On the third day of the Lunar New Year, sure enough, Li Chunhua, the eldest daughter of the sixth grandfather's family, came back with her husband Yao Qianshan, which was another happy event, and the Li family's rooms got together again and had a lively turn.

Then he naturally asked about Yao Qianshan's future plans, and the Li family's side naturally vaguely mentioned that if Yao Qianshan had no other plans, it would be better to donate a fame or something.

Of course, this kind of statement will not be too clear, after all, it is necessary to take into account the problem of the other party.

And Yao Qianshan has been a master for more than ten years, and many times he is helping Dong Weng talk about this kind of exchange of interests, so he is a pragmatism in this regard, and he doesn't think that this is face-damaging or anything.

It's just that he came back this time, and he also had his own plans, to be honest, he had studied Bagu Wen for decades, but he spent money to donate fame to Zuihou, and he was really a little unwilling.

Therefore, he said: "Old lady, I mean, there is a township exam this year, I plan to participate, if I win, I will go to Beijing to participate in the examination, if I can win the Jinshi, then I am the most haode, if I can't, then trouble the old lady to help Qianshan plan." ”

Yao Qianshan's words are very reasonable, all things, he has to be lifted himself, and then participate in the examination, if he can be promoted to the scholar, then the court will be crowned, and after that, these things are indispensable to the support of the Li family's ink workshop, but in this way, relatively speaking, Yao Qianshan owes less to the Li family, and his own degree of freedom is high.

But if you don't pass the Jinshi, then you have to seek an official, so you can't use money to smash it, Yao Qianshan is a poor child, which is indispensable to the support of the Li family, so. Yao Qianshan was completely tied to the Li family's boat.

"Then what if you don't pass the township test this time?" Li Jingdong of the ninth room on one side asked.

"If you fail this township test. I don't want to raise people or anything. I will continue to be my private tutor, maybe I can cultivate some talents for the Li family, and if this is the case, I advise the old lady not to think about the clerical aspect, it is better to donate a martial post for the children of the clan, although the Korean Chinese is more expensive than the martial arts, but now the world is becoming more and more chaotic, and the Tatars are also very fierce. Although the martial arts position seems to be low, in fact, no one dares to underestimate it. Yao Qianshan said calmly.

If you fail to pass the township test, and then donate from Xiucai to raise people and then donate to officials, not to mention spending too much, it is donated to the official, unless you are willing to degenerate, and you are corrupt and corrupt in the court, otherwise, it is absolutely difficult to have the right to speak, and it is completely meaningless. It's better to be a master.

As soon as this expert makes a move, he will know if there is one. Yao Qianshan has been following him Dong Weng and has been in officialdom for more than ten years, especially in Shanxi, in recent years, many places have been robbed by the Tartars, and in this regard, Yao Qianshan has seen it very clearly.

Several members of the Li family looked at each other and nodded, Yao Qianshan's plan is very reasonable, and if it is a martial arts donation, there are people in the Li family, not to mention anything else, the single line of ink making is hard work, and it is not bad to donate a martial arts job to his own children.

In this way, there is also a lot of calculation, as for the details, this will be slowly pondered later.

And then since I talked about returning to Nanjing, this year has passed, Zhen Niang has to go back to Nanjing, Shen Guifei's birthday is imminent, this birthday ink has to be handed over quickly, speaking of which, this kind of birthday ink belongs to the special ink, the amount is not large, but the requirements are extremely strict, from the carved plate to the Zuihou gold painting line, that is extremely labor-intensive, and even the beginning of some materials collection, plus the dry time period, the Li family is completely out of the standard of making imperial ink, fortunately, Shen Guifei's birthday is February, from last autumn to the present, more than four months, The Li family kept improving, and finally made all the birthday ink.

Zhenniang will hand over the ink when she goes back. This kind of thing is always better early, so Zhenniang is about to leave for Nanjing on the fifth day of the first month, which makes Zhao reluctant.

It was Li Jingfu who gnawed and said that he would go to Nanjing after the year. said that there were people from the Qin family who went to Nanjing.

