Chapter 1180 Postscript The invitation letter from the thirty-sixth eldest princess has arrived
Chapter 1180 Postscript 36: The invitation letter from the eldest princess has arrived
The shopkeeper accompanied Xie Yan downstairs and kept saying compliments to attract customers: "Xie Xie, our store can be settled monthly or annually. As a bachelor Xie, I can keep accounts with just a few words, so there is no need to work anymore."
Move your toes elsewhere?"
Xie Yan smiled and said: "I really don't have money, I'm afraid I can't pay it back. When I have money in the future, I will definitely come to your store to spend money."
Xie Yan really has no money, and the bonus from the Ministry of Industry has not yet been paid.
As for the status of a Royal Bachelor, not only does one not receive a salary, but one also has to pay a membership fee every year.
When he left Huangzhou Prefecture, his parents only gave him 300 yuan. At the price of this clothing store, buying a few more clothes could cover his living expenses!
The shopkeeper's attitude was very good. Even if Xie Yan didn't buy anything, he would personally take him all the way outside the store.
The female clerk who accompanied him the whole time watched Xie Yan go away and muttered: "Although this bachelor Xie is handsome, he is not a happy person. He spent a long time shopping without buying anything."
"It would be nice to have a good relationship," the shopkeeper said when he returned to the store and educated his niece. "He is a sincere and free-spirited person. He doesn't get short of breath because of financial constraints. Instead, he speaks out openly. He can have such a temperament.
, he is not an ordinary person, not to mention he is still a 17-year-old Bachelor of Furong."
The female clerk smiled and said: "I don't care what his temperament is, I only know that he is handsome and talented. If I were the eldest princess, I would definitely choose him as my consort."
"Don't say this nonsense," the shopkeeper warned, but in fact he didn't take it seriously.
As a Luoyang citizen, how can anyone not talk about royal gossip?
When bragging, each one is more powerful than the other.
On the carriage.
Li Dunshi confirmed again: "You really don't want to buy it from a good store?"
"I don't have any money," Xie Yan said.
Although Li Dunshi is an honest child, he is also deeply influenced by his father. He feels that as a person's status increases, food, clothing, housing and transportation must be matched accordingly. Young geniuses like Xie Yan should wear good clothes.
They took a car out of the city and chose a store in the nearby neighborhood. Compared with the previous store, the price was cut in half again, until it finally became something he could afford.
With small profits but quick turnover, this store has obviously more customers.
Daiyu and Baochai each chose two sets of underskirts, and one for each of the four followers. They also went to the cloth shop next door and bought a piece of silk cloth and a piece of cotton cloth, so that the two little girls could sew them by themselves.
underwear.
The market next door also sold jewelry, and Xie Yan picked out a few more pieces.
All are not expensive.
Eight sets of clothes, one piece of silk cloth, one piece of cotton cloth, and four pieces of jewelry, the total cost was only 75 pounds.
Compared to wealthy people, it's really not expensive.
However, it is said that during the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty, when Zhang Fangping was serving as the censor Zhongcheng, he entrusted Yang Yi, the judge of the Ministry of Household Affairs, to hire a maid. It only cost one hundred guan to buy clothes for the maid.
Why did this matter spread?
It's not because the maid's clothes are too expensive.
From hiring a maid to buying clothes for the maid, it was all Yang Yi who paid for it. Zhang Fangping, the censor Zhongcheng, refused to pay the maid after receiving it.
This fucking official is the leader, the boss of Yushitai!
During the Xuanhe reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, for a wealthy woman in Kaifeng City, a pair of socks and a scarf were worth more than two months of military pay for a senior soldier of the Forbidden Army.
Return home.
The four male attendants quickly put on their clothes and walked around the courtyard to show off their odor.
Daiyu and Baochai also went back to their houses to change and wear their newly bought hairpins. Unfortunately, they didn't have their ears pierced, so they couldn't wear the earrings they just bought.
"Mr. Sir, do I look good?" Baochai jumped and turned around in the courtyard, her skirt swaying like a butterfly flying.
Xie Yan smiled and said: "It looks good."
Daiyu, on the other hand, was calmer and quieter. Her index fingers interlocked and hung at her waist. She lowered her head rather shyly and stood two steps away from Xie Yan without saying a word. After standing there for more than ten seconds, she secretly raised her head again, wanting to know about Lang Jun.
Are you looking at yourself?
Alas, I took the 300 guan with me when I left Huangzhou. I traveled by car, boat, ate and stayed in hotels all the way, rented a house and hired a maid, and today I even went shopping and lost a lot of money. I have almost used half of it!
If the Ministry of Industry does not pay the academic bonus, Xie Yan will have no choice but to write a letter back to Huangzhou and ask the two elders at home... Well, ask the two elders to donate the money.
Li Dunshi stood outside the hospital and hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but knock on the door.
Seeing that it was difficult for him to speak, Xie Yan asked, "It doesn't matter if you have something to say."
Li Dunshi hesitated and said: "I have two friends who learned that Bachelor Xie is living here and wanted to visit and ask for advice. I didn't dare to agree, so I came to ask..."
"What do they do?" Xie Yan asked.
Li Dunshi said: "They are all the sons of gentry in the suburbs of Luoyang. One is studying in Imperial College, and the other is working hard to take the imperial examination."
As soon as he heard that he was the son of a nearby gentry, Xie Yan guessed that it was Li Minqiu who was always bragging.
Xie Yan said: "Since they are all scholars, let's invite them here."
Li Dunshi asked: "How about tomorrow?"
"Okay." Xie Yan nodded.
Li Dunshi was a little embarrassed and wanted to make amends with him as a landlord: "Has Bachelor Xie ever visited the Longmen Grottoes? I'm very familiar with it. It doesn't take long to walk."
