Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 203
In July, the weather is getting hotter.Even if he sat indoors, he was still sweating profusely, and even with a few gusts of wind, it was still soft.

The flowing water in the bamboo forest passes around the pavilion, and the bamboo pavilion is surrounded by light gauze to prevent mosquitoes.All the people in the pavilion wore only a cool shirt, and sat on the ground in a corner.In the middle of the pavilion, there is a huge bamboo bucket, which is full of sour plum and mung bean soup. There are still many ice cubes floating in the soup, and there are wisps of white water vapor floating around the whole bucket. .

Yu Tiao stood up and went to the bamboo bucket, scooped up a cup full of soup with a bamboo spoon, and drank it. He breathed out, with a small crystal ice cube in his mouth, stretched his waist and said with emotion: "This weather ..."

"Silence!"

An impatient voice sounded in the booth. The middle-aged man was holding the account file in one hand, dialing the abacus in the other, and occasionally freed up the other hand to write the result of the calculation on another blank piece of paper.Sweat was gathering on his chin, and a maid walked up lightly, gently wiped the sweat with a silk towel soaked in ice water, and then quickly retreated.During this process, the counter did not raise his head, and the maid did not make a sound.

After being reprimanded, Yu Tiao smiled mischievously, and retreated to his desk.If he was scolded like this in the past, he would definitely change his face, but in this focused and professional atmosphere, his mentality subconsciously calmed down.In the past period of time, he has witnessed the ability of these accountants with his own eyes, and the files of several carts can be sorted out within a mere day or two, without any mistakes.

For this group of professional people, Yu Tiao also admires from the bottom of his heart, and is even more envious. From the bottom of his heart, he hopes that he can also have such a group of talents for him to use.

After taking his seat, Yu Tiao touched the polished abacus on the desk with his hand, and there was no lack of amazement in his expression.The operation of this abacus is much more complicated than that of counting chips. He has been learning it for the past few days, but he is still not able to use it proficiently.However, the computing ability and accuracy are far from comparable to counting chips, and once you use it skillfully, when you sit on the desk and lightly twirl with your fingers, the sound is clear and pleasant, just like tuning a string with bare hands. And much more graceful and beautiful.

Thinking this way in his heart, Yu Tiao couldn't help looking at a middle-aged man with a face full of scars on the left. He didn't know the name of this person, but he just listened to others calling him Mr. Qian.The criss-cross scars on this Mr. Qian's face looked scary at first glance, but his demeanor and conversation were good, not much better than that of a famous boy.In particular, Yu Tiao was deeply envious of the skillful and charming gesture of the other party when he fiddled with the abacus.

During this period of time, Yu Tiao was amazed and surprised to see many strange people in the Shen family, and felt deeply that the Shen family deserved the name of Jiang Donghao.Only in such an environment that is good at management and management can we cultivate a young handsome boy like Shen Zhezi who is very precocious and wise.

It's a pity that Shen Zhezi couldn't hear Yu Tiao's many thoughts, otherwise he would have to praise that this guy is not what he used to be, he really has a clear understanding of people.

It has been seven or eight days since the big wedding, most of the visiting guests have left, and my father has returned to the Kuaiji office.Although the family is still feasting and entertaining the villagers every day, many affairs are back on track again.

After a few days of leisure, Shen Zhezi was busy again.The summer tax escort and the early rice harvest collided, both of which required a lot of manpower.

Especially for early rice harvesting, the farming work was concentrated in just a few days. Although the Shen family's Dongzong's own fields were reduced, because the cooperative gathered too many villagers, tens of thousands of hectares of rice fields in the county were harvested, manpower was coordinated, rice transportation, threshing, etc. The storage needs to be arranged by the Shen family.

Fortunately, Shen Zhezi doesn't have to do everything himself, as there are corresponding staffing arrangements for these things.But the burden on him is still not light, and he has accumulated a lot of affairs in the past few months when he went to Jiankang.Although Qian Feng can share part of it, but his identity is not visible after all, so many things are backlogged for Shen Zhezi to deal with.

After finishing the old work, turn around and devote yourself to the new work.Now these accounting teams at home are calculating the price differences between Qingjingkou and Wuzhong, and collecting the number of business contacts in Jingkou in the past few years to estimate the approximate size of the Jingkou market.These data are messy and complicated. It is not easy to collect, but it is even more difficult to sort them out.

Thanks to Yu Tiao's help, and the information provided by those friends on the front line of Jingkou, the data collected by Shen Zhezi, although it is impossible to completely miss it, is still close to each other.With such a large amount of calculation, a little omission due to missing data is still within the acceptable range.

These materials will be used as a reference for the framework of the business alliance later.Now that the Shen family is going to contact various families in Wuzhong to form a business alliance, and the news of transshipment of materials to Jingkou for sale has spread in Sanwu, and many families have shown that they want to get a share of the pie.The old man was so annoyed by this, that's why he patted his butt and went back to Kuaiji early, leaving these things to Shen Zhezi.

