I just want to make money

Chapter 194 Strong
Lin Yi came to the Qinghe county government office, waited for a while for the people in front to handle the family papers, and it was Lin Yi's turn to go in. Lin Yi stepped forward and smiled and cupped his hands, "The officials have worked hard." on the table.

When the little official saw that it was Lin Yi, especially the piece of broken silver, a smile appeared on his face immediately, "It turns out that it is Mr. Lin, what are you doing here?"

"To apply for the imperial examination, please help write a family certificate." Lin Yi said.

"Hey, Mr. Lin has stopped the imperial examinations for a few years, why do you think of taking the exams now?" the little official said, putting the broken silver into his sleeves.

"Do people always have to pursue something?" Lin Yi said.

"Yes, yes, it's good to pursue. I will issue a family statement to Mr. Lin. Mr. Lin's net worth is absolutely fine."

The little official picked up a pen and scribbled down Lin Yi's situation on the official paper.

Lin Yi got the family certificate and said his hard work, said goodbye and left. When he left, the little official stood up with a smile and saw him off. This is the use of money.

As soon as he walked out, he met several people head-on, and he knew they were scholars by their clothes, but they didn't know each other, but one of them recognized Lin Yi, and whispered to a few friends: "This is the ignorant Lin Yi." Senior official, look at the documents in his hand, is he also participating in this autumn?"

One of them heard Lin Yi's name and looked at Lin Yi carefully with resentment in his eyes. At this time, someone reminded him, "Zhang Erlang, your family borrowed his silver taels to redeem you and your elder brother from Liangshan bandits. from."

This young man called Zhang Erlang was the second son of Yuanwai Zhang. The Zhang family borrowed usury from Lin Yi and redeemed them. After returning, Mrs. Zhang scolded Lin Yi a lot, saying he Taking advantage of the fire to rob is worse than Liangshan bandits.

Zhang Erlang naturally hated Lin Yi too.

Another point is that Zhang Erlang also covets Jinlian and Yinlian. I heard that Jinlian and Yinlian were bought by this Lin Yi. .

Thinking of this, I hate it even more.

"Hmph, I'm waiting for my head to hang on my butt, and I don't dare to say that I can pass the exam. It's ridiculous that he, an ignorant dude, wants to take part in the imperial examination to gain fame. If he can pass the exam, I'm sure thrown into the canal."

Lin Yi didn't hear what these people said. Although they looked down on Lin Yi, they didn't dare to provoke him openly.

Especially Zhang Erlang,

hate to hate,
But now the family still owes Lin Yi a large sum of money. If he annoys Lin Yi and this guy takes the IOU to the family to collect the debt, his Zhang family can't afford that much money now.

out of the yamen,

Lin Yi started to visit his classmates. He had already found out who the applicants were from the registration officer. Some of them had studied in the school together, and they happened to be looking for them.

Lin Yi came to the door,
Invited these people to go out for a drink together, and immediately called seven or eight people.

A few of them happened to have no joint guarantee yet, so they hit it off and decided to join Lin Yi as a joint guarantee, and decided to go to the Yamen to handle the joint guarantee documents in the morning.

While drinking, someone asked Lin Yi curiously, "You haven't participated in the examination for several years. I thought you would never take the imperial examination in this life. Why do you want to participate again?"

Lin Yi smiled and said: "I didn't take the test before, and I didn't actually stop studying. These days, I suddenly feel enlightened. I have learned a lot from reading. I'm going to try again. If it doesn't work, I will completely give up my thoughts."

Someone nearby laughed and joked: "I heard that you have taken in two beautiful maids in Zhang's house. It could be that after taking in the maids, it feels comfortable to use and your mind becomes clearer."

"Haha, maybe it's right." Lin Yi said with a smile.

After a lot of drinking, the last few were all drunk by Lin Yi.

He himself was very sober.

Let Youcai call an ox cart and send the drunk people back, while he wandered to his shop to check the situation.

The raw medicine store has been in operation for many years and has its own set of procedures. Lin Yi checked the accounts and nothing happened, so he gave a few words to the shopkeeper and left.

Back to the sugar shop.

Seeing Lin Yi, the shopkeeper immediately said: "Master, the things you ordered me have been done. I bought two thousand guan brown sugar. I was thinking for a long time to report to you. This brown sugar is easy to get damp after being stored for a long time. What should I do with it?" ?”

It was only then that Lin Yi remembered that there was such a thing.

He once ordered the shopkeeper to buy brown sugar. At that time, his idea was to turn the brown sugar into white sugar, but later he forgot about it after getting too troublesome.

