Chapter Seventy-Four: Relationships of Interest and Design

The infrastructure construction in Luzhou is still going on, and there are not many people who use it to pick cotton, not to mention that this cotton is not something that can be picked in a day, and the people don't have much time to do their own things.

The small merchants in Luzhou have suffered some shocks, and the people don't even have time to go home when they are busy, so the merchants naturally can't have so many customers, but fortunately, these merchants have joined their respective chambers of commerce, and during this period, the main consumers of the chamber of commerce are several surrounding states, and this consumer even includes the smuggling merchants who came from Qinzhou.

Zhang Xiaobao was still thinking about the diving, he knew that there could be no oxygen cylinders in terms of equipment, but other aspects seemed to be able to think of more ways, especially Jiaxiang, which was actually a kind of shellfish, if it was replaced by the time he and Wang Juan came over, it could already be raised in captivity, plus the conditions of mining, it was not so valuable.

But now it's different, and you can only rely on people to swim underwater and get out of the cracks in the reef, which is too dangerous, so the value of things like Ka Xiang has increased infinitely.

Li Xun was also thinking of a way next to him, he didn't know if this was something that Zhang Xiaobao wanted to think about himself, or something that the masters behind the Zhang family had to consider, after all, he was helping to think about it together, in case he thought of it, maybe he would be able to get the favor of the masters, he just regarded this matter as a test for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan by the masters behind the Zhang family.

"Isn't it possible to train a group of people to go into the water like this often, so that they can get more incense?" Li Xun thought for half an hour and said his solution.

Wang Juan glanced over and didn't say anything, Zhang Xiaobao said: "People who can catch fish in the Yellow River with their bare hands have been cultivated since childhood, but there are still people who will die, and there are not a few, and the sea is not calm, you don't know when there is a dark tide rushing over, without any protection, a dark tide can kill people." ”

Li Xun really didn't know about this, he only learned a few days ago, on the surface, it looks very calm on the sea, but it may not be the case underneath, the cold and hot underwater are not the same, hold your breath directly on the shore, if you can hold your head in the basin for fifty breaths, it may be at most forty breaths when you put your head in the basin.

And under the surface of the sea, the deeper the place, the shorter the time, originally under normal circumstances, it can go down to ten zhang deep, but at that time suddenly there is an undercurrent, it is not just a matter of whether you can hold it back, it is likely to die in the water.

At this moment, seeing Zhang Xiaobao drawing a picture on the blackboard with chalk and not seeing what it was, he complained: "Then the incense that the people here usually hand in was exchanged for their lives?" It can be used as incense, and it can be used as medicinal materials, even if it is a medicinal material, after all, it is also to save people, but incense does not need to use any incense, right?

Human life, when those rich and powerful people are enjoying themselves, don't they know that these things are exchanged for their lives? No, I had to write to my dad and tell him never to use incense sticks again, and to others. ”

Li Xun, who was determined to be a commoner, finally couldn't stand the enjoyment of exchanging his life at this time, and walked to the table and prepared to write a letter.

Zhang Xiaobao had just drawn a rough drawing, and when he heard Li Xun's words, he stopped and said: "It has nothing to do with whether others use Jiaxiang or not, when collecting rent, this Jiaxiang can replace many rents, and the people are willing to go down to pick shellfish, not who persecutes them."

For the sake of wealth, for a better life, and for the sake of future generations, they want to accumulate some money, a Jiaxiang can top a lot of rent, they are also for themselves, otherwise they just call it rent, they have that kind of craft, do they have no one else, they have to continue to pay more rent?

If you want to help them, it is not to let others not use the incense, but to raise the price of the incense, the field has a rent, the fishing has a fishing rent, if a small amount of incense can cover a year's rent, then it is worth the risk. ”

"Yes, you can't let others lose the opportunity to be rich and noble for the sake of other people's lives, and someone buys incense, not a sinner, but a need."

Wang Juan spoke at this time, and she was also in favor of letting others continue to pick nail incense, which can be said to be a speculative business behavior, as long as you want to be rich, you must be prepared to bear the danger.

One of the poems she dislikes the most is Min Nongyi, she doesn't care about other times, but she also learned this poem when she was young, and she didn't understand very much at that time, what did she buy cost money, it was a kind of labor income in her own family, and what did it have to do with the people who farmed the land?

If it is really not easy to think about food, you should not think about what sweat drops into the soil, but think about the efforts of your own family, unless the grain is planted by the farmer uncle and given to him for free, then you should think about the farmer's uncle's difficulty and cherish, and the food thrown away is not to cherish yourself or the fruits of your family's labor, and it has nothing to do with the farmer's uncle.

