Chapter 645 Confidential Talisman
In addition to the new teachers, Qi Baichuan has attracted three waves of cooperation for the school. Since Houde has already entered the top 100, the sponsorship fee this time has also increased along with it.
Qi Baichuan's external quotation is 8,000 yuan a year. If the price is lower than this, there is no need to negotiate. He has persuaded many small factories and handicraft workshops to quit at once.
The remaining ones are those with strong financial resources, and many do business in more than just Pingcheng. For example, Huixin Bank has branches throughout the three southeastern provinces.
There is also Hamand Cigarette Factory, which is considered the leading company in Pingcheng, occupying 20% of the market share.
They are all very interested in cooperating with Houde. Hamand Cigarette Factory even said that if Malu can lead the school to continue to improve and reach the top 30, the cigarette factory will produce a principal cigarette specifically for Malu.
Put Ma Lu’s face on the cigarette box, and you will pay a large sum of money for the use of the portrait.
The last company that came to our door was something that no one expected - Jinchuan Smokeless Gunpowder Factory.
Let’s not talk about the fact that Jinchuan and Heping City are more than 600 miles away. People there have never heard of the names of Houde and Malu.
Just the fact that a military factory wants to cooperate with Houde is very abstract. Their smokeless gunpowder is not sold to the outside world, and is directly purchased by bullet factories and explosives factories.
There is no need for Houde to help increase sales, and it is even less possible to print Principal Ma's face on bullet casings or artillery shells and shoot them at the enemy.
So it was very unexpected that they were suddenly willing to spend 10,000 yuan to cooperate with Houde.
“I met with people from the Smokeless Gunpowder Factory. Although they didn’t say it clearly, I felt that the situation should be similar to that of the Siping Coal Mine. The cooperation was fake, but it was true that someone wanted to use this excuse to get close to us. ”
Cao You Yi said, "I just don't know where they are from."
"I can guess a little bit," Ma Lu thought for a while, "It doesn't matter, since they are willing to give money, just accept it, it just so happens." Use it to give everyone a salary increase.”
"The salary cannot be increased any more." Cao Youyi said firmly, "The salary of school teachers is already ridiculous, and the average salary of our school will soon rank in the top ten.
"Although the current financial situation of the school The situation has improved, but you still need to save some money for emergencies.
“Besides, if you continue to use money as an incentive, over time, it will make everyone dependent. When wages increase less or not at all, some people will be dissatisfied, and the effect of incentives will also decrease.”
Ma Lu actually doesn't think this is a big problem, because he himself doesn't plan to stay in this plane for too long. Although the disadvantages mentioned by Cao Youyi exist, they have nothing to do with him.
However, thinking that after he left, Houde would continue to operate and the school would be managed by Cao Youyi, Ma Lu decided to respect her opinion and not put any more pressure on her.
In addition to recruitment and business cooperation, Cao Youyi also did not forget what Ma Lu told him before leaving last time, and went to visit a well-known geological expert.
The latter was invited to Houde for exploration. The geological expert spent three days searching the entire Shouyang Mountain, including the corners, but found no gold mines or anything else of value. mineral.
But it was not without gain. Although the mineral was not found, he unexpectedly discovered a secret room under an old school building.
Cao Youyi later read the history of the school and found that the old school building existed at the beginning of the school's founding. It was one of the earliest buildings in Houde and was almost a hundred years old.
However, it was actually abandoned not long after. According to records in the history of Houde School, it was originally the private library of the first principal Ye Wangshu. Ye Wangshu loved reading and was good at handwriting.
I often stay in that library for most of the day, reading and practicing calligraphy.
The new principal who succeeded him after his death felt that it was unnecessary to build a small building for himself to study, and to be honest, it was quite far from the classrooms where classes were held and the principal's office.
It was troublesome to run back and forth, so he asked people to move the books there to the school library, and the small building became idle.
In the Yan Puchuan era, the reputation of virtue was no longer there, and the school's situation took a turn for the worse, losing a large number of teachers and students.
Due to the deteriorating economic situation, the school has been shrinking its enrollment year after year, and the small building is no longer used. Now, half of it has collapsed due to being unused for a long time.
If the expert who was exploring the mineral deposits had not discovered a hole in the ground, told Cao Youyi, and Cao Youyi took notice of it, and then called the fourth uncle Song, the gatekeeper, and searched the place carefully together, no one would have thought of the following. There is also a secret room.
“What’s in the secret room?” Ma Lu became more energetic after hearing this.
Because if nothing unexpected happens, this should be the reason why the Mingxia Group is eyeing Houde and even murders the former principal Cao Jinhua.
“I found an iron box and several bank drafts in that secret room. Unfortunately, those bank drafts were eaten by insects and could not be exchanged.”
Cao Youyi said, "As for the iron box, someone has a secret charm on it. Only the caster or someone with the blood of the caster can open it."
"This box was left by Ye Wangshu. , but he is no longer here, which means you have to find his descendants to open it. Do you know his descendants?" Ma Lu asked.
Cao Youyi shook her head, "Principal Ye is the founder of virtue and one of the earliest Talisman Masters in the country. He passed away about eighty years ago. His son has not been tested for Talisman Master qualifications. So I went to study abroad in the West and studied industrial manufacturing.”
“They are probably no longer alive now. As for the people who came after them, there is nothing. But give me some time, I can try to check it out.
“There is another problem,” Cao Youyi said, “Although this thing was found under Principal Ye’s private library. Yes, but it’s not necessarily Principal Ye who hid it in. We can’t rule out that a certain principal later discovered the secret room just like us, thought it was a good place, and put the box in it.
"If you find the wrong person and take off the secret charm, you will destroy the contents of the box accidentally."
"Ah, your worries are reasonable." Malu said, "I have a There is a way to solve this problem."
"What way?"
"Give this box to Ming Xia."
"What?" Cao Youyi suspected that her ear was broken. question.
"Give the box to Ming Xia." Ma Lu repeated again, "Since they are looking for this box, they must know who can open the box.
"And I guess they have found the person, so I think Let's not bother checking. Just hand the box to them. They will definitely be able to open it. After they open it, we can just grab it back. ”
(End of this chapter)