"I remember our family also has a sugar workshop." Lin Yi asked.

"Yes, by the Shilipo River outside the city." Shopkeeper Liu said.

The Lin family has more than 200 mu of land outside the city. The Lin family did not grow it themselves, and rented all of it to tenants. On the edge of this land, about three mu of land was set aside, and a sugar workshop was built next to the river, mainly for making brown sugar. , Most of the sugar sold by the Lin family sugar shop was purchased, and a small part was produced in the own workshop.

"Tomorrow, accompany me to the sugar shop." Lin Yi said.

"It's my lord."

Shopkeeper Liu didn't know what Lin Yi was going to do, so he just followed the master's orders.

After Youcai sent someone to find him, Lin Yi bid farewell to Shopkeeper Liu, and brought Youcai to a shop selling carriages in Qinghe County.

Seeing Lin Yi, the shopkeeper hurried over to entertain him.

Lin Yi said that he wanted to buy a mule cart. Horses were too difficult to handle, donkeys were too small, and cattle were too slow, so mules were the most suitable.

The finished carriage was placed under the shed in the courtyard. The shopkeeper introduced the size of the carriage to Lin Yi, the wood used, the carvings, etc., which gave Lin Yi the illusion of buying a carriage at a 4S shop.

In the end, I spent 150 guan and bought the largest and best car here. You can lie down directly in the car, and it is absolutely no problem to accommodate three or four people.

As for driving, it is natural to let talented people come, otherwise what is the use of raising him, no matter who it is, it needs to be multi-skilled.

Go home in your new carriage.

When I got home, I saw that Jinlian had already got up, but she was still a little awkward to walk. In the study, Lin Yi grabbed her and rubbed her.

Jin Lian looked at Lin Yi charmingly, "Master promised to take pity on Jin Lian last night, but he tried so hard, tossing Jin Lian to death."

"I just ask you, do you like it or not?" Lin Yi asked with a smirk on his face.

Jin Lian shyly said, "I like it."

"If you like it, it's over."

In Lin Yi's arms, Jin Lian's body became hot from being teased, "Master, it's daytime, it's not appropriate, Jin Lian will serve you again at night."

evening,

Practice martial arts in the martial arts field.

Continue reading after dinner.

Chunmei Xiu'er was supposed to serve tonight, but Lin Yi had just accepted Pan Jinlian and was getting excited, so he said to Chunmei, "You and Xiu'er go and have a rest, and wait on me tomorrow morning, let Jinlian and Yinlian come tonight."

Chunmei was a bit apprehensive, "Master, I can take care of you."

Lin Yi looked at her, feeling amused, "All right, let Xiu'er go back to sleep, Jin Lian will come to my room, and you will serve outside."

at night,

Lin Yi was more merciless than last night, even though Jin Lian was biting the corner of the quilt, the voice could be heard clearly, Chunmei in the outer room could hear it so clearly, she felt blushing, her heart was hot and her legs were cramping.

After that, Lin Yi called Chunmei outside.

Chunmei came in with a copper basin, but her steps were sloppy, her hand holding the copper basin trembled a little, and when she wiped Lin Yi's body, she even had a lot of shortness of breath.

Lin Yi pinches Chunmei's small face.

"Are you afraid?"

Chunmei shook her head vigorously.

The next day.

Yesterday, I had made an agreement with a few classmates, and came to the county office at the appointed time, and the four of them issued the joint guarantee document together.

Since then.

Lin Yiqiuwei's registration was completed.

These documents, the government will send people to the state capital together, and then they will take their own documents to take the exam.

I made an appointment with a few classmates to get together when I went to the state capital to take the exam, and everyone dispersed. Many people wanted to use the rest of this month to sprint again.

Back home,
Had lunch.

Lin Yi said to the girls, "Do you want to go outside the city?"

"Okay, okay!" the girls said in unison.

These women have no chance to go out on weekdays. If they don’t have to worry about making a living, women’s circle of activities in this era is very small. It is good for them to be able to go out and see the scenery, and they are not too old. playing age.

There were five people sitting in the carriage, including Lin Yi. Fortunately, the girls were light, otherwise a mule might not be able to move them.

Youcai was still not very familiar with driving, so he led the mule to the sugar shop, where he called shopkeeper Liu, and together they walked out of the city slowly.

Shilipo said it was ten miles, but in fact it was only five miles away. After walking for more than half an hour, a group of people came to the sugar workshop.

There are a dozen or so sugar workers here, all of whom are workers of the Lin family. The master at the head is surnamed Niu, a big-sized Niu Chengqun. There are also his two sons named Niu Daniu Er, and the others are all apprentices of Niu Chengqun.

