When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Twenty-seven Shopkeepers have their own thoughts

After Gu Hua and his men sorted out the situation and checked the accounts, eight shopkeepers were found to have taken the money they had pocketed and were unwilling to give it back to settle the accounts, and they absconded with the money.

It is true that nine stores are losing money due to their geographical location or other reasons, and the blame cannot be entirely placed on the shopkeepers.

The owners of the other twelve shops had a lot of ulterior motives and their accounts were not very clean, but they did not go too far, and Gu Hua did not blame them too much.

There are still 17 stores left. The managers of six stores have limited abilities, but they are honest and conscientious. They did not take advantage of the young owners and lack of management experience to enrich themselves, and they managed to run the stores with a small profit.

The other eleven shopkeepers were willing to return the money they had embezzled and were unwilling to bear the consequences. They bullied the young master and were thrown into jail for embezzling the money for their own benefit.

Gu Hua made a statistics and found that the majority of shopkeepers who committed crimes and fled were from grocery stores, and most of them had some connection with Ma Cunde, including the clerks in these stores who were all related to the shopkeepers who managed the stores.

The eight shopkeepers and some of their employees who had escaped were all reported to the government by her and were tracked down and sent to jail. The county magistrates under the jurisdiction of a provincial government all kept in touch with each other.

Upon learning that Gu Hua had an uncle who was an official in the Ministry of Personnel in the capital, the county magistrate, who had originally wanted to take the money that the shopkeeper had taken away, became cautious and politely returned the money.

Gu Hua was not such a clueless person. Every time the local county magistrate recovered money, she would take out a portion of it as hard work fee for the yamen in handling the case.

Now that they no longer have to worry about being accused of corruption and have money in their pockets, the county officials are more willing to take care of the Gu family shop within their jurisdiction and prevent it from being disrupted by local ruffians.

Gu Hua did not kill all the eleven shopkeepers who swallowed the money and then spat out the embezzled money before he brought people to check the accounts, but left them a chance to survive.

Let them resign and leave on their own, because their reputation of embezzling money from their master's shop has not spread, and it will be easy for them to find another master to be the manager elsewhere.

Because of the remote geographical location of the shops and insufficient funds, the nine stores are suffering normal losses.

After some thought, Gu Hua decided to keep the shopkeeper and the employees who were willing to stay, but those shops with poor business in remote locations should be put up for sale, mainly to recover funds for the purpose of renovating and renovating the shops.

After all, you have to give to gain. Instead of keeping these half-dead shops running, it is better to invest the money in other more profitable shops.

In addition to the two tea houses and three silk shops in Guangning County, there were several shopkeepers who were close to Ma Cunde and conspired with him.

The others that broke even were mostly tea houses, with a slight surplus being four silk and cloth shops and two grocery stores located in towns with well-developed transportation.

Of the fifteen grocery stores, Gu Hua only kept two that were managed by honest and responsible shopkeepers, and ordered the rest to be closed and reorganized.

There is no point in keeping a shop open if it neither makes money nor is a drag on operations.

The other thirteen grocery stores were seriously short of funds and did not have much stock because the shopkeepers had embezzled the purchase money. Gu Hua asked the two shopkeepers to bring all the groceries back to their warehouses in the county town and sell them slowly.

At this point, Gu Hua, along with Su Fuying and his cousin Gu Chen, and a group of people, after more than a month, had taken over all but the ten main stores in Jiangzhou City.

The remaining 46 shops in the 11 counties under Jiangzhou City were cleaned up, both in terms of people and accounts.

It was done as originally planned, what needed to be rectified was rectified, what needed to be closed was closed, and those black-hearted and bullying shopkeepers were sent to jail.

Before returning, Gu Hua eliminated the eight shopkeepers who absconded with the money and the eleven shopkeepers who resigned.

The remaining twenty-seven managers who stayed in the Gu family stores were invited to a banquet at the largest restaurant in the county town, which was the center of all the stores.

After the food and drinks were served, Gu Hua raised his glass and toasted to all the shopkeepers, saying, "Thank you all for running the shop for my family as always after my parents passed away. I would like to toast to everyone to express my gratitude."

"Shame on you, shame on you." All the shop owners and managers picked up their wine and drank it. They all knew that in the past three years, few of the Gu family's shops were profitable, and almost all of them were losing money.

After Gu Hua drank a glass of wine with everyone at first, she stopped drinking for the health of the tadpoles in her stomach.

Because almost all the shops managed by shopkeepers are losing money now, everyone ate in silence. It was not until the end of the meal that Gu Hua slowly stood up.

He said loudly: "Dear shopkeepers, I have been immersed in the sorrow of my parents' death for the past three years and have neglected the management of the Gu family business.

As a result, the Gu family business is now in a serious financial deficit, and I am unable to afford to spend any more money to subsidize the shop and continue operating it.

Under the current circumstances, your salary for next month can only be paid after I sell those shops."

Since it concerns their own personal interests, everyone looked at each other and then began to whisper to each other.

"If the Gu family really reaches this point and can't even pay our monthly salary, will the Gu family business be in decline?"

"It's not good to not get a monthly salary. I rely on this money to support my family."

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For a moment, most of the shop owners in the restaurant hall looked unhappy.

Su Fuying and Gu Chen looked at each other, neither of them understood whether the Gu family had really reached the end of its rope, or whether Gu Hua had other purposes.

Gu Hua glanced deeply at the twenty-seven shop owners and managers of the Gu family.

His tone was still casual as before, "The people who follow our Gu family will probably have a hard time surviving for a while."

After these words were spoken, the faces of several shopkeepers became even uglier.

Gu Hua curled his lips and continued, "I am not an unreasonable person. I am not going to let others suffer when I am not doing well myself.

If you have other options and want to leave, I will give you an extra three months' salary as severance pay as a thank you for working for the Gu family for many years.

I wonder if anyone has any ideas?
If you stay today and ask to leave later, you will lose the three months of severance pay."

As soon as Gu Hua said this, there was an uproar in the restaurant hall.

"Dong...Dongjia, my whole family depends on my monthly salary. I...I..."

"It's okay." Gu Hua smiled and nodded, his tone calm: "Cousin, go get some paper and pen.

Write down the names of the shopkeepers who are leaving, and how many people are leaving, and pay them the severance pay later."

Seeing that Gu Hua was not angry because someone suggested leaving, those shopkeepers who were not openly corrupt but had their hands not completely clean after the original owner took over the Gu family shop business all wanted to leave.

Only because of Gu Hua's swift and decisive action this time, they realized that it would be impossible to gain benefits from Gu's shop again.

(End of this chapter)