Xie Yushu's accommodation was arranged in advance. The three-story building opposite her residence was used as an office building, while Qu Xiaodie, as the head manager of the villa, lived in the first building on the left side of the main courtyard.
Hongmei and Xiao Haitang, as Qu Xiaodie's assistants, also lived with her.
Aunt Su, Nanxing, Chunyu, and Dongxue lived together in Xie Yushu's courtyard.
Chu Jinyu's courtyard is directly to the left of Xie Yushu's courtyard.
Xuanyuan Che's courtyard is next to Chu Jinyu's.
The first building on the right is where Sun Chongren and his mother live.
Everyone else is in the outer courtyard.
However, the main craftsmen built spacious courtyard houses for them, right next to the main courtyard, with excellent security measures, making it easy to detect any disturbances.
Half a year has passed since we last met, and Qu Xiaodie and Sun Chongren, along with the other managers, have become even more composed and capable!
From the moment Xie Yushu entered the manor, several managers surrounded her, and Qu Xiaodie even picked her up and spun her around.
It's clear that everyone misses each other and has a lot to say.
Although she was a little tired, after quickly assigning everyone their accommodations, Xie Yushu still invited the managers to gather in the office building's conference room for a short meeting and to check the accounts.
This is also a summary of everyone's work over the past six months.
First, Qu Xiaodie briefly explained the costs of building the villa and the factory outside, purchasing timber and stone, and later adding furniture. Now that it is nearing completion, the project has been basically finalized, costing approximately 32,000 taels of silver.
Xie Yushu hadn't set aside enough money initially, and the furniture for the various rooms was later purchased with the silver that the Yan envoy had used to buy glass on his return journey. Fortunately, Xie Yushu had written ahead of time, instructing them to expedite the production of a batch of glass for the envoy passing through Tai'an Prefecture to collect.
As a result, the Yan envoys bought up all the stock in the manor, amounting to a full 60,000 taels of silver.
Qu Xiaodie bought all the furniture in the villa and purchased some equipment for the factory and hospital outside. She still had more than 20,000 taels left.
Meanwhile, goods destined for the capital continued to be delivered, and the Wen family's 50,000 taels of silver worth of goods had been cleared out. Now, glass for ordinary people was also available for sale.
Sun Chongren also made good progress in this area. In the past six months, he and his two apprentices traveled to several nearby prefectures and cities, and found a shop in each prefecture, county, and town to sell their products on his behalf. In other words, they were distributors in later generations.
Meanwhile, a shop was leased in several state capital transportation hubs to serve as a pickup point, so that the shops below could choose the nearest pickup location.
Although the profit margin on the affordable models is relatively low, the sales volume is huge, especially among women who mainly do needlework. Almost every woman buys two of them. Although the money is spent on the glass, the cost of medicated oil is saved.
Therefore, ordinary people have a high acceptance of glass.
Sun Chongren did a rough calculation and found that his net income from opening up affordable glass production this month was nearly five thousand taels of silver.
This doesn't even include the profits from the Wen family's side and the capital.
Moreover, the factory buildings are now all completed, production speed has increased several times, and supply is no longer so tight. So, overall, the glass sector has stabilized.
The profits from the capital and the Wen family are already in Xie Yushu's mind, no need to calculate them. Although the number of powerful and wealthy merchants is small, the profits from this area are more than ten times that of the average-priced model.
Even Xie Yushu was shocked; they were making money at a rate that was almost as fast as creating money.
Then there's the security situation on Zhao Hu's side. In the past six months, Zhao Hu has selected twenty more people from the sixty he bought and trained them into qualified bodyguards, who are now guarding the main courtyard.
The remaining forty people were also trained in martial arts and formed the villa's own guard team, which was dedicated to transporting glass to various places.
At the same time, forty more people were purchased and trained for three months. Twenty of them joined the outer courtyard as ordinary guards, under Xie Zhong's command. Their main responsibility was to safeguard the security of the outer courtyard of the manor, including monitoring suspicious persons.
The other twenty were responsible for maintaining order outside the resort.
Once hospitals, factories, and supermarkets are fully operational, with people coming and going, there will inevitably be disturbances, people causing trouble, or people trying to extort money. Having specific personnel to guard these areas can prevent such incidents from happening in the first place.
Moreover, a batch of repeating crossbows has already been successfully manufactured.
The guards outside the manor couldn't easily wear them, and since they were in close contact with people, the crossbows were useless.
However, the guards inside the manor also carry a set of protective gear with them at all times.
Even Han Zhongyu's personal guards and secret agents were all provided.
Moreover, the guards patrol the manor in groups of six, with eight groups patrolling continuously. It can be said that with the current personnel configuration and weaponry of the manor, anyone who tries to take it would be in serious trouble.
Xie Yushu was quite satisfied with Zhao Hu's arrangements, but she still made a special point:
"Remember that the repeating crossbow must not be shown to others easily, and pay attention to the confidentiality of all core technologies within the manor."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Hu nodded in agreement.
Finally, Wang Wu reported on the crops planted at the manor. Xie Yushu had already seen this from the entrance of the manor. Both the fruit trees and crops were growing well, showing that they had put in a lot of effort.
Two warehouses, one large and one small, have now been built in the inner courtyard. Qu Xiaodie gave the key to the large warehouse to Xie Yushu, while she kept the key to the small warehouse for the operation of the villa.
Xie Yushu naturally had no objection to this.
After finishing discussing matters related to the villa, Xie Yushu had a cartload of fabric and local specialties from the capital brought down and distributed a portion to each of the managers. The brief meeting then came to an end.
After the meeting, Xie Yushu thought that she hadn't seen Han Zhongyu for a long time. The Tai'an Prefecture government also contributed a share of the villa's profits, so Han Zhongyu naturally had the right to know how the villa was doing.
He then sent someone to tell Han Zhongyu that after finishing his duties at the yamen the next day, he should come over for a meal, and of course, invite Xie Tianqi, Xie Tianming, and the Liu brothers as well, since everyone hadn't seen each other for a long time and wanted to get together.
After giving her instructions, Xie Yushu returned to her own courtyard. Xiao Haitang and Chu Jinyu were still children; they were having so much fun playing that they forgot all about home, and when they returned, they were so tired that they fell fast asleep.
Xuanyuan Che was unusually quiet, and once inside the courtyard, he fell silent, presumably asleep.
His guards were dispersed around the main courtyard and stood guard with the main courtyard's guards.
Seeing that Aunt Su and Nanxing were still busy organizing the things they brought back from the capital, Xie Yushu told them to rest first. She herself felt very tired after more than a month of traveling, let alone Aunt Su and the others. These things wouldn't run away anyway, so it would be better for them to rest before organizing.
Aunt Su and the others insisted on finishing tidying up first, saying that they would feel uneasy and unable to sleep in bed until they finished.
Well, there's another one with OCD here. I'll just let her be. I went upstairs to my bedroom, threw myself onto the big, carved canopy bed, and slept like a log.
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