Chapter 289 [Four Counties Merchants, Borrowing Money Night Banquet] Five
After merchants from the four counties of Yangzhou, Fengyang, Huai'an and Luzhou competed for bids, the first batch of 50 ships was auctioned for the lowest price of 40,000 taels, and the highest price of 150,000 yuan. Mu Linfeng's total
Income is four million, three hundred and fifty thousand taels.
This price is far three or four times higher than Mu Linfeng expected, and this price does not include future bids for water transportation projects in the Yangtze River Basin.
Moreover, this group of merchants seemed to know the purpose of Mu Linfeng's night banquet. They all came with banknotes. After telling the price, they immediately took out the banknotes and settled the money on the spot. Mu Linfeng asked Su Du
Xiu Yi registered the bidding merchants one by one.
With this money, Mu Linfeng can say that he will not be short of money in the next few months. It is enough for him to squander. He wants to build a shipyard, an iron factory, an iron factory, a firearms factory, a firearms factory...
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After the night banquet, Mu Linfeng destroyed the Mu Mansion with the banknotes, and asked Su Duxiu and Liu Wanshi to stay in Fuqing Building to arrange nightlife projects for the merchants, and then arranged accommodation for everyone.
After Mu Linfeng returned to Mu Mansion, he did not rest immediately. Instead, he went to the study first, counted the banknotes, and then immediately allocated 500,000 taels to Wu Xing's iron factory, and another one million taels.
It will be used for the first phase of Fang Ahang's shipbuilding project, and the remaining banknotes will be kept until needed in the future.
After Mu Linfeng collected the banknotes, he went to Gu Meisheng's room.
Because during the day, Mu Linfeng said that he would come to Gu Meisheng's room to sleep tonight, but Gu Meisheng had not gone to bed yet and had been waiting for Mu Linfeng.
As soon as Gu Meisheng heard the knock on the door, he rushed to the door and opened the door. When he saw Mu Linfeng, he immediately hugged Mu Linfeng and said coquettishly: "Mu Lang, Meier has been waiting for you so hard!"
Mu Linfeng patted Gu Meisheng on the shoulder, hugged Gu Meisheng and walked into the room. After closing the door, he smiled and said: "Linfeng promised Meier that he would come tonight, so he came tonight. When did Linfeng break his promise?"
Gu Meisheng smiled charmingly, and then helped Mu Linfeng take off his clothes. After helping Mu Linfeng go to bed, he took out a set of jewelry from a box on the dressing table, waved it in front of Mu Linfeng, and said, "Mu
Lang, do you think it looks good?"
Mu Linfeng only saw the necklace, bracelet and ring in Gu Meisheng's hand, but did not see anything special about it. Then he smiled and said: "Meier, you are naturally beautiful. Everything you wear is just to support your beauty. How can these vulgar things be compared with
Mei'er, can your beauty compare to that?"
Gu Meisheng burst out laughing when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Mu Lang, you are getting more and more glib now..." Then he lay down on Mu Linfeng's chest and said softly: "But Mei'er just likes to hear it..."
Mu Linfeng smiled slightly when he heard this, then gently hugged Gu Meisheng, patted Gu Meisheng's back, and said with a smile: "Okay, Mei'er, bring it to Linfeng to see!"
Gu Meisheng immediately stamped his feet and said, "Mu Lang even said during the day that he would put it on Mei'er himself!"
Mu Linfeng immediately took the things in Gu Meisheng's hands and said with a smile: "As you command, Master Mei'er!" He helped Gu Meisheng put them on one by one.
Gu Meisheng stood in front of the bed and turned around a few times, then asked Mu Linfeng: "How is it? Is it beautiful?"
Seeing this, Mu Linfeng couldn't help but shook his head and said, "Oh, you women just love to toss!"
Gu Meisheng heard this and said in confusion: "What?"
Mu Linfeng pulled Gu Meisheng to sit on the edge of the bed, and then said softly: "You know you're going to take off your clothes after a while, so why bother?"
When Gu Meisheng heard this, his face immediately turned red. He quickly pinched Mu Linfeng and said, "Mu Lang, you are so bad!"
Mu Linfeng immediately hugged Gu Meisheng and said with a sly smile: "I haven't done anything yet, and you say I'm bad. How about you pay me back later?"
Gu Meisheng naturally understood what Mu Linfeng meant, and immediately pushed Mu Linfeng away, but did not push away. Mu Linfeng hugged Gu Meisheng tightly, kissed Gu Meisheng's lips, and then reached out and slowly took off Gu Meisheng's clothes.
, pulled Gu Meisheng close to the bed, and the two of them fell asleep for a while until midnight.
The next day, Mu Linfeng asked people to go to the iron factory to invite Wu Xing, and handed the five hundred thousand taels of banknotes to Wu Xingdao: "Keep this money in case the iron factory and firearms factory need any capital turnover!"
