Song Nan stared at the account book a few times, and asked in surprise, "How is this possible?" How can there be such a big profit on the books? Nearly 600,000 taels were spent on the houses, roads and supporting facilities in the third southern district, and the profit of the second southern district was at most 200,000 taels after deducting the expenses of the third southern district, and there were more than 500,000 taels more on the books at once. ”

Zhu Fengtong smiled: "Will I still be able to do tricks?" The slave family has counted it three times, and this number is real. ”

"What's going on?" Song Nan scratched his head and asked.

"Have you forgotten what you yourself commanded to raise the price? The price of shops and houses has increased. ”

"It won't be that much."

"Of course, there is also the credit of Wan Dabao here, he purchased sand and gravel earthwork according to what you said 'bidding' method, and some merchants are willing to reduce the cost of 20% to supply all the sand and gravel earthwork, saving more than 80,000 taels of silver;

Song Nan suddenly realized, and frowned after a while.

Zhu Fengtong asked with a smile: "What's the matter, aren't you happy to make more money?" ”

Song Nan said: "Of course, it is a good thing, but there is one thing that should not be done." ”

Zhu Fengtong tilted his head and said, "Shouldn't the labor wage be reduced?" ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "That's right, making money is important, but word of mouth is even more important, what we earn is not the money of these coolies, Wan Dabao is not doing this properly, I want to ask him." ”

Zhu Fengtong pursed his lips and smiled: "No need, I have already ordered him to make up for these wages." Don't I know you yet? You will never let the people suffer, just look at your style of moving back a house for free, and you will know what kind of person you are. Speaking of which, you are really a contradictory person, on the one hand, you want to make money and want to die, and on the other hand, you are very generous, which is really strange. ”

Song Nanxi said: "It turns out that you and I have a little understanding, very good, very good." ”

Zhu Fengtong's face was slightly red and said: "This is called the hero who sees the same thing, don't talk nonsense." In fact, Wan Dabao is not to blame for this, there are too many people who come to compete to do coolies, and some people take the initiative to reduce their wages in the hope of getting the opportunity to work, and Wan Dabao is not a big deal to do this. ”

Song Nan said: "I see, but there is no need to worry about it later, now there are more than five million taels of silver on the books, and the three construction sites in the central district can start construction at the same time, and the manpower used will be increased. If there are more people, they will work faster, the construction period will be short, and the wages will be the same, so that everyone will have the opportunity to make money. ”

Zhu Fengtong said: "Thousands of people eat, drink, sleep, and work, don't you want to think about how much pressure Wan Dabao has, haven't you seen how many laps he has lost weight?" ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "Give him and Ah Hu a red envelope of five hundred taels, I can only thank them with silver, they still have to work hard, at least until the white paper workshop is completed, they have no rest." ”

Zhu Fengtong sneered: "The owner who is so ruthless is almost trying to kill people." ”

Song Nan smiled and didn't answer, he couldn't help it, there were not many people under his command who could do things and absolutely trust, so they could only work hard, Da Niu was now a thousand households, and he couldn't be sent to do private work casually, and Song Nan also hoped that he would have a good life and experience in the future, and he would be alone in the future, and he could not delay his future. Wan Dabao and Ah Hu are different, they can only take another path and follow themselves on the road to making money.

"The slave family has always had a question I want to ask you, don't be unhappy if I asked you." Zhu Fengtong said softly.

"Excuse me, am I that stingy?"

"Then let me ask, our capital is accumulating more and more, and it is enough for the next expenditure, why do you still want that Jiao Zhengtai and Zheng Hu to become shareholders? Although the slave family doesn't understand the affairs of the court, they also know that the relationship between you and the marquis of the regimental camp is not appropriate, why do you want to give them such a good opportunity to follow them? ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's a woman, are you distressed and want to give the silver to others?" ”

Zhu Fengtong said: "Who is stingy, the slave family doesn't care about the silver, the slave family just feels a little unreasonable." ”

Song Nan looked at no one around him, and said in a low voice: "You are a major shareholder, I naturally have to explain this matter to you; After the development of the South 1st District, we earned more than one million taels of silver, which is something I didn't expect; After the development of the entire white paper workshop, maybe there may really be six or seven million income, originally the regimental camp marquis secretly calculated the account for me, saying that I can earn seven million taels I still don't believe it, but now it seems that they are much more shrewd than me in calculating accounts. ”

