Chapter Ninety-Seven: Rolling Infamy
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It seems that everyone was still in the bustling vegetable market a moment ago, and in a blink of an eye, they were in the desert.
Zhang Fei stood up suddenly, his eyes seemed to be breathing fire, and he glared at Zhang Forget angrily: "What did you say?" ā
Zhang Forget took a step back a little weakly and said in a low voice, "I am Zhang Wang." ā
Zhang Fei took a step forward, his eyes widened angrily, and he yelled in a posture of choosing people and devouring them: "You say it again? ā
Zhang Forget was scared, but for some reason, he steadied his feet and didn't retreat.
When you come out to mix, you always have to pay it back. If you do something wrong, you will have to pay the price.
He repeated quietly but firmly: "I am Zhang Forget." ā
When he spoke, he lowered his head and blushed, but his heart was indescribably relaxed. This is the first time he has admitted his mistake in person since the crossing, and it is also a time to regret his recklessness.
The awkward silence lasted three, five, ten seconds......
Suddenly, there was a burst of wild laughter that had been suppressed for a long time and then suddenly released.
The laughter that is as crisp as a bell is that of the sable cicada; The pleasant laughter is Wang Rao's; The thunderous laughter was Zhang Fei's.
Zhang Forget raised his head in surprise, looked at the three people in front of him who were holding their stomachs and laughing wildly, and his heart was blank:, what's going on?
Zhang Fei stopped laughing wildly, pointed at Zhang Wang, and said, "Boy, how stupid do you think my old Zhang is?" Do you dare to go home with a person without asking him about his character and origin? ā
Zhang Forget glared at Zhang Fei in disbelief and exclaimed, "No, you already knew who I was?" ā
Zhang Fei crossed his arms to his chest and snorted angrily: "I stayed at home for three days and inquired about everything that happened to you, so I came to Luoyang single-handedly." I hid in the distance and saw you go back to the city, so I stepped forward to act for you, do you really think that my old Zhang is a brainless reckless man? ā
Zhang Forget was suddenly stupid, the book said that Zhang Fei was thick and fine, and now he understood it personally.
Turning his head to look at Wang Rao and Diao Chan, who were still laughing, Zhang Wangfu was annoyed and ashamed: "You two actually bullied me with outsiders? ā
Wang Rao twisted her head to the side and snorted coldly: "Fooling others all day long, you should also know what it's like to be deceived." ā
Diao Chan hid behind Wang Rao, and said with a weak heart: "Brother Zhang Fei only told us the truth in the morning, I want to report to you secretly, but Sister Wang Rao has not allowed me to enter the house." ā
Wang Wangrao turned back angrily: "Didn't you say that you wanted to see your brother Zhang Wang's deflated appearance, why did it become my fault in a blink of an eye?" ā
Zhang Forget saw that the three of them were actually playing tricks on him, and couldn't help but sigh angrily, this is really a person floating in the rivers and lakes, who can not be stabbed, the way of heaven is good reincarnation, and the sky spares whom.
Zhang Fei stood with his arms crossed and said to Zhang Wang: "Hey, are you still bowing?" If you don't bow down, I'll leave. ā
Zhang Wanghu's body was shocked, and he looked at Zhang Fei in disbelief: "Are you willing to continue to worship me regardless of your past suspicions?" ā
Zhang Fei sighed: "My old Zhang doesn't read as many books as you, and my heart and eyes are not as good as yours, but who is good to me and who is bad to me, my old Zhang is not blind in his eyes, and he can distinguish clearly." ā
Zhang Forget was overjoyed, jumped forward and grabbed Zhang Fei's arm, and dragged him to the incense burner.
Zhang Fei laughed and said: "After swearing to you, my old Zhang is the brother of the hero Wang Yue, there is no magic blade now, and I don't have to worry about his invulnerability." ā
Zhang Wangchao rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that Lao Tzu, a beautiful young man who is full of talents, actually became a buy-one-get-one-free giveaway one day one day, how can this be reasonable?
After the two solemnly re-worshipped, Zhang Forget couldn't hold back the ecstasy in his heart after all, and looked up to the sky and laughed three times: Finally, there is a decent general, and there is no need to worry about military training.
Dragging Zhang Fei in the direction of the blast furnace, Zhang Forget said with great interest: "Yide, today we will first refine a furnace of good steel to see what the fineness is." ā
Zhang Fei was surprised: "Didn't you say that you need coke to make steel?" Coke takes ten days to fire. ā
Zhang Forget said with a smile: "Coal can also burn good steel, although it is not as good as coke, but it is ten times stronger than the one on the market." Let's try to see if the blast furnace works well, and build a halberd for each of my nurses. When the charcoal is fired, I will help you refine the Zhangba Snake Spear. ā
Seeing that Zhang Fei agreed with his statement, Zhang Forget continued: "The most important thing is that we need to be proficient in the process of building blades. The Zhangba snake spear is extremely complex, are you sure that you can successfully forge it at one time? You know, a simple hoe, need to select materials, burn red forging, add steel, pick up the blade after forging, select materials, beating, rolling, sticking, sharpening, quenching ten processes, you think about how difficult it is to have a snake spear? ā
Zhang Fei nodded when he heard this: "It's still the virtuous brother who thinks thoughtfully, before the best steel is refined, we should really practice the skill of forging the Zhangba snake spear." ā
When several people came to the blast furnace, Zhang Wang ordered the servants to bring the iron ore, coal and flux that had been prepared.
Blast furnace ironmaking may seem complicated, but the principle is actually very simple.
