"Cui He, don't listen to that Li Zhi's nonsense, he speaks well in the vernacular, how can he have the ability to raise so much silver?"

Cui He glared at Xiao Guangwei: "You know again?" I see that Li Zhi is much more clever than before these days, maybe there is a way to raise money! ”

"That's his bragging!"

Hearing Xiao Guangwei's words, Cui He was so angry that he stomped his feet and said loudly: "Xiao Guangwei! Don't you always chase me, let others see it, what do you think? I'm going home, you go away, go away! ”

Xiao Guangwei rolled his eyes angrily, but he didn't dare to offend Cui He, so he could only walk away with a smiling face. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Zhi walked out of Dongcheng Jingbianfang and walked casually on Dongcheng Heng Street. Although the sanitary conditions on the street are very poor, and most of the pedestrians are thin and short, there are also many Chinese clothing merchants and horse-drawn carriages on the road. Tianjin, in this era, is a thriving commercial city.

Tianjin Acropolis is the gateway to the capital and an important town for north-south transportation. If the goods from the north to the south are taken by sea, the Haihe River in the north of the Tianjin Acropolis is the only way to enter Beijing by sea. If you take the Cao Yun, in the northwest outside the Tianjin Acropolis, there is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which connects the north and south of China. The grain and rice for the military needs of Kyoto and the north all depended on the transfer of grain from the south to the north, and whether it was transported by canal or by sea, it had to sail the Haihe River or the night port to Jinmen.

Such a trading land, the Ming Dynasty will naturally send troops to protect it. In the second year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty set up a guard at the mouth of the Sancha River of the Grand Canal, diverted the river water to surround the city, and built a fort to protect the city. Tianjin Acropolis Zhou Jiuli, the city wall is about three zhang five feet high, two zhang five feet wide, open on all sides.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin had changed from a military powerhouse to a commercial town.

Walking on Dongcheng Heng Street, Li Zhi saw that both sides of the road were full of shops. In the middle of Dongcheng Heng Street, there is also a large market that specializes in the trade of silk and cotton cloth from the south.

Seeing the textile market, Li Zhi thought of the shuttle and Jenny spinning machine. Li Zhi will do these simple textile machinery, but the return on investment in the textile industry is slow, and it obviously cannot solve the current priority of Li Zhijia. Li Zhi walked back and forth along the street, but did not find any inspiration to get rich, so he walked back to Jingbianfang.

Walking to the area of Jingbianfang, Li Zhi saw a noodle shop on the side of the street. Seeing the snowflake steamed buns piled high in front of the noodle shop, Li Zhi stopped.

Seeing these steamed buns, Li Zhi was overjoyed, and secretly said why didn't he pay attention to these white steamed buns these days?

It's not that Li Zhi wants to eat steamed bread, but that soda ash is needed to make steamed bread, and soda ash is a key raw material for saponification reaction. In other words, since there were steamed buns in the late Ming Dynasty, it means that there was soda ash in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zhi had an important material for making soap.

Li Zhi was overjoyed, and secretly said that his first pot of gold would be earned from this soda ash.

Li Zhi walked into the steamed bun shop and shouted, "Little Er! ”

"It's coming!"

Hearing someone call, a cousin with a melon skin hat greeted him. When he saw who the person was, his face was happy: "Li Zhi, the eldest son of Li, wants to buy steamed buns or eat noodles?" You can't take credit in a small shop! ”

He knew Li Zhi and knew that the Li family now owed a large amount of money and was in financial difficulty. He was a snob, and when he saw Li Zhi enter the noodle shop, he thought that Li Zhi was eating and drinking outside regardless of the conditions at home, so he sarcastically called Li Zhi the eldest son of Li. The last sentence can't be credited, and it is even more blatant that Li Zhi has no money to enter the store.