Accompanied by shopkeeper Liu and master Li Chengqun, Lin Yi took a few girls to inspect the sugar workshop.

On Shandong Road, beets are mostly planted, and sugar juice is extracted from the beets to make brown sugar. There are many beet-growing farmers in Qinghe County, so many sugar workshops have sprung up.

Lin Yi looked all the way.

Beet lumps piled up in the yard.

Some people washed these beets in the river, washed them and then transported them to the house to shred. The sugar mill was built by the river for the convenience of cleaning.

Although the river next to it is not too big, the water flow is not slow. The workshop specially built a waterwheel to help squeeze the juice.

Niu Chengqun introduced the entire sugar production process to Anyi. A beet goes through a series of processes such as washing, shredding, juicing, evaporation, crystallization, honey separation, and drying, and finally brown sugar is made.

After listening, Lin Yi asked Niu Chengqun, "Can you make sugar?"

Niu Chengqun immediately shook his head, "I know some sugar makers know how to make white sugar, but that's a secret. White sugar is two or three times more expensive than brown sugar. If I have that skill, my boss will give me a raise." .”

Lin Yi smiled at the other party, "I have a recipe for making white sugar, do you want to learn it?"

Shopkeeper Liu looked at his master in surprise, and said to himself that the master let him buy brown sugar because he got the recipe for making white sugar. If his workshop could make white sugar, he would earn much more money than before.

As the shopkeeper, he also gets a commission, and the more the store earns, the higher the bonus, so he also hopes that the store will make more money.

Master Niu was even more shocked, "Master, you really have a recipe for making white sugar. If you have one, I will naturally be willing to learn it. This is a skill to make a fortune."

He knew that with this skill, his Niu family would have a better life than now.

But he also knew that the master's family would not pass on this recipe to them easily, and no one would pass on this kind of technique easily, so the master's family must have spent a lot of money to buy it.

really,

What Lin Yi said next confirmed his thoughts.

"I want to learn the technique of making sugar, it's not that I don't want to, but I have a few conditions." Lin Yi said.

Shopkeeper Liu and the four daughters Jinlian and Chunmei all looked at Lin Yi curiously, not knowing what conditions the master would propose.

"This recipe is not easy to come by. If you learn it, you will have an extra family heirloom, which can protect your Niu family from worrying about food and drink for generations. After you learn it, I will give you a salary increase if you make white sugar. Including your sons and apprentices."

"However, if you want to learn this skill, you must swear to me that you will never betray the master's family and seek refuge with another family with the prescription. At the same time, you must write a letter and file it with the government. If you get the skill and leave, I will We will report to the officials to hold you accountable."

Master Niu hesitated when he heard this.

Lin Yi is not in a hurry,
Asking him to discuss with his children and apprentices, Lin Yizhuo took the four daughters of Jinlian to the river to watch the waterwheel and play with the water.

In the pebbles by the river, you can catch shrimps and crabs, and the girls have a great time playing.

About half an hour later, Master Niu came with a dozen people from the sugar workshop, including his two sons. These people came to Lin Yi and knelt down, "Master, I will swear."

Lin Yi nodded.

Master Niu took the lead, and when he said a word, his son and apprentice followed suit. He swore that after he learned the technology of making sugar, he would not spread it to the outside world, and he would work for Lin Yi wholeheartedly. Thunder strikes Yunyun.

Lin Yi asked Youcai to take the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the car. Lin Yi asked Chunmei to bring them into the car in advance. At that time, the girls wondered why the master brought these, but now they finally know that the master had already prepared for it. .

Lin Yi wrote the written documents and read them to the craftsmen. After listening to them, the craftsmen had no objections, and then pressed their fingerprints one by one.

"You are talented, bring the things I asked you to bring." Lin Yi said.

Youcai took down a package from the shelf at the back of the car. The package was heavy, and it looked like it weighed about ten to twenty kilograms.

After entering the sugar factory, Lin Yi began to teach these people how to make white sugar. There was brown sugar made in the workshop. Lin Yi asked the craftsmen to melt 10 catties in warm water, and then opened the package. It was a pile of pale, burnt bones.

Xiu'er asked in surprise, "Master, what is this?"

"Burned beef bones and pig bones are also called bone charcoal. They are used in porcelain kilns for the production of porcelain. The burnt bone charcoal is crushed and ground into powder, and added to the porcelain will make the porcelain better."

After the explanation, Lin Yi instructed Master Niu to pour all the bone charcoal into the pot.

