Chapter 27 The Aftermath
In the flower hall, Xia Shu had tiger skin on his knees and roasted on fire. He said to Du Zhongxiao: "What Zhang Tixing said today must be considered. You should sell furs and buy incense medicines. This matter is all your business. You can't hide it. You have done a great job in this matter! I have been an official for decades, and I have never seen financial management like you, and it is unpredictable to ghosts and gods. But this matter has offended people, so you must be careful. I forgive these people for not helping me, but it's hard for you to say this. Let's do this. When the New Year is over, you go to Datong Supervisory to deal with the accumulated iron there. It's best to let the iron there smelting there, just like the fur business in Bingzhou, prosper. Taking advantage of this time, I will treat those people who are causing trouble in the city to avoid trouble."
Du Zhongxiao bowed: "Thank you for your promotion, and obey your duties."
Who is Xia Su? When the Qingli Party members came to power, they were not actually targeting Lu Yijian, but Xia Su. However, after several years, the Qingli Party members were demoted and Xia Su turned over again. Fighting with him, writing articles to distinguish him, and even more so when he was playing with evil. The fuse of the failure of the Qingli New Deal was Xia Su's letter that asked his maid to imitate Shi Jie's handwriting and let Fu Bi perform the "Yihuo incident". He could use such a trick. A few rich people in the city would cook like killing a few ants.
Xia Feng narrowed his eyes and thought for a while before saying, "What do you think should you do if you want to take the opportunity to cause trouble?"
Du Zhongxiao bowed and said, "This matter is simple. Just let the two guilds of fur and tanning, not accept these families, or even do business with them. Now, in Bingzhou City, if you want to make money, you cannot do without these two industries. You cannot enter the industry, and you will be anxious to death."
Xia Xun shook his head slightly: "These people have family backgrounds, but they don't let them enter these two ranks, I'm afraid they won't hurt."
"My husband, look forward to everything. People in the two industries of fur and tanning will naturally buy houses, land and do other businesses when they make a lot of money. Who can compete with them if they have money? In a few years, others will not be able to hold on."
Xia Su thought about it and nodded with a smile. The families who made a fortune in Bingzhou made great achievements very quickly. With capital in hand, they inevitably expanded into other industries, and merchants in other industries could not compete at all. The simplest thing is that nearly half of the restaurants in the city have been transferred to fur merchants in just half a year. This trend continues to spread to other industries. In a few years, the big merchants in each industry will have something to do with the fur industry. Either they enter the fur industry themselves or are acquired by merchants in the fur industry. This is the general trend and cannot be changed.
From Bozhou to Hedong Road, Xia Feng was ambitious and wanted to turn things around. What was the most feared by the side? Hedong Road had no money. It was not easy to feed so many people. But then again, if you have money in your hands, you will have great potential.
After planning the New Year, Xia Qian led his army to patrol the border and showed his force to Khitan and Dangxiang. Last year, Dangxiang and Song negotiated peace with each other, and then had a great war with the Khitan, and finally defeated the Khitan. The two countries had a chance to fight against the border. Even if they didn't fight, patrol the border with each other by force could put pressure on the two countries and get diplomatic benefits. At this time, Du Zhongxiao made a lot of money and gave Xia Qian the financial support that he urgently needed. So whoever said bad things about Du Zhongxiao at this time, Xia Qian would make him look good.
He explained the affairs of Datongjian to Du Zhongxiao and asked about the solutions to deal with the businessmen who caused trouble, so Xia Shu asked him to leave.
Leaving Xia Shun's residence, Du Zhongxiao breathed in the cold wind and watched the fog condense in front of him. In this incident, Xia Shun also made a lot of money from the rise and fall of the price of incense medicine, but for him, this was not a reason to support Du Zhongxiao. It is of course good to make money together, but Xia Shun would not support and protect a subordinate just because he gave himself benefits. A politician should first consider the issue from a political perspective.
