Song Rongsheng's eyes lit up and he thought this was very good. Not only did his daughter not have to leave his side, but there would also be more grandchildren in the future. The family was becoming more and more lively, and the second child would also take the Song family's surname. He was doing more than one thing, and he really couldn't find anything to object to.
reason.
"Xiao Xu, I don't object to two-term marriage, but every woman needs a husband, and children also need a father to accompany you. No matter how busy you are at work, you still have to fulfill your responsibilities as a husband and father, not in the name of two-term marriage.
escape."
Wen Ruohong frowned and said, from the perspective of considering her daughter, she did not very much agree with Xu Yuan's proposal, even though she did not object in her heart.
"Of course, I will come back every month. No matter how many days I come back each time, I will stay with Jiayun and the children and cherish every day together."
Xu Yuan assured Song Jiayun with his eyes.
Song Jiayun understood and said: "Mom, Xu Yuan doesn't want to evade responsibility. If you think about a business with a profit of tens of millions a month, he still wants to live with less things and be close to home, and he still has time to spend with me and my children every day. How can this happen?
Maybe, I understand his difficulties, so it’s better not to embarrass him too much.”
"You can go to work with him. The couple must be together." Wen Ruohong still said.
"But I still have Tianfeng Jewelry to take care of." Song Jiayun said.
"etc!"
Song Rongsheng was attracted by the words of monthly profit of tens of millions, and immediately interjected: "Monthly profit of tens of millions, Xiao Xu, your business is doing well. No wonder the New Year's goods sent are beyond the reach of ordinary people.
It’s a high-end product, but... you earn so much, as a husband and father, do you have to pay for the living expenses of Jiayun and the children every month, and shoulder the responsibility of supporting the family?"
"Living expenses, pay, of course." Xu Yuan nodded repeatedly.
"How much?" Song Rongsheng asked again.
"Uh, 50,000? 100,000...is that okay?" Xu Yuan thought for a moment and said.
"Why is it so small? No, it's at least five million per month, and it must be transferred to my supervision account first. Don't try to fool people with fraud!" Song Rongsheng frowned and said seriously.
"this……"
"What the heck, we men in Taizhou have to hand over all their wages to their wives, and you only hand over such a small part. Do you have any objections?" Song Rongsheng glared at Xu Yuan with a straight face.
"Song Rongsheng, what are you doing, extortion? Xiao Xu is in business. Can the company's accounts be compared with his salary? Stop finding fault with Xiao Xu." Wen Ruohong had to speak.
"Dad, can you please stop causing trouble for us? It's not like I can't make any money myself, so what living expenses do I need?" Song Jiayun also rolled her eyes.
"Aren't I afraid that you, my daughter, will suffer a loss?"
Song Rongsheng said nonchalantly, and the topic gradually dropped.
After this small New Year's Eve dinner, Xu Yuan managed to get through it. He settled his father-in-law and his mother-in-law, and his proposal of getting married did not meet with any objection. His little plan was realized.
…
February 4, 2026, the second day of the first lunar month.
Cross Alliance Company, inside the large warehouse.
Xu Yuan took inventory of various materials in the warehouse and checked the company's accounts several times.
Then in the mobile online banking app, I checked the balance of the company’s bank card: 1009621.76 yuan.
There is only a little over one million left in cash.
No more money.
This means that Xu Yuan is about to run out of money in his pocket again. In today's society and in terms of cash flow, he is about to become as poor as Chongzhen.
What's going on?
You must know that more than a year ago, Xu Yuan sold ten tons of gold to Song Jiayun and the Song family behind her. Although it took half a year to barely digest it, it also brought Xu Yuan 3.48 billion.
Even if the world in the late Ming Dynasty burns through 100 million yuan every month, this amount of money can last for about three years.
It has only been a little over a year now, and all the more than three billion yuan has been spent, and the rate of money burning has more than doubled.
What is going on? Why is Xu Yuan's cash in modern society so unspent? Where is the money used?
Xu Yuan carefully counted the bills and listed the top ten spending items:
830 million for solar and wind power generation and voltage stabilizer wires and other facilities.
Agricultural machinery and construction machinery 505 million.
Diesel and gasoline 502 million.
368 million for improved varieties, fertilizers and pesticides.
PE water pipes, waterproof coatings and building materials 354 million.
223 million electric fishing boats.