Master Niu obeyed obediently, and poured bone charcoal into the pot. Lin Yi asked them to keep stirring with sticks. Under the watchful eyes of the people, he was surprised to find that the color of the original pot of red sugar water became lighter and lighter, and finally turned into white soup. .

"Ah, why did it change?" Yinlian asked in surprise.

"Your master, I can do magic." Lin Yi said with a smile.

Lin Yi asked Master Niu to pour out the sugar water, and after steaming dry, he harvested a batch of white sugar. Shopkeeper Liu picked up the white sugar and looked at it, and was pleasantly surprised: "Master, the quality of these white sugars is much better than the white sugar we bought. "

"10 catties of brown sugar yields 7 catties of white sugar, which is a huge profit."

Lin Yi is actually not too satisfied. Although it is indeed whiter than the current white sugar, it still cannot reach the pure and flawless whiteness of later generations.

Lin Yi's method is actually the activated carbon decolorization method, which uses the densely packed pores of bone charcoal to absorb the pigment in the sugar water, so as to achieve the purpose of decolorization.

Many people travel through ancient times and like to take out the "Yellow Mud Sugaring Method" in "Tiangong Kaiwu". In fact, to be honest, Lin Yi has studied the yellow mud sugaring method, and thinks that what is said in the book can basically be concluded to be wrong. , or not quite.

There is indeed a yellow mud decolorization method in the south. Yellow mud, plant ash, etc. are used to filter through multiple earthen tanks to finally obtain white sugar. In fact, that method consumes a lot of money and has a slow coagulation time. It usually takes a month for a pot of white sugar to be harvested.

Lin Yi suspects that this method is used to produce the white sugar now.

And his bone charcoal method is much faster and more advanced than the yellow mud decolorization method, which is definitely an exclusive technical secret recipe.

Before using the real modern chemical decolorization technology, the factories of later generations often used bone charcoal decolorization method. In fact, even in modern times, bone charcoal decolorization is still used, and bone charcoal is not disposable. .

Lin Yi brought these today just as an experiment, and will definitely purchase a large amount of bone charcoal when it is officially produced, enough to support the large-scale production of white sugar.

The craftsmen were ecstatic after learning the technique, and at the same time, they also understood why the master made them swear that this technique is too simple, it can be said to be a layer of window paper. If someone betrays them and takes away the technique, they can start a new stove at any time.

It's over here,

Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Yi took the girls back to Qinghe County. Lin Yi let the girls get into the car, while he and Shopkeeper Liu strolled below.

"In the future, our sugar workshop will be able to produce a large amount of white sugar. From now on, your focus will be on purchasing brown sugar and selling white sugar."

Speaking of this, Lin Yi looked at shopkeeper Liu and said, "Lao Niu and the others, I have already agreed to raise your salary. Shopkeeper Liu, I have decided to give you a raise too. What do you think?"

A salary increase is definitely a good thing.

But shopkeeper Liu is not stupid, after a little thought, he knew what the boss meant, and after thinking for a while, he bowed and said, "My boss, I, Liu Qiandong, once again swear that I will never tell the secret of Baitang, and I will follow my boss all my life and never be abandoned." Otherwise, they will be drowned and burned to death.”

Lin Yi nodded and said with a smile: "Your previous remuneration was an annuity of 60 yuan plus a 100% profit commission. From now on, your annuity will increase to [-] yuan, and the profit share will remain the same. But you must know that with White sugar is a sharp weapon, and the profit of the sugar shop will more than five times in the future, work hard, the better you do, the more you will earn."

Shopkeeper Liu smiled all over his face, "Don't worry about my boss, I will do a good job and dare not disappoint my boss' expectations."

Pan Jinlian looked through the window at Lin Yi who was talking to shopkeeper Liu outside, and the more she looked at the moon, the more she felt that Mr. Lin was a powerful person.

Handle people to death.

correct,

At night, she also pinched herself to death, with no mercy at all with such force.

These women around me,
None of the future can escape.

The people around him probably don't want to escape either.

She could tell that Mr. Lin was very strong, but following such a man, for a woman, she felt more at ease.

That night,

Pan Jinlian was once again severely manipulated by the strong male chauvinist Lin Yi, and Yinlian was serving her tonight, and Yinlian trembled for a long time again.

After the matter was over, Lin Yi said to Pan Jinlian: "I'm going to go to the state capital in advance to prepare for the exam. Then you can stay at home and continue studying."

Pan Jinlian felt a little bit reluctant, hugged Lin Yi and said, "Master, it's only three days from our Qinghe to the state capital, and there is still more than a month left, why go there so early?"

"I have some things to do on the way."

(End of this chapter)