Song Yi

Chapter 323 Qingqing Bamboo House
Du Wenhao cupped his hands and said, "Hehe, it turns out to be the shopkeeper of rice. Your surname is really good. It seems that you are born to be in the grain business."

Mi Twelve said: "Hey, thank you for your compliment, the old man is really right, my little ancestor was a rice maker."

"Treasurer Mi subscribed so many shares at once, it's really a big deal to do business."

"That's not true. In fact, the reason why my Mi family's business has not collapsed for generations depends on a word of stability. The reason why I poured all my money into the shares today is that I trust the old man. From what you said earlier, my brother I really believe that your reform must really benefit our common people. If you see it, you must make a big bet. This is also one of the secrets of our Mi family's business. Second, as the previous person said, if it is not Master, you lead the army to destroy the Fan Army, and our Mi family is finished. Repay the kindness, the kindness of a drop of water, should be repaid by a spring, not to mention the kindness of saving a life, should be repaid with all you have, this is also The family motto of our Mi family. It’s not like some people, who say it beautifully, but do it, hehe, it’s not a man’s behavior to be afraid of jackals and tigers later!”

When Mi Twelve said this, the old grain merchants couldn't help but smile dryly.

Du Wenhao said: "Treasurer Mi, please sit down. Who else is willing to buy shares? If you want to change the previous subscription, you can change it. Before it is finally included in the shareholder register, you can still modify it or withdraw it."

Another grain merchant stood up: "Shopkeeper Mi is right, my financial resources are not as strong as Shopkeeper Mi's, so just buy [-] shares."

"I subscribe to one hundred shares!"

When the old grain trader heard that others had recognized so many shares, it was too shameful for him to subscribe for ten shares. Moreover, there were several subscribed shares, and everyone shared the risk. I..., can I add a little?"

"Okay!" Du Wenhao smiled.

"Then..., I also recognize eighty shares."

As soon as he heard that he had changed, the other two shareholders who subscribed for ten shares also wanted to change: "I also subscribed for eighty shares."

Du Wenhao said: "I'm sorry, the first three shareholders plus the government's investment have reached a total of 940 shares. You each subscribed for [-] shares, and there are only [-] shares left. Each person can add up to ten more shares. "

The three of them wanted to add more shares, but they couldn't hold back their faces. They just pretended that they knew that the total limit was already exceeded by [-] shares, so when they heard this, they said angrily, "Then... let's add ten more shares. "

"Okay! A total of six shopkeepers bought shares, and a total of seven shareholders joined the official family's shares. Next, let's make a register of shareholders and sign on it in front of everyone. Remember, signing is considered a formal subscription. You can’t go back on your word, you must hand over the food and money to the company within the time stipulated in the articles of association. Han Tiju, the official’s shareholding grain money, has already stated his position, and he will return to Chengdu tomorrow to transfer and send it. Remind all shareholders to pay attention to not paying money and grain on time If it is, it shall bear the liability for breach of contract and compensate other shareholders for the losses caused by it.”

All six shareholders nodded in agreement.

"One more thing, we have to give the company seven names, what should they be called?" Du Wenhao turned around and asked Su Shi: "Su Zhizhou, you are a famous writer, please help me choose a name."

"Du Yuyi is absurd!" Su Shi chuckled and said: "This business name is aimed at the common people. It is for the benefit of the people, and the same is true for the establishment of a public-private joint venture lending company, how about just calling it 'Huimin Rice Bank'?"

Han Jiang clapped her palms and said with a smile: "The name is good! It is simple and straightforward, and ordinary people can understand it at a glance, and it directly hits the purpose of opening the rice shop, very kind."

Du Wenhao and the shareholders nodded in agreement.

Du Wenhao said: "There must be one representative who represents the government to buy shares, please recommend it."

After discussing with the six shareholders, they all felt that Hou Zhong, the old guard in charge of taxation of the granary at the gate of the state government office, was honest and knowledgeable, so he was a more suitable candidate, and they unanimously elected him as the representative.

