"It's just that it takes some money to make it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Chen Siwen glanced at Jian Chen, looked at the protractor in his hand, and said, "You don't have no money to spend, you learned this from others, and come to me to cheat money to spend, right?" ”

Jian Chen hurriedly shook his head and explained repeatedly, Chen Siwen was half convinced, and asked, "How much?" ”

"How much does it cost to find someone to ground a glass mirror?" And the glass mirrors, the best watchmakers or locksmiths......"

Speaking of this, Chen Siwen hurriedly shook his head.

"It's too much for me to take. My money is in the stocks, and the annual dividends of the cargo ship are not too much. Don't look at your father and I receiving kickbacks, but kickbacks are one thing, but you can't rely on this official position to directly divide the shares, this is a big thing, that's a small thing. ”

"If you don't have money, you can't do anything?"

Chen Siwen nodded and shook his head again.

"It depends on how big you want to do, and it depends on your own struggle. Even if it is the best school, Taixue or Xue Palace, half of the places are set aside for those who have no money and learn very well, everyone will use guns, and blocking the road is going to be a big incident. ”

"Money, it's a good thing. Do you know what those people from the original Hou Bo feudal country said about us? Except for money, they don't recognize anything, birds and beasts...... It turns out that in them, those who once taught and enlightened were respected and noble professions. But on our side, what is sacred, what is noble...... Throw them all aside, it's very simple to take the money to work. ”

"Don't talk about this, just talk about food, clothing, housing and transportation. A silver coin weighs about one tael, and it is strictly stipulated in the money bank to exchange for 300 coppers. can buy 400 catties of rice and 8 catties of cotton...... It seems like a lot, but in reality? ”

"A seagoing ship that crosses the sea from the coal mine in the north to the south and transports rice back has a load of 300 square meters of water, which is 600,000 catties, and it costs 4,500 silver coins to make in the shipyard. I may not be able to afford a big ship of 300 square meters in my life, but there are more than 70 such big ships that are unique to us in Mincheng. ”

"From here they brought tea and silk, to the capital for iron, grain, gunpowder, and cotton cloth, and then to the north to the desolate cold land, and to exchange them for wood and furs for shipbuilding...... How much can I earn on this trip? I also know how to make money, but I can't afford to buy a boat, I can only watch and watch, what can I do? ”

"My little money is only a fifth of a ship. If you find an ordinary locksmith or watchmaker, I can get the money. But as soon as you open your mouth, you are the best locksmith and watchmaker...... I don't have that much money. A few years ago, as you know, I had some money in my hand, but in the desert to the north, I said that I had found gold, and I raised some money here and I took a stake, but it turned out to be a small layer of mine, and all my money was folded in. ”

He didn't really care, after all, it was all in the past, and after the trouble, it was all a thing of the past, and it was ethereal.

However, as a father, after saying these words, he patted Jian Chen heavily on the shoulder.

"Son, it's good for young people to have dreams, whatever they may be. I've also been young, so I just want to tell you that don't dream too far because you can't. ”

"Fantasizing about looking at the sea outside, of course it's nice, of course it's big. But...... The first few voyages to the sea have failed, and now even those people who have left their names on the temple of the sages in the school palace should not think that they can say that the council will once again make hundreds of people thrown into the boundless mist. ”

"The only way is to rely on money, on yourself, on employment. Because no big businessman would finance such an obviously failed thing, and no one would put money into such an obviously losing money. King...... Even if you are a king, you can't touch anyone else. ”

"Ten ships, at least fifty thousand silver coins. Four hundred sailors who don't want to die, there are many, only you leave enough money for their children, which requires another forty thousand silver coins. Cables, canvases, spare food, buckets, cannons, muskets, gunpowder...... and twenty thousand silver coins again. ”

"That's the minimum. If you consider your life worthless, it will cost you a total of 110,000 silver coins. ”

"Do you know how far you are from 110,000 silver coins? It's like a sailor...... It is as far away as a humble gentleman who is polite and does not drink alcohol and never scolds. ”

Chen Siwen smiled and finally said: "So, if your dream is really to go out to the sea, then let go of this dream now and go to the army to be a quartermaster." If you really like the sea, you like ships, and you want to get merit in the last battle, then do the most dangerous thing, and only the most dangerous thing can get the highest glory and merit. ”

Listening to such an old saying, Jian Chen probably understood in his heart.

He felt that he had a lot of things in his head, and he might be able to exchange money, but now he was no longer Ji Xia, who commanded ten thousand people, but just a person who had a headache because of thousands of silver coins.

The drastic division of labor in society has made him obscure from everyone, at least there are already things he doesn't understand in those pamphlets, and even if he does, it can't be exchanged for money.

All ideas have to be put into practice, and they can only be turned into money by money, and the most difficult thing is the money that makes money, that is, the first pot of gold.

Moreover, from the bookseller, Chen Jian felt that there was still a residual guild system here, and if many things touched the interests of too many people, they might end up dead.

