Chapter 20:
When he was in the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Xingyun first flew pigeons to pass the book and let the people from the Haotian Department and the Zhutian Department take the outer disciples down the Misty Miao Peak first.
These outer disciples are not many, and they are not all women like Tianshan Tongmao at that time, but there are men and women. Some are orphans from outside disciples taken in by Xiaoyaozi, and some are descendants of those who built the Vulture Palace a hundred years ago to go to the Western Regions. Life in the Vulture Palace is better than that of ordinary people, and the people of Jiutian Jiubu are also more loyal.
The Zhu Tian Department and the Hao Tian Department together consisted of about 60 people. They were the people who would go down the mountain to buy and contact each other. It was indeed the most suitable for them to come to help Li Canghai first.
Li Canghai hurriedly said to Zhe Jimin, "Young Master Zhe, there is something suddenly happening at home. Today, Young Master is very kind. I wrote it down, and I will visit in person another day."
How could Zhe Jimin not hear this naked expulsion order? They got up and said goodbye, and Li Canghai asked Lu Yi to see off the guest.
Lu Yi sent the young man from the two families out of the living room, but saw a graceful man with immortal appearance and ink hair like a waterfall walking towards him. Every frame of him can be included in the painting, like a lotus growing every step of the way.
He only wore plain gauze clothes, similar in style to Li Canghai's, but very different from those worn by nobles and commoners nowadays.
Behind the man were a few men and women in white clothes. They all had good looks and bearing, and the clothes on their bodies were a little worse, but they didn't look like ordinary servants.
They all wore swords and respectfully followed behind the man.
The exiled man didn't pay much attention to the two raw faces of the Zhe brothers, even though they were also children of an aristocratic family.
When Zhe Jimin saw this person, he always thought that he was more compatible with the fairy sister, and he felt ashamed and sad.
At this moment, Li Canghai walked out of the hall, smiled faintly, and called out, "Senior brother, why did you come here so quickly?"
Suddenly, the man behind the man fell to his knees and fell on his knees: "See you at the sect master!"
Li Canghai hurriedly picked up Wu Yazi who was bowing to her, and said, "How can senior brother be so polite? It's smashing the little sister."
But Wu Yazi knew that if he didn't behave politely, the new head of her would have insufficient prestige when she first saw Haotian and Zhu Tian's subordinates from Xidong after taking over. After all, she was the youngest.
This senior brother of his started early, and he has been in charge of some things over the years. He used to have some dignity in the Nine Heavens and Nine Departments, but she has never been in contact with mundane affairs. He respects her, and his subordinates naturally dare not look down on her.
When Wu Yazi touched her cool hand, she couldn't help but feel warm, thinking that if she felt a little apology in her heart, what would be the harm that he would kneel down and salute, just now he was self-reliant.
Wu Yazi smiled and said, "Junior sister is now the head of the sect. I have different identities. I should salute."
Li Canghai hurriedly got the two subordinates up again, gave Lu Yan a wink, and asked her to greet the subordinates first, and then personally led the leaders of Wuyazi, Haotian, and Zhutian into the living room.
Just now, a few rough servants had moved the gifts from Zhe Jimin to one side, and the living room was already empty.
After everyone was seated, the little maid brought tea.
Li Canghai said: "I have just settled here, but it is not easy to find a big house in a good location in Bianjing. I have to make do with it, but my brother will laugh."
Wu Yazi said: "It's just a yard, so what's the problem? I'm afraid that the junior sister is too kind, and would rather wrong herself than force others."
Li Canghai smiled lightly: "How can I be so good?"
Wu Yazi also mentioned that he has already found a good place to build a building, but now he has to plan and collect materials. These things must be collected by pressing the thirty-six holes and seventy-two islands.
Li Canghai thought to himself that the current filial piety is still mainly based on the annual silver coins, and the Xiaoyao son Yuwei is still there. Except for a small number of people who used the life and death talisman for oppression and restriction, others did not have the life and death talisman.
The two talked for a while, and Wu Yazi said to stay.
Li Canghai wondered: "Why do you want to stay in Bianjing?"
Wuyazi said: "Now Hengshan has only found a good place. It will take some time to gather craftsmen and materials. Huguang is too far from the north. It is better to be in Bianjing, and you can also help the junior sisters one or two."
Li Canghai smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, brother, how can my little sister not know what's good or bad. It's just that what I'm going to do next is covered in copper stench.
Wu Yazi asked, "Does the head junior sister also want to follow the example of Qiushui junior sister in business affairs?"
Li Canghai nodded and said, "Where can I get less money when I walk in the rivers and lakes? It's not the actions of the chivalrous people of my generation. In fact, after thinking about it, the Spirit Vulture Palace earns thirty-six holes and seventy-two islands every year for filial piety. With our brocade clothes and jade food, why is it not another kind of robbery? Robbing others is not a long-term way to have prestige and no kindness. What should they do if they hold grudges and rebellion in their hearts? Is it possible to kill them all? After killing them, they have no filial piety. I think that Shaolin is the so-called Taishan Beidou in the martial arts, and its name is Liangtian Qianqing. It is said to be a Fangwai sect, but in fact it is just a rich man with a bald head. Otherwise, what do Shaolin monks eat and wear? The foundation is to become a rich man first."
Wu Yazi's whole person is not feeling well, the little junior sister's immortal appearance, her expression is indifferent, but her tone is firm and said "I want to become a rich man".
