If the ice comes into contact with the soil, it will melt easily, and all kinds of impurities in the soil will seep into the ice - if it is just dirty, you only need to cut off the thin layer that comes into contact with the soil, but the problem is that if it is in contact with the soil for a long time, the ice will have a strange smell, and the smell of this person spreads quickly, not only the outer layer.

At that point, it will be difficult to sell the ice.

At this moment, the edge of the pit was made of stones and a gentle slope was made, and the surface was extremely smooth, as if it had formed a layer of ice. When the men who carried the ice arrived at the edge of the pit, they put the burden in their hands up, and then pushed the ice cube down, and the ice cube slid down, and then slipped forward along the ground for a while, if they slipped for a while, maybe they would naturally stop because of the resistance, but there was work under the pit, and when they saw that the ice cubes had slipped down, they pushed it with both hands and pushed it to the side of the ice cubes that had been stacked neatly.

The technique is very skillful, and the force control is also excellent, and I don't know how many years I have been doing it.

Rao can borrow so much, they are also tired and sweating like rain, and their hands are trembling. And those guys who have already put down the ice are hurrying back again.

With such a clear division of labor, the efficiency is still very high, and everyone is busy, and no one dares to be lazy.

Xie Sheng nodded with satisfaction from the side.

This ice cellar is so large and so deep that it is necessary to build a layer of stone walls on the bottom and four walls, which is definitely not a small amount of work for this age. Not counting anything else, how many pieces of stone do you need just to see a square stone? To say less, there are 20,000 or 30,000 yuan!

And there are only three such large ice cellars, how much silver will it cost to do this alone? How much material and manpower?

Not to mention that it occupies such a large piece of land in Beijing, although it is an ownerless wasteland, but at that time, because no one developed it here, as long as it is developed and can make money, then those yamen who want to make money will also come to join in the fun.

The initial investment in this ice factory can be described as huge, and it is impossible to wait for the rich businessmen and magnates.

In fact, Xie Sheng, who was not a secretary at the time, invested almost 50,000 taels of silver in order to build this ice factory, and the materials were artificially dredged and the joints were opened! Fifty thousand taels!

You know, at that time, his net worth was far less than it is now. At that time, in order to raise this money, Xie Sheng sold three shops, two houses, and borrowed foreign debts, almost emptying his own family funds to fill in.

Xie Sheng was carried around again and saw that everything was in order, and there was no problem, which was a relief.

The ice factory was a very important source of income for him.

The ice factory may be a little inconspicuous to look at, isn't it just selling ice? How much money can you make?

In fact, the doorway inside is very rich, and when it comes to the summer heat, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a river of silver flowing here.

How many families were there in Jingshi in the Ming Dynasty? There are 1,200,000 to 1,500,000! How many rich and noble families are there? Countless! As the political center of the Ming Dynasty and one of the economic centers in the north, the capital is the most lacking, one is the noble officials, and the other is the rich businessmen.

How much money do they have? No one knows, but it's a clear fact that the spending power is extremely strong, and it's up to us to see if we can dig it out.

And selling ice in the summer is a good way to get them to pay for it.

In the summer of this era, the heat is not comparable to the later life, after all, it is the Xiaoice River period, that is, the summer is cooler than the later life, but it is still very hot. And the drought and rain for many years seem to have deepened this scorching heat, and there is no air conditioning and no electric fan in this era, what can be used to relieve the heat and cool down?

The little people have to endure hard, looking forward to the past of their mother's mother this summer, but the rich and noble families have a way.

With a basin of ice next to you, the hall is much cooler. Holding a bowl of drinks with ice in his hand, he took a sip of it, and a stream of ice line fell straight down to his stomach, cold from his mouth to his heart.

However, in such a hot environment, the ice cubes melt very quickly, and the consumption is quite large, and it is absolutely impossible to survive overnight. And unless it's such an extreme luxury, princely level, the average person really doesn't have a place to store ice, = if you want to keep it cool, you have to buy it every day.

Those who are really rich don't care about this, and they go to the house every day to buy one car at a time. And when the ice cubes stored in the ice cellar are pulled out, they will be turned into truckloads of silver coins and come back here.

This is the case for large households, and some small households will occasionally buy some ice to enjoy it, but they don't often buy it.

Calculate how many rich people in the capital can afford to buy ice, and they are willing to buy ice?

In recent years, one summer, relying on the sale of ice, Xie Sheng's silver in his account was at least around 30,000 taels. So the old man is now looking forward to the sooner the summer comes, the better, the farther and the later, the hotter the better.

It took half an hour to inspect it, and Xie Sheng returned home immediately, and Zhao Dongxuan and the others were sent all the way out.

When he was old, he didn't have enough energy, and he came out for a walk at night, Xie Sheng was also tired, and he was drowsy when he leaned on the recliner on the way home, and he was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes.

So when he was woken up by a voice from a deep voice, he was a little angry.

was about to have a seizure, and suddenly there was a stirring in my heart.

Wait, this voice is clearly a man's voice, but it is sharp and soft, Xie Rou often goes in and out of the palace, and he immediately hears it, this is clearly the voice of the father-in-law in the palace!

