Everyone else is celebrating the New Year, but Zhou Qingfeng didn't have the New Year. When every household in the west of the city was jubilant, he looked at the window of the office. The cooks of the Lin Family Inn have all gone home for reunion, and there is no one to cook for him.

"You're the only one with me." Zhou Qingfeng turned his head to look at the corner, 'Dog Meat' looked up at him, whined twice and lay down and continued to lie down.

The office door creaked, and Chunni glanced through the crack before opening it. The girl walked in with a bowl of noodles and put it on the table, and said coldly: "Sister Xu asked me to make it, saying that you may not have eaten it yet." It's not like I want to do it for you. ”

The noodles have meat and eggs in them, and they are cooked deliciously. Zhou Qingfeng was slightly surprised and asked, "You are a big lady with fine skin and tender meat, and you can actually cook noodles?" ”

"I'm not Miss Dahu, don't talk nonsense." Chunni turned around and left.

"Can a child from a poor family write and count, and can also write in a handful of silk flowers?" Zhou Qingfeng pointed to a transcribed manuscript on his desktop, "You Sister Xu don't have this ability." ”

"Why can't a child from a poor family be able to write and count? Besides, Sister Xu'er's skills are much better than yours, and you are a young master who can only bully people. Chunni retorted.

"What is Sister Xu doing?"

"She's still busy. Which one is like you? There is still free. ”

"What about the soldiers and those left behind?"

"They all have something to eat, and you don't have to bother. Especially the two rice buckets under your hand, you eat more than anyone else. ”

"I'm thinking, shouldn't you be a maid who escaped from that big family? If I wasn't careful, I was sold to a brothel by traffickers, and then escaped from the brothel and hid with me. I bet you're not Chunni, what the hell is your name? ”

Bang ......, this Nizi didn't respond at all, and closed the door hard.

Zhou Qingfeng pouted, making a fuss. The more Chunni tries to hide his identity, the more he wants to find out. It's just that he has already sent someone to check the entire Fushun, and he hasn't heard of anyone who has lost their children - this girl is smart and smart, capable of doing things, and obviously has received a good education since she was a child. But it's so strange that she was trafficked.

Wait...... selling? This girl is not Fushun.

Exploring Chunni's identity is Zhou Qingfeng's blind imagination to pass the time when he is bored, and after a while, Xu Bing personally pushed the door in, and happily put the large stack of copywriting on his desktop. He also looked at the noodles that were getting cold and said, "What?" I asked Chunni to make it, don't you like to eat it? ”

Zhou Qingfeng wanted to forget this bowl of noodles, he grabbed a few chopsticks and put them in his mouth, and then ate the whole bowl with a few clicks. "That Nizi's cooking skills are good, she should have been specially practiced. I guess she can go up to the hall and down the kitchen, and she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. ”

Regarding Zhou Qingfeng's speculation, Xu Bing nodded slightly, "The little girl obviously has a bitter stomach, but you have to reveal other people's scars, no wonder she doesn't like you." ”

"I'm also curious about what big families can cultivate such excellent women, and I wish they could send a few more." Zhou Qingfeng took a look at the various manuscripts copied by Chunni, this Nizi has now begun to learn to write simplified characters, neat and beautiful. In contrast, Zhou Qingfeng can only write about dog crawlies, and Jin Ge next to him writes about zombies.

Xu Bing smiled, patted the document he sent and said, "Your craftsman recruitment plan is very successful, we have accepted a total of more than three hundred skilled talents with quite good abilities, and there should be many more in the later stage." This is their roster as well as the development plan for the handicraft industry. I would like to remind you that it is too unsafe to buy a property in Fushun. It's better to go to Shenyang. ”

Regarding the location of the stay, Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing discussed it many times.

Fushun is not safe, this is the consensus. Zhou Qingfeng tried to recruit skilled talents here, so as not to use these manpower in the future. Carpenters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, masons, etc., even if they were killed by him, could not be left behind.

Zhou Qingfeng is now expanding the recruitment of skilled personnel, such as tailors, cooks, boatmen, shoemakers, brewers, tofu makers, almost everyone has been brought in. Among them, the craftsman who makes wine was mentioned by Xu Bing to the same level as carpenters and blacksmiths - alcohol is too important.

As long as it costs money, it is not difficult to recruit people. How to make them work is not easy. At the very least, they are placed in their lives and jobs. This involves where Zhou Qingfeng will use it as a base.

Fushun is definitely not good, Zhou Qingfeng only intends to train and train technicians here, and will not make large-scale investment. What about Shenyang? It's only seventy or eighty miles away from Fushun, and it's also the front line.

But if you move too far, it is extremely difficult. In ancient times, the long-distance migration of large numbers of people was an extremely difficult task. Don't talk about ancient times, even after a few hundred years, it is not easy - during the Republic of China, a Sichuan army went out of Sichuan to resist the war, but before the war was fought, they were all starved to death halfway.

"We can go to Shenyang first, then Liaoyang, all the way to the south...... Zhou Qingfeng had a map of Liaodong in hand, spread it out and looked at it carefully. In the end, he decided: "Go to Dalian." ”

The current Dalian is called Lushun, which is located at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. Surrounded by the sea on three sides, and connected to the peninsula by the Isthmus of Jinzhou on one side, it has an advantage in defense. Lushun has good port conditions and is very convenient for sea transportation.

