There was a man in his thirties, with a pale face and no beard. He was wearing a blue shirt, but he was soaked with sweat. He held a feather fan in his left hand and kept fanning the wind. He held a crane-billed pot in his right hand and poured cold wine "gudong, gudong". After spitting out the breath of wine, Jia Can complained again: "You are such an ignorant monk. You have no tenants yet, so you rush me here and suffer the heat in vain?"
Although the monk was not afraid of him, he was the sponsor after all, so he had no choice but to laugh along with him: "It's also a coincidence. Who could have expected that the gentleman would be appointed an official today? But according to the usual practice, he would not take things seriously when he went to the Yamen on the first day.
, I will go to the Yamen in two or three moments at most, and I will pay you for the work, the court, and so on..."
Jia Can snorted and said nothing.
You will definitely have to wait. How many years has his "mansion" been vacant? No one asked? Jia Can was overjoyed to finally meet someone who was taken advantage of. Let alone two or three moments, he would wait two or three more.
He is also willing to do so in an hour.
But when he heard that the tenant was from out of town, he was just promoted to an official today, he was from the seventh rank, and he was the coolest Hou Xinglang, Jia Can's sense of superiority suddenly came up.
It would be even better if the tenant could be restrained, intimidated by his status as a middle-ranking official, and forced to sign a ten-year or eight-year lease...
While I was having a sweet dream, a boy called outside the door, saying that the man who rented the house was here. As he spoke, he also came in.
He raised his eyes and saw that the man sitting with the monk had a white face, no beard, and thin skin and tender flesh. Li Chengzhi guessed that it was Jia Can. However, he did not have the characteristics of a Hu person. It was probably due to the intermarriage of his ancestors, Han and Hu, and his bloodline had been diluted.
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Thinking that he was an official from the fifth rank and had to wait for almost an hour in such a hot day, Li Chengzhi raised his fists and prepared to say a few polite words such as "Excuse me for waiting." Unexpectedly, before even opening his mouth, Jia Can saw a sneer on his face: "Why bother Jia to wait for you for an hour? Hou Xinglang is so impressive?"
They were all exquisite and transparent people, so no one knew that this eunuch was going to raise the price while sitting on the ground. Li Chengzhi sneered slightly and didn't say anything. He just took a wrong step to the side and exposed the person behind him.
The cooperation between the two was not an ordinary tacit understanding. Li Chengzhi didn't say anything, but Gao Zhan knew what to do. Hearing a "wow" sound, Gao Zhan slapped the feather fan in his hand, looked at Jia Can and sneered: "More
So what if I make you wait for an hour?"
Yu Linjian (intermediate general of the imperial army, chief guard, city gate, escort) Gao Zhan?
The sweat that had just been wiped off for a short period of time suddenly appeared again. The weather could even burn the scalp, but Jia Can felt cold all over.
Not to mention his father, Gao Zhao, who was also the queen's younger brother. If he casually made trouble in front of the queen, he could make him, a fifth-rank internal official, wash the toilet bucket until he died.
The eunuch's words were unreasonable: "Gao... Gao Yulin..."
The heat is almost done, too much is not enough.
Li Chengzhi took a step forward, crossed Gao Zhan, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Jia Dianyu is busy with official duties, so I don't dare to delay. Look at this: rent one thousand gold a year, pay for three years, and after three years
Can we discuss it later?"
Jia Can has even prepared himself mentally for not being able to receive even half a penny, and maybe having to pay some compensation. How can there be any reason not to be willing?
His job was to wait on people, and he was used to looking at people's faces. Knowing that Li Chengzhi couldn't bear to talk to him, he nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes!"
Li Chengzhi pointed at Li Rui and said: "Pay until now and the contract will be finalized!"
Looking at the 20 pieces of yellow gold collars placed on the table (the price of gold and copper is 1:160), Jia Can and the monk almost couldn't close their mouths: Although Li Langjun is more arrogant, his actions are not.
Generally simple.
In less than two moments, the money and the deed were cleared. Three years later, it was Li Chengzhi who had the final say on that "mansion"...
