The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 96 The Big Shopkeeper at Home Comes First!
After sending the outsiders away, Song Yingkui had no choice but to take care of more than 50 horses. He was so busy that he couldn't even go home, so he could only ask his grandfather and father to come to the gorge to help take care of the horses while saying thing.

"They are all good animals, but it's a pity that they can't help with crop work like mules." After hearing that his grandson and son had returned, Song Tianshun and his family rushed to the Xiakou shop and looked at the yard that had been turned into a horse pen. , Song Tianshun glanced at the war horse and made an evaluation.

"Grandpa, I have to trouble you tonight and I will help you manage these horses. Tomorrow, Yang Shunan and the Yang family will come to help, so I can be free here." Please ask the whole family to help, Song Yingkui is very embarrassed.

"What are you talking about? Now that you and your third father are both officials, what can we do if we don't help you to put your official position in prison? It's just that the family is small, and it won't help you to build an army." Song Tianshun didn't care Whether he's busy or not, he's really excited by the news that two officials have been released from his family.

"How is the business of the shop on the street?" Song Yingkui had been away from home for several months, and Song Yingkui didn't know how the business was going at home.

"The market on the street is not good nowadays. Once you leave the shop at home, you don't even have any goods for sale. How can it be good? Fortunately, with the help of the Gou family and the Guo family, some goods were placed in your second uncle's shop. I can earn a shop rent! But speaking of it, our family has not lost money in the past few months, and we lost business for a few months, in exchange for two official titles, this deal is a bargain!"

The three sentences are inseparable from the theme of the grandson and son becoming an official, and the grandfather's official fan addiction is not small.

"Grandpa, I want to tell you something, I don't have the energy to take care of the shop in Xiakou now, so my idea here is to let my second uncle take care of it in the future, specializing in sawing wood for the neighbors and eight towns, and earning money." As for the money, besides the house money for the Jia family, my second uncle will share half of the rest of our family.

I will move to Huangshipingguan to do the work of making wheels in the shop. There is also water power available there, and it can take up a lot of space. The manpower in the army can also be used, and it is convenient for me to take care of it.But this business will not be regarded as the family's property in the future, and I will have to rely on the income from making wheels to support the army.The military salary allocated by the government is too low to support people. If there is no other income subsidy, I can only rely on the people of Wuying Town to maintain military supplies. They are all villagers, and this kind of thing cannot be done.

Of course, having said that, the fact that the business of wheels belongs to the army does not mean that our family will not be able to get a good reputation. In the future, our shop will have full authority to sell the wheels.The difference in price earned in the middle goes to the family. "

Wheels are the easiest business to get started at the moment. Judging from the market conditions, as long as they can be made, they will not worry about not being sold.In order to support the army, Song Yingkui had to confiscate it and make it the public property of the Shiping Pass garrison.It is said to be public property, but in fact Song Yingkui did not distinguish between public and private in this matter. In detail, he actually regarded the Shiping Pass garrison as private property, using one private property to support another private property.

"Kuiwa, you are now a seventh-rank official. How can your knowledge be comparable to that of grandpa who farms in a village? In the future, you will be the big shopkeeper of the family, and you will make decisions about the affairs of the family. Others If you have any objections, grandpa will deal with him! I'll tell you this after I'm done. Both your second father and your third father will talk about it. No matter how large the family is, it is the rule for one person to be in charge. Although your third father is now an official, but His official position is not as great as yours, and it is under your control, and he has to listen to you."

After being appointed as an official, Dazheng's benefits have not been touched, but the power of the family is in his own hands first?Grandpa's sudden handover of power made Song Yingkui a little uncomfortable.Does the so-called centralization of power start at home?
Forget it, in the early stage of starting a business, it is indeed very important to master the power of the family.

In the evening, I had a meal of long noodles made by my old lady in the shop, and slept soundly.Early the next morning, Yang Shunan brought all the Yang family members who participated in the volunteer team to Xiakou shop. Obviously, they would all serve in the Shiping garrison.

"Master Yang, since you can't be free, I will arrange the next work. In the past few days, everyone's main job is to take care of these war horses. Besides this work, my third father took someone to Guo's mill, Buy some rice grains from his family for military supplies. This year, I guess there are only a few big families like the Guo family who still have a surplus of grain. If they have relatives, his family will not increase the price of grain.

Master Yang and I are going to visit Huangshiping to see the situation of the old pass and discuss a revision regulation.In addition, we have to find a place where war horses are raised on the grassy hill near Huangshipingguan. "Huangshiping is close to Mahe Mountain, and there is a large piece of unowned grassland. The villagers in the vicinity mostly herd sheep there. Song Yingkui thought of enclosing a grassland to raise war horses, which would be cheaper.

"Defense, I don't know if I should say something or not." After listening to Song Yingkui's arrangement, Yang Shunan hesitated.

"But it doesn't matter!"

"The military supplies allocated by the imperial court for the garrison do not seem to be enough for 300 troops? But according to the garrison's words, it is necessary to recruit [-] troops, so I'm afraid it will be a shortfall."

It turned out that Yang Shun'an was worried about this?Song Yingkui replied: "I have already made up my mind about this matter. I am going to move my family's wheel factory to Huangshiping and use it as military production. In the future, some people from the army will be assigned to specialize in wheels and other things, and the income from these industries will be increased." It is all used by the military. I think it can fill up the deficit, and even have a surplus. If there is a surplus, I can use part of it to improve the salary of the army. Anyway, if I run a wheel factory, I have to hire people to work , Turning the wheel factory into military use can not only support more people, but also make money, and get the best of both worlds!"

"Defending righteousness, Yang admires it. It's just such an arrangement, the defenders have suffered a big loss. You must know the skill of making wheels for defense, but it is a skill that can make a lot of money."

"The situation is pressing, it has to be like this. If I don't take out the car factory to supply the military supplies, I will have to ask the villagers to donate to support the army. Our Fifth Battalion is not a rich place, and we can't stand the search. It is the benefit of my family and benefits Neighbors. The current situation is uneasy. If the Fifth Battalion does not have a standing army, it may be plagued by the riots like last year. I heard that Qinzhou soldiers have not recovered Taozhou so far, and the officers and troops have lost Ningxi City. It’s hard to predict how the situation will develop.”

If you have done a good deed, let people know that Song Yingkui intends to use Yang Shunan's mouth to spread the selflessness of what he did to the whole Wuying town.If you want to achieve great things, propaganda work must not be ignored. Those who have achieved success in later generations have said that both pens and guns must be grasped, and guns alone are not enough.Now that he has been involved in the officialdom, it is essential to set up people.

(End of this chapter)