Du Wenhao immediately asked someone to call Hou Zhong.Briefly said the matter.And told him clearly that once he agreed to come to the company as a manager, he would no longer be able to serve as a security officer in the Yamen.Of course, the monthly salary is still received as before, but without official power.

Hou Zhong didn't care about the position of a small official as a prison officer, he paid more attention to the value of the supervisor, and said happily at the moment: "Thank you for your kindness, sir, since the master and everyone trust me so much, then the old man just obeys orders, and the prison is not proper. It’s not proper. I don’t know what this manager does, so please forgive me if I don’t do well. I can’t do anything else, but I can run errands and copy and write. Hehe”

All the shareholders laughed, and went on to choose the chairman, no need to ask, of course they unanimously recommended Du Wenhao as the chairman.Du Wenhao did not refuse: "Thank you for your trust. How effective this company is is related to my reform in Yazhou, so I must serve you well and try to make the company a success."

Du Wenhao also nominated Mi Twelve as the manager to be responsible for handling daily affairs. Except for officials, Mi Twelve subscribed the most shares, so everyone naturally had no objection.

At present, Mi Twelve wrote the pen, Du Wenhao directed, wrote a register of shareholders, seven shareholders each signed on it, and Du Wenhao stamped the seal of the supervisor, representing that this was a capital contribution from the imperial court.

Then, under the guidance of Du Wenhao, several shareholders discussed and formulated the company's articles of association, and decided to spend part of the funds to buy a house in the downtown area as the company's office location and build a granary.Before that, temporarily borrow the government granary to hoard grain. Now that the reform of the Shiyi Law has been stopped, Du Wenhao decided to vacate two rooms of the Shiyi Division's house as a temporary office.

Du Wenhao organized the first shareholder meeting in front of all the grain merchants, and voted first to decide on the loan interest.

Du Wenhao said: "It stands to reason that I shouldn't ask the shareholders' meeting to set the interest rate lower, but this time the situation is different, because the people in this state have just been hit by a military disaster, many people are homeless, and the loss is huge. Yes, although people are forced by life and have to borrow, but the burden will be heavy. Therefore, I implore everyone to set a lower lending rate this year, so that the people can really benefit. Of course, this is just a suggestion, wait a minute Voting is by secret ballot, shareholders have the right to make independent decisions, and my proposal is not mandatory."

Mi Twelve laughed and said, "Chairman, you can make the decision." The other shareholders also echoed.

Du Wenhao secretly sighed in his heart, the common people in ancient times were real, even profit-seeking businessmen were so serious about the issue of their own interests, let alone ordinary people, it seems that there is a long way to go to popularize the awareness of rights.

Du Wenhao said: "That won't work. As I said before, this kind of matter must be discussed by the shareholders' meeting and decided by a double majority. How about this? In order to focus everyone's discussions, I propose three proposals. The first one is based on the original young crop law. Two-point interest calculation; the second type, one point five; the third type, one share. Everyone implements a secret ballot. If a majority cannot be formed, the item with the least votes will be removed and a new vote can be made. interest. Until a majority is formed."

Shareholders agree.

At present, the invoice will be invoiced by Hou Yasi, the manager of the company. After everyone writes it out, they will hand it over to Hou Yasi.Hou Yasi messed up the tickets, collected them at will, and counted them under Mi Twelve's supervision.

To Du Wenhao's surprise, all shareholders filled in the third type, that is, a dividend!

While Du Wenhao was happy, he also felt uneasy. He knew in his heart that it was all because of the pressure he had put on these grain merchants by his previous words. Jiang, the governor of Chengdu, and Su Shi, the magistrate of the state, and so many grain merchants were on the sidelines. These grain merchants would rather earn less money than offend the officials.

Wanting to understand this, Du Wenhao secretly told himself that in the future company affairs, he should try his best to weaken the influence that he, the official, had on them, and truly push the company to the market.