After leaving the meeting, Gao Zhan thought more and more and felt a little uncomfortable: "How big a house is, and the annual rent is only one thousand gold? Is the price too low?"
"More than ten acres...the price has been agreed upon in advance, so there is no need to save this money?"
Gao Zhan was dumbfounded: The annual rent for a house of more than ten acres is only one thousand gold. How can you say that you haven’t saved any money?
No wonder Li Chengzhi rented it for three years?
Is this why you brought yourself here?
Gao Zhan felt a little uncomfortable, always feeling like he was being used by Li Chengzhi.
Li Chengzhi was thinking about something, but he could not guess what Gao Zhan was suspicious of, so he casually ordered the groom: "Go to the West Market!"
Luoyang has Luoshui in the south and Mang Mountain in the north. They are only more than 20 miles apart, so Luoyang City is only 16 miles long from north to south. If the capital wants to develop, it can only expand toward the east or west.
Historical records record: The capital city is twenty miles east to west... This refers only to the Guocheng, which is the outer city protected by a city wall compared to the imperial palace and the inner city. Beyond the city wall, the east and west ends extend for ten miles each.
Long.
All the markets in Luoyang are concentrated in the east and west of the city, and Li Chengzhi wants to go to the west market.
Although it is a market, it is still organized according to "li", and they are differentiated from each other, and mixing is strictly prohibited: this means that similar products will be concentrated in one area and are not allowed to flow around.
Just like the "Tongshang" Lane and "Dahuo" Lane in the south of the Royal Road. Food, clothing, raw materials needed for various industries are all concentrated here, and skilled craftsmen, butchers, peddlers, handymen and coolies can all be hired here.
To.
Li Chengzhi had already inquired about whether the eight stones used by Taoist priests to make alchemy or the medicinal materials needed by the court were purchased from here.
Li Chengzhi still hired the Taoist community next to Jingle Temple, and the one who showed him the way was the accountant who showed him the house.
Gao Zhan was confused and asked around, but Li Chengzhi never said anything. He only said that he would let him know when he got to the place when everything was ready.
There are many medicine sellers, and there are also shops that provide alchemy materials to temples directly affiliated with Tianshi Dao such as Taiping Temple and Chongxu Temple.
The exploration major was not learned in vain, and the years of mine safety supervision were not in vain. Li Chengzhi saw ammonium chloride at a glance after entering the first pharmacy.
The color is purple-red, somewhat like amethyst, with a layer of sulfur attached to the surface. It looks like it was dug out of a mine, and it is extremely pure. They are all fist-sized pieces, piled randomly in the courtyard. It looks like there are a lot of them, so it must be
Not expensive.
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I asked a few questions casually, and the boy in the drugstore said that doctors call this Qi sand, which can break up accumulation and dissipate stagnation, and can also cure swelling, pain and carbuncle. The Taoist priest calls this Zisha, Beiting sand. As for how to make elixirs, he doesn't know.
Got it.
Hearing "purple sand" and "qi sand", Li Chengzhi wanted to slap his forehead. This stuff is found in Ge Hong's "Emergency Prescriptions" and "Jindan Neidan", and it is also in Tao Hongjing's "Compendium of Materia Medica"
.But he has never been connected with ammonium chloride...
After asking a few questions, Li Chengzhi winked at Li Rui, and Li Rui nodded secretly, indicating that he had remembered it.
In order to prevent leaks, Li Chengzhi will definitely not buy it now. After returning home, he will first build a pool. During the two days in between, Li Rui will buy a little bit a day like ants moving, and then secretly transport it back...
Just walking and asking questions like this, it took almost two moments before Li Chengzhi said to the boy in the shop: "Two thousand kilograms of fine saltpeter powder!"
"What do you want this for?" Gao Zhan's eyes were as big as walnuts, "Alchemy... you want to sell elixirs?"
I'll make a bird. Do you want an iron elixir that can hear the sound?
