Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 1489: Chapter 339: Chen Jie: Yaya, I’ve Come to Pick You Up! (2)

This little staff was usually silent and often bullied by everyone. Who would have thought that he would stand up to save the shopkeeper’s life at this moment? The shopkeeper looked at the little staff and said, ”Zhuzi, don’t say anything more, old man’s life was saved by you! No doubt, from now on, you should follow me and learn the operation of this restaurant thoroughly. Once you master it, my daughter Wei Hong, who hasn’t found a husband yet, will be given to you!”

The small staff named Zhuzi was both surprised and delighted, isn’t this joy falling from the sky?

From being a little staff not favored by others, he leaped to become the one to whom the shopkeeper wanted to marry his daughter.

In an instant, the young man really felt like he was flying, and he soon realized he had certainly met a noble.

The shopkeeper looked at Zhuzi after a while and said, ”Zhuzi, those two little goldfishes of yours?”

Zhuzi said, ”Oh, it was given to me by this table’s guests, they said there would surely be trouble later, and when that happens, just give these two goldfishes to them, and the trouble will naturally be resolved.”

Guests?

The shopkeeper was bewildered, he remembered that the two guests at this table were both burly, one looked a bit rough, but the other was very handsome.

The shopkeeper was pondering but didn’t know Chen Jie had already left.

Xiao Hu, following behind Chen Jie, said, ”Brother, why did you give those two goldfishes to the little staff?”

Chen Jie smiled and said, ”As I entered the building, I saw a group of little beggars asking for food, everyone else chased them away, but he came out and gave them leftovers he collected, he’s a good person.”

”We just exposed ourselves, the Imperial Guard’s vigilance will undoubtedly come to inspect, and as you know, the officials of Daqian never come for nothing.”

”Even if there’s no trouble, they will still take a cut, no harm to us but may ruin the restaurant.”

Xiao Hu heard this and said, ”Jiu Si Brother, you are kind-hearted; this time it’s good, you casually gave him two little goldfishes, if used well, he will surely become a little legend here.”

Hu Zi was right, because of Chen Jie’s casual act today, a very inspirational legendary story circulated locally.

It was said that a poor, bullied little staff, due to his kindness, helped a group of beggars and was appreciated by a great man who gave him two golden fishes. Later, the government soldiers went to the restaurant to cause trouble, and the little fellow used two gold bars to save the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper, grateful for his kindness, gave his only daughter to the young man, who directly leapt to become a renowned figure in Lu’an Prefecture.

That’s the current Manager Li of Chunfeng Restaurant.

Such a story of good deeds being rewarded spread for hundreds of years, even in later generations, people would pass the story, while nobody knew the great man was Chen Jiusi.

This is the difference in realms, resulting in differing influences; Chen Jie’s casual act now had created a local legend.

And Chen Jie thought, he could create more, because those mere two gold bars were nothing to Chen Jie.

Chen Jie now possessed the power of four prefectures, then leveraging Shen Wansan’s business acumen, the trade grew bigger, and money kept flowing.

Now Chen Jiusi wasn’t the impoverished Chen Jiusi anymore, saying earning gold daily would underestimate Chen Jie.

You should know Chen Jie had eight textile factories just on hand, and there were eight large textile factories under expansion too; because Chen Jie designed the prototype of the Jenny Textile Machine, his cotton cloth was of good quality and low cost, directly putting the household weaving workshops of Jiangnan out of business.

With Shen Wansan’s operations and commercial roads laid, almost half of Jiangnan was using the cotton cloth produced by Huangzhou Prefecture.

Additionally, Shen Wansan wrote to Chen Jie recently saying he had connected with a great figure in the north; if this deal was successfully made, Shen Wansan said half of the cotton cloth business north of the Yangtze River would be controlled by them.

Therefore, Shen Wansan kept urging Chen Jie to increase production, now the mere eight textile factories couldn’t meet Shen Wansan’s commercial needs.

In response, Chen Jie followed Shen Wansan’s requirements and expanded eight large textile factories respectively in Huanggang, Tianmen, Qianjiang, and Xianning, directly filling a large gap in the local finances, solving many problems for the magistrates Chen Jie sent to manage these four prefecture cities.

Besides this, Chen Jie also ventured into industries like grain, private salt, Iron Cavalry, cargo shipping, and fishery.

It can be said that the annual output value managed by Chen Jie was double that of Hubei Road.

This was Chen Jiusi’s confidence; don’t see him running all over the place, yet none of his subordinates wasn’t busy. Under Chen Jie’s strategic planning, cadres like Hu Weiyong and Si Xi were doing real work.

It can be said that the power under Chen Jie’s command was flourishing.

While other forces were still exploiting the people’s fat and cream, Chen Jie was already considering local sustainable development issues.

Let’s put it this way, ninety percent of the profits from Chen Jie’s cotton yarn industry were invested in local construction; this money turned into irrigation reservoirs and opened wasteland wages paid to the people.

Under Chen Jie’s leadership, the grain output of his four prefecture cities had tripled compared to last year, every household had surplus grain, and Chen Jie’s prefecture treasury was almost running out of space for grains.

This was even when the large-scale irrigation reservoirs planned by Chen Jie had not been fully constructed. If followed according to Chen Jie’s plan, this is no joke, the entire Huangzhou Prefecture’s grain next year might still aim to quadruple.