Chapter 24: Seeking Skin with the Tiger
After Zhao Guangyi had enough food and drink, he patted his butt and left. Before leaving, he repeatedly emphasized that he would send a chef to learn craftsmanship from Sun Chunming tomorrow, and by the way, he gave them several large orders.
The official family is kind and considerate of the hard work of the people. From next month, Kaifeng Prefecture will take care of all the food rations for the river industry. This is a means to win over the hearts of the people. One of the famous good policies of the Northern Song Dynasty was supervised by Kaifeng Prefecture.
This is definitely a great thing for the people, but it is not that good for those who open restaurants, but the food rations of the river workers must be done. Zhao Guangyi waved his hand and the work became theirs.
Starting next month, their family will be responsible for the food rations of nearly 100,000 people. Even if each person only supplies four steamed buns a day, it will be 400,000 steamed buns a day! Although the profit of this transaction is small, it is very expensive, especially if the ingredients are not needed to be purchased, they will go directly to the canal transportation. They will pay the bill with Kaifeng Mansion every month and have no debts yet.
This is almost the same as Zhao Guangyi sends thousands of guan to them every month. Sun Chunming wanted to refuse, but Zhao Guangyi said that even the two kings of their family were praised for their food. As the prefect of Kaifeng, he found a good cook for the river workers. This is his duty and he has no intention of taking special care of him.
This is just an appetizer. After seeing their red bricks, Zhao Guangyi expressed great interest. Kaifeng Mansion was about to expand and repair it. He made a decision on the spot and gave them the work package. Construction will start next month.
How much money can you make in this job be aside first. The key is the advertising efficiency. The most important thing in promoting red bricks is the acceptance of concepts. We have lived in a wooden house that has been around for thousands of years. Why do we have to use your bricks? Who knows whether this thing is good or not?
Now, we have built Kaifeng Mansion, so who dares to say that this brick house is not good?
The largest order is a piece of land. Where is the most profitable place for collusion between officials and businessmen? From ancient times to the present, this answer is the only one, real estate.
It is naturally impossible for a few of them to do the food rations for the 100,000 river workers. They can’t hire people, so they must open a processing factory. In addition, Lao Fang and his team also have to open a brick kiln, which requires a large amount of land and invest in the construction of a factory.
Although they have saved some money in business these days, they still have some difficulty in buying land and building factories. This problem has also been solved reasonably and legally by Zhao Guangyi.
During the Later Zhou and Northern Song dynasties, the first year of refugees coming to Kaifeng was a customer. Although customers suffered a lot of inconvenience in their identities, they had one advantage, that is, they could rent and buy houses from the government's fined and confiscated houses at a low price. The original intention was to resettle refugees and be polite to the people.
Just so happened that Li Yun, the governor of Luzhou, rebelled because he was dissatisfied with Zhao Kuangyin. Oh no, it cannot be said that others rebelled. Zhao Kuangyin was the one who rebelled, but no matter who was in charge, the little real estate and land in their capital suddenly became a homeless thing.
There is definitely no need to think about the house. Many people are thinking about it, but their family’s fertile land of more than 200 acres in the suburbs of the west of the city is not so eye-catching. Kaifeng Prefecture decided to build economic housing on that land and resettle refugees.
Just so happened that the work was given to Lao Fang and the others. The construction period was approved for three years in one go. That is to say, Kaifeng Prefecture doesn’t care about how to make this land within these three years. As long as the house can be handed over three years, you only need to cover the wall, pickle pickles and pickles inside, and burn red bricks.
The workers hire more refugees, and when will their family buy enough money for land and when will they be paid for the work? It just so happened that Sun Yue and his father were customers themselves, and they took the lead in leading their own workers to jointly buy the low-rent house.
The whole process is reasonable and legal, without any acts of favoritism and fraud. Not to mention that Zhao Guangyi is the second king, even if the censor deliberately seeks fault, he cannot find any inappropriateness.
To put it bluntly, Zhao Guangyi sat in their house for a while and had a meal, and their family transformed from a poor man to one of the top luxury merchants in Kaifeng City.
Otherwise, everything is inferior to the level of study, and you can become an official after studying.
He framed Zhao Kuangyin's poems and hung them high, but Sun Yue didn't see any joy and said worriedly: "Dad, Zhao Guangyi is a man of private nature, and is definitely not a gentleman. It is not necessarily a good thing for us to receive such great favor from him."
Sun Chunming sighed and said, "Even if I don't read history, can Zhao Guangyi still be unclear? But in Kaifeng Mansion that day, my father and I can still pretend to be confused when facing such a really confused master? Now this situation is already a big shot. If I reject his kindness again, I am afraid that not to mention the friendship between me, I will only increase his jealousy. If I don't accept the face of others, I will be hitting others in the face. If we can fight Wang Yansheng, can we still fight Zhao Guangyi?"
Sun Yue also looked bitter and said, "I'm afraid that one day I will be bitten by a tiger."
Sun Chunming knocked on the corner of the already-framed poem to encourage learning and said, "Then why don't you go to review the book quickly? If you pass the imperial examination one day, we will be free one day."
"Oh, I understand, I'm going to see the lights at the third and fifth updates? When you were a child, you used this sentence to scold me. I didn't expect that I had come to the Northern Song Dynasty, but I still couldn't escape this sentence."
That night, Sun Chunming wanted to help knead him, but the family refused with an extremely firm attitude.
Lao Cao and the others are all authentic people at the bottom. Never before have you seen the upper class play so fancy and whistle playing styles? They are all shocked by the father and father. So it turns out that this money should be made like this?
You can only use tens of thousands of dollars to move your mouth, who dares to let you work?
In the end, Sun Chunming was almost beaten out by Cao's mother with a crutch. Cao's mother said angrily: "I used to work to support the baby's study. Now that I don't need this money, don't you still study? You just need to talk about business matters, do you have to lack your own hands?"
So, Sun Chunming had no choice but to go to the study to practice calligraphy with Sun Yue.
He didn't want to be an imperial examination anymore. He actually had dignity and face as a wealthy businessman in the Northern Song Dynasty, but he was a cultural person at least and could not even write.
In less than three days, Lao Fang came to tell that the workers had already been recruited, and there were no other things in this year. There were the most refugees, and those who stuttered could give you a desperate effort. These people were put in the factory to cook bricks and pickle vegetables. I dare not say that they could do it well, at least they could ensure that they were not bad.
As for the engineering team that really worked outside, Lao Fang only chose those who had served as soldiers and killed Khitans like him, and they all came out of hardship. Now that he had such a way of making money, he didn't want to eat alone, and Sun Chunming had no objection to this.
Like the ramen shop, these two businesses do not have a clear share of equity. They put the money they earn and take whoever uses it. Modern businesses pay attention to clear property rights, but feudal society really doesn't pay much attention to this. At least he can't say that, and Lao Fang and Lao Cao don't have much money to spend.
Chapter completed!