Maybe it's because they're unhappy, the vast majority of Lizheng, Jiachang and rich people are drunk like mud in this meal.

One by one, they were crooked at the table, or drunk, or babbling nonsense.

Only the eldest prince Wu was still full of spring breeze and the two Qinglou girls from Funingwei had a good time, and they had a lot of fun.

This can't help but remind Wei Bao of Fan Zhongyan's Su Musha.

The blue clouds, the yellow leaves, the autumn colors are waves, and the waves are cold and smoky.

The mountains reflect the slanting sun and the sky receives water, and the grass is ruthless, and it is outside the slanting sun.

The soul of the dark country, chasing the thoughts. Unless night and night, good dreams leave people to sleep.

Mingyue Lou is high and recess alone, and the wine is sad and turns into lovesick tears.

Maybe land is the landlord's biggest confidante, right? At this time, there is no red face, and it is understandable that there is no love in life.

Wei Bao suddenly remembered this poem at this time, because when Zhao Jinfeng was leaving, he vaguely thought of it, but he didn't think about it completely, and he couldn't help but feel annoyed at this time, if he could write a word with Zhao Jinfeng as a farewell, how romantic would it be? Now we have to wait a long time.

Originally, Wei Bao also wanted to go in and care for everyone, and then talk about the future development of partnerships, these are the capitalists on the scene, and they are more on the right path than they have cultivated.

If he had the ability to convert these landlords into capitalists, it would represent his great success in the idea of political and economic transformation! It's okay here, Daming can do it everywhere!

Wei Bao's vision is not global, he only cares about this hometown that makes the breath he loves more and more intoxicating.

Only by making Daming better and better, so that the people here no longer worry about dying of hunger and cold, disease at any time, and natural and man-made disasters at any time, can they realize their ambitions.

"Let's go." Wei Bao said to Lin Wenbiao beside him.

Lin Wenbiao snorted, very curious, didn't Childe want to see these people? Why did you get to the entrance of the lobby of the State Guest House and leave instead?

Wei Bao felt that it was no longer interesting to go in at this time, a group of people were drunk, and they couldn't think normally, they couldn't chat normally, and obviously they were sad at this time, which one of them was drunk and crazy, and then quarreled with him, what should I do? So there's no rush.

Wei Bao quickly swept around just now, but didn't see Wu Xuexia, in fact, he wanted to see Wu Xuexia, and wanted to ask her, do you need any gifts?

Wei Bao doesn't like to owe favors to others, and knows that Wu Xuexia actually helped him a lot this time! Without her statement, a group of Lizheng, Jiachang and rich people would not finally bow their heads.

But it is also difficult to choose a gift for Wu Xuexia, how much silver her family has, and now Wei Bao can't estimate it, and secretly guesses that at least 5 million taels have been broken, and it is almost the same to say that the rich rival the country. A Liaoxi Wu family, a Liaodong ancestral family, and a Phi Island Mao Wenlong, all of which are well-known and rich.

Compared to the Wu family, what is his net worth? So there is no need to buy expensive gifts. He wasn't an artist, and he couldn't play with art. This question is very sad, it seems that she owes Wu Xuexia a big favor, and she can't pay it back.

"Hmph, it's really a snobs who only take advantage!"

Wei Bao was walking out of the courtyard of the State Guest House, and Wu Xuexia's usual cold voice came from behind him.

Wei Bao smiled slightly and turned around: "I'm looking for you." Ay? Why is it good to scold people? How am I a snob? ”

Wu Xuexia glanced at Wei Bao's side.

Wei Bao understood, knowing that Wu Xuexia had something to say to herself alone, so he made a gesture to the followers to spread out, and a group of followers immediately dispersed to a place 30 steps away.

Wu Xuexia said as she walked: "You don't know how you got these lands and debts, right?" Even if I can't find evidence of your incriminating poison mist! But if I really want to stop it before, these rich people in the township won't be so obedient to give away what they owe to each other! ”

Wei Bao nodded and said, "I heard, it was you who helped me, I owe you a big favor, I was still thinking just now, what gift do I want to give you?" Your family is not short of silver, just send the silver, I'm afraid that Miss Wu will be defiled. ”

"You don't know what I want?" Wu Xuexia said coldly: "At this time, aren't you going to bring me the deed of sale in your hand and Luo Yangxing's hand?" ”

Wei Bao guessed that she would take the opportunity to ask for the arrears again, but there was really no way to return this to her, and she was counting on it to be used to blackmail the Wu family at the most critical time, even if the purpose of the blackmail could not be achieved, it would be good to use this in exchange for Wu Xuexia, an insider intelligence officer.

