Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 363 Trip to Foshan (Seventeen)

"Business, in fact, can't be done, it's just whether you want to do it or not." Liu San was in a good mood after finishing the acquisition, "Don't have to say, how much medicine will be used for the industry under our executive committee?" He replied, and he said to himself, "Now the security regiment alone has more than 1000 people, and there are many long-term workers. There are all kinds of people, and there are always tens of thousands of people. Are these people not allowed to see a doctor or take medicine?"

"It all depends on my brother."

"I'm a half-owner, so why don't I do my best?" Liu San said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will arrange all the affairs of the Australians."

Liu San went on to say: "The second way is to rely on your cousin. Do you know what Qiongzhou is rich in medicinal materials?"

"Of course it's betel nuts and puzzles." Yang Shixiang is very familiar with the local medicinal materials.

"Absolutely, these two drugs, betel nut aside. There is a big family in Qiongzhou who specializes in buying them, and we can't afford to compete with them for this deal. We have a bad relationship with each other." Liu Sandao said, "But Yizhi has not been bothered yet. There are wild ones in Lingao and Danzhou, and we can grow some by ourselves, cook them and sell them—does your elder brother also do wholesale of medicinal materials?"

"It's done." Yang Shixiang said, "He will go to Qizhou's drug market in two or three years, selling and buying."

"That's it. Our puzzles will be sold to him. This is another income."

"There is also tonic." Liu San said, "I saw that Yang Run's proprietary medicine seems to be good at tonic, right?"

"Speaking of which, my ancestors made their fortunes with various tonics." Yang Shixiang said, "It's a pity that in my father's generation, I couldn't do my best in Lingao, and they were all abandoned."

"Since the prescriptions are still there, it is not easy to recover? Although there are not many people in Lingao who take tonics, there are many in Guangdong."

"Then Yang Run can't be allowed to open a consignment store - there is a conflict. I have these prescriptions and he also has them."

"There's no need for him to sell it on a consignment basis. We'll find someone else to sell it on a consignment basis in Guangzhou, or we can simply open a semicolon in Guangzhou—but that's for a later story."

Yang Shixiang hesitated for a moment: "My dear brother! I don't know if I should say something or not?"

"what's up?"

"My dear brother, don't you think that there has been chaos in the world of Ming Dynasty in the past few years..." His voice was very low, as low as a mosquito's cry, "Tonics are something that can be eaten in a peaceful and prosperous age..."

Liu Sanxin thought that I knew it earlier: since this year, the Ming court has been caught in a cycle of alternating chaos between the peasant army and the Houjin Dynasty, and state affairs are becoming more and more corrupt day by day.Thus embarked on the path of destruction.But this Yang Shixiang is not a time traveler, it is impossible for him to grasp the overall situation in such a small place as Lingao.

"How can you see it."

Yang Shixiang sighed: "In the past few days I have been visiting here and there, and I have met many relatives, colleagues, and elders. When talking about the situation in various places, everyone shakes their heads: there are constant floods, droughts and famines. I heard that there is a big famine in Shaanxi this spring. People! The hungry people made a terrible disturbance, besieged the state and attacked the county everywhere, the officers and soldiers suffered a big defeat, and a general named Gao died...someone has already claimed to be a false king..."

"Shaanxi is far away from here—"

"That's what you say, but other places are not peaceful." Yang Shixiang said, "I also heard that there are soldiers in the capital who are making noise about their salaries. They actually cut trees and built villages at the gate of the capital city, and they want to ask for the full salary—is this worth it? We wait I have been in Lingao all the time, and I still don't realize it. This way, although Guangdong is still peaceful, the refugees everywhere are really unprecedented..."

Liu San laughed secretly in his heart, Yang Shixiang was actually right.But think about it carefully.They, a group of "kun thieves" who came from the sea, built cities and villages in Lingao in a big way, and collected food and labor. The local government couldn't help it. Isn't it also a big "chaos"?It's just that Yang Shixiang was in it, and even felt that Lingao looked a bit peaceful, so he didn't realize it.It can be seen that the time-traveling group's rule in Lingao has been initially recognized.

"It doesn't matter," Liu San comforted, "At least judging from the situation in Guangdong, it won't be so corrupt. Besides, even in troubled times, there are still businesses to do in troubled times."

"How to do it?" Yang Shixiang said.

Liu San said: "Don't worry about business, any local turmoil, as long as the government is still there, the situation will be stable. Once the situation is stable, there will be things to deal with the aftermath. It is said that after the military chaos, there will be a big epidemic. Hungry in the morning and cold in the evening, unaccustomed to the soil and water, we must buy medicine when we are sick. If it really gets out of hand, we will retreat to Lingao.”

"Yes, yes, Lingao can always keep one side safe." Yang Shixiang seemed to have regarded Lingao County under the rule of the Crossing Group as a paradise.

Now that the calculation has been made, Yang Shixiang went to visit his cousin on his own to discuss specific consignment matters.Yang Shiyi's attitude towards this cousin changed drastically after Lin Ming's banquet.Seeing him coming, he greeted him warmly and attentively.The consignment sale was quickly finalized: the batch and retail prices were designated by Runshitang, Yang Runkaitang was responsible for wholesale and retail sales, and the system of "no double price" was implemented, that is, no pricing, no discounts, and no price increases.Yang Runkaitang draws a fixed commission from the sales of each dose as the "handling money" for consignment sales, and Runshitang also pays a commission to the sales associates to encourage them to sell more.The sales income is settled in three quarters, and the account and payment are not allowed.Runshitang set up an office in Foshan, and dispatched people to be responsible for this sales and purchase.The expenses will be borne by Runshitang itself.The two parties also agreed with three chapters, that the personnel of both parties are not allowed to meet in private, not to entertain each other, and not to borrow money from each other.Traditional commercial enterprises maintain high vigilance against shopkeepers being corrupted by others.

