The most important thing is that Old Man Qi has visited the two Zhuangzi gifts given by the Emperor, but these two gifts given by others are relatively far away from Beijing, so Old Man Qi has never been there.
Old Man Qi is an honest person. Although he is Qi Baoer's biological grandfather, he never cares about the affairs of the princess's mansion.
He always understood that no matter how he said it, he was not only the biological grandfather of Qi Baoer, but also the biological grandfather of several other grandchildren.
Who can say accurately about the human heart?
No matter how much he loves his granddaughter, he is not around for the time being, but his grandchildren are jumping around. If he fails to hold on one day and really uses his granddaughter's things to supplement his grandchildren, then he will stop it after he started it.
I can’t stop.
Just like Uncle Li Zhengkaishan in the village, he initially looked at his little grandson pitifully and subsidized the Wenfang family's food supply. Gradually, the little grandson's family was almost entirely raised by the Wenfang family.
Not to mention others, Old Man Qi doesn't have that much confidence in himself. Who can really be so cruel about blood relations?
So, he simply cut off the source. During Qi Bao'er's absence, he didn't care about anything in the princess's mansion. How much money did Qi Bao'er's property have in a year? How many rewards did he get every year?
How many times, etc., he wouldn't even stick to these.
In other words, Old Man Qi only listened to these two Zhuangzi a few years ago and helped him make a decision, and he never paid attention to them after that.
It was so many years ago that I couldn't remember it all at once.
Qi Baoer lowered her head and laughed. This was something her father could do.
"The village that is connected to Shanduo. Tomorrow, housekeeper, if you are tired, take Zhuo Wen and the others to have a look."
"Don't you dare say you are tired? This is what an old slave should do."
As for what they were going to do with Master Zhuo Wen and the others, I prayed that the housekeeper would not be ignorant to ask, but he was just silently curious in his heart.
Qi Baoer turned around and asked the accountant: "How much silver do we still have in the warehouse?"
"When I go back to the princess, I don't have much money on my account, only more than 113,000 taels. If you include the grain and the jade you brought back, princess..."
He pinched his fingers and rolled his eyes before starting to count.
This is the characteristic of this young accountant in their family. He does not use an abacus to calculate accounts, but relies entirely on mental arithmetic. However, when he starts to do mental arithmetic, the battle is a bit scary, and he feels a bit like suffering from sheep's foot madness.
"Stop, stop, don't worry about the dead things for now, you can set aside ten thousand taels from your account and give it to Zhuo Wen."
The tent turned normal in an instant, and responded with a shy and red-faced voice: "Yes."
Qi Bao'er was really stunned by this contrast when he saw it for the first time.
Qi Bao'er was silent for a moment, feeling that there was nothing to hide. Maybe after knowing this, they could help Zhuo Wen and the others. After all, they knew each other better in the capital.
"Zhuowen and the others can make paper, and the quality of the paper they make is better than the ones sold outside now. I'm going to let them open a papermaking workshop in our Zhuangzi."
Both the housekeeper and the cashier immediately had the same look of shock on their faces.
Papermaking, papermaking, oh my god.
Why can't poor children study?
Isn’t it just that pens and paper are too expensive and children from poor families can’t afford them?!
In the Qilin Kingdom, a stack of khaki-colored rice paper costs one tael for most families.
The whiter the paper, the higher the hardness, the more expensive it will be.
The most expensive paper has already reached the asking price of ten taels for a stack and is still in short supply.
It can be said that whoever has the papermaking technology in his hands holds the secret to getting rich. In the future, real money will come from it.
"There is also printing. We don't have a shop, but we take out a room and convert it into a bookstore. After they make paper, we will find some good books and print them ourselves. Then we can sell or rent them to others.
It’s all done.”
Hiss~
And printing??
"Weaving and dyeing shops have also opened, and we have a lot of people anyway."
Boom~
The young accountant, who was a bit less able to bear it, rolled his eyes out of habit and fainted.
Butler Qi, who had a higher endurance, was not much better. His feet were already trembling. He supported the pillar next to him with one hand so that he could not fall down in shame.
Qibaoer: "???"
Is this too much joy?
The housekeeper said he was so happy.
"Princess, Princess, the Zheng family holds the papermaking technology, the Ye family holds the printing technology, the Yuan family is number one in dyeing technology, and the Ying family in Jiangnan is number one in weaving technology."
Your few words have offended all these families.
"The Zheng family? The Zheng family of the Right Prime Minister?"
Butler Qi really couldn't hold it any longer. He simply slid to the ground and spoke to Qi Bao'er with his head raised.
"It is the Zheng family of Your Excellency Your Excellency. However, the papermaking workshop does not belong to Your Excellency Your Excellency and they share a room, but Your Excellency's concubine is in charge."
After a moment of silence, thinking that the master would soon enter the court and deal with people like the right minister, he continued to "popularize science":
"The relationship between Mr. Zheng Xiang and his concubine is not very close. Very few people in the capital know about this. At that time, the right prime minister's father, Zheng Shilang, was very partial and did not treat his legitimate son well. On the contrary, he loved his concubine even more.
The ancestral papermaking technology was not passed on to the legitimate son, but to the bastard son.
Fortunately, Prime Minister Zheng has his own ability, and he has won all the prizes. He is still the third-level talent in the past. After the former right minister suffered a stroke six years ago, he jumped from the position of third-grade minister to the youngest
Lord Xiangguo.
It's just the princess, no matter how close they are to each other, they are still brothers. Even if their bones are broken, their tendons are still connected;
Moreover, the benefits of papermaking are too attractive. I think that the bastard of the Zheng family also knows how to hold on to Prime Minister Zheng.
If the princess wants to make paper, where is Prime Minister Zheng...?"
Qi Baoer has never seen Mr. Zheng, but he has an impression of it.
Speaking of which, she learned about Mr. Zheng from a female prostitute when she was in Beijing.
The Zheng family is also a big family, and it was a big family that already existed in the previous dynasty.
It's just that one generation is not as competitive as the next. Although there are always people in the court, they have never managed their own family well.
Anyway, they often fight within themselves, and the families are separated after fighting. Some even don’t want to live in the same place. After the family is separated, they immediately leave the capital with their family and property to find a place to live outside.
went.
After going back and forth like this, by the time the Zheng family reached the generation of Zheng Xiang's father, there were not many Zheng family members left in the capital, and they all lived scattered.
Zheng Xiang's father had only two sons in his life. One was Zheng Xiang, the son of his first wife, and the other was the bastard son of Zheng Xiang's father's concubine.
Housekeeper Qi actually said it lightly. Zheng Xiang didn't get the love of his father just since he was a child. He didn't see his father much since he was a child.
It is said that Zheng's father was forced by the elders in the family to marry Zheng's mother. After marrying, he felt that he had completed his mission, and then he and his childhood sweetheart bought another house to live outside, without even returning home.
After Prime Minister Zheng's grandparents had passed away, there was no one left to hold him accountable, and he was still in mourning, so Zheng's father took his concubine and his concubine back with him.
This act was both unfilial and disrespectful to the legitimate wife in the family. It made Prime Minister Zheng's mother so angry that she soon fell down. After being bedridden for several months, she also passed away.