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After forming a staff team, it can be said that the results have been remarkable, making Zhao Junchen worry less about many things.
Staff have many tasks on a daily basis, such as sorting and classifying daily affairs, collecting and sorting intelligence materials, drafting documents, formulating official documents, etc., to name a few.
In this way, Zhao Junchen can save a lot of effort, get rid of the minutiae, stand at a higher position, see the overall situation with a sharper vision, and make more rational and long-term judgments.
During this period of time, Zhao Junchen had to deal with more and more things - government affairs between the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works, party disputes in the temple, the future development of the "Zhao Party", the operation of the United Shipping Company, various matters of the Zhao Mansion Industry, preparations for the construction of Emperor Deqing's palace, collection and arrangement of intelligence, and Zhao Junchen's various private plans - if it were not for the assistance of his staff team, Zhao Junchen would have been completely overwhelmed by these complicated affairs! Even if you can manage to hold on, your mind has already been confused by the complicated appearance, and it is impossible to always maintain a rational mind and a big-picture perspective.
Within Zhao Junchen's staff team, there are seven core people, namely Xiao Wenxuan, Su Xiqing, Li Chuanwen, Niu Fude, Ouyang Bo, Li Lun, and Xu Jing. These seven people have their own strengths and are all rare talents.
Among them, Xiao Wenxuan has the best knowledge, the highest understanding, and the greatest potential. He is currently far away in Yangzhou, helping Zhao Junchen handle the affairs of the Zhao family in Yangzhou, and is responsible for monitoring the officialdom trends in South Zhili and the development progress of the United Shipping Company. This is Zhao Junchen's influence on the Zhao family in Yangzhou. His deliberate training was intended to allow him to take charge of his own affairs; Li Chuanwen was the head of the staff and the most experienced. He was mainly responsible for coordinating the overall situation and also helping Zhao Junchen handle court affairs. Now he is following Gu Quan to Nanzhi I am responsible for handling the matter between Su Changzhen and United Shipping Company. These two people are not in the capital at the moment, so there is no need to mention it further for the time being.
Among the remaining core staff, Su Xiqing is good at accounting figures and has always been responsible for Zhao Junchen's bank revenue and expenditure and various industries; Niu Fude has a calm personality and sharp vision, and has always been responsible for the collation and analysis of intelligence; Ouyang Bo's character He is cautious, makes decisions before acting, and has been assisting Zhao Junchen in dealing with the struggle between "Zhao Party" and the party. Li Lun is younger and slightly inexperienced, but he is talented, has a unique vision, and does things unconventionally. He is responsible for checking for leaks. Fill in gaps and provide suggestions.
In addition, there is an aide named Xu Jing, who is a talent recently discovered by Zhao Junchen. This person is good at writing and has a restrained and reliable personality. He has always been responsible for Zhao Junchen's copywriting work. Zhao Junchen's daily memorials and All government orders were written by Xu Jing.
These staff members perform their respective duties and work together with division of labor. They have always been very effective and efficient. Although Zhao Junchen has more and more things in his hands, with their assistance, he can still handle it with ease.
Over the past few days, Zhao Junchen's development has been going smoothly, and the dedicated assistance of these staff is definitely indispensable.
In recent days, the busiest people among the staff are undoubtedly Su Xiqing and Ouyang Bo.
The "Zhao Party" officials have invested in the "United Shipping Company", which involves a huge amount of money and needs Su Xiqing to handle it, while the "Beijing Cha" affairs are more complicated, and many things need to be handled by Ouyang Bo.
In the evening of that day, Su Xiqing opened the door and entered Zhao Junchen's study, presented Zhao Junchen with an account, and reported: "Sir, the accounts for the officials' investment in the United Shipping Company have been prepared. There are a total of sixty-seven The officials took out silver. The most they took out was one hundred thousand taels of silver, and the least they took out was ten thousand taels of silver. The total was 3.35 million taels of silver. In addition, His Majesty also took out his internal funds. One million taels of silver were invested in the United Shipping Company. If this amount of money is added, the total will be 4,350,000 taels of silver."
Zhao Junchen nodded and said: "Very good, the quantity is more than I thought. With this investment of money, it is enough for me to control the future direction of 'United Shipping Lines'."
After saying that, Zhao Junchen asked Su Xiqing: "How much money is there in our house that we can use?"
Su Xiqing's eyes flashed slightly and she replied: "There is not much silver that can be used in the house, probably less than 700,000 taels of silver. If you include some easily liquidated jewelry and property, this number can reach 8 More than one hundred thousand taels."
Zhao Junchen frowned slightly and said, "Oh? Do you only have this little money left?"
Upon hearing Zhao Junchen's question, Su Xiqing tightly closed her mouth and had no intention of answering.
Zhao Junchen only had less than 700,000 taels of silver. If this matter spread, I am afraid no one would believe it. This amount of money may seem huge, but it is completely unworthy of Zhao Junchen's reputation as a corrupt official!
In fact, Su Xiqing knew very well that although Zhao Junchen had stopped being corrupt, he still had a lot of income. Every year just the contributions of his party members and the profits from various industries combined amounted to millions of taels of silver. ! But the accounts of the Zhao Mansion are still unable to make ends meet, because huge amounts of money often disappear suddenly from the Zhao Mansion's accounts. The total of these mysterious disappearances of silver is nearly three million taels!
No one except Zhao Junchen, Fang Ru, and Xu Qingyan knew where the money was used. Although Su Xiqing was considered Zhao Junchen's confidant, he was only responsible for handing out the money to Fang Ru. That’s all.