Immediately, the Zhao family, who felt sorry for his daughter, made a decision to let Li Jingfu leave with Zhenniang on the fifth day of the first month.

After talking about the ink, he talked about some industries of each family, the six-room grange, the nine-room and the Zhao family's inkstone mine in Wuyuan, and the Li family's eight-room oil mill.

"Don't say, Zhen Niang originally got the pine field from the Tian family and planted tung oil trees, and now the yield is gradually coming out, but unfortunately the price of tung oil has been falling recently, otherwise, with the sale of tung oil seeds, the ink mill can have a lot of income." On the other hand, Uncle Jing Dong smiled lightly, he always had a cold face, but there was a hint of a smile at this time, obviously he was already in a good mood.

The tung oil seeds of the pine field belong to the ink mill, but the oil mill is the eight rooms, the brothers are clear accounts, the eight houses are according to the market price to buy the tung seeds of the Li ink mill to extract oil, and the ink mill to use tung oil has to be bought from the eight houses at the market price, so Uncle Jing Dong has such a saying.

"What? Now the price of tung oil is still falling? Zhen Niang looked at her eldest brother and asked.

"Well, since the outbreak of pine plague in the head of the year before last, many places have planted tung oil trees, this thing can be produced in nine months, the first two years because it has just been produced, the amount is relatively small, although the price of tung oil has fallen, but the fall is not too ruthless, but since this year is the output of the third year, the output of tung seeds began to enter the peak period. Therefore, I am afraid that as soon as spring begins today, the price of tung oil will have to plummet. Li Dalang said with some concern.

Speaking of which, this oil mill has been more difficult since he took over, because of the last tung oil poisoning, no one wants the edible oil produced by his oil mill, and he can only produce tung oil, but the price of tung oil has not been good, plus he has to repay the loan of Qian Zhuang, as well as some post-incident compensation for the poisoned customers, it can be said that if it were not for the oil support of Li Jiamofang, plus the way of running through Qin Ye, his oil mill is really difficult to support.

Before, all the money he earned in the inkstone pit was smashed into the oil mill.

"Big brother, since this is the case, then after the beginning of spring, you will not be afraid to buy a large number of tung seeds and tung oil." Zhenniang thought for a moment and then suggested.

“weishenme？” Li Dalang asked with a puzzled face, Originally, it was said that Zhen Niang's suggestion was a bit unreliable, and Li Da should have denied it immediately, after all, the price of Tong oil has been falling, although Qin Ye promised to accept his goods, but it is not how much he wants, it is a certain share, after all. Qin Ye and the Bai family have been old relations for more than ten years. Even if there is something wrong with the Bai family. But the Bai family forced the Li family to bite it, and it would be a little more restrained, so Qin Ye still had to leave some share for the Bai family, if Zhen Niang collected tung seeds like this, wouldn't there be a large amount of tung oil smashed on his hands.

This is clearly unreasonable.

However, thinking so, Li Dalang still had to ask Zhen Niang carefully what she thought. After all, starting from the furnace coal, all the business pointed out by Zhenniang has never been lost, especially Wuyuan's trip, therefore, Li Dalang understands his own sister, is very shrewd, and does not do things at a loss, so he has this question.

"Big brother. Mr. Zigong once said the way of business, five words. Two sentences, five words are: scarce is expensive. The two sentences are: people abandon me and take, and people take me and give. Because everyone is not optimistic about tung oil, it is the reason why I want to buy it. Zhen Niang said.

"Zhen Niang, it's good for people to abandon me, but the drop in the price of tung oil this time is really caused by the sharp increase in the amount of supply, and this situation, generally speaking, it is necessary to maintain a low level for a long time. At this time, it is not appropriate to acquire a large number of them. Li Dalang said.

Starting from the coal stove, Li Dalang has also been rolling in business for a few years, and this truth is also understood, but the situation is different.

"Well, this is the normal situation, but what if the imperial court wants to open the sea ban?" Zhen Niang asked rhetorically.

