Zhen Yan didn't come alone.

When he entered, a small head poked in to take a look.

Now it's snowy again, Zhen Jiang wore the black robe they saw last time, followed the second brother into the guest room, and looked at Yang Zhao with a smile after sitting down.

The smile is like a flower, delicate and cute.

"Jiang Er heard that the county magistrate was passing by Wuji, and wanted to see the big heroes who defeated Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, defeated Wuhuan, and pacified Youzhou, so he asked me to bring her along, so I had to agree."

Zhen Yan explained.

It can be seen that he dotes on his sister very much.

Zhen Jiang was told through his thoughts, and said embarrassedly: "Second brother is talking nonsense, I ...... I didn't. ”

The last time we met in Liangxiang, she had a good impression of Yang Zhao, and after almost a year, she heard all kinds of things about Yang Zhao one after another, and couldn't help but be full of yearning for this big hero.

I don't know why, she just wants to come and see it.

"Brother Zhen laughed!"

Yang Zhao said with a smile.

Zhen Yan brought the topic back to business, and said: "I know that the county magistrate will be transferred soon, and he can even be promoted, and the salt in Liangxiang has no time to manage, so I have a very abrupt request." ”

Yang Zhao said curiously: "Please speak!" ”

Zhen Yan said: "I want to ask the county magistrate to give us the method of making salt, but you can rest assured, it is not free, the money we get from buying salt is divided with the county magistrate, we only need forty percent, and the county magistrate can get sixty percent by virtue of technology, how about it?" ”

He had benefited from salt.

After Zhen Yi's death, some of Zhen's connections could not be connected to Zhen Yan.

The face of the previous generation is only given to the previous generation, and it will not necessarily be given to Zhen Yan.

For a period of time, Zhen Yan still sold salt to stabilize the advantages of the Zhen family, so as not to frustrate the family, and now he needs salt more.

Yang Zhao refused: "I'm sorry, salt is my secret, and I won't give it to anyone else easily." ”

Zhen Yan gritted his teeth and said, "I'll give up another 10% of the income." ”

"Brother Zhen, it's really not good."

Yang Zhao will not make the technology public now.

Even if he monopolized ninety percent of the profits, he didn't want to make it public now.

Once it's made public, it's no longer worth much.

Zhen Yan sighed in disappointment, and asked again: "When is the county magistrate going to make salt again?" ”

Yang Zhao thought about his future plan again, and said uncertainly: "I don't have any ideas for the time being, I may disappoint Brother Zhen, if I make salt again, only Zhen can cooperate with me in the world, Brother Zhen, please rest assured!" ”

"Thank you, County Commander!"

Zhen Yan bowed gratefully, sighed and said: "Thank you to the county magistrate for helping our Zhen family a lot with salt in the past two years, allowing me to accumulate some of my heritage, and after my father died, I would not be in a hurry." ”

Hearing the second brother mention his deceased father, Zhen Jiang's mood was also a little low.

The death of their father had a great impact on them, not just the family.

Yang Zhao probably understood the reason why Zhen Yan was eager to get a method of making salt.

It is to continue to stabilize the situation of the family and expand the advantages of the Zhen family through salt.

In the past two years of communication, Yang Zhao felt that Zhen Yan was not bad, he did not look down on his grassroots background, he was honest and trustworthy, and he could be an ally in the future, just like the relationship between Liu Bei and the Elk family.

"If Brother Zhen wants to stabilize the situation, he doesn't necessarily just use salt."

Yang Zhao said: "I may be able to help you." ”

Zhen Yan was pleasantly surprised: "Really? ”

Yang Zhao asked, "May I ask what are the businesses under the Zhen family?" ”

Although the Zhen family is a family of scholars, they have not gone very far in their official careers, and there are not many officials in the family, mainly relying on business to maintain the development of the family.

Zhen Yan wants to stabilize the situation, more at the commercial level, and said: "We can do a lot of business, such as horse sales, cloth and silk, salt and iron, grain, etc., as long as it is profitable, we will do it." ”

"Cloth and silk too?"

