Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 262
It was not Li Jing's whim to bring the salt factory under his own name and the establishment of the Civil Affairs Bureau. In fact, Li Jing had this idea long ago.

In less than two years of occupying Pingyang Mansion, almost all of Li Jing's family money accumulated in the past few years was emptied.

Most of the factories are now in a state of loss, and it is all up to Li Jing to fill it out of his own pocket.

This is something that can’t be helped. As long as the Chinese people can do it by themselves, they will never spend money to buy it. Even if you tell him that spending money to buy it saves time, effort and money compared to doing it by himself, he will not do it.

Take Li Jing's garment factory as an example. The common people almost never go to the garment factory to buy finished clothes. They basically buy cotton, spin and weave their own cloth, and then make their own clothes.

In fact, the price of buying ready-made clothes is much cheaper.

Because Li Jing buys cotton in large quantities, the price is much cheaper than retail purchases. After the cloth is woven, it is bleached and dyed in batches, which reduces the cost a lot.

Of course, there will be labor costs, which is unavoidable.

But ordinary people don't know how to settle accounts. Don't they need labor to make their own clothes?If you use the time you spend making clothes to work, you will also earn money, perhaps more than the little money you save by making clothes at home.

Of course, there are still some people who can settle accounts. Most of the family members of the soldiers of the Jishi Army work in factories. They know that it is more cost-effective to make their own clothes than directly spend money to buy ready-made clothes, so most of their clothes are bought with money.

And those officials, their clothes are also bought with money.

Without such a group of people, Li Jing's garment factory would not be easy to maintain. It would be impossible for Li Jing to find a group of workers to make clothes all day long and then store them in the warehouse.

At present, the only factories that can make profits for Li Jing are paper mills, bleaching and dyeing factories, and weaving factories.

Pingyang Prefecture is now developing schools for education, and the amount of paper used has increased dramatically. In addition, government paper must be purchased from Li Jing's paper mill, so the paper mill is the first to see benefits.

As for the bleaching and dyeing factories and weaving factories, the reason why they can make profits is that the production cost of Li Jing’s factory is much lower than that of small workshops. The common people will send the cloth to the factory for dyeing, and some directly buy the dyed cloth and go back to make it. Clothes.

Although these factories have started to make profits, it will take some time to recover the investment cost.

The rest like mines, cement plants, etc. are losing money.

Li Jing estimates that it will take at least three to five years for these factories to be fully profitable. Only when the people's ideas change can these factories start to make money.

The main thing that can help Li Jing earn money now is the commercial department of Jingji firm, such as Jingji Bank, Jingji Chariot and Horse Company, Jingji Restaurant, and various shops.

How can it be possible to support so many factories with the money earned by these commercial departments alone?Feeding so many workers?Therefore, Li Jing must take the salt factory with the highest profit under his own control, so as to make up for his shortfall.

However, Li Jing considered that Xiezhou had voluntarily surrendered, and that local officials such as Zhang Li handled the government affairs fairly well, and it was to appease these people, so he did not take the salt factory into his own hands at that time.

Later, if you want to take it over, it is a little hard to talk. If you insist, it is tantamount to taking it by force, which will damage your own image.

I don't want this inspection of the salt factory to give Li Jing an excellent opportunity.The people below were unfavorable, so Li Jing used this as an excuse to seize the management right grandiosely, and then separated the salt factory from the local government.

Zhang Li and others were also very helpless about this. Who told the people below not to live up to expectations? Knowing that Li Jing sympathized with the power of the people and cared for the people, he moved over [-] victims from Henan, and arranged nearly half of the victims to the salt factory. , each of them has laborers working in the salt factory, but they didn't arrange their residences well.

Now that he hit Li Jing's gun, he had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky.

However, Zhang Li and the others also admired Li Jing's methods. Although the person chosen was Li Jing's father-in-law, Shen Zheng still had the name of Tongzhi of Pingyang Mansion on his head, so he was also Zhang Li's immediate boss.

Sending Shen Zheng to manage the commercial operation of the salt factory is justified.But everyone knows that letting Shen Zheng be in charge of the commercial operation of the salt factory means that no one else can interfere with the sale of salt, and the money is put directly into Li Jing's pocket.

As for Yuan Shu, the name given by the imperial court was the inspector of the Pingyang Mansion, and these people could not afford to offend.Let Yuan Shu be in charge of the administration of the salt factory, and others would not dare to talk too much. This means that the salt factory has become Li Jing's personal in disguise.

Knowing that this was the case, but the two people Li Jing used made people speechless.Obviously, it is not a day or two for Li Jing to contemplate the management of the salt factory.

In addition, through the use of these two people, it can be seen that Li Jing's emphasis on employing people has begun to change.

A few years ago, Li Jing employed people on a merit-based basis. Anyone who employs people must first inspect and evaluate them.But now Li Jing employs people not only on merit or talent, but now Li Jing employs people who are inclined to cronyism.

Employing cronyism may sound a bit wrong, but this is the employment strategy that Li Jing and Yuan Keli have discussed for a long time before deciding on it.

Only relatives are not only relatives, but more importantly cronies.