"What? Is the imperial court going to open the sea ban? At this time, the old lady Li on the side was a little uncalm, and swept the voice slightly higher and asked, if this is the case, once the switch is on, it will activate the entire business of the Ming Dynasty, and it will not be just a single tung oil that will increase the price. It is their ink industry will also usher in a prosperous era, the land of the two oceans, for the Hui ink is also the pursuit of very, remember the ancestral records, when the eunuchs of the Three Treasures went to the West, the entire Huizhou ink was sold out, and the ink workshops made a lot of money, at that time, the grand scene, people yearn for it.

It's just a matter of banning, and it has been rumored for a long time, but every time it's thunder and rain, and in the end everyone doesn't want to think about it.

"I'm not sure, there is news like this, and now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, there will always be some new atmosphere, so it's better to wait and see what happens." Zhen Niang said to her seven grandmothers.

The Longqing throne has been cautious for more than 20 years, and he is not a strong emperor in terms of character, and it is said that the reason why he has to open the ban as soon as he ascends the throne is completely forced to be helpless, poor, it is said that as soon as he ascended the throne, he wanted to buy some jewelry for the concubines in the harem, but as a result, not only did the household ignore him, but the officials of the court and the central government participated in him one by one, which made him extremely depressed.

That's when I thought about opening the ban and charging more taxes to fill the harem.

Of course, this is a rumor, and the specific reason for the ban is not only like this, Zhen Niang feels that the ban should be a general appeal for the interests of various groups, after all, the profits in it are too big.

Of course, Zhen Niang can't care about these reasons, she only knows that soon after the new emperor ascended the throne, the ban was raised again, and this time it was not thunder and rain, but wind and rain.

Therefore, Zhen Niang said it through the rumors, after all, she is now in Nanjing, and it is the worship of the princess's mansion, such rumors will always be somewhat convincing, just right, she was going to suggest her seventh grandmother, this year's Huizhou ink workshop here is not to prevent adding a few more workshops, and make more ink.

In this way, as soon as the sea ban was opened, Huimo was also a best-selling commodity. With the reason for the ban, the seventh grandmother who wants to come from home is also a gambler, speaking of which, whether it is tung oil or ink, it can be stored, so even if the ban is not opened, the loss will not be too big, of course, it is inevitable to cause a backlog of funds, but it will not be fatal.

"Well, the call for the ban has been getting higher and higher in recent years, not to mention the sea ban, it is the Mongolian Altan Khan, who makes trouble every year, and is also forcing the imperial court to open border trade." At this time, Yao Qianshan on the side said with a calm face.

Zhenniang listened to the words of Uncle Chunhua, but remembered that it should be a few years after Longqing, it seems that she really reached a tribute exchange with the Mongolian Tatar Ministry and opened a trade market in the border area.

However, these virgins can't care about it, but Yao Qianshan said this, so this rumor is more convincing.

"Well, then wait and see, it's good to be more prepared." Old Madam Li said very simply. In the spring when it is about to come down, Li Mo is going to expand production.

Originally, Zhenniang got the birthday ink of the princess's mansion, and Mrs. Li had this plan, but if the ban was lifted, she would have to add a few more workshops and recruit more people. Not to mention, since Songwen, several small ink workshops in Huizhou have been closed, and this skilled worker is a good move.

"That girl, anyway, the price of tung oil is low now, except for the goods from Qin Ye's side, the others will be in my hands, and I will think of raising some funds, and when the time comes, I will receive the goods when the price is low." At this time, Li Dalang also said. has been in business for a few years, and Li Dalang, the Taoist of this business, also touches a little, sometimes he has to fight, and the opportunity is fleeting.

"Well, the eldest brother doesn't have to force it, just do his best, the Li family has that large area of tung oil trees, plus the eldest brother's oil mill, when the price of tung oil rises, even if it is not purchased, it will have a lot of money to make." Zhen Niang said with a grin.

"Hmm. I know, don't worry, girl. Li Dalang nodded.

Now, the development of the Li family in the new year has a tone.

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