In the mountain forest behind the Taoist temple, there is a small river gurgling and flowing, and the left and near are all hugging giant trees, lush and green, and the people are rarely visited. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, at this time, the mountain forest was not quiet, there were more than a dozen shirtless strong men scattered in the forest, their strong arms wielding sharp blades and machetes, cutting down the trees one by one, and some people dragged the round and rolling trees along the stream to a remote place and hid behind the mountain rocks and weeds.

"Hurry up! It's getting late, and Rokuro will be back later, so don't let him find out that we're stealing other people's trees! ”

A Du family chief roared in a low voice, chopping the branches of trees that had fallen to the ground, while pointing to a strong man not far away and whispering, "Feng Er, let you contact the buyer, have you ever had an eyebrow?" If there is no more money to buy, what will you do to feed your group of meatless and unhappy belly goods? Do you want to let Rokuro carry me and others to sell the utensils left by the ancestors? ”

When the strong man named Feng Er heard this, he said angrily: "The raccoon dog is hateful! When I heard that I had a foreign accent, most of them didn't want to talk to me. Even if there are a few talks, the price is extremely low! ”

Hearing this, Nashi Chang paused for a moment, and his expression was quite bitter: "It's already illegal for us to steal other people's forests." These trees are piled up here, the greater the hidden danger, if the incident happens, it will affect the voice of the master's family, and I will die to pay for the crime! Just don't care about the price, get rid of these trees as soon as possible. ”

"If you want me to say, since they are all thieves, why should we be in this mountain forest against the grass and trees? You might as well take advantage of the night to put the board Qinhuai and plunder money along the way. In the early years, Zu Yuzhou was also for this, even if the matter leaked out, in the future, we will assist Bi Liulang to achieve a great cause that is not inferior to Zu Yuzhou, and Yu Jiasheng has a ......"

One person was whispering, and when he looked up, the whole person suddenly froze in place, pointing to the hillside not far away and trembling: "Six, Liulang......"

Duch walked over with heavy steps, looking at the sweaty bare shoulders, the corners of his lips twitched, and he didn't know what to say, but his eyes were full of tears.

Seeing this, the firewood knife in his hand suddenly fell to the grass, and after being stunned for a moment, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground, and said astringently: "Liulang, don't blame others, it's all the servants who forced them to ......"

Hearing this, tears rolled down Duhe's eyes, bent down to pull up the chief, and choked up: "What do I blame you? Me, I...... I only hate that I don't have the demeanor of my ancestors, and I can't take on the family business in danger. Tossing and turning to the ends of the world, wandering in a foreign land, you will not be abandoned because of my foolish talents, I,"

"Rokuro don't say this! The ups and downs of the world, rise and fall, most of the opportunities dictate. How can we, who have been blessed with the righteousness of the Lord's family for many lifetimes, turn away from them lightly! If you can't help the young master to revive the family business, what's the use of saving the remnants of this catastrophe! ”

Seeing that Du He was so emotional, these parts of the Du family were also touched, and they knelt down and said angrily.

After many hardships, and now it is a difficult time, seeing that this group of loyal and righteous tribes are still not giving up, Du He is even more emotional in his heart. He wiped away the tears from his face, took off his robe, stood on tiptoe and threw it on the branch, and then said with a smile: "There are still people in this shirt, but don't get dirty." ”

After finishing speaking, he picked up the knife that one of his attendants had fallen to the ground, waved his arm and roared: "It's getting dark, hurry up and pack up your head and tail and go down the mountain!" ”

"Rokuro can't!"

Seeing this, Nashi Chang hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, but Du He pushed him aside, the knife in his hand was horizontal, and he smiled freely: "This body can wear the Hou seal, and you can hold the thief knife." Master and servant are one, you are a thief who is despised by this person, how can I, the young master, be an innocent spring? Rest of the old days! This body is immortal, and it will eventually ring in the world! ”

As he spoke, he had already leaned down and slashed on the log, and the oblique branch fell in response: "This knife is worth ten dollars, and it's not like doing nothing all day long, you have to eat at night!" ”

Seeing this, everyone no longer persuaded each other, but just accelerated their movements, quickly cleaned up the felled trees around them, and then the master and servant and his party washed and changed their clothes in the stream, and then made a circle in the back mountain, as if returning from an outing, and returned to the Taoist temple.

After nightfall, Duch couldn't sleep for a long time. The events of this day touched him greatly, lying on the couch tossing and turning, his mood sometimes low, sometimes excited.

After a long time, he suddenly got up from the bed, sat by the window, lit the lamp, took out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and wrote hard, as if to pour all the anger and anguish that had accumulated in his chest for a long time in the past period of time between the strokes.

Before you know it, it's already getting dark.

When the servant knocked on the door and entered, he was immediately startled by the situation in the room, and saw Duch sitting in front of the desk like a demon, lying on the desk. On the ground beside him, there were many pieces of paper with handwriting all over it.

Duch turned a deaf ear to the call of his subordinates, and with the breath of loneliness and indignation in his chest, he wrote down all the laws and regulations he knew, but he still felt that he was still unfinished, so he simply continued to write, putting into writing what he had learned in half his life and his views on the current situation in the north and south.

The time gradually came to noon, the ink stains in the inkstone had dried, and Du He could not write a word, so he threw away the brush, got up and paced back and forth in the room, and by the way, he sorted out the content written from last night to the present, put it in a wooden box, handed it to the servant who had been wandering outside the door for a long time, and instructed: "Send this thing to Shen Yuan, and tell the protégé of the Shen family that if Shen Lang does not watch this, he will have half a life of regret!" ”

With that, Duch turned back indoors and fell asleep.

