Time passed quickly, and in almost the blink of an eye, it was already at the end of August. The summer heat gradually dissipated, and the cool autumn began to permeate the world.

Because of Xu Changqing's strong control ability, both the Ming and Qing dynasties maintained strong restraint in the past few months, and their bilateral state was relatively stable. In addition, many small warlords in Dashun, Daxi and the northwest all became much more peaceful. The entire land of China ushered in a stable period that had not been seen in nearly a decade.

The weather this year is also good, with no drought or flooding, and the autumn harvest market in various places is basically relatively favorable.

Especially the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty, Haicheng, Qingzhou, Peninsula, Jiangnan, and several prefectures and counties in southern Huguang all showed signs of a bumper harvest.

This made the autumn harvest in various places not officially begin, and the people comforted the world and thanked God for their gifts and blessings.

But unlike the real harvests in Jiangnan and Huguang, the harvests in Haicheng and Shandong are all done by manpower, and are pulled up by the high yield of sweet potatoes.

At this time, the Political Bureau had already made precise preparations to use various means to control grain prices and ensure the interests of the people.

Especially the storage work of sweet potatoes.

In normal state, sweet potatoes need to be stored and sliced ​​and dried first.

However, although it is easy to store after drying, some new problems will arise, that is, the dried sweet potatoes are not easy to eat, so ordinary families can only make porridge and drink it.

If you don’t want to make porridge, you have to use a stone mill or stone mill to crush it into powder, mix it with staple food such as rice flour and flour, and steam buns or pancakes.

This undoubtedly costs a lot of manpower.

But Li Youwei, Wu Sanmei, Zhu Mai, Gu Hengbo’s daughters, including later Zheng Chagu, Dong'e and Kong Sizhen, found the method early and had strong preparations.

They jointly established several flour mills in Haicheng, directly taking the lead in monopolizing the military ration supply of the Model Army.

I really have to thank Meng Chen and the others for this matter.

Because of the emergence of the crusher, Li Youwei and the others paid a lot of money to let Meng Chen and the others study machines that could crush grain.

Having money is easy to do.

Meng Chen and his friends have now reached a scale of more than 100 people, and soon developed a "grain crusher" that is much less labor-saving, easier to use, and more efficient than the original Shimo.

This gives technical support to the initial "industrialization".

Influenced by Li Youwei and others, especially the public sale of the "grain crusher", Haicheng suddenly found many small workshops to help the people deal with dried sweet potatoes, mix them with staple food to make flour, and even contact the Political Affairs Office, wanting to participate in the model army's military ration supply system Zhonglai.

This made Haicheng enter a new state of prosperity just as the autumn harvest began.

Xu Changqing naturally enjoyed his success. This was the true germination of capitalism, and it was a comprehensive breakthrough with a large area, a large scope and a broad foundation.

Inner study room.

Xu Changqing was thinking carefully about how to continue to increase the enthusiasm of the people to open various small workshops. Suddenly, a personal soldier reported that Zhu Mai and Zheng Chagu came together.

Xu Changqing also took off from official duties and welcomed them in with a smile.

Zhu Mai is six or seven months pregnant and is already very heavy. Zheng Chagu has achieved results after Xu Changqing's hard work. It has been almost three months.

He personally welcomed them to the sofa and sat down, and then made tea for them with his own hands. Xu Changqing smiled and said, "Two beauties, what's wrong? Why are they unhappy? Whoever messed with you, I will educate him immediately and wear his shoes."

Zhu Mai said proudly and said, "It sounds better than the singing. Someone's two little princesses have almost become sensual these days. Not to mention wearing small shoes, Cha Gu and I have to take a detour when we meet them."

Zheng Chagu was also full of arrogant face and did not intend to pay attention to Xu Changqing.

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…”

Xu Changqing was speechless.

Dong'e and Kong Sizhen will definitely not be so confused. Even if they are a little bit stingy, they will never dare to make trouble with Zhu Mai and Zheng Chagu.

The core of the problem is...

The wedding date agreed by Xu Changqing and Dorgon and others is almost here. On the first day of September, Xu Changqing will set off for Dagukou to meet with Dorgon and officially reach these two marriages.

In front of me, Zhu Mai and Zheng Chagu, 80% of the two big-bellied women, reached an agreement with Li Youwei and Wu Sanmei, and came to make a request with Xu Changqing.

After comforting her, she made both girls blush with a little bit of anger. Their anger subsided a little and she couldn't help laughing.

Xu Changqing smiled and said, "How is the flour mill business like these days? You have already collected a lot of goods, right?"

Zhu Ma was in a good mood at this time. She was actually a princess disease. She knew that she could not change the reality. All she wanted was Xu Changqing's attitude.

Once Xu Changqing's attitude is good, she will lose all her problems.

Zheng Chagu is a little better in this regard, but after getting along these days, she and Zhu Mai are already very close. She is a sister. If Zhu Mai has something to do, she will naturally have to come out to stand.

However, when Xu Changqing talked about the flour mill business, Zhu Mai suddenly became a little angry again and spat: "Xu Lang, I really don't know what those people from the Political Affairs Bureau are doing? He has already granted the military supplies of the Model Army to us, why are they now starting to encourage private factories? Isn't this a woman marrying a second husband? Where did they do this?"

"that is."

