But he said that Si Qi returned to the East Courtyard, and before he could speak, Mrs. Xing couldn't wait to ask, "What's the matter?" Can you take it from your thrifty brother? ”

"I accepted it, and the fourth master said that he wanted to thank the second girl."

Mrs. Xing suddenly laughed silently, and secretly thought in her heart, since Li Weijian had collected the information, the matter would be half done. The rest depends on the mind of the eldest master.

turned his head to look, but saw that although the second girl Yingchun was sitting nervously, there was also a touch of joy on her face. Mrs. Xing was secretly annoyed in her heart, hating that she had never given birth to a son and a half daughter, otherwise how could such a good family affair be cheap to welcome the Spring Festival?

Just as he was thinking about it, a maid came to report that the eldest master had returned from the yamen.

The second girl hurriedly got up and retired, and Mrs. Xing made a few jokes before letting her retreat.

After a while, the eldest lord Jia Yu strode into the house. After waiting for the maid, Mrs. Xing went up and poured tea, and asked expectantly, "Master, what's wrong?" ”

"Humph!" Jia Yu took out a stack of deed from his sleeve, slammed it on the table, and said proudly: "Master, I am out of the horse, is there any reason to fail?" ”

Mrs. Xing suddenly smiled even more.

But today's case is over, the imperial businessman has transferred his ownership, and the driver has really kept his promise and paid the follow-up 2,000 taels of silver. The eldest lord Jia Yu got the silver, hurried to the yamen of the inner house, and bought 9,000 shares of the water company for 3,000 taels of silver.

Calculating the interest, Mrs. Xing said happily: "Three thousand taels of silver, twenty years to return to the capital......"

"Huh? This is a share of one top three, and it will be returned in five or six years, and the rest will be earned in vain. ”

"Eh, that's how it counts, it's five hundred taels of silver per year!" Mrs. Xing's heart became more and more moved, and she couldn't help but step forward and said, "Master, today I sent the maid to send the frugal brother to the frugal brother, saying that it was sent by the second girl, but the frugal brother accepted it." ”

The eldest lord Jia Yu squinted his eyes and thought about it, and said: "Don't worry, you let the second girl communicate with Brother Jian'er, it's best to ...... Well...... It's easy to talk about this matter. ”

What's best? Naturally, it is out of proportion!

When the time comes, his eldest lord Jia Yu is justified and urged, thinking that Li Weijian is only thirteen or four years old, and this stock will not be caught?

Besides, there is not much silver that can be used in the big house, and if you don't want to think about anything else, you can only watch the stocks and be greedy.

Mrs. Xing knew the temperament of the eldest lord Jia Yu, and she never regarded the second girl as a daughter, so she said: "Master, if I find a free time to take the second girl to burn incense outside the city, and when Brother Lian is not free, I just invite Brother Jian to join me." ”

"Well, you arrange it. Hey-" Jia Yu sat down and said in high spirits: "-If you want to do something, you must always give people some sweetness." ”

"Yes, I can save it."

A small courtyard in the northeast.

Nahan left, returned depressed, and said Xiuying. The little girl walked into the courtyard with her head bored, and Hongyu was drying her clothes.

Seeing Xiu Ying, he greeted with a smile: "Xiu Ying, why did you come back so early?" ”

"Sister Hongyu." After a muffled voice, Xiu Ying hung her head and went to the west chamber again. closed the door, and his shoes never faded, so he leaned straight on the kang, tilting his head and frowning.

got a leave today, and Xingchong rushed to find Wu Haiping, but Wu Haiping disappeared early in the morning. Later, after listening for a while, I found the small courtyard in the back street.

Across the wood door, I saw my brother grinning with bared teeth, sifting briquettes. A woman sat quietly, looking like she was holding her shoes under the eaves.

Xiu Ying felt a little wrong in her heart at that time, and then her brother introduced the woman named Qianxue, and ate in the small courtyard. When she left, Wu Haiping only gave one word of advice, and then helped Qian Xue pick up the dishes and chopsticks, but Xiu Ying was stunned.

There are five brothers and sisters in her family, the eldest sister and the second sister got married early, the third brother Wu Haiping, and Xiu Ying has a teenage brother behind her. Because of the early death of his parents, Wu Haiping has always supported the family business and supported their siblings.

Wu Haiping was most concerned about her, but this time, she clearly felt that her brother seemed to have changed.

Yes, my brother is also going to get married. In the future, it will be considered a family with that Qianxue.

Xiu Ying's heart was empty, with mixed tastes, and she shed tears at some point.

Hongyu dried the clothes, then came over to take a look, and saw that it was wrong, so he hurriedly came over and asked a few words. Hongyu is a talker, and in just a few words, she caused Xiuying to pour beans into a bamboo tube and express the boredom in her heart.

