Cai Xiaolian looked at Gu Shouxin, who nodded: "Madam, just do as my elder brother says. It's true that the further apart the two families are, the better. They can be quite good when things are going well, but they can also be quite bad when things are going badly."
Cai Xiaolian thought of Prince Kang and Duke Cheng'en, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.
The expansion of the new city is the government's business, but the buildings in the city all belong to the Gu family. It was all agreed beforehand that the profits would be divided among everyone, into four parts: one for each of the three families and one for the elderly couple.
As for managers, they also receive wages, but these wages are different from monthly wages.
The family had more and more money. Although none of the sons fought over anything, the old couple were very fair and divided the money according to what was due.
When Cai Xiaolian brought this up, she also mentioned how she planned to improve her sales for next year.
No one had any objections after hearing this.
She should have been the one to make her mark this year, but she got pregnant and was kept under Gu Shouxin's wing, who didn't want her to overwork herself and was afraid something might happen to her.
Next year should be a great time to make a big splash!
Aside from the marriage arrangements and other matters, there's not much else to say about the second wife's family.
The fourth couple mainly handles the timber business. After Uncle Gu came over, their furniture factory is now no smaller than the one in Qingzhou. Currently, most of their products are sold to neighboring countries. But with the opening of the official road and the destruction of the southern border, they have received quite a few orders before the new year. There are even people from Jiangnan who have expressed interest in cooperation.
Uncle Gu and Yang Xiaohuan recently thought about it and discussed it with their families. Since the two sides are so far apart, they decided not to cooperate. Instead, they would adopt the authorization model that Second Sister-in-law suggested. That is, whenever they release a new product, they will send a master to teach it, and then they will get 20% of the profits.
Furniture is relatively easy to imitate. If you design something new, a carpenter can buy it, look at it, and definitely make it. Even if only one part is different, you can't say that the other person stole your skills. So, it's better to do it openly and honestly.
And Uncle Gu will have more time to build Baiyu City.
That's right, Gu Shouxin has already told his fourth uncle to bring the carpenter, his family, and other odd jobs to build a city in the place he has chosen where furniture is made. The name has already been chosen: Baiyu City.
Gu Shouxin selected a scholar from Cizhou who had given up the imperial examinations to help his fourth uncle. His idea was simple: to let his fourth son have his own city, just like his eldest son.
Uncle Gu asked Huo Junhao for help, while Fourth Uncle Gu asked the scholar for help.
Gu Shouxin originally intended to use more money and grain to help his fourth uncle, but last time he asked the prefect of Cizhou to select a few students to come to Kuncheng to open a school. Gu Shouxin found one of them to be particularly reliable, but he was a bit unlucky. He passed the imperial examination in his twenties, but his father and mother died one after another. He wasted six years, and when he turned thirty, his fiancée ran off with someone else. He was preparing to take the imperial examination again in the previous year, but his grandfather, on whom he depended for survival, died, and he had to observe mourning again. Now he is thirty-two years old, and he has no family ties. So he plans to become a teacher and does not plan to take the exam anymore.
Gu Shouxin tested him on the matter of Kuncheng, and this examination was particularly to Gu Shouxin's liking, so he gave up sending more money and grain to help his fourth uncle and planned to use this examination instead.
Anyway, the emperor said that Gu Shouxin had the final say in Kunzhou. If Baiyu City developed in the future, Gu Shouxin, as the prefect, could directly appoint the candidates to official positions.
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