Rebirth of the little landlady

Chapter 231 Su Chunsheng's Good Idea

After reading this part of the accounts, Yuan Bao had a lot of questions in his mind, for example, where did Ni Yuze get so much money, and also, if he made such a large scale, wouldn't the emperor have any ideas?
Later, Yuan Bao looked through other accounts and found answers to some questions. For example, to build such a ship, in addition to the above, one more thing is needed, that is: time!This means that 2000 million taels of silver are not invested all at once, but a process of capital turnover, and the pressure will be less.

It's just that Yuanbao doesn't know how many treasure ships Ni Yuze has built so far. Anyway, one-fifth of the 2000 million taels of silver has been used up now.

One-fifth, 400 million taels, was spent in less than three years, it's too scary!Yuan Bao sighed in his heart, and went to Chief Manager Yu with the unanswered questions.

When Yuan Bao came out of Mr. Yu's room, his expression was very bad, because she found the answers to all the questions, including what happened yesterday after Mr. Ni passed away, which Ni Yuze had no time to talk about.

Grandpa Ni passed away at the beginning of the year. Ni Yuze was in great grief and faced a difficulty. Because of last year's face saint, the silver he had to pay to the court this year became 800 million taels, so after he finished his father's funeral, So I plunged into the general account room and set about solving this problem.

Judging from the scale of Ni Yuze's business at that time, he could not afford to pay the 800 million taels of silver, but it was very laborious. If he was not careful, he would work for nothing for a year, and he might even lose money. , must expand the scale of operation, the question is, how to expand?Which part to expand?
The accountants and stewards under Ni Yuze are also divided into two factions. One is the conservative faction headed by Manager Yu. If not, not only will there be difficulties in operation, but the effect will be slow, which can be described as dangerous.

Yuan Bao knew that this method was in line with Elder Ni's teachings and requirements for Ni Yuze, but the real risks could not be avoided. Presumably, on the balance in Ni Yuze's mind, one side was the family business built by his grandfather's hard work, and the other side was his father. The code of conduct left behind will eventually become an extremely heavy burden.

The other side is the radical faction, advocating the expansion of the fleet, with quick results and high profits, so that Ni Yuze can get out of the predicament quickly, or even not at all.

But Grandpa Ni has just passed away, is Ni Yuze going to put aside that bloody "family instruction"?I guess Ni Yuze is going crazy, right? !But this is also a suggestion that is most in line with Ni Yuze's personality and ideals, so will he go along with it?Yuan Bao guessed, he would!

To Yuan Bao's surprise, Ni Yuze, who should have readily accepted the second option, hesitated, which made Yuan Bao feel a throbbing pain in his heart, should he give up the ideal that is about to be realized?This is really cruel!

What everyone didn't expect was that Ni Yuze's final decision was the third plan: go to Beijing to face the saint!
Yuan Bao really wanted to travel through time and space to ask Ni Yuze at that time, what are you guys doing? !Is the emperor friendly?

Ni Yuze had only one purpose in seeking the emperor, which was to let the emperor reduce his profits and taxes. The reason he started using it was that he was not good at management when he was young.

Yuan Bao sweated furiously. One could imagine how sad and indignant Ni Yuze was when he made such a request. He actually wanted to seek justice!After all, the economic pressure on the court at that time was not as great as when the emperor succeeded to the throne, but the emperor increased the pressure on the Ni family, which was really unkind.

As for Ni Yuze's "unreasonable" request, the emperor is destined not to agree.

Sure enough, the emperor said that he would send someone to "assist" Ni Yuze, but Ni Yuze was unwilling, and the emperor did not have to, but the money that should be paid would naturally not be less.

Then Ni Yuze gave the second reason, he wanted to invest in building a big ship, and he listed the various benefits of a big ship. Impressed by his eloquence.

