My life skills in Daming Liver

Xu Youmian was very satisfied in Chongming Island.

Both he and his business partners felt that Chongming Island’s service was attentive. The grand theater performed not only popular classics from Jiangnan, but also Chongming Island’s song and dance troupes were constantly introducing new ones. Several performances impressed Xu You Mian was deeply impressed.

Xu Kun now understood why business on Chongming Island was so booming before the railway was opened to traffic.

In addition to businessmen like Xu Youmian, some of the people who come here for vacation are ordinary citizens of Songjiang Prefecture.

The cost of accommodation in Chongming Island is indeed not low, but for families where both husband and wife work in workshops, this price is not completely unaffordable.

After entering the new era, social patterns have undergone drastic changes.

In an agricultural society, people work at sunrise and rest at sundown. Life is very hard, but entering the industrial age is also very hard.

Life in the workshop is the same and boring. The biggest difference from agricultural society is freedom.

Although life in the agricultural era was also very hard, and work had a farming season, and sowing and weeding had to be done before certain solar terms, farm work was actually not that time-sensitive.

Farming does not require you to work a certain number of hours a day, nor does it require you not to arrive late or leave early, nor does it require you to come to work every day.

One important difference is the sale of clocks.

In the agricultural era, ordinary people had no need for timers.

Even a village only needs one person who can understand the calendar and know the specific dates and solar terms.

Anyway, work when the sun rises and rest when the sun sets. After finishing the farm work, you can go back and rest.

But in the industrial era, timing has become very important.

Almost all workshops have special clocks, and the time of work becomes very important.

Some workshops with three shifts need to connect workers' working hours.

A factory like the iron factory needs time, and ordinary workers also need to remember the time and master the temperature of the molten iron for smelting.

In Suzhou and Songjiang, ordinary families have also begun to buy timepieces, and the price of clocks has changed from luxury goods to furniture that ordinary people can buy.

Of course, it is very enviable to be able to afford a clock nowadays.

Industrial life is a cycle of things, but you can earn more than you did in the agricultural era.

While gaining it, we also lost the freedom of pastoral life in the agricultural era.

So bathing time has become a big day for all families, and holidays are a carnival for the entire city.

Get rid of the day-to-day life and leave the streets where they have lived for a long time. The whole family goes to a strange place to listen to dramas and songs and enjoy delicious food.

Housewives do not need to clean up the housework, and children can leave school and play. Chongming Island Resort perfectly meets the needs of the new era.

So it’s only natural that Chongming Island is so popular.

Xu Kun looked at the bustling guest room and heard Xu Youmian praising his son.

"Your Majesty is really a business wizard!"

Xu Youmian said with emotion.

Although Xu Kun's inherent impression of his son has greatly changed, he is still somewhat resistant to this industry.

Xu Youmian said: "The one who wishes everyone popular in Su Song is now the idol of many young women."

Xu Kun still said with some resistance: "The object of worship? Could it be that a woman from a wealthy family would do such things that make her appear in public?"

Xu Youmian said with a smile: "I heard that your master is very strict about the management of the song and dance troupe. It is forbidden to engage in flesh and blood business on Chongming Island. Once discovered, the song and dance troupe will be expelled immediately."

"It is said that the song and dance troupe that wishes everyone the best is also very strict in its selection. It has very high requirements for talent, appearance, and conversation. It also needs to be trained in the song and dance troupe. After graduation, it can perform on the stage."

Xu Kun was a little surprised, but he still said: "Who would send a girl from a good family here?"

Xu Youmian also nodded and said, even if this kind of industry claims to be pure and pure, it is just an archway in a brothel. In this wealthy place, how many girls can resist the temptation.

But this is better than a brothel where girls are forced into prostitution, and singing and dancing groups are prohibited from engaging in these businesses.

So although these dancers have a bad reputation, they are much better than the brothel singers of the old days.

Xu Youmian also sincerely admires him for being able to manage Chongming Island like this. Xu Kun's son is indeed a talent!

Xu Kun also agreed and said: "This traitor did not do anything illegal in Chongming Island. I am already very happy, and the Xu family is not afraid of his troubles."

Just when Xu Kun finally changed his mind about his son.

Yu Zongyuan, who was preparing to build a telegraph company, met two of his subordinates in Shanghai.

As the God of Wealth in the Southeast, Yu Zongyuan's preparation of a telegraph company in Shanghai immediately attracted the attention of the business community, and his whereabouts were reported in newspapers.

Ren Fu and Lin An came to visit.

Second Young Master Yu was in a good mood. The Grand Governor Su Ze finally entrusted him with something, and it was such a big thing as a telegraph company.

The investment in this telegraph office was huge, and it was not easy to recover the cost. Although it was losing money, Yu Zongyuan was very happy.

He was in a good mood. When he saw Ren Fu and Lin An, Yu Zongyuan's mood also improved a lot.

These two guys were quite obedient, and Ren Fu refunded all the deposits received, which caused the steam engine factory's profits to drop a lot.

Recently, the two of them have been busy outside Hangzhou, and they don't even care much about the steam engine workshop.

The two capable men who made money finally calmed down a bit, making Mr. Yu feel a little more relaxed.

"Sir, this is the money we made from the steel trade recently."

Yu Zongyuan took the account book casually, steel trade?

It turns out that the two of them were engaged in steel trading, so it’s no wonder they weren’t in Hangzhou.

Yu Zongyuan felt even more relieved when he heard that the two of them were engaged in steel trade.

Now Mr. Yu also has an understanding of various major industries. Steel is a typical industry with heavy capital and inventory, and high risks.

Because of the steel cycle, steel prices fluctuate greatly, and steel is too heavy and transportation costs are high, so steel is not a good deal.

Only some people with strong funds and logistics resources will engage in specialized steel trading.

Among Yu Zongyuan's investment projects, there is precisely no logistics industry.

But when he opened the account book, Yu Zongyuan almost lost his grip.

"How much, how much?"

Ren Fu said proudly: "Sir, we have earned five thousand silver dollars from steel trading in the past three months, and we still have nearly ten thousand silver dollars in steel in our account."

Yu Zongyuan almost fainted. The initial investment in his "huge" telegraph company was only 10,000 silver dollars!

These two guys spent so much silver dollars in three months? !