The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

"After Xiao Wu left, I felt that the whole palace was deserted."

Li Chengmu had been away for a few days, Xia Jing took the maids for a walk along the tree-shaded path to digest food.

Usually when Xia Jing goes out, most of the time it is Hongmei who goes out with her, and Baimei stays at the palace, so she knows the affairs in the palace best.

After listening to Xia Jing's words, she explained with a smile: "Princess, you have been busy with the summer seed and iron workshop in the farm these days. You don't know, on the day the fifth master left, the other masters in the palace They all scrambled to pull their own soldiers to suppress the bandits."

Now apart from the prince, there are only women and children left in the backyard.

Moreover, the mistresses of each house are also busy with the summer planting of the farm these days. They are so busy, how do they still have time to take a walk in the garden?
"Oh, all gone?" Xia Jing was quite surprised that her stepson were not afraid of danger and actively participated in the suppression of bandits this time. "Sure enough, money is not everything, but money is absolutely impossible. The temptation of money is really powerful."

Baimei looked around and made sure there was no one else besides them, then said softly: "You guys were forced by reality. Back then, you guys were jealous that Fifth Lord had his own soldiers, and they wanted to treat them equally when they made a fuss, right? Princess, you have allowed them to recruit soldiers by themselves.

Maybe they never even dreamed about how expensive it is to feed an army. Later, they realized that the team had already trained for a long time, so they would definitely not be willing to give up at this time, so they could only bite the bullet and persevere. .

The servant girl also heard in the mansion that several masters are in short supply, especially Dafang, five thousand soldiers and horses have shrunk to three thousand, and even with three thousand, he can't support him.A few days ago, the uncle had already asked the prince for help, but the prince did not dare to open the door, fearing that the other rooms would also ask him for help. "

Hongmei patted Baimei lightly, and said angrily: "You girl dare to say anything, and you can arrange the master?"

Baimei stuck out her tongue mischievously, "Your servant is only talking in front of the princess, how dare you chew your tongue in front of others."

The sunset in the sky slowly dimmed, Xia Jing heard mosquitoes buzzing from time to time, she waved her fan to drive away the mosquitoes, "There are a lot of mosquitoes outside, let's go back."

The next day, the sky was cloudless and the sun was shining brightly.

After Xia Jing finished her breakfast, she didn't go out of 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 coming out from the west, why do you have time to come to my place today?"

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows at him, and did not answer his words, but first walked around the two gentlemen to see what they were up to.
"Are you preparing for the harvest of summer grain?"

Mr. Zhang closed the account book, "The people's summer grain has already been put into the warehouse, and our government office should also get ready. We should sort out the accounts first, and after a few days, when the summer planting is done, we can arrange government servants and officials to collect the summer grain tax. "

Xia Jing smiled, then looked at King Qian and asked, "Are you busy today? Are you free?"

King Qian was so busy dealing with official duties that he was dizzy, and when he heard Xia Jing's questioning, he pushed the official documents aside.

He knew that she must have something to do when she took the initiative to find her: "If you have anything to say, we will listen to you. If it is urgent, even if you don't have time, we can make time."

Xia Jing shook her round fan and sat across from King Qian's desk, "I'm going to go out later, and I'm here to invite you to experience the new type of adhesive I've come up with."

"Adhesive?" King Qian was a little puzzled when he heard this, what's so special about adhesives?

Mr. Zhang became a little interested and asked, "A new type of adhesive? The adhesive that the princess mentioned is used in construction?"

"Yes, it is used for construction. Isn't the new government office planning to build a new building? The land has been laid out, and the foundation has been dug. After the laborers have finished their work and come back, they can start laying the foundation." Xia Jing smiled and swept around. The three of them said, "If the new type of adhesive I created caught your eyes, it could be used to build a new government office!"

"Oh, very special?" In fact, King Qian still felt that the weather was too hot and didn't want to go out.

"Of course!" Xia Jing urged him, "Hurry up, especially you, the persistence of exercising during this period is still helpful, I found that your body has lost a lot of weight, keep it up, and walking outside more is good for you benefit."

After listening to 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 didn't fit him anymore. The clothes he was wearing now were remade later.So when these words came from Xia Jing's mouth, it was very pleasant to hear, and it made people feel happy.