Not only was he not moved, but the emperor also warned Ni Yuze that this kind of ship was "big and useless, flashy, and cost lives and money, and is the root of disaster for the country", especially when he heard that Ni Yuze didn't build this kind of ship for the purpose of doing business for profit , actually brought indignation, thinking that Ni Yuze is ignorant and "fantastic"!
After receiving such a blow from the emperor, the arrogant Ni Yuze even forgot his original intention of begging the emperor to reduce the profits and taxes. He directly said that he was willing to build such a fleet by himself without delaying the profits and taxes. But the biggest difficulty now is that building such a ship requires a special dock, requires a lot of manpower, and requires an order from the emperor.

The emperor refused, so Ni Yuze knelt outside the hall for two hours.

Later, the queen mother came forward to persuade.

Aftermath of the former dynasty | The palace has no right to speak out, even if you are the empress dowager, but the empress dowager can play the emotional card to talk about family affairs. It is nothing more than Ni Yuze's young age and lost the teaching of his parents. The emperor should be more considerate, so what .

In the end, the emperor did not punish Ni Yuze, nor did he agree to allow Ni Yuze to build a big ship, but rewarded Ni Yuze with a piece of coast, which was located in a remote place, so he could build a dock, but the cost would be very high.

Yuan Bao was sighing with Director Yu about the result of Ni Yuze's visit to Beijing this time, but suddenly stopped, because she seemed to want to understand the purpose of Ni Yuze's move.

Ni Yuze probably decided to adopt the second plan before entering Beijing, but he was uneasy or angry, and he didn't want to hand over the 800 million taels of silver he had earned with sweat and blood to the emperor. Make a fuss.

But is the emperor so troublesome?It is actually a threat to send people to Ni Yuze. Ni Yuze's elders who are good at doing business have all passed away. He is only a child in his teens. The emperor really does not want him to do so, so it is only on the emperor's responsibility to usurp his family property. Just a thought.

When Yuan Bao thinks of this now, he feels extremely depressed. He really can't guess what kind of mood Ni Yuze felt when he heard such a threat.

The next thing is to build a big ship.

Originally, with the refusal and threat of the emperor, according to Ni Yuze's IQ and sensitivity, he shouldn't use this reason to raise the matter of cutting profits and taxes. Or is he retreating as a means of advancing?Yuan Bao couldn't judge this point.

Yes, Yuan Bao can find out the problem from this matter, because the final result of this matter is: Ni Yuze will build a big ship in front of the emperor!

However, the price Ni Yuze paid was also very high - he offended the emperor, and even used his unreliable backer, the empress dowager!
Alas, Yuan Bao lamented in his heart that Ni Yuze's journey to realize his ideal is really too difficult: he has to bear the pressure in his heart, go against his parents' wishes, expand the fleet to earn fees, and also have to guard against the emperor's criticism of him for doing this. suspicion!
By the way, silver!Even if Ni Yuze expands the fleet and earns enough money, who can guarantee that the emperor will find another excuse in a few years' time to confiscate them under a clever name? !

Instead of that, it is better to spend the money first in order to realize your ideals.

Also, Ni Yuze first lobbied the emperor to fund the construction of the big ship, but was rejected by the emperor. Ni Yuze mentioned by the way that this kind of big ship is not for profit, so if the treasure ship is really built by Ni Yuze's own strength, the emperor would be ashamed Work on it? !Even if you do it, you have to be a little scrupulous, otherwise, it's too shameless!
If this is the ultimate goal of Ni Yuze's coming to Beijing, then Yuan Bao admires him so much, how many minds must there be!
Regardless of whether Ni Yuze succeeded this time, he will not be in a good mood anyway. Yuan Bao estimated that when Ni Yuze went to see the emperor, he went with resentment. Seeing that the Queen Mother helped him say good things, I think Ni Yuze didn't remember the Queen Mother's favor in his heart. It would be good if he didn't resent the Queen Mother even more, because when the Queen Mother interceded with him, she didn't seem to mention Yu Xiaomei and Ni Yu. under the merits.

The coolness of the royal family was once again shown in front of Ni Yuze without any concealment.

