Mei Xiaohan never thought that selling matches could sell the disaster of prison.

It didn't take long for the official to arrive at Mei's house.

As soon as they entered the Mei Mansion, these people began to arrest people.

"Where's Master Mei?"

Mei Xiaohan got the news and was already waiting, saying, "You don't need to look for it, I'm here?" ”

The official said: "Since you know each other like this, you will talk back to our county government, and it will save us from doing it!" ”

"I'll go with you!" Mei smiled coldly.

When he took it away, Mei Xiaohan also packed a package, as the saying goes, he is not afraid of 10,000, he needs to be prepared.

Long before the official came, Mei Xiaohan had already made several preparations, and once something happened to him, he would let Ergouzi go to the mansion with gifts.

When she arrived at the county office, Mei Xiaohan was neither humble nor arrogant.

"What's the matter with the county lord looking for a nickname?"

Wang Yongji snorted and said, "What's the matter, you must know it too, right?" ”

"I've heard you sell prohibited items on the street!"

Mei Xiaohan said: "I admit the items for sale, I don't know about the so-called prohibited items!" ”

"Humph!"

"Bring the woman aboard!"

The words fell, and a thin woman was brought up, the one who bought the match!

"You don't know this woman, do you?"

Mei Xiaohan said: "I really don't know each other yet!" ”

Wang Yongji said: "Where are you from?" ”

Mei Xiaohan was stunned and said, "The master didn't call me to ask about this, right?" ”

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After some argument, Wang Yongji said, "Well, you should tell me what this match is here!" ”

Mei Xiaohan said: "A very important process in the process of making matches - dipping medicine!" ”

"Dips?" Wang Yong's eyes widened.

The quality of the match dipped in the medicine determines the ignition quality of the match. The dipped match moves slowly on the continuous machine and will enter the next cartoning process.

After the dipping is completed, an inspector conducts a fire quality inspection.

Dipping workshop of the match factory. The finished matches are pushed by the workers to the next workshop with a cart.

The screening machine rejects unqualified match stems.

There are two ways to put matches into matchboxes, both manually and by machine, with half of the matches being done by hand by the female worker and the other half by the machine.

Although the machine is fast, it has a high breakage rate.

The last process of match making, 10 boxes are wrapped into a small package, and the box can be shipped out. This process is all done by hand.

Only like this can be sold for a large price, but in fact, the materials are the same.

"How amazing is it? Is the process so complex? ”

The reason why it is said that the match god is magical is because Wang Yongji has never seen a lighter, Mei Xiaohan struck while the iron was hot, and took out some magical things from the package he carried.

Wang Yong, who looked at everything here, was stunned, and a lighter alone almost made his jaw drop.

Tu Tu said: "I really lived for more than 40 years in vain, I didn't expect there to be such an artifact in this world!" ”

When introducing lighters, Mei Xiaohan also deliberately used words such as "Vulcan" to express the magic of such items.

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After some bargaining, Wang Yongji said: "Do business with your duty, and pay taxes to the imperial court!" ”

Mei Xiaohan naturally understood and said, "Naturally, I won't treat Master Wang badly!" ”

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Wang Yongji's face immediately changed, and he said: "This woman is bewitching the people, I think he will be put into a prison cell immediately, so that he will not go out and harm others!" ”

Mei Xiaohan shook her head and said: "I don't want to see this matter either, since this is the case, then Master Wang will do it!" ”

Although Mei Xiaohan didn't want to do this, in order to reduce unnecessary trouble, she accepted Wang Yongji's opinion.

But from this day on, if you start a business on the street again, no one will deliberately come to find fault, just let yourself have a little more blood.

For every box of firewood bought, Wang Yongji had to take forty percent of the profits.

And the occurrence of the match incident reminded Mei Xiaohan of a person, this person is the top businessman Hu Xueyan.