For example, if Chen Jian thinks that he dares to get a new loom, then he will not be able to buy any cotton yarn the next day--the interests are evenly distributed, and then capital is king, so what can he use to compete with others? Besides, it is impossible to get it done, without the help of watchmakers, locksmiths, and blacksmiths, knowledge cannot be turned into technology, and this process requires money.

So what seems to be the simplest first pot of gold has become the most difficult step to take: I can fly, I can fly to the moon. It's not that I can fly to the moon, it's that I can fly.

After pondering for a while, Chen Jian felt that he might take the path of collusion between officials and businessmen, or take advantage of the last battle of alignment to grab a sum of money in the army and lead troops to rob?

So he asked, "Father, if I want to enter the navy, what is the fastest route to promotion?" ”

"Money and power can only pave your way to the military academy. On the road after that, you have to do something, otherwise too many people are staring. In the Navy, the easiest route for promotion is the captain's ...... It's to go to the arson boat. ”

"Arsonist ship?"

"Yes. Today's cannons can't sink a ship at all. The shells often pierced through the hull and smashed a transparent hole, but the ship still ran. Broadboarding, jumping, musket shooting...... These are not comparable to arsonist ships, which are the high mortality rates. ”

"How tall?"

"The musketeer's platoon gets twice the salary of the soldiers in the back row, and the crew of the arson ship gets four times the average sailor's, you do the math. Yang Fan, borrowing the wind, bypassing the enemy's barrage and artillery, and when he was sure that he could rush to the enemy's battleship, he ignited the fire and fled with the boat. Luckily, I got rid of a big ship opposite, and before I was killed, the second lieutenant became a captain. Step by step, step by step, at my age, I am a school officer. ”

Jian Chen still wanted to say something, such as the gangside jumping gang was about to become obsolete...... But on second thought, there is no point in saying this.

Since there is only one Qi country left to fight, and the whole "world" is at peace, how can it be possible to spend a lot of money to change the mature system and use the unverified things proposed by a nobody?

Speaking of this, the father and son were already speechless for each other, and each sighed and stopped talking about these things, Chen Siwen only told Chen Jian to go back and think about it again, don't be so whimsical.

Be down-to-earth, lest your heart fly too high, but your body is too short, and in the end, you will have a lot of regrets for no reason.

Chen Jian, who returned to the room, was depressed, in his previous life, a fishing net could be followed by a shout, and now a fishing net is worth one hundred and thirty coppers.

Early the next morning, I found a few extra silver coins at the head of the bed, and after paying the fine, I spent the money to go to the library and read the piles of old books. There's no easier way to learn about a world than by visiting a library.

After watching it for seven or eight days in a row, my head was full of all kinds of messy things, but I didn't think of a good way.

It was the third day of the sixth month, and the originally hot day finally had some shade, and the wind blowing from the sea carried the smell of rain.

Chen Jian lay on the bed, looked at a newly bought book, there were a few wrong sentences in it that were obviously because the movable type was wrong in order, and subconsciously picked up the graphite refill wrapped in rosin, inserted it into the wooden pen barrel, and drew a key sign along the way.

It's just that I'm irritable in my heart, and it is inevitable that the pen will be heavier, and I will poke it off, and my heart will be even more bored, and I will fall asleep when I throw the pen.

I didn't want to go outside, but there was a sound of footsteps, and Zhang Xuan, whose eye circles had been swollen, entered the door and said, "Where have you been these days?" I'm not looking for you. ”

"Read a book."

Raising the book, Zhang Xuan glanced at it and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for three or five days, but I have changed my sex." There are a lot of strange things in this world. ”

Jian Chen sat up, put the book on the bedside, and asked, "Did I let you do the things I helped me do?" ”

"The girl?"

"That's right."

"Oh, wait, where is it so easy? I'm looking for you today to see a play. There's a new play, premiering tonight, in the theater. This is a new work of the Shi family, and it will only come out once in three or five years. If you don't go, it will be even more difficult to talk to people in the future, and when people talk about us, we can only laugh there, but we still have to pretend that what they say makes sense, and it's not good to say that I haven't seen it. ”

Chen Jian responded, took the oil-paper umbrella, and didn't bother to ask what this Sun is called, since everyone should be the leader in the circle, it's good to go and see.

The wind on the street is a little stronger, but it can't stop those who go to see the new play, and the theater is already full of people, which can be regarded as a small microcosm of citizen life. Nearby, there is a row of vendors selling all kinds of food, either carrying burdens or placing all kinds of goods on the mud shops erected in the streets.

A few children stretched out their hands and asked the vendors for money, and the paving made of mud was built by the children in the morning. This is a customary rule, the vendors want to use a few coppers, to ask for a good word, and do not care about buying a few coppers for the children to eat, and it is impossible to run around with the paving on their backs, and it cannot be permanent here, otherwise it will affect the passage of cars and horses.

On a carriage in the distance, someone pointed to Chen Jian and Zhang Xuan and whispered, "They are also here." ”

"They are too vulgar, they only know how to raise their fists, and do not provoke them, so as not to be unhappy."

The other person glanced at it and smiled contemptuously: "Why bother with your fists? I have a way of seeing the jokes between the two. ”