To be prepared for danger in times of peace, it is natural to get some explosives and grenades just in case of emergencies. The most important thing is that these things can be used to deceive others.
How can a unique business not be envied by others? There will definitely be people who will try their best to steal the secret recipe for making ice, and then use this thing as a cover.
Li Chengzhi asked with a smile: "Do you want me to stand on the city gate and shout?"
Gao Zhan was as anxious as a cat scratching his head, and he had to give in: "Yes, yes, confidentiality is important!"
The summer is only so long, and if you sell one day late, you will lose one day's profit. Li Chengzhi did not dare to delay any longer. As soon as the accounting office hired all the craftsmen and coolies, he took two thousand kilograms of saltpeter powder and walked along the imperial road on the west side of the city wall.
Go to Mang Mountain.
The closer you get to Mang Mountain, the cooler it naturally becomes. It is also a good place for dignitaries to cool down and escape the heat. Near the northwest corner of Guocheng, that is, to the west of Jinyong City, there is a flat land two miles long and ten miles wide, which is the residence of the Yuan clan.
The place.
The official name is Shouchiuli, and it is commonly known as Wangzifang. The residences of Wang Yuanyong of Yingchuan, Wang Yuanyue of Ruyang, and Princess Yuanying of Changle (the powerful Prince Consort's Mansion) were all built here. There are many rooms in the Chongmen and connected rooms in the caves.
The flying pavilion is windy, the heavy building is foggy...everything is no worse than Gaozhao's mansion, and the housing prices here are no lower than those in the inner city.
Gao Zhan naturally knew that the annual rent of one thousand gold might not even be able to rent a hut here, so he didn't care. But when the carriage bypassed Wangzifang, missed Jinyong City, and continued eastward along the foot of Mang Mountain, Gao Zhan
The doubts on his face are getting heavier and heavier.
"No wonder you only have one thousand gold. So you rented it in Taoshi?"
Tao City?
Li Chengzhi smiled and said nothing.
Although most of the people living there are laborers, paying one thousand gold to rent a house of more than ten acres is still like telling a joke.
When the carriage turned north and went straight to Mang Mountain, the hairs all over Gao Zhan's body became thicker: This place is full of cemeteries, where can we go? Could it be that we have rented a shady house?
After walking nearly a mile, Li Chengzhi pointed at the mansion: "Here, it's right here!"
Gao Zhan seemed to be frozen, staring at Li Chengzhi like a fool.
A tomb is almost built on the steps of this gatehouse, and how many dead people are buried under this mansion?
How could such a fool come out of nowhere to spend a lot of money to build such a big house here? And there is a fool like Li Chengzhi who rented a cemetery for three thousand gold in three years?
Grandpa doesn’t want any money from me...
The dissatisfaction in his heart had long since dissipated, and he started complaining to Li Chengzhi again: "Speak loudly... Even if it is necessary to rent, this dirty, dilapidated and taboo place, how dare the eunuch dare to ask for a thousand gold?"
One hundred gold is too much..."
"How can I have the time to grind my teeth?"
A thousand pieces of gold can't buy a good thing, but just because this house is so close to the inner city, the price of a thousand pieces of gold is really not expensive. Li Chengzhi feels that he has taken a lot of advantage.
He waved his hand carelessly, instructing Lifu to unload the truck, then summoned the head craftsman over, and followed him to the attic in the courtyard.
Gao Zhan gasped and followed closely. It felt like Li Chengzhi was even richer than him, and he didn't even care about him?
With a pencil in one hand and a wooden ruler in the other, Li Chengzhi drew the map in a few strokes, then pointed to several gardens and said: "Build two ponds here... The small pond should be high, with at least five feet of soil, and then build the pond on top of the soil.
: It has a radius of two feet and a depth of four feet. The bottom and walls are paved with ceramic tiles and the joints are filled with raw lacquer.
There are thirty built-in iron boxes. Each box is two feet in diameter and four feet in depth. The four walls, bottom cover, etc. must be detachable and closable...
