Lin Zhe is still more at ease about handing over the business affairs in the family to the shopkeepers below, of course, there is no way to worry about it, because now Lin Zhe is busy with group training, it is impossible to deal with the business affairs of the family in person, in addition to relying on the previous shopkeepers, in fact, Lin Zhe can't find anyone to deal with these things.

The silk reeling factory reported to Lin Zhe by Steward An planned to purchase equipment from the United Kingdom, and then go directly to the Shanghai concession to open a steam-powered silk reeling factory.

The first steam-powered machine in China, the name is good, but there are more problems, for example, to buy the machine equipment has to be ordered from the United Kingdom, which is thousands of miles away, and it takes more than half a year to order the machine, and the money spent is not a few.

In addition, there are few technicians who know how to use machine equipment in China, and there are no managers who can operate steam-powered silk reeling factories.

Therefore, in the preparation of the silk reeling factory formulated by Lin Zhe, from the technical personnel to the senior management personnel of the operation, they actually planned to hire foreigners, otherwise, he would not be able to run the silk reeling factory at all.

In Xianfeng for three years, China wants to build a steam-powered silk reeling factory, which means that a qiē is to start from scratch, from the construction of the factory to the operation, which is a new thing for the Lin family and for all contemporary Chinese people.

Although it can be expected that the difficulty will be very large, Lin Zhe did not give up this idea, on the contrary, he specially prepared a large amount of funds for this purpose, and the investment amount of the factory in the early stage alone was as high as 100,000 taels of silver.

You must know that the silver in this year is still very valuable, the ratio of gold and silver to huàn is about one to fifteen, and one pound can probably be exchanged for three taels of silver, that is to say, in the early stage of investment in this silk reeling factory, Lin Zhe took out more than 30,000 pounds, which is a large investment even if it is placed in those modern industrial countries in the United Kingdom.

So much money thrown out, Lin Zhe naturally hopes that this silk reeling factory can save the Lin family's shrinking raw silk business, and at the same time expand the Lin family's voice in the raw silk industry, as long as the first silk reeling factory is successful, then the Lin family will quickly prepare for the second, third and more, and finally replace all the existing manual raw silk workshops under the Lin family with modern steam-powered qì silk reeling factories.

This is Lin Zhe's plan for the future business development of the Lin family, simply put, it is to continue to strengthen the competitiveness of the Lin family's main business raw silk industry, as for the other industries involved in the Lin family, such as grain, wood, papermaking, etc., the proportion of the Lin family's industrial structure is not large, secondary, there is no need to make too many changes in a short period of time.

The affairs of the family property reported to Lin Zhe by Steward An did not take up too much of Lin Zhe's time, and Lin Zhe just put it down after a cursory look.

After Steward An went out, his mind returned to the matter of meeting Huang Zonghan tomorrow.

This time he took Yongying from Yuyao County to the north, and he knew very well that he would definitely continue to go north in the future, but whether to go to the northwest of Zhejiang or the northeast or simply enter southern Jiangsu, it depends on Huang Zonghan's meaning.

After all, he, Lin Zhe, is now nominally at the disposal of Huang Zonghan.

In addition to determining where he would go in the future, he had a more important task, which was to try to get a fixed military budget from Huang Zonghan.

Yuyao County Yongying is a group training, and the official did not bear the fixed funds before, and the governments of Yuyao and Shaoxing gave a one-time financial support of several thousand taels of silver, and they didn't care about the follow-up.

But if Huang Zonghan wants Yuyao County Yongying to fight, then he must allocate a fixed military budget, Lin Zhe knows that Huang Zonghan will definitely give it, but how much to give depends on himself, this is a few hundred taels per month, and a few thousand taels per month.

How much this can win depends on Lin Zhe himself and the subsequent battle table of the Yuyao County Yongying.

When he first saw Huang Zonghan, this person gave Lin Zhe the feeling of peace, but Lin Zhe knew that peace was only his surface, in fact, this person could not be judged by superficial harmony.

This person is the same as most of the contemporary Han Xinjiang ministers, born in a scholarly family, raised by the eldest brother of the people, Daoguang fifteen years in the Jinshi thus officially stepped into the officialdom, as a Shu Jishi, his pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info can not be compared with those first-class Jinshi, but it is not bad, successively served as the head of the military department, the military machine Zhang Jing, the staff of the Lang Lang, Lang Zhong, the imperial history, to the matter. Later, he was transferred to Guangdong to supervise the grain road, Lei Qiongdao, and then promoted to Shandong and Zhejiang according to the inspector. Later, he was promoted to the political envoy of Gansu, and then to the governor of Yunnan.

Looking at his background and officialdom history, it can be easily found that he is the most typical civil official group in this era, and he is also the kind with a very smooth career.

However, there are more officials in the world, but how many can climb to the governor of a province?

How can such a person judge good and evil based on his first impression alone?

"I heard that Hengzhi was a talented person in Yuyao, and today I saw that he was really a young man!" Huang Zonghan had a kind smile on his elder's face, when he first looked at this person, and then heard this, he didn't feel that he was a governor of a province with tens of millions of people in his hands, but like an elder in a family.

However, Lin Zhe didn't dare to slack off at all, and immediately said: "Lord Zhongcheng praised it falsely, and the official was a cloth cloth, thanks to the appreciation of the adults, so that he was able to hold a group to practice and ensure the peace of the party!" ”

The governor of the Qing Dynasty routinely wanted to add a deputy to the right of the Imperial Palace, so it was appropriate for Lin Zhe to call Huang Zonghan a sentence.

