That's it? Zheng Sheng feels a little incredible, it seems too simple, right?

Zheng Sheng asked Liu Wei'er to get some glutinous rice juice first and try to make a paper tube. He went to find a hemp rope, but Zheng Sheng felt that the hemp rope was too rough, and the burning effect might not be too ideal.

After half a day's hard work, the family members grinded out a lot of ore powder. Therefore, Zheng Sheng put down the matter of the fuse and decided to prepare some * first.

Wang, who had nothing to do all day and was very bored, came to Zheng Sheng's place, and saw that Zheng Sheng and Liu Wei'er were busy, so he asked questions and chattered.

Zheng Sheng was troubled, and Xia Liang, the maid beside Mrs. Wang, walked in and said to Zheng Sheng: "Shizi, Cao Hanguang, a thief from Nanxiang County, is visiting, and he wants to see you." ”

"Han Guang?" Zheng Sheng frowned, "He's looking for me?" ”

Zheng Sheng knew this person, and when he purged the hooligans in various counties two years ago, his main partner was Han Guang. But Zheng Sheng didn't feel how deep his friendship with this person was, what did Han Guang do when he came to the manor to find him at this time?

When he arrived at Ningyuan Hall, Zheng Sheng saw a thin middle-aged man sitting on a chair drinking tea thoughtfully.

"Han thief Cao, it's freezing this day, what are you looking for me?" Zheng Sheng met and asked directly.

Han Guang put down the teacup, thought for a while, and said, "Zheng Shizi, today I am here to tell you something on the order of the county magistrate. ”

"County Magistrate Qi? Excuse me. Zheng Sheng was even more puzzled, he was even more unfamiliar with the magistrate of Nanxiang!

"Can the prince know the people of Hanzhong?"

"Ma Suishan? Know. Zheng Sheng raised his eyebrows, he probably knew Han Guang's intention.

Ma Suishan in Hanzhong is the original owner of the place where Zheng Sheng and Zheng Wen discovered the saltpeter mine.

"That's right, yesterday Ma Suishan's youngest son Ma Liang came to Nanxiang County to sue Zheng Shizi for encroaching on his family's land, and also took out the transfer document signed by you and Ma Suishan."

Zheng Sheng smiled: "Please continue." He wanted to hear what tricks the Ma family wanted to play.

"That agreement, the prince also has it here, right?"

Zheng Sheng nodded: "Yes, but it's not with me, my cousin Zheng Wen has it!" Ma Liang wants to sue me? Aren't all the transfer agreements signed? What does he want to sue me? ”

Ma Liang's statement said that there was a saltpeter mine under his family's land, and the saltpeter mine was very valuable, and Zheng Shizi used trickery to deceive that land, and his family did not understand the actual situation at that time, and the price was too low. So, he asked the county government to cancel the deal, in other words, he wanted the land back. ”

Zheng Sheng smiled and said to Han Guang: "Please go back and tell Ma Liang that the document is clearly written, and it is a pipe dream to cancel the transaction!" Isn't he going to sue me? Okay, I'm here to help! ”

After explaining the matter, seeing that Zheng Sheng's attitude was very resolute, Han Guang didn't say anything, and politely said goodbye and left.

Zheng Sheng sat on the chair and thought about what Ma Suishan meant.

Zheng's plan to acquire the saltpeter mine in Hanzhong's Chuyang County was difficult. may be the undesirable consequences of Zheng Wen's acquisition of ground frost in Yiliang and Yiliang Prefectures.

When Zheng Wen first sent people to Chuyang to buy the barren mountain of the saltpeter mine, he attracted the attention of the local clan, the Ma clan.

Located on the north shore of the river in the south of the valley, the barren mountain was originally a terra nullius, overgrown with rocks and of no reclamation value.

Therefore, the Zheng Wen faction wanted to buy it on the grounds that they wanted to build a small port there and use it as a stopover point for ships.

We all know the story of Zhuge Liang's six departures from Qishan, and the valley in the north of the barren mountain is the only place in Hanzhong to Xiliang and Guanzhong, and it is also the big problem that plagued Mr. Zhuge in the Northern Expedition - the difficult and difficult grain road that forced him to invent wooden oxen and flowing horses to carry grain.

There is indeed a river in this place, and the Baoshui and the water are the upper reaches of the Han River, but the mountains and rivers are dangerous, and there is no big boat at all, so the small port is built in the south of the valley, and this excuse is very ridiculous.

The Ma family noticed this. At the beginning, because of Zheng's purchase of frost, Ma also scavenged for local frost and prepared to sell it to Zheng at a high price. As a result, Zheng Wen didn't buy it. Angry, the old man Ma Suishan stared at the frost for a long time, but he still didn't understand what this thing was for!

Zheng's unusual behavior once again attracted Ma Suishan's attention, and he preemptively bought the barren mountain from the Chuyang government.

Zheng Youshuang, who was in charge of the acquisition, was dumbfounded, he was very angry, it was clear that Chuyang County was already considering his offer, why did he sell it to someone else like this?

Zheng Youshuang returned in vain, and Zheng Wen was angry with his idiot-like operation. Originally, he was very optimistic about Zheng Youshuang's cleverness and cleverness, but after this matter was done, Zheng Wen left this kid behind.

Subsequently, Zheng Wen told Zheng Sheng the news of the failed acquisition.

For Zheng Sheng, who had just completed the development of the * at that time, saltpeter was a necessary material and his * raw material. The origin of this thing is not in his own hands, so he really can't rest assured.

Therefore, Zheng Sheng asked Zheng Wen to take the mine.