Hu Xueyan (1823-1885), whose real name was Hu Guangyong, was born in Jixi, Huizhou, Anhui Province, and moved to Hangzhou at the age of 13. He is a famous red-roofed businessman, politician, and representative figure of Hui merchants in modern China.

In the eleventh year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1861), when the Taiping army attacked Hangzhou, Hu Xueyan transported arms and grain from Shanghai to help the Qing army and was appreciated by Zuo Zongtang, and later helped Zuo Zongtang organize the "Changjie Army" and establish the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau. When Zuo Zongtang went west to quell the rebellion against Agubai, he presided over the affairs of the Shanghai Mining and Transportation Bureau, borrowed foreign money in Shanghai five times, as much as 11.95 million taels, collected military salaries, ordered arms, and did intelligence work, and often reported important news from all walks of life at home and abroad in Shanghai to Zuo Zongtang. When it is very popular, the official residence is second-class, and the yellow coat is appreciated.

With his outstanding business talents, Hu Xueyan used the official bank to set up a private bank in Shanghai, and later set up a branch of the "Fukang" money bank all over the country, and was known as the "God of Living Wealth". In Hangzhou, the "Huqing Yutang" Chinese medicine store was established, and the "Plague Avoiding Pill", "Marching San" and "Eight Treasure Pills" were produced for the needs of the military and civilians, and the pharmacy has been inherited to this day, winning the reputation of "Jiangnan Medicine King".

Mei Xiaohan realized that if you want to do a good business, you must rely on it, the so-called "It's good to enjoy the shade under the big tree!" ”

"See the prefecture and the prefect!"

It turns out that Mei Xiaohan's idea is right, and his thinking is also right.

With the protection of the prefect and the prefect, he started doing business, and he no longer had anything to worry about, and the market was also opened.

Although the price is very high, the loss of these profits is also within the affordable range. After days of hard work, Mei Xiaohan was about to be tired.

It was at this time that a big event happened in the Song Dynasty, and the Battle of Dingchuan Village began.

After the Western Xia won the Battle of Yanzhou and the Battle of Haoshuichuan, its momentum became more and more vigorous, and it frequently attacked the northwestern frontier of the Song Dynasty. Song was forced to go completely on the defensive.

Western Xia: A regime established in northwestern China by the Dangxiang people in Chinese history.

The ancestors of the Western Xia, the Dangxiang people, originally lived in the Songpan Plateau in Sichuan, and moved to northern Shaanxi during the Tang Dynasty. Because of his meritorious work in quelling the chaos, he was named the envoy of the Xiazhou Festival by the Tang Emperor, and successively submitted to the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty. After the Xiazhou regime was annexed by the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian was unwilling to surrender and re-established the state, and obtained the canonization of the Liao Emperor. Li Jiqian adopted the method of Lianliao to the Song Dynasty, and successively occupied Lanzhou and the Hexi Corridor area. In the first year of Song Baoyuan, Li Yuanhao called the emperor to establish the country, that is, Xia Jingzong, and the Western Xia was officially founded. And because it is in the West, the Song people called it Western Xia.

The Western Xia were roughly victorious in the Song-Xia War and the Liaoxia War, forming a situation in which the Three Kingdoms were in full swing.

In the fifth year of the reign of Renzong Jingyou of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao, the leader of the vassal party regime of the Song Dynasty, broke away from the Song Dynasty and became independent, proclaimed himself the emperor, went to the Song Dynasty to be crowned, changed the Yuan to "Tianzhu Rite Law Yanzuo", and the founding name of the country was "Daxia", which was known as "Western Xia" in history.

This war, which lasted for several years, resulted in an agreement between the Song and Western Xia. The peace treaty stipulated: Western Xia declared himself a vassal to Song, and Yuan Hao accepted Song's title; The generals, soldiers, and households captured by the two sides in the Song-Xia War were no longer returned to each other, and later history called the "Qingli Peace Conference".

Every year, the Song Dynasty gave 150,000 horses of silk, 70,000 taels of silver and 30,000 catties of tea to the Western Xia New Year's coin.