Seeing that the time had come, a group of people hurriedly knelt down on both sides of the road, and a few agitated people rushed to Xu Kuang, preparing to complain to Xu Kuang.
Zhao Ertu saw this, grabbed the rifle from the guard's hand, and knocked down the two who rushed fastest with two shots.
Xu Kuang's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he asked:
"What are you doing?".
Zhao Ertu suddenly became at a loss, and he quickly explained to Xu Kuang:
"I'm worried that someone will assassinate you...".
Xu Kuang snorted coldly:
"Thank you. I don't need you to worry about it. Guard, send a few people over. I want to hear what they say."
Zhao Ertu's face suddenly turned pale, and he said to Xu Kuang:
"Lord, this group of unscrupulous people always ask you for conditions, so we don't have to listen..."
Xu Kuang's eyes suddenly became extremely cold, and he asked:
"You want to teach me how to do things?".
Zhao Ertu's heart felt cold. He looked at Xu Kuang and quickly explained:
"I didn't mean that, I meant that I...".
The guard had already arrived with several people.
Xu Kuang asked:
"If you have anything, you can tell me directly."
Those people knelt down and began to accuse Zhao Ertu and Hei Huohua:
"This guy is looking down on human life, for the sake of his own political achievements, regardless of the life and death of others...".
Those few people talked more and more enthusiastically. At first they talked, then they turned into scolding, and then they turned into singing. They were singing and scolding at the same time.
Zhao Ertu's face was pale. He wanted to explain something to Xu Kuang, but suddenly he saw Xu Kuang looking at the people on the roadside and asked:
"Are they telling the truth?".
Everyone on the roadside said to Xu Kuang in unison:
"real.".
Xu Kuang sighed, looked at Zhao Ertu and asked:
"I'm pretty good to you, right?".
Zhao Ertu suddenly collapsed on the ground, he really didn't know what to do.
Black Huohua in the crowd was also dragged out by the guards.
The two held each other's hands and cried, telling each word how regretful they were.
Xu Kuang sighed and said to the two of them:
"You have betrayed my trust in you. It is definitely not enough for you two to do so many things. Call all your men out and don't let me do it myself."
The two of them trembled and started to recognize each other, and the people who were pointed out all fell down.
Xu Kuang sighed. He looked at the intersection that was almost full of people kneeling on their knees, sighed, and said:
"Logically speaking, I should have handed you over to the Security Department, but I am not going to do that now. People, you can handle it."
As soon as these words came out, the people rushed forward, and the crowd headed by Zhao Ertu was quickly overwhelmed by the crowd.
A smell of blood spread out.
Xu Kuang frowned and said to his subordinates:
"Get out of here quickly.".
Everyone left in a hurry.
Xu Kuang was sitting in the government on the east bank, looking at Zhao Ertu's "political achievements" in the past few months, and couldn't help but sigh:
"Zhao Ertu is really unscrupulous."
Soon, Xu Kuang's men came to report that Zhao Ertu, Hei Huohua and others were divided and eaten by the people.
Xu Kuang was stunned for a moment after hearing the news.
He didn't expect the people to be so cruel and violent.
Xu Kuang immediately said to his subordinates:
"Convene a popular meeting."
Soon, a people's meeting was held. Xu Kuang made a serious self-examination at the meeting. He first said that he didn't know people well, and then said that he would send new officials immediately and everyone's treatment would be restored to the same as when he first arrived.
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Everyone cheered in unison and cheered Xu Kuang long live.
Xu Kuang sighed, turned and left.
In the next few days, the hidden remnants of Zhao Ertu were eradicated, and then Zhuge Duan personally led people to move in, and the construction of a new office building began.
Xu Kuang sighed and said to Zhuge:
"Zhengfang, whether the East Coast can develop depends on you."
Xu Kuang and Zhuge Duan have discussed that they will try their best to develop to the east bank in the future, and then transform the west bank into a strategic material reserve center and military camp. Xu Kuang plans to build a million-ton grain reserve station here, and will continue to do so in the future.
Expand production.
A few days later, Xu Kuang ran out of the laboratory with excitement on his face.
The cigarette rolling machine was finally successfully developed by him.
He immediately found cut tobacco and cigarette paper and started trying to make it.
The measurer on the side was counting silently. It took a full hour for the measurer to stop.
He said to Xu Kuang:
"This set of cigarette making machines can make more than a thousand cigarettes every ten minutes on average, and more than eight thousand cigarettes an hour."
Xu Kuang calculated it and found that this efficiency was not enough, but if the efficiency was not enough, it could be made up by quantity. He immediately placed an order with the factory.
Xu Kuang said to his subordinates:
"In the future, three production lines will be opened to produce three grades of cigarettes: upper, middle and lower. The top grade cigarettes must be made with the sweetest shredded tobacco, the middle grade cigarettes are the next best, and the low grade cigarettes are the worst. The top grade cigarettes are priced at twenty copper coins per pack, and the middle grade cigarettes are priced at twenty copper coins per pack.
Ten copper coins, five copper coins for the lower grade.”
The person in charge of the cigarette factory asked:
“Would this pricing be too cheap?”.
Xu Kuang smiled and said:
"It's not cheap anymore. Cigarette factories rely on volume. We must try to keep profit margins as low as possible and squeeze out potential competitors. Also, in the future, you must pay attention to refining product classification and don't stick to the old ways and stand still."
Xu Kuang is also concerned about the sales of cigarettes. In his opinion, once the cigarettes are finished, they will be no worse than the current pillar industry of textiles. His army has also expanded more and more. Now there are more than 40,000 people, and military expenditures are also increasing.
However, the textile industry seems to have reached a bottleneck, and income growth has begun to slow down. He must develop new financial resources.
All this is within Xu Kuang's plan.
Xu Kuang laughed and said to the person in charge of the factory:
"When the time comes, the government will cooperate with you in establishing a tobacco franchise, so you can rest assured."
The profits of tobacco are still very high now. He knows that the manufacturing threshold of tobacco is higher than that of cloth. Others have not realized the power of tobacco, so this is a good opportunity for Xu Kuang to seize the market.
Xu Kuang decided to rapidly expand production in a short period of time, and he would start urging the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
He has decided that the farmland of Balsam Melon Ridge and Xiangtao Ridge should be used to grow food. He plans to let Wayne's territory be used to grow tobacco, which he can wholesale at a high price.
He found Wayne personally and wanted to talk to him.
Wayne said to Xu Kuang:
"It's time for me to talk to you about another thing.".
Xu Kuang looked at Wayne in astonishment and asked:
"whats the matter?".
Wayne looked at Xu Kuang and found that Xu Kuang had become haggard, with traces of exhaustion all over his face. He couldn't bear to say the words he wanted to say.
The plus-size man is still working hard for his career, and Wayne really can't bear to reveal his personal affairs.