Chapter One Hundred and Two

The New Year in Luzhou is coming,.

Zhang and Wang are going to spend a good New Year outside, and in a few days, a group of ships will come from the capital, pulling all kinds of goods that may be used during the New Year, as well as some gifts from businessmen who cooperate with Zhang Wang and Li Xun.

There were also people from the Yellow River Boat Company, this was not invited by the Jingshui Boat Company, but it was discovered by the people who inquired about the news, saying that the people from the Yellow River Boat Company already knew that there was a movement here, so they followed behind and prepared to implement the plan.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had already received this information in advance, and the two of them felt a little funny about it, and felt a little helpless, people, they really wanted to go crazy for money, no matter what the plan was, they dared to use it, and the person who ran away from the Jingshui Boat Company was able to contact the people of the Yellow River Boat Company.

Today, the two of them wore an extra piece of clothing, standing on the dock that had just been partially repaired and strolling around in the sea breeze, and Li Xun also followed behind the two of them, thinking about their own affairs.

"Xiaobao, you said that the people from the Yellow River Boat Company are coming, should they suffer a loss? This time, we made some money from the leftovers they collected fur, so it is better to help them and let them suffer a big loss, and they will not follow that plan, otherwise the Yellow River will be affected a lot. ”

Wang Juan was a little soft-hearted, even if she could help those boatmen in the boat company after the Yellow River boat company lost, the handover process would also have some impact on the local economy, and she didn't want to cause too much turmoil.

Zhang Xiaobao has also considered such a thing, any development, there will always be something mixed in it that many people will not think about, that is, the loss in the process, this loss may have no impact on many people, but the real victims can only bear it themselves.

It was to deceive the people of Jingshui Boat Company who came up with that plan, but the people of Jingshui Boat Company were too stupid, not as smart as they imagined, which saved a lot of trouble, and also made the action here a few days in advance.

Zhang Xiaobao is really not the kind of person who tries to suppress other peers just to make money, thought for a while and said: "Okay, if the people of the Yellow River Boat Company have a good attitude, let them come over for the first time and suffer a big loss, let them remake their own plans, there is so much wealth in the sea, don't worry about what they can rob."

If they are sensible, they may be able to unite with them, and they will make more money together than they make themselves, then our bought boats can do other things. ”

"And what if they have a bad attitude?" Wang Juan heard the most important meaning of Zhang Xiaobao's words.

"Then don't blame us for being ruthless." Zhang Xiaobao replied very neatly.

"Your family is going to take action against the Yellow River boat?" Li Xun, who was following behind, heard the words of the two people, and asked a few steps forward.

"I don't know, it depends on the purpose of the Yellow River boat, if you just want to seek cooperation, it's nothing, if you want to suppress our family, then you can't wait for them to press."

Zhang Xiaobao was afraid that the people of the Yellow River boat line were too greedy, so they might compete maliciously with their side.

Li Xun didn't know what the conflict between the two would be before, but he only knew that he would act according to the fake plan provided by the Zhang family, and as soon as he thought of that plan, Li Xun asked again:

"Xiaobao, do you say that the corners of the furs they brought are useful? If you really stick fish glue and other things as said in that plan, how will it sell? ”

"Then pay for it, fish gelatin can be used to make more money, do you think it's so easy to boil a fish gelatin? It's simply impossible, but there's a follow-up plan to add, but that thing can actually be useful, for us, it's not clear to others. ”

Zhang Xiaobao had a new idea at the thought of being able to see a boatload of fur scraps in a few days.

The three of them walked around to see how the construction was going on here, and then turned back.

At this time, this side has almost been repaired, and the roads leading to other places in most of the inhabited places have been repaired, and the roads in the farther uninhabited places have to be repaired.

More than 15,000 new people, in addition to more than 10,000 people in several counties, there are 5,000 people who have become a separate county, Zhang Zhong has already written an excerpt to report, let the court give a name, this is a good thing, I want to come to the court will not refuse, one more county, in fact, it is one more local tax, and there will be more tribute.

Even if this year because of the disaster, we can waive all kinds of taxes for half a year to pay tribute, in the long run, it is better to have one more county, of course, there are more here, there will be less in Qinzhou, and the pressure will be very great when Qinzhou starts to pay taxes in the second half of next year.

