When Zhu Yuan woke up, it was already dark.

Lying on the unfamiliar spacious bed, feeling the warmth around me, and the faint smell of earth after the house seemed to have just been repaired and baked, I was stunned for a while, and confirmed that this was Dinghai County, Mingzhou.

Didn't go back.

As soon as he sat up, the freehand who was punctuating a book by candlelight was reflecting the candlelight next to the bookcase at the bedside, noticed the movement, hurriedly hung up the curtain, and looked at it with concern: "Little official, you are awake." ”

Saying this, the curtain of the bedroom door was also lifted, and Liubai, Qingqiu and Luoshui walked in one after another.

Zhu Yuan let the women dress him, looked at the candlelight on the desk and the darkness outside the window, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

Freehand knew that the 'point' of the little official was not the 'point' of this era, but divided the twelve hours into 24 'hours', and skillfully converted it in his mind, and said: "It's almost 8 o'clock." ”

Liubai knelt on the side of the bed and stepped on his feet to help his little official put on his boots, and then said: "The little official is hungry, the slave brings dinner?" ”

Qingqiu subconsciously said: "Slave go." ”

said that he was almost leaving, paused, and continued to help his petty officials tie the buttons.

Luo Shui was tying Zhu Yuan's hair, and said softly at this time: "Huada and Mr. Dai are still waiting outside, do the officials want to see them first?" ”

Blank glanced up.

Small!

Add the word 'small'!

I opened my mouth, but I still didn't say anything.

Zhu Yuan felt interesting, why did he wake up by himself, and several women of all sizes around him were surging, as if they were fighting for something?

Ignore it for now.

Thinking that Hua Gao and Dai Sanchun were still waiting for him, it must have been because of the uncomfortable things on the boat in the afternoon, and now they have eased up, but they are also grateful for the care of the two, and said, "Go and meet them first." ”

I didn't say let the two of them in.

This is not the time when I was seriously ill before, I didn't need to have too many scruples, the inner courtyard of the master's house, the etiquette system, and the two of them may not be willing to come.

Wearing clothes, Zhu Yuan looked around curiously.

This bedroom is much more spacious than the one on Houhu Island, except that the bed behind it is twice as large.

Moreover, the earth dragon was burned......

Feeling the faint smell of dried earth in the air, Zhu Yuan understood, newly repaired, and asked curiously: "Who prepared this place?" ”

According to the rules, Dinghai should prepare a residence and a government office for him, but looking at the surrounding all kinds of brand-new and luxurious furniture and utensils, as well as this earth dragon, someone must be doing it.

Freehand said: "Fu Shou Fu rich man, he came to ask the petty officials if they needed anything else, and the petty officials were resting, so he said that he would kowtow again tomorrow." ”

It's Fu Shou again.

Before, I picked up more than 100 of the two Nizi, seven aunts and eight aunts, but this time it was the case again, and Zhu Yuan didn't know what to say.

But I understand.

With the same identity in his previous life, in order to make the business smoother, he has not done similar things.

It's just a change of place at the moment.

To put it bluntly, in this land, for thousands of years, it is really not easy for businessmen. And most people have never seen thieves eat meat, and never see thieves beaten.

If it was someone else, after all, in his current position, Zhu Yuan would not let Fu Shou continue. However, since it is a subordinate of Hua Gao, he doesn't plan to say anything. Hua Gao is a smart person and should know where the boundaries are.

Out of the bedroom, Zhu Yuan found that this new house was more luxurious than he imagined.

Only the main room has a large five-bay room, and on the other side of the middle living room, there is a large study that occupies two rooms, and on the horizontal and vertical rows of bookshelves, not only the books and documents brought by Zhu Yuan have been placed, but also stuffed with various other clicks.

Moreover, Zhu Yuan also understood what the women were 'fighting for' just now.

Outside the master bedroom, there is a small bedroom that is connected.

This is obviously for maids.

Zhu Yuan also noticed the look of the young lady when she looked at the small bed.

