Yang Peng was chatting with his master Lin Qing'er in his official hall today. Lin Qing'er put on the reading glasses Yang Peng made for herself. Now she could see Yang Peng's face clearly. Lin Qing'er said to Yang Peng, "
I didn’t expect that my apprentice is not bad. He is worthy of that damn girl Yang Tong. When will you get married? I can also help you take care of your children. Otherwise, I will be idle here and have nothing to do.
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Yang Peng said to Lin Qing'er, "Master, I'm waiting until we fight the Khitan people. Now I don't have the confidence in my heart. Master, you see, we are just one city now. The population has reached 80,000.
I'm under a lot of pressure, master, can I wait for a year?" Yang Peng's main concern is that Yang Tong is still young for the exam, and he doesn't want to get married yet. It's better to be alone and free.
"Report." A soldier said at the door, and Yang Peng said, "Come in, what's going on?" "Liu Zhiliang and the others are back, and there are a few guests. They said they are from the Yang family and have arrived at the city gate." Lin
Qing'er said, "When did you say you sent people to Bianjing? Why didn't I know that you, this naughty guy, just wanted to see the master's joke? Now that you have grown up, you don't take the master seriously anymore. Look at me."
I won’t beat you to death, you little naughty boy, haha.”
Yang Peng said, "Master, let's go. Let's go together to greet our families. We are looking at our eighth sister, ninth sister, and the others, haha." Then he took the master's hand and walked towards the gate.
Along the way, Yang Bamei was like a curious baby, constantly asking Liu Zhiliang this question and that question. Liu Zhiliang did not dare to offend this eldest lady. Jiumei was frightened by the scenery as soon as she came out of Cangzhou. When she arrived in Cangzhou
Yang Peng built cement roads on all Liushili Road in Tianjing New Town, with a width of 40 meters. Trees were planted on the sides. There were green rice fields next to them, and the villages were all red brick houses. At this time, the rice of the Song Dynasty
They are all produced in the south. Rice is no longer produced after crossing the Yangtze River. At this time, Jiumei didn't even know that this was rice. Now, hundreds of thousands of acres of fields south of Tianjing New City belong to Yang Peng, and only when powerful men come to make trouble.
They were all taken away by Yang Peng.
There are probably nearly thousands of households helping Yang Peng farm now. Yang Peng does not charge them land rent, but the grain grown must be sold to Yang Peng. If you sell grain to others, Yang Peng will take back the land. This
It is a hard condition. The main source of the current Song Dynasty is the land rent from farmers. Those who farm without paying land rent have not had such a good thing in thousands of years. Of course the people are willing, and the city lords purchase grain at a higher price than outside.
Only a lot of fools would sell food to others.
If you don't have money, you can borrow money from the city lord without interest. Now the people have become Yang Peng's die-hard fans. Jiumei pulled Qin Yuefang and kept asking questions about Tianjing New City, and whether she had given it to Yang Peng.
Qin Yuefang was one of the second batch of people who came down from Yang Peng, and was also a die-hard fan of Yang Peng. She did whatever Yang Peng said and never doubted Yang Peng. This journey had exhausted Liu Zhiliang and Qin Yuefang.
Well, the main thing was to keep explaining, and they finished talking. Huyan Chijin and Du Jin'e also looked at the scenery in front of them curiously. They had never seen this road before. The two of them became more and more curious about Yang Peng.
, it took one day to walk from Cangzhou to Tianjing New City.
Entering the city, Yang Bamei was even more curious, because the houses here all have at least two floors, and the highest ones have five floors. Nothing here can compare with Bianjing. The prosperity is no less than that of Bianjing. The main thing is that there are no beggars here.
Bianjing is incomparable. There are beggars everywhere on the streets of Bianjing now, and the war has done too much harm to the people. In order to survive, you can only save your life by going to big cities to beg for food. This is also a common phenomenon.
A group of people came to the official hall of Tianjing New City. At this time, they saw Yang Peng and his master waiting for Liu Zhiliang and his party at the door. Liu Zhiliang saw Yang Peng and said, "Brother, we are back." Liu Zhiliang and the others had been gone for two months.
