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Three or four hundred refugees were brought back this time. Fortunately, Zhang Zhou had bought a manor about 30 miles south of the city, which was ideal for every aspect. Thus, he was able to safely settle these refugees.

Just preparing the food and clothing for the winter had cost Zhang Zhou a lot of silver. Fortunately, he had reaped a huge harvest this time, which was no less than 300,000 taels of silver. It also helps to implement more plans.

However, in front of Tang Yu'er, he still persisted on and cried his last tears of poverty.

"This courtyard should have been tidied up a long time ago. No matter what, I should at least add on some items. There aren't even any potted flowers in the entire courtyard!"

"Aunt, I'm poor!"

"Also, such a big courtyard is like a winery. How can someone live here?"

"My little mistress, I am poor!"

"You asked me to help you teach your child and I taught it to you, but you never even looked at it!"

"Sigh, aunt, I am poor!" "I'm not busy making money, how can I feed so many mouths!"

"You are poor? Do you want me to call Leaves here and ask, how much is this Yue Hezhou Lie's income? "

"This little girl, she forgot who the master is. Let's see if I sell her or not!"

"How dare you!" Tang Yu'er was afraid that the case would arise, so Zhang Zhou hurriedly used both of his hands to show his surrender.

Zhang Zhou suddenly blinked his eyes. He took out a delicate box from his bosom and gently placed it in front of Tang Yu'er. He said despicably, "Open it and take a look!"

"I don't want to!"

Tang Yu'er was still angry, but Zhang Zhou deliberately let out a sigh: "Ai, alright then! "Since you don't want it, I'll sell it to earn some silver and exchange it for a few pots of flowers."

When Tang Yu'er heard this, she quickly snatched the box and gave him a glance, "I want to see if you can give me the items with a few taels of silver!"

There was no woman who didn't like jewelry. It was a crystal clear top quality jade bracelet. One look was enough to tell that it was top-quality.

Tang Yu'er quickly covered the smile at the corner of her mouth and left without forgetting to say something.

"This courtyard really needs to be repaired."

Zhang Zhou said with a bitter face, "Aunt, I'm really poor!"

When the Tang sisters saw the thin and yellow faces of the refugees in the manor, they no longer asked Zhang Zhou to buy flowers to repair the house.

"After the new year, I plan to move the winery here and expand its scale. It's not appropriate for us to always live in the wine cellar."

After she finished speaking, she handed over an account book to Tang Yu'er and continued, "Among these people, there are a hundred and thirteen orphans around ten years old, eighty-five craftsmen and blacksmiths, thirty-one embroidery ladies and twenty odd young and strong people that Hei Zi thinks are pretty good. All of them have some martial arts foundation and are quite skilled. There are also more than a hundred of their families … "

Tang Yu'er didn't understand why Zhang Zhou would hand over the account book to her. She just quietly listened to him continue.

"In the future, we have to plan out a winery, blacksmith's workshop, carpenter's workshop, embroidery workshop, and the like. I can't support these people for nothing, can I?" The most important thing was that all of these children had to read and learn how to read. They had to be properly nurtured! In short, there was a lot to do. Everything was difficult at the beginning! "You have to help me plan and manage it well!"

Tang Yu'er was somewhat surprised and raised her head. Her large eyes stared at Zhang Zhou and then lowered her head. She held the account book in her hand seriously without saying anything. Zhang Zhou, on the other hand, was still nagging.

The place is surrounded by three sides of a mountain. When I face water, I have seen it. If we were to develop all the places at the foot of the mountain from the back of the village, it would not be a problem for us to arrange a place for eighteen thousand people! "How should I put it? According to my calculations, this should be a city in the future!"

He pointed to the frozen river in front of the manor and continued, "Next year, this river will have to be well managed and the bridge repaired. Otherwise, it would be too inconvenient for carriages to enter and leave!"

"Hezhou City is such a big place, it shouldn't be too difficult to arrange these people. Why …"

"Although this place is a little remote, it is closer to the dock than Hezhou City. The roads are repaired and the transportation is very convenient. As for the other things, you will know about them in the future. Didn't you also say that the house is like a wine shop and is inconvenient to live in? "

Tang Yu'er's eyes were filled with curiosity, but she didn't continue pursuing the matter with Zhang Zhou. What exactly was the inconvenience? He sneaked a peek and saw that he was full of confidence. It was very interesting to see him pointing fingers at everything.

"Thank you for your hard work these few days. I need someone to manage the planning and construction of this place!" I'm afraid you'll have to come here often. The prefectural yamen's people had already been caught, so there was no need to worry about what had happened in the past. "Just in case, I will let Liu Qingshan be in charge of your safety in the short term!"

With that, he slapped his forehead as if he had just thought of something. From his bosom, he took out two letters and handed them over to Tang Yu'er.

"These two letters were found by Old Qi. They should have some value. As for whether you can make up for it, I don't know!" But I think it's worth a try! "

Tang Yu'er did not answer him. Her head was lowered, and her expression could not be seen. However, her hands were clearly shaking.

