From the county lord's mansion, it became the Li mansion.

Although they still live in two people, it doesn't look like there's any difference.

But the difference is worlds apart.

The signboard of the Li Mansion is hung up, which means that Li Xiao is the main one, and if he inherits it, he may not become a big family in the future.

Zhu Di also figured it out, although his daughter is his own bloodline.

But after all, it's a woman.

After a few generations, more than a dozen generations, this royal blood has slowly faded.

If Li Xiao really has the ability, gets the title, and runs the family bigger and bigger, it is not a good thing.

Entering the mansion, Xu Miaoyun took a few people around and gave a brief introduction.

This mansion has everything, no worse than the royal palace, except for the political system and subordinate officials of the royal palace.

Gardens, houses, lakes, hills, warehouses, martial arts arenas

It's almost a small Yanwang Mansion.

After all, this was originally reserved for Zhu Gaoxu, and it would not have been too bad as the county king's mansion.

The main house has a master bedroom, and the study and hall are very magnificent.

Furniture, beds, chairs, bookcases, etc. They are all precious furniture, worth a lot of money, and it is estimated that it will cost more than 100,000 taels of silver.

"Ning Yun, Li Xiao, are you two still satisfied? What is there to adjust? ”

Xu Miaoyun asked with a smile.

"Satisfied, so satisfied." Li Xiaodao.

Zhu Ningyun also nodded: "Mother Xie, we are both very satisfied, there is nothing to adjust." ”

Xu Miaoyun nodded and said: "That's okay, I will leave with the prince first, and this mansion will be handed over to you to take care of in the future, and I originally planned to arrange some maids and servants for you, but this time you brought so many girls, you can arrange it yourself." As for the guards, your father has assigned you a hundred soldiers, ten of whom are the same as the ten who escorted you to Jiangnan last time. Luckily? ”

"It couldn't be better!"

Li Xiao was grateful, and enthusiastically sent the second elder back to Yanwang's Mansion.

Subsequently, the two happily returned to the "Li Mansion".

"In the future, this is our home, and we have to manage it well."

Zhu Ningyun suddenly felt that she felt like she was in charge, and she was very happy.

Previously, he had been working as a canary in the Yanwang Mansion, and suddenly he had to control hundreds of people in a mansion like his mother.

"Yes, run it well."

Li Xiao looked at the gold-lettered signboard of "Li Mansion" hanging in the mansion, and suddenly felt a sense of responsibility.

I don't know why, maybe after entering the ancient times, I slowly regarded myself as an ancient person.

The Li Mansion represents his own family and starts from himself.

A thriving family can last for hundreds or thousands of years.

Many powerful families, which have gone through several dynasties, have their own heritage.

Suddenly, this sense of responsibility rippled in Li Xiao's heart.

If you can, you will also build such a hundred-year, or even thousand-year-old family!

With his own mansion, naturally he doesn't need to live in Yanwang's mansion.

However, moving away as soon as there was a mansion, it seemed a little impersonal, and Li Xiao and Zhu Ningyun still lived in the Yanwang Mansion for the time being.

But in the next few days, Li Xiao and Zhu Ningyun were busy.

Zhang Luo people clean the mansion, furnish, arrange and so on.

In Zhu Ningyun's Yong'an Pavilion, there are many things of his own that need to be moved.

Li Xiao doesn't have many things, but he has many people to arrange.

First of all, a house was vacated to serve as a medical center in the prefecture.

The person who spoke in the hospital was naturally his beloved apprentice, Li Shizhen's grandfather Li Kefang.

Li Kefang was also flattered, he didn't expect that his master was so big, and he turned out to be the son-in-law of the prince, which scared him

Li Xiao asked him to sit in the museum to practice medicine, and the people in the mansion went to him if they had a headache and brain fever, and let him study medicine with peace of mind, and the expenses were paid by the Li Mansion.

Li Fu is not rich now, but it can also be called a little rich.

Ning Yun manages the accounts of the mansion, and now there are more than 500,000 taels of silver in the treasury of the mansion.

This money is the first pot of gold for the Li Mansion to make a fortune!

Li Xiao is planning two businesses at the moment, one is wind oil essence.

This business is operated by Li Kefang, and it has been made so far, but because of the problem of the bottle, Li Xiao is not in a hurry to start operation.

I plan to wait for the glass process to appear in the system, and make a small glass bottle containing wind oil essence before starting this business, and I am not in a hurry.

