Chapter 064
In Ninghai City, there is the left inner courtyard of the garrison office and the left wing. This is a five-room wide house, which is actually also an accounting room.
The decoration in the accounting room is divided into two completely different styles. One of the rooms is Yang Yunniang's bedroom. Seeing that Cheng Shijie didn't miss her, she took Xiao Jiaxin to live here in the inner courtyard. This two-bedroom house with an outside suite is about fifty square meters.
But she is exquisitely decorated, with living room, bedroom, study room and bathroom all available. The floor is paved with white tiles, which looks exquisite and warm. But the other three rooms are arranged into a spacious office, and the floor is made of gold bricks. This is a kind of golden tile that is very hard. It is also an ideal material for decoration of wealthy families, but it is more expensive.
The furniture is all made of mahogany or yellow pear wood, elegant and grand.
At this time, there were more than a dozen accounting gentlemen sitting in the accounting room. These accounting gentlemen were very afraid of Mr. Yang Yunniang. They were secretly wary of fear, held their breath, and stared at the tall table nervously.
"Pa bang..."
Yang Yunniang's fingers quickly dialed the abacus, and her fingers flying up and down almost formed an afterimage on the abacus. Yang Yunniang has an amazing talent for arithmetic and accounting. Nowadays, Ninghai City has dozens of factories, as well as the military pay, food and clothing expenses for more than 3,000 Ning Haijun troops.
All the flowing water is very amazing. In addition to the accountants of various factories, there are hundreds of people in total. Yang Yunniang assigned corresponding dates to the accounts done by these accountants, and checked the account books of more than a dozen accountants every day.
These dozen accountants are all veterans of bookkeeping and accounting. Although they don't need a month to do these accounts, for such a large amount, they still need a few days to do it. However, the problem is that Yang Yuniang can calculate the amount of calculations that they spent several days without sleep in just a quarter of an hour.
This kind of efficiency is a bit scary.
Although Yang Yuniang was born in the Jianghu family, she was from a merchant family. She had been acquainted with abacus since she was arrested in Zhou Dynasty. She was extremely talented with numbers. Later, when her family fell into decline, she was taken in by her master Feng Sanniang and became the heir to the mantle. It's just a pity that her master has been shrewd all his life, but he fell into love. Her master met Zhou Shichen and was deceived into losing everything.
Just when Yang Yuniang finished calculating all the ledgers, her sharp eyes were fixed on an accountant, and then she threw the ledger in his face: "Twenty-seven taels of silver, go back and find it. I know you did it unintentionally." It’s a loss, it won’t happen again!”
All the accountants were so frightened that they hurriedly retreated.
Yang Yunniang stretched and was getting ready to sleep.
Cheng Anning came over and said, "Mother Yun, my adoptive father is asleep in the bathroom!"
Yang Yunniang looked up at Cheng Anning and said, "This is not possible. If the guard catches a cold, you will be in big trouble. Go and call Qiao'er!"
"She? Why her?"
"Little Hoof, don't think that I don't know what you are thinking. If you don't let Qiao'er come over, can you lift the guard?"
Jin Qiaoer happened to walk outside the door of Yang Yunniang's room at this time. She sighed and said, "Yunniang, is it a crime to be so strong?"
"No crime, but those who can work hard!"
Yang Yuniang looked at Jin Qiaoer's chest and muttered: "I don't know what I eat to grow so big."
Jin Qiaoer said displeased: "You know how to bully me!"
"Huh, I'm giving you a chance. If you don't want to, I won't force you!"
Yang Yuniang reached out and touched Jin Qiaoer's face and said, "You can go back to Dengzhou and your Jin family."
"you……"
"You get five taels of silver a month, are you wronged?"
It is a pity that the event that Yang Yuniang imagined did not happen. In fact, Cheng Shijie did not sleep deeply. When the footsteps sounded, Cheng Shijie had already woken up.
After asking Jin Qiaoer to hand him a bath towel, Cheng Shijie put on a bath towel and returned to the bedroom.
Cheng Shijie is not stupid, and he also knows what these women mean. However, the problem is that he knows all these things. In later generations, girls like uncles. Cheng Shijie also has a friend who has been hanging out, only falling in love without getting married, and his girlfriends have changed. One after another.
When we got married last year, the bride was still a twenty-two-year-old girl. His friend was fourteen years older than the bride. However, he was an uncle in the girl's eyes. He was middle-aged, had a car and a house, and had a high income. , life has quality and taste, and you can enjoy life along with it.
Cheng Shijie knows that he has a wife, a son and a daughter. Once he does something some days, there is no turning back.
Paper cannot contain the fire, unless he wants his wife and children to be separated.
After a dreamless night, I woke up in the morning to the screams of Zhang Huairen being whipped.
Beating Zhang Huairen every morning, noon and night has become a daily routine. Although it is not too severe, thirty lashes a day, it makes Zhang Huairen want to die. The problem is, even if he wants to die, he cannot die.
Every day, people look at him and want to commit suicide or self-harm, which will soon lead to more serious beatings.
