In the face of huge interests, the people of the Ning family in Qinzhou moved.
They really couldn't think of the bad consequences of renting out the land. They found Cao and Rui, who had followed the hard work again, and they were the people in charge.
Zhang Zhong gave the lease of land a name for joint production, and it became a gimmick led by the state government to encourage local people to vigorously develop farming.
Cao and Rui thought that Zhang Zhong believed them because of their hard work through two cultivations.
After successively signing documents with several surrounding states, as the Ning family found them, the three of them didn't think much about it. They immediately rented 150,000 mu of land in Qinzhou with their power.
They still owe the Ning family money, even if they know that the land is not good, it doesn't matter, the Zhang family said at the beginning, any land is fine.
The money for the road construction was also given out, and they didn't care how much the Ning family could greedy for ink.
With 150,000 mu of land, there is no good place, either the worst inferior land or the saline-alkali land.
The Chamber of Commerce in Luzhou moved quickly. As soon as the land was rented, it sent people to grow cotton. Good real estate has a lot of cotton, but poor land can still produce cotton. Even the saline-alkali land can also be grown for cotton. , Is nothing more than the amount of output.
The Ning family is waiting for such an opportunity.
The paper they signed with the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce stated that they were inferior fields, but what was planned on the state’s account books was middle fields.
Seeing that the people in the Chamber of Commerce used to grow cotton, they immediately couldn't help but start working without getting the news that their own industry in Heyin County was attacked.
A zhezi to impeach Zhang Zhong was written and sent up by the official post.
The reason is very simple. No matter how good the cotton clothes made by Bai Diezi and how practical the threads are spun, they all occupy the land for food cultivation.
Ning Zhong specially set a banquet for this purpose.
Without the pigeons to help deliver the news, they still don't know that the family's industries in Datang are being further attacked.
In order for Zhang Xiaobao to let people who want to deal with the Zhang family know that he should deal directly with whoever should be dealt with, instead of using the Zhang family's dealer as a breakthrough point. This time, he is determined to lose money. The Ning family was completely destroyed.
Ten days after the delivery of the Ning family's zucchini, the cotton growers had asked the local people to plant cotton around the rented fields in various places.
The biggest advantage here is that there is no need to consider too many seasonal factors. As long as it is a seed, it will basically be fine at any time. The output may be affected, but it will never stop.
If you switch to Hainan Island, it will be even better. If you have the ability to shorten the time for crops to mature, you can plant them for ten seasons a year.
After the cotton used as the wall was planted, the chamber of commerce no longer continued to plant cotton, but planted soybeans in the enclosed area.
The rented land is not good, but it is also land after all, even if there are a lot of saline-alkali land.
Zhang Xiaobao didn't expect large-scale production in the first few years, let alone making money. In the first two or three years, he actually kept filling in money.
Old Man Zhang and Old Man Bi, who had been worried about the Zhang family, were finally relieved after knowing that they were growing soybeans.
"It turns out that you plant soybeans. No wonder you dare to rent saline-alkali land. As long as it is not that serious, soybeans will not die if they are planted. It seems that all this is to deal with the preparations made by the Ning family. The Ning family probably has written impeachment. The Zhezi, when someone is sent down to investigate, the Ning family will be out of luck."
Old man Zhang knows the role of soybeans as a kind of grain. Many people develop their own land, and if the land is not good, they just plant some soybeans. It is better than wheat or rice, so you don't need to bother to manage it.
"Yes, the Ning family is not qualified to impeach others casually. Now everyone knows that the Ning family has always looked at Zhang Zhong not pleasing to their eyes. When the tax is paid in the second half of the year.
How much tax can Luzhou pay this year? How much tribute can I pay? How much can Qinzhou pay? Comparing the two sides, let’s not say that Zhang Zhong did not make a mistake. Even if he did, the court would treat it as invisible and correct. The county magistrate would have to work for at least three years. Zhang Zhong had only been here for more than a year. To two years.
Luzhou is no longer as usual, and is beginning to make a lot of money. How many people squeeze their heads to come to Luzhou. There are six positions for judges, one for the provincial governor and one for the army. Whoever wants to get it has to wait for Zhang Zhong to leave. In order for Zhang Zhong to surrender his position happily, how many people do you say are willing to help Zhang Zhong deal with Ning Zhongze? "
Old Man Bi knew about political matters. The Zhang family knew that it would be impossible for him to work for three full years, so he kept investing in consolidating the position of the Chamber of Commerce. Before he left, he just solved the Ning family.
