Breaking through Guandong, I became Zhu Chuanwen

Chapter 169 Christmas at Andre's House

After Gu Ansheng and Xia Yuanzhang left, Zhu Chuanwen sat on a chair and began to think. His own thinking was still too trendy, and he could write about bad habits, but the concept of love and chastity were a bit difficult to discuss right now.

Writing and drawing in my notebook, I suddenly remembered a movie - "Gone with the Wind".

It's it!
So this matter has to be curvilinear to save the country. As far as the overall environment is concerned, the United States next door is still in this environment, let alone the Qing Dynasty, so he intends to show the original remake of the movie.

Thanks to his leisurely work in his previous life, he has read this book a lot. Now, he finally uses it, but this Margaret Mitchell, who is still 7 years old, I'm sorry.

Zhu Chuanwen intends that in the future, "Workers Weekly" will open another section called "Open Eyes to See the World", and the content of this section will start with the serialization of "Gone with the Wind".

Scarlett, who seeks to realize her self-worth, should be able to impact the values ​​of workers in Qing Dynasty now, and maybe it can inspire female workers to join in, so Qiao Hongguo and the others should pay attention to the literacy class in this cigarette factory.

Zhu Chuanwen could have predicted that there would definitely be such an impact, but whether this is the United States or not, it can always be explained in this way.

"I have really worked hard." Zhu Chuanwen gave himself an evaluation.

The days of copying books are painful and happy.

It was the annual Christmas in Russia again. Zhu Chuanwen had been notified by Doug long ago, and brought a gift bought from Japan to Andrei’s home. The gift was two pieces of expensive Suzhou embroidery, which Zhu Chuanwen saw Bought it back.

One big and one small, the big one is embroidered with landscapes, and the small one is embroidered with flowers, which were given to Andre and Doug respectively.

In this season, Suzhou has a superb Suzhou embroidery artist, Shen Yunzhi, who is well-known in the Suzhou embroidery circle. She incorporates the imitation characteristics of Western paintings and gods into embroidery, and creates a new "imitation embroidery". In the newspapers in 1904, Zhu Chuanwen also saw such a report: Cixi's [-]th birthday, Shen Yunzhi embroidered eight works including Buddha statues under the operation of Suzhou prefect to celebrate her birthday.Empress Dowager Cixi was very appreciative and wrote the characters "Shou" and "Fu" and distributed them to Shen Yunzhi and her husband Yu Jue.From then on, Shen Yunzhi changed her name to Shen Shou, and her work "Portrait of Empress Alina of Italy" was presented to Italy as a national gift, which caused a sensation in the Italian government and the public.

So not only the Japanese, but now the whole of Europe is very fond of Suzhou embroidery.Buying Suzhou embroidery in Japan means that it is now exported to domestic sales, but Suzhou is too far away, and he happened to go to Japan.

After a sumptuous Christmas dinner, Zhu Chuanwen followed Andre to the study as usual.

The Su embroidery of mountains and rivers has long been hung here by Doug instead of the original oil painting. Obviously, Andre still likes this magical oriental technique.

"I heard that your Qing Dynasty is about to establish a constitution?" Andre asked.

Indeed, on September 1906, 9, the Qing government issued an edict to prepare for a constitution.

"Yes, it may be far away." Zhu Chuanwen replied casually, he didn't care about this matter, and it wouldn't affect Bingcheng anyway.

"Yeah, this matter is a very difficult choice in any country." Andre also felt the same way.

The Russian tsar once again disbanded the Duma. This thing seems to be in the hands of the powerful faction of the Russian tsar. It is like a piece of Leba with honey. The tsar freed up his hands, arranged the army and police, and then threatened to disband them by force, so let’s not mention it.

"Master Andre, have you received the proceeds from the gold factory this year?" Zhu Chuanwen mentioned a happy event, which improved the gloomy atmosphere in the whole study.

