Chapter 111: Selling Cement

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Seeing this twist, Chongzhen's face showed a look of surprise, confusion and incomprehension, and he turned his head and shouted: "Big companion, come here!" ”

"Yes......"

As Chongzhen's words fell, a eunuch in his forties, dressed in red and blue, with wavy stripes tattooed on his cuffs, respectfully walked up to Chongzhen and whispered, "What does the emperor command?" ”

"Look at it!" Chongzhen handed him the fold and said unhappily: "This Xu Dingchen actually said that Shanxi Yingzhou Mansion had a bumper harvest of grain, and the yield per mu actually reached 1,000 catties, which is really an auspicious omen." I see if he is a fool as a governor, and I issued an order to praise him a few days ago. With a yield of 1,000 catties per mu, he really thinks I'm a fool! ”

Chongzhen's words are considered to be the rhythm of fire in the eyes of irrelevant people, but in the eyes of Wang Chengen, an old man who has followed him for nearly twenty years, it has a different meaning.

Wang Chengen took a look at it and respectfully put the fold back in front of the imperial case, bowed to Chongzhen and smiled: "Congratulations to the emperor, according to the slave, it seems that this matter is true." You think, no matter how bold Xu Dingchen is, he doesn't dare to lie about this kind of thing, Xu Dingchen has been an official for more than 20 years, so he won't even understand this thing, right? ”

"Well, you're right, Xu Dingchen shouldn't be that stupid!" Chongzhen's complexion softened slightly, but he began to hesitate again: "It's just a thousand catties per mu, is this really possible?" Since I have been sensible, I know that even in the richest Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, one acre of real land grain is only about four stones, according to him, one acre of real land grain has reached ten stones, this is not only an auspicious omen, this is simply a sign of prosperity in the Ming Dynasty! ”

Chongzhen's face slowly became a little excited, today's Daming can be said to be full of holes, the drought that lasted for three years has made Daming full of displaced people, coupled with the rebellion of Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others, the current Daming is like a big boat leaking everywhere, and Chongzhen is like a sailor who plugs loopholes everywhere. But no matter how much it is blocked, it can't be stopped, and the most important problem is food, as long as there is food, all problems will be solved. But now some people actually say that there are people in Shanxi who produce thousands of catties per mu, which is not a sign of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty?

After a while, Chongzhen, who was excited, reflected and asked, "By the way, I forgot." Who is this man with a thousand pounds per acre, I haven't seen his name yet. ”

Wang Chengen replied respectfully: "If you go back to the emperor, this person's name is Yue Yang." At present, he is temporarily serving as the official of the state government, and these fields with a yield of 1,000 catties per mu belong to his family. ”

"Hmm, Conduct Officer?" Chongzhen thought for a long time before recalling the official position of the integrity officer from his deep memory: "Integrity officer, isn't this a six-grade martial arts?" How could such a capable person become a martial artist? ”

Chongzhen said. Wang Chengen knew that he hadn't looked at the folds carefully at all just now, he lowered his head and smiled: "Your Majesty, don't forget, Xu Dingchen said in the folds that this Yueyang has some talents, and later he held his own group exercises, when Gao Yingxiang and other thieves invaded Shanxi last year." He once led 500 regiments to practice and break tens of thousands of thieves, and only then was Xu Dingchen made an exception and entrusted him with the duty of conduct. ”

"Really? But last time Xuanda Governor Zhang Zongheng's excerpt didn't say that, he just said that it was Yang Guozhu ......" Speaking of this, Chongzhen's voice stopped abruptly, he is not a stupid person, after the matter turned in his head, he quickly understood the truth of the matter.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen was furious and scolded: "This Zhang Zongheng." Damn it, he was so greedy, what did he want to do? ”

"Your Majesty, you have to think about it in the long term at this time." Seeing that Chongzhen was about to be angry again, Wang Chengen hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Zongheng is certainly at fault at this time, but you just praised Zhang Zongheng for this matter last year. Now he suddenly ordered a punishment, I'm afraid it's not appropriate! ”

"That's right!" Chongzhen just sounded, he had just praised others, and now he suddenly ordered punishment. Isn't this saying that you don't know anyone? This is a slap in the face!

Seeing Chongzhen's expression, Wang Chengen said: "Your Majesty, this Yueyang didn't run away anyway, and it's not too late to praise him now." Moreover, the slave maid also saw Xu Dingchen in the fold and said that this Yueyang also paid more than 2,000 stone of grain to the imperial court, so you should also praise him for this! ”

"That's right." Hearing this, the joy on Chongzhen's face deepened, and he smiled: "It seems that this Yue Yang is still a capable person with both civil and military skills." He can fight and farm, and he is indeed a talent. Is it a little wronged to let him be a integrity officer, I will let him be promoted to a level and be a guard! ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" Wang Chengen bowed down again, as a eunuch who grew up with Chongzhen since childhood, Wang Chengen's concern for Chongzhen was not adulterated, seeing Chongzhen, who had been frowning all night, actually showed a rare smile, and he also had a good impression of Yueyang who could bring good news to Chongzhen......