"I can give you anything but this!" Wei Bao directly refused.

"You scoundrel!" Wu Xuexia was angry.

Wei Bao was also a little angry: "Why am I a scoundrel? I asked you to help me? ”

"But I've already helped you!" Wu Xuexia stood still, her beautiful eyes erupted with anger and said: "Don't think that I can't do anything with people like you, just go and tell my eldest brother now, my family can let you get out of Liaoxi in a few days!" ”

Wei Bao was furious, and also stood and glared at Wu Xuexia, he didn't expect that a delicate little girl could say such domineering words, secretly thinking that this is what the eldest lady of the family should look like, right? However, Lao Tzu is not easy to mess with now! Holding back his anger, he suppressed his voice and said, "I'm afraid that your family doesn't have so much energy!" How you like to play, Lao Tzu will accompany you to the end! ”

Since everyone else has said the word "roll", Wei Bao doesn't need to pretend to be any more swearing, although he doesn't often swear, but Wei Bao is not a person who doesn't swear at all, a person who doesn't swear at all, that's a saint.

"Who do you call Lao Tzu?" Wu Xuexia raised her hand after speaking.

Wei Bao was shocked, and then remembered that this plump man was good at martial arts, and hurriedly jumped away in three or two steps.

"Kind of don't you go?" Wu Xuexia looked at Wei Bao coldly, and didn't chase after her, "It's not like a man!" ”

This sentence was not low, even if Wei Bao's entourage was thirty steps away, they could hear it, but Gongzi did not speak, and they did not dare to interfere.

Wei Bao's face was hot with shame, but he really couldn't beat this woman, and, even if he could fight, as a big man, fighting with a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl didn't seem to be very good: "I'm a good man and don't fight with women!" Forget it, don't speculate for more than half a sentence, you can do what you like! "Let's go.

I originally wanted to give Wu Xuexia a gift, but I didn't expect it to be like this! In fact, Wei Bao is not afraid of what she will do to herself after returning the deed of sale to Wu Xuexia, after all, after getting absolute control of the local area, Wei Bao's current power is not small, in his own territory, even Wu Xiang can't act rashly against him, and he can't mobilize the army of the imperial court at will! And he now has a certain relationship in the capital, and when he really can't do it, he still has the gold-faced fan given by Wang Tiqian in his hand! Wei Bao didn't believe that the Wu family dared to openly offend the second great eunuch in the Forbidden City, that was not an ordinary figure, in the entire Ming Empire, he could be ranked in the top five, more than enough!

But he didn't want to be coerced, so he had to wait for the day when he felt safer and took the initiative to take it out. After all, now that I am in a weak position, I am very insecure if I don't take a talisman. If he was in a strong position, Wei Bao would never use similar words to blackmail a girl.

Wu Xuexia looked at Wei Bao's back angrily, and couldn't help but scold loudly again, after all, she is the daughter of a famous family, and she still has basic cultivation, and her sharpness lies in sarcasm, not scolding the street like a village woman.

Wu Xuexia was quickly thinking about how to deal with Wei Bao.

Depressed and returned to his house, Wei Bao was very bored, he was already quite sad when he parted with Zhao Jinfeng, and he was even more in no mood when he ran into Wu Xuexia like this.

"What's wrong?" Fan Xiaolin saw that Wei Bao's face was very unsightly, and asked with concern.

Wei Bao muttered that it was nothing, and went straight back to his room to sleep. Sleep when you're in a bad mood, this is Wei Bao's way to deal with your mood, tried and tested, no matter how bad the situation is, it will be fine when you sleep full.

"Maybe it's because Miss Zhao is gone, and she is reluctant." Wang Qiuya said quietly.

