The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

After staying in the library tower of the Imperial Palace Academy for a whole day, Guo Nuan's head was full of electricity, and his mind was full of knowledge about medicine.

After returning to the Princess Mansion, he looked up and saw that it was already dark. It was a fulfilling day, and his plan had made great progress.

The next day, at dawn, on the seventh day of the lunar new year, Guo Nuan sent his servants to rush to the alchemy factory in the east of the city to find Abu, the master alchemist.

It is said that ever since Guo Nuan went to the Western Regions and returned to Chang’an, Guo Nuan has been busy with his personal affairs. It has been a long time since he met his friend Abu, an Arab alchemist. When he was the chief of Chang'an Jingzhao Mansion, he personally found the scene of a chemical experiment partner, and finally he and Abu went through a lot of hardships and finally developed a nitroglycerin solid explosive. Hehe, Guo Nuan raised a beautiful smile.

Soon, half an hour later, the servants dragged Abu from the city to Princess Shengping's mansion.

Standing at the door of the living room in the mansion, from a distance, Guo Nuan saw the man with the curved aquiline nose and the head with messy hair like a chicken coop, but looking carefully, Abu was tall and thin and well-proportioned. A lot, it seems that after working in a chemical factory, I have gained some wealth through technical investment, and I no longer have to worry about having no money to eat, and I have gained a lot of meat.

With excitement on Abu's face, he trotted all the way to Guo Nuan in three steps and two steps, he laughed and gave Guo Nuan a hug

"Haha, dear Guo Nuan, Abu really misses you. How are you doing recently?" Before Guo Nuan could speak, Abu babbled enthusiastically. It is so enthusiastic.

Guo Nuan smiled and led Abu into the living room to drink tea. He urgently discussed with Abu about the development of scar plasters. He said some key refining techniques. Only Mr. Abu, who has a common language in chemical industry, is left.

Hearing from Abu, he did not sleep last night and stayed up all night to do experiments all night. Guo Nuan learned that it was thanks to the cracking of the technology for refining nitroglycerin two years ago, which led to a series of experiments related to the refining of glycerin. Products, such as sunscreen, moisturizer, etc. are derived.

However, in view of the fact that the products are gradually saturated in the Datang market, although he made a lot of money from these cosmetics in the early stage, Abu’s goal is not to make profits for businessmen, but to accumulate more funds to promote his dream of alchemy experiments. That is what Guo Nuan said about modern chemical research, so he temporarily lost interest in cosmetics projects. He wanted to research some more practical products.

Guo Nuan has been busy with government affairs outside, so he, who owns a large part of the shares of the chemical plant, has never cared about how much money the chemical plant has accumulated for him recently.

Abu rolled his eyes, and he said speechlessly: "Ahem, Guo Nuan, you don't know how much money your family got, there are too many to count, and you have to ask your princess wife,"

After Guo Nuan thought about how much property he had, he couldn't help being curious. He left Abu and waited in the living room. He ran to Shengping's wife who was watering the flowers in the back mountain garden.

Shengping blinked her clear and beautiful eyes. She said that she didn't know too well. Usually, the chemical plant would use a few carriages to transport a lot of boxes of silver into the mansion every month. She handed over the silver to the trustworthy housekeeper, Si Yiguan. take care of.

Shengping immediately called the housekeeper, and the official Siyi didn't give details for a while, he said: "Reporting to the princess and the son-in-law, I don't know about the lowly position. Now I will ask the accountant to do the accounting."

The son-in-law asked curiously about his own family background, which ruined the ten accountants of the princess mansion accountant, especially Ah Fu, who put a tall pile of account books in front of Guo Nuan with all his strength.

"This, so many," Guo Nuan was a little surprised.

"Hehe, Guo Lang, I was surprised that it wasn't so big half a year ago," Shengping was also surprised. She didn't expect the industry in the mansion to expand so much in just two years. What about the output value of Guo Nuan's chemical plant?

"In Chang'an City, there are seven pawnshops, six silk and satin shops, two porcelain workshops, one Western Region foreign goods store, three fur shops in the west of the city, and three wharves and docks, including five wharf warehouses, more than thirty ships with a length of one hundred feet. The number of large sailing ships, and the number of small and medium-sized ships is estimated to be no less than one hundred,"

The housekeeper was muttering, and Guo Nuan's face was extremely rich. He felt like he was about to cramp, and shouted excitedly in his heart: "God damn it, he must be rich,"

It is said that Guo Nuan was a white-collar hardcore wage earner in later generations. He worked hard and was exploited and squeezed by the boss. Like the people at the bottom of society at that time, he had a deep or shallow hatred of the rich. Now I don’t know it. They have all become super rich, tsk tsk, I really lament the impermanence of the world.

"Ahem, let the old man take a breath first, there is still a long paragraph to finish," Si Yiguan coughed dryly, and the long scroll ledger in his hand turned a page.

"Two glass factories, three medicine shops, three mansions in the eastern part of the city, four gardens, and four terraces... The total land deeds are 130 and three, and the house covers a total area of ​​680 mu. Of course, you and the princess are in Chang'an City In addition, in Shandong, Hanoi, Guanwai, Lingnan, and central Sichuan, there are a large number of fields and timber forests, estimated to be no less than 1000 hectares."

