After getting Zong Shu's "point", Liang Shicheng immediately asked him to inquire about the manor outside Bianliang City and how much it would cost to rent it.

According to the calculations of the little eunuchs, in order to make match production reach a scale, at least 300 acres are needed.

A considerable part of it is used to build pools and store night incense.

The night incense from all over the city has been pulled over and put here, and the pool must not be small.

There is also a place for the production of matches, which must be large. There are those who process wood, and there are those who extract red phosphorus.

Since the workshop of matches was removed from the palace, there must be enough space.

When producing matches in the imperial palace, except for the purchase of equipment from the Great Song Academy of Sciences for 1,000 taels of silver, nothing else was spent.

Now it's different, renting a plot, building a pond, and building a workshop all cost money.

Matches are a good thing, the key is that the cost is pitifully low, and it must be a big profit, which is the biggest motivation for Liang Shicheng to persevere.

Now he needs to invest more money, and Liang Shicheng doesn't want to pay it all himself.

After all, this is a royal business, and of course Huizong has to pay for it.

When Liang Shicheng found Huizong, it happened that Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, and Tong Guan, the person from the Zhongshushe, were there.

Huizong didn't pay attention to Liang Shicheng's entry.

This guy revealed the exam question "Easy Count" he came up with a few years ago to Zong Shu, this person is not very reliable.

But this guy knows his mind very well, and he has arranged things properly several times, and usually, he can't leave for a while.

As soon as Liang Shicheng talked about matches, Huizong was annoyed.

I spent 1,000 taels of silver to buy equipment from the Great Song Academy of Sciences, and the matches I made in the end have not been sold!

Storing night incense in the palace for processing, making the palace stinky, and not making money, how can it not make people angry?

Liang Shicheng reported on the plans and plans to make the match industry bigger and stronger, and the three people present listened very reasonably.

So Huizong gritted his teeth and allocated two thousand taels of silver to Liang Shicheng from the inner treasury.

This silver was earned by the crown prince Zhao Huan, to be precise, it was earned with the help of Zong Shu.

The reason why Huizong agreed was because he was indifferent to the production of matches in the palace.

In the past, night incense was sent outside the palace.

In order to produce matches, Yexiang was left in the palace, and there was an incident in the middle where Cai Xiu and Liang Shi fought for Yexiang.

That conflict made feces and pee everywhere and made a mess in the palace.

Liang Shicheng now said that he wanted to move the match workshop out, and Huizong immediately agreed.

Anyway, Huizong has already paid out a thousand taels of silver, and if it stops now, this thousand taels will be considered blind.

Therefore, Huizong added two thousand taels.

Zhao Gou and Tong Guan immediately expressed their support and asked for silver.

Liang Shicheng, Tong Guan and Zhao Gou were also studying Zong Shu, because Zong Shu integrated the various shops of the Zong family and established the Zong Group.

And recently, he has raised a lot of money through Zong's Casino, and if anyone fails to bet, they can convert the principal into investment.

In other words, the Zongjia's industry has absorbed a lot of small shareholders.

Some shops in the capital, because of the shortage of silver, have also adopted the practice of pooling silver taels and taking shares among relatives and friends.

Therefore, Zhao Gou and Tong Guan also decided to take out the silver and occupy the shares of the match workshop.

Shares can be divided, so the silver obtained is of course more reassuring than the bribery.

So, Tong Guan and Zhao Gou each contributed two thousand taels of silver.

After solving the cost problem, Liang Shicheng happily left the palace.

As soon as he left the palace, Liang Shicheng was angry.

Several plots of land that have been negotiated have increased in price!

These manor owners are too bold to see who wants to rent the land!

For the business of the palace, he also dared to temporarily change his hexagram and raise the price all over the sky.

Liang Shicheng led someone to find the owner of the manor, who knew that the owner of the estate did not like him at all.

When I inquired, the owner of the village was a relative of Uncle Zhao Kai, the king of Yun.

