Zhou Xian nodded and returned to Zhou Xian's study with Zhou Fugui.

As soon as he arrived at the study and sat down, Zhou Xian asked, "Uncle Zhou, what's so anxious?" ”

Zhou Fugui sighed and said: "My lord, I have found ten clansmen who have read books, all of them are honest people who know the roots, I have arranged jobs for them, let them work and exercise first, what I want to say is that we don't have much silver, and now we are engaged in construction everywhere, and there are so many workers who eat and pay monthly money, and our silver is almost unbearable." ”

Zhou Xian was also stunned when he heard that the money was not enough, and asked, "Have we spent all the gold and silver that we have earned recently?" ”

Since opening a factory and recruiting soldiers, Zhou Xian felt that the money was not enough, so he began to start a business and established the Zhou Family Chamber of Commerce.

Unexpectedly, the money earned is still not enough to stuff your teeth!

"Yes, it's been spent early, and we now have to pay tens of thousands of taels of silver every month to the workers and soldiers, and all kinds of expenses every day are very large, and the current silver can only last for about a month at most."

Zhou Xian frowned, he is still too poor now, and he has only raised 10,000 soldiers and about 10,000 workers before the financial crisis has begun, and he must find a way to make some money.

Although his soap, perfume, glass, and mirrors were sold to those wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan for a lot of money.

However, because the transportation speed is too slow, they can only come to buy goods once a month, which cannot meet the production speed of Zhou Xian's factory at all.

You have to find more merchants to buy from you.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xian said to Zhou Fugui: "Otherwise, there are already rich businessmen in Jiangnan who have joined our Chamber of Commerce, I will lead a team of people to the capital tomorrow, so that the rich businessmen in the capital can also join our Zhou Family Chamber of Commerce, so that the products produced in our factory can be sold quickly." ”

Zhou Fugui said with some worry: "Now the world is so chaotic, how can adults go out and take risks, or I'll go." ”

Zhou Xian said indifferently: "It's okay, I'll take two regiments of soldiers with me, Uncle Zhou, you can rest assured." ”

Hearing that Zhou Xian took two regiments of soldiers to Zhou Fugui, he was relieved, so he didn't persuade him, but told Zhou Xian to pay attention to safety.

Zhou Xian also asked Zhou Fugui to help him watch the construction of Monkey Mountain Village, and after talking about business, Zhou Fugui didn't stay long and went back.

The next day, Zhou Xian came to the barracks in Monkey Mountain Village early in the morning.

He told Daniel Zhang that he was going to take two regiments to the capital, and Daniel Zhang initially persuaded Zhou Xian not to go.

But seeing that Zhou Xian insisted on going, he didn't say anything more, and then Daniel Zhang found Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu.

Daniel Zhang said to Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu: "Your regiment has performed very well in the army, I am very satisfied with your serious and responsible work, now I will give you a task to protect the adults to go to the capital, do you have confidence." ”

When Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu heard that they wanted to protect Zhou Xian to go to the capital, they immediately replied in unison: "Have confidence, promise to complete the task, even if I die, I won't let the adults lose a hair." ”

Daniel Zhang nodded with satisfaction and said to Zhou Xian: "Adult, Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu are the two best trained regiments, and they will definitely be able to protect adults." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said: "Then let Shaoyun and Sun Wu go with me, your regiment is fully armed, all bring flintlock pistols and prepare some more ammunition, I heard that the road is not very smooth, there are many bandits, if you encounter bandits on the road, they will be exterminated by the way, and it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people." ”

Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu saluted Zhou Xian and said, "Obey!" ”

Zhou Xian suddenly thought of something and said: "You go and change the military uniform of your regiment, go to the garment factory to get the clothes, and change them into the clothes of the caravan, which is too unnoticeable." ”

Xiang Shaoyun and Sun Wu agreed, saluted again, and walked out.

Seeing them walk out, Zhou Xian said to Daniel Zhang again: "During my absence, you must do a good job of defending Monkey Mountain Village, and the military camp cannot be allowed to outsiders to enter, and others cannot know the training methods of our army." ”

"My lord, don't worry, I will defend Monkey Mountain Village well, our military camp has always been inaccessible to idle people, but my lord, do you need to bring more people there, I'm afraid you won't be able to start if you encounter danger."

"The soldiers of the two regiments are more than enough, they are fully armed, even if 10,000 people come, they have the strength to fight."

Zhou Xian, who knows some of the history of the Ming Dynasty, knows that although there is a bit of chaos everywhere in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, they are all small forces, and the Manchu Tartars will not attack it until half a year, and Li Zicheng is still besieging Kaifeng in Henan.

So it's still relatively safe to go to the capital now, as long as you beware of some bandits along the way.

After Zhou Xian arranged the soldiers, he left the barracks and came directly to the factory area of the North District.

Zhou Xian summoned all the factory directors to the newly built conference room.

After Zhou Xian saw that everyone was coming, he said: "Today we asked you factory directors to come here to have a meeting, which is also the first meeting of our factory, and we will often hold meetings to discuss various matters in the future." ”

"Meeting?" It's a word that everyone has never heard before, and everyone starts talking about it.

Zhao Laoyan, director of the arsenal, said: "I don't know, what do you mean by the meeting, can you tell us about it." ”

Zhou Xian explained: "A meeting is an activity where everyone gets together to discuss matters and listen to reports. ”

As soon as everyone heard Zhou Xian's explanation, they understood, and immediately stopped talking and waited for Zhou Xian to speak.

Zhou Xian saw that they were quiet and said: "Now that the meeting has officially begun, I am going to go to the capital, and your factory will make some products for me to take to the capital." ”

When everyone heard that Zhou Xian was going to the capital, they persuaded Zhou Xian not to go out and take risks.

Zhou Xian nodded and said: "Don't worry, there will be no danger, I will lead more than 1,000 soldiers from the two regiments, after I leave, all the matters in the factory will continue according to the plan formulated before, I hope you can give me a surprise when I come back." ”

Everyone was relieved when they heard that Zhou Xian was taking two regiments of more than 1,000 people.

Zhao Laoyan said: "Then be careful on the road, there are a lot of bandits now, I don't know what adults need to bring to the capital." ”

Zhou Xian said: "This time I will bring 5,000 pieces of soap, 5,000 pieces of soap, 500 bottles of perfume, 500 pieces of glass products, 500 pieces of mirrors, and 500 pieces of cloth. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu said first: "My lord, our textile factory is now short of raw materials such as cotton, and our textile machines are spinning too fast, let alone raw materials. ”

Zhou Xian said: "Okay, I will tell Uncle Zhou and ask him to find you a little more raw materials." ”

At this time, Zhao Laoyan asked: "My lord, we have already produced 20,000 flintlock pistols, do we still need to continue to produce?" ”

Zhou Xian thought for a moment and said: "Let's produce another 10,000 flintlock pistols, we will continue to recruit soldiers in the future, flintlock pistols can only be used about two hundred times and need to be replaced." ”

Zhang Jianye, the director of the cement factory, asked: "My lord, our cement production is a little unable to keep up, and now we are building cement roads and houses everywhere, and our cement is a little nervous." ”

Zhou Xian said: "You build another cement factory, cement will only need more and more in the future, you have to produce more." ”

At this time, Zhang Yun, who was in charge of mining, said: "My lord, there are not enough miners now, there are too many mines that need to be mined, you can see if you can recruit more miners." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said: "Well, miners are an important part of our construction and development, there can be no mistakes, there are fewer people and they must be recruited, I will arrange recruitment." ”