Wei and Jin Cooks

Zhao Hu was a little excited and asked quickly: "Are you willing to sell me the drawings?"

  Zhao Hanzhang: “I have only one request.”

 Zhao Hu looked at her with bright eyes.

 “Workshops cannot be opened in Sizhou and Yuzhou.”

 But he is in Sizhou, but his foundation is in Yuzhou.

Zhao Hu, who had already planned to open seven or eight cloth shops in Sizhou and Yuzhou, froze and asked, "Then where else can I open it?"

Zhao Hanzhang: "The world is so big, where can I go without my great uncle?"

Seeing Zhao Hu frowning, she said, "If my uncle can't think of where to go at the moment, I have a suggestion."

 Zhao Hu looked at her.

 Zhao Hanzhang said: "Jiangnan."

Zhao Hu frowned slightly, but after going through the states in his mind, he found that Jiangnan was really his second choice.

The best choices are Yuzhou and Sizhou, but they have blocked the road. Although Jiangnan is not as civilized as the Central Plains, it is rich.

And the climate there is mild, which is suitable for growing hemp and mulberry.

 That is, the craftsmen and craftsmanship there are far inferior to those in the Central Plains, and the aesthetics are not as good as those in the Central Plains.

Transportation is also a problem. In addition to selling the fabrics and clothes locally, they also have to be transported to Yuzhou and Sizhou. If the workshop is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it will add a cost, no, even more than one. Whether you go by land or water, you still need a lot of money such as tolls.

Zhao Hu looked at Zhao Hanzhang suspiciously, "You, are you doing it to earn my toll?"

Zhao Hanzhang: ...if he didn’t tell her, she wouldn’t even remember that she had the money.

Zhao Hanzhang: "Seventh Uncle, am I such a short-sighted person? What I value is your ability and influence."

"If you place your workshop in the south of the Yangtze River, you will definitely bring more sophisticated craftsmen and more advanced technologies, and the south of the Yangtze River will develop." Zhao Hanzhang enumerated the benefits: "The economic center of the world is still in the Central Plains. The seven uncles are vying for the top spot, and they will definitely put the workshop in the south of the Yangtze River." The textile machines, looms and fabrics produced were sent back to the Central Plains for sale, so that the economies of the Central Plains and Jiangnan would circulate and the exchanges would be closer."

"The economy is like water. Only when it flows can it be alive. Living water prospers and the people become rich." Which point is not better than that little toll?

Zhao Hu rolled his eyes and immediately made a request, "I can open a workshop in Jiangnan, but I must also be allowed to open workshops in Yuzhou and Sizhou."

Zhao Hanzhang smiled and shook his head.

Zhao Hu gritted his teeth and said, "If I can give up Sizhou, if you allow me to open one in Yuzhou, I will open one."

Zhao Hanzhang smiled slightly and asked him, "Do you want to buy the drawings? Forget it if you don't."

"Okay, okay, it's up to you. I won't open workshops in Yuzhou and Sizhou." Zhao Hu could only take a step back.

Zhao Hu sent a steward to negotiate the price with Fu An. To his surprise, Zhao Hanzhang was very generous this time and did not even offer a high price. A drawing of a textile machine and a drawing of a loom only cost 250,000 yuan, a total of 500,000 yuan. One hundred thousand dollars, if he used silver to settle the settlement, it would only be five hundred taels.

Zhao Hu looked at the drawing carefully after getting it, and found that she didn’t understand it. She handed it to San Jin, “I thought she would ask for a thousand and twenty thousand taels.”

Sanjin: "If the drawing exceeds two thousand taels, it is not cost-effective. After all, the imperial court is also doing this business. The profit of a textile machine and loom has been compressed. The cost has not been calculated yet, and we don't know how many machines will be sold." Just got my money back."

Zhao Hu: "Do you think I want the drawings to start a business of textile machines and looms for ordinary people?" He said: "What I want to make is money from merchants and wealthy families. The textile machines and looms of the imperial court have to be lined up." , and there are quantity regulations. I heard from Zheng'er that the county government also takes a portion of the textile machines from the Weaving Bureau to lease to the poor every year. The Weaving Bureau must give them priority. Some large merchants and wealthy families who want to buy textile machines can't wait. rise."

"What I want to earn is the money I can't afford to wait for," Zhao Hu said: "Besides that, I can't buy enough textile machines. Now, I'll produce it myself. When the time comes, my cloth shop will be one step ahead of them. When you drive it, it’s all money.”

Sanjin suddenly realized that, to put it bluntly, what they wanted to grab was time.

He immediately said: "I'll ask the craftsmen to come over and figure out the drawings."

"Go ahead, call in all kinds of craftsmen, give them three days to figure it out, and then start work. Send another team to Jiangnan to buy land and build houses. Oh, we can't buy land now," Zhao Humo said. Grinding his teeth, he changed his words: "Go to Jiangnan and rent a suitable land to build a workshop. Get the wood and wait for the craftsmen to figure it out and start work immediately."

 Three golds should be sent down.

 But things were unexpectedly difficult.

Some of the joints of the textile machine required very fine craftsmanship that his family's craftsmen could not figure out. Zhao Hu had to spend additional money to borrow two craftsmen from the Gewu Division to teach his family's craftsmen.

By the time the craftsmen finally learned it and arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, it was already the Mid-Autumn Festival.

 The rice in the fields has turned yellow, the soybeans are ready for harvest, and the autumn harvest has begun across the country.

 The imperial court, schools, and even workshops have begun their autumn harvest holidays, and soldiers stationed in various places are also rushing into the yellow sea, brandishing sickles.

 After the ten days of autumn harvest and the holidays, everyone in the court, from the emperor to the officials, looked darker and thinner. They were all very tired, but very happy.

Zhao Hanzhang was very happy after receiving harvest telegrams from various places, and said to Fu Tinghan: "I can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

Fu Tinghan knows how difficult it has been for her in the past few years. The curse of having no money has always been around her, and various debts are weighing on her. She has to worry about having no money in her sleep.

He reached out and took her hand, shaking it hard, without saying anything.

 Zhao Hanzhang shook his hand back hard, his eyes slightly red, "Thank you for your hard work these years."

She didn't dare to relax, so Fu Tinghan kept tight with her. Over the years, he had solved many problems for her, and most of the money-making projects were under his hands.

Fu Tinghan smiled back, and the two looked at each other silently for a moment, then raised their heads to look at the sky.

People all over the country were immersed in the joy of this good harvest. In the autumn and winter of this year, Zhao Hanzhang still ordered local government offices to reduce corvee. There were still tax exemptions for newly settled people, and some reductions were still made for areas that were severely affected last year and the year before. levy taxes, and strictly prohibit county governments from issuing miscellaneous taxes.

 The news spread to various places through the county government bulletin board, schools and newspapers, and the people cheered.

 Nowadays, the school has become an auxiliary institution for publicizing imperial decrees, and Zhao Hanzhang intends for it to continue to maintain this function.

What kind of future she wants and what kind of court she wants depends on the thoughts of the officials who will stand in the court in the future.

 So if you master education, you can master the future.

 She requires every child of school age to enter school, teaches them loyalty, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, trust and benevolence, teaches them to treat every living being equally, and teaches them to be brave and perseverant.

 Twenty years later, they will be the most stalwart young people in the world, and they will also be the most dazzling.

Zhao Hanzhang wrote in his New Year's address to them: The future of this world is yours, and China and I will be proud of you.