My life skills in Daming Liver

Hangzhou.

As the heat entered, Yu Zongyuan became even lazier than the second young master.

I only saw two concubines standing by the ice, fanning hard towards the second young master.

Second Young Master Yu is still lying on the cold bed like a dead fish. Hangzhou is obviously further north than his hometown of Nanping, but summer is much more difficult than Nanping.

Second Young Master Yu is considering whether to return to his hometown of Wuyi Mountain to escape the summer heat in Hangzhou.

However, the second young master Yu couldn't bear the excitement of Hangzhou. He still had his father and brother and a large family living in his hometown of Nanping. When he returned, he would no longer be the manipulator of young master Yu, but his son and second brother Yu.

The last time he wrote to greet his father, Yu Zongyuan said that he was busy with business in Hangzhou, so he had no time to return to his hometown.

Thinking of this, Yu Zongyuan could only give up the idea of ​​returning to his hometown to escape the summer heat.

At this time, the old housekeeper walked into the house and said that Lin An, the director of the match factory, came to visit.

For Lin An, Yu Zongyuan's attitude is one of love and hate.

What I love is that Lin An's match factory expanded its scale last month and asked Yu Zongyuan for a large investment.

This investment even exceeded the three thousand taels of silver used to build the match factory.

Since selling off the railway bonds, Yu Zongyuan's industry can really be described as making money every day.

Unlike the Xu family, Yu Zongyuan's investments are often based on various new industries. To use the newspaper's expression, Yu Gongzi's investments are all "emerging industries."

For example, the whaling industry, soap industry, and match industry are all industries that did not exist in the past, but once they arise, they will be pure blank markets. People who invest a lot of money can gain huge advantages and quickly occupy the entire market.

Although Yu Zongyuan's investment often fails, as long as he succeeds once, he can get a return of ten times or even a hundred times.

But the only person in the southeast who can play like this is Yu Zongyuan.

Two months ago, a newspaper published Yu Zongyuan’s investment story. The newspaper praised Yu Zongyuan’s success because of his “courageous investments that cast a wide net and his extraordinary keen vision!”

When he saw this report, Yu Zongyuan was almost furious. He even felt that the editor of this newspaper was trying to flatter him.

So Yu Zongyuan immediately ordered the purchase of the newspaper and called Hu Run, the editor who wrote the article, to his house.

After meeting this editor, Yu Zongyuan was also very angry. By bragging about himself in such a big way, wasn't he putting himself on the fire?

But the editor of this newspaper didn't know that. Instead, he praised Yu Zongyuan's investment "vision" and kept flattering him.

Faced with such disgusting praise, Mr. Yu's anger dissipated a lot. It seemed that this editor was really his admirer.

Hurun saw that Yu Zongyuan was in a good mood, so he proposed to write an exclusive interview with Yu Zongyuan to introduce Yu Zongyuan's fortune in detail.

Yu Zongyuan refused on the spot as soon as he heard it.

joke! The Grand Governor hasn’t written his biography yet!

Just because you've made it so big, doesn't that mean you're saying you're fat and waiting for the government to harvest it?

Yu Zongyuan immediately rejected Hurun's request, but Hurun's suggestion gave Yu Zongyuan an idea.

With such a big reputation, it is already difficult to suppress it.

In this case, why not praise others too? As long as others are better than you, you will definitely be ranked behind when you slaughter the fat sheep in the future.

After Yu Zongyuan figured this out, he immediately proposed to Hurun that he would completely transform the gossip tabloid he acquired into a commercial newspaper.

In addition to publishing business news, this newspaper's more important content is exclusive interviews with southeastern industrialists and investors!

It is necessary to introduce in detail how these leaders in various industries rose up and "struggled"!

Hurun's eyes lit up after hearing this suggestion!

The issue that introduced Yu Zongyuan was the best-selling issue of the newspaper. For ordinary people, the "struggle" stories of these "successful people" are the best adult fairy tales.

Hurun also knew that he used the Chunqiu style of writing, omitting the dark parts of these people's fortunes, and their success is often a combination of various factors, making it difficult for them to copy.

But in today's southeastern environment, it is this pioneering spirit that is encouraged, and many ordinary people are dreaming of these dreams.

You can even hear news every day that someone went overseas and made a lot of money, or that someone opened a workshop and made a lot of money.

Hurun immediately expressed his admiration for Zong Yuan. No wonder the young master wanted to buy his own newspaper. He had such a genius idea!

Mr. Yu deserves it for making so much money!

Yu Zongyuan added: "You can also create a rich list and list all powerful businessmen from all over the country."

"That's right! Don't list me!"

Hurun's eyes lit up again!

Doing business these days mainly relies on strength and reputation. If there were such a ranking list, many people would definitely be vying to be on it!

This is another great opportunity to increase newspaper revenue!

Hu Run's breathing became rapid. Mr. Yu is really a genius in business!

