Compare cement with stone of unknown mark? Can that compare?

Li Weijian hurriedly stopped it, and said that it would take a few days for him to cast the pillar with cement, and then ask the teacher Yan Xiyao to try it.

The matter of changing rice to mulberry is now just a letter of advice from a Jiangnan official, and the court has not yet made up its mind. According to the rules of Dashun, I am afraid that this matter will not come to a result after a quarrel a year ago.

A few more days passed, and it was already the middle of the wax moon. Li Weijian really used a carriage to pull a cement pillar, Yan Xiyao looked for two people with big shoulders and round waists, picked up their arms and smashed them with a hammer for a long time, but they only smashed a few pits out of the potholes.

Li Weijian has invested in this time, using the cement with the best calcination effect several times, the mortar and river pebbles in the inside are mixed, and the net is woven with bamboo tendons around it, so it's strange to be able to smash it!

Yan Xiyao watched for a long time, and appreciated this disciple more and more. Immediately stepped forward and inquired carefully about the labor and materials, and heard that it was just lime, clay and crushed iron slag calcination, mixed mortar, pebbles and bamboo had such an effect, how did Yan Xiyao calculate, the cost of this cement was much lower than that stone.

This thing is not limited to repairing rivers, cofferdams, and ponds, but it is less than half of the cost of throwing stones.

"Is this thing really not afraid of flooding?"

"Don't be afraid. It often needs to be watered and maintained, so that it can be used for a long time. ”

Yan Xiyao praised it a few times, and couldn't help but sigh: "The ability to resurrect and learn to create things is far inferior to being a teacher." ”

Li Weijian arched his hand and said: "The teacher's heart is the national economy and the people's livelihood, how can he have time to think about the creation of things?" ”

Yan Xiyao bowed slightly, and said, "Resurrection created this thing, I'm afraid that I already have a plan in my heart, right?" ”

"Yes." Li Weijian was about to speak, but Yan Xiyao stopped talking.

The two of them entered the study and dismissed the servants, and Li Weijian explained the plan in his heart in detail. The disaster of the Huanghuai River has continued to this day, and the Huaihe River basin is the ninth disaster in ten years, which is why it has led to the land of fish and rice, and now it is necessary to allocate grain from Huguang and other places.

Li Weijian's ultimate goal must be to harness the Yellow River and the Huai River and find a new outlet for the Yellow River. By the way, all the flooded rivers in the south of the Yangtze River have been rectified, so that countless fields can be silted.

Then Li Weijian's plan is simple, in the name of the inner government, he went to Jiangnan to raise funds and prepare to build a river company. Then I went to negotiate with the state and county yamen that the river would be repaired free of charge, and all the fertile land that had been silted out would be owned by the river company. Just tidy up a section of the river, the Jiangnan gentry see the benefits, and when the river company reorganizes the river, they can empty the white wolf and have a pre-sale.

In this way, the river company was able to expand in a very short period of time.

said that he planned in his heart, and Yan Xiyao in front of him had a different face. This cheap disciple is really powerful! He Yan Xiyao only thought that it was convenient and cheap to cast a cement city and repair a pond, and Li Weijian was already thinking about how to use this thing to get a large amount of money.

The south of the Yangtze River is rich, with ten or twelve taels of high-grade paddy fields, and saline-alkali and tidal flats can also be sold for a thousand wen. The river company controls the floods, so the silted up fertile land is not only one million acres? The little cement was tossed out by this disciple in a blink of an eye, a behemoth comparable to Jingshi Water.

At this time, Yan Xiyao had already expected that unless his disciple rebelled and committed the great crime of robbing his family and exterminating the clan, he would have to be protected from top to bottom, this is really a living God of Wealth!

Seeing the contemplative look on his teacher's face, Li Weijian thought for a while and said, "In the coming day, the river company will leave three shares for Brother Jingwen?" ”

Yan Xiyao came back to his senses and hurriedly waved his hand: "There is no need for so much, the price is clearly marked, just let him buy a point." ”

Li Weijian should inherit it. Yan Xiyao turned to say: "Resurrection, can you know why Chen Hongmou has to change rice to mulberry? ”

"The teacher said earlier that this move was to appease the Jiangnan gentry...... Isn't that right? ”

"Not quite." While speaking, Yan Xiyao found a copy of the newspaper from the table, handed it over and said, "You can look through it and find out." ”

"This is-" Li Weijian glanced at the newspaper, only to see that there was still foreign text on it. On closer inspection, it turns out that the statistics of the English East India Company are quoted in the cantata.

This newspaper is extremely thick, knowing that he will not be able to read it for a while and a half, Yan Xiyao sent Li Weijian home to take a closer look.

Li Weijian returned home and spent a full day before he finished reading the newspaper. After seeing it, I sighed in my heart, no wonder Chen Hongmou paid attention, the saint was tempted, it was really a wealth that touched people's hearts!

This lists the East India Company's purchases in Guangzhou in the past ten years, and uses this to estimate the production and sales data of various products of Dashun.

