The scale of the eastern suburbs is quite large, and in the dark night, you can see the outlines of countless buildings, large and small, in the distance.

In addition to the sugar mill, there is also a printing workshop, where stock stamps, accommodation stamps, postage stamps, and newspapers are printed.

There is also a shipyard in the vicinity, and the large ships used to transport goods are built by themselves.

More than 6,000 employees working in these places, with a permanent population of 30,000 or 40,000, which has greatly driven economic development. These are shops that are closely related to the degree of food and clothing.

There is no doubt that these shops are all surnamed Xia.

The wages of the employees are less than two taels of silver a month, so much silver has to be spent. Spending it is silver, and if you don't spend it, it's a broken stone, and it's better to let yourself earn this money than for others to earn.

And I can't make much, there are a lot of shops, but the profits of a month together can only last tens of thousands of taels of silver.

It can be seen that he is a conscientious entrepreneur.

If you want those black-hearted profiteers to make money, you may have to raise prices and make them shoddy.

The gathering place of tens of thousands of people is already comparable to the ordinary county seat, and now it has just arrived, and it is time to have dinner, but it is dark early in winter, and countless small courtyards are lit up.

The small courtyard built in a unified plan, row upon row, row after row, the ground is a hard dirt road, which was very flat when it was first built, but now it has been rolled out of the ravine.

The carriage was a little bumpy on it, and the stone road was still too expensive after all, and only a few sections of the road were paved with stone slabs, and the rest were dirt roads.

Road.

Xia Yuan, who was sitting in the carriage, remembered this matter again, the transportation was inconvenient these years, and he really wanted to lay a long railway and get on the train to transport him, the only treasure of the Ming Dynasty.

But this is unrealistic, or the cement road is more reliable, I have long wanted to tinker with cement, but I have not had the time and energy.

The cement is fired, and several kilns have to be built first.

When he arrived at a very large courtyard, before the carriage stopped, Lao Wang shouted vigorously into the courtyard, which was big and loud, and the sound spread far away.

When Xia Yuan got out of the car, a middle-aged man in his forties wearing cotton clothes and more than a dozen subordinates had already opened the door of the courtyard and greeted him.

This middle-aged man, surnamed You, is one of the directors of the entire eastern suburbs industrial base, or one of the personnel directors.

As soon as Xia Yuan got out of the carriage, the tour steward had already greeted him, with a rich face with a courteous smile, and kept chattering.

"The lord hasn't been here for a few days, and the villain thinks about it day and night. This morning, when the villain heard the call of the magpie in the tree, he wondered if there was a happy event. Sure enough, the old man was looking forward to it. ”

"If you can talk, talk more."

"Where, the villain is not a lip service, what he says is what he says. Don't you know, yesterday when the villain and those supervisors were chatting, they also said, this is the New Year, why don't you come to the eastern suburbs to go around, you can't see the master during the New Year, I feel that this year is not very interesting, not festive. ”

Although it means that he knows that he is blowing rainbow farts, Xia Yuan is really strong in his heart when he listens, and the Ming Dynasty needs such talents.

After blowing the rainbow fart, when I entered the main hall, a cup of hot tea was served, and the tour steward asked, "What do you have to say when you come over this time?" ”

Xia Yuan put the teacup on the table and took out the booklet from his cuff, "Take this roster and find a few more people to copy it." ”

The tour steward took the booklet and opened it and only glanced at it a few times, and almost didn't hold it steady, good guy, it is full of officials, what is the Guozijian, the Hanlin Academy, the General Administration, and six ministries are in the matter.

He knew that his master, or the owner, was an official in the court, otherwise he would not be so respectful, but there were too many officials on it.

As a businessman, it is inevitable that I will be stunned when I see the roster of so many officials.

"Only copy the names and addresses of officials, and don't copy the rest. Prepare more paper, copy an official's information on a piece of paper. ”

"Master, the villain asks a lot, what are you doing copying these?"

"Send warmth."

"Send, send warmth?"

"When the copy is finished, find more people and hand out the papers with names and addresses written on them. Each family will have five horses of silk cloth, five stones of rice, and twenty taels of silver, and arrange for people to send them from house to house early tomorrow morning. ”

“.”

The tour steward was still confused, but now he understood, the purpose of sending silver, grain and cloth to officials was obvious.

When he used to be a businessman, he did this kind of thing.

But

"Master, each family only sends these, isn't it too little? The villain felt that he was afraid that he would not even be able to pass the door. ”

Xia Yuan looked at him, "How much does the tour manager think he should send?" ”

"That depends on what this official is doing" Halfway through the words, the tour steward felt that this was taboo, so he simply swallowed it back, and said: "Master, this is all an ordinary thing, how can you not give money to adults in business, otherwise how will this business continue, don't you say?" ”

"But don't worry, the villain has never done such a thing with the master now."

"Then I bother you to go back to your old business, find more people, and send all these silver and two pieces of cloth to the place tomorrow, and not a family will be left behind. And don't worry about whether you can send it out, the officials you sent this time are different from the officials you sent before, not to mention the door, maybe you don't even have a door. ”

Xia Yuan remembered the little firewood again, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Ming Dynasty was really big, not only among the people, but also among the officials.

Poor Beijing official.

"I'll arrange for someone to bring you the money early tomorrow morning."

"What are you talking about, sir? The money will be set aside in every account. ”

"Public accounts are public accounts, and private accounts are private accounts."

“.”

Hearing this, the tour steward was in awe, public is public, private is private, this is the truth that only businessmen can understand, but I didn't expect this old man to know.

It's no wonder that he was able to make this business so big at such a young age.

"There is another thing, when I went to send silver and grain and cloth, I said that this was a debt from the emperor, whether the other party believed it or not, just say so, remember?"

What is the emperor's debt?

The tour manager was stunned again, could this be the new popular bribery rhetoric recently?

He wanted to ask, but he felt that he shouldn't ask, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, master, the villain will definitely order it at that time." ”

"I have repeatedly ordered that if any of you miss something, I will invite you to live in the Imperial Prison."

Hearing these words, especially the last sentence, the tour steward trembled, and his expression was many times more serious than just now, "Don't worry, the villain will definitely give orders repeatedly!" ”

(End of chapter)