Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 264 The Guests Arrive

"And then?" Cui Junsu asked.

Gao Jian smiled very relaxedly: "Return the nine volumes of Mengxue with [-] copies each."

After thinking about it, Cui Junsu nodded: "Even if my Cui family members have a set, in another 50 years, [-] volumes will be enough. One hundred thousand volumes, this heart has received, books can be borrowed, but the rules cannot be changed."

The rules Cui Junsu talked about were the rules for borrowing books.

In this era, books are extremely precious items, and first of all, the original and orphan copies will not be easily loaned out.All borrowed copies are manuscripts, which can be copied again, but they are not used as favors for others, let alone sold.

Gao Jian agreed, but he couldn't bargain for this request.

The cock crowed, and these people actually discussed it all night, but the second half of the night was more energetic than the first half of the night.

The next day, when Liu Mu was sound asleep, Gao Jian arrived.

"Gao Gong, are they haggling hard?" Liu Mu stood up.

"It's not time to negotiate the price. In fact, you are wrong. The gentry talk about power, and they rarely talk about small profits." Gao Jian sat beside Liu Mu's bed, and before Liu Mu laughed, Gao Jian said: "They don't want to talk about small profits." Talking about profit, it is estimated that you will regret to die in half a year."

Liu Mu just smiled.

Gao Jian said again: "The old man only slept for two hours in the morning, but he came here in such a hurry not to talk about it. The old man heard that there is a place called VIP Court at your wharf, and many envoys did not enter Chang'an, but To live here is just to send people into Chang'an to hand over the documents."

"You always think it's bad?"

"I don't know, but Princess Silla has been waiting outside your house for an hour. This is a matter of national etiquette. The Ministry of Rites may know that you are not easy to explain, but this is a trivial matter." Gao Jian said unhurriedly. with.

Liu Mu jumped off the bed: "You always be more straightforward, I can't bear this panting."

"Okay, let's talk about the important point. You have withheld all the goods. As I said, the linen in the warehouse is worth [-] guan. You asked the merchants to borrow these, and the cattle and horses are mortgages. Since you asked I'm here to help you, so let me know, what do you want to do?"

Liu Mu quickly put on his clothes.

At this time, although the clothes Liu Mu wore were still Chinese-style with round necks and short lapels, they were already very close to modern T-shirts.

"Come with me." Liu Mu knew that he always had to reveal something.

Outside the door, inside the small meeting room.Kinderman is sitting here waiting, she has brought what Willow wants, and now she is waiting for Willow to give her what she wants.

Seeing Kinderman, Liu Mu said, "Are you tired? If you're not tired, let's go out together. It's very lively."

"Yes, I would like to go with you." Kinderman planned to go together even if he was tired.

Liu Mu led people into the VIP Garden, and behind him were more than 20 strong and strong men carrying a box.

"There are many guests here, Silla, Shiwei, Khitan, Mohe, Turkic. Rest for two days first, don't say anything." Liu Mu waved his hand, and each of the four big boxes carried them over and opened them.

"This is coins. It's delicious and fun here. Let's relax for two days first. Starting from the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, there will be a three-day horse racing meeting. If you are interested, you can participate. If you win, you will get gold, and you can also bet on other people's wins or losses. The first month Sixteen, I guarantee that you will laugh for a whole year, and set your income for next year in black and white."

The leaders of several Turkic tribes clasped their fists at the same time: "Thank you, sir."

The Khitan clan followed and thanked them one by one.

Only the Silla people were confused, because what they sent was people, not goods. They in Silla couldn't produce goods that would make Datang fancy, so they couldn't make money at all.

Liu Mu walked around the VIP Court, showing face, and then said to Kinderman: "Brother Park is not here."

"The boat and the car are exhausted, and someone has been sent to call it."

"Then he needs to work harder, and I'll show you my sincerity." Liu Mu didn't have the slightest sympathy for the old man's hard work, because he didn't have enough time, and today is already August [-]th.

There is a boat ready on the pier to go upstream.

Going up the Jing River is Dugu Lanruo's Zhuangzi. Although she got married, the royal family did not take back her Zhuangzi and her land.Leave it as it is.

The river beach that Liu Mu wants is actually a land with two piers, because the plot he occupies includes the river beach triangle at the confluence of the Jing River and the Wei River, and the area between the two rivers.Right now, only the Jinghe wharf has been built, and the willows on the bank of the Weihe River temporarily have no money to build.

ship.

Ancient Chinese ships were thousands of years ahead of the earth. As early as 500 BC, there were records of water battles between Chu State and Wu State. Back then, the big-winged ship was 23 meters long, 90 meters wide, and had more than [-] crew members.

There is no need to talk about the four-story building boats at the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.

The boat that Liu Mu was in was only 15 meters long and [-] meters wide, without oars, and was driven upstream entirely by the wind.

Only this small boat made the Silla people have to accept that they still rely on wood pulp for offshore activities, not boats with sail technology, let alone seagoing boats.

They came by boat from Silla to Laiju Pier.

Among those craftsmen who specially built dragon boats for Emperor Sui Yang in the Sui Dynasty, Liumu selected hundreds of high-quality boat craftsmen, and they are transporting from Jiangnan to Chang'an.Without Li Xiaogong, Liu Mu would not have these shipwrights.

Ten miles upstream, a wharf with stone and wood structures appeared.

There are soldiers guarding here. This is the private pier of Princess Dugu Lanruo of Changpingxiu. Any boat going down the Jing River is not allowed to dock unless it is an emergency.

The Jing River has been flowing upwards, and there are several rivers that flow into it.

Pingliang, Suzhou, etc., many rivers flow into the Jing River.The Jinghe River in the Tang Dynasty was far wider and deeper than that in later modern times, and the vegetation on both sides of the river was more than ten times denser.

After getting off the boat, Big Brother Park supported his forehead, he felt a little dizzy.

Not because of seasickness, but due to fatigue.

"My lord, what is that?" Kinderman saw the huge waterwheel that was several feet high beside the water on the upper side of the pier.

Liu Mu didn't explain, just said: "Follow me and let you see some good things."

This is a spinning workshop.

This big waterwheel is the waterwheel that provides power.

"This is hemp. You can spin fifty tans of hemp in a day and night." Liu Mu proudly introduced.

This spinning machine is a hydraulic multi-thread spinning machine that was only available in the Yuan Dynasty. Liu Mu only remembered the general principle and structure. It was the outstanding craftsmen of Tang Dynasty who tried nearly ten times and made more than 20 small spinning machines before completing this machine. .

The hydraulic multi-thread spinning machines of the Yuan Dynasty could process one hundred tans of hemp a day and night, but this could only reach half of it.

But this is enough to make Liumu proud.

There are hundreds of female workers busy here, and everyone's busy feet don't stick to the ground. An ingot of thread is loaded into a cart, and it takes four people to push it to the warehouse.

"Come with me." Willow didn't give Kinderman a chance to ask.

(End of this chapter)