Yue Yang naturally didn't know about the things that happened in the capital, he didn't even know that Xu Dingchen had withdrawn himself in order to paste his political achievements on his face, and even the auspicious omen was brought out, and Yue Yang was busy with cement at this time.

By mid-July, the first batch of cement from the cement plant finally came out, and the output of this batch of cement was not much, only about 1,000 tons. As a new thing, except for Yue Yang, everyone including his daughter-in-law Hai Lanzhu had doubts about this kind of thing that had never been seen before.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... Ladies and gentlemen, this kind of thing can not only build a house into any shape, but it is also extremely strong. It is not afraid of water or fire, and it is the best choice for building roads, bridges and things! And its price is not expensive, only 500 yuan for 100 catties, everyone can afford it! ”

On the second floor of the largest Baihua Building in Yingzhou City, Yue Yang, dressed in civilian clothes, was vigorously selling his cement to many businessmen. Today, in order to sell these cements, Yueyang invited almost all the merchants in Yingzhou City.

But all the businessmen here are all things that are about to be cultivated, and all of them are masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, so naturally they won't believe his words casually, after all, cement is a new thing, and it takes time for people to have confidence in it.

Therefore, after Yue Yang finished speaking, the surroundings were still deserted, and all the businessmen were looking at each other, and no one came out to pick up his words.

In the end, Li Yuan stood up and said, "That...... Lord Yue, we all believe what you say, but the problem is that it's useless for us to ask for these cements now, we have already built the house, and as for building roads, it's the government's business, and the villain really can't think of what use it is to buy a bunch of these things back. But today, Lord Yue has opened his mouth, we naturally can't help but give you face, so let's do it, our Li family will buy a hundred catties of this cement and go back! ”

"Hmm...... Yes, yes, we also buy, our Zhao family buys three hundred catties! ”

"Our Zhou family buys two hundred catties!"

Although the businessmen who were originally doing it were not optimistic about cement, they were afraid of offending Yue Yang, who was an ethics officer, but now that they saw that Li Yuan, who had the best relationship with Yueyang, had taken the lead, they naturally followed suit one by one, but they made Yue Yang angry. Nima's, one hundred catties is only five hundred yuan, each of you only buys two or three hundred catties, and the total is less than one or two taels of silver, I really call Lao Tzu a flower child!

In the end, Yue Yang, who was so angry that his face was a little pale, snorted coldly, "That's it, since you don't like it, then the official will naturally not force you, and the official should keep these things for himself." ”

"That's it, we're all doing small business, it's not as big as Lord Yue's family, you might as well keep these good things for yourself." As soon as Yue Yang's words fell, a yin and yang strange voice sounded on the side, and Yue Yang looked back and saw that it was Lin Yuanteng.

"Lin Yuanteng, are you laughing at the official?" As soon as he saw Lin Yuanteng, Yue Yang's face, which was already holding back the fire in his belly, instantly sank.

"Don't dare to be, how dare the villain laugh at you, the villain has died unjustly." Lin Yuanteng was still speaking unhurriedly, although his voice was not out of line, but the words came out of his mouth, which made people feel awkward.

But in fact, Lin Yuanteng was indeed very straightforward to Yue Yang. Since Wang Shoucheng's family was forced away by Yueyang, Li Yuan quickly moved closer to Yueyang, which also led to the Lin family's status in Yingzhou Mansion began to decline, although Lin Yuanteng worked very hard to deal with other gentry in Yingzhou Mansion, but now almost everyone knows that the Lin family has a bad relationship with Lord Yue, who is currently red and purple in Yingzhou City, and a fool will pay attention to him, it is because during this period of time, the Lin family has felt that many people have begun to reject them intentionally or unintentionally, which makes Lin Yuanteng hate Yueyang even more.

And today, taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Yuanteng naturally couldn't help it, and began to sneer at Yue Yang, although reason told him that he was so reckless, whether it was for him or the Lin family, but he still couldn't help but say it, he also expected that Yue Yang would not dare to do anything to him on such an occasion.

"This Lin family is dead!" Looking at Lin Yuanteng, who looked constipated, Yue Yangxun, who was furious, labeled Lin Yuanteng, "Originally, I didn't want to move you so soon, but if you jump out to find death by yourself, then don't blame your buddy for fulfilling you!" A faint hint of murder flashed in Yue Yang's eyes.

Since this cement sales conference ended in failure, Yue Yang was not discouraged, and he was also a master who did not admit defeat lightly. The first thing the ruthless Yueyang did when he returned to the Wulizhai cement factory was to announce the expansion of the cement plant's output, and to build a cement road between Wulizhai and Yingzhou City, and to build a hundred bungalows with cement in Wulizhai......