Since Zhou Fu returned to Guangzhou, he has not been idle.

For the first time, he had a large sum of money in his hand, more than a thousand taels of silver, both silver tickets and real money, which were the rewards given to him by the owners and merchants. People can be generous with what is lost and recovered. Zhou Fu did take advantage of this.

Of course, Zhou Fu did not forget where his opportunity came from, he did not care about his own affairs first, but did everything possible to ask to see Du Yunhe, the governor of Liangguang. This caused him some suffering.

This is really strange to the arrangement of the traversers, they take it for granted that it is time to come, the Manchu Qing is sharpening their knives in the north, and when the chaos of the two lakes is sorted out, they will soon go south to kill, and Du Yunhe, the governor of Liangguang, if he hears that there are cannons and guns sent, he will not be warmly welcomed!? But they don't want to think about it, how big is the difference between the two identities?

In an era when identity and rank are extremely important, gods and horses are floating clouds, and even the posthumous arrangements are a dynasty that talks about hierarchy, and the traversers actually let Zhou Fu directly spread rumors. It's hard for him.

In that side of the world, it is very difficult to see a bureau chief, and now Zhou Fu has to deal with it, but what about the governor of Liangguang, who has completed the eight classics.

The traversers are really too casual, or the temporary plan is always not thorough, they really forgot, in their side of the world, if they want to meet a governor, even if it is a deputy, you can try it?!

Zhou Fu couldn't reach this level, but the request given by the traversers was to go directly to see Du Yunhe, the governor of Liangguang.

Zhou Fu agreed at that time, and he didn't dare not agree.

But he really has a way, he is not an uninformed ordinary person, nor is he a foolish person who is scared to death when he sees officials, he is a citizen of Guangzhou, and he has also run across the sea, and he also has knowledge.

Zhou Fu decided to grind it, one day does not achieve two days, I go to you every day to show my face, see you or not, all when I have a sense of existence. He also stuffed countless pieces of silver to the porter, but the porter was not stupid, but after reporting to the staff, even if he finished his work, he turned around and told Zhou Fu, your request has arrived, you wait slowly.

But who actually cares about him? He doesn't have an internet WeChat or anything.

In the end, Zhou Fu came up with a trick, I can't kneel and wait! For three days in a row, he knelt day and night at the door of people's homes, which was really annoying, but he finally knelt down Du Yunhe, the governor of Liangguang, and finally met him in person.

Zhou Fu was lucky that he was able to know the exact home address of the Governor of Liangguang. I really admire.

The subsequent things are not something he can control, he can only have the function of transmitting words.

Zhou Fu finally let out a long breath, and said in his heart, Master Gao, I am worthy of your trust......

Next, he is going to be busy with his own business, he is forty years old, and he finally has the opportunity to start a new business, and he has an inexplicable opportunity.

The captain of the ship he had served for a long time fell seriously ill after returning to Canton because of the excitement of surprise and joy, and business was suspended.

But Zhou Fu didn't want to stop, because he had a business opportunity, or a business opportunity given to him by the son of Diangong Gao Degao.

Gao Gongzi once said that people are the most important, and all objects can be controlled by people, and there is a shortage of "technicians" in the city of Relansha!

Even if you can make iron, you can carpenter, you can bricklayer, you can use ceramics, you can work as a technician there, and the salary is much higher than that of Ming Da 6. There is no need to doubt the credibility at all. Zhou Fu knows this too well. He saw that a person named Manager Mei of the Hantang Group settled with the merchants in a lump sum, which was very fair.

Originally, Nanming inherited the Ming Dynasty's household system, that is, as long as you enter the official industry, no matter what you do, your children and grandchildren must continue to do it, and be a good successor to the revolution.

(There has been a debate about whether the Nanming household system was inherited, and the kid identified himself here.) You can discuss it in the book review. Personally, I think it must have been inherited at first, but then I didn't care about it, and unfortunately there is no clear historical information for me to wield. But I didn't think it was important, so I decided that I had my opinion. ）

However, after entering the troubled times, this situation is gone, so the officials in charge of managing this matter don't even dare to say that they will live until tomorrow with their own lives, who will have his sister to maintain what system?!

Many of the craftsmen were finally free, but now they were not able to find their jobs.

