Li Miao reviewed the work of the Northern Bureau headed by Li Shui in the past six months. Fully affirmed. It basically opened up the situation in the north and made a good start for the future work of the Northern Bureau.
Li Miao decided to focus on developing the Tongzhou branch. Tongzhou was a mixed bag of good and bad people, and the business was so prosperous. It was an excellent place to develop business and guard forces in a low-key manner. Li Miao is only afraid of the government, not other fish and dragons.
The more chaotic Tongzhou is, the better. The government management here is also relatively loose. With so many aristocratic families developing in Tongzhou, the government cannot tighten them even if they want to. It is in line with Li Miao's low-key development pattern.
Fields are particularly important to Li Miao. On the one hand, by purchasing fields, he can place some domestic slaves and train some of the school-age boys to become village servants, thereby increasing his own strength. Secondly, fields can be used to grow high-yielding crops adapted to the north. Such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, barley, etc.
This will serve as a demonstration and accelerate the promotion of these high-yielding crops in the north. Promoting high-yielding crops in the north can bring huge amounts of luck to Li Miao. It can also solve the food problem of northern farmers. Why not?
Although Li Miao had the reputation of being a civil servant, he also had the shield of Yuan Li. But the fields must also be controlled within 7,000 acres. Low-key and reserved.
Li Miao arranged for Mr. Zhang to serve Zhang Defu in Tongzhou to preside over the business activities of the Tongzhou branch and open tea shops, spice shops, etc. When it comes to doing business, no one in the Northern Bureau is as good as Zhang Defu. After all, he is an old shopkeeper who has been in the business for thirty years.
Hu Er and Li Jiu served as the chief guard and assistant manager respectively. Gradually develop the escort force to protect Tongzhou’s commercial activities.
Currently, the required turnover of spice shops and tea shops opened in Tongzhou can be relaxed to one hundred thousand taels of silver per month. After all, I saw that Tongzhou’s business was prosperous. The monthly business of one hundred thousand taels of silver is really inconspicuous here.
It is still quite impressive for Li Miao. Almost a net profit. Can it not be impressive? With money, you can develop and expand your strength better and faster.
The Northern Bureau has another task, which is to purchase a farm in Tongzhou. Mainly the middle and lower fields, no more than 5,000 acres of land. One or several farms are acceptable. However, the distance between several farms should not be too far. for ease of management.
Once the farm is implemented, all the original farmers can be retained. In addition, refugees in family units can be purchased as slaves, and guard members can be selected from them for training. Quickly form combat power.
These escorts only teach Jeet Kune Do. Cun Jin and other unique skills need special approval from Li Miao. Li Miao only took out one hundred thousand taels of silver notes. Two hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver were left for the Northern Bureau as development funds.
Because Tongzhou has huge market potential, Mr. Zhang is also very motivated. In addition, after seeing the spices, tea and other goods that Li Miao brought from Jinling, I wanted to take action immediately. Of course, Li Miao's supervisory power will also be in place. No matter it is the advantageous father-in-law or whoever it is, institutionalized management cannot vary from person to person.
Li Miao and his party did not leave Tongzhou immediately. In Li Miao's heart, Tongzhou is currently far more important than the capital. In addition to studying in the capital, Li Miao can do nothing else now. Even if he obtains the title of Jinshi, Li Miao will not have the opportunity to show his talents. When it comes to doing business and developing security forces, we have to go to Tongzhou.
In the future, Tongzhou will be the top priority. Next, Li Miao, accompanied by Li Shui and other senior officials from the Northern Bureau, conducted a three-day inspection in Tongzhou. The inspection further strengthened Li Miao's determination to show off his talents in Tongzhou. Before leaving Tongzhou, Li Miao summoned Mr. Zhang alone to worship him.
Li Miao's cheap father-in-law is now prosperous, and his son Zhang Jun is now the shopkeeper of a spice shop in Beijing. Moreover, he is already married to a wife, who is pregnant, and Zhang Defu will soon have a grandson. Daughter Zhang Min is also favored by Li Miao and is pregnant. Now Zhang Defu himself is in a high position.
Thinking of the previous dilemma at a Changzhou noodle restaurant. It's really the difference between heaven and hell. Zhang Defu sometimes even wonders if his son Zhang Jun's batch of spices in Lianyungang had not been robbed. What will happen to my family? It turns out that I do business worth several hundred taels of silver every year. And soon he will be managing a business worth several million taels a year.
Li Miao and Zhang Defu talked secretly in the room for more than an hour, and no one knew the content of the conversation. This has become Zhang Defu's most proud thing in his life, even more proud than when he was Li Miao's housekeeper in Changzhou Mansion.
But the boss summoned him alone in front of all the senior officials of the Northern Bureau! Many years later, someone tried to pull something out of Zhang Defu while he was drunk, but to no avail. That was a secret between him and his employer, how could he possibly reveal even half a word of it!
The second entry house where Li Miao lives on Rongning Street in Beijing. This house was purchased by Li Shui for thirty thousand taels of silver. The whole house is simple and elegant. There are sixty or seventy rooms in total. The front yard is not small, and the backyard is not big, which is exactly what Li Miao wants. Now he is just a personal maid, Qiu Sheng, and it doesn't matter whether he has a backyard or not.
In the living room, there are three people sitting at this time, Li Miao, Wang Yonggui, and Li Shui. Li Shi is standing behind Li Miao. Wang Yonggui: "My boss, can you buy five or six households of slaves to live in?" "Yes." Li Miao squinted her eyes and nodded slightly.
Wang Yonggui: "My boss, you can also open a tea shop in the capital. As long as the transaction volume is limited, the impact should not be big. In addition, you can open multiple small tea shops. You are not trying to make money, as long as you are not deaf or blind."
Li Miao glanced at Li Shui who was thinking. Now they are basically deaf and blind in the capital. No sources. "Can". It seems that Li Shui still has a long way to go before he can fully grow up. These tasks should have been completed by Li Shui.
Li Miao stood up and said, "Everything in the capital is low-key. You can buy a few middle and lower farmsteads in the suburbs of Beijing. One or two thousand acres will be enough. On the one hand, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, wheat and other crops can be planted to facilitate the production of high-quality seeds from the north." promotion.
You can also place some refugees with families as slaves, train guards, and some shopkeepers to prepare for future development. In addition, let’s buy the store that is currently rented in Beijing.” After speaking, Li Miao did not stay in the living room for long, and then walked towards the study.
In the next few days, Li Miao just strolled around Rongning Street near the house, feeling vaguely that her consciousness was being suppressed. It seems that the water in the capital is still very deep, and he alone cannot intervene. Low-key and reserved.
So, Li Miao no longer went out. He was waiting for the fruits of the spice tree brought to him by Ke'er to mature.
Anyway, there are only a few days left before maturity. This is the first time that the spice tree fruit has appeared. It took nearly half a year to mature. It should be a good thing. I don't know what it can bring to him. He had tasted two fruits from the tea tree before, one was Xiao Zhang Min's magical power of Yang Zhi, and the other was Da Zhang Min's Convergence Dao Yun magical power.