After walking a few more alternative places, who knew that the same situation would be encountered, either the price would be raised, or the rent would not be rented, or simply ask to buy it outright.

Liang Shi thought that with the silver allocated by His Majesty, plus Tong Guan and Zhao Gou, it was enough.

Looking at it now, even the rent is not enough.

One farmer told Liang Shicheng that because someone had just wanted to rent his land, he was offered two to three times the rent.

And they also said that if they could, they would buy the plot.

What surprised Liang Shicheng was that this person rented a plot of land, and he actually "hoarded night incense and made matches"!

Is this Zong Shu making trouble?

asked about his appearance, it was not Zong Shu, nor Lin Lingsu.

It must be the Taoist priests under Lin Lingsu, who also personally participated in extracting phosphorus from urine and making matches.

It is difficult to guarantee that some of them want to open a match workshop in private, or even leave the Great Song Academy of Sciences and set up their own doors to make a lot of money.

Or did Zong Shu and Lin Lingsu regret it a little? Want to secretly open a match workshop?

Liang Shicheng hurriedly contacted the previous owners, and after asking, the people who negotiated with them to rent the land were all the same person!

One of them also paid a deposit.

Liang Shicheng immediately reported to Tong Guan and Zhao Gou, and Tong Guan immediately made a decision, quickly bought the land, and started construction as soon as possible.

As a big greed who has been greedy for many years, Tong Guan's money is no less than that of the Cai family.

In the end, Liang Shicheng also gave some silver, scraped together enough 200,000 taels, and found the cheapest manor to buy it.

Liang Shicheng organized people to construct and dig a pool for storing urine, and on the other hand, he went to the Great Song Academy of Sciences to purchase equipment.

The scale of production has been expanded, and the number of personnel has increased, so it is natural to add equipment.

Who knows, the price of the experimental equipment of the Great Song Academy of Sciences has also increased, twice as much as in the past.

Liang Shicheng asked Lin Lingsu if he was the one who looked at the plots and raised the land price outside the city some time ago.

Lin Lingsu immediately denied it.

Liang Shicheng was so angry that he had a toothache, it wasn't his talent to blame, why did his equipment just raise the price, and it was also doubled?

Liang Shicheng can't buy it if he doesn't buy it, because only the Great Song Academy of Sciences can produce these equipment.

He had already bought the plot for 200,000 taels of silver, everything was in progress, and without these equipment, it would be impossible to make matches!

A lot of money is spent, and the money to buy equipment is nothing.

Liang Shicheng gritted his teeth, spent five thousand taels of silver, and bought equipment.

There is no technical content in digging a pond, and it is actually very simple to build a workshop.

Because of the real money invested, Zhao Gou and Tong Guan also went to the scene from time to time to check the situation, and gave all-round support to Liang Shicheng's match workshop.

Liang Shicheng told Zhao Gou and Tong Guan that they had inquired clearly now that it was Zong Shu who came to raise the price of land some time ago.

Not only that, Zong Shu also bought a piece of land. People have arrived, measurements are being taken everywhere.

In the most conspicuous place of the plot, there is a special thing, which is the equipment that Zong Shu used to collect night incense in the palace - a copper pot.

According to the report of the little eunuch, there are also words written on it: copper pot: special for night incense.

This was Zong Shu's disgusting childlike at that time.

As soon as Liang Shicheng said this, Tong Guan's round face immediately turned into a long face.

Needless to say, Zong Shu is going to build a match workshop!

How is this person everywhere? It's really not a loss to stir up in the court, it's not enough to stir up in the court, this is to stir up their business again!

Zhao Gou laughed when he heard this, the opportunity has finally come, Zong Shu, you want to rob my business! Then you'll lose a lot!

Tong Guan immediately arranged that all the night incense in Bianliang City in the future must be sent to Liang Shicheng's match workshop.

No night incense, no raw materials, Zong Shu, I see how you make matches!