In this way, the newspaper acquired by Ergongzi was renamed "Hangzhou Commercial News" and began to transform from a gossip tabloid into a specialized financial newspaper.

The second page of "Hangzhou Business News" is dedicated to Hurun's exclusive interviews with wealthy businessmen and workshop owners.

In the southeast region where competition among various newspapers is fierce, "Hangzhou Business News" suddenly emerged and quickly became the best-selling newspaper in Hangzhou.

Even businessmen from Suzhou and Songjiang would come to Hangzhou to buy this newspaper.

Within two months, "Hangzhou Commercial News" became the best-selling newspaper in Hangzhou, and the acquisition of this newspaper became one of Yu Zongyuan's outstanding investment success stories.

The biggest advantage of the newspaper business is sufficient cash flow.

"Hangzhou Business News" is also a newspaper closely related to business, and many of its readers are businessmen who are actually doing business.

As a result, the advertising costs of "Hangzhou Commercial News" also increased, bringing a large amount of cash to Yu Zongyuan.

If Lin An's match factory expansion hadn't used Yu Zongyuan's cash, his family's bank account would be almost full.

In addition, apart from the expansion of Lin An's match factory, the only other project that can make stable money now is Ren Fu's steam engine project.

Ren Fu is a good friend of Lin An, and his project was introduced by Lin An.

So even though the weather was extremely hot, Yu Zongyuan still met with Lin An. After all, he was one of his few "reliable" subordinates.

After meeting Lin An, Yu Zongyuan became very friendly. He asked casually:

"Director Lin, how is the expansion of the match factory going?"

Lin An said honestly: "The expansion has been completed."

"It's okay. I just asked casually. It'll be okay if you take your time."

Yu Zongyuan replied casually, but after hearing Lin An's answer clearly, he immediately jumped up and said, "What? It's finished?"

Lin An said with a smile: "Yes, it's completed."

"It's all thanks to Mr. Yu that it was completed so quickly this time."

Yu Zongyuan stood up and said, "Thanks to me? I have never been to the construction site for the expansion of the match workshop. How can you say it's all thanks to me!?"

Yu Zongyuan raised his voice. The match workshop was completed so quickly, which meant that his investment was over. Matches were already profitable, and then he had to start collecting money in sacks.

When he thought of this, Mr. Yu's blood pressure became high again, and he quickly said:

"Wait a minute! Did you not comply with the law if it was completed so quickly? Now Hangzhou is strictly investigating slave labor!"

The so-called slave labor is a system that has emerged secretly in the southeast.

With the introduction of some laws to protect labor, many workshops have also realized the huge labor costs.

In fact, in the early days of the industrial age, it was not so much an industry as it could even be said to be a concentrated handicraft industry.

Many workshop owners have found that if they hire workers from the southeast in accordance with the law, they will get much less profit.

So slave labor appeared.

Some of these slave workers come from less developed areas in the southeast, or are simply refugees fleeing from the north.

In addition, there are also people trafficked from Nanyang, Japan, Korea, and Annan.

The southeastern government strictly prohibited the slavery system, and Yu Zongyuan also heard others boast about how cheap it was to use slave labor at several gatherings.

In the end, it was naturally reported by Mr. Yu Zhengyi.

As the leader of Hangzhou merchants, Mr. Yu has always been committed to maintaining the image of merchants. Of course, these workshop owners who use slave labor cannot let them ruin the reputation of Southeast Confucian merchants.

Lin An quickly shook his head and said: "We didn't use slave labor, Mr. Yu, don't worry!"

"I said thanks to Mr. Yu, it's because of the help from the factories that Mr. Yu has invested in."

"Did I invest?"

Lin An nodded and said excitedly:

"The factory building is made of the cement workshop invested by Mr. Yu, so the wall can be built much faster!"

Only then did Yu Zongyuan remember that Yu Zongyuan took the initiative to invest in the cement workshop in response to Hu Zongxian's flood control in Hangzhou.

"The factory uses a lot of glass, which is also produced in your workshop."

Yu Zongyuan remembered that the glass workshops in Hangzhou were also invested by himself.

Lin An continued: "The most important one is Ren Fu's steam engine."

"Steam engine?"

Lin An said: "Yes, Mr. Yu, you don't know how useful the steam engine is! The huge bed connected to the steam engine can easily cut the wood."

"Steam engines can also mix cement. One machine can be worth several labors!"

Yu Zongyuan stood up suddenly, and he keenly felt something was wrong!

Isn't a steam engine a useless toy?

Why do you hear Lin An say that steam engines are really useful?

The steam engine is Yu Zongyuan's most money-losing project, so there can be no accidents!

When he thought of this, Yu Zongyuan couldn't care less about the hot weather and could no longer stay in the house.

He immediately said to Lin An: "Let's go! Check out the new building of the match factory!"