From Du Zhongxiao's administration in Yongcheng to Bingzhou, he solved the problem of Yongli's soil and salt supervision and built a profitable fur industry. Xia Shu realized that Du Zhongxiao was an expert in financial management. There are many difficult things in the world, why is it difficult? In the end, it is nothing more than lack of money. If Du Zhongxiao can provide financial support, at this special moment, there are many articles to do on Hedong Road, which borders Khitan and Dangxiang. This is the reason why Xia Shu unswervingly supported Du Zhongxiao and solved all the problems for him.
Thinking of this, Du Zhongxiao smiled self-deprecatingly. His boss wants private money and public money. He uses private money for his own use, and public money can make a profit for the future. If he lacks it, he is afraid that he will not be qualified in his eyes.
Du Zhongxiao's residence is not far away. In the yard, Shisanlang was teaching Tao Shiqi to practice martial arts. When he saw Du Zhongxiao coming back, he sang a promise with his hands.
After sitting down in the hall, Tao Shiqi served tea, and Du Zhongxiao said, "Justice just now, my husband told me that after the New Year, I would go to Datong Prison."
After hearing this, Shisanlang muttered in a low voice: "I have only been back from the Wynn Prison for a few months. I want to go to the Datong Prison. Why are there so many prisoners in Bingzhou? I don't know if it's far away from here."
Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "It's not far, just over a hundred miles. Shisanlang, have you heard of the sword like water? I have produced iron since ancient times, so how could there be no iron supervisor? Although Yongli supervisor and Datong are both supervisors, the products are different."
Shisanlang said happily: "It turns out that Bingzhou also produces good knives! Officials, we can use some good knives like in Yongcheng."
Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "The sword is about scissors, famous products in the world, and the price in the capital is expensive. This place is not as good as Yongcheng. There are large troops everywhere. Who will sell them if you get a good sword? I'm afraid you will be taken to the army. But as long as there is iron, there are always many things to do."
Tao Qilang on the side said, "When it comes to iron, officials, the official, the Su Guanren from Yongcheng a few days ago did not send a letter saying that it was the steam engine we left there. He changed it again and again. Is it difficult to escape? He also said that he wanted to use it to cultivate the land! Since there is iron in Bingzhou, it is better to make another one."
"It's hard!" Du Zhongxiao shook his head. "Although I am a higher official now, I am just a magistrate and have no power. I can't compare to when I was in Yongcheng, the head of a county, and the craftsmen in the county were casually used. If I want to do it now, where can I find so many craftsmen?"
Tao Shiqi said: "Since Datong Prison is an iron Prison, there must be many blacksmiths, so it should not be difficult."
Du Zhongxiao said: "If you think badly, there are iron smelting supervisors, and there may not be many blacksmiths. The more mountains and the few people there are, how can we need many missing tools? The more iron tools you use, there are more blacksmiths. Therefore, the more densely populated areas, there are no iron production, and there are also blacksmiths."
Tao Shiqi was a little disappointed: "It was a pity to have fun in Yongcheng for a few years before making a car and throwing it out."
"What's the hurry? If you have the chance in the future, you can naturally make another one. At that time, maybe Su Song will be able to make it well, and the new car you made can really run on the road. Unlike the one made in Yongcheng, it is stupid and heavy."
When he arrived in Bingzhou, Du Zhongxiao was busy dealing with various urgent matters, which made the institute have many errands and no time left, so he had to stop studying the steam engine. This time he went to Datongjian and left Bingzhou, he would inevitably be much quieter and could pick up the previous research. After all, no matter how many industries such as fur were built in Du Zhongxiao, it could not be compared with things like steam engines. Once this technology is mature, the world will change greatly.
The Datong Supervisor was originally divided into two yeth and the West and West, and it was divided and merged with Shizhou next to it. Now only Dongye is left under the jurisdiction of Bingzhou. Due to inconvenient transportation and inconvenient railway transportation, it was much deserted in recent years. In the past few years, Datong Supervisor was demoted from the Xiazhou position to the county level, and the magistrate of Jiaocheng served as the magistrate. When Du Zhongxiao arrived there, he had the final say in everything, not like Bingzhou City, where he was full of elbows everywhere.
Chapter completed!