The heavy snow that Jiang Yifeng had been thinking about finally started to fall. In just one afternoon, the whole Su City was covered with white, as if it was covered with a silver gauze.
The already cold weather became even colder after the snow, which directly increased the demand for coal to a point where supply exceeded demand.
Moreover, this is before Jiang Yifeng's method is fully developed, otherwise the sales of coal will increase.
On the second day of the snow, the new issue of Sioux City News was officially released.
Although the weather was cold and many people were reluctant to go out, the newspapers still sold out quickly.
I don’t know since when, newspapers have become a must-read for readers in Sioux City.
"The roads are blocked by heavy snow and are icy. The Song family cannot transport food to Sioux City, and food prices are expected to rise."
"This year's winter has been the coldest in a century. The price of charcoal has been rising again and again. Many people are unable to keep warm, and countless people have died from frostbite. Fortunately, charcoal has appeared."
"With the same weight, pebbles are cheaper than charcoal and burn more heat than charcoal. Pebbles have saved countless people."
"Expert Zhang, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner, said that the gas produced by coal is not only non-toxic, but inhaling a small amount is good for nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang."
"Meishan recruits a large number of miners, and the monthly salary is as high as five taels of silver. The registration points are: Su family, Zhao family, Wang family, and Song family."
"Recruiting a large number of coal salesmen. The monthly salary is eight taels of silver. Candidates with good eloquence and sociability will be given priority. Registration point: any store that sells coal."
"Recruiting a large number of coal sales shopkeepers from outside the city. The monthly salary is ten taels of silver. Those who are literate and can do arithmetic will be given priority. Registration point: Su Family."
After this issue of the newspaper went on sale, it was like a fire being lit in the winter, causing an immediate sensation in Sioux City.
Those employees who had worked hard for a month and received a salary that was barely enough to live on were instantly dissatisfied with their current jobs and went to the registration point one after another.
In just half a day, thousands of people signed up.
However, what is surprising is that the people who signed up the most were coal salesmen, followed by miners.
Later, Jiang Yifeng analyzed it and found that he had overlooked an issue, that is, coal salesmen only need to work in Suzhou City, but miners have to go to the coal mountains thirty miles away.
For people living in the city, Meishan is a place where no one can poop. Regardless of safety, living and eating are big problems for them.
Moreover, it is impossible to travel back and forth every day for a distance of thirty miles.
In comparison, coal salesmen have many advantages. They do not need to go out of the city, work, or worry about safety...the most important thing is that the salary is high.
As a result, in the following days, there were many more coal salesmen in Sioux City.
At first, those residents who were knocked on the door were able to receive the salesman in a friendly manner. However, as the door was knocked several times a day, some residents' tempers became very bad.
However, even so, the enthusiasm of coal salesmen cannot be resisted, because salesmen with good performance receive really high salaries.
Of course, the salary of most coal salesmen is not high, not even 80% of the original salary, but they have flatbread and chicken soup!
Under such circumstances, many family workshops began to experience labor shortages.
It used to be: I see you as pitiful, so I'll reward you with a bite of rice, and do your best. It's up to you whether I can take a concubine at the end of the year.
Now it is: food, food and housing, good welfare, no beating or scolding, humane management...
It's a pity that the salary gap is too big, no matter how nice it is, no employee is willing to go.
As a result, many families had no choice but to increase their salaries.
Those families with financial resources can still withstand a significant increase in salary, but those eighteen families are already short of money, and now they have to increase their salary, which is just adding insult to injury.
Several of the families stopped working and production because they could not hire workers.
At this time, Shishi, as the bank manager, took the initiative to contact these families and expressed that she could provide financial support.
When these families who were short of money heard that they could borrow money from banks, they began to contact Shishi to discuss interest rates and mortgages.
In this process, Shishi’s ability is revealed.
Although in the eyes of outsiders, Shishi is just the top brass in a brothel, and besides serving men, she doesn't know how to do business at all.
But these people ignored one problem, that is, the brothel not only taught her poetry and poetry, and served men, but also taught her how to read men's thoughts.
And this ability, learned in order to serve good men, plays a big role in business negotiations. A small expression from those men can let Shishi grasp their thoughts.
So in just half a month, Shishi won over twelve families and loaned out 800,000 taels of silver.
However, when Shishi took this result and went to Jiang Yifeng to claim credit, she was pinned down on the bed, and her sexy and plump buttocks were slapped several times.
Shishi put her arms around Jiang Yifeng's neck, her face full of grievance, "Master, why do you want to punish the slave family?"
punish?
