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"It's all already arranged?"

In the lobby of the house, the fire is bright, the fire is raging in front of the lobby, the meat in the barbecue continues to exude an attractive meat fragrance, Wang Li is here to feast on the iron guards who went with him to Lian Po Mansion today.

"It's been arranged, but Mr. Zhao Shan didn't allow us to help him deal with his injuries, so he only asked us for some medicine and a cloth and silk, and dealt with it himself."

"Oh?" Listening to the words of the housekeeper Zhao Guang, Wang Li showed a smile on his face, this Zhao Shan's real name is Shanrou, she is a woman disguised as a man, it is rare that her makeup skills are quite clever, if ordinary people don't pay attention to it, most of them only think that she is a handsome man.

Since she is a woman disguised as a man, how can she be willing to let the male doctor in the house deal with the injuries on her body? Naturally, I handled it myself.

"In addition, Master Taishi, Mr. Zhao Shan asked the little one to hand this over to you." Zhao Guang said and took out a round pearl from his bosom, and in the dark and uncertain lobby, the pearl circulated in the dark and flickered with fluorescence.

Wang Li took the pearl and smiled on his face, this kind and gentle, when he handed over this pearl to him last time on the grounds of saving his life, he said that if he encountered any trouble in Handan, he could take this pearl to him for help.

What does it mean for this Shanrou to give him the pearl at this time?

"It's really a woman with personality, not an ordinary woman." Wang Li put away the beads: "You have done a good job in this matter, so be it, the time is already a little late, you have a good rest." ”

"Master Xie." Butler Zhao Guang left with his hand.

As the night passed, Wang Li got up early in the morning as usual, finished all the exercises, had breakfast, and then waited in the study.

There are many wooden shelves in the study, which are the bookshelves of this era, and they are usually displayed with scrolls made of bamboo slips, as well as silk books or parchment books that are carefully maintained in wooden boxes, but now the shelves are empty.

In addition to the wooden shelves, the furniture in the room is brand new for this era. A set of tables and chairs that are more delicate and delicate than those that have just been made. The desk is a desk, and the whole form looks very similar to that of modern times.

Simple and bright shape, all kinds of drawers and small cabinets under the table, but limited to the techniques of this era, there is no lock on the drawer, only the small cabinet below has a primitive lock that has been used for many years in ancient times, but in this era. This lock is a high-end technique, and ordinary people can't see it at all.

The workmanship of this table is extremely exquisite, and at the end, the whole table is also painted with a layer of black lacquer, and the surface of the table still has a simple and simple pattern, which is obviously a lot of effort by the craftsman when making it.

After all, it was a table made for him, the master. Naturally, we want to do our best, how can we be sloppy?

The chair in front of the desk is also quite interesting, the whole chair structure is wooden, but the wooden chair seems to be sitting in the place or the back of the back, there is a whole piece of leather goods, the leather goods are stuffed with some soft things, and it is much more comfortable to sit on than the original simple cushions.

"Master Tai, Chief Tao will see you outside the door."

"Please come in." Wang Li sat in a soft and comfortable chair. There was a stack of white paper that was not too thick on the table. The paper that Wang Li brought with him in his bag last time is here, and there is a pebble with a rather unique shape pressed on the paper. But it was used as a paperweight.

"Tao Fang meets the Taishi!"

"Get up and speak." Wang Li waved his hand, and then pointed to the side: "Seat." Listening to the command, Tao Fang thanked him and then respectfully sat down on the ordinary chair without leather goods on the side.

"Mr. Tao, I'm not here during this time, I don't know how the business of the furniture store is doing?" Seeing Tao Fang sitting down, Wang Li asked casually.

"Taishi, the business of the furniture store was the best when it opened on the first day, almost earning about 100,000 yuan a day, and then it began to fall, and the income stabilized at about 50,000 yuan a day."

"However, in recent days, the craftsmen of the princes have made more comfortable tables, chairs and various pieces of furniture according to the patterns left by the prince, and the nobles of the princes and nobles like it, and they buy a large number of them every day, resulting in a shortage of our craftsmen."

"Because these tables, chairs and furniture are made of fine work, we sell expensive, and the benefits are also large, so the income of one day is much better than the first day of opening, and the accounts of the entire Handan are counted when the door is closed yesterday, and the income of one day is as high as 120,000."

Speaking of the business of the furniture shop, Tao Fang was originally a little restrained, but at this time he also let go, his face was full of brilliance, but the last one was a sigh: "If there are more craftsmen, we will earn more in a day." ”

Wang Li smiled when he heard this: "This is okay, this furniture is a unique business, no one in Handan robs us, it is the entire Zhao country, as long as you don't dare to offend the royal family, those who want to do this piece are just making a small fuss in the place, and it doesn't matter much." ”

"Even if there are not enough craftsmen, in the end the money will still come to us."