Hongyu leaned on the kang, took Xiu Ying in her arms, and said with relief: "I said on the day I came, build a pergola for thousands of miles, and there will be no banquet in the world, who will guard who will live for a lifetime?" Sooner or later, your brother will marry and have children, and you will be the same in the coming days.

You have followed the fourth master since Jinling, I see that the fourth master can't leave you for a while, I can't say that in the future, I have to call you an aunt. ”

Xiu Ying burst into tears and laughed, thinking about Li Weijian, her heart ironed a little, and said angrily: "You will make fun of me." ”

The little fist was lightly beaten, and Hongyu immediately shouted: "You have to be careful, even the fourth master was injured by you, and my body bones can't withstand it!" ”

Xiu Yingjiao was disgusted, and in a blink of an eye, she laughed with Hongyu.

This day passed in a hurry, and the next morning, when Li Weijian was practicing with Xiu Ying with a wooden knife, he felt that Xiu Ying seemed to be a little wrong. After thinking about it for a long time, I realized that it seemed to be ...... Xiu Ying's eyes became more and more eager when she looked at her?

After thinking about it, Xiu Ying is thirteen years old, women are already precocious than men, and they will reach the age of being able to marry in two years, is it normal to think crankily in my heart?

On this day, he still planned to live in seclusion, but when it was close to noon, he was found by Yan Fengzhen.

The second son of the squire family was extremely invisible, and when he entered the room, he pointed to Li Weijian's nose and said, "Okay, you Li Fusheng, you said that you will develop a rifling bed, why haven't you seen anyone for several days?" ”

Li Weijian laughed and said, "Brother Jingwen, I'm Taoguang Yanghui." ”

Yan Fengzhen was suddenly extremely depressed, and said: "It's so depressing, I just threw money at my creation, you are good, but a little trick actually tossed such a situation, not only did not lose money, but made a lot of money!" Huh? How long will the banquet be delayed if you owe me? ”

Li Weijian heard the strings and knew the elegant meaning: "That...... It's better to choose a day than to hit the day. ”

Yan Fengzhen sighed: "You are lucky, I'm afraid it won't be possible today, King Zhongyong can't find you, so he has to send me to find it." Li Da Xiucai, when will you have time to meet King Zhongyong? ”

Hearing this, where does Li Weijian have anything to say? hurriedly picked up, dressed neatly, called Wu Haiping to catch the carriage and went straight to the inner mansion.

The water affairs department of the inner government was newly established, and the articles of association were easy to say, but all the water companies under it were blank, and the blind man of the Zhongyong King couldn't find his head for a while, so he had to order someone to find Li Weijian to discuss.

The carriage left Ningrong Street, and after a short walk, dozens of craftsmen knocked down a house facing the street, and Liu Dazheng, a well-drilling craftsman, commanded people to erect scaffolding by hand to support the huge wheel.

Li Wei is frugal, this is to dig a well here.

Yan Fengzhen, who was beside him, said: "The inner government has made great efforts, and at the same time dug twenty wells, and ten water towers have been set up in the inner and outer cities of the Beijing Division. ”

This was the timetable listed in Li Weijian's article, and he didn't care about it. After walking for a while, he suddenly saw several soap officials pushing a car with a smell, and entered a large family in a grand manner, Li Weijian looked inexplicable in his heart, turned his head and asked Yan Fengzhen: "Brother Jingwen, that's-"

"The nitrate official came to scrape the nitrate, I haven't seen it for so long since I came to Beijing."

"I haven't seen it yet."

The places where saltpeter is produced in Dashun are either deep mountain caves or next door to the desert, and there is very little production in the Central Plains and Jiangnan. Now there is no synthetic ammonia, so Da Shun has to scrape white nitrate everywhere for military needs.

Li Weijian only remembered that Chile in South America was rich in saltpeter, but it was far away from the ocean and the transportation was inconvenient, so he was afraid that before the appearance of synthetic ammonia, this nitrate official would have to survive.

The carriage went around the imperial city and arrived at the Yamen of the Inner Mansion in a short time. The two got out of the car and handed over the waist card, went straight into the inner side hall and waited for a while, and then were led by the little official to see the loyal and brave king.

The King of Loyalty and Courage is in a great mood these days!

The household and the inner treasury are empty, and the saint wants to do things, so he can only keep drawing silver from the inner house. Since the beginning of the year, King Zhongyong has always been a clever woman who has no rice, and no matter how capable he is, he can't conjure up white flowers and silver out of thin air.

Coincidentally, there was a Li Weijian!

According to that Chen's operation, the wind and rain were suddenly stirred, and the clan and the nobles changed their methods to send silver to the inner house, for fear that if they were one step late, the shares of the water company would be gone.

It's wrong to be reluctant to sell according to Li Weijian's method, but I'm afraid that those few shares will have been sold out long ago! Rao is like this, and the inner government has also received two or three million silver!

