Chapter 140 How is it possible to make a wedding dress for others
Chapter 140 How is it possible to make wedding clothes for others?
Author: Fengze Fangfei
"After Xiao Wu left, I felt that the whole palace was deserted."
Li Chengmu had been gone for a few days, and Xia Jing took the maids for a walk along the tree-shaded path to eat.
Usually when Xia Jing goes out, most of the people who follow her are Hongmei, while Baimei stays behind at the palace, so she knows the things in the palace best.
After listening to Xia Jing's words, she explained with a smile: "Princess, you have been busy with summer planting and ironworks in the farm these days. What you don't know is that on the day that the fifth master left, several other masters in the palace
They all scrambled to lead their own soldiers to suppress the bandits."
Nowadays, apart from the prince, the only people left in the backyard are the women and children.
Moreover, the mothers of each house are also busy with summer planting in the farm. How can they still have time to take a walk in the garden when they are so busy?
"Oh, are they all gone?" Xia Jing was surprised that her stepsons were not afraid of danger and actively participated in the suppression of bandits this time. "Sure enough, money is not everything, but having no money is absolutely impossible. The temptation of money is really powerful."
Bai Mei looked around to make sure there was no one except them, and then said softly: "The masters were forced by reality. At the beginning, the masters were jealous that the fifth master had personal soldiers, and they wanted to be treated equally even though they were making trouble.
Princess, you allow them to recruit five thousand soldiers on their own.
Maybe they never dreamed at that time how expensive it was to feed an army. Later they found out that the team had been training for a long time. They would definitely not be willing to give up at this time, so they could only bite the bullet and persevere.
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The servant also heard in the house that several of the masters were short of money, especially the eldest son. The five thousand soldiers and horses were reduced to 3,000, and he could not feed even 3,000. The eldest master had asked the prince for help some time ago, but the prince did not
If he dares to open this hole, he is afraid that other houses will ask him for help."
Hongmei patted Baimei lightly and said angrily: "You girl, you dare to say anything. Master, you can also arrange it?"
Bai Mei stuck out her tongue playfully, "I'm just talking in front of the princess, how dare I gossip in front of others."
The sunset slowly dimmed on the horizon, and mosquitoes buzzed in Xia Jing's ears. She shook her fan to drive away the mosquitoes, "There are many mosquitoes outside, let's go back."
The next day, it was cloudless and the bright sunshine was particularly dazzling.
After breakfast, Xia Jing did not leave the house directly as usual, but went to King Qian's study in the front yard first.
King Qian was a little surprised, "The sun is rising in the west, why do you have time to come to my place today?"
Xia Jing raised an eyebrow at him and did not answer his words. Instead, she walked around the two gentlemen to see what they were busy with.
"Are you preparing for the summer grain harvest?"
Mr. Zhang closed the account book and said, "The people's summer grain has been put into the warehouse. Our government office should also prepare. We should sort out the accounts first. After the summer planting is completed in a few days, we can arrange for the government officials and officials to collect the summer grain tax."
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Xia Jing smiled after hearing this, then looked at King Qian and asked, "Are you busy today? Are you free?"
King Qian was so busy dealing with official affairs that he was dizzy. When he heard Xia Jing's question, he pushed the official document aside.
He knew that there must be something wrong when she took the initiative to ask for it: "If you have anything to say, just say it, we are all ears. If the matter is urgent, even if we don't have time, we can still squeeze in time."
Xia Jing shook her fan and sat across from King Qian's desk. "I'm going to go out later. I came here to invite you to see the new adhesive I've figured out."
"Adhesive?" King Qian was a little puzzled when he heard it. What's so strange about adhesive?
Mr. Zhang became a little interested and asked: "New adhesive? Is the adhesive the princess mentioned used in construction?"
"Yes, it is used for construction. Isn't the new government office planning to build a new one? The land has been cleared and the foundation has been dug. We can start laying the foundation when the workers come back from their busy work." Xia Jing smiled and looked around.
The three of them said, "If the new adhesive I tinkered with got into your eyes, it might not just be used to build the new government office!"
"Oh, it's very special?" King Qian actually still felt that the weather was too hot and didn't want to go out.
"Of course!" Xia Jing urged him, "Hurry up, especially for you. Your persistence in exercising during this period has worked. I found that your body has lost a lot of weight. Keep it up and move around outside more. It will be helpful for you.
benefit."
After hearing her words, King Qian lowered his head and looked at his waistline. He also knew that he had lost a lot of weight. The clothes he used to wear no longer fit, and the clothes he wore now were all remade later. So these words come from Xia Jing's words.