Industrial processing machine tools 205 million.
122 million for electromechanical equipment and accessories such as water pumps, rice mills, and flour mills.
Bicycle and repair parts 119 million.
110 million for heavy industrial equipment such as small ball mills, small stone crushers, and five-ton alloy smelting furnaces.
The above ten major expenditure items alone totaled 3.338 billion in funds.
Behind the bill are some inexpensive sugar, soap, glass mirrors, shower gel, mechanical watches and other small items that can bring a lot of profit to Xujiazhuang.
Of course, another reason is that in the process of building the harbor city, the cost Xu Yuan invested was too huge. The investment in one harbor city was at least as good as ten collective estates. After all, he valued the ocean very much.
In terms of strategy and investment, we are too petty and petty. If we want to do something big, we should do something big.
Therefore, in order to produce more bricks, cement, and steel bars, Xujiazhuang's demand for ore raw materials such as iron ore, coal mines, and lime ores has greatly increased. If industrial production capacity is to be improved, power facilities must be upgraded, which ultimately leads to budget constraints.
It was completely out of control, and three years' worth of money was spent in just over a year.
And in order to save money next, Xu Yuan may have to spend more money.
For example, in order to save the cost of purchasing chemical fertilizers, Xu Yuan plans to introduce a urea factory with an annual output of one million tons from modern society, with an estimated investment of 2 billion.
For example, in order to save the cost of purchasing bicycles, Xu Yuan plans to introduce a bicycle production system from modern society to achieve self-production of more than 90% of parts except tires. The investment is expected to reach 3 billion level - manufacturing bicycles requires a lot of industrial systems.
Low, it took China nearly twenty years to build high-quality bicycles.
For example, in order to solve the problem of ship power and have more fishing boats and cargo ships, Xu Yuan planned to introduce the most advanced power technology from modern society and build a coal-fired steam engine in the late Ming Dynasty. The efficiency of the traditional steam engine would be fundamentally inferior.
It's incomparable, the investment is expected to be over 5 billion.
For another example, in order to save the cost of purchasing gasoline and diesel, in the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Yuan not only had to send people to find oil resources and extract them, but also purchased complete sets of oil cracking equipment from modern society to produce dozens or millions of oil every year.
tons of gasoline and diesel—this investment is at least 10 billion.
There are also the manufacturing capabilities of wind turbines, solar panels, and hydroelectric turbines—these energy technologies must be introduced in the future to achieve localized manufacturing in the late Ming Dynasty.
That is to say, in order to save more money, Xu Yuan will have to spend tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of funds to avoid excessive dependence on modern society.
And this is also a huge disadvantage of taking the high-tech development route. The construction cost of a modern industrial system is too high. If we choose the development route of a low-tech starting point, starting from primitive steam engines and primitive blast furnace steelmaking, the cost will undoubtedly be very low.
Low, as long as relevant technical information is enough, other elements can be gathered in ancient times without spending too much money.
but……
Since they have chosen the technological route with a high starting point, Xu Yuan gritted his teeth and had to go on. Even if he adopts the method of technological downgrading to save costs, it is better than slowly climbing the technological tree step by step. After China's reform and opening up, it has been every other
It took ten years to complete an industrial revolution. This speed of catching up is already extremely fast, but it took more than thirty years to barely catch up with the developed level of the West.
China, which has the technological foundation of two bombs and one satellite, would need more than thirty years to catch up with Western advancement. In the late Ming Dynasty, if Xu Yuan chose a low-starting technological development route with the purpose of catching up with the most advanced level, it would take Xu Yuan many years.
time?
It will also bring about problems such as industrial pollution.
Think about it, it is better to continue to adhere to the high starting point of scientific and technological development. Even if it requires burning hundreds of billions or trillions of money, compared with the benefits brought, the losses and damage avoided, the money is actually small.
And it can save a lot of time.
So where does the money come from?
Now that the price of gold has fallen, in order to get Song Jiayun, the value of gold in Xu Yuan's hands will be fixed at 300 million per ton from now on. He is sure to get ten tons every year, which will only bring in 3 billion. I'm afraid this little money
Far from enough.
At the very least, it needs to be increased to more than 10 billion in annual revenue.
"In addition to gold business, how can we make money from the annual gap of 7 billion?"
Xu Yuan murmured to himself, feeling very troubled.