Looking at Li Mingyue's departing figure, Gao Sheng's face breathed a sigh of relief, and it was not easy to finally turn alkaline water into a source of wealth.

"Third brother, what did you talk about with that little lady just now?"

Zhang Dazhu hurriedly came over, he didn't know Li Mingyue's identity yet.

Even the old man of the Gao family, who bought a dustpan on the side, pricked up his ears and wanted to hear it.

"Pack your things and get ready to go home."

Gao Sheng didn't tell Zhang Dazhu about the conversation between him and Li Mingyue, not because he didn't trust Zhang Dazhu, but because he said that Zhang Dazhu didn't understand.

When he learned from his mouth that alkaline water could be sold in partnership, Li Mingyue was impatient to pull him to a secluded place behind a big tree in full view of everyone.

The four sword-wielding guards pressed their hands on the hilt of their knives and stood majestically on the periphery, separating the curious crowd, so that no one could hear the conversation between the two deliberately low voices.

The distribution method of 21 and 5 was proposed by Li Mingyue, which made Gao Sheng depressed for a while, but after thinking about it, Zheng Wangfu paid for transportation, set up shops and sales, and he only provided technology and reduced water products, which was not a loss.

Of course it's not a loss, can things like grass and wood ash that ordinary people don't want be valuable?

This is completely a profitable business, the price is two pennies a liter, a family of four can be used for a month, ordinary people can afford to use it, although it is cheap, but this amount is ridiculously large.

In the fourth year of Yonghui, the Tang Dynasty had a population of nearly four million households, and a family spent two pennies a month to make the old noodles not count, and the four million households of the Tang Dynasty spent a month on alkaline water, and the income would be astronomical.

Alkaline water is not like alcohol, you can not drink it, but alkaline water is a necessity of life.

Of course, he didn't expect the four million households of the Tang Dynasty to be able to use his alkaline water, not to mention that the way to extract alkali from plant ash was too simple and rough, as long as he bought a large amount of plant ash, those who were interested would definitely touch the doorway.

In these years, there is no patent protection, and it is only a matter of time before the ash of plants and trees is taken from alkali, and it is a matter of time before it is copied by the common people.

The reason why he specially partnered with King Zheng's other courtyard and tried his best to go around in a big circle attracted the attention of King Zheng's daughter Li Mingyue, in fact, his motives were not pure.

Partnering with Li Mingyue to do business is to take a free ride with the emperor's relatives and relatives to achieve his personal goals.

As an ideal and ambitious traveler, Gao Sheng understands that all opportunities to soar are not accidental, they are all fought for by themselves.

Li Mingyue did not immediately sign the agreement reached orally by the two sides, depending on the fact that she still had consideration.

It's no wonder, after all, his current identity is Tian Shehan, or he is cooperating with the emperor's relatives, and everyone has one or two worries in their hearts.

If it weren't for the fact that alkaline water is currently the only one, and it is closely related to the common people, and the interests are current, let alone cooperating with the emperor's relatives and relatives, it would be good if he would not be beaten up by the vicious guards and subordinates.

"It's noon, third brother, can we wait for the sun to get a little smaller before leaving?" Zhang Dazhu glanced at the fiery sun in the sky, shrunk his neck and said to him with a sad face.

The old man who bought the dustpan stood up, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or intentional, and said to the old lady: "Son, let's go back too, there are still three dustpans left, and we will sell them next time." ”

The old man and the old lady brought twenty dustpans, and sold the remaining three in the morning, which was completely stained with the light of a large number of ordinary people gathered by Gao Sheng next to him to give free steamed buns.

There is no business without popularity, and this is true not only in modern times, but also in ancient times.

"It's not hot enough for you."

Gao Sheng rolled his eyes and took the initiative to clean up the water, Zhang Dazhu sighed slightly and hurriedly came over to help.

Those ordinary people who were still waiting for the next batch of steamed buns sighed helplessly when they saw that Gao Sheng and Zhang Dazhu were leaving, and began to disperse.

asked Zhang Dazhu to clean up the stall, he dismantled the usual money, carried more than 100 yuan, and walked towards the village with the window panel.

Tomorrow is the traditional festival Mid-Autumn Festival, Gao Sheng went to the village and market to see what to buy.

During last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the predecessor took Gao Yue to eat only one dry meal, and the scene was bleak, and now he wants to do his best to give Gao Yue the best.

If it weren't for the heavy copper coins, there were not many commodities in the village and market, and there was nothing to buy, he would have to bring a basket of copper coins to buy on a large scale.

