Before Zhao Wan'er could walk to the old county office, she met her uncle Zhao Chengming on the way.

She hurriedly took two steps forward and said a blessing to Zhao Chengming, and said, "Wan'er has seen uncle." ”

Zhao Chengming smiled happily and said: "It turned out that Wan'er is back, can this trip to the Southern Zhou Dynasty go well?" ”

Zhao Wan'er nodded and said, "Uncle Hongfu, Wan'er's trip went well." Not only did he sell all the goods he had brought with him, but he also purchased a lot of food and came back. I also got acquainted with a big shopkeeper of Zhu's firm, and at this moment I came to Donghai County to discuss cooperation. Wan'er was planning to take the shopkeeper Zhu to the county government to register. ”

"Hehe, Wan'er, it's been a long time since you left Donghai Mansion, and I'm afraid you don't know that the county government has moved to a new location. In addition, Donghai County has now been renamed Donghai Prefecture, and the county government has also become a government office. It just so happens that my uncle is going back to the mansion, so I'll take you there. Zhao Chengming said with a smile.

"Ah, I didn't expect so many things to happen in the recent past. Fortunately, she met her uncle, otherwise Wan'er would have run away in vain. ”

Zhao Wan'er thanked Zhao Chengming, and then asked curiously: "Uncle, you are not working in the government office at this time, why did you come outside?" ”

"Well, it's a long story." Zhao Chengming sighed, "It's not that the typhoon caused a stir two days ago, which blew away many shanties in the city, causing a large number of people to have nowhere to live. Lord Nagasaki said that it is better to take this opportunity to build a residential area in Tokai Prefecture first, and your uncle and I are surveying the terrain and need to design the planning drawings first. ”

"Isn't my uncle going to be very busy during this time? It should not be an easy task to build a residential area. Zhao Wan'er asked in surprise.

Zhao Chengming said: "Who said it wasn't? Without this typhoon, the construction of residential areas would not have been carried out until after autumn. Now there are many things to be done in the East China Sea Mansion, and there are too many things to be busy. ”

After a pause, he sighed with emotion: "It is necessary to build city walls, repair docks, repair roads, and now build the Dragon King Temple and plan a new urban layout." My uncle already feels that one person is eager to split into two people, and I have written to many of my former colleagues, inviting them to help build a perfect city together. ”

"Build the Dragon King Temple?" Zhao Wan'er was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhao Chengming suspiciously, and asked, "Uncle, why do you want to build the Dragon King Temple?" ”

Zhao Chengming turned his head, glanced at Zhu Zhirong without a trace, and suddenly lowered his voice and said: "You have time to ask your husband about this matter, there are many people here, and it is inconvenient to talk about it." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Wan'er nodded slightly, shifted the topic to this trip to the Southern Zhou Dynasty, and introduced Zhu Zhirong to Zhao Chengming by the way.

When Zhu Zhirong heard that Zhao Chengming was an official of Donghai Mansion, his position was not low, although he was not in charge of commerce and trade, he still gave him a respectful salute.

Great Xia is different from the Southern Zhou, although it is not forbidden to trade, but the status of merchants is not very high. If you want to develop well in Great Xia, you must have more dealings with people in the government.

While chatting, the team came to the Donghai Mansion. Seeing the huge and majestic building in front of them, Zhu Zhirong's entourage couldn't help but open their mouths wide, looking incredulous.

If you really want to talk about it, this Donghai Mansion is several times bigger than the government of Nanping Mansion, and even bigger than the government of any city she has ever visited. The key is that in addition to being large, the layout is rigorous and magnificent, which makes people deeply impressed at first sight.

Zhao Chengming said with a smile: "Wan'er, my uncle still has his own business, so I won't accompany you in." If there's anything you don't know, just ask the guards, and you should be more familiar than I am with how to register. ”

"Well, thank you uncle for your guidance along the way, Wan'er won't delay her uncle's work." Zhao Wan'er bowed.

Zhao Chengming waved his hand and was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, turned around and instructed: "By the way, Wan'er, now a guest house has been opened up in the mansion to receive visitors." If the shopkeeper Zhu has no place to stay for the time being, he may as well stay in the guest house. This guest house not only provides accommodation, but also food, which is much more convenient than a guest house, and the price is cheaper. ”

This is equivalent to advertising a guest house.

Zhao Wan'er was stunned and said, "Okay uncle, after the registration is completed, I must go to the guest house that my uncle said." ”

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After Zhao Wan'er took Zhu Zhirong to go through all the formalities, she went to the guest house to open a courtyard, and it just so happened that all the people she brought could live in it.

The two made an appointment to go to see the salt pans together tomorrow to see how to boil sea salt, and Zhao Wan'er said goodbye and left first.

After coming back from Nanzhou for more than half a month, they encountered a typhoon two days ago and almost couldn't come back, Zhao Wan'er and Zhu Zhirong were tired and wanted to rest for a night.

When she returned to Zhao's Mansion and learned that Zhao Wan'er had returned from Southern Zhou, Su Ziheng also went to Zhao's Mansion and had dinner with her.

Later, she talked about the purpose of Zhu Zhirong's trip, and Zhao Waner was also worried about whether it was not good to take her to visit Yantian, and it was easy to leak secrets.

Su Ziheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, the sea salt drying technique is not complicated, but the requirements for building salt fields are relatively high, if they don't have volcanic ash cement that resists seawater corrosion to build a reservoir, plus a good tidal flat to build salt fields, even if she learns it, the efficiency is very low." ”

"We just need to keep the method of processing and refining refined salt from dried sea salt confidential, which is what is very important to us. The secret method of refining refined salt must only be in the hands of Zhao Mansion's own trustworthy people. Even if the refining speed is too slow due to a shortage of manpower, it cannot be easily leaked out. ”

"What's more, we are still mainly producing coarse salt, which is where the largest sales are. Refined salt is only used by those large households, and ordinary people still use coarse salt. ”

Zhao Wan'er nodded and replied, "Yes, the slave family listens to each other." Since Su Ziheng agreed to marry her, she began to change her son's title to Xianggong.

Zhao Chengwen sat on the side, watching Su Ziheng and Zhao Wan'er chatting, happy in his heart, but he didn't expect that after so many twists and turns, Wan'er finally came together with Su Ziheng, which made him old and pregnant.

No matter what happens to him in the future, will Zhao's firm decline, at least his baby daughter will not suffer anymore.

Following Su Ziheng, not to mention anything else, just a few technologies he took out could make Zhao's firm enjoy it for decades. This sea salt drying process alone allowed Zhao's firm to regain a foothold in Jiangning Mansion.

"Son-in-law, can the scale of this salt pan continue to expand? At present, the amount of coarse salt produced by Yantian every day is more than 8,000 catties, which seems to be a lot, but after refining into refined salt, the amount is not much. ”