The so-called wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and the drum broke through the 10,000 mallets, Li Zhi is now in trouble at home, and these snobs will naturally not let go of the opportunity to fall into the well. Li Zhi didn't care about him in general, wiped his hand on his face, and said eloquently: "Chen Deyu, don't talk nonsense. I'm not here to eat! Where do you buy the soda ash in your store, you take me to buy some. ”

The shopkeeper originally thought that the stupid and stupid Li Zhi would be dumbfounded by his sarcasm, but he didn't expect to be taught a lesson by Li Zhi, and he couldn't help but be stunned. After a while, he said loudly: "What soda ash, we don't have this thing!" ”

Li Zhi pointed to the steamed buns and asked, "You don't have soda ash, what do you use to make steamed buns?" ”

Xiao Er pursed his lips and said, "That's called alkaline noodles, Master Li, what are you asking for?" Are you going to open a steamed bun shop too? ”

"So you called it alkaline noodles. I don't open a steamed bun shop, I want this alkaline noodles to be useful, and you can tell me where you bought them. ”

"I bought it on North Street!"

"Where's North Street? Take me there! ”

The shopkeeper rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "I'm busy, I don't have time to play with you, Li Zhi, don't stand in the store and block the road if you don't eat noodles, the other guests can't walk!" ”

There is only one customer in the noodle shop eating steamed buns there, where is there anyone walking? Li Zhi knew the habits of this little second market, it was unprofitable and could not afford to be early, so he took out thirty yuan from his arms, and said with a smile: "You take me to buy alkaline noodles, and I will give you thirty yuan!" ”

Chen Deyu made thirty yuan a busy day, and when he saw the copper coin in Li Zhi's hand, light came out of his glasses. He took the copper coin and said with a smile: "Li Zhi, you won't stay here today!" Seeing that you want to buy it so sincerely, my brother will help you go back and take you there. ”

There was nothing to do in the store, Chen Deyu said to the shopkeeper, and took Li Zhi to North Street.

The Tianjin Acropolis is prosperous in business, and even the residences in the small alleys have alley shops. In addition, it is often the case that all the shops in the neighborhood deal in one type of thing. For example, all needles are sold in the needle market, and all pots are sold in the pot shop street. The wellside shop where Li Zhi's family is located is all engaged in Nanyang goods.

Chen Deyu took Li Zhi for a quarter of an hour, found a neighborhood dealing in North and South groceries on North Street, and found an inconspicuous shop in the neighborhood, Chen Deyu pointed to it and said, "That's the store." I'll go back, you can buy it yourself! ”

Chen Deyu didn't know what Li Zhi was going to do when he wanted to buy alkaline noodles, but he estimated that Li Zhi's family would go bankrupt sooner or later, and he would be a homeless homeless person at that time, and he Chen Deyu would not make friends with such a person! So he didn't bother to say a word to Li Zhi, pointed out the location of the store and left. Li Zhi didn't leave Chen Deyu either, he walked into the store by himself, and saw an old man sitting in the store dozing off, so he said loudly: "I'll buy four catties of alkaline noodles!" ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, the half-asleep old man was startled. However, although he woke up from his dream, he was not ambiguous in his work, and immediately agreed: "What I sell is the high-grade alkaline noodles dug up in the Xiangyang mine, and it costs sixty-eight yuan for four catties!" ”

Seventeen pounds of soda ash is not expensive. The price of soda ash is not expensive, and the cost of making soap will not be high, Li Zhi was happy in his heart, smiled and said: "Shopkeeper, I buy so much, you give me cheaper!" ”

"That's at least sixty-four words."

Only then did Li Zhi take out sixty-four coins from his arms and hand them to the old man. The old man slowly got up from his chair, scooped out a spoonful of white flower powder from a large vat, and weighed it on the scale, which was exactly four pounds high. The old man wrapped the soda ash with a piece of Fujian thick paper, tied it with a rope, and wrapped it like traditional Chinese medicine, and then handed it to Li Zhi.

easily bought soda ash, Li Zhi was full of joy, and walked out of this neighborhood with four catties of soda ash.