The owner of the umbrella is now in the Jixi workshop.

Chen Jianfang subconsciously avoided Madam Qu's trace and went out from the back of the water trough shed. When he raised his eyes, he saw seven or eight old friends from Jing County surrounding Xianjin, laughing and talking in unison - Aunt Zhong ruffled Xianjin's hair like a messy chicken coop, Zhou Ergou screamed, and the brothers Zheng Da and Zheng Er tried to lift Xianjin up from the left and right.

Yes, literally lift it up.

Xianjin was lifted halfway and stopped in mid-air.

Zheng Er let out a sharp roar, "Get down! Get down! The shopkeeper looks thin, but he's actually quite fleshy. I can't lift him up anymore!"

Then he was hit by the dark-skinned fat girl Suo'er, "You can't lift the shopkeeper, please look for your own reasons! It has nothing to do with the shopkeeper!"

Chen Jianfang tiptoed against the brick wall outside the shed, a smile unconsciously forming on the corner of his mouth, his eyes fixed on the face of the girl in the center of the crowd.

Her eyebrows were as indigo as distant mountains, her narrow and upturned eyes were filled with a genuine and clear smile, her skin was fair and delicate, her jaw was exquisite, her upper lip was thin, but her lower lip was filled with cherry-like mellow pink.

Among the people who treat her sincerely, she is like a tall, straight and beautiful Clivia.

His favorite is Clivia.

So beautiful.

Chen Jianfang gently put down the basket in his hand, turned around and left quietly.

After cheering, Tuesday Dog's eyes were sharp, "There's a basket next to the shed!"

Jiang Elbow Qiqiqi jogged forward, picked it up with both hands, and held it up to show Xianjin.

The basket was covered with a layer of damp gauze.

Xianjin gently lifted the gauze, revealing a pot of lonely Clivia with yellow stamens and white petals.

This pot of flowers must have been well taken care of. Each narrow, curled leaf is as smooth as wax. Three or four orchids bloom intricately among the grass leaves, like snow in the forest and clouds in the sky.

Qiqiqi excitedly slapped Zhou Ergou's left leg, "Ah ...

It was like singing a folk song, and the last three words were even broken.

Tuesday Dog even responded from across the mountain, "Ah ...

The singing was mournful, expressing the cripple's despair.

Aunt Zhong laughed like a pig in Xianjin's ear.

Xianjin gently reached out and touched the orchid in front of him. His fingertips felt warm and fragrant. He turned his head and said to Suoer, "Remind me to water it every day."

Suo'er smiled and said yes.

......

Xianjin won.

Convinced, Zhao Dezheng put all the keys to the mulberry paper workshop, account books, warehouse lists, names of farmers who purchased raw materials, and bank deposit slips in a large wooden box and handed it to Xianjin, "...You must keep your word and accept the loss. You will surely thrive here. I am also old, so this is a good opportunity to return home with wealth and live a comfortable life with my wife for a few years."

Xianjin pushed the wooden box back and said calmly, "You still care about it, I trust you."

Manager Zhao is a rare and honest person in Chen's company.

Anyone who has worked for twenty years would go crazy if he were to be controlled by a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl who suddenly appeared from the sky overnight.

Xianjin took out a contract from his bosom and pushed it in front of Manager Zhao. "Take a look. It's the same contract as Manager Dong and Master Sanshun's. Three bars, eight days off a month, flexible working hours, children and grandchildren can go to the official school for free, if you pass the examination, the master of the Juren will come to teach you how to write essays every month, you will get a bonus at the end of the year, you will eat grains, and if you have a minor illness, the store will pay 80% of the medical expenses, and you will pay 20% yourself."

Aunt Zhong stood behind Xianjin, looking at the contract, and she felt like drooling.

Her remaining dignity stopped her in time.

Manager Zhao read the contract in amazement and said: No, I just want to say, Mr. Dong and Mr. Li, do they usually eat so well?

Xianjin continued to take out the soft-bristle brush, and said in a very calm voice, "I will take over the mulberry paper workshop, and you will continue to be the manager. You and Manager Dong will be in charge in the south and north respectively. What else do I have to worry about?"

Xianjin smiled again and tried to comfort him earnestly, "You have devoted yourself to running this store for so many years, and have poured all your energy into it. Don't worry, even if I have some small ideas, I will only make some small changes."

Manager Zhao took the pen blankly and signed his name. After signing, Fang asked, "What minor changes do you want to make?"

Xianjin stood up quickly, put the deed close to his body, and then said: "First, we have to change the name of the store;"

"Secondly, the decoration of the store must also be changed;"

"Third, we also need to adjust the types of rice paper we sell in our store."

Manager Zhao was a little confused.

Small...small...small changes?

Is this a minor change?

Whose small changes...even the store name has to be changed!!

Manager Zhao wanted to speak, but when he opened his mouth, nothing came out, and the soft-bristle brush stained with ink was still in his hand: Take...take someone's money, the ancients were right!

Xianjin did what he said. In the afternoon of that day, he organized people to cover the mulberry paper workshop with oilcloth again. The original construction team of Jixi workshop entered the mulberry paper workshop on the spot to work on the construction.

The mulberry paper workshop, along with Manager Zhao and his eleven employees, all packed up and temporarily moved to the Jixi workshop.

The eighteen new students were taken back to Jing County by Aunt Zhong to carry out an education to recall the past and cherish the present: most of the eighteen students were apprentices from Hengji and Baiji, so one must be on guard against others. Xianjin wanted to make a splash with his silk-engraving and painting on rice paper, so naturally he had to nip any risk of leaks in the bud.

Li Sanshun smoked his water pipe seriously, squinting his eyes at the two rows of brand new houses next to the Jixi workshop shed and the seven or eight large pots set up in the kitchen. He sighed deeply, "Jin Jie'er, tell me honestly, Master Li, which of the Chen family's shops should do what, did you know it all along?"

Xianjin smiled and didn't answer.

One move brings the whole board to life.

In business, the first thing to deal with is goods, the second is people, and the last is resources.

Whoever seizes more resources wins.

Chen Ji's business was established several decades ago. It started out by making small profits in Jing County. Old Madam Qu took Chen Ji out of Jing County and brought it to Xuancheng Prefecture, where they opened branches and made money. However, each of the three shops was run independently, with overlapping and complementary businesses, and the sources of raw materials were very diverse.

Although all the three shops were owned by the Chen family, they still operated independently and failed to form a joint force. During periods of poor market conditions, the other two shops relied on the mulberry paper workshop for supply to survive.

This store opening model is the lame model.

The one with longer legs travels thousands of miles, while the one with shorter legs enjoys the good life in the air. It is very unbalanced. After a long time, won’t it become the same situation as before? - The Jixi workshop lags behind, the Dengxuan workshop is mediocre, and the Mulberry paper workshop moves forward with heavy burdens.

If you do business with a "convex" structure, it will fail sooner or later.

With three shops, it is clear that they can take over all paper industries and cover all paper-using classes. However, it is not a pipe dream for the Chen family to achieve a monopoly on Xuan paper in Xuancheng Prefecture on its own.

Xianjin naturally would not explain these plans in detail to Li Sanshun, so he just let the old man have a good puff of his water pipe.

She only let Master Li bring Zhou Ergou, and Manager Zhao bring Zheng Da to work overtime in the Jixi workshop to make silk-cut and painted rice paper. The two teams occupied four water tanks and worked at the same pace.