I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 138 Yuan Shu, who eats at many houses

Maoling Liangzhuang was built with the start-up capital given by Yuan Feng. After several years of development, it has achieved a balance between income and expenditure, and there is still a lot of surplus that can be used for storage.

After Yuan Shu started producing farm tools and trading in Liangzhou goods, he was able to earn a large amount of business income and made a lot of money by selling wine. Therefore, there was no problem in the operation of Maoling Liangzhuang, and it made a lot of profit. It had become an independent industry under Yuan Shu's name.

In the early days, Luoyang Liangzhuang also relied on Yuan Feng's transfer payments to obtain a lot of land and start-up funds. Later, a public opinion war broke out in Luoyang. Yuan Shu showed his prowess and won a great victory. He confiscated a lot of wealth from those losers. Yuan Shu used all this wealth to manage Yixinhui and Zhixing Academy.

But the money will eventually be spent.

It will take some time to generate income from the land. In the short term, the basic operation of Luoyang Liangzhuang still needs transfer payments to maintain. Moreover, due to the increase in population and the increase in demand for schools, the expenditure is really not small.

By the end of November in the fourth year of Jianning, the initial start-up capital obtained from Yuan Feng and the "war reparations" obtained from the losers were almost used up. If there were no other sources of income, Yuan Shu would have to spend his own money to subsidize the expenses.

Under such circumstances, Yuan Shu not only invested a large amount of money he earned from commodity trade into the construction of Luoyang Liangzhuang and supported the development of his own industry with his own money, but also did not forget to continue to collect money from others.

It’s not that he is unwilling to support the development of this industry himself, but his own industry has only been started not long ago, the foundation is not strong enough, and the savings are not enough.

Food, cloth, firewood, medicine, school supplies, paper, bamboo slips, ink, etc., all cost money. Compared with the earlier time when the Maoling Liangzhuang education system was run based on the academic legacy left by Ma Rong, the expenditure has increased significantly.

In addition, the starting land of 52 hectares was relatively small and could not support the huge demand. Therefore, in addition to relying on his power to fight against the local tyrants and annex land, Yuan Shu also had to pay some money to purchase the land.

It’s definitely not okay to always grab things.

Although nine out of ten of those landlords and tyrants are unscrupulous bastards, and the remaining one is a little restrained because he wants his son to have a good life, Yuan Shu still has to do the land business seriously from time to time to avoid it getting out in a bad way.

The money that should be given cannot be less, as this is also a huge expense.

Moreover, if they only rely on their own business income and the income of Maoling Liangzhuang for transfer payments, the losses will also be very large. After all, there were no banks in those days. When the income of Maoling Liangzhuang was transferred to Luoyang Liangzhuang, transportation losses also needed to be considered.

As a result, his "economic construction" projects will mainly focus on the transfer payment level.

Commonly known as beating the autumn wind.

It doesn’t sound good, and it doesn’t look good, but it works.

It is rare for me to have such a good background. If I don't make good use of it and develop it, I would be really ungrateful to God's kindness.

Therefore, Yuan Shu continued to carry forward the fine tradition of cheating his father and continued to extort money from Yuan Feng, asking for more investment to maintain the operation of Luoyang Liangzhuang.

Fortunately, the Yuan family of Runan was indeed a wealthy family with extraordinary wealth. Building a farm was just a piece of cake and would not be difficult at all. Yuan Feng was also happy to help his son build his business.

However, Yuan Shu was not a person who only knew how to cheat his father and not others. In addition to getting support from Yuan Feng, he also turned his attention to other people.

For example, my third uncle Yuan Wei.

Although Yuan Wei was not the main branch of the Yuan family, he also inherited part of the Yuan family's industry. The little resources he squeezed out from his fingers to give to Yuan Shu were enough for him to support the development of Luoyang Liangzhuang for one or two years, so he did not forget such a big family.

After getting sponsorship from Yuan Feng, Yuan Shu went to Yuan Wei and used soft and hard tactics, bombarding him with his eloquent words. Yuan Wei was so annoyed by his constant harassment that he had no choice but to give in and spend money to buy some peace and quiet.

Yuan Shu then obtained a sponsorship of 50 million yuan from Yuan Wei and invested all of it into the Liangzhuang public account to build Liangzhuang and Zhixing Academy.

After Yuan Wei's big meal was finished, Yuan Shu turned his attention to Ma Riti.

As Ma Rong's designated supporter of Yuan Shu, Ma Riti did give some support to Maoling Liangzhuang during the three years of Yuan Shu's mourning and kept his promise, but it was limited and not much.

Yuan Shu didn't care at the time, but after Yuan Shu won a great victory in the Luoyang public opinion war and overwhelmed Luoyang, Ma Riti was obviously impressed by Yuan Shu, recognized Yuan Shu's high value and high energy, and decided to cling to Yuan Shu, so he took the initiative to come forward to deepen the relationship.

Yuan Shu said that it was okay to deepen the relationship, and this was also the teacher's last wish, and he was very willing to do so.

