Chapter 76 Interests
?In a small courtyard behind Wuweizhai, Yuwen Wen sat upright in the room. Below were all small local snakes in Xiyang City. After the big local snake Tian Yuansheng and the Lu clan were eliminated, they were "rebirth" on the side of the governor.
The leader Li Fang participated in Yuwen Wen's circle and his days were much better than before. The old order was broken and the new order was quickly established. As long as he was obedient, he would not have to worry about eating meat.
"After the autumn harvest, there will be a lot of things to do soon." Yuwen Wen said loudly, seeing everyone looking at him, and continued: "I said it at the meeting of the State Department this morning, don't have any doubts."
"Empress, we will do our best to do our best to Bazhou." said a fat man, and the rest of the people nodded. The person in the head of the city was called wind and rain in Bazhou, and no one dared to disobey him.
Because the previous group of people who did this have been beheaded and shown to the public, of course Yuwen Wen is not a bloodthirsty person. Since someone is willing to cooperate with the times, he doesn't mind making money together.
"The embankment on the north bank of Santai River needs to be repaired, so a large number of stones are needed. The land reclamation requires oxen, seeds, and farm tools. These are the more the better." Yuwen Wen talked happily.
"This autumn harvest has been saved, and the loans borrowed by the people can also be returned to the shopkeepers. By the beginning of next spring, more people will borrow and farm. I don't want anything bad to happen."
"Please rest assured, I will stare at the bottom, and there will never be any usury incident!" Everyone slapped their chests. Everyone had seen Yuwen Wen's methods. Everyone was in Bazhou and Jiangbei. No one dared to have any bad intentions.
"The Ren Changshi and Xu Biejia have said that they should be said. I just remind everyone again not to cut off their own financial path for a little profit." Yuwen Wen tapped everyone here again.
He knew very well that if it were not for his father's status, if he had not been the governor of Bazhou, if he had not had soldiers in his hands, the people here would not have taken him seriously. As a storm of a storm, the only thing that was reliable was the strong soldiers in his hands.
Raising soldiers requires food. The more soldiers, the more grain you need. To increase production and income, you have to expand the area of farmland. In Bazhou, a place with many lakes and bordering the Yangtze River, you have to build water conservancy.
Having water is a good thing because it can irrigate farmland and grow rice, but too much water is also a bad thing because floods can cause no harvest. Yuwen Wen has made up his mind to control Santaihe, which often has heavy water, so he needs to concentrate all his strength.
The most convenient thing about building a river embankment is pure rammed earth embankment. However, this kind of earth embankment will leak after a few years. The river embankment on the north bank of Santai River that is about to be started cannot be a tofu project, which requires a lot of stone, while the expansion of other places such as Yanji and Wuzhoushu requires a lot of stone.
Yuwen Wen outsourced the work of quarrying to the people present. The mountainous areas of Bashui are not worried about stones. Wooden boats loaded with stones flow downstream, either entering Santai River and transporting them directly to the embankment construction site, or leaving Bakou and going directly to Yanji, Jiangnan or Wuzhou Shu.
Convenient transportation is not arrears for cash on delivery. It is nothing more than the fact that quarrying gravel requires more staff. The financial path given by Yuwen Wen doesn't sound very good, but the profit is real.
Of course, this alone is not enough. Yuwen Wen decided to "give concessions" and let the local big players standing on his side taste the sweetness, which means making money together.
Another one is the fabric business. Yuwen Wen's Hulin Army's 5,000 people are a bottomless pit. The training intensity is very strong, so that the soldiers' military uniforms are often damaged. Although it is impossible to throw them away as soon as they are broken, they will be repaired and continued to wear them, but they can't spend a lot of effort every day. Therefore, Yuwen Wen outsourced the Hulin Army and the state soldiers' military uniforms to some of the people present.
Of course, the materials should be used in a solid way. The quality of the military uniform should not be poor. Those who fail to pass the inspection will be refused. If anyone dares to fool him, he will not have any good results.
There is also the supply of various non-staple foods, and the five thousand fighting men practice day and night, and the meat consumed is not a small amount. Although Yuwen Wen has opened a pig farm, it cannot quench near thirst, so he also lets the capable people present be suppliers.
Whether it is chicken, duck, fish, goose, pig, or mutton, it is fine. As long as it is fresh, it is fine to collect as much as the meat. Of course, the preservation ability of this era is very poor, so the receipt is basically based on **, and there is no problem with various eggs.
The military has huge demand, and some people have planned to open a farm such as chicken farms or fish farms. Yu Wenwen also strongly supports this kind of "entrepreneurship". In order to make everyone confident in being a supplier of the military, he sent someone to make a contract after careful verification.
It is necessary to make a contract with each company to advance the payment for the goods for three years. Of course, it is necessary for the supplier to provide all kinds of poultry and livestock on time and in quantity. Considering that chicken swelling and swine fever are really troublesome these days, there is some flexibility in the delivery time and allow a temporary suspension.
But no matter what, there is a certain degree. If anyone dares to escape with money or make a trick like making money, Yuwen Wen will personally lead the troops to teach him how to be a human being.
Of course, if each family has a way to sell food, it is impossible to get it. As for the necessities such as salt, the more it is better. If it can sell important "strategic materials" such as iron materials or even war horses, Yu Wen Wen will not only accept them all, but also send a banner.
However, there are no rich merchants in Bazhou. Everyone here is just ordinary local "little tycoons". They dare not have too much hope for whether salt, iron, and war horses can be brought to Yuwen Wen.
But he wanted to give the other party hope and let the other party know that 'as long as Yuwen envoy is good, everyone will be good', and he felt that as long as he followed him, there would be meat to eat. Only by using interests can the cooperation between the two parties be stabilized.
