Day 2, morning.

Originally, Wu Yanzhi planned to go to the nearby Silver Mountain to conduct a field trip, but suddenly there were dark clouds and thunder, so he had to stay in the pavilion with his family.

That younger brother Wu Yanping and younger sister Wu Xiaoyue were very unhappy! They had planned to go to the county town! Because today is the day of the market, it is very lively.

Wu Yan saw that the two of them were not too small, and they should let them go out for a walk by themselves, so they couldn't resist the two of them. had to borrow a few umbrellas from the post house and let Zhang Tai, Ning'er, and Pan'er accompany him out to play.

"Brother! You haven't given the money yet! Wu Yanping reached out and asked for money.

"Zhang Tai, you bring 500 Wen to accompany them, don't overspend!" Wu Yanzhi was afraid that they would use money indiscriminately, of course he had to control it, he didn't want this younger brother to become a fool.

"Brother! You're really stingy! Wu Yanping pouted, it seemed that it was too little.

"Aren't you too little? If you do this again, I won't let you out!" Wu Yanzhi frightened.

"Don't! Big brother, this is already a lot, second brother, let's go! His sister Satsuki hurriedly dragged his second brother away.

Looking at the backs of several of them, Wu Yanzhi smiled and shook his head. This Wu Yanping is actually a very smart guy, after the county Cheng Qi Xuan came in the afternoon, he had to let him help take him to the county school to listen and participate in the study, he has been delaying his study for more than a month!

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Wu Yanzhi looked at the sky and felt that this rain was not big or small, and it would not stop for a while. So he said to Yao Kuan: "Yao Kuan, I'll eat here at noon, please arrange it!" ”

"Yes!" He agreed to go out, because his family's meals had to be paid for by himself.

At this moment, Wang Dong walked in with a big oil-paper umbrella. Wu Yanzhi led him into the house, and the waiter from the post house came over to boil the tea.

"How was your conversation with Eunuch Luo last night?" He asked.

"It's okay, although the amount of bile water left is relatively small, but there should be no problem with 200,000 catties of copper a year!" Wang Dong is very happy, this is an opportunity to make a lot of money!

"I have made people roughly calculate, the cost of this bile water smelting copper is fifty wen per catty; The cost of copper smelting from bile soil is eighty wen per catty; You have no problem earning 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year! ”

"Thanks to Wu Shaoqing's support, the villain doesn't dare to forget Wu Shaoqing! By the way, is there a lot of bile here? When he heard this, he still had the guts, and of course he was even more excited!

"There is more bile than bile water! If you can smelt 200,000 catties of copper with bile water, plus bile soil, 450,000 catties a year is not a problem!" Wu Yanzhi said with a smile.

Wang Dong nodded: "This is really good!" ”

He said in his heart, this is a profitable business, following Wu Shaoqing, not only can he make money, but he also doesn't have to worry about the government to defraud.

Of course, he is a shrewd businessman, and he has long been proficient in how to handle good relations with metallurgical supervisors, counties, townships, and villages, and as for Wu Shaoqing, of course, he will not forget it.

"That's right! Brother Wang, if you want to do this business, you can make it bigger, and I still have three ways to provide you. These three businesses are almost risky!" Wu Yanzhi said suddenly.

Hearing that there were other businesses, Wang Dong's eyes widened and said, "Please Wu Shaoqing make it clear!" This cost is not a problem! ”

"Good! The first is to brew high-grade liquor; You also know that Xu Cai, a Shu businessman, has earned thousands of yuan a month! The grain in Jiangnan is far cheaper than in Liangjing, so you can buy a few breweries in a few counties in Raozhou.

After the liquor is produced, it can be transported directly down the river by waterway and transported to Yangzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Mingzhou, Hangzhou and other places, and there is no problem in earning 10,000 or 20,000 yuan in the first year.

After the technology is leaked, you will make almost all the money, and the rich people in Jiangnan are not much less than Liangjing.

Especially foreigners, that's more than Liangjing! So, don't stare at any kind of brass and iron! ”

"This is a good way to make money quickly, the villain will do it tomorrow!" He was extremely excited.

