Southland

Xie Zhan and his entourage finally returned home two days before the Chinese New Year.

When I entered the city, it was already evening.

The Xie family was in Xicheng, and when they were about to return, Xie Zhan couldn't help but lift the curtain of the carriage and take a look, at this time, their carriage happened to pass by a bookstore of the Lu family, and they saw a scholar carrying a basket coming out of it, and there were words in his mouth.

When the two sides staggered by, Xie Zhan clearly heard the scholar saying some complaining words.

When passing by the bookstore seriously, Xie Zhan glanced inside, and the business of the bookstore was not good or bad.

When he returned home, he went to see his mother and then his wife.

Zhao Yutan's postpartum recovery is okay, but her son's body is weak, which makes her eyebrows and eyes tinged with sorrow.

His son is now more than three months old, and because he was born less than a month, he currently weighs only eight or nine pounds.

Xie Zhan knew very well that this was already the result of careful care.

Later, after Xie Zhan had dinner with his mother and wife, he went into the study, and there were too many things waiting for him to deal with.

He first put the information to be processed into categories, thought about it, and took a look at the pile of information about Liaodong County.

These materials mainly record the recent events and changes in Liaodong County and even the entire Pingzhou.

From these written descriptions, Xie Zhan can get a glimpse of the prosperity of Liaodong County.

Xie Zhansi and Qin Sheng Xue Xu and his party scavenged the money and grain from the south, thinking that in this prosperity, they also contributed to the south.

Xie Zhan sorted out the direction and program of Liaodong County's governance for the year that he had collected.

Suppressing bandits, building roads, building fires, building academies, and engaging in plantation and breeding workshops, he found that everything they did was related to people's livelihood.

In the past six months, Nandi has mainly focused on solving the problem of post-disaster reconstruction for the disaster victims.

They organized the victims to return to their places of origin, or to settle nearby, and then helped them build or repair their houses, giving them a place to stay. In addition, the official roads and paths that were washed away by the flood have been repaired, and the bridges that have been washed away by the flood have been rebuilt to ensure that the roads are clear.

Originally, he thought that the Southland was well governed. But now that he saw the information, he found that compared to the vigorous development of Liaodong County, their southern land is really developing slowly.

Xie Zhan flipped through the information in his hand again, and his eyes fell on a piece of information, in order to let the local people have a good year, the grain and oil store of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce supplies a large number of salted fish, and each household is limited to ten catties?

Looking at this news, he unconsciously fell into deep thought.

At this time, Xie Zhan was keenly aware that there was a problem with the salt in Liaodong County. Then he remembered the 100 acres of land in Zhonglong City that the Lu family asked for compensation when they came to withdraw from the marriage.

When he went out during this time, in addition to meeting all kinds of talented people, he did not gain anything else.

This time, he went out and communicated with different capable people, which gave him a feeling of enlightenment and integration. He realized that he only knew what he had learned in the past, but not why.

Like now, he vaguely guessed the reason why the Lu family insisted on the 100 acres of land in Longcheng at the beginning, but whether the reason was as he speculated, he still needed to send someone to check one or two.

If it was really as he thought, Xie Zhan's eyes darkened. Salt and iron were under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and buying and selling them privately was tantamount to a crime.

At this moment, there was a knock on the study door.

Xie Zhan frowned slightly, "Come in—"

After the door opened, Zhao Yutan brought him a bowl of ginseng tea, "Husband, it's very late at night, isn't it time to rest?" ”

Zhao Yutan didn't mention it, but when she mentioned it, Xie Zhan only felt that a sense of exhaustion suddenly came up, he pinched his brows, and snorted.

Thinking that he would have to meet with Gu Huaisheng and other family heads tomorrow, Xie Zhan felt that it was indeed time to rest.

So he stood up like a stream, took the ginseng tea in her hand and drank it all, "It's really time to rest, thank you Madame for reminding me." ”

Seeing that he trusted himself so much, Zhao Yutan smiled.

Xie Zhan surrounded her, left the study together, went to see her son first, and then returned to the bedroom.

The next day, the current heads of the Nandi family gathered at the Xie family, Gu Xinsheng, Lu Fei and Zhang Liu.

At this meeting, Xie Zhan mainly wanted to unify the thoughts of the people on the ship, summarize this year, look forward to next year, and help them solve some problems by the way.

After everyone gathered, Xie Zhan couldn't help but ask about their recent business.

The four people present all shook their heads, since the flood, the economy of the Southland has been very sluggish, and their business is not easy to do.

Xie Zhan nodded, "Okay, I know, let's come one by one, and discuss it together to see if there is a solution." Master Lu, how is the business of your Lu family's bookstore? ”

Lu Fei said bluntly, "Since the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce bookstore did such a thing half a year ago, the business of Lu's bookstore has not been very good. "And they are often to blame, as long as they make the four treasures of the study a little more expensive, they will be used by the scholars. They would say, 'It's really expensive, if the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce bookstore was still there, it would definitely not be so expensive.' It's infuriating to listen to.

Although they gave a sum of money to the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce before, they asked the other party to withdraw from the south. But the other party used a knife of twenty wen snow paper to knock down the price of their silver paper. It can be said that in the past half a year, their Lu's bookstore has been losing money and making money, but it really hasn't made money.

"Hasn't Lu been studying how to improve the papermaking process in the past six months? Is there any progress? Xie Zhan asked again.

At this time, Lu Fei nodded, and a little smile appeared on his face, these days, their Lu family's papermaking master has been improving the papermaking recipe and trying to reduce costs.

Later, their papermaking process was indeed improved, but the selling price of 20 yuan for a knife can only be said to be not losing money, and the profit is really not much.

Xie Zhan thought for a moment and said, "In this way, if you Lu Clan improves the quality of the silver light paper, at least you can see that the quality is higher than the snow light paper." ”

Lu Fei frowned, "But in this way, the cost will go up again." ”

Xie Zhan said, "It's okay, let's sell books in the future!" ”

The bookstore of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce sells a kind of book, and they glue a knife or half a knife of paper into a book to sell. The books they sell are available in all kinds of thicknesses.

"Let's only make two hundred and forty sheets, and then sell them for three dollars."

The others were stunned when they heard this, so thick? And it's so expensive, will anyone buy it? You must know that the quality of snow-light paper is also good, and a knife only sells for 20 wen.

Xie Zhan continued, "On the title page of each book, one or two sentences of the ancient book are excerpted. You can tell the scholars that if you get a unique book, you can exchange it for a book. ”

Books have always been a unique treasure unique to the Scholar Valve. Not only does the Lu family have a lot of books, but their Xie family also has a lot of books.

The abundance of books is their advantage. And, pay for knowledge, shouldn't it?

Before, he thought badly, and always wanted to say goodbye to Liaodong County. But reading books are elegant and precious. Only people with background can raise outstanding readers, and they only need to grasp this part of the people.

After the others figured out the key, they couldn't help but praise, "Wonderful! Xie family master, in this way, Lu's paper will not be sold. "You must know that people who read books are very hungry for books and knowledge.