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Chapter 537 Malan Flower

Shaanxi.

The base of the "oil industry".

The place is very busy, and because of the support of the emperor's money, the business here is very prosperous. As the emperor expected, many hungry people have been recruited, which can be regarded as a lot of effort to calm the natural disasters in Shaanxi.

Although this oil industry base is very prosperous, the "manager" of this oil industry base has not been very happy in recent days.

Li Yanyi has been deaf recently, and these days are getting sadder every day. The method he proposed to refine oil by refining lard is not a problem at all. The refined products are more than enough to be used as lamp oil, but the problem is that he This scale has never been able to increase, the reason is that the market is not good, and the scale is too large to burn the emperor's silver. Even if the emperor opened it up and let him burn it, he was in a panic because he spent too much money. , this silver is enough to bury him.The reason why the market cannot be opened is not that the cost of his refined oil is too high, but that it cannot be shipped out. Shaanxi is a poor place, and there are really few places that can afford oil, and it has to be shipped out of Shaanxi. , This suddenly raised the cost up, the bigger his scale, the more oil his oil industry base would have backlogged, so this day became more and more difficult every day.

"Master, how is it going, how is the conversation with Mr. Song?" Li Yanyi's daughter-in-law Ma Lanhua immediately asked when she saw her husband returning home dejectedly.

"Oh, what else can we do? Shaanxi is not just poor. Although Mr. Song said he was willing to build roads, he has no money. What do you want me to do? We have to do it ourselves..." Li Yanyi replied dejectedly.

Although Li Yanyi's daughter-in-law Ma Lanhua is a girl, she is the master of the house in this oil industry base. Many things are decided by Ma Lanhua. For example, Ma Lanhua asked Li Yanyi to discuss road construction with the local government. Lanhua asked Li Yanyi to go. Li Yanyi was a cook. Except for the cook, he was far less knowledgeable and thoughtful than Ma Lanhua.

If it weren't for Ma Lanhua being a woman, Li Yanyi wouldn't be allowed to go out. With the whip given by the emperor and the washboard given by the queen in her hand, in Shaanxi, anyone would give her three points, so , Local officials are also very talkative, but unfortunately, they are easy to talk, but they have no money, and they can't build roads. The oil is not transported out. If the oil cannot be transported out, the output will not be raised. The house is moldy.

"Master, we have to think of a way! It seems that it is useless to just talk to Mr. Song about the road construction. Shaanxi is already poor. If we want to transport our oil out of Shaanxi, we have to think about it ourselves. There is a way..." Ma Lanhua said confidently.Ma Lanhua is not as helpless as she was when she forced Li Yanyi to marry her as a daughter-in-law. Now, she is an extremely powerful person. In this oil industry base and Yan'an Mansion, she is a well-known "arrogant" and "domineering" She is now a woman, she comes and goes like a man, and there is almost no intention of avoiding it. Malanhua is not such a person, she is considered Xiaojiabiyu, but now she seems to be a different person.

Not for anything else, she only knows that people should repay their kindness, and she has to repay the emperor's great favor to her family. The emperor asked her husband to come to Shaanxi to refine oil, and to accommodate as many people as possible to work, and to give If more people eat at one bite, then their family has to do everything possible to complete the tasks assigned by the emperor. Unfortunately, Li Yanyi is a cook after all, and he has inherent deficiencies in many things, such as operating oil bases, and finding ways Li Yanyi was obviously far behind in finding a market.

Fortunately, Ma Lanhua is also from a small family, not the kind of spoiled woman, and she has a horsewhip and a washboard in her hand. Therefore, her identity is more popular than Li Yanyi, and she can explain to all kinds of people. Don't give face to Li Yanyi, but have to give face to Ma Lanhua, otherwise, when she raises her whip, everyone will kneel down and shout long live, no one's face will be good, I have experienced several times when Ma Lanhua took a whip on the spot After my husband, a consensus has been reached in the area of ​​Yan'an Mansion. For the sake of myself and my face, don't bother with this "wicked girl". Let her be what she should be, and Malanhua will Gradually displaying her potential and true qualities, she began to arrange various things for Li Yanyi. This oil base has become what it is today. Otherwise, with Li Yanyi as a cook, it is absolutely impossible to mess up such a large oil base. Well-organized, just those poor and scumbag bureaucrats who came to fight Qiufeng had to eat Li Yanyi to the bone.

"Wife, what do you say, I'll listen to you." Li Yanyi said dejectedly, with his head drooping. Now, he is devoting all his energy to how to refine the oil. Other things are directed by his wife. He, he does whatever he wants, this time his wife sent him out to discuss road construction with the local government, and he went, but unfortunately, there was still no result, he knew the consequences of poor road repair, so he kept slumping. Deaf headed.

"Don't worry, the head of the family, there must be a solution. Didn't His Majesty send some special four-wheeled carriages for oil? Let's go and have a look..." Ma Lanhua has become quite capable now. In order to expand the oil base, she did not She didn't think of ways less, in order to sell the market, she did not think of ways less, and in order to build roads, she did not think less of ways.I have dealt with local people in Shaanxi more, and they have become more bold and rough. The figure of Xiaojia Biyu in the past has long been lost. The environment is compelling, and people have to change.

