"Gao Yu from Guanzhong and Wang Xingkong from Wuguan have already sent back the news... each has many privately submitted bulk purchase orders, involving eleven families from Guanzhong to Henan. Eight of them are old customers, and three others. I asked you to turn it around..."
"Various items of procurement include ordnance, utensils, quilts and canned food, dry food, and even rice noodles and cotton cloth, wine sauce, salt and vinegar, pots and pans, spades, shovel, picks, and hoe; as long as they are produced in Liangling and Jinghu, theoretically It said that there are people asking for almost everything..."
"Okay, you can do this business as long as you get the corresponding wealth and property; if it's those old relationships, it's okay to use heads to offset it..."
Zhou Huaian lightly stroked the small pendant that was doing shorthand seriously, the texture of the slippery hands under the collarbone.
"In addition, the servant of Zhao (Zhang) also wants to purchase some special siege equipment and heavy weapons... I have already listed the crossbows, stone cannons, and hair poles manufactured by the Dudufu... The firearms used by our army claim that the price is negotiable..."
"I also sold it. Why not? It can strengthen the strength of the rebels in Guanzhong, but also weaken the resistance of the court. It can also return funds to the army and reduce production costs. Why not do this multi-tasking thing..."
Zhou Huaian continued to nod.
"Of course, although those old-fashioned equipment are sold according to inventory, the series of fire and thunder bombs and large and small guns are determined not to be sold; first, sell the early models of fire oil bombs and poisonous smoke balls that are to be phased out... It’s the kind of direct open flame,"
"Where is the situation on the Xiajiang River? How has Counselor Yang recently taken over..."
Zhou Huaian turned to Xiao Qidao who was present.
Now that the Taiping Army has cleared the surrounding area, it has opened up the channel in Wuguan of Shangzhou that is in line with the rebels within the Guan. Therefore, in addition to some subsequent internal suppression and purge of fragmented soldiers, there is also a southwestern demand for troops.
Since Yang Shigu started to work, the workload and efficiency of the various types of staff groups have also obviously changed.
"After Wang (heavy tyrant) Youlang's waterways and horses broke through the dangers of Kuizhou, the Dudu Mansion has already obtained most of the jurisdiction of Wanzhou, Kaizhou and other places. It is arranging garrisons, reclamation, and engineering groups to gradually suppress and clean up the local government. Counter the chaos situation, and establish land and water grain stations and signal towers..."
Xiao Qi said with a sharp glance.
"At present, the first fleet has entered the Fuzhou waterway, but because of the insufficient layout of the Dudu Mansion in Jianchuan, there is no more news about the upper reaches of Shuzhong; Wang Youlang also advocates being safe first, and clearing the coast before proceeding. "
"In addition, Counselor Yang has not officially taken over the planning and judgment of the Jianchuan war. Now he is staying in the staff hall all day long to observe the corresponding operation..."
Zhou Huaian nodded slightly.
Seeing and thinking more and not eager to intervene and do something, Yang Shigu's work attitude makes him more satisfied, and he is indeed a military-level figure who has been trained in following Huang Chao's battle for many years.
At this time, the ringing bell outside the door rang gently, reminding him that it was time for his daily extra meal. There is no way, for the sake of high efficiency and rapid processing of a large number of official tasks in a short time, the energy consumption generated by the corresponding auxiliary calculation and recording capabilities is also accumulating.
Subsequently, a bowl of three-flavored red porridge made of shrimp, crab paste, saury belly white and blood glutinous rice, as well as cold cuts of Jingzhou sugar crab and deboned goose paw were also presented;
"General Governor..."
At this time Mi Bao continued to remind:
"According to the next schedule, whether to make the grand merchant Wangpo in the pass first, take the time to meet one or two..."
"Call him in..."
Zhou Huaian, who was enjoying feeding the small pendant, answered vaguely.
Zhou Huaian decided to see him for the simple reason and nothing else, because it was the word "balance". It is time for the large and small maritime forces with the rise of the Taiping Army and the predominant Cantonese and Chaoxun as the core, it is time to introduce a rival to compete with it.
Not to mention other things, any excessively monopolistic and concentrated commercial activities will naturally breed the ambition and greed of the corresponding capital, as well as the degenerate tendency of self-styled and unpredictable under one party's dominance.
Therefore, it is obviously more cost-effective to introduce and maintain multiple channels of competition and new blood than to blindly use the power of the government to enforce and restrict methods. After all, as the strength of the Taiping Army grew, these capitals from Lingwai naturally followed the profit-seeking instinct and followed up in all aspects.
Even privately cultivated grassroots personnel with the Taiping Army, and used marriage, Syrian kinship and other means to draw and combine in a certain sense; therefore, although the maritime merchants outside the Lingwa are the targets of the Taiping Army’s planning, they can fight for and cooperate. But the same must be restrained and beaten from time to time.