Lushun's geographical area is also large enough, and the land and water resources can meet the medium-term development needs. Due to its proximity to the sea, both the fishing and salt industries can generate great wealth. The only headache was that there was no coal or iron in the place, especially the lack of coal. This is far less than Fushun.

Regarding the future foothold, Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing have discussed informally many times. Now it seems that it is to be formalized. This site should not be too far away from Fushun, nor too remote, nor too strong local forces, but also need to have sufficient population and resources. After leaving Jiangnan, North Korea, and the capital, the only place to go is Lushun.

Xu Bing also nodded, her fingers even crossed the sea to the south across Lushun, "Lushun is a good place. As long as we have a foothold there, we can also use Lushun as a springboard to Shandong. ”

The conditions in Shandong are better than those in Lushun, but the power of the Ming Dynasty there is also much stronger, and there are several vassal kings alone. Don't provoke until you're not strong enough.

"Lushun, let's be Lushun." Zhou Qingfeng tapped the names of places on the map with his fingers, "I asked Tan Feng's inspection team to run and run, figure out the road conditions along the way, the setting of supply points, and local forces." Before figuring it out, I was temporarily training people in Fushun and preparing funds and materials. ”

"How is Tan Feng's inspection team?" Xu Bing asked.

"Tan Feng is a person who came out of the old system, and it is difficult to change his thinking, and he is not suitable for my management style. Without the incentives of financial and personnel rights, I think he has no motivation to do things, and he is far less enthusiastic than when he first came. Zhou Qingfeng snorted coldly, "It's not cultivated by yourself, it's unreliable after all." ”

With the expansion of Zhou Qingfeng's power, his system became more and more bloated. Thinking that a person like Sun Ren who was born as a slave was completely cultivated by Zhou Qingfeng himself, and he still maintained high efficiency in using it. But people like Carpenter Sang and Tan Feng have some ideological obstacles. The status and power of the carpenter are not enough to compete with Zhou Qingfeng, and he can only be obedient if he is happy or not.

But Tan Feng is different.

"Tan Feng was recently sent to Shenyang by you, wasn't he?" Xu Bing asked, "He should have come back yesterday according to the time." ”

Zhou Qingfeng frowned and said to himself, "That's right." ”

Recently, the west of the city has been developing commerce, and Zhou Qingfeng and Xu Bing have made great efforts to recruit a group of account offices to open a financial institution called 'casual loan'. The emergence of this financial institution greatly curbed the rampant loan sharks in Fushun City, and even affected Li Yongfang's money lending business. Zhou Qingfeng had to control who to lend, restricting it to residents in the west of the city and people in his system.

However, low-interest lending in a small area also allowed Zhou Qingfeng to quickly control the economy in the west of the city. The poorer the people, the more they need financial support, and when all the debt relations in the west of the city began to concentrate in Zhou Qingfeng's hands, the thousands of people living here were unconsciously controlled by Zhou Qingfeng.

The unification of the production and consumption markets of thousands of people is a rather powerful force. For example, Zhou Qingfeng integrated more than a dozen large and small grain stores in the west of the city for unified procurement and supply, and this bargaining power increased several times. Similarly, cloth, fur, medicinal herbs, wood, etc., these scattered commercial stores had to be concentrated in Zhou Qingfeng's system.

And Zhou Qingfeng doesn't need to spend much money at all, he has high-interest savings and low-interest loans on the other, and he naturally does what others can't do. This idea was still coming up by Xu Bing. As a criminal police officer, she also has a good understanding of commercial crime.

And when a large number of sales and purchasing needs are generated, the prototype of a business alliance emerges. Zhou Qingfeng needed a caravan to and from Fushun and Shenyang for commercial transportation, so Tan Feng's inspection made a cameo appearance in the security work of the transport team - Fushun and Shenyang are not far away, but now the team went out and did not come back on time.

If Tan Feng, who has just taken up the post of inspector, has something to do, it will be a major blow to Zhou Qingfeng, who has just started. Xu Bing's reminder made him irritable in his heart, he paced back and forth at the window, but he couldn't spare anyone to investigate for a while - most of the people were on vacation for the New Year.

"It's a big deal, I'll ...... it myself." Zhou Qingfeng was about to say that he had gone to Shenyang to see what was going on, when he suddenly heard the sound of messy horses' hooves coming from the street outside the Lin Inn. He looked out and saw a scattered procession parked outside. The head of the leader was bandaged with a turban, and his armor was crooked, and he was embarrassed.

"Tan Feng is back." Zhou Qingfeng's heart was first relieved, and then he was furious. He walked out of the office on the third floor briskly and walked outside the inn with a cold face. He glanced at the team and saw that it was the caravan he had arranged to transport goods to Shenyang. But now the caravan is a few fewer people, and the mule and horse vehicles are less than half.

"What's going on?" Zhou Qingfeng said angrily.

Tan Feng fell from his horse, knelt down on one knee and cried: "Boss, I'm sorry for you." I was robbed halfway through. ”

"Your fucking dignified Fushun patrol, with a team of dozens of people, was robbed?" Zhou Qingfeng was really angry, "Who is so bold?" ”

Tan Feng raised a frowning and bitter face, and said sadly: "I don't know who it is, my subordinates will be defeated in a daze." ”

For the Chinese New Year, this is an eye medicine for Lao Tzu!