Careerist in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 48 Sundries and Interrogation

The turmoil and struggle among the hall masters had nothing to do with Lu Wei. After completing his tasks in the martial arts tournament, he immediately returned to the Gonggong Hall headquarters to familiarize himself with his future business.

The total number of disciples under the name of Gonggongtang is more than 130, including 220 and [-] in the Qi State headquarters and [-] and [-] in the Yan State branch.

Although this data has some zeros and roundings, it is highly likely to be inaccurate.

For example, in the pile of bamboo slips in the Yan branch, there are no records from the time the caravan entered Chu and returned to Yan.However, the real fact is exactly the opposite: after he took charge of Luqiu Pavilion, the number of refugees he absorbed increased rapidly.

In addition, it is recorded on the bamboo slips that Lu Qiuge had a secret team of 100 people in Yan State, which specialized in performing special tasks and spent a lot of money.

However, if an organization like the Dark Team, which is so unpredictable, can hide it from others, can it also hide it from him?

Lu Wei believed that he had launched a major purge, and the so-called secret team was basically nothing!

Frowning, he put aside the statistics on the number of disciples and picked up the income and expenditure statements for the first four months of this year to look at them. His brows were completely relieved:
It's hopeless. There is no need to get angry at yourself over these things.

As an organization composed mainly of farmers and savages, we cannot expect to have professional talents here.

If anyone with some skills or even just literacy has a better place to go, why would he come to a farm?
This account is even worse than Lu Qiuge’s!After all, there is still a businessman boss trained by Xu Qiu in Lu Qiu Pavilion!
Bang, after thinking about it, I was still angry and threw the bamboo slips hard against the wall. The sound caused made the disciple guarding the door shrink his neck: This Manager Lu is not always smiling like Manager Tian.
Even the leader of the Sixth Hall of the Farmer's Family is just a martial artist with stronger martial arts, and his cultural attainments are very limited.

A leaf knows autumn. The statistics of Gonggongtang are so bad. The probability of other halls is similar.
Exhaling heavily through his nose, Lu Wei raised his hand and used his inner strength to pick up the bamboo slips he had thrown away, trying to find something useful from them.

For example, the income and expenditure statement.

Gonggongtang’s revenue sources mainly come from two parts:

The first is farming, which is the most basic industry and is available in every village. Large organizations such as farmers own a lot of land in the three kingdoms of Yan, Qi, Wei and Chu. These lands do not need to pay taxes to their countries. The local tyrants are so powerful that the royal power If you don’t go to the countryside, the name of the farm is the local law.

The second is business, which is mainly carried out by the Yanguo branch.Opening shops, reselling goods in various countries under the name of farmers, and sometimes engaging in illegal smuggling activities, the profits are huge.

Lu Wei himself knows this very well.

In addition to these two main businesses, other additional income is relatively small, and it is nothing more than human activities such as acting as bodyguards, doing coolies, etc.

There are also some disciples who will secretly rob homes and houses, and then offer part of the harvest to the headquarters in the name of "rescuing people and being rewarded", so as to continue to gain the protection of being a farmer disciple.
Zhou He rarely looks at Gonggongtang's data sheets. He always only cares about whether the annual income is rising and there is a surplus. As for how it rises and how the surplus is generated, that is the disciples' business.

Lu Wei hated those who destroyed the collective reputation, especially the reputation that he was about to accept, to gain personal benefits for himself. Lu Wei was itching with hatred and determined to crack down severely!

Not only must we crack down, but we must also hold trials to regain some of the lost reputations of these people before they are consumed!
Gonggongtang must usher in a thorough reform!

But, again, any reform must be done with caution.Not only the reform of a country, but also the reform of a gang cannot be 'freely' modified by the temperament of the upper class.

Lu Wei tried hard to restrain his desire for quick success and quick gains, believing that his priority was to cultivate a group of loyal and literate subordinates. For example, the group of Chu orphans that Lu Yu and Lu Ye brought back to the Yan State were good, but the number was small.

We need to expand the number of these promising 'talents' in the future!

While cultivating the reform team, we must also send people to go to the grassroots level to conduct research and carefully compile data. It cannot be as chaotic and full of errors as it is now.

The current Gonggongtang is in terrible condition, and making it a little better by yourself would be a huge improvement.

This progress starts with changing the writing materials, that is, the "paper making" that has been suppressed before!
The greatest value of paper lies in its universality.

Perhaps in the early stages of manufacturing, the objects it can supply will only be limited to princes and nobles, but as the technology matures and spreads, paper will always benefit the middle and lower classes.

The threshold of 'education' will not disappear completely, but it will definitely fluctuate and become lower.

Lu Wei had developed mature papermaking technology from the treasure chest a long time ago, but he believed that it would be difficult for him to keep this achievement.Now that I am the general manager of Gonggongtang, I can finally do this.

The prototype of a 'pen' paired with paper has actually existed in this world for a long time. Slight improvements can keep up with the advancement of writing tools.

In addition, there is ink making, which must also be matched.However, I didn’t publish this technical book myself, so I simply bought it directly from the system mall: pure technical learning books are very cheap.

These are labor-oriented industries, which are suitable for farmers to do.

After looking at income, look at expenses.

In addition to being responsible for the salaries of disciples in business-related industries, they are also responsible for the manufacturing of weapons, the maintenance of daily operations of the headquarters and branch organizations, rewards for disciples who have made meritorious services, etc.

The problem between these data is bigger than the revenue, but the value is strictly controlled under the revenue, ensuring that there will be some surplus every year.

After only reading two volumes, Lu Wei simply stopped reading the rest: "Three feet of ice does not last in a day, so let's take your time to deal with accumulated problems."
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"When was the last time you saw Tian Zhong?"

In the windowless hut, there was only one candle burning faintly.

Lu Wei stared at the disciple opposite him expressionlessly, his voice echoed in the room with the flickering candlelight.

"My subordinates are attending the wheat harvesting ceremony at the Autumn Harvest Conference."

The disciple's voice was trembling and crying.

He was extremely scared: not just because of the current environment and Lu Wei's interrogation.

This fear has actually lasted for several days.

That morning, Lu Wei received full authorization from Zhou He to investigate clues to Tian Zhong's death inside the farmhouse. In the afternoon, he mobilized his disciples to imprison all Tian Zhong's cronies.

Not long ago, these people would occasionally mock Lu Wei for his bold and disrespectful behavior towards Manager Tian when he arrived at the Gonggongtang headquarters. They would definitely be hit hard.

I never expected that Manager Tian would suddenly pass away, and his successor would be Lu Wei.
Immediately afterwards, he and others were arrested. No one cared about them for a long time, which can be said to be a constant state of panic.

Several days later, when they were finally arraigned, they were even more frightened.

Waiting is of course painful, but after the painful waiting, the fearful fact will come, and collapse will occur instantly.

What's more, these people really don't know the situation. People who know the situation are interrogating them~

Such an interrogation is bound to waste time and yield no clues.

However, the whole show must be done. Lu Wei still completed the questioning of these trusted people in a serious manner and asked his disciples to report the results to Hall Master Zhou He immediately.

Even though it was early in the morning.

This is a matter of attitude~

Attitude is the mask of the heart!

(End of this chapter)