The next day, Chu Qing went to the director's office and gave each of his colleagues ten pounds of soybean oil. Everyone was very happy.

A colleague mysteriously called Chu Qing aside and asked quietly: "Did you open a shop in Xinlunzhou?"

"Yes, I asked for permission from my superiors, and they said that I no longer need to use my shop as a base." Chu Qing thought that the Secret Intelligence Department was taking advantage of him again. His hair almost stood on end.

"No, I just want to tell you that someone is thinking about your shop."

"Who? Not long after my shop opened, someone is thinking about it?"

"The Meng family, their housekeeper came to do business yesterday. He stared at the map on the wall for a long time and even pointed at your shop with his hand."

Now, the map of the old imperial city of Xinlun Prefecture and today's Anhe County is hung on the wall behind the secretary of the board of directors.

Currently, the Secret Detective Division's spies in Xinlunzhou are all sent from the Jizhou Directorate, so the situation there is also under the Directorate's sight.

Especially Anhe County, even though it is a small county, all the shops, pawnshops, pharmacies, houses, etc. that have changed hands are marked on the map with small red triangles.

Two shops and a house under Chu Qingpan were also marked on it.

If mainlanders want to handle business such as opening a store, purchasing property, or trading bulk goods in Xinlunzhou, they need to report to the state government office and the board of directors.

Therefore, the board of directors assigned a clerk to handle consultation and registration of these matters.

"Which Meng family?" Chu Qing asked.

"Is there any other Meng family in Jizhou City? It's the Meng family that does cloth business. Half of the cloth shops in the counties in Jizhou City belong to their family. I heard that they are a branch of the Meng family in Jiangnan, similar to ours in Beizhen.

It seems that the caretaker has something to do with it."

"Oh, thank you!" Chu Qing thanked his colleague and gave him a steel ink bottle.

Chu Qingzheng made a lot of these gadgets and sold them in fifteen shops in the city. Some people used them as ink bottles, and others used them as condiment bottles.

My colleague happily accepted it. This thing is good, not big, and can be installed quite well. When I am busy at work and write a lot, I don’t have to waste time sharpening ink.

Meng family, engaged in cloth business.

Chu Qing returned home and took out the "Family Information of School Students" compiled that day. Chu Qing made a tree diagram of each family she focused on.

Although the information available is not detailed, the names of the basic personnel are listed above.

In this part of the Meng family, the head of the Meng family, Meng Qiming, runs the cotton, silk and fur business.

The fur and cotton business used to be done with Dong Lun, but it was suspended after the two countries had bad relations. Currently, the main business is silk.

Meng Qiming has three sons, two of whom are married and married to concubines from two aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River. The third son, Meng Xianchao, is thirteen years old and is in the same class as Xiaobao.

There is only so much information in total, nothing else.

Last time Mr. Nie mentioned Meng Xianchao's name, Chu Qing read the "Family Information" once. Because there was not much information, and Xiaobao was no longer bullied by him, she gave up.

Chu Qing spread the paper and wrote a letter to Zhang Mingyu. Zhang Mingyu couldn't come back for the Spring Festival this year, so Chu Qing asked him to help investigate the Meng family's business in Donglun and whether the Meng family was planning to open their own shop.

Forget it, there were still a lot of things to do before the year, and there was nothing I could do. Chu Qing thought, it was really not possible to go over there after the year to take a look.

Xiaobao came in and saw the letter paper spread out on Chu Qing's table. When he saw that it was written to Zhang Mingyu, he reminded him: "Would you like to send some New Year gifts to Uncle Mingyu?"

Chu Qing hugged Xiaobao and kissed the ball on top of his head: "What are your ideas?"

"Mom, the sheepskin jacket you made last time is very good. I feel warm after wearing it."

"You like it?"

"Well, it's just too little, so you gave it all away."

It was indeed given away. Chu Qing tried to clean the sheepskins that the boys from the sales team brought back last time, and made sheepskin jackets and cloaks that were similar to modern ones. They were so beautiful that they ended up giving New Year gifts to each family.

, they all gave some, but not much was left.

This was Chu Qing's first attempt, and it worked well. She started to think about sheepskin and wool.

