Be a master through ancient times

"Chu Tixue, do you have anything else to say about the following?" Zhao Kuan twitched the corner of his mouth. The first request was evaded by this guy with the law. If he still doesn't agree with the second point , Then don’t even think about doing this business!

"Oh, about the second point..." Chu Ci paused, Zhao Kuan's eyes darkened, and he asked, "How?"

"Second point, you request that the business of Yurongfang not sell one except for the government's own use. I actually have no objection. However, this may hinder your reputation, Mr. Zhao." Chu Ci looked worried. He looked like he was seriously thinking about him.

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Kuan frowned, and a bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart.

"It's like this. After all, this Yurong pill is a product of Zhangzhou Prefecture. In addition to selling it to the surrounding merchants who come to buy goods, we also keep two big pots every day and sell it to the nearby people at a low price so that they can also taste it. Try something new. But once your words come out, the common people will not have the benefits of these two pots. If they are sensible, they may not say anything, but most of the common people are ignorant. I am afraid that they will regard Mr. Zhao as a profiteer. In this way ,Won’t it be detrimental to Master Zhao’s reputation if you pass it on to ten or ten to a hundred?”

Zhao Kuan suppressed his temper and said: "Just two pots won't hinder anything. It will be the same in the future, and the rest can't be given to others."

Chu Ci smiled and nodded, indicating to Zhang Wenhai to write down the second clause, and then add this condition later.

Zhao Kuan snorted angrily, and said, "If you have any requirements for the third point, you might as well say it together!"

"This is the third point..." Chu Ci paused again, and Zhao Kuan's face was so dark that ink dripped from the opposite side.It's really deceiving, he just said something casually, but Chu Ci really has other ideas? !

Prefect Lu had been drinking tea in silence during the negotiations on Chu Ci. Although he and Chu Ci had a disagreement, but the interests were at hand, and if he could negotiate, his benefits would be more obvious, so he didn't say anything.But now seeing that Chu Ci was about to offend his big money bag, he couldn't help coughing twice, signaling to Chu Ci to accept it as soon as he got better.

"The third point is as you said, Mr. Zhao, three parties will pay for the establishment of the wharf. But, do you have a budget in mind, so that we can raise money." Chu Ci asked, opening his mouth because Zhao Kuan was not very capable understand the words.

"Budget? What is this?" Zhao Kuan showed a trace of doubt on his face.

"That is to say, have you thought about how much money it will cost to build the wharf? Just like the terrain exploration in the early stage, and the purchase of materials and labor costs in the later stage, etc., you should first make a list and list all the items. Write it all down, and write down the amount of money you expect to spend at the back. This way, after everyone has read it, they can also know how much money should be spent, and where the money is spent.”

If now, a government project in a prefecture-level city is going to invite bids, everyone who wants to bid has to rack their brains to write bid documents.Now Zhao Kuan skipped the step of bidding, and it would be too much to not even have a proposal.

Because Chu Ci's expression was taken for granted, Zhao Kuan couldn't help recalling whether he had ever done this before.The answer is of course obvious, not only has he never done it, he has never even heard of it.

"Forgive Zhao for being ignorant. Before this, Zhao had never heard of any budget, nor had he ever made such a thing. Could it be that Chu Tixue deliberately made things difficult?" Zhao Kuan stared at Chu Ci with an unfriendly expression.

Chu Ci was calm and composed, without showing any timidity: "The reason why Mr. Zhao has never done it before is because you have never asked the three parties to fund the construction of the pier. Now that the three parties are involved, the prefect Lu has to explain the money to the government officials. Where did you go, and you have to be responsible to the generous merchants in Zhangzhou Prefecture. If there is no budget, how will the money be divided in the future? You can’t do whatever you say, Mr. Zhao?”

Seeing Zhao Kuan's hesitant expression, Chu Ci struck while the iron was hot: "I wonder if everyone has heard of the cultural park in the southern suburbs of the capital?"

Zhao Kuan's heart skipped a beat: "I've heard a little bit about it."