Zhang Zhou did not laugh, and said seriously: "I do not have many relatives in this world, you and I do not know much about each other, but I do not know why, but I feel like believing you from the bottom of my heart. Maybe it's because you're good-looking! "

Tang Yu'er raised her head. Her eyes that were as beautiful as a wave, seemed to be able to melt Zhang Zhou as she softly said, "No matter what happens in the future, I will still have to thank you …" Also, if there is a person who does not abandon us, that person will not disappoint us either! "

After finishing his words, his face turned red and he turned around to run. Looking at Tang Yu'er's figure slowly swaying back and forth, Zhang Zhou was a little stunned and suddenly shouted: "Who is that person?" Who is that person? "

Two days later, Zhang Zhou gathered all the refugees and mercilessly chased away four people who refused to obey his orders. Two were young and strong, while the other was a craftsman and a woman who stole items.

Tang Yu'er also hated him from the start, but when she saw the woman kneeling on the ground and crying for mercy, saying that she had stolen things because she was afraid that her child would starve, she couldn't help but soften her heart. However, Zhang Zhou didn't move at all, allowing Tang Yu'er to see his cold side.

When the four adults and a six or seven-year-old child were arrested and taken away like wolves and tigers, disappearing from everyone's sight, Zhang Zhou gave a speech.

"I pity you all, taking you in is not the reason for you all to live here peacefully! Obeying the rules here is your number one rule of survival. You need to use your efforts to get what you want. I promise I won't press you, but I definitely won't allow anyone to break my rules! Don't try to use your little cleverness to touch my bottom line. This is my territory, and the place you will be living on. Don't expect laozi to show mercy if laozi disobeys and disobeys the rules! I have no right to enjoy the peace here either! "

Finished, he took out a thick indenture contract and said in a deep voice, "As long as you work hard, I will give you back your freedom within five years! I believe that five years from now, you will all be very glad to be standing here today! Proud, proud! At that time, what you possess is not only freedom, but also your own home, your own wealth, and your own status! "

"If you want me to treat you as humans, you have to treat yourself as a talent first. If you want to be respected, you have to respect the rules here …"

There was no applause, only sobs. However, a sliver of life emerged in his originally numb eyes! Five years, that was all. They had originally come here to survive, but who would like to be enslaved? No one knew what kind of tragic fate awaited them in the future! And this young master had solemnly given them the promise of five years, and had even given them hope that they could touch upon it. Five years, free man. This goal isn't too far away.

Only when people had hope would they be willing to work hard to live.

Zhang Zhou didn't even ask for these people to be grateful to him because of him taking them in, but he saw these people as the foundation for his future development. Among them, if there were a few talents that were worthy of being used in the future, it would be a huge gain for Zhang Zhou! Right now, he needed to develop his skills and manpower. He needed a large number of people that were easy to control. In these five years, Zhang Zhou had enough confidence.

The reason why Zhang Zhou had used such lightning-like methods to expel these people was because he felt that sometimes deterrence was more useful than reason.

Although Tang Yu'er felt that what Zhang Zhou had done wasn't wrong, she was still unhappy. She didn't know why, but a person like her, who dared to cheat money and steal treasures at the government yamen, was becoming more and more unwise in Zhang Zhou's office. She was getting more and more lazy to think about it.

It was only when Yang Xiaolang secretly told Tang Shui'er that those people were not expelled or sent to any prison to receive punishment. Instead, they were secretly sent to the city by Zhang Zhou. After a fierce lecture, they were arranged to do odd jobs in the shop! Tang Yu'er found out about the situation from her sister. She was both angry and annoyed. After finding Zhang Zhou, she intentionally caused a ruckus until he begged for forgiveness and promised that he wouldn't hide anything from her in the future.

In the northwest of Hezhou, there used to be an ordinary stone mine. It had been abandoned for many years. Zhang Zhou led his men to the small courtyard where Old Qi was hiding the hostages. The guards had been taken down before they could find out anything about the situation. Zhang Zhou successfully found the imprisoned Guan Xiaolou. The twenty-something year old Guan Xiaolou's body was weak like the wind, but when he saw this guy in the small, broken room, he happily used different lengths of wooden sticks to form various combinations and models, and also a pile of tools like a homemade corner ruler, Zhang Zhou's eyes lit up! It was absolutely true that there was a "mine" here!

There were also a few young men who were imprisoned together. They were all young masters from the Wealthy Class in Hezhou. It was through this method that Old Qi was able to control a few of the Wealthy Class families in Hezhou. This time, Zhang Zhou had even picked up the friendship between several rich and powerful families.

