"This is soap?"

On the stone table, the fragrant soap was exuding the smell of roses, and Zhang Bo and the others were lying on the table, their noses constantly stirring.

"Young master, isn't this something for my daughter's family?" Zhang Yang rubbed his nose.

Xiao Ke's eyes lit up, and she liked this thing at the first sight, as if it was instinctive.

Lin Mu pushed the soap to Xiao Ke, "Do you like it?" "Xiao Ke, who is reserved on weekdays, can't be reserved now.

"For you." Lin Mu smiled and flirted openly.

Hu bookkeeper, Zhang Bo and Zhang Yang's eyes fluttered, pretending not to see it, but Shan Hu, a fool, looked innocent and didn't understand what Zhang Bo and Zhang Yang were doing.

Picking up the soap and holding it in his arms, Xiao Ke smiled shyly, charming and flattering, Lin Mu looked like a cat's claw in his heart, and he couldn't wait to take a mandarin duck bath with him.

"Ahem, let's talk about soap." Lin Mu returned to the topic, "If the Lin family can make this thing and sell it, do you think it can make money?" ”

"Not only will it make money, but it will make a lot of money." Zhang Yang's face turned red excitedly, "Not to mention that this soap is used for bathing and washing hands, but this fragrance can be used as a spice, and the pancreas can't be compared." “

The pancreas in Zhang Yang's mouth is a mixture of pig pancreas and plant ash mixed with spices, but the industrial soap is still in poor condition.

Hu Yi was a little incomprehensible, so he asked: "Young master, needless to say, this soap must be more profitable than the weaving workshop, and we might as well not make cloth at the beginning." ”

Speaking of this, Lin Mu Zhengse said: "Soap is just a luxury, and most of the supplies are scholars, but food, clothing, housing and transportation are related to people's livelihood, even if it is convenient, it is also necessary to get involved, and now Jin Bing may go south at any time, when the time comes, we may not be able to count on the imperial court, only to save ourselves, if there is this weaving workshop, at least clothing is not a problem." ”

Zhang Bo and Hu Yi were shocked, it turned out that Lin Mu thought so far-reaching, but as Lin Mu said, the world is not peaceful now, and it is time to take precautions.

"The young master is far-sighted, no wonder the young master still wants to buy land, I'm afraid it is also a precaution." Hu Yi said.

Lin Mu was noncommittal, he didn't have a foolish and loyal thinking, for him, the rotten official family was not worth throwing his head and spilling his blood, he was only pitiful to thousands of people like him.

So everything he has done so far is for the future, and getting closer to Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang is also for this purpose.

In his plan, weaving mills, textile mills, and quilt mills will be built, and in the future, steel smelting and chemical industries will be involved, but these industries will be displayed in front of everyone as civilians.

He is the only one who knows that once a crisis comes, these civilian industries can be quickly transformed into military power.

After this period of understanding, he was very sure that the Hua Dynasty was in the middle of the 19th century, and the external threat would definitely make the Hua Dynasty stormy.

He didn't want to rise up, but he at least hoped that he could have the power to protect himself when troubled times came.

"The more our family business is, the more likely it is to be swallowed in one bite in the future, do you still want the Lin family to be raided again?" Lin Mu said bluntly, he knew that since the Lin family was raided, Zhang Bo and the others had a grudge in their hearts, and they didn't want to be bullied anymore.

"Don't think!" The kind Uncle Zhang slammed the stone table.

Zhang Yang said: "Young master, the life of our Zhang family is the young master's, and it all depends on the young master's dispatch." ”

Although Shan Hu has a straight temperament, he is not a fool, he smiled and said: "Life is a member of the Lin family, and death is a ghost of the Lin family." “

Lin Mu was pleased, and he said, "In this case, let's discuss how to use the 60,000 taels of silver today." ”

"The mill has to expand to 1,000 looms, otherwise we won't be able to complete our order." Hu was a little worried, they now owed a large amount of money to the cloth merchants, and this account had to be repaid.

Uncle Zhang said: "There is also the spinning workshop that the young master said, we produce so much cloth at once, it will inevitably cause the price of cotton yarn to rise, and if we don't hold the cotton yarn in our hands, our hearts are really unsteady." ”

"How much silver do you need for these two things?" Lin Mu asked Hu Ledger.

"The loom is ten taels of silver each, Ding Li said that the price of the spinning machine is about the same, but these are at least 14,000 taels of silver, plus materials, the land needed by the workshop, at least 30,000 taels of silver." Hu Yi said while pinching the walnuts.

"Half of the silver is missing."

Lin Mu smiled bitterly, 30,000 taels is converted into 9 million, but this number is also normal, how can such a large factory in contemporary times be able to do it without more than 10 million.

There are still 30,000 taels left, and Lin Mu said: "Leave 5,000 taels of silver for the soap mill, and take out 20,000 taels of silver to buy the grange." “

Speaking of the grange, Zhang Bo and others were happy, in the past, the Lin family produced thousands of acres, hundreds of villagers, and the grain harvested every year could fill the granary, what a prosperous picture.

"Yesterday, I heard that the Wei family was going to sell out a thousand acres of fertile land, twenty taels of silver per mu, and twenty thousand taels of silver could be taken." Uncle Zhang's eyes were a little eager, "The head of the Wei family is the young eunuch of the dynasty, and these fields and properties are also given by the imperial court, so they will definitely not be bad."

Lin Mu nodded in agreement.

The Hua Dynasty was a dynasty in which scholars and emperors ruled the world together, so you can imagine how high the welfare of scholars in the Hua Dynasty was.

It is said that the prime minister of the court had 300 taels of silver and 100 stone of rice every month, which was equivalent to 90,000 yuan and 1,200 catties of rice.

In addition, the prime minister will also get 100 horses of silk every year, 500 taels of brocade, 10 horses, and 20 horses of silk, and the high welfare can be seen in general.

At the same time, because the sale of land in the Chinese Dynasty was not prohibited, this gave scholars and wealthy merchants the opportunity to merge land on a large scale, and officials and wealthy businessmen with a private estate of more than 10,000 per mu abounded.

Some scholars even said bluntly: "If you don't suppress annexation, the rich family will not even be able to do anything for me, guard the wealth for the country, slow down the thieves, disturb the border, and be willing to lose, all of which are my things." ”

The implication is that the annexation of land is not only not wrong, but should be encouraged, anyway, I am for the country to guard the wealth, whether the suppression of rebellion or thieves come to commit, the grain and grass are all ours, the emperors of the Chinese Dynasty also believed that whether the land is in the hands of the people or in the hands of scholars, anyway, through taxation will eventually be owned by the state.

It was this kind of thinking that brought the land annexation of the Hua Dynasty to a crazy level, and the thousands of people of the Hua Dynasty were mostly dependent on scholars.

It was precisely because of this that Lin Mu concluded that the Hua Dynasty was powerless to resist the Jin Dynasty, let alone the attacks of the foreign powers.

"There is so much fertile land that naturally needs to be taken." Lin Mu's tone was firm, the poor people could not afford to buy land, so the land could only be circulated among officials and wealthy businessmen, and they would not be taken for nothing.