The previous Green Crop Law implemented the compulsory ten-person guarantee, but now this method is no longer needed. Du Wenhao proposed to borrow land and family property of considerable value as collateral.If you don’t have one, you can also provide someone with property as a guarantor. If you can’t repay it, you can sell the mortgaged property to pay off, or the guarantor can pay off on your behalf.

Although there were guarantor or mortgage systems in ancient times, they were far less perfect than modern civil law.Du Wenhao introduced the guarantee law system in modern civil law, which surprised everyone, and they all thought that the regulations were clear and feasible.

Then, the shareholders' meeting discussed and decided that all the money and food must be in place before the evening of the next day, and the loan will start on the third day.Prior to this, shopkeeper Mi was responsible for selecting the employees of the hiring company, engraving the official seal, and then posting loan announcements in the city and four townships and Bali for publicity.

A group of grain merchants who were on the sidelines finally saw how a modern company is established and how the shareholder meeting operates. It was an eye-opener, and this became a preliminary popularization class of modern civil law.

Du Wenhao was very happy when the matter was settled, and he told all the grain merchants to open porridge factories to help the homeless victims after returning home, and followed Su Shi and Han Jiang to patrol the streets. It was getting dark, so I returned to my residence with satisfaction.

That night, Pang Yuqin personally cooked some good dishes, and invited Han Jiang, Su Shi and Qian Bushou to dinner.

During the meeting, Du Wenhao did not accept the money for the prevention and control of the epidemic.Qian Buxuan looked gloomy: "Master, there are basically no problems in the city. According to your request, garbage cleaning and disinfection work has been arranged. However, the situation in the countryside is really not optimistic."

"What's wrong?" Du Wenhao stopped his chopsticks and asked.

"Yazhou is a mountainous area with high mountains, dense forests, and heavy dew and humidity. It is a place where miasma is easy to breed. In addition, the villages and towns are scattered, and the plague patients only attack for more than ten days. Once the epidemic occurs, it is often a village. We With limited power, it is impossible to prevent and control all the villages. Some villages have found the plague, and the villagers scattered and fled, and the plague is easy to spread.”

Du Wenhao has experience in preventing and treating pneumonic plague in Dongda County. Although typhoid fever is easier to treat than pneumonic plague and the death rate is much lower, it cannot be ignored. He knows that for this highly contagious disease, it is necessary to set up epidemic isolation , and then treat.However, in order to prevent the invasion of the neighboring tribes in Xishan, most of their troops have been deployed in strategic areas of Xishan, and there is no army at hand that can implement isolation.

Du Wenhao pondered for a moment, and said: "The epidemic prevention work is urgent, and it is more important than the production at present. Fortunately, the epidemic prevention work this time is different from ours in Dongda County. The epidemic is much more violent, and this time it is relatively mild. , So, even if it is not completely isolated, there is still a way to control it. How about this, tonight you immediately organize the preparation of a sufficient amount of preventive medicine powder, starting tomorrow, gather all the doctors, divide them into several groups, and take charge of them separately. The township carried out epidemic prevention knowledge publicity and delivered medicine to the door. The main source of transmission of this disease is food. As long as the food and drinking water are blocked from contamination, the spread of this epidemic can be controlled. Therefore, this time the epidemic prevention The most important thing is to popularize the knowledge of epidemic prevention and send medicine to the cottage.”

The money is not accepted and he bows and agrees.

Su Shi said: "Right now the grain merchants have opened a porridge factory to provide relief, and the food for the people in the city has been temporarily solved. General Han will soon bring in relief food. We must first find out the situation of the disaster and list the affected households. By then Let’s distribute relief food.”

Du Wenhao's loan company is to lend grain to those farmers who still have crops in the field and can repay the autumn harvest, and merchants who can find mortgages to borrow money from the rice bank to start business again. As long as the mortgage guarantee is sufficient, they can borrow as much as they want.For farmers whose crops were completely or mostly destroyed, and households and merchants whose houses and shops were burned in cities and towns without mortgage guarantees, the imperial court allocated relief funds for relief. It can only solve the rations for a few days at most ten days, so that you can find things to make money or make a living during this time.