Hearing Lin Zhe's words, Huang Zonghan didn't have too many expressions, but continued to say: "I am facing a lot of bandits in Zhejiang, and there are more people like you to organize group training, so as to ensure the peace of millions of people in Zhejiang!" ”

Huang Zonghan's words revealed that the Taiping Army had already caused great pressure on the Qing army in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, and another subtext also said that now the official army is powerless, and if you want to suppress bandits, you can only rely on regimental training in various places.

The two of them didn't say a word, and most of the time it was Huang Zonghan who said it, Lin Zhe was listening, and after talking like this for a long time, Huang Zonghan finally said that Yuyao County was on the top of Yongying.

"I have read the charter you handed over in detail, although it is said that it is not in line with the old system, but in this extraordinary period, it is good to change more!" Huang Zonghan said leisurely: "There are also a few security personnel you handed over, I have also passed it together, as for the matter of salary, first follow the old practice, and tentatively set a thousand taels of silver per month!" ”

Yuyao County Yongying as a regimental training hosted by Lin Zhe, its battalion system is very different from other Qing troops and regimental training in contemporary China, and Huang Zonghan is not a pedantic person, he knows at a glance that this battalion system is to imitate the army of foreigners, but he doesn't care, as long as he can fight, it doesn't matter what battalion system it is, it can win.

As for the matter of guaranteeing it, it is not a big deal, and it is really not worth mentioning to promote a few seven-rank officials.

In terms of silver, although it was only a thousand taels of silver a month, Lin Zhe was a little disappointed, but Lin Zhe was also mentally prepared for this, this newcomer, Huang Zonghan naturally could not regard the Yongying in Yuyao County as the main force of the strong army, so the military expenditure was only according to the standard of the ordinary green battalion.

"Now the pressure on Huzhou is relatively high, you will lead the team north in the near future!" Huang Zonghan's words can be regarded as arranging the follow-up for Lin Zhe.

"The ministry commands!" Lin Zhe immediately took the order!

In this conversation between Lin Zhe and Huang Zonghan, Huang Zonghan said all the clichés of officialdom, and Lin Zhe could not talk about Huang Zonghan, so in this short conversation of less than fifteen minutes, putting aside those nonsense that was not nutritious, the main thing was to say one thing, that is, Huang Zonghan asked Lin Zhe to go to Huzhou Mansion to set up defenses to intercept the Taiping Army's infiltration and attack in northern Zhejiang.

After leaving the governor's yamen, Lin Zhe did not stay in Hangzhou for long, he went out of the city directly, and as soon as he arrived at the camp, he saw Bi Yutong.

"My lord, a lot of supplies and money have been sent from the city!" When Bi Yutong spoke, he also handed Lin Zhe a list.

Lin Zhe took the list and looked at it, nodding secretly, it seems that this Huang Zonghan is still a man, and there are a lot of various supplies sent here, there are ten pigs alone, 100 chickens and ducks, 100 stones of rice, and many other seasonal vegetables. This little provision may not be a big deal for an army of tens of thousands of people, but it is extremely rich for a Yong battalion in Yuyao County, which is only more than 500 people.

Even if the eldest husband of more than 300 people is added, this batch of supplies is enough for them to eat for ten days.

In fact, Lin Zhe's estimate and the official estimate in Hangzhou City are very wrong, why? Because Lin Zhe estimated it according to the current food level of Yongying in Yuyao County, but the officials in Hangzhou must have estimated it according to the ordinary Qing army, and they were allocated this batch of supplies according to Huang Zonghan in half a month.

In addition to this batch of supplies, there was also the first two months of silver allocated by Huang Zonghan, but Huang Zonghan said that he would give 2,000 taels, but in fact he only received 1,600 taels.

In this regard, Lin Zhe naturally knew the reason, and the reason was very simple, that is, although Huang Zonghan gave two thousand taels of silver, the officials below drifted according to habit, and only gave eighty percent.

For these bad habits in the officialdom, although Lin Zhe frowned, he would not be angry, those who were officials in these years were all playing like this, even if he Lin Zhe found Huang Zonghan, he couldn't change this result.

It was unrealistic to rely on official funds and supplies, and Lin Zhe never expected to rely on official funds to support his army.

If you want to survive, you have to be self-reliant, how can you be self-reliant? Naturally, he went to blackmail those big local households and local officials!

After getting these supplies from Hangzhou, Lin Zhe immediately ordered to feed the troops!

On the same day, the soldiers of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County not only ate a full meal, but also everyone shared a large amount of fat meat, and the soldiers who ate sighed in their hearts: This is the right thing to do for Lin Zhe to be a soldier, just because he can eat enough every day, and he can still eat meat at both ends in three days, I am afraid that the old wealth of those landlords at home cannot be compared!

This is indeed a fact, the living standards of contemporary people are generally low, not to mention that there is meat to eat every day, even coarse grains are not necessarily full, the greatest pursuit of life for the vast majority of people is to be able to eat enough, even if it is a small landlord in the countryside, it is impossible to say that they eat white rice every day.

After being full of wine and food, the Yongying camp in Yuyao County opened early the next morning, and this time they went straight to Huzhou.