Xiao Ming is not accustomed to the extravagant atmosphere of the entire capital, and it is easy for people to fall into an atmosphere of anesthesia when singing and dancing everywhere, because the second phase of the war debt is about to expire, the household department needs to pay interest and principal to all the debt holders, and keeping the account of the household department of the imperial court that is wasted is the only thing Xiao Ming can do.

Xiao Ming usually returns to Hangzhou now, fortunately, the train speed from Kangjing to Hangzhou is not slow, the marquis' mansion in the capital has not yet been completed, and it cannot be inhabited for the time being, Xiao Ming has always been to provide the best conditions for his workers, so although his marquis' mansion is very troublesome to build, the mood of the workers is very high.

To provide people with a good job opportunity is Xiao Ming advocated, this is the biggest driving force to promote social and economic development, workers have money in their hands, will naturally promote consumption, after the growth of the power of consumption, equal to the strength of the buyer greatly increased, at the same time will naturally drive the buyer's market, pull the development of the entire manufacturing industry and related industries.

The reason Xiao Ming understands, he just is not used to seeing this phenomenon of large-scale consumption, in later generations, Xiao Ming and his parents have always lived in the welfare housing allocated by his father's unit, less than 20 square meters of space, where did Xiao Ming grow up, and the lack of wealth made him develop the habit of never spending money lavishly.

Even now, when his wealth is beyond calculation, he can not use it in terms of the enjoyment of personal life, he is now armed with divine power, powerful, rich and rival the country, the four ladies are all the best in the world, and he has everything that a man should have, but Xiao Ming still feels deep regret that his parents who have worked hard for half his life can't share it with him!

He will only feel calm when he returns to Hangzhou, where the land has been bought by Xiao Ming and a house has been built, but now it is only a warehouse for Richanglong, but there are no goods in it, it is just a quiet place for Xiao Ming to be in it.

Xiao Ming, who returned to Hangzhou, was finally able to calm down with his family! He deliberately did not think about the things above the court, although some systems were established, but Xiao Ming is not a reformer, he is at best a leader, he believes that the Chinese in this era have unparalleled wisdom and super creative spirit, history has been changed, how to go down, it seems that no one can control it.

There are not many old people left in Hangzhou, Luo Wen went to the capital after becoming the general of Jin Wuwei, An Daoquan has been running his medical school in various places all the year round, and has successfully established a medical museum in Shuli and Xuzhou and Liaodong, Ding Jianpeng has recently been a Shenlong to see the beginning and the end, only Gu Shouzhen still remains in Hangzhou.

Gu Shouzhen was also recommended by Xiao Ming for an official position, which was within the Ministry of Industry, but he was reluctant to leave his own Gu refinery in Hangzhou, and after a period of time, he still decided to resign from public office, but fortunately, the Ministry of Industry did not force it in Xiao Ming's face, and reserved his grade and public position, as long as he reported to the Ministry of Industry for a year.

Being able to have an official body is also a matter of the old Gu family's glory ancestor, Gu Shouzhen doesn't care about that bit of money, he is really too busy, the Gu family's refinery itself belongs to the semicolon of Richanglong, and he still has a certain status in society, and now that the base of his steel test workshop is all completed, it can be regarded as idle.

Today's Gu's refinery is just a name, it is still the imperial pen that Xiao Ming asked him from Huizong, but in fact, Gu's refinery is no longer like an iron factory, because he wants to provide some special steel materials for the Mo family's mechanical manufacturing in real time, he is almost connected to the Mo family's factory, and there are no less than a thousand craftsmen under him.

In fact, Gu Shouzhen's workshop already has a lot of things that are second to none, probably the world's largest steel-making blast furnace, and there are more than 30 small blast furnaces, each with different uses, the factory covers a very wide area, and is spreading to the suburbs, handling no less than 100 tons of iron ore every day, burning thousands of coal, and even a railway directly to the coal yard wharf of Hangzhou Port.

The original work was not on the track, Gu Shouzhen almost took the factory as his home, that was because of the lack of manpower, now not only is there no shortage of personnel, everything is also on the track, Gu Shouzhen can be regarded as being able to rest at home, but he is an idle person, when Xiao Ming went to look for him, he was in the house to weigh the powder of various ores and prepare a special formula!

Seeing Xiao Ming coming to him, Gu Shouzhen finally put down the work in his hand, the two are old friends, and there is nothing polite to each other, Xiao Ming still calls him Brother Gu, he also calls Xiao Ming Brother Xiao, the two sat down in the living room and chatted, Gu Shouzhen introduced some recently produced alloy materials to Xiao Ming.

Last time, Xiao Ming asked Gu Shouzhen to try to produce some aluminum alloy materials, but for the application of "aluminum", this era is still in the initial stage, that is to say, it is very difficult in terms of purification, Gu Shouzhen has been busy with this matter recently, because aluminum ore is currently only available in the northern region, and the mining volume is not large.

Gu Shouzhen is not embarrassed by the pure purification of aluminum metal, but the strength of pure aluminum is really low, the aluminum itself is very soft, but the quality itself is very light, yes, it is completely unused in weapon manufacturing, but to increase the strength and hardness of aluminum, it is necessary to manufacture aluminum alloy, but what metal should be added? Gu Shouzhen was very embarrassed.

This Xiao Ming doesn't understand very much, because Ding Jianpeng is not around, and he is not easy to check the information, but his own shallow knowledge of metal materials, he doesn't know if he can help Gu Shouzhen, but he still told Gu Shouzhen that the alloying elements of aluminum are copper, silicon, magnesium, zinc, manganese, and the secondary alloying elements are nickel, iron, titanium, chromium, lithium, etc.