It's so late, how can there be a father-in-law here.

Xie Sheng immediately trembled, a cold sweat came out, and his sleepiness disappeared immediately.

At this time, the voice outside came again: "Lord Xie, Lord Xie......"

There was a lot of anxiety in his voice.

Xie Sheng hurriedly lifted the curtain, and sure enough, he saw a few people standing outside, the first one, about thirty years old, not too young, but he was also dressed as a low-grade eunuch in the palace, and at this time he was jumping on his feet and shouting anxiously: "Lord Xie......"

The guards and family members around me had never encountered such a thing, and they were a little overwhelmed.

The little eunuch saw Xie Sheng lift the curtain, and hurriedly said, "Lord Xie, the Holy Lord announced that you are discussing in the palace, so let's follow the slave!" ”

Xie Sheng hurriedly put himself down, touched the sweat on his forehead, struggled out with the support of the two family members, walked up to the little eunuch and said with a smile: "This husband, do you know what is going on?" ”

"Hey......" the little eunuch said, "How do you know the slave?" It's all just a bad catch. ”

Xie Sheng knew in his heart that something big must have happened, otherwise, although Emperor Chongzhen was a king who couldn't hide things and had an impatient personality, he would not have summoned the adults into the palace overnight.

You must know that according to the Emperor's ancestral teachings, this Forbidden City is locked in the evening, and it must not be opened until dawn!

At this time, the magnanimity of the senior member was revealed, he thought in his heart, but he was not flustered on his face, and said calmly: "The official went back to the house to change his clothes, so he followed his husband into the palace, and asked his husband to stay for a while, and eat some tea in the flower hall......"

His tone was very polite, even though he was facing a small eunuch with no rank. This is Xie Sheng's character, cautious, never a casual sinner, who can make friends as much as possible, not to mention such people around the emperor, even more so that he can't be offended.

The eunuch was so anxious that he almost jumped up: "Oh, my lord, it's too late, the Holy Lord has ordered, you don't need to be in official clothes, you can do it in regular clothes, as long as you dress neatly." You should go with the minions, don't let the saint wait in a hurry, the minions will not be able to eat and walk around at that time. ”

Xie Sheng was stunned, and it seemed that things were more serious than he thought.

He entered the palace with the little eunuch as he said, and asked Steward Chen to seal a letter of fifty taels of silver to the eunuch, and the eunuch named Fang Zhenghua hesitated for a moment and accepted it.

……

On February 26 of the eighth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the owner of the white flag of Jianzhou, the Qing Belle Dolgon of the Morgan Dynasty, led 6,000 Jianzhou elites out of Shenyang City, all the way west, to the direction of Mongolia.

The 5,000 elites have 1,500 Zhenyi, all of which are Jianzhou vests, and another 4,500 Aha coats accompany them.

The spies of the Ming Dynasty ambushed in Shenyang City learned the news, and immediately spread the news, but it is a pity that Jiannu itself is good at using the room, and is very concerned about the Ming Dynasty spies in their own territory, and often cleans up and investigates. If it weren't for the fact that this news was really important, they wouldn't even plan to spread it to the capital.

It is precisely because the intelligence network has been seriously damaged and the personnel have suffered heavy casualties that the efficiency is extremely low and the transmission speed is extremely slow. It took more than half a month to get to the beach, and then went to the sea, and came to the boundary of the Ming Dynasty along the frozen Liaohai.

By the time the news arrived in the Forbidden City, it had been almost half a month since Dolgon had sent troops.

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly summoned the cabinet ministers and ministers of various ministries overnight to discuss.

He didn't know Dorgon's true purpose, and if he did, maybe he wouldn't be so alarmed - he was afraid that Dolgon would come south again to attack the Ming Dynasty.

After a night of discussion, Xie Sheng got the news, and immediately arranged it after he came back.

As a result, at the court meeting that day, the General Administration Department reported Liu Ruozai's recital, which had been detained for several days, and after reading Liu Ruozai's recital, Chongzhen was quite moved by his proposal. Then He Ruihui and others took the opportunity to play, saying that Liu Ruozai captured the Jiannu spy and found out the news, the purpose of the Jiannu chief was the remnants of Lin Dan Khan in the Great Caotan, not the Ming Dynasty. Liu Ruozai should be rewarded for such a great achievement, and in addition, if he said that he would go to Dacaotan to appease the remnants of Lin Dan Khan to appease my emperor's kindness, if he can appease him, then the prestige of the saint will spread far and wide, and it will be the blessing of my emperor......

Then there were opponents who had been arranged for a long time to jump out and express their disunity......

After a big drama was staged, Emperor Chongzhen was quite displeased, reprimanded several officials on the spot, and went down to the court angrily.

As a result, before night, news came out of the palace.

Liu Ruozai's excerpt, the emperor approved it. This news spread throughout the officialdom of the capital on the second day. But everyone who has some grades knows the news that the emperor is going to send Liu Ruozai to prepare troops from northern Hebei to Xuanfu the rest of Chahar outside Dacaotan.

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