Chapter 20: The First Snow Crossing
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Qin Mu entered the main hall first, followed by Sun Dong and Wei Qing.
Seeing that Wang Shijie had arrived, Qin Mu was surprised: "In the past, Brother Wang was always late, why did he come so early today?" ”
"I didn't sleep all night last night because of this gas stove, and I was anxious, but today I came early."
Wang Shijie was a thief and didn't dare to look at Qin Mu squarely.
"Hmph." Qin Mu sneered, he believed that Wang Shijie was a ghost, just looking at Wang Shijie's thief eyebrows, he knew that his purpose of coming so early was not simple.
Sun Dong looked at Wang Shijie, then looked at Qin Mu, and said, "Your Highness is busy with official business, so let's not disturb Your Highness here, or hand over our respective secret letters to Your Highness." ”
Wei Qing said in a loud voice: "That's right, now each of them takes out the secret letter and lets His Highness open it in public, I believe His Highness is still fair." ”
Xiao Ming smiled secretly, this Wei Qing put on a high hat for himself first, for fear that Xiao Ming would be biased, he said: "I will go to the Equipment Division later, since this is the case, you can give me the secret letter." ”
Wang Shijie immediately handed his letter to Xiao Ming, and the other three also submitted it in turn.
After sorting out the secret letters, Xiao Ming opened them one by one, Wang Shijie's offer was five taels, Sun Dong's was three taels, Wei Qing's was also three taels, and Qin Mu's was six taels.
"Your Highness, what is the result?" Qin Mu asked with some concern, this time the Qin family gave a lot of money.
Xiao Ming spread out all the four letters, "This king is not cheating, it seems that the operation of this briquette stove is Qin Mu's." “
Wang Shijie looked unhappy, he didn't expect the Qin family to spend such a big capital, but for him, this briquette is the most important thing, and the briquette stove is not important.
"Promised, promised." Qin Mu stood up and bowed his hand to the three of them, looking proud.
Sun Dong and Wei Qing's expressions didn't change much, and the two of them knew that they couldn't compare to the Qin family and the Wang family in this matter.
The Wang family controls the coal, and the Qin family controls the transportation, which are advantages that they do not have.
"Since Qin Mu has won the first place, then this matter is settled, this king will order this equipment to be produced, and Brother Qin will come to get the goods every day." Xiao Ming said.
"Your Highness." Qin Mu was overjoyed.
The matter of the briquette stove was decided, and the four of them went separately, and they still needed to explain the matter to their families.
Counting the silver tickets in his hand, Xiao Ming was happy, "It's still the most profitable technology monopoly." ”
As an engineering major, Xiao Ming knew very well what it meant to be technologically backward, and in his time, if there was no technology, he had to spend money to buy it from others.
In this case, you have to give as much money as others say, and technology monopoly is definitely a kind of profiteering.
Now he has unlimited technology in his mind, and when he gets all these technologies out, he will establish his own technology monopoly system.
At that time, he can sit back and wait for the money to be collected.
Qian Dafu's round face, his eyes were almost smiling, since they came to this Qingzhou, their palace has never been so rich.
"Dafu, this is a thousand taels, the prospecting is very hard, it is your expense." Xiao Ming slapped the two silver tickets in Qian Dafu's hands.
Qian Dafu smiled even more happily, "This money was earned by His Highness, and the old slave accepted it." ”
Xiao Ming shook his head helplessly, there was no way, the palace was too poor before.
Accepting the silver ticket, Qian Dafu asked: "Your Highness, when I go out to look for mines, what should I do about the affairs of this palace?" ”
Xiao Ming glanced at him and said lightly: "You are so protective of Aster, don't you have an idea in your heart?" ”
"Your Highness is still smart, the old slave can't hide anything from His Highness, this pothos and aster are the people around the mother, and they will not be unfavorable to His Highness, this girl is timid and afraid, and she will definitely not be able to control the servants in the house, this aster has a pungent personality and is smart, and it is more than enough to manage the palace." Qian Dafu said.
"Then let her take care of it, you are my confidant, and there may be a lot of things for you to deal with in the future, and you can't always stick to the trivial matters of the palace."
The word confidant made Qian Dafu excited, Xiao Ming trusted him so much, he would not hesitate to go to the soup.
The matter of prospecting is imminent, Xiao Ming explained some details to Qian Dafu, he has to start preparing today, and he will go out tomorrow.
For the safety of Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming also specially asked Luda to draw ten loyal cavalrymen to accompany him for protection.
With the silver in his hand, Xiao Ming's first thing is naturally a hydraulic lathe workshop.
Because the dignified vassal king enjoyed the ultimate privilege in his fiefdom, Xiao Ming easily enclosed a piece of land in the place where the Mi River flowed the most urgently, and no one dared to say anything.
Then, he asked Chen Wenlong to put up a notice to recruit craftsmen, this hydraulic workshop is 100 meters long and 15 meters wide, which is not a small project.
Winter was just around the corner, and he wanted to have the workshop up and running within a winter's time.
At the same time, the craftsmen in the equipment department worked overtime to produce the lathes, and when the workshop was set up, the equipment could be moved.
The production of briquette stoves is also underway, because of the simplicity of manufacturing, the equipment department can produce 30 gas stoves a day.
After winning the right to operate the briquette stove, the Qin family came to pick up the goods the next day, but despite spending a lot of money, the Qin family did not dare to buy too much at one time, they were still worried about the sales of the briquette stove.
In the midst of such a hectic situation, the weather is getting colder day by day.
At the end of the first month of Xiao Ming's crossing, a heavy snow from the north covered Qingzhou City.
The snow was so heavy that it was blowing one after another, and when I woke up the next day, Qingzhou seemed to be buried in the snow.
"Your Highness, look at how big the snow is." In the snow, the pothos little face was red from the cold, one foot deep and one foot shallow stepping on the snow, smiling at him.
Xiao Ming sat at the door of the dormitory, guarding a briquette stove to roast his hands, and the weather would be at least minus seventeen or eight degrees today.
In the previous era, he was a southerner, who had experienced such cold weather, and now he just wanted to hold the stove and not move his nest.
However, pothos and aster seem to have long been accustomed to such weather, and they have fun in the snow.
Aster also smiled at Xiao Ming and said, "Your Highness, come on, it's warm when you move." ”
"You guys play, this king won't go." Xiao Ming said that it is also a pleasure to enjoy the frolicking of beauties.
Aster and Pothos glanced at each other, and suddenly one of them picked up a snowball and threw it at Xiao Ming.
"Bold!" Xiao Ming pretended to be angry, and at the same time dodged left and right, and the two snowballs fell into the air.
When Aster and Pothos saw this, they grinned, but suddenly suppressed their smiles again, because they saw Pang Changshi coming from the front hall.