In this troubled era, the citizens of Guangzhou have long reduced their demand for life to a level that can be maintained. Even the flower seller who sells flowers is present, his flowers are not easy to sell, and the men and women used to buy them very easily and put them on their heads, but now there are suddenly a few fewer people who are interested, and they have to keep an eye on many large households, so they can only get up earlier and work harder.

Of course, this refers to ordinary people. The life of the big businessmen, the big landlords, the big bureaucrats is still good. But just relying on them to drive consumption, it's a bit like that side of the world, per capita consumption and per capita income are very high, all kinds of numbers are very good-looking, and they are first-class in the world, but fucking jobs are hard to find, goods are not easy to sell, and the prices of necessities have been rising!

Does anyone know what's going on? Or is it caused by the fact that the individual is not too high?

Hundreds of people squatting and standing under the big banyan trees on the side of the road every day are near the Chenghuang Temple in the east of Guangzhou, where hundreds of people squat and stand waiting for someone to hire them to do odd jobs. This big city with a population of about 700,000 should give birth to countless job opportunities every day.

Zhou Fu is a native of Guangzhou and is very familiar with the situation here.

He intends to organize a labor company...... Just like Gao Degao Gongzi taught him, he can "contract" all kinds of work, and the Hantang Group will definitely pay two according to the results of his work, and he just organizes the manpower, which does not need to be too troublesome, and does not cost too much money in the early stage.

When Gao Degao mentioned this, Zhou Fu's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood that this was a good business.

On an ordinary afternoon, Zhou Fu made his own conditions to some craftsmen: for a year, he would pay three months' wages first, and give nine taels of silver as settling expenses to go to Taiwan to work...... Of course, the silver will be released at the moment of getting on the ship, Zhou Fu is a human spirit, and it is not easy to be deceived in the class of citizens......

As soon as the conditions came out, there was a bang, and Zhou Fu was surrounded by everyone.

At that time, Zhou Fudu was stunned, he knew that he would definitely be able to recruit people, but he didn't expect to recruit so many-

So he hurriedly went and invited a few of his former colleagues to help him. He still has to make a statistic, and he still wants to pick and choose, just like that, before he can react, a labor company of more than 800 people will be successfully established.

However, Zhou Fu's capital is not enough...... The upfront costs are not enough...... Several past peers know the roots, and everyone is discussing partnerships, but the initial investment is larger, and everyone is very careful.

Not to mention, it is not too unusual to go abroad to do labor during this period, Macau, Geranza, Manila, and Batavia have all gone to Guangzhou to recruit workers, but the scale is not as large as this time. Besides, that was all in the past. Now the world is not very good, and there are fewer opportunities to recruit workers. Everyone is honestly waiting for fate to arrange it, and the fool goes out to find an opportunity.

When the first wave of merchants returned from the city of Geranza, Zhou Fu's legendary experience in Taiwan spread in the city of Guangzhou, and it was very fast, especially when he knelt down to wait for Du Yunhe, the governor of Liangguang, and was really received by the adults...... No one laughed at him for this, but everyone thought he was lucky.

When Zhou Fu was busy setting up his labor company, the housekeeper of the Pan family came unexpectedly.

Pan Jiake said a little.

Among the commercial houses in Guangzhou, the Pan family is rich.

In this historical time and space, if there were no time-travelers, the rich man in the world business community in the 18th century must have been Wu Bingjian, who had a net worth of more than 260,000 taels of silver. At the same time, the assets of the richest businessman in the United States were only 7oo taels when converted into silver.

It can't be regarded as Hekun, just the business world. He Kun was an official greed, but his family had nowhere to run, how could there be Australia at that time.

However, in the 18th century, the ancestor of Fu Wu Bingjian worked as an account clerk in the family of Fu Pan in Guangzhou, and finally had savings and experience to set up a Jardine Matheson firm and became a thirteen line of business.

So in Guangzhou in this era, the Pan family is too famous at present.

Just the outfit of the Pan family's housekeeper, the jade pendant on his waist is almost all Zhou Fu's current worth. What's more, it usually takes a lot of work to meet the big housekeeper of the Pan family.

This time, the big housekeeper personally came to send a greeting to Zhou Fu, and it turned out that Pan Feng, the fourth son of the Pan family, personally invited Zhou Fu to the banquet.

(The Pan family still has descendants, the genealogy is clear, and the kid doesn't want to cause controversy, so he casually gave it a name.) No such person was found. It does not correspond to historical facts. ）

This is amazing, everyone has dressed up for Zhou Fu, no matter what, his Pan family is a big financier, once he climbs into the relationship, everyone benefits......

Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, Guangdong was vast and sparsely populated, and the economic exhibition was backward compared with the Central Plains, after the two Song Dynasty, with a large number of people moving south, Guangdong's social economy was developed, and after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Guangdong's commercial agriculture and handicraft industry had made great progress.

At the same time, the city of Fanyi was easy to move towards Guangzhou, and in the 34th year of Jiajing, the Ming government set up 13 businesses in Guangzhou, Huizhou and Quanzhou that monopolized trade, especially during the period when the sea was forbidden because of the prevention of crimes, Guangzhou became the largest and only treaty port for foreign trade.

It was also during this period that the Pan family seized the opportunity, just like the world on that side, monopoly can produce great wealth, and the Pan family rose in less than a hundred years.

At the beginning, the Pan family vigorously supported the imperial examinations of various scholars, and naturally also vigorously supported the Donglin Party. But if you talk about the relationship between the merchants and the Donglin Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty, five chapters are not enough, and the friends who subscribe will talk about water again.

To use a few of the most concise words, in this period, businessmen paid money, literati produced various experts to endorse, and if your country wants to collect taxes from merchants, it is to compete with the people! It's not easy to send eunuchs to oversee it! To collect taxes peasants go!

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When it came to the agreed date, the Pan family's invitation caused a sensation in the entire Sweetwater Lane.

Sixteen young men who were dressed more than one grade higher than other family members came here, and the four palanquin bearers who accompanied them were all wearing Songjiang cotton shorts. The sedan chair is a bamboo curtain sedan chair, made of bamboo, inlaid with silver carvings, and the outside can not see the inside, but the inside is clear and cool.

Zhou Fu sat in the sedan chair, looking at the accompanying Pan family, with an expressionless face. But his heart was tumbling, thinking of all kinds of ways to deal with it.

Soon arrived at the Pan family's courtyard on the bank of the Pearl River, and Zhou Fu's heart was much more stable. It's not the main house, which means that things are not very important.

Zhou Fu had known about this annex for a long time, but he had never passed by and never thought he could enter it.

This courtyard is about 10,000 acres in size, one main gate, two other doors, seeing more than 20 slaves sitting on the bench in front of the gate chatting, their clothes are bright, revealing a sense of superiority.

Seeing Zhou Fu and the others approaching, they got up and opened the main entrance.

Zhou Fu's heart tightened, he had passed by this place several times, but he had never seen the main gate opened. Maybe things weren't as simple as he thought?

When the housekeeper delivered the post, he didn't say too much, just the etiquette was thorough, which already made Zhou Fu at a loss-

The plaque at the main entrance is written with three big characters of "Tingtao Yuan", I heard that every time the governor arrives, the Pan family will ask for words, and no one knows the cost of polishing the pen.

The sedan chair carefully entered the gate, walked for a while, and after bypassing the shadow wall, it was put down, and the sedan chair driver left.

When Zhou Fu was wondering, four healthy women came over, took the sedan pole and lifted the sedan chair, continued to move forward, and after passing a moon gate, they bypassed a nine-curved bridge.

Zhou Fuxian's lotus pond is placed in the authentic Taihu Lake stone, strange shape, unique charm, and the body is huge, it must be worth thousands of taels of silver, right?

Zhou Fu was thinking about it, but the sedan chair was slowly put down.

At this time, there were only two people with Zhou Fu with him, and they were all handsome little guys.

At this time, Zhou Fu saw the chief housekeeper of the Pan family standing in front of a hall with a smile on his face, waiting for him.

The chief butler didn't say anything, made a gesture of please, and accompanied Zhou Fu through the hall.

In the middle of the hall, there is a screen with a sandalwood frame and a marble surface. Zhou Fu stole his eyes and swept away, and the stone surface had a vague sense of landscape painting. It's not a mundane thing.

Walking through the house, there is a hole in it. A formal and decent courtyard.

On both sides of the courtyard are hand-copying corridors, and dozens of bird cages are hung on the eaves, and inside are colorful parrots, but they do not call, but quietly comb their feathers.