Liu Zhiliang's eyes turned red as he spoke. Qin Yuefang also said to Yang Peng, "Brother, we are back. This is Sister Yang Eight. This is Sister Yang Jiu, and these two are." Before Qin Yuefang could finish speaking, Huyan Chijin and Du Jin'e walked over.
Lin Qing'er knelt down in front of her and said, "My daughter-in-law pays homage to my mother-in-law. I'm sorry that I haven't fulfilled my filial duty in the past few years. Please punish me."
Yang Qi and Yang Ying also knelt in front of Lin Qing'er and said, "Greetings to aunt, eighth sister, and ninth sister. It's polite." Lin Qing'er's eyes turned red, and she quickly stepped forward and pulled them up and said, "They are all good children.
Get up, come in and talk to me, come on." Lin Qing'er ignored Yang Peng and pulled Huyan Chijin and Du Jin'e into the official hall. Yang Peng also understood the master's approach, after all, it had been ten years.
On the day when the secret thief was to be executed, the people of Tianjing New City surrounded the execution ground on three levels inside and three outside. The people all stood on Yang Peng's side, throwing mud at the prisoners kneeling on the ground and shouting curses. "
This is the fate of eating everything you eat!" "Selling formulas to Khitan dogs with the city lord's monthly money is a capital crime!" "If the city lord has no money, can he give us such a high monthly money?"
Of course, there were also some workers who were shocked by Yang Peng's thunderous methods. They looked at the condemned prisoners with a little fear in their eyes and said nothing. Huang Huang was taken to the execution ground and just woke up as if he had just woken up from a dream. He kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic. "The untouchables know.
Wrong, please spare my life. I promise not to say anything in the future!" Unfortunately, Huang Huang's repentance came too late. When the time came, thirteen musketeers walked up to the condemned man and put their guns against
The trigger was pressed on the criminal's heart.
After shooting several scoundrel employees, Yang Peng recruited nine new workers. However, these new workers were not added to the glass workshop, but were recruited to the textile factory and soap workshop. As for the vacancies in the glass workshop, Yang Peng started from
The Salt Factory and Soap Factory selected nine long-serving and honest employees to join the Glass Factory, and then let new employees take over their shifts.
Yang Peng did this in order to leave good jobs to dedicated old employees and encourage their enthusiasm for work. Yang Peng decided to increase the monthly salary of glass workshop employees to three taels a month. Glass workshops are a profitable business.
Confidentiality is very important. If the monthly salary of employees is not increased, they will be more easily bribed by outsiders, so Yang Peng wants to increase his salary. And providing such a high-paying job to old employees can improve the entire workforce.
morale.
Ding Youdi performed outstandingly in this leak. Yang Peng promoted him to the head of the first kiln. He was still responsible for buying alkaline noodles and supervising and managing other workers. He was paid 4 taels a month. Yang Peng went on a killing spree and killed nine people.
The leaker and other workers were very shocked and became more careful in their daily work. Ding Youdi and Cai Huaishui also paid close attention to their supervision work, and the confidentiality of the glass workshop was much strengthened.
Accountant Zhang looked at the "specialized in treating presbyopia" banner fluttering in the wind and felt a little uneasy. This was the second time he came to the door of this store because the big words on the banner attracted him. "Specialized in treating presbyopia"
", isn't that his gospel? Accountant Zhang is now fifty-one years old and has bad glasses. Because of his presbyopia, he can hardly see the accounts clearly. He holds the account book far away every day and can barely guess the records on the account.
, and often guessed wrong because he couldn't see clearly from too far away. In the past few years, he has been increasingly unpopular with his boss in his tea shop - who will treat him as an invisible accountant? If this continues
, or his boss will fire him within half a year.
Although the boss has been unable to hire a suitable accountant to replace him, how can he do it as an old blind man who keeps making mistakes? Accountant Zhang has a son and a daughter, and they are all married. What if Accountant Zhang loses his monthly salary of one to two to eight dollars?
I have no choice but to take my wife with me to live with my son. But my son helps people prepare medicine in a medicine store and only has a monthly salary of one or two or four yuan. He also has a pair of children to support. How can he afford it?