Old man Bi and old man Zhang are also talking about this matter, the two of them are already playing billiards very well now, at least in the nursing home, there are two heads, and ordinary people can't beat them.

"I said, old man Bi, isn't it good for your teaching master to let them eat and live for nothing if they don't teach the children right away? And there are so many people here, and they don't care about it? ”

Old man Zhang hit it out, the ball shook twice at the mouth of the very big bag and stopped, after all, it didn't go in, and saw that there were only two balls left on Old Man Bi's side, and he was anxious, so he began to talk about things that could make Old Man Bi annoyed, hoping to make Old Man Bi miss too.

Old man Bi didn't care about this matter at all, he was thinking about how to hit a ball and a second ball, and when he heard Old Man Zhang's words, he said: "Don't let them teach their children now because they are afraid that they will teach some of the bad habits of the past to the children, let them take a look here first, listen more, think more, and when the time comes, I will personally test them, and those who can cooperate with this side of the line of thought will stay, and those who can't cooperate will send them a Cheng Yi and let them leave."

To teach and educate people, we must not only look at the master's knowledge, but also look at their morality. It's better not to find so many people, than to let someone come and teach him.

As for the people who have run to Luzhou, there is no need to worry about this, the emperor will not say anything, but no matter which state it is, they are all the people of the Tang Dynasty, I guess the emperor really hopes that more people will come, and the Zhang family's ability is not unknown, as long as there are more people, then you can make more money.

Don't look at some officials in the imperial court, as well as those literati and students, and the family always says that farmers are noble and businessmen, but if you really want to do something, you can't do without merchants, how many people in the family don't have a lot of business outside?

Leave people to Qinzhou, can Qinzhou have the ability of the Zhang family to make so much money? Not only to make money, but also to produce a lot of food, as well as those fish and meat and other things, plus the Zhang family can make the people live a better life, the court will be very willing to see this situation. ”

As he spoke, Old Man Bi snapped a shot out, and one of his globes fell into the bag, and he began to calculate another ball, which was a little small, and it didn't reach the designated position when it rebounded back, and it didn't seem to be easy to play.

Old man Zhang is now old, so he can talk to Bi Gou like this, otherwise he can't compare to Bi Gou with his identity, not to mention that his lord doesn't have such a big official position now, he has experienced a lot of things, but after all, he can't understand some things as thoroughly as Bi Gou.

After listening to Old Man Bi's words this time, I didn't think about whether I could win this game, I thought about it carefully, wrote down Old Man Bi's words and said: "Old Man Bi, you still have the ability, it's true, if I used to be a housekeeper at the master's place, which of the people below has the greatest ability, I will also send other people to him when I go out to do things."

Since the Zhang family has such ability, he should really be given more rights, thinking that more than 36,000 people are now in the hands of the Zhang family, more than 100,000 people in other places have done more things, just look at the current people's work momentum, why do you say this? ”

As he spoke, Old Man Zhang secretly moved a flower ball on his side to a good position, his eyes kept staring at Old Man Bi, for fear that Old Man Bi would find out, mainly because Old Man Bi hit the ball on the side of the case on the second stroke just now, and he had hope again.

Old man Bi's eyes were not sand in his eyes, and when he saw that Old Man Zhang dared to play tricks, he immediately said: "Put that ball back, can you still play?" If you don't play this game, you lose. ”

"Yes, yes, the wind blows, I just saw it, and it actually moved its position." Old man Zhang didn't blush at all, maybe he had already exercised out, so he moved the ball back and casually found a reason.

Seeing that he put the ball away, Old Man Bi said: "It doesn't matter how many people there are, the important thing is how to organize them to work, the current Luzhou is different from other places, and other places are to let the people do whatever they want, do you know why?"

Because the officials in those places do not have the ability to know whether they can do what they can do well in the end, if they do not do well, then organize the people to do it, and the final result is that the people's lives are worse, they do not have so much ability, they do not have the courage, and they do not have the ability to organize, so they naturally dare not arrange every person to do things like the Zhang family. ”

When Old Man Bi spoke, he was also full of emotion in his heart, he actually didn't have such a feeling at once, the two masters of the Zhang family who had not been found seemed to have a special ability, that is, no matter how many people gave them instructions, they could give them a good command.