Families without official positions can only rely on business to wait for the chance to make a comeback. Unfortunately, the business will also be affected by the Zhang family.
If the Zhang family’s Shuiyunjian and Haiyun’s two transactions were used to deal with it, the Zhang family might not have been able to do the Ning family, but the Zhang family often combined other big businessmen to attack one person, plus the sand table. The benefits of the game being distributed to various places, coupled with the importance of the court to the Zhang family.
The time, the right place, and the harmony of people are all occupied by the Zhang family, not to mention that it is a Ning family in a small area, and even the aristocratic family in the capital cannot stand alone.
Thinking about this, Old Man Bi sighed with emotion, "Ning family, I have stayed in Lingnan for a long time. I really think that no one can deal with them? Compared with their stability, Zhang family has been with others since the beginning of Zhuangzi. Grow in the midst of your calculations, and set your own judgment."
"It is so. The most praiseworthy thing is that when dealing with others, the Zhang family has never stopped improving the lives of the local people. While doing practical things, it also counts people. Do not urge the court to distribute ordnance and food for disaster relief.
All things are done by yourself, and a lot of benefits can be given to the court. No matter who you change to, you can use it comfortably, but I don’t understand. For fifty years, the total amount of beans that have been planted has been paid every year, just to deal with the Ning family? "
When Old Man Zhang agreed with Old Man Bi, he still had greater doubts in his mind.
Old Man Bi also didn’t understand how Zhang’s family planned. If he was replaced by someone else, he would think that he was losing money year after year, but it seemed impossible for the Zhang family. He hadn’t learned the Zhang family’s ability to make money once or twice. , I have seen the plans of the Zhang family before, and every time the money of the sale is unclear, when others think they will lose money, the transaction finally made a lot of money.
While Old Man Bi and Old Man Zhang were struggling to make a loss, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were busy designing rooms for their younger brothers and sisters.
The house where my brothers and sisters live is a bit big, and the space is empty, so we have to send more maids to accompany us. Especially at night, we can’t put out the candles, or the baby who wakes up crying will take longer to come. coax.
The cribs are all leaning against the corner of the wall, and there is a circle of dolls around.
Wang Juan deliberately did an experiment with a child from another family. He opened up the two rooms and placed a crib in the middle of the room. No candles were lit at night. As a result, the child woke up in the middle of the night and cried. At this time, I didn't fall asleep until I was held in my arms by my mother and breast-fed.
Changing several children in a row was the same result. Wang Juan finally believed Zhang Xiaobao's words. The children were most afraid of darkness and loneliness.
Of course, my younger siblings can't be treated like this. When they get to the corner, the room is always lit, and there are maids standing by, waking up, even if they are crying, they just cry a few times.
Sometimes they didn't even cry, they looked curiously with wide eyes, and even giggled. They were wrapped in cotton blankets, and they looked very peaceful when they fell asleep.
"It's really amazing." Wang Juan said to Zhang Xiaobao about the experiment he thought of doing when he was drawing pictures on paper.
"What's magical, it's human nature, let alone a child, just as an adult, often living alone on the bed in an empty room, the mental quality is not too hard and can't bear it, your slope is bigger."
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan have their own division of labor.
The place Wang Juan designed for his younger brothers and sisters to exercise is not like the one when she and Zhang Xiaobao were more than ten months old. It is a slope with woolen blankets spread on it to allow the younger brothers and sisters to climb up, or It is a good exercise method to get the bones down from the top.
Zhang Xiaobao tried his best to create an infinite amusement place in a limited space, using wooden boards to build low compartments at a height of one meter. There are three floors in total, and each floor has at least four that can go up and down. The gentle slope allows younger brothers and sisters to climb up and down.
Each floor has multiple connected forks, just like the passages piled up with straw in front of Zhuangzi, but this time there are no passages. It is a small space, and putting it in each space will not hurt. Toys to younger brother and sister.
When the time comes, let them climb up and down to play, put bells at the entrances of each upper and lower entrances, and ring them as soon as they touch them to cultivate a sense of orientation for younger siblings.
In many places, doors that can be opened are also made, and they are blocked by glass, which is transparent, and it is also convenient for people to clean up the urine and urination of younger brothers and sisters.
If it weren't for their own brothers and sisters, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan would not bother with this task. Such a house would have to be delivered to the ship.
Regardless of the small size of the place, it is made very refined. Only this house for younger brothers and sisters to play, the cost is no less than a thousand. The carpets inside are all western cashmere carpets, and humidity must be guaranteed. Glass and cotton toys are used. It’s not money, there are also all kinds of isinglass that can be used for biting.
