Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

Pingan intends to listen to Youtai first.

To be honest, he was a little disappointed in Youtai in this matter.But after thinking about it again, he has been pushing Youtai forward all this time, and he never asked Youtai what he meant.Maybe Youtai is not suitable for doing these things, so it is understandable that he did not meet his expectations.

So Ping An decided to listen to his opinion first, and then decide how to deal with this matter.

Joining Youtai himself is indeed unwilling to do these things, so Ping An will not force him anymore.After all, he didn't think carefully before, and suspected that he wanted to push Youtai up, but he didn't consider his wishes, nor did he think about whether it was suitable.

This is also because after Ping An came to Dachu, everything he wanted to do has always been smooth, so he didn't think carefully.

And if you think about it carefully, other things he does, he sets his own direction and plan, and then hands them over to those experienced people.Especially for most of the things, there are patterns to follow. He only needs to formulate this specific pattern and let others follow it.

But Tai is different.

He was just an ordinary person in the first place, but if he was smart enough, he wouldn't be a boss for more than ten years.

If he hadn't known Ping An, he would have continued to do it until he was old and frail and unable to persist.By then he may have left the palace and returned to his hometown.If the nephews have the heart, there is still some hope in their later years, if not, it can only end in a miserable way.

This is the final destination of most eunuchs.Like Wang Lixin, who has retired from the position of the eunuch in the hands of the ceremonial supervisor and the chief executive of the imperial court, who has money and someone in his hand, and lives in a big mansion to enjoy his old age, after all, it is a minority.

It is precisely because of knowing this that Pingan wanted to push Youtai after becoming friends with him, so as not to end up in such a bleak end.

——This world is always like this, honest and well-behaved people always live worse than others, but this kind of people actually accounts for the majority of the total population.So Ping An had some idealistic thoughts in his heart: he was not yet able to change the world, he could only start with the people around him, and if he could change one, it counted as one.

Of course, when deciding to train Youtai, Ping An may not be selfish.Because Youtai is honest and behaves well, so he is very trustworthy.He has a good relationship with him, and if he entrusts him with a place like the bow and arrow factory, he can rest assured that he is safe.

And it's not that Ping An didn't think about it at the time, Youtai is really not good at intrigue.Therefore, it should not be a big problem to manage these skilled workers in the bow and arrow factory.Who would have thought that before the factory was built, someone could not wait to stuff them in?

It was originally a win-win situation for each other, but now it seems that it is a bit embarrassing.

Youtai was originally in the factory, but when he heard that he had returned safely, he hurried to see him.After seeing Ping'an, he scratched his head and smiled honestly, "Ping'an, you're back? Are you okay? I heard that the battle was fierce!"

The first sentence asked about his safety, and Ping An's little anger towards him was like an ice cube under the sun, which melted with a single swipe.He also smiled at Youtai, "I'm fine, I haven't lost a single hair. But you, how is Li from the Bow and Arrow Factory?"

This sentence is quite obvious, but Youtai didn't seem to understand at all, and still said with a smile, "Everything is fine in the factory. Although you have not been here for the past few months, the number of bows and arrows produced is very high." Nothing less."

"I know this." Ping An nodded and said, these things will be shipped to the front line after they are produced, no matter who they are for, they will have to go around in Xinzhou, Ping An will naturally hear the news.And when he was there, he often heard people's praise, saying that he had a lot of bows and arrows recently.

But that's not what he wanted to ask. Seeing that Youtai still didn't understand, he simply asked, "I let you take care of the factory, isn't there any difficulty? How do you get along with Sun De?"

Only then did Youtai suddenly realize, "Well, there is no difficulty here. Everyone likes this place very much. As for Sun De, we also get along very well. He is indeed very good. He handles all the chores in the factory in an orderly manner."

"But I heard that the craftsmen are more convinced of him, is that true?" Hearing what Youtai said, Ping'an didn't seem to notice the problem at all, and couldn't help asking.

Speaking of this topic, Youtai raised his hand and scratched his head. He probably didn't know how to describe it, so he could only say, "Ping An, you can go to the factory with me to have a look."

Ping An was also a little curious.Judging from what the old craftsmen said, it was clear that Sun De had won the hearts of the people, but Youtai could only bury his head in the workshop, no different from ordinary craftsmen.How can this be convincing?Everyone is naturally worried.But from the looks of it, things don't seem to be like this?

Following Youtai to the workshop, Ping An found that almost no one Youtai could name.