When you say it in your mouth, it sounds very pleasant and makes you feel happy.
The two gentlemen noticed the raised corners of King Qian's mouth and were so blind that they had no choice but to lower their heads and pack up the account books silently.
Two quarters of an hour later, several carriages left the palace.
Half an hour later, several carriages arrived at a mountain col.
A row of buildings in a mountain col was particularly conspicuous. Xia Jing did not take them to the factory area, but took them to the office building.
At first, in the carriage, King Qian and others did not notice the road. They only felt that the road was too flat. When the carriage stopped and they got off the carriage, they noticed that the road for the carriage was hard and flat, as if it were paved with stones, but the stones were not so smooth.
It's huge, and it can't be so flat.
"My princess, what are you using to pave the road?" After asking this question, King Qian suddenly had an idea. "Isn't the thing you use to pave the road the new adhesive you call?"
"Your Majesty is so smart that you can guess right." Xia Jing stamped her feet on the road and said with a smile: "Try this hardness, it's completely comparable to stone, and it's more convenient and cheaper than laying stone."
Mr. Zhang squatted down and dug with his hands. The key is that this kind of stone can be paved in one piece to cover a long and wide road. "Princess, does this adhesive have a name?"
"I call it cement."
Xia Jing smiled, led them into the office area, and asked someone to bring a bucket of cement, "This gray-black dust is cement."
"Can this kind of dust be used to pave the road?" King Qian thought it was incredible. This dust, which was similar to black flour, was used to pave the ground. Moreover, the paved ground was as hard as stone and as flat as water.
How is this possible?
For a moment, King Qian didn't believe this thing that subverted his three views.
Xia Jing didn't explain much. She just asked people to come over and add water to the cement to make it into mud. Then she added stones, river sand, etc., and finally had people make it into a square shape.
"Is this enough?" Mr. Zhang pressed it with his hand, and a fingerprint was printed on the newly smooth surface.
Xia Jing laughed: "It will take an hour or two for the cement to harden."
King Qian and the two gentlemen actually did not believe that this kind of mud could be made into stone, but the road along the way made them doubtful.
While waiting, Xia Jing took them to visit the cement factory. It was so hot that they stayed in the office with an ice basin and didn't want to go out.
After the maid served everyone tea, Mr. Zhang talked about the problems encountered in Bingzhangfang.
"I wonder if I can ask Master Shan from Wangfei Iron Workshop to come over and give me some guidance. The steel we purchased from you cannot be burned thoroughly with the furnace of Bingzhangfang. It seems that the heat is always lacking."
When Xia Jing heard his question, she knew what the problem was without even thinking, "It must be that the temperature of your furnace is not high enough to reach the temperature required for making steel."
"What are the requirements for a furnace for refining steel?" Mr. Zhang was in a dilemma. He, a counselor, really didn't understand the technical issues.
"It's a long story. Since it's a technical issue, I'll ask Master Shan to go to the military workshop to find out exactly how to do it. Then I'll ask your people to do what he says."
Xia Jing only knew something theoretically from her notebook, but how to do it specifically depended on the technicians who made the most of it.
Mr. Zhang said gratefully: "Then I need to trouble the princess to pay more attention to this matter."
Whenever there was a matter of asking for help, King Qian always kicked the ball and put the matter on his head and asked him to ask for help.
However, Mr. Zhang was a little surprised today. The blast furnace for making steel should be considered a secret kept by blacksmiths. Unexpectedly, the princess agreed without even thinking about it.
"It's easy, you're welcome." Xia Jing took a sip of tea with a smile, put down the tea cup and spoke again: "Actually, the efficiency of forging hammer steel by manpower is too low. If your Bingzhanfang can use water power to forge hammer steel, the efficiency will be greatly improved.
increase, thus taking the first step to strengthen the army."
"Water power? Princess, you mean converting water power into kinetic energy like a waterwheel pounding rice?" Mr. Zhang became excited.
He usually read quite a lot of books, and he knew a little bit about the principles of hydraulic rice milling. After Xia Jing mentioned it, his imagination widened.
Water power can pound rice and hammer steel, but can water power be used for other things?
"The principle is similar. My iron workshop has been built. I will ask the craftsmen to help you build a few more."
An hour passed quickly, and Xia Jing took them outside. Because of the hot weather in Lingnan, the cement piers had hardened after an hour.
Mr. Zhang pressed his fingerprints in surprise, and the shape was finalized forever, "It's really magical. After the dust and water are mixed, the cement will become a stone pier. If this kind of cement is used for city wall construction, there will be no need to fear foreign enemies."
