Chapter 37 Development of Qingxi County
Next, Fang La announced: "From today onwards, our Jiangnan Ming Sect announced its dissolution, and I am willing to continue to give us thirteen, and I will lead you to join Wantong Commercial Bank and lead you to make a fortune together." I promise that after joining Wantong Commercial Bank, all of you will have food and clothing, and those who do not ask for wives can get the bride price money and can afford to ask for wives. Fang La's words drew a burst of cheers. Fang La's opinion was also the result of calling Old Man Wang, Lou Minzhong, Shi Bao, Wang Yan and others to discuss after going back last night. In particular, Old Man Wang, Lou Minzhong, and Wang Yan all urged Fang La to give up his ambition to compete in the world, because now that Zhao Chongyang is still a child, he has already made fairy drunk, perfume, soap, soap, pencil printing, and crossbows, and refined every inch of steel and gold. In fact, they don't fully know that the Liujiacun Iron Workshop has stockpiled more than 1,000 flintlock guns, hundreds of revolvers, and hundreds of guns of three types. Now it is expanding its workshop, recruiting blacksmiths, and opening a branch of ironware at the Nanjing wharf to build general ironware and luxury bearing carriages. Due to the making of stainless steel, the application of machine tools, lathes and various machinery and tools, the manufacture of bearings has become possible, when the first iron-wheeled carriage with bearings was successfully trial-produced, the same horse was set on the new carriage, than on the old carriage, to pull one-third more goods. Later, the new luxury carriage, although the price is 1,200 yuan, but because the seat cushion on it is a spring cushion, the car itself has a shock-absorbing spring, sitting on it has little vibration, soft and comfortable. After it was launched on the market, some people got on a horse-drawn carriage and tried it, and it was no problem to pick the worse roads to drive. Immediately, it was an instant hit, and the dignitaries and nobles in Nanjing City rushed to buy it.
The next day, Zhao Wuji was busy with affairs, and took several entourages to resign to Fang La and others, and Old Man Wang was hired as Zhao Wuji's senior staff member and went north with Zhao Wuji. After breakfast, all the main leaders of the original Ming Sect and the sons and nephews of the Fang family, as well as more than 1,000 backbones who were present yesterday, gathered in Fangjiazhai to listen to Zhao Chongyang's assignment of work:
Fang La led people to take over the business of Wantong Commercial Bank in Hangzhou, and Lou Zhongmin served as a senior staff member of the branch to assist Fang La's work. Shi Bao, Deng Yuanjue, and Li Tianrun selected some people from among the backbone to be the skeleton, and selected more than 2,000 people from among the parishioners to form the bodyguard detachment of the Jiangnan Branch of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, with Fang La as the detachment leader, and Shi Bao and three others as the deputy detachment leaders and battalion commanders. All training procedures are carried out according to the Nanjing Bodyguard Corps. Pang Wanchun and Qiu Wanquan selected 800 people with a good foundation in martial arts and strong body from among the backbone and new recruits to form a special training camp to practice long-distance running, hidden weapons, shooting (archery, repeater, flintlock pistol, revolver), fighting, climbing, jumping over obstacles, operating cannons, and finally eliminating half of them and increasing training. The eliminated soldiers were assigned to each battalion to serve as instructors and deputy posts at the grassroots level, and the remaining soldiers continued to train according to the deputy platoon for special tasks in the future, and the specific training manual was handed over to his father-in-law, Qiu Wanquan.
Fang Tianding, Fang Tianjie and other nephews and grandchildren of the Fang family, Fang Tianjun, Fang Tianbing, Fang Tianlin, Fang Zhiguo, Fang Liguo, Fang Xingguo, etc., as well as Jiang Kaiqi, Chen Kaijiang, Ma Kaigui, Niu Kaiwu and other young backbones under the age of l6 with a good martial arts foundation Twenty or thirty people, led by Fang Tianding and Fang Tianjie, with Zhao Chongyang's handwritten letter to Xiangzhou, Zhou Tong taught spears, broadswords and other infantry combat, horse combat kung fu, for the future training of a group of middle and lower-level backbones on the battlefield will be ......
All the generals and backbones have gone, but there is no arrangement for the three tricky and eccentric little ladies, and the three of them can't hold their breath, Fang Baihua said: "Chongyang, what are we three sisters doing?" Pang Qiuxia said: "Zhao Lang, you won't look down on us, right, don't arrange us to do anything?" Qiu Qiongying said: "Lang Jun, do you think that our three sisters have no ability?" Let's each of us try it out with you. ”
Zhao Chongyang said in his heart: "What is the situation? It's really a lot of women and a lot of trouble, and now they are besieging me before they have passed the door. Although he was a little annoyed with the three of them, he didn't dare to show it, so he had to explain patiently: "Didn't you think that the three of you were still young?" Sister Qiong Ying is only twelve years old at the earliest, and the two of you are not yet twelve years old, since you want to do things, Sister Qiong Ying went to Hangzhou to study business, and Sister Qiuxia and Sister Baihua went to the special training camp to train. ”
Fang Baihua retorted in an unquestionable tone: "No! When you leave, we will also go north with you and learn more advanced martial arts from Zhou Daxia. ”
Zhao Chongyang said: "You don't go to the battlefield again, why do you learn such good kung fu?" ”
The three girls said in unison: "Who said we don't go to the battlefield? In the future, we will follow you wherever you hit. ”
Zhao Chongyang couldn't take the three of them, so he had to look at Fang La, who was standing on the side laughing, with a begging gaze: "Father-in-law, look at this......
