"If I also want to set up a research institute, I wonder if I can find some talents here in Longchuan?" Zhao Gou asked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhou Fu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that Zhao Gou would ask such a question.

He is a county king, and he will definitely be crowned a prince in the future, where is the need for these?

Zhou Fu wondered in his heart, whether this was a whim of the young man, or Zhao Gou had a deep meaning, but said with a smile in his mouth: "How not, as long as the nine kings are rich, who can't ask for it?" ”

"Money?"

"Yes, the Nine Kings don't look at these people here, they all seem to be crazy, but their salaries are not low, and there is a year-end evaluation award every year, which is distributed according to the progress of the project they are researching. Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that any project research must be costed, such as those old farmers who are looking for good seeds, the nine kings think that they are really planting hundreds of acres of land? Just to improve the yield of rice, it costs more than 5,000 yuan a year, and if you add the improvement of fruit varieties and livestock improvement, these projects that do not see the benefits in front of you will cost more than 100,000 yuan a year! If it was according to Weichen's intentions, it would have been abolished a long time ago, but do you know what Wu'er said? ”

"Zhou Zhizhi can often see what others have not seen, and what he says must be reasonable."

"Thank you for the praise of the nine kings, Wu'er said, don't look at more than 20 projects, it will cost more than 100,000 yuan a year, but as long as one of them can be successful, it will be a long-term income of hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan per year. It seems that the risk is high, but the benefits are also huge, and it can be done, and the people who benefit are not a family. This kind of investment is extremely huge, long-term profits, non-huge rich people can't do it, my family's wealth is huge, countless people are staring, it is meaningless to sit on the gold mountain, it is better to invest in such things, even if it can't succeed, it is like other ordinary rich people to build bridges and pave roads, just as a good deed. ”

Zhou Fu babbled a lot, which is essentially a sentence: This is a game for the rich, don't play it for poor ghosts who have no money.

Compared with ordinary people, Zhao Gou is certainly not a poor ghost with no money, but if he is really allowed to invest his little change in this bottomless pit that does not necessarily produce anything, it will be a drop in the bucket.

In the past few years, Zhao Ji's hands have been loose, so Zhao Gou can receive more money, but if he is full, it will be 10,000 guan a year, and if he is crowned the king and goes out of the palace, it may be more, but it will not exceed 50,000 yuan.

Zhao thought about it, and had to admit that his money was really useless.

He sighed very regretfully and said: "Lone likes the nature series of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce, and he is also very interested in these, and he originally wanted to do something......

"If the king really wants to do something, after he sees Wu'er in Haizhou, he asks him face-to-face, he is a person who has no knowledge, but he has a lot of ghost ideas." Zhou Fu said.

Although he accused his son of being uneducated, the pride in the whole sentence made Zhao Gou envious.

He is also a son of man, of course he hopes that his father will be proud of himself, but his father's proudest son is Zhao Kai, he is just one of the more inconspicuous of his father's many smart and clever sons.

"Then I'm waiting to ask Zhou Zhizhi." Zhao Gou said this, and smiled implicitly: "Lone is looking forward to it very much." ”

After visiting the research institute in the Longchuan Annex, his main purpose in Diqiu had already been achieved, so he did not delay any longer, but set off for Haizhou. But there was another thing that surprised him.

"Are you saying that you want to go to Haizhou through this railway?"

"As the king saw, but now the railway has not yet been fully connected, and the king can only take the Huaiyang army, and then turn the canal, the king is also a coincidence, this section is through some time ago, if it comes at the end of the year, or it can be completed in the whole line."

It was Miao Zhongxian who spoke, and he had a persistent enthusiasm for building the railway, and the fundamental reason was that Zhou Quan told him that when the railway sounded, there would be ten thousand taels of gold. This railway to the Huaiyang Army has only been in trial operation for less than a month, and the profits brought by the transportation of goods on it have made him unable to keep his mouth shut -- he personally invested most of the money he had made from the sale of the Huanglou inscription and the money he had made in Xuzhou in the past few years.

It is a pity that although the steam engine has been developed, the steam locomotive has not yet been developed, and according to the progress, it may take one to two years to complete, and as for the actual operation, I am afraid it will take about three years.

Now the carriage is pulled by horses, twelve horses pull twelve carriages, not only Zhao Gou's entourage and honor guards are all loaded, and even a few carriages are free, and Xuzhou's officials of all sizes come to see each other. The car is very fast, more than 100 miles of territory, in the past on the official road is to hurry and hurry, they are such a large team, I am afraid it will take more than a day or nearly two days of effort, but here it only takes one day. I went out in the morning, had lunch in the car at noon, and arrived in the afternoon.

Zhao Gou secretly calculated that the time spent was about five hours, and the journey was about one hundred and eighty miles.

On average, thirty-six miles per hour, which is a one-way horseback ride, which is considered slow, but the key is that twelve horses pull dozens of people, plus all kinds of things, I'm afraid it weighs 20,000 catties!

Even if he is young, Zhao Gou also knows the meaning of this kind of smooth transportation, imagine that if it is to transport troops, more than 100 horses are enough to transport more than 1,000 sergeants to two or three hundred miles away in one day and one night, and these sergeants are not tired, and they can immediately enter the battle when they get off the car!

