A few days after the marriage, Lin Zhe rarely let go of many complicated affairs, and it was considered a wedding for himself, of course, if he wanted to spend a honeymoon like the future life, he naturally didn't have to have extravagant hopes.

Only three days later, many officials and officers from the Yamen of the Business Zone, Yu Shengjun, and the Yamen of the Military Reserve Road were in the waiting room outside Lin Zhe's office, waiting to report to Lin Zhe.

Lin Zhe in the office didn't have time to summon them now, and a lot of official documents that needed to be reviewed by him in the past few days were piled up on his desk.

And with many official documents, Lin Zhe once again felt that he needed the assistance of the secretary, well, that is, what people now call staff, otherwise he would have to be tired to death by these messy things sooner or later.

Some officials are only in charge of the affairs of a yamen, and if there are effective staff members under them to help, unless important matters need to be handled by officials in person, other miscellaneous matters can be left to those staff members to deal with, and they are playing in the mountains and rivers.

However, like Lin Zhe, it is not good, the yamen directly under his management has the military preparation road yamen and the yamen of the trade zone and the Jianghaiguan, in addition, he is also the commander of the Yu Shengjun, and the training of the 5,000 army and even eating, drinking and sleeping have to be managed, in addition to these affairs, he also has to worry about this foreign affairs, those foreigners have no worries, and they will make a bunch of things to give him a headache in three days.

And it's not a matter to be so busy all the time, if you can recruit a group of competent staff to help you, then you only need to grasp the general direction and Yu Shengjun's affairs, and other government affairs can be handed over to those staff members to manage.

Finally disposed of these official documents, Lin Zhe leaned back in his chair, planning to rest for a while.

However, in the reception room outside the office, there were already many people waiting in a hurry.

"Mr. Xiao, I don't know when the adults will be able to summon me?" Shi Langyi, who was wearing an officer's uniform and wore the rank of lieutenant colonel, stood up.

Among the people present, he can be regarded as a person with a higher status and Lin Zhe's trust, so when others can only wait, he has the courage to ask Xiao Changzhong, the general office of the Yamen of the Business Zone.

Xiao Changzhong smiled: "Lord Shi, don't be impatient, now the adults are still dealing with the Wen Jiàn accumulated a few days ago, when the adults are free, I will definitely be the first to lead you to meet the adults!" ”

Although he said these words with a smile on his face, Xiao Changzhong was a little disdainful in his heart, these generals of Yu Shengjun did not know the rules one by one.

What kind of person is the adult, how busy the affairs are, what's the point of letting you wait, just wait for two hours and get impatient, it seems that the books I read in the past few years have been read in vain, and I have become reckless people when I enter the army, otherwise I can't afford to wait for a few hours.

Don't you see that there are no less than a dozen people waiting for Lin Zhe to summon in the waiting room, all of them have come early in the morning to wait, no one has waited less than you, but have the others ever looked a little impatient?

Shi Langyi heard Xiao Changzhong's words, although he still wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, but he was dissatisfied with this Xiao Changzhong in his heart.

This Xiao Changzhong is a villain, although he has a smile on his face, Shi Langyi also feels his disdainful tone.

"But a comprador, if it weren't for the adults to support you, how dare you speak to me in such a tone today!" Shi Langyi was also unhappy with Xiao Changzhong.

This Xiao Changzhong is not a long-term follow Lin Zhe's subordinates, but to Shanghai after the establishment of a business zone, only to enter Lin Zhe's door, this person from Guangzhou, is a comprador in the Jardine Matheson foreign firm, last year Lin Zhe opened a large number of business and trade areas to recruit talents, to recruit a lot of comprador people, and this Xiao Changzhong is one of the best, proficient in English, French, in addition to the person was a child before, traditional books have not been left behind, due to rich experience in foreign management, very proficient in modern administration.

This person is a relatively rare compound talent in contemporary China, so Lin Zhe first hired him as the secretary of the General Affairs Office of the Business Zone, and then promoted to the General Affairs Office, when Bi Yutong was recommended by Lin Zhe to supervise the Huzhou Donation Bureau, Bi Yutong because he was also the military camp officer of Yu Sheng and the Huzhou Donation Bureau to supervise the affairs, and he was already busy with affairs and did not have enough time and energy to act as the general office of the Yamen General Affairs Office of the Business Zone.

You must know that although the general affairs office of the yamen of the business and trade zone is only the general affairs office of the yamen of the trade zone in name, in fact, because Lin Zhe is also the superintendent of Su Songtaibing, Jianghaiguan and the superintendent of the business and trade zone, and the offices of the above three yamen have been merged together, so in fact, this general affairs office is also indirectly responsible for the affairs of Bingbeidao and Jianghaiguan.

Let's not talk about the weight first, but the three yamen together, there are a lot of messy things, and they can't be busy full-time, let alone part-time.

Therefore, Bi Yutong took the initiative to resign and recommended Xiao Changzhong, the original conference office, to serve as the acting general office of the general affairs office.