Fang La also shook his head helplessly: "If they want to toss, just wait for them to go." lest they go out without their own accord after you are gone. ”
The three of them heard Fang La's expression, knew that the matter had been done, and played happily.
Next, Fang Maung took 100 subordinates who would do business to Suzhou, Fang La took more than 200 people to Hangzhou, three days later, Fang La took over the work in an all-round way, handed over to a special person to manage, and left Lou Minzhong to deal with daily affairs, and he rushed back to Fangjiazhai.
When Fang La returned, Zhao Chongyang was directing everyone to build a pool for cooking wine and filial piety, install the still, and start cooking wine tomorrow. The perfume-making workshop was also completed at the same time, and Zhao Chongyang asked Fang La to arrange for someone to recruit a group of young women to follow the technician to make perfume. The procedure for soap and soap is simple, and the technicians brought in from Nanjing have already begun to teach the female workers how to make soap and fragrance.
The next day, dozens of carpenters were recruited, and Zhao Chongyang handed over the prototypes of the loom and spinning machine to Fang La's cousin Fang Carpenter, and asked the technician to teach Fang Carpenter and several of his younger brothers how to disassemble and install the looms and looms made by the carpenters. The carpenters are each responsible for the production of only one type of component. The papermaking and printing technicians had followed Fang La to Hangzhou, and the printing workshop had taken down a bankrupt workshop and started operating, and the original owner was willing to work for them. The paper mill Fang La is not ready to open a new one, Lou Zhongmin is negotiating with the owner of a paper mill, because their paper is affected by the paper from Nanjing, the sales are not good, and it is a matter of time before the door closes, the boss just wants to ask for one or two thousand more transfer fees, Zhao Chongyang heard that this paper mill is large, so he said to Fang La, one or two thousand more can be taken down, and the workers and technicians will accept it all, and the boss is willing to stay and help manage the high salary of fifteen members per month.
All of a sudden, the members of the original Ming Sect, from the elderly under 60 years old to the young men and women of 14 or 5 years old, all had something to do. On average, two people in each family in Fangjiazhai have a fixed income, and in the future, there will be no income, and the money earned from part-time work is enough for the family to live comfortably. What's more, the sect leader (oh, no, now called the president) said that in the case of a famine year, the thousands of stones of grain stored in the source cave will be distributed to everyone to tide over the difficulties. Fang La's energy is really not small, as soon as he takes action, thousands or even tens of thousands of people take action. Zhao Chongyang estimates that from next year, the total income of the Jiangnan branch will be comparable to that of Nanjing.
After six days, the only thing that hasn't moved is the lacquer technique. Fang La has a carpentry shop in Muzhou, and more than a dozen people have been running it for a long time. On this day, after Zhao Chongyang arranged other things, he asked Pang Wanchun to drive, and he took the three lacquer masters handed over to him by Fang La, and went to Muzhou to get earthen lacquer furniture. Who knew that this matter was heard by the three little beauty detectives again, Fang Baihua drove his carriage over and wanted to follow. Pang Wanchun had to let Zhao Chongyang sit with the three sisters, and he and the three lacquerers sat in another carriage.
Along the way, the three girls complained to Zhao Chongyang, saying that he wanted to go out by himself and didn't let them go with him. Zhao Chongyang had to explain, saying that he would return in two days, and he didn't go north quietly alone. After a while, the three of them kept asking questions about the various enterprises set up by Zhao Chongyang. Zhao Chongyang is not easy to get angry, he can only answer questions, answer slowly or unsatisfactorily, and be repaired or counted down by the three of them, so that Pang Wanchun in the other carriage feels sad for him in his heart.
After Pang Wanchun, Zhao Chongyang and the three little beauties arrived in Muzhou, it took three days to paint more than 80 wooden board samples, and finally let the three lacquer craftsmen basically master the soil lacquer technology.
Zhao Chongyang from the production of plaster plaster, to the boiling of soil paint and tung oil, the grasp of the old and tender, to the filtration of soil paint; From the preparation of the paste ash of the base color, the blending of cooked lacquer and cooked tung oil, to the lacquering, lacquering, and lacquering, each step is explained in detail, and every detail is meticulously and strictly required. On the third day, the samples painted by each master basically met the requirements put forward by Zhao Chongyang. In the afternoon, everyone chose a young man to be their assistant in the carpentry shop and began to paint the furniture.
After another three days, the lacquered wood samples and furniture dried one after another, and they were carried to the store and put up, causing a sensation in the whole city. The wooden board sample was placed there for advertising, and I didn't think about selling it at first, but when the three little beauties looked at the sample, they saw that their peerless faces were very clear on the lacquer board, and even the eyebrows could be counted, which was much easier to use than the bronze mirror. Qiu Qiongying seized the business opportunity at once, she said that let the carpenter make a wooden frame on the back and sell it as a wooden mirror, a good copper mirror costs 10 yuan, and we only charge three yuan a piece, but its actual value is only more than 20 yuan.
Sure enough, the guests who came to see the furniture heard that it was a wooden mirror, and when they took a photo in front, the whole figure was extremely clear, and it was only three dollars, larger than the copper mirror, but cheaper than the copper mirror, and more than 80 pieces of earth-painted wooden boards were all sold out in one afternoon, and the three sets of furniture were all sold out at more than 20 times the original price. The earth-lacquered furniture became an instant hit, and the higher price exceeded imagination.