Chapter 71 Zhang Youzhi’s luck
Sometimes when Zhang You dreams back at midnight, he feels unbelievable when he thinks about everything that has happened in the past six months.
In the past two years, the price of salt has plummeted, and a large amount of salt has been squeezed into his hands. Zhang Youzhi tried every means to sell the salt in his hands. Finally, he wanted to come to Beijing to try his luck, and in the end he almost became a slave. . Overnight, he was taken care of by Consort He.
Why did the prince-in-law do things and suddenly turned over.
He devoted himself wholeheartedly to doing things for his consort, hoping to find a position in the palace in the future. This life can be regarded as having a future.
In the eyes of ordinary people, a noble slave among nobles has a good future.
But he never expected that after he came back, he did not enter the He Mansion, but became the president of a construction club in Puzhou Club. He didn't even know what the Puzhou Club did. However, he is a businessman after all. You don’t need to explain many things too clearly, so you know what to do?
In two months, within two months, he had become extremely wealthy.
Yes.
The project that originally took a month was completed in half a month with his own manpower. Within this half month, Zhang Youzhi also figured out what the so-called construction society does. Isn't it just to build houses for people to replace the labor of the court?
Moreover, the Beijing City Project has just begun and there is really no technical content. The real technical content is actually in the Planning Department. All he can undertake is some earthworks and laying foundations. Not very possible.
As a businessman, he cannot allow himself to make money without making money. So, he went to the Planning Department to do more projects, and even paid a high price of one hundred taels a year to recruit a student from Yingkou University to work for him. This student from Yingkou University Hall is named Wang Han, and he was originally a junior official in the Planning Department. The work content of the Planning Department is very clear. Everyone can see that if you continue to work in the Planning Department, you will have a bright future. But the problem is that it may be difficult for many people to reach that bright future.
Wang Han's name was chosen by himself. His parents were ordinary farmers. It was a coincidence that he was able to attend Yingkou University. After all, Yingkou University had just started and there were some insufficient students. Wang Han was the one who made up for it. However, even though they study hard in the university hall, they are still among the worst among the students.
After all, the foundation is too poor.
Moreover, there are many things at home that drag me down, and I cannot concentrate on my studies. The same is true today. Things at home are more important. He is in urgent need of money. For money, I can only do things for Zhang Youzhi. As for whether he needed money urgently for something at home, Wang Han didn't tell him, and Zhang Youzhi didn't ask.
After all, the tragedies in the world are often common.
The presence of Wang Han not only brought more technical support to Zhang Youzhi, but also a lot of personal support. As mentioned earlier, the three divisions in Beijing are now almost filled by students from Liaodong. With Wang Han here, as long as there is nothing illegal and the process is followed normally, there will generally be no problem.
That's the problem.
First of all, the regulations are all new. Even though He Xi posted notices everywhere, few really bothered to study them.
Secondly, the regulations have just come out and are not perfect in many places. Many people don't know what to do, and bureaucrats are instinctively resistant to new and troublesome things. With Wang Han's relationship, it can run better.
So, after Zhang Youzhi had done several projects, he suddenly discovered a business opportunity, that is, there was actually a shortage of people for the Beijing city construction project, and a large number of projects had not been completed. The main project was contracted by several construction companies led by He Xi, but apart from that, there were a large number of other projects that were not paid attention to at all. Similarly, many villages near Beijing actually have a lot of childbearing labor force.
This is inevitable in an agricultural society.
The busy time for agriculture, that is, the busy farming season, except for the busy farming season, most of the time is actually not too busy. The utilization of labor force is not very sufficient.
So Zhang Youzhi had a bold idea.
He used the previous model, first going to the Planning Department to sign a contract, then using the contract to get a loan, and then using the contract to call nearby villages. Within a few months, he developed like crazy. For a time, the number of people hanging under Puzhou Society exceeded thousands.
He calculated carefully and found that the money that fell into his hands alone was over ten thousand taels, not counting the emptiness. Of course, even though they were all banknotes, Zhang Youzhi didn't think there was anything wrong.
In fact, he was a little worried when he first started. He also secretly exchanged one hundred taels of silver.
But it was this one hundred taels of silver that made him restless. One hundred taels can fill a small box. It’s hard to run away when something happens. Moreover, he found that when he first started issuing banknotes to the people below, the people below were still a little uneasy. But after a few months, I got used to it.
Without him, a large number of Liaodong products, as well as new things produced by the Beijing Project, have flowed into the new Beijing city.
This is also He Xi's purpose.
He Xi doesn't know, does this kind of thing make Zhang Youzhi make money? He Xi and Zhang Youzhi had nothing to do with each other. They met by chance, so naturally they had no intention of marrying him. However, He Xi needs to find a way to put the huge amount of banknotes into the market.
In fact, employees of several construction companies in Beijing are also receiving banknotes. In terms of various machinery, we also purchase things from Liaodong and other places, but the problem is that in many things, private companies are always more flexible. For example, the three major construction companies, have they never thought about Zhang Youzhi doing this?
Zhang Youzhi essentially becomes a general contractor. Take advantage of the information gap to match projects with personnel and draw a sum in the middle.
Now Zhang Youzhi is hardly busy with specific projects. Every day I look for projects and people, and then accompany the planning department for acceptance and so on.
Now, Zhang Youzhi’s busy schedule has come to an end. Only then did I have time to reflect on my life over the past six months.
As for why Zhang Youzhi came to an end. Because the busy farming season is coming. Quite a few people will go home and farm. In addition, the local labor force in Xianghe, Tongzhou, etc. has been exhausted.
First of all, this place is not a crowded place, otherwise there would not be so many military camps. Don’t forget that the local health clinic was directly transformed into an architectural agency. In other words, most of the labor force is invested in this. Zhang Youzhi looked for people in various ways, mostly to find surplus labor.
Secondly, the message delivery speed in this era is so poor.
Even if it is a profitable business, word of it cannot spread far.
Not to mention this era, even in the 1980s, there were still many people who made money by taking advantage of the price differences of different commodities in different places.
Nowadays, the counties near New Beijing City probably know that there is money to be made here, but they don’t know about it in places further away.
There are projects, but without people, nothing can be done.
Zhang Youzhi secretly wondered: "Should we go home again and recruit more people?"
However, this matter is only an afterthought. Another thing made Zhang You even more uneasy.
That is, too much money.
What is the concept of ten thousand taels of silver? Well, in fact, the value of silver notes is different from that of silver, and there is some depreciation. But even so, ten thousand taels of silver is a lot of money. It can even be said that in the Ming Dynasty, except for the powerful and some well-established scholar-bureaucrats, no one really had ten thousand taels of silver.
Even many famous families, such as the Zheng family of Yimen, have thousands of people living together, but they may not be able to come up with thousands of taels of silver at once. If there was no such thing as going to sea, Ming Xungui would be in the same situation.
Zhang Youzhi's Zhang family is just a small salt merchant, making hard money. It may have some connections in Puzhou, but outside Puzhou, there is nothing. Under such circumstances, Zhang Youzhi was even uneasy that he could have so much money.
After all, he has been traveling around for several years, and he is not naive at all.
Zhang Youzhi secretly said: "No, I will try my best to go to He's house recently. This relationship must be maintained." Thinking of this, he sighed again. He didn't know what He's consort meant.
He knew very well that without the background of Prince Consort He and the support of Butler Yang, he would not be able to do this business. But why do they want nothing? Even if He Fu wanted to take away all the money he earned, he would still be willing. Even happy. But now that he doesn't want anything, he doesn't know what to do?
It can only be said that people are at different levels, and sometimes it is really difficult to understand.