As for why Bi Yutong didn't resign from the Huzhou Donation Bureau and Yu Shengjun's position as a camp officer, this was naturally related to his plan, and he and many people could see that his group of people, including Lin Zhe, their foundation was in Yu Shengjun, not the supervision of any business district, or Su Songtai was prepared and left Yu Shengjun, they were nothing.

Moreover, now that Yu Shengjun has a good momentum, if the army is expanding in the future, he Bi Yutong will be the battalion officer of an army of tens of thousands of people, and his power is much greater than that of the general affairs office of a district business district.

In fact, it was not only Bi Yutong who made this choice, but also several other Yu Shengjun officers who had acting positions in the Yamen of the Trade Zone when the Yamen of the Trade Zone was first established, and most of them resigned from their posts and continued to focus on military affairs.

Lin Zhe still has an appreciative attitude towards their choice, he asked Yu Shengjun's personnel to meddle in the affairs of the yamen of the trade zone, mainly because he really couldn't find anyone to deal with the affairs of the trade zone at that time, and now, half a year later, the shelves of the yamen of the trade zone have been erected, and there is no need for those half-hung officers.

In this environment, many people like Xiao Changzhong rose under Lin Zhe, and this group of people is generally the children of former compradors and wealthy businessmen, these people have been in contact with Chinese and foreign affairs all the year round, and most of them have a relatively broad horizon and a strong ability to contact new affairs.

The operation mode of the yamen in the business zone, which is filled with a large number of compradors, is said to be a government agency rather than an enterprise, because the participation of a large number of professional managers, that is, those compradors, brings about the management mode of modern enterprises.

Looking at contemporary China, it is estimated that apart from the Jianghai Customs, which is full of foreigners, there is no more efficient government agency than the Yamen of the business zone.

Not to mention everyone's thoughts, Shi Langyi waited for half an hour before he was led into Lin Zhe's office by Xiao Changzhong.

Walking into Lin Zhe's office, Shi Langyi saw that Lin Zhe was not sitting behind the desk, but standing in front of the glass window with his hands behind his back. ”

Shi Langyi followed Lin Zhe's words and walked to the window, standing next to Lin Zhe one position behind, and followed Lin Zhe's line of sight to the window.

In the Huangpu River, sailing ships and steamships are mixed together, some are loading and unloading on the wharf moored in front of the foreign companies, some are slowly leaving the wharf, loaded with heavy goods and sailing towards the center of the river, and some are slowly entering the port under the guidance of pilot boats.

On the wharf, countless porters sweat to load and unload, they carry many goods out of the warehouse on the side of the wharf, and then load the ship, or carry the goods on the ship, and then transport them to the window next to them.

Looking back at the recycle, you can see that there are many obviously dressed outside the warehouse, or wearing Chinese-style horse coats and robes, or wearing Western-style suits and hats, these people seem to be pointing and painting and saying something, occasionally you will see someone wave their hands, and many workers will pour out behind them to carry the goods on the dock directly onto the carriage, and then these loaded carriages pulling goods from other provinces in China or countries around the world are driven into the coastal avenue of the Huangpu River, blending into many carriages and disappearing.

"This wharf is much more prosperous than half a year!" Shi Langyi couldn't help but sigh: "I remember when I first came to Shanghai, this business area was not so prosperous!" ”

Lin Zhe said: "I just saw a report from Jianghai Customs, saying that the total import and export volume of our business zone in the first quarter increased by 50% compared with the fourth quarter of last year!" ”

"In the first quarter alone, we exported 60,000 bales of raw silk and 70,000 boxes of tea!"

"The import and export trade has increased substantially, and last month alone, Jianghai Beiguan collected taxes as high as 110,000 taels!"

Hearing what Lin Zhe said, Shi Langyi's face was overjoyed: "In this case, then wouldn't we be able to get at least 40,000 taels of defense fees?" ”

Lin Zhe nodded: "It's almost this number!" ”

According to the agreement between Lin Zhe and Xu Naizhao, Jianghai Beiguan needs to pay a fixed amount of 60,000 taels of taxes to the yamen of Jiangsu Governor every month, and then deduct Jianghai Beiguan's own operating expenses, and the rest will be paid to Yu Shengjun as a defense fee.

"Great, our military expenses will be easier in the future!" Shi Langyi, as a senior officer of Yu Shengjun, naturally knew that Yu Shengjun had always been extremely short of funds, and his military spending in the past six months had been scraped together, and he even advanced a lot of money from the small treasury, otherwise he would really not be able to hold on.

"There is a lot of tariffs in Jianghaibei, I'm afraid that there can be more at the old gate of Jianghai, if the military spending can be relaxed, we can also prepare to build a few new troops!"

However, Lin Zhe shook his head: "The old gate of the east gate is not very easy to move, some time ago, tens of thousands of taels of silver were embezzled from the old pass, and someone has already impeached me!" ”