"This second is porcelain!"

"Porcelain? There is no porcelain in this Raozhou? Then the porcelain from the Yue kiln and the Xing kiln can be sold at a good price!" Wang Dong was puzzled.

Wu Yanzhi smiled slightly: "That's true!" Nowadays, the two major porcelain kiln systems represented by Zhejiang Yue kiln and white porcelain represented by Hebei Xing kiln are especially expensive celadon.

But you don't know that this white porcelain is fired, but it is more expensive than the celadon and the sales are greater.

If you increase the output, it is not a problem to earn 100,000 yuan a year! There are high-quality porcelain stones, kaolin, quartz stones, etc.

Yes? 100,000 a year?

"Wu Shaoqing, where is this high-quality porcelain clay in Raozhou?" He had an expression of almost disbelief.

"Eighty miles to the north, Xinchang County (Jingdezhen), which has the best porcelain clay in the country, is now only a small production of clay pottery.

As long as you are willing to spend money and invite a few masters from the Yue kiln and the Xing kiln, it will not be a problem to fire this white porcelain; A lot of key technologies, I can also hand over to you! "The Way of Martial Arts.

The technique of firing porcelain has long been leaked in later generations, and in terms of its technology, it is far from smelting iron and miscellaneous. Wu Yanzhi graduated from metallurgical engineering, and of course he has a general understanding of the process and formula of firing porcelain itself.

It's just that the mastery of the heat is a big problem, because later generations used instruments to control the temperature, and the fuel has long been modernized, and at this time it is necessary to rely on the experience of the master of the kiln to control.

"Xinchang County has? Well, the villain will do it right away! He thought about it, this porcelain business is better than the liquor business, and it can be done for hundreds of years.

Of course, it must be more complicated to build a workshop and find a master. However, Wu Shaoqing seems to know this firing ceramics very well, and it seems that there is no big problem.

"This third project is more complicated, and the return time is longer! But as long as you are willing to invest, it is more valuable than the two projects just now! ”

"Please Wu Shaoqing make it clear!"

"I'm ready to start working on a clock that can keep time and a machine that walks on its own; This machine is like Zhuge Liang's 'wooden ox and flowing horse' during the Three Kingdoms. After this thing was created, the saint was happy and gave you a marquis and duke, but it was trivial! ”

Clock? A self-walking machine? Marquises, dukes? This......

"Wu Shaoqing! What kind of thing is a clock? ”

"The clock, of course, is the mechanism that tells the time, like the hourglass that keeps time. All you need to do is flip the switch and you're ready to go. And he can be big or small, and he can also take it with him, which is very convenient!"

"I don't know what the villain needs to do with this project?" When he heard it, it was so simple? This project is indeed very good!

If it is done, with Wu Shaoqing's help, it will be the same as Zou Fengchi, and he will also get a county man and a county man, but it is an extremely glorious thing.

"This project is mainly done by me, and you only need to come up with a few hundred yuan in advance to make start-up capital. I will let a few of the officials who came with me this time use their spare time to process.

You also know that during working hours, they don't dare, and these costs will be specially managed. I estimate that in just three or five years, the machine will be a small success.

Of course, it doesn't take that long to recover this money. Because I'm going to develop a clock first, this thing is expected to be developed in a year at most, and it should be able to be developed. After two years, mass production is possible.

After this thing comes out, if you sell it for a hundred or hundred, those dignitaries will also buy it, maybe they will think you are selling it cheaply!

You earn hundreds of times a clock, and ten times is thousands of dollars, how high is that? Besides, if the emperor sees this thing and gives you a knighthood, isn't it a trivial matter? ”

When he heard it, sure enough, the most critical and best project was in the end! So he said in ecstasy: "Since Wu Shaoqing suggested, the villain thought that it would definitely be possible." The villain is willing to invest a thousand times first to develop the clock and the machine. In addition, please rest assured that Wu Shaoqing will not forget Wu Shaoqing's kindness......"