Li Xiao felt that if there was no small glass bottle, this wind oil essence would have no soul.

And it is not portable, and ordinary ceramic bottles are easy to break.

The second business is a textile workshop.

In the past few days, Li Xiao has moved these girls and his own goods to his house.

Because there are more than 600 little girls who have nothing to do now, they eat and drink for nothing every day.

So Li Xiao plans to support this business first.

Make the best use of materials and arrange for unemployed personnel to work.

Zhu Ningyun selected fifty girls from the six hundred girls to be the maids in the house.

Zhang Cuicui, Ning Yun's personal maid, finally turned over and became the master, and became the master maid, and at the same time became the maid manager, managing these girls and teaching them how to do things.

As for the remaining 550 girls, it is to be arranged.

After Li Xiao's loom is released, it can be started.

Li Xiao vacated a room and bought materials.

In the system, there are design drawings of the textile machine.

With the skills of his own senior carpenter and senior craftsman, he can completely knock and make a textile machine by himself.

The development of textile machines has gone through several stages.

In the Neolithic Age, textile machinery was mainly primitive hand-woven tools, such as pottery spindles, stone spindles, etc.

During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, bronze spinning wheels began to appear, but the function of spinning wheels at this time was relatively simple, and they could only be used in the primitive stage of spinning and weaving.

From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially the Ming and Qing dynasties, the development of spinning wheels reached a peak, and the variety was more abundant.

For example, the "turntable spinning wheel" in the Ming Dynasty, the "tone pump" in the Qing Dynasty, etc.

The structure of these spinning wheels is more complex, the function is more perfect, and it has also reached the international advanced level at that time.

In the modern period, textile machinery has been further developed and improved.

For example, in 1925, the British inventor Kaye invented the shuttle, which greatly improved the production efficiency of textile machinery.

And the textile machine made by Li Xiao is to add a shuttle.

The so-called shuttle is a shuttle with a small wheel installed in the chute, and the two ends of the chute are equipped with springs, so that the shuttle can travel back and forth extremely quickly.

Therefore, the invention of the shuttle made the weaving speed faster, and it greatly improved the weaving efficiency.

What Li Xiao wants to do is this kind of textile machine, which is close to modernization, but not completely modern, because there is no steam engine, and it cannot enter industrialization.

At this time, Li Xiao was using a wooden roe deer, planing wood, and building parts for textile machines, and he was tired and sweating profusely.

These operations are done by one person, so as not to leak the technology, and no one else is allowed to come in at will except Ning Yun.

"Xiaolang."

Ning Yun pushed open the door and walked in, holding tea, "Take a sip of tea." ”

"Well, I'm a little thirsty, thank you, ma'am."

Li Xiao picked up the teapot and took a sip of tea.

Saying that, Zhu Ningyun picked up the towel again, the intimate Li Xiao wiped his sweat, and said distressedly: "Xiaolang, these rough jobs, just arrange for someone to do it, you are now the head of the family, there is no need to do it yourself." ”

"Not yet."

Li Xiao explained with a smile: "This is my latest textile machine, if people secretly learn it, our core competitiveness will be gone." ”

"Your latest textile machine?"

Zhu Ningyun was slightly stunned, and immediately thought of Li Xiao's invention ability, and was relieved.

Li Xiao nodded, "That's right, Ning Yun, didn't you always complain before, and you were all over Luo Qi, weren't you a silkworm farmer?" When my loom appears, we will be able to break this deadlock, bring down the price of silk, and produce silk and cloth that can be worn by ordinary people. ”

This is Li Xiao's plan for a long time.

There are too many cloth shops on the market now, and many of them have been in business for a hundred years.

If you want to get a piece of the pie in the market, you can only take the route of "Pinduoduo", low price and high quality, and use price to kill the bloody road.

The advantage of its own textile machine is to increase output and reduce labor costs.

"Huh??"

Zhu Ningyun was a little puzzled and said, "Can it really be done?" ”

Li Xiao said confidently: "If I say that the weaving efficiency of this textile machine is ten times or even twenty times the efficiency of the current textile machine, do you think the price can be killed?" ”

"What? Twenty times! ”

Zhu Ningyun's face was full of disbelief, this is too incredible.

"Don't believe me? Let's take a gamble. ”

Li Xiao smiled evilly.

"Bet on what?"