Because of Lin Ming's face, the sales commission Yang Shiyi asked for was extremely self-restrained, and he didn't open his mouth like Yang Shixiang expected.Although Yang Shiyi felt a little unwilling, but seeing that the fifth younger brother ordered a large amount of medicinal materials from him in cash, he felt that he had made up for it somewhat, and the two sides talked very happily.Including the matter of Run Shitang entrusting them to sell puzzles in the future, they also talked about it.Yang Shiyi wondered inwardly——unexpectedly, the fifth younger brother, who had been doing nothing all this time, would become so capable!It seems that this Lingao famous doctor "Liu San" is not an ordinary person.

Liu San asked someone to lead the way, and spent a lot of time in pharmacies in Foshan. Everywhere he went, whenever there was a pill for sale, no matter whether he had heard of it or not, he would buy a few doses.Ready to take it back for human trials.In the name of expanding production, through Yang Shiyi's introduction, he recruited many unemployed pharmacy assistants who were willing to go to Lingao, and purchased a lot of traditional Chinese medicine equipment: slicing knives, various pots and kettles for preparing medicines, and the like.

Huang Tianyu's campaign to recruit workers has also made progress.He took Gaodi and Chen Tong to the teahouses of the kiln worker Houhuo to recruit a few people, and then through these few people, he went around to find unemployed kiln workers.Because there are a lot of unemployed people at the kiln mouth recently, the recruitment work went smoothly, and as many as five or sixty kiln workers of various types of work who were willing to work in Lingao were quickly recruited.Huang Tianyu would not refuse anyone who came, even some old kiln workers who were not wanted by the kiln mouth-these people were rich in experience, and their age was actually not more than fifty.It's just that long-term malnutrition and overloaded work have damaged their health. If Lingao gives them a little nutrition, they will be useful skilled workers.

Foundry workers are not so easy to recruit.Now there is a lot of work here, and skilled workers are unwilling to go to Lingao, which sounds very unfamiliar.Although Huang Ande worked very hard, most of the people he recruited were ordinary craftsmen.That's the way it is, and I don't really want to go.After running around for a few days, only a dozen or so people were recruited.Huang Tianyu was a little disappointed, it was raining this day, so he simply drank tea in the teahouse, Huang Ande went out to look for someone again regardless of the rain.

This teahouse is extremely simple. It is said to be a teahouse, but it is actually a hut with a big bamboo shed built on a mud floor.The tea sold is crude tea and lower-grade stalk tea powder.The advantage is that the price is extremely cheap, and it is not difficult to make a pot of tea here with the income of a peddler and spend half a day here.With low consumption and good news in the teahouse, this place became a place where unemployed workers gathered and waited for work.

Huang Tianyu got bored drinking tea, so he had to imitate others and bought a pack of betel nuts.There are small bags wrapped in leaves one by one, and the inside is dark.Throwing it into his mouth and chewing it, a surge of momentum went straight to his forehead, and his head became dizzy all of a sudden, feeling a little drunk, and it took a while to calm down.

"What's so delicious about this thing?" Huang Tianyu muttered.

"This is for digestion and dehydration." Gao Di said from the side, his mouth was red, and he was chewing betel nuts.

Huang Tianyu was about to say something when he suddenly saw Huang Ande walking in.Taking off the dripping coir raincoat, "Master—" he bowed respectfully.

"Talk at the table."

"Yes." Huang Ande leaned his umbrella against the table and sat down, "I didn't find a suitable casting master in a teahouse I went to just now, but I found something else. I just don't know if the master needs it?"

"What craftsman?"

"A craftsman who makes wheels..."

"What?!" Huang Tianyu called out unconsciously, causing the people around to look forward to him.He quickly lowered his voice:

"The one who makes the wheels?"

"Yes," Huang Ande didn't know why he was so excited, "exactly."

Of course Huang Tianyu was excited.Because the wheel problem has always been a heart disease of the Workers' Energy Committee.The current self-made vehicles of traversers, in addition to rail cars, have not been able to solve the wheel manufacturing problems of ordinary trolleys and carriages.Making wheels is a specialized craft, and there are many capable people in the engineering committee, but they can barely make it, but the efficiency is extremely poor, and it takes up technicians.So they could only use the various rubber wheels they brought to make vehicles.

Seeing that spare wheels are being used less and less, the demand for cars is increasing, and it is expected that rubber will not be produced within ten years. Finding a wheel maker as soon as possible, and making qualified wooden wheels is on the agenda.

Unfortunately, in the south, boats are mainly used to carry loads, and vehicles are rarely used, and wheelmakers are almost unprecedented.Expatriates everywhere have not been found.

The following is in addition to the subscription word count:

Note: Yang Shixiang said that the defeat of the army was on the [-]th day of the fourth lunar month in that year, when more than [-] peasants from Shaanxi attacked Sanshui, and the guerrilla Gao Conglong was defeated and killed.More than [-] officers and soldiers were injured.

The incident of paying wages was the Jizhou Mutiny, which took place in February of that year.The soldiers of the various battalions in Zunhua made troubles due to lack of payment, and they set up the village to claim full payment outside the west gate of Zunhua.Not outside the capital city gate.

(End of this chapter)