Not only that, businessmen everywhere heard the wind and inquired about the way to buy shares. Now the King of Loyalty and Courage is full of confidence, and he only needs to sell it in a few days, and at least tens of millions of taels of silver can be collected!

Because he was loyal and brave, he was extremely polite to Li Weijian. Xu is in the heart of King Zhongyong, where is this Li Weijian, what kind of practical learning is the seedling? It is clearly the living God of Wealth!

He smiled and exchanged a few words, ordered the official to ask the water company about the pass, and then left Li Weijian and Yan Fengzhen for lunch, and then sent a Lang Zhong to politely send the two out of the inner house.

It was still early at this time, and Yan Fengzhen said: "You want to go back to life?" I'm going to take a trip to the Outer Castle Armament Temple. ”

Li Weijian smiled: "Coincidentally, I'm going too, just so let's go together." ”

The two got into the carriage, and Yan Fengzhen frowned and stared at Li Weijian: "Resurrection has always been targeted, this is going to the Armed Forces Academy, is it to find the things created by Master Chen?" ”

Li Weijian smiled and said, "Isn't Brother Jingwen the same? ”

"Forehead......" Yan Fengzhen scratched his head and said simply: "I have pondered a rifled bed, and the resurrection is also the same?" ”

Li Weijian shook his head with a smile, took out a scroll of drawings from his sleeve cage and handed it over. Yan Fengzhen took it and unfolded it to take a look, and immediately frowned. After a long time, he pushed his glasses and said, "Resurrection, what are you...... Steam engine? ”

"Well, let's make a model out of brass and see if it works."

After several years, except for the two years wasted on Maoshan Mountain, Li Weijian has worked hard for more than three years, and now he is finally going to try to build a steam engine.

Now I don't know how many years in the Western calendar, but Li Weijian remembers clearly that the steam engines that Watt and even the subsequent improvements were originally steam engines working at standard atmospheric pressure. One is that the pressure bearing capacity of the riveted cylinder is insufficient, and the other is that the pressure bearing capacity of the valve is not enough.

In his previous life, he had fiddled with his own hands, so this time he came to a ruthless job - a double-expansion steam engine that worked directly at four standard atmospheres!

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Rongguo Mansion.

Wang Xifeng led Ping'er and other maids and mothers-in-law into Mrs. Wang's courtyard from the east corner gate, and went to the main room to see the salute, and when she raised her eyes, she saw that Mrs. Wang was depressed.

Because she smiled, "Yo, who is this angry with, wife?" ”

Quietly waving her hand, Ping'er took the maid and mother-in-law and retreated. The aunt and nephew have always been close, so Wang Xifeng came to Mrs. Wang's side and waited for her to speak.

After a while, Mrs. Wang sighed and said, "The master is a man who doesn't care about everything, so ...... Don't count on it. ”

"Why don't you count on it?" Wang Xifeng raised his eyebrows and was anxious: "Nine thousand shares, there is an interest of five or six hundred taels of silver a year, which just makes up for the shortfall." My wife also knows that now there is a difference of thousands of taels of silver every year. ”

Mrs. Wang said, "How can I not know? Can...... But the old man listened to it and said that the share was bought privately by the eldest master early in the morning. The old man is a face-saving person, and he doesn't want to fight between brothers about this. ”

Hearing that the father-in-law privately took the share of the water company, Wang Xifeng was speechless for a while.

Mrs. Wang said angrily: "How can there be such a reason in the world? Since that share is for Rongguofu, it should be the silver in the public, where is there a quiet self to secretly take it? Feng girl, you have to go to the old lady to ask for an explanation about this matter. ”

Wang Xifeng's housekeeper doesn't know how many black pots she has carried for Mrs. Wang, and she is a good person, where will she listen to Mrs. Wang's words?

Because he said: "The old man has accepted it, and I am afraid that the old lady will say that it will provoke the relationship between the old man and the master." ”

Mrs. Wang was silent.

Wang Xifeng observed the words, and said after a while: "Madam, I just got a letter, and I don't know whether to say it or not." After a pause, she said directly: "Listening to what Wang Shanbao's family said, the thrifty brother of the sister-in-law's family has made a fortune this time." The water company is the idea of the thrifty brother, and the saint divided a part of the shares in order to repay his merits. ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing? ”

Mrs. Wang was shocked, and after a little calculation, wouldn't one percent of the shares get more than 200,000 taels of interest per year? This...... The east and west mansions are combined in one place, but I am afraid that it will not be worth two months' income.

Wang Xifeng said on the side: "It can be said that it is, who would have thought that Brother Jian was actually a big person, and I heard that he also got the blue eyes of a saint." The eldest lady quietly planned to marry the second girl to the thrifty brother, but she was afraid that she was also planning the money. ”

Mrs. Wang looked at Wang Xifeng, and the latter said, "Madam, I just wondered, is it not to find the eldest sister-in-law to talk to that frugal brother, he has a little leakage between his fingers, won't our family have it?" ”