Chapter 102

The New Year in Luzhou is coming, to be precise, the New Year of the Tang Dynasty is coming.

The Zhang and Wang family were preparing to spend a good New Year outside. In a few days, a batch of ships could come from the capital. The ships were carrying various goods that might be available during the New Year, as well as gifts from merchants who cooperated with the Zhang and Wang family and Li Xun.

Also there were people from the Yellow River Boat Tour. This was not invited by the Jingshui Boat Tour, but was discovered by the person who inquired about the news. It was said that the people from the Yellow River Boat Tour had already known that there were movements here, so they followed behind and prepared to implement the plan.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had already received this information in advance. They both found it a bit funny and felt helpless. People are really crazy about money. They dare to use it no matter what the plan is. The person who ran away from Jingshui Boat Train was able to contact the person who was on the Yellow River Boat Train.

Today, the two of them wore an extra piece of clothing and stood on the pier that had just been repaired and wandered in the sea breeze. Li Xun also followed behind the two, thinking about his own affairs.

"Xiaobao, you said that when the people who are traveling on the Yellow River are coming, should they suffer a loss? This time we make some profits from collecting fur scraps. It's better to help them and let them suffer a big loss. They won't follow that plan, otherwise the Yellow River will be affected a lot."

Wang Juan was a little soft-hearted. Even if she could help the boatmen after the Yellow River Boat Festival lost the money, the handover process would have some impact on the local economy, and she didn't want to cause too much turmoil.

Zhang Xiaobao has also considered such a thing. Any development will always be mixed with something that many people will not think about, that is, the loss in the process. This loss may have no effect on many people, but the person who is really hurt can only bear it themselves.

It was to deceive the Jingshui Boat Tourists and came up with that plan, but the Jingshui Boat Tourists were so stupid, not as smart as I imagined, saving a lot of trouble, and also advanced the action here a few days.

Zhang Xiaobao is really not the kind of person who tries hard to suppress other peers just to make money. He thought for a while and said, "Okay, if the people on the Yellow River Boat Tour have a good attitude, they will come here and suffer a big loss for the first time, and let them make a new plan by themselves. There is so much wealth in the sea, so don't worry about what kind of transaction they can steal.

If they are sensible, they may be able to join forces with them and make more money than they do on their own. Then our bought boats can do other things."

"What if their attitude is not good?" Wang Juan heard the most important meaning in Zhang Xiaobao's words.

"Then don't blame us for being merciless." Zhang Xiaobao replied very neatly.

"Your family is going to take action against the Yellow River boat?" Li Xun, who was following behind, heard the words of the two people and stepped forward and asked a few steps.

"I don't know, it depends on the purpose of the Yellow River boat. If you just want to seek cooperation, it's nothing. If you want to suppress our family, you can't wait for them to suppress them."

Zhang Xiaobao was afraid that the people who were traveling on the Yellow River would be too greedy, so that they would be likely to compete maliciously with him.

Li Xun didn't know what conflicts the two would have before, but he only knew that there was a false plan provided by the Zhang family. When he thought of the plan, Li Xun asked again:

"Xiaobao, do you think the corners of the fur they brought are useful? If you really use fish glue to stick them on things like that plan, what will be the sales?"

"Then you will lose your money. Fish glue can be used to make more money. Do you think it's so easy to make a portion of fish glue? It's impossible, but there are subsequent plans to supplement it, but that thing can actually be useful. For us, it's not clear to others."

When Zhang Xiaobao thought of seeing the fur and scraps of ships in the past few days, he had new ideas.

The three of them walked around to see the construction situation here, and then moved back.

At this time, the roads here have been almost done. Most of the roads leading to other places have been repaired. If the roads are farther away, the roads still have to be repaired.

More than 15,000 new people, in addition to being assigned to several counties, 5,000 people have become one county alone. Zhang Zhong has already written a memorandum to report it and asked the court to give a name. This is a good thing. I think the court will not refuse. If one more county is actually the extra tax on the rent and taxes for one place, and there will be more tributes.

Even if this year is affected by the disaster, you can still exempt all kinds of taxes for half a year and give tributes. In the long run, it is better to have one more county. Of course, there will be less in Qinzhou. Qinzhou will be under great pressure when it starts paying taxes in the second half of next year.

