 150,000 catties has built a total of more than a dozen, these wool boats continue to transport charcoal cement and bricks, through Anhua to Yiyang, and then through Dongting Lake, and even directly connected to the ship with goods to buy the past and then transported to Lin'an, the wool boat business of Dun Erbao is infinite for a while, look at the proud strength of Dun Erbao, presumably also profitable.
It was the pencil lead that Mao Geng made before leaving, and no one has thought about how to produce pencils, Mao Geng only smiled bitterly, because the three businesses were busy, and everyone including the disciples he received was very busy, so naturally he couldn't take care of these. The graphite clay crucible can meet the requirements of melting pig iron, but because Mao Geng was suddenly robbed, the rest of the people have limited knowledge of ironmaking, let alone what crucible steelmaking is. Blacksmith Huang Wangcai was still accustomed to using ready-made wrought iron to make objects, and his ability to comprehend cumbersome things was very limited, so he turned a blind eye to the crucible that could melt pig iron, and the crucible steelmaking stopped.
Mao Geng sighed in his heart, this Huang Wangcai is really a little unenlightened, wouldn't he use a crucible to melt a furnace of molten iron before creating objects, and he can understand the benefits of the crucible after a comparison!
It's okay, I'd better come by myself.
However, after experiencing the incident of the robbery of the Qu family, Mao Geng felt that he should not only accept disciples, but also establish the power under his control. If you don't have the strength, you can't even protect yourself, so what is there to talk about training disciples!
Fuguo Iron sent another 2,500 yuan to Mao Geng, fortunately, it was a meeting, if it was 2.5 million copper coins, it would be a lot of money. More than 2,000 sets of wax paper engraving equipment have not yet been delivered, which can be regarded as pre-allocated to Mao Geng.
The Su family also sent more than 1,500 yuan to Mao Geng, a month ago the production capacity of Sujia cement only reached 10,000 catties per day, fifty-five accounts, and there was a lot of investment in cement before, this time it can only be shared so much for the time being, but after the production capacity doubled in the middle of this month, Mao Geng can get more than 25oo in January.
Mao Geng sat on 4,000 guan all of a sudden, what is the concept of 4,000 guan? A luxury brick house with a cost of 2o can build 2oo rooms, at least a construction area of 2ooo square meters, and a luxury villa of more than 2ooo square meters, what is the concept? In the next generation, he will be a billionaire with assets. What's even more refreshing is that just the cement and wax paper engraving add up, and in the future, it will bring more than 3ooo yuan of income to himself every month, and he has finally become one of the wealthy classes of the Great Song Dynasty, which is gratifying.
Wen Yuan also got more than 400 shares in the tea oil and ink projects, and he can be regarded as a well-off, but compared to Mao Geng, he can only see a big thing.
After four months of separation, Mao Geng pulled Wen Yuan and the two of them to sit down, after all, they are brothers, and they have to be helped by this brother in their future layout, as the proverb goes, "Fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers", what is still a blood relationship in these years is more reliable. First inform Wen Yuan of his thoughts, and the two brothers will first calculate how to go next.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Wen Yuan opened the scene, he mentioned Su Zhiyan:
"Brother Geng, I have long heard that you don't want to go back to Baixi Official School, and I heard that you want to recruit disciples, but you were delayed by the thieves in Qu Jiadong. But fortunately, there was no danger, and he finally returned safely. Alas! I now have the third sister of Dun, you have a bell, I don't have anything, Wang Qinqin's woman has no scheming, and she is not sad because I am the son-in-law of the Dun family, hehe, it turns out that I am amorous to Wang Qinqin. However, Su Zhiyan has a deep affection for Brother Geng, she has also cleared up a lot of the part where you disappeared, and she has fewer words, and now that you have brought Ling'er back, Su Zhiyan may not know what will happen! ”
Mao Geng sighed, shook his head and said:
"The world is impermanent! This matter is not my willingness, but it is forced to be helpless, hehe, Su Zhiyan and I were close to piercing that layer of window paper, but if Su Zhiyan was angry and married someone else, it would be impossible to think. There is no rush in advance, and it will not be too late to go to Su Zhiyan after I have made the arrangements. Our brother has been in the Great Song Dynasty for half a year since the day of his reform, hehe, now you and I have married wives, but we don't have a home of our own, my house was given by Qu Jiatong, of course, it should be mine. But since this time, we have to have a place to stand, we have to have a team that can be controlled, first we have to open our own workshop, as well as a trading house, the workshop only controls zuò, and the trading house manages sales. The workshop is mainly composed of disciples I have accepted, and then we will choose some reliable and commercial firms among our group of converts, and you will be in charge. ”
Wen Yuan is not resistant to being a merchant in a trading house, since the last rumor case, after being a suspect for a long time, Wen Yuan's desire to gain fame has faded. It is said that merchants in the same industry in the Song Dynasty formed a "commercial bank", and the merchants who entered the industry were called "merchants". The things created by Mao Geng are unprecedented, and the establishment of a new commercial bank must be recognized by the government. However, Wen Yuan didn't want to put down the "Baixi Journal", so he asked:
"Listen to Brother Geng. However, now that the "White Creek Journal" is becoming more and more popular, it will be of great benefit to our livelihood, and it is a pity to give up, so it is better to continue to do it. ”
Wen Yuan has more and more readers, which is a great thing, Mao Geng said with a smile:
"Your "Baixi Journal" is good, of course you have to do it, and you have to do it better, now it's not bad money, you can ask someone to engrave, you can also take out the pen fee to ask someone to write an article, you also have to get a pen fee to write your own article, in addition to being more particular about the layout. However, if we want to change the name of the journal, let's call it "Xinbao", the foothold is in a new word, write new stories, talk about new things, talk about new life, we can no longer be limited to Baixi in the future, so we can no longer call it "Baixi Journal", just be careful not to discuss the sensitive matters of the imperial court. ”
When Wen Yuan heard this, he not only let himself manage the business house, but also run a magazine by his own interests, and his heart was very satisfied.
Mao Geng said again:
"If we have money, we will spend money and enjoy it, I want to build the best building in the county seat, and after it is built, everyone who enters it will be envious, of course, this is a later story."
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On the second day after returning to Baixi, Mao Geng invited Xiang Yixuan and Panwengu, Panwengu happened to be in Baixi to supervise the official school, Mao Geng invited the scar-faced guy as well, and on his side, Wen Yuan was present.
Mao Geng has been with these two people for a long time, and he doesn't beat around the bush at the moment, so he goes straight to the point:
"Last time on the mountain, Brother Xiang talked to me about the matter of seven or three points, this matter has been thought about in the next, as long as there are two dividends in the next, and the remaining eighty percent will go to Qu Jiatong. However, in the next in the distribution of profits less than 10%, but there is a reluctant request, Qu Jiatong's brick-burning workshop and the 'Huaxi Contractor Team' must be handed over to the full management of the Xia, the so-called full management, in the following has been written in this "Charter", anyway, I Mao promised that I will never let Qu Jiatong suffer. In short, it is only beneficial for Qu Jiatong to have full management, and it is limited to two years, and after two years, the management will be returned to Qu Jiatong. ”
Mao Geng took a fancy to Qu Jiatong, a quasi-military organization, at least the execution of people is leveraged, Mao Geng's meaning, he wants to be the CEO, the chairman or something, Qu Jiatong who likes to do it, who will do it well. Mao Geng showed them the "Articles of Association", naturally extracted some of the core provisions of the company's articles of association in later generations, and wrote it in a different way, anyway, it was the separation of ownership and management rights, and he read it to Yixuan, and explained it to Pan Wengu one by one, and then the two got up and went to the patio to discuss it quietly, and then turned around and returned to the hall.
Xiang Yixuan still likes to listen to it like that:
"Brother Mao, don't take my Qu Jiatong as an outsider, of course I can't ask for someone like Brother Mao to be in charge. Hehe! But after all, this matter is very important, and the two of us are not in charge, so we have to go back to Qu Jiatong to discuss, and wait for a result to be discussed, and then report to Brother Mao. Brother Mao won't mind! ”
In front of these two people, Mao Geng was still the former military fan'er, smiled generously, and said:
"Of course you don't mind, you should discuss such a big matter. You've discussed it, and we'll talk about it. ”