For the time being, he still ignored these, so it was convenient to wash up, Zhu Yuan went out of the inner courtyard, walked through the garden that was much smaller than the Houhu Mansion, and came to a reception hall outside. ”

Occasionally, he doesn't do it right, but Zhu Yuan also knows that it is good and understands that the two of them really care about themselves.

Hua Gao hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhu Yuan up, and as he spoke, he pulled him to sit down on the chair, and asked Dai Sanchun to diagnose Zhu Yuan's pulse, while saying: "It's my old Hua who is careless, I shouldn't let you work the boat." The lord asked me to take care of you, if this is known by the lord, I will have to eat and hang up. ”

After a few words, Hua Gao quieted down and looked at Dai Sanchun.

Dai Sanchun checked the pulse, then probed the back of his hand to feel Zhu Yuan's forehead, and also looked at his face and tongue, and finally nodded after a while: "It's okay." ”

Hua Gao immediately grinned again: "It's okay if there's nothing, it's okay if there's nothing to do, but can you eat?" Well...... Let's go to dinner, I'll rest early after eating," after speaking, he turned to the freehand and blank space that came over: "After the meal, don't let your master look at any more stars, don't write anything more in the paperwork, rest early." ”

The two girls agreed together.

After a few simple greetings, he sent the two away, returned to the inner house, passed through the three-entry courtyard similar to the layout of the later quadrangle, and entered the innermost.

The dining room is in the same west chamber, and Qingqiu and Luoshui have already set up dinner.

Zhu Yuan sat down at the dining table, knowing that the girls around him refused to sit, so he didn't say much, picked up the chopsticks, and then glanced at the four girls around him, remembering the lights in the wings on both sides when he just passed through the inner courtyard of the house, and said with a smile: "When I got off the boat, I suddenly felt a lot more deserted around me." ”

The four women all looked at each other slightly.

Zhu Yuan was just joking, picked up a piece of mutton stewed badly, tasted it, nodded with satisfaction, took a small bowl of rice handed over by Qingniang, felt that the atmosphere was interesting, and said again: "You know, monopoly business can't be done for a long time, and it's easy to cause a backlash." ”

The other girls were still insisting, but the young lady couldn't hold back at first, and said weakly: "Little official...... Which one do you want to see, and the slave goes and calls? ”

Liubai took advantage of the fact that his petty officials were not paying attention and glared at him fiercely.

Woe to the water!

Didn't you watch it and just ridicule?!

Qingniang asked, Zhu Yuan thought about it, and really didn't think of which one for a while.

In recent days, I have been extra familiar with a small sack, and I can't really shout over to perform 'Sack Carrying Ding', right?

Speaking of which, Zhu Yuan's original plan for his new life was to follow the order of 'self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world'.

Self-cultivation, accumulated for a lifetime, is enough.

Qi family, I wanted to take care of it before. Including the return of the acres, in addition to setting an example, I also don't want to be involved with too many tenants, after all, the relationship between tenants and the owner's family is very close in this era, and the blank man has more than once said that the tenants should be allowed to come to the house for duty.

There is also a statistical background information of the maid servants to avoid being mixed with sand around them.

These things were all interrupted by Lao Zhu.

The ancestor gave full play to the super double standard of '50,000 stones' for his own family and '900 stones' for outsiders, not only gave him all the unregistered people on Houhu as servants, but also rewarded 100 male and female servants at a time, and then, the seven aunts and eight aunts who left two Nizi in the freehand blank, as well as the seven aunts and eight aunts who were still on the road from Qing Niang, all of them had to be counted on his head.

So many people...... In addition, Lao Zhu kept squeezing his twenty-third grandson as a donkey, and Zhu Yuan could neither 'Qi' come over, nor did he have time to 'Qi'.

Fortunately, I wasn't too worried.

Because of Lao Zhu, as well as Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi around him. Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi had already gone through the people around him before, and quietly took away the two little guys, and there was nothing else.

At present, it has jumped to the stage of 'governing the country'.

There is no time to 'join the family'.