Obviously, without the knowledge of his staff, Zhao Junchen was secretly carrying out some plans. These plans require huge amounts of money to support, so much so that even a corrupt official like Zhao Junchen, who is as wealthy as the country, can only manage to maintain it!
But what exactly these plans are, still no one knows.
Zhao Junchen arranged for Gu Quan to intervene in Su Changzhen's affairs because Zhao Junchen found that he didn't have enough money in his hands, so he was greedy for Su Changzhen's huge family property!
However, precisely because these plans were too mysterious, Su Xiqing also abided by his duties and never asked about things he shouldn't know. He had no intention of delving into them in depth. He just followed Zhao Junchen's instructions.
At this time, after hearing Zhao Junchen's inquiry, he remained silent and did not express any opinion.
In fact, Zhao Junchen also understands where his money goes.
Infiltrating military towns, bribing the inner court, expanding intelligence networks... these are all gold-eating beasts, and even Zhao Junchen's huge family property cannot withstand the consumption at all.
Therefore, Zhao Junchen was just talking to himself when he asked. He did not expect Su Xiqing to answer his question. He just continued: "In this case, I will take out 650,000 taels of silver from the house and collect five million." Two silver coins, and then transfer it to Nanzhili through the channels of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and hand over the money to Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan as soon as possible."
Su Xiqing hesitated and said: "Sir, if this is the case, we will have less than 50,000 taels of silver left in our house. If there is an emergency need for silver, these 50,000 taels of silver may not be enough."
Zhao Junchen shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, the income of this quarter of 'Yue Rongfang' will be handed over to the government soon, and then the government's savings will naturally be abundant. The most important thing now is Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan. Bian, what they want to do must be supported by this money, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve results."
Su Xiqing naturally knew what Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan were going to do.
This time, Zhao Junchen arranged for Huang Yourong and Gu Quan to go to Southern Zhili. In addition to reviewing Su Changzhen's case, they also had to deal with those Hui and Zhejiang businessmen who were unwilling to join the "United Shipping Company"! After all the Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants are wiped out, all their property and wealth will be confiscated, and all the properties under their names will be auctioned off, including a huge number of businesses, ships, and houses!
At that time, Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan's mission was to buy all these businesses, ships, and houses at low prices.
Then, if the land and houses in his hands are resold at a high price, he can reap a large profit. As for those trading houses and ships, they can be integrated together to form a large new trading house!
Zhao Junchen named this business firm "Zhao's Trading Company". It was a very tacky name and would not attract too many people's attention. The apparent owner of this business bank would be the Yangzhou Zhao family, and Zhao Junchen had no direct relationship with it. relation.
Of course, all the start-up funds for "Zhao's Commercial Bank" came from Emperor Deqing and officials of the "Zhao Party". Zhao Junchen's money only accounted for a small part, but as long as Zhao Junchen moved a little bit in the accounts, Zhao Junchen You can become the real owner of "Zhao's Boat Company".
For example, after Xiao Wenxuan and Li Chuanwen auctioned a cargo ship for 500 taels of silver, they then invested the cargo ship in the "Zhao's Trading Company" at the price of 1,000 taels of silver. The extra 500 taels of silver in the accounts became Zhao Junchen’s investment and shares were obtained.
This is what the so-called "empty-handed white wolf" means.
After the establishment of "Zhao's Trading Company", its scale will inevitably far exceed that of any merchant from Huizhou and Zhejiang. Therefore, once "Zhao's Trading Company" joins "United Shipping Company", it will inevitably become "United Shipping Company" the dominant force! Zhao Junchen himself became the largest shareholder of United Shipping Company!
In this case, Zhao Junchen, as the founder, supervisor, and largest shareholder of "United Shipping Lines", can control the future direction of "United Shipping Lines" to the greatest extent. The behemoth "United Shipping Lines" will inevitably become the most important thing in Zhao Junchen's hands. One of the powerful forces!
By that time, it goes without saying how much benefit Zhao Junchen can reap.
In order to achieve this goal, an investment of five million taels of silver is necessary! So Zhao Junchen did not hesitate at this time.
After understanding this, Su Xiqing had no objection.
However, after a moment of hesitation, Su Xiqing couldn't help but remind her: "Sir, when you first established the 'United Shipping Company', you promised the Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants who joined the 'United Shipping Company' that you would only serve for ' United Shipping Lines provides preferential policies and will not interfere in the daily operations of United Shipping Lines, but our actions this time are not small. Anyone can see that we want to further control United Shipping Lines. Those who join United Shipping Lines The Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants may be dissatisfied."
Zhao Junchen smiled softly and said: "What can they do if they don't accept it? I only control the 'United Shipping Company' secretly, and no one can find fault. I arranged for Huang Yourong to punish those Hui and Zhejiang businessmen who were unwilling to join the 'United Shipping Company'. The purpose of killing chickens to scare monkeys! Even if those Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen who join the "United Shipping Company" are not convinced, they will definitely be honest for a while. By the time they can't help but want to rebound, the "United Shipping Company" will have been firmly attached to us. It's under control... What's more, as long as their profits can be guaranteed, their rebound will not be too violent and there won't be too much trouble."
Seeing that Zhao Junchen had thought it over carefully, Su Xiqing said nothing more. She just nodded and left the study to follow Zhao Junchen's instructions.
However, not long after Su Xiqing left the study, Niu Fude and Ouyang Bo entered Zhao Junchen's study together. Both of them had serious expressions, as if they had some important news to report to Zhao Junchen.
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ps: I was a little tired and my mind was groggy. I just wanted to lie down and take a rest, but I actually fell asleep.
So the second update will be relatively late, so just go to bed first and watch it tomorrow.
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