Jinan has become a large construction site, and all kinds of factories are being built everywhere. These factories in Li Xiaogai are all enterprises that can achieve quick results. From distilleries to paper mills, to match factories, soap factories and more. The factories that have been built are all enterprises with little investment and quick results.

The consortium in Jiangnan, as well as the Jin merchants and the Hui businessmen, are very fond of these enterprises. The price of the stock went all the way up, but when it came to the cigarette factory, Li Xiao stopped selling the stock. Tobacco is now a high-profit and high-value-added industry, and Li Xiao is not ready to make the world full of old smoking guns.

Move to Jinan, produce more cigarettes and poison the big man in the capital. As for those little smokers, as long as you can afford to buy a hundred or ten taels of silver, the big front door is also with you. Can't afford ......! Then I'm sorry to force quitting.

Li Xiao found that quitting smoking is actually very simple. As long as the price of cigarettes is raised to a level that is unacceptable to the general public, the number of smokers can be strictly controlled. No way, if you can't afford it, you can't afford it.

Some people took the risk of rolling a leaf with paper and smoking, lighting a match and sucking it, emitting a large flame in addition to blue smoke. Take two bites and you'll be defeated. Tobacco is not native to China.

Li Xiao also found that the higher the price of cigarettes, the more advanced the identity of the person who smoked it. There are more and more people who like to buy cigarettes, and many officials obviously have few children and their families are not well-off. You also have to get a delicate cigarette case made of copper, and when you meet a colleague, you will give a cigarette to show your identity. As for how distressed it is in the clouds and mist, it is not within the scope of Li Xiao's consideration.

It's a matter of face! Lao Tzu can afford to smoke cigarettes, which proves that Lao Tzu is a rich and powerful person. So much so that the yamen has formed a rule, as long as you walk into the yamen with a cigarette in your mouth, the attitude of the officials will be very respectful. Even if you dress like a beggar, you can hear the extremely polite words of please or yours.

If you don't have a cigarette in your mouth, motherfucker, fuck off, these fucking words will spew out. Some people with bad personalities will also beat people out with water and fire sticks.

Ai Husheng is worthy of being a business talent, and after seeing the problem of face, he immediately thought of an excellent idea.

In these years, yellow paper was used for cigarettes, because yellow paper was cheaper. Ai Husheng began to roll cigarettes on white paper, and after Li Xiao's mention, the cigarettes were also printed with two vigorous and powerful words - China.

Dare to use dignified China as a trademark, this cigarette must not be sold for 201 taels?

Li Xiao glanced at Ai Husheng with disdain, two hundred and twenty-one, you also underestimate the extremely ostentatious ambition in the chests of those big men. Five hundred taels and one piece, and the price is not bargaining. Of course, 500 taels is only the starting price.

When the cigarette factory produced Chinese cigarettes, it deliberately made the packaging into a hard box and a soft box. The hard box is five hundred taels of silver, and the soft one is powerful, eight hundred taels of silver. Dare to open your mouth to bargain and immediately blast out.

"Eight hundred and twenty-one, this ...... Can you sell it? The good-looking Goryeo girl in the market is only ten taels of silver, and your cigarette is worth eighty dollars. It's not smoking, it's literally burning money. Ai Husheng felt that Li Xiao's heart was already black, and the person who could set such a price must be black.

"Eight hundred taels ......! I didn't ask them for a thousand taels, which is already considered my kindness. You have to find out their psychology, and whoever can buy cigarettes for five hundred taels of silver, he is not short of three hundred taels of silver. You have to know what a rich person is, and a rich person buys things, not for the best but for the most expensive. Li Xiao shook his head as he walked.

Sure enough, public opinion was shocked and inexplicable when China Tobacco came out. Although there is a voice scolding Li Xiao's heart in the capital, the sales of Chinese cigarettes are very good. And let Li Xiao guess that soft China sells better than hard China.

A few colleagues meet, and you pull out a box of large front doors. "Smoking! Smoke! ”

"Come to me, China!" The other took out a hard box, and lit it up among his colleagues in an extremely conspicuous manner, and then he was about to send it.

The real big money next to him glanced at it with disdain, "Dude, this is soft China!" After speaking, he took out the soft China and issued one for each person. In the midst of everyone's "tsk" and "tsk" praises, there is naturally a clever light of the match and light the big money. I worship this big guy who can afford to smoke soft China!