At present, the business alliance is still only a framework idea, and the specific rules have not yet been finalized.But even so, many people have already opened their mouths to reserve shares, and the share capital has been rising steadily from the 50 yuan a share that Shen Zhezi set at the beginning, and now it has risen to [-] yuan a share!
Some of them rely on the long-standing friendship with the Shen family, such as Wucheng Xu's family and others who actively followed their father to rebel, and have already sent money and goods to Longxi Manor.For Shen Zhezi, it is also a trouble of happiness.He still underestimated people's acceptance of new things and his own prestige. Judging from this posture, the two hundred shares he originally reserved were not enough for people like Wuzhong to divide up!

Shen Zhezi's original plan was to raise 2000 million yuan, but in Wuxing County alone, the interested funds have already exceeded 5000 million yuan!The goods that have been forcibly delivered now alone have accumulated tens of thousands in Longxi Village.In the early days, it was difficult for people to pry their wealth privately. Now, with the frequent transactions in Wuzhong, the goods hoarded by each family are surging up. However, due to the shortage of goods, there is even a relatively obvious inflation in Wuxing. This is also Shen Zhezi. Unexpected things.

But it can be reflected from this matter that at least in Wuxing, the appeal of the Shen family has even surpassed the control of the county government and even the imperial court over this place.

Wu Xing's tax revenue for this summer season has even far exceeded the total tax revenue for the whole year in the past!It is conceivable that after the taxes are put into the treasury this summer, Yutan will have new officials and rewards.In particular, a large part of the city tax is attributed to the Taiwanese capital from the salaries of officials in the province. For Yu Tan, the huge increase in the city tax is definitely an achievement that can win a lot of impression points.

The old man's official career has rejuvenated again. Earlier in Taicheng, Zong Zhengqing was sick and returned to his hometown. If he was promoted to Taichung again, he might have to go straight to Shangshu and Zhongshu, and the lowest starting point was Jiuqing.Before the old man left home, Shen Zhezi asked him to have a deep talk with Yu Tan, and he didn't want the old man to leave Wu Xing.There is already a tacit understanding of cooperation with each other. If a new county guard comes over, this tacit understanding still needs to be cultivated again.At least before the operation of the business alliance matures, Shen Zhezi doesn't want Yu Tan to leave his post.

Fortunately, Yu Tan didn't have the idea of ​​the second Lu family's single-mindedness to drill into the center. Although Wu Xing's sense of presence was a little low in Wu Xing's tenure, his political achievements were substantial.In addition, they have changed places with Shen Chong, and their cooperation with each other has a solid foundation.With so little work, he was so close to home, Yu Tan even planned to retire in Wu Xingren.Even if Taichung wanted him to leave office, he had to consult his own thoughts.

The situation in the countryside is very good, and at this point, the Shen family can be said to have really reached the fast lane of leveling and progressing and sitting on the high gate.As long as there is no catastrophe that will destroy the country, it will no longer be able to stop the rise of the family.

After all, Yu Tiao didn't have the patience to bury his head in the pile of papers and make calculations. After sitting for a while, he walked softly to Shen Zhezi's side, holding a glass of sour plum soup with ice cubes floating in his hand, and said with a low laugh: "Summer summer drink Ice is really a good product to cool off the summer heat. It's a pity that my house doesn't have many ice cellars to store ice, and it's rare to enjoy it."

Seeing Yu Tiao drinking the sour plum soup with an intoxicated expression on his face, Shen Zhezi thought about it, but he still didn't intend to tell this guy the real origin of these ice cubes.

Taking ice for storage in winter and drinking to cool off in summer is the usual method of various big families nowadays.It is not easy to build and maintain an ice cellar, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources.Therefore, no matter how wealthy the family is, they are frugal with ice in summer, but this does not include the Shen family.

Now not only the owner of the Shen family can take any ice cubes, but the servants also have a lot of ice every day, and even the many villagers who are harvesting in the fields have a large supply of cold soup.Indigenous ice making is the means that Shen Zhezi wanted to put into practice from the very beginning. In the past two years, the craft has finally been polished and proficient, and can be mass-produced.

As for the saltpeter used, it was originally extracted from the frost-white clay collected from the renovation of the residences of the villagers in previous years, but this is also a small amount.In addition, Shen Zhezi still has a heart to climb the technological tree, so part of the research and development of gunpowder was consumed.As for the nitrate now used to make ice, it was collected by the "nitrate collectors" in the manor by scraping the toilets.Although it can be purified and extracted to remove impurities, and ice-making is also refrigerated with compartments, but the origin is too crude.

Therefore, although the people in the village are happy to use ice, most of them don't know the ice they use, and that's what they rushed out of it.

The saltpeter used to make ice can be recycled, so ice cubes in summer are also one of the commodities that Shen Zhezi plans to sell in Jingkou.

A figure lingered outside the gauze tent of the gazebo for a long time before poking out its head from behind the gauze tent. It was Yunzhi, the maid in the princess room.Seeing this, Shen Zhezi got up and walked out, and heard Yunzhi whisper: "Auntie sent someone to call the Lord and the Princess to have dinner, and the Princess asked the maid to ask when the Lord will be free here?"

Shen Zhezi glanced at the people who were still busy in the pavilion, waved his hands and said: "Let the princess go first, I still have a lot of things here, I can't get away, and I will have dinner with my brother-in-law of the Yu family later."

(End of this chapter)