Old man and old woman? If this old-eyed man loses his job as a cashier, I'm afraid the whole family will be hungry in the future.
So at this time, Accountant Zhang saw the banner "specialized in treating presbyopia" and couldn't help but hesitate for a long time. - The Gao family shop has always been selling goods, and there is neither a doctor nor medicinal materials, so how can it treat presbyopia? This is not true.
Is it obviously a lie? However, according to the reputation of the Gao family, which has created so many new things, it seems unlikely that the Gao family will engage in such open scams. It seems that the Gao family has a slight possibility that it can really help them cure their presbyopia.
Nowadays, the reputation of the Gao family in Cangzhou City has grown. The Gao family not only produces soap, a practical thing, but also produces exquisite fine cloth from Tianjing New City. The Gao family has cement that is cheaper and easier to use than Sanhetu, as well as crystal
Clear glass wine sets. The Gao family's new gadgets seem to be endless, and a new thing pops up every once in a while.
That is to say, if the Gao family's shop advertises that it "specializes in treating presbyopia," Zhang Zhang will believe it. Otherwise, if you ask him to go to a shop selling goods to find someone to treat presbyopia, he will definitely think you are a liar or a lunatic.
No matter what, let's go in and listen! If it's a scammer, just turn around and leave. Although I'm old, I've been keeping accounts all my life, so I can still tell the difference between scams, right? Zhang Accountant was finally recognized by the Gao family's goodwill
Impressed, I made up my mind and walked into the Gaojia store. Unlike other Gaojia stores, this new store was sparse. Except for three boys, a shopkeeper, and no customers, there was no one in the store. As soon as Zhang Zhang entered the door, there was an enthusiastic
The boy came up to us and said loudly: "Old man, are you here to cure presbyopia?"
Accountant Zhang calmed down, took a step back, and looked the boy carefully up and down. He saw that the boy had a Chinese character face and big eyes, and he didn't look like a liar. Then he nodded and said: "Yes, come to cure presbyopia! You can cure it."
"Huh?" "Bao Zhi!" the boy replied enthusiastically. The boy's words of "baozi" made Accountant Zhang a little wary, secretly thinking that this Gao's store might have really set up a scam. There is such a thing in the world
God's miracle doctor? Can he cure presbyopia? Then those doctors who take pulses and prescribe prescriptions are so embarrassed that they die of shame? What's more, there is no silver needle in the medicine cabinet in this shop?
Accountant Zhang glanced at the Gao family's shop and saw only the richly decorated decoration. He didn't even see a doctor or a medicine cabinet. Accountant Zhang became wary, sneered, and sat down, sitting at the door of the store.
On a wicker chair, he asked coldly: "How do you treat it?" "We use glasses to treat it!" the boy said loudly. "Just wait, I will get you glasses to try on!" Glasses, then!
What is it?
It seems that because there has been no customer for a long time, the waiter was very excited when he saw Zhang Zhang's counter. He ran behind the counter and fetched a box. When he ran over, he ran very fast and bumped into a wicker chair on the way.
The shopkeeper sitting in the back cursed loudly. However, the shopkeeper didn't seem to be really angry. Probably Zhang Accountant was his first customer today, and he looked at Zhang Accountant expectantly.
The boy slowed down when he came carrying the box. He walked slowly to Zhang's accounting office and opened the wooden box. The box was wrapped in brocade and had more than twenty pairs of colorless glass squares hanging on it.
, is glass. Accountant Zhang had seen glass wine glasses at his employer’s house, which was this kind of colorless glass. Hanging in the boy’s box were more than twenty pairs of colorless glass squares framed in pairs with wooden frames.
Tianjing New City produces good glass, but can it cure presbyopia? Zhang Accountant asked: "Are these glasses?" The boy replied: "Yes, how many years have you been presbyopic?" Zhang Accountant heard this.
He asked, raised his head, thought for a moment, and said, "I'm afraid it's been four or five years. The past two years have been particularly serious!" The boy took out a pair from the glass, handed it to Accountant Zhang and said, "Try this.