Wang Li thought that there were not enough craftsmen, and suddenly stood up: "There are not enough craftsmen, so we will recruit them among the civilians in Handan, as long as they are willing to learn, even if it is an apprenticeship, we will pay them." ”

"Such a good thing, you can learn a trade, and you can get a salary, I think there must be a lot of people who are willing to come."

"This, I'm afraid it's not good, the skills of craftsmen have always been passed down from generation to generation, that is, to accept other people as apprentices, the master will provide the apprentice with food at most, and the apprentice must do it for at least three years before he can learn the skill, and the apprentice will have to provide for the master in the future.

Listening to what Wang Li said, Tao Fang replied, Wang Li smiled when he listened, this is the characteristic of the feudal era.

"The rules are also set by people, and I don't force them, you set a new rule for me, but any craftsman who can teach an apprentice will directly reward him with a hundred dollars, and in addition, the students taught by this craftsman will get one percent of all the money and things earned by this craft in the future."

"According to this rule, the more students a craftsman teaches, the more rewards he will directly receive, and the more apprentices can give them in the future.

When Tao Fang heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Just like that, I will order this rule to be established as soon as possible." Wang Li thought about it a little again: "In addition, Handan's money and goods just flow into our pockets, but we don't use it, which is not good." ”

"Manager Tao, in the past, my mansion looked quite big, but in the future, things will get bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more customers at home, and this mansion is still smaller, you are near here, choose a suitable place with me, and I will build a bigger mansion."

"If you want to build a house, you will need a lot of manpower, and as soon as you need labor, Manager Tao and I will recruit from the residents of Handan, and the wages and food treatment can be slightly higher than the usual price."

"No!" Tao Fang respectfully agreed, but in his heart he was still thinking about the previous rule of Wang Li, and when he thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more wonderful it became.

Wang Li nodded, straightened out the matter of the craftsman just now, and found that there was indeed not much else to add, this era was in the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, although it was backward as a whole, but the ideas and concepts in many places were even more modern than modern.

Just like Wang Li once wanted to rectify the assembly line in this era, but found that there was an era in this era, and he didn't say anything at that time, otherwise he would be embarrassed.

In addition to this aspect, there are many things that are incomparable to the era of later emperors in this era, not to mention anything else, just say military, like the Warring States Period, the scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, and the war of the scale of one million is not uncommon, the two sides of the Battle of Changping are four or five hundred thousand people each, and when the Qin Dynasty destroyed Chu in later generations, the army that can be mobilized by the country was mobilized, and only one country unilaterally mobilized 600,000.

With vassal states such as Qin and Zhao, they can actually fight such a big war, even if the soldiers on display may not be completely standing elite, each with old and weak militias, and even women have risen to the top, but this kind of comprehensive mobilization ability and maintenance is really exaggerated.

Thinking of the assembly line and the war mobilization capabilities of the countries, Wang Li was surprised, and his mind returned to the present.

"By the way, there is one more thing, Manager Tao, before I retreated, I also asked the director of you to open a recruitment hall, and Guang Zhaoxian can think that he is a guest and a guest, how is this matter done?"

"Taishi, Zhaoxian Hall Tao Fang has been selected a place to open according to the instructions of the Taishi, according to the Taishi, regardless of origin, but there is a skill can be used, these days Tao Fang has recruited forty-three people, but unfortunately there are not many real talented people, most of them are unbearable people, and there are some chickens and dogs in the market."

"Taishi, there is a sentence in Tao Fang here, I don't know if I should say it or not?" After reporting the matter of the Zhaoxian Pavilion, Tao Fang suddenly raised his head and stopped talking.

"Mr. Tao has something to say, no need to swallow."

"Taishi, regardless of his background, he will be included in only one skill, even the powerful ones among the petty thieves are also included, and the threshold for Taishi's disciples is too low, Tao Fang is afraid that those really talented scholars will think that Taishi is a villain, and at the same time, he is ashamed to be with these people and not come to apply."

Tao Fang groaned slightly, and then said bluntly to Wang Li, Wang Li heard it, this is indeed a problem, but he thought about it slightly, and then had an idea.

"Tao Fang, if you want to publicize it, just say that even petty thieves and thieves can be reused when my king leaves the mansion, so what about the more talented ones?"

"Talent is like a cone, in the bag should be out of the bag, if they don't even have the confidence to defeat the civilians or even thieves, what kind of talent are they, such scholars, even begging my king to leave, I will not accept it."

"This?" Hearing Wang Li's words, Tao Fang hesitated slightly, and then woke up, but he didn't expect that this question just now, Taishi casually changed his angle, and it became like this.

"No." Understanding the mystery, Tao Fang respectfully agreed.

"Just now you said that there are rooster and dog thieves, and there are not many talented and virtuous people, so there are also some talented and virtuous people, which talented and virtuous people can be recruited, it is better to talk about the outstanding among these people, can they be of great use?" (To be continued.) )