Li Jing's current situation is not stable and peaceful. There are not many people who are staring at him, and if he is not careful, he will end up in eternal doom.

At this time, the most powerful power in Li Jing's hands must not be left in the hands of others.

The first one is military power. Li Jing must firmly hold military power in his hands.

In fact, Li Jing was the least worried about military power.

The Ji Shi Army is now mainly led by three people.

The first division was directly under the command of Li Jing himself, and the people in charge were Chen Guozhu and Zhang Chu. Needless to say, Zhu Zi was probably more loyal to Li Jing than anyone else.

Gao Qi was in command of the second division, and Chen Dahu and Liu Erleng were in charge of the troops below.These three people were brought out by Li Jing all the way, and they were loyal to Li Jing.

The cavalry division was commanded by Cao Wenzhao, and Li Jing's adopted sons, Sun Hutou and Li Dingguo, were in charge of the troops. These two were raised and educated by Li Jing since childhood, so it goes without saying that they were loyal to Li Jing.

In addition, Zhou Huhu is responsible for taking care of Hongshanling's hometown. Zhou Huhu was one of the more than 50 old brothers who joined Li Jing's command at the beginning along with Ma Wu and Liu Erleng.

Li Jing valued Zhou Laohu's calmness, and entrusted him with the important task of taking care of Hongshanling's hometown.

Zhou Huhu seems not as good as Chen Dahu and others, but every time he is promoted, he is the first one, which shows how much Li Jing trusts him.

Similarly, Zhou Huo lived up to Li Jing's trust. Hongshanling is basically impenetrable now. According to Zhou Huo's report, Hongshanling's current defense capability, if there is no heavy artillery, even ten times the strength of Zhou Huhu can't defeat it.

Li Jing was very helpless about this, Zhou Laohu was going to build Hongshanling into Li Jing's base camp, it seemed that Hongshanling had been peaceful for the past two years, he and Zhang Ao were free, so they took Hongshanling with them Residents tinkered with defenses.

Secondly, on the periphery of the Jishi Army is the Zhangde Guard Army led by Sun Meng, and a Thousand Household Army led by Wei Hui and Liu Hong.

The current training level of Sun Meng's troops is catching up with that of Jishi Army's regular troops. In order to guarantee Sun Meng's combat capability, Li Jing specially ordered Zhang Ao to allocate [-] guns and [-] cannons to Sun Meng.Of course, most of these weapons are used for training and have not been taken out for deployment.

Liu Hong's training was also good, and Li Jing ordered Zhang Ao to allocate a certain amount of money and food to Liu Hong on a monthly basis. Therefore, although Liu Hong has not formally joined Li Jing's camp, in fact he has already obeyed Li Jing's order.

It can be said that the army that can most shake Li Jing's roots is completely in Li Jing's hands.

The rest is the intelligence department. The military strength of the intelligence department should not be underestimated. At the beginning, Li Jing recruited the most elite members to join the intelligence department.

It is Ma Wu who is in charge of this department, and Ma Wu is now Li Jing's eyes and ears.

Needless to say, the relationship between Ma Wu and Li Jing, what people don't understand the most now is what the two call each other.

Li Jing calls Ma Wu the fifth brother, and Ma Wu calls Li Jing the eldest brother. People who don't know the inside story will be confused.

Li Jing in the army need not worry, what Li Jing is worried about is another strongest backing, which is financial power.

It is Shen Ying and Zhu Huiyu who are in charge of financial power.

Li Jing is not worried about these two people, what Li Jing is worried about is the people below.

After all, Jingji had too many properties, and Shen Ying and Zhu Huiyu couldn't take care of them personally, let alone they couldn't show up, even if they could, they alone couldn't take care of them.Even Ma Wu, in the name of the general manager of Jingcheng Jingji Store, has to hire shopkeepers to handle specific matters in each of the following stores.

If the shopkeeper and the clerk join forces to corrupt money, it will be difficult to control.

Fortunately, many of Ma Wu's intelligence personnel were arranged in these companies, and with these people watching, there were no omissions.

King Kee Shop has been established for many years, and so far there have only been four cases of ink corruption by the shopkeeper and shop assistants.

Businesses are spread all over the country, intelligence personnel need to find a job to hide their identities, and act in the name of working in the shop.

However, most of the factories were built in Pingyang Prefecture, so Ma Wu naturally would not arrange intelligence personnel on his own site.

Arrange intelligence personnel on your own territory to inquire about whose movements?Isn't it okay to ask for a draw?

Ordinarily, under Li Jing's nose, these managers should be more disciplined, but the fact is on the contrary, the more they are under the nose, the easier it is for accidents to happen.

This is the same as Li Jing used to hide inside the enemy when he was an agent. The most dangerous place is often the safest place.

Everyone thought that under Li Jing's nose, no one dared to make any small moves, and that must have been neglected, so the people below started to attack.

It's a pity that Li Jing is also a fellow, and he is very clear about this truth, so he must take strict precautions against it.

But no matter how shrewd the hunter is, he can't catch only the cunning fox.

Didn't the salt factory put eye drops on Li Jing?

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