, three hundred degrees!" Accountant Zhang was stunned, looked at the boy and asked: "How to try?"
The boy smiled sheepishly and said, "Look, I'm so excited and confused. How do you know how to try it on when you come here for the first time? I'll put it on for you!" When Zhang Zhang was about to answer, the boy said to himself
He handed the pair of glass pieces over to himself, stuck the wooden frame on Zhang Counter's ears, put the middle beam of the glasses on the root of Zhang Counter's nose, and blocked the two pieces of glass in front of Zhang Counter's eyes.
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Accountant Zhang was stunned, unable to react, and said, "What are you doing?" "Cure your presbyopia!" the boy said loudly. He raised a copy of "Spring and Autumn" in his hand and turned to the first page.
, raised it to the accountant Zhang’s eyes and said loudly: “Old man, now you can read the words on this book through the glass, are you clear?”
After hearing this, Accountant Zhang squinted his eyes and looked at the "Spring and Autumn" through the glass. Strangely enough, through these two pieces of glass, Accountant Zhang could vaguely see the first part of the book.
Although the content of the page is still unclear, it is much clearer than when I didn't wear glasses.
These glasses are really useful! It turns out that the Gao family uses this glass to treat presbyopia. No wonder I didn’t see a doctor. Accountant Zhang looked at the store with his glasses on, and then he saw clearly that the store was gorgeously decorated. It didn’t look like a doctor.
It's a scam.
I thought too much. "It's clearer, but it's still a little blurry!" Accountant Zhang looked at the boy's glasses box with some expectancy, looking at the more than 20 pairs of glasses inside. "Then try the 350-degree glasses again.
!" The boy took off the glasses on Zhang Accountant's nose and put on a new pair of glasses for him.
"It's even more blurry. It's not as good as before!" "Then try 250 degrees!" The boy took out a new pair of glasses from the box. "I saw it! I can see it clearly!" Zhang Accountant was a little excited.
He shouted loudly and stood up. Putting on the "250-degree" glasses, Zhang Zhang could clearly see all the words on the first page of the "Spring and Autumn" half a step away. This is
What a miraculous thing? The presbyopia that had tortured him for several years was conquered by these two small pieces of glass, allowing Zhang Zhang to see the words in the book clearly again!
"It's useful! It's really useful!" Zhang Accountant slapped his thigh and took the Spring and Autumn Annals from the boy. He flipped through the pages page by page and found that he could read every word in the book clearly. Zhang Accountant believed in himself.
His eyes can really see clearly, and it is definitely not a trick. With these glasses, wouldn't he be able to help his boss with accounting again? Can he keep his one-two-eight-dollar job?
The new thing in Tianjing New City this time is magical! The waiter asked Zhang Accountant to try 225 degrees and 275 degrees, and finally found that 250 degrees worked. Zhang Accountant happily took it
Wearing those 250-degree glasses, he looked left and right, and asked happily: "How much does a pair of these eyes cost?"
"Ten taels of silver!" Upon hearing this, Accountant Zhang was stunned. Ten taels of silver is not cheap! It is worth half a year's monthly salary! But no matter what, it is more cost-effective than losing the job, right? Think about it.
, Accountant Zhang asked: "Can it be cheaper?" "Old man, this is the cost price, it can't be cheaper. This is made of colorless glass? Can it be cheaper? But don't worry, if your presbyopia gets worse in the future.
, exchange the 250-degree glasses for higher-degree glasses, we don’t charge you, the replacement is free!”
Accountant Zhang still had some savings. After hearing this, Accountant Zhang made up his mind to buy him a pair! The goodwill of the Gao family is here. If you say you can exchange it, you can exchange it. Buying a pair of glasses means getting rid of them for the rest of your life.
If the problem of presbyopia is gone, I can continue to work as a bookkeeper until I can no longer walk.
Accountant Zhang was in a hurry to do the accounting with his glasses on, so he asked his employer to continue hiring him and said, "I'll go home and get the money. When will you close the door?" The boy smiled and said, "Go slowly! Don't be in a hurry.
!You are our first customer. If you don’t come back, we won’t close today!”
