Xu Yuan first rented a warehouse in the industrial park where his Cross Alliance Company was located.
The area is about 2,000 square meters, and the monthly rent is 200,000. Xu Yuan paid half a year's deposit as rent. Because the balance on the card was insufficient, he also borrowed 500,000 from Song Jiayun.
This warehouse was named "Warehouse No. 2" by him. Its main function is to store specialties and materials brought from the late Ming Dynasty. With the area of Warehouse No. 2, it can store up to 10,000 tons of materials, so there is no problem.
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The reason why it should be distinguished from the No. 1 large warehouse is mainly to avoid confusion and facilitate management.
As for partners, Xu Yuan also has corresponding plans in mind.
For example, copper, an important industrial raw material, just asked General Manager Zhu Yuntian to find a few factories that need to use copper. As long as the quality of the copper is not bad and the price is slightly more favorable, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
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As for dried seafood, Zhu Yuntian is also responsible for liaison and finding relevant agents and distributors. China consumes millions of tons of dried seafood every year. The monthly supply of thousands of tons in Xuyuan is not suitable for some dry goods dealers.
It's just a drizzle, and a family can swallow it.
The same is true for ancient medicinal materials. Zhu Yuntian can also ask Zhu Yuntian to find dealers in the medicinal materials market and negotiate cooperation with them. As long as the medicinal materials are of good quality, dealers who know the goods will definitely be willing to buy them.
Wild ginseng, which is extremely valuable, is a top-notch luxury product and has a special auction market. Xu Yuan plans to hand over wild ginseng to Song Jiayun for operation. She also has some ways to do it.
Including future huanghuali wood furniture and gold and silver jewelry made by ancient craftsmen, they are all handed over to Song Jiayun and her family to manage and sell them at a good price, bringing in a steady stream of profits.
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On Song Jiayun's side, Xu Yuan's character is a mine boss who is developing gold in a foreign country. Why is he buying wild ginseng, huanghuali furniture, gold and silver jewelry, and his business scope has become so wide?
How to explain it.
Don't end up having to make up countless scares just to make up one scare.
Regarding this question, Xu Yuan really didn't know how to explain it, and he didn't really want to use his brain. If Song Jiayun asked, he might say that there are a lot of wild ginseng growing on the mountain next to his gold mine.
There are actually large huanghuali forests, and the gold mine also has associated mines such as silver, jade, and jade. In order to maximize commercial value, a jewelry factory was opened next to the gold mine and many powerful people were hired.
Old master.
Xu Yuan is not sure whether Song Jiayun will believe this explanation, but as her husband and the father of the child in her belly, Xu Yuan believes that she will not break the casserole and ask for the truth.
And so on, Song Jiayun is not the kind of woman who is nagging.
Of course, if Xu Yuan makes a mistake and Song Jiayun must find the answer out of strong curiosity, there is no harm in telling her the identity of the time traveler. After all, with the close relationship between the two, Song Jiayun should not do anything inappropriate.
What's good for him is that Xu Yuan will try his best to delay the moment of telling the truth. The later the better, because no matter what the secret is, it is much more difficult for two people to keep it than for one person.
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The perspective returns to the world of the late Ming Dynasty.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen, it was the tenth day of the first lunar month.
In the capital and the Forbidden City, the palace is much cleaner and bleaker than in previous years. The sound of the troupe playing and beating can no longer be heard. The amount of charcoal and briquettes is reduced, so the smoke of fireworks is much weakened, not to mention the rich smell of meat. The imperial meal
It may not float out of the room even once in three days.
What's going on?
Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian borrowed a total of 2 million silver dollars from Xujiazhuang last year. Adding in the salt tax, land tax, Ding Fu, etc., the total value was close to 3 million taels, which was enough for him to spend a year this year.
Now that I'm fat, I can eat as much fish and meat as I want every day.
Why didn't he have a good year? He even had a worse year than last year.
Why does this happen?
Lost.
The Battle of Dalinghe outside the Pass was a disastrous defeat!
Dalinghe City held on for three months, and all seven thousand soldiers and horses in the city were eaten. Thousands of civilians who built the city and soldiers who starved to death were also eaten.
The deputy general He Kegang who was unwilling to surrender pushed out of the city and beheaded him, and then led the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to surrender to Huang Taiji.
As for the Ming Dynasty reinforcements who went to support Daling River City, stimulated by the millions of silver dollars and 100,000 shi of food that Chongzhen dropped, the fourth wave of reinforcements indeed set off, with as many as 50,000 people.
Under the leadership of Zhang Chun, they performed very bravely and once defeated the Hou Jin Army, causing them heavy casualties. However, Zhang Chun's chariot array encountered the forty red cannons arranged by the Hou Jin Army.