When he sent Guan Xiaolou back, he had a long talk with Guan Yuniang. Firstly, he gave her the management rights of Hezhou Lie and the shops he obtained. Secondly, he instructed Guan Yuniang, according to her own thoughts, to accept more children with good voices and good singing skills. In the end, he had to find all of Hua Shen Luo's musical instrument masters, who had been babbling to him for a long time until their heads became big, and then those masters didn't know what he was going to do, but eventually, Hua Shen Luo's two most popular musical instruments masters, Qing Qing and Qiu Yun, understood his meaning, and learned to sing from him alone, then they would play music according to the music score, and then teach those musical instruments to the masters. Although due to the limitations of his mind, it was difficult for him to reach the level that Zhang Zhou desired, at least he had a good start. During this period, there was another unexpected surprise, a tall waitress secretly learned to hum a few songs, attracted Zhang Zhou's attention, and specifically came here to let her sing a few lines boldly. After listening to it, she was very satisfied, this unique aesthetic, made Guan Yu-niang a little speechless, but Zhang Zhou specifically explained, this woman called Qian Chao, do not do any other chores, focus on singing, and tell Guan Yu-niang not to care about her voice, just focus on nurturing her!

Before leaving, Zhang Zhou gave Guan a present, a beautiful jade inlaid phoenix golden hairpin that a woman would love. In the end, Zhang Zhou forced himself onto her head and coincidentally was seen by Guan Xiaolou. The most awkward thing was that Guan Xiaolou actually shouted, "Brother-in-law!"

Zhang Zhou pretended not to hear as he kept coughing and clearing his throat. After strolling out of the door, he hurriedly ran away. Guan Xiaolou, on the other hand, was scolded by his blushing sister! Guan Xiaoluo also felt wronged, saying in his heart, isn't it all lovers who can do it? Was he wrong?

Guan Xiaolou was a person with zero EQ. He was more of a talent that was proficient in the field of mechanical research. Zhang Zhou was extremely concerned about this!

Due to the way he thought in his previous life, Zhang Zhou felt that he should let them all relax.

Although Zhang Zhou's mouth was strict, he did not treat the refugees unfairly. He sent over ten large fat pigs and two large carts of chicken, duck, fish, etc. to improve the food supply for the new year. Even when the refugees were free from disasters, they had never enjoyed themselves this way. They could not help but thank the clan head for his dignity. Due to the previous incident, they did not dare to be lazy or commit adultery, so they worked especially hard.

Tang Yu'er had always had a good eye for people. She chose a few loyal, experienced, and well-behaved people among the refugees and acknowledged her as the supervisor.

On the 29th of the Moon, before the end of the first year in this world, Zhang Zhou held his first annual meeting.

Zhang Zhou had called almost all of his subordinates, large and small, to his residence. They had already sent a heavy set of New Year's gifts to the Horse Inn many days in advance, inviting Seventh Elder over as well. After the lively gathering and dinner, they gave everyone a big red packet before gradually dispersing.

In a relatively large room, Zhang Zhou temporarily used seven or eight square tables to make a rectangular table, he was not allowed to be the chief. After that, they all sat down. Liu Qingshan, Lin Lao Jiu, You Nan Seven, Yang Xiaolang, Feng Xiaoshu, Flying Child, Ma Heizi, Qu Thirteen, Wang Tiexin, Guan Xiaotao, and Hua Shen Luo's new steward. One of them was a charming Xu Niang named Mei, whom Guan Yu-niang had brought up, and then Guan Yu-niang and Tang Yu'er. Originally, there were still Seventh Elder and Old Man You, but unfortunately, the two old fellows that they rarely met drank too much.

Zhang Zhou looked at the people below, sorted out his thoughts and said, "Today is the first annual meeting of all of us, and there won't be any big accidents in the future. Every year, there will be an annual meeting, firstly, everyone will get together and lively, secondly, we will have to summarize the gains and losses from this year, and schedule next year's mission..."

No one spoke as they listened attentively.

Right now, Zhang Zhou did not have a lot of businesses that could earn money. He was the only one that could be on the table. Flower God had not yet started his new business. Those that could be done were still in the process of adjustment. He had no experience in marketing, so he could only come up with new ideas based on his own knowledge. However, he also knew that he had to set up his own company and organize the division of labor. Otherwise, he would just be a pile of loose sand. Therefore, the first decision announced on the spot was to establish the "Nine Regions Business". The manager was Guan Yuniang; Hua Shen Luo was in charge of Sister Mei; Tang Yu'er was in charge of the establishment of the industrial base; Liu Qingshan was in charge of the establishment of the security department; Tang Shui'er was in charge of the establishment of the teaching and training department; Feng Xiaoshu was in charge of the establishment of the finance and development bureau; Guan Xiaolou and Wang Tieshou were in charge of the establishment of the research and development bureau; while Flying Child was in charge of the underground forces in Hezhou, he was also in charge of the formation of his own business fleet. Ma Heizi Zi and Qu had other arrangements.

Zhang Zhou also put forward the plan of recruiting and cultivating talents, especially those children who, in addition to reading and reading, would also be trained professionally. One Wang Tieshou and one Guan Xiaolou were far from enough for future development needs. Now that there were only a few people left, they had to create an atmosphere where they could improve their skills and research and innovation. A good leader needed the support of an outstanding team, so they had to build a good foundation.

Zhang Zhou tried his best to arrange the people in important positions, so as to be more reasonable and benefit from their talents. Everything had just begun, and a lot of things had already been messed up. As for what exactly they were going to do, Zhang Zhou and everyone else had been discussing it until midnight. No one seemed tired.