No matter how difficult it is, persevere

Chapter 140

Although money is not everything, nothing can be done without money. No matter what you do, starting capital is very important.

If Cheng Shijie had not received the money that the former Dengzhou guard Zuo Qianhu Gaowang had obtained during his years as an official, he would not have had the capital to support his retainers. Without his retainers, it would have been impossible to defeat the ruthless bandit Qin Wu and suppress the

With the capture of the bandits, Ning Haijun could not develop. Without Cheng Shijie's extraordinary treatment, Ning Haijun's officers would not have been able to take risks for him...

All of this is a cycle. The most critical person in this cycle is Cheng Shijie, and the most critical factor is money.

The same is true for the development of southern Liaoning. Without vigorous renovation and dredging of ditches, the settlements in southern Liaoning would not have the most basic fertilizers. Without fertilizers, there would be no high yields of food. And the same cycle is that if Cheng Shijie does not use work-for-relief

This method attracts a large number of refugees into southern Liaoning and brings a sufficient working population to southern Liaoning. It is impossible for the ditches in southern Liaoning to spread quickly like magic.

Relying solely on agricultural reclamation is actually far from making southern Liaoning so prosperous. More importantly, Cheng Shijie has opened a variety of factories. These factories can not only provide jobs for refugees, but also produce a large amount of materials.

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More importantly, these factories can continuously make money for Cheng Shijie. Just one salt factory earned Cheng Shijie 3.6 million taels of silver in less than nine months. Among all the industries currently owned by Cheng Shijie, it is the most profitable.

The most profitable factory is the textile factory.

Because it uses linen, cotton, silk and wool, and adopts mixed textile technology, the wool cloth produced has become a popular product in Jiangnan due to its good breathability, comfort, and good warmth retention.

In later generations, people in the south of the Yangtze River would rarely be able to wear woolen sweaters. However, during the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty, even Guangzhou and Kunming would experience extreme weather and snow, and southerners would not have a hard time in winter. The textile factory managed by Jin Qiaoer was in

While meeting Liaonan's internal consumption, it earned Cheng Shijie 1.6 million taels of silver. By the end of the year, it is expected to equal the salt factory and become the most profitable factory under Cheng Shijie.

Once again, it was the turn of Cheng Shijie's carriage factory. Due to the successive expansion of Ning Haijun's army, the number of military transport carriages increased again and again. Under this circumstance, although the external sales of two-wheeled carriages and four-wheeled carriages were not large, they took the high-quality route, but there were three

Income of four hundred thousand taels of silver.

Finally, it was the turn of the profits from the military fields. The goods sold to Jiangnan or Shandong were okay and the prices were fair. However, the goods smuggled to the Jiannu through Hu Erqi and Xie Jinglin included salt, tea, linen, cotton, canvas, and various other goods.

It is conscientious to make more than ten times the income from growing spices, but it is not impossible to make twenty, thirty times or even hundreds of times.

Under this situation, Cheng Shijie relied on the Shandong Mutiny, the Kong Youde Rebellion and the extortion of Zu Dashou to obtain a total of more than 8 million taels of start-up capital. Of course, if you include the seizures from bandits and pirates, this capital exceeded

Ten million taels of silver.

In less than a year, Cheng Shijie surpassed the wealth accumulation of seven generations of Fan Yongdou. Cheng Shijie used factories, war seizures, and smuggling to obtain more money than the Ming Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue. If Chongzhen

Knowing that Cheng Shijie would make so much money, the emperor probably would not let Cheng Shijie serve as Liaodong manager again.

Instead, let Cheng Shijie be the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, or the Minister of the Ministry of Industry... But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is not a Jinshi and cannot hold such an official position.

If he didn't have so much capital, what would Cheng Shijie use to open a bank?

Especially as more and more factories increase their production capacity, there are more and more profitable factories, especially the dozen or so steel factories whose products are not ready. These factories have always been mainly producing military supplies. In order to meet the needs of the armed Ninghai Navy, After the needs of the soldiers, there are already products that can make money.