Three drainage ditches were built at the bottom of the small pond, and a large pond was built below the ditch: about an inch deep and ten feet in diameter. The bottom and walls were also paved with pottery bricks, and the joints were filled with raw lacquer.
A shed needs to be built with pillars outside the small pond, and the roof of the shed needs to be made of heavy-duty wood to form a gantry, and it must be detachable and closable..."
It's actually very simple: build a large pool and put dozens of iron boxes with good thermal conductivity in it. Fill the pool and iron boxes with water, and then wrap them with clean cow and sheep skins or clean cow and sheep casings to plug the seams with hot wax to prevent
The ammonium water in the pool pollutes the clean water in the iron tank.
When the ammonium water in the pool freezes, the clean water in the iron box will naturally freeze as well.
They also have to be separated in iron boxes: although ammonium chloride is a medicine, it is also poison. Excessive intake can cause mental disorder and even coma...
After the water in the iron box turns into ice, use a pulley rope to pull it out, then smash the ice containing ammonium chloride in the pool to dry it, put it into a large pool and dry it in the sun, and the chloramine will precipitate into crystals, which can be reused. p>
Li Chengzhi plans to build three such pools first. If it is not cloudy, it is expected that the ice can be produced five times a day, which is about 200 square meters and 160,000 kilograms.
Not to mention that the rice is sold at a price of two cents per kilogram. If you discount it by half, it only sells for one penny, which is 160,000 cents a day, which is exactly one thousand gold.
Li Chengzhi's requirements are not high. Even if half of the ice melts, it will still be 500 gold per day. Ammonium chloride can be reused. The biggest cost is labor and water. Twenty gold per day is more than enough...
Craftsmen don't care about so many things, they just do what their employers tell them. But the more Gao Zhan listened, the more surprised he became: apart from winemaking, he couldn't think of anything else that would require such a large pool. But winemaking requires fermentation, and exposure to the sun is the most avoidable.
Never heard of one built outdoors?
Seeing that he was so anxious that he was about to get angry, Li Chengzhi chuckled, put his arm around Gao Zhan's shoulders and went down to the attic: "Now let me see Brother Zicheng, what kind of business I asked you to do..."
If an ordinary person had hugged him, Gao Zhan would have punched him, but if it were Li Chengzhi, he wouldn't feel any discomfort.
The first is that they are pleasing to the eye, the second is that they will all be relatives sooner or later, and the third is that Gao Zhan always remembers the words in Gao Meng's letter: wild and unruly, arrogant...
Even the eldest brother always fights at his request, and even Wang Yuanyue of Ruyang hits him at every request. What's wrong with being hugged on the shoulders by such a person?
After entering the room and asking Li Rui to guard the left and right, Li Chengzhi showed Gao Zhan what it means to "turn decay into magic..."
Powdered saltpeter was added to the bucket, and the water in it turned into ice at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although only a bucket of ice was frozen in the end, Gao Zhan was still so frightened that his whole body trembled, and his upper and lower teeth chattered: "Monster...monster
Law..."
In a moment of desperation, he actually connected the ice in the bucket with the cemetery outside his house, Mang Mountain.
No wonder Li Chengzhi wants to rent a house in a cemetery...
Demon your sister?
Li Chengzhi glared at him and said in a low voice: "What kind of magic is it? It's Taoism at most. Have you seen "Thirty-six Voltage Water Pills" in "Baopuzi": "Saltite is mixed with amalgam, and it turns into silver when placed under a stone.
Frost...', that's what it is."
Gao Zhan was surprised: "You still said it's not alchemy?"
"Lian Mao, this is ice, ice..."
Li Chengzhi wanted to go crazy, so he grabbed a bag of saltpeter powder and stuffed it into his hand: "You can do it, come on..."
"Really...really?"
"Can we still have a holiday? You will know when you go back home and give it a try... let's talk about business first..." Li Chengzhi pointed to the bucket and said, "If I produce 100,000 kilograms of ice a day and only price one kilogram per kilogram, how much can you sell per day?
?"
Selling ice?
Looking at the ice flowers in the bucket, Gao Zhan suddenly realized: So what Li Chengzhi produced was ice?