Du Wenhao nodded and said: "Yes, this work will start tomorrow. By the way, the refugees have occupied your prefectural office, so you have to find a way to let them return as soon as possible. Even if you are not in a hurry to go in and work, the people are also anxious to build a new one. Homeland. What should I do?"

Su Shi said: "When we went to the countryside to inspect the disaster situation, I saw that there are mountains and rivers in this place, and there are bamboo forests everywhere. Bamboo grows very well, and bamboo is very cheap. It can be bought in large quantities with disaster relief funds and used for the victims. Build a simple house to live in temporarily, anyway, it is hot now, and there is no need to worry about the problem of keeping out the cold, and the time is spared so that they can find a living and earn money to build their own houses."

Du Wenhao clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Good idea! How did you think of it?"

Su Shi smiled and said: "Our hometown also has a lot of bamboo. The poor people who can't afford to build a house use bamboo to build a house. Although winter is not easy, it is much better than lying in the open air."

The bamboo on the wild mountain is not ownerless, but belongs to the landowner of the mountain. However, bamboo grows very quickly, and it takes two or three years to grow, so the price is much cheaper than wood.The next day, Du Wenhao sent officials to buy bamboo nearby.He heard that those landowners in the mountains were purchased by him, and they were used to build temporary shelters for refugees. Even though the money hadn't arrived, they could only issue IOUs, and there was no objection, so they sold them at a very cheap price.

Du Wenhao posted a notice to recruit bamboo craftsmen and carpenters who knew how to build houses. With the compensation of food and a small amount of wages, he began to build temporary houses for residents whose houses in the city were burned.This action gave many people employment opportunities and also solved the refugee accommodation problem, which made the refugees in the city very grateful to him.

After the arrangements were made, Du Wenhao brought the officials to the Yamen to register and verify the burning of houses and businesses, so that the bamboo buildings could be built as planned.

When the refugees saw Du Wenhao coming in, they quickly knelt down and kowtowed to express their thanks.

Du Wenhao smiled and asked everyone to stand up. Kneeling at the front, a boy about eleven or twelve years old stared at Du Wenhao intently, seemingly hesitating to speak.Du Wenhao quickly found him, and saw that he looked very clever, tall and thin, Du Wenhao stepped forward, and the child quickly lowered his head.

Du Wenhao asked: "What's your name, you look at me like this, but what do you want to say to me?"

The child raised his head, smiled a little shyly, and said: "I heard from that elder sister just now, sir, are you a doctor?" He pointed at Xue Fei'er.

Du Wenhao knew that some time ago, the two wives of Yan Miaoshou, Pang Yuqin, Xue Feier and Su Shi brought some women here to take care of the injured and sick refugees, so he asked with concern: "Why, are you sick?"

The child shook his head: "No, since I was born, my mother said that I have never been sick, and I am still sweating with my bare arms in winter."

A child in the crowd laughed at him in a low voice, and Du Wenhao also laughed: "Then why are you asking me this question?"

The child giggled and said, "Everyone says that the old man is different from other officials. He is an official who really helps the common people. He has excellent medical skills and even sends free medical and medicine to everyone. So I want to ask."

Du Wenhao laughed: "That's right, I'm a doctor, and I should treat everyone. Who told us that we are parents' officials? Officials should serve the people." He stretched out his hand and patted the child on the shoulder, " May I have your name?"

"My name is Monkey."

A little girl around his age giggled and said, "He jumps up and down restlessly all day, he's a monkey!"

Du Wenhao said amusedly: "That means he is very flexible. I am about the same age as him."

When the monkey heard what Du Wenhao said, he was even more proud. He rolled up his trouser legs, pointed to a big tree in the yard, and said to Du Wenhao: "My lord, I can climb to the top of the tree with a few dozen strokes. Dozens more times, I will come down, don't you believe it?"