The two gentlemen noticed that the corners of King Qian's mouth were raised, and they couldn't see it, so they just lowered their heads and silently packed up the books.

Two quarters of an hour later, several carriages left the palace.

Half an hour later, several carriages arrived at a mountain depression.

The row of buildings in the mountain depression was particularly conspicuous. Xia Jing did not take them to the area of ​​the factory building, but took them to the office building.

At first in the carriage, King Qian and the others didn't notice the road, they just felt that the road was too flat. When the carriage stopped, they got out of the carriage and noticed that the road for the carriage was hard and flat, as if it was paved with stones, but stones were not like that. Large, and impossible to do so flat.

"My princess, what did you use to pave the road?" After asking this question, King Qian's brain flashed, "The thing you used to pave the road is the new adhesive you mentioned, right?"

"My lord is smart, he guessed right." Xia Jing stomped on the road and said with a smile, "Try the hardness, it's completely comparable to stones, and it's more convenient and cheaper than laying stones."

Mr. Zhang knelt down and picked it with his hands. The key is that this kind of stone can pave a long and wide road in one piece. "Wangfei, 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 pave the road?" King Qian felt inconceivable that this dust similar to black flour was paved on the ground, and the paved ground was as hard as stone and as flat as water.

How can this be?

King Qian didn't believe this thing that subverted the three views for a while.

Xia Jing didn't explain much, but asked people to come over and add water to the cement to make mud, then add stones, river sand, etc., and finally let people make it into a square shape.

"That's all right?" Mr. Zhang pressed it with his hand, and a finger print was printed on the smooth surface just after brushing.

Xia Jing laughed: "We have to wait for an hour or two for the cement to harden."

In fact, King Qian and the two gentlemen did not believe that this kind of mud could be made into stone, but the road along the way made them skeptical.

While waiting, Xia Jing showed them around the cement factory, and 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 tea for everyone, Mr. Zhang talked about the problems encountered in Bingzhanfang.

"I don't know if I can ask Master Shan from Wangfei Iron Workshop to guide me. The steel we bought from you can't be fully burned in the furnace of Bingzhangfang. It seems that it is always not enough."

When Xia Jing heard his question, she didn't need to think about what the problem was. "It must be that the temperature of your furnace is not high enough to reach the temperature for making steel."

"Then what are the requirements for the furnace for smelting steel?" Mr. Zhang was in a dilemma. He really didn't understand the technical issues as a counselor.

"It's a long story. Since there are technical problems, I will ask Master Shan to go to Bingzhangfang to see how to do it. Then let your people do what he said."

Xia Jing only knows some things theoretically from the notebook, but how to do it depends on the technicians who eat this bowl of food.

Mr. Zhang said gratefully: "Then I will trouble the princess to pay more attention to this matter."

Whenever there is a matter of begging for help, King Qian always kicks the ball, so he pushes the matter to him and asks him to ask someone to solve it.

However, Mr. Zhang was a little surprised today. The blast furnace for making steel should be regarded as a blacksmith's secret. Unexpectedly, the princess agreed without even thinking about it.

"It's a little effort, you are welcome." Xia Jing took a sip of tea with a smile, put down the tea cup and said, "Actually, the efficiency of forging steel with hammers is too low. If your Bingzhanfang can use water power to forge steel with hammers, the efficiency will be greatly improved." increase, so as to take the first step to strengthen the army.”

"Hydraulic power? What does the princess mean by converting water power into kinetic energy like a waterwheel pounding rice?" Mr. Zhang became excited.

He usually reads a lot of books, and he knows a little bit about the principle of hydraulic rice pounding workshop. When Xia Jing mentioned it, his brain was widened.

Water power can pound rice and forge steel, so can water power do other things?

"The principle is similar. My iron workshop has already been built, and I will let the craftsmen help you build a few."

An hour passed quickly, and Xia Jing took them outside, because the weather in Lingnan was hot, and the concrete pier had hardened in an hour.

Mr. Zhang pressed his handprint in amazement, and it has been fixed forever, "It's really amazing. After mixing dust and water, it becomes a stone pier. If this kind of cement is used for city wall construction, it doesn't mean that you don't have to worry about foreign enemies." Come to dig the city wall?"