The corridor was depicted with various patterns, and some places were still shining with gold, which was really inlaid with gold and silver, but Zhou Fu looked ahead, only peeking with his spare eyes, without looking around at all, and at the same time straightened his waist, making the Huzhou silk on his body look very crisp-

The dinner was held in the main hall. Zhou Fu carefully arranged the hem of his robe and sat upright in the seat guided by the butler, where there were only two seats. This is a one-man meeting, Zhou Fu is looking forward to it.

At this time, the main seat was still empty, and the master had not yet appeared. No one spoke, not even the chief butler was standing and waiting.

More than a dozen maids in bright clothes, all with beautiful faces, wearing various dishes like flowing water, but they all peeked at Zhou Fu.

Zhou Fu's heart was beating wildly, but his face was sinking like water, he knew that at this time, Qiancheng would not lose his manners, then he would have lost all his efforts, calm, calm is the right way for uncles.

"Haha, I'm slow to be a guest!" Pan Feng, the fourth son of the Pan family, had not yet entered the door, but his young voice came in.

The maid who accompanied her chuckled, and even the big butler Pan laughed. Zhou Fu's heart tightened, and he quickly stood up.

A handsome boy appeared at the door. He wears a silk mesh scarf, a lake-blue silk jacket, and a wide silver satin collar. The waist is surrounded by green silk, and the jade belt hook hangs the best jade, holding a folding fan of the Japanese country. This is casual attire.

The fourth son of Pan Feng is more alternative in the Pan family.

This person is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he is also proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, but he seems to have no literary luck. In the Pan family, in addition to the eldest son's designation to take over the Pan family's business, the second son and the third son are both promoted and are the officials of one of the parents, but he is the only one who originally had a "changeable spirit and skillful integration" student in the eyes of Mr., but he failed to pass the imperial examination.

This made Pan Zechen, the head of the Pan family, feel quite regretful in his heart, and his wish to do three things in one house was disappointed.

By the time the head of the Pan family was sincerely looking for a relationship and preparing to take the exam again, the world was already in chaos.

Originally, Yongli held another imperial examination in Zhaoqing this year, and the head of the Pan family pondered for a long time, but did not arrange for this beloved child to participate. Only one sentence was left: wait for the opportunity to make a decision.

This decision made two people happy, one was the fourth son of Pan Feng, who no longer had to recite and write those decent articles, and the other was the sixth lady of the Pan family, Pan Yu. She and Pan Feng's four sons were born to the same mother, and they are naturally close, so she can let her brother who loves her the most play with her every day.

In fact, it was her decision to invite Zhou Fulai. When she told her brother Pan Feng about all kinds of rumors about Taiwan one by one, Pan Feng was really interested, there was such a strange thing? Vivid, is it true? More strange than those missionaries?

So Pan Feng Gongzi decided to find out a thing or two about the person involved, Pan Yu liked it even more, and decided to be obedient behind the screen. A rich woman, how can the common people see it?

Pan Feng's son is 15 this year, and Pan Yu is 12.

Zhou Fu saw that it was the master who came forward, and quickly stood up. Prince Pan Feng also stepped forward quickly, and said with a little salute: "It's rude not to greet him personally, Mr. Zhou, sit down." ”

Then the feast began.

Unconsciously, the two talked about entering Hong Kong. Didn't notice the butler leaving, didn't care that there was anyone listening behind the main hall screen-

Is there really something that can fly in the sky?

Is there really an object that can be manipulated by others and walk freely on 6?

Is there anything that can sail fast in the sea?

Is there really an artillery gun that can be connected?

Zhou Fu didn't know how many times he had talked about these things, but now he was not bored at all, and the more he talked about it, the more he talked about it, I don't know why, but this time it was with pleasure, not to illustrate the situation.

Mr. Pan Feng and Miss Pan Yu behind the screen listened to it fascinated.

Zhou Fu only took advantage of Pan Fenggongzi's trance to listen to it, and took a few chopsticks to eat it.

The table was full of dishes, and he had seen few of them, let alone eaten them. What is it? The housekeeper once said that this is a hundred birds' tongues, is it really made of a hundred birds' tongues? At that time, Zhou Fu didn't ask, pretending to have seen it a long time ago and ate it normally, and it tasted very good.

When he saw Pan Fenggongzi, after wiping his sweat with a Huzhou satin inlaid silver silk hand towel, he casually threw it in the utility bucket under the table, Zhou Fu's heart showed anger, and said in his heart, you threw away a penny and three cents of silver!

However, his face was still quiet, but his mouth said that Taiwan was even more magical.

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