For example, hoes made of fine steel from Liaonan are of good quality, durable, and most importantly, cheap. There are also curved shaft plows, axes, and hatchets that can be sold to the outside world.

Even furniture factories are selling to foreign countries after satisfying the Ning navy officers and the people of southern Liaoning. The production of these factories is very hot. With a weak industrial production base, Cheng Shijie can do more things.

He has money and technical reserves. He can open cement factories, mine copper and iron ores, and even open shipyards. Starting from the beginning of the year, he will not send people to Jiangnan to recruit factories that can build ships.

Although the Lushun Shipyard has not yet officially started production, it has recruited more than 800 shipwrights.

In order to attract the refugees to live in southern Liaoning with peace of mind, Cheng Shijie now provides each refugee with a new set of clothes, bedding, washbasin, lunch box, as well as a single-family bag and a kettle.

The refugees who owned these belongings immediately changed from the proletariat to the possessing class. When these things were resold, they could be exchanged for three or four taels of silver, and the actual value of these materials had exceeded ten taels of silver.

If they are skilled talents, in addition to free distribution of basic living supplies, they will also provide housing. Of course, this housing standard is that ordinary craftsmen are not as good as ordinary Ning Haijun soldiers, but professionals in a certain field enjoy better treatment than ordinary Ning Haijun soldiers. Soldiers can even be compared with officers.

Cheng Shijie also prepared a good living and working environment for immigrants. As long as people arrive in southern Liaoning, they can take free showers, new clothes, and eat sticky multi-grain porridge. These multi-grain porridge is not to save money, but to provide relief to the refugees. Nourish the stomach.

As long as their stomachs are well nourished, they will increase nutrition and eat dry rice, such as rice, steamed buns, steamed buns, etc. As for meat, there is indeed not much. Cheng Shijie is still in the accumulation stage. Even Ning Haijun, the best-paid soldier, I can’t guarantee that I’ll eat meat every day, but I can guarantee that I’ll eat some meat every other day.

Although the red lady has a Tanlong Valley and a certain amount of money and food, her capital is far less powerful than that of Cheng Shijie. Of course, she cannot compare with Cheng Shijie.

The red lady brought people to southern Liaoning, and soon the immigrants were assigned to factories according to their vocational skills. As for those who only knew how to farm, they would eventually be assigned to the Hundred Household Station for Farming or the Hundred Household Station for Engineering.

Seeing the familiar refugees being sorted away one by one, the red lady finally couldn't help but find the director of the Immigration Management Center.

This is another characteristic of Liaonan. Unlike the Central Plains, Liaonan has a three-level management system of provinces, prefectures (prefectures), and counties. Prefectures have magistrates, prefectures have magistrates, and counties have magistrates. But in Liaonan, there are only administrative There are two levels of committee and executive committee. Below the executive committee, the original mayor or mayor of each town sets up a working committee, which is called the XX town working committee.

There is a chief director, a director, and ten hundred households, that is, members, and a working committee is responsible for management. Except for factories, which are called managers or general managers, local governments are uniformly called directors or deputy directors.

The management level of the resettlement center is the same as that of a town. The director also has the same surname as Cheng, but is not related to Cheng Shijie. He is a member of the Cheng clan from Fangcheng, Luoyang, and his surname is Cheng Yaodong.

Fangcheng, Luoyang, is actually the real ancestral home of Cheng Shijie.

"Director Cheng, everyone has made arrangements, why not me?"

As the leader of this group of more than 20,000 refugees, Red Lady's treatment is actually quite good. She has a separate room in the immigration resettlement center. This is actually three rooms, a bedroom, a living room, and a small study.

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The treatment of eating is in a small canteen, which is the same as that of director Cheng Yaodong.

"Tang Sanniang, I'm about to find you. Our rules in southern Liaoning are based on voluntariness. Children under minors can choose their own careers by their guardians or parents!"