After finishing speaking, Ma Lanhua left in a hurry, and Li Yanyi could only follow behind.

The oil industry base is in charge of delivering oil. There is a large venue. There are many carriages in it. The most dazzling one is the four-wheeled carriage surrounded by everyone. The four-wheeled carriage is not a rare thing. If it is rare, it is rare. There are several large wooden barrels on it. , it is specially used to load oil, so that the amount of oil transported by the previous horse-drawn carriages has been increased several times at once. Everyone knows about lamp oil, and everyone knows about the problem that the oil cannot be transported out, but now the four-wheeled carriage is very useful, so many people came to watch the fun.

"I've seen the master, I've seen the shopkeeper..." Everyone saw the "boss" of the oil base coming, and they all saluted, calling Li Yanyi the master, Ma Lanhua, and the shopkeeper, because Ma Lanhua was particularly envious of Sun Liniang, the big shopkeeper of Liulizhai. Therefore, let others call themselves shopkeepers.

"Lao Li, what's the matter, is it okay to transport oil in this way? Is it leaking?" Malanhua asked without hesitation.

"If you go back to the shopkeeper, this is really no problem. The little one has been driving the four-wheeled carriage for a few days. The wooden barrels on the carriage are still in good condition, and no oil has leaked out. Then the little one hurried back to give it to the shopkeeper. This time, our oil is not afraid that we will not be able to get it out..." The man called Lao Li said happily, the method of using wooden barrels to store oil on the wagon and the wagon came from It was sent all the way from the capital, and after it was delivered, the shopkeeper asked him to try to fill it with oil to see if it leaked. Fortunately, after a few days of testing by him, there was no problem at all. This kind of car and the way of filling oil are better than Much before.

"That's right, go around a few times." Malanhua ordered again, this oil base was established under her orders, so it's not a problem for her to give orders.

"Well, shopkeeper." That old Li immediately whipped his horse, and the carriage pulled a large wooden barrel containing oil, and began to run in this carriage yard.

After turning around for a few times, Ma Lanhua was quite satisfied. This carriage was indeed specially sent by the emperor. Not to mention the heavy load of the carriage, the way of shock absorption and the way of filling oil are simply tailor-made for his family. , let Malanhua, who has been in a dilemma about how to transport the oil out, feel like seeing spring. The anxious heart has finally let go. The emperor is thousands of miles away in the capital, but he has not forgotten their home. Ma Lanhua was even more restless, and felt more urgent about how to better complete the dealing with the emperor, and began to think of various ways to solve various problems.

"My lord, I finally have the oil transportation equipment, but unfortunately, this kind of carriage is not easy to get! Now the news in the capital is that His Majesty is going to prepare a large-scale disaster relief. The carriage yard may first make stagecoaches to satisfy the disaster relief first. If our oil refinery wants to get this kind of carriage, I'm afraid we have to think of a way!" After seeing the operation of the oil carriage, Ma Lanhua pulled her husband aside and said.

"That's, that's..." Li Yanyi immediately echoed, now, his mind is all on refining oil, and he doesn't want to ask, and he doesn't want to ask, because apart from refining, his wife is not as good as him, In other things, he was inferior to his wife. Li Yanyi could vividly remember the situation when he dealt with local officials. Those officials were afraid of his wife, not him.

"Is there a way, we also have it, but I don't know if it can impress Your Majesty." Malanhua continued with a slight frown. In order to find a market for the oil, she tried every means. But the news in the capital is that there is a need for relief, and a large number of carriages are needed. If she wants to get a large number of carriages to transport oil, it may be troublesome.

"Wife, what can I do?" Li Yanyi couldn't help asking, he had always been inferior to his wife in many things, and when he heard that his wife had a solution, he immediately asked.

"Hey, master, let's talk about this later, let's go and see how the oil residue paving the road..." Ma Lanhua sighed and continued.

"Okay, listen to my wife." Li Yanyi began to feel happy. He knew that his wife would not casually say that there is a solution. Only when the oil can be transported out can the production be increased. Otherwise, the oil will be piled up at home, which is really worrying.

Ma Lanhua rode on a horse and galloped towards a certain place. Li Yanyi gritted his teeth after seeing it, and followed. The land in Shaanxi is not flat. Sometimes, it is more convenient to ride a horse than to ride a carriage.

Malanhua led a group of people to another place, and this place was doing one thing, which was to use oil residue left over from oil refining to pave the road. The reason was simple. It is inextricably linked, the horsewhip and the washboard are not for nothing, Malan flowers can be enjoyed in Yan'an Mansion because of the horsewhip and the washboard, so, naturally, she is smart and will not put The line in the palace was broken, so they often sent things to the palace in various names. After learning that the emperor was going to push the carriage vigorously, Ma Lanhua also heard some words from the palace.