I see you are enjoying it.
Jiang Yifeng lowered his head and glanced at Shishi's Dabai, and quickly looked away, "The more money you have in the bank, the better. But in the end, you only lent out 800,000 taels."
Shishi pursed her lips and said coquettishly: "It's not that the slave family doesn't want to lend out the money, it's really that those families are too cautious and don't want to borrow more."
"So, I have wronged you."
"You have wronged the slave family. Do you want to compensate the slave family?"
"How to compensate?"
"Can you rub the place where you were beaten?"
As she spoke, Shishi turned around and raised her straight buttocks.
In an instant, Jiang Yifeng's blood pressure soared and he was partially congested.
"Get down!"
Jiang Yifeng lowered his head and scolded his disobedient part.
"Go down?"
Shishi was startled when she heard the words, then understood immediately, smiled sweetly, and knelt down in front of Jiang Yifeng.
"No, no, no."
Jiang Yifeng quickly stopped Shishi and said, "I'm not letting you go down. You should stand up quickly, otherwise you won't be able to go down."
Shishi stretched out her pink tongue and licked her lips, and said charmingly: "The slave family is going down. It will go down later."
I understand the principle, but the key point is that I am really not the kind of person who can hold it back. If I can't hold it back, I may end up doing it day after day.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yifeng helped Shishi up with some reluctance, sat upright and said, "Let's talk about the situation of the remaining six families!"
"All right!"
Shishi sighed and reported to Jiang Yifeng, "Three of the remaining six families are in negotiation, and two families have firmly stated that they will not borrow money."
Jiang Yifeng frowned slightly, "There are only five families, what's the situation with another family?"
Shishi replied: "The situation of the Gongshu family is a bit special. They want to borrow money, but they are not willing to use their ancestral property as collateral. They are only willing to use certain craftsman skills as collateral."
Public loss!
Jiang Yifeng suddenly thought of something and asked, "Is the ancestor of the Gongshu family named Gongshu Ban?"
Shishi recalled it and said in an uncertain tone: "I haven't inquired about this servant in detail, but last time I went to Gongshujia, I saw a tablet called Gongshupan."
Jiang Yifeng smiled and said: "A public loser is a public loser."
He has traveled to this world for a while and found that the historical process of this world is similar to that of the original world, but after careful comparison, there are many differences.
The Great Zhou Dynasty can be compared to the Zhou Dynasty in Chinese history, except that the eight hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty were divided into the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, as well as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Emperor Zhou in the late Warring States Period was a mascot.
However, the situation in Dazhou is completely different.
Although the Great Zhou Dynasty was in decline, the imperial court still had a strong voice. The vassal states that once appeared no longer existed in the middle of the Great Zhou Dynasty, nor did the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. The system of prefectures and counties was implemented very early.
Moreover, the imperial examination, which only appeared in the Sui Dynasty, had also appeared in the Zhou Dynasty, which enabled the selection of talents from among the people and greatly weakened the power of aristocratic families.
Many characters who appeared in the history of the previous life also appeared in Dazhou, and their life experiences were very similar.
Rather than saying that this world is a different world, it is better to say that it is a parallel world.
Shishi was startled when she heard this, "Master, do you know Gongshu Pan?"
Jiang Yifeng smiled and said, "I know a little bit."
Another name for Gongshu Ban is Lu Ban. He is the originator of civil engineering, carpentry, and theater. He invented the curved ruler, the ink fountain, and the plane.
The Ban in Ban Men Nong Ax is Lu Ban, which shows his popularity.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yifeng couldn't help but ask: "Shishi, Gongshu's carpenter's craftsmanship is so good. Even if future generations have not fully learned it, it shouldn't be too bad. Why did Gongshu's decline?"
Shishi said: "I don't know how good Gongshu Pan's craftsmanship is, but I can only describe the craftsmanship of his descendants as miraculous. It's a pity that their family has a weird temper. They always offend their employers and gradually lose business." .”
Jiang Yifeng raised his eyebrows, "How did they offend their employer?"
Shishi thought for a while and said, "There was an employer who asked Gongshujia to make a cabinet. The size was agreed upon. However, after Gongshujia saw it in person, he said that the color and shape did not match the whole thing, and scolded the employer's family for being too stupid to use Gongshujia. Cabinet at home.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yifeng couldn't help but think that if Gongshujia was a young man, he would have been an immortal craftsman.
"Don't the clan members take care of the public losers?"
"Public losers have no kinship."
Shishi paused and looked at Jiang Yifeng, "To be precise, it should be said that all the clan members of the public loser are dead, and there are not many clan members left."
