2. Zhou Ying is resourceful and decisive in appointing talents. Thanks to her efforts, Wujia Dongyuan resumed the business of salt merchants, with shops all over the country and seven general numbers set up throughout the country; Moreover, Zhou Ying also expanded its business to silk, cotton, cotton cloth, medicinal materials, tea and other aspects, covering a very wide range.
3. In terms of integrating resources, she signed orders with farmers who planted cotton in advance, contracted mulberry fields in the south and ordered raw silk in advance to ensure sufficient supply and stable purchase price; In the reform of the system, we should let our own shopkeepers buy shares, expand funds, and implement "Yang Feng", so that family members can also work in the Wu family.
4. 1900, when Cixi took refuge in xi 'an, Zhou Ying provided Empress Dowager Cixi with 65,438+102,000 silver. Cixi personally inscribed the plaque "Mrs. Protecting the Country" and accepted her as an adopted daughter. From then on, her mother and daughter were commensurate. For a woman in an ordinary family, this honor is unique. After the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty", she paid silver to the Queen Mother and went to the national disaster together. Empress Dowager Cixi was impressed by her righteous act and named her "the power of attorney of Mrs. Yipin".
5. Building water conservancy, running education, building a Confucian temple and paying for the army all made her a famous "businesswoman" in Guanzhong area. Due to war and natural disasters, a large number of hungry people appeared in Guanzhong area. Zhou Ying decided to open a warehouse to release food and set up a porridge factory to help the victims. She opened a porridge factory in the disaster area of Guanzhong, allowing Jingyang, Chunhua, Sanyuan, Pucheng and Fupingmi grain stores to open warehouses and distribute them to the poor around. Jingyang County and Sanyuan County specially recorded her kindness in history when compiling county annals.