After the rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the mulberry silk weaving in the north has long declined, the output of Bashu is limited, and Guangdong is in the ascendant, because Jiangnan is the largest mulberry silk weaving production area in the world.

According to the East India Company's calculations, 77,000 quintals of silk were produced in Jiangnan in the previous year, of which 71,000 quintals were commercial silk, worth 12 million taels of silver!

The output of silk fabrics was 49,000 quintals, worth 14,550,000 taels of silver!

Combined, they are worth 26,500,000 taels. In addition, Susong alone in Jiangnan produces 45 million pieces of cloth per year, which is 12.5 million taels according to the median of 3 coins of silver per horse!

Where is the mulberry silk weaving and cotton and linen in one place, Jiangnan produces nearly 40 million taels per year, but how much does the imperial court actually collect from Jiangnan? Less than 400,000 taels!

Forty million taels, twenty draws one is also two million taels. It is no wonder that Chen Hongmou and the sage have moved their minds, but they are afraid that after changing rice to mulberry, this place in the south of the Yangtze River will be strictly investigated for commercial taxes.

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said that Li Weijian returned home on this day, but he didn't see Fu Qiufang. After asking Qingwen, I found out that it was Mrs. You who dared to love today, and Fu Qiufang had a good time in the end.

It wasn't until it was close to dinner that Fu Qiufang returned. The two sat idly in the room, and Li Weijian asked, "Why do you want to go to You's house to join in the fun?" ”

Fu Qiufang said: "It's a good family, and I heard that there are two more pleasant people here today, so the concubine wants to go and see it for a long time." ”

Li Weijian smiled: "Did you have a lot of knowledge?" ”

Fu Qiufang wanted to speak and stopped, and suddenly burst out laughing. After laughing for a while, he told the story.

But it was said that on this day, You Lao Niang was on her birthday, because the house in the outer city was rented out, and You gave You Lao Niang 20 taels of silver to make her birthday, because this birthday banquet was naturally pompous.

The banquet was called by the restaurant, and the troupe was invited to sing. I don't know who invited me, even the children of the Liuguo family came to have fun and pretended to be a little student.

Fu Qiufang sat with the second sister and the third sister, and listened to the third sister's careful inquiry, the son of the Liu Guogong family was named Liu Xianglian. The third sister immediately moved her mind, but she just stared at Liu Xianglian, and she didn't even eat much at the banquet.

Fu Qiufang was originally careful, thinking that it was either peaceful or pleasant, but as a result, the two pleasant people were not as decent as You Lao Niang. Because it is gradually letting go, I talked to a few people.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, someone suddenly came to the door. But it was a father and son surnamed Zhang, who said that they had a marriage contract with their second sister, and this time they came to urge them to get married as soon as possible.

You Lao Niang's face changed greatly, and she drove her subordinates to beat the two away, and chased them out for a long time. It made Fu Qiufang see a lot of jokes.

After that, the mood was broken, and the birthday feast was dispersed in a hurry.

After saying this, Fu Qiufang restrained her smile and said: "The concubine has carefully observed the second sister and the third sister today, the second sister has a soft temperament and is a little greedy and vain; The third sister is a thorny one. If the master wants to accept it, he only accepts the second sister, and the third sister is afraid that it is not a good match. ”

Li Weijian looked stunned: "How did this mean that I want to take a concubine?" When did I say that? ”

Fu Qiufang glanced at him and said, "The old man is thin, and he always has to spread the branches. The second sister looks like a good ......."

Li Weijian couldn't cry or laugh, but he was afraid that Fu Qiufang would definitely think that he was a young man Mu Ai, and he couldn't help but be tempted by beauty.

Fu Qiufang saw that he didn't want to mention more, so he turned to the matter of purchasing.

At this time, it was freezing cold, but it was just time to save the fish. Approaching the end of the year, Zhuangzi from all over Liaodong rushed to Beijing to sell, Fu Qiufang took the opportunity to buy roe deer and venison, and saw that there were people who bought tiger bones, so he gave up the silver money to buy a pair of wine for Li Weijian.

In addition, Japan's tatamari, Jinmen's fresh fish, Jiangnan silk, cloth, cellar apples, Guangnan citrus, and forests were bought, and more than 1,000 taels were spent.

is also due to the small population of the family, and it is expected that the situation of Rongguo Mansion will not be able to come in the New Year.

said that the New Year's gifts were prepared for various places, Fu Qiufang said: "Master, no one will come to the door this year, right?" ”

"It's hard to say-" There are only a few families that are deeply involved with Li Weijian, the Yan family, the Zhongyong Wang, the Rongguo Mansion, and the Zhongjing Marquis Mansion, in addition, the Great Sikong has cut off contact since that time, and the rest are only Jin merchants, Hui merchants and other merchants.

Li Weijian secretly thought to himself, this is the New Year, and a few bookstores in the Inner Mansion will not go to their own homes to go through the back door, right?

Everyone knows that the King of Loyalty and Courage has great faith in him, and maybe someone will take a risk.