In mid-March of the first year of Xianping, the city wall of Tianjing New City was covered with bricks. A total of 2.88 million green bricks and 580,000 kilograms of cement were used to cover the three sides of the city wall. The perimeter of the city wall after being covered with bricks was 15,000 kilograms.
meters, five meters high and three meters wide. The city wall was built with a horse face every 20 meters, with a total of 150 horse faces. There was a crenellation every one and a half meters, with a total of 2,000 crenellations.
The top of the city wall is very wide and can be used for horse racing. There are thirty-six machine crossbow stations on the city wall, and there are the same thirty-six machine crossbows on each city wall. The built city wall is straight, towering and very beautiful, which can be seen by the entire Tianjing New City.
It feels very safe to go up there. Whether it is the salt factory, soap workshop, glass workshop, cement workshop, steel workshop, furniture workshop, or the private houses and military barracks in Tianjing New City, they are all protected by the towering city wall. After the city wall is repaired, Yang Pengrang
This group of masons continued to build villas to provide housing for the continuously expanding Tianjing New City.
In the official hall of Tianjing New City, Yang Peng sat below the master. Lin Qing'er asked about the situation of the Yang family again. Yang Peng was listening beside him without interrupting. Yang Peng knew how valuable the greetings at this time were. Yang Peng
Peng didn't want to interrupt this beautiful moment.
After about an hour, Lin Qing'er said to Huyan Chijin and Du Jin'e, "This is my apprentice named Yang Peng. These two Yang Peng are your seventh sister-in-law, and these two are your eighth sister and ninth sister."
Sister," Yang Peng stood up and saluted Huyan Chijin and Du Jin'e and said, "Hello, sisters-in-law. I am the younger brother of the seventh brother and the younger brother of both of them. We are all one family," and then saluted Yang Qi and Yang Ying.
He said, "Hello, sisters, I am your little brother Yang Peng. Wherever you want to play in Tianjing New City, just come to me. Whatever you want, I can help you with whatever the New City has, haha."
Huyan Chijin and Du Jin'e stood up and saluted Yang Peng and said, "Hello, little uncle, I'm here to cause trouble for you this time." Yang Jiumei stood up and said, "Brother, I want a knife, the knife you sent to my house, okay.
No." Yang Peng said, "Okay, there's no problem with that. I'll also give you a gun. You can kill her within two hundred meters. How about Ninth Sister?"
Yang Bamei said, "It's impossible. Even bows and arrows can't shoot that far. How can a gun be so powerful?" Lin Qing'er said, "Jiumei, your brother didn't lie. Their fighting here is no longer the same as ours. We don't have to fight anymore."
The Khitans fight first. Their flintlock guns are very powerful. One shot can kill an enemy within 200 meters. Ask your brother to take you to the military camp tomorrow and you will know. Your brother can kill the Khitans with two thousand men.
With 10,000 men, there were not many casualties easily. Your brother’s army is very strong.”
Yang Bamei asked, "Auntie, what you said is true. We have never heard of such a weapon. Then I also want a gun like this, okay?" Lin Qing'er said, "Why not? Your brother is
As the lord of a new Tianjing city, this city is his private property, do you think that's okay?" Yang Jiumei's mouth had become an O-shape. She looked at Yang Peng in surprise, as if she were looking at a monster.
He asked, "Brother, how old are you? Why are you so powerful?" Yang Peng said, "I am nineteen years old this year. It's not me who is great, it's your aunt who is. I am his apprentice. Without a master, where would I be? My
My life was saved by the master, and everything here belongs to the master."
Lin Qing'er said, "You little naughty boy, you can make your master happy. All this is yours. I'm not that capable, haha." Lin Qing'er also smiled happily. Huyan Chijin said, "This is
The new city is full of things that we have never seen in Bianjing. Uncle, you are too awesome. We have never seen the road from Cangzhou to your place, and the houses you built are too high, Bianjing
There are no such high houses in Beijing, and you can actually grow rice here. No one grows rice anywhere in Bianjing. There is so much novelty everywhere. I want to take a good stroll these days."
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.