If the farmer surnamed Zhang does not farm, the farmer surnamed Li will plant, if he does not plant, then there will be a shortage of grain, the price will rise, and naturally there will be people to plant.

Min Nong'er is still good, which shows that the grain grown by the people who cultivate the land pays too much tax, and the grain is sold at a cheap price, this system is not right, and the exploitation is too great.

Therefore, Wang Juan doesn't think that there is anything wrong with others risking their lives to fish for nail incense, you can not fish it, it's not all for the sake of profit, it's just that the value of this benefit is smaller, and the price of nail incense should be increased as Xiaobao said.

Li Xun couldn't react for a while, he was a little shocked, he obviously knew that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, as well as the families of the two families, took great care of the people and were willing to give the people a good life, but how could they be indifferent to watching others die in order to get a good life?

Li Xun fell into deep thought, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan didn't care about him, this kind of thing is not clear in a word, if you really want Li Xun to understand, then you have to explain it from the aspects of demand and purchasing power, and even analyze the form of society, as well as the productive forces and production relations, as well as human nature, it is too complicated.

If Li Xun is told that this world is a world of interests, then he will definitely ask why many people are willing to help others, then this needs to involve spiritual interests, helping others is not selfless, but also a kind of selfishness, in order to obtain spiritual gains.

Of course, this kind of selfishness to oneself is selflessness to others, but there are too many things that need to be explained, it is already an esoteric philosophy, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan don't have so much energy to solve Li Xun's doubts.

The two of them have now finally found a new way, to be precise.

The picture Zhang Xiaobao drew on the blackboard with chalk is actually a round sphere, made of iron, and one of the places is placed with glass, that is, transparent glass, this thing is called this here, it does not belong to real glass, after all, the formula is different.

According to the water pressure, as long as you don't dive too deep, there is no problem at all, diving a hundred meters, it is very easy, it is impossible to crush it, the ball can be illuminated with mirrors and candles, you don't need to shine too far, there is too much underwater incense here.

In the absence of high-tech mining technology, a lot of incense can be found in the water diving more than ten meters, let alone a hundred meters deep, the only thing to solve is the sealing problem.

As for oxygen, don't worry, light a candle, including the need for human breathing, a round ball with a diameter of two meters is absolutely no problem to support for a few hours, not to mention that it doesn't take so long, just once every half an hour.

Zhang Xiaobao is ready to use bearings to seal, that is, let the people inside complete the collection of incense by manually controlling the mechanical arm, Wang Juan is against it, she thinks that the technology cannot reach this level, and the sealed bearings are so easy to make?

The propellers for boats are flooded, can they be sealed, and the wear is so great? What's more, at a place below 100 meters, Wang Juan wanted to use some fish gelatin and fish skin to seal, that is, to make a big glove that could even stick his arms in.

When the time comes, go down to the water, grab one is one, and then you can connect a rope outside, in case the gloves are scratched, pull the rope, the person on it knows, and pull the jar up, and you can also touch the nail incense with the feel, after all, the distance through the glass in the water is too short.

If you look for a long distance, it can only increase the number of candles, and thin the thickness of the glass, which is more dangerous.

The two of them don't have any data to calculate, of course, Zhang Xiaobao can't calculate this thing, Wang Juan will have no instruments, the two of them can only give full play to their imagination, and then conduct experiments, which is very simple, that is, make things first, and then put them in the water again and again.

First of all, don't put people in it, just burn candles to see how long the oxygen in it can last, and then there is the pressure problem, put the iron ball into different depths.

The two of them were muttering there, Li Xun was already thinking about it at this time, listening to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan say words such as density, water pressure, air pressure, oxygen, etc., he was very confused, he usually heard some strange words from the two of them, which were also in nature, but today it seems that the things involved are different.

"You're right, I also figured it out, you can't let everyone not use the incense because others are in danger, and raise the price of the incense, this is really good, but how to raise it?"

Li Xun came to the blackboard and asked, at the same time he looked at the picture and felt a little awkward, it was very different from ordinary paintings, he didn't know that this was a three-dimensional figure, there were dotted lines and realizations.

"It's simple to raise the price, this Sister Xin'er can tell you and ask Sister Xin'er to go." Wang Juan was there perfecting the graphics, and there was no time to talk about such superficial things.

Li Xun saw that people were busy, so he didn't bother anymore, and after watching it for a while, he really couldn't understand it, so he had to go to Xin'er, for him, it was not Xin'er's sister, but his sister.

Xin'er was still designing rag dolls, and when she heard Li Xun ask, she blinked her eyes and said, "You can make a lot of money again, and you can make a lot of money if you do this well." ”