Chapter 176 [The Belly of the Country's Fortunes]
Autumn is coming, and the harvest time is always beautiful, even the Bai family, who are free from the shackles of the land and don't have to expect to dig from the soil, are looking forward to this season. Looking at the chestnut rice warehouse full of the fields, picking one casually, breaking the thin shell, it was the golden-like millet that was revealed, and the mouth of the white dragon master was crooked; Lao Qin's year this year is not very good, Lantian not far from Liyang suffered a great drought, but Liyang is smooth and rainy, and the crops are growing upward, faster than the Bai family boys. He attributed this to the good luck brought by Bai Dong, the family has a strong son, it can really change the luck, otherwise the clansmen have been in Yishi Village for nearly twenty years, why haven't they seen such a good harvest? I don't want to think about what kind of land is in the mountains, where can I compare to today's loess fertile fields.
The Bai family has now fallen into a problem, when they encounter something good, they think that it is Bai Dong's credit, who dares to doubt it, the Bai family will angrily grab him to see the market outside the village, now it is not a grass market, several Zhuangzi and hundreds of merchants from all over the world are relying on Baijiazhuang to eat, see the newly built inn? There are foreign merchants living in it, waiting to buy our Heian Lang's books! There are also those scholars who are studying, they are all waiting for Mr. Yang Zhu to receive them, and those who have passed Mr. Yang's exam will be able to enter our Bai family's study!
What is the study house, you don't know the way? That's the thirty-six Mengxue halls that our Bai family paid for and built for the old Qin people for free, what about the scholars? Those poor scholars can't find power positions in other countries, which one of them didn't squeeze their heads to enter our Bai family's academy? Just for the welfare of our family! What are benefits, you ask? It's you who are the gentleman of our school, and the whole family is happy, and birth, old age, sickness and death are all burdened by the Bai family. Ten times and a hundred times stronger than being an official in other countries!
Take it from the people and give it to the people. Charity can be either an end or a means. Bai Dong, who came to this world from the later generations, understands the great truth contained in money best; It is not possible to only make money, too much money will bring disaster, use this money to do some good things that benefit the country and the people, and cultivate talents for Lao Qin, which is not only his return to this 'mother country', but also for the Bai family and himself.
Also participating in the grand event with the Bai family were the Gan family and the Du family. Lao Ganlong and Du Zhi are not short-sighted, Bai Dong has brought them unimaginable huge profits, Du Zhi will not say it, the paper mill is not paper, it is money! As long as you hold the big tree of the Bai family, it is not a dream to make money every day. The Gan family made a lot of money from saltpeter, and the monarchs of Wei, Korea, all countries in the world, and even Zhou Tianzi of Luoyi, who didn't want to use ice in the hot summer? Yan has ice but cannot transport it long distances, but the ice of the Gan family does not seem to be restricted by weather and distance, even if it is the Chu State that is thousands of miles away. It can also send a complete ice cube to a car; Saltpeter is not afraid of hot weather, as long as there is water, it can turn ice. How can any country understand the truth in this? Lao Gan's family can also charge a high amount of freight with a black heart, but the money is a lot of money.
Now that autumn is coming, Bai Dong also gave the Gan family some ways to use ice according to his promise. Chilled sour plum soup, chilled goat milkshake, and a kind of thing called sorbet made of goat's milk syrup, wrapped in silk paper on the outside, and a bamboo stick under it is easy to grasp, because eighty percent is water, so the price of this thing is not expensive, regardless of whether the nobles or the children of the common people, they are fascinated by it, and this summer can be said to be popular throughout Lao Qin. As soon as the summer passed, the Gan family began to be busy opening branches in the national cities of various countries, selling ice products in the summer and ice in the winter for those nobles to store, don't underestimate this business, the living have to rely on it to enjoy, and the dead have to rely on it to maintain before being buried, and the secret of saltpeter into ice is not leaked for a day, and the Gan family can enjoy a day of monopoly profits. Gan Sheng has calculated that the profit from selling ice this summer alone accounts for 30% of the entire Gan family's income, and it will definitely triple next year, and the Gan family firm can be renamed 'Ice Shop' in the future.
Seeing that the Bai family obviously had saltpeter, but never thought of snatching this unique business with the Gan family, the old Ganlong was greatly moved, so he unilaterally tore up the contract with Bai Dong, in addition to the saltpeter to give Bai Dong half in the future, the profits from the Gan family selling ice should also be shared with the Bai family fifty percent, don't just look down on Uncle Gan! Uncle will reveal the secret of your soap and body oil, although I don't know how to make it, you kid can't hide that little bit of ghostly thoughts, what is not easy to produce, limited sale, it's okay to deceive those stupid Mrs. Qing, can you deceive Uncle I? You, Uncle Gamble, are the ones who mark the scriptures! By the way, your kid has so many ghost ideas, and Uncle is about to ask you, why is your "Kindergarten Jungle" so easy to sell, I heard that Meng Fuzi also wrote an article to praise it, but Uncle's book is so difficult to sell? Meng Ke, that bastard, actually made a lot of nonsense in the Jixia School Palace, saying that the old man was distorting the scriptures! It's really unreasonable, if it weren't for the friendship between Qin and Qi, and the old guy was scolded even worse by Meng Ke, the old man would definitely go to the Jixia School Palace in person, grab his collar and ask if he had ever read!