A box of cigarettes has become a watershed in the status of bureaucrats. This is really a new thing in officialdom culture! So much so that the various books of the imperial court, the elders of the cabinet, and even the emperor. When I smoke, I feel a little ashamed not to smoke soft China.

Rich, really fucking rich.

During this time, Li Xiao walked with the wind, and the smile on his mouth never broke. For every factory you build, you earn back ten times as much money as you would have built a factory. That's it, Li Xiao still holds an absolute controlling stake. Dividends alone every year are a lot of income.

The contract signed with Scofa last year has now begun to be delivered. Mr. Shi is a real person, with both money and goods, and returned to Jiangnan with dozens of ships full of arms at Penglai Wharf. Of course, the silver left behind also made Li Xiao breathtaking.

Because the volume of transactions is too large, there is not only silver but also silver. Looking at the dozen or so large boxes full of gold ingots, Li Xiao's eyes were a little red. secretly put two ingots in his pocket, but Sun Chengzong unceremoniously took them out.

No way, the countrymen have never seen the world. When you see gold, you always yearn to carry it in your pocket, and it doesn't matter whose it is.

From extremely tight funds to extremely abundant funds. It only took Li Xiao four months, and the speed at which he made his fortune was a miracle. Sun Chengzong always said that Li Xiao is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth. Compared with fighting a war, Li Xiao's greatest ability is to engage in the economy.

When the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching in August, Xiaoyu, the grandson of the old fisherman, came. Brought the latest research results of the fisherman - the loom! Of course, the power for this thing comes from the steam engine. As a result, construction began again in the suburbs. This time, not only was the factory built, but there was also a towering chimney in the renderings. In terms of height, it is the highest artificial building in Jinan.

Due to the large amount of work required for the steam engine, the planned construction of the weaving mill took up to two years. There is no way to do it, the north can basically no longer be constructed by the end of October, and no matter how powerful Li Xiao is, he can't solve the problem of water freezing in the cement.

The idle laborers in Jinan City are gone, as long as they are from good families, they will open a certificate in the yamen that they have no criminal record. You can go to the factory to sign up, it's all unskilled work, and all you need is a lot of strength.

When entering the factory, you are not required to shave your head, but you are required to take a shower, wash your body cleanly, and then each person is issued two sets of work clothes and go to work. The overalls are blue, not very nice but very thick. I heard that this is a summer overall, and the winter one is much thicker.

The workers could only endure the perverted demands of the stewards for hygiene. A month has two taels of silver two taels ago, two taels of white flowers. It's not easy to find such a livelihood in Jinan City! The overseers are all killers from the army, and they open their mouths and shut up their mothers' scolding, and the whips are "crackling" but they don't fall on people much.

Originally, I was still skeptical about the wages of two taels of silver, but at the end of the month, I really paid the wages of two taels of silver to everyone. There are no foreman deductions, and no one takes a cut. The big guys are just waiting in a long line to get paid, and those guys who work overtime after work actually have more money. Those who work a lot and work hard actually have bonuses.

With this beginning, when the next factory recruits workers, it can only be described as a grand occasion.

Many people are digging through the door and stealing holes to find relationships, just so that their offspring can have a livelihood in the factory. In this year, the city of Jinan had a population of only five or six hundred thousand. More than 20,000 workers were recruited, almost more than half of the city's youth labor force was withdrawn.

If it weren't for the fear of strong opposition from public opinion, Li Xiao even considered hiring female workers.

For a while, the idlers wandering the streets were gone. After the last crackdown, now there is a large-scale recruitment. As a result, the security of Jinan City has improved unprecedentedly, and people who go to work every day strictly follow the rules of sunrise and sunset. At nine o'clock in the evening, no one wanders on the street, and they really sit on the road and do not close their doors at night.

Everybody has a job, everybody has a head. But there is always some noise in the good days, and the time has entered August. The gloomy day has never been clear, and the heavy rain for a week has soaked the whole of Shandong in water.

Mother River is going to make trouble! This is Li Xiao's biggest headache, if the mother of the Yellow River is rerouted again to a divine dragon to swing its tail, I really don't know how many people will die.

The newspaper from the imperial court said that Henan and other places such as Lankao in Shandong have become a Ze country. Soon Li Xiao received the news, and Heze was also soaked in water. Dongming County, which is closest to the Yellow River, has become an ocean. Not only did the grain harvest fail, but the population also suffered heavy losses.

When the embankment in Dongming County collapsed, the Dongming County Order had already disappeared with his family. The prefect of Heze was even more bullish, and he had moved his family property to a higher place before the first rain. When the Yellow River burst its banks, this guy was busy moving.