Even the current generation behaved quite honestly and submissively, basically just hating the appearance of being unrewarded; but after seeing the well-developed private merchants and primitive capital in later Ming and Qing dynasties, naturally they would not count on their conscience. Discover, or where the self-moral restraint is going.
It's just that relative to them, it seems that because of their war-torn relations, whether it is Jinghu, Shannan, or Jiangxi's merchant groups, there is no climate or enough to compare with them. At this time, there was a merchant in the customs called Wang Poxian, who took the initiative to send it to the door and seemed invaluable.
Moreover, through the Taiping Army's intelligence system, he proactively provided a lot of information related to the customs and even the capital; as a prerequisite and basis for gaining trust from others. He also expressed his willingness to provide Taiping Army personnel with corresponding cover for activities in the North with the identity of an affiliated business under his name, only for a few sentences and a proposal.
This is also the suggestion and condition that the Taiping Army, whose intelligence work is relatively weak in the North, cannot be directly rejected for the time being. And the advice book that he came up from time to time also made Zhou Huaian a little interested.
Because in this ancient time when consultation and transportation were severely restricted, it is not surprising that someone could see the transportation system established by the Taiping Army with a unique perspective and the convenience and development momentum it brought; there were even early precedents.
Just like those merchants in the two mountains, especially the Cantonese merchants, they are actively undertaking and competing to provide the Taiping Army with transportation quotas and indicators. At the same time, they are also in order to be able to use this system to bring their own trade products and give priority to the Taiping Army Market gaps under the new governance.
However, those who can perceive the transformative opportunities brought by traditional commodity trading and currency circulation after the completion of the siding signal tower system, and also use this to make corresponding operational suggestions, are really invaluable.
In this proposal, the other party is willing to join forces with many merchants who fled from the North, and donate about five to six hundred thousand yuan as guarantee and pledge, in order to obtain the use of the existing siding signal tower network to transmit limited information. Qualifications.
Not long afterwards, a middle-aged man who was not confused and rough-looking, with a deep sunken beard and slightly curled beard, seemed to be of some foreign origin, and his skin was tanned but with a sense of lean and toughness. He was drawn in and bowed again. Respectfully stop to the end.
"You see the general governor, I am thankful to listen to it..."
"What you want is only incidental messaging... and not more things..."
Zhou Huaian was straightforward.
"Most of the inspectors are well aware of the details, and dare not conceal it. They wanted to use the land of the village to gain access to the benefits of the north-south exchange; the other is to make money and silk from various places exchange, no more labor and roads..."
Wang Po first took a physical meal, and said more respectfully without hesitation.
"That's not just wanting to get involved in Feiqian's business. It's far from being able to rely on your condition, and why should I trust you..."
Zhou Huaian said disapprovingly.
"Only because the governor of the capital has the intention to benefit the world, and the ambition to benefit all the people; the poor also have little capital and a little bit of money, so they can work hard for the great cause, thinking that the people of the world will have the first effect; and they can also preserve and regain the family. A chance for Xing..."
Wang Po first said flatly without raising his head.
"If you want to be the golden horse bone in the eyes of the world, it depends on your qualifications..."
Zhou Huaian smiled suddenly.
"Perhaps the world is qualified to serve as the chief governor, such as the crucian carp who crosses the river; but is willing to be the chief executive and camp driller in the north, or there are few. The time is right to be contemptuous. first,"
Wang Po first resolutely threw out the final conditions and cards.
"Accept the bills and receipts belonging to Guanzhong and Henan..."
"This is a bit interesting... You can talk about the operations and regulations first."
Zhou Huaian nodded and said.
Then according to the other party’s explanation and detailed description; the northern merchant group headed by Wang Po first was willing to accept the bills and bills issued by the Taiping Army at the expense of the property in the North; Business, and the general conditions for obtaining Northland sales channel agency rights.
As the main resource of the Taiping Army’s Dudufu, apart from a confirmed name in the early stages of the whole process, almost no investment risks and accidental losses were assumed; it was only provided after they completed their business and channels in the North. Corresponding expediency and follow-up resources as compensation
The courage and adventurous spirit of this pre-investment alone reminded Zhou Huaian of some well-known re-entrepreneurship and inspirational stories in later generations. Maybe one of his men can concoct one out of this, as a kind of role model and demonstration.
"Let the Planning Division come up with a rehearsal of the plan..."
Zhou Huaian turned around and ordered again, of course he would not act according to the other party's plan; instead, he wanted to find a long-term and immediate, cost-effective solution.
Nowadays, there is a special department/section of dozens of people under the name of the Dudufu, and it has recruited the best and most experienced veterans in mathematics to be responsible for the most troublesome planning work in various fields under the overall layout.