The magistrate chattered a lot, and a row of accountants stood at the door, all bowing their heads and crackling with their abacus. It represents the amount converted into vain silver. Guo Nuan felt as if he had the illusion of ascending to heaven. He turned out to be a rich man~

As for the things in the small treasury in the princess mansion, there are so many things. Shengping said that the little daughter Guo Xiang, who is still climbing the ground, likes to play in the vault in the underground secret room, because there are piles of beautiful things there. Things can be played.

Guo Nuan took the treasury catalog handed over by the butler, and the long-axis silk catalog rolled to the ground with a bang, and unfolded a ten-meter-long scroll. It was densely written in small script with ink on it, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of words. .

Guo Nuan's hand holding the long volume catalog was trembling. Compared with those industries, he felt that the treasures piled up in the cellar were more realistic.

For example, more than 360 large and small red sapphires, more than 1000 pieces, inlaid with golden silk jade, more than 120 pieces, jade carvings of Guanyin, bronze Buddha statues, agate birthday stars, and Arhat carvings total more than [-] statues. Quack, as for pearls, corals, ceramics, copper tripods, Duan inkstones, Calligraphy and painting, celebrity calligraphy are countless.

"More than 560 million taels of ingot silver, more than 120 million taels of silver, more than 170 taels of raw sand, and more than 100 catties of red gold... Last year, the income of the Princess Mansion's property was more than 180 million taels of silver, which was [-] million less than two years ago. Two, by the way, at the end of last summer, the Princess Mansion allocated a large sum of money to transport into the palace, to the disaster-stricken people in the Yellow River area, a total of more than [-] people were rescued, and clothing, porridge, soup and herbs were distributed, and more than [-] million taels were spent. "

Come on, this disaster relief work is probably due to the princess's filial piety to share the burden of the treasury with her father. Guo Nuan thinks this kind of charity is very good.

Then he read the catalog. He didn’t feel anything about gold and silver. In his previous life, he heard a certain rich man on Weibo sigh and say: “When the money has accumulated to a certain level, it has become a floating account. The numbers are of no practical significance," he said.

The guy who said this, Guo Nuan thinks that he has definitely reached the level of immortality that regards money as dung, it is too detached, think about it, 5000 billion yuan and 500 billion yuan are almost the same for this rich man Well, people, with more money and less money, no matter whether it is a gold nest, a silver nest, or a dog kennel, they can only lie on a seven-foot-long bed.

Now Guo Nuan realizes that he has become a rich man, almost as rich as a country, such as some small countries and tribes in the Western Regions. He finds that the innumerable money that is as much as dung loses his attraction in an instant.

"Quack, let Shengping's wife take care of these, I'm not very good at financial management," Guo Nuan handed over the accounts to the housekeeper, and he thought of Brother Abu who was still waiting in the living room.

After getting a general understanding of his property, for Guo Nuan, who eats five dishes and one soup three times a day, stretches out his clothes to eat and opens his mouth, and his daily life is carefully taken care of by servants in the house, and he can't spend a few copper coins, it is obviously not the case. The key thing on his mind.

He hurriedly ran to the living room again, Abu had asked his servant to make several pots of tea for him, peeled the eighth orange and ate it, casually settled the delayed dinner last night and today's breakfast.

But the servant saw that the distinguished guest's hair was messy, so the servant girl tidied up his hair, which he had been busy experimenting with for several years and hadn't had time to comb it.

Seeing Abu with dry hair, Guo Nuan expressed his apology, and for a moment he excitedly put Abu aside.

Guo Nuan then went directly to the topic. He mentioned to Abu a woman named Wang Yueyi whom he met in the Hanlin Academy.

Guo Nuan mentioned that he wanted to develop a scar ointment to treat Wang Yueyi, and Abu nodded in agreement after hearing it.

It is said that Wang Yueyi got smallpox three years ago. At that time, she and her father Wang Jinshang were in Shandong. Due to the outbreak of smallpox in the local spring, one infected two, and two passed three. It has been spreading more and more crazily in the local county.

At that time, Wang Jin, the magistrate of the local township and county, was helpless. He watched tens of thousands of local people infected with smallpox tortured to death, but doctors and doctors could not cure them. Even Wang Jin urgently conveyed the memorial. The imperial court and the highly skilled imperial physician sent by the imperial court were also helpless.

Under such circumstances, Wang Jin ordered the county government to set up hundreds of herbal disinfection and epidemic prevention booths in the local hard-hit areas, and distribute the medicinal herbs to the people for free to prevent smallpox infectious diseases.

As the daughter of the county magistrate Wang Jin, Wang Yueyi also visited the streets in person. She was not afraid of infectious diseases in the epidemic area. She was busy from day to night and enthusiastically helped the officials distribute medicinal herbs to the people. Working regardless of physical fatigue caused the body's immunity to decline. Soon after, Wang Yueyi was also infected by people with smallpox virus and contracted smallpox.

"Well, I only found out later that Ms. Wang was suffering from smallpox through inquiring, so that Fu Daming survived the torment of smallpox and saved her life, but unfortunately her appearance was ruined."

Guo Nuan sighed and said to Abu that at this moment Abu's face was already very moved. Although he hadn't seen the side of this philanthropic and kind woman, he had already respected her in his heart.