In a restaurant in Xia's City, Guangzhou, near the window on the second floor, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin, each holding a cup of good tea, while tasting the tea while chatting.

Almost from April last year, the chambers of commerce of the Jiang family, Xia family and Liang family made great efforts to advance to the four provinces of Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Huguang, making the three companies' businesses grow bigger and bigger. There are even rumors outside that the Jiang family, Xia family and Liang family are rich enough to rival the country.

Before the People's Army, the businesses of the Jiang family, Xia family and Liang family were mainly Guangdong, and there were more or less business outside Guangdong.

As the People's Army occupied Guangdong, the three families of Jiang, Xia and Liang survived, and their business was confined to Guangdong. Even due to war, the business of the three companies shrank greatly. However, because a large number of other merchants were searched by the People's Army and the market was vacant, the business of the three companies was quickly restored, even larger than the previous business scale.

Especially the glass business, the three companies earn a lot of money.

Now the glass business of the Jiang family, Xia family and Liang family is gone, but the newly added four major markets in Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Huguang provinces, the original merchants either fled or were confiscated by the People's Army. The Jiang family, Xia family and Liang family were able to quickly expand their business scale.

Originally, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and the other three missed their superior lives in the past. At that time, the people at the bottom did not dare to stare at them. The maids and servants in the family could beat and scold them at will, but as the business of the three families grew bigger and bigger, the three gradually felt that the current environment was also good.

Especially the People's Army ruled the "country" according to law, making it easier for Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin to do business, and they just need to stay in Guangzhou.

Looking back at the time when the Ming court ruled Guangdong, the three companies' businesses were already quite big, but there was no possibility of much improvement in the future. The main reason was that the market in other places was already occupied by traditional forces, and outsiders would only be boycotted. Unless Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, and Liang Xin had a larger backer, they could continue to expand the scale of their business.

Once the three lose the protection of the big shots, the business of the three companies will be divided up by others in the next moment.

If you think about it carefully, it is really dangerous to do business under the rule of the Ming court. If you accidentally end up with your whole family.

When doing business under the rule of the People's Army, as long as you abide by the laws of the People's Army, you don't need to think about other things and do business with peace of mind. So as the three companies' businesses are constantly expanding rapidly, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin can be relatively relaxed and can often sit together and drink tea and chat.

However, the voices of "rich can rival a country" seem to be increasing, which makes the three of them a little troubled. "rich can rival a country" is not a good thing. Shen Wansan is an example. Although the People's Army governs the country according to law, who knows whether the People's Army will attack the Jiang, Xia and Liang families who are rich can compete with a country. Even if they do not destroy the law, there are ways to deal with the three families.

"Brother Xia, Brother Liang, this matter is a bit difficult." Jiang Ci said with a sigh.

Liang Xin nodded and said, "It is indeed a bit difficult. When our three companies have grown their business, it is normal for them to be jealous of other companies. Use "rich can rival the country" to make the People's Army pay attention to our three companies. We are businessmen, the People's Army is an official, and we hold the power of life and death, so we can only be slaughtered by others."

"I have a plan to get the three of us out of this situation."

As soon as Xia Jingshan finished speaking, Jiang Ci and Liang Xin both stared at Xia Jingshan, and their eyes seemed to say, "If you have any plan, just say it quickly."

Xia Jingshan picked up the teacup and sipped the tea slightly and said, "My plan is very simple, which is to lose money and eliminate disasters."

Hearing the four words "break money and eliminate disasters", the other two nodded and thoughts came to mind.

"The three of us used to buy land when we made money. Now the People's Army does not allow us to buy and sell land. The money we earn can only be kept at home. The speed of spending money is far less than the speed of making money. There are more and more houses in our home.

Since we can't spend this money ourselves, it's better to do good deeds and spend money to buy a good reputation. If we have a reputation, the People's Army must think carefully if we want to take action against us.

Don’t the People’s Army like to build roads? We also build roads. The People’s Army builds main roads. Let’s build small roads and bridges. When the people walk on the roads and bridges we build, they will definitely remember our goodness.

I think the People's Army will definitely be willing to see that we merchants spend money to do good deeds. If our three families make a good start, the People's Army will attack other merchants and will not attack us."

"Build roads and bridges? You can do it." Liang Xin agreed.

In fact, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin can do very few good deeds. In the past, the easiest way to do good deeds was to serve porridge, but all the people in the People's Army ruled areas had their own fields and could eat enough. They didn't need to serve porridge at all. In the People's Army ruled areas, even beggars could not be found. If a beggar appears, the People's Army would place them first.

If you think about it carefully, the main thing you can do is to build roads and bridges. The People's Army invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build cement roads and railways. Everyone can see it and understand the People's Army's persistence in road construction. Moreover, road construction does bring convenience to the people's travel and also makes business easier for merchants.

After all, the People's Army has limited manpower and can open up the main roads between cities. It is temporarily unable to build the city and town, and the small roads in the village can only be taken step by step. This is the opportunity for merchants.

"By the way, when we build roads and bridges, we have to put the name of the People's Army. We say that we make money thanks to the People's Army. The People's Army allows the people to live a good life, and we also build roads and bridges to facilitate the people's travel."

"Yes, the People's Army should be put in front."

After some discussion, Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan and Liang Xin made a decision. Next, they arranged for people to go to villages and towns to see where the roads were dilapidated and where the people could spend money to build roads and bridges because the river was inconvenient to travel. The roads were built directly on the cement roads, so they could afford the money.

However, the people who built roads were in trouble. The People's Army used coolies to build roads. Merchants were unable to mobilize coolies. They could only spend money to hire local people to build roads. Even if the money was less, the locals were expected to accept it. After all, building roads and bridges was convenient for local people to travel, which was a good thing, and locals would definitely be willing to support them.

For merchants, they naturally want to make more money. Even if the money cannot be purchased for land or something, it is a pleasant thing to put it at home to see more and more houses of silver placed.
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