The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 359 Development and Growth
Of course, Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu are the main ones who manage the workshops and factories. They can write and do calculations. The dozens of maids and servants around them are not illiterate, so they can manage accounts with ease.

Not long ago, Chuchu led a group of maids and cooks headed by Cailian and Tianxiang to make duck blood vermicelli and pork stewed vermicelli according to the production method Huang Han left her.

After Chu Chu invited Zheng Xiu'e to taste it, she invited Huang Xin, Huang Ping and their maids to taste it, and finally they all agreed that it was delicious!

There is another way to make money, and it is an exclusive business with high quality and low price. Because the vermicelli made from sweet potatoes and potatoes is produced by Huang's, there is no other company at present. Chu Chu can't wait, and Li Sanniang is urgently recalled.

Chuchu organized five hundred carefully selected women to learn how to make duck blood vermicelli. Before this winter, one or two hundred small duck blood vermicelli shops will open all over the capital, and the capital will open eight to ten at least.

Zheng Xiu'e learned that Chu Chu was planning to go to the capital to personally operate the duck blood fan chain store planned by her husband. She didn't dare to be professional, so she sent a letter to the front line to ask for instructions. Show your face.

With this attitude from your husband, Zheng Xiu'e has nothing to say, she agreed to Chu Chu's request, and in order to ensure safety, she urgently recalled Mrs. Li to be in charge of Chu Chu's security work.

Zheng Xiu'e knew that Mrs. Li San was already one of the top leaders of the banner guards, and entrusting her with the security work was to entrust the entire banner guard system to secretly look after Chu Chu, including the accompanying servants such as picking lotus and adding incense.

Although Huang Han encouraged the development of the breeding industry this spring, he also gave loans to ordinary people who are willing to invest, which is equivalent to issuing low-interest loans, but the number of ducks in stock is estimated to be unable to meet the needs of opening a large number of duck blood vermicelli shops. Express needs to send people to Jiangnan to buy ducks.

With a large amount of duck down resources, in the future, quilt factories will produce duck down quilts made of real materials and put them on the market. They must be favored by dignitaries and dignitaries, and it will not be long before duck down jackets appear on the market.

After a year of training, thousands of women were employed under his command, and Mrs. Li San was already developing into a strong woman.

The four women she is following now are all masters. It is no problem for these women who practice martial arts to beat three or five green skins without martial arts. Besides, they have the support of the "Red Banner Army" to dare to kill. Their aura is not comparable to that of street hooligans. .

Mrs. Li San has no martial arts skills, but she is diligent and eager to learn. She has long been approved by Huang Han to equip a self-generated gun. It is an exaggeration to say that she can penetrate Yang with a hundred steps, but she can hit nine out of ten shots in a hundred steps. Shooting lead bullets within fifty or sixty steps will definitely hit the head.

It is too ostentatious to equip the flag guards with long guns, which is not conducive to work. It is ideal to equip short guns. In fact, several self-generated short guns have been designed and selected. Now the finalized products can be mass-produced.

It's just that this year's production task is tight, and we must use all our productivity to produce long guns, because the front line has more soldiers and fewer guns. If one more self-generated gun appears on the battlefield in southern Liaoning, one more soldier will be able to get the attack that killed Jiannuba Yala. force.

Yang Laoshi and Shen Cunli, including all the master blacksmiths, love the group of "Red Banner Army" because they have gained respect and high income, lived in a good house with two entrances and two exits, and lived a life where they could afford to eat meat. happy life.

They serve the "Red Banner Army" sincerely, and the rate of scrapping the rifling of the barrel is extremely high. Often, many barrels become waste only after half of the rifling is drawn.

Now that there is an expectation of producing short guns, many such barrels have been carefully preserved. Even if the short gun barrels produced in the future may not be able to have a uniform length, it is necessary to make full use of the time-consuming, wasteful, and material-consuming drawing on the inner wall of the tube. becomes the effective length of the rifling.

Both Yang Laoshi and Shen Cunli knew that the longer the barrel, the better the accuracy and range would be. At that time, the people who were issued with short guns could get what they needed, and there was no guarantee that someone would not mind a self-generated short gun with a longer barrel.

Their idea was very good, but the final result was that the officers and standard guards who came to receive the short guns all chose equipment with the longest barrel as much as possible, and no one cared about the shortest specifications. This is of course a later story.

Mrs. Li San who came back was very happy. Although she regretted that she didn't see the Patriarch, but the women under her command had a good job, could accept more women to support themselves, and could find some people to become banner guards. Her strength would rise in a straight line. .

The Banner Guard organization is developing and growing, and Sifang Express has focused on infiltrating Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, Datong, and Taiyuan, and it has achieved good results.

Since entrusting the goods to Sifang Express guarantees that they can arrive safely, and the time is definitely [-]% less than other companies, even if the freight is [-]% more expensive, it is widely accepted, because the promise of Sifang Express to compensate for losses reduces the worries of merchants. recognized by merchants.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the world really began to become chaotic. Sifang Express was actually robbed several times, resulting in the loss of goods and horses and horses. More than a dozen bodyguards and coachmen died in the line of duty, and dozens of people disappeared.

But even though Sifang Express suffered heavy losses, the owner of the goods was not lost every time, and Sifang Express compensated the value of the goods with great fanfare.

Bandits gathered in the mountains and forests to engage in costless business. Even the news that Sifang Express's goods had been robbed spread like wildfire. Shanxi merchants doing business in Zhangjiakou, Datong and other cities are ready to laugh at it. How can Sifang Express accompany the huge value of goods?
The final result surprised Shanxi businessmen who were so stingy that they were reluctant to throw away the wine soaked in corpses. Since then, Sifang Express’s high-profile style of undertaking transportation business with compensation for losses has been sought after by Shanxi merchants.

Sifang Express only earns money for transportation, never asks what the goods are, and does not pay attention to the place of departure and destination.

The contract only states that if the contraband is seized by the government, the owner is responsible for clearing up the relationship. Sifang Express only needs to know how much money will be compensated if the goods are lost, and the freight is also linked to the value, weight, and volume of the goods.

More Shanxi merchants choose the way of delivery order trade, as long as the delivery order is handed over to Sifang Express, they don't need to worry about the rest.

There is less business, and the risk on the road is greater. How to do business?Gradually, the chariot and horse dealers in Shanxi couldn't survive and were bought by Sifang Express, the coachmen and bad guys from the dealership were recruited, and those with outstanding martial arts were given the treatment of bodyguards.

At the same time, Huang Sifang, who had been robbed several times, became fierce. He had already selected five or six hundred bodyguards who were skilled in bows and horses and planned to send them to Funingwei to participate in the cavalry selection. Now he decided to organize them to take revenge kill.

Huang Sifang took the leader of the banner guards and announced that they would rely on the power of Sifang Express to wipe out the bandits and recover the losses of the rogues, which was supported by all the bodyguards. Finally, Huang Sifang chose a few hundred riders on a voluntary basis.

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