Old man Zhang suddenly opened his head, nodded and agreed: "Yes, yes, that's it, the Zhang family can see what will happen in the future, and they guess it very accurately, as well as the command and dispatch of the Zhang family, the money is not bad, and the people's arrangements can also use everyone's advantages."

More than 36,000 people, even everyone was arranged, and I don't know how they did it, if it were me, let alone more than 36,000 people, I was confused with more than 360 people, especially the little baby could arrange things to do, it was really no matter how big or small.

This is what the two masters of the Zhang family who hid so that people can't find it, right? Sure enough, as some individuals said, there is no last resort, and the two swords are combined, but unfortunately they can't see each other, and they don't dare to force them, otherwise once they can't find anyone, they will leave the Zhang family and go to other countries, they will be sinners. ”

Old man Zhang actually wanted to meet the two legendary masters in Zhang's house for a long time, and mentioned it twice, but they didn't give him this opportunity at all, so he couldn't think of any good way, and he also didn't dare to use any threatening means, so easy to get into trouble.

Recently, he found that the people in charge of the overall scheduling were Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and he couldn't imagine that the two little babies were the masters, but he looked at the scheduling of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and found that the two people seemed to be more powerful than before.

can sit on one side, which makes him yearn more and more to meet the two masters who taught Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, after teaching for a few years, the apprentices can be so powerful, let alone the master, meet and talk, it is the best to learn something from it.

It's a pity that those two people just couldn't find it, even when everyone went to the mountain to take refuge together, he sent people to observe one by one and didn't see which one was.

With something on his mind, the ball is not as accurate as before, so I will give Old Man Zhang a chance, Old Man Bi just picked up the ball that he had pasted on the case, and Old Man Zhang seized the opportunity and scored three goals in a row, and there were still four left on the table, and it seemed that there was hope for a fight.

With a snap, Old Man Zhang scored another goal, happily continued to look for the next place to play, and said to Old Man Bi: "The cement thing has come out, put some stones and the wire or something in it, I have seen it, it is strong, and you don't have to worry about falling down when you use it to repair the house."

Build the city wall, as long as the people defending the city are not deceived and go out to meet the enemy, as long as the food, grass and personnel in the city are sufficient, no matter how others attack, there is no need to worry, is it necessary to transfer some people to come over to guard? Otherwise, this recipe will be given by others, and it will be troublesome to use it against us. ”

"Transfer? This doesn't have to be, do you really think it's that easy to get? Ordinary people don't want to get a prescription, just look at the Zhang and Wang families, they are all people from the inner courtyard who do this, and they are not alone, whether they are going to work or eating and resting, there are people guarding them.

The Zhang family made this thing, and naturally they will understand the usefulness of this thing, how can they not pay attention to it, plus the trust of the people here in Zhang Zhong now, it is difficult for ordinary people to get a prescription. ”

Old man Bi is not worried about this matter, if the transferred person is bought, it is the biggest hidden danger, I don't see that the Zhang family doesn't even need the guards of the palace, I am afraid that some of them will know that Fang Zi will be bribed.

The two of them were talking and playing, and while they were talking, their minds were not on playing.

At this time, Cao and Rui also got a letter from Qinzhou, in which they first said some ordinary trivial things, and finally pointed out, so that the three of them could find a way to get cement.

"Two, Ning Tingshi gave the task, let the three of us get the recipe from Zhang's house, that is, the cement that repairs things, let's talk about what to do."

Cao Herui found Fan Cambodia and Jiang Wanshi, and the three of them sat in the courtyard drinking, and the drink didn't seem to be so comfortable, mainly because this task was too difficult to complete.

The Zhang family firmly controlled the place where the kiln was fired, and did not let people outside approach it at all, and the surrounding area was still very empty, making it impossible for people to hide.

Jiang Wanshi took a sip of stuffy wine, tapped lightly on the plate with chopsticks, and said first: "I think you can see what kind of things they usually get into that yard, as long as they know something, it will be easy to do, and the method of doing it is already clear.

Since the yard can't get in, start with their raw materials, so much cement, how can you not keep buying materials from the outside? I've arranged for someone to come over and follow their cart to deliver things, and as soon as you find a place, you'll know what they're made of. ”

Fan Cambodia Xi heard these words and shook his head, "I've thought about this too, but it can't be done, it's like their fireworks and firecrackers, I guess I know, it's saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, but no matter how you get it, you can't make their kind of things, especially fireworks, which are actually very small balls."

