"San Lang, go and bring the newspaper to your father." In a two-hall courtyard in Qilu Dengzhou City, a middle-aged man with gray hair stretched out his waist, and after beating his overstrained psoas muscles with his right hand, he said a little lazily.

There was a reclining chair at his feet, and there was a small coffee table with a pot of tea on it, and a pair of glasses - a pair of glasses that only high-ranking officials and dignitaries could have in the Central Plains back then, and now it has been popularized among the people.

With Lu Qi's conquest of the Saibei grassland, a large amount of trona in the north flowed into the Central Plains, and Lu Qi's glass manufacturing industry rose to a higher level, and objects such as glasses, just like glassware and glass mirrors in the early years, fell again and again, and flew into the homes of ordinary people.

A large number of cheap and high-quality trona has also affected the papermaking, textile, tanning and other chemical industries, which have a great role in promoting.

- The so-called soda is natural soda, which is used not only in glass manufacturing, but also in soap and stain removal manufacturing, in the paper industry such as pulp and paper, and in leather treatment. Lu Qian remembered that in later generations, the Tongbai in Nanyang, the Central Plains, contained a large amount of trona. I sent people to explore early, but after more than three years of busyness, I never found the trona mine. The famous Wucheng alkali mine and Anpeng alkali mine in later generations are still nowhere to be found. That's two of the world's only four ancient soda minerals. But what is surprising is that the exploration team searched in Tongbai, and the trona was not found, but a large open-pit gold mine and a super large silver-rich mine were found.

This made Lu Qian's mind silent for a long time The memory is a little flooded, Tongbai seems to be a place very rich in mineral resources, no, it is the entire Nanyang Basin.

Because the trona ore of Tongbai is only known in detail, and there is a trona in Saibei to replace it, coupled with the discovery of gold and silver ore, the sense of loss is almost minimal.

This is skipped. Soon, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy jumped out of the house, he was nibbling on a meat bun with his left hand, pinching a stack of newspapers with his right hand, and throwing the newspaper on the coffee table in front of his father very rashly, and the result was scattered to the ground.

The middle-aged man immediately glared at him with a stern gaze and said, "Bastard, this is a newspaper not a toilet papyrus, so I don't know whether it's good or bad, and I read all the books into the dog's stomach?" "In this day and age, the older generation still has a high level of respect for newspapers. The image of newspapers in their minds bears a lot of resemblance to books. But what about the younger generation? Just like this kid right now. From the day he can remember, newspapers have become a part of his life, something at his fingertips. Moreover, after twenty or thirty years of development, there are newspapers everywhere in China today, and there are newspapers in all provinces, states and counties, and they will think that it is a ghost only "precious".

The middle-aged man picked up the scattered newspapers one by one, patted the dust on them, and put them on the coffee table, then returned to lie back in his chair, picked up one and looked through it carefully.

The young man pouted, and turned back to the chamber.

As a veteran of the whaling fleet, the middle-aged man after retirement did not sit idly by, but on the one hand acquired the land [use right], planted cotton, soybeans, tobacco and other cash crops, and on the other hand invested the funds in the stock market. Although his capital is very small, there are few stocks in Luqi that have fallen again over the years, and when he catches up with the bull market, pigs can fly. There are dividends every year, a number of stocks are added together, and the abundance of capital and income makes him not inferior to those comrades-in-arms who went down to the business sea after being discharged from the army.

As a wealthy class in Dengzhou City, reading newspapers has long been a habit of middle-aged people. This was a habit he developed in his early years in the whaling fleet, because the military instructors would take them to read the newspaper every day. Later it became natural.

Moreover, these newspapers are not only meant to be heard, but also wealthy.

Just like the Haizhou phosphate mine he once invested, it was through the newspaper that he figured out what the meaning of phosphate rock was, so he invested a sum of money early. Although the investment fund of the entire phosphate mine is only a drop in the bucket, the three hundred silver dollars also allowed him to get thirty stock notes. It has only been three years now, and the former 300 silver dollars have become thousands of capital, and there are dividends every year, and there are 500 small accumulations.

It's more than doubled in a year, and such a good business comes from newspapers.