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After returning to the capital, Shen Zhezi and his entourage advanced to the princess's mansion located in Wuyi Lane.

After resting for the night, early the next morning, Shen Zhezi summoned Diao Yuan, Ren Qiu and others, who were in charge of the capital, to talk about the business conditions of various industries in the capital during the period he was away from the capital.

Today, the most profitable industry of the Shen family in the capital is naturally Nanyuan, which almost monopolizes the entire Jiankang luxury consumer market. To put it more pretentiously, these powerful families in the capital don't need to know what they need, they only need to buy all kinds of new products in Nanyuan every season, and they can enjoy the most cutting-edge and exquisite life nowadays.

For the operation of Nanyuan, Shen Zhezi has always followed a philosophy, that is, luxury, high-end and scarcity. Such a business philosophy can not only be popular in later generations, but also deeply cut into the pulse of the times. Those high-ranking magnates themselves are above the top, thinking that they are superior, and even hate in their hearts that they share the same sky and drink the same river water with the cold and humble streams. If conditions permit, it will be arrogant to heaven.

People are stupid and have a lot of money, this is the characteristic of the Jiankang market. The early market commodities and production technology could not completely distinguish Gaomen from Hanshu, so there were many Gaomen disciples who turned to unconventional clothing and alchemy, these entertainment methods were both extravagant and wasteful, and had great harm to the body, but there were still people who enjoyed it and devoted themselves to it.

The emergence of Nanyuan completely solves the quality of life requirements of the children of the high school who are different from the vulgar streams, so all the families in the capital are simply obsessed with Nanyuan products to the point of madness. For example, the Zhang Wu Wang family, who had repeatedly cried poor in front of Princess Xingnan earlier, even though the family situation was not as good as before, still had a huge amount of money of more than one million dollars in Nanyuan's account all year round.

The advance payment for each account opening is a rule set by Shen Zhezi in order to put an end to the bad habit of the clans to fight the autumn breeze at the beginning of Nanyuan's business. As long as you open an account in Nanyuan and deposit a certain amount of money in advance, you will be given a certain Nanyuan redemption ticket every month and every quarter to buy some special goods.

Whether it is the exchange of Nanyuan or the gold banknotes circulating within the Yinjue and the Shang Alliance, in fact, strictly speaking, it cannot be counted as currency. It is only a voucher used for settlement within the industry, and it does not yet have universal circulation, and if it cannot be circulated, it will lose the greatest attribute of money. But even so, at least in the circle of industries such as business alliances, because of the existence of this kind of settlement credentials, a lot of management costs are saved.

Speaking of the issuance of these notes, Shen Zhezi also swallowed bitterly. A large number of technical improvements have been made in anti-counterfeiting, storage, etc., although the finished product has met the requirements, but the cost has never been able to be suppressed. The gold banknotes are also reversed, such as the Nanyuan bills, which are mainly aimed at the powerful people's houses, are perfect in terms of workmanship and materials, aside from the purchasing power, they are exquisite handicrafts of great value.

The prosperity of Nanyuan inevitably made Shen Zhezi glad that as early as the beginning of the operation of Nanyuan, he used means to transfer the real estate where Nanyuan was located out of the princess's mansion. It's not that he wants to separate himself from the princess, but the Shaofu itself has a certain jurisdiction over the princess's property, and Shen Zhezi naturally can't allow others to point fingers at his own property and prevent trouble, which seems to be right now.

After all, Nanyuan is in the middle of the capital, and under the nose of Shaofu, it is not as long as those ferry industry whips in Wuxing Township. The wealth is moving, and seeing that Nanyuan is prosperous, it is impossible for those officials in Shaofu not to be hot, but now they have no reason to intervene.

In addition to the thriving industry, another problem that restricts development is the difficulty of finding talents. Now not only Diao Yuan, Ren Qiu and other princess mansion subordinates are in charge of a large number of affairs, but the other subordinates are also not idle. Even the princess's maid Yun Zhi, as well as Shen Zhezi's maid Gua'er, are all responsible for receiving the daughters of various powerful families in Nanyuan.

For talents, Shen Zhezi's requirements have always been to rather lack than abuse, rather slow down the development speed a little, and never reluctantly let people cause irreparable losses. Like Shen Peizhi, the uncle of the famous family that Shen Zhezi has cultivated with all his might, he has never had any talent for doing things, and Shen Zhezi has always left him in Shen Yuan to mess with those famous people, and he does not appoint any appointments.

As for some other talented people in the family, Shen Zhezi would rather spend money to keep them in captivity at home, so that they are drunk and dreaming of death, and not let them out to cause trouble for themselves.

Generally speaking, the management structure of the Shen family's various industries is still very clear. On the one hand, there is effective supervision, and on the other hand, it is far from reaching a limit of development, but everyone who is in charge is well aware of this, and for the sake of a grander vision, they prefer to give up the small profits that are now at their fingertips.

In addition to building a talent training echelon within his own family, the most important thing for Shen Zhezi at present is to recruit from the outside. Although he has no job now, and there is no legitimate reason to recruit Peng's subordinates or recruit protégés, there are not a few people who come to donate every day. After all, compared with the rarity of talents, suffering from not being able to advance is particularly harmful to those who are in need.

In the afternoon, the protégé of the Shen family sent several large boxes of visit cards or dedication letters, Shen Zhezi pointed to those boxes and said to Ren Qiu and the others with a smile: "The critical moment to witness the survival of my family is coming again." ”