Li Xiao was so angry that his head was smoking, and he immediately ordered the two guys to be arrested and escorted to Jinan. Li Xiao was going to hold a public trial, and then after cutting people down, he would report to the imperial court. He is the governor, not only has the royal flag in his hand but also the Shangfang sword (Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen specially approved a handle), and it is no problem to kill two petty officials of six or seven grades.

At this time, the envoy Lu Xiangsheng Lu sent from the capital arrived.

It is really not easy to say that this envoy is really not simple, because he came to Jinan with soldiers to take office. After getting the news, Li Xiao was almost happy. It's just that Lao Tzu is a governor, and I haven't heard that he can still lead troops to his post according to the inspector. If someone else dared to do this, all eight heads were cut off. But Lu Xiangsheng came swaggeringly, and there was no at all.

But it is unreasonable that the court from many officials to the elders of the six Shangshu is selectively blind to Lu Xiangsheng's obvious violations. On weekdays, Li Xiao farts, and the officials can't wait to get a concerto. Now, they have collectively become mute.

It's not good!

"See Lord Governor." As a subordinate, Lu Xiangsheng was still somewhat conscious, and he came to visit Li Xiao on the day he arrived in Jinan. Of course, as the highest judicial official of a province, Lu Xiangsheng also brought hundreds of subordinates, and stood in the courtyard of the governor's yamen one by one. In contrast, Ao Canghai and Man Gui, who wore short-sleeved military uniforms and training hats, did not look like soldiers at all.

"Your Excellency has worked hard all the way!" Li Xiao looked this Lu Xiangsheng Lord Lu up and down, this guy is very tall, and it is estimated that he must be more than one meter and nine meters if he is not two meters. Ao Canghai is full of Gui's size, and he has to look up when he sees Lu Xiangsheng.

The face is somewhat morbidly pale, with thin eyebrows and big eyes, a high nose bridge and prominent cheekbones. The facial features alone are not outstanding, but they are very harmonious together. Although it is not handsome, it has a heroic atmosphere. Especially between the eyebrows, there seems to be a killing atmosphere. No wonder he was sent as an envoy, it is said that this guy was in the Daimyo's Mansion during his time. The Daimyo's Mansion, where the bandits were most rampant, was governed quite steadily. After only one year in office, he eliminated all the bandits in the Daimyo's Mansion. Won the commendation of the imperial court!

It is estimated that it was because of this that he was selected by those guys in the court and sent to Jinan to fight with Li Xiao.

"Serve the country, serve the saints, don't work hard!" Lu Xiangsheng's waist was straight, and he saw that Li Xiao was not nervous at all. A pair of eyes are also looking Li Xiao up and down.

"Lord Lu has just arrived in Jinan after a long journey, so he should rest for two days before opening the office." Li Xiao is very casual and perfunctory, these are all official words. Almost every official who comes to take up a post will say two things like this. So much so that such conversations tend to be formatted more and more.

"Thank you for your care, but there is too much backlog of official affairs in the imperial court. The official can go to work today! Lu Xiangsheng rejected Li Xiao's kindness, which made Li Xiao stunned.

Boss, you don't talk according to the routine so much, I can't answer it below!

"When the lower officials passed by the city gate, they saw the lord giving a notice. Explain that the public trial meeting will be held in Jinan City tomorrow to publicly try the Dongming County Order and the Heze Prefect, I don't know if this matter was approved by adults. Li Xiao didn't speak, but Lu Xiangsheng asked.

"Exactly, I am ready to try these two dereliction of duty officials who don't care about the lives of the people and only know that they care about their own interests."

"Your Excellency, this matter should be handled by my yamen according to the law. It is then reported to the governor and the imperial court, and can only be disposed of after the approval of the imperial court. If you hold a public trial conference like this, it is not in line with the regulations of the imperial court and the laws of the Ming Dynasty. I ask the Governor to hand over the relevant prisoners to our Yamen for interrogation. It will then be reported to the Lord and the Criminal Department of the Beijing Officials, and will be disposed of after the approval of the imperial court. Lu Xiangsheng hugged his fist at Li Xiao.

"They ......!" Li Xiao was just about to speak, when suddenly Sun Chengzong stood in front of Li Xiao.

"Since the Inspector has said it, then it will be handed over to the Yamen of the Inspectorate according to the law. After that, act in accordance with the rules of the imperial court. ”

"You're ......!"

"Old man Sun Chengzong!"

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