After the completion of Zhu Mian's family, it was close to the end of the year, and the branches had summarized the income and expenditure of the year, and the Hongli that should be cashed out was cashed out for everyone. Due to the sudden emergence of glass water jade products, coupled with the limited sales of glass mirrors, bicycles, and exquisite wine bottles exchanged by the system, this year's profit is as high as 13.23 million yuan. The Tang family and the Hu family in Huaixi only joined the Wantong Chamber of Commerce in September, and they received 260,000 and 320,000 Hongli respectively. The Liu family, the Zhou family, the Nangong family, and the Zhu family, who joined the Chamber of Commerce earlier, have an average income of each family that has increased significantly compared with last year, and most of them have doubled, and they are all happy. The northern branch is now basically self-paying, and it is not included in the overall year-end accounts this year.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Zhao Chongyang took Wu Song, Shi Xiu, Yang Zhi and several little beauties to bid farewell to Fang La and Qiu Wanquan's two quasi-fathers-in-law (of course, they gave the two fathers-in-law their early years in advance), and returned to the headquarters of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce at Zhaojia Wharf in Nanjing.

During the two months in Suzhou, he mainly assisted the Jiangnan Branch to complete several major events: First, the Jiangnan Branch was officially located here on Xishan Island, and Xishan Island was re-planned, in addition to expanding the original simple wharf in the southeast of Xishan Island, three new wharves were built in the north, southwest and east respectively, and forts were also built on both sides of each wharf, and ten heavy guns were placed respectively. Three cement trenches were built with cement on top of the 300-meter pier to prevent the invasion of foreign enemies. Then relying on the wharf to build three large towns, the central town in the middle of the island will be built, and the surrounding area will be separated by forty or fifty miles, and then some villages and towns will be built, and the entire Mianshan Island will be basically developed. In the future, as long as there is a threat of war, all the families of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce can take refuge here, and when there are gunboats on the water, and the dock is guarded by heavy artillery and musketeers, the entire Xishan Island can be called impregnable and unbreakable. This is the construction and planning of Xishan Island.

Zhao Chongyang loaded the 30 luxury carriages with modified glass doors and windows into the system warehouse, and sent one to Liu Erye, leaving two at the headquarters for everyone's office work, leaving ten at the headquarters to sell, the internal price (used within the Chamber of Commerce, one is limited to one) 10,000, the friendship price (collaborators can buy) 70,000, and the public sales price is 100,000. At the same time, the first glass mirrors were made, and although the effect was not good, it was a successful step after all.

Third, a group of drivers who can skillfully drive steamships have been trained. After the first batch of trainees learned the driving skills of the steamboat, the steamboat could travel day and night, and the time to go to Xinyang to pull soda ash was almost halved, saving a lot of labor and time, and reducing the cost of goods in disguise......

On Chinese New Year's Eve, all the backbone cadres of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce and the cadres above the battalion level of the Self-Defense Forces attended the annual meeting of the regiment at the headquarters of the Nanjing Wantong Chamber of Commerce: at the meeting, Zhao Chongyang summed up the work of this year and affirmed the achievements of this year. Zhao Chongyang said that this year, not only the results of the newly opened Jiangnan region and Huaixi region were unexpected, but the tasks assigned by the branch directly under the headquarters to the Zhou family, the Zhu family, the Liu family and other major families were also overfulfilled. Sales are more than 20% higher than expected, of course, the significant increase in sales is mainly due to the successful development of the Anpeng mine, the continuous increase in the output of soap, soap and shampoo, and the continuous stability of water jade products, so our profit has doubled......

Next year's goal is to achieve a total profit of more than 20 million yuan. In order to achieve this overall goal, Zhao Chongyang asked everyone to complete and do the following major things:

The first is to continue to consolidate the vested achievements and expand the business and trade scope of the directly subordinate branch and the Jiangnan branch. The directly subordinate branch should go west to Hanyang Mansion and control Yangzhou Mansion in the north, and send capable personnel to establish a trade city in these two places, promote the products of Wantong Chamber of Commerce to the Lianghu area, and gradually open the Bashu market. The Jiangnan branch should expand in the southeast and southwest directions, and expand its business to Fujian and Guangxi regions while fully occupying the markets of Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

Second, after the beginning of the year, the Huaixi branch went south to Xiangyang and north to Hebei. In the north, Tongtian Hu set up a business world, wholesaled goods to them, and allowed them to expand their business contacts with the Liao Kingdom and Western Xia. The northern branch was formally established to build Tangyin County and Yuejiazhuang into a southern business base. Relying on the Daimyo Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, Luoyang Mansion and Xuzhou City to promote material exchanges, and promote the exchange and exhibition of goods of Wantong Chamber of Commerce in the Central Plains.

Third, to strengthen business contacts with the Persian Hu merchants and other Hu merchants in the Western Regions, luxury carriages, water jade products, clairglass mirrors, water jade glass mirrors, and high-grade liquor can be sold to them in large quantities, so that they can take them overseas and sell them to distant places.

Fourth, the shipyard will step up the construction of steel skeleton sea ships with more than 1,000 materials, and at present, according to the time of the sample (strive for before April), organize personnel to go to Toyo Overseas to do business in Fuso. Sell the goods of the Celestial Empire to the East and earn the silver money of the Easterners.

Five localities sent people to Suzhou and Hangzhou to learn soil paint technology, and opened soil paint furniture stores in various places. It is also necessary to expand cement production in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou and other places, buy land to build cement buildings for sale, and open the construction of commercial housing in this era.

After the meeting, Zhao Chongyang asked the headquarters clerk to compile the main content of the speech into a book, print it out and quickly distribute it to all branches and offices as a guide for the next year's work......Chinese New Year's Eve