"Listen to you, pick the best ones at home and give them to your uncle Mingyu."

"What about food?"

"You are in charge, you have the final say!"

"Okay! Thank you, mother!"

Chu Qing felt that Xiaobao didn't really want to prepare something for Zhang Mingyu, but wanted to hear the sentence "You have the final say." It seemed that he was holding something back?

After a few days of busy work, the restaurant I bought in Zhoucheng is almost fully decorated, and it’s New Year’s Eve. The young men from Xinlunzhou are back... not half of them! More than 300 people are back!

Chu Qing was shocked! Shouldn't half be eighty or ninety people? Chu Yuan laughed: "They have recruited a lot of people themselves. What are you thinking..." and then stopped.

Zhuo Yao pushed him: "Hurry up and change the coins! If you don't have enough money, the boss will beat you up!"

Chu Yuan didn't dare to look at Chu Qing anymore. There seemed to be four big words written on Chu Qing's forehead: "I will definitely beat you up!"

I was really in a hurry and wanted to go to another store to exchange some copper coins. Most of the shops were closed and the banks had already finished their inventory and closed down.

Finally, I plundered fifteen shops in my city, and then went to various restaurants and silver shops. I finally had enough. In fact, it was only more than two hundred taels of silver, so it took a lot of effort.

The monthly salary of these veterans is the same as that of their own servants and long-term workers, which is 800 yuan. This is the basic salary. In addition, 20% of Chuqing's income is paid as bonus.

So these guys are not short of money at all. But I heard that they have never spent any money themselves, and have not even settled their wages. All the money has gone into Chu Qing's business.

This is unimaginable in modern times. This kind of cohesion is clear and even inexplicable. Their management skills are really surprising.

Chu Yuan and the others spent a lot of time exchanging the copper coins, and finally came back when Chu Qing was leading the dumpling making process.

This is the second Spring Festival that Chu Qing has come here. But all the items from the first Spring Festival have been retained. These veterans seem to think that this is how the New Year should be celebrated.

There are so many people this year, so Master Lu doesn’t go back to his hometown, but joins in the fun. There are many young men who came back from Xinlunzhou who have never met Chu Qing. They all joined later.

Chu Qing got to know each of them one by one by paying them wages. Xiaobao still said "Thank you for your hard work" every time he was given a bunch of money.

Then Chu Qing became embarrassed. These young men who came back from Xinlunzhou brought out a box of silver ingots! There were dozens of sheep on the side of the wasteland. The agates and other things were all in small boxes, and they didn't take them out.

What is the concept of employees being richer than the boss? Xiaobao was clever and immediately came to Chu Qing's rescue: "Everyone is here! Assemble!"

Swish, swish! For the first time, Chu Qing saw a neat square team appear in front of him! The military parade on TV was not intuitive, but now, in front of him, there was a military parade in ancient costumes! They were all his own uniforms!

"Dumplings! Don't step on the dumplings!" Master Lu shouted.

"Pfft!" Chu Qing was happy.

There are so many people, the place is full of bricks, there are kilns, crushers...and dumplings all over the place!

Xiaobao's majesty was suddenly compromised, but he didn't panic. He cheered up and shouted again:

"Left!" Is this a left turn?

Swipe! Sure enough, the cube team turned left. The speed was consistent, but the steps were not very neat.

Xiaobao raised his little hand holding the iron pick, and the tip of the pick pointed to the wasteland on the left. Chu Qing did not buy it there.

The cube team trotted in order. Xiaobao chased after them. When they saw that they were almost in position, they pulled their necks from behind and shouted: "Stop!"

Wow! He really stood at attention. Even though it couldn't be compared with the military parade on TV, it still shocked Chu Qing. Chu Qing was also impressed by Xiaobao. Xiaobao hadn't met them many times, had he?

"Back!" This means turning backward.

"Sit!" This means sit still.

Xiaobao walked up to the square team and nodded. Now he was taller than them. Lao Yu and Lao Zhao almost burst into laughter beside them! They used to let Xiaobao learn from their training team.

Chu Qing asked Bai Jiaxing and the others to move the box of silver ingots back, and then walked to the front of the team. The embarrassment was finally gone. Xiaobao's trick worked quite well.
Chapter completed!