I went to the bookstore to return the window panels first, but when I entered the bookstore, I didn't see Li Weng, but saw a middle-aged man dressed as a servant.

returned the window panel and asked where Li Weng weng's whereabouts, but the servant said: "It's the middle of the day at the moment, my Ah Lang naturally went back to rest, and when he left, Ah Lang specially asked the slave to tell Lang Jun, 'If there is fate, we will meet again in the future'." ”

Gao Sheng was helpless, although he only had two face-to-face meetings and didn't talk much, but he had a very good impression of Li Weng, and he also wanted to thank Li Weng in person for his kindness.

After thanking the middle-aged servant, Gao Sheng went out of the door, found a blacksmith shop along the village and market, wandered around the blacksmith shop, and bought a one-foot-long steel knife at hand, ready to work.

Steelmaking technology appeared in history in the late Spring and Autumn period, and by the Tang Dynasty, steelmaking was already very mature.

The Tang Dynasty Mo knife is the best product in the hundred refining carbon steel, sharp and tough, but the carbon steel knife of the Tang Dynasty is generally more than tough, and the hardness is not enough, which reduces the retention of the blade, and it is easy to suffer when encountering a steel knife with high hardness.

The reason for this is that the blacksmiths of the Tang Dynasty were not advanced enough in steelmaking, quenching, tempering, and annealing.

In this era, the hardness of carbon steel refined by simple heat treatment can reach the expectation of high rise, and only Wuzi steel produced in Tianzhu is produced.

After chatting with the blacksmith, he had a general understanding of the heat treatment level of the Tang Dynasty, and then bought some crude steel ingots.

Before crossing, when he was researching outdoor knives, he studied forging heat treatment, and when he bought these crude steel ingots because he wanted to have the opportunity, he also tried heat treatment to see if he could get a suitable kitchen knife and tool knife.

Gao Sheng paid a deposit of more than ten crude steel ingots to the blacksmith, and said that he would come early tomorrow morning to get it, and then he left the blacksmith shop.

In the village market, he ordered the shoes he and Gao Yue to wear, and ordered a silk, ready to order a few clothes for Gao Yue and himself, bought some food and ingredients, and then walked back with a large bag and a small bag.

Old Man Gao saw Gao Sheng coming back with something, and his face was a little ugly.

This son was the most unexpected to him, and he bought six yuan in a few lines of foreign poems, and no one in ten miles and eight towns was so promising.

The son is out, and the old man should be happy.

But it should be a Chen family, he and Gao Sheng met like strangers, and he was instigated by the Liu family and almost agreed to let Gao Yue be the child daughter-in-law of Zhang Butcher, and the two of them almost became enemies.

Fortunately, he reined in the precipice, otherwise the father-son relationship would have broken down completely.

The old man really couldn't figure out how Gao Sheng fell in love with the Chen family who fled back then, and he didn't hesitate to fall out with the entire Gao family, and wanted to marry the Chen family.

When Gao Sheng was a child, he still liked this clear-eyed son very much.

Even Gao Sheng and the Chen family got along, and the old man did not object.

It's just that Liu's entrusted someone to tell Chen's fortune, and the fortune teller said that Chen's life is gray, and if he enters the door, the Gao family will be restless, and there is a danger of Kefu cutting off his heir.

Just such a fortune teller's words, the old man took it seriously, not only strongly opposed the combination of Gao Sheng and Chen, but also separated Gao Sheng and Chen from the Gao family.

At this moment, the stall had been cleaned up, the things Gao Sheng had bought were put away, he took the usual money, and handed it directly to Zhang Dazhu, who was waiting for him.

"Third brother, this is ......" Seeing the whole money in his arms, Zhang Dazhu's face was excited, and he didn't dare to confirm it.

"Follow the third brother to do things, if there is the third brother, there is yours, take the money, take advantage of the early hour, go to the village market to tear the clothes of the younger brother and sister, and buy some playthings for the stones."

"Third brother, this is too much......"

Before Zhang Dazhu's words were finished, Gao Sheng glared at him fiercely and scolded: "Crooked, like a girl, if you don't accept this money, it's okay, and the third brother of Ming'er won't ask you to help." ”

Zhang Dazhu was helpless, he knew that Gao Sheng was a person who said the same, so he put the money back in the basket with his usual money, so he said to Gao Sheng: "I'll go to the village and city." ”

"Get out, wait for you to come back to the village together, I can't pick these things."

"Hey." Zhang Dazhu answered, and ran to the village and city with more than 30 yuan given by his mother.

Gao Sheng looked at his back, smiled at the corner of his mouth, turned around and was about to rest against the root of the big tree, when he saw the old man with a gloomy face.

It's no wonder if it's not gloomy, after making six dollars, my own father didn't say much, but he was very proud to outsiders, and whoever was a father had to be hairy......