A few days later, Deng Yuanjue brought people back with a large amount of grass and wood ashes, and then Mrs. Fang issued an initiative to let all the family members at home mobilize together, and when there was nothing to do, the wild grass and vines on the nearby barren mountains were cut and dried, burned into grass and wood ashes, and supported Wantong Commercial Bank.

After having the ashes, Zhao Chongyang divided more than 100 technicians into three teams, each team was responsible for firing a furnace of glass, and by the fifth day of July, three furnaces were made. Zhao Chongyang saw that the teams had basically mastered the production skills, so he asked Deng Yuanjue to send two glass-making teams and some cement technicians to Xishan Island and start firing glass and cement on Xishan Island.

And Zhao Chongyang discussed Fang La, Lou Minzhong, Shi Bao, Deng Yuanjue, Pang Wanchun, Qiu Wanquan, Bao Daoyi (newly admired) and others, and prepared to take some people north to Tongbai County, Nanyang Prefecture, to Tongbai Anpeng to find trona ore. Only by digging out the trona can we expand the production of soap and soap.

In the end, everyone agreed with Zhao Chongyang's plan: Zhao Chongyang led Shi Bao, Bao Daoyi, and Pang Wanchun to the north, with a total of 200 army, 300 naval troops and more than 100 commercial backbones, technical backbones and domestic slaves to the north, to Nanyang Mansion for development, where the Huaixi branch of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce was established.

After two days of preparation, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, on the day when the folk legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl met, Zhao Chongyang took three little beauties and Shi Bao, Bao Daoyi, etc., and set off on sixty small ships with one hundred materials.

This time, only three small guns and one rocket launcher were placed on each ship. On average, each person was equipped with two repeater boxes, a simple knife that cut gold and jade, and a complete set of armor. Each leader above the deputy platoon commander was also equipped with a revolver short gun. Each platoon was equipped with six flintlock muskets, which were mainly used for training purposes, and were not allowed to be used on a large scale on the battlefield unless they were absolutely necessary.

On the way, in addition to bringing a piece of money for urgent use, Zhao Chongyang and his family mainly brought goods, only the glass products they brought were worth more than 800,000 yuan, and the rest of the perfumes, liquor and other goods went to Nanjing to get the goods. Before leaving, Zhao Chongyang told Fang La to pay attention to three things: First, there was a lot of saltpeter in the south of the Yangtze River, and a large amount of saltpeter and sulfur was purchased and transported to Xishan Island to make ammunition, and the inexhaustible was stored. In addition, Persian saltpeter is abundant, so let Hu merchants transport it, and we exchange perfumes, liquor and other goods. The second is to pay close attention to the training of the bodyguard team. Due to the expansion of the territory and the dispersion of the backbone forces, the current Hangzhou and Fangjiazhai bodyguard teams mainly rely on Deng Yuanjue, Qiu Wanquan and Xie Bangjin for training. Therefore, pay attention to recruiting heroes from all over the world and expanding our own team. Of course, Zhao Chongyang said that the difficulties are temporary, and a year later, when a group of young backbones of Fang Tianding and Fang Tianjie's army return from their studies, the situation should improve.

At nine o'clock in the morning on the seventh day of the seventh month of July, 60 boats set off from Hangzhou Wharf and headed for Suzhou. On the first night, he stayed in Jiaxing Mansion and arrived in Suzhou at 3 pm on the second day. Zhao Chongyang asked the fleet to rest in Suzhou for a day, and he followed Pang Wanchun to Xishan Island by fast boat.

On the ninth day of the seventh lunar month, Zhao Chongyang watched the construction of glass stoves and cement furnaces on the island, and instructed them on how to use cement. The simple pier has been expanded on the basis of the original. It turned out that there were more than 1,000 residents on the island, most of whom were family members of the water man, and the houses were too low and cramped. Zhao Congyang asked Wang Yan to increase the production of cement, use cement to build villages, and repair the wide and tall buildings for everyone. In addition, the cement roads on the island should be gradually built to facilitate transportation on the island.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of July 13, Zhao Chongyang and others arrived at the Nanjing wharf. At this time, Zhao Wuji, Liu Erye, the head of the Zhou family, Wang Zhennan, Nangong Tianqiao and others just finished their deliberations, and heard that Zhao Chongyang had just gotten off the boat, and everyone came to meet each other. Zhao Chongyang introduced Shi Bao, Pang Wanchun, and Bao Daoyi to everyone.