Moreover, this incident brought troubles to Ni Yuze after he came back from the capital - Mrs. Ni began to give him chronic poison after he came back from the capital. I have to say that this is closely related to the attitude of the emperor. Both the anger and the suggestion to send him someone to help shook Ni Yuze's foundation, and made those covetous people who were hiding around him emboldened.

Ni Yuze returned to Ningnan Mansion from the capital this time, and immediately summoned people to start building the big ship of his dreams, but he didn't care about it. At least, he still remembered to build a few ships for normal sea trips first, expanding the The size of the fleet has put the business on the right track, and there is enough profit to support his "shipbuilding business".

This was the first demonstration of his business acumen.

But building a big ship is too costly, especially since Ni Yuze is still striving for perfection. Yuanbao now knows that Ni Yuze actually didn’t build a single treasure ship. The two ships that were originally built couldn’t go to sea because of various defects, and then they were destroyed. , and continue building.

This added a new knowledge to Yuan Bao. It turned out that in addition to the needs she knew before, there was another important need for building a treasure ship: technology!
The ten docks that Ni Yuze built were not shipbuilding factories at all, but test bases. This cognition completely overturned Yuanbao's previous cost accounting. What is 2000 million taels? !This investment is simply a "bottomless pit"!
It's a pit, it's just too pit!Yuan Bao began to tremble from body to heart, and he didn't know whether it was from fright or distress!
He felt that Yuan Bao was not the only one who was cheating, let alone those loyal servants who persuaded him. During this period, the emperor also reprimanded Ni Yuze, but Ni Yuze insisted on going his own way. He said that he would not delay the profits and taxes to the emperor anyway.

Then Ni Yuze got poisoned. With the above things, Ni Yuze probably suspected that the person who did it was the emperor. Fortunately, he finally found out that it was Mrs. Ni. It happened that because of building a large ship to expand the fleet, the psychological pressure was quite high. Ni Yuze Even the death of Mr. Ni was "blamed" on Mrs. Ni, so as to make myself feel better.

Last year, Ni Yuze went to participate in the selection of imperial merchants, and he did not prepare very carefully. He looked like he was expecting to fail the selection. This was because he had been ill for a long time due to poisoning, the evil consequences of Ni Yu's family's encroachment on his property, and the building of a big ship. The reason for the excessive investment, but the emperor did not understand his situation, and only said that he was not doing his job properly.

Ni Yuze must have been so aggrieved, he couldn't hold back, and even said back that he could just save the money that was paid to the royal family to build his big ship.

So the emperor was furious and reprimanded him face to face, which was much more severe than before.

Ni Yuze thought he was afraid, so he became seriously ill after returning from Beijing last year. The psychological pressure and various fears directly overwhelmed him, causing him to suffer from anorexia nervosa.

This incident is also a follow-up. The emperor banned the sea for his fleet because of his failure as an imperial merchant. However, the selection of the imperial merchant was in September. At that time, his fleet had already gone to sea and had not returned. It started this year, but at that time he was seriously ill, no one dared to tell him, anyway, if he is not an imperial merchant, he is not qualified to go to sea, and the emperor did not make another decree, Ni Yuze's loyal servants teamed up to hide it from him. Only yesterday had to tell him the truth.

The purpose of the emperor's move is nothing more than to warn Ni Yuze that all his current wealth and glory are bestowed on him by the emperor. If he can be rewarded, he can take it back. The emperor puts it in his eyes, otherwise he will look good!

It is worth mentioning that the arrival of imperial doctor Zhang in May this year should be a loosening of the emperor's attitude towards Ni Yuze. If the emperor really doesn't mind Ni Yuze's life and death, what kind of imperial doctor should he send? He should send a minister who is proficient in business Come and seize the property directly.

From this point of view, the emperor has no intention of doing anything to Ni Yuze from the beginning to the end. As long as Ni Yuze keeps his duty as a "court purse", he will still have a good life, and let the emperor show his business talent by the way. It is not impossible to realize his value and live a better life!