Come to dig the city wall?"
King Qian kicked the cement pier and his expression brightened, "Princess, your cement factory is still too small and needs to be expanded. How about I invest a sum of money for the expansion of the factory?"
After hearing his words, Xia Jing rolled her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, you may not be beautiful, but your ideas are quite beautiful. The cement was made by my craftsmen and I. You just said a few words today and you want to pick it."
My peach, look at what you can do, why don’t you go to heaven?”
King Qian felt that Xia Jing always forgot something, so he had to remind her: "Princess, as a husband and wife, only if I do well can you do well."
Xia Jing laughed angrily at the old dandy, "Not only have I invested a lot of energy in this cement factory, but my money has also been transferred in various ways. Now that the most difficult stage in the early stages is over, we will soon be able to reap profits, but you are here to pick peaches."
"But why do you do that?"
"Just because of our relationship as husband and wife?"
King Qian glared, "Isn't our relationship as husband and wife not enough? This is the most reliable cooperative relationship! We are one husband and wife. What's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours."
"It sounds nice to say it, but in practice it's all a trap." Xia Jing sneered and asked King Qian: "What's yours is mine, so is your throne mine? Is your wealth and life mine? Or should I say that?
According to the law of inheritance, if we cooperate and your throne is passed to the eldest son, will I still rely on his breath for survival?"
"You are his mother-in-law, how dare he disobey you?" King Qian was a little embarrassed.
"Ha!" Xia Jing wanted to laugh after hearing such childish words, "But I'm just a stepmother!"
"You" King Qian was speechless.
Mr. Zhang: "Princess, everything in Lingnan is in need of new things. There are people waiting to spend money everywhere. The prince really has no choice. I hope you won't be offended. Not to mention the prince, even a humble minister would like to break a penny in half and spend it."
Xia Jing nodded slowly: "Money is indeed a good thing. With money, everything can be negotiated, and money can make things easier. But the opportunity to make money in front of me, isn't it good for me to hold it in my own hands? Why should I be controlled by others?
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King Qian smiled bitterly: "Princess, why are you doing this?"
Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, "I'm afraid of trouble. Once you have shares in the cement factory, it means that the entire Prince Qian's palace is involved. It's easy to say that Xiaowu is my own child, but it's hard to say for the other houses.
Once interests are involved in the relationship between relatives, this relationship is very fragile and can be broken at the first glance, and may turn into enemies."
The trouble is really troublesome. In fact, everyone knows it.
It's just that King Qian automatically ignored this hidden danger for his own benefit.
They ignored it, but it was impossible for Xia Jing not to pay attention to it. She was not a young girl in love, and she would do whatever men said.
It's okay to do business, but if you want to take advantage of the source of her money, she will definitely chop off this hand with a knife!
"However, your idea of making money is good. You don't want to interfere with the cement factory. But we have another way of cooperation. Do you want to hear it?"
King Qian and the two gentlemen's eyes lit up, what is this called?
Mountains and rivers are full of doubts and there is no way out, and there is another village with dark willows and bright flowers!
King Qian asked happily: "Princess, please speak, we are all ears!"
Xia Jing sneered in her heart and said calmly: "After the cement is mass-produced, it may be sold to the whole world. If the prince wants to have another way to make money, he can become our dealer and wholesale goods from us.
Then open a shop and sell them to earn the price difference."
For now, this approach means both parties take a step back.
But King Qian just felt uncomfortable. This had nothing to do with money, but he simply didn't like Xia Jing being so clearly separated from him.
But if you make a clear distinction, according to Xia Jing, there is nothing wrong with it.
For the sake of profit, brothers may be at war with each other, let alone half-brothers.
After hearing what she said, Mr. Zhang couldn't help but praise her in his heart, but on the surface he had to feel sorry for his own prince.
"The princess's attitude towards our prince is not like a husband and wife at all. They distinguish each other very clearly, but more like a partner."
Xia Jing handed the contract she had drawn up in advance to King Qian, and said with a wry smile: "If we are husband and wife, it means that one day, all I am doing now is making wedding dresses for others, and in the end, all my work is in vain.
, in the end, it may become my talisman. I dare to ask the prince, will you pass the throne to Xiaowu in the future?"
King Qian: ".This thing goes against the ancestral system. How can I do it as I please!"
Xia Jing shrugged, "Look, I knew it would be like this, so why bother making things difficult for me?"
King Qian didn't know how to answer this question for a moment, but he quickly realized what he was doing, read through the contract, and signed it.
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