Wu Xing took the banknote and looked at it, then said: "Five hundred thousand taels? At present, the iron factory and firearms factory have Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands taels, which is more than enough. There is no need for so much money!"
Mu Linfeng smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, you can keep it for now. When the iron factory and firearms factory increase in scale in the future, Brother Wu, you will definitely be free. Then you can see how the money is used. Don't you like to study this? Study
Well, this money will be used for your research expenses!"
When Wu Xing heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "Brother Feng, you know me, so I will keep the money..." After putting the banknote away, he said to Mu Linfeng: "By the way, Brother Feng, please pay me back."
Remember what Brother Feng and I told you two days ago that I wanted to give you a surprise?"
After hearing this, Mu Linfeng immediately smiled and said: "Oh? That's right... So, Brother Wu, do you have any research projects that you believe in? And it has achieved some success? Otherwise, you would never say it easily!"
Wu Xing immediately nodded and said: "That's right... didn't Brother Feng tell Wu last time that he was worried about the speed of the ship?"
Upon hearing this, Mu Linfeng immediately smiled and said, "Brother Wu, could it be that you have developed a steam engine?"
Wu Xing was stunned when he heard this, and then said: "That's not true. Wu has indeed been researching in his spare time, but he has failed many times. Even if he continues to study at this moment, there will be no progress for a while. Instead, Wu invented something else.
Something that is still helpful for the current power of wooden boats!"
Mu Linfeng was a little disappointed when Wu Xing said that the steam engine had not been invented. If Wu Xing's steam engine could be invented, then according to what Fang Jiahang said, he could build iron ships, and then they would definitely have a strong navy. But
If an iron ship relied on oars for power, it would be a bit unreasonable.
But Wu Xing also said that he had invented something that can power wooden boats. Mu Linfeng was still very excited and said: "Oh? Brother Wu, what are you talking about? Mu is very interested!"
Wu Xing clapped his hands immediately, and then two people came in from outside the study, accompanied by a wooden barrel. The barrel was filled with water, and there was a model of a wooden boat on the bed. Wu Xing said to Mu Linfeng: "Brother Feng, please come over and take a look.
one time!"
When Mu Linfeng heard this, he immediately walked to the wooden barrel and squatted down. He saw Wu Xing move on the wooden boat, then put the boat into the water, and the boat moved forward on its own.
When Mu Linfeng saw this, he couldn't help but said with joy and wonder: "Huh? So magical? Brother Wu, how did you do it?"
Wu Xing immediately laughed and said: "Brother Feng has forgotten that all the children's toys and car toys of our era were started by springs. Wu just copied this principle intact."
Mu Linfeng laughed when he heard this and said: "Brother Wu is indeed Brother Wu. With this, how much manpower will be saved on our ships in the future!"
Wu Xing nodded when he heard the words and said: "Well, Wu just thought of this and made this thing after thinking it over. But currently it can only work on the model. For details, we have to wait until a large one is built and put on a real ship.
Only by testing it can we know the actual effect and how many such power propellers are needed for a ship."
After hearing this, Mu Linfeng immediately stood up, patted Wu Xing on the shoulder and said with a smile: "This is not easy. Mu will go to the riverside soon to see how the shipyard supervising Fang Jiahang's shipyard is doing. Brother Wu can talk to Mu
I will go with you and explain this principle to Fang Jiahang and ask him to build a test ship as soon as possible!"
Wu Xing immediately laughed and said: "Wu has exactly what he means!"
Mu Linfeng smiled and said, "Then what are you waiting for?"
With that said, Mu Linfeng and Wu Xing immediately left for the Yangzhou Army barracks outside Yangzhou South City. When Shi Kefa saw Mu Linfeng and Wu Xing coming, he immediately came out of the camp to greet them, and then said curiously: "Mu Shuai and Mr. Wu are here in person today. I want to
It must be about the shipyard, right?"
Mu Linfeng smiled and said, "That's right. I wonder if Mr. Fang's shipyard site has been chosen yet?"
Shi Kefa cupped his hands and said: "Tell Mu Shuai, Mr. Fang has already made his choice. It turns out that the Yangzhou Navy had many barracks when they came there, which can facilitate the shipbuilding workers to rest, and can leave a lot of unnecessary things."
Money, secondly, the water level there is better, which is convenient for shipbuilding experiments, and thirdly, it is closer to our military camp, so Shi will take care of it!"
Mu Linfeng nodded and said, "That's right! It's good to start saving a little, but you don't have to worry about funds in the future. Mu came here today mainly to give money to Mr. Fang!"
Shi Kefa heard this and said curiously: "Shi heard from Mr. Fang that the funds for building the ship are not a small amount. It is said that it will initially require hundreds of thousands of taels. Mu Shuai, you can raise so much money in such a day."
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Mu Linfeng smiled and said: "Mu has his own way. Mr. Shi, please take Mu and Mr. Wu to the shipyard to have a look! Mr. Wu will have a bigger surprise for you later!"