"Guess?"

Zhang Gui asked with a smile.

Wei Zhongxian smiled as if he understood in seconds: "It's a pity that our family can't take care of your business, but our family will promote it for you. ”

Zhang Gui was speechless.

……

"What are you talking about, this Uncle Zhang Guo is not angry, and he wants Xishan to be his own farm?"

Cabinet.

After Wang Yingjiao, the head of the household department who came here, told Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixian that Zhang Guilai was going to go to Xishan as the imperial gift of Zhuangtian, Liu Yixian asked in a gaffe first.

Wang Yingjiao nodded.

Seeing this, Liu Yixiao looked at Ye Xianggao and smiled: "Yuanfu, it seems that the uncle of this country is still fooled by us!" ”

Saying that, Liu Yixiao said with a smile: "In the end, it is a hillbilly from a small family, you can see everything!" Now give him some rotten land that no one wants, and he still wants it. It's the same as some wild dogs who just give him a little scrap of soup and are so happy. ”

Ye Xianggao asked Wang Yingjiao: "Uncle Guo came alone?" ”

Wang Yingjiao replied: "There is also Wei Zhongxian." ”

After Ye Xianggao thought about it, he asked again, "Did Wei Zhongxian say anything?" ”

"Wei Zhongxian is more excited than Uncle Guo himself, not to say that we are bullying the imperial prince by doing this."

Wang Yingjiao replied.

"That's right, we're bullying the royal family!"

"He Zhang Gui thinks that his sister has become the queen, so she can do her own thing?"

Liu Yixian sneered, and said: "If you don't respect my doctor, even Zhuang Tian won't give him a good piece!" ”

Liu Yixian said a word, and sneered again: "However, he Wei Zhongxian definitely didn't expect that this uncle would even look down on Xishan, looking poor and afraid." ”

Ye Xianggao said: "You can't despise this uncle of the country, he may just be temporarily forbearing, or maybe he has other ideas." ”

"Whatever! At the beginning, let your household department only set aside the land that no one wanted for Zhang Gui to make Zhuangtian, and I was worried that he would make trouble, but now that he doesn't make trouble, it is a good thing anyway. ”

Liu Yixian said.

Ye Xianggao said: "The servant is still the same sentence, for Uncle Zhang Guo, we can't help but treat it as an idle person!" You have to think about it carefully, why did he say that Xishan was okay? ”

Ye Xianggao reminded him like this, and Liu Yixiao and Wang Yingjiao had to think about it carefully.

Suddenly, Liu Yixian said: "I heard, I just heard that some people who do Fengyue business, in order to show the difference, especially to attract some scholars who are good at participating in Zen and talking about family affairs, will give more lamp oil money, and will let some women who understand the knowledge of the Buddha family welcome guests for the nun, and often make some nunnery in the mountains and rivers sing every night and make money. ”

"Possibly! But wouldn't Uncle Zhang Guo's doing this hurt the customs? ”

Wang Yingjiao said.

Ye Xianggao smiled and said, "He, Uncle Zhang, would he be a person who cares about etiquette and customs?" ”

Liu Yixiao heard Ye Xianggao say this, so he nodded: "What Yuan Fu said is that Zhang Gui is likely to be able to do this!" ”

"No matter what, it's really the world that is declining, people's hearts are not ancient, and even the dignified uncle only knows how to make profits, regardless of the world."

Ye Xianggao sighed.

Wang Yingjiao nodded accordingly: "If he Uncle Zhang really wants to do this, he has to be impeached!" How can he be allowed to spoil my Ming customs like this! ”

Ye Xianggao also said in a deep voice: "If he really wants to do this, the servant will not sit idly by!" Ning resigned, and he must not tolerate Uncle Zhang Guo to do things that are bad for me and the Ming world! ”

Then, Ye Xianggao said again: "However, our Wenchen also has to clean himself, but he can't corrupt the world because of his Uncle Zhang Guo, and he really follows to do such a shameless thing!" ”

Liu Yixiao echoed: "Yes! No matter what, and clean himself, I will definitely not go to his Uncle Zhang's Xishan at that time. ”

Although Liu Yixiao said so, as soon as he returned home that night, he passed his house slave Liu Qi and instructed: "You go to inquire these days, when Uncle Zhang's nunnery in Xishan will welcome pilgrims." ”

"Yes!"

……

Zhang Guizhen didn't plan to do any Buddha Yuan business in Xishan.