Fan Xiaolin nodded: "Yes, for sure, hehe." ”

"What are you laughing at? Miss Zhao is good-looking, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has a good family background, which everyone will like. Wang Qiuya said.

"I didn't say Miss Zhao wasn't." Fan Xiaolin said with a smile: "I think Xiaobao is fun, it seems that he is born with a lover, and he is already so interested in women at a young age." ”

In the aftermath, Fan Xiaolin still can't help but call Wei Bao Xiaobao sometimes, especially when she whispers to Wang Qiuya.

Wang Qiuya snorted, "You are not very old, aren't you also a natural lover?" As long as Childe is a little unhappy, you will ask nonsense. There are things that you can see, but you don't have to say them. ”

"I'm just asking, what if Childe wants to say? He just happened to find someone to talk to. If he doesn't want to say, I won't ask if I haven't asked. Fan Xiaolin smiled, didn't think there was any problem, and went to do her own thing.

Wei Bao slept for a long time, and his worst worries finally passed, and he finally successfully mastered this large piece of land and the people on it! Actually, it went very well, but I don't know why, I wasn't particularly happy.

Now he finally understands what it is like to be rich, the more he gets, the more he wants to get, and he is worried about losing what he has, and his worries have increased a lot compared to before.

When he just came back from Jingshi a while ago, he felt that it was the happiest time for him, just with silver, everything had just begun, there was a beautiful blueprint, and everything was full of hope.

But after the stroke on the blueprint was really drawn, it added a lot of empty feelings, and now I am like a person who crosses the river by feeling the stones, I don't know which foot if I step on the air all of a sudden, I will fall into the river and be swept away by the rapids!

He is not afraid of Wu Xuexia, and knows that even if Wu Xuexia does not get angry with himself today, the Wu family and the big families here in Liaoxi will not relax their vigilance against him, and they will still always look for opportunities to bring him down! The more he gains, the stronger the will of these people to bring him down, because killing him is equivalent to smashing a piggy bank at once.

Wei Bao does not take much of a financial advantage locally, at least not for now. If he stubbornly ignores this gang of Lizheng, Jiachang and rich households, in fact, they have no rut at all, at most for a year or two, after a long time, the land is barren, and no one will come to trouble him again, and then he will slowly build it.

But Wei Bao chose not to let the landlords of this land suffer too much, at least not to be particularly jealous of him afterwards.

"Now it's all left to arrange the local planning, and then go to Shanhaiguan to study!" Wei Bao lit a cigarette and muttered to himself into the blue smoke, "It's time to put your mind on the scientific expedition!" ”

And the exam period seems to be only one month, and it won't delay him much.

The local plan is so big, it may not be completed in five years, and this year he can be satisfied with the framework and a prototype. The main thing is to focus on agricultural production, to be able to keep the seeds of his high-yield crops, to take root and sprout in this era, and to solve the problem of more than 9,000 people who are now following him, and nearly 10,000 people have food to eat, Wei Bao is satisfied.

After doing the math, Wei Bao found that the people who were following him now had actually exceeded 10,000! Originally, there were more than 3,000 people under his command, and there were five or six thousand local people, counting 5,500, adding up to more than 8,000 people, plus he opened hundreds of shops outside, and there were as many as two or three hundred people in the Tiandi Merchant Branch in the capital, and the number of people doing business outside exceeded 2,000.

It's really broken 10,000!

Wei Bao thought of this number, his scalp was slightly numb, and his pride was only fleeting, as a person who had never been a big boss in modern times, he suddenly felt that there was such a big team on his shoulders to eat and start a new pressure, and this pressure instantly made him a little struggling.

Wei Bao turned over, got up, didn't call Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui, and came out with his clothes dressed.

Fan Xiaolin, Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui were all surprised to see Wei Bao come out by himself.

"Why didn't you let us serve and get up?" Wang Qiuya asked.

"Nothing. You haven't slept so late? Wei Bao asked Fan Xiaolin directly: "How long do we have enough food?" ”

Fan Xiaolin said: "We are about to sleep. Not counting the newly added villagers, our original 3,000 people alone are only enough for February's rations, and each person cannot exceed the supply of two taels of grain per day. ”

Wei Bao nodded, this is the year of the catastrophe, it is not easy to buy food if you have money, and if you buy food from outside Yongping Mansion and transport it to the local area, the price will have to more than double! I can't afford it!