Zheng Wen couldn't understand Zheng Sheng's thoughts. Because at this time, the saltpeter needed by Zheng's saltpeter to make ice was enough, and the Yizhou merchants intended to blackmail Zheng's, and Zheng's reason why he resolutely chose not to buy it was not only that the price was too high, but also that Zheng's demand for saltpeter was not very urgent. After all, saltpeter is not a consumable in the ice-making process, it can be reused.

But Zheng Sheng wanted to buy the mine, so Zheng Wen sent someone to negotiate with Ma, but Ma Suishan asked for a very high price, and he not only asked Zheng to take out half of the benefits he would get from the barren mountain in the future as compensation to Ma, but also wanted to get the secret of the frost.

The acquisition failed again, Zheng Sheng couldn't sit still, and he decided to go to Hanzhong in person and buy the mountain. Zheng Wen persuaded him, but went with him.

Then there is what Han Guang said: the story of Zheng Sheng's use of tricks.

Zheng Wen went to Hanzhong in the open, and Zheng Sheng secretly accompanied him as a small servant. Zheng Wen came forward to negotiate with Ma Suishan again.

Ma Suishan saw that Zheng Wen actually came forward in person, and the repentance of thinking that his asking price was too high to scare away the Zheng people was suddenly thrown into the East China Sea. He insisted on the original conditions and did not let go, the price is high, don't buy it!

Negotiations failed again.

Regarding Ma Suishan's-stirring stick-like behavior, Zheng Sheng also knew that he was a speculator to put it bluntly, and with the identity of the head snake, he saw his inevitable victory in the saltpeter mine, and wanted to bite hard.

There are many people who want to take advantage, and even the secret of saltpeter ice making doesn't matter to him, but Ma Suishan cunningly wants to take half of the benefits of the barren mountain.

It can only be said that he has such a big appetite!

People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, if Ma Suishan knew that Zheng Sheng was planning to use the things below the mountain to create an unprecedented and powerful weapon! I'm afraid he doesn't have the courage to beep with the Zheng people again.

Of course, this is a secret, and Zheng Sheng can't say it.

Therefore, he can only take a more insidious approach.

In the first step of the plan, Zheng Wen withdrew with all the people of the Zheng family on the surface.

When Ma Suishan heard about this, he immediately began to panic. Then, thinking that he had won the game, he announced: Zheng is just playing a trick to get away with it, wait, they will be back!

Ma Suishan waited from the end of September to the middle of November, and never waited for the Zheng people to return.

In the past two months, his mood has been up and down. He already regretted it, the benefits that the Zheng family had given him were rich enough, but he wanted to get more in a hurry. In the end, what is the use of only getting a barren mountain? What's more, Ma spent a lot of money in order to get this mountain.

He's lost a lot of money!

Ma Suishan was remorseful.

At this time, Zheng Sheng began his second step plan, which spread the news that the Ma clan had spent money to buy a barren mountain in the Hanzhong area. For a time, Ma became a joke among the middle and upper classes of Hanzhong. Those who know the truth feel that Ma Suishan is insatiable, and he messed up the things that can make a lot of money steadily; People who don't know think that Ma Suishan is stupid, and it is useful to buy that mountain that is sparsely populated and birds don't?

Ma Suishan really panicked, did the Zheng family really not want it? So why does he want this mountain?

Ma Suishan was not reconciled, and went around the mountain to find secrets, but still found nothing.

He was desperate. Sell, sell! Sell this broken mountain! But who wants to take over! Even the government refused to accept it.

This mountain seems to be about to rot in the hands of Ma Suishan.

However, things suddenly took a turn for the better.

Just when Ma Suishan was extremely annoyed, a caravan passed through Chuyang with great swagger.

Ma Suishan's youngest son, Ma Liang, heard that this was the caravan of the Liangzhou Zhang family to the Zheng family in Nanyang, and the Zhang family ran the Zheng family's Liangzhou Zheng Zi paper business. This time, Zhang's directly got the share of next year's year, thousands of Zhengzi papers, from Nanyang.

Ma Liang reported to Ma Suishan that the Zhang family not only bought paper from the Zheng family this time, but also purchased a large number of Jingzhou products, and the accompanying entourage had hundreds of servants and dozens of guards.

Ma Suishan thought about his own situation, all the servants and guards were combined, and there were not as many people as this caravan, and he couldn't help but sigh: "The Xiliang Zhang family is really a rich family!" ”

Ma Liang couldn't help but continue: "This team is not only the caravan of the Zhang clan of Xiliang, but also the noble prince from Xiliang. Father, why don't we sell that mountain to the Zhang family? ”

Ma Suishan was moved, and then he visited the "noble little prince", and then quickly sold the barren mountain that the Zheng family favored to him.

In fact, the noble little boy is Zheng Sheng, and Zheng Sheng got the mountain from the Ma family at a relatively cheap price.

This is Zheng Sheng's third-step plan.

Originally, Zheng Sheng planned to be the son of a wealthy big family to go around in Chuyang, expecting Ma Suishan to treat him as a fool and sell him the mountain. This is actually very risky, and the son of a big family is not very credible when he travels to the poor mountains and rivers of Chuyang.

However, Zheng's Liangzhou business partner Zhang's caravan happened to pass by, and Zheng Sheng had an idea, and the last flaw in his plan was filled.

Although the head of the Zhang caravan was also surprised, why did Zheng Xiaoshizi appear here. But Zheng Sheng is just taking a ride, he is happy to befriend this Zheng Xiaoshizi.

Zheng Sheng's plan went smoothly.