After the introduction, Zhao Wuji introduced everyone into the conference hall to rest. Taking advantage of this time, Zhao Wuji told his son about the topic that the few people had discussed just now. It turned out that the three largest merchants in Nanjing, the Ma family, the Wang family, and the Li family, asked to join the firm. Zhao Wuji couldn't make up his mind, so he convened a big character to discuss. At the meeting, some people thought that letting the three join could strengthen the strength of the chamber of commerce. Some believe that these three families have a large population and a complicated situation, and may not be easy to control in the future.

At that time, since last year, these three have seen that the quality of various daily products of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce is good and the price is fair. Whether it is cotton yarn, cloth, silk or paper, the products of the three of them are not competitive, and if they don't think of a way, the three will lose all the markets in Jiangnan.

The three also wanted to regain the market by fighting a price war, but after seeing the quality of several commodities of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, as well as the more profitable liquors and perfumes of others, they knew that they had no strength to fight a price war. Because, the income of silk, cotton yarn, cloth, and paper added up is not equal to the sales of other people's liquor. Later, several families planned to use the underworld to destroy the workshops of the Zhao family and the Liu family, forcing their two families to be unable to open. When the Zhao and Liu families had no way out, they forced others to hand over their technology. So, the bandits who spent money to secretly sell through attacked the workshops in Zhaojiazhuang and Liujiacun several times, but each time the bandits went there left more than a dozen bodies and fled smoothly. In the end, the three families lost more than 100,000 yuan, and none of their hair hurt others.

So the three heads of the family accepted the suggestion of one of the Ma family's advisors and took the initiative to ask to join Wantong Commercial Bank. The strategist believed that since Wantong Commercial Bank was mainly based on the Zhao family, and several other companies were actively pulled in by the Zhao family, this showed that the Zhao family was far-sighted, not limited to business and trade all the way to the country, but to seek the overall situation and do business all over the Great Song Dynasty. To do this, it is necessary to have a large number of followers and franchisees. So, they welcome everyone's cooperation.

Now Zhao Chongyang is at the right time, and when they arrive here when they are undecided, his father fights for his opinion. Zhao Chongyang believes that since it is difficult to manage, it will not matter. Wholesale the goods to them, let them each pay 500,000 yuan of franchise fees, Hubei West Road, Hunan West Road, Jiangxi West Road three lottery to buy out the monopoly of the road, these three Wantong Chamber of Commerce no longer send people to sell goods, only responsible for the supply to three. Weapons and glass jade products are no longer among the wholesale. If you need to deliver the goods to the designated place, you must pay the bodyguard fee and transportation fee. All the workshops of the three were sold to the Wantong Chamber of Commerce at half price, and all the workers were left behind, and after the transformation and upgrading of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, they continued to produce.

When Zhao Chongyang was drinking tea in the chamber of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, half-chatting and half-discussing, in Zhao Chongyang's residence upstairs, the four little beauties met for the first time.

It turned out that when Liu Erye received the notice to come to the headquarters to discuss the matter, it happened that Liu Qiaoling was on the side. She clamored to follow her grandfather to the headquarters to see how big the dock was and how many boats could be moored. Liu Erye thought that his granddaughter would want to be a mother in the world, and it was completely necessary to see those big places. So she followed.

When she arrived here, under the escort of her bodyguards, she walked around the entire dock, returned to the headquarters, saw that they were still in a meeting, and when she met Qian Xiaoan, she took her to Zhao Chongyang's room to rest. After a while, Zhao Chongyang's boat arrived, and after the three little beauties got off the boat, they didn't care about Zhao Chongyang and them, so they went to the side to watch the strangeness. After Zhao Chongyang and the others entered the conference hall, seeing that Fang Baihua and the three of them did not follow up, they asked Qian Xiaoan, who was following aside, to look for them. After Qian Xiaoan found the three of them, he said that the other little sister Liu Qiaoling was resting in the child's room upstairs, and the three beauties were vying to see another sister who was going to live with the three of them in the future.

