"This is the transaction account of the merchant bank." Chen Yan handed over the account book and said.

After reading this third account book, Ouyang Ye found that the content was mainly the record of the monthly sales of wood in Shenmu Trading Company.

From the perspective of sales channels, one is the water route and the other is the land route.

The revenue from wood sold through waterways accounts for about four-fifths of Shenmu Trading's monthly income, which is very large. However, it is divided by the plagiarism and half of the profits.

Onshore sales are mainly sold to Babei and surrounding counties. Although there is no middlemen's interest in dividing and the freight is not high, the amount is small, and the income accounts for only one-fifth of the monthly timber sales.

In terms of wood types, it is divided into two categories: ordinary wood and precious wood.

Among them, daily transactions are almost all ordinary wood, with large production and sales volumes, but relatively low profits. As for expensive wood, from the accounts, the income is very small, and sometimes it is not even seen after several months.

After reading it, Ouyang Ye asked: "The mountains and forests in Shizhou have only been relaxed for 20 or 30 years, and the scale has only gradually expanded in the past decade, but the surroundings are full of deep mountains and old forests. Why do we get so little precious wood?"

Chen Yan heard this and said, "Because our Shenmu Gang mainly cuts down and sells ordinary wood. As for precious wood, it will be cut down and sold in the forest farms it occupied sometimes."

"Why don't we focus on finding and selling expensive wood?" Ouyang Ye asked again.

This is a completely amateur problem, but Chen Yan did not think Ouyang Ye was stupid because Ouyang Ye didn't know much about the wood industry.

Seeing that Ouyang Hu was a little unhealthy and did not personally give advice to Ouyang Ye, Chen Yan patiently explained: "There is indeed a wooden team that specializes in stealing precious wood for a living, but most of them are small and capable and tough. They are good at walking through the mountains and forests to find precious trees. Doing a business is enough for them to eat for a year or two."

"On the one hand, my Shenmu Gang cannot recruit such a wooden team, and on the other hand, there are many people. If I focus on finding and selling precious wood, I can't afford to support so many brothers."

At this time, Ouyang Hu also spoke: "Those wooden teams that steal precious wood usually have masters from the third level as masters, and the rest of the people are mostly in the second level of martial arts, which is not something we can provoke. If you compete with them for a job, it is equivalent to robbing food from the tiger's mouth."

Ouyang Hu is talking about Ouyang Ye - he is afraid that Ouyang Ye will be arrogant after he succeeds, and will provoke people or forces he shouldn't be offended.

"It doesn't matter if you mess with the platoon. The platoon has been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years. He has rules and abides by the rules, and pays more attention to his reputation in the world. So even if they deal with you, they will not directly kill you. You can have a chance to breathe and deal with it. As long as you are willing to be low and do small, you will probably be able to "reconcile" in the end."

"But if you mess with the wooden team that specializes in cutting precious wood, they might draw their swords and kill people at that time, and even destroy the entire gang overnight. Their behavior is not inferior to those bandits and robbers who specialize in robbers."

"So, you must not provoke those people, it is best not to deal with them. Do you understand?"

Ouyang Hu was originally in poor spirits, but he forced himself to keep his spirits and said this seriously. Even if Ouyang Ye had any different thoughts in his mind, he would not say them at this time.

He nodded directly and replied, "Don't worry, father, I understand."

Speaking of this, even if Ouyang Ye has understood the property situation of the Shenmu Gang, the rest is to understand his own financial situation.

Chen Yan was very tactful and knew that what Ouyang and his son were talking about next was not something outsiders should listen to, so he took the initiative to say goodbye.

Sure enough, after Chen Yan left, Ouyang Hu drove the two maids out, leaving only Ouyang Ye with him in the bedroom.

Ouyang Hu was probably really mentally deprived, and closed his eyes and said softly: "I did make a lot of money after founding the Shenmu Gang, but I spent too much money to treat your stupidity. So over the years, except for purchasing some land in my hometown and Jitangguan, the remaining money was only more than 30,000 taels."

"I exchanged 10,000 taels for gold and buried under my hometown house. The other 20,000 taels and the Tianqi on Jitang Pass are all in the secret room under my bed. There is a secret passage connecting to the woodworking workshop in the west of the town, which can be used for escape."

"If you want to go into the secret room now, you can carry me to a chair and turn on the bed machine and go down by yourself."

After saying that, Ouyang Hu opened his eyes to Ouyang Ye, but saw that Ouyang Ye was neither surprised nor disappointed. His eyes were as calm as water, and he seemed to not take tens of thousands of wealth into consideration, and he couldn't help but be secretly happy.

I thought to myself: My son is indeed like a person who can do great things.

Ouyang Ye did not take tens of thousands of taels of family wealth to heart, so he immediately stood up and said, "Since my father has made it clear, I don't need to go and see it. If there is nothing else, I will go out and ask my father to have a good rest."

Ouyang Hu smiled and said, "Okay, I can't escape even if I put the money in the secret room."

After leaving the backyard, Ouyang Ye began to handle other assistance.

The first is to reorganize Nantang.

At that time, the seven people who had returned to the courtyard of Tian Yunong were released on the spot, but did not fight against Tan Kang, Yang Lei and others. Later, the seven people who returned to the courtyard of the business were released.

Ouyang Ye scattered four of them into the East Hall and the West Hall, leaving only one leader and two ordinary gang members in the South Hall.

Then, Ouyang Ye appointed Li Dang as the head of the Nan Hall.

Li Dang was seriously injured when Liang Quan attacked the gang leader's house. Although he was lucky enough to die, he needed to rest for half a year before he could recover.

Therefore, Ouyang Ye appointed Shen Qingfeng, who came from the Suppression Hall but made great contributions yesterday, as the deputy hall leader, and temporarily took charge of the affairs of the South Hall.

After being promoted to deputy hall master, Shen Qingfeng was excited at first. After calming down, he asked: "Gang Master, there are only five people in Nantang who are recovering from the injury. Can I recruit some brothers in the town to join the gang?"

Ouyang Ye said: "I will leave the recruitment of people to the master of the West Hall to do, and then assign it to Nantang. However, you can first find three brothers from the execution hall to come to Nantang as the leader."

Shen Qingfeng couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he didn't get the right to recruit people, but when he heard that he could find his original brother from the execution hall to be the leader, Shen Qingfeng was excited again and immediately replied with his fist: "Yes!"

After Shen Qingfeng left the front hall, Ouyang Ye couldn't help but shook his head slightly.

Whether he wanted Li to be the master of the Nan or Shen Qingfeng to be the deputy master to act as the affairs of the master of the hall, he always picked tall people from the short man. In fact, neither of them was the right candidate for the master of the hall in Ouyang Ye's mind.

However, as the force department that protects and supervises the two logging farms, Nantang must be restored and improved as soon as possible to ensure the production efficiency of the two logging farms.

After dealing with the Nantang affairs, Ouyang Ye first brought the list of accounts obtained from the Iron Wire Gate from Chen Yan, and then recruited Chen Lai and Gao Qiang, so he left Shenmu Trading Company and headed to the dock.

For him, letting the Shenmu Gang actually control the dock territory was the most important thing this afternoon.

[Third update. Especially for the first disciple-level fan of this book, "qieSha", thank you for your support!]
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