After a busy day, Jin Feng was so tired that he could hardly stand, but he still took Guan Xiaorou and Tang Xiaobei to watch the stage play with the villagers before going back.
Because this is his first New Year in Dakang.
In Jin Feng's view, the biggest gain is not how many factories were opened or how much money was made, but the people who came to pay New Year's greetings today.
With the support of the people, he will feel confident no matter what he does!
Half a month after the Chinese New Year, Jin Feng took Guan Xiaorou, Tang Xiaobei and the Jinchuan Song and Dance Troupe to visit various factories in Jinchuan, not only to pay New Year greetings to the workers, but also to learn about the development of each factory.
All organizations under Jin Feng are in their early stages of establishment, which is when people are most united.
Regardless of whether it is the bodyguards, the Zhenyuan Army or the various factories, there is basically no chaos of open and secret fighting. Everyone is afraid that the hard-won good days will leave them again, so they all press forward tirelessly.
During the Chinese New Year, Jin Feng announced that all factories would have a ten-day holiday, but it was only the second day of the Lunar New Year and almost all factories started working spontaneously.
Everywhere Jin Feng went, he felt the heat.
Even the Heishui ditch where the bandits were imprisoned was like this.
A month ago, a bandit discovered a fire at night and took the initiative to put out the fire, preventing it from burning into the dormitory area.
After Xiaoyu heard about this incident, he asked the company commander who was responsible for guarding Heishuigou to hold a special meeting to praise the bandit. Not only did he reward the bandit with three taels of silver, but he also announced in public that he had saved enough work points and he would be dismissed that day.
The freedom of the bandits was restored.
After the bandit took the money home to visit his family, he returned to Heishui Gou and asked to continue working in Heishui Gou.
After the company commander asked Xiaoyu for instructions, he agreed to the bandits' request.
This bandit also became the first official coal miner in Heishuigou. His salary was as high as that of an escort, and he also got two days off every month.
This bandit immediately became the envy and target of other bandits' efforts.
In the past, the bandits were somewhat lazy in their work and needed to be whipped by their bodyguards before they could work conscientiously. However, after this incident, the bandits' enthusiasm for work became unprecedentedly high.
The total amount of coal mined last month exceeded the previous month by 20%.
After Xiaoyu asked Jin Feng for instructions, he gave many bandits extra work points based on their performance.
This made the bandits even more excited, and the coal they dug out recently could no longer be piled up.
Jin Feng currently has few places where coal is needed, but he understands that as the scale of industry expands, there will be more and more places where coal is needed.
So he asked his escort to clear a valley outside the village specifically for coal storage.
In fact, not only the people of Jinchuan are grateful to Jin Feng, but also other places in Sichuan and Shu.
With the efforts of Jin Feng, Ninth Princess and Qing Xinyao, the disaster in Sichuan and Sichuan was able to survive safely.
Although some people still starve to death and freeze to death, there are fewer people than in previous good harvest years.
Jinchuan Bank also spread throughout Sichuan and Sichuan, leaving an indelible impression in the hearts of the people.
Zhu Chen also took advantage of this opportunity to purchase shops in various places in Sichuan and prepare to open Jinchuan Restaurant.
For this reason, she also specially approached Qingyuan to discuss expanding the song and dance troupe.
Qingyuan also had this intention for a long time, and the two hit it off immediately.
After applying for a batch of funds from Jin Feng, the two began to purchase domestic slaves in large quantities from various places, selecting young, beautiful and good-looking women, and training them to become dancers.
Whether it’s a construction site or buying a shop, spending money is like running water.
For this reason, Jin Feng almost lost all his family wealth.
But he has no regrets.
If money is gone, you can make it again, but the most important thing is people's hearts.
Previously, Jin Feng's influence was limited to Jinchuan and Guangyuan, but after this disaster relief, his reputation spread throughout Sichuan and Shu.
Under the propaganda of the song and dance troupe and Jinchuan Bank, the common people knew that it was Mr. Jin of Jinchuan and the Ninth Princess who gave them a way to survive.
During the Chinese New Year, many people in Sichuan and Sichuan place two longevity tablets next to their ancestors’ tablets in their homes.
One is from Jin Feng and the other is from Ninth Princess.
The Immortality Tablet is a tablet erected for a living person to express gratitude to someone and pray for their happiness and longevity.
It has never happened before in the history of Dakang that so many people set up memorial tablets together, and it is a treatment that even the emperor has never had.
With gratitude in my heart, people will naturally not be lazy in their work.
As the weather gradually warms up, the factories established by Jinfeng in various places are entering the completion stage one after another.
The first to be completed were textile factories in various places.
Because the textile factory at this time did not have any large-scale equipment, the structure was very simple. It only required a few walls on all sides and a roof.
When Mancang brings people to assemble the spinning wheel, the textile factory can start working.
In order to solve the employment problem as much as possible, Jinfeng did not further upgrade textile machines, but upgraded jacquard machines to develop upstream and downstream industries.
Later, textile factories not only spun threads, but also weaved cloth and opened garment factories.
Not only that, Jin Feng also asked the song and dance troupe and Jinchuan Bank to promote hemp planting and sericulture, and encouraged people in Sichuan and Shu mountainous areas to plant mulberry hemp and raise sericulture.
In order to dispel the doubts of the people, Jin Feng also asked Jinchuan Bank to sign a contract with the people. The bank would purchase the mulberry and hemp grown and the silk harvested by the people.
The purchase price is also 10% higher than previous years.
Moreover, the contract only restricted the banks and did not impose any restrictions on the people.
If the market conditions are good next year and the price of mulberry, linen and silk is higher than the contract price, the people can also sell their goods to other cloth merchants.
Through disaster relief, Jinchuan Bank has been recognized by the people, and the content of the contract is beneficial to itself. As soon as the news came out, countless women came to sign the contract.
As textile factories in various places come into use, they can provide jobs for many women in Sichuan and Sichuan.
As for male employment, it is much simpler.
Whether it is building bridges, building roads or constructing water conservancy projects, they are all major projects that take a long time.
Thanks to the efforts of the people, various industries under Jin Feng have entered a stage of rapid development.
Considering that more and more escorts would be needed in the future, Jin Feng asked Zhang Liang to expand the recruitment scale of Zhenyuan Escort Bureau again.
This time it is no longer limited to Jinchuan County, but retired veterans are recruited in all counties in Guangyuan at the same time.
In order to maintain the loyalty of the bodyguards, Jin Feng proposed to establish a clerical position in the bodyguard bureau.
The so-called clerks are actually instructors or political commissars in the army in previous lives, who were responsible for ideological work.
On the twenty-seventh of the first lunar month, Jin Feng received a letter from Wei Datong. The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project entered a critical stage. He hoped that Jin Feng could go over and give some advice.
Dujiangyan is Jin Feng's biggest concern at the moment, and the scale of his investment in Xichuan has now exceeded that of Jinchuan.
After spending the first month at home, Jin Feng set off again for Xichuan.
Before setting off, Jin Feng sent a letter to Princess Ninth, asking her to go to Dujiangyan too.
As a result, when he arrived at Dujiangyan, Jin Feng did not see the Ninth Princess, but instead saw Qing Mulan.
"Sir, Wuyang has gone to Dazhou and it will take some time to come back."
"Going to Dazhou?"
Jin Feng frowned and looked at Qing Mulan, his heart beating faster involuntarily.