"After Xiao Wu left, I felt that the whole palace was a lot deserted."

Li Chengmu has been gone for a few days, and Xia Jing took the maids to take a walk along the shaded path to eat.

Usually Xia Jing goes out, and most of the time she goes out with her is Hongmei, and Baimei stays in the palace, so she knows the things in the palace best.

She listened to Xia Jing's words and explained with a smile: "Princess, you have been busy with the summer planting and iron workshop in the grange these days. Do you know that on the day the fifth master left, several other masters in the palace rushed to pull their own personal soldiers to suppress the bandits. ”

Now in addition to the prince in the house, the only ones left in the backyard are the female dependents and children.

And the mothers of the owners are also busy with the summer planting of the grange these days, so busy, how can they still have time to take a walk in the garden?

"Oh, all gone?" Xia Jing was quite surprised that several stepsons were not afraid of danger and actively participated in the suppression of bandits this time, "Sure enough, money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible, the temptation of money is really powerful." ”

Bai Mei looked around and made sure that there was no one other than them, so she said softly: "Several masters are forced by reality. At the beginning, the five masters were jealous that the fifth master had pro-soldiers, and they had to treat them equally, but it was the princess who allowed them to recruit 5,000 soldiers on their own.

Maybe they never dreamed at that time how expensive it was to feed an army, but when they learned later, the team had been training for a long time, and they would definitely be reluctant to give up at this time, so they could only stick to it.

The slave maid also heard in the house that several masters were strapped for money, especially the big house, where 5,000 soldiers and horses shrank to 3,000, and even if he was 3,000, he couldn't support him. Some time ago, the uncle had already asked the prince for help, but the prince didn't dare to open this opening, for fear that other rooms would also ask him for help. ”

Hongmei patted Baimei lightly, and said angrily: "You dare to say anything, and you can arrange the master?" ”

Bai Mei stuck out her tongue mischievously, "The slave and maid are just talking in front of the princess, how dare they chew the root of their tongue in front of others." ”

The sunset on the horizon slowly darkened, and there were mosquitoes buzzing in Xia Jing's ears from time to time, she shook her fan to drive away mosquitoes, "There are many mosquitoes outside, let's go back." ”

The next day, it was cloudless, and the bright sun was particularly dazzling.

After Xia Jing finished breakfast, she didn't go out of the house directly as usual, but went to King Qian's study in the front yard first.

King Qian was a little surprised, "The sun is coming out in the west, why do you have time to come to me today?" ”

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows at him, did not answer his words, but first circled around the two gentlemen to see what they were busy with?

"Are you preparing for the summer grain harvest?"

Mr. Zhang closed the account book, "The people's summer grain has been put into the warehouse, and our government should also prepare, sort out the accounts first, and then arrange the officials and officials to collect the summer grain tax after a few days when the summer planting is over." ”

Xia Jing smiled when she heard this, then looked at King Qian and asked, "You are very busy today?" Available? ”

King Qian was so busy with official business that he was dizzy, and when he heard Xia Jing's question, he pushed the official document aside.

He knew that there must be something wrong with her taking the initiative to find her: "If there is anything, just say it, and we will listen to it." If it's urgent, we can squeeze in time, even if we don't have time. ”

Xia Jing sat opposite King Qian's desk with a fan, "I'm going to go out later, and I want to invite you to come together to see the new adhesive I have figured out." ”

"Adhesive?" When King Qian heard this, he wondered a little, what is so strange about adhesives?

Mr. Zhang was a little interested and asked, "New adhesives?" Is the adhesive used in construction by the princess? ”

"Yes, for construction, isn't the new government preparing to build a new one? The ground has been laid out, the foundation has been dug up, and when the workers are busy with the double grabbing, they can start laying the foundation. Xia Jing smiled and swept around the three of them, "If the new adhesive I brewed gets into your eyes, it can be used to build a new mansion!" ”

"Oh, it's special?" King Qian actually still thinks the weather is too hot and doesn't want to go out.

"Of course!" Xia Jing urged him, "Hurry up, especially you, insisting on exercising during this time has still worked, I found that your body has lost a lot of weight, continue to keep it up, and it is good for you to walk around outside." ”

King Qian listened to her words, looked down at his waistline, he also knew that he had lost a lot of weight, and his previous clothes didn't fit well, and now the clothes on his body were all remade later. So when these words came out of Xia Jing's mouth, they felt very beautiful and made people feel happy.