"Let's go shopping in the afternoon." Xie Yan was bored at home.
After lunch, the two little girls were left at home, and Xie Yan asked them to practice writing from one to ten.
After everyone left, Daiyu practiced writing seriously.
But Baochai couldn't calm down, so she ran to look in the mirror as she wrote, and she was so fascinated that she was fascinated.
Daiyu scolded: "How could you do this?"
Baochai asked, "What's wrong with me?"
Daiyu was particularly angry: "My husband is so kind to us. He bought us new clothes and jewelry. We should listen to him honestly. My husband asked us to practice calligraphy, but you only look at yourself in the mirror."
Baochai knew that he was wrong and was unable to refute, so he returned to practice again.
As she was writing, she lay down on the table and stopped again. Holding the pen with her right hand and supporting her chin with her left hand, she said to herself: "I really want to go out and play with my husband. I would be happiest if I could be by my husband's side all day long."
"
Daiyu ignored her and practiced calligraphy seriously.
"You're a boring gourd, it's not fun at all." Baochai muttered.
After writing for a while, Baochai suddenly ran out.
Daiyu shouted: "Where are you going?"
Baochai stopped at the door: "Go and wash the clothes that Mr. Lang changed yesterday."
Daiyu said: "The Li family's servant girl can wash the clothes."
"Hey, they are so rough, don't ruin your husband's clothes. I know how to wash clothes at home, and I will wash your clothes from now on." After saying that, Baochai ran out without looking back.
Daiyu commented in a low voice: "This idiot!"
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Li Dunshi took Xie Yan to the Longmen Grottoes. After walking around for two or three hours, he felt that it was not interesting anymore.
"There is Longmen Academy over there, which was established when the Ming Dynasty first moved its capital," Li Dunshi introduced. "After graduating from the official school, if they failed to pass the imperial examination and failed in the imperial examination, many Luoyang scholars would enter Longmen Academy.
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Xie Yan asked: "How does it compare with the Meng family's Tuxiu Academy?"
Li Dunshi shook his head: "It's better than Tuxiu Academy."
Li Dunshi continued to lead Xie Yan around: "There used to be a garrison there, and a Forbidden Army was stationed near Guyi Que Pass. Later, the garrison moved south, but there are many descendants of the Forbidden Army in Longmen Town."
Xie Yan pointed to the east: "The village over there also belongs to your family?"
Li Dunshi said: "They all belong to the Li family, but some members of the clan have split their households, and their household registrations have been separated from mine for a long time. They also have land, but not much."
"Do you have a factory?" Xie Yan asked.
Li Dunshi said: "It's not really a factory. There is a quarry that has been reducing production in the past few years and is not far from stopping. After all, it is not a big mountain. There is also a cement factory and a ceramics factory."
Xie Yan smiled and said: "Not bad, they are all building materials, and with Luoyang as our back, we don't have to worry about sales."
"The scale is too small, so it can only be said to be passable," Li Dunshi said. "It is said to be a ceramics factory, but in fact it mainly produces pottery. Porcelain can only produce some coarse porcelain. In the high-rise buildings outside Luoyang, many people's ceramic bowls are in their homes.
The porcelain bowl and water vat were made at my home."
"Go and have a look." Xie Yan suggested.
In the area of Liu Yao, Diao Yao and Li Yao in later generations, there was only one Diao Yao village at this time. Like Li Yao village, it was moved here by Zhu Yuanzhang during his great migration.
The ceramic firing here can only be described as a small matter.
The real ceramic production area in Luoyang is from Beimang Mountain to Gong County, where there is even kaolin.
If the villagers of Beigedang Village and Diaoyao Village want to work, their first choice is the three small factories of the Li family. Although the scale is small, they support a lot of people.
The cement factory is at the bottom of the mountain.
Not only is the scale small, but the technology is also very primitive.
The cement technology has long been out of patent, and Li Dunshi did not hide it: "In the past, limestone and clay were mixed and calcined. This technology has regional restrictions, and not all limestone contains clay."
"Later, someone improved the technology and mixed clay and limestone in a ratio of 1:2, added water, stirred it into mud, then precipitated it, and then put it into a kiln and fired it at high temperature."
"The buildings outside Luoyang use this kind of cement. But this artificially mixed cement is actually not as good as the cement made from calcined limestone that naturally contains 20% to 25% clay."
Xie Yan visited all the manufacturing links of the Lijia Cement Factory, squatted outside the lime kiln and began to meditate.
The compulsory course "Civil Engineering Materials" for civil engineering dogs covers the preparation of various cements.
Xie Yan still remembers some.
Although I haven't actually done it, I think it should be close to ten.
It was already getting very late. We would wait for another day. Xie Yan strolled back.
Li Dunshi asked: "Master Xie plans to improve cement?"
"I have this idea." Xie Yan said.
Li Dunshi shook his head and sighed: "Alas, many scholars and craftsmen are trying to improve cement, but there has been no big progress."
It was already dark when we returned to Li's house.
As soon as they entered, Li Minqiu came over in high spirits: "Xie Xie, the servant of the Princess's Mansion has been waiting for a long time. He came all the way from the Minister's Residence of the Ministry of Industry to ask."
Princess?
It won't really develop in that direction.
Xie Yan was a little nervous, but more excited.
He soon met the manservant sent by the princess. He asked a few questions and the manservant handed him a letter.
Xie Yan was very poor and was still waiting for a bonus, so he only rewarded the messenger with a hundred dollars.
When he returned to the study to open the letter, it was the princess who asked him about molecular theory.
She also said that the hot summer was coming. While the early summer was not too hot yet, the princess wanted to organize a polo match and asked Xie Yan if he had time to participate.
Xie Yan had never ridden a horse, but when he heard that he could play polo, he immediately wrote back to the princess.