King Qian kicked the concrete pier, and his expression lifted, "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 building?"

After hearing what he said, Xia Jing rolled her eyes, "My lord, you are not beautiful, but your idea is quite beautiful. The cement is made by me and my craftsman. You just want to pick it with ease today. My peach, see if you can do it, why don't you go to heaven?"

King Qian felt that Xia Jing was always forgetting some things, so he had to remind her: "Princess, the husband and wife community, you can only be good if I am good."

Xia Jing was laughed at by the old dandy, "Not to mention the energy I put into this cement factory, the money is also moving around in various ways. Now that the most difficult stage of the initial stage has passed, and there will be profits soon, you come here to pick peaches."

"But why do you?"

"Just because of our husband and wife relationship?"

King Qian stared, "Isn't our relationship between husband and wife not enough? This is the most reliable cooperative relationship! As a husband and wife, what's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours."

"This sounds good, but it's all a rip-off in practice." Xia Jing sneered, and asked King Qian: "What's yours is mine, so is your throne mine? Is your wealth and life mine? Or is it mine?" According to the law of succession, if we cooperate, and your throne will be passed on to the eldest son, will the old lady still rely on his breath to survive?"

"You are his mother and concubine, does he still dare to disobey you?" King Qian was a little ashamed.

"Ha!" Xia Jing really wanted to laugh when she heard such childish words, "But I'm just a stepmother!"

"You" Qian Wang was stunned speechless.

Mr. Zhang: "My lord, there is a lot of waste in Lingnan waiting for a new one, and money is everywhere, and the prince really has no choice. I hope you don't take offense, my lord. Not to mention the lord, even a humble minister can't wait to split a penny in half and spend it."

Xia Jing nodded slowly: "Money is indeed a good thing, everything is easy to discuss with money, and money can make ghosts push the wheel, but the opportunity to make money in front of me, shouldn't I hold it in my own hands? Why should I be controlled by others? ?”

King Qian smiled wryly: "Princess, why are you doing this?"

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, "I'm afraid of trouble. Once you have a stake in the cement factory, it means that the entire Qianwang Mansion has participated. Xiao Wu is my own child. It's easy to say, but it's hard to say about the other houses. Once the interests of the relatives are involved in the relationship, this layer of family relationship is very fragile, it will be broken at the first stab, and maybe they will turn against each other."

Trouble is really troublesome, in fact, everyone knows it.

It's just that King Qian ignored this hidden danger automatically for his own benefit.

They ignored it, but Xia Jing couldn't ignore it. She was not a girl in love, and men could do whatever they wanted.

It's okay to do business, but if she wants to start from the source of her money, then she will definitely chop off this hand with a knife!
"However, your idea of ​​making money is good. You don't want to get involved in the cement factory, but we have another way of cooperation. I wonder if you want to hear it?"

The eyes of King Qian and the two gentlemen brightened, what is this called?
Mountain darkly, vista!
King Qian happily asked: "Princess, please tell me, 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 another way to make money, he can be our distributor, that is, wholesale goods from us. Then open a shop to sell it, so as to earn the difference.”

For now, this method is a step back for both parties.

But King Qian felt uncomfortable, it had nothing to do with money, he simply didn't like Xia Jing's distinction with him too clearly.

But be clear, according to Xia Jing, there is nothing wrong with it.

For the sake of benefit, brothers may fight against each other, let alone half-brothers.

After hearing what she said, Mr. Zhang had to praise her in his heart, but on the surface he had to feel wronged for his lord.

"The princess's attitude towards our prince is not like a husband and wife at all. She separates each other too clearly, and it is more like a partner."

Xia Jing handed the contract drawn up in advance to King Qian, and said with a wry smile: "If we are a husband and wife, it means that one day, all I do now is to make wedding dresses for others, and it will be a waste of work in the end." , and it may become my death talisman in the end. Dare I ask the prince, will you pass the throne to Xiao Wu in the future?"

King Qian: "This matter violates the ancestral system, how can this king do it at will!"

Xia Jing shrugged, "Look, I knew this would happen, so why make things difficult for me?"

King Qian didn't know how to answer this question for a while, but he quickly realized that he read the contract and signed it.

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