The two gentlemen noticed the corners of King Qian's upturned mouth, and they really didn't see it, so they had to bow their heads and silently clean up the account books.

Two quarters of an hour later, several carriages left the palace.

Half an hour later, several wagons arrived at a col.

A row of buildings in the col was particularly conspicuous, and Xia Jing did not take them to the area of the factory, but took them to the office building.

At first, in the carriage, King Qian and the others did not notice the road surface, but felt that the road surface was too flat, and when the carriage stopped, they got out of the carriage and noticed that the road surface for the carriage to pass was hard and flat, like a stone pavement, but the stone was not so large, and it was impossible to be so flat.

"My princess, what are you using for this pavement?" After asking these words, King Qian's mind flashed, "Isn't the thing you used to pave the road the new adhesive you said?" ”

"The prince is smart, and he can guess it." Xia Jing stomped on the road and said with a smile: "You try this hardness, it is completely comparable to stones, and it is more convenient and cheaper than laying stones." ”

Mr. Zhang squatted down and picked it with his hand, the key is that this kind of stone can be paved with a long and wide section of the road, "Princess, does this adhesive have a name?" ”

"I call it cement."

Xia Jing smiled, led them into the office area, and asked someone to bring a bucket of cement, "This gray-black dust is cement." ”

"Can this dust pave the road?" King Qian thought it was incredible, this dust similar to the black surface paved the ground, and the paved ground was as hard as stone and as flat as water.

How is this possible?

This subverted the three views, King Qian didn't believe it for a while.

Xia Jing didn't explain much, just asked people to come over and add water and mud to the cement, and then add stones, river sand, etc., and finally let people make it into a boxy shape.

"Is that okay?" Mr. Zhang pressed it with his hand, and a finger print was printed on the flat surface of the brush.

Xia Jing laughed: "You have to wait for an hour or two for the cement to harden." ”

King Qian and the two gentlemen didn't believe that this mud could be made into stones, but the road surface along the way made them suspicious.

While waiting, Xia Jing took them to visit the cement factory, and it was so hot that several people stayed in the office with ice basins and didn't want to go out.

After the maid served tea to everyone, Mr. Zhang talked about the problems encountered in the Bingzhan Workshop.

"I don't know if I can ask Master Shan of the princess's iron workshop to guide me, the steel we bought from you can't be burned thoroughly with the furnace of the war workshop, and it seems that there is always a little bit of fire."

As soon as Xia Jing heard his question, she didn't have to think about it to know what the problem was, "It must be that the temperature of your furnace is not high enough to reach the temperature of steel." ”

"What are the requirements for a furnace for making steel?" Mr. Zhang was embarrassed, and he really didn't understand the technical issues.

"This is a long story, since there is a technical problem, I will ask Master Shan to go to the military battle workshop, how to do it, and let your people do what he says."

Xia Jing only knows some theoretically from the notebook, but the specific way to do it depends on the technician who eats this bowl of rice.

Mr. Zhang said gratefully: "Then this matter will trouble the princess to worry more." ”

But whenever he encountered a matter of asking for help, King Qian always kicked the ball, so he pushed the matter on his head and asked him to ask someone to solve it.

However, Mr. Zhang was a little surprised today, the blast furnace for steelmaking should be regarded as a secret that the blacksmith does not pass on, but he didn't expect the princess to agree without even thinking about it.

"You're welcome." Xia Jing took a sip of tea with a smile, put down the teacup and spoke: "In fact, the efficiency of relying on manpower to forge hammer steel is too low, if your soldier workshop can use water power to forge hammer steel, the efficiency will be greatly increased, so as to take the first step to strengthen the army." ”

"Hydraulic? What does the princess mean by converting water into kinetic energy like a waterwheel? Mr. Zhang became excited.

He usually reads quite a lot of books, and he knows a little bit about the principle of the water-powered rice mill, and after Xia Jing mentioned it, his brain hole widened.

Hydraulics can lick rice, can forge hammer steel, so can hydraulics do something else?

"The principle is pretty much the same, my iron workshop has been built, and I'll let the craftsmen help you build a few more."

An hour passed quickly, and Xia Jing took them outside, because the weather in Lingnan was hot, and the cement pier had hardened after an hour.