Zhu Ningyun had some expectations in her heart.

Because of Li Xiao's bet, no matter whether he wins or loses, he seems to like it quite a lot.

"Bet"

Li Xiao leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Bet on this"

After listening, Zhu Ningyun's face turned red with shame, "You are so annoying."

With that, she ran out the door.

"If you don't speak, I'll take you by default."

Li Xiao shouted at Zhu Ningyun's back, who shyly closed the door.

At this time, the girl will definitely not agree to it for the sake of face.

I thought about it in my heart, but I was embarrassed to say it.

Li Xiao smiled, sample

After a short rest, we continued to build the weaving machine.

Busy in full swing

After a while, there was a knock on the door.

Li Xiao opened the door and walked out.

A maid bowed and said, "Master of the house, someone is looking for you outside." ”

"Who?" Li Xiaodao.

"It was a man named Yang Shiqi who asked to see him, and there was a businessman by his side."

The maid whispered, obviously just changed her identity from Yangzhou Thin Horse, and she was still a little unaccustomed.

Li Xiao nodded, knowing that the debt collector was coming.

"Okay, let him wait in the living room, I'll change my clothes and come later."

The maid was about to leave, Li Xiao stopped her and asked, "Are you still used to being here I mean you are willing to be a maid here?" ”

The maid saluted and said: "The head of the family, Xiaoqian is very used to it, I think it is very good here, whether it is to eat or live, it is much better than before, and the most important thing is that you have changed our tragic fate, we can go to this Li Mansion to make a living, we are very willing." ”

Li Xiao nodded: "That's good, let's go down." ”

The most fearful thing is to do bad things with good intentions, it seems that they saved these girls, they are still grateful, so it's good.

Xiao Qian thanked and said, "Yes, the head of the family." ”

After saying that, he retreated.

Li Xiao turned around and closed the warehouse door, locked it, went to the main house, took a shower, and prepared to change his clothes to deal with the debt collectors.

Outside the Li Mansion.

There were two people standing.

One of them is Yang Shiqi, the magistrate of Cangzhou, and the other is Tian Zhiwei, a businessman friend of Yang Shiqi.

This Tian Zhiwei originally had a good family background.

Tian Zhiwei's family is engaged in the shipbuilding industry, which is also a good industry.

But over the years, the family has been declining day by day.

In order to revitalize the family, it took a lot of effort to build a cargo ship.

That is, the boat that Li Xiao borrowed.

I wanted to make a fortune with this cargo ship and rebuild the family business.

Yang Shiqi's relationship with him is a brother with a crotch, an iron buddy.

After that incident happened in Cangzhou, the boat was borrowed by Yang Shiqi and promised to pay out of his own pocket.

Tian Zhiwei thought that the first business had fallen.

As a result, it didn't work out, and the first business, the ship was gone.

It's outrageous!

Who would have thought that in broad daylight, the ship would be sunk by artillery

This is really rare in a thousand years in peacetime, and he ran into it.

Helpless, Tian Zhiwei had no choice but to let Yang Shiqi take him to collect debts.

After this Yang Shiqi went through that incident, he also knew the identity of Li Xiao, and his feelings were that of King Yan's son-in-law.

No, I took Tian Zhiwei to Beiping.

Originally, Tian Zhiwei was aggressive, and he looked like a teacher asking for guilt.

What if it's the son-in-law of King Yan?

Paying off debts is a matter of course!

But when he came to the door of the "Li Mansion", the whole person was intimidated.

This mansion is so magnificent.

When ordinary people see it, how can they not panic?

"Come in, two of you."

At this time, a subordinate opened the door of the mansion and beckoned.

The two entered the mansion nervously, and after entering, they were even more cowardly.

This house is more magnificent, magnificent, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the garden is splendid, and the atmosphere is magnificent.

Not to mention, there are also soldiers in armor patrolling the house.

This scared Tian Zhiwei a lot.

King Yan's son-in-law, is he so domineering?

I'm afraid this mansion is just like that, right?

There is also the mansion of the son-in-law of King Yan, which is not called the county king's mansion, but the Li mansion.

It's over, can such a domineering person get the money back?

When the two came to the living room, they sat on the chairs, and kept worrying.

"Brother Yang, do you think you can get the silver today?"

Tian Zhiwei asked in a low voice.

"Of course you can get it"

Yang Shiqi didn't have a score in his heart, but encouraged: "We are reasonable, not afraid."

