It was already dark, and Zhao Ta sneaked into the inner courtyard, "Second master, you're back!" The little yellow door on duty at night saw that it was the prince, and hurriedly opened the door and saluted.

"Shhh, be quiet, don't let the official hear, and don't say I'm back when he asks!" Zhao Ta hurriedly covered Xiao Huangmen's mouth and said, Xiao Huangmen nodded vigorously, Zhao Ta let go of him with satisfaction, and saw that there was no movement in the winter garden where Huang Jingchen lived, and then he went into the summer courtyard along the wall, and Xiao Huangmen turned his head to look at the appearance of the prince and smiled.

Since Huang Jingchen came back from Beijing, Zhao Mansion began to get busy, and those who could talk to him in Beijing asked him to get a mirror for himself no matter what, no matter what, the big one is not small, the price is not asked, and he also wants to stuff him with a red envelope, he didn't dare to stay longer, and he ran back after half a month. Fortunately, Zhao Ta had already prepared and had prepared the first batch of goods for him, so that the ladies in the palace, the concubines of the prince's family, and the young ladies in the house of the Zai Fu were temporarily sent away, but those who did not get the goods were all here, and they stayed in the inn and waited, Huang Jingchen had no choice but to urge Zhao Ta to hurry up and find a way, and the 'scared' Zhao Ta did not dare to stay in the house for a minute, and floated outside every day.

"Lord Wang, you will come back, I have already prepared the meal in the kitchen, and I will serve you to eat!" As soon as Zhao Ta entered the hospital, Huang Jingchen happily greeted him.

"Uncle Huang, just let me rest for a while, the next batch of goods will have to wait until at least twenty days later!" Zhao Ta said with a wry smile, he had expected that after a magical glass mirror appeared in the queen's palace, it would definitely arouse the interest of many people, and the ancient people were also people, and they would definitely take the preferences of the leaders as their consumption guides, but there was one thing he didn't expect was that there were too many rich people in the Great Song Dynasty, and he felt that he had set the price of the mirror to a sky-high price, which could be said to be sold by the gram, but it still couldn't stop people's enthusiasm for buying.

"Hehe, it's okay, I left them all in our restaurant, it costs a lot of money to eat and live for a day, we won't suffer if we live for a few more days, and the fertilizer and water don't flow into the fields of outsiders!" Huang Jingchen waved his hand to let the osmanthus go out and personally served Zhao Ta to wash.

"Uncle Huang, I find that you are becoming more and more shrewd, have they invited you to dinner? If you are invited, you will drink our soju by name and choose the most expensive dishes, anyway, they will pay for it and eat too much, and I will let the restaurant give you a commission! Zhao Ta heard that the old man didn't mean to urge himself, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said. This kind of mirror he made is the most primitive method, pasting a very thin tin foil on the back of the glass, and then coating it with mercury, so that the tin foil melts to form a mirror, the effect is of course not as good as the current silver plating, the effect of aluminum plating, but it is much brighter than the copper mirror at this time, although the original process is simple, but the mercury is toxic, the volatilization is slow, resulting in a long production cycle, and then it is not a simple thing to make flat glass now, with the ancient ' The blowpipe method is even more efficient, and now the cheeks of the two candy blowers are swollen, and they can't keep up with the speed of asking for goods.

"Lord, today there is someone from the East Gate Division in the palace..." Huang Jingchen asked Zhao Ta to sit down, served him a bowl of pork rib soup and said.

"What are they doing, why don't they come into the mansion?" Zhao Ta couldn't figure out what this Dongmen Division was doing, so he interrupted Huang Jingchen and asked.

"The Inner East Gate Division is the yamen of the Inner Servant Province, that is the place where the Inner Servants dream of going, the Division is in charge of the entry and exit of people and things in the palace, and the number and value of the treasures transferred by each room and each warehouse must be registered here, and all the tributes and purchased items must also be registered here, in addition, the benefits of you and other imperial relatives are also issued by the Division, and the most important thing is that they are also responsible for the palace construction and banquet celebrations, they are here to buy things for the New Year this time, of course, they dare not harass you, His Royal Highness!" Huang Jingchen explained with a smile.

"Oh, that's a big yamen, what are they buying this time, don't think about the mirror, no one comes, and it's not good under the banner of the palace!" Zhao Ta took a piece of meat and chewed it fiercely and said.

