Chapter 87 One trick is eaten all over the world

When night falls, the lanterns come on. Although the cold wind in Chang'an City is like a stinging ice blade, the night market in Chang'an City is singing and dancing, hooking the fence tile, or the wine shop, and there are scenes of vivid color and fragrance everywhere.

Chen Ying was in the cold treasury, looking at the gold and silver piled up in the treasury, and sighed with infinite emotion. If you say 10,000 yuan, it's just a number, but when you see 10,000 guan money, that is, 10 million copper coins, I'm afraid many people will be shocked, and if it's a mountain of gold ingots and silver judgments, I'm afraid it will be difficult for anyone to calm down.

Chen Ying looked at the golden ingot, and a strange smile appeared on his face. Chen Ying took a piece of gold and put it under the lamp to look at it carefully, the dazzling golden light surprised Chen Ying.

The more Chen Ying looked, the more surprised he became, and the more he watched, the more delighted he became.

Ma Zhou is a teenager in the end, although he is smart, but he is not like Chen Ying. Looking at the smile on Chen Ying's face, Ma Zhou said as if offering a treasure: "Isn't the Lord wondering why there is more gold?" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "How much brass did you add to your life?" ”

Ma Zhou didn't have time to react, and said without thinking: "Two into three." ”

Then, Ma Zhou looked at Chen Ying in surprise and said, "How did Lang Jun know that the door was mixed with copper in gold?" ”

Chen Ying gently placed the ingot of gold in his hand in the box. Chen Ying looked at Ma Zhou and sighed and said, "The problem is in this color, whether it is gold or silver in our treasury, it is very bright." The gold of gold is a bit harsh, and the silver of silver is very sharp, so I know that you have not only mixed copper with gold, but also tin with silver. ”

Chen Ying never thought that the money village had not really started business, so Ma Zhou let the 200,000 taels of silver in the treasury and more than 13,000 taels of gold directly increase in value by nearly 30%.

Hearing this, Ma Zhou was even more dumbfounded: "The Lord is wise, Ma Zhou is not as good as just in case." ”

In fact, Chen Ying saw through Ma Zhou's self-righteous methods at a glance, which made Ma Zhou very frustrated. A certain proportion of copper is mixed into the gold, and this phenomenon was discovered by Ma Zhou by accident.

Because the gold, silver and copper coins that Li Yuan transferred to Chen Ying were very miscellaneous and very trivial, Ma Zhou originally just wanted to cast the trivial gold into gold ingots of four specifications, such as ten taels, fifty taels, one hundred taels, and five hundred taels, but in the process of smelting, a craftsman accidentally threw a piece of brass into the crucible, and the accident happened, the gold that appeared in this crucible was obviously better than the gold in other crucibles, brighter, and the texture was very good.

After repeated trials, almost five hundred taels of gold were scrapped, and Ma Zhou finally mastered the formula of the best proportion, using one hundred taels of gold and mixing twenty-one taels of brass with two hundred and thirty coins, so that the gold ingots cast were of the best composition. After all the 13,000 taels of silver were cast, Ma Zhou pondered how to improve the composition of the silver, and through the experiment, he finally came up with the best composition of the silver added to the tin.

Since then, the money village has not been officially opened, and Ma Zhou mixed 200,000 taels of silver with tin to obtain more than 30,000 taels of silver and 2,700 taels of gold. This is just a profit in less than a month, which is almost equivalent to nearly 60,000 yuan.

Chen Ying looked at Ma Zhou's somewhat depressed face, and suddenly sneered: "What, discouraged?" ”

Ma Zhou thought farther, since Chen Ying could see the problem at a glance, does it also mean that other people can also see it?

In fact, Ma Zhou's worries were unnecessary.

Nearly two hundred years before the invention of Archimedes' buoyancy principle, the Mohists also had an exposition of the buoyancy principle in the "Book of Ink" written by the Mohists, but with the exclusive respect of Confucianism by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Mohists gradually disappeared, and this important theory was drowned in the dust of history, leaving only a few words.

"Jing is big, its shallow is shallow, and it is said to be in the gu."

"Shen, Jing Zhibei also, then Shen shallow, non-Jing shallow, if Yi is one of the five."

In fact, this is the earliest record of density in China, "jing" should be used as punishment, and the shape is tong, which means the body and the object, and the gu in "said to be in the gu", should be the same, which means "the same". The meaning of this sentence is that the object is large and shalve, and the reason is that the weight of the object is the same as the buoyancy it bears, and it is balanced.

The meaning of the second passage is that if you put an object into the water, the object is in the water, and it is balanced in the water, even if it sinks very shallowly, it is not shallow. ”

It's just a pity that the ancient Chinese did not study this field further, and the loss of the "Black Classic" is the greatest sorrow.

Chen Ying patted Ma Zhou on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to be discouraged, this matter is well done." ”

"Won't others find out that I have copper in gold?" Ma Zhou is now very worried, once the matter of copper mixed with gold is discovered, this will not only be a fatal blow to Qianzhuang, the key is that these gold and silver are worth nearly 400,000 yuan, not to mention Ma Zhou, even Chen Ying can't afford to pay for it.

Chen Ying said very confidently: "The people who can find this problem have not yet appeared, but this matter is not afraid of outsiders knowing, and they are afraid of insiders leaking secrets, so these people involved in the smelting must control it well, control their mouths, and never leak this news." “

Ma Zhou hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the lord knows the severity, these craftsmen who participated in smelting, Zhou is recruited to be smart or deaf, and these people are illiterate, even if they want to divulge this secret, there is no way." ”

Chen Ying: "This is not the safest way! ”

"Ahh Ma Zhou was surprised: "They still have a way to leak secrets?" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said: "In this world, there are countless capable people, some people are proficient in lip language, and some people can sign language, so just recruiting smart people or deaf people is not necessarily the safest." ”

To ask who is the tightest in the world?

The answer is yes, there are only dead people.

Ma Zhou muttered in his heart: "Do you need to do this?" ”

"What do you do?" Suddenly, Chen Ying looked at Ma Zhou's gloomy face and slapped Ma Zhou's head: "What do you want?" Do you think I'm going to kill them all? ”

Ma Zhou said suspiciously: "Isn't it?" ”

"Of course not, you think of me too badly!" Chen Ying smiled slightly: "The so-called loyalty, is because the bargaining chips for betrayal are not enough, as long as the chips are enough, even if they are normal people, they will be loyal, in this society, whether they are smart or deaf, their employment channels are very narrow, a store will not hire them at all, so they want to support their families, it is difficult to find a job to support themselves." All you need to do is gather all the wise and deaf people, tell them, keep the secret, everyone can live, once the secret is revealed, one of the hired people will be counted as one person, and all of them will be fired! ”

Hearing that Chen Ying didn't want to kill people, Ma Zhou suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Silver and gold were consumed by fire, and in the later Ming and Qing dynasties, they were all open secrets. However, in this era, Chen Ying had to be cautious, there is a way to be fresh, eat all over the world. Guarding this major invention will allow you to eat these profits into your own mouth. This secret is revealed one day later, so this piece of fat can be eaten forever.

Chen Ying said: "In fact, this can be divided into countless steps, each person is only responsible for a part, and if they are not connected with each other, they will not be able to know your true intentions." Those who don't know won't reveal the secret. “