The result of not having time is that except for a few around him, most of the others, even the women who live in his inner house, Zhu Yuan can't recognize them all.

After dinner, go back to the main house.

Zhu Yuan wanted to turn left to the study, but the two Nizi next to him almost carried him right to the bedroom.

Undressed again and came to bed, Zhu Yuan was helpless: "I just went to bed after eating, it's not good for my health." ”

Freehand found two pillows and put them behind Zhu Yuan: "That little official will sit for a while and then sleep." ”

Zhu Yuan leaned on the pillow and thought about it: "Have you sorted out a few documents related to the three merchant ships in the afternoon, and brought them to me?" ”

Freehand nodded, then shook his head again.

Zhu Yuan spread his hands: "Then why should I sit?" ”

Qingniang and Luo Shui happened to also walk in, Zhu Yuan ignored the two awkward girls, and turned to the other two women: "Bring all the paperwork related to the three boats in the afternoon." ”

Qingniang and Luo Shui glanced at the two of them and didn't move.

Liubai said softly: "Little official, take a break, Mr. Dai has instructed you not to think too much about it." ”

Zhu Yuan really couldn't be idle, and began to lure: "Whoever brings the things over, sleep in the outer bedroom tonight." ”

When these words came out, the four women, big and small, were stunned.

The young lady also moved a step, and then stopped.

She reacted, even if she could sleep outside, the premise was ...... The people inside must first be good.

Zhu Yuan saw that it still had no effect, so he could only say: "Then write a work log, and send it to the ancestor tomorrow, don't shake your head again, otherwise I'll be really angry." I went to sleep after writing the journal. Well, who is it for today? ”

The four women made eye contact, and Luo Shui came to the bedside bookcase and sat down, spread out the paper, and picked up a pen.

The young lady went outside and said that she would bring two more candlesticks.

Zhu Yuan looked at the freehand and blank space: "I don't look at those materials, go and help me determine the value of the two data, their departure and return." ”

The two Niko thought about it and agreed to leave the bedroom.

Zhu Yuan didn't wait for the two Nizi to return, and when he saw that Luoshui had laid out the paper, he began to dictate.

"On the tenth day of the first month, I was stunned."

Smile as soon as you open your mouth.

It's a pity that today is not the sixth day of the first month, and this stalk is not neat. And I don't have sunglasses, and I don't have a surname like Wang.

Forget it.

Seeing Luo Shui looking at him suspiciously, Zhu Yuan put away his expression and motioned for her to cross out this section and continue seriously.

"In the first year of Hongwu, the tenth day of the second month."

"The latitude measurement is solved, followed by the longitude, that is, the arc that connects the north and south poles of the earth."

"If the longitude can be accurately measured, the combination of latitude and longitude, the location of any place on the earth, the distance between any two points, can be confirmed."

"But there are many problems."

"Unlike the northern hemisphere latitude data of the North Star, where the meridians are not available, there is little difference between each meridian between the north and south poles. Therefore, the first thing to do is to determine a starting meridian. Privately, the central axis of the Imperial City of Nanjing can be used as the starting point of longitude, that is, the zero degree longitude, east longitude, west longitude, such as 10 degrees east longitude and 100 degrees west longitude, each occupying 180 degrees in the hemisphere. ”

"Confirmation of zero degree longitude, considering or can be measured with the stars in the sky as a reference."

"In recent days, I have drawn a star map for this, discussed and considered it with everyone, and found that it is not possible for the time being."

"Unlike Polaris, which is due north of the Earth's axis, its position remains the same. The stars in the sky revolve around the sun with the earth, and the seasons are different and the day is different. ”

"If you have an accurate timing tool, it may be operational. However, the accuracy of the timekeeping tool requires the 12 hours of the day to be divided into 24 'hours', each 'hour' into 60 'minutes', and each 'minute' into 60 'seconds', in 'seconds', according to the changes of the stars, before it can be used for reference. ”

"Such a timekeeping tool cannot be made in the short term."