After all, Zhang Gui also doesn't like to let many desperate commoner Han girls do the leather and meat business.

"Lao Wei, you have the right to approve the red in front of the celebrant supervisor, even if you can't give me money, but you can always find me some ways to make money, salt, iron, tea cloth, copper, gold, silver and horses, these industries controlled by the imperial court, you don't know what opportunities you can make money recently, right?"

When Zhang Gui and Wei Zhongxian returned to Xiyuan, they talked to Wei Zhongxian about money again.

Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to reply in order to stop annoying Zhang Gui: "Okay, Uncle Guo said so, what else can our family say, there is business, recently I want to purchase fat jackets for the Nine Border Army, and it is okay to give some of this business to Uncle Guo." ”

As he spoke, Wei Zhongxian thought for a while, and then stretched out two fingers: "200,000 sets of fat jackets, how about you do it for Uncle Guo?" ”

"How much silver per set?"

Zhang Gui asked.

He knew that the fat jacket was a kind of army-standard cotton clothing in the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know the price in this era.

"The market price is three cents."

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Then, Wei Zhongxian said: "If you do it in a real way, you won't actually make much money." ”

"Then I did it, and I will definitely do it in a real way, and I will never cheat with black-hearted cotton such as yellow cotton, after all, it is for the border army."

Zhang Gui replied.

Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "Our family naturally knows that Uncle Guo is an honest person. Otherwise, I won't tell you about this business. ”

Zhang Gui smiled slightly, he thought of what to do when he heard Wei Zhongxian say that he would give him 200,000 sets of fat jackets.

The biggest cost of cotton clothing is not cotton, but the two processes of spinning and weaving, because of the processing nature, so the cost is raised.

However, Zhang Gui clearly remembers that the Shuttle loom and Jenny spinning machine that appeared in the eighteenth century greatly reduced the cost of weaving and spinning, among which the Jenny spinning machine was the most terrible in terms of spinning, directly increasing the spinning efficiency to eight times before, and then to sixteen times.

Although Zhang Gui knew the working principle and basic structure of the shuttle loom and Jenny spinning machine, he still didn't understand how to make it, and he needed to find a skilled carpenter to do it.

After Zhang Gui mentioned Wei Zhongxian, he thought of the apocalypse.

Because Apocalypse is a famous carpentry genius in history, with more than ten years of carpentry experience.

Therefore, Zhang Gui came to Tianqi the next day and gave the drawings to Tianqi: "Your Majesty, can you see how easy this is to do?" ”

Apocalypse took the drawing, looked at it, and asked, "What is this?" ”

"The spinning machine and loom invented by the minister."

Zhang Gui replied.

Apocalypse didn't speak, as if he wasn't a man willing to admit that he couldn't make anything in terms of technical manufacturing, but picked up the guy and started working.

Zhang Gui saw that he was doing something serious, so he didn't bother and went back to his house.

Who knows, early the next morning, the apocalypse sent someone to call him to Xiyuan.

As soon as Zhang Gui came, Tianqi had a pair of dark circles under his eyes, yawned, pointed to the two machines, and smiled at Zhang Gui: "Look at it, I made it for you." ”

Zhang Gui smiled: "Your Majesty still has to pay attention to the dragon body." ”

"It's okay, it's rare to have something new to do, you might as well draw more new objects for me in the future."

Apocalypse waved his hand and smiled.

Zhang Gui said again: "Your Majesty, can you give this machine to the minister?" The minister went to find someone to use this machine to spin and weave cloth, and maybe he could make his family rich and support the people. ”

Apocalypse nodded: "Yes, I will give it to you if you want." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty! In addition, the minister has a reluctant request, Your Majesty may wish to give this machine the name 'Apocalypse', if this machine can make the world's weaving industry more prosperous in the future, but also let the world's weavers know that this is Your Majesty's work. ”

"In addition, please also ask Your Majesty to only allow the ministers to operate Your Majesty's exclusive opportunity, and if the people of the world want to imitate it, they will also have to pay silver, so it can be regarded as the wealth given by Your Majesty to the ministers."

Zhang Gui continued.

Tianqi looked at Zhang Gui for a long time and asked, "Can this really bring you wealth?" ”

Zhang Gui nodded: "Yes." ”

After hearing this, Apocalypse also said: "Okay, I know that you need money to make steel now, since you said that he can bring you wealth, I will be fine!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"