"How much cash do we have on hand?" Wei Bao asked.

"It's less than 10,000 taels! This afternoon all the arrears of the rich have been collected, and 10% of the money has been paid to them. Fan Xiaolin replied: "Fortunately, the remaining 10% of the arrears in the hands of the rich can be paid off after three years, otherwise, we won't even be able to pay the arrears of the rich households." ”

"The local villagers don't care about it for now, even if the land and arrears are not transferred to me, it turns out that the rich families will not care about the food of the tenant farmers when they are not working. Let's talk to the rich people tomorrow! Let's see if we can fix it. Wei Bao said: "Have they all eaten and drunk and left?" What about Mr. Wu and Miss Wu? ”

"They all left, and in the middle of the afternoon, everyone dispersed." Fan Xiaolin replied: "Master Wu and Miss Wu also left, it seems that Miss Wu dragged Master Wu away, originally Master Wu wanted to stay for two more days, Miss Wu refused to let him live or die." ”

Wei Bao snorted, secretly thinking that Wu Xuexia should not have told her eldest brother about the deed of sale, otherwise with the character of the eldest prince of Wu, he would definitely not just leave.

While the two of them were talking, Xu Rui had already come in with a meal obediently: "Son, let's eat quickly, I have always let the kitchen prepare it." ”

Wei Bao hummed, and was about to sit down to eat, when he heard a muffled thunderous sound, and the wooden house that shook moved!

"It can't be an earthquake, right?" Fan Xiaolin was shocked.

Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui were also scared.

Wei Bao hurriedly walked to the window and looked out, the scene around was not like an earthquake, only to see a noise from the mining area, "Go out and have a look!" It looks like a sound coming from the mines! ”

The three girls hurriedly followed Wei Bao out.

Wei Baocai walked to the outside of the armor with his entourage, and Luo San was stunned and hurriedly came over to report.

"What's wrong?" Wei Bao asked anxiously, because he was in a hurry, he didn't have time to prepare the car, so he walked directly with a lantern.

Luo San was stunned with a lantern in his hand, and said breathlessly: "The boiler is blowing!" ”

Yes?

Wei Bao was so shocked that he took a small step back, only to feel cold all over his body for a moment, and his blood was about to coagulate, it was really what he was most worried about, "The boiler exploded?" Dead? ”

As a modern person, Wei Bao's biggest concern is safety, and he will not disregard people's life and death.

Luo San was stunned and said: "No, the two boiler guards are injured, it's not particularly in the way, and they have already asked people to invite Langzhong." ”

Wei Bao was a little relieved, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the iron and copper materials in this era were extremely expensive, and if you fry a boiler, you will lose at least hundreds of taels of silver!

And Zhao Jinfeng was not so painful, Wei Bao suddenly felt that his heart hurt so much that he couldn't breathe, looking up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, the sky was dark, and there was no starlight on this early spring night.

Wei Bao feels that the pressure to be the boss is too great! I used to read YY cross-reading on the Internet, and I led hundreds of thousands of people to make a revolution at every turn, how did you solve the problem of eating and economic problems for so many people? He was only 10,000 men, and he felt Alexander.

The two boilermen had one seriously injured and one lightly injured, both broken bones and scalds.

More than a hundred miners who worked at night stood nearby.

The mining area, the chemical plant, and the cement plant are all together, because there is only one boiler for the time being, and several materials have to be mixed here, and they do not stop all day and night.

Wei Bao squatted down and took a closer look, seeing that even if he was seriously injured, the situation was not particularly serious, so he was a little relieved, and asked, "Lang Zhong hasn't come yet?" ”

"Our blind man knows some medical skills, he can't count on it, so he has to invite other Langzhong, and he has to work hard to get there." Luo San was stunned and said.

Wei Bao sighed, stood up, and then went to look at the boiler of the firecrackers.

The quality is really poor, it has been broken into several large pieces, and it must be recast. Moreover, he knew that the iron and copper materials of this era had a lot of slag, and the performance after recasting was even worse, so it could no longer be used to make boilers, but could only be used to make rough and shallow farm tools.