Jiang Yifeng's eyes widened suddenly, "Why are they all dead?"
"The craftsmanship is good."
Shishi shrugged and explained: "Every time an emperor dies, he must build an imperial mausoleum. Gongshu is so famous that he is naturally recruited in large numbers, and they are all the core responsible persons. Those ordinary craftsmen will build the imperial mausoleum after they have built it." They will be released, but the Gongshu family members who know the core of the entire imperial mausoleum will only end up being buried with them."
"They are really..."
Jiang Yifeng couldn't laugh or cry, and couldn't find an idiom to describe it.
Shishi asked: "Master, the situation of the loser is too special. What do you think we should do?"
"this……"
Jiang Yifeng hesitated and couldn't think of a good way for a while.
After all, he is not a carpenter. No matter how good the skills of the public loser are, he can't use them!
Spending tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy an unused patent would be a huge loss even to my brother-in-law.
but……
Those were the descendants of Lu Ban, possessing the top civil construction and craftsmanship skills in the Great Zhou Dynasty. If they were to be exterminated like this, he would always feel disadvantaged.
There is a very classic line in the domestic Lingling paint, even a pair of underwear or a piece of toilet paper has its use.
After all, the descendants of Luban are more useful than underwear and toilet paper!
So, he said: "Don't rush to reject the public losers. Let me think of a way to kill two birds with one stone. If their family can't get rid of the problem and they really need money, I can borrow a few hundred taels of silver to help them tide over the difficulties."
"clear."
Shishi nodded solemnly.
"It's getting late, I'm going back."
After Jiang Yifeng finished explaining, he stood up and left without giving Shishi a chance to stay.
Shishi looked at Jiang Yifeng who left in a hurry and laughed. Sometimes she felt that Jiang Yifeng was very good at making her body burn with various techniques.
But more often than not, Jiang Yifeng would stick to a bottom line that she couldn't cross even after trying for a long time.
…
Jiang Yifeng walked out of the small courtyard where Shishi lived. The cold wind blew by, which quickly calmed down his boiling blood.
When he thought that he hadn't eaten the abalone delivered to him, he couldn't help but lower his head and said in an apologetic tone: "Brother, I'm sorry."
Uh-huh...
Suddenly, a sound broke through the air in his ears.
He quickly looked up and saw a man with a machete on his back and an upright face, looking at him with a smile but not a smile.
Jiang Yifeng swallowed, thinking whether his voice calling for help was faster, or whether the opponent's knife was faster.
But at this moment, the man asked: "Are you Jiang Yifeng?"
Damn it!
This is coming to me.
Jiang Yifeng's heart trembled, but there was no strange color on his face. He calmly said: "My hero, you are mistaken. I am not Jiang Yifeng."
The man was startled, "Junior sister just told me that you are Jiang Yifeng."
Jiang Yifeng raised his eyebrows, "Who is your junior sister?"
"Touchou Zhao."
After the man finished speaking, he cupped his hands towards Jiang Yifeng and said, "My disciple Zhong Bugui and the Badin warrior, I have something to do with Jiang Yifeng this time."
Mudd!
This is Zhao Shengsheng’s senior brother!
When we couldn't argue, I called someone. If I had known about it, I would have drugged her and locked her up.
Jiang Yifeng was thinking this in his heart, but with a smile on his face, he clasped his fists, "I am Zhao Bingfang, one of the four great talents in Su City. He is a master of poetry. I came to my mentor's house today as a guest. I didn't expect to meet the Momen hero by chance. What a threesome. You are lucky enough to be born, why don’t you host me and let’s find a restaurant and have a drink?”
Zhong Bugui waved his hand, "No, I have to go find Jiang Yifeng and say goodbye."
After saying that, he was leaving.
"Brother, you were deceived by this treacherous villain."
Zhao Toutou's voice suddenly came, and then a beautiful figure appeared next to Zhong Bugui, it was Madonna Zhao who had disappeared for a long time.
Madam Zhao stared at Jiang Yifeng and said, "Do you dare to say that you are not Jiang Yifeng?"
Jiang Yifeng thought for a while, "I dare say, will you let me go?"
"Don't even think about it!"
Madam Zhao snorted coldly, twitched her ears, and turned to look at Zhong Bugui, "Senior brother, the warriors of the Su family have noticed us, take him away quickly."
"Um!"
Zhong Bugui looked at Jiang Yifeng.
Jiang Yifeng immediately said, "Don't knock me out, I'm very cooperative..."
