The billionaire girl: Daddy and Mommy, love me again

Cheng Dafu and Cheng Qinian received them.

Now that the children all go to school, Cheng Qinian no longer teaches. The clan is seriously short of manpower, so he follows Cheng Dafu to manage the clan business.

After all, Cheng Dafu has limited knowledge and is not good at dealing with businessmen. If someone tampers with the contract and he can't see it, the loss will be huge.

This group of people are all merchants from several nearby counties. Recently, a large number of low-priced and high-quality books, paper and pens have appeared on the market.

There is no wall that is impenetrable, and what's more, the Cheng family had no intention of hiding anything.

They came like cats smelling blood, following the scent.

Naturally, there was no reason for the Cheng family to refuse the money that was delivered to their doorstep.

"Boss Cheng, I heard that Shopkeeper Zeng ordered the paper and pens from your family. We would like to participate in this good thing. Can you wholesale it to us at the same price?"

"Yes, Shopkeeper Zeng's move caught us off guard. My shop has been losing money for a while. If this continues, our whole family will have nothing to lose."

"That's right, Shopkeeper Zeng not only scooped all the meat into his own bowl, he also left no morsel of the soup.

I don’t care, Mr. Cheng, if you don’t give us the goods at the same price today, I... I will stay at your house and not leave.

I really don't have the face to go back and face my family!"

"Boss Cheng, please be considerate of us..."

"..."

A group of people tearfully denounced their recent experiences.

Cheng Dafu was shocked by their shameless behavior.

"Don't worry, shopkeepers. I didn't say I won't sell you the goods. I'll sell you all of them at the same price as Shopkeeper Zeng."

The next day, all the merchants left satisfied.

Not only did they take away goods worth fifty or sixty thousand taels, they also left behind a large number of orders, and collected more than one hundred thousand in deposits.

As a result, paper mills and printing factories were so busy that they were seriously short of staff.

It's time to recruit workers again.

Outsiders can be hired to do the simple preliminary work of papermaking, but as long as the key steps are in the hands of our own people, there is no need to worry about the secret recipe being leaked.

Just in case, we still have to build a few more factories and separate the steps of papermaking into different factories. This will greatly prevent the secret recipe from being leaked.

Cleaning impurities from bark is a delicate job that requires women who are careful and quick.

As soon as the news of Cheng family recruiting female workers was released, Qiu was the first to sign up.

Becoming a formal worker of the Cheng family has always been her dream, and now her dream has finally come true.

As orders increased, more and more bark was needed to make paper.

Cangwu Town alone can no longer meet the demand.

Now, the Liu family, the Wang family, and some reliable relatives of the Cheng family have become suppliers for the Cheng family.

Each person is responsible for a purchasing point in a town and transports the collected bark to the nearest raw material factory, and the Cheng family then gives them commissions.

They not only collect tree bark, but also other things, including tea oil seeds, soybeans, and rapeseed.

Compared with the other things, tree bark is a long-term business. As long as the Cheng family's paper mill has business, they can make a fortune.

In just the two or three months before and after the New Year, each of them earned dozens of taels of silver. In order to make it easier to receive the goods, they each bought a donkey cart.

As the business scope became wider and wider, Cheng Laoer also received a notice asking him to build another raw material factory next to the Pingyang County brick factory.

The bark collected from Pingyang County is first processed into semi-finished products here, and then the semi-finished products are transported back to the paper mill in Cangwu Town to be made into paper.

That day, he had just come out of the new construction site and was about to return to the city when he saw a dozen officers escorting a group of prisoners passing by not far away.

"Hurry up, stop dawdling, do you still think you are the high and mighty Duke?

If you don't hurry up, I'll beat you to death. You'll die anyway if you go to Lingnan, sooner or later, so I might as well help you get rid of it now!"

The impatient scolding accompanied by the sound of the whip hitting flesh reached Cheng Laoer's ears, making him stop and watch.

The white-haired old man was thrown to the ground by a whip, his body was covered with bloody marks, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

"Hey! Old man, you are tough. Today I will help you. Let's see whether your bones are tougher or my whip is more powerful. If you kneel in front of me and beg me to let you go, I can consider going easy on you."

The officer hated to see him like this and raised his whip to hit him again.

"Sir, my master is old and weak. He can't bear the whip. I kneel down before you. Please be magnanimous and spare him."

Next to the old man, a middle-aged man who was equally miserable and covered with bruises knelt in front of the old man and begged bitterly.

Cheng Laoer originally felt that he seemed familiar, but now he remembered him when he heard his voice.

Isn’t this Guo Wangshu, the manager of Jimin Hall?

Some time ago, he was wondering why Manager Guo bought a shop last year, and other shops have already opened, but his Jimin Hall has not yet opened.

It turned out that something happened at home.

"Who do you think you are? You are just a dog raised by the Lin family. How dare you talk to me?

But you are loyal. Even after all this, you are still protecting your master.

It’s a pity that you used your loyalty in the wrong place and offended His Majesty. The Lin family will never be able to recover.

You don't want to cut off ties with them, but are waiting for the day when they make a comeback.

Since you want to die, I will work harder and we will smoke together."

The officer sneered at Guo Wangshu with disdain and raised his whip to whip him as well.

Seeing that the whip was about to hit him, Cheng Laoer really couldn't bear it. He heard it from the conversation between the few people.

The criminals were members of the Lin family, Guo Wangshu's main family, and the family that bought their ginseng.

He didn't know what they had done to deserve being exiled to Lingnan.

They walked all the way from Kyoto here in shackles and enduring beatings, and they must have suffered a lot.

He saw that the Lin family were all people of character and did not seem like bad people. They were so noble and precious that they could endure hunger and cold, beatings and humiliation and walk thousands of miles to get here. This showed their strong will and was admirable.

"Sir, wait a minute!"

He couldn't help but speak out to stop the officer. Upon hearing that, Guo Wangshu looked in his direction. Seeing that it was Cheng Laoer, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, but he quickly shifted his gaze.

Several officers were sitting aside watching the show as if it had nothing to do with them, but when they heard someone trying to stop them, they all looked at Cheng Lao Er with displeasure.

This man was tall and handsome, wearing expensive silk clothes, a finely crafted silk robe, and a valuable jade pendant hanging on his belt.

Everything about him reveals that he is a wealthy man.