After thinking about it, Li Weijian said: "Let's just put a red paper bag in front of our door." ”

This rule has been followed since the previous Ming Dynasty, and officials are busier than usual during the Chinese New Year, and there is really no time to entertain those who come to visit the New Year. Because there is a red paper bag left in front of the door, simply to pay New Year's greetings, just leave a name post. Those who insist on seeing must have prepared a generous gift.

Fu Qiufang responded, and listed the gift lists sent to various places. Among them, Yan Xiyao is Li Weijian's mentor, and the King of Zhongyong has the grace to support him, so this gift is naturally heavier; Li Weijian borrowed Jiafu for more than half a year, and Fu Qiufang thought of this, and added a few more, which were similar to these three; Only the Zhongjing Marquis Mansion remains, and this gift is a little thin.

After Li Weijian saw it, he thought: "Only one car is not very good-looking, and the fruits and vegetables in the greenhouses on the left and right are almost the same, and the family will send a car when the time comes." ”

Fu Qiufang was stunned, and then smiled: "It's still thoughtful and thoughtful." In these ten winter months, eating some melons, fruits and green vegetables must be refreshing. After a pause, he said: "The concubine was still scolding the greenhouse a while ago, but now she has really harvested fruits and vegetables, and the old man is really capable." I just don't know if this fruit and vegetable can be sold—"

Li Weijian shook his head and said, "People like us are not so bad for money." The fruits and vegetables grown in the greenhouse, in addition to the ones you eat, are often given to relatives and friends. However, if there are outsiders who want to learn this greenhouse technology in the future, Qiu Fang can send it out. ”

"Is the master willing?"

"What's reluctant?" Li Weijian said with a smile: "If it spreads, it won't delay me from eating fresh fruits and vegetables, so I can't say that it will be spread out, and I can eat fresh fruits and vegetables when I go to other places as a guest in the future." ”

As she was talking, Xiu Ying suddenly opened the door and entered, and then walked eagerly in front of Li Weijian, her eyes full of expectation.

Squirmed and said, "Master~"

"Speak well!"

Xiu Ying pouted and said, "I see that watermelon is almost ripe." ”

Li Weijian was suddenly overjoyed. Since the melon vine bloomed, this girl went into the greenhouse to watch when she had nothing to do, and watched the watermelon grow bigger little by little, and today, she finally couldn't hold back her saliva.

Li Weijian said: "Pick it, pick it, look at you, you've been thinking about it for a while." ”

Xiuying was immediately overjoyed: "Then I'll pick it!" I don't know, I have a good eye, it's very sweet! ”

Xiuying turned around and ran, and after a while, Qingwen, Hongyu, and Xiangling all entered the main room, chattering about whether the watermelon was sweet or not.

After another half of the hour, the door was almost knocked open, and Xiu Ying ran in with a quilt in her hand.

"Where's the watermelon?"

Qingwen asked.

Xiu Ying walked two steps quickly, put it on the table with a bang, opened the quilt to reveal the watermelon inside, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the watermelon will freeze bad, so I just wrapped it in a quilt." ”

This move naturally attracted a lot of attention from everyone, but Xiu Ying didn't care at all, and only stared at the watermelon.

Li Weijian saw that his eyes couldn't be pulled out, so he stopped everyone's talking, ordered to bring a knife, did it himself, and inserted a knife into it, and then heard a click, and the watermelon cracked into a fine crack.

Slowly cutting it, Xiu Ying waited on the side and watched with her feet crossed, and saw that the melon inside was bright red, Xiu Ying suddenly shouted: "Red flesh!" It's sweet to look at! ”

Half of the watermelon was cut into small pieces, knowing that it was too greedy, Li Weijian handed a piece to Xiu Ying first. Xiu Ying forcibly endured her saliva and waited for everyone to share it, especially Li Weijian took a bite first, and then took a small bite.

The bright red melon pulp in the mouth, refreshing and revealing the unique sweetness of watermelon, Xiu Ying's eyebrows and eyes were bent suddenly, and she enjoyed it very much.

Xiangling said: "In the past, I only heard people say that in the bitter cold place outside the gate, there is snow in August, and the people eat watermelon around the stove. I don't want us to be able to eat watermelon in winter like this in Jingshi now. ”

Xiu Ying said vaguely: "Not only is there a watermelon, but I see that the melon is almost ripe." ”

Qingwen suddenly said: "You run in the greenhouse three or five times a day, I'm afraid that all your thoughts are about eating." ”

While laughing, the housekeeper Qian Xue suddenly came to report: "Master, aunt, several girls, the You family next door came to ask for help, saying that there was a thief at home." ”

The main room was quiet, and Qingwen was puzzled: "Since you are a thief, you can report to the Yamen of Tianfu, why did you come to find the master?" ”

The data cited are those listed in the articles "The Sprout of Chinese Capitalism", "A Spot Record", and "Sikkim Knowledge", but they are from around 1813. How can Dashun develop better than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, right?

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