After all, when Ni Yuze made mistakes, he was still a child, and when he grew up and became sensible, he would become likable.

It's just that when Doctor Zhang came, Ni Yuze's unhealthy mentality was distorted to such a serious degree that Ni Yuze couldn't objectively accept the emperor's kindness, and instead became even more desperate and went straight into a dead end!

"It will be fine," Yuan Bao was very confident when he persuaded Chief Manager Yu like this, "Young Master will be fine, the business will be fine, and the restoration of the Holy Grace is just around the corner!"

Manager Yu also deeply agrees with this. Ni Yuze is now in good health, and the shops and properties occupied by Ni Yu's family have been doubled, and the most terrible thing about being banned from the sea has not caused any serious problems in Ni Yuze's body. Great reaction, now that Ni Yuze has started to focus on business, they have a backbone again, and the future is still very bright!
The problem now is that Ni Yuze has lost the income of the fleet, not to mention continuing to build treasure ships, and it is difficult to maintain normal operations, and Yuan Bao remembers that the selection of the imperial merchants is every five years, which means that they still have to pay for such a day. Another four years!
Yuan Bao put his hand on his forehead and almost wailed with worry, but it was useless to worry. Yuan Bao planned to take a good look at all of Ni Yuze's account books and help him find a way to tide over the difficulties.

Fortunately, her double-entry bookkeeping method has been adopted for all the accounting in the general account room since last month. If not, let alone whether she can finish reading it, she would not understand it at all!

Yuan Bao's life has become simple and fulfilling. She lives in the main house of Ni Yuze, the general accountant. She gets up early every day to practice martial arts and rests in the afternoon. She filled in strings of numbers on a small chart she drew herself.

Every day, Jingxin would make a special trip to report Ni Yuze's situation to Yuan Bao. Jingxin was worried because Ni Yuze never asked Yuan Bao to go back to serve him, but Yuan Bao was relieved that Ni Yuze was getting better. A special way of communicating.

On the day Yuan Bao moved into the general account room, Yuan Bao discovered that Ni Yuze was actually doing the same thing as her: checking the accounts to find out a way out of the predicament.

Sometimes, Ni Yuze took away the ledger that Yuan Bao wanted to read, and when someone sent it to her, she knew that Ni Yuze had finished reading it, and when she read it again, she would guess what problem Ni Yuze found and what solution he thought of. ?It doesn't look so boring when you look at it.

Sometimes, the ledger that Ni Yuze wants to see is here with Yuan Bao, and when someone comes to pick it up, Yuan Bao will think, why does Ni Yuze want to see this ledger?What does he want to know?What are you going to do?

In addition, because Manager Yu has Ni Yuze's confession of "knowing everything" to Yuan Bao, Yuan Bao can also get a lot of Ni Yuze's latest developments, and Yuan Bao has to admit that Ni Yuze is still very good at business!

For example, Ni Yuze has already calculated the average profit margin of the shops in his hands, and analyzed the reasons for the poor management of the shops that are lower than this value one by one. Some have formulated rectification plans, and some have decided to close them directly.

Yuan Bao couldn't help applauding this move. Indeed, doing more business is worse than doing it well. It is definitely a good idea to keep the most profitable business. Afterwards, Yuan Bao also put forward his own suggestion, thinking that well-run shops should also analyze in this way , Maybe some shops can greatly increase their income!

Chief Manager Yu said, "Master is planning to do this, but we have to rely on the back," adding with a smile, "Master also said, thanks to Miss Yuan Bao's good bookkeeping method, the account book looks really clear now, plus Going to those 'reports' is even more effective!"

And one of Ni Yuze's most admirable methods is to hire sea boats.

Ni Yuze's fleet is the largest in the whole dynasty, and the ships are naturally the most and the best. In contrast, although there are many weak imperial merchants who are qualified to go to sea, they do not have their own fleet, so they have to get together to go to sea. Or ship by ship.

(End of this chapter)