"It's all on Doug's side." Andre also cheerfully pretended to be stupid, expressing that he was very satisfied with the profits of the gold factory. "What's the situation with your Ice City Workers' Union?" Andrei also heard the complaints of Russian businessmen. It used to be considered good to give Qing workers 30 rubles a month, but now it has been increased by more than 50%. It has become a minimum salary of 48 rubles. If the salary is not paid on time, there will be a representative of the workers' union who can speak Russian to negotiate.

"My lord, I don't know if you want a stable and thriving ice city or a lifeless ice city?" Zhu Chuanwen answered Andre's question with questions.

"How?" Andre asked.

"In fact, raising workers' wages is not a bad thing." Zhu Chuanwen said, "For the country, the currency is not the only one. The important thing is the country's credit. Do you understand, Mr. Andre?"

Andre pretended not to understand it very well, but it was the first time he heard that currency was not the only concept, so he motioned to Zhu Chuanwen to continue talking with great interest.

This is actually Zhu Chuanwen's own understanding. For the credit of the whole country, currency, especially after banknotes, is actually a kind of credit currency. Although there are systems such as the gold standard and the silver standard, these things are still in the hands of the country.Talking about the currency itself, if the country is compared to a giant, the currency is the blood flowing from the giant, carrying the things on the bottom of the feet up, and then moving the things on the hands to other locations, which plays a role of circulation.

Therefore, for things like raising wages for workers, putting them in the ice city has become a measure to improve the purchasing power of the residents of the entire ice city. The workers have money, which is a good thing for the ice city. The goods made by Russian merchants in the ice city are easy to sell, and the money will eventually be earned by the merchants. Simply put, the market in this ice city has become bigger, and the merchants have earned more.

"Is this still a good thing?" Andre asked.

"I think so. When I have money this year, I plan to build another flour mill, and I plan to open more flour mills in the future." Zhu Chuanwen said.

"Why are you so obsessed with opening a flour mill? I think that steel mill is good." Andre looked at the problem from the perspective of a soldier. Steel and cannons belong to the romance of soldiers.

"Because people can't do without food." Zhu Chuanwen was rarely relaxed, leaning on the sofa in Andre's study.Or Zhu Chuanwen is still thinking about the era when everyone could afford snow-white flour.

"Well, control the price." Andre didn't say anything else. The more flour mills in Bingcheng, it is also a good thing for the Russians. At least the chickens they raised have started to lay eggs. The two are considered to be pregnant. thought.

"What you asked Doug to do has some clues." Andre said again.

"It's about my younger brother going to school in Germany?" Zhu Chuanwen sat up.

"Yes, but it's July of this year. I don't know your brother's German level?" Andre asked.

"He is in the capital, and I have already urged him to study, at least he has a foundation."

Zhu Chuanwu's trip to Germany was arranged in this way, and Andre was indeed worried. He used Andre's mother's relationship in Germany to find a foster home for Zhu Chuanwu. He studied at the German Army Command School, so he didn't have to worry about entering the military school, and he would be fine after graduation.

After the two chatted for a while, Zhu Chuanwen said goodbye and left.

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"Master, it seems that you read the right person." Doug said while delivering milk to Andre.

"That's right, Zhu Chuanwen doesn't seem to care about politics, but he knows it very well in his heart. I didn't expect that he also has research on economics. Such a businessman might become the same existence as Morgan and Rockefeller in the Qing Dynasty." Ander Lie sighed, Zhu Chuanwen's words also made this person with a little research in economics suddenly enlightened. He has read "The Wealth of Nations" since he was a child, and he just pretended a little bit just now.

"There will be such a high achievement?" Doug didn't expect that Andre's evaluation would be so high.

"Perhaps, who can say what will happen in the future? But the wages of the Qing Dynasty workers in Ice City are determined like this." Andre said to Doug, asking Doug to convey his opinion, Russia The businessman did not rely on connections to find Andre here, and he was so annoying.

"Understood, young master." Doug bowed and retreated, and he had to go to his room to hang up that pair of Suzhou embroidery of peonies, which was so beautiful.

(End of this chapter)