Old Man Bi and Old Man Zhang were also talking about this. The two of them are playing billiards very well now. At least they are two leaders in nursing homes, and ordinary people can't beat them.

"I said to Old Man Bi, if you teach your teachers, don't teach your children immediately, will it be bad if you let them eat and live for free? And there are so many people here, so the above will ignore it?"

Old Man Zhang hit it out, and the ball swayed in the very big bag for a few times and stopped. After all, he didn't go in. After seeing that Old Man Bi was only two balls left, he was anxious and began to talk about things that would bother Old Man Bi, hoping that Old Man Bi could also miss it.

Old Man Bi didn't care about this at all. He was thinking about how to score a second goal when he scored a goal. He heard Old Man Zhang say: "I don't let them teach their children now because I'm afraid that they will teach some of their previous bad habits to them, so that they can see more, listen more, and think more. At that time, I will take the exam for them personally. Those who can cooperate with the ideas here will leave. Those who cannot cooperate will give them a copy of Cheng Yi and let them leave.

When teaching and educating people, you cannot just look at the Master's knowledge, but also their moral character. Good people will naturally have nothing. What if bad people are taught bad people? I would rather not find so many people than let someone come and teach them.

As for people who have gone to Luzhou, there is no need to worry about this. The emperor will not say anything. No matter which state he is in, he is a commoner of the Tang Dynasty. I guess the emperor really hopes that more people will come here. The Zhang family's ability is not unaware of. As long as there are too many people, they can make more money.

Although some officials in the court, those literati students, and aristocratic families always say that farmers are expensive and businessmen are cheap, they really want to do something but they cannot do without merchants. How many people in the aristocratic families don’t have a lot of business?

If you leave people to Qinzhou, can Qinzhou have the ability to make so much money with the Zhang family? Not only does it make money, but it also produces a lot of grain, but also fish, meat and other things. In addition, the Zhang family can allow the people to live a better life, the court will be very willing to see this situation."

As he spoke, Old Man Bi hit the ball with a bang, and one of his worlds fell into the bag. He began to plot against another ball again. This shot was a little hard, and when he bounced back, he did not reach the designated position, which seemed difficult to hit.

Old Man Zhang is now old and can only talk to Bigou like this, otherwise he would not be as good as Bigou by his identity. Moreover, his master does not have such a large official position yet, and he has experienced a lot of things, but after all, he cannot understand Bigou so thoroughly about some things.

After hearing Old Man Bi's words this time, he didn't think about whether he could win this game. He thought carefully and wrote down Old Man Bi's words and said, "Old Man Bi, you are still capable. That's true. If I used to be a housekeeper in the master, who is the one below, I will send other people to him when I go out to do things.

Since the Zhang family has such ability, they should really give him more rights. I think the more than 36,000 people in the hands of the Zhang family have done more than 100,000 people in other places. Just look at the enthusiasm of the people to work now. Why do you think this is?"

While talking, Old Man Zhang secretly moved a flower ball on his side to the right position. His eyes were staring at Old Man Bi, for fear that Old Man Bi would find out. The main reason was that Old Man Bi hit the ball on the side of the case just now, and he had hope again.

Old Man Bi's eyes were irrelevant. As soon as he saw Old Man Zhang dared to cheat, he immediately said, "Can you still play that ball? If you don't play this game, you will lose."

"Yes, yes, the wind blows, and I just saw that I actually moved my position." Old Man Zhang didn't blush at all. Perhaps he had already trained and moved the ball back and found a reason casually.

Seeing that he put the ball on, Old Man Bi said: "How many people are not important. What is important is how to organize their work. Luzhou is different now than elsewhere. Other places are to let the people do whatever they want. Do you know why?

Because officials in those places don’t have the ability to know whether they can do what they can do well in the end. If they don’t do it well, then organize the people to do it. The end result is that the people’s lives will be worse. They don’t have that great ability, the courage, and the ability to organize them. Naturally, they will not dare to arrange things like the Zhang family, like the Zhang family.”

