Xu Sande couldn't understand why there was a golden house in the book, after all, the words he could read were really limited, and most of them were simplified characters that he learned from Zhang Wen and them later. Zhao Xiang did not introduce Ming and Qing novels such as "Liao Zhai", otherwise Xu Sande would have been easy to understand, and even pioneered a sentence: "There are demons and ghosts and foxes in the book."

He just felt that since he could make a Xiucai and the shopkeeper of the Li family so ecstatic, it must be a treasure.

So when Li Sihai bought it from Zhao Xiang at the price of buying all of them at the price of three copies per book, Zhao Xiang almost dropped his jaw. He had only known that ancient books were expensive, but he didn't know that they were so expensive.

What is the concept of Sanguan? The cost of making a brass coin is two cents and five cents, and three runs is 3,000 copper coins are 750 yuan! Of course, it can't be converted like this, and if it is calculated in gold, it is just as amazing: one tael of gold in Zhangzhou is now exchanged for 36 Guan Zuwen, that is, forty grams of gold can be exchanged for 12 books. The purity of ancient gold is not very high, just 200 yuan a gram, and a book costs more than 660 yuan!

And how much does it cost to print out these books? Three dollars a copy! More than 200 times the profit, or bulk consumer goods.

Thinking about the problem of eating for more than 2,000 victims outside, Zhao Xiang calmed down the little excitement in his heart.

Then Li Sihai saw the pure white cotton cloth that was not good-looking: "Zhao Gongzi, what is this, neither silk nor brocade, is it linen?" ”

Zhao Xiang had no choice but to popularize "cotton", a thing that would only be popularized in Fujian and Guangzhou in a few decades, but in the end, Li Sihai became entangled: "Zhao Gongzi, how much does this cotton cloth cost?" "Directly kick the problem to Zhao Xiang.

Without doing anything, Zhao Xiang calculated directly according to the price of silk: "Three runs." ”

Li Sihai nodded, for new things, there was no trial for a period of time, and he didn't dare to jump to conclusions.

The final order was confirmed, with 5,000 mirrors of all kinds, 1,000 sets (pieces) of all kinds of glassware, all books, and 200 pieces of cotton. I copied a list, calculated the total price, and left in a hurry.

Li Yuanguang didn't leave: "Brother Xiang, if you build such a big warehouse all of a sudden, you must have put a lot of grain, right?" ”

Zhao Xiang smiled: "How much grain do you think can be produced by such thousands of acres of land in my hands?" ”

"There must be a lot, otherwise you wouldn't dare to rashly accept more than 2,000 victims. Do you know that you originally had an iron ox that ploughed 100 acres a day, but not many people paid attention to it, but this time the big households in the entire Zhangzhou have firmly remembered you. ”

"By what you're saying, you all know about it?"

Li Yuanguang nodded: "Of course I know, all the big households in Quanzhang, even as long as there is a surplus of grain in the middle-class family, in such a disaster year, they will close the granary, waiting for the price of grain to rise, and all villages have organized the young and strong to prevent the people from revolting, but you are good, not only did you not close the door, but also built a new house for the tenants below, only to come to see your new home, only to know that you are really fearless." ”

Zhao Xiang asked, "According to what you say, those victims have already been eyeing me?" ”

Li Yuanguang nodded: "In the past, if the year was bad, the victims would only go to the deserted mountains and forests to hunt, or go to the beach to fish, but this year they went down the river to the edge of the city and stopped moving forward, do you say it has anything to do with you?" ”

Zhao Xiang: "The victims didn't plan to rob me, did they?" I arrested two fake victims, and they recruited both of them, and someone provoked and framed me. Besides, you can't say that the people who want to harm me have been sending people by the river to wait for the victims to come, right? ”

Li Yuanguang shook his head: "Let's put it this way, there are two reasons why the disaster victims came to you, one is that the tenants below you are building new houses in the disaster year, and the fool knows that your harvest is good." ...... two"

"The big families in Zhangzhou treat me as a thorn in the flesh, right?" Zhao Xiang took Li Yuanguang's words and said. Li Yuanguang just mentioned it, and he probably knew it. And the two fake victims were rescued on the first night, and I don't know if they were dead or alive, but one thing is certain, neither the Xinkong monk and Chen Chun of Kaiyuan Temple want this matter to make a big fuss, at least they don't want it to go to the yamen.

"It's not all, anyway, none of the merchant families like my Li family regard you as an enemy."

"There is actually no difference between cutting off people's wealth and seeking people's lives, and this time you are guilty of public anger." Li Yuanguang said.

"In that case, why are you willing to come?"

Li Yuanguang laughed: "I didn't say it, my family is a merchant family, unlike those landlords and sitters, except for admiring your courage and financial resources, I don't think there is anything wrong with you doing this, at least it didn't hurt our interests, let alone cut off our financial routes." However, in the past few months, I have not dared to take a step out of the door, and it has not rained for several months, and the poor harvest is inevitable, and my family recruited 50 family nurses two months ago, and they practiced every day......

If we continue to talk, Zhao Xiang will clearly understand. He has indeed committed the wrath of the people, and he has indeed cut off the wealth of others. In a disaster year, whether in the north or in the south, grain prices will certainly rise, and the benefits from grain stockpiling will be far greater than in normal years. In addition to grain, there is also usury - what if the price of grain is high and there is no money to buy grain? Loan! The interest rate is high, and the land is mortgaged, and the children are sold, and there is always a way to survive.

"Since because of your presence, the victims no longer go to the beach but stay here, you can only bear it. Two or three thousand victims, not to mention robbing large households, it is enough to sweep the entire sub-city. So, at this time, it makes sense that someone will direct this fire directly to you. Li Yuanguang made further analysis.

"Oh......" Zhao Xiang was speechless, it seems that he is really too high-profile - making a fortune in a muffled voice is the right way! Zhao Xiang was good, and he paid his salary twice in four months, each time it was a real brass coin, and then he gave grain to the tenants, and also allocated land to build new houses for them...... What's even more terrifying is that far away on the south bank of Zhangshui, you can clearly see the majestic and brilliant mansion standing on the stone peak of Xiaozhi Mountain - who will you rob if you don't rob you?

"But Brother Xiang, you don't have to worry too much, the disaster of the victims is now resolved by you with a trick of work relief, and you can only buy it with brass money, which is not considered to be a way to cut off people's money, those people are at most scolding behind closed doors, but they will not do anything." Li Yuanguang said with relief.

It seems that it is still the Kaiyuan Temple Gang monk who targets him, as well as Chen Chun, the yin man. I thought that Chen Chun was just a showman and it was not a big deal, but I didn't expect that the two tricks were to instigate others to rob him.

When he was thinking about how to solve this scourge, Sandezi ran all the way, and he couldn't breathe: "Brother Xiang, it's not good, there are hundreds of people on the embankment, saying that they are also coming to work, but Xu Changde refuses, and he takes people to do it!" ”