"This cultural park was a big project in the capital city last year. It was co-chaired by officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Industry assisted in its construction. At that time, people from the Beijing Chamber of Commerce built the cultural park. It seemed that it was something that benefited the country and the people. They were very active in participating. At that time, there were too many applicants, and the Ministry of Household Affairs asked them to submit their budgets, and selected the ones with the shortest construction period and the cheapest construction cost, and then contracted several courtyards of this cultural park. I gave it to those people. So, it’s not something Chu made up, but everyone in the capital is doing it.”

What Chu Ci said was serious, not only Zhao Kuan, but even Lu Zhifu and Zhang Wenhai believed what he said.They never thought that Chu Ci would talk nonsense in a serious manner.

"But this budget... Mr. Zhao hasn't done it yet." Zhao Kuan was a little embarrassed, but all the bigwigs in the business district of the capital did this, and if he didn't follow suit, wouldn't it seem that he was too out of place?

Chu Ci smiled gently and said, "If Mr. Zhao is at ease, he can send a few of his men to the office of the school, and then Chu will work out the budget with them."

After much deliberation, Zhao Kuan felt that this method was quite cost-effective, so he readily agreed.

Chu Ci gave him a friendly smile, and Zhao Kuan returned a smile. Under the smile was the big fox tail that couldn't be hidden no matter what.

The next few items were irrelevant. Chu Ci wanted to give him some leeway, so he didn't make any comments, but asked Zhang Wenhai to directly copy it on paper.After transcribing this copy, Chu Ci picked up the paper and handed it to the prefect Lu first, and asked him to read it carefully and expressed no opinion before handing the paper to Zhao Kuan.

Zhao Kuan glanced at it a few times and said it was correct.Chu Ci took back the paper and handed it to Zhang Wenhai, asking him to copy two other papers.Zhang Wenhai's writing speed is not slow, and soon, three papers with exactly the same content appeared on the table.

"If the two of you have no objections, please sign and seal below."

Afraid that Zhao Kuan would go back on his word, Governor Lu took the paper and signed his name on it, then took out the small seal he carried with him, and stamped it three times.After that, he pushed the paper to Zhao Kuan, stared at his movements with burning eyes, and silently urged him to sign quickly.Zhao Kuan hesitated for a moment, but finally signed and sealed.In the end, Chu Ci also signed his name at the bottom, took out his seal and snapped it on.

"This deed is in triplicate, and one party keeps one copy. If there is any violation of the contract, it can be appealed to the government for execution." Everyone understands this, but Chu Ci reminded him again. This reminder is mainly aimed at Zhao Kuan, meaning Telling him not to have the idea of ​​breaking the contract.

The matter that has been entangled for several days was finally solved perfectly, and Chu Ci felt relieved.In the next banquet, you came and went, and the wine was mixed. After the wine and food were full, the prefect Lu left in advance with the newly released contract.

Afterwards, Zhao Kuan ordered people to withdraw from the banquet, served green tea, and began to discuss the business of Yurong Pills with Zhang Wenhai in detail.In the past few days, Zhang Wenhai has also learned from shopkeeper He, knowing how to fight for greater interests for himself, so after Zhao Kuan finished fighting Chuci, he wanted to fight Zhang Wenhai again, exhausted both physically and mentally.

Finally, the two parties negotiated the conditions and wrote the contract.After Zhao Kuan watched Chu Ci leave with the appearance of sending off the plague god, he couldn't help but let out a sigh.

"Master, what's the matter with you?" asked the butler beside him.

"Human, I really can't accept my old age." Zhao Kuan smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Master, you clearly know that the sword is not old, so why bother to say that?" the butler boasted.

Zhao Kuan just smiled, can he refuse to accept his old age?The two young men transformed in just two or three days, and he was almost powerless to resist the verbal attack.When he stood still with that poor experience, others had already left him far away.

Chu Ci naturally didn't know that someone started to think about life because of him, and he was leading a yard of people drinking and chatting, enjoying themselves.

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"Master, according to the requirements in the contract, at the beginning we had to hand over [-] catties of Yurong pills to Mr. Zhao every month, and it worked out to be more than [-] catties per day. It doesn't sound like much, but It’s actually hard to do.”