How is it possible to produce 100,000 kilograms per day?
But when he thought of the pond Li Chengzhi asked the craftsmen to make, Gao Zhan suddenly realized: the so-called one hundred thousand catties is only more than five thousand dou (measuring device, about 10,000 milliliters), more than five hundred dendrobium (one dendrobium ten dou)...
…
Gao Zhan thought for a while, then hesitantly said: "One pound is a penny, and a bucket is twenty coins... It's not expensive... I just wonder if there are so many people in Beijing who can afford it?"<
/p>
Gao Zhan's worries are not unreasonable.
A bucket of this thing is about the size of a schoolbag, and it can last for one to two hours if it melts slowly. Ordinary people will definitely not be able to use it, and even seventh- and eighth-grade officials may not be willing to use it every day.
So although it is rare, it may not be easy to sell.
"Who asked you to sell the whole piece?"
Li Chengzhi chuckled lightly and then said thoughtfully, "It will take three or two days until the pond is built. Then I will teach you how to sell the ice pound by pound.
Now you are busy with these things: send your Gao clan troops to defend the house... Although this ice is made of saltpeter, there are other secrets in it, otherwise it will be difficult to form ice, so the secret must not be leaked, otherwise it will become a big problem for everyone.
business..."
"This is natural!" Gao Zhan nodded heavily.
"Second, to prevent secrets from being leaked, we still need to use your Gao family servants for the core processes. Roughly thirty or fifty people are enough.
The third one is naturally manufacturing and selling. Brother Zicheng will pick some smart and loyal ones after he returns home. After selecting, let me know and I will teach them myself... The fourth..."
Li Chengzhi pondered for a moment, and then said with great solemnity: "This is a huge profit. In order to avoid false claims, everything must be done in advance...
After you return home, you can ask Gao Sikong to see if ten taxes and one tax is feasible. If you think it is low, five taxes and one tax is also acceptable, but the maximum cannot exceed 30%, otherwise it will be unprofitable..."
"Do you still have to pay taxes?"
Gao Zhan's face was full of disbelief. He almost wanted to say: Do you know that my surname is Gao, my father is Gao Zhao, my sister is the queen, and my brother-in-law is the emperor...
Seeing Li Chengzhi's eyes staring at him like arrows, without any sign of compromise, Gao Zhan said helplessly: "But one tax per ten is too heavy, and only thirty tax per tax for selling grain and rice..."<
/p>
As soon as he heard it, he knew that Gao Zhan had not understood people's livelihood: no matter how poor the imperial court was, it would not dare to impose heavy taxes on food, otherwise the price of food would skyrocket, which would force the people to rebel...
Li Chengzhi did not criticize, and chuckled softly: "Don't be too greedy. Slow water is the way to go in the long run, and it can also ensure that you and I can make a living every year, so it doesn't matter if the tax is heavier, just think of it as serving the country."
Sharing the worries..."
Gao Zhan wanted to curse when he heard this: How can anyone think that money is so hot?
On the other hand, there are so many high-ranking officials in such a huge imperial court. When will it be your turn, a seventh-grade sesame official, to serve the country and its people?
Isn’t Li Chengzhi stupid?
It was impossible to guess what Gao Zhan was thinking, but Li Chengzhi just smiled.
The emperor blatantly cut off the leeks of officials and scholars. This shows how shameless it is, and how poor the court is.
Dare not to make an offering?
Believe it or not, the emperor can nationalize this business before the money you make is enough?
Making ice this time can be regarded as asking for advice. Li Chengzhi had already thought about it: if the emperor really dares to be so shameless, don't blame him for taking the plunge and making the secret recipe public.
Don't let him invent anything new in the future. Li Chengzhi will definitely only secretly refine his glass beads, and then let Li Song and Li Liang come to Luoyang disguised as Hu merchants...
PS: Sorry, it's a little late. Once you use the information on weights and measures, you can detect the explosion. The system of the Southern and Northern Dynasties was too chaotic...