Cheng Yaodong did not despise the red lady because she was a woman. After all, southern Liaoning was a little different from the Central Plains. Women here could be officials, such as Yang Yunniang, Jin Qiaoer, Liu Xue, and Wang Wei were all officials, and their ranks were higher than his.

Be high.

Cheng Yaodong continued: "In view of your work ability, you brought over more than 20,000 people here. You should continue to use your expertise and hold management positions!"

“What is a management position?”

"To put it simply, it is to be an official!"

"Being an official? Can a woman be an official?"

"It's definitely not possible in other places, but it's possible in Liaonan!"

Cheng Yaodong said: "Your situation is a bit special. It is not something I can make the decision, nor can the Executive Committee make the decision. Now it needs to be approved by the Management Committee and Marshal Cheng."

As a refugee leader with more than 20,000 people, the level given cannot be too low when resettled, otherwise no one will come to seek refuge with Cheng Shijie in the future. The problem of the popular lady was reported to the management committee. Song Xiance meant that he should give the popular lady a

Super treatment, it can be regarded as a thousand dollars to buy horse bones.

So, this issue was reported to Cheng Shijie. Of course, Cheng Shijie was on the banks of the Taizi River, more than five hundred miles away from Jinzhou. Even if he reported it quickly, it would still take two or three days.

The red lady looked at Cheng Yaodong and said, "Can I choose by myself?"

"Can you choose?"

"Haizhou Executive Committee still lacks a deputy director!"

In order to make it easier for Lady Hong to understand, Cheng Yaodong explained: "Our deputy director of the executive committee in southern Liaoning is just like your Chenzhou in Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan or the magistrate of Zhengzhou!"

After saying this, the red lady understood.

But the red lady shook her head and said: "I want to join the army and lead troops to fight!"

From the moment she was captured by Mr. Yulang, there was no turning back for the Red Lady.

With her character, it is impossible to accept her fate, she will definitely resist.

Once she killed the first person, there was no turning back.

By killing the handsome man with her hands and staining the bridal chamber with blood, the red lady has opened up another path in her life, a completely different path.

On this road, she needs to keep killing people, including the bandits who want to kill her, the scum among the refugees, and the local tyrants and evil gentry...

In short, the lives on Red Lady Red Lady's hands were not eighty, but a hundred. Killing too many people naturally left a shadow in her heart. As long as she closed her eyes, she would have nightmares.

Without a knife, she wouldn't even dare to sleep. It's not that she likes wearing that red wedding dress very much, because as long as there is no red wedding dress, any clothes she wears will look like they are stained.

Blood.

"Joining the army...this problem...I'm very sorry, this is not within my scope of authority and I can help you solve it!"

Cheng Yaodong said: "If you want to join the army, you need to wait for Ning Haijun to recruit troops and sign up for the army, or go directly to Ning Haijun's General Military Mansion and sign up directly to join the army through special recruitment. If you are specially recruited, you need to have special skills!"

The red lady bit her lip: "I can ride a horse, does that count as a specialty?"

"Calculate!"

"I can shoot arrows. Although I dare not say that a hundred steps can pierce a poplar, if I shoot someone within a hundred steps, I can hit nine out of ten arrows!"

"Calculate!"

"I can also lead troops!"

“Forget it!”

The red lady rode her bay-red horse, carried her long bow on her back, and hung a long knife on her waist, and rushed towards Jinzhou City.

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Cheng Shijie never thought that his meeting with Yang Qingyun would be in the manner of a patient and a doctor, stationed by the Taizi River. Cheng Shijie went to swim in the Taizi River when the weather was too hot.

When he came ashore, Cheng Shijie accidentally stepped on a sharp object and received a small scratch on the sole of his foot.

Cheng Shijie didn't pay attention. In just three days, his foot swelled and the wound festered...

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to return to future generations for treatment.

However, Wu Sheng rode a horse overnight and took advantage of the newly established inn system to bring Yang Qingyun, the only son of a former imperial doctor in southern Liaoning who had learned his father's true biography, to the bank of the Taizi River.

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To be continued...