My life skills in Daming Liver

"Celebrating the commencement of construction of Songjiang Railway Company!"

Xu Kun stood on the red ribbon-cutting platform and cut the red ribbon with a group of directors of Songjiang Railway Company.

Firecrackers went off, and everyone present expressed their peace to each other. After these months of preparations, Songjiang Railway Company finally started construction.

Xu Kun only felt extremely tired. He had never thought that there were so many troubles in building a railway!

The first is the issue of railway planning. The railway company spent a lot of energy on its plan.

Although railways are straight lines, rails cannot be erected everywhere.

The land in Songjiang is prone to subsidence and there are many rivers. The cost of building railway bridges over the rivers is huge, so a reasonable route must be planned.

For this route, Xu Kun went to Tiangong Academy and invited many people to conduct on-site inspections. In the end, it was his eldest son Xu Jin who led several classmates from the mathematics department to complete the calculation of the best railway line.

Only then did Xu Kun understand that arithmetic was so important. Although the route calculated by these arithmetic masters was longer than the original route, the overall cost was reduced by 30%!

This is after calculating the difference in land prices, and we get an almost accurate cost!

Xu Kun never thought that building a railway would be such a complicated mathematical problem.

Then Xu Kun took the plan and filed it with the Railway Department of the Ministry of Industry. Tang Xianzu approved the plan after he led people to verify the safety of the plan.

Next, the Ministry of War took the money and found Xu Kun.

The railway itself also has great military value and is of great military significance.

Therefore, the War Department also asked to buy shares and occupy a director position in the railway company.

Businessmen like Xu Kun naturally had no way to refuse, not to mention that the Ministry of War itself brought money to invest in the shares, so Songjiang Railway Company had no reason to refuse.

The next step was land acquisition, demolition, and preparation for the project. This series of work made Xu Kun physically and mentally exhausted. He never thought that building a railway would involve so many things and deal with so many people.

The day of ribbon-cutting finally arrived. Xu Kun's current idea is that when the general manager hired by Songjiang Railway Company arrives as soon as possible, he will hand over all the work at hand, and then hide in his hometown in Huating to retire.

"Brother Xu Shi!"

Xu Kun took a look and saw that the person greeting him was a member of the Xu family in Jiangyin.

The Xu family of Songjiang Prefecture and the Xu family of Jiangyin can be considered to be of the same lineage. The Xu family of Jiangyin can be considered a branch of the Xu family of Songjiang Prefecture. The person who greeted him was of the same generation as him, and his name was Xu Youmian.

It turns out that the Xu family in Songjiang Prefecture and the Xu family in Jiangyin have separated and have not interacted with each other for many years. The ancestors of the Xu family in Jiangyin were once wealthy. Xu Youmian's grandfather Xu Jing was a good friend of Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, the four great talents in Wuzhong at that time.

Later, Tang Bohu was imprisoned because of the examination fraud case, and finally his family fell into decline.

Xu Youmian's father was already an ordinary landowner in Jiangyin, and he died young. The family property was divided up a lot by relatives and servants, leaving Xu Youmian with very little land.

However, Xu Youmian was able to read. Although he did not participate in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty because of what happened to his grandfather, he has always been well-known in the southern Zhili literary world.

Later, after Xu Youmian rose to prominence in the southeast, he decisively sold all his family's land and invested in the shipping industry.

At the beginning, Xu Youmian's shipping business did not improve much, but with the construction of shipping terminals in the entire southern Zhili area, and after Southeast took over Huguang, the shipping business on the entire Yangtze River increased accordingly.

Xu Youmian's shipping business also moved from southern Zhili to Jiujiang, and now to Wuchang. It is said that as the southeastern army further captured Sichuan, Xu Youmian's fleet also gained the right to sail into Sichuan.

Xu Youmian's business grew bigger and bigger. It is said that wealth in the mountains has close neighbors. The Xu family in Jiangyin and the Xu family in Songjiang also reconnected.

"Brother, you are lucky. I heard that your Qilin son can write poems at the age of five. He is much better than my two incompetent sons."

Xu Youmian's son Xu Xiake is a well-known child prodigy. Xu Kun couldn't help but sigh when he thought of his two sons.

The eldest son Xu Jin contributed a lot to the railway planning this time, which made Xu Kun change his opinion of the eldest son. However, thinking of the second son Xu Xiu, Xu Kun had a headache again.

These days, Xu Xiu has set up some kind of song and dance troupe on Chongming Island. It is said that he not only recruited singers from the Su and Song Dynasties, but also found dancers from Nanyang.

Xu Xiu just spent a lot of money to buy dancers in the theater troupe, and even bought the dancers together with the orchestra.

In addition, Xu Xiu also used Xu Kun's name to buy private theater troupes among the major Su Song families.

Although today's theater troupes are different from those in the past, in culturally developed areas such as Suzhou and Songjiang Prefecture, there are already theater troupes that rely exclusively on performance fees to support themselves.

These troupes can support themselves by relying on ticket sales. Although their social status is still low, they are still different from ordinary prostitutes.

Some famous theater troupes can still be packed with guests every time they perform, and even young people from rich families spend a lot of money to pursue them.

However, in the eyes of a family like Xu Kun, being an actor in a theater troupe was still a low-level profession. Xu Xiu's redemption of the theater troupe was tantamount to ruining the family tradition.

Xu Kun gets a headache when it comes to his son.

Xu Youmian said: "I heard that your son's business on Chongming Island is doing well. The railway has not yet been opened to traffic, and a large number of people go to the island every time they take a vacation. I heard it is called 'vacation', and the business is booming." Very good!"

Hearing this, Xu Kun became even more angry.

Now it is said outside that the second son of the Xu family is running a brothel on Chongming Island, which makes Xu Kun unable to hold his head up.

But at that time, he agreed to give the land to Xu Xiu, and Xu Xiu always said that his business on Chongming Island was innocent, Songjiang Prefecture did not close his resort, and it was a legal business.

Xu Youmian said: "Brother, I have a few business partners coming to South Zhili. I want to take them to Chongming Island, but the rooms are fully booked this week. Can you please help me, Brother Xu?" Tell me to give you some rooms."

Xu Kun was stunned for a moment. He, a distant relative, came to him and asked for his son.

Xu Kun thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll ask the housekeeper to tell that scoundrel that I've finished all the things I've been doing recently. I'll accompany Brother Shi to Chongming Island."

Xu Youmian was even more happy when he heard that Xu Kun was coming. The Xu family in Songjiang was a big family in Songjiang Mansion. With him here, it would be easier to negotiate his business.

Xu Kun added: "But then I will pretend to be Brother Shi's guest and go to Chongming Island to have a look."

Xu Youmian immediately said: "I understand, I understand!"