Shopkeeper He was a little embarrassed when he saw the contract handed over by Zhang Wenhai. The Zhang Family Firm had only about [-] people in Zhangzhou Prefecture, and they had to remove a lot of people just to transport fish, dissect them, stab them, and beat them every day.Although some people were invited to help, but it would be a leak, and most of the things were still done by themselves.

"Don't worry about this. Brother Chu has already asked for a piece of land from the magistrate, and you will work there from now on. In terms of manpower, you only need to recruit a large number of local people for rough work, and it involves materials and production techniques. , I’d better trouble Shopkeeper He to watch from the side.”

Shopkeeper He nodded, and asked another question: "I don't know if the young master has a solution for the ingredients for making Yurong pills? Our current ingredients are all fish that are collected by the masters to make Zishuxiu. Sometimes More, sometimes less, if you want to make five hundred catties of Yurong pills every day, you need at least one thousand catties of fish, as long as they are not too small or have too many bones."

The fish brought over in the past are of different sizes, and there are even small miscellaneous fish. There are many bones in that kind of fish. If you pick the bones, it will waste your time. Shredded to make soup fresh.

Zhang Wenhai obviously has an answer to this question: "This is not a problem, just go to a certain fishing village and order all the big fish caught in their village every day, and the price can be a penny or two more than outside. In this way, The food problem can be solved.”

Shopkeeper He stroked his beard after hearing this, and said with a look of relief, "Young master has really grown up. But you'd better spend more time on your studies, Master and Madam wrote to me two days ago, and I'm still waiting for your reply Woolen cloth."

Shopkeeper He is an old man of the Zhang family. It can be said that Zhang Wenhai grew up under his watch, so Zhang Wenhai will not feel offended at all when he says these words.He was just worried about how to reply to his parents' letters.

Speaking of which, the reason why he made the long journey to Zhangzhou Mansion to seek refuge in Chu Ci was not only because he wanted to follow him to make a fuss and learn experience, but also because he wanted to avoid the forced marriage at home.

Before he was admitted as a scholar, the family already wanted to marry him.At that time, he thought it would be good to marry a wife, so he let them go around to help him find each other.But when he was admitted as a scholar and exchanged knowledge with everyone in the academy, he suddenly discovered that a man should first establish a career before starting a family, and should not put the children's personal relationship first.Even Brother Chu made an oath before that he would never get married if he did not pass the exam.Gradually, his mind faded away.

He entered the imperial examination the year before last, and it was reasonable for him to fail.At this time, the actions of the family to visit his wife's room became more and more frequent.During that period of time, he only dared to hide in the county school, and he didn't dare to go home every day.

Compared with him, Jinyang was much happier. He told his family that because of Xiaocui's relationship, he had no intention of loving his children at all, and his body was still a little weak due to years of suffering, so he would not talk about marriage for the time being.Fang's family supported him very much, even if others came to make peace, they politely refused.

After a year of suffering, Jinyang left the county school. Zhang Wenhai didn't want to stay there alone, so he also left the county school and went home to study.This can be regarded as fulfilling the wish of the Zhang family's parents. They will take Zhang Wenhai to a blind date every three days, and they keep saying that they hug their grandchildren, as if their son is a tool for making grandchildren.

Zhang Wenhai's life was worse than death during that time, and it was only when Zhang's father suffered a lawsuit because of his inadvertent slip of the tongue that he finally calmed down.After Chu Ci came back, Zhang Wenhai made up his mind to stay by Chu Ci's side, so as to get rid of the nightmare of being urged to marry.

However, although Zhang Wenhai himself didn't want to get married, he was unequivocal about Chu Ci's lifelong affairs.After the business matters were explained clearly, he began to ask around.It's a pity that there are very few people in Zhangzhou Mansion with rich background, and none of them are worthy of Chu Ci. Zhang Wenhai can only give up temporarily in frustration.

Fortunately, Chu Ci, who was busy writing the budget, didn't even know that the crisis of forced marriage disappeared due to the lack of suitable partners.If he knew, he might jump up and smash Zhang Wenhai's dog's head.What does it mean that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry, and he clearly has a target!