Iron ore, fuel and solvent are loaded into the blast furnace from the top of the blast furnace in a certain proportion, and hot air is blown into the blast furnace by the hot blast furnace at the lower part of the blast furnace along the tuyere around the furnace to help the coal burn, and slag, gas and molten iron are generated at high temperatures, and the molten iron is pig iron after cooling.
The first ironmaking of a newly opened blast furnace takes a long time, about two days, and once the ironmaking is continuous, it only takes seven or eight hours to produce a furnace of molten iron.
When the blast furnace began to smelt iron, Zhang Wang took Zhang Fei, Wang Rao and Diao Chan back to the inner city of Luoyang. It takes two days to be born iron, so there is no need to stay in the manor during this time.
Zhang Hong was supervising the construction of Tianyi Pavilion, and seeing that Zhang Forget was finally willing to go home, he hurriedly pulled him into the study to copy the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.
Zhang Forget ran around and couldn't go home, and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty hadn't been updated for several days.
Chun Yuyi heard that Zhang Forget was back, and brought more than a dozen hired scholars from the poor family, and also came to join in the excitement and wait for the update.
After Zhang Fei saw Zhang Wang's ability to dictate a book in one sentence and sixteen sentences in turn, he smacked his tongue again and again, and withdrew with Wang Rao and others.
With a pervert like Zhang Wang, it seems that he is like a mentally retarded person, so stay away from him.
Dong Zhao has not been assigned an errand since he took office, so he took the initiative to give Zhang Hong a hand and helped him supervise the construction of Tianyi Pavilion together.
Yang Xiu was so tired as a foreman that his small body swayed, and when he saw that he was willing to share, he gave him half of his work.
Dong Zhao took the book of "Engineering Construction Law" and studied it carefully, and the worship of Zhang Forget in his heart rose to a new height.
Compared with the gorgeous buildings in the "Engineering Law", the Imperial Palace Ouchi is just a vulgar powder.
While Tianyi Pavilion was being built day and night, the soap produced by Zhang Wang's family was dried and finally began to be sold on the market.
Hiding from Zhang Wang, Zhang Hong set a piece of soap at a high price of 100 yuan. Five pieces of soap per catty, one hundred dollars of soap, if you don't count the cost of caustic soda and labor, the sale of soap is a hundred times the profit.
Ordinary people were afraid of the outrageous soap, but the dignitaries flocked to it and began to buy it.
Zhang Forget is right, they don't care if the actual value of the thing is consistent with the inflated price, they only care about face.
A hundred pieces of soap turned ordinary people away, but it just catered to their extravagant consumption concept.
Even if the dignitaries drink ordinary wine, they have to go to the most high-end consumption places, drink a bowl of 100 yuan, and never touch a roadside stall for a bowl of a penny, even if the wine is exactly the same wine.
Soap is sold for 100 yuan a day, and it is obvious that there are more monks and less porridge, which has caused a large scene of surging people in front of Zhang's house.
And some big businessmen with backgrounds and strength, they don't have to join in the fun.
Under Zhang Hong's deliberate arrangement, for every book they donated, they could get ten times the amount of soap wholesale in Zhang's house. If you have a large collection of books, the price of wholesale soap can be discounted.
For example, the housekeeper of Yin Hejin in Henan Province entered the door of Zhang's house with a collection of 300 books, and when he went out, the car was full of 3,000 pieces of soap.
Guo Yan took ten volumes of books and exchanged a hundred pieces of soap for Liu Tao, the servant of the imperial history.
It's just that these soaps obtained from the collection of books are not allowed to compete with Zhang Zhai for profit, and can only be sold outside Luoyang. Once you find out who is selling in Luoyang, you can no longer buy goods from Zhang Wang.
While the magnates of Luoyang City scolded the Zhang family for being shameless, they had no choice but to pinch their noses and recognize the rules set by the Zhang family. Zhang Wang's back was the emperor, the ten permanent servants and the Taiwei, and no matter how greedy the others were, they didn't dare to touch him.
If a piece of soap for 100 wen can be regarded as a huge profit, then a candle of 1,000 wen is a bit crazy to be put on the market.
The people who were worried that Zhang Forget owed a huge debt and could not repay it were all relieved at this time. Now they don't worry about Zhang Wang's repayment, they are only worried about whether Zhang Wang's family will be hollowed out.
What the? You say he sells it expensive, you can not buy it? You don't buy it and try it!
Without soap to wash your hands cleanly, who will go to your house to spend all day drinking?
If there is no candle as bright as day, who will go to your house to talk about poetry?
No one came to the door, no one went to the banquet, even if you were the third prince and the ninth prince, you would inevitably be ridiculed and ridiculed, and you would be excluded from the powerful.
Some literati doctors, because they couldn't eat grapes and said that grapes were sour, began to attack Zhang Wang.
I can't rob you openly, can't I scold you in secret?
Shinong industry and commerce, businessmen originally had the lowest status, their nature was profit-seeking, and their actions regardless of human feelings were even more despised.
If you are in business, you will be in business, so why don't you get a servant to go out and buy a shop to cover up, and go directly to your own house to do business, and not scold who you scold?
All of a sudden, the infamy was overwhelming.
There are those who write poems, those who make endowments, and those who make up smooth words, and they do their best to portray the face of Zhang Wang's literati who wants money in a dead manner.
After Zhang Forget learned about this, he only said one sentence and told everyone to shut up.
"Whoever scolds me again, Lao Tzu won't pay him back!"