Geographers describe Songjiang Mansion as being located in the Yangtze River Delta Plain, at the bottom of the saucer-shaped depression in the Taihu Lake Basin.

Even if you have not studied geography, if you have seen a saucer, you can probably imagine the topography of Matsue.

The "mountain" that Li Wenming refers to is only two or three miles away from Tanghang Town, like a pimple growing on smooth skin, and the vertical height of the highest point above the ground is probably less than ten meters. If it were in the future, it would probably be enclosed as a park, dig an artificial lake, and make some children's playgrounds, and perhaps many people would not realize that this is a "mountain".

Xu Yuanzuo is as good as a stream, and at the same time, he also finds that there is room for further expansion here, and he is not as aggrieved as gathering at the city gate.

What is outside the city gate of Tang Xing? Is it farmland? No, it's a small county town in the countryside.

In the prosperous Tang Dynasty of the commodity economy, there is a square outside the city gate, with four lanes horizontally and vertically, connecting the two parts of the city and the city. If the population continues to grow, it will become the busiest area in the city center, and the price is not too much.

Xu Yuanzuo thought that he was really generous, just for convenience, he spent a lot of money. Fortunately, this time it was Li Wenming's suggestion, otherwise he wouldn't be distressed to death in the future?

Although the bathroom was moved outside the east city, part of the work here could not be wasted, Xu Yuanzuo enclosed the land a little bigger, and prepared to build a zigzag-shaped, three-storey building group to be used as the flagship store of Youjia Inn. In the flagship store, it is necessary to set into the post-modern-post-modern bathroom system that is more in line with Xu Yuanzuo's taste, so that distinguished guests can enjoy the freshness that cannot be enjoyed elsewhere.

Li Wenming, as a staff member, was originally born as a criminal student. Later, after listening to the words and deeds of his predecessors, he felt that the famous master of the sentence was really too unconscionable, so he apprenticed to the teacher to learn money and grain, and only said that he was the master of money and grain. It wasn't until later that he really became the author of the text. Only then did I know that Master Qian Liang also had a lot of sin in his hands, but ...... At that time, Li Wenming had already matured, so just turn a blind eye and let it pass.

Because what I have always seen is deceit, sucking the marrow and being insatiable...... Li Wenming thought that Xu Yuanzuo's large-scale relief to the victims was a profit-making act. After he personally went to the resettlement sites to check, he believed that Xu Yuanzuo was really doing good deeds.

A rare warm current rushed in Li Wenming's heart. even gave Xu Yuanzuo a lot of suggestions for free.

Xu Yuanzuo's motto is "reduce costs and increase efficiency". Many times he is not generous, but he does not know how far "Ben" can go. What he sees as fair trade, or the lowest limit of life, is generous and luxurious in the eyes of many people at the bottom.

Li Wenming knows very well where the bottom limit of human beings is.

"The empty room in the warehouse is not a place to live for a long time." Li Wenming said: "In the future, when people want to use it, when you drive people out, those victims will only scold you for being cold-blooded and cruel, and they will not remember your kindness." Jing Lian, don't laugh, Dou Mi Enshi Mi Qiu! The old scholar said bitterly.

Xu Yuanzuo is not laughing at Li Wenming. It's just because I feel the same way.

"What does the gentleman think?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

Li Wenming said: "The paid relief that Jing Lian said before, with work for relief, can be used for accommodation in the same way. It doesn't matter if you don't have work now, you can pay on credit and owe it first, but it has become a matter of course that you can't let people eat and live for nothing. ”

Xu Yuanzuo nodded.

"As for borrowing someone's warehouse, it's expensive. You can come out of the public bathhouse and make a tent out of cloth and felt. It's much cheaper than using a warehouse, and it doesn't freeze to death. ”

Of course, Xu Yuanzuo understands the market. The reason why the warehouse is extremely profitable. It is because of the low cost of the warehouse and the high charges. Slightly more expensive goods cannot be stacked in the open air, and must be stored in a warehouse. And people are more tolerant of harsh conditions than many goods, and it is true that living in a tent in the spring cannot die.

Just when Xu Yuanzuo was about to nod, Li Wenming suddenly shook his head: "It's still too extravagant to use cloth." He groaned slightly. Suddenly, he said, "There it is!" No cloth, bamboo and wood are used as beams, surrounded by palm flakes, grass, and reeds, and ten people can live in a length of six feet and a width of six feet according to the system, and the cost is not high. ”

Xu Yuanzuo calculated in his heart: one zhang and six feet is almost five meters and three feet. If it is a square, then the floor area is about 28 square meters, less than 30 square meters. If you cram ten people into it, it's almost like a space to sleep.

