One Piece of Song Dynasty

On the last day of the eighth year of Zhenghe, Li Xin brought Lao Wang back to the mansion. Lao Wang was now much heavier than before, almost two hundred kilograms, but he was agile and agile. He had been with me and Xuanwu Camp for the past six months. For outdoor survival training, Li Xin's Xuanwu Camp has been trained and ready to be officially deployed after the year. .shung

Today, Li Mansion decorated the lanterns and festoons, and the cooks of Li Mansion started preparing early in the morning for the Chinese New Year. Although many people left during the Chinese New Year this year, many people also came, and the atmosphere was far more lively than last year.

Li Xin led Lao Wang around the house while wishing everyone New Year greetings. During this year's New Year, Li Xin planned to give everyone a red envelope of money as usual.

After Li Xin completed a tour of the house, she decided to go to the housekeeper to take stock of the accounts for the last three months of this year.

Li Xin shouted, "Uncle An, I'm here to settle the score with you."

The butler said, "Today is the last day of the year. Why does Mr. Lang come to a certain family to settle matters?"

Li Xin replied, "Of course it's the government's accounts for the last three months of this year, so you don't have to report to me after the new year."

The housekeeper nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about people first. In the last three months of this year, the nursing team in the mansion has added people. The number of cooks who stayed in the mansion is still because they were sent out a lot. The number of orphans has increased to . Twelve people, eight women and fourteen men, eight more carpenters, five more blacksmiths, nine more shipwrights, four more doctors, four hundred and fifty more sailors, and forty men to be allocated. "

Li Xin thought for a while and said, "Assign ten men to raise pigeons, twenty men to restaurants and shops, three to blacksmiths, three to carpenters, and four to doctors."

The butler replied, "Okay, I understand. As for restaurants, our eleven restaurants made a net profit of million guan in three months. There were new gold card members and million guan. There were new card members, earning million guan, and the seven shops made a net profit of guan in three months."

Li Xin nodded and said, "Our family is running out of money, right?"

The steward replied, "It's still far behind. Although our family earns more, we also spend a lot. However, our family now has tens of millions of silver, hundreds of thousands of gold, and at least a few copper coins." One hundred thousand strings."

Li Xin continued to ask, "Well, Uncle An, how is the refugee recruitment going?"

The housekeeper replied, "Six hundred households have been recruited, and they are all near our village. The others will be recruited after the New Year."

Li Xin thought for a while and said, "Well, the first batch of people is enough. Let's send some meat and two yuan of red envelopes to each household of these refugees during the Spring Festival today."

The housekeeper nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Lang, a certain family knows."

Li Xin then said, "Uncle An, after the Chinese New Year, we have to continue to buy grain, iron ore, coal, farm tools, bricks, and medicinal materials, as well as cattle, pigs, chickens and other livestock."

The housekeeper nodded and said, "Okay, Mr. Lang, a certain family knows."

Li Xin thought for a moment and then said, "Uncle An, let's go to the shipyard to order ten ships after the new year. Five blessing ships with a load of four thousand stones and five sand ships with a load of six thousand stones. Our shipyard will be demolished after the year. I will Gotta move.”

The housekeeper nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Lang, we will do it after the New Year for a certain family."

After taking inventory with the housekeeper, Li Xin continued to walk around the house and went to the front yard where he met Niu Gao still practicing martial arts.

Li Xin shouted, "Brother Niu, today is Chinese New Year, why are you still practicing martial arts?"

Niu Gao said, "I have nothing to do. Today is the Chinese New Year, and everyone in the nursing team has taken a break, so we can only practice martial arts. Besides, I haven't defeated Brother Lu once in this year, so I have to continue practicing."

Li Xin nodded and said, "Brother Niu will have something to do after the new year. Brother Niu will pick up sixty people after the new year, and I will take you to a good place."

Niu Gao asked, "What a good place? Brother, please tell me."

Li Xin pretended to be mysterious and said, "If you don't tell me now, you will know it then."

After bidding farewell to Niu Gao, Li Xin went back to his house to rest for a few days. At night, the Li Mansion was brightly lit and firecrackers sounded. After giving out red envelopes and having New Year's Eve dinner, Li Xin went back to his house and lay down.

It was still busy outside, but Li Xin was thinking about the plan for the next year in the room. The most important thing in the next year is to develop the island. After establishing a foothold on the island, many things will be launched one after another. , ship artillery, new ships, blast furnace steelmaking, muskets, etc., Mo Dao Li Xin finally plans to build a batch; and a large number of people on the island survive, there will be basically no output in the first two years, and they completely rely on Li Xin's investment, so Li Xin needed to open up new sources of income, and the glass had to be repaired. Li Xin fell asleep thinking about it, and the new year arrived.

Years later, the Li Mansion started to get busy in an orderly manner. On this day, Li Xin came to the place where the orphans were studying. Since Fan Wen left, a Confucian scholar named Liu Yi took over Fan Wen's work and led several Confucian scholars to teach the children. gentlemen.

When Liu Yi saw Li Xin coming in, he cupped his hands and said, "Hello, Master."

Li Xin waved her hand, "It's going well in the Li Mansion. How are the children studying?"

Liu Yi replied, "I went back to my master's house and lived a good life in the house. The children are all studying hard, but the children have different talents. Some study well and some don't study so well. A certain person is like this group of children." We stayed there for a long time and fell in love with them.”

Li Xin nodded and said, "After a while, the children will move away. Are you willing to take a few Confucian scholars to teach the children?"

Liu Yi asked, "I wonder why the master's family wants to move the children away. Where should they move?"

Li Xin said, "There are more and more children, and there is not enough space in the house. I plan to move the children to a bigger place. Of course, if you want to go, I will also move your family to the new place." In addition to being teachers for children, you may also do other things. Your salary as the leader of the Confucian scholars is ten guan more than now, which is guan per month. The other Confucian students are paid guan per month. What do you think? how?"

Liu Yi thought for a while and said, "Can I discuss it with other Confucian scholars and family members first?"

Li Xin nodded and said, "Okay, I'm waiting for your answer."

After saying that, Li Xin went to find the housekeeper, "Uncle An, I want to tell you something."

The steward said, "Mr. Sir, please speak."

Li Xin said, "After the first month, I plan to open new restaurants in Jianglingfu, Gongzhou, and Luzhou."

The butler replied, "Okay, someone knows."

Li Xin continued, "Uncle An will call the manager of Luzhou Restaurant when the time comes. I have something to explain to him."

Uncle An nodded and said, "Yes, Lang Jun, I understand."

Li Xin continued to ask, "Well, how many families of refugees have gathered outside our village?"

The housekeeper thought for a while and said, "There are eight hundred households, and others are still coming one after another."

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