After some speculation, Ma Lanhua came to the conclusion that the emperor probably encountered the same problem as herself. She had to build roads if she wanted to transport the oil out. With her special status, she often bullied the local officials and asked them to build roads. Unfortunately, even if the local officials wanted to, they were powerless.She used money to build roads by herself. It’s not like she hasn’t done it before, but Shaanxi is full of yellow sand. It’s fine on sunny days, but on rainy days, the road can’t be walked. The pit is so deep, and the refinery is full of A carriage loaded with heavy goods, as long as it is rolled over a few times, the road will be ruined. Even if the road is built with compound soil, it will not last long. Therefore, she tried every means to solve the problem of the road.

Later, by accident, a craftsman reported that the oily residue seemed not afraid of water when it fell on the ground, and it became stronger after being mixed with the sand on the ground. I was inspired, since the oil residue is not afraid of water and is a good thing for road construction, it is better to use the oil residue to build roads. She is an independent and capable person, and immediately assigned a few groups of people to use the oil residue To build the road, she actually built an oil residue road of hundreds of feet, and asked people to roll it over with a big carriage full of stones every day, to see how the oil residue road should be repaired. By now, she has come to a preliminary conclusion I just need to sum up the experience of these days and send it to the palace together with her things that can impress the emperor to build her a carriage. I hope to use these things to impress the emperor to approve a batch of carriages for her, so as to solve her luck. The problem of the oil problem, by the way, to help the emperor, she knows that everything about herself comes from the emperor, from the palace, and the problems in the palace are her problems, and what the emperor wants to solve is what she wants to solve.

"I've seen the shopkeeper." As soon as the workers saw the shopkeeper coming, they immediately came to greet him.

"Old Zhangtou, how is this way?" Ma Lanhua asked.After Ma Lanhua finished asking, the servant who followed behind arrived.

After Ma Lanhua finished asking and receiving the gift, Li Yanyi arrived, and everyone saluted Li Yanyi again.

"Back to the shopkeeper, there is really no way to talk about this road. The little ones are now watering it all the time, and rolling it back and forth with heavy carriages all the time. The road made of oil residue is much better than that of the three-component soil... "The old Zhang was excited to report to his shopkeeper. The workers here are very united. Without him, they still have food in the face of such a severe natural disaster, but it all depends on this kind man. The shopkeeper is a female shopkeeper. Out of gratitude, she is extraordinarily attentive to her errands. Whatever the shopkeeper orders, she will do it without any compromise. People from the oil base, when it comes to their shopkeeper, are extraordinarily careful. Proud, in addition to these, there is that the officials are afraid of their shopkeepers, and their shopkeepers even have the horsewhip given by the emperor and the washboard given by the queen.

"Okay, old Zhang, I would like to trouble you to write down the matter of using oil residue to build roads overnight. After writing, we will send it to the palace. If His Majesty is happy with it, maybe he will reward you as an official to do it." I can't tell if I can do it..." Ma Lanhua said boldly.

"Thank you for the cultivation of the shopkeeper, thank you for the cultivation of the shopkeeper..." This worker called Lao Zhangtou, who discovered the oil residue and used it to pave the road, thanked him ecstatically!This energy is extraordinarily sufficient.

Malanhua is not stingy to give the credit to this old Zhangtou. If the old Zhangtou's method is useful, the emperor will not forget her. The most important thing for her now is to increase the oil production as soon as possible and open up the market as soon as possible. , Solve the transportation problem as soon as possible.

"You don't have to thank me for this. As long as you follow my Li family wholeheartedly, my Li family will naturally treat you well." Ma Lanhua said without hesitation. There is another factor for the reason why these people are so united. It's still quite chaotic. She can deal with the officialdom, but she can't deal with the plethora of bandits and bandits. She usually transports oil, but she was robbed several times on the road. Although they have the support of the new army, they can't quench their thirst after all. She knew that it was necessary to unite the workers of the refinery. Only when they treated the refinery as their own business would they protect the refinery. Weighing it in, up to now, after several times of "merging" with some local bandits in their oil refinery, there are no bandits and bandits who dare to attack their oil refinery. The people in their factory can deal with it. This oil refinery is definitely a tyrant in Yan'an Prefecture. It can defeat officials at the top and wipe out bandits at the bottom. It's not just for fun.

"Small ones save, small ones save." Old Zhangtou quickly agreed gratefully, if the shopkeeper really reported his name, according to the legend of the emperor's treatment of craftsmen, his prosperous days are just around the corner.

Hearing Ma Lanhua's words, everyone around cast envious eyes.

"...The shopkeeper, here, the little one can't read..." Old Zhangtou said embarrassedly after being happy and moved.

"It's okay, Manager Liu, you can read, so you can write for Zhangtou." Ma Lanhua quickly said to a follower behind him. Among these followers, there were servants and stewards, and they all followed her so as to listen to her orders at any time.

"Yes, the shopkeeper!" Guanshi Liu immediately agreed without any ambiguity.

After finishing speaking, Ma Lanhua got into a carriage again, and walked on the oil residue road a few times in person, and then left after she was more satisfied, leaving behind a lot of envious and jealous people.

(End of this chapter)