Since becoming the director of the Sunshine Capital Engineering Committee, Zhao Quan has been busy all over the place. He has never reunited with his wife and children during the New Year, but has been working hard for the imperial court in Zhenjiang.

This is also the death of a scholar for his confidant.

It should be noted that Eunuch Wei asked the emperor for a sixth-rank official, as well as the Chengzhi Langwen rank. This was undoubtedly an opportunity and blessing given to Director Zhao, who was almost forty years old but was still a scholar.

When people are middle-aged, they know how to cherish them.

In order to repay Eunuch Wei's high hopes and cultivation for him, Zhao Quan can be said to have devoted himself to his work and was only dying.

Of course, Director Zhao worked so hard, and hoped to take advantage of the east wind of Eunuch Wei to go to another level.

This is also a common human nature. You will get the moon first when you are close to the water. Eunuch Wei is the emperor's favor and has a bright future. As long as he, Director Zhao, holds this thigh tightly, he can also fly to the clouds and shine on his ancestors in the future.

In order to prove to Eunuch Wei that he did not choose the wrong person and to prove his ability, Zhao Ming took the 500 taels of funds specially allocated by Eunuch Wei in the name of special funds, and set off to Zhenjiang with four guards. He rented a Sanhe courtyard in Dongcheng and started his work of forgetting to eat and sleep.

Although the conditions are simple, the meaning is extraordinary.

Just like Eunuch Wei’s message to Zhao Quan – if you have difficulties, you have to go to the point where you have no difficulties, you have to go to the point where you have no difficulties!

The sky pays off. With the active help of the first member Hu Shihai, Zhao Quan welcomed a new member on the seventh day of moving into Zhenjiangcheng - Lin Sanjiang, who specializes in tea in Zhenjiangcheng.

After listening to the detailed matters of Sunshine Thaw Capital Operation and learning that the emperor was interested in the Northern Expedition to thaw Temujin's treasure, Lin Sanjiang decisively decided to join and invest 4,000 taels to become a fifth-rank member of the committee.

Four thousand taels are not a big deal for the Lin family who is engaged in tea business. With the Lin family’s wealth, let alone the fifth rank, it is nothing to be a member of the second and third rank.

However, Lin Sanjiang still invested only 4,000 taels to become a fifth-rank member, which is exactly his cunning and cleverness.

Because, after carefully studying the operation structure of Sunshine Capital, Lin Sanjiang found that he did not have to invest tens of thousands of taels at a time to become a first-class member, but could indirectly promote him by developing new members until he became a first-class member.

Compared with the direct investment of a lot of money, this method can save tens of thousands of taels of silver from Sanjiang. Smart people should know how to exchange the smallest investment for the greatest reward.

After paying 4,000 taels of silver, the Lin Sanjia obtained a full-time certificate of fifth-rank committee members signed and stamped by Eunuch Wei and a licensed document.

With this full-time letter and a licensed document, the Lin family can develop new members like Hu Shihai in Zhenjiang Prefecture. However, no matter which party is the first to advance to a fourth-level member, they can apply to the members to be responsible for a new area.

The new area is at least a three-court territory, and the fourth-rank committee members in charge of this area can also enjoy a maintenance fee of 10% to 30% of the special operating fees for the new committee.

After the Lin family, several wealthy businessmen were persuaded by Hu Shihai and Lin Sanjiang to join the committee, but the overall progress was still slow.

This is mainly because Eunuch Wei has a bad reputation in Zhenjiang. The rich businessmen and households asked him to openly lead troops to "extort" them, so many people have resentment towards Eunuch Wei.

But the turning point came soon. After the New Year, the emperor suddenly came to set up a guard eunuch in Jiangnan. The candidate for guarding eunuchs was the Wei eunuch who relied on the navy to dominate the country. The wealthy gentry who had contacted or heard of the Sunshine Thaw Capital Project in Zhenjiang City became popular.

As of the report of Zhao Quan and Hu Shihai coming to the Special Administrative Region, the committee has successfully developed 56 members, including 31 members of the ninth rank, 12 members of the eighth rank, 5 members of the seventh rank, 4 members of the sixth rank, 2 members of the fifth rank, and 2 members of the fourth rank.

It is planned to raise more than 96,000 taels of funds for Eunuch Wei.

Fortunately, the quota and funds of the committee members are still growing.

"If my father-in-law had not been promoted, the committee's work would have not made much progress."

Zhao Quan is telling the truth. The reason why those members who he had contacted before but were unwilling to join suddenly brought the money was because Eunuch Wei was promoted to the Jiangnan guard.

"Your contributions are more important."

Eunuch Wei was very happy, and he just smiled and only asked someone to serve good tea, asking Zhao Quan and Hu Shihai to sit down and talk.

Zhao Quan did not sit down, but handed over the account book. After flipping through it, his father-in-law put it down and said to Zhao Quan: "You can rest assured when doing things."

After saying that, Hu Shihai said, "Mr. Hu has worked hard, so let's hear from Zhao Quan that if Master Hu had not helped him hard, the committee would not have achieved the current results."

"It's all about my father-in-law's fortune, and I'll give you my father-in-law's blessing." Hu Shihai touched the goatee and looked complimentary, not at all neglected by the little eunuch in front of him than his son.

Zhao Quan owed: "Father-in-law, the committee has made some achievements in Zhenjiang's work, so my subordinates came back this time to report to my father-in-law, and the other was to ask for the matters of the father-in-law's association."

"We've long thought about this incident..."

The Sunshine Project is a big project that can be developed infinitely. As long as the rich people in this world do not disappear for a day, they can continue to do it.

Therefore, the Treasure Committee Hall that my father-in-law prepared to build a New Year must be built, so the construction funds will be allocated from the committee’s account.

The better the guild hall is repaired and the more professional the staff is, the more trustworthy the project will be.

My father-in-law is not afraid of a collapse.

Because Wanli will die in a few years, and the emperor will be gone by then. It’s just a matter of whether the Northern Expedition is not. How can we thaw if we don’t have the Northern Expedition?

Just wait.

Moreover, those members who joined will not want to collapse. Even if they find this to be a scam in the future, they will take the initiative to protect them instead of grouping up to protect their rights from Eunuch Wei.

This is human nature.

Next, my father-in-law carefully asked about some difficulties encountered in the development of the project, and repeatedly told Zhao Quan that no matter what difficulties he encountered or whoever he met, he would report to him, Eunuch Wei in a timely manner. In addition, he emphasized again that the members of the development of the committee must be rich and gentry with certain assets and a certain reputation, and ordinary people are not allowed to join.

Zhao Quan and Hu Shihai couldn't help but nodded. This is true. The Sunshine Project is a major project secretly carried out by His Majesty the Emperor. It is related to the court and the country. Of course, those who can participate must be well-known people. Ordinary people have to spend some money to join. So isn't this project too much?

"Anyway, our family will support you when the sky falls. You just let it go!" My father-in-law was full of enthusiasm.

Zhao Quan hurriedly said that Hu Shihai and Lin families have now been promoted to fourth-rank members and can be independently responsible for the jurisdiction according to the system. How to plan, please make a decision.

"It's very good. In my opinion, the three prefectures of Zhenjiang, Changzhou and Suzhou will be given to Mr. Hu, and Yangzhou, Taizhou and Huai'an will be given to the Lin family."

My father-in-law is still partial, so who made Hu Shihai his first client?

"Our family sincerely hopes that the Sunshine Project can benefit more gentry, and we also hope that the committee can organize members to visit the SAR, and hope that one day in the future, members will go north to the capital to meet the emperor!"

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