Wanting to increase the strength of the Wang family, Wang Xu wondered where to start.
Liyang County belongs to the south. Although it is not close to the seaside, it is not far from the seaside. There are prospects for making salt by local methods.
However, the leadership of the salt administration has always been in the hands of the imperial court and the aristocratic families in the south.
As soon as the Wang family started making salt in their own way, violent storms came immediately. It was hard to say whether the small tree of the Wang family could withstand the wind and waves.
The same is true for local steelmaking. Steel is the foundation of the country. If you make small troubles, no one will care about you. If you want to make steel on a large scale, you will have to deal with the Ministry of Industry.
There are some families of craftsmen under the Ministry of Works, but Wang Xu’s plan is not to join the Ministry of Works. When someone from the Ministry of Works comes and asks for the secret recipe, will you give it to them or not?
Steel involves the very foundation of the country, and even Xue Mushan would not agree to it without mentioning the measures of the Ministry of Industry.
This is no different than others. There are millions of human troops stationed in the Liangjie Mountains. The stronger the armor of the soldiers is, the better the battle against the monsters will be.
In the face of righteousness, everything must be put aside. Not to mention the Wang family, even the prince cannot bear it.
If so, the method of steelmaking will be ruined. Even if it is not ruined, it must still be subject to the control of the imperial court. Otherwise, what will happen if you have an affair with demons or barbarians?
In this way, whether you give or not is a loss. It is better to wait until you become a great scholar and be able to dominate the general trend, and then offer the method of making steel and salt, strengthen the national power, march to the north, establish words, establish morality, and establish deeds.
Establish the foundation of eternity.
I went out to investigate again and read the court laws.
After thinking about it for half a month, Wang Xu felt that the least risky and feasible option was to make glass.
There was no glass in this era, the market was completely blank, and there were no predators to come in, so it was easy to make a name for yourself.
Wang Xu feels that glass can be a luxury product, but since it is not available on the market, it would be difficult to do a monopoly business.
Glass cups, glass plates, glass lamp bottles, glass pots, glass mirrors, and glass jewelry cannot be used to make money when released.
After producing a batch of high-quality products and sending them to the palace and dignitaries, and making the production cost more expensive, with the title of a great scholar on the top, and the title of a new rich in disaster relief on the bottom, there are also a lot of things to take care of, and people
If you do it well, the business will be great.
Even if someone peeks in and doesn't know the cost of making glass and doesn't have the secret recipe, they won't start rashly.
As long as it lasts three to five years and allows the Wang family to build its own network, small troubles and waves will be nothing.
After another ten or eight years, Wang Xu will be able to stand on his own without looking at other people's eyes.
With an idea in mind, Wang Xu began to look for candidates.
The way to make glass is simple, it's just that no one has pierced the paper.
In order to prevent the secret recipe from spreading, the craftsmen must strictly control the craftsmanship and only select those who are innocent and willing to buy into the Wang family as slaves.
Such people are easy to find. After the disaster, more than 300,000 victims stayed in Jiuquan Town. With the name of the Wang family, there is no need to worry about finding anyone to use them.
With the previous kindness, plus the fact that he sold himself into slavery, signed a death contract, and reported it to the government, this kind of person will not be able to escape.
Even if someone has evil intentions and plans to betray the master, they can still work hard on security and implement a dual-track system where craftsmen are craftsmen and guardians are guardians, without interfering with each other.
Also, isn’t Fahai’s master the abbot of Jinshan Temple?
Monks love money the most, so you can also add some sesame oil money to Jinshan Temple and ask eminent monks from Jinshan Temple to come and guard the place to prevent larceny.
Confucianism has its own magic. While guarding workers against self-insurrection, they must also guard against aristocratic families driving magicians to steal secrets.
"Liu Quan, we are in the countryside. Is there a relatively clean village? The village does not need to be big, just twenty or thirty acres. It is best to be on the edge of a mountain."