"Oh"

Tian Zhiwei nodded worriedly.

They looked left and right, and waited for an hour before they saw a figure coming this way.

Li Xiao was late.

As soon as I came in, I walked with the wind, and went straight to the upper seat to sit down, full of momentum.

Li Xiao smiled: "The two of you have been waiting for a long time to come and watch the tea!" ”

After the maids served the tea, they stood aside.

Yang Shiqi and Tian Zhiwei were slightly silent while drinking tea.

Tian Zhiwei made a look, and after a long time, Yang Shiqi spoke: "It turns out that Xiao Gongzi is the son-in-law of His Royal Highness King Yan, and it was really disrespectful and disrespectful before." ”

"You're welcome."

Li Xiao took a sip of tea and waved his hand: "I'm very busy, long story short, what's the matter with coming to me today?" ”

Seeing this, Yang Shiqi got straight to the point and said: "That's the case, this is Tian Zhiwei, a friend of Xiaguan, that day in Cangzhou, the cargo ship lent by Xiaguan to Xiao Gongzi was borrowed from this Mr. Tian." ”

Tian Zhiwei squeezed out a smile, got up and arched his hand: "I've seen Xiao Gongzi." ”

Li Xiao bowed his head slightly and said, "Well, that's right, what's the matter?" ”

Yang Shiqi's face changed, this guy felt a little bad, he gritted his teeth and said: "The boat was lent to Xiao Gongzi, and now it is ruined, please pay Xiao Gongzi money."

"Losing money?"

Li Xiao smiled slightly, squinted his eyes and said, "On that day, Yang Zhixian was also present, did you see that boat, was it destroyed by me?" ”

Yang Shiqi shook his head.

Li Xiao continued: "Since it wasn't destroyed by Xiao, why should I, Xiao, lose money. Oh yes, I haven't paid for the boat's use yet. ”

Saying that, Li Xiao looked at the maid and said, "Xiaoqian, go to the account room to pay five hundred taels of silver and pay it to Mr. Tian." ”

"Yes, Master." Xiao Qian retreated.

As soon as I heard this.

Tian Zhiwei was anxious.

The affection is five hundred taels of silver, and he is going to be sent away.

But this is in someone's mansion, and there are soldiers patrolling back and forth, and Tian Zhiwei doesn't dare to make a mistake.

He decided to use a bitter trick and knelt directly on the ground:

"Xiao Gongzi, the boat was indeed lent to you, and now it is destroyed, how much can you pay some silver, I Tian Mou went bankrupt and built this boat, how can I explain it to my family?"

"Can you build a ship?" Li Xiao was surprised.

Tian Zhiwei nodded, "Several generations of the family are mainly engaged in this business."

Li Xiao nodded, feeling that this person was available.

At this time, Yang Shiqi said: "Xiao Gongzi, how much to lose. It's not easy for this person, although it wasn't damaged by you, but it was damaged by someone else from your hands. ”

"No, no, no."

Li Xiao waved his hand and said, "I think you just see me as a bully, right?" ”

"What are these words?" Yang Shiqi was stunned.

Li Xiao smiled: "That ship, it was Lan Hao'er who blew up with artillery, right?" ”

Yang Shiqi nodded: "That's right." ”

Li Xiao said: "Be reasonable in everything, since it was Lan Chao'er who blew it up, what does it have to do with me, Lan Chao'er was arrested, but his father Lan Yu is still there, and the son and father repay the debt, you should go to Lan Yu to ask for money." ”

"Ask Lanyu for money"

The two of them were completely stunned, they just ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and they didn't dare to ask Lan Yu for money, wasn't that looking for death?

"How dare we ask the prince to lose money."

Tian Zhiwei cried.

"Take a look"

Li Xiao's fingers trembled, and he said angrily: "I just said that you eat soft and afraid of hard, and you dare not ask Lan Yu for money, so you dare to ask me for money, don't you see me as a bully?" ”

Tian Zhiwei wanted to cry without tears.

It seems that today's money is not coming.

Li Xiao smiled: "I said Mr. Tian, you said that you have been engaged in this business for generations, why are you so bad." ”

Tian Zhiwei sighed: "Hey, the backer in the family has fallen"

He is also telling the truth, doing business in the Ming Dynasty, small business is fine, but big business is really not good without a backer.