"In addition, we can also use manpower to make extensive measurements, such as sending a large number of people to all parts of the country, agreeing on measurement standards, and collecting massive data for comparison."

"This method needs to be calmed down in the world, and there is some leisure before considering it."

Zhu Yuan's thinking was a little divergent and said about longitude-related issues, and the two Nizi of Freehand and Blank had already returned, so he asked, "How much?" ”

Freehand said: "Lord Liu personally made a calculation, in terms of silver price, the Shen family caravan brought goods worth about 17,000 taels of silver when it went, and it ...... when it returned."

Speaking of this, Freehand paused, as if he didn't think it was real, and then spoke, and took the initiative to explain: "...... The goods are mainly blister copper, as well as silver nuggets and sand gold, and other lacquerware, leather goods, etc. are only a small amount, and the total price is ...... The total price is about 150,000 taels of silver. ”

Zhu Yuan: "......"

I knew about the huge profits of Haimao before, and in my previous life, I had heard the interesting story that the shareholders of the East India Company had a heart attack when they heard about Haimao's earnings for the first time, but in the end I only heard about it. At the moment, when he really saw the specific figures, Zhu Yuan felt that his heart was beginning to be unstable.

This trip is nearly 10 times the return on investment.

I'm not balanced.

I'm jealous!

No wonder the Shen Wansan family can pass down the wild history record of donating one-third of the Nanjing city wall, such a trench, it is no problem to wrap the city wall.

After a moment of emotion, Zhu Yuan calmed down, motioned to Luo Shui, and continued to dictate.

First of all, I briefly described the experience of encountering the three cargo ships of the Shen family today and the figures just given, Zhu Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "The benefits of sea trade, so it can be seen. After a pause, in order to avoid Lao Zhu's emotional instability after seeing it, he made drastic measures, Zhu Yuan poured cold water on the facts: "However, the risk of maritime trade cannot be ignored." ”

"According to the bow of the Shen family, this safe round trip is really a fluke, maritime merchants go to sea, thousands of miles of sea routes, the wind is high and the waves are urgent, there are also seas, epidemics, seagoing ships capsize at every turn, and even the fleet is gone, abounding."

"For the benefit of maritime trade, the government needs to set reasonable laws and regulations to extract tax revenue for national use and avoid huge wealth from gathering among the people."

"The risk of maritime trade, the official also has the responsibility of protection, the sea wind and high wave risk, this is a change of heaven, difficult to reverse. However, pirates, epidemics, etc., can be avoided by manpower. For example, it is the responsibility of the navy. ”

"This so-called 'right' and 'obligation' are also interconnected."

"It is a long-term solution for the government and the people to complement each other and form a virtuous circle."

"Again."

"The matter of shipping, because of the Shen family's fleet, I also feel it."

"There is no one in the world who is good at sea travel than the maritime merchants who seek great profits, therefore, I plan to use maritime merchants to assist in shipping, which needs to gather the opinions of all parties later to make deliberations and formulate a perfect plan."

Speaking of this, thinking that there was nothing else, Zhu Yuan stopped.

This time, there were no more girls' signatures.

It is enough to start adding it once, after all, the different handwriting in the last few days, Lao Zhu can definitely see that it was not written by him. If it is added every day, with Lao Zhu's unpredictable changeable nature, it is difficult to say whether it will backfire.

After Luo Shui finished writing, Zhu Yuan took it over and revised it, and then handed it over to the four girls to copy, planning to write another letter tomorrow, with the work log of the last few days and some other information, and send it to Lao Zhu together.

Zhu Yuan is not worried about sending too many documents and materials, which will annoy Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu is energetic.

Moreover, for example, in the previous life, when reading history, there was a courtier who wrote a 17,000-word chapter, of which 90% was nonsense. Lao Zhu was angry while watching, he was so angry that he called someone to beat up the person who wrote the concerto, but he insisted on watching it again after the fight. After reading it in the end, after 16,000 words, I found the advice of the courtiers, and finally took what was available in it and implemented it.

In comparison, what I plan to choose and send is all dry goods.