Yuwen Wen's energy is mainly focused on using troops to train troops. The locals in Bazhou also "have equal benefits" to make them feel that Yuwen Wen's raising troops is good for them, and then to the point where they are looking forward to the Hulin Army winning the battle, then his foundation in Bazhou is considered solid.
That is, the so-called interest group. Although Bazhou is a small place and the quality of the powerful is not very good, it just so happened that Yuwen Wen could practice how to "bundle interests". In this era, it is unrealistic to kill all the powerful, the family, and the aristocratic families, so another way should be used to strengthen their own strength.
After some rubbing, Yuwen Wen wished all the "suppliers" present to make a lot of money. Only when they all took their leave could they breathe a sigh of relief, stood up and rubbed their already numb legs and moved their limbs.
He is still not used to "sitting", but he has to sit not to sit, just as he doesn't like powerful people and has to deal with them. He kills a group and wins over another group and then gives a stick to a sweet date. This method must be proficient as soon as possible.
As the second son, Yuwen Wen's situation is a bit subtle. The states in Shannan are very large, so they occupy a lot of their father's human resources to control. The rest must be given priority to the eldest son Yu Wenming, so Yuwen Wen, who doesn't want to be a rich man, has to rely on himself.
He must develop his own 'circle of friends' and build a strong team by himself. First, don't pull the father and brother back down, and then fight the tiger and fight the tiger to help his father withstand the huge pressure.
Not to mention the little emperor Yuwen Gankeng in Yecheng, the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty was almost killed. The adults were the father and son, and two of the three minors were babies. The danger of extermination was never far away from.
Of course, Yuwen Shu, Yuwen and father and son are two of them, but that was not Yang Jian's target. Since Liu Yu was abdicated in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, he killed Emperor Gong of Jin Sima Dewen and purged the royal family of the previous dynasty, the royal family has become an iron rule.
The Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, Cao Huan, the last emperor of Cao Wei, was appointed King of Chenliu, and the kingdom of Chenliu continued until the Southern Qi Dynasty; Liu Chan, the latter lord of Shu Han, served as Anle Gong for eight years before he died; Sun Hao, the last emperor of Sun Wu, served as a waiter for four years before he died.
The last emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Dewen, was suffocated to death less than three months after abdicating. Since then, the royal family and royal family of the previous dynasty were no longer favored by the new dynasty. After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Liu family was also slaughtered. After the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty, the royal family of the Gao family did not escape the misfortune. Of course, the unthreatening royal family survived.
‘So is it a retribution for the Yuwen clan to be slaughtered by Yang Jian?’ Yuwen Wen sometimes thinks this way. Yang Jian slaughtered the Yuwen Zhou clan, and later the country changed its color, and the Yang Sui clan was also killed and blood flowed into a river.
This is the cruel power struggle. It is hard to explain who is right and who is wrong, so Yuwen Wen does not want to be a loser.
A knock on the door sounded outside the door and pulled his thoughts back to reality. After saying "come in", the door opened. Wang Yue and Li Fang came in. Seeing the two of them blushing, Yuwen Wen smiled and asked if the agreement had been completed.
Wang Yue nodded and said that the goods such as glass mirrors that had been accumulated before had been "cleared" and the soap that Li Fang was in charge was also sold out successfully. Several shopkeepers from Jiangnan made an immediate decision to place an order, and they would like to take as much soap as possible.
As for the three glass products, they are naturally very popular, especially the "Hundred Birds Chaohuang Glazed Screen", which the other party can't buy.
Today, Chen Shubao, the official Chen Guoxin, has long lost favor. Chen Shubao's favorite is the imperial concubine Zhang Lihua. The "Hundred Birds Chaohuang Glass Screen" is specially customized for this imperial concubine Zhang.
Of course, Yuwen Wen did not have any thoughts about this person. He put himself in the shoes of all the officials in Jiangnan. In history, Chen Shubao favored Zhang Lihua very much, and later even asked Zhang Lihua to help deal with the government. It was more important to be able to please the favorite concubine in front of Chen Guan family.
Giving gold, silver, jewelry, money, etc. is too ordinary. After all, you give it to others. It is boring to just pile up the quantity. It is so unique that Concubine Zhang is so happy that she is unique. The meaning of a hundred birds facing the phoenix is great.
So I couldn't help but not buy those shopkeepers in Jiangnan. The bosses behind me were considered to be a group. If they didn't buy, they would naturally buy them. Giving the treasure to Concubine Zhang would be the top priority.
"Eunuch, that glass screen is sold at a sky-high price..." Li Fang said with trembling words here, and he watched the bargaining process of Wang Yue, Manager Wu and others.
Seeing one person asking for a price all over the place and paying back the money, the fierce bargaining was mixed with skills such as "playing hard to get" and "willing to welcome but rejecting", Li Fang felt that he was indeed a frog in Bazhou.
"The cost of glass screens is not small, and it took several months to make them." Yuwen Wen smiled, "It doesn't matter, the craftsmen's skills are becoming more and more proficient, and it will not take too long."
"Even so, this screen is really a treasure!" Li Fang praised. He was shocked when he saw the glass screen for the first time. The birds on it were lifelike, especially the phoenix was full of momentum. It was no wonder that Manager Wu and others tried their best to buy it.
Yuwen Wen nodded, but sighed in his heart: Of course it’s a treasure! My Lihua is the project director of "Hundred Birds to the Phoenix". He spent a lot of effort to complete the production. This is a glass screen blessed by the authentic phoenix. The Lihua in Jiangnan has made a lot of money.
"As usual, you can handle it immediately tomorrow."
Wang Yue nodded. Yuwen Wen spent a lot of money to raise soldiers. He couldn't save the money he earned from doing business. Most of them had to be transferred to the military warehouse. The expenses of 5,000 people were not a joke.
Chapter completed!