Therefore, his worth is no worse than those former comrades-in-arms who pooled their money to work hard in the business world. In this Dengzhou city, it belongs to the absolute wealthy class.

It was mid-noon. The middle-aged man got up and went back to the house, changed into decent clothes, and the servants of the house had prepared a horse for him, yes, a horse, not a carriage.

Qilu is the birthplace of Lu Qi, and it is also the province with the highest enthusiasm for joining the army among the provinces in China and Turkey today. Here, as a middle-aged veteran and his current age, if he rode in a carriage, he would be laughed at by his friends and relatives.

By noon, the middle-aged man returned, and the hostess had already prepared the meal.

The content of the lunch well reflects the living standard of Qilu's small bourgeoisie, a plate of white flour steamed buns, two meat and two vegetables, a pot of stewed whitish fish soup, and a pot of soju, which is very good.

Dengzhou is near the sea, the water vapor is heavy, especially the middle-aged veterans who have been mixed in the water army, drinking soju can invigorate the blood and veins, drive away cold and dampness, and they have long been inseparable. Just like their dependence on whale meat and seafood.

As for grain, domestic food prices have been stable for many years, and whether it is a disaster or a bumper harvest, it has always remained at a price that is roughly the same.

Lu Qian was very envious of the description of the Englishman Jevons: the plains of North America and Russia are our corn fields, Canada and the Baltic Sea are our forest areas, Australia is our pastures, Peru is our silver mines, South Africa and Australia are our gold mines, India and China are our tea plantations, the East Indies are our sugar cane, coffee, and spice plantations, and the southern United States is our cotton plantations.

The current Lu Qi can really be compared with the British Empire back then, and in terms of the solid foundation of the rule, it is even more than three streets away from John Bull.

John was indeed the world hegemon when he was, and then their hegemony was based on the fact that no one dared to provoke the British Empire. But what about Lu Qian's Great Qi Empire? That's the real world domination.

The vast Americas are the land reserved by the Lu royal family, the vast but arid Australia will become the best pastures in China, the granaries, forest farms, gold and silver mines and spice bases of the South Seas, Japan, India, the empire, China's dominance will naturally be stabilized in the future, and the history of this earth will become completely different from the original time and space.

After lunch, the young man couldn't stand his father's 'uncompromising' gaze, so he took his library card and ran to the nearest library for recreation. The middle-aged man took out a bag of shredded tobacco after the meal and smoked a few sips to relieve fatigue.

Tobacco, which is already a "mode of cultivating immortals" that is becoming more and more popular in Middle-earth. A cigarette after a meal, race over the living immortals. High profits are the most fundamental starting point for the people's enthusiasm for planting.

It wasn't until near evening that a group of 10-year-olds got out of school in groups. Dengzhou is a capital city, not only a boys' school, but also a girls' school, and the best daughters of middle-aged people are students among them.

The school has its own public carriage to send the day girls home one by one. It's very convenient and safe.

"Dad, Dad, I heard news that the standard for poverty has been raised by a large margin this year......"

When the young man came home, he nodded to his smiling sister, and hurried out to his father.

Seeing that the middle-aged man's face really changed, he couldn't help but stand up, "Who did you listen to this?" ”

"It's a white oak!" The young man opened his mouth and said a person's name, but it was the middle-aged man's face that became even heavier. Because he knew who this white oak was. The children of the Bai family, in the whole world, even Lu Qi is not a big person, but the Bai family has a place in Dengzhou.

"To improve, doesn't the court want to move people out?" The hostess was annoyed.

"The woman's opinion. His Majesty's expedition to heaven, sweeping the Rus', returning the world to the heart, and unifying the eight wildernesses, is a great achievement that has not been achieved in ancient and modern times for 3,000 years. ”

"Relocating the people and dividing the princes into the fence of the empire is a matter of thousands of years." The middle-aged man glared at his mother-in-law fiercely, didn't the son of the emperor Laozi also emigrate, but it was the grass-headed people below? "Even if the immigration bureau is fierce, it is also for the long term. Hengzhi has a little asset in my family, although Dalang is an adult, there is no need to worry. ”

"Our family doesn't have to worry, our relatives need to worry. As soon as something happens, I reach out to borrow money one by one, but I want to see if you borrow or not......"