But the relationship between us has only deepened slightly in the past few years, and we have even become a little distant. Now you are taking the initiative to deepen our relationship, which seems a bit deliberate and makes it difficult for me to handle...

Unless... you pay more!

Of course, Yuan Shu did not explicitly ask for more money, but he just mentioned intentionally or unintentionally that Luoyang Liangzhuang had a lot of expenses and difficulties in making payments.

Ma Riti was a smart man and he quickly understood Yuan Shu's intention, so he immediately mobilized the Ma family, revealed the wealth of the wealthy families in the interior, and directly sponsored Yuan Shu with materials and cash worth 100 million coins.

This large amount of materials and cash was handled by the Ma family themselves and transported to Liangzhuang, Luoyang in batches, giving Yuan Shu enough face and sincerity.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed and held Ma Riti's hand tightly and would not let go.

From today on, we are half-brothers! Uncle Weng!

In addition to Ma Riti, Ma Riti's good friend Cai Yong seemed to be very interested in Yuan Shu's Liangzhuang, and even more interested in Yuan Shu's Zhixing Academy. He followed Ma Riti to visit Yuan Shu and asked if he could send a few of Cai's children to study at Zhixing Academy?
Yuan Shu said of course it was possible, but the cost...

Besides, the enrollment season has passed. If we arrange for students to come here, the placement fee will be…

Cai Yong was also a smart man. He immediately understood what Yuan Shu meant. He arranged for the Chenliu Cai family to sponsor Yuan Shu 30 million yuan in cash and important materials, especially a large number of bamboo slips and paper.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed. He held Cai Yong's hand and expressed his gratitude repeatedly, saying that from now on your affairs are my affairs, and I will deal with anyone who dares to mess with you!
From now on, you, the Cai family, will be protected by Yuan in Luoyang!
In addition to Ma Riti and Cai Yong, Situ Xu Xu also took the initiative to visit Zhixing Academy, found Yuan Shu, and asked Yuan Shu to bring Xu Chong along, playing the emotional card with Yuan Shu.

Xu Chong is a member of Xu Xu's clan, and in terms of seniority, he is the clan's grandson.

This time, Xu Xu's experience of being roasted on the fire was confessed by Xu Xu himself, and it has been recognized and forgiven by the Yuan family. The relationship between the two families has not been greatly affected.

However, Xu Xu still felt uneasy, especially towards Yuan Shu.

He felt that the future of the Yuan family would have a say in Yuan Shu's hands, so he didn't want Yuan Shu to hate him. So he apologized on the one hand, and on the other hand, he expressed his willingness to deepen the relationship between Xu and Yuan Shu.

He heard from somewhere that Yuan Shu needed some financial support for the construction of Liangzhuang in Luoyang, so he took the initiative to send money. With a wave of his hand, 80 million yuan in cash and materials were quickly delivered, hoping that Yuan Shu could carry forward the School of Mind and push it to the peak, and by the way...

Don’t forget to always bring Xu Chong with you, this kid is very loyal!

Yuan Shu expressed his gratitude to Xu Xu with a smile, and said that he would definitely keep Xu Chong with him for the rest of his life, let him always stay by his side to protect him, and would never abandon him.

This is equivalent to making a promise to the Xu family.

Xu Xu was very happy, and three days later he sent Yuan Shu a list of gifts worth about 20 million yuan, making up the full amount for this "gift".

In addition to Xu Xu, three other doctors from the Imperial College took the initiative to invest 6 million yuan in Yuan Shu as a sponsorship for the Zhixing Academy. In the name of sponsorship, they actually hoped to gain Yuan Shu's forgiveness and hope that he would never cause trouble for them again. They really didn't want to end up like Han Zong.

It seems that Yuan Shu's strategy of killing the chicken to scare the monkey is meaningful. Han Zong's failure has more or less frightened these self-righteous doctors of the Imperial College, making them dare not confront Yuan Shu head-on.

They also heard from the grapevine that Yuan Shu was worried about the money needed to build Luoyang Liangzhuang and Zhixing Academy. They immediately became excited and ran over to Yuan Shu to say that they had money and were willing to help him!

To them, how can money be as important as status?

As long as you have status and power, you can have as much money as you want. Status and power are scarce commodities, but money is not.

It’s not worth it to use money to buy Yuan Shu’s tolerance and favor!
In addition to these former enemies who took the initiative to repair their relationship with Yuan Shu, there were also many people in his own camp who were willing to invest and help.

For example, the four of the Thirteen Protectors, Zhao Jun, Zhang Jie, Luo Yi, and Deng Ying, who came from wealthy families, expressed their willingness to help Yuan Shu through the difficult times. They asked for a lot of cash and supplies from their families and put them into the public account of Liangzhuang.

In this way, Luoyang Liangzhuang will have enough financial and material reserves to operate for a year or even a year and a half in the future. This time, Yuan Shu can be said to have benefited from the efforts of many families.

But the story doesn’t end here. The biggest bite Yuan Shu ever got came from the family of his future daughter-in-law, the Jingzhao Du family.

(End of this chapter)