Mr. Zhang pressed his handprint in amazement, and it was already fixed forever, "It's really magical, after dust and water, it becomes a stone mound." If this kind of cement is used in the construction of city walls, then there is no need to be afraid of foreign enemies digging city walls? ”

King Qian kicked the cement pier and looked uplifted, "Princess, your cement factory is still too small and needs to be expanded, or should I invest a sum of silver for the expansion of the plant?" ”

Xia Jing listened to his words and rolled her eyes, "Lord Wang, you don't look beautiful, but your thoughts are quite beautiful." The cement was made by me and my craftsmen. You want to pick my peaches with a word of ease today, look at what you can, why don't you go to heaven? ”

King Qian felt that Xia Jing always forgot something, so he had to remind her: "Princess, husband and wife community, you can only be good if I am good." ”

Xia Jing was laughed at by this old man, "I don't want to say that I put in the energy of this cement factory, and the money is also all kinds of moves, and now the most difficult stage in the early stage has passed, and there will be profits soon, but you want to pick peaches." ”

"But why are you?"

"Just by virtue of our husband and wife?"

King Qian glared, "Isn't our husband and wife relationship enough, this is the most reliable cooperative relationship!" Husband and wife are one, what is yours is mine, and what is mine is yours. ”

"It's a nice thing to say, but it's all a pit in practice." Xia Jing sneered and asked King Qian: "What's yours is mine, so is your throne mine?" Is your net worth and life mine? Or is it that according to the inheritance law, if we cooperate, and then your throne passes to the eldest son, will the old lady still rely on his snort to survive? ”

"You are his mother, does he dare to disobey you?" King Qian was a little embarrassed.

"Hah!" Xia Jing really wanted to laugh when she heard such childish words, "But I'm just a stepmother!" ”

"You" King Qian was dumbfounded.

Mr. Zhang: "Princess, Lingnan is waiting for a new one, waiting to spend money everywhere, and the prince really has no choice, I hope you don't be surprised, princess." Not to mention the prince, even Weichen can't wait to break a penny in half to spend. ”

Xia Jing nodded slowly: "Silver money is indeed a good thing, everything is easy to discuss when you have money, and money can make ghosts grind, but the money-making opportunity in front of me, isn't it good for me to hold it in my own hands?" Why be constrained by others? ”

King Qian smiled bitterly: "Princess, why do you bother? ”

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, "I'm afraid of trouble, once you have a stake in the cement factory, it means that the entire Qianwang Mansion is involved, Xiao Wu is my own child, everything is easy to say, but it is difficult to say about the other rooms, once the family affection of the relatives is involved, this family relationship is very fragile, and it will be broken if you stab it, and maybe it will turn against you." ”

Trouble is really troublesome, in fact, everyone knows it in their hearts.

It's just that King Qian's side automatically ignored this layer of hidden danger for its own interests.

They ignore it, but Xia Jing can't ignore it, she is not a little girl in love, and men can do whatever they say.

It's okay to do business, but if you want to start from the source of her money, then she will definitely draw a knife and chop this hand!

"However, your idea of wanting to make money is good, don't you want to meddle in the cement factory, but we have another way of cooperation, I wonder if you want to hear about it?"

King Qian and the two gentlemen's eyes lit up, what is this called?

There is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village!

King Qian asked happily: "Princess, please speak, we will listen to you!" ”

Xia Jing sneered in her heart, and said quietly on her face: "After the mass production of cement, it may have to be sold to the whole world, if the prince wants to have one more way to make money, he can be our distributor, that is, wholesale goods from us, and then open a shop to sell, so as to earn the difference." ”

For the time being, this approach is a step back for each side.

But King Qian was uncomfortable in his heart, this had nothing to do with money, he just didn't like Xia Jing and he was too clear.

But to make it clear, according to Xia Jing's statement, there is nothing wrong.

For the sake of interests, there may be a wall between brothers, let alone half-brothers.

Mr. Zhang listened to her words, and he had to praise her in his heart, but he still had to hold grievances for his prince on the face.

"The princess's attitude towards our prince is not at all like a husband and wife, she separates each other too clearly, but is more like a partner."

Xia Jing handed the contract that had been prepared in advance to King Qian, and said with a wry smile: "If we are husband and wife, then it means that one day, everything I do now is to make wedding dresses for others, and in the end, it will be in vain, and in the end, it may become my lifeline." Dare to ask the prince, will you pass on the throne to Xiao Wu in the future? ”

King Qian: "This thing is against the ancestral system, how can this king do it as he pleases!" ”

Xia Jing shrugged, "Look, I knew it would be like this, so why bother me?" ”

King Qian didn't know how to take this for a while, but he quickly reacted, read the contract, and signed.

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