Yang Zhao asked again.

Zhen Yan nodded and said: "Yes, we have a cloth workshop in Yangzhou, and there are people who raise silkworms and reeling silk, mainly to sell to the Western Regions and other places." ”

Yang Zhao found pen and ink in the room, as well as a clean silk silk, wrote a dyeing recipe on it, pushed it in front of Zhen Yan, and said, "This should be helpful to Brother Zhen." ”

The dyeing recipe is very simple, with only two contents, locust rice juice and alum.

Sophora is a plant that is relatively common.

Alum is a chemical, and at the same time it is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, from the "Shennong Materia Medica", this book was written in the Han Dynasty, alum was also called alum in ancient times, and people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty should be able to use it.

This is a dyed yellow dyeing formula, acacia rice juice with alum, can dye a very bright golden yellow, more high-end atmosphere and grade, this is a knowledge that Yang Zhao accidentally saw back in later generations.

"What is this?"

Zhen Yan didn't understand it very well.

Yang Zhao said: "A matching dyeing formula, with this method, can dye golden yellow, but how to dye, and how to match the amount, I don't know very well, you need to explore." In addition, alum can be matched with a lot of dyeing formulas, can brighten the color of the fabric, make it more bright and good-looking, not easy to fade, how to do it, or you still have to explore, I can only provide a direction for Brother Zhen, if successful, Zhen's cloth, silk, Han first! ”

"Is it really that amazing?"

Zhen Yan will be skeptical about this.

He knows what alum is, and he can't believe that he can become the first in the Han so easily.

"Brother Zhen believes it, it's so magical, if you don't believe it, it's just a few simple words."

Yang Zhao didn't explain much.

Go back and give it a try, it doesn't seem to have much to lose, Zhen Yan chose to trust, and promised: "I believe in the county magistrate, thank you for your help again, if we can succeed, our Zhen's cloth and silk income will be shared equally with the county magistrate." ”

It's not early in the morning, and soon it's curfew.

After Zhen Yan was grateful for a while, he asked to say goodbye and leave.

"Thank you!"

Zhen Jiang looked at Yang Zhao and bowed slightly.

Sending them away, Yang Zhao didn't take what happened just now too seriously.

He is considered to have invested in Zhen's, and it is not clear whether there will be a return in the future, after all, the investment is risky, but with Zhen Yan's personality, there should be a return.

Wake up the next day.

They continued on their way.

When he went south from Wuji and returned to the outside of Luoyang City, it was already eight days later.

Yang Zhao asked Fang Rui to find a place to station outside the city, and did not go to the military camp of the imperial court, they had already reported these troops, and there would be no other problems.

Back in Luoyang, it was already December.

From the first year of Zhongping to the end of the fifth year of Zhongping, it has been a period of time, at the beginning Yang Zhao was only seventeen years old, and now he is finally running two, and he has been sharpened in Liangxiang for two years, and he seems more mature.

"Inner servant, Kong Envoy, when we enter the city, my senior brother and I will go to visit the teacher, and I will not be with you."

Yang Zhao said politely.

Kong Rong nodded and said, "Yes, but don't leave Luoyang casually, Your Majesty may summon you." ”

"Good!"

Yang Zhao and the others responded in unison.

When they entered the city, they separated.

According to his memory, Yang Zhao quickly came to the outside of Lu Zhi's mansion and directly asked people to go in and spread the word.

After a while, the messenger came back and said that he could go in.

When he came to the hall, Yang Zhao saw Lu Zhi sitting in it, stepped forward and bowed down and said, "I've seen the teacher!" ”

"I've seen the teacher!"

Liu Bei also saluted.

I haven't seen him for almost three years, and the teacher is as strong as ever.

Seeing the two of them come in, Lu Zhi said with satisfaction: "Okay, you are all good!" ”

Yang Zhao and Liu Bei, the two of them, their contributions in Youzhou made him have a long face!