When Old Man Bi spoke, he was also very moved. He had not felt this way at once. The two masters from the Zhang family who had never found seemed to have a special ability, that is, no matter how many people were instructed, they could command them.

Old man Zhang suddenly opened his head and nodded and agreed: "Yes, yes, yes, that's it. The Zhang family can see what will happen in the future and guess it very accurately. There is also the command and dispatch of the Zhang family. The money is not bad, and the people's arrangements can also use everyone's advantages.

More than 36,000 people were arranged for everyone, and I don’t know how they did it. If I were to say more than 36,000 people, I would be confused if I had more than 360,000 people, especially if I could arrange things for my little kids, it was really a matter of detail.

This was made by the two masters of the Zhang family who were hidden and unable to find it? As some individuals said, they had no choice but to make a plan. They had a pair of swords together. Unfortunately, they couldn't see them at first and did not dare to force them. Otherwise, if they could not find someone, they would leave the Zhang family and go to another country and would be sinners."

Old Man Zhang actually wanted to meet two masters in the legendary Zhang family for a long time, and he mentioned it twice, but he didn't give him this opportunity at all, making him unable to think of any good solutions. He also dared not use any threatening means, as something could easily happen.

Old Man Bi felt upset when he heard that the master could not meet. Recently, he found that the people responsible for coordinating the dispatch were Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. He could not have imagined that the two little kids were the masters, but from the scheduling of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, he found that the two seemed to be more powerful than before.

He could be in charge, which made him yearn to meet the two masters who taught Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. After teaching for a few years, his apprentices were so powerful, let alone masters. It would be best if they met and talked about it.

Unfortunately, those two people couldn't find them. Even when everyone was hiding on the mountain together, he sent people to observe them one by one but couldn't see which one was.

With my worries, the ball was not as accurate as before. Now I gave Old Man Zhang a chance. Old Man Bi just raised his own ball with the case, and Old Man Zhang seized the opportunity and scored three goals in a row, with four left on the table, and it seemed that he had hope of fighting.

With a bang, Old Man Zhang scored another goal and happily continued to find the next place to play. He said to Old Man Bi: "The cement thing has come out. Put some stones and wires in it. I looked at it. It's solid. You don't have to worry about falling when you use it to repair the house.

If you build a city wall, as long as the guards are not deceived by others to go out to meet the enemy, as long as the city has sufficient food and staff, no matter how others attack, don’t worry. Do you have to transfer some people to come to visit the guard? Otherwise, if you can give this prescription to others, it will be troublesome to use it to deal with us."

"Transfer people? There is no need to do this. I really think it's so easy to do? Most people don't want to get prescriptions. Just look at the Zhang and Wang family. The people they use to do this are from the inner courtyard, and they are not alone. Whether they are working or working for dinner or resting, there are people guarding each other.

After the Zhang family made this thing, they would naturally understand the use of it. How could they not pay attention to it? In addition to the trust of the people here now, it is difficult for ordinary people to get a prescription."

Old Man Bi is not worried about this matter. If the person transferred is bribed by someone, it is the biggest hidden danger. I didn’t see that the Zhang family didn’t even need the guards of the royal palace, but I just were afraid that someone would know that Fangzi was bribed.

The two of them were talking and playing, and as they were talking, their minds stopped playing.

At this time, Cao and Rui also received a letter from Qinzhou. The letter first said some ordinary little things, and finally pointed out the recipe for the three of them to find a way to get the cement.

"Two, Governor Ning gave the task to ask the three of us to get the prescription from the Zhang family, which is the cement that repairs things. Let's talk about what to do."

Cao Herui found Fan Jianxi and Jiang Huanshi. The three of them sat in the yard and drank, but they didn't seem to be so comfortable. The main reason was that this task was too difficult to complete.

The Zhang family firmly controlled the kiln burning area and did not allow people outside to approach it. There were still very empty places around, making it impossible to hide.

Jiang Huanshi took a sip of wine, tapped the plate with chopsticks, and said first: "I think we can see what they usually make into the yard. As long as we know what we do, it will be easy to do. The method of doing it is clear. Judging from the smoke coming out of the yard, we use burning to make the cement.

