Goryeo, Tamna, Zhoucheng, Beigang.
After seeing Wu Laoshi and others really bringing back the urgently needed livestock in the market, Li Zheng and Yuan Dagui, one of the three giants in Beigang Township, immediately stepped forward, took the former's hands and shook them vigorously, and kept repeating, Thank you for your hard work, Secretary Wu, and all the brothers, the Beigang Township Office, and the people of Beigang Township will never forget you. You were not far away for dozens of miles, and went deep into the aboriginal villages to bring back urgently needed meat and other delicious food for the people. Words!
Of course Wu Laoshi and others did not dare to show any slights after seeing this situation. After all, he is the elder of the village with hundreds of people in Beigang Township. To be able to put up such a formation to welcome him can be regarded as a very polite and virtuous corporal. Well, if I don't make a sufficient gesture quickly, wouldn't it be true that I don't know how to praise myself? Aren't I afraid that others will find opportunities to deal with me in the future?
Upon thinking of this, Wu Laoshi, Gao Ergou, Li Sanwa, and the archers immediately stepped forward and gave Yuan Dagui, as well as a group of household heads, elders, scribes, and archers a solemn gift, with even more words on their lips. Becoming extremely polite, like those of us, we were able to achieve immediate success this time, purchasing a large number of livestock from the Korean aborigines, and transporting them back to Beigang Township to stabilize the market price of meat. It was all thanks to the good command of the three masters, the head of the household and the elder. , Business talk about colleagues working together is basically just a matter of words!
After all, the Beigang senior management represented by Yuan Dagui needs to win over Wu Laoshi and his group to work for them, and Wu Laoshi and his group are also in urgent need of finding a backer! Therefore, the two parties who hit it off quickly completed the crucial blending work! And next, comes the extremely exciting butchering session! Beigang Township spent a lot of money this time to purchase thirty or forty fat and strong livestock from the Korean aborigines. Naturally, they were not put there to serve as mascots for people to watch and play with! The common people need to eat meat, the soldiers need to eat meat, and even those who sit in the township offices and are aloof from the top, such as the head of the village, the head of the household, the head of the elders, the scribe, the archer, the white servant, and even the people in charge, all have a lot of food in their mouths during this period. He faded away like a bird and urgently needed the fat boiled from the fat pork to fill his increasingly shriveled stomach!
So, following the order from the village chief Yuan Dagui, a dozen strong new immigrants immediately grabbed two fat pigs, two fat sheep, and four fat chickens from the livestock herd, came out, and began to take off their clothes and take a bath! As for the great hero Wu Laoshi and others, each received a reward of one tael of silver and went home to rest! This time they went deep into the Korean aboriginal village to open up the livestock purchase process. Wu Laoshi and others not only had to bargain with the stubborn Korean rich people, but also fought bravely with knives against the Korean bandits who blocked the road. After returning to Beigang Township Office, they had already They were exhausted both physically and mentally, and if these livestock were saved a little, they would be enough to feed Beigang Township, which only had a few hundred people, for a month!
Therefore, the district chief Yuan Dagui granted Wu Laoshi and others several days of leave so that they could have a good rest at home! After recuperating, the Beigang Township Office will need them to continue to the Korean aboriginal village to purchase livestock. If Wu Laoshi and others have not had a good rest during this period, is it possible that they will have to go to other people to make this trip? Business path?
Nanshan Township.
Just when Wu Laoshi and others brought a large number of livestock to Beigang Township, a big event happened in Nanshan Township! Different from Xihe Township, Dongsang Township, which focuses on agriculture, and Beigang Township, which focuses on commerce, the main direction of development of Nanshan Township is industry, to be precise, small handicraft industry! The number of new immigrants in Nanshan Township is only six or seven hundred, but more than half of them are engaged in small handicraft industries. They provide services to the coal mines and iron mines on Nanshan Mountain, the blacksmith joint workshop at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, and the primary shipbuilding industry near Longtouyan. The required supporting services, such as refractory bricks, red bricks, blue tiles, stoves, charcoal, bamboo charcoal, wood, ore, rope making, hoops, sail cables, raw paint, twisting materials, etc., can all be purchased from the villagers. They are produced in small workshops, and large workshops and large production plants are also willing to purchase from them in order to save production time and production costs! Over time, the income of official villagers in Nanshan Township is obviously much higher than that of their companions in several surrounding towns!
After all, developing industry can generate far higher benefits than developing agriculture! A farmer working hard in the fields for four or five months may not be as good as a small handicraftsman working in his own workshop for a month! Therefore, more people will be involved in the infrastructure construction work of Nanshan Township! So far, two sides of the city wall outside the Nanshan Township Office have been built, and a small part of the trench has been dug. As for the three streets, one horizontal and two vertical, as well as the houses, shops and township offices on both sides of the main street, most of them have also been built. Some of them have also been built. The place has even been completely completed thanks to the overtime work of the craftsmen and laborers!