When Zhao Chongyang finished talking and came to his room, he saw that the four of them were talking and laughing, so good that they were like sisters. Zhao Chongyang couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

Liu Qiaoling heard Fang Baihua and the three of them say that they would go to Nanyang with Zhao Chongyang, and finally go to Tangyin County, Xiangzhou to find Zhou Dong and Zhou Daxia to learn martial arts. Therefore, the first time she saw Zhao Chongyang, she asked Zhao Chongyang to agree to take her with her. Zhao Chongyang said: "It is inevitable to encounter robbers and bandits along the way, it is very dangerous, and you don't know martial arts. ”

Liu Qiaoling said: "Who said that I haven't seen the scene of fighting and killing, a few months ago, there were bandits who attacked Liujia Village, and I shot one with a crossbow." At this time, it happened that Liu Erye and Wang Zhennan went upstairs to ask them to go down for dinner, and after listening to the words of the two, Liu Erye strongly supported them. He said to Zhao Chongyang: "That grandson, wait for Ling Yatou to go out for a long time, anyway, everyone is not at ease when you go out like this, let Qian Xiao'an take fifty people to protect you, short guns, swords, armor, crossbows, grenades are all matched, even if you encounter hundreds of bandits alone, you can get out of the way." In addition, two mothers and two maids will be sent to take care of the daily life of several of you. ”

Wang Zhennan also said that there are 50 people dedicated to protection, and there is absolutely no problem. Bullets will be given to you more, and when you arrive in Tongbai County, you can also practice marksmanship at any time. Zhao Wuji saw that his second grandfather and Uncle Wang both supported Liu Qiaoling to go, so naturally he didn't say anything, and told her to go back and pack her luggage, and rush to Zhaojiazhuang tomorrow to celebrate a midyear festival in advance, kowtow to the ancestors and burn incense, and set off on July 15 the day after tomorrow.

At noon the next day, in the ancestral hall of the Zhao family, after Zhao Wuji and his wife kowtowed to the ancestral tablet, Zhao Chongyang took the four daughters-in-law of the Zhao family who had not passed through the door to visit the ancestors. After lunch, the Zhao family all took a boat to Nanjing.

Yesterday, after Zhao Chongyang arrived, everyone not only discussed the issue of the three joining, Zhao Chongyang also mentioned that the current Jiangnan branch is not enough, and suggested that Nangong Tianxiong bring a few dart masters over to strengthen the leadership of Jiangnan bodyguards, and Nangong Tianqiao agreed on the spot. At the same time, Nangong Tianqiao hopes that his 20-year-old son Nangong Yongjie can follow Zhao Gongzi to the north to open a new area and contribute to the development of the Chamber of Commerce.

Zhao Chongyang asked for 100 people from the headquarters bodyguard team, and the 500 people brought from Hangzhou just formed three companies, Zhao Chongyang appointed him as the commander of the third company, vacated Pang Wanchun, and continued to conduct special training camp training.

On the morning of 14 July, the staff of the headquarters had already packed up the department stores such as liquor, perfume, soap, soap, paper, and cloth according to the bill of lading provided by Shi Bao. At seven o'clock in the morning of July 15, the fleet led by Zhao Chongyang set off again.

The headquarters sent five speedboats to explore the way for them in front, and sent a medium-sized ship of 300 materials to serve as Zhao Chongyang's boat, and Zhao Xiaoan took a 50-person escort team to protect the ship. Three more ships of 100 were sent to transport an additional 100 soldiers.

This time, the people Zhao Wuji chose to serve his son and several daughters-in-law were two pairs of domestic slave mothers and daughters, one of whom was surnamed Tang and called Tang Ma, and the other was surnamed Shi Ma. Tang Ma's daughter is fourteen years old and is called Red Sleeves, and Shi Ma's daughter is thirteen and a half years old, called Ziyan, although the two little girls are not particularly outstanding, they are indeed witty and intelligent people, otherwise Zhao's mother Liu Yuzhen would not have chosen them.

The scenery on both sides of the river is beautiful along the way, and four women and one man stand on the deck to enjoy the scenery on both sides. Standing enough, several people returned to the cabin and sat bragging and gossiping. Because I took a boat all the way, I had a light meal on the boat at noon, and only went ashore to stay and rest in the evening. Since there were six or seven hundred of them, even if some of them were left to watch the ship, there would be more than 500 people, and none of them could stay in a hotel, so except for Zhao Chongyang and the people on the ship, who went ashore to stay, the rest of the people took turns to go ashore to eat, and then returned to the ship to stay.