The chariot formation was quickly broken through, and the entire army retreated. On the way back, they encountered ambushes of the Hou Jin Army. They attacked from all sides. Supervisor Zhang Chun and more than 30 generals were captured alive. Only the commander-in-chief Wu Xiang and Song Dynasty were captured alive.
Wei only managed to escape with dozens of people.
The Ming Dynasty's reinforcements of more than 50,000 people were almost completely wiped out.
At the same time, it was also announced that the "Guan Ning Iron Cavalry", the most powerful fighting force of the Ming Dynasty outside the Pass, was completely destroyed and incorporated by Hou Jin. Although some seeds of the "Guan Ning Iron Cavalry" escaped and later formed a new "Guan Ning Iron Cavalry", the same
He was invincible in the world within the pass, but he had been beaten to death by Jiannu over and over again, completely losing his blood and courage. He could no longer deter or contain the Jin army in the slightest, and even finally chose to surrender.
Ming's hardest bone was broken and crushed.
Of course, the losses suffered by the slave-building army were not small. They were much heavier than those in the normal historical timeline. They lost the ability to continue attacking in the short term and had to rest for at least a year or two.
But the result has not changed. The Ming Dynasty was defeated miserably and the slave establishment was victorious. Chongzhen Zhu Youjian, who invested almost all the money and food in this war, fell into autistic state again and could not accept this fact at all.
"I am obviously rich. The nearly three million yuan in my internal funds was all allocated to the soldiers outside the customs. I have enough food and pay. Why is it still such a disastrous defeat?"
Zhu Youjian couldn't figure it out, and at the same time he was very angry. He punished a large number of officials who were incompetent, and dozens of them were imprisoned.
They don't dare to touch his bad luck again.
"Great victory, great victory, Your Majesty!"
Eunuch Wang Chengen quickly entered the inner hall and knelt down with a face full of joy: "Your Majesty, Shandong has won a great victory! Yang Yufan, the commander-in-chief of Tongzhou, Wang Hong, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, and Deng Qi, the commander-in-chief of Jimen, realized their shame and became brave. They used the strategy of harassing and luring the enemy to attack Shahe.
During the battle, he beheaded 20,000 Dongjiang rebels and lifted the siege of Laizhou City. Then, regardless of the severe cold, he pursued them and went straight to the rebels' lair. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, they captured Dengzhou and wiped out all the rebels. The leader of the rebels, Kong Youde, set himself on fire and died.
, Your Majesty, the three generals have lived up to the emperor's favor and brought peace to Shandong in just two months. They deserve heavy rewards and set an example for the generals in the world!"
"really?"
Zhu Youjian was in high spirits, with a look of surprise on his face, and asked: "How did you know about such a great victory, my dear friend? Why wasn't the Ministry of War informed about it?"
"Your Majesty, it was the representative of Qi from Xujiazhuang who told us that Xujiazhuang used telegraphs to deliver news and it could arrive in an instant. The victory in Shandong is absolutely true. I am willing to guarantee it with my head. In three to five days at most, the Ministry of War will get the news to prove it.
What the slave said!"
Wang Chengen said that he has seen His Majesty's distress these days and feels pain in his heart. The news given by the representative of Xujiazhuang Qi was so timely, so even if there were courtiers attacking him for befriending Xujiazhuang, he would make His Majesty happy in advance.
Zhu Youjian immediately asked him about the specific situation of the Shandong War. Wang Chengen answered them one by one, vividly and without seeming to be lying. He stood up happily, walked around the hall excitedly, and said "good" several times, suppressed
His mood was swept away, and he even sent someone to the imperial kitchen to tell him to cook more delicious meat and vegetables tonight and celebrate it properly!
But at this time.
Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Hubu, Liu Chongqing, the right minister of Hubu, Wang Wanxiang, the Sichuan Taoist censor, and other ministers came together to request an audience with the king.
Chongzhen had no choice but to restrain his joy and met them in Dongnuan Pavilion.
As soon as these ministers saw the emperor, they knelt down one after another and began to complain and beg:
"Your Majesty, the miners in Shandong are causing trouble, destroying homes and killing good people everywhere. The people of Shandong have suffered miserably from these miners!"
"Xujiazhuang is supporting the miners' rebellion behind the scenes. What he plans is Shandong's land and mines, and his plan is also to destroy the Ming Dynasty!"
"The Dongjiang rebels are nothing to worry about, but the Shandong miners are even more of a disaster. We must first suppress the miners and the Xujiazhuangs behind them, and then suppress the rebels. If we can recruit them, that's fine, but the miners and Xujiazhuang will never be tolerated!"