The world is so big that only Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan’s younger siblings can be enjoyed, and even the children in the palace should not expect to have such a good thing that combines fun and exercise.
The four little guys don't even know, they have been loved by a thousand since they were not born.
What Zhang Xiaobao is worried about now is how to make a place in the house that can be shaken back and forth. It needs to be able to swing up and down, left and right to a small extent. It's just that the shaking is simple, but no matter how you shake it, there will be a situation in the end. The place is separated by a distance.
It's easy to catch the younger siblings if they are separated.
Wang Juan has designed the general frame here, and the place of the ocean ball is also drawn separately, turning his head to see Zhang Xiaobao squeezing his chin and worrying.
As soon as I saw the swinging place, I thought for a while and said, "Just hang up the place you want to shake, one inch above the ground, block it with a cloth, and block it loosely. The cloth won't break when it shakes. Make them the same slope and connect them with loose cloth.
They can climb up along the cloth. Do you use this as a cradle? It's not bad, with a few short pillows on top, they just go to sleep when they get tired. "
"Being a cradle, I'm afraid that they will get seasick, so I will make it first while there is still some time, so that they can get used to this shaking process while playing. It's almost done. Find someone to do it."
Zhang Xiaobao drew a trampoline next to it, enlarged the space above it, and woven it with animal tendons.
Following Zhang Xiaobao's order, the craftsmen took out all their skills and used the best mahogany as the base. Four days later, a house measuring one foot two feet high, three feet wide, and four feet long was built.
From the outside, except for the glass, everything else is relatively simple, but if an adult can get in, you will know how gorgeous it is inside.
Every part of it is protected, except for velvet or satin. Each part has its own function. If you take out a piece of stuff and sell it, you will cost dozens of dollars.
Zhang Wang was stunned when he saw the house. Didn’t Xiaobao and Cuckoo say to make a small house called Space for the younger brothers and sisters
Where is it small? The houses in which they live are larger than ordinary people, and it is nothing more than layered out, and there is even a small swimming pool inside.
"Husband, isn't it too big?"
Zhang Wang took Zhang Zhong to look at the house together.
"It doesn't matter if you separate the layers." Zhang Zhong compared it with his hands.
"Husband, this house is worth more than a thousand dollars for the cashmere rug, not counting our own glass, mirrors, and all kinds of gadgets. Are you too used to it?"
Zhang Wang calculated the price at which glass, mirrors and other things should be sold, and came up with a rough figure. You can buy it in ten thousand sticks. If you don’t count the design fee mentioned by Xiaobao and Juanjuan, sell it for one. Wan Guan, aristocratic family or palace will never find it expensive.
If you add the most difficult design fee, it is estimated that there is no 15,000 pieces without even thinking about it.
The four little guys made a delivery room before they were born, and they made a house after they were born. They were only three months old, and the money spent on them was more than 30,000. When the emperor’s son was three months old Haven't spent so much money before
This does not count the various precious medicines prepared for them, the full-time doctors of medicine who are on call at twelve hours, the small clothes that are made separately, the cows that are raised separately, and other auxiliary things.
According to the calculation method of the son and the daughter-in-law, the manpower used in a certain aspect and the value that the manpower can create outside are equivalent to the cost, then how much is the value of the eight five-star maids? They can be surrounded by the little guys all day, and in terms of creating value, it will have to increase a lot.
Zhang Zhong squinted his eyes and nodded, and said, "That’s why I can rest assured that Xiaobao and Juanjuan are kind to their younger brothers and sisters. Today they are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars to make things for their younger brothers and sisters. They don’t care about giving money to younger siblings, so they don’t have to fight for family property."
"That's right, but I'm afraid that when the four children have not waited to reach the age of the family property, Xiaobao and the cuckoo will have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on them. If the four children are uncomfortable on the boat , I guess that Xiaobao and Juanjuan will change a big boat specifically for them. There is nothing that Xiaobao and Juanjuan can’t do.”
Zhang Wang really loves money. She never expected her son and daughter-in-law to build such a "small space house" for her younger siblings. It turned out that small space refers to the space inside, not the overall space outside.