You must know that there are four to five hundred people in the bow and arrow factory!When I was in college in Ping An, the professional basic courses were big courses, and the three classes were taught together in the big classroom, and the total number of students was only about a hundred.Even so, after taking classes together for two years, Ping An didn't recognize all these classmates.

This discovery made Ping An feel that Youtai might indeed have a bit of potential as a manager.Although, the way he uses it may not be the same as he imagined.

In fact, it's not that you are superior, and you can be a manager only by being kind and wooing.When Ping An saw the picture of Youtai getting along with the craftsmen, he somewhat understood the method he adopted, that is, "come from the masses, go to the masses"!

Youtai originally had a straightforward personality and was not very talkative. It was basically difficult for him to talk like Sun De or Ping An, to encourage everyone with words, and to win people's hearts.

But he was able to calm down and get along with these ordinary craftsmen day and night.Therefore, he is also the one who knows best the ideas and needs of the craftsmen.

As for which method is better, Ping An is not easy to judge.But in the current situation, if Youtai and Sun De had conflicts someday, Ping An felt that most of the craftsmen would still favor Youtai, their "insider".

This is also a way.

Thinking of this, Ping An's heart settled down.

Sure enough, along the way, Ping An got along well with everyone.Ping An noticed that from time to time, people would come to ask Ping An people when they would arrive, and Ping An immediately said with a smile that it would be soon, and then the other party would be very happy to pat Youtai on the shoulder before going back to work.

Ping An looked over suspiciously, and Youtai explained, "Didn't you say Ping An before, that spring will come this year, and they will send someone to pick up their family? So people have been inquiring about this since the New Year's Eve. , and asked when to pick them up. I thought you didn’t know when you’d be back, so I borrowed 100 troops from Lord Zhizhou last month and went to Wanzhou to pick them up. Calculate the time, I’m afraid it will be here in a few days.”

This news surprised Pingan, he didn't expect that Youtai even arranged such a thing!

In terms of winning people's hearts, he is no worse than Sun De!It is also a favor, but Sun De's approach is nothing more than verbal agitation and small profits to buy, but Youtai starts with people's hearts. It is obvious who can win.

"I've figured it out. Let's go back first." Ping An said.

After returning to the room, he said happily, "You have managed the bow and arrow factory very well."

Youtai scratched his head shyly, "I'm just thinking about it."

"Did you come up with these yourself?" Ping An asked the part he was most curious about.If Youtai really thought of it without a teacher, then maybe this guy is still a talent.Could it be that this is the so-called staying deep and natural black?

Fortunately, Youtai is not such a monster, he is still the honest man Ping An knew.He said with a silly smile, "I didn't think of it myself, Mr. Xu pointed me out."

"My master?" Ping An was really surprised this time, "When did this happen?"

"Before you went to Funing County. He asked me to make a mask for him, and then taught me some things, saying it was for my hard work." Youtai said.

I see.Pingan remembered that this was indeed the case. At that time, he was busy preparing to get some benefits from the war, and he didn't care about the management of the bow and arrow factory. He didn't know that Xu Wenmei and Youtai had these contacts in private. .

But Ping An was even more curious about what his master said, and he turned stones into gold, which opened up Youtai, a piece of wood.

Towards Youtai, he was not polite - if you were polite, Youtai might not understand at all - and asked directly, "What did Master tell you?"

"Mr. Xu said, you may have to leave, and I will take care of the bow and arrow factory. If you don't manage well, your hard work over the past few years will be in vain." Youtai said, "He taught me to take good care of the people below. , then just treat yourself as them.”

Pingan blinked, "Is it that simple?"

Youtai looked at him suspiciously, and expressed the meaning of "what else do you think" with his eyes, making Pingan feel that he has been despised, and it is also because of his IQ.

He could only comfort himself, maybe Xu Wenmei's brain just happened to be able to get along with Youtai, and he was too smart to understand.So he didn't feel ashamed to ask, "So?"

"So I treat myself as a craftsman, eat and live with them, listen to what they say, and see what they want." Youtai said, "But in this way, I can't take care of many things. Let Sun De do it."

He dared to give in on his own initiative.

But... Pingan propped his chin and thought for a while, thinking that perhaps the combination of Youtai and Sun De is just right?

Although Sun De was a bit cautious, he didn't use the kind of tricks that hurt the enemy one thousand and self-injury eight hundred, nor did he use conspiracy and tricks, but directly put on a posture of seizing power.At the same time, it was obvious that he intended to take over the bow and arrow factory, and did not intend to make it a mess.

