Li Zhi was excited there when Zha Yunke, the boss of Yuan Xingxing, came up and said: "It's a big deal to command Lord Qian!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Master Cha bought two sets of drinking utensils, so he can make a lot of money!"
Zha Yunke said: "My hard-earned money for these two sets of glass is really thin compared with the profit from directing the company! They say that the eight major companies in Tianjin should be changed to the nine major companies long ago!"
Li Zhi knew that Cha Yunke was in the sea business and made a lot of profits in a year. The profit from selling two sets of glass wine sets was not a big deal for him. Thinking of sea ships, Li Zhi asked casually: "
Mr. Cha made a lot of money by going to sea. Did Mr. Cha build his own ship?"
When Zha Yunke saw Li Zhi asking about it, he thought for a while and said, "To be honest with you, I hired a shipbuilder to build my boat myself. When I ask this, does it mean I also want to do this sea business?"
During the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had liberalized the sea ban for many years, but it restricted the number of ships that could sail to the sea. Only merchants who received a "shipping guide" from the Municipal Shipping Department could sail from Fujian Yuegang to the sea. There were only more than a hundred of these shipping guides each year.
They were all pocketed by some of the most well-connected merchants. However, there were many maritime merchants who wanted to go to sea but did not have connections with shipping companies, so they had no choice but to smuggle.
However, the smuggling ship is officially regarded as a pirate, and it cannot be operated without local connections. Cha Yunke is the nephew of Bing Beidao, and Bing Beidao is in charge of coastal defense matters in the Tianjin Sea. This is why Cha Yunke
Ke can safely sail from Tianjin into the sea.
Li Zhi only cares about Fanjiazhuang. It is currently impossible to do this kind of business. Li Zhi also asked casually.
Li Zhi smiled and said: "If I want to build a ship in the future, I will ask Master Cha to introduce him to a shipbuilder!"
Zha Yunke looked at Li Zhi, smiled arrogantly, and said carelessly: "It's easy to build a ship with integrity, whether you can go to sea is a matter of fact. Things on the sea are not that easy. However, if you want to build a ship with integrity,
Feel free to find me."
After making a lot of money from the glass business, Li Zhi set up a medical examination tent in Fanjiazhuang and recruited troops.
This time, Li Zhi wants to recruit two thousand more servants.
The battle in Ruzhou made Li Zhi understand that having soldiers is the most important thing in these troubled times. With strong soldiers and horses, the governor, the general, and even the prime minister will respect you. Although not all the heads of beheaded people can be included in the bag.
, it has to be distributed to other high-ranking military attachés, but it is still possible to be promoted gradually with military merit.
Although the military attachés of the Ming Dynasty did not agree with Li Zhi's idea, they felt that he was using money to build a strong army, which was too wasteful. But these people did not know that as a time traveler, it was not too difficult for Li Zhi to make money.
, Prodigality is not a stupid thing.
As long as he has more and more soldiers in his hands and his official position is gradually improved, Li Zhi will have real strength and be able to protect his own industry and earn more money.
And speaking of it, the Gyeonggi Province in the late Ming Dynasty was a dangerous place, and the Jurchens often came in to plunder. Once the city was breached by the Jurchens, there was often a bloodbath. Tianjin was located on the east side of the Gyeonggi Province, so it was naturally not a safe place. From then on,
From the perspective of self-protection, Li Zhi must also quickly train more powerful troops.
Li Zhi's soldiers and horses were well treated, and the first batch of 2,000 servants had already gone to live in a well-off society. This was known to the residents for dozens of miles around. As soon as the second batch of recruitment notices were posted, tens of thousands of people flocked to it.
They applied to Fanjiazhuang, hoping to join the team that selected Li Zhi and become a soldier with three to two months' salary and three meals of meat.
The physical examination and interview were carried out step by step. On December 27, the eighth year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi recruited two thousand servants before the Chinese New Year. The new two thousand servants formed a new regiment, called the Polu regiment, and the regiment leader
It was Li Xing, Li Zhi's younger brother. Li Zhi selected outstanding officers and soldiers from the Selection Regiment to serve as officers in the Polu Regiment, and established the organizational framework.
Fang Laosan is a new soldier in the Polu Regiment.
He was originally a son of a common family in Fangjia Village, west of Fanjiazhuang. A few days ago, I heard from someone who was a scholar in the village that a notice was posted in the town saying that Fanjiazhuang was recruiting servants. The servants of Fanjiazhuang were so desirable.
Errands, I heard a well-informed person in the village say before: Fanjiazhuang's soldiers provide three full meals a day, including meat and vegetables, and they also pay three taels of silver a month. This is a good thing that you can't find even with a lantern.
!
Although the servants of Fanjiazhuang went out to fight, they were victorious every time, and no one was heard of being injured or killed in battle.
Sister Fang Laosan is already married. She has an eldest brother and a younger brother at home. The family only has 33 acres of dry farmland, and they cannot afford to raise three men to start a family. Fang Laosan is desperate to find a way out! Hearing the news about recruitment in Fanjiazhuang
, Fang Laosan immediately came to apply for the job together with a dozen young people in the village. After the final physical examination and interview, only Fang Laosan was hired.
He has been in good health since childhood, has no night blindness, and is honest, which meets the requirements of Fanjiazhuang.
The news that Fang Laosan was hired spread, and the entire Fangjia Village came to Fang Laosan's house to congratulate him. Fang Laosan's father was so happy that he simply borrowed three taels of silver to set up two tables of flowing banquets in front of his house and invited the whole village to eat.
The whole village came to eat the flowing water table happily, and the atmosphere was as if Fang Laosan had won the title of scholar.
Fang Laosan's father told Fang Laosan rudely that Fang Laosan would have to repay the three taels of silver for the flowing mat in the future - that is, he knew that Fang Laosan would have the money to repay the debt in the future, so others lent the three taels of silver to him.
Fang family.
Two days later, Fang Laosan's father borrowed another four taels of silver from the village and made a set of decent new cotton-padded clothes for each member of the family of five. He said that Fang Laosan would have to repay the money in the future.
Now everyone in the Fang family regards Fang Laosan as the rich man. After all, he only has three taels of monthly money! If he were more frugal these days, a person's monthly expenses for food, clothing, housing and transportation would only cost seven or eight taels of silver. Three taels of silver could support four people.
Man. Fang Laosan is a single man who has food and lodging in a military camp. How can he spend three taels of silver?
Fang Laosan could only agree to these debts with a smile - he was recruited as a servant by the Li family in Fanjiazhuang, and it was unreasonable not to pay some money to make his family happy when such a great thing happened.
After having fun at home for half a month, Fang Laosan said goodbye to his family and reported to Fanjiazhuang as required.
He was assigned to the first squad of the third platoon of the third company of the first battalion of the Polu Regiment. On the day of the report, the company commander gave him a wooden waist badge engraved with his name.
After getting the badge, Fang Laosan followed his squad leader to the military camp to put his luggage. Fang Laosan’s squad leader was called Jiang Chong, and he was a very strong veteran. Jiang Chong didn’t talk to Fang Laosan along the way.
The new recruits looked down upon him.
The military camp is built in the south of the city. It is a large dormitory. Each class has a room with four bunk beds. There is a public bathhouse and toilet for every five dormitories. The bathhouse is equipped with free
Soap and hot water, squad leader Jiang Chong arrived at the barracks and told Fang Laosan that the recruits must take a bath in the bathhouse immediately after entering the barracks. From now on, they must take a bath every three days in the winter and every day in the spring, autumn and summer.
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