The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 169 Shen Xiaotao

The Sea Cliff Fleet consists of 38 ocean-going merchant ships.

Except for Han Fulai's flagship [Ruicheng], the sub-flagship [Yuxiang] has the largest displacement in the entire fleet.

According to the naming rules of the ocean-going fleet of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the merchant ships beginning with the word Rui are the largest super merchant ships of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, and the merchant ships beginning with the word Yu are smaller in shape, but they are often flagships.

In fact, the Yuxiang was not originally an ocean-going merchant ship responsible for the outlying island trade route. In the past ten years, the Yuxiang has been sailing on the interstate route of "Zhongzhou Haiya Port-Huoyun Prefecture Yangjiang Port", as a The main flagship of the Fire Cloud State trade fleet.

When the Haiya Division was preparing for reinforcements to outlying islands, the Yuxiang was temporarily resting in Haiya Port, so it was assigned to the Ruicheng and became the deputy flagship of the Haiya City Special Fleet.

The main flagship [Yufeng] of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, which was originally in charge of the outlying island trade route, is currently also included in this temporary fleet.It's just that Yufeng's displacement is slightly inferior to Yuxiang's, so it can only serve as the third ship of the fleet after Ruicheng and Yuxiang.

Although the displacement of the flagship Ruicheng is larger, in order to take care of the lives of the master and Han Guanshi, in addition to the sailors necessary to operate the ship, the Ruicheng also carries a lot of cooks and maids, and is equipped with similar "moisture-proof immortals". Ordinary soldiers and sailors are not qualified to board this luxurious sea palace at all.

As a large armed merchant ship dedicated to combat, the Yuxiang was fully equipped with nearly a thousand conscripts from Haiya City. Shen Xiaotao of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce was one of the 1000 conscripts.

Shen Xiaotao was originally a newspaper boy for Pan's Commercial Company. His father used to be a handyman at Haiya Port Wharf, but he was permanently disabled due to an accident. Although his life is safe for the time being, he has to be taken care of in daily life.

For a job like a newsboy, even if he is struggling to get enough food and clothing, even though Shen Xiaotao works very diligently with a disabled family member, he still lives hungry and full.

Fortunately, Shen Xiaotao is one of the very few newspaper boys who learned to read through selling newspapers. With the help of Murong, a comrade in arms who sold newspapers together and later joined the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, he learned the newspaper selling method of the headline party, which made life more comfortable. some.

It's a pity that the leak in the house happens to rain all night.

The winter that just passed was too cold, which made his father, who was already in poor health, seriously ill.

In the realm of comprehension in Kyushu, serious illnesses can only be treated by practitioners.However, if a cultivator wants to spend spiritual energy to see a doctor for ordinary people, it will cost at least a few yuan in spirit stone coins. If you add the cost of recuperating the body in the later stage, I am afraid that ten yuan spirit stone coins will not be able to beat it. This is also a cultivator. A common means of exploiting mortals.

Shen Xiaotao originally wanted to ask Murong for help, but was told that Murong was no longer working in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, and when he asked about Murong's whereabouts, the staff of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce kept secrets.

Although he failed to achieve the goal, Shen Xiaotao was told that the Qingning Chamber of Commerce was recruiting management trainees, and they needed a young man like him who could read and write and had an innocent family background.If it were another chamber of commerce, Shen Xiaotao probably thought he had encountered a scammer again, but the Qingning chamber of commerce was different because it indeed recruited Murong, a newsgirl whom he was familiar with, to work there.

With the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, he signed up for this so-called Guan Peisheng project of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, Shen Xiaotao will definitely not pin all his hopes on the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.At that time, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce was aggressively recruiting volunteers to support the frontline of the Outlying Islands War. It is said that ordinary people only need to receive two months of military training and fight overseas with the Haiya Fleet for a month, and they can immediately receive a cash allowance of 60 Lingshi coins. If unfortunately died in the outlying islands, the family members will receive a huge pension of several hundred yuan.

For ordinary residents of Haiya City whose per capita annual disposable income is less than 20 yuan, this is definitely an opportunity to get rich overnight, and more importantly, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce also provides the superior conditions of payment upon signing the contract.As long as the registration is passed, you can immediately get a signing fee of 30 yuan, and the rest of the payment will be settled after the war is over.

So Shen Xiaotao signed up to participate in the Outlying Islands War at the same time.

According to his thinking, as long as one of the two jobs is approved, his family's financial situation will be greatly improved. However, he did not expect that both of his job applications were passed.

This is embarrassing!

For Shen Xiaotao, both the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and the Qingning Chamber of Commerce are giants that he cannot afford to offend. No matter which contract he breaks, the consequences are beyond what he, a little newspaper boy, can bear.

Needless to say, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, if ordinary mortals tear up the contract signed with the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, it is no different from courting death!

The person in charge of the Guan Peisheng project of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is He Mingyuan, who is known as the "King of He Yan".

According to anecdotal rumors, this steward supporting He has always been known for not rubbing his eyes with sand. Not to mention vicious incidents such as breach of contract, even if the public expenses of a few cents of Lingshi coins are not reimbursed according to the regulations, Steward He will definitely let your whole family die. Take a trip.

Even if the bottom-level members of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce talked about He Mingyuan, they were both respectful and afraid, probably because He Mingyuan was too ruthless to his subordinates, and respected because he was even more ruthless to himself!
It was precisely because He Mingyuan held himself up to the standards of a saint all the year round, and several trusted subordinates, represented by Li Feng, almost put He Mingyuan on the wall as an idol.It was precisely because of the ascetic behavior of He Mingyuan and his group that the mood of the entire Qingning Chamber of Commerce was boosted.

When Shen Xiaotao took the sea cliff city conscription contract he signed and explained the situation to Manager He Da, several of He Mingyuan's trusted subordinates looked at him as if they were looking at a dead person, and they almost didn't scare Shen Xiaotao to pee his pants.

However, something surprising happened.

When He Mingyuan heard about the difficulties in Shen Xiaotao's family, he didn't even have the slightest intention to blame him.

He said on the spot that Shen Xiaotao's behavior was not a breach of contract. He could receive two salaries from the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and the Qingning Chamber of Commerce at the same time, participate in the military training of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce in the morning, and come to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce in the afternoon to learn business knowledge.This generous and benevolent statement made He Mingyuan's cronies and subordinates couldn't believe their eyes.

They even suspected for a time that their Steward He Da, whose "father and mother are not as close as the Chamber of Commerce", was taken away by the evil monks.

Shen Xiaotao was even moved to tears on the spot, repeatedly expressing that he would never disappoint He Mingyuan's expectations, even if he worked two jobs at the same time, he would definitely be better than other Guan Peisheng.

However, Guanshi He just smiled gently and told him that this was what Consultant Yang of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce meant, and that he should thank Consultant Yang as well, not He Mingyuan.

Since then, Shen Xiaotao has lived a life of three points and one line.

In the morning, he needs to participate in the Haiya Chamber of Commerce's routine military training for mortal conscripts. In the afternoon, he needs to participate in the small business knowledge course taught to him by He Mingyuan alone. In the evening, he has to go home to take care of his paralyzed father. There is almost no time to rest.

And as the Haiya Fleet pulled anchor and set sail for outlying islands, Shen Xiaotao also asked He Mingyuan for a long vacation, and paid a lot of money to entrust his father, who had just recovered from a serious illness, to the care of a familiar colleague before embarking on the journey. An unpredictable trip to outlying islands.

(End of this chapter)