The official behind Du Wenhao lowered his face, and said, "Go away, little guy, do you think the Elder is free to play tricks like this with you? The Elder is busy!"

Upon hearing this, the monkey immediately lowered his head and stopped talking.

Du Wenhao waved his hand and said to the monkey: "Okay, then I'm going to start counting now, so many folks are watching, don't be lazy!"

Everyone booed, the monkey was happy when he saw what Du Wenhao said, and took off a pair of rotten straw sandals on his feet, threw them aside, and then stomped his feet on the ground like a fierce horse, bowed and made a In the starting posture, he smiled at Du Wenhao and nodded to indicate that he could count.

Du Wenhao waved his hand and shouted: "Start! One! Two!..."

I saw the monkey rushing towards the big tree at a flying speed, and everyone quickly made way for him. When Du Wenhao counted to ten, the monkey had already got into the dense leaves. Du Wenhao walked quickly under the tree, but No one in sight.

"Monkey, where are you?" Du Wenhao shouted.

"My lord, I'm here." While speaking, there was a rustling sound coming from the top of the big tree, Du Wenhao took two steps back, a small head came out from the leaves, and was facing towards the tree. Du Wenhao waved vigorously.

Du Wenhao said: "Be careful when you come down, don't fall. Start! One! Two!..."

The monkey's head disappeared immediately, and as soon as Du Wenhao's tenth came out, the monkey jumped off a branch and stood firmly in front of Du Wenhao.

"My lord, I didn't lie to you, did I?" Monkey said proudly.

Du Wenhao nodded approvingly, and said, "It's pretty fast, not bad!"

"My lord, what do you need monkeys to do in the future, just ask me. I am very familiar with this place. There is no place I don't know about the streets and alleys in the city, the mountains and valleys outside the city."

Pang Yuqin came over and said to the monkey, "Then do you know the shortcut to go up the mountain?"

Du Wenhao turned his head curiously and asked, "What do you ask about the way up the mountain?"

Pang Yuqin said: "The relief food is a drop in the bucket. It is impossible to last for a long time. We must find a way to find other food for these victims. There must be a lot of wild fruits and vegetables on this mountain. We thought, find some people to take them up the mountain Pick something, on the one hand, you can eat it with the food, on the other hand, you can dry some of it and save it for the winter.”

Monkey patted his chest and said, "No problem, I'll take some sisters there."

The officials beside him stared and said, "What are the children screaming for? These are all the wives of the old man. You want to call me madam, do you understand?"

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "I think it's good to call me sister, the age difference is not too big, and it's easy to call, so I just call it that."

The monkey gave the official a proud look, and quickly shouted respectfully to Lin Qingdai and Pang Yuqin: "Hello, sister!"

Lin Qingdai smiled lightly, and Pang Yuqin reached out and touched his little head: "Where are your parents?"

The monkey said sadly: "My grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters were all killed by Fan Jun. I took advantage of the chaos and hid in a tree, so I survived..."

A trace of unbearableness flashed across Pang Yuqin's face: "It's really pitiful, so what will you do in the future?"

The monkey wiped away his tears and smiled again: "I can do long-term work, and I won't die of hunger!"

Pang Yuqin sighed, and said to Du Wenhao: "Master, this kid is still young, how can he resist moving? How can he live alone, or else, you can find him something to support him."

The monkey was very smart, and when he heard this, he quickly knelt down: "Okay, I can do anything, and I'm not afraid of hardship!"

Now that Madam has spoken, Du Wenhao is not easy to refuse. After thinking about it, there is really no job suitable for an eleven or twelve-year-old child, so he said: "You look very smart, why don't you follow me as an errand passer?" Believe me, wait and see if I can find an errand for you in the future."

The monkey was overjoyed and kowtowed like garlic: "Okay, thank you sir! More ladies!"

(End of this chapter)