No matter how much Zhang Zhongke spends, as long as Xiaobao and Cuckoo care about their younger brothers and sisters, and comfort his wife, "The cost is not high. You don't know about glass. Just burn some stones and burn them out. How about changing the ship? Who? Can the eldest son and daughter of my family treat my younger siblings this way
Isn't it money? When the rented land is raised, you can make more money. Who has the kind of calculations like our little treasure and cuckoo? What about saline-alkali land? Wash the severe areas twice with water, and plant the beans in the less severe areas. They will not be harvested at that time, and the beans will be rotted in the ground to raise the ground.
After two or three years of cultivation, the bad land will almost become better. With the addition of various fertilizers, the important role of Bai Diezi will be understood by the court by then, and no one will say if it is planted in large quantities. Can ordinary people think of such a long-term plan? "
Zhang Zhong seemed very proud when he said this. Just when others thought that the Chamber of Commerce was losing money, he also thought so at first. Later, he couldn't help it. He called his son and daughter-in-law to ask him. Long-term plan. As for whether there are other plans in the future, the son can't tell if he doesn't ask, he thinks it won't be bad.
While the two of them were talking, the craftsman came over again. The reel made of stainless steel was covered with a thick layer of isinglass mixed with hemp and bark called fiber, and it was a half-inch thick iron plate. Several Luo came together to fix it.
Zhang Zhong and Zhang Wang knew that this was a shock-absorbing thing, and it was very difficult to make. The main reason was that the iron was difficult to appear, and it would cost hundreds more for this little thing.
On the shaft of the wheel, there is also a thing that blows between the water and clouds, and the front part is reserved for the horse-drawn position.
Needless to say, I also know that I can move around in this house in the future.
In addition to the small solid steel reel that can be pushed down and pushed by humans, there are also large reels with carriages.
The craftsmen and Zhang Zhong and his wife greeted them and ran to the side of the house to get busy. When they were pretending to be rollers, they also applied another kind of gum in the cracks of the house, and put them in the top place separately to blow. The pig was soaked and covered with a layer of leather.
He also nailed the hinges on the four eaves of the house, and fixed the steel strips with small wheels on the hinges along the pattern of the house.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Zhong couldn't think of the function of various things.
"In return to the master, the little boy and the little lady are worried that if the house falls down and the little little lady and the little lady inside are damaged, they use hinges to fix the steel bars. Give it a hold.
The above pig bubbling is for fear of the house falling into the water. It is sealed with gum. Even if it falls in, there is no need to worry about water leakage. The reel is naturally easier to move. With the shock-absorbing iron plate, the little boy and the little lady are in there. It won't be uncomfortable inside. "
The head of the craftsman in the inner courtyard introduced various functions with a smile. In fact, he also envied the little boy and the little lady very much.
Zhang Zhong nodded, and felt that Xiaobao and Juanjuan did a good job. They considered everything they could consider, but he thought of one more thing and asked: "Then if all the qi in it is used up, how can the children? Don't you want to suffocate?"
"Ah? No use? Master, how long will it take to use it? If such a big house is really used up, if the little boy and the little lady are suffocated to death, the servants of King Zhang's family You don’t have to live anymore. Everyone in the strong seedling protection team should commit suicide. The four little children stay in there for ten days without being able to survive. If they can’t be saved, they will starve to death.”
The head of the craftsman actually thought about such things, and asked the little son and the little lady, but the little son said at the time, "Is there no one to take care of my younger brothers and sisters? I fell into the water while driving the house? Is it rescue? It will take half a month? Don't live with that family member. The first damn thing is the guard."
"That's right, with the ability of the Zhuozhuang Miao No. 0 Team, if they can't save the people, the existence of the Wang Family will be meaningless."
Zhang Zhong blushed, thinking it was too silly to ask, how could such a thing happen, besides, this house made entirely of wood, there is no heavy thing inside, it is well sealed, and it also floats on the water when it falls. The kind that can be used as a ship, how can accidents occur.
After the craftsman answered this question head-on, he brought a cross-shaped frame made of stainless steel, and compared it, as if to fit it inside.
This time, without waiting for Zhang Zhong’s question, he said directly: "Master, this is going to be placed in the house. At that time, a strong wire will be used to pull out the net. The wall inside is thickened with cotton. Each room has a separate The net is connected to the shelf, no matter which end of the shelf touches the ground first, it will not break.
The little son and the little lady have said that even if the frame is made to fall from a height of twenty feet, it must remain intact. Then no matter which room the little son and little lady play in, they will not be thrown to death.
The main structure of the house will dissipate when it is impacted. The little boy and the little lady will be fine even if they don't hit them a few times. After the protective cotton pad is enough, they will be hung on the net by a shelf. "