Wang Xu found Liu Quan and began to select a location for the glass factory.
Liu Quan didn't even think about it and said: "We have a thirty-five-acre village in Fengxi Village. Because of its backing, there are some unclean things on the mountain and no one has been sent to take care of it. If the young master wants to use it, he can ask a Taoist priest to follow him.
The monk came to do it. I think there have been no deaths in Zhuangzi in recent years, so that thing shouldn't be too powerful."
"What dirty thing, monster?"
Wang Xu became interested, and the thirty-five acres of Zhuangzi were surrounded and built like a fortress. There was even a place for glass smelting.
As for the monster, I guess it's not a big monster. It just so happened that he wanted to invite the eminent monk from Jinshan Temple to take charge, so he could take care of them all.
“I can’t explain exactly what it is, but it’s quite evil anyway. The overnight meal will definitely disappear the next day.
Moreover, the thirty-five acres of Zhuangzi can produce at least four to five hundred kilograms of grain per mu. However, the yield of this village is not even two hundred kilograms per mu. During the spring and autumn harvests, the grain will be less than half.
When the people below reported it, the master thought to himself that there was no need to invite Taoist priests and monks over for more than thirty acres of land. It was not worth it, so he kept delaying it."
After listening to the cause and effect, Wang Xu became more and more satisfied the more he listened.
If you don't hurt people, just throw away food. Even if there are monsters, they are probably small monsters such as rabbits, mice, hedgehogs, and house sparrows.
This Zhuangzi, unsaid, is a good place to establish a glass manufacturing factory.
"Choose a smart man and ask him to take the long-term worker down to surround the village with stones and build a three-meter-high wall."
Wang Xu built the wall not to prevent people from entering, but to prevent workers from escaping.
He has already calculated that once the glass manufacturing factory is built, the workers inside will have to sign and sign and will not be allowed to leave the factory for ten years.
In the first batch, 500 workers were recruited. If the situation was good, another 500 were recruited to maintain the scale of 1,000 workers.
As long as the wages are sufficient, modern people can go to Africa and work for ten years, let alone the victims who fled to Jiuquan Town.
Many people should be happy to buy these people for ten years at wages three times higher than the market price.
After all, many of the victims who came from Jiaozhou were lonely young men of sixteen or seventeen years old.
They have a great youth, but they don't even have the money to buy food. They are definitely willing to spend ten years in exchange for a good life in the rest of their lives.
Ten years later, these people will only be twenty-six or seventeen years old. They can take their wages to buy twenty acres of land, return to their hometown, marry a wife, and live their own small life.
"Yes, Master, I will do it right away."
Liu Quan got the order and went down to find people to work.
Wang Xu watched him leave. The first step was to take the first step. The second step was to hire experts to guard the glass business to prevent anyone from being jealous of the glass business and sending robbers and thieves to steal the secret recipe.
He planned to give this task to Jinshan Temple.
Jinshan Temple is also a time-honored temple in Jinshan Prefecture. Although it has fallen into decline in recent years, its previous reputation is still there.
Even if Jinshan Mansion is as Fahai said and only has three or two big cats and kittens and cannot send any manpower, it can still use the platform of Jinshan Temple to invite experts from other temples to come out.
Whatever he wanted to do, Wang Xu returned to his study and prepared to send a letter to Jinshan Temple.
"Little monk Fahai, I haven't seen you for a few months. I don't know how you are doing. I'm living a good life here. The disaster has passed, the court's disaster relief rewards have also come down, and my mother has also won the title of the seventh-grade concubine."
Wang Xu started writing as soon as he picked up the pen. At the beginning, he talked about himself, and then told a few interesting things to the young monk Fahai. Then he changed his style and talked about asking an expert to take charge.
When writing about the reward, Wang Xu paused slightly.