Since I can't get in the yard, I start with their raw materials. With so much cement, how can I not keep buying materials from outside? I have arranged for people to go there and follow their cart to transport things. As long as I find the place, I will know what they have made of."

Fan Jianxi heard this and shook his head, "I have thought about this, but it won't work. It's like their fireworks and firecrackers. I know it, it's saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. No matter how you do it, you can't make them, especially the fireworks, where there are very small balls.

The governor Ning also knew the recipe for this fireworks. He was looking for someone to make it, waiting to see if he could make it. If possible, he would tell him the raw materials for making cement that the Zhang family transported back and forth."

Two people also know that learning from others is not that easy. The key to these raw materials that need to be prepared lies in the prescription.

"Yes, I only know that the raw materials are useless at all, especially the small balls in the fireworks. I took a closer look. They were indeed those three things, but how did they make them? When I learned to make firecrackers, a little fire was a puff, and a smoke came out and there was nothing else.

If you want to make it into a ball, no one dares to try it. Last time, all the things were gone and the people were injured. They just wanted to use things to force the three things together. I hope that the governor Ning can make some progress. What is most worrying is that when the Zhang family came in from outside, they deliberately added more other things, so that they could not tell what they were doing."

Cao Herui picked up a chopstick of eggs and stir-fried leeks, and sent them to the mouth and chewed them while saying, seeing the two of them looking thoughtful, he said, "Actually, what I worry most is not whether I can get the prescription. Even if I can't make it, I won't make things difficult for me, after all, that prescription is not something easy to make.

The most worrying thing is that once Zhang Zhong knows that we want to make this prescription, he will not be so unfair to us as he does now. He has a good reason, that is, the goods that he has not yet gone to. Even if they have received the batch of goods, they will say that they have not received it and push the fault on us. Do you think we can still do it?"

When Fan Jianxi and the other two heard this, they remembered that the three of them were still living a worried life. If Zhang Zhong really discovered it, the trouble would seem to be great.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt this. Jiang Huanshi was so excited that she stood up and walked towards her yard. At the same time, she said to the two of them: "No, I have to give some instructions to the people sent out. Never reveal their strength. Is there any better if Zhang Zhong gets caught?"

As he spoke, his figure had disappeared in the yard. The remaining two people were still sending people out. They were not worried. When Jiang Huanshi came back, they sat there and drank together.

"Master, should someone stop and beat those things up. What if they accidentally explode them?"

In Ning Mansion in Qinzhou, the housekeeper said to Ning Zhongze that the firecracker recipe was already known at home, which was three things. There seemed to be some individual things in the fireworks, but it is impossible to know yet. In order to make the same thing, the Ning family has started to try again and again, but as long as those things are stained with a little spark, they will burn at the same time, which is so fast.

Ning Zhongze was about to come up with what the Zhang family could do. When he knew the prescription, he could do it. As a result, he heard a rumbling sound. He heard the noise from the place where the firecrackers were made, and the two of them became nervous immediately.

"Let's go, come and see what happened?" Ning Zhongze looked at the smoke rising from the other side and walked towards the other side. The housekeeper was also surprised, not knowing what was going on there.

After passing through a courtyard gate, they arrived at the place. When the wind blew, a pungent smell floated over, making the two of them feel tight. After walking forward again, they saw traces of something burning by fire.

In addition to this, there were a few people lying there and yelling.

"What happened?" Ning Zhongze saw that the people lying on the ground were still exchanging, so he felt relieved.

"When I come back, the things used to make firecrackers are broken. Our people are there, and we are rushing the ball hard. I don't know what's going on, so we rumbling and blown away everything. Fortunately, there are not so many things called gunpowder around that person. Fortunately, some people were injured and no one died."

A man who was lying on the ground stood up, looked at the people around him and the few who were still lying on the ground, and said to Ning Zhongze.

"Has that thing been made? It seems that the Zhang family must have put some things into this gunpowder that some people are not proud of. Okay, if you know this, go to heal the wound first and find someone else to do the work here."

Ning Zhongze still doesn’t know what balls are in the fireworks. He gently opened them. He saw that they were indeed those three, but he couldn’t do it here, it was strange.
Chapter completed!