"Can you live? Where is the standard? Xu Yuanzuo was a little worried.

"A military tent is six feet long and wide, and it houses ten people." Li Wenming said: "Anyway, it's just a matter of sleeping, and you have to rush out to work during the day." ”

Since people do it all the time, there's nothing wrong with that.

Xu Yuanzuo said again: "You can consider it." However, not many people are coming now, and it is winter, so I simply wait for the weather to get warmer before letting them start building shelters for the victims. ”

Li Wenming also felt that there was no hurry in this matter, anyway, the warehouse was free to use.

However, what is unexpected is that as soon as Xu Yuanzuo said this, it was like setting up a big flag, and everyone who saw the flag had the urge to come over and pull out the flag and kill the general.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, that is, the third day when Xu Yuanzuo intervened to help the victims, only two families with a total of five people found Tang Xing. They originally went to Jiading, but when they heard about Xu Yuanzuo's righteous deeds, they turned to Tang Xing.

From the 14th to the 20th day of the first lunar month, there were no new victims for six consecutive days, which shows that in this era, the scope and speed of message transmission are very limited.

On the twenty-first day of the first month, news came from the direction of Suzhou: tens of thousands of disaster victims were dragging their families to Tang Xing.

At this time, because the yamen had been sealed, Li Wenming returned to Huating to continue to be Zheng Yue's right-hand man. The people who stayed behind are still living a quiet and abundant life. Xu Yuanzuo almost couldn't help but rush people, but when he heard the news, his first reaction was: It's really fake!

Although the nominal disaster relief is the Yunjian Public Welfare Guangji Association, everyone knows that it is just a vest of the Xu family. The person who really did the work was Renshoutang - of course, it was only the marionette of the Xu family. After learning the news, Xu Yuanzuo first sent someone to verify it, and at the same time held a board meeting.

In the inconspicuous headquarters of Renjutang, long tables and chairs are crossed, and everyone is seated according to the order of their seats.

Xu Yuanzuo sat under Yuan Zhengchun, and he sat firmly in the second position. Yuan Zhengchun narrowed his eyes slightly. The demeanor like a nap undoubtedly proves the fact that Xu Yuanzuo is the real helmsman.

"It doesn't make sense." Cheng Zai took the lead and said: "There were few people in the few towns near Tangxing, and occasionally a dozen people were settled on the spot. Where did tens of thousands of people pop up? ”

"It is said that he came from Suzhou." Someone muttered quietly. Because it is rumored gossip, no one dares to take it as a fact.

Xu Yuanzuo looked at Yuan Zhengchun and asked in a low voice, "Yuan Gong." What do you think? ”

Yuan Zhengchun seemed to have just woken up, tugged for a while, and finally said, "Did these people hear any rumors?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo secretly said in his heart: Sure enough, he is an old fox who has been in business for a long time, and he really hit the nail on the head.

was said by Yuan Zhengchun, and everyone present thought of a word: Disaster leads to the east.

To regard the victims of the disaster as a scourge is, of course, a lack of consciousness on the part of the general public.

In later generations, when people formed alliances and confrontations because of religion, race, and nationality, they completely relied on the vision of globalization. And in this era, the vast majority of people have never been to the county seat of their county. It is of course unrealistic for them to sacrifice their own interests for the sake of foreigners thousands of miles away.

It can be said that the vast majority of Suzhou people don't even know where Huai'an Mansion is.

The reason why Tang Xing became an alternative was purely because Xu Yuanzuo threw out the germ of class theory, which is a social phenomenon that can be observed in daily life, so it weakened the mainstream township party theory to a certain extent, and it was accepted.

"It seems that our reputation for generosity has spread." The director who said this was not without malice.

Xu Yuanzuo didn't mind. He beat the snake and said, "Then there is no white flower of silver." With a lot of help, our Renshoutang will be more popular in the future. ”

The director choked. Stop talking.

"Jing Lian, the key is how to resettle these more than 10,000 victims." Hu Chen is under the secretary in the position of vice chairman, and he has always been dissatisfied with Xu Yuanzuo. It's just that after last year's dividends, this kind of disobedience can only be collected, otherwise others will be even more disobedient to him - dare to disobey Zuo Ge'er? What an eyeless old thing!

Xu Yuanzuo stretched out his index finger and said, "First of all." The claim of tens of thousands of people needs to be investigated. Don't panic when you hear it. What is the concept of tens of thousands of people? Let's draw one of the five people in Tang Xing, how big is that group? ”

The total number of people in Tangxing City is conservatively estimated to be 50,000, which is the population of the entire prosperous town. This time, just one out of five people came to Tang Xing? Apparently exaggerated.