"Although this thing is not as good as the canal, it is already extremely useful in the military strategy...... After going back alone, he will keep his honor for Miaotai! He said to Miao Zhong first.

Miao Zhongxian laughed twice: "The minister doesn't dare to steal this miracle feat, this is still Zhou Zhijian...... Zhou Shilang's credit, these rails, were originally used in the mine, to facilitate the mine carts full of ore under the mine to come up, and later he saw that the canal was busy, so he thought of using this material to share some of the traffic for the canal. The rail is good in everything, but there is only one thing, it consumes too much steel, and if it were not for the output of Diqiu Iron Field, the minister would not dare to do this. ”

Because the rail train was too stable, when they arrived at the Huaiyang Army and transferred to the passenger ship to rush to Haizhou, Zhao Gou actually felt a little uncomfortable.

The feeling of seasickness was not very pleasant, and he tried to endure it for a long time, and finally vomited. When he arrived in Haizhou, he had vomited so much that he almost collapsed, and after going ashore, he did not care about meeting the officials, so he first found a place to wash, and then slept again, and then he was relieved.

"It's really negligent, it's Xiao Wang's crime!"

When Zhou Quan appeared in front of him, Zhao Gou first asked Zhou Quan for his guilt, and his tone was polite, only calling him Xiao Wang, not daring to call him lonely.

"Why should the king be so polite to his ministers, we have met several times in the palace, and we are also acquaintances. The car is tired, the king has worked hard from afar, do you want to rest more? I couldn't figure out what kind of calculation Zhao Gou was making, so Zhou Quan also seemed extremely close to him with his tone.

Even if he hated Zhao Gou in his heart, firstly, what harmed Yue Fei did not happen at this time and could not have happened, and secondly, Zhou Quan was no longer as easily excited as when he first met Qin Hui.

"No need, no need, don't call me the king, if you don't give up, call me Jiulang, but unfortunately, I want to call me my ninth brother, hahahaha......"

"How does this work?" Zhou Quan is really a little frightened this time, the so-called courtesy to others, there must be something to ask for, especially Zhao Gou, although he is regarded as a faint monarch by later generations, but as long as he thinks about it a little, he can make characters like Qin Hui obediently as scapegoats, and pull up half of the country in a situation where he is almost annihilated, how can such characters be simple?

"If I can call you brother, but I take advantage of it, after all, I can't give anything to the system, but whoever calls you brother and elder, which one doesn't make a lot of money?" Zhao Gou smiled again: "Others don't say it, just talk about the sect, Brother Youzhang in Uncle Yan's family, call you brother, how much can you earn every year, 200,000 yuan, or 300,000 yuan?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Quan guessed a little bit of Zhao Gou's intentions.

With the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty, no one would have imagined that there would be the shame of Jingkang, let alone that Zhao Gou, who was not outstanding in any of Zhao Ji's sons, could succeed to the throne. Even Zhao Gou himself, even if he had such thoughts, would not believe that he could have such luck.

Now that Zhao Kai, the king of Jia, wants to leave the palace and settle in the kings' mansions, it will not take a few years for Zhao Gou to take his turn. After leaving the palace, if he wants to live more comfortably, relying on the prince's salary, it is estimated that his hands will be a little tight. Befriending Zhou Quan in advance, getting Zhou Quan's help, and getting a way to make money will be more reliable than relying on the rewards of his father or future royal brother.

Thinking about this, Zhou Quan can figure out all Zhao Gou's performance after going to Beijing this time.

He smiled: "Youzhang's side, didn't they also engage in the Tianshui Chamber of Commerce, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce and the Tianshui Chamber of Commerce, the two together, he should have an income of four to five hundred thousand yuan a year, and there are more than one million yuan, giving those clansmen who have invested in the Tianshui Chamber of Commerce to share the profits." ”

Zhao Gou smacked his tongue, his face full of envy: "Sure enough, when I saw him last time, I asked him for advice on how to make a fortune, and he still had the face to cry to me that he was poor, saying that he was a big family and made a little money...... Zhou Zhi recognizes him as a brother, so he has to recognize me as a brother! ”

This kid is really a character, and in a few words, he put himself in the same position as Zhao Youzhang. But Zhou Quan sneered in his heart, although Zhao Youzhang has his own little ghost idea, but he has joined the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce for a long time, and when Zhou Quan was tossing in Beijing a few years ago, he also made a lot of efforts, including some policies that Zhou Quan asked the imperial court to promote the development of industrialization, and he also secretly made efforts.

Those gentlemen in Beijing can get the benefits of Zhou Quan's profits, is it really just because of their identity. If it's really just because of his identity, why can't the son of Gao Yu squeeze into this circle!

"Brother Youzhang has talked to me about some things in detail, and I am willing to help in these matters in the future. After going to Diqiu, I know where the Great Song Dynasty should go in the future, although the clan is not allowed to interfere in the government affairs, but as long as the system needs something, I will do anything. When Zhao Gou said this, his voice turned solemn, as if he was afraid that Zhou Quan would not understand the meaning hidden in his words, and he repeated again: "Anything, anything!" (To be continued.) )