Chapter 510 Collection of Everything

To kick is to kick, and the boy who said this is Su Shi.

He once disagreed with Sima Guang about something and said: "My Lord, this argument can be called a bastard's fault."

Sima Guang didn't understand: "How can the bastard be able to defeat his son??"

Su Dongbo nodded: "Yes! That's why I say he's a bastard!"

I have had this bad mouth all my life, but this has not happened yet.

Mrs. Zhang never had any children, so Sima Guang adopted his brother's son and named him Sima Kang as his adopted son.

As an old couple, Sima Guang looked at Madam Zhang's face and asked, "Why is there something good happening at home? Madam is so happy."

Mrs. Zhang smiled and said, "Didn't the officials notice any changes in the family?"

Only then did Sima Guang realize that the furnishings in his home had changed.

Mrs. Zhang then smiled and said: "Today the officials were getting their salaries. The old servant went to the Accounting Department to get a discount. He saw a large market opened nearby called 'Wanhuoji', so he went in and took a look around.

It’s a novelty.”

"After he came back and told me, I went to have a look and replaced all the old tables and chairs at home."

Sima Guang, like Wang Anshi, never cared about these things at home. He couldn't help but asked worriedly: "You didn't move around in my study, did you?"

Mrs. Zhang said: "The study must be moved..."

Before he finished speaking, Sima Guang turned around and left. He strode to the study and took a look, and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

Mrs. Zhang followed up: "Look, sir, the windows have been replaced with large glass, which makes the room much brighter. This is a desk with drawers. All your bits and pieces are stored in the drawers."

Sima Guang sat on the chair behind the desk, then stood up again: "Okay, this chair is good and comfortable to sit on."

Mrs. Zhang smiled and said: "The back of the chair is curved, which looks weird, but you can only see the benefits after sitting on it."

After speaking, he pointed to the lamp on the table: "This is a platinum gas lamp. When reading at night, officials don't have to worry about the darkness."

Then he pointed to the bookcases that covered a wall behind the desk: "There are many kinds of new bookcases. There are many books for officials, so I chose the one with the most compact structure. The books are all placed in boxes and placed vertically. Where will the officials see them in the future?

You can extract them at will and see them clearly at a glance."

"Unlike before, if you want to read the books under the book box, you have to rummage through the boxes."

Sima Guang looked at the bookshelf that reached the top: "I thought I had a lot of books, but now it seems... Madam, with such a high shelf, how will you get the books on it in the future?"

Mrs. Zhang called the old servant, who took out a folding ladder from the side of the bookshelf, opened it, climbed up and said, "Junshi, that's all."

The old servant had brought Sima Guang up since he was a child. Sima Guang quickly greeted him: "Old uncle, come down quickly. You know what's going on."

Mrs. Zhang said: "In the future, you can't go up and down in person. If you need any books, ask my uncle to help you get them."

There are many small furnishings on the desk, such as pen holders, pen holders, quills, pencils, small folding knives, and a ruler made by Seruluo. In addition to patterns, there are also scales...

Sima Guang picked up a delicate and strange brass thing: "What is this?"

The old servant took a piece of rice paper, cut it into small sheets, and then folded them neatly. When he put it in the thing and pressed it, the paper was nailed in place with small lead nails: "I heard this is called a stapler. I think it's true."

It should be useful, so I bought it back. By the way, there are also paper clips here..."

Sima Guang put his hand on his forehead: "Su Mingrun made a big statement, saying that after officials' salaries are paid out with treasure notes, they don't have to worry about the inconvenience of life. Now it seems that most of my salary this month has gone into this Wanhuoji, right?"

Mrs. Zhang blushed and took Sima Guang to the hall: "Oh, why are you talking about this? There is delicious food tonight. It is said that when yeast powder is added to the flour, the dough will grow by 30% after an hour, and the steamed buns will not be as good as

Zhou's case of steamed buns... The officials don't know, Wan surname Ji is currently doing some kind of sales with prizes, and you can also draw a lottery when you buy something, just like Guanba..."

Sima Guang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Is it that I don't know something? I'm afraid that all of you will fall into Su Mingrun's trap without knowing it..."

Wanhuoji, a large shopping mall, was naturally Su You's idea.

The previous salary payment method actually felt a bit like a rigid apportionment. This is the reason why the lower-level officials complained endlessly.

Now that it has been changed to treasure money, how to take their money out of their pockets requires real skills.

The royal internal treasury requires money, but also production materials, which are actually a lot.