"Lord Wang, you don't know that Lu Dao is responsible for paying tribute to the palace, what kind of face and oil and water is that, you still can't look at it!" Huang Jingchen said, "The mirror business has always been looking for me, they don't dare, this time I came to buy fireworks, I took them all for you, it was a big deal of more than 100,000 yuan!" ”

"Ahem, ahem..." Zhao Ta was choked, his little face was flushed, pointing at Huang Jingchen and coughing incessantly, Huang Jingchen hurriedly beat and hula, he gasped for breath, and said angrily: "Uncle Huang, do you really treat me as a god, more than 100,000 yuan of business, that 40,000 boxes of fireworks, I am urging to hurry, less than 20,000 boxes are made in a month, and now there is a month left before the New Year, where can I get it for you!" ”,

"Lord Wang, I didn't expect this, can't our workshop really produce it? No, find more people to catch up with the work! Huang Jingchen paused for a moment, and hurriedly came up with an idea.

"Uncle Huang, making fireworks is not like making baked cakes, just get a few people, that thing will explode if you don't pay attention to it, and it will kill people!" Zhao Ta said with a wry smile.

"What then? The emperor named us to use the fireworks in our house, Lao Li was afraid that we would not give it, so he found my door, I thought that the price he offered was not low, so I agreed, and I forgot about it as soon as I was happy, and I pushed it off if it didn't work, anyway, he didn't dare to do anything to us! Huang Jingchen thought for a while and said.

"If I think about it again, what a pity that the money sent to the door is thrown out!" Zhao Ta put down his chopsticks and said, Huang Jingchen looked at him and nodded vigorously, his face full of anticipation.

Zhao Tan walked around the house twice, thinking that his workshop was mainly due to the lack of skilled workers, as long as there were enough workers to complete the order, in the past, newspapers and television declared all day and night that they would build China into the largest foundry in the world, if they subcontracted their products to those small fireworks factories, and then returned to the factory for packaging, that is, no matter how many orders they could eat!

"Uncle Huang, there's a way!" Zhao Ta said: "Seeing the joy, you will immediately call all the stewards to the council hall for a meeting, and they will arrive immediately, and no one will be missing!" He shouted out the door again.

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After three years of hard work, there is no longer the poverty of the past, and the lives of the tenants have changed greatly. The spread of water conservancy facilities, the use of machinery, and the fertilizer produced by breeding have increased the output of grain, and also liberated the labor force, many people have entered the workshop to work, and have a relatively fixed income, that is, the mother-in-law raises chickens and pigs or goes to the weaving factory to use the farm to do half a year of short-term work, and can also support the family, although they have not yet reached the well-off level of eating meat, now they can get a little meat every day, and even now a commercial center has been formed around the wharf, and all kinds of goods are traded here. It's already a bustling town.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Zhao Ta did not observe the New Year with everyone as in previous years, he sat alone in the study, looking at the stars outside the window. A year has passed, if the world has not changed because of his own crossing, Aguta, who is far away in the northeast, has succeeded as the leader of the Jurchen Alliance, and will go to participate in the fish head banquet of Emperor Liao Tianzuo on the mixed river, because he does not give the emperor of Liao Emperor Tianzuo face to dance and sing on the banquet, there is a conflict, and he is angry to raise troops against Liao, and start his career of creating the Jin State, ten years later, the entire Central Plains will moan under his feet, and the Great Song Dynasty is now at a loss, from the emperor to the ministers are still intoxicated in singing and dancing.

"What will I do?" Zhao Ta had asked himself more than once, the enemy had appeared, and with his current ability, he couldn't stop his rise at all, but he couldn't sit still, it was time to realize his next plan.

This year, his own mansion has no less than one million yuan, and his mother has become the queen, it can be said that money and power are not a problem, and now the time is ripe, Zhao Ta stood up, pushed open the window, and wanted to build an army of his own, but what should he do?

In this era of cold weapons. The Dangxiang in the northwest, the Jurchens in the north, and the rising Mongols later were all peoples on horseback, and they had to learn to ride and shoot arrows from a young age, and they were already qualified warriors at the age of sixteen, and the cavalry composed of them was an unstoppable army. And the army of the Great Song Dynasty is now only an army composed of peasants, although it is claimed to be a million, but now it is no longer the division of a hundred battles when the founding of the country, a hundred years of peace have degenerated them into a money-making tool for high-ranking officials and nobles, and the most important thing is that they have no horses, they have lost their fast mobility, and can only be passive everywhere, unable to compete with those grassland powerhouses.

The biggest difficulty in front of us is how to form an army, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the royal family has been the object of strict control, never give real power, let alone let it lead the army, build the army privately, that is a capital crime, even if the son is killed, he will not be soft, do you have to wait until the day when the soldiers suppress the world and chaos? Zhao was stumped by a more realistic question.

"There is no difficulty to go up, there are difficulties to go up, no one can stop me from struggling!" Zhao Ta pounded the table and made up his mind, leaving not enough time for himself, as a soldier in his previous life, Zhao Ta deeply knew that the cultivation of an army is by no means something that can be done overnight, from the selection of personnel, training, to training, until the baptism of actual combat, it will be a long process, especially in this era of war-weariness from top to bottom, it is difficult to cultivate a war-fighting army...