Zhu Fengtong stretched out his little tongue and exclaimed, "How much can it be?" ”

Song Nan said: "It can definitely be achieved, now that housing prices are soaring, I estimate that it will rise by another two percent within half a year, and there are not so many people who talk to you?" Later, we will also increase the price accordingly, and we can't let the silver be given to the profiteers who hoard real estate, so I don't think it's difficult to get 7 million. If we monopolize this huge amount of money, some people in the DPRK and China will soon be dissatisfied, because they will not be able to eat this big fat meat, and they will definitely make trouble and not let us eat it comfortably. So I have to pull people in, which is called the benefit of everyone to earn; You can't make enough money, but if you cause public outrage, it's a troublesome thing. ”

Zhu Fengtong nodded slightly and said, "It turns out that there is still this truth in it, but isn't it embarrassing to be like this?" ”

Song Nan smiled: "You are wrong, if you give them benefits, they will follow you with all their hearts, they regard you as a cash cow that can make money, and you can also treat them as a meat shield that can block guns and guns for you; Imagine if someone in the court attacked me, they would speak for me, because if I fell, they would also suffer huge losses, which is called taking advantage of each other. ”

Zhu Fengtong frowned and said, "You guys are really intrigued. ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "There is no way, if you want to survive and develop, you must think about it." ”

Zhu Fengtong said: "I still think this is a little unfair, why can they sit on the dividends without doing anything?" ”

Song Nan shook his head and said, "You are wrong, this is only temporary, and soon I will control them; I might as well tell you about an idea that I recently sang, I want to form a big consortium. ”

"Consortium? What is that? It was the first time Zhu Fengtong had heard this term.

"It's very simple, the success of the development of the white paper mill, many people will admire my ability to make money, how can the industries they monopolize have the huge profits generated by the real estate development? So they will all be red-eyed, but they don't know how to operate, and they are afraid of taking risks if they want to do it alone. What I have to do is to win them into the gang and pool the money they have to do great things and make great profits, and they will be happy to do so without taking risks. ”

"Isn't this the same as the money bank?"

"That's not the same, the money village is for everyone, and the gathering is also scattered silver taels, and the consortium I formed is not a small fight, the Ming Dynasty has a lot of huge opportunities to make money, but small money can't be done, what is needed is millions or even tens of millions of taels of silver, if you want to make a lot of money, you have to invest a lot, and you can earn money that ordinary people can't earn, which is the secret of wealth."

Zhu Fengtong looked at Song Nan blankly, thinking: This man was not satisfied, the white paper workshop made millions of taels of silver, and ordinary people may have already stopped it, this is already a rare rich family in the Ming Dynasty, but he still wants to make more money.

Song Nan said to himself: "The reason why I am doing this, you will understand in the future, and I will not be able to tell you for a while; But I can tell you a little bit, once the consortium is established, not only can you concentrate money to make a lot of money, but it is also a tool to control others, the reason is very simple, it is my Song Nan's friend, defend me, I will give him the opportunity to make a lot of money; Against me, not only will he not have a chance to come in, but I will use my huge financial resources to crush his business and bankrupt his family, which is more effective than fighting in the court. This is not only a monetary community, but also a kind of political alliance, which is no less powerful than a million soldiers. ”

Zhu Fengtong's heart was shocked, looking at Song Nan's young face, and he screamed in his heart: "My God, it turns out that his purpose is this, a man is always a man, even if it is a person in front of him who looks different, it is inevitable to put the struggle for power and profit in the first place." ”

Song Nan saw that Zhu Fengtong's expression was different, and he roughly knew what she was thinking, so he smiled: "You must think that I am scheming and difficult to fathom." If I told you that I just wanted to live a peaceful life, you would scoff at it, but that's what I'm trying to do. I don't want to be someone who is just going to be wiped out, and I made a promise to a person that in order to fulfill that promise I had to make myself strong enough that no one would dare to touch my thoughts, I had to do it. ”

Zhu Fengtong sighed and said: "I don't understand your world, I just hope you don't lose yourself, the way you just spoke...... It's true...... It's scary. ”

Song Nan smiled, stood up, and in the sound of firecrackers, a large number of returning people were rushing towards the square with packages on their backs, holding their children, and driving ox carts.