Monks from the Buddhist and Taoist families are not as valuable as scribes. It only costs thousands of taels of silver to hire a fourth-level master who is equivalent to a Jinshi to eliminate demons.
Calculated this way, three to fifty thousand taels of silver is enough to hire a fourth-level master to stay at his house for a year.
Considering that the glass business would make a lot of money after starting, Wang Xu thought for a moment and wrote down the figure of one hundred thousand taels of silver.
"One hundred thousand taels of silver, please invite Buddhist and Taoist experts to take charge. At least I can hire someone of mid-to-late fourth level. I should be able to handle one or two."
After Wang Xu finished writing the letter, he took a deep breath and said, "Xiu Niang, come in and give this letter to Boss Sun of the carriage and horse shop, and ask him to send someone to deliver it to Jinshan Mansion."
I shouted, but no one answered outside.
"Embroidery lady?"
I shouted again, but no one came out.
Wang Xu frowned slightly, Xiu Niang had been working as his maid for half a month.
In the beginning, the embroiderer was still loyal and conscientious, working as his maid and running errands when she had nothing to do.
Later, perhaps sensing his displeasure, Xiu Niang began to disappear. This was not the first time in the past few days that Wang Xu could not find Xiu Niang.
"Embroidery lady?"
Wang Xu shouted twice more, took the letter out of the door, and went to the embroiderer's room.
Xiu Niang's room was right next to him. When she opened the door, she saw there wasn't even a ghost inside, which made Wang Xu even more unhappy.
What is a personal maid? She cannot leave her master's side for five steps without orders. This is a personal maid.
The embroiderer, on the other hand, kept silent and said she couldn't find her, so she couldn't find her.
That is to say, the Wang family is small in size and does not have so many rules. If it were a large family, the maids below would have to wait outside the door at all times. They would respond when the master calls, and if they couldn't find anyone, they would be punished.
"Master, did you call me?"
After a while, the embroiderer heard the call and ran up panting.
Wang Xu didn't give her a good look and said coldly: "What did you do?"
"Mr. Dong in the kitchen said that some new Tremella fuciformis arrived at home. I'm going to see how it looks. If it's in good condition, I plan to make Tremella fuciformis for the young master to drink." The embroiderer said with a smile, which made Wang Xu feel a little relieved.
However, the beating was still indispensable. Wang Xu said with a stern face: "Next time you go out, let me know. This is not the first time you left casually. The Wang family is not your home. Since you are here to be a maid, you must
If you have the consciousness to be a maid, if you can't stand it anymore, you can go back to the Ning family."
The embroiderer's smile froze on her face. After a while, she smiled awkwardly and said, "Yes, Master, I understand."
"Don't blame me for speaking harshly. You can't do it without rules. Since you are a young lady and your destiny is to be a maid, you have to be a maid properly. Otherwise, why would I keep you by my side?"
When Wang Xu said this, the embroiderer's eyes immediately turned red, as if she was about to cry at any time.
Wang Xu didn't want to see this, so he waved his hand and said: "Take this letter and give it to Boss Sun of the horse and carriage dealer. Ask him to send someone to Jinshan Mansion. If you want to cry, you can cry again after sending it."
"Yes, Master"
The embroiderer left with tears in her eyes, wiping her tears with her sleeves.
Wang Xu looked at it and shook his head slightly, blaming the talkative people below for saying that if the embroiderer followed him, she would most likely become a concubine and stay in the Wang family to enjoy happiness.
After hearing this, Xiu Niang became restless and even wanted to climb into bed at night, not caring whether he could do it at his age.
Wang Xu knew that he was just a clone, but he had no intention of showing mercy, so he scolded him severely at that time.
I don’t know if she was scolded too harshly, but Xiu Niang saw that she had no hope, so she felt lost for a few days, and then she started to disappear.
By the way, the embroiderer can't find anyone every now and then. What on earth is she doing?
Is it true that she is helping in the kitchen as she said? Is she so good?