And Lu Wenming and Mr. Lu’s building materials workshop is one of them! Three months ago, Mr. Lu and his family were forcibly transported from another world to this crisis-ridden imperial world by a great god named System. They only had a half-new cotton-padded jacket on them, which cost them half a copper. We have to rely on the rice grains allocated by the new owner Ieyasu Chiyang for three meals a day. If we look at the composition of future generations, he is a proper proletarian revolutionary comrade! However, Mr. Lu, who started from scratch and created a huge fortune in the Ming Dynasty, did not complain at all and gave up on himself from then on!
Believing that he would come back after all his money was spent, after meditating all night, he appeared in front of a bunch of miserable mud-legged people in a more full state the next morning! Next, in order to revive the family business, this old man who had not suffered much for more than ten years plunged into the Chiyang Brick and Tile Workshop, where he worked hard to move bricks and knead mud every day, never complaining about hardship. Tired, he was quickly appreciated by the foreman and craftsmen!
In just three months, in just three months, this guy mastered all the production processes of red bricks, green tiles, and refractory bricks, and became an intermediate craftsman in the brick and tile workshop! In the past three months, Lu Wenming's clothes have not only changed from the Shu brocade robe with long sleeves and fluttering literati style to the short brown cloth often worn by ordinary workers for the convenience of work, but also the white and smooth skin on his body has also changed. They have become dark and rough from hard work day after day, and even clean and beautiful hands have become dirty and ugly without knowing it...
But he does not regret his decision, because he used his own hands and hard work to support a large family. Now he just wants to save enough money as soon as possible, and then open a building materials workshop of his own, even if this The workshop was small and he didn't care! You know, after Chiyang occupied Jeju Island, it relaxed various controls on new immigrants under its rule. Only if you have the ability, skills, or connections, you can obtain a license from the local government to start a business. Workshops, running shops, or cultivating land, and it was in this environment that Lu Wenming came up with the idea of opening his own building materials workshop!
After all, Chiyang Xingxing is building infrastructure in the vast land of Jeju, so it is in short supply of various building materials. As long as the production quality is passed the standard and the raw materials are not cut corners, the products produced will not worry about sales at all! Especially when the top management of Chiyang ordered the closure of various shops and workshops opened by Koreans, running a building materials workshop became even more profitable! So, Lu Wenming, who had studied in private schools for several years and was very bright, planned to borrow money from the newly established Tamluo Bank to open the first private building materials workshop in Nanshan Township!
However, it is not easy to get a loan from the gold-swallowing Pixiu of Tamluo Bank! In addition to the complicated procedures, you also need to have a real estate guarantee, or find an official or soldier with a public office as a middleman, so that you can borrow money from the bank! Unfortunately, Lu Wenming, who was still in a dark state when he first arrived in Jeju, did not meet any of the conditions! Therefore, things were slowly put on hold! At his wits' end, Mr. Lu went to Tanluo Bank several times, but the effect was still insignificant. The bank that had just opened would not tolerate any possible bad debts. Hu Bacai, the deputy shopkeeper of the bank who was an old accountant, even met him for the first time. Lu Wenming was trying to open a workshop. The second time, the credit officer below was responsible for receiving him. The saddest thing was the third time. The reserve sergeant guarding the door said nothing and would not let Lu Wenming enter the bank again. This failed negotiation caused them to suffer verbal attacks from their superiors! Therefore, Lu Wenming simply failed to enter Tamluo Bank for the third time. Unwilling to accept it, the guy went to find a loan officer several times, but the latter’s elongated donkey face clearly told him one thing. , that is, if you want to borrow money from your buddy, there is no way!
However, just when Lu Wenming was about to give up his ideals, a turning point appeared! Lu Wenming's second son joined the reserve force at the age of fifteen and became a glorious reserve recruit. And this way, the barrier to getting a loan is gone! Because Chiyang has regulations, as long as a family member joins the army, the borrower can automatically qualify for the loan!
But now Mr. Lu is unwilling. He is nearly forty years old and has only three children, two boys and one girl. The eldest brother has a cowardly character and is often easily influenced by others when things happen. He is not a good candidate to inherit the family business. On the other hand, the elder Second, although he usually does things a bit unconventionally, he is never vague at critical moments. If the property he has earned through hard work is handed over to him, it is unlikely that he will be able to carry it forward, but if he just wants to keep it and not lose it, it is not difficult. ! However, now, that little bastard has joined the reserve army without saying a word and has become a soldier. How can his old father not be frightened and angry! You know, Chiyang's soldiers, whether they are navy or infantry, whether they are regular flag troops or reserve troops, are all going to fight on the battlefield! Although my second son has been wild-tempered since he was a child, he doesn't like studying and likes to fight with others, but fighting is different from fighting. If you are not careful, someone will die! If something happens to your little brat like this in the future, then what's the point of earning millions of dollars!