Many things have been accumulated for a long time, such as alumite, which is a water-containing crystal. Many of them turn into powder once they lose water.

In the past, the internal storage warehouse was used to dispose of these powders at a penny a pound.

The same goes for coal. When the lump coal is used up, the remaining pulverized coal in the warehouse will be sold casually for a penny or a pound.

The rest include various colored silk threads, cloth, bamboo and wood...

It is really like "taking all the baht and using it like sand."

Now that Su You is here, naturally it will not be so absurd. The alumite loses water, melts and recrystallizes, and it can also be purified by the way.

The pulverized coal is sent to Zhengzhou Shijia Briquettes Factory, which is an outsourcing business. They add some money to make briquettes and then sell them back.

The silk thread is processed into small thread rolls, and ten colors of silk thread are combined into a set. Together with various types of steel needles and thimbles, this is the female red set.

Various scrap wood can be transformed into short boards and wooden posts, and coupled with screws, nuts and metal loose leaves, it can be made into various shelves, wooden cabinets, chairs and stools, etc.

It is definitely not used by high-ranking officials and large households, but it is also extremely popular for use in shops, restaurants, and small households.

Even the sawdust and shavings were collected by Su You, and the particles were returned to the warehouse.

These two things are easy to carbonize and can be used as additives and stabilizers for explosives.

In short, under Su You's hands, there is not a single waste product.

The orders for various workshops under Zhou An suddenly increased sharply. To meet the needs of all the officials in Bianjing City, they really had to work overtime.

The ones that have been damaged are the small workshops in Bianjing City. However, today's small workshops all have their own special skills, such as carpentry. In fact, Zhou's case only occupies the market needed by the general public, merchants, and low-level officials. The real

They are expensive, and the high-end products used by dignitaries have to be made by hand.

In fact, this has opened up a large market, targeting the middle and lower class citizens, and it is also the largest market in Bianjing City.

For example, wheat noodles. The wheat noodles sold by Wan Jiguan Guefang are said to be ground from wheat picked out from Changping Cang. Their whiteness and fineness are certainly incomparable with those from Sitong Store. The quality of the steamed buns is also very good.

It's not as good-looking as the white-flour steamed buns, but at least the middle- and lower-middle-class people can eat two meals of vegetarian dumplings in a month. When I get home in the middle of the night, my wife can turn on the fire door of the briquette stove and have a bowl of vegetarian noodles, right?

What makes the citizens of Bianjing most happy is that in the Wanhuoji, there are several things that were only used by the royal family and officials in the past, but are now available for sale to the public!

Yellow and white copperware! Colorful glassware! Colorful glazed jade porcelain!

On the opening day, these three counters were crowded with people. People were waving their precious coins crazily, and there was a fierce rush to buy.

That formation reminded Su You of the situation in the early days of reform and opening up when people rushed to buy TV sets in front of department store counters.

The Kaifeng Mansion was alarmed. Lu Gongzhu was adjusted to this position because of his refutation of Zhao Xu's edict to dismiss Sima Guang from his position as Censor Zhongcheng and to grant him the title of Hanlin Bachelor.

The old man hurriedly came with a large number of government officials to maintain order. When he saw Su You who was sweating profusely, he asked: "What's going on? Why didn't I know that the people under my rule are so rich?"

Su You quickly handed over his hand: "Thanks to Lu Gong's help, I never expected that the market would be so hungry..."

The old man's father was Lu Yijian, the famous power minister of the Renzong Dynasty, but the old man and his father had completely different paths.

When Lu Yijian was in power, Lu Gongzhu came to Beijing from his hometown Shouzhou to take the exam. He was dressed in shabby clothes and showed humility like a boy from a poor family.

Although people at that time liked his appearance and behavior, they were not surprised. After he left, they were surprised and sighed when they found out after asking that it was Lu Gong.

The old man called the subordinate officials to start his shift quickly, then took out an inkstone from his sleeve and handed it to Su You: "I received a letter from Wuliang Temple in my hometown, asking me to help get some magic weapons in Bianjing. I don't have anything good, so this piece Purple gold stone inkstone is a famous specialty of Bagong Mountain in my hometown. I give it to you. Mingrun, can you please write a note to the Zhou'an Copper Factory so that I can get in line first and make a few things to send the folks away?"

Lu Gong wrote about Buddhism and often persuaded the anti-Buddhist Sima Guang to believe in it. He also said: "The so-called learning of Buddhism only advocates its brief views. It is not necessary to be familiar with everything in Buddhism. Become a monk."
Chapter completed!