Boiler explosion is generally a chemical reaction between combustible gas or dust and air in a short period of time, and the high-temperature and high-pressure gas and shock wave generated exceed the bearing capacity of surrounding buildings, containers and pipelines, causing damage to people and equipment.

The lower explosion limit of pulverized coal is 20~60g/m3, and the pressure generated by the explosion can reach 0.3~1.0MPa. In terms of boiler scope, combustible substances refer to natural gas, coal gas, liquefied petroleum gas, oil mist and pulverized coal; Explosions were caused by furnace blasting, pulverized coal silo explosions and pulverizing system explosions.

Wei Bao has never touched a factory boiler in modern times, not even two knives, it is completely based on the drawings of the three 'crossing giant enthusiasts' brothers, and the earth boiler is too shallow to be made.

Wei Bao circled around the damaged boiler for more than ten turns, but did not find out the specific reason.

"Do you see what's wrong?" Wei Bao asked Song Yingxing, who rushed over.

Song Yingxing was sleeping in a daze, and when he heard the sound of the explosion, he didn't even get his clothes on, so he came over, and he was specially responsible for making this boiler these days, and watching people do things here in the chemical plant.

"Childe's thing, I've never seen it before, and now I probably understand how to make it and how to do it, but I still don't understand a lot of things." Song Yingxing replied honestly.

Wei Bao snorted and didn't say anything, secretly thinking that even the great power of this era may not be able to catch up with his knowledge of three knives, and it is difficult for a strong man to ask him.

"Usually there are three conditions for an explosion to occur, one is the accumulation of fuel and combustion air; Second, the concentration of the mixture of fuel and air is within the explosion limit; The third is to have enough ignition energy. Wei Bao said to Song Yingxing and a group of blacksmiths from the Industrial Bureau: "You can analyze it from these three aspects! Find out why, get over it! Stay safe! Rebuild a boiler! Don't delay production! ”

Wei Bao's instructions are very bureaucratic, and what he can't do himself, it's like a humane thing to the bottom.

Song Yingxing and a group of people stubbornly agreed: "Yes, son." ”

However, when everyone agreed, they were very empty-minded, everyone knew that they had to overcome the reasons, ensure safety, and not delay production, after all, a lot of cement and bricks are now used every day, but who knows if the remade boiler will still be like this? Moreover, this is the cost of a few hundred taels! Everyone is feeling a lot of pressure.

Wei Bao actually probably knows what the reason is, it should still be a problem with the material, he asked himself that there is no problem with the water pressure, such a small boiler, even if there is a problem, it will never explode easily, if it is a modern stainless steel boiler, at most it will be a leak of the impact of the instrument valve or something.

But this problem, he will not be able to solve for a while.

Wei Bao looked at Luo San stunned, "Let the workers do what they should do, before the new boiler comes out, it will be manually stirred in the past two days!" ”

Luo San was stunned and replied, "Yes, Childe." ”

"You guys think about it for yourself first, and I'll find time to figure it out with you tomorrow!" Wei Bao added.

A group of people hurriedly said yes, a little relieved, if there was no son to take the lead, they really didn't dare to do it casually.

After Wei Bao arranged all this, he left with a heavy heart. Feeling that he was not good at internal and external troubles, on the one hand, he was staring at a group of big families who were staring at him, which forced him to try his best to raise his social status in order to protect himself. On the other hand, with the knowledge of these three knives, where do you have the ability to lead a bunch of illiterate peasants to engage in industrial production?

Wei Bao felt that he had completely gone to ancient times to find guilt!

But what can he do besides that? I can't escape the tuition fees that should be paid!

Wei Bao comforted himself.

Fan Xiaolin, Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui secretly went to see Wei Bao's face, and when they saw Wei Bao's pale face, they knew that he was anxious and hungry, and the three daughters were also distressed.

"Childe, don't think about it so much, maybe it will be solved tomorrow." Fan Xiaolin comforted Wei Bao as she walked.

Wei Bao sighed, didn't say anything, and couldn't wait to immediately shout a system to the sky, fluttering and creating countless industrial products for himself! It's like making a game, but it's impossible, it's science fiction, it's not history, it's real history, it's suffering plus bliss.