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Wu Yazi stayed in the guest room for a night, but many of Haotian and Zhu Tian's party members could only lay the floor, which made Li Canghai very uncomfortable.
Li Canghai had no choice but to let them find the yard again, not asking how big it was, so that some people could rest.
However, Wu Yazi told her that it is better to sell a village in the suburbs of Beijing and build a big village. After all, many people in Jianghu now have these family businesses.
Building a house in the suburbs of Beijing is simpler than in Hengshan, at least the transportation is convenient, and there is no shortage of craftsmen in Bianjing.
Li Canghai said: "Zhuangzi in a good area in the suburbs of Beijing is not easy to buy. It was very difficult for people at that time to sell Zhuangzi except when they were in the middle of nowhere."
Wu Yazi smiled and said, "Let me leave this matter to me. Junior sister has a simple temperament, so it's hard to find."
Li Canghai said anxiously, "Senior brother, you can't threaten to force others to sell."
Wuyazi has an uninhibited temperament, in fact, in addition to being crazy, he is really a free-spirited character. But seeing that Li Canghai was a bit rigid, he sighed in his heart, "Why do I keep thinking about a little girl like her so much.
Wu Yazi said: "If there is enough money, someone will always sell it."
"It's too expensive to buy."
"Senior brother has money." Wu Yazi was a little helpless, it turned out that she was still stingy and wanted to buy at the market price.
In fact, with his martial arts, "borrowing" silver money could not be easier. Maybe, he has to take this little junior sister to do the thing of robbing the rich and helping the poor, so that she will not be so pedantic and kind-hearted.
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The craftsmen of the Song Dynasty were ingenious, with drawings and explanations from her, but in three days, the carpenter and the mason cooperated to build a coal stove.
When she put the charcoal fire in it, the charcoal fire can burn longer and the heat utilization is higher.
Soon she bought a few acres of barren wasteland in the suburbs, built a workshop, purchased coal, and made honeycomb with a hydraulic roller compactor and mold.
When Wu Yazi watched the head and junior sister, who was a fairy character, play with briquettes, and watched her go to burn the stove, he felt a sense of collapse in his heart, and he only felt heartache.
One month after Wuyazi arrived in Beijing, Wu Xingyun also arrived in Bianjing.
The power she mobilized was even worse than Wu Yazi.
Everyone gathered firewood and the flames were high, and with the cooperation of senior brothers and sisters, they temporarily entrusted the infrastructure construction to the senior sister and Wuyazi.
Li Canghai was able to free himself to do other things, such as making friends with Fu Jia, an official of the Song Dynasty.
Soon, in the northern suburbs of Bianjing fifty miles away, Wuyazi acquired 800 acres of land and built a large villa called Xiaoyao Villa. Some tile-roofed houses were built near the villa for the students from the outer sect to live in, as well as some workshops built along the stream, and the courtyard in Bianjing City was originally used as a transit warehouse. The villa can accommodate five or six hundred people in total.
Li Canghai produced coal stoves and briquettes, and then carried out some marketing campaigns. The people of Bianjing gradually accepted this convenient and economical way of burning fire.
Especially for officials and officials, they have to prepare hot water to make tea every day. It is much more convenient to burn such a stove in the tea room every day.
The next year, she bought another tenant under the name of Zhuangzi to grow rapeseed, and Zhuangzi was in charge of buying the vegetable oil, and she set up a soap workshop, which was learned from Li Qiushui. She must be very annoying, Li Canghai robbed her of this business, but did not dare to come to her door.
Although the cost of soap in this era is more than ten times higher than that in modern times, it is still possible to make a lot of money in the way of the official and rich.
In the Song Dynasty, the economic level was relatively high. In fact, many ordinary people would occasionally buy it.
Under her design, 36 holes, 72 islands and some martial arts families who have surrendered to the Xiaoyao Sect will gradually cancel the simple tribute of filial piety. Get out and make your profit.
The first time, those people were very unaccustomed, and even if they had been trained, they could not understand how a mysterious Jianghu sect could become a merchant.
However, the poor will change, and the change will pass. Thirty-six holes and seventy-two islands have to seek a large amount of financial tribute every year, which is already overwhelmed. But if you think that everyone in the Happy Mountain Villa can sell goods and make money, why can't they?
Therefore, they looked for a seller nearby, and it was not difficult to find a merchant and buyer nearby with their force.
But it was unexpected that there are still merchants who still look for them to buy goods after they have sold their things. Only then did those island owners and cave owners understand that this reselling of the "products" of the general altar is a way to make money. If they do more of this business, they can fill the filial piety.
In the fourth year, Thirty-Six Caves, Seventy-two Islands and some small martial arts gangs had much less resentment against the Xiaoyao faction, because they did not have to pay filial piety after doing this, but also had a slight surplus. Their connection with the general altar Also closer.
In the meantime, a few small gangs who got cheap and disrespectful were sent by Wu Xingyun to kill chickens and police monkeys, and the chaos below was restrained. To tell the truth, if Wu Xingyun hadn't united to help Li Canghai, Li Canghai was a modern person after all, and he was afraid that he would not be able to kill people who were originally oppressed by the Xiaoyao faction.
Therefore, Li Canghai can better understand how important it is to gather talents to help divide labor when a person wants to do big things, and how important a person's mind-set is to gather talents.
For several years, the head of Li Canghai's faction has embarked on an ordinary life of doing business in addition to practicing martial arts. After Wu Yazi and Wu Xingyun and other materials and craftsmen were ready, they rushed to the Hengshan area to do construction in full swing.