In this way, he will have fear, let him manage together with Youtai, and form a balance.Moreover, during this period of time when I was away, the bow and arrow factory was running well, which also showed that this approach was effective.

The only thing to worry about is, who is behind Sun De?

Ping An will not allow others to reach into its sphere of influence to pick peaches. The bow and arrow factory will have a profound impact on what it will do in the future, and Ping An will never give it up.

However, Ping An actually suspected that he was the emperor's man.

Among the four people who came with him before, one must be the emperor.Two people have been driven away before, one is from the Fifth Prince, and the other is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Now only Qi Ming and Sun De are left.Xiaoquan is from Zhao Xuan, so he probably won't send others over, after all, Zhao Xuan doesn't attach much importance to this bow and arrow factory.

Of the remaining two people, one was a spy sent by someone who didn't know, and the other was the emperor's man.

Compared with Qi Ming, who is obviously long-sleeved and good at dancing, but restrained from beginning to end, Sun De is more like an emperor in Ping An.Because of this background, he has the confidence to intervene in the bow and arrow factory, and he must succeed, but he will never do anything harmful to the bow and arrow factory.

Of course, strictly speaking, even though they belonged to the emperor, they were probably only sent by Zhang Dongyuan or even the people below to inquire about the news, because it was impossible to wait for the emperor's order to act on such a trivial matter.In fact, the other party should be regarded as harmless, as long as Ping An does not do bad things, he will just look here.

Although Ping An has a lot of secrets at present, it is true that there is nothing shameful about it, so it is not a bad idea to keep him.Let Youtai learn from him, so that he can be on his own in the future.

It is also easy to confirm this matter. Before, Ping An had asked Qian Cheng to bring a letter to Wang Congyi for him to test it out.If this matter did not go through the emperor, but it was just the idea of ​​the people below, it would be very easy to find out.

Thinking of this, Ping An let Youtai go back first, and he planned to go to the city tomorrow to meet Qian Cheng, to read all the news in recent months, so as not to miss anything.

Ping An will be very busy the next few days.

One is to settle all the captives down, and the other is to meet all kinds of people. The people in charge of the bow and arrow factory have to meet one by one. Those experienced craftsmen have made some more in recent months. For new things, he needs to have a look and experiment.Qian Cheng wanted to see him, and news came from the Liu family, asking when he would be free so that he could come to visit.Counting the time, the business of folding fans may have already started.

Even the magistrate of Qinzhou specially sent someone to invite him to go over.

Anyway, it's something that can't be pushed away, and I'm so busy every day.After half a month, things are finally arranged almost.Especially for the captives, things are really complicated.

In the past half a month, the families of the craftsmen have also been brought back from Wanzhou.For this reason, Ping An also set aside a day to hold a social gathering with everyone. The main content is that everyone remembers bitterness and sweetness, imagines the future, and improves everyone's recognition and maintenance of the bow and arrow factory.Of course, Ping An only guided from the side, and the specific work was handed over to Ping An.

After these family members come over, the folding fan factory can also officially start work.

Although the craftsmen all knew that Ping An had promised to take over their families, no one thought that Ping An had even arranged the work of these family members.After all, they have long been used to earning money to support the whole family by themselves.Now that I can relieve the pressure on my shoulders and earn more money, I am naturally not unhappy. I am more grateful for peace in my heart, and naturally have a more sense of belonging to the bow and arrow factory.

After being busy for a while, Ping An began to prepare for returning to the capital. ——Of course, these things that were busy before can also be classified as preparation work, but what Ping An needs to do now is the core of the core.

After he left, the bow and arrow factory would not be able to produce only arrows forever if it wanted to continue to operate, so the meaning of existence would be meaningless.

Ping An hopes that they can study more lethal weapons, such as muskets.

The emergence and maturity of muskets is the general trend of history. In the past, because the quality of steel could not meet the requirements, unless it was made of copper, and a very fine process was used, the barrel produced would not be worthwhile at all, and it would easily explode. .In addition, the quality of gunpowder is also very worrying.

However, Ping An has already researched several gunpowder formulas and a blast furnace. These will not be a problem in the future, so research in this area should also be on the right track.