Zheng Chagu was also a little unhappy and said, "Brother Xu, we have to open several small workshops almost every day these days, and our business has been greatly affected. Some workshops secretly raise prices with us in order to grab business. It is difficult for us to collect grain now."

Xu Changqing also frowned when he heard this.

Unexpectedly, his two delicate wives came for this matter.

Seeing Xu Changqing frowning, Zhu Mai and Zheng Chagu became a little nervous.

They looked aggressive on the surface, but in fact, they didn't have much confidence in their hearts.

Because they have long understood that on many issues, Xu Changqing will tolerate them no matter how they act coquettishly or make trouble, but Xu Changqing will never allow them to point fingers when it comes to matters involving some core issues.

One of them came from the Tian family and the other came from a wealthy family, so they were very afraid of this.

But at this time, the matter had not really been put on the table. After discussing with Li Youwei, Wu Sanmei and other women, they happened to take advantage of the east wind of Dong'e and Kong Sizhen to come to test Xu Changqing's attitude.

However, the effect does not seem to be very good.

Xu Changqing is already a little inappropriate...

Seeing that the two women were scared, Xu Changqing suddenly smiled: "What? I was so arrogant just now, but I thought what happened? Now the little fox's tail is exposed, and he is panicked. Is it useless?"

"cut."

The two women immediately gave Xu Changqing a blank look.

Zhu Mai said, "Xu Lang, what do you think? How can you easily put such a powerful tool as a grain crusher to the people? This will cause trouble."

Zheng Chagu didn't dare to speak, but he obviously stood on the same position as Zhu Mi.

Xu Changqing thought for a while and said, "Yu'er, Cha Gu, do you feel that the small workshops run by ordinary people have increased the cost of you now, and you are unhappy?"

Zhu Mai took a sip of tea and ignored Xu Changqing, thinking that this was not nonsense.

Zheng Chagu secretly pinched Xu Changqing's big hand and first expressed her position.

While enjoying this little mood, Xu Changqing smiled and said, "Yu'er, have you ever thought that this is actually a good thing for you, not a bad thing for everyone?"

"Ai?"

Zhu Mai looked at Xu Changqing's eyes unhappily: "Xu Lang, you

, You are not thinking about showing off, right? People are coming to steal our business, why is this a good thing? If this continues, there will be problems with the model army's military ration supply this year."

Zheng Chagu couldn't help but say, "Brother Xu, Sister Yu'er said it well. They secretly scattered prices in private. It's too despicable. This will really lead to chaos."

Xu Changqing smiled and said, "Then, have you ever thought about why they are making random prices? And after they make random prices, aren't they afraid of losing money?"

"this……"

Both women were stopped and frowned.

"hehe."

Xu Changqing smiled and said, "You are so spoiled. You are used to eating alone. Once they come to compete with you for food, you can't stand it. In fact, this is definitely a good thing for you. Since they have opened a workshop, they have naturally registered it in the Political Affairs Office and are not smuggled. Why, the food collection price of their small workshops is higher than that of you, and they can still make money?"

Seeing what the two women had already captured, Xu Changqing continued to induce: "Is your organization too bloated? Even if someone is filling his personal pockets? Or, your method may not be as good as others. You are smart people, you should understand one thing: a pool of stagnant water, no matter how big it is, there is no future. Only when there is constant flowing in, can the stagnant water come alive. Only with competition can everyone improve their technology, update their equipment, and use the least effort to make the most money. Think carefully, is that so?"

"this……"

...

After seeing off Zhu Mai and Zheng Chagu, Xu Changqing also firmly decided to have a stable policy and environmental support for these small private workshops.

On the evening of that day, the political affairs chief officials were convened to discuss the matter. The next morning, the core point of "free trade" was distributed to the entire Shandong.

This immediately made countless small workshop owners happy and even more grateful to Xu Changqing.

Many ordinary people who have always had the skills and wanted to enter the industry but were afraid of offending others and dared not do it, began to borrow money from relatives and friends, and even sold some property, and directly joined the army.

The market is booming.

A few days later.

Zhu Moe came to Xu Changqing again, and his attitude was already showing a lot of weakness.

She bit her red lips lightly and said, "Xu Lang, in this market, the total military chief of the Model Army is probably 20% or even 30% of them will be eaten by these small workshops."

Xu Changqing smiled and held her in his arms, "Then, have you found the problem?"

When Zhu Ma mentioned this, she became angry and spat irritably, "I really let you tell me it. There are quite a lot of problems in our flour mill. In the past few days, my elder sister has fired more than 20 people. Moreover, Brother Xu, there are really talented people in those small workshops. A stone of pure sweet potato noodles can actually reduce the cost to less than half a money..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Mai was extremely upset.

Who would have thought that those ordinary people are much worse than their conditions, but their technology is more advanced than theirs...

"Haha, don't be angry, being angry hurts your body. You are two of you now, why do you get such unreasonable anger?"

Xu Changqing first appeased Zhu Dashi's emotions, and then explained carefully: "It is normal for people to have capable people. It is important to know that if one person is short-sighted, everyone is strong. If we want to develop, the Ming Dynasty should not be self-satisfied. We must be open and mobilize everyone's subjective initiative so that everyone can make profits, so that people can fight to the death, right? Yes, do you know what is the free trade that Westerners have always advocated?"

With Xu Changqing's continuous explanation, Zhu Mi gradually captured more core points, and her beautiful eyes gradually lit up.
Chapter completed!