For example, how much food and eggs and meat need to be consumed in a city? In order to ensure the supply, how much transportation capacity needs to be deployed, and then when these daily necessities are transported over, how should they be distributed; how much should be distributed in various industrial and mining areas and villages Vouchers such as food stamps and cloth tickets are then linked to the output and inventory of the year.
The overall planned economy, in the eyes of some pretentious people who think they can be a leader, is a matter of flicking a big pen, stamping a chapter, and letting their hands deal with it. However, most people in society do not participate in this work, and do not understand that this involves a lot of calculations.
Once the accumulated deviation is too much to play off, it is like the consequence of a high-speed mechanical gear breaking. A dynamic political system is like a high-speed machine, all walks of life are working, if you have any omissions in the supply of materials, it will cause a chain reaction of social productivity collapse.
Farmers who cannot sell food and agricultural products only let their harvests rot in the ground and fall into a shortage of production materials; then, under debt and losses, they have to choose to escape from famine or go to the big family.
Residents and workers in factories and mines who cannot buy enough food will make mistakes in their work and reduce the efficiency of factories, which will affect output; however, they affect a series of downstream chains, and ultimately affect and feed back to agricultural reproduction, forming a vicious circle.
Of course, compared to the magical department of later generations that claims to be able to use the law of causality to fly planes, this department is really in vain; at most it is equivalent to the level of a regional office at the time of liberation, but it is still quite in this world. of.
Moreover, the daily responsibility is also to list the corresponding business plan or the plan that is constantly complemented and updated based on the data and information collected from all aspects; and to provide the corresponding department with a calculation template to improve efficiency.
In another place, the prince said goodbye and got into the carriage on the return journey, only to feel that his back had been soaked in cold sweat, and he was sitting on the floor with no demeanor.
There are quite a few rich and powerful people he has dealt with in his entire life. But I have never felt so tired and battered to doubt myself.
Just now, he experienced the ups and downs from the basic awe and cautiousness in the face of power and position, to the astonishment of his professional knowledge and experience, and then from the shock of his familiarity to the final awe-inspiring conviction.
This is because the chief governor seems to be an omnipotent all-rounder. In the business and career he is good at and infiltrated, he also shows some talent and aptitude beyond the imagination of the world, but he does not bother to go deep and drill.
Speaking of the general situation, there is no need for extra explanations and explanations at all. It is easy to insight and grasp the general idea and rehearsal put forward by Wang Poxian. It can even point out that there are still insufficient risks, weaknesses or weaknesses in his planning structure. It is an unexpected benefit.
Under this kind of obvious wisdom and insight, the selfishness and back-hands that he had mixed in for the sake of comprehensive planning became particularly ridiculous and short-sighted. So at this moment, he just wanted to go home immediately and give his "gift" to consolidate and strengthen his determination.
—I am the dividing line —
Outside the city of Luoyang, the eastern capital, a man and horse are heading south. Zhu Laosan, who had just returned from Chang'an to meet the Emperor of Qi and was given orders to embark on the journey, was walking under the banner of the first in awe-inspiring clothes.
On the land of Kanto, especially in Henan, although it is known as the possession of the rebels, there are still many large and small groups with ambiguous or vacillating positions, town army strongholds, and isolated islands, generally guarded by the official army/family town. And the site. Since the Great Qi imperial court has established itself, it will only be given priority to smooth out the remaining nails near the hinterland of Duji.
And he was recently appointed to the southeast camp to Yuhou, to control and coordinate the few rebels remaining in the south of Dugi Province, and to draw troops to attack the former Zhongwu Army’s Mabu Capital Yuhou and also to govern the history of Zhao Xun, defense and containment. The land of Chenzhou, led by the commander Zhao Chang, and the three brothers Zhao Jue, the military and horse ambassador Zhao Jue, who both commanded the land
Only not long ago, the rebel Li Huanran who was in charge of besieging and attacking Chenzhou attacked the city at night for the state united army led by Zhao Yan, and it was said that tens of thousands of horses were almost scattered and scattered. Therefore, it is not that Zhu Laosan is in danger of being ordered this time.
And Sura, the general with a face full of regrets, was also among them. He originally wanted to live with the old acquaintance Zhao, and then take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take advantage of the newly vigorous General Zhu San, and take him I made a special trip to come over and fight side by side under his command.
It's a pity that the other party clearly only wanted to stay in the city of Chang'an and enjoy the blessings; after that incident, there was no one to find anymore, so that his kindness was difficult, but it was finally lost.
However, before they could fight Chenzhou, they had to go to Dengzhou to receive a batch of equipment specially used to attack and break the base. This was also the intention of the eldest brother who was playing for the south of General Zhu San. (End of this chapter)