There are many elements that Gu Shouzhen has never heard of, or the names are not called those, Xiao Ming can only let Gu Shouzhen experiment one by one according to the materials at hand, he regretfully told Gu Shouzhen, because Ding Jianpeng is not there, if he is there, he should force himself to be clearer, he is the expert.

"It turns out that Brother Xiao doesn't know, where is Master Ding in Hangzhou now!" Gu Shouzhen said.

Xiao Ming was pleasantly surprised: "Great, is he back?" Why haven't I heard from him at all? ”

"Master Ding seems to have some personal matters recently, and he has been staying in Hangzhou for two or three months!"

"Oh?" Xiao Ming looked at Gu Shouzhen suspiciously: "...... his private affairs?" Probably not, right? Where was he lately? ”

"This ......!" Gu Shouzhen's face seemed a little unnatural, the more Xiao Ming looked at it, the more suspicious he became, he grabbed Gu Shouzhen and said, "Let's go, let's go find him now!" ”

Ding Jianpeng's position in Xiao Ming's heart is very important, he is Xiao Ming's connection with the whole world in later generations, if it weren't for him, Xiao Ming would have felt like an ancient person in a trance several times! Only after the two sat down together did Xiao Ming feel the feeling of going home, and there was a trace of soul home.

Now I heard that Ding Jianpeng stayed in Hangzhou for so long for personal matters, it must be a very difficult thing, according to Ding Jianpeng's financial resources, although he never wants money, or connections, although he never asks for people, and there are private matters that can't be done, it means that this matter must be very tricky, Ding Jianpeng's matter is naturally Xiao Ming's matter, and he can't help but be in a hurry.

Xiao Ming was anxious and pulled Gu Shouzhen to run out, Gu Shouzhen was caught off guard, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, he hurriedly said: "Slow down...... Slow down, ......! You've been so anxious until he's there? ”

Xiao Ming was stunned when he heard this, and then pulled Gu Shouzhen and left, saying as he walked: "I asked Huwei to go out and look for it, I will definitely find it!" ”

Gu Shouzhen gasped and said: "Slow down, you slow down, he's fine, neither his life is in danger nor anything wrong, you don't have to worry so much, and I know he's there!" ”

Xiao Ming glared at Gu Shouzhen, stunned for a long time, and said, "You didn't say it earlier!" ”

"You didn't ask! If you care, it's chaotic, Brother Ding is really blessed to have a brother like you! Ha ha! ”

Xiao Ming calmed down, and then realized that he was indeed a little overly nervous! He sneered and wanted Gu Shouzhen to bow and said: "Let Brother Gu see the smile, I was indeed a little concerned just now, Brother Ding is alone, and he doesn't even have a family, we are all his family!" Can you not care about something in your family? ”

Gu Shouzhen nodded solemnly and said: "Brother is so correct in saying this, we are indeed family, and we have been through ups and downs for so many years!" Although it has changed a lot, the fact that we are all family has not changed! ”

Gu Shouzhen continued: "What we have done over the years has become bigger and bigger, our net worth is abundant, you are also famous, you have a family, a wife and children, but Master Ding has always been a person, I originally thought he was a monk, but later I learned that he was not a monk, these years, we have indeed cared less about him!" ”

Xiao Ming's heart was sour when he said this, Gu Shouzhen was right! Over the years, he has been running around constantly making money with gold, fighting wars or something, although he is busy, he has not left anything behind, Ding Jianpeng has unconditional support for himself in the defense, and he has never really cared about his personal life!

He raised his head to the sky, suppressed the sadness in his heart, and said to Gu Shouzhen: "Take me to him!" ”

Gu Shouzhen nodded, went out with him and got into Xiao Ming's carriage, pointed out the path and set off, the carriage went northwest along the industrial area in the west of the city, where the West Lake was located, the carriage turned out from outside the Yongjin Gate, and then drove onto the causeway, stopping under the willows in winter.

Xiao Ming saw that this was the Xilang Causeway, and there were all lakeside villas of large families nearby, and there were also some embroidery buildings in Fengyue places, all of which were lived by famous prostitutes on the West Lake flower boats, Xiao Ming looked at this place in surprise, and said in his heart, Is Ding Jianpeng obsessed with that prostitute? This is terrible!

In fact, it's right to think about it, Ding Jianpeng was emotionally hurt in the later life, which is why he was once very obsessed with Buddhism, but Ding Jianpeng is also a normal man after all, he has devoted himself to chemical experiments over the years, and he has never seen him have leisure time, and now he can think of Fengyue place, which is also normal.

Xiao Ming followed Gu Shouzhen into the alley, he seemed to be very familiar with the place, seeing Xiao Ming's puzzled eyes, Gu Shouzhen explained: "I have accompanied Brother Ding twice, so he usually knows the way, he will usually be here!" ”

Xiao Ming was relieved, so he still followed him inside, Gu Xiaoliu and Guo Shouxin also followed behind his buttocks, Xiao Ming didn't have many tiger guards, if he went out privately, he would just take Gu Guo and the two of them.

Gu Shouzhen led Xiao Ming to the back door of a small building, it was a small green building that was not big, but it seemed to be a little old! Obviously, the owner who lives here is not a popular celebrity prostitute, but may be a woman who has aged and decrepitized, and she is not very valued in terms of treatment!

Standing downstairs, Gu Shouzhen was about to call the door, but at this time, there was a sudden sound of tinkling and ding dong from upstairs, and the pearl falling jade plate was very beautiful, and Xiao Ming's face changed ...... when he heard it!