When everyone heard this, this was indeed the truth, and their hearts gradually settled down.

Xu Yuanzuo saw that the effect was achieved. continued: "The second is how these people came. From Suzhou to Tangxing, there are water and land routes, and waterways cost money. It would also take two days to walk by land - that's fast enough, otherwise it would have taken three days. Who will bear these costs? Why do the victims come to Tang Bank when they have so much spare money? ”

Everyone frowned slightly, this is indeed a huge loophole. The poor families have fled the famine, where is the money to hurry? You can only beg while walking, and go where you can eat wherever you go. If the direction is so clear that you want to come to Tangxing, how to solve the problem of supplies along the way? It is difficult to say the load capacity of the towns, cities and villages along the way.

"So first of all, the number of people is undecided, and secondly, the destination is undecided." Xu Yuanzuo said: "We should be prepared, but there is no need to panic, right?" ”

Everyone had completely settled down, and a relaxed smile appeared on their faces.

Xu Yuanzuo changed his words, but said: "However, if someone really secretly spreads rumors, gathers the victims, demagogues, transports grain and grass, and lets these victims come to Songjiang...... Even Tang Xing, pointing directly at us and others, so what? As soon as these words came out, the venue that had just relaxed became tense again.

There was a frost on everyone's faces, and it took a long time before they were humane: "My Renshoutang has no grievances or hatreds with people, who is so scheming and secretly committing a black hand?" Isn't it harmful? ”

Xu Yuanzuo stood up and slowly paced around the princes, the smile on his face became more and more weird.

"Sir is really a kind-hearted gentleman, and he can't see the hidden tricks." Xu Yuanzuo suppressed his voice: "Let me ask you, ten taels of silver, sell to Suzhou people for twelve taels of silver, and you earn two taels." Are you willing to earn a tael less? ”

The man blurted out just now: "Naturally I don't want to, I still want to sell him for thirteen taels!" ”

"That's it." Xu Yuanzuo said: "No one wants to make less, and everyone wants to make more, so on this shopping mall, is there really the four words 'no injustice and no hatred'!" I'm afraid that unconsciously, I have long hated it deep into my bone marrow! ”

Everyone is a successful businessman, and life experience has long told them these facts. However, when Xu Yuanzuo revealed it at this moment, he was still chilled. It's like someone lifted the quilt in the middle of winter, revealing the naked body inside.

Xu Yuanzuo continued: "Let us be in a hurry, and it is by no means to harm others and benefit ourselves, but to harm others and enrich ourselves. He said softly: "At this time, once there is chaos, it will affect spring ploughing." Spring ploughing has been affected, and the price of rice will fluctuate greatly in the coming year. Regardless of whether the price of rice rises or falls, once it fluctuates, it is a major matter to scratch the heart and lungs, especially when the output goes down and the grain price goes up. When the time comes, they have silver and grain in their hands, come and take it, and they have the final say on the price of our commercial goods, obviously the public price is twelve taels, and he can suppress you by one and a half! Do you still think it's 'hurting others and not benefiting yourself'? ”

Everyone was silent and listened to Xu Yuanzuo continue to speak.

Xu Yuanzuo went around, returned to the back of his chair, and said: "I have repeatedly opposed the sale of land to Suzhou people, and I want the government to thoroughly investigate the land of outsiders in Songjiang, especially my land in Huating County, I am afraid that this kind of thing will happen!" When the time comes, we will buy their cotton silk mulberry bamboo, they only need to pluck a bead on the abacus with their fingers, and we will have thousands of taels of silver to go out. ”

"Jing Lian is right!" The directors who had not spoken before spoke up in support of Xu Yuanzuo, and on the issue of interests, everyone was surprisingly unanimous. And because Renshoutang's yield last year was too high, it also made people trust Xu Yuanzuo extraordinarily.

"So how do we deal with it now?" Hu Chen asked.

"First, check the number of people affected and where they are going." Xu Yuanzuo stretched out two fingers: "Second, you want to open up your contacts, let's ask for an explanation for ourselves, for the victims, and for the people of Suzhou: Does the prefect Cai Guoxi have the ability to govern Suzhou?" Why did Suzhou, the richest county in the world, escape so many victims? ”

Everyone's eyes lit up: it makes sense! With so many victims pouring onto the official road, the local government is to blame! Perhaps the prefect of Suzhou has formed an alliance with the mastermind behind the scenes, but most of them are only an ally with subordinate cooperation. Xu Yuanzuo pointed directly at Cai Guoxi, which is exactly what the enemy must be saved, and he will not wrongfully accuse Cai Guoxi of innocent suffering, but also force a rift in their official and business alliance.

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