Gan Long was so furious, what else could Bai Dong say? Just take the money, so that Uncle Gan will be happy, but this is not enough, hearing that Bai Dong wants to run a righteous school, rejuvenate the country, and hire a gentleman for the civilian construction hall for free, Gan Long immediately roared and rushed to the door, such a good thing has to have half of the Gan family! That Meng Ke should be Kong Qiu's apprentice grandchild, right? His ancestor wanted to teach the world back then, and he also put forward the idea of having education without class, but he didn't succeed, and now the old man is going to be more successful than his grandfather, and he is angry with this useless idler!
Okay, Lao Ganlong has the heart to fund the Hope Project, there is no reason not to give people a chance, Bai Dong readily agreed, but the fungus changed and heard the news, the old man who was almost seventy rushed from Yongdu and said that he also wanted a piece of the pie, boy, if you don't agree, you can't do it, there's no reason why Ganlong's old guy can't do it! It wasn't until Bai Dong expressed his readiness to accept it again that the middle school left satisfied, and it was not until he owed the Bai family a favor and rushed to send money and accept the favor of the Bai family, which made Bai Dong feel embarrassed, but there was no way, the two old men were too enthusiastic.
This summer is hot, and the time for Lao Ying to be confused began to get longer and longer, but he survived stubbornly, and Bai Dongzhi said that he was waiting, waiting for the 'fruit' in Mu Rongyi's stomach to land.
The entire Lao Qin was also waiting. Yiqu was subdued, Bai Dong set off the Meng of culture and education, Wei was busy with salt profits, which has caused Yan Qi to be dissatisfied, the two countries are slowly raising the price of salt, Pang Juan's army has driven to the border of Weiqi, and the war is on the verge of breaking out, these are all good news for Lao Qin, but everyone understands that Lao Qin at this time is the most dangerous, Mu Rong does not give birth to a child one day, and the position of the prince is difficult to determine one day, the two sons of Bo Zhong are brothers, friends and brothers, and now the relationship has become delicate, it is said that Bo Gongzi's wife has gone to Zhong Gongzi's house several times, just said that she misses her brother and sister, who doesn't know her thoughts?
The fungus reform has received an urgent order from Lijiang to return to Liyang, and the old Qin martial arts, especially the Daliang Zhangjiao who is above the fungus reform, has also rushed from Yijun; Da Liangzao cultivated in his later years, and he has been closed for ten years, and now he has come to Liyang, is this Lao Qin going to change the sky? It is said that Da Liang Zao had a big quarrel with the doctor in front of the king, and even the wife of the country could not persuade him, and the Qin people knew that Da Liang Zao was once a prince and personally taught the son to win piety.
The prince has not stood for a long time, the country will inevitably be shaken, the old Qin has been weak for a hundred years, and now he has retreated from the Wei army, Dinghexi, and Huiyi Canal, seeing that the national fortune is coming, don't mess up! Give birth, give birth quickly, now the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are staring at Bu Rongyi's belly, and they can't wait to be able to give birth to a child for her.
The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all anxious about Bu Rongyi's stomach, but Bai Dong was not in a hurry. These days, Bu Rongyi often comes to the village, accompanied by bitter wine, to do the prenatal exercise he proposed; She is also pregnant at an early age, and doing this set of exercises will help open the pelvis so that she can give birth smoothly in the future.
Look at the sky is almost noon, in the past, at this time, Bu Rongyi would go to Bai's house for dinner, and then go to do prenatal exercises, but today I don't know why I didn't come, Bai Dong smiled and said to the bitter wine: "Maybe it's a pregnant woman who is lazy in autumn, don't wait today, let's eat first." ”
Before the words fell, I saw a person rushing into the courtyard in a hurry, his face covered with sweat, but it was Yingquliang's steward: "Bai Zuogen, Madame suddenly has a stomachache today!" The palace doctor said that he had given birth ahead of schedule and had been taken into the palace, and the prince was afraid of an accident, so he ordered the villain to urgently invite Zuo Geng and Mr. Lu Yi into the palace! ”
"What! Sister-in-law was actually born prematurely? ”
Bai Dong Huo Ran got up. (To be continued......)
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