Zhang Huairen has changed now. Seeing Cheng Shijie, he no longer dares to be arrogant, except that he wants to be added to the news.
Even the honest man Chen Guodong couldn't bear to watch this scene: "Master Guards, how did that guy offend you? You can't kill someone without a nod, so give him a good time!"
Cheng Shijie did not explain to Chen Guodong.
Chen Guodong had no choice but to ask Cheng Shi to find out.
"He, calling him a beast is an insult to beasts!"
Cheng Shi said angrily: "You don't know that there are more than a hundred corpses excavated outside Zhangjiazhuang alone, and there are even more than a dozen that are still in the same miserable state as before death, with not a single bone in the body intact. …”
Before Cheng Shi could finish speaking, Chen Guodong took the whip from Cheng Shi's hand and whipped it towards Zhang Huairen.
Chen Guodong was so strong and angry that Zhang Huairen was knocked unconscious.
"Wake him up!"
This era is different from that of later generations. The houses in later generations were made of steel and concrete, and construction could not be carried out in winter. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, many houses were made of wood, and winter did not hinder construction.
New houses are being built every day throughout Ninghai City, especially outside the city. When Cheng Shijie planned the outer city, it became a construction site.
As for the city wall that doesn't even have a shadow, the merchants are not worried because they all know that Ning Haijun has strong combat effectiveness and strict military discipline. The merchants can live in peace with them. As long as they pay taxes, they ensure that no one will come to trouble. In particular, the business atmosphere here is good, there is no harassment by local gangsters, and the military households are also rich.
In Ninghai City, as long as you have hands and feet, as long as your hands are not afraid of fatigue, you can easily earn enough money to support your family, and your life is very nourishing.
Military households have money and the ability to make money, so their spending power naturally increases. Just like the mutton soup restaurant near Xiaonanmen, a bowl of mutton soup and two noodles cost seven cents, and they can be sold at least a day. For three hundred bowls of mutton or haggis soup, the gross profit is four taels of silver, which is more than a dozen taels of silver a month.
Of course, they need to pay taxes, so the net profit can be as much as ten taels of silver. The owner of the mutton soup restaurant made money and took a concubine.
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people were very strict if they wanted to take concubines. Unless they were nobles and scholars, they either bought the false title of Yuanwai or Yuanwailang. Otherwise, ordinary people were only allowed to take in concubines when their real wives were forty years old and had nowhere to go. concubine.
Now, no one cares about it. Those merchants have so many wives and concubines that no one will care about them.
Cheng Shijie came to the Armored Crossbow Bureau's factory and found that a large number of crossbow machines had been produced here.
"Is the beef tendon problem solved?"
"solved!"
"How to solve it?"
Cheng Shijie felt a little stupid when he asked this question. There are more than a thousand merchants and their associates stationed in Ninghai City. The merchants only pursue profits. When it is profitable, let alone beef tendon, even it is contraband. can buy.
Sure enough, as Cheng Shijie expected, even the beef tendons shipped by outside merchants were processed and were very good as crossbow strings.
Cheng Shijie picked up a finished crossbow. The structure was not very complicated. The bow arm was three feet three feet long and painted black. It looked inconspicuous, but the materials used were indeed quite sufficient. He kicked off one foot and pulled hard. Good guy, it was so strong that it was almost impossible to pull it open!
You must know that Cheng Shijie's power is already very good.
However, he found that this old craftsman, who seemed to be quite weak, pulled away the powerful crossbow with a sigh, and then handed the crossbow machine to Cheng Shijie.
Cheng Shijie leveled the crossbow, half-kneeling on the ground, aiming with squinted eyes.
In later generations, the principle of three points and one line was known to elementary school students, but in this era it was the professional skill of professional soldiers.
The craftsman saw Cheng Shijie's posture and took out two short crossbow arrows and handed them over. Cheng Shijie took the arrows and looked at them. The arrows were one foot eight inches long, about fifty-six centimeters. The arrow tail has finely crafted wooden feathers, but there is no arrowhead.
Cheng Shijie loaded the arrow into the chute, raised the crossbow at an angle, and aimed at the far wall to trigger the trigger. He only heard a metallic trembling sound, and a strong force hit him backwards, making his body tremble slightly. In a flash, the short arrow shot out suddenly and nailed the wall firmly, two inches deep!
Chen Guodong was experienced and looked at it and said: "Master Guards, this crossbow is good. The range must be more than 200 steps... 220 steps is enough!"
The crossbow arm of the crossbow machine is manually forged, but there is no way to directly cast it, so the production speed is a problem.
Cheng Shijie was very concerned about the production speed and asked: "This crossbow is very good. How many can be made in one day?"
"If we have enough materials, we can make sixty figures in one day!"
The crossbow maker said very excitedly: "We have already made 260 crossbows. With the ones made today, we can break through 300!"
Sixty in one day, six hundred in ten days, two thousand in one month. There's still not enough time.
"Can you hurry up!"
"Then we need to add more people!"
"There is no problem with people. We can recruit them. We will strive to break through 200 units every day!"
Cheng Shijie is very urgent now, he doesn't have much time now.