What kind of business to do, all levels of the court have to exploit some, even if you bring goods into the city, even the soldiers guarding the city gate have to exploit you, no background, most of the business is a debt.

Li Xiao said strangely: "The backer has fallen, how dare you make such a big boat?" I have to say, your ship is very well built. ”

Tian Zhiwei sighed, looked at Yang Shiqi and said, "Isn't it my friend who has become an official, so he wants to make a comeback." ”

"Huh?"

Li Xiao laughed heartily: "Your backer is this little magistrate?" ”

Yang Shiqi's face was full of embarrassment, and Tian Zhiwei was even more ashamed and regretful, he knew that he would not build a ship.

Li Xiao said earnestly: "Mr. Tian, you now know the truth that you can't do big business without a backer, right?" Someone blew up your ship, and you can't get the money back. ”

Li Xiao has long understood this.

This is a feudal society, a society in which people eat people.

So he crossed over, and when he was a farmer, he didn't dare to do anything, and honestly cultivated the land and farmed.

But now it's different, I have the identity of Zhu Di's son-in-law!

In addition, Zhu Di valued himself so much, he almost walked sideways.

Tian Zhiwei nodded and said, "Hey, bad luck." ”

Li Xiao changed his words and said, "How about I be your backer?" ”

Tian Zhiwei's originally sad face showed doubts, and he looked up at Li Xiao: "Xiao Gongzi, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Work with me and build a ship."

Li Xiao smiled: "Ordinary people don't bother to pay attention to it, but you do have some ability, the ship you built is of good quality, and it can pull so many people and goods back from Yangzhou, and there is no difference on the way, cooperate with me, I guarantee that you can make a comeback." ”

"Really?"

Tian Zhiwei immediately became excited.

It's a good thing to have a son-in-law of King Yan as a backer!

He looked at Yang Shiqi next to him, and said in his heart that the little county was really unreliable, and he almost went bankrupt.

"The little ones are willing."

Tian Zhiwei immediately responded to the agreement, "I just don't know how to cooperate with the silver. Can you come back? ”

"That silver, don't worry about it, I don't dare to ask Lan Yu for money."

Li Xiao smiled and said: "However, if you cooperate with me to build a ship, the benefits are indispensable to you, as for the profit sharing of cooperation, that is a later matter, you will temporarily live in my mansion, are you willing?" ”

"Yes, yes."

How dare Tian Zhiwei disagree, now that his family is bankrupt, he won't have any money for this trip anyway, and he can live in the house and eat and drink for nothing.

"Okay, then go down, I'll send someone to arrange a place for you to stay."

Li Xiao waved his hand and asked his subordinates to arrange him.

Yang Shiqi returned to Cangzhou.

Soon, Tian Zhiwei met his sailors and captains.

The captain was shocked: "Boss, why are you here?" ”

Tian Zhiwei said with a bitter face: "I'm embarrassed to say, if it weren't for you, I could have said this, why are you here?" ”

Captains and sailors: "The ship is gone, we have no work, we are here to make a living."

Tian Zhiwei: "."

O iniquity!

Nanjing, East Palace.

These days.

Prince Zhu Biao's life is not easy.

Lan Yu and Zhu Biao are uncles and nephews, Lan Yu is Zhu Biao's uncle, and Zhu Biao is Lan Yu's nephew.

Lan Hao'er was interrogated by the three divisions, and the evidence was conclusive, and he was pressed to the edict prison and immediately executed.

Zhu Biao's crown princess Chang Shi, the daughter of King Kaiping Chang Yuchun, and Lan Yu is Chang Yuchun's brother-in-law.

After getting the news, Lan Yu's family, Chang Yuchun's family, his son Chang Sheng, and many relatives came to Zhu Biao to intercede and save him from death.

Zhu Biao knew that this matter could not be done, and his father had already made up his mind.

"Lone can't make the decision on this matter."

Chang Sheng kept pleading: "No matter what, you have to delay until Lan Yu returns to Beijing, if you ignore it, are you worthy of the dead crown princess?"

In order to stop these relatives, Zhu Biao was really exhausted.

Zhu Biao was not in good health, but at night, he thought that his late crown princess had confessed to herself before her death, and she must protect Lanyu's family.

Thinking of this, Zhu Biao finally couldn't stand it.

With a pop, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Lan Hao'er has done a lot of evil, and Lone is really powerless and powerless!"

After Zhu Biao said this, he fainted on the bed.

(End of chapter)