This is one of the reasons why Ping An wants to keep Sun De.There are people in the court who are easy to handle. This Sun De is the emperor's man. The bow and arrow factory is equivalent to an extra layer of amulet. After all, they are not qualified to develop firearms.But with the emperor's endorsement, the problem is not big.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhao Can has no intention of seizing power by force, otherwise, these things must be well hidden and no one will be allowed to see them.

In addition, Ping An also intends to use Qinzhou's iron and steel plant as a basis to radiate other fields and promote the industry bit by bit.You can't tell much at the beginning, but anyone who knows a little about the significance of steel to a country must know that one day, it will turn the world upside down.

This is a very long-term process, and it is impossible for Ping An to supervise it all the time, so it can only write down its own plan and give it to You Tailai to implement it little by little.Anyway, what we have to do now is the basics, and we are not afraid of being seen by others.

This plan is not easy to write.The most important thing is to let Youtai understand and implement it.Otherwise, no matter how well written it is, it is just a scrap of paper.Therefore, Ping An had to rack his brains to write in a way that Youtai could understand, and after finishing writing, he had to find him repeatedly to discuss and discuss, and then make revisions based on the results.

This is also a very large project, and it takes a lot of energy.

So Ping An began to "write a book behind closed doors", basically he was nowhere to be seen in the bow and arrow factory, and he locked himself in the house all day long.It's disappointing to some people who have other thoughts.

……

During the time when Ping An was writing books behind closed doors, Jiangnan was very lively.

And the source of this excitement is a small folding fan.

Spring in the south of the Yangtze River comes early, and when Qinzhou still wears thick jackets, it has already started to change into single clothes here.As the weather gets warmer, people who have been bored in the house all winter naturally have to go out for a walk and go out in spring.

The style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River is at its peak, not to mention the literati, even young children with long hair, or those boudoir girls who rarely go out, they are more or less elegant.

So when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, all kinds of literary and poetry meetings are naturally indispensable. Even the daughters of the boudoir, when they meet to enjoy the flowers, they can't help but compose a poem and make an order.

Although Wen Chengbi is a woman, she has always loved this kind of excitement. Naturally, her figure is indispensable in these literary and poetry meetings.And she never goes to women's gatherings, but only to the kind of gatherings that only literati.In Chongzhou City, the name "Wencheng" still has a certain reputation.Although many people have guessed her identity, no one will expose it.

Under such circumstances, her every move naturally attracted people's attention.

This folding fan first appeared in her hand.

The idea of ​​advertising was naturally proposed by Ping An, and he even decided on the candidates. He wrote a letter to Wen Chengbi and asked the people from the Liu family to bring them, along with twelve folding fans.

Among the twelve folding fans, six are blank. The paper is white in color and of excellent texture. It is a fine paper that Wen Chengbi has never seen before.Some of the other six have poems inscribed on them, some have paintings on them, and some have both poems and paintings.

Ping An explained in her heart that the blank space is reserved for her to give away, and it is both elegant and flattering to write her own works on it as a gift.As for the other six, they were given to her for fun.

Wen Chengbi is a smart man, he asked the people in Liu's family, and knew that they were going to do the fan business, so he soon understood Ping'an's plan.So she immediately wrote her favorite poem on a fan and sent it to her grandfather.

At the same time, I went out with another book with poems and paintings.

At the literary meeting, this fan quickly aroused everyone's curiosity, especially the poem and painting on it, "The green poplar smokes outside the dawn and the cold is light, and the red apricot branches are full of spring", which is very suitable for the occasion at this time.Everyone asked, Wen Chengbi naturally advertised, and three days later, "Fengyue Boundless" opened on Chongzhou Chengdong Street!

This wind and moon are boundless, at first it sounds like the name of some flower street and willow lane, which makes people frown.

However, according to Wen Chengbi, there seems to be some secret hidden in it. If you are the first to uncover it, you can get a commemorative edition folding fan specially made by the store for free. ——Wen Chengbi waved the folding fan in his hand, and said by himself: The so-called commemorative edition refers to the one she holds in her hand.The above titles are definitely good poems that no one has seen before, and they are not signed!

Although these young scholars would not have the cheek to claim that poem as their own, but having such a fan is really very face-saving.

At the same time, Wen Ningzhi took the good things of his granddaughter's filial piety, and invited a few old friends to go out for a chat. He showed off a bit, and raised the folding fan to several levels.

As a result, this trend started secretly from Chongzhou, and swept across the entire Jiangnan in a short period of time.Nowadays, when scholars go out, almost everyone has a folding fan, otherwise they would be ashamed to meet people.