Ning Tingshi also knew the recipe for this firework, and was looking for someone to make it, waiting to see if he could make it, and if he could, he would tell him the raw materials for making cement that the Zhang family had transported back and forth. ”

The two people also know that it is not so easy to learn other people's things, and the key to these raw materials that need to be prepared lies in the recipe.

"Yes, I just know that the raw materials are useless at all, especially the small balls in the fireworks, let people take them apart and look closely, they are indeed those three things, but how do you make the balls? When I learned to make firecrackers, a little fire was a pop, and when a puff of smoke came out, there was nothing else.

If you want to make a ball, no one dares to try, I tried it last time, but all those things snorted and disappeared, and people were also injured, I just want to use things to force those three things together, I hope that Ning Tingshi can make some progress there, the most worrying thing is that when the Zhang family came in from the outside to make those raw materials that can make cement, they deliberately put in more other things, so that they can't judge what exactly is done. ”

Cao Herui sandwiched a chopstick-headed egg and fried leek, and said while chewing it in his mouth, seeing the two of them looking thoughtful, he said: "Actually, the most worrying thing is not whether you can get a recipe, even if you can't get it, you won't be embarrassed to wait for Ning Tingshi, after all, that recipe is not an easy thing to get."

The most worrying thing is that once Zhang Zhong knows that we want to get this recipe, then he will not still do it to us like now, he has a good reason, that is, the goods that they don't know where to go until now, even if they have received that batch of goods, they just said that they didn't receive it, and put the fault on us, you say that we can still be okay? ”

When Fan Cambodia and the others heard this, they remembered that the three of them were still living a worried life, if Zhang Zhong really found out, it would seem to be a big trouble.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt so, Jiang Wanshi was excited, stood up and walked towards his courtyard, and said to the two people at the same time: "No, I have to give good instructions to the people sent out, don't show your feet, really let Zhang Zhong catch it?" ”

As he spoke, his figure had disappeared into the courtyard, and the remaining two people had sent someone out, so they didn't worry too much, and when Jiang Wanshi came back, they sat there and drank it.

"Master, shouldn't you let people stop, put those things into the ball, what if one accidentally blows up?"

In the Ning Mansion in Qinzhou, the housekeeper said to Ning Zhong, the family already knows the recipe for the firecracker, that is, three things, there seem to be some individual things in the fireworks, and it is impossible to know now, in order to be able to make the same thing, the Ning family has begun to try again and again, but as long as those things are stained with a little spark, they will burn at the same time, and the burning is called a fast.

Ning Zhong was just about to come out with something that the Zhang family could make, and if he knew the recipe, he could also make it on his own side, but he heard a boom, and the movement came from the place where the firecrackers were made, and the two of them became nervous.

"Let's go, follow me and see what's going on?" Ning Zhong looked at the smoke rising over there, nodded and walked over there, and the housekeeper was also taken aback, not knowing what was going on there.

The two of them came to the place after passing through a courtyard gate, and when the wind blew, a pungent stench drifted over, which made the hearts of the two people tighten, and after turning a corner in front of them, the two of them saw a trace of something being burned by the fire.

In addition to this, there are several people lying there screaming pain.

"What's wrong?" Ning Zhong saw that the people lying on the ground were still exchanging, so he could be regarded as relieving his heart.

"If you come back to the master, it's that or some of the things used to make firecrackers are so bad, our people are there to *** the ball, and I don't know what's going on, so I bang and blow everything up, but fortunately, there aren't so many things called gunpowder around that person, fortunately, there are some people who are injured, and no one is dead."

A person who stood up lying on the ground, looked at the people around him and a few who were still lying on the ground, and said to Ning Zhongze.

"Is that thing made? It seems that the Zhang family must have put something in this gunpowder that few people are not proud of, okay, now that we know about this matter, we will go to recuperate our injuries first, and find someone else to do the work here. ”

